February 2024

Alright time to talk about some stuff compared to fall 2023. First of all I ran Ichirin for white forest as it can search silvy off of something like reflection or gate magician which is very good and also puts up a kinda mid negate sometimes, was goo overall, but I decided to also run majesty Pegasus cause it has 1500 def and searches fields: big mistake I forgot she sucks bad, definitely cut that. Besides that 1) I ran a chronograph to fill space, was okay 2) I am now on foolish and shrine compared to the fall 2023 list despite having only one target for both cause new sk cards (lightwurm gate magician, wings of light) which are good came out and also white forest stuff can dump bad spells to gy. Furthermore I am on duelist extraordinaire which I was not for a while, I originally reasoned it was just a gum gum and gum gum is bad from my testing but 1) it is level 4, 2) it has an interesting search effect, 3) it is a light spellcaster so wf interactions, 4) it can bring itself back to hand making it not clog pend zone, so it is a lot better actually. Notably I am also not on dragonic pendulum anymore, the main reason being is I decided I have enough good cards now to not have to turbo elec. Another nice tech is spell card monster reborn, new card but is very good for potential to both interrupt and extend your plays, can also be used on both turns so no reason not to run it even in pend. And note one last difference from the previous build: no pdr and flame strike, I have determined that those are too slow nowadays so are not worth running. Besides that in ed 2 things are notable: azalea (good link) and beyond. Beyond is more notable because I have now switched over to running it as opposed to not, this correlates with my gameplan being less normal monster focused with loss of dragonic pendulum and igknights. For side: Iris swordsoul was an interesting decision, I put it there in case I found some decks that summoned stuff with negated effs, but that didn't really happen so I determined it is bad. Also tried brain control: also bad, no one passes on main deck stuff I want to take enough. Sides that pretty standard side, should maybe have some more stuff that helps with removing stuff from the gy like michion or whatever the timelord is that shuffles gy.