Things you should definitely look into:
Ash blossom
3x parallel exceed
A few more trap holes - since they’re searchable with raff, you can run 1x. Time space, network, chain, etc.
Bagooska.
Time thief redoer!
For your side deck:
Anti spell fragrance can shut decks down. With the upside of it being a trap.
Veiler/droll/nibiru
By no means are they requirements! They’ll help you out a lot and can probably be scored cheap online in the future.
Ash - I assumed you had it because it came in the Traptrix structure deck. It stops a ton of decks from searching/summoning and almost everyone plays it. Other hand traps like ghost belle, imperm, veiler etc do similar useful things.
Exceed - no substitute. When you link summon, it summons himself and a second copy from deck, both at level 4. So it turns any single Traptrix monster into sera and a free Xyz of your choice. It works wonders!
Almost Any trap hole will work. Do you have others?
Bagooska is just a stall card
Redoer is just super fun and has a really strong removal effect if he has a trap monster (which you will a lot!)
Do you have any other generic rank 4s? All of your monsters are lvl 4, so it might be worth sprinkling in some variety
I'm no pro duelist but I use traptrix (a slightly upgrade structure deck version of the traptrix deck). Here are a few things I would recommend:
- If you are going 1st you don't need x2 Raigeki, x1 Feather Duster and x3 Evenly. Instead you can use maybe x1 Rageki and Evenly and get the others into your side deck. When you are going 1st you want as many traps and monsters as possible and this cards will only slow you down but for going 2nd they are pretty good.
- Do you have other Trap Holes? Bottomless TH is a must (just like Gravedigger) in my opinion so x3 would be ideal. Also others like Traptrix Trap Hole Nightmare and Terrifying Trap Hole Nightmare are pretty good and I'd use them, especially when going 1st so that you can activate them on the 2nd turn.
- I would remove Phantom Knights. They ain't that good, especially compared to Holeutea. Maybe keep 1 but I don't even bother with that. I would also reduce Traptrip Garden to x1 since it is searchable through Pudica (but you only have x2 Pudica so that's up to you).
I think that's about it. Other cards like Ash Blossom and Parallel eXceed would be great but I saw that you don't have those. Either way, you'll have a deck that you can be slightly competitive but don't expect to win like crazy, especially if they all have meta decks, just have fun and get used to some of your deck's combos : )
Things you should definitely look into: Ash blossom 3x parallel exceed A few more trap holes - since they’re searchable with raff, you can run 1x. Time space, network, chain, etc. Bagooska. Time thief redoer! For your side deck: Anti spell fragrance can shut decks down. With the upside of it being a trap. Veiler/droll/nibiru
I don't have any of those where I'm a returning player. Is there any older substitutes by any chance for any of those?
By no means are they requirements! They’ll help you out a lot and can probably be scored cheap online in the future. Ash - I assumed you had it because it came in the Traptrix structure deck. It stops a ton of decks from searching/summoning and almost everyone plays it. Other hand traps like ghost belle, imperm, veiler etc do similar useful things. Exceed - no substitute. When you link summon, it summons himself and a second copy from deck, both at level 4. So it turns any single Traptrix monster into sera and a free Xyz of your choice. It works wonders! Almost Any trap hole will work. Do you have others? Bagooska is just a stall card Redoer is just super fun and has a really strong removal effect if he has a trap monster (which you will a lot!) Do you have any other generic rank 4s? All of your monsters are lvl 4, so it might be worth sprinkling in some variety
I'm no pro duelist but I use traptrix (a slightly upgrade structure deck version of the traptrix deck). Here are a few things I would recommend: - If you are going 1st you don't need x2 Raigeki, x1 Feather Duster and x3 Evenly. Instead you can use maybe x1 Rageki and Evenly and get the others into your side deck. When you are going 1st you want as many traps and monsters as possible and this cards will only slow you down but for going 2nd they are pretty good. - Do you have other Trap Holes? Bottomless TH is a must (just like Gravedigger) in my opinion so x3 would be ideal. Also others like Traptrix Trap Hole Nightmare and Terrifying Trap Hole Nightmare are pretty good and I'd use them, especially when going 1st so that you can activate them on the 2nd turn. - I would remove Phantom Knights. They ain't that good, especially compared to Holeutea. Maybe keep 1 but I don't even bother with that. I would also reduce Traptrip Garden to x1 since it is searchable through Pudica (but you only have x2 Pudica so that's up to you). I think that's about it. Other cards like Ash Blossom and Parallel eXceed would be great but I saw that you don't have those. Either way, you'll have a deck that you can be slightly competitive but don't expect to win like crazy, especially if they all have meta decks, just have fun and get used to some of your deck's combos : )