Notes & Combos

I don't know if I was only able to climb with dogmatika because there's tons of Kashtira players who aren't very good running around thinking they can banish 2 cards from my extra deck and automatically win, but I'll take the Master 1 rank anyways. My one regret was getting to Master 1 before I could afford the Dogmatika Church playmat (which I just bought with my Master 1 rank up gems). I tried making the climb with Ultimate Slayer but there's just too many Kashtira and Lab players using non-extra deck monsters for me to justify it, and replacing it with forbidden droplet was essential for winning my final rank up game. If I had to cut anything it would probably be unicorn, birth, caliga and punishment since they came up the least. Might replace with TTT or evenly and 2nd mechaba.

What this deck relies on is the fact that most of the decks I ran into were kind of flimsy: if you can put up 3 negates (mechaba, fleurdelis and a handtrap or imperm, for example) after you've dumped half their extra deck with alba zoa, they're in big trouble. I don't fear using alba zoa turn 1 vs tear because mechaba will threaten to banish and negate any monster effects, and I usually have either a matrix, nadir servant (sending ntss) or fenrir (since they use a monster effect to fuse) to take out at least one of the monsters they summon. This deck relies on having tons of one card starters for both of its engines so that you can get at least one of them up and running while also having plenty of handtraps. Maxx C was fantastic, I felt like it was resolving a ton on my climb (maybe that was just luck, but I felt like people weren't running ash a ton).

Going 2nd, the kashtira and invoked engines can both force out a decent number of negates. You also have tons of hand traps and droplet to help in this regard. Additionally, purgatrio is fantastic for clearly a board and going for game, especially if you boost its attack with aleister. After you've gone through both those engines (lots of people ash or imperm or apollousa the kash engine, even though its more of a bluff) the dogmatika engine has buffs to going 2nd, either by sending ntss off nadir servant and maximus or by getting a second search for a fleur or ecclessia off matrix. Plus alba zoa is just a big chungus and can beat over almost anything.

I went 15-6 in the final stretch, which was a 7 game win streak before spending all of master 2 just winning 1 losing 1 until a final two win streak. Overall a very fun deck!