Notes & Combos

Ethical Enneacraft with flip spells!

It was a frustrating climb mostly due to Reverth being an uncooperative card. You can tell that there's aspects to my list motivated only by Trying to get Reverth to not ***** me over completely; it has not worked. My copy of this card, and exclusively mine, is faulty, cursed, and has an unexplainable grudge against me. Somewhere along my climb I've completely given up on trying to get value from its first effect, only sending 1 dead searcher so I can have it in GY and if it gives me something good, I'll smile. But I'm not counting on it and you shouldn't either.

To counteract Reverth's personal vendetta against its pilot, I could fill up the missing Sleeper Enneas on my list, but another concern was having a hand that can survive going 2nd with no Harmonia in hand. With my ratios I felt very satisfied with the occurence of the Deployed Enneas, Atori.MAR and Asta.PIXEA when tasked with board "breaking", along with the slepeers tromarIA and orgIA which can be deceptively strong when Normal Set face down first thing in your turn. When setting up your layers of defense, Enneacraft is rather slow; you might have an out to what your opponent does, but you would need to have it all at once. So being able to put something on the field that does not start a chain is very valuable; particularly tromarIA, given how many of the current meta decks like to setup summons on your turn.

Sol and Luna & Riot's Reason are my favorite cards to see, and have single handedly won me games. A clever opponent can simply not trigger any of your Deployed Enneas; these cards can force them to. Riot's Reason in particular is great when you end on a weak layer; Sleeper Enneas are easy to trigger as your opponent plays their turn, so it is easy to search, so it is easy to assess the situation and swap pieces from your board and hand. Occasionally, you can also get a free summon with it by bouncing an opponent's monster flipped by Atori.MAR or Sol, and get Harmonia back in your hand. When going 2nd, it also works as a surprise quick summon from hand of sorts when you start with a Normal Set sleeper. Search Atori.MAR off a sleeper on their turn, summoning it from hand off of Reverth and using Riot's GY effect in BP is prohibitively powerful.

Whether you want to ash-droll bait with your one searcher or with Subspace Battle, in my opinion, is heavily reliant on your hand. The one certainty in life however is they do have ash.