Fiendsmith Control

Master I from on September 9th, 2025
cp-ur 1410 + cp-sr 180
41 cards

Notes & Combos

One of the most rewarding climbs I've done.

I found last season brutal so I wanted to get to M1 before the new pack came out, and I thought I could just copy last season's formula and just go all the way with Blue-Eyes, but I once again hit a plateau where I could not win more than the percentage of times that I went first over a very large sample size. I found Fuwa to be more popular this season and didn't feel that Blue-Eyes had an edge anymore, so I switched to this deck which is a deck that I played a couple seasons ago.

I went 26-10 overall (72% win rate), with a 82% win rate going 1st and 63% win rate going second, which is a huge difference from Blue-Eyes (and Maliss) where I won only 36% of the games going 2nd over a sample of close to 100 games. I also had a pretty insane record against Maliss and Ryzeal where I went 9-4 and 8-0 against them respectively.

The main changes that I made for the current meta are the additions of Fuwa, Nib, and Talent. Basically every single hand trap gets better the higher your hand trap count is because you get increasing marginal utility, this is especially true for Nib. 3 Talent's is probably a choice that very few would make but if you think about it, it's so easy to trigger oppoosing hand traps in the current format. People are always going to Droll you, it does very little to this deck but it makes your Talent live. For a brief while I considered running Bystials over the Kash engine because it doesn't conflict with Nib, but I'm not comfortable with how much Bystial Lubellion plays into Droll. The Kash engine is good right now because everyone is playing Fuwa and Droll and they just do very little to this deck, same thing with the Primite engine.

In a meta dominated by 2 decks, I had a very hard time coming up with a solution. Most people defaulted to running cards that were only effective against one deck but not the other (as evident by how prevalent Lancea is right now), so I was very happy to have found a build that striked that middle ground.

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