Yugi-Boomer's Guide to Tenpai (May 2024)
Deck Primer
Have you tried "asking your friends" for a copy of Trident Dragion? (good joke btw Komoney)! Or did you randomly have the guy in your bulk from 2009? Well you're in luck, since Tenpai Dragons have made this card extremely powerful and competitively viable!
For the "year of fire's" finale and acknowledgement of the "year of the Dragion" for the Chinese New Year, Konami has really outdid themselves this time. Through a field full of monsters, hand full of handtraps, gamestate with plentiful interruption, Tenpai Dragons can still obliterate all your opponent's lifepoints EASYYYY!
One turn kill your opponent with the force of a million suns with the combined absurdly high attack power of Dragion - 36400 total lifepoint damage! Not only are these dragons unaffected by activated effects during Main Phase 1 through their archetypal field spell, these cards are so consistent with 16 one card starters that you can jam about 25 staples into the deck! You can inundate your opponent with a flurry of handtraps and boardbreakers then proceed to their final reckoning as you enter battle phase.
JOIN THE TENPAI GANG AND OBLITERATE YOUR OPPONENT WITH THE FORCE OF A THOUSAND NUCLEAR BOMBS!
- Activate Sangen Summoning.
- Use Sangen Summoning's effect to search Paidra from deck. Discard a card.
- Normal summon Paidra. Search Sangen Kaimen from deck.
- Enter the Battle Phase. Activate Sangen Kaimen to add Chundra from deck to hand then summon it.
- Attack with Chundra. At the start of the damage step, summon Fadra from deck.
- Attack with as many monsters as possible (make at least 3 attacks so that your Extra Deck Tenpai's effects are live).
- Activate Chundra's quick synchro effect to synchro summon Sangenpai Bident Dragion using Chundra + Fadra.
- Sangenpai Bident Dragon's on-summon effect to summon from GY Fadra.
- Activate Fadra's effect to summon Chundra from GY. Attack with as many monsters as possible.
- Activate Fadra's effect to quick synchro into Trident Dragion using Bident Dragion + Fadra.
- Activate Trident Dragion's on-summon effect to destroy Sangen Summoning and another card you control so it can make 3 attacks.
- Activate Sangen Summon's trigger effect in the GY targeting Trident Dragion to double it's attack.
- Attack three times with a 6000 ATK Trident Dragion! As needed, you can summon Bident Dragion from GY to destroy a spell/trap and for additional damage.
- Since this deck contains a ton of handtraps, remember to handtrap your opponents at the most opportune time! Knowing when and where to handtrap is essential to this deck's success since a weakened opponent vastly increases your chances of OTK or FTK. Be sure to study up!
- If you can't finish off your opponent with your first OTK attempt with Tenpai, make Seals/S:P with your remaining monsters and maintain your handtraps. You'll likely place your opponent in a simplified gamestate after your onslaught. So a single/couple interruptions is enough to slow them down so you can OTK them again next turn!
- If you've been Dimensional Barrier'd, you can always go for the Links instead of Synchros and OTK with Promethean Princess, Salamangreat Raging Phoenix and Zealantis.
- If your opponent has handtrapped or floodgated you to a standstill, you can make Striker Dragon then proceed to summon S:P Little Knight to banish one card your opponent controls or in their GY. "S:P pass" with handtraps is as effective as "Seals pass."
- Sometimes in games 2/3, your opponent may still go first (perhaps they think you'll use Heatwave or some other kind of floodgate). Worry not! Your Centur-Ion deck has 25 staples/handtraps/boardbreakers to slow down your opponent so you can still play a regular grindgame with their simplified gamestate with the Centur-Ion cards. The only problem
- While not optimal, both Tenpai can still OTK under Dimension Shifter. If Shifter is active, damage comes to about 10000, which is borderline OTK if the opponent has some cards on the field. Keep this in mind when playing Shifter, it still hurts your ability to play!
- If you're worried about the price of Trident Dragion's hefty $120USD price tag (as of this article's writing), it is not mandatory for the Tenpai strategy. You may not be able to OTK through Prosperity and Shifter however. 9 times out of 10 however, from personal experience I find that games finish with Tenpai before Trident Dragion comes out.
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