How to Build a Cyber Dragon Deck

Last Updated: May 2, 2019

Cyber Dragon is a deck of powerful Light Machine-Type monsters that focuses around summoning powerful beaters using Cyber Dragon and its support cards. It is a fast and powerful deck whose fusion monsters can quite easily pull off OTKs. If you want to take your opponent's Life Points out fast with extremely powerful monsters, Cyber Dragons are for you.

Steps

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Get the monsters you need. Get yourself 3 copies of Cyber Dragon, 3 Cyber Dragon Core, and 3 Cyber Dragon Drei. These are the important ones. Add 3 Cyber Repair Plant to search your monsters.
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Add supports. Galaxy Soldier should be run at 3 to make Rank 5s, and so should Instant Fusion, which summons in Panzer Dragon. You can also run cards like Chronomaly Golden Jet and Solar Wind Jammer as Rank 5 material. If you run fusions, add 1 copy of Electromagnetic Turtle, since Rampage can send it from the Deck.
- A Kaiju engine is great to use with this deck, since Kaijus are good against the meta, and Jizukiru, the Star Destroying Kaiju gets bonus synergy points with the deck. Being a Light Machine, it can be searched with Repair Plant, and you can give it to your opponent then use it for Fortress Dragon. This would be 2 Interrupted Kaiju Slumber, 2 Jizukiru, and 1-2 other Kaijus, usually Gameciel.
- Brilliant Fusion also synergizes well, since Seraphinite is Level 5. The Brilliant Fusion engine is 3 Brilliant Fusion and 1 Gem-Knight Garnet. Optionally, you can run 1 Trick Clown or Electromagnetic Turtle as the Light monster to send to the Graveyard.
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If you're running the Fusion variant, add Fusion Spells. Cyber Dragon is perfectly capable of being run as a pure Xyz deck, relying on the powerful Cyber Dragon Infinity, since the Fusion Spells can be dead draws. If you want to OTK, however, Chimeratech Rampage Dragon is a lot of fun. The two best Fusion cards are Power Bond and Overload Fusion. With a bit of field clearing, Rampage should be able to OTK even without Power Bond.
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Add staples. This would be Limiter Removal, Foolish Burial, Upstart Goblin, Pot of Duality, Maxx "C", and Twin Twister. Add traps like Solemn Warning and Strike, and handtraps like Ash Blossom and Ghost Ogre, if you have room.
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Add Fusions. Cyber End Dragon is cool and all, but the only ones worth running are Chimeratech Rampage Dragon and Chimeratech Fortress Dragon. Cyber Twin Dragon and Pair Cycroid are decent with Power Bond. Run Panzer Dragon for Instant Fusion and Gem-Knight Seraphinite with Brilliant Fusion. Sea Monster of Theseus can also be used with Instant Fusion, and it can make Vermilion Dragon Mech, Leo, Keeper of the Sacred Tree, and Ultimaya Tzolkin.
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Add Xyz Monsters. Cyber Dragons can easily make Rank 5 Xyz monsters, which is a very powerful Rank. Get 2 each of Cyber Dragon Nova and Cyber Dragon Infinity, since Infinity is one of the best cards Cybers have access to and Nova is needed to summon it. Also add Constellar Pleiades, Artifact Durendal, and Volcasaurus. Magnaliger and Zemaioh are good Machine monsters to get past Drei's restriction. You can add Rank 4s if you have enough Level 4s, and Gaia Dragon, the Thunder Charger, and even Synchros with Theseus or the Ghost Girl handtraps.

Community Q&A

Question

Is a Cyber Dragon an aggro or control deck?

Community Answer

It depends on how you build it. I usually build for control, but I've seen lots of one-turn-kill Cyber Decks that focus on summoning multiple Cyber End Dragons in one turn.
Question

Are there any easy combos you can do with this deck (with the usage of 1-2 cards from your hand)?

Cros Saint

Community Answer

If you are going second, you can special summon cyber dragon, use the effect of galaxy soldier, and special summon cyber dragon nova. Then with nova, you can special summon your discarded card (if it was a “cyber dragon” card) and you will technically have only used 2 cards.
Question

My cyber dragon deck focuses on fusion and getting the strongs onto the field after about five turns. That is if I get cyber network or cyber dragon core.

Cros Saint

Community Answer

Cyber core is too slow, and judging by the fact that your deck takes 5 turns to get any sort of boss onto the field, you should try to put everything you have into speed. Almost every deck nowadays establishes it’s board turn 1, save for some extreme cases (gren maju needs multiple banishes before it can do anything, magical muskets need the opponent to have monsters, and some mystic mine players don’t draw silent wobby and have to wait until their opponent summons).

Warnings

Even though it is a Cyber Dragon deck, don't be overly reliant on Cyber Dragon and his fusions. Be sure to have an alternate mini-strategy in the deck.

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