Introduction to Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon

Common Skills

• Master Skill (Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon)
• ATK Support
• Pendulum (Red)

As mentioned before, you need both a Red Pendulum Scale and a Blue Pendulum Scale to be able to Pendulum Summon your Loading... and gain the boost from Master Skill (Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon) . The primary way to get these Pendulum Scales is through the Pendulum (Red) and Pendulum (Blue) Skills. You generally want to max out your ability to use these Pendulum Scales to advance your game plan of Pendulum Summoning your Odd-Eyes for a big mid-to-end game push. Another important card for gaining your Pendulum Scales is through Loading... , which gives you the opposite-colored Pendulum Scale of a monster you control. Aside from the mandatory Pendulum Summon pieces, you want to have monsters that either appreciate the boost or are able to make the boost more potent. As such, monsters with Pierce or Provoke or instances of ATK Support are appreciated.

Strategy Notes

• We only have four total Pendulum Monsters (two for each Pendulum Scale) and Loading... in the Rare pool. As such, the free-to-play Odd-Eyes Deck will end up looking closer to your standard aggressive beatdown deck.

• If Possible, use your Superspeed monsters and/or Loading... to secure the middle card; If you have the middle card it can't be used against you.

• You should probably be able to tell how early you're able to Pendulum Summon based on your opening hand. This should indicate how you should approach your early game plays and how aggressive you can be. If you can assemble both Scales early you can be more aggressive with your board since you can follow up your aggression with the huge boost from Master Skill (Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon) . If not, you're going to be much more reserved, making sure you preserve your resources as much as possible, biding your time until the point where you can eventually Pendulum Summon your Odd-Eyes.

• If you're able to get your Pendulum Scales online, you want to prepare for your Odd-Eyes turn by turning on the aggression, having your highest-stat monsters set-up in position to attack your opponent's Life Points.

• When it's time to summon Odd-Eyes, try to also summon your ATK Support monsters to hopefully push through a ton of Damage all at once with your massive stat buffs. From there, you just want to keep playing aggressive to close out the game.

There's a couple directions you can go with the more expensive builds for Odd-Eyes. Regardless of which direction, however, you are going to want to add both Loading... and Loading... for a third iteration of each Pendulum Scale allowing you to summon your Odd-Eyes more consistently.

The first approach to Odd-Eyes you can take is using the additional Pendulum Scales to justify more high-level monsters. You could add in a Loading... or Loading... with their respective Special Skill and/or Loading... with Pendulum (Blue) . I personally do not feel that this is the optimal route despite having a higher ceiling because it has the potential of giving you worse opening hands. If you do, however, want to pursue this route might want to cut down on Spells and Traps and run some monsters with Double Material to help mitigate your worse hands.

The second, simpler approach is to simply refine the free-to-play concept with higher quality cards. Improving the easily-summonable monsters like adding Loading... for recouping card advantage and Loading... for improving early pushes for the center center card. You can also run some spells like Loading... for its utility and Loading... to turn the massive buffs from Odd-Eyes into Damage.

When it comes to additional Skill Slots, your choice somewhat depends on what path you're pursuing. If you intend on running more high-level monsters for subsequent Pendulum Summons, you will most likely want Pendulum (Red) to help facilitate that. If you're not planning on using Pendulum (Red) , I would recommend using any and all additional slots on ATK Support which will turn your 800 ATK Buff to a 1200 ATK Buff, emboldening your aggressive plays even more.