Notes & Combos

In contrast to my February Diamond 1 Spright list, I tried out playing board breakers vs loads of hand traps. My notes and some tips about the deck:

• opening just one hand trap or sometimes even two just isn't enough in the mirror to stop them most of the time, but opening just one board breaker was enough often times (also evenly hitting backrow was clutch)
• but by playing less hand traps, you won't be able to support your board as much in pure spright, which isn't a very oppressive board anyways, therefore I went with the Winda lock through the searchable Shaddoll Schism, which won my games by its own going first most of the time
• opening Gale Dogra is fine, since you need to normal summon a level 2 on board anyways so only the trap is really a brick, otherwise you summon it via Gigantic Spright from deck and send Apkallone with its effect to search the trap
• when opening Dark Beckoning Beast with Gale Dogra, you can just normal summon the Beast and discard Gale Dogra with the Opening of the Spirit Gates Spell to revive it with Spright Elf
• Apkallone's effect to discard after adding the Shaddoll Schism lets you discard Swap Frog (if you couldn't summon it for some reason) to reborn it with Spright Elf
• when setting up the board, I preferred Carrot over Red (if I had to choose between them) to negate Evenly or Called By on my Shaddoll monster in Grave
• you can also play Shaddoll Construct in the Extra Deck to use Gale Dogra's effect twice, which saves you one card in hand, because you can discard the trap after searching for it, then add it back from the GY with Construct; also this way you can play around one Called By with two Shaddoll monsters in Grave, BUT if you want to use Gale Dogra's effect twice you won't be able to use Spright Starter twice during your duel because of low LP, therefore I preferred not to run Construct and to negate Called By (or Evenly) with Carrot
• I ran only two Swap Frogs, because if I were summoning Swap Frog via Gigantic Spright in some scenarios, I would only mill twice with its effect; also I don't want to open too many normal summons and I prefer the Dark Beckoning Beast over Swap Frog (being able to special the Swap Frog is nice, but even when playing three plus the Ronintoadin, you don't open two waters with Dark Beckoning Beast Engine instead of Nimble Beaver)
• Droll, because I got Maxx"C"ed one too many times... it's not really good, but at least you can end on a board with some Swap Frog plays instead lol