Notes & Combos

🔥Volcanic 🔥Snake-Eye🐍 FS 😈

Finally, after half a year Volcanics can move into Master again. Run took like 8 hours, ~12/20 wins on average. With Oak freed, there's sufficient capacity to play through boards when going second. (going second, 4 starters/handtraps/VBA won nearly all games that didn't include Herald of Arc Light). Poplar being freed will also help with consistency, though SE-FS-Millennium will benefit more.

Ever since Voiceless Voice, the VBA cards just haven't been worthwhile, but now? Few targetting immune cards exist, few Spell negates exist, and fewer omni-negates are available. Finally, Volcanics can capitialize off one of their strongest cards.

Came to a practical realization with Fiendsmith. Trooper + VBA/Rimfire is FTK by using VBA as a foolish and flipping the summoning order on its head. Same for DM of Destruction enabling WANTED/Pre-spelled Diabell to be a "1"-card FTK. Not the hardest with how accessible Spells are here and certainly viable to extend after a negate of some kind. All these factors combined: yea VBA is good right now.

2nd Emperor is a whatever. It helped surive games, provide turn 3 utility, and extension (but so can a second Tract).

What I am not too happy with: Volcanics now have every tool at their disposal to use Scattershot + Reload... and it's still lacking. I'm using it out of principle here, but it's not optimal I am using it out of principle here and I can only admit to saying that part is not optimal. I won some, lost some if they knew what it did, and then bricked some more. If I am going to upload a Master 1, it's with Fire Eject + 2nd BA > Scatter & Reload, and Underworld Goddess > I:P (yes, really). Underworld Goddess outs K9-ØØ Lupis into Ty-Phon, which I can't otherwise beat (can't even burn win with Emperor).

As for the FTK aspect of the deck and future prospect. No unique cards see play that beat the "FTK" outside of handtraps, which now includes Izuna. The MST archetype will change this. They can pop Fire Art on activation of Volcanic Emission, I can't chain Fire Art. I am looking into countermeasures, but going full combo, burning an additional 1500 without Emission, is possible now (pop token, S:P a Pyro, and Lacrima burn).