Notes & Combos

Ended up playing 31 games with a slightly modified list of my Diamond climb at first. Took 18 games to get out of M5, didn't make much headway in M4, and then eventually lost 9 games in a row (2-7 for flips - I did have 1 win during that, however, that's due to Tear scooping due to a misplay while I had no handtraps going second) and landed back at the bottom of M5.

At that point, I took a few days off and worked on the event. Before my next stream though, zeroender ended up getting to M1 with Traptrix (congrats to them for testing a bunch of things out and making it) and I based my current list off of their's. (removing TT/Judgment, adding in Overroot/Compulsory/3 Strike again).

It's probably a bit of removing TT, adding in Overroot (turned out to be really good during the climb), and a bit more luck of not always facing down horrible match-ups without any handtraps, but the climb overall wasn't that bad afterwards. Branded is still a horrendous menace (constantly losing no matter if I go first or second), VS is still a bane of the deck, and going second without handtraps is a hope they brick moment.

Luckily, at the moment, you can hopefully end a Snake-Eye's turn if you hit Ash with Imperm (maybe Ash) or opening Shifter. At the very least, they won't have those crazy I:P/Flamberge/Princess/etc boards/interactions which a normal summon reliant deck usually has no hope against unless if they open a really good board breaker.. and even then, with how Snake-Eye can float really easily and go plus for days if things hit the gy, you'd need banishing/not going to the gy clearing... (not sure how good Evenly is against them overall as they can easily rebuild next turn depending on your interuptions)

Also.. given how Snake-Eye isn't even fully power yet (nor Rescue-ACE).. I'm not looking forward to future metas with Traptrix. I'd love to not run Shifter/Maxx C, however, they are some of the best, generically good turn enders we have available... With how Snake-Eye can be, you could maybe draw 4+ cards easily during your turn if you use Maxx C and they just go off, which is like Floo.. but even more gross and strong. (if only Holeutea could use both effects in the same turn or we had more multi-effect traps to just draw us cards because why not)

I did have a 6 win streak (M3 -> M2), and a 7 win streak (M4 -> M3) during my climb. Other than those, a few 4 and 3 win streaks. Only really had issues come M2.