Notes & Combos
This is the spright deck that I used to reach D1 from D5 tier 5 in the current Tear tier 0 meta. All info below:
Game Stats
I’ve compiled some statistics of the games that I had using this deck to reach D1:
- Total games: 75
- Heads occurrence: 46.66 % / Tails occurrence: 53.33 %
- Total win rate: 61.33%
- Win rate with heads: 62.86% / Win rate with tails: 60.00% (more than I expected!)
Gameplan
Going first, I’ll try to set up a board with Spright elf, IP Masquerena, Mannequin Cat and, in many cases, spright carrot. If the opponent summons a dark tear monster, you can very quickly use Mannequin cat to summon the end of Anubis, rendering their GY useless. Use IP and Spright Elf as materials to summon Avramax which will protect Anubis. I like to toss in Spright Carrot in case the opponent has Evenly matched (very common with FLOO decks). You can also use Melffy of the forest to get Melffy cat on the board at the end of turn 1, and then use it to add Melffy Pinny to the hand during your opponent’s turn, consequently summoning Herald of the Arc Light as a Tear counter. However, I’ve found the Mannequin cat –> Anubis combo to be much faster in most cases. The gameplan for going second will depend largely on your opponent’s board.
Some comments
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To stop Tear in its tracks, it’s generally good to use D.D. Crow to banish a Tear monster whose effect is to fusion summon a monster from the graveyard. Using negates for Kitkallos is useful too.
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I use 3x Dimensional Fissures as opposed to 2x Dimension Shifter. D. shifter on turn 1 is annoying, as it blocks you from using your frog extenders, whereas with D. fissure you can just pop it on the board at the end of your turn 1. I’ve also found that tear decks can struggle with D. Fissure even on your turn 2 if they don’t have the right negates.
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I also prefer using 2x Dark Beckoning Beast + 1 Opening of the spirit gates as opposed to 3 Nimble beavers. There’s good synergy between DBB and frogs. eg: if you start with a DBB and a frog, you can summon 2x DBBs and then send the frog to the gy using Spirit Gates to summon DBB again, then with Spright elf you can summon that frog in the GY for more extenders. That’s just my own preference though.
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Rest of the deck is pretty standard. Happy to answer any questions.