Arkraider 2022 - 3-card Combo to Quad-Lara LockIt's time to bring Arkraiders into 2022! I'm gonna show you guys how to pull off a 3-card combo to lock down the opponent even before they have a chance to retaliate.
The 3-card combo: Pre-Preparation of Rites, Foolish Burial Goods (or Arkraider Apprentice Lara) and Arkraider Excalibur. If you have these three cards in hand, you've basically won the duel.
Combo Tutorial Replay: https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=37528-35906595So we want to start things off by using Pre-Preparation of Rites to search Eclipse Ritual and incaRnate Lara.
Hold onto these cards because you'll need the ritual monster for Amaru! Then, you want to use Foolish Burial Goods to send Arkraider Lost City - Yamatai to the GY, triggering its float effect to special summon Arkraider Apprentice Lara from our Deck. If you already have Apprentice Lara in your hand, you can Special Summon her right away.
After that, you want to Tribute Apprentice Lara for the Communicator -> Prime Richard combo. With 2 monsters on the field, you can use Prime Richard to search an Arkraider spell.
IF YOU SUSPECT THE OPPONENT HAS NIBIRU IN HAND: Add Arkraider Retaliation or Arkraider Heaven's Glow. Either of these will stop Nibiru.
IF YOUR OPPONENT MAKES IT CLEAR THEY HAVE NO HAND TRAPS: Extend with Arkraider Lost Memories. (This option is demonstrated in this video, but either way the result will be the same.)
With Lost Memories, you want to Special Summon Prime Amelia, triggering its effect to Special Summon Wicked Traveler from your Deck. Then, using Wicked Traveler, Communicator and Prime Richard you want to link them off into Legendary Lara.
CL1 Legendary Lara, CL2 Communicator. You'll get an Upstart draw off of Communicator, and you get a Monster Reborn off of Legendary Lara. You can bring any Arkraider from your GY back except Apprentice Lara. For this example I went with Prime Richard.
After that, you want to use Apprentice Lara's 2nd effect, banishing it from the GY to get a free Arkraider monster from our Extra Deck. We want to bring out Force Wraith for the Wicked Nightmare. Legendary Lara's effect will trigger, allowing you to get another draw from your Deck. Then, use Apprentice Lara's final effect, shuffling it from the Banished Zone to the Deck to draw 1 card.
After you bring out your Wicked Nightmare, you want to link off Prime Amelia into Mentor Von Croy. I hope you guys were smart enough to leave one of the zones that Legendary Lara points to, 'cause that'll allow you to bring back Amelia to that zone. After that, you want to tune Mentor Von Croy (its effect allows him to be used as a LV4 for Synchro or Xyz Summon of an Arkraider monster) and Prime Richard with Prime Amelia, to Synchro Summon Shadow Lara.
Using Shadow Lara's effect, we want to copy Arkraider Lost Memories' first effect, special summoning yet ANOTHER Arkraider from our Deck. For this demonstration, I went with Apprentice Lara, but Communicator does just fine too.
Next, you want to use Excalibur to revive any of the LV4 Arkraider's from your GY, and overlay them into eXtreme Lara. Excalibur's GY effect will trigger, allowing you to special summon another Arkraider from your Deck. Let's go with another copy of Wicked Traveler for this instance.
After that, you want to Rank Up eXtreme Lara into eXotic Lara.
Next, you want to use Wicked Traveler as material for the Link Summon of Underworld Lara. Normally it requires 3 Link materials, but its effect allows you to treat a Special Summoned "Arkraider" monster as an entire material.
Last but not least, we'll be using Arkraider Eclipse Ritual to Tribute Wicked Nightmare into incaRnate Lara. Using its on-summon effect, given the fact that for this instance you have 4 Arkraider Spell cards in GY, you'll draw 4 and place 3 at the bottom of the Deck.
What you do with the combo from here on out is up to you depending on what you drew, but with this 3-card combo you'll have essentially locked your opponent out of GY effects or drawing outside their Draw Phase, protecting your Arkraiders from Kaiju's, Spell or Trap effects, AND gaining a Spell/Trap and monster effect negation each off of eXotic Lara and Shadow Lara.And that's it! Arkraider in 2022 has risen to become one of the biggest threats to the meta as of today. Let me know what you guys think of the combo!