Evilswarm (September 2021)

Fun in the Stun.

Your win conditions:

-Ophion hard counters whatever you're facing.  You can kick back and relax, just do whatever you have to do to make him stick.

-Ophion doesn't counter whatever you're facing, but TCBOO/Gozen or even Macro/D. Fissure does.  Basically the same scenario above.  Make your floodgate stick, and beat over things.  You probably make Ophion anyway, because it's Evilswarm and that's just what you do.

-You stunned them with hand traps, and they leave a board with a 2k or lower ATK monster that you Utopia Double OTK over.  Congrats on not making Ophion.

-You make Origin, and your opponent just really wants to try their shiny new Destroy Phoenix Enforcer, and they keep making you +1 because they haven't seen this deck in 8 years.  That or you made Exciton/Raigeki'd under Origin and got a huge plus, those are always nice.

Ophion still beats a lot of things by itself, assuming you can protect it from things like Cerb, Unicorn, etc.  Room for 9 hand traps.  I run D. Shifter, Ash, and Imperm with a set of Droll in the side.  Gozen is a must since it generally checks whatever TCBOO doesn't.  You can probably swap Judgements for Strikes, but I like Judgement for floodgate protection.  Torrential is fun to play with considering Origin, making it an incredibly viable tech choice.  I like Prosperity over Allure by far, since you can pitch 6 from your extra pretty safely to give you a lot of flexibility from that search.  You're very vulnerable to Ash considering Prosperity and Rabbit getting hit hurt a ton, but that's just life.  The deck is 8 years old at this point, this was the best I can do, give me a break.

Other Notes:

-Keep Mandragora in the side, it's not worth the main slots.  You pray that you go 1st and establish Ophion Game 1.  Focus on nothing else.

-Thunderbird is trash, don't run it.

-Allure is OK if Prosperity is out of budget.

-Iron Dragon Tiamaton is still very fun, and can easily lock your opponent out of both Links and Level 5's if you summon Ophion to your EMZ, and lock out theirs with Tiamaton.  Tech it in for casual play, but it's probably not viable for competitive play, especially after you first drop it.