Expert: Damien Carey - 6/21/2007

Question
my friend has this horus deck which is i guess an aggro/control deck. i can beat him but he keeps dissing my deck. i was just wondering what would be the worst way the demolish his deck? would you be able to help and send me sum suggestions? thanx

Answer
Tough one. Horus decks thrive on Royal Decree/ Horus making spells and traps completely redundant.

That leaves only one tactical avenue left for you to explore.
Monster effects. If this guy is really causing you problems you need to stack up on monsters with killing/removal effects. Especially remove from play cards like

D.D. Warrior Lady
D.D. Warrior
D.D. Assailant

Other useful monsters effects include:

Exiled Force
Zaborg the Thunder Monarch
Newdoria
Old Vindictive Magician

Basically any monster effect that can allow you to kill his monsters without you doing any actual attacking


Other than that i would suggest a very simple approach. If your opponent has monsters that are immune to your spells then use spells on the monsters that are not immune - yours.

Using Ruch Recklessly, Limiter removal and other quickplays that effect your cards instead of his can lend an element of surprise to your strategy. In particular a Rush recklessly can be quite useful as it can allow even a hydrogeddon to suicide himself into a Horus

Failing that you could try Counter traps. Royal Decree players usually like to wait until the last minute to activate Royal Decree. However if the trap you activtae is a counter trap then they cannot as Royal decree does not have a fast enough spell speed to chain to a counter trap.

I hope this has helped.