User blog comment:Leobwin/Thunder Reign/@comment-25324008-20141022042201/@comment-16524402-20141022062023

My original brew also only had Green and Blue, but I really don't think I like that. The damage reduction is likely to become relevant with Sword of the King, Excalibur, and maybe it's more of a sideboard card, but this deck is meant to Ritter or bust (it also reduces link attack damage to 0 with Ritter's effect). As much as I like playing size 1s and items, I feel like it'd really harm the consistancy, and I feel like Savior, while good, just isn't good enough to make the cut in this deck, since I don't want my Jackknife to take damage for me, I need him to get to 3 soul right away. Even then, if there was a substitute for Jackknife "Beistand", I'm pretty sure I'd consider it, since the 2 gauge, while it works, is pretty lofty. Do you play any Jackknife Braveheart? I'm really curious to see/hear how this card plays out, I find myself using Jackknife Dragon's effect a lot and having to tutor for Jackknife "Burn Energy" just because I'm out of stock. That being said, I'm piloting a version that plays Thousand Rapier Dragon and Dragonblade, Dragobrave (which I'm really disliking, having to discard suuuucks) while I try to get my hand on some more cards, and they're putting in a decent amount of work as well clearing things, I just don't know if I can find the space, and the amount of times I get stuck with items/thousand rapiers in my hand, and if they were pieces of the combo, it'd be so much easier.

Thanks for your input though! I'll be sure to keep it in mind, Reducing the number of shields is another thing I thought about when looking at this list.