Notes & Combos
So first time submiting a decklist here, and its for the very first deck I ever played years ago, UTOPIA.
As for the decklist, 43 because to get the full Utopia experience we play ALL of the bricks. May not be ideal but there is nothing as beautiful as passing the turn with a field of 4 huge UTOPIA BOSS MONSTERS. The deck was even better than I initially thought for going second, was very pleased with the amount of handtraps I drew with these ratios, plus the new onomat cards are actually crazy playing into boards. Going first had very little bricks, and just like maliss, this deck feels like it doesnt care about low impact handtraps (while dying completely against maxx c + fuwa to be fair).
The extra deck is what I changed the most during my climb. I started with granite and Zeus, but quickly realized I needed to change things to play better under droll, since although it is at 2 now, you want to droll yourself when maxx c'ed so it ends up happening very often. For this reason I changed granite for Giant hand, since you can easily bring out at least 2 rank 4s with this deck under droll, summoning it along utopia double as an endboard.
About Zeus, I never got into a position where it could have even matter and drew the pegasus way too many times to not do something about it, so I played Kragen instead. I might bump up the decklist to 45 with a couple of fuwas or another grand entrance to take it out for granite again, since it didnt't really clicked to me how searching Nib could be our best play into maxx c until reading the amazing guide Mirces wrote, which you should check out for combos for this deck.
Another consideration for these 2 flex spots definitely is exciton knight, just havent crafted it yet. Everything else I believe can't be missing.
(About monster Reborn, I cant really tell yet, bricked on it once going 1st, won me 2 games and didn't do anything in other 2 games, I feel like I need to draw it more to get a real conclusion, but in theory it should have higher value than normal because we need specific names on field to trigger some effects on hand and graveyard)