User blog comment:TyrantRex/TyrantRex's Deck Army/@comment-25061243-20140820160954/@comment-11454852-20140820162411

The answer is simple: Don't spam his survival skill, it'll burn away your life too quick. Dragoenergy clones and Glacies are mainly alternatives to it. I also maximize Dragon Emperor Legend and Dragon Dreams to replenish life, in Ancient a -1 in hand for 3 life is perfectly worth it. Vragos also helps, which is why I keep it as Sideboard.

About the opponent countering your Bold Dragon/ Outlaw, there's a trick to guarantee they work even when the opponent just link attacks for 9k+ pow:


 * Pay the survival skill BEFORE the opponent attacks.


 * When the opponent attacks, you can cast your Bold/Outlaw because its a new "chain".

Even if they win the attack, Tyrant will survive because you payed the survival skill and Counterattack will activate, if they lose the attack Tyrant is still protected once for the rest of the turn. This trick can also scare them into not using their dragoenergies, instead they'll save them for their own turns letting you be the one who counter-casts Bold/Outlaw.