Notes & Combos
Changes from my M5 list:
IN: 3 Chronograph Sorcerer, 1 Timegazer Magician, 3 Mulcharmy Fuwalos
OUT: 3 Performapal Monkeyboard, 1 Performapal Odd-Eyes Butler, 1 Purple Poison Magician, 1 Duelist Alliance, 1 Triple Tactics Talent
There are notes in the M5 list about budget options and the end board going 1st. The rest of these notes are mainly about the changes.
Main Deck: I've gone back and forth between 3 Chronograph/1 Timegazer and 3 Monkeyboard/1 Butler but I prefer Chronograph much more now. Monkeyboard is great if it works. It's 1 card scales or 1 card Electrumite/Beyond the Pendulum but hands can get awkward if negated.
The M5 deck needed more high scales. The deck doesn't have much trouble getting its main low scale, Supreme King Gate Magician. When I bricked, it was often with too many low scales. Getting a high scale was sometimes an issue. Double Iris Magician is the only good high scale in that list. Harmonizing is OK but we'd rather pend summon her.
Chronograph alleviates these issues by being a versatile high scale. It can get more bodies on the field before AND after the pend summon whereas Monkeyboard is often used early. That makes playing through hand traps & going 2nd a bit easier. Chronograph and Timegazer synergize with everything else a bit better by being DARK Spellcasters. However, Monkeyboard synergizes better with Wisdom-Eye Magician.
I added 3 Fuwalos because Maxx C & Ash weren't enough HT.
- -1 Purple Poison Magician because it's a going 2nd card, same as Fuwa.
- -1 Duelist Alliance because there are more high scales now with Chronograph. I mainly used DA to search Double Iris Magician.
- -1 Triple Tactics Talent because it is somewhat replaced by Fuwa as a going 2nd card. TTT was also live a bit less going 1st this month. Probably because of Dominus Impulse.
- These ratios could be different but I'm not 100% sure yet.
Supreme King Dragon Darkwurm's pend effect is underrated while going 2nd. It is 1 card scales despite locking you to pend summoning DARK and Darkwurm being scale 5.
Extra Deck:
- Ignister Prominence doesn't come up much but it's non-targeting, non-destruction removal.
- Abyss Dweller will be banned next month. I might switch it for Magician of Hope to help enable Pendulum Evolution's 2nd pend summon effect.
- Or Dweller and Ignister for Spright Elf and Promethean Princess to loop Electrumite
Replays
ID: 002-019-149
Replays with the combo tag show going 1st combos. Full combo vs Tenpai + 2 vs Droll & Lock Bird. In the Droll replay vs Maliss it would have been better to search Lightwurm on Turn 3 to normal summon and get SKGM back.
In the going 2nd replay vs Memento it may have been better to scale Gate Magician before using Astrograph. In the going 2nd replay vs Maliss, it would have been better to put my monsters in the same column as Terahertz or Druiswarm earlier for Konig Wissen.