Volcanic Flare Dragon

[Thomas★Zero 19]

Volcanic Flare Dragon
FIRE
Link: L, DL, U, DR, R
Pyro/Link/Effect
3+ FIRE Effect Monsters
Must be Link Summoned. When a FIRE monster is summoned to a zone this card points to: destroy 1 card on your opponents side of the field. When this card destroys a monster by battle: inflict damage equal to the destroyed monsters ATK. If this card would be destroyed by battle or by effect: you can tribute 1 FIRE monster you control in a zone this card points to instead.
ATK/3500 LINK-5

So Volcanic Flare Dragon acts as a Link 5 FIRE monster whose designed around the very attribute itself with power, destruction and burn while also being able to protect itself by tributing a FIRE monster it points to.

In FIRE Decks this card would act as a ideal boss monster for them and would fit best in Salamangreats as they focus around multiple Link Summoning.

[Sleepy 211]

Protection effects usually are continuous effects so they don't need to care about chain orders to save themselves.
If something like Maestroke was a trigger effect like your card's last effect is, you'd be able do stuff like this:
"Summon Maestroke" > "Opponent chains Torrential" > "Opponent chains bottomless" >
^Bottomless resolves and finally destroys Maestroke, and Maestroke can't chain its protection to it because Torrential is waiting for its turn in the chain already, and Maestroke if I'm not mistaken wouldn't be able to activate preemptively until the effect that tried to destroy it actually started resolving.

As for the rest of the card, I can't really tell for sure because I have the feeling the deck that would be able to bring it out the easiest would be Salamangreat and I haven't been following what they do exactly. Still I'm gonna guess the card is not a problem because Link 5 is pretty big for a Flame Wingman with protection. The destruction effect is neat but makes me think of the Topologics. I'd have to see it in action.

[Summer Darj 292]

Sure, give Salamangreats, one of the currently topping OCG decks, a Link5 that could potentially become a boss monster. Do you wan a tier 0 scenario? :v
Actually, IDK if they would actually bother with this, since they need Salamangreats on board to make their backrows live. I cannot really think of a FIRE deck swarmy enough for this, but it should be possible for Fire Fists or decks built around Rekindling or Searing Fire Wall. And even then, spending resources into Link5 is risky if you are not netting pluses through a Link ladder. At the very least Knightmare Phoenix should be an flexible stepping stone.