Notes & Combos

For a while I've been wanting to make a Charmer deck with a maindeck field swarming archetype as a way of securing enough bodies. Seeing the Joshua Schmidt VOD of building Snake-Eye Striker made me realize how I'd been overlooking Enemy Controller: it's another monster stealing option and the downside hurts less when paired with a field swarming archetype, and in Snake-Eye's case it's a way of dodging targeted negation that's fairly popular.

I'm running 49 cards because I think it's funny, but also even with all the discard outlets I'd still rather not draw some of the searchable cards. So I'm quite happy going well over 40 by maxing out on my good spells and raising the overall ratio of spells:monsters in the process. I'd like to say I'm following 6:6:49 deck building, but for a blind second deck the ratio would be 5:5:49, so I'm one Poplar too many.

Dropping a Poplar does feel correct, I just haven't gotten around to doing it and I'm submitting my deck as-is. Probably for an extra Engage payoff; Anchor #2 seems more correct than Shark Cannon. Maxx C has been underperforming for me and Thrust has been quite nice, so perhaps trimming down to near 40 is justified, but I genuinely do think the ratios get messier at 40. And also part of the trimming would inevitably involve cutting the field spell + Flamberge #2, which severely hampers my options as far as Nibiru insurance.

I'm running all of the Charmers because it's the principle of the thing, even if I've yet to summon Eria once this season. I'm also running Borrelsword in addition to the usual link-4 payoffs because it occasionally gives me interesting OTK lines under Nibiru when paired with monster stealing, or over a really big monster.

Masquerena is conspicuously missing because it's hard to fit in some of her payoffs with the Charmers taking up ED space, and I feel that in most of the situations where I'd be forced into some kind of Masq-pass setup instead of outright winning I'm probably in a losing position regardless. Especially since I have to gamble playing into Maxx C a fair amount.

I'm currently running Anima over Linkuriboh but I have no idea which is more correct. Anima's value in a blind second deck is straightforward, but while I'm a bit less interested in Linkuriboh's targeting protection thanks to Droplet and E-Con, the downward pointing arrow is quite nice as well. Specifically, while either lets me clear out a single snake-eye monster in the MMZ so I can activate Sky Striker cards, a downward arrow lets me special summon Kagari off of a Hornet Drones token to refund a Striker spell. Plus people have been trained pretty well to avoid EMZ columns outside of huge combo boards that can't, so maybe I'll switch. ¯\(ツ)/¯