Dino/Barrier Statue/True King

This is my IRL Dino deck, I took some inspiration from a few dinosaur decks and decided to mesh a Barrier Statue and True King combo into this deck, along with UCT and the Evolzar Duo. This deck has many options in terms of how you approach your plays and has been a really fun deck to use. It's easy to learn as well, with a explanation of how to do certain combos to ensure a good win.

 

For the barrier statue combo going first, you only need 2 out of these 3 cards, Misc, Oviraptor and or/ Babycerasaurus, you can use fossil dig to get the other card you need, or another card like a Kaiju to pop a monster if you have all 3. You'll need Fossil Dig if you don't have Oviraptor or Misc, but the deck is pretty consistent with draws, so there shouldn't be an issue, unless you draw into Barrier Statue, which is the garnet of the deck. First, you need to summon Souleating Oviraptor, get either Babycerasaurus or  Miscellaneousaurus (whichever one you don't have) , send Miscellaneousaurus to the GY, protecting your dinos in the process, and banish it to special summon Animadorned Archosaur, use that card to pop Babycerasaurus, to not only get a Double Evolution Pill, but also to summon another Babycerasaurus. Use Souleating Oviraptor to destroy the special summoned Babycerasaurus, to bring back the other Babycerasaurus in the GY, and use the floating effect to special summon Giant Rex. Then, Link Summon Linkuriboh using Animadorned Archosaur, then go into Reprodocus, by using either Giant Rex Or Babycerasaurus, but DON'T use Souleating Oviraptor, keep that on the field. After bringing out Reprodocus, pause and use your Double Evolution Pill, Banish Giant Rex and Linkuriboh (or any other non-Dinosaur), then bring out Ultimate Conductor Tyranno, and since Giant Rex was Banished, you can Special Summon it to the field, and then by using the Souleating Oviraptor still on the field and Giant Rex, you can go into either Evolzar Dolkka, Laggia or any other R4nk you choose. Use the Reprodocus to change the monster it's pointing to, to change it to Winged-Beast, then use the Reprodocus and the monster it's pointing to, bring out Simorgh, Bird Of Sovereignty, which will allow you to bring out Barrier Statue Of The Stormwinds at the end. If done correctly, at the end phase your board should look like this:



Now, you have a board which negates most special summons with Barrier Statue and a card to protect it from being targeted by card effects, a Solemn Strike on legs to protect your board and a UTC to help you whittle your opponent's LP away.

If going 2nd, you could bring out a Pentestag to use alongside UCT's Flip-Face Down effect, allowing for a surefire win if done well, but going 2nd is mostly the same.

 

With the True Kings, you can use either Dogoran or Miscellaneousaurus to bring out True King Agnimazud, the Vanisher, or if you're trying to bring out True King Lithosagym, the Disaster you could use Babycerasaurus or Petiteranodon to bring it out and then combo off the effects of those to possibly bring out to Level 4's to bring out a R4nk or Pentestag. You could go into VFD with the True Kings, possibly with a UCT and Evolzar, you have a surefire OTK.

 

The other cards in the main deck are the ever reliable PSY-Framegear Gamma and Frame Driver combo, a great hand trap for the format, along with a Pankratops, easily searchable by many cards in this deck, allowing for you to not only pop your opponent's card but also set up the GY for a Double Evolution Pill or Misc Special Summon. Harpie's Feather Duster, Terraforming and Monster Reborn are great extra tech options to help out with your combos. There's Red Reboot as well, a very useful handtrap which has come in handy many times for me, so I've added it here.

 

The Extra deck has some R4nk cards you could go into, Tornado Dragon can be Summoned even with Barrier Statue, so it's great for removing backrow and allowing you to Special Summon again if things go sour, and Abyss Dweller, a great floodgate for the GY. Of course, there's Evolzar Laggia and Dolkka, staple XYZ's for any Dino deck, along with VFD, a very powerful card currently in this format. Secure Gardna is great LP protection and Pentestag is a great Link-2 when combined with UCT. Knightmare Phoenix of course, to help with any S/T and allowing you to go +1 in the proccess. There's the Linkuriboh, Reprodocus and Simorgh combo of course, but as well is PSY-Framelord Omega, which I've found to be very useful to bring back banished cards, which this deck does quite a bit, and is easily summoned with Gamma and Driver.

 

In terms of the side deck, you have the usual suspects, S/T removal with Cosmic Cyclone, as Eldlich is very popular right now, banishing S/T is better than simply popping backrow in certain situations, Nibiru, Ghost Ogre and Droll for your Hand Traps, all have worked well in this deck, and Survivals' End, which if used along with Lost World and Juraegg Tokens brought out by it, can not only get you R4nk or Link Material, it also can destroy one of your cards and one from your opponent's side too. You can use it to combo off with Babycerasaurus possibly brought out by Oviraptor, getting more fodder out, but can also be a good option to get rid of your opponent's cards too, with the benefit of you setting up your field and or GY.

 

Overall, this has been a really fun deck to play, with many options with how you can approach your duel, with the benefit of being easy to learn and master the many combos here. I've been using this deck and have had some good success with it, and will continue to use it in the future. As the great Farfa once said:

 

BRRRRRRRRRR DINO MONSTER WHEEE SPECIAL SUMMON SPECIAL SUMMON SPECIAL SUMMON

 

fin.

 

(Thanks to LifeHacks for teaching me the barrier statue combo, he helped me build this deck, so check his stuff out here:

https://ygoprodeck.com/author/lifehacks/ )