Oni-DAD

Monsters: [25]

1 Black Luster Soldier - EotB

1 Blackwing - Zephyros the Elite

3 Blue-Blooded Oni

1 Bone Crusher

1 Chaos Sorcerer

1 Dark Armed Dragon

1 Endless Decay

3 Zombie Goblin

1 Gorz

2 Lyla

1 Mezuki

2 Photon Thrasher

1 Ryko

1 Sangan

2 Shutendoji

1 Tour Guide from the Underworld

2 Zombie Master

Spells: [14]

1 Allure of Darkness

3 Book of Life

1 Charge of the Light Brigade

1 Dark Hole

1 Foolish Burial

1 Heavy Storm

1 Inferno Reckless Summon

1 Mind Control

1 Monster Reborn

2 Mystical Space Typhoon

1 Upstart Goblin

Traps: [1]

1 Return from the Different Dimension

I like this deck, the extra could be improved, but it's good enough to be played.
Well, the deck is based on Blu-Blooded Oni's capabilities of looping and swarming.
Let's just say an Oni in the grave (and another random zombie monster), shutendoji and photon thrasher in hand with no monsters on the field. If you've got upstart goblin or Book of Life/Monster Reborn, this'll make the combo kinda awesome.

SS Thrasher, NS Shutendoji

XYZ into Lavalval Chain, send mezuki to the grave detaching shuten

Eff Mezuki, SS Oni, detach thrasher, SS Shuten

Eff shuten, put mezuki on top deck

XYZ into Lavalval Chain, use its effect detaching oni to send mezuki

eff mezuki, SS oni, eff oni, detach and SS Shuten (you'll need another zombie monster in the grave to do so)

XYZ into the last lavalval chain, repeat the loop to go into another R4 monster

OR

if you've got a reborner, use lavalval chain's effect to put on top deck BLS/DAD (based on what you need and you can summon)

use the reborner to reborn oni, detach shuten and SS it.

Use shuten's effect to banish two zombies and draw bls

SS BLS and then go into another giant R4 monster

In the worst of cases the combo will end into 3 lavalval chains and another R4, (1800x3=5400+another R4, pearl would be perfect since he has exactly 2600, could be game if direct attack).

The combo could look hard to start, a bit situational, but it totally isn't. That's just one of the way to loop, one of the worst, youo can even abuse of zombie master to discard things from hand, do 3-Material XYZs and go into double oni and another monster. 3 Onis can combo like hell. Let's say you have an ouroboros on the field with two materials, detach one for oni, detach the second for oni, too, and you'll have 3 Onis on the field. You can then go into pearl, detach one to summon another oni and another one to summon the other one, and have again 3 onis, and one of those hasn't still used his effect.

I was thinking of dropping one ouroboros from the extra for the second pearl, for this.

Speaking of fixes I'd do, I'd drop tour guide, I don't like it anymore post-banned, since it has just one target in here, and since we're tight on the extra, I'd like to drop that leviair, too.

Bone Crusher is a tech, has tons and tons of potential, but right now I haven't used its effect once, in 30 games, more or less. Not sure what to do about this.

Inferno Reckless Summon, makes really easy OTKs with oni, if your opponent has bad targets, but I don't like opponent-relying cards, it's all based on luck, and I kinda lack it, lol.

So, I'd do:

-1 Tour

-1 Inferno Reckless Summon

-1 Bone Crusher

+1 Upstart Goblin (sometimes it's not possible banishing two targets for shutendoji's effect, and this substitutes the reborner to draw into BLS/DAD. Adds some speed to the deck, too)

+2 Call of the Haunted (maybe, dunno. Calls are always good, chainable to MST/Heavy Storm to search with goblin and sangan. Or this, or Silver Sentiner. And I'm serious about the latter, MST/Heavy Storm bait, SS itself and destroys nasty S/Ts that'll block our combo, while putting on the field the first lv4 we'll need for the first XYZ to start looping)

For the Extra I'd do:
-1 Leviair (no more tour, no more R3, and we need slots)
-1 Ghost Ship (it's just that I don't like it)
-1 Ouroboros (3 are just too much, even if it possible to loop with them, too)

+1 Pearl
+1 Chimeratech Fortress (if you want to keep one of those, you can drop this, then)/Gaia (against Thunder Family, monarch with illusion snatch, constellar, Chronomaly, ecc... with mind control)/photon papilloperative (among those, this is the one I like the most, since this can substitute ghost ship's main use, destroy reaper)
+1 Utopia Ray (well, you can detach from utopia to use oni's effect and then go into this, and you can steal opponent's utopias with mind control)

The deck has lot of power, sadly, some Backrows can easily stop this, then, you don't need to loop exactly when you have all of the pieces, be sure to kill their backrows, first. If you go against trap-less deck, be aware of gorz.
Try the deck, I believe you'll like this. If you have some questions, as always, just say it in the comments.

Oh, and, just a little thing, for the first card of the week of the banned (3th september), SHE will be an unexpected card, I'm looking forward to posting it. Try and guess.
Tomorrow I'll go to my first sneak peek, and, thus, the only real tournament. I'm looking for Madolche Majoleine, but I'm fine with no matter the madolche card.

Stay Tuned.

Card of the Week #12: Photon Thrasher

Cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. Must first be Special Summoned (from your hand) while you control no monsters. If you control another monster, this card cannot attack.

A simple and yet giant effect, no rulings for this, only that he's a semi-nomi, so you can reborn him, but only if you succeeded into SSing him via his own effect.

Close look, then we'll go for the true review:

Photon Monster, some little photon supports, if you're going to play this in a photon deck;
LIGHT, this is really good, honest, here we go, and of course, lots and lots of supports, I'll name some later;
Level 4, XYZs there we go;
Warrior-Type, Reinforcement of the Army, the warrior returning alive and XYZs, I'll name something else later;
Cydra-like effect, SS without cost, even easier to bring to the field if compared to cydra since he doesn't need a monster on the opponent's field;
Stats, lovely stats, 2100/0, you'll mainly go into XYZs with this, but having a big easily summonable beater isn't half bad. 0 DEF isn't bad, since we're going into xyzs or attacks, I would never put him in defence, even if he had 2000, I believe.

This one is a great card, pretty much everyone knows his primary uses. SS, NS Stratos, search bubbleman, SS Bubbleman, Bubbleman+Thrasher=Excalibur/Blade Armor. In other decks is a big beater easily summonable that goes into blade/excalibur with another random LV4 Warrior, that's easily recruitable and recylable.

But, flying a little away from the competitive scene, this card is usable in lightrays.
There are decks based on the Ligtray cards, they are a set of 4 monsters (+lightray grepher, but here I'm talking about the "bosses") that have a summoning condition with no cost.
Lightray Daedalus, you'll never use its effect, but it is a 2600 summonable having 4 or more light monsters in the grave;
Lightray Gearfried, 2800 ATK, nice effect, s/t negation at the cost of banishing a warrior from the grave (thrasher?) while having only warriors on the field, though summoning him isn't easy, 5 or more light in the grave with different names, kinda hard;
Lightray Diabolos, 2800 ATK, same summoning condition of gearfried, and not bad effect, you can banish 1 light monster from the grave (not bad, we'll why with the next card) to check 1 set card on the field and send it to the top of bottom of deck, not bad, not awesome;
Lightray Sorcerer, 2300 ATK, but the only one with different summoning condition, you need to have at least 3 banished light monsters, and has a nice effect. Shuffle one of your light banished monsters in the deck (as an effect) and banish an opponent's monster, really good, there are builds based on him.

So, how would photon thrasher work in a lightray deck? Let's say we're going for Lightsworn engine (as most lightray decks do), this card is a free beater, warrior for gearfried, xyz material with most lightsworns, and with, let's say, jain, you can go into blade armor or excalibur, recyclable with beckoning light, giant beater under honest and so on.

However we needn't forget that synchros still exist, and this card is a perfect synchro fodder too, just summon this then the tuner and here we go. If someone remembers, back in time there were Bushi Abuse, they were warrior deck that used bushi as synchro fodder by reviving him every turn if we hadn't no monsters on the field, that supported with Junk Synchron, Doppel and other warrior monsters, in tandem with Warrior Synchro monsters, with Solidarity even Bushi alone with a monster in the grave was a really good beater (2000). I believe I'll rebuild the deck putting in thrasher and BLS, since the others are pretty much all dark, only few are of other attributes, and, based on personal preferences, there could be even some light ones. However, no matter the attribute, with thrasher and another lv4 you could go into excalibur, a light monster, too. RotA searches what you need, tuning searches for junk synchron, foolish sends bushi to the grave and we're all happy. Warrior Lady remoeves threats, with junk and bushi you can go into invoker that can summon another warrior, the comboes are a lot. Try it if you have time to build it, I believe it would be at least playable as 4fun, and kinda funny, too.
Remember that by reducing the number of monsters with effects on the field, you can go into skill drain build that would let your thrasher attack even with other monsters on the field.

If you want to build a photon deck, this card would be one of the main ones. Right now (without cards from the kite tenjo pack) the best way I'd build it would be antimeta. 3 of this, 3 crushers/tigers (I don't recommend both, but tiger has a best effect, while crusher is lv4), 3 lizards, some skill drains, some galaxy dragons, LaDD, classic S/T from an antimeta, honest, barbaros if you want to abuse of skill drain, photon trident, photon sanctuary and here we go.
We'll have a deck that controls all of the opponent's move, that can summon easily LaDD to indiscriminately negate everything, that spams big beaters with honest that's a troll card, that stops monster's effect with Skill Drain and has lots of possibilites. You can play RotA here, too,

Well, that's all, hope you liked the review. The card is awesome and playable in lots of ways, however I'm sure I forgot some builds, lol.
Let me know if you do something awesome with this card.
Stay Tuned.