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The revenge of the board breakers!

Been running go-first Sky Striker builds the past few seasons but returned to blind second board breakers this time around!

Originally used a hand trap build with stuff like Droll/Maxx C to get into a grind game with the SE/Azamina/FS deck...but then they started adding Kashtira to their boards and Birth is SUCH a nuisance!

Long story short, I got mad and decided I wanted to just break their boards instead of grind with them. It's not the most innovative list this season but it functions very well!

Card Details:

3x Raye/1x Roze/ROTA/2x Linkage: A low amount of starters but between Desires/Talent/Engage/Upstart, you are drawing into a starter or searching one
Heavy Storm/Duster/2x Lightning Storm: Backrow removal is honestly more crucial than removing monsters. Pray you draw into one of these.
Desires: Every season I start with Avarice...and end up cutting it for Desires. Sadly the immediate power is just better than sick recursion
2x Thrust/2x Talents: All incredible cards but to consistently break the strongest end boards you need to ideally NOT draw multiple hard once per turns
2x Called By: Always, always, always save this until you're sure they don't have Droll
3x Upstart: Yes Droll is very common right now but Engage is so strong I just want to filter the deck down as much as reasonable
2x Soul Release: Great card this season! Even if you break the Snake Eye/White Forest endboards, their GY followup alone can often kill you (there are enough matchups where this card is dead that I don't want to run it at 3)
3x Ultimate Slayer: MVP. Greatly trivializes clearing endboards with Omni Negates (Hi Blue Eyes). Aggregator isn't really needed with the current popular endboards. Buchephalos isn't REALLY needed if you want the Extra Deck space but I like the Draw 1 it gives when combined with Garura. Honestly I considered running more Synchros for Blue Eyes (NOT a once per turn card~)
1x Dimensional Barrier: Turn 1 set vs Tenpai off thrust. Also not a terrible draw if you can clear the board vs other decks
2x Droplets: Wonderful card right now vs Desirae endboards and when combined with other breakers. Unfortunately opening multiple can be very bad, so I opt not to run it at 3

Other cards

I love Area Zero/Eagle booster but I just needed more immediate power rather than tech cards. Same reasoning for Hornet Drones. Also that card dies to Maxx C ^^;

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Replays from last Season's Master 1 list:\nhttps://youtu.be/A1sqbFGKxQU?si=xQNXo7tXLOqFfXVA

Will upload this season's matches within the week!

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Pure Sky Striker this month.

Quite tough.

Good luck for you guys.

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12 Replays for this month

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*Not an original decklist - Hello this is my first post of a decklist! I copied this from someone on Youtube a couple seasons back. I want to share this deck because this has been the easiest run to masters I have ever had. Only handtrap is nibiru, so most of the time I afk until my opponent is done with their turn. This deck will break fiendsmith boards with ease. The only decks that I had trouble with are tenpai decks, white forest fiendsmith azamina varient, and labyrinth.

The plan is simple with this deck. Steal and bait out negates using mind control and change of heart. It is basically hornet drone without the 3 spells in grave. Brain control comes in huge, big targets include Flamberge, Diabellestar, Yubel, Snow, Fire King Cards, Bystial. After you remove all the negates, you can thrust into evenly matched or engage.

So satisfying when you nibiru at the right time and they have a 5000+ token and they pass. But then you have change of heart or snatch steal to cheese a win.

This deck destroys exodia decks. You bait out their one spell negate, steal the exodia, and swing for 8k with their own monster. \nCenturion is also a free win since they always end with big bodies to then steal and win the game. Their monsters are also all light and dark to then go into azalea.

I know that this deck is very expensive if you don't have change of heart, mind control, and snatch steal. I spent my UR crafts on them because it's a fun and unexpected card that works. They are available most of the time in events, so consider that as a general investment that wins games on their own. Other alternatives: [R] Autonomous action unit, more triple tactics, [N] Enemy controller, replace them with board breakers, kaiju.

Improvements to this deck.

If you are experiencing more tenpai players higher up, then switch one evenly matched with dimensional barrier then call synchro.
More azamina white forest players? More board breaker.
Remove Pot of Desires if you want to be less anxious at the game. You may win games or lose games because of it. I personally like the card because it leads to more creative solutions if the card that I wanted is banished or hype when I draw the out.
While playing this deck, I realize how annoying S:P little knight is since she can dodge evenly matched and turn off our spells when it returns to the field. My tip is to hard target S:P off the field, then the game becomes easier to manage.

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First time Master 1! Blind second Sky Striker player upgrading to Go-1st Azamina Striker!

Gameplan

Go-1st: Handrip your opponent with Ken-Gen + Thrust/Talent if possible, do the Azamina combo, dump Engage with exactly 3 spells in the GY if you didn't hard-draw it (if you did, consider dumping Raye), end on S:P/Shizuku/Kagari, Silvia, at least one Widow, Multirole if possible, and Deception re-set or Diabell in hand.

Go-2nd: Force out the interruptions with your many cards that can do that: Ken-Gen, Widow, Talent (but try to resolve the Talent to steal a monster, especially Apo), Engage into Widow. Afterwards, combo off, steal monsters, break the board with Accesscode, S:P, Azalea/Zeke.

Packages

Handtrap resilience package: Called By, Crossout targets, Talent, Thrust, Ken/Gen.

Ken/Gen: Make Thrust/Talent live way more often (especially Thrust, with the monster on the opponent's field) and force out Ash/Imperm/Veiler. It's Graceful Charity that also gives you a Diabell/Deception send. Almiraj optional but neat when you drew into Striker cards but no Azamina cards.

Chicken Game: Absolutely insane, not just increasing consistency (which is very needed in this deck since you don't have 1-card combos) but being basically Pot of Greed most games since it's your only free Diabell send.

Charmers/Selene/Accesscode: You use this way more often than in Pure Striker. The Azamina combo on its own makes Accesscode + 1 body (if you resolve the Charmer). Diabellstar is a valid Selene target.

Heavily reduced Striker package: the COURAGE to only play 8 Main Deck Striker cards! This is required to have space for the consistency package (Ken/Gen, Chicken Game), because this deck has no 1cc and has big consistency issues otherwise. This also lets you fit in the handtrap resilience package (Thrust, Talent, Called By, Crossout + targets), which is very much needed in the current meta as well!

Alternative techs

Most removable ED monsters: Almiraj, Hiita and Azalea. Possible alternatives: Zeke, TY-PHON, Sol Erysichthon.

You can try swapping out some of the consistency or handtrap resilience packages for handtraps, but I don't recommend it. Consistency makes this deck is VERY good at breaking boards with MOSTLY ENGINE (see my replay against Minki), which is part of why it's so much fun.

You can also try playing more Striker cards - Shark Cannon, Afterburners. You don't need more than one Multirole, because this deck can OTK very easily compared to Pure Striker.

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ID: 948-088-087

Some great examples of breaking boards with engine going second, and combo examples going first. Check out the two replays tagged "Must See" :D

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Going 2nd: Sky Striker Master Rank 1 Deck List for the current format.

General highlights on some cards:

DB is good vs tenpai or even Azamina teachs.
Three Drone is a bless (watch the replays for more infos) ლ(╹◡╹ლ).
Ty-phoon is really great, however i had to cut it for Dhark due to 3 Drones.
In general the board breaker version is safest option atm due to all the extenders that Azamina and Fiendsmith varians have.
Fuwa is cutable.

P.S.: If you don't have enough materials, PM me so that I can recommend substitutional card(s), or if you need help with Sky Strikers, feel free to let me know.

** Sky Striker Forever **

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The following link contains some combo lines and epic gamereplays: <3

https://youtu.be/I98BnGilCaA

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Evenly Matched build since too many cards getting GY effects and recursion. Playing with Eagle Booster - should probably be a second Shark Canon but Booster saves lives.

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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.

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I added a note on each of the games that I thought were really worth watching.

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The gameplan is simple: Play vs a GY based deck (Fiendsmith, WF, Tear, etc), open evenly, resolve evenly, resolve soul release and win. Vs stun (Kash), you open any Spell wipe (Duster, any Storm, Evenly), pray they dont have Jugement or Iron counter trap and win. Trust me, this is all the deck you will encounter on the ladder.

You are not trying to kill them in one turn (although it's possible if you have linkage, raye and an open board). Instead, you are breaking their board, removing their ressources and winning on the follow up.

Other cards:

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Raigeki x2: I don't have a second raigeki. Replace dark holes with whatever board breaker you have or prefer.
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Pot Of Desires: Im just too unlucky with it. It destroys my grind game. I just replaced it with a second dark hole.
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Lighting storm : Usually, I'm not a fan since it's dead in a grind game but suprisingly I had an open field a lot of time, topdecked into it, and won games. Not sure about 2; It could be bricky.
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Upstart Goblin : You lose more to droll but hey you already lose to it so might as well double down. I prefer into the void since i can set all my hand in the end phase anyway and that extra 1000 lp made me miss lethal a lot of times.
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Soul release : Before Fiendsmith, I used change of heart at 2. I then tried 1 Soul 1 Change for this meta at first but Soul Release was just that good. You draw a lot in this deck naturally so you have a high chance to open it or u can just search it with trust. It's dead in certain matchups like Stun or Kash so I only ran it at 2.
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Charmers : Unfortunately, there's no space in the extra deck. They could come up but the ability to link into camellia or the link-3 striker with any random stolen monster AND stay in the floating Striker engine (Raye in GY, Shizuku end phase, Kagari follow ups) is so massive that I eventually cut my two charmers. The least used card in my Extra deck is by far Accesscode and even then, he came up more than the Charmers while I ran them.
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Ty-phon : True MVP of this run. I think I solo carried his Win Rate by at least 10%. SP banish after an Evenly into Typhon bounce is so insane if you have follow-ups or if you've sucked dry your opponent so hard that you win the top deck war.
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Maxx C : This card is the definition of suffering from success. It stops the turn of the opponent without wasting their ressources thus preventing us from killing them and we do not put enough disruption prevent them from comboing off next turn.
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Replays: 588-424-201

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Included some losses because they edgeguarded me from ranking up and they were kinda based.
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Lost some cool replays but I won a lot of games where I either got drolled and maxx c on my turn or they did the stupid Beatrice Mayakashi Lock. Those variants have minimal follow-ups so I just dismantle their board and then normal summon Raye with some back row and win on my next turn. Its that simple baby. Omg yes I love Raye Sky Striker.
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2 Raye is copium but I need to fit some more boardbreakes so it's whatever. We are sacrificing consistency for more firepower. I still recommend to play 3 raye like the standard
Ultimate Slayer is pog this meta. The downside if obv the extra deck slots. But the game usually should end before you run out of everything in your extra deck. 2 hayate + 2 shizuku + 3 kagari should be the minimum QoL for comfy rotation. But 1 hayate can work just fine. Bucep + garura is just for more coverage but you can cut it to minimize the extra deck slots requirement
The list should change constantly according to what you see in the ladder. Each board breaker hada different coverage u need to develop ur intuition about the meta. For example, DRNM is not good against deck that doesn't tunnel their resources to build a board full of monsters. There are a lot of choices:\n
- Cosmic cyclone
- Dark hole
- Upstart
- Droplet
- Evenly
- Gravekeeper's inscription
- Super Polymerization
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Super poly is also great if you only against white forest. You just need to fuse ilia + baronne in to saint azamina. WF Aza will keep baronne under spright elf and Super poly can still deal with it
You kinda give up tenpai matchup with this build. If you wanna counter tenpai then you need to play handtraps or traps like dbarrier
do not be afraid of bystials or droll. I once got bystialed like 6 time against a bystials fs deh and still won.

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i don't save much replays because most opponents just misplayed or my hand was just too good.\n516-763-148

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My Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Felhyphe

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Sky Striker Vs Meta Season 38: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfXtLI8yytE&list=PLP0Q62TFv-O27Eo3XokWuc4MH9x50ivSD

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Other Events: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCwfMVGtU8g&list=PLP0Q62TFv-O1EtVO_450u9iezt8Qy1ddI

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Top Duels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvrjyDNo2Fc&list=PLP0Q62TFv-O0GQhZ0YGqD5wCH3THSERMR

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I played blind second Sky striker from diamond 2 to masters 1 and it carried my a$$ even tho I am new to the deck.

The MVPs were evenly and soul release, they help simplfy the grindgame and get rid of the opponent resources

The ratios here aren't as much as i'd like so feel free to adjust as you see fit

and the reason neither azalea nor camellia are here is because I can't afford them right now.

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not a lot of replays but here's some anyway

109-891-088

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