A new Armed Dragon graces the Burst Protocol card list. Burst Protocol will be released in the Official Card Game (OCG) on October 26th, while the Trading Card Game (TCG) will have to wait a little longer. The Western release for this expansion is currently set for February 6th, 2026.
Threat Armed Dragon
Level 5, Wind
Dragon/Effect Monster
You can only use the 1st and 2nd effect of this card's name each once per turn.
(1) If this card is in your GY: You can target 1 Dragon monster you control; destroy it, and if you do, Special Summon this card.
(2) You can discard 1 card, then target 1 monster on the field with 2400 or less ATK; destroy it, then, if you controlled it, you can Special Summon 1 Dragon monster from your hand or Deck that is 2 original Levels higher.
Threat Armed Dragon, despite its name, isn't particularly good for its named archetype. This card would have a much better time finding a home with some of the new Rokket archetype cards coming in Burst Protocol.
The Rokket archetype, usually played in Dragon Link decks, has effects that trigger when destroyed, through battle or card effects, and when sent to the graveyard on the same turn. The fact that Threat Armed Dragon can enable these tactics either while in the graveyard or while on the field is the real advantage this monster card can give.
Threat Armed Dragon’s recursion package allows it to become an easy material to use for extra deck summoning, so long as it’s not banished and has a preferable target it can destroy to come back. Given the synergy with the Rokket dragons, this shouldn't be a hard parameter to fulfill.
As for its second effect, it requires a little more forward thinking, but being able to activate your Rokket dragon effects while specially summoning straight from the deck is a lot of a card advantage to consider. This is on top of a pretty generous summon condition where the only thing to consider are the monster levels.
The most disadvantageous aspect of Threat Armed Dragon is enabling the activation of its effects. Getting this card into the graveyard might be the easiest, but most roundabout way of getting Threat Armed Dragon online.
There’s also the main fact that Threat Armed Dragon can’t easily be searched by the Rokket archetype and would need a bridge. There are a lot of generic dragon support cards that can facilitate this play, though. Dragon Shrine is one example of such a support card. This spell card could easily send your single copy of Threat Armed Dragon straight into the graveyard and set up a follow-up for the next turn to get your cards into rotation.
The dragon archetype, regardless of its sub-group, is one of the most supported archetypes in the franchise. We won’t be able to exhaust all the potential combo pieces that could work with Threat Armed Dragon, but there should be enough variance available to let this card act as a respectable, if not always needed, free agent tool for some decks.