January 2021 Yugioh Trinity Cup
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27 Entrants
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1st Place: Ricape
2nd Place: Cinosrepus
Top 4: Bokkiman, & sonic21blast
Top 8: Folo, Anima7ed, Iceberg, & Burrito
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What made you choose this deck for the tournament, and what were your tech choices?
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I played Gems because that's the only deck I play. The techs that made this different than my standard Gem build were the Dogma engine and it performed really well. Nadir, Last Will and Ecclesia all give you 5k damage for free and potential interruption for when you go 1st.
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Would you make any changes to the deck?
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I'd definitely cut Mid-Breaker, the more i use it the more i see that it helps my opponents more than me. I would also put more playable cards in the side deck, i only ever sided in a couple of select cards.
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How did your matchups throughout Swiss and Top 4 go?
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My first 2 rounds were byes, one an actual bye and another when my opponent didn't respond. I felt like i got lucky all tournament since i kept opening playable hands. Top cut was against Pend, Drytron and BE, and all of them were fairly quick with me opening a god hand every time.
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Do you have a favorite play of the tournament?
I don't think a have a clear favorite, the whole tournament has been pretty fun.
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Trinity's seasonal banlist is scheduled for the beginning of February, what cards would you like to see included and why?
I don't exactly engage with Trinity very actively, but from what I've seen Dmaids and Drytron are very very strong, so maybe they should be hit.
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What made you choose this deck for the tournament, and what were your tech choices?
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Veiss made me play this. At first, I planned on playing Plunder HERO, but then I went to talk with Veiss about it and he told me how shit the deck was. He gave me some suggestions until he told me rituals could be a good choice. I wasn't very excited to play it because, obviously, Herald is really toxic, but then I thought..."Hey, I can play Chaos Space here". That also answers the second part of the question; I played a small chaos engine because I really like Chaos Space. Literally no other reason. Valkyrie and Creator were garbage, but I'll keep Levia. Other techs include Solemn Scolding, which was great, Cyber Repair Plant, which was shit, and Vennu, also shit.
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Would you make any changes to the deck?
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I would make a lot of them, and I'm actually in the process of doing so. The chaos space will stay, but not with those same chaos monsters. I'm planning on a different ritual engine that can really help in come back power, as well as some packages with really annoying plays. Herald won't be your only problem, fools!
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How did your matchups throughout Swiss and Top 4 go?
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I really didn't deserve the top, if you don't consider the last swiss game. I threw the game really hard against Burrito; I literally couldn't lose, and I did. After that, I lost one more game to the rng machine (granted, I could've survived in some ways but those were really different and riskier lines, which I really didn't want to take against Penjulum, and got punished for it). On the top 8, I 2-0'd Berger with him bricking game 1 and we having a really big fight on game 2 that ended up being decided by the sacky IDP. Upon watching it again, I saw better plays that would be possible from both sides, but I say the result was fair, although I feel bad for sacking Berg. On top 4, the damage machine got me again and I was destroyed by gems with 2 consecutive otks, one of them being pretty sacky with fossils. Ricape is a really good player, but luck really got a upper hand there. In the end, it was a good tournament. Not my best, but also not as bad as my early ones, specifically one where I non ironically played fricking Satellars. Dark times.
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Do you have a favorite play of the tournament?
Pre-Prep adds Herald and ritual spell, tribute Benten with the ritual to summon Herald, search Eva. Other than that, resolving Chaos Space in GY always made me smile, same with Scolding, Kongreat and Natasha healing my entire life back. Yes, my favorite part isn't the Natasha OTK, it's the Natasha healing. You always expect her to destroy others, when in fact she's just trying to heal our hearts. This says a lot about our society. Or not. She's a fairy, what does she know?
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Trinity's seasonal banlist is scheduled for the beginning of February, what cards would you like to see included and why?
All ritual Heralds because they are incredibly toxic and I don't want that to exist; Nadir, because of how sacky it is; Tidying, because... Maids bad; I didn't really play against Spellcasters, so I'm not sure what you'd hit on them; AND GOLDEN LORD UNBANNED. GIVE MY BOY BACK. I SWEAR I'LL FRICKING HERALD YOU FOR 9, SENATE. HEAR MY WORDS.
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What made you choose this deck for the tournament, and what were your tech choices?
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I played Fluffals because it was one of my more consistent decks I have developed of the time and some of my techs were having Predaplants to have some other extra removal and god slime to have the opponent focus on it while getting my attackers ready.
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Would you make any changes to the deck?
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Any changes I would have is maybe taking out some cards to make the deck smaller like maybe taking out Heavy Storm.
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How did your matchups throughout Swiss and Top 4 go?
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Round 1, I lost to sparky who was on Witchcrafters and my decks have a tendency to brick and I never got anything really going to match him. 0-2 Round 2, I faced Izanagi on spellcaster stuff and I was able to take game 1 from him then on the start of second game he conceded saying he didn’t have a great hand and didn’t like this version of the deck. 2-0
Me and my opponent didn’t play round 3 because of conflicting schedules.
Round 4, my opponent was YFNsprial and his deck was Sacred Beast Goodstuff and after beating him in game 1, he also conceded game 2 because he didn’t feel like playing Yugioh that day. 2-0
Round 5, my opponent was Anju on Phantom Knights Orcust and after a blowout from Heavy Storm in game 1, I had my resources then keep up with and destroy more of his then he can protect. 2-0
Top 8, I dueled 41 Flavors of Burrito who was on Zombies and it was very close game which either one of us could of won but in the end, I managed to pop enough cards to beat my opponent thanks to Frightfur Tiger. 2-1
Top 4, I played against Cinosrepus on Blue-Eyes and I just brick hard both games and pretty much did nothing to him. 0-2
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Do you have a favorite play of the tournament?
Not necessarily a play but I do love getting multiple Toy Vendors effects to search off.
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Trinity's seasonal banlist is scheduled for the beginning of February, what cards would you like to see included and why?
I just want see Nadir to get out and Dragonmaid get knocked down a couple of cards.
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What made you choose this deck for the tournament, and what were your tech choices?
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I went full Simpy mode and played Dragonmaids. Despite Rituals performing very well for me last month, I felt that they now had a target on their back, and would be sided against heavily for this YTC. Dmaids are a bit less susceptible to being countered in game 2 and 3, and also I believe overall it's the stronger deck. The amount of plusses they passively generate is absurd, along with having very consistency routes for their main gameplans, summoning Chamber, Sphere, or Sheou turn 1. Techs were main decking Ntss and Omega against Maximus, Big Eye and Geonator for some stealing shenanigans, as well as some meta calls with Droplets and Dark Ruler. Oh, and triple Last Will, which I surprisingly haven't seen in a Dmaids list thus far. It definitely proved to be the right call. Additionally, Card of Safe Return overperformed in a majority of games.
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Would you make any changes to the deck?
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Cutting down to 55 would be best. The 2nd Gold Sarc was nice, but not require for the deck to be consistent. Some of the fluff like Keeper of the Shrine, Exploderrokket, and even Imperm would've been better off left out.
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How did your matchups throughout Swiss and Top 4 go?
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Swiss went very well, I ended up at 5-0, with not even a single game loss. Unfortunately, vs Bokki in top 8, I misplayed game 1 by putting myself into a topdeck situation. Then in game 2, I flat out missed lethal, and choked after that. Losing to Rituals in topcut was karma, I guess.
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Do you have a favorite play of the tournament?
I thoroughly enjoyed my set with Folo, but I don't have a singular play I can point out as my favorite. But fully resolving Spheres was always fun.
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Trinity's seasonal banlist is scheduled for the beginning of February, what cards would you like to see included and why?
I have a banlist proposal document I've put together, so anything on that list basically. Dragonmaids, Witchcrafters, and Rituals are the main culprits.
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What made you choose this deck for the tournament, and what were your tech choices?
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I like zombies, man. The deck is fun, even if its turboshit. The techs were Instant Fusion for Elder Entity Norden and Sea Monster of Theseus, Shiranui Smith, and the Generaider package. The Instant Fusion package was just to allow me to have a play that either played around Summon Limit, or revive to make a lvl 7 Synchro or a R4nk. Shiranui Smith was to allow me to search Shiranui Style Swallow's Slash by Synching with it. The Generaider package consisted of 2 copies of Loptr, Shadow of the Generaider Bosses, Harr, Generaider Boss of Storms, Hela, Generaider Boss of Doom, and Condemned Witch, with the idea being using the Generaiders too either punish the opponent for searching cards or to use Hela to revive Zombies to net advantage, with Condemned Witch serving as a tutor for Loptr (who tutored the big Bosses), as well as grabbing a "Forbidden" Quick-Play Spell.
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Would you make any changes to the deck?
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I would go back to the old gameplan of stuffing it with a bunch of traps, because that's about the only way Zombies can win vs decent decks now *shrug*
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How did your matchups throughout Swiss and Top 4 go?
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The first few matches were alright, none of them really providing much retaliation vs the Deck, due to how it operated. Rituals were rough, because if Herald ever hit the board, I autolost, but managed to pull through that one with some luck and clutch setups. Maids was about as expected: got utterly demolished, and Fluffals just provided enough agro to make my gameplan crumble.
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Do you have a favorite play of the tournament?
Not really. Nothing really interesting happened on my end. The games were either blowouts, or got into weird topdeck scenarios.
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Trinity's seasonal banlist is scheduled for the beginning of February, what cards would you like to see included and why?
Ban Hieratic Seal of the Heavenly Spheres and Dragonmaid Tidying. Even if Spheres got banned, Maids having access to searchable, loopable backrow is completely unfun and makes entire decks/gameplans unviable just from existing. And I guess maybe the Herald Ritual Monsters, and maybe Meteonis Drytron due to allowing Rituals to essentially grind forever, only being answered by the opponent getting access to GY removal.
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