Notes & Combos

Sky Striker x Bystial Control

Another succesful season of laddering with Striker!

After making it to M1 several times with pure Striker, I decided I would try something a little interesting this time around! (Btw this deck chooses to go first if possible!!)

Originally built as a joke after watching Josh Schmidt play Bystial Control on stream, I realized that this deck actually has real game!!

You just GRIND hard against every deck, and when the meta is 70% Fiendsmith/Azamina/WF, you make their combo lines ****. This deck had an absurd win rate against the Azamina/FS slop.

More than anything, unlike other hybrid Striker decks (looking at you Tenpai/Striker decks), this maintains the traditional feeling of Striker where you just get into a control game and shut the opponent down over the course of time rather than a quick blowout

Card Explanations:

5 Striker monsters: Admittedly it's a lot but I don't want the deck to lose it's identity as primarily a Striker deck, and because it takes longer than normal to get 3 spells in GY, you don't want to search Raye with Engage if you don't have to. 3 Raye allows you to banish her for Allure or a Bystial if you have no other options

Multirole/Area Zero: Help greatly for clearing the Main Monster Zone of Bystials you don't need

Allure/Chaos Space: They play very nicely with Regained/Bystials, get spells in the GY, and filter monster heavy hands

Mana Dragon Zirnitron: I'm cooking. If your opponent removes one of your spells, you either immediately recover it or get to set Engage from gy/banish. lvl 6 for Lars and Dark for Allure

Phantazmay: Searchable w/ Magna if you know you're playing a Link Deck

Branded Regained/Branded Beast: The MVPs and only reason this mix work. Crazy grind game, particularly beast clears your Main Monster Zone on the opponent's turn to allow you to use your Widow Anchors again

Magna/Druis/Lubellion: Auto includes (I don't own a 3rd Lubellion)

Saronir: Can send an extra regained for +1 spell, also Chain blocks your Link 2

Baldrake: If you open this + 1 more Bystial, most decks can't cleanly handle 2 banishes + an interuption on their turn 1

Dimensional Barrier: Turn 1 Thrust target

Extra Deck: Every single card came up a lot, especially the link 2's. If I had more UR dust I would replace the link 3 and Lars with more Camellia/SP/Azalea. I tried seals but in practice I always turned 2 bodies into something else