Fall Champs 2021

What made you choose this deck for the tournament? What were your tech choices?
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I was originally just going to play F.A. Assault mode but I felt that it only went 2-2 as a fluke, so I wanted something more consistent. I randomly remembered an adamancipator deck that impy built a while back that had inspired a fossil fusion deck I had built between then and now. I always wanted to try a fossil fusion deck but it was never viable since it was 1/2 point since I started trinity.

My tech choices were a hero engine for a mix of summoning dark gaia and making rank 4 xyz. My sideboard is rather standard with a mix of mind control hand traps, and graveyard hate. Scrap-Iron statue and Unwavering bond are universally useful against pendulums with fringe other applications. Dragon Capture Jar was a snipe at Impy who was testing Drulers ahead of time, but I also noticed my deck didn't put out too many high attack monsters and lots of popular dragons had higher attack than I could manage.
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Would you make any changes to the deck?
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The biggest change I would have made would be including a neos fusion package. Malicious Fiend never got summoned and it would have been a better use of my extra deck spots. Other small changes that I've made for the next banlist are including Link Spider for climbing into union carrier and Lavalval Chain for the mill effect.
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How did your tournament experience go? Any notable moments?
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For my first time in champs, I think it went well. Trinity is always fairly well-organized. I had a small kurfufle figuring out if I qualified since it was as simple as topping a random locals in August. But it all sorted out easily. I think my most notable moment was a match against X69420 where I played pot of greed before activating my adamanicpator researcher. I drew 2 hits for the researcher off POG and wiffed the researcher. If I had played POG second, I would have drawn my fossil fusion, which was one of my only ways of competing with Witchcrafters. It reallys shows the excitment and variance you can find in trinity.
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Any general thoughts on the tournament, the ban list, or the format in general?

I think that Impy and X69420's decks emphasized some holes in the banlist. Clearly witchcrafter patronus makes it a touch too hard to interact with witchcrafters over time. Meanwhile dragons have a lot of tools available from various archetypes and Drulers are just shy of overpowered in trinity. My deck takes a hit in the next banlist with the latest floodgate purge knocking out barrier statues and Fossil Dyna, but honestly those are good choices.