Notes & Combos
Made it to Master for the first time in a long time. I don't normally grind to Master since between the events, other games, and a full time job it is hard to play enough games in a month... but I really like this Meta, so I paused the other games to grind.
I played KT, Branded, and Striker, but KT was the deck I played this week. I think all are strong and have a bit of a rock paper scizors feel to them, but none are too strong against eachother. Enneacraft is still strong though especially if they floodgate you going first (I wish they didn't have floodgates because their play is kinda interesting otherwise).
Most of the deck is pretty standard. I do think the hits recently hurt KT a lot in terms of consistency. I added the second JJ and Earthbound Stone Sweeper to help a bit. This gives something like ~17 starters depending on how you count, but I still drew all hand traps more than I'd like. That being said, you can play hand trap control and pray, which I did win sometimes.
The hand trap linup is pretty self explanitory. Imperm is probably the next best one, but I think everything else performed well enough to not include it. Fuwa may be worse at higher ranks though. I was still seeing a good amount of combo slop though, so I went with Fuwa. I don't play TCG, so learning when to Harmonia was new to me. It is good, but Packbit is kinda minus and Malong doesn't solve the problem sometimes.
F&V has kind of been the filler for the deck after the banlist, but it doesn't solve the consistency problem. It does however help dodge veiler/imperm sometimes and is very strong in grindgames. A weakness I felt is that sometimes popping continious spells with Reco is too slow and F&V solves that.
Notable exclusions is second Stone Sweeper or ROTA. Mix isn't the best starter, so ROTA didn't seem great. Maybe builds that run PSY-Frames should, but I won against someone who delta'ed me the one time I saw it. Second Stonesweeper could be interesting, but I didn't want to spend the UR. I'd consider adding a level 8 synchro in case you draw both, but they all seem kinda bad or win more.
Anyway, good luck everyone and enjoy this meta while it lasts. Feel free to ask questions <3