Yes and once you summon Arthur he can be tribute sacrificed using one of my above mentioned cards. In my opening duel I had the option of going for Merlin, borz, excaliburn, borz's effect, medraut next turn and smacking Angelo around like a rag doll. Instead I opened up with Peredur and nearly go my head handed to me on a silver platter by dragunity. According to Jag he should've won that duel earlier too if not for a mistake he made in doing his plays. I don't intend to be summoning a level 5 king unless Ben is in the dire need to. He's not Andre who would summon his Archfiend Emperor of Horror with Sinister Yoshiro second turn and run over people like small children n a construction zone. Likewise once cards are banished...I'm out of luck. I can't get them back. Also if I don't get Exaliburn for one reason or another a book of moon flips Artorgius over and removes his cards. He can get magical clyinder'd, he can get negate attacked. Artorgius at his worst does 4000 which may be the life point limit here but i need literally all the noble arms equipped to Artorgius and as mentioned I don't intend on having Ben go full on ham with Artorgius and run rough shot over everyone unless they pull out a similar big play or Ben sees one coming in the near future. Ben likes tough duels and he's more than happy to just bring out medraut and borz and not xyz summon. This is fore most a ROLEPLAY and that's what I've been trying to do with Ben. Bringing up his deck at the moment will just end up with me throwing more cards into the deck than needed. Get merlin down to two or one? I put in swords of revealing light and or call of the haunted. Likewise Merlin is a glorfied ROTA that can attack you just like how U.A Signing contract is a rota that makes you play life points. 

I also don't have ROTA in my own build so merlin replaces on of those. Would you prefer i throw merlin away and just get rota? All that does is prevent me from calling out laudsallyn turn one to go for a big play with medraut next turn or set up for a super laudsallyn. Likewise I don't even need artorgius. Why not just put destiny, caliburn, and exacaliburn on peredur and have a super peredur? Artorgius isn't the problem the noble arms are and without noble arms I got literally nothing to work with and i already only have one caliburn and noble arms gallatin so that leaves me with three noble arms of destiny (used to be two but since i drew one in the opening pack i got three throwing out the exchange of night and day which was literally a dead card in my deck) which becomes two possible dead cards in my hand if i already have it in the field and two excaliburn which don't re-equip. Overall I'm standing firm in saying while my deck is strong it's not as ridiculous are people are making it seem by way of all this talk about my archetype dominating my deck. 

I use merlin as a seacher, maxx 'c' becomes a dead card against non-special summoners, i don't have any way of searching cards other than milling them into the grave, artorgius can be gotten over by non-targeting effects or cards that flip him once he has no excaliburn, he can be completely blocked by skill drain, and i have an disproportionate amount of noble arms destiny which don't save him completely. Dark hole him and then try to blow him up or run him over somehow and he goes to the grave then run over medraut or whoever i don't bring out.