Entering The Dragon's Lair

With the Release of Cavalry of Blast Steel a new archetype was introduced but at the same time “old” decks have received some significant boost. The leading trios of pre-Limit Break Era, Shadow Paladin, Kagero and Royal Paladin as well as the crushing Spike Brothers were equipped with mighty Limit Break units which will keep them among the top contenders of the new meta.

Today we will have a look at Kagero, a deck revolving around retiring valuable opposing units, keeping the pressure up and maintaining control over the field utilizing its high attack based Dragons.

Kagero was one of the star-leading decks before the appearance of Narukami and Gold Paladins. Reinforced with The End was capable of pulling fierce attacks while retiring important opposing units with cards like Berserk Dragon and Kimnara, was really setting the pace as you commanded.

Due the power of Limit break they lost some of their power but now they found it again on Dragonic Lawkeeper.  

  

This tremendous new Dragon is able to bind all the opposing rear guards sealing off any looming intercepts while gaining +3k as your opponent will control less than 2 rear guards. But its power doesn’t stop there. At the end phase opponent must choose only 4 from the units in bind zone and place them to rear circles. This means that you basically can retire 1 unit of your opponent rear guards simply by activating your Limit Break ability and the best part of it is that this skill costs ONLY 1 counterblast.

Dragonic Lawkeeper is combing very well with Raopia , forming a 23k attack which at the worst case scenario will sap out opponents null guards, stripping them off 2 cards and leaving them open for next attacks.

With the exception of Lawkeeper , the rest “skeleton” of the deck remains same. Kagero has many tricks up to their sleeves. Berserk Dragon, Kimnara contributes greatly to the maintenance of control while, Nehalem, Bahr, Belliscosity Dragon and the rest of high attack based horde of yours keep pressuring opponent and exhausting their defences.

 

The trigger configuration may differ from style to style and personal preference. There can be line ups such as 5 draws, 7 crits , 4 heals as well as 5 draws , 5 stands, 2 crits and 4 heals. Always remember to use as much different cards as possible for triggers, for example play both Monica and Gatling Claw or Blue-ray Dracokid and Tahr in order to confuse your opponent about your trigger configuration.

Finally I want to state that even without Lawkeeper , Kagero is a mighty opponent and the power of The End should not be underestimated in any case.