What's Hoppening?!

Hey, readers!

Today we'll look at a gimmick deck I built in honor of Easter. Rather than use a bunch of cards that are unrelated but thematically interesting, I decided to focus on Rabbits and Bunnies, and build a deck that borrows some of the top strategies that are out there right now. This deck is also affordable, with only a few difficult to find cards. But we all know the real reason we're here is to see a Rabbit deck that doesn't use Rescue Rabbit!
...Well, a deck that doesn't use Rescue Rabbit as its only Easter-friendly card. Let's check out the decklist!

The Easter Bunny's Henchmen
(AKA, There's the Easter Bunny! And Another One... and Another One...)

2x Rescue Rabbit
2x Tour Guide from the Underworld
3x Dark Rabbit
3x Wind-Up Rabbit
3x Creepy Coney
3x Gene-Warped Warwolf
1x Night Assailant

3x Fire Formation - Tenki
3x Mystical Typhoon
2x Pot of Duality
1x Monster Reborn
1x Dark Hole
1x Heavy Storm
1x Pot of Avarice
1x Book of Moon

1x Compulsory Evacuation Device
2x Mirror Force
2x Torrential Tribute
2x Bottomless Trap Hole
2x Dimensional Prison
1x Starlight Road

First off, there's several popular strategies in this deck. First and foremost, we have the Rescue Rabbit/Tour Guide coupling. This strategy is the very core of Dino-Rabbit, and the main reason for its success. While we won't be making Evolzars here, the ability to trade one card for two is powerful in any strategy. I actually wanted to run Bunilla here (because I'm irrevocably in love with Slacker Magician), but realized I had nine normal monsters after adding in Gene-Warped Warwolf. There's probably another (equally as gimmicky*) variant of this deck that uses normal monster support and isn't afraid of running nine normal monsters. But here, we want to streamline as best we can.
From the Fire Fist playbook, we have Fire Formation - Tenki searching out Gene-Warped Warwolf. We've also taken a Wind-Up trick and repurposed Tenki for also searching out Wind-Up Rabbit. But that's not really stealing, since Wind-Up Rabbit was on our side all along.
Right?
Creepy Coney helps facilitate Rank 3 summons, and lets you deal healthy bits of random burn damage here or there. There's nothing like flipping a Creepy Coney face-up and burning your opponent to death because of that Bunilla they left alive last turn. Aside from that, the rest of the cards in the deck are commonly used cards you could find anywhere.
The best part about this deck? You can change all of the ratios around. You can swap out the Dark Rabbits and use Bunillas to gain access to Slacker Magician, throw in some Inaba White Rabbits for more Rank 3's, or even try using Mecha Bunnies and Blade Rabbits for Rank 2's! It's a gimmick deck no doubt, but it's fun to play with. It's almost like Dino-Rabbit, but without the incredible power of the Evolzars. And with Dark Rabbit instead of Sabersaurus. And Creepy Coney instead of Snowman Eater.
Yeah, actually, just run Dino-Rabbit if you're looking for victory after a Rescue Rabbit play. But if you're looking for a gimmick deck, there's few more gimmicky than this one!

*Rabbit Exodia Draw was a deck I considered attempting. I considered Gift of the White Elephant's, along with Common Charity's as the main draw engine, maybe even with Rabidragon and Trade-In. The main defense would be Bunilla + any level 1 monster to Xyz summon Slacker Magician, along with your classic Exodia stalling cards. In the end, I went with this strategy because I felt that building a deck around an Egyptian God the day after Easter was a bit sacrilegious.
Just kidding, I just like this build a bit more right now. Look for Rabbit Exodia in the future!