Hieroglyphs

The new stuff coming out in Galactic Overlord includes a new archetype of LIGHT Dragons.

So far, after playing a few rounds against them, I find them to be explosively fast. Really explosively fast. Also, they are quite consistent because of their level-unlimited RotA, combined with the searches some of them have when they are tributed.

But I also find them to have a weakness: Over-extension.

If they go and pull their entire combo off with like 2 REDMDs on field and Galaxy Eyes Photon Dragon and their Rank 8 boss dragon, they are very likely to have no hand left and maybe at most 1 backrow. If you toss down a Fader and Black Hole them next turn, they are quite screwed. And they can't rely on Prime Material Dragon because they usually have little to no hand cards after all the stunts.

But all in all, a decently powerful archetype, just take Inzektors are overpowered to the point that they make this archetype look meek despite their recipe for disaster.

Comparing Hieroglyphs to Inzektors, I feel that this archetype is more of a aggressive rush, while Inzektors win by getting their +4 advantage every turn through the combo. Something like aggressive rush vs aggressive control. But at least this deck wouldn't flunk as badly when they don't draw their key card (a.k.a Hornet for Inzektors) because they have lots of searching and alternatives.

Tier 1? Maybe. But pales in comparison to the Tier 0.5 of Inzektors at the moment. We'll see how Konami does a Baygon banhammer on Inzektors come March~