

This is not the case, and the advantage of choosing Chaos Control over Thunder Dragon Chaos is superior early game options.

Some players are quick to disregard chaos decks that play Shining Angel or Skilled White Magician over the more popular Thunder Dragon, insisting that Thunder Dragon is required in any chaos deck. Using Scapegoat at the right time will take a considerable amount of planning. If you activate Scapegoat, always consider what happens if your opponent decides to leave all four goats. This is because of the fact that it plays no tribute monsters. Chaos Control also notably has a harder time dealing with Scapegoat than most decks, but luckily 3 Scapegoat is pretty uncommon.Ĭhaos Control is more prone to goat-locking itself (filling up all of your monster zones because of Scapegoat) than Goat Control is, so be careful. In this case, you will need to pressure those facedown monsters with your Shining Angel or Skilled White Magician. If the opponent’s plan to beat you involves a lot of attacking each turn, they’re going to have a hard time getting through.Ĭhaos Control can have a difficult time dealing with hyper-defensive play, consisting of set monster after set monster for many turns in a row, because Chaos Sorcerer and Metamorphosis are more optimized to deal with faceup threats. Both Skilled White Magician and Shining Angel can hold off a lot of aggression, and Chaos Sorcerer can clean up the rest of their threats. You are heavily favored to win any kind of war of attrition between these two decks just make sure that you don’t get surprised by a big OTK or a Morphing Jar.Ĭhaos Control is also quite prepared to play a matchup against aggressive decks like Anti-Meta Warriors, Reasoning Gate Combo, or Chaos Recruiter. The third copy gives you a monster that you would happily swap with your opponent’s monster if you have a tech copy of Creature Swap.Chaos Control is well equipped to do battle with Goat Control, especially with Goat Control players who do not have too much familiarity with the matchup. Other Trap cards that can be run are Phoenix Wing Wind Blast, Trap Dustshoot, Sakuretsu Armor, and Dust Tornado.Ī third copy of Scapegoat is normally seen alongside Royal Decree as Scapegoat is an extra battle damage prevention card (by providing a field of 4 Sheep Tokens) while Royal Decree is face-up. The Thunder Dragon variants that do not run Royal Decree tend to run Raigeki Break. There is a debate on whether to main deck Royal Decree in the list, but this is dependent on how Trap heavy the metagame is. Recent Thunder Dragon Chaos Control lists have reduced Metamorphosis to two copies to try to limit the number of dead draws it causes. The Shining Angel package normally runs Magical Merchant as a searchable target, and tends to run triple Book of Moon and double Tsukuyomi to use the Flip Effect monsters that are Summoned off Shining Angel. There have been some lists with Apprentice Magician as it can bring out Magician of Faith without being too exposed to Nobleman of Crossout. Other Mystic Tomato targets are Dark Mimic LV1, Spirit Reaper and Dekoichi the Battlechanted Locomotive. Mystic Tomato is another recruiter like Shining Angel, but brings out Sangan as its primary target, which searches most of the smaller monsters in the deck. An alternative is Dark Mimic LV1, which has a significantly lower ATK stat, but can be used with Metamorphosis and can level up to Dark Mimic LV3. One of the more popular choices when running a Chaos Control variant is Dekoichi the Battlechanted Locomotive, as it is a Dark monster that nets a card draw.
