May 2022
Top 4:
What made you choose your deck for the tournament? What were your tech choices?
I chose this deck because I've always liked Lunalight, but due to not having much luck with the traditional build using Zoodiac, I decided to use Predaplant due to them getting a couple new cards, which ended up being the right move since the 2 archetypes meshed almost perfectly together.
If you had it to do again, would you make any changes to your deck list?
Regarding the decklist, aside from including Predapruning and changing up the Extra Deck to give me a couple generic options (Knightmare Unicorn and Lavalval Chain), not particularly.
How did your tournament experience go? Any notable moments?
The deck felt great. It was a little rough at first, but that was because I hadn't used the deck so I was going into the YTC blind, so after my loss in round 2 to WideWalrus, I practiced with it a bit and got a hang of it. As standout matches/duels, I'd say my last 3 matches vs Folo on Pendulum, Sparky on Graydle PUNK Frogs, and my rematch vs WideWalrus on Therion Plants. Since I now had experience with my deck, I was able to grab 3 games with my Predaplant cards, then 3 games with my Lunalight cards, with the prior being via utilizing the various tools Predaplant provided, while the latter via finding opportunities to close the game out with Lunalight Fusion.
If you could choose one archetype from the history of Yugioh to receive a retro support wave specifically to make it better in Trinity Format, which would you select and why?
If I had to choose an archetype to get a retro support wave, it'd have to be Hunder. Hunder was the first deck I made on Dueling Network, and it holds a special place in my heart due to the fact that it was simple, but allowed for complexity even in the TCG.
Burrito
Walrus
What made you choose your deck for the tournament? What were your tech choices?
My main deck, Noble Knight, got nerfed really hard going into this format, so I needed to find something else to play. Taking stock of things after the ban list, I suspected that some sort of Therion hybrid would be strongest, if only because it had so many powerhouse cards legal (Therion Discolosseum, Aromaseraphy Sweet Marjoram, Traptrix Cularia, etc.) After throwing the deck together and testing just one match, I ended up going something like +9 in card advantage by turn 2, so I figured I would play this just to call attention to how overpowered it was.
If you had it to do again, would you make any changes to your deck list?
Yeah, I didn't realize how strong Guardragon Corewakening was until after the tournament. I had considered it already as a way to summon tuners, but I hadn't put together that I could also run Alexandrite Dragon to make it so that Guardragon Corewakening with some discards could spit out Aromaseraphy Sweet Marjoram all by itself. I also wish that I had played Aroma Gardening.
How did your tournament experience go? Any notable moments?
I played poorly, but that's kind of how it goes when you're on a new deck. I didn't put much time into grinding it because I knew it would be gutted as soon as the event concluded. Even with my misplays, though, I'm surprised that I lost two matches. This deck was way, way stronger than my Noble Knight lists that I'd been winning tournaments with; I didn't expect to lose at all coming into the event.
If you could choose one archetype from the history of Yugioh to receive a retro support wave specifically to make it better in Trinity Format, which would you select and why?
I really love Sylvan, but it's hard to imagine how a summon-spam deck could be faithfully adapted to be relevant in Trinity. Even if the deck were to get a support wave, I doubt it would be relevant. I love Ghostrick, too, since they're so cute and goofy, but they already received their retro support wave and it didn't stop them from being awful. So, my final answer would have to be Watt. Even after I stopped playing the TCG many years ago, I still liked playing Watt just to cheese meta decks with the cutesy electric critters. It helps that they could be so easily be adapted to Trinity, since they'd need to have a more stall or control play style anyway that wouldn't be restricted by the summon limit.
Sparky
What made you choose your deck for the tournament? What were your tech choices?
I honestly feel like it's one of if not the best deck of the format and it's super fun to play. It's kind of wild that among all this crazy new support a deck from almost 6 years ago with a core from 12+ years ago is not only playable but strong as well. I chose to play Graydles and Punk because they are 2 of the strongest normal summon engines and Graydles are aquas that work with and can make toad. Some tech choices were the psychic kappa engine which makes you be able to put a free lvl 2 aqua on board without using a summon from unexpected dai or with rescue rabbit being the only 1 card toad in 1 turn. Wide completely accidentally put me on the strongest techs of the deck mellfy catty which both adds you rabbit and PUNK foxy putting you on both of your best engines.
If you had it to do again, would you make any changes to your deck list?
I’d probably take out the dai and the sauravis, I felt myself losing a lot to backrow on the toads so I thought a card with targeting protection like sauravis would make them reliant on cards like trap holes that toad can steal, but in the end I found myself wishing it was in the side.
How did your tournament experience go? Any notable moments?
The tournament experience was pretty wild. I went 4-0 in swiss only dropping 1 game. Then, in top cut I went 0-2 to burrito by completely not reading predaplant cards losing my negates, and then getting Otked by Luna cards from a completely dominant position.
If you could choose one archetype from the history of Yugioh to receive a retro support wave specifically to make it better in Trinity Format, which would you select and why?
One of my favorite deck of all time is Gladiator Beasts, a deck that I always thought had the potential to do well in trinity if you could protect your guys and slowly remove their board, sadly it’s strength just isn’t enough to compete against the current meta and the new support they do get is usually for long summon chains to make fusions like tamer editor which just aren’t viable here.
