Notes & Combos

🐍 Snake-Eye FS & 🔥Volcanic FTK 🤬

This is a Snake-Eye Fiendsmith deck with a main deck reliant FTK engine (Volcanics). I came back from my slumber when I saw that juicy banlist.

Ignoring a Maxx "C" hord in Diamond 3, it was an easy climb from Gold 5 to Master. You can have so many starters for FTK and Nib protected (Wave King -> S:P) that going first almost always won. Thus, all other slots are teched for the meta; 3 evenly & 2 Fuwa over Predaplant Scorpio / Cobra and Crossout. Evenly felt great, no need for the battle phase with this much Burn. Fuwa can be whatever.

Extra deck cards in order of most replacable to least; Ty-Phon, Knightmare Phoenix, Amblowhale, Relinquished Anima, Knightmare Cerberus. Wave King would be on top if it wasn't for Droll plays or when opening ONLY Fiendsmith.

Explanation: Any normal summon + Brilliant Fusion (send Snake-Eye Ash), use FS to link-climb; full FTK combo. And if you draw WANTED/ Diabell/ Poplar/ Ash/ OneForOne/ Bonfire; then you can Brilliant send Trooper and threaten FTK regardless of them negating SE or Trooper. Between summoning Wave King and ending on S:P + Emperor, you can have full Anti-Nib uptime in most hands.

I would like to cram in more Pyros, but they just wouldn't do anything (at least current legality). More Trooper doesn't do enough without also using VBA, and while Ryzeal Detonator is common, VBA can't do much as that is what it is supposed to pop twice. I submit to saying running Fiendsmith is objectively better than any in-theme cards I could run right now, even over 3 Dominus Impulse.

As for this meta; I have no outlier complaints beyond requesting a Maxx "C" ban and more hits to Stun. We have a good number of decks running around; Pure Mitsu, Mitsu Ryzeal, Orcust Millennium FS, Orcust Mitsu, Luna-light, Pure go-sec Gem-knights, some Sky Striker, some Tenpai and Stun. And a sprinkle of Branded or Blue-Eye or Tear. If they wish to recreate TCG, so- so many bridges would need to be banned it wouldn't make sense to me. Perhaps limit Engraver, perhaps ban King of the Feral Imp, but probably wait 2 months and see Habakiri get limited.

If Ryzeal Detonator became less common, I may submit a Volcanic-SE list with Brilliant Fusion (no FS, more Pyros), but VBA sucks with that guy around.