Notes & Combos

Noble Knights + Poker Knights ftw!

This small Poker Knight package surprisingly improves Arthurian Knights' plays:

• 3x Joker's Straight
• 2x Queen's Knight
• 2x King's Knight

To be clear, King's Knight and Queen's Knight are NOT good to draw.

But they're worth including just for Joker's Straight!

By adding Joker's Straight, the deck gains:

• 3 copies of a 1.5-card starter (from a special summon!)
• Brick-removal to move bad draws (like Sword of Sparkles and Until Noble Arms) from the hand to the GY where they're actually useful
• And most importantly... an easier way to extend after interruption on Isolde's 2nd effect!

As always, the Going 1st game plan is to:

1. Resolve Borz to setup our GY resources (2 Untils, 1 Gwen) for an OTK on Turn 3
2. Summon Isolde to mill defensive Noble Arms for Artorigus (Destiny and Excaliburn) and other useful GY resources (Gearblade and Sparkles)
3. Artorigus. Pass. (Protected by Destiny, Excaliburn, and potentially Camelot, this is usually enough to survive Turn 2)

Here's the normal combo routes:

Resolve Borz before Isolde (ex: Medraut + Floating Noble Arm) https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=1099332-70350279

Resolve Borz after Isolde (ex: Any Two Warriors + Floating Noble Arm) https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=1099332-70334592

Full combo even through interrupted Isolde (ex: Medraut + Floating Noble Arm + Joker's Straight) https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=1099332-70335193

Thoughts on tech choices:

Kaijus are great for Marincess. They also serve as a bridge so Small World can swap any Monster with anything in the deck.

Cut classic NK techs like Drystan and Iyvanne. The Normal Summon count in this list is already on the high side.

Gwalchavad is mostly a Turn 3 playmaker, as he returns GY resources needed to put more bodies on the field (like Brothers or Gawayn) and make big XYZ plays. Turn 1, he's sometimes used to fix oddball hands or recycle resources.

Spearholder fetches board breakers (Arf, Dracoback) during Turn 3. Turn 1, she can sometimes fix oddball hands where you never draw a Noble Arm.

Gawayn feels great at 3x given his compatibility with so many special summoning cards in this list (Joker's Straight, Dai, Camelot, Heritage, etc). This higher ratio of special summoning cards makes Going 2nd feel slightly better than usual.

Without access to Infernobles, Eatos becomes one of the best ways to boost Rank 4 XYZ Artorigus' ATK to the magic 4000+ number for OTKs. Don't sleep on it!