Nothing to fear but fear itself

No, this post is not going to be about a fucking evil annoying rat, but rather a relatively new Synchro that has been all over the place as of late: Scrap Dragon.



Having generic materials opens up the option to play it in any deck under the sun, and who wouldn't given its ridiculous size and combo potential? Eliminating a threat is always nice, and most decks will have something they can feed to its effect on a regular basis. Have a spare Fluff Token? Infernity Archfiend? Vayu? Perhaps even a Wulf you got for nothing? The possibilities are endless, and it becomes all the stronger a play when the card being blown to bits wants to be in the graveyard. Scrap Dragon sports a mean 2800 ATK and the ability to attack in the same turn it activated its effect, so it's similar to Dark Armed Dragon on the threat scale. Scrappy simply trades multiple destruction for ease of play.

But within the Scrap deck? Oh dear... this thing is like a train. Once it starts moving, it's not likely to stop. Scrap Dragon is vulnerable to Bottomless Trap Hole, Dimensional Prison, Grand Mole, Brionac, and eventually Trishula, but Bottomless is going to be only one of these that will stop it on the turn it enters play to any reliable degree. Since it doesn't care about its location of destruction, Scrap Dragon scoffs at the likes of Solemn Warning in that it's just going to revive a Golem, which will revive a Goblin, which will simply make another Scrap Dragon. What a waste, eh? Similarly, it can run head-on into Mirror Force and not give two shits.

Beyond that, its minions provide the best fodder imaginable to throw to its destruction effect - Scrap Beast and Scrap Goblin make you go +1 for your efforts in the form of a Chimera that'll make another Scrap Dragon or Scrap Archfiend when you need it. Barring those, you can use Treeborn Frog or Level Eater to get rid of cards entirely free of charge. Even a Scrap Searcher that's kicking around works, though that's more likely to pop out of the grave after having used the Dragon's effect for the sake of having another body to use.

Scrap Dragon is a good card in other decks, but within Scraps it's just obscene. I can definitely see a limit if they ever get out of hand.