Notes & Combos

Win : Loss ratio of 26 : 10 from Diamond 5 to Master 5.

"OMG ARE THERE NO BYSTIALS IN YOUR LIST?" Correct.

I cut every Bystial entirely in favour of more traditional handtraps. Bystials don't seem to be very good into Maliss, which if you've played ladder for more than 3 femtoseconds, you will realise it is currently the most played deck. And also they do nothing into Lancea, which everyone and their mother is running.

When I go first and don't brick on 5 handtraps, I had a 90% winrate. What contributed to those wins was definitely Caesar: that card is crazy strong and can win games by itself. Combine that with Unicorn / Drillbeam and 2/3 handtraps, and congratulations you win.

Lancea is also obligatory this format. Lancea kills Maliss, but also has some nice collateral damage by killing Crystron and Bystials, as well as hindering Branded and HEROes. Running 3 Lancea, as well as 2 Maxx C and 3 Fuwalos ensures that no Maliss player I run into has a good time. Lancea also comes with the unfortunate drawback of preventing Paradise from activating in the GY. Also if I had a nickel for each time someone shotgunned Lancea on me I would have 3 nickels.

Unicorn is strong: ripping 2 cards from their Extra Deck is enough to kill any deck. Only problem is that it conflicts with Primite Roar. If you have both Unicorn and Beryl you cah just search Drillbeam instead of Roar, then go into Moon for FS combo. Afterwards you can still summon Dipity for Drillbeam access.

Chaos Hunter is much worse than Lancea, I would not recommend playing it.

M7 can be very good in certain matchups to recycle impactful handtraps, such as Ash against Branded, or Lancea against Maliss.

Never summoned Chaos Angel in my life, so I cut it. I'd rather play 2 each of Requiem and Sequence just to get around Unicorn. Every other target in the deck is not valuable enough to warrant playing dupes. Also 2nd Requiem matters when they ash the first one and you can't shuffle it back if you have no Engraver access.

Only playing 2 Lode because frankly it feels doo-doo bad to draw instead of Beryl, since you have to pick between Beryl or Roar access.

Fuwalos is kinda MVP, I can't lie. Many people say it's sack, since it does nothing going first, but you can still activate tract to search Lacrima, then discard the Fuwalos. You can also just normal summon it if you have Unicorn access for Moon.

Cool deck, would recommend playing this list if you're tired of playing/losing to Maliss.