The Official Rescue Lagia Guide

**Lovelace** 2011-10-06, 13:35

I was bored, so I decided to do a guide on the deck I work best with: Rescue Lagia. So.... ya, here's the guide.

The cards

The Vanillas

Sabersaurus:
Level: 4
Type: Vanilla, Dinosaur
Attribute: Earth
Attack: 1900 Def: 500

He's a level 4 vanilla Dinosaur with high attack points. Our best dino for dropping out Lagia. Use 3, always.

Kabazuls:
Level: 4
Type: Vanilla, Dinosaur
Attribute: Water
Attack: 1700 Def: 1500

Clearly, this one is outclassed by Sabersaurus in every way. So, why use it? Because we can't rely on just Sabersaurus for rescuing Lagia. Use 3, or 0. Only don't use it if your deck is more chaos heavy.

Verz Heliotrope:
Level: 4
Type: Vanilla, Rock
Attribute: Dark
Attack: 1950 Def: 650

Here's a nice card. 1950 attack runs over Thunder King and Doomcailiber Knight, and other 1900 beaters. It's also Dark, meaning it's capable of helping us summon Dark Armed Dragon and Black Luster Soldier. But what's the real reason we use it? Rescuing Verz Bahamut. Use 3, always.

Alexandrite Dragon
Level: 4
Type: Vanilla, Dragon
Attribute: Light
Attack: 2000 Def: 100

In Chaos heavy builds, we can use this card over Kabazuls. But in the standard Rescue Lagia build, there is no space, or use for this Dragon. 2000 attack points is nice tho. Use 0 in the standard build, and 3 in chaos builds.

Now for the effect monsters

The Effect Monsters

Rescue Rabbit:
Level: 4
Type: Effect, Beast
Attribute: Earth
Attack: 300 Def: 100

Code:: Effect: This card cannot be special summoned from the deck. You can banish this face up card to special 2 level 4 or lower normal monsters from your deck with the same name. Destroy them in the End Phase. The effect of Rescue Rabbit can only be used once per turn

The reason why this deck exists. Without Rescue Rabbit, we would have no use in all those vanilla monsters. It's pretty self-explanatory. Use 3 or don't run the deck.

Tour Guide From the Underworld
Level: 3
Type: Effect, Fiend
Attribute: Dark
Attack: 1000, Def: 600

Code:: Effect: When this card is normal summoned, you can special summon one level 3 Fiend type monster from your hand or deck. It cannot be used for Synchro, and it's effects are negated.

Looks like Sangan found himself a girlfriend. A really cute one too. Tour Guide is the second most important Effect monster in this deck. Summon Tour Guide, special summon Sangan, exceed summon Leviar, pitch Sangan, summon Rescue Rabbit, then go for a rank 4 exceed. If you don't have Rabbit banished yet, that's why we use Gold Sarcophagus. Use 3 or don't run the deck.

Verz Mandrago
Level: 4
Type: Effect, Plant
Attribute: Dark
Attack 1550, Def 1450

Code:: Effect: If your opponent controls more monsters than you, you can special summon this card from your hand.

No point in running Verz Bahamut if the only Verz we use would be Heliotrope. That's where this cute little guy comes in. Not only is it discard fodder for Bahamut, but it has an awesome effect. Your opponent controls more monsters than you? Drop this guy, then summon a dead in hand Vanilla and go for rank 4 exceed. Not only that but, you can also drop out this guy, then Rescue Rabbit, then bring out 2 more level 4's and go for Shock Ruler or Disigma. Run 3.

Now for the exceeds.

The Exceeds

Evolkaiser Lagia
Rank: 4
Type: Effect, Dragon
Attack: 2400, Def 2000

Code:: Effect: (2 level 4 Dinosaurs) You can detach 2 exceed material from this card to negate the activation of an opponents Spell, Trap, or an attempted normal or special summon and destroy it.

If you never seen this card before, you're gonna say wow. Yes you are. This card is the reason why run 6 Vanilla dinos. It's a freaking Shi En on steroids. It's effect can even be activated in damage step. Just note that it only get's inherent summons, but if your opponent is using a spell or trap that summons, why not just negate that? Run 2-3, Extra deck space is tight, so I use 2 now.

Verz Bahamut
Rank: 4
Type: Effect, Dragon
Attribute: Dark
Attack: 2350 Def 1350

Code:: Effect:(2 level 4 Verz or Steel swarms) Once per turn, you can detach an exceed material from this card to target 1 face up monster your opponent controls: discard 1 Verz or Steel-swarm monster from your hand; gain control of the target.

Looks like boss #2 is also a Dragon. This card is awesome. You can gain control of ANY face up monster your opponent controls, permanently. Judgment Dragon staring you down? Grab control of his ass. Black Luster Soldier? Bring his ass over to your side! I won multiple duels by stealing a JD and blowing up the field with it. Also, apparently if I know my stuff, the discard is not a cost. Run 1-2.

Vylon Disigma
Rank: 4
Type: Effect, Fairy
Attribute: Light
Attack: 2500 Def 2100

Code:: Effect: (3 Level 4 monsters) Once per turn you can detach 1 Exceed material from this card to equip 1 monster your opponent controls to this card. When this card battles a monster with the same attribute as the equipped monster: destroy that monster at the start of damage step (without damage calc)

Bahamut is better, but you won't always have discard fodder. Run 1.

Shock Ruler
Rank: 4
Type: Effect, Fairy
Attribute, Light
Attack: 2300, Def 1600

Code:: Effect: (3 level 4 monsters) Once per turn you can detach 1 exceed material from this card and declare 1 card type (spell, trap or monster) cards of this type can't be activated until your opponents next turn ends.

Self-Explanatory. Run 1

Leviar The Sea Dragon
Rank 3
Type: Effect, Sea-Serpent
Attribute: Wind
Attack: 1800, Def 1600

Code:: Effect: (2 level 3 monsters) Once per turn you can detach 1 exceed material from this card to special summon 1 level 4 or lower banished monster.

The main reason we use Tour Guide. Leviar is great for re-using that Banished rabbit. Use 1-2, extra deck space is tight.

Wind-Up Zenmaines
Rank 3
Type: Effect, Warrior
Attack: 1500, Def 2100

Effect: (2 level 3 monsters) If this card would be destroyed, you can detach and exceed material instead. If you used this effect, during the End Phase: destroy 1 card.

Sometimes we open with Tour Guide, but no banished Rabbit, so we have to summon this guy. Run 1

Evolzar Dolkka
Rank: 4
Type: Effect, Dragon
Attribute: Fire
Attack: 2300 Def: 1700

Code:: Effect: (2 Level 4 Dinosaurs) When an Effect monsters Effect is activated, you can detach 2 exceed materials from this card to negate and destroy it.

Lagia's missing part has been found. Run 1-2.

Now for deck-lists.

Deck-lists:

Rescue Lagia: Built by N Harmonia

Monsters: 25

3x Sabersaurus
3x Kabazuls
3x Verz Heliotrope

3x Rescue Rabbit
3x Tour Guide
3x Verz Mandrago
3x Effect Veiler
1x Sangan
1x Gorz
1x DAD
1x BLS

Spells: 12

3x Pot of Duality
2x MST
2x Gold
1x Pot of Avarice
1x Dark Hole
1x Heavy Storm
1x Monster Reborn
1x Allure of Darkness

Traps: 3
2x Call of Haunted
1x Trap Dust-shoot

Extra: 15
1x Trishula
2x Evolzar Lagia
2x Verz Bahamut
2x Leviar
1x Daigusto Emerald
1x Gem-Knight Pearl
1x Utopia
1x Steelswarm Roach
1x Evolzar Dolkka
1x Wind-Up Zenmaines
1x Shock Ruler
1x Vylon Disigma

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**gamer14** 2011-10-06, 17:13

this is an interesting build. I like it.

**Lovelace** 2011-10-06, 22:50

Guide updated with Dolkka.

**XIVcaliber** 2011-10-07, 18:00

Rescue Rabbit is busted as all hell, but you have to hand it to Konami to make Vanilla Monsters popular again. Good guide, great deck, it's going to be a very central deck to the format, unless Rabbit gets Rescue Banned (which it should).

**Lovelace** 2011-10-07, 18:02

I'd be very unhappy if Rabbit gets banned

**Breaker** 2011-10-07, 18:20

Just some minor corrections.

The card "Evolkaiser Lagia" seems cool. It's basically a walking 2400 ATK Solemn Judgment that rests in the extra deck and has no LP cost (only need to xyz it)

N Harmonia wrote:
Effect: This card cannot be special summoned from the deck.

Effect: When this card is normal summoned, you can special summon one level 3 Fiend type monster from your hand or deck. ~~This monster~~ It cannot be used for Synchro, and its effects are negated.

Summon Tour Guide, special summon Sangan, exceed summon Leviar, pitch Sangan, summon Rescue Rabbit, then go for a rank 4 exceed.
Why xyz with Sangan when you can with another guide?

**Lovelace** 2011-10-08, 15:38

Fixed.

Also, I put to xyz with Sangan because of Call of The Haunted

**Phoenix Wright** 2011-10-08, 16:05

This needs to be updated, it still says you can use the tourgan to get rabbit

**Lovelace** 2011-10-08, 16:20

Do you mean pitching Sangan to search for Rabbit with Sangans eff? If so, I don't recall saying that

**Breaker** 2011-10-08, 16:41

N pitches Sangan/Guide to get Rabbit from banished through Leviair.
That's what he meant.

**Lovelace** 2011-10-08, 16:53

Exactly.

**SLBoy** 2011-10-09, 17:07

Don't really like 9 normals, and I'd only run Heliotrope if with alexandrite in a chaos build.

Imo in Rabbit Ragia, the 6 dinos is all you need.

Here's my build for more sample decklists:

3x Rabbit
3x Kabazauls
3x Sabersaurus
3x Tour Guide from the Underworld
2x Thunder King Rai-oh
2x Effect Veiler
2x Breaker the Magical Warrior
1x Sangan
1x Gorz
1x BLS

3x Pot of Duality
2x MST
1x Monster Reborn
1x Dark Hole
1x Heavy Storm
1x Book of Moon
1x Pot of Avarice
1x Mind Control

2x Solemn Warning
2x Bottomless Trap Hole
1x Mirror Force
1x Torrential Tribute
1x Solemn Judgment
1x Trap Dustshoot

Don't know if I should drop the breakers for 3 tengu, I know it no longer triggers when detached as a Xyz material but it's still a really solid field presence and helps making Disigma and shock ruler more easily.

**Lovelace** 2011-10-09, 19:50

Heliotrope is staple in any build imo. It does far more good than harm.

**Phoenix Wright** 2011-10-09, 20:17

N Harmonia wrote:

Looks like Sangan found himself a girlfriend. A really cute one too. Tour Guide is the second most important Effect monster in this deck. Summon Tour Guide, special summon Sangan, exceed summon Leviar, pitch Sangan, summon Rescue Rabbit, then go for a rank 4 exceed. If you don't have Rabbit banished yet, that's why we use Gold Sarcophagus. Use 3 or don't run the deck.

**Lovelace** 2011-10-09, 20:18

Yeah, it says summon Rabbit with Leviar, not add Rabbit to hand with Sangan.

**Pot of Profanity** 2011-10-10, 04:16

Your guide needs something on Reborn Tengu and Daigusto Emeral/Lavalval Chain.
They are all great and powerful additions to this deck.

Otherwise, it seems a-okay.

**Lovelace** 2011-10-10, 18:16

I don't see why Tengu. And I didn't put anything on Emeral and Lavalval Chain because I didn't plan on giving staple xyz a description.

**Pot of Profanity** 2011-10-11, 06:55

N Harmonia wrote:I don't see why Tengu.

Emeral/Chain.

N Harmonia wrote:And I didn't put anything on Emeral and Lavalval Chain because I didn't plan on giving staple xyz a description.

Fair enough.

**Lovelace** 2011-10-11, 11:58

I don't see what Tengu has to do with Eneral and Chain.

**Noxis** 2011-10-12, 20:03

N Harmonia wrote:I don't see what Tengu has to do with Eneral and Chain.

It's a level 4 floater, which makes Xyz summoning those monsters easier.

Also, why no Leviathan? He can be a pretty useful beatstick to summon with the Tour Guides when Rabbit is not an option.

**Lovelace** 2011-10-12, 20:05

No room for Leviathan. I'd rather go for Zenmaines than Leviathan any day.

**kycoool13** 2011-10-15, 15:40

hey anyone know which rank 4s will be legal for YCS KC?

**Lovelace** 2011-10-15, 16:18

Nope, and don't really care either.

Also, just posted this guide on pojo.

**weeby** 2011-10-15, 17:34

my bunny deck
3x sabersaurus
3x heliotrope
3x rescue rabbit
3x veiler
3x tour
1x sangan
3x hydrogedon
3x jurrac guaiba
1x jurrac velo
1x jurrac aeolo
3x verz mandrago

1x book
1x heavy
1x dark hole
1x monster reborn
3x pot of duality
2x fossil dig
1x pot of avarice

1x trap dustshoot

extra
3x laggia
2x dolkka
1x utopia
1x shock ruler
1x disigma
1x roach
1x zenmarines
1x laviar
2x bahamut

1x trish
1x catastor

thinking about bls

**Lovelace** 2011-10-15, 21:01

Try fitting in 2 Call of the Haunted

**Tsunayoshi** 2011-10-22, 15:18

Going to update the deck in the OP with something that doesnt look like it only works due to the defunct Tourgan combo? Also should include more than just the one deck to give people more to work with.

**Lovelace** 2011-10-22, 18:15

If anybody wants there deck posted in the OP, by all means just ask and post it here.

**BigZac** 2011-11-28, 15:29

Curious, what would a Chaos Deck list look like?

**Lovelace** 2011-11-28, 15:30

Me no like chaos.

**S.S.A.** 2011-11-28, 15:37

then why make the guide? and what about jurracs? they work great in my friends build

**Lovelace** 2011-11-28, 15:42

Meh. Guide really needs some updates. I'll update it when I get the chance

**012yArthur0** 2011-11-28, 15:57

N Harmonia know how to make a good guide. Good example, cards reason,etc.

But the point is: Does Rescue Rabbit needs a guide? Rescue Rabbit is maybe the easiest Deck I ever saw. I just did a 5-min only and I won more than I lost with it. Nice Chaos Idea though. Verz are awesome by themselves.

**g4rm818** 2011-11-28, 16:02

add verz ophion i made a deck similar to this but with the jurrac in it as well

**Lovelace** 2011-11-28, 16:08

012yArthur0 wrote:N Harmonia know how to make a good guide. Good example, cards reason,etc.

But the point is: Does Rescue Rabbit needs a guide? Rescue Rabbit is maybe the easiest Deck I ever saw. I just did a 5-min only and I won more than I lost with it. Nice Chaos Idea though. Verz are awesome by themselves.

I didnt give a card a guide, I give the deck a guide =)

**hidan89** 2011-12-06, 10:11

My Dimensional Rabbit (41):

Monsters (17):
3 Sabersaurus
3 Kabazaulus
3 Rescue Rabbit
3 Tour Guide From the Underworld
3 Jurrac Guaiba
1 Sangan
1 Neo-Spacian Grand Mole

Spells (13):
3 Forbidden Lance
2 Dimensional Fissure
2 Gold Sarcophagus
2 Smashing Ground
2 Mstical Space Typhoon
1 Dark Hole
1 Book of Moon

Traps (11):
2 Solemn Warning
2 Bottomless Trap Hole
2 Dimensional Prison
1 Solemn Judgment
1 Torrential Tribute
1 Trap Dustshoot
1 Mirror Force
1 Starlight Road

Extra Deck (15):
1 Chimeratech Fortress Dragon
1 Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
2 Stardust Dragon
1 Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
2 Leviair the Sea Dragon
1 Number 17: Leviathan Dragon
1 Wind-Up Zenmaines
2 Evolzar Dolkka
2 Evolzar Laggia
2 Number 39: Utopia

**Ceteruler2** 2011-12-06, 11:02

N, what's your opinion on Verz Ouroboros in the deck? Rank 4, doesn't require specific monsters (similar to Disigma) and has a slew of Trish-esque effects.

**Badass_Bunny** 2011-12-06, 11:31

N Harmonia wrote:
I didnt give a card a guide, I give the deck a guide =)

Well at least could have done it right, you stated nothing more than obvious, how about you actually explain bit more in depth on how each different cambo could work and how could decks spin out. Maybe what would be good tech choices, what would be bad and good match-ups what to side in etc, the way this is(Don't take me wrong you're on a good path) but the way this is it looks more like a topic that belongs to Deck Construction much more than it does to the Articles section.

You don't make a guide while you're bored, to make a guide it takes time and dedication and much much research while you did none of those. As a member of these forums I demand a better article from you.

**Shinigami14X** 2011-12-13, 00:17

what about the side deck??? could u please list what you put in that???

**Tarantila** 2011-12-19, 22:26

Coh is totally shit in this deck... hidan89 maked the Best deck in this topic, -2 gold slow and not need, +1 dim fissure the best defense, +1 prison or Jurrac Velo, but great deck!

**hidan89** 2011-12-20, 10:44

Tarantila wrote:Coh is totally shit in this deck... hidan89 maked the Best deck in this topic, -2 gold slow and not need, +1 dim fissure the best defense, +1 prison or Jurrac Velo, but great deck!

I tested Velo instead of Mole, but it seems to be slow and it doesnt work as I supposed. Moreover, Fissure ruins it.
Sarco. It's a bit broken in this deck. TGU + Gold Sarco = GG in almost games. However, I should try without them. Thanks.

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