Souldragon

Souldragon (ソウルドラゴン) is a series of cards premiered on BS31. In-anime, Souldragons are used by the protagonist of  Battle Spirits Burning Soul, Yukimura Rekka. Every Souldragon is in the War Dragon family. and has Consecutive Blade or a variant, such as True-Consecutive Blade or effects directed at two opposing Spirits/Ultimates which activate upon sending Soul Core to trash. In lore, Souldragon is a title passed down to the War Dragon leaders through generations. The SengokuDragonEmperor Burning-Souldragon in particular is regarded as a savior in the Burning Legend for defeating God-Sechs, and became The SengokuDragonGod Tenkafubu.
==Play Style==
While a Souldragon-orientated deck is uncommon, it is certainly a viable deck, especially since all of them are in the War Dragon family. Some of them are also in the Lord family. The majority of them is also red, leading to the deck being a red-centered deck focusing the Lord and Vassal families.
The early game is set up by attacking with Spirits with True-Clash, such as Jinraidragon, forcing the opponent to block and lose their Spirits and hence their board. Then the player also needs to keep drawing with Red Magic cards to fill up their hand. Then ideally it is best to activate Burning-Souldragon quickly with The MushaPriest Suou through Catalyze, or filling the board with Souldragons through the Burst effect of The SengokuBeastEmperor Souldragon-Flame. Then the win condition is eliminating opposing Spirits/Ultimates and dealing life damages at the same time through Consecutive Blade or other similar effects. In particular, Burning-Souldragon's True-Consecutive Blade is very hard to dodge, so the player can easily gain control of the game if they can make use of the effect early.
However, it is also exactly because the deck relies so much on target attack, once the opponent gains immunity, most likely from a White deck, it becomes very hard to dissolve their board. Except for True-Consecutive Blade, the opponent can also avoid life damage from the other target attack effects through depleting their own blocking Spirits/Ultimates through using Magic cards and such. In addition, the deck is filled with Souldragons, which are mostly Cost 7 or more, so the deck can easily brick. The cards in the deck also rely heavily on the Soul Core, so once the core is unusable, the effects will also become unusable, and may even prevent the player from using defensive cards, such as how one of the best defensive cards, Diamond Wall, requires the Soul Core. Though this issue can be solved by Soul-Core-retrieving effects, such as using The FlameDragonKatana Onimaru and The GroundDeityBlade Ootenta. There is also the Grand Skill of Rekka Yukimura.
When this deck was still active at its time, the Spirits could easily be depleted by The DivineSpiritKing Amehoshi-no-Mikoto since most of them fell under its effect's target; or their attacks could be prevented by The ValkyrieVirgoDeity Vielje. Their (When Attacks) effects could also often be nullified by The FlowerQueen Cattleya.
Currently, it is best to use the Souldragon cards in their individual decks, such as how The NinjaHead Souldragon-Hokage is one of the main finishers in the Ninja Gale family.
==See Also:==
*List of "Souldragon"-named cards
*List of "Souldragon" supports
Category:Archetype