D. Fissure Dino Bunnies of the Underworld

The Sneak Peak for Photon Shockwave is about a week away and I'm sure everyone is excited. A lot of themes in Generation Force get the cards they need to be consistent, and a few new themes are to be introduced. Perhaps the most exciting thing about a new set, is the creation of brand new decks. Not necessarily based on themes provided by Konami, these decks snag some of the coolest new cards and put them into their own deck. One that is getting a lot of buzz around the internet is Dino Rabbits/D. Fissure Dino Bunnies/Whatever you want to call it.

Cute? Rescue Cat looks better.

The skeleton of the deck is pretty staight forward:
Rescue Rabbits
Dinosaurs
Tour Guide of the Underworld
Dimensional Fissure to disrupt the opponent.

That is just about the entire deck. Rescue Rabbit(as we all know) gets level 4 Normal Dinosaurs(Sabersaurus) from the deck for the purpose of Xyz summoning. Tour Guide can fetch out Sangan to search for Rescue Rabbit to add to your hand OR you can Overlay into Leviair to pluck Rabbits from the Banished zone. In fact, you can purposely banish Rabbits with Gold Sarc just to summon them more easily. Sounds pretty straight-forward right? It isn't the most powerful strategy in all of Yugioh, but it is a very, very solid turn.

The people who are playing this deck chose Sabersaurus(and often Alexandrite Dragon/Kabazauls for an additional target) because of the new Dinosaur Xyz monsters to be introduced in PHSW. They are both summoned by Overlaying 2 level 4 Dinosaurs and give the deck an amazing amount of control on turn 1.

Evolzar Laggia: When a monster(s) would be Normal or Special Summoned, OR a Spell/Trap Card is activated: You can detach 2 Xyz Materials from this card; negate that Summon or activation and destroy that card.

Evolzar Dolkka: When an Effect Monster's effect activates: You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card; negate the activation and destroy it.

One Laggia gives you 1 free negation of an opponent's summon or a spell/trap card. I say free because you invested 1 Normal Summon (Rescue Rabbit) to summon Laggia, which then stops 1 card on its own. At 2400, it isn't the scariest monster in the game, but instead solidifies your field presence. At 2300, Dolkka is an amazing choice when you know what sort of deck you are playing against. For the cost of 1 Normal Summon, you get to stop 2 monster effects. This could mean disrupting a T.G. float, or even saving yourself from Gorz or honest. Once again, not the scariest card in the game, but summoning these Xyz are just great plays with little investment.

Cute? It's smiling!

So what else is there to use in the deck? Obviously these cards don't make up a 40 card deck. Jurrac Guaiba has made the cut in a lot of these decks. At 1700, Guaiba can get over many of the most popular first turn Summons/Sets. When Guaiba destroys a monster by battle, it can summon any Jurrac with 1700 or less from the deck, including itself. Because Guaiba activates After Damage Calculation instead of when the Monster is sent to the Graveyard, it gets the effect even if it is destroyed. That means, in a worst case scenario, Guaiba can crash into Snoww or get destroyed by Ryko, then summon another from the deck. It also doesn't care where the destroyed monster is sent, which makes Dimensional Fissure a no-brainer. Dino Bunnies don't require much use of the graveyard, and most cards can dance around the Dimensional Fissure. While it is face-up on the field, you opponent also cannot use Maxx "C", a popular tech no thanks to YCS Toronto AND Columbus. The rest of the deck can be made up of simple anti-meta cards like Compulsory, Raioh, and honestly anything else you want to use that keeps the basic skeleton intact.

However, this deck does have its weaknesses. It does rely on normal summons to make Xyz plays, so it probably cannot OTK you without a perfect hand or Ultimate Offering(and you leaving your field and hand empty). The lack of Tuners and Synchro options make the deck fairly predictable too. Outside of tech choices(Aeolo? Plants? PGZ?) you will probably expect to see the same high level(aka no level) monsters each game: Laggia, Dolkka, Zenmaines, Leviair, Utopia. An early turn, high attack monster could easily shut these down if they don't draw into Compulsory, Dark Hole or D. Prison. The final thorn in the deck is that, as with any deck in the game, there IS a chance to draw absolute garbage. Be it 3 Sabersaurus in the opening hand, Jurracs against a 1st turn Venus and Gachi, or having no removal against a first turn Krystia; sometimes you may just get unlucky.

More often than not, the Xyz toolbox(Especially with Zenmaines) can get you out of any situation. Either way, try to snag all the rabbits you can (if they are secret rare.). If someone doesn't break them now, it will be broken before February.