Notes & Combos

Shoutout to Pan the Kat for putting me onto Fairy Tail the last couple months - they've moved on but I sure haven't, ANYTHING to not have to play Branded / Elfnote / KT.

Obvious edits from the norm are the RT Visions and the minimal Fiendsmith slopping; the former I've been on all season, as a means of reconciling going first consistency with going second board breakers, but the latter's a new epiphany that's carried me from M3 to M1 with minimal struggle, after finding Super Poly super underperforming against Synchros & fiending for a way to stop my Zoroa from getting Harmoniaed every game. I also think Fuwa's god awful into current rated later, so I only have the one as a crossout target; don't believe in TTT right now, with all the trap-based handtraps out there.

The idea here is that any start with Prince - into Emprie, into Lacrima, into send Genni - lets you pivot straight into exciton, and from there into the Necroquip line; Necroquip herself can get a draw off spenta half the time too, while the addition of Sanct both fills in for the now-missing Super Poly quickplay slot and makes it so no one Fiendsmith card is a total brick. Maindeck Lacrima's still sussy - takes your normal to pull it off, so you better have a way to continue from there - but all of it makes good bait into handtraps, which can often unbrick your lacrima of lights too, and while Caesar on his own is easily outable in this meta, he's ALSO often a better option than just Teller Pass under droll - you can often get both, in fact.

The one skill testing thing this list does introduce, though, is the question of when to RT visions. Obviously Once Upon is what you WANT to pitch, but a lot of hands you'll strongly want to fish for an ash or the like in draw phase, only to end up discarding a crown after adding a Fuwa and Genni to hand. So uh... don't do that. It's there to unbrick or to use AFTER your main searching's been done, as well as to load the grave and (rarely) let you search a Once Upon off Match into a free +2