Notes & Combos

Sky Striker anniversary event brought me back to the game after a while and I pulled a royal Raye off the bundle, so naturally I had to get back to Master I. Pulled a royal alt. Shizuku right after I finished the grind. I know no one asked but I'm just so happy :').

To get to the point though, I played a pretty standard blind second list with board breakers and had a really good winrate with it. That being said I want to explain why I decided to play or not to play certain cards:

MAIN DECK

• 2x Maxx ''C'' - In theory you don't want to run handtraps that trade with your opponent's cards in this build. However, I was okay trading with Ash because it can get a lot of value against our deck and I was also okay trading with Called By because it meant I didn't have to worry about Maxx C on my own turn. Sometimes they even used Droll on their own turn. I didn't use it mindlessly (e.g chaining it to Branded Fusion) and I think I won every game it resolved. Trade-off is that it plays into Talents but in my experience it just made climbing a lot faster.
• 1x Impermanence - This is a Thrust target for when they don't have a body or you get Droll'd. You could also play Dimensional Barrier but I prefer this since it's also a live card in my opening hand.
• Upstart Goblin - I cut this because everyone is playing Droll. You could argue that this deck is really weak into it anyway but I won more than one game where I got Droll'd because I at least resolved a 3-spell Engage. I'm not saying you shouldn't play this, but personally I was okay without it.
• 2x Forbidden Droplet - This card doesn't need an explanation but I want to emphasize how good it is in the current meta where the majority of decks end on Desirae and this gets crazy value against it by sending the card it's attempting to negate to grave and negating the rest of the board. [comes up in replays]

EXTRA DECK

• 1x Engage Zero - I'm very glad I played this. It single-handedly won me my last game to Master I where I was sent first by Tenpai, I banished basically all my engine besides Linkages with Desires (including Roze) and my only play was to OTK using Engage Zero for the extra 1000 ATK from Linkage. [check replay]

Accesscode only came up once and ironically it was to be sent to activate a stolen Terahertz. Rest of the extra deck is mandatory.