Ninth's Engine Ramblings: Phoenix Dragon Toolbox

Welcome dear reader to the beginning of my inane ramblings about Rush Duels. Today I will be going over an engine that is centered around a favorite card of mine: Phoenix Dragon Toolbox.

The Phoenix Toolbox is an engine that consists of 3 [Phoenix Dragon] along with high-level dragons of the user's choice. This engine brings both a dragon that can be customized to the needs of the deck, such as [Rush Dragon Dragears] for its massive damage potential and board clearing, or [Shocklead Dragon] for its potentially massive attack debuff that can get even the behemoth [Yggdrago the Heavenly Emperor Dragon Tree] within killing range, along with a way to recycle that dragon directly back to the hand.

The potency of [Phoenix Dragon] cannot be underestimated, being able to recycle that cards in your GY at all is useful but returning them directly to your hand is an incredible consistency and recovery boost. Additionally, its power can only grow stronger with time. [Phoenix Dragon] can recycle any level 5 or higher dragon, meaning that any future high-level dragons can be used in this toolbox. Even this discard effect can come in handy, it can serve to get dead cards in your hand into the GY so you can draw more next turn.

A great example of the Toolbox growing strong with time is [Burning Blaze Dragon], released a bit ago in Fantastrike Mirage Impact!! Its ability to destroy a field spell by recycling a low-level dragon is already strong, only held back by the low relevance of field spells. But once fields become actually relevant, I think a copy of [Burning Blaze Dragon] will be a staple part of the Phoenix Dragon Toolbox. Or perhaps it could prompt the creation of a larger dragon package.

Due to the mess that is the current format, Spellcaster is of course the main abuser of this engine, using it to throw around [Rush Dragon Dragears]. But should the day ever come that Spellcaster falls from its throne, expect at least Monster Mash and (of course) Pure Dragons to make good use out of it.

Conclusion

All in all, this gets a 10/10 from me. 

Rambling

Being a toolbox means it can bring whatever a specific deck needs, whether it be a [Shocklead Dragon] for decks that struggle to get over the soon to release Maximum monsters, [Burning Blaze Dragon] for when field spells need popped, and of course [Rush Dragon Dragears] for sheer fucking damage potential and board clearing. BUT IT DOESNT STOP THERE! It can only grow stronger and stronger over time, and to anyone doubting this, this is Konami, we are getting more dragons whether its good for the game or not. If I had money to spare I would bet dragons will eventually get a card that is [Dark Liberation] levels of absurd. The day we get a Dragon Maximum could very well be the day Spellcaster gets kicked off of its throne, so far all the Maximums come with protection from destruction via traps (probably Konami's way of trying to deal with Dark Lib without having to release a banlist for rush duels) and so a Dragon Maximum may very well get either that, or some other way to protect from dark lib. and phoenix dragon will be doing a good job supporting it, -trons WISH they had recursion like this (inb4 a card gets revealed later today that gives them the ability to return all ygg parts to hand). along with return of dragon, dragons won't have to worry in the slightest about running out of maximum parts. Now shoo, Grampa Ninth needs his beauty sleep.