Hidden Arsenal - Hopeless Dragons

Hopeless Dragons wasnt a viable deck type in the TCG because the key card was only available in the OCG. When it was released a lot of people rushed to the deck they believed would own the meta. What went wrong? Well lets look at the tripod of power at the time. The tripod consisted of three decks.Lightsworns, Gladiator Beasts, and Blackwings. Lightsworns would easily outspeed Hopeless Dragons and overpower it with Honests, Celestias, and Judgment Dragon. Gladiator Beasts were packing three Solemn Judgments, triple War Chariots, and double Rescue Cats. Blackwings were faster and stronger than the other two and otk'ed their opponent more frequently with 3 Gales and 2 Dark Strike Fighters. Hopeless Dragons were just no match. Now with Blackwings losing a lot of power with the limitation of Gale and banning of Dark Strike Fighter, and Gladiators losing Rescue Cat and Solemn Judgment to the limited list, Hopeless can move up a couple tiers. With Lightsworns as the only real threat still able to defeat Hopeless Dragons consistently these Dragon decks better start packing some tech. Koa'ki Meiru Drago shuts downs the special summoning of lights and darks allowing you to control the field with this 1900 beatstick. With 2 lightning Vortexes main decked you can easily wipe out an entire field of Lightsworns and lock their special summonings down with Drago. Now your opponent will have to waste their resouces to get rid of it while you build up for a major swing in advantage. Even though I mentioned Koaki Meiru Drago it belongs in the side deck becuase it complicated your general strategy of swarming with your dark monsters.

18 Monsters
3x Red Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
2x Armageddon Knight
2x Van'Dalgyon the Dark Dragon Lord
2x Koa'ki Meiru Drago
2x Dark Creator
2x Phantom of Chaos
2x Dark Horus
2x Red Eyes Wyvern
1x Dark Armed Dragon

17 Spells
2x Trade-In
2x D.D.R. Different Dimension Reincarnation
2x Monster Reincarnation
2x Allure of Darkness
2x Lightning Vortex
2x My Body As a Shield
1x Brain Control
1x Foolish Burial
1x Heavy Storm
1x Mystical Space Typhoon
1x Future Fusion

8 Traps
3x Dark Bribe
2x Bottomless Traphole
1x Mirror Force
1x Call of the Haunted
1x Solemn Judgment