Notes & Combos

This has been a fun and challening deck to reach Max lvl 20 in Duelist Cup March 2026. Lvl 17-19 were crushing with 8x coin flip loss in a row without interactive cards. 4x consecutive wins in lvl 19 (once going second, but I had fuwa).

Quantum Red turned out really good as an level 5 body to XYZ summon, or as an attribute for Hollie Sue. I tinkered with Dorogan and Kurikura, both are great going second, but brick going first without Hollie Sue.

Surprised not many many use Droll, it helps immensely in mirror matches, Radiant Typhoon and Mitsurugi. One thing I loved doing is using Durendal under Droll on turn 1 after setting up board to end matches on turn 2 for opponents needing to draw "One Card Starter".

I only used 1x Rock of the Vanquisher as I'm not getting many long game 3+ turns. This made room for Hound which turns out great as a tower (non-target with Lupis) going second. I probably used it for 70% of my going second matches and it saved me when I had no other intereactions except Izuna in hand. I have Arc Rebellion but I never summoned it on the board cause the meta has so many disruptions to prevent 3x level 5's (inc. a dark) to XYZ.

Like everyone, people have their own preferences on what is good. But struggled so much with going second, this worked best for me. The VS trap often bricked me with my luck going first, so i opted for called by and crossout which avoided droll, maxx C, charmmys.

Going second to the Man, or against tenpai was the worst match up for me. Dark hole, super poly, really hurts. But I made the climb to Max 20 eventually after going up and down 17-19