October 2023
Top 4:
What made you choose your deck? What are some plays your deck can make?
I brought Volcanic again to a YTC because I knew they could win an event, I just needed to pilot them better. The main play of my deck is using Volcanic trooper to constantly gain advantage over the course of multiple turns while setting up Volcanic Reload and Volcanic Inferno to lock down my opponent.
What were some tech choices you made? Would you make any changes to the list moving forward?
I made a meta call main decking Volcanic queen for unchain and it never came up. I also played quaking mirror force to deal with Agro decks but I never played vs them. The tech that did work was Duel Academy, it functioned as a way for my deck to make my traps have extra power while giving me more utility effects vs Fiend decks
How did your deck handle the other pilots? Any notable moments?
My deck did it's job into the meta, being able to close out games with burn damage and Doomfire dunking on people walking into the BP. No real notable moments besides in game 2 of finals drawing nothing but s/t back to back for 3 turns.
If you were stuck on an island with 2 other people in this server, who would it be?
My 1st pick would be 41flavors because they have posted pictures in the past about their trips into nature so I'd assume they know something about staying alive in the wild, it also would be nice to finally see them in person. My 2nd pick would be Erika, mainly because they would keep me in high spirits with her personality and humor (we have the same sense of humor).
Impy
Krasher
What made you choose your deck? What are some plays your deck can make?
I've been playing different versions of it for a few tournaments, searching for better builds. The most important play is Rikka Glamour into Princess to make Strenna with a random Level 4, and get back Glamour by detaching Princess, which leaves 2 monster negates and follow up in just one card (plus w/e effect the Level 4 used had).
What were some tech choices you made? Would you make any changes to the list moving forward?
I decided to play Battlin' Boxers as I was already playing Durendall to get Blazeman, and I wanted extra Fire Warriors. I think I played too many of them but they were pretty good overall. I would definitely cut a lot of the cards that underperformed, like Burstinatrix, which was there by being a 2nd HERO Fire Warrior, but in the end there were better cards to search when you had access to Blazeman already.
How did your deck handle the other pilots? Any notable moments?
The deck is very interactive, and it has an insane grind game. The highlight of the tournament was in G2 of semi-finals, down 0-1. My opponent set up King Dempsey with both Infernoble Knights that gave it protection from being destroyed by battle or card effect, and itself gave protection from targeting. This usually would have been impossible to out, but I had Favorite Contact set, so I went into battle phase and activated it, summoning Vision HERO Trinity, and attacked 3 times into King Dempsey, killing my opponent on the spot.
If you were stuck on an island with 2 other people in this server, who would it be?
Wuh and Walrus. IDK, they feel like responsible people.
Eva
What made you choose your deck? What are some plays your deck can make?
I chose to bring dmaid this time around since I had been tinkering with a new way to play the archetype after getting into mtg a bit and seeing the prevelance of reanimate-style decks. The plays that the deck can make are relatively similar to standard dmaid plays, just with more consistency, although this extra consistency can sometimes let me make furious turn 1 for example, and also somewhat decreases the availability of r4nks due to the lessened amount of rokket plays.
What were some tech choices you made? Would you make any changes to the list moving forward?
Unfortunately the major weakness of this version of the deck is that it's so heavy on engine that you don't get many generics, which means that I didn't have much room to experiment with any spicy tech cards beyond the regular few, except for exciton, which I do think is a very underplayed card, but not one that fits this deck. Going forward I'd like to look at potentially trimming the rokket package, and/or trying to fit in some more backrow to shore up the weaknesses to aggro.
How did your deck handle the other pilots? Any notable moments?
Well it handled about how I expected it to given the current "meta spread," that being quite well until I ran into an expected problem matchup in top cut and lost. If you wanna see some good games with the deck, you can check g2/3 of my match versus walrus in swiss, which showed off both decks quite nicely in some grind games (idk bout that g1, guess I wasn't awake yet).
If you were stuck on an island with 2 other people in this server, who would it be?
That's a tough question. I'd probably have to go with Wuh Train and Mick, just because I think that our brains would mesh well with each other.
Walrus
What made you choose your deck? What are some plays your deck can make?
I've played Noble Knight at every tournament this season. It's fun to play them with their new support.
What were some tech choices you made? Would you make any changes to the list moving forward?
I realized during this tournament that I shouldn't have been playing Gwen any more. She's only useful if you have a Medraut to equip her to. It would have been better as an Excaliburn.
How did your deck handle the other pilots? Any notable moments?
Evocator Chevalier is a cool tech in this version of the deck since Ricciardetto can use its GY eff to Special Summon Chevalier from hand. Since Chevalier isn't once per turn, it can often pop 4+ cards using the equip-from-GY effects of Turpin, Ogier and Maugis.
I tried Drystan in this version for the first time in a while. He can boost the deck's ceiling by turning Until into a disruption if you have a way to equip him at SS2, but I doubt he will stay in.
Almost all of my matches went to game 3 which was fun. I lost in top cut with back-to-back weak hands after a game 1 stomp, which was disappointing.
If you were stuck on an island with 2 other people in this server, who would it be?
Rodnap and Banlist Bot