Spring Champs 2023
Top 4:
What made you choose your deck? What are some plays your deck can make?
I built my deck around the Ishizu cards as the core. Since you need a density of Earth Fairies to make them work, I added Vernusylph. Since I added Vernusylph, I added War Rock and Subterror to have big monsters to put into play with Vernusylph. A cool interaction that my deck has is that Spyral monsters can look at the top of your opponent's deck and Gravekeeper's Trap can then make the opponent discard that card.
What were some tech choices you made? Would you make any changes to the list moving forward?
A deckbuilding philosophy that I try to follow is play good cards so, that I draw into good cards. I played 60 cards with 10 .5pt cards and 1 1pt. In comparison, Kd played 45 cards with 2 .5pts and 2 extra copies. Because of how many .5pt cards I run, I am over 25% more likely to draw one of my power cards than them. There are not any major changes I would make to my list but, the most recent set had a ton of powerful cards that would fit well in the deck.
How did your deck handle the other pilots? Any notable moments?
My deck lined up pretty well versus the other decks in the tournament. I think my deck would have struggled a lot more with Folo's and Impy's decks since they were very proactive(luckily I dodged facing them). Though when I faced decks like Sparky's Labyrinth Punk deck which were much more reactive, I felt confident in those match ups. I do stuff like normal summon War Rock Fortia and it either gets value from attacking their weaker monster or they pop it and I summon a huge War Rock from deck. For them that is truly being stuck in between a hard place and a (war) rock. I also had very good graveyard match ups since I had Ishizus that could shuffle and Bystials to banish lights/darks.
What type of Yu-Gi-Oh content do you like to watch and why?
I haven't really watched any Yugioh content lately. If I do watch any content about card games, it will probably be Magic the Gathering videos on how to draft new sets before they come out.
Tell a joke.
What is the Trinity in Trinity Format?
The Father(Mika), The Son(Impy) and the Holy crap why does my opponent keep drawing Twin Twisters.
Wuh
Kd
What made you choose your deck? What are some plays your deck can make?
Did well with Gate Guardian at a YTC previously so thought "what the hell" and brought it to Champs too and yeah it performed admirably. Same as last time you try to turbo out a Guardian and beat your opponent to death with a large guy thats hard to interact with.
What were some tech choices you made? Would you make any changes to the list moving forward?
Still have an extensive Zombie package to search Labyrinth Shadow Ghoul using Glow-Up Bloom, worked as well as it did last time would recommend. I believe the only changes I added were moving around the ED to include some R4nks which did help and adding Haunted Zombies, which I never drew into and will promptly take out for the Dai Isekai card in CYAC.
How did your deck handle the other pilots? Any notable moments?
I did not feel like I performed as well this time around, bit of the deck bricking bit of me misplaying especially in the final of top cut, definitely game defining missteps. I did top deck the Field a good amount of times for the win because Lady Luck loves me, feels good.
What type of Yu-Gi-Oh content do you like to watch and why?
I enjoy watching historical series', this game's history is vast and expansive and I find it really interesting to look through all the nuances of several formats. Love Lithium2300's Cross-Banlist Cup, the games arent perfect but its certainly fun to see Chaos stomp everything as it always does.
Tell a joke.
No and you cannot make me.
Sparky
What made you choose your deck? What are some plays your deck can make?
It’s the only deck I’m really comfortable with. It just does labrynth and punk plays mainly. Punk is the best way to be able to activate big welcomed gy effect to compulse imo
What were some tech choices you made? Would you make any changes to the list moving forward?
I didn’t really have any tech choices I thought about playing emergency teleport but I decided against it. You want to set up wagon above all else but banishing the Ze Amin makes it lose a lot of its luster. I tried azurune since it came off the list and it was pretty meh. You need to fire it preemptively and it’s a continuous trap so it doesn’t trigger labs
How did your deck handle the other pilots? Any notable moments?
It was able to handle most decks efficiently except for Kd who was able to setup the gate guardian of water and wind almost every turn 1 to negate multiple traps each turn
What type of Yu-Gi-Oh content do you like to watch and why?
My favorite creator is mbt because I love yugioh side formats and comedy and he gets a little bit of both.
Tell a joke.
Why did the chicken cross the road . . .
Because he was at an intersection
Stephen
What made you choose your deck? What are some plays your deck can make?
I chose this deck because it was funny and I didn't want to play Swordsoul 3 times in a row for Champs. Reasoning/Monster Gate can mill your entire deck or enough cards to get some plays going, and Instant Fusion into Tearlaments Kitkalos can mill 10 cards with no variance.
Once all the cards get milled, the deck can use Borreload Riot Dragon to destroy its own cards and trigger Chaos Nephthys repeatedly. Metalfoes Fusion and Meteonis Drytron ensure you never run out of cards and Sprit Burner stops you from decking out. It can also use the Drytrons and Metonis Drytron to Ritual Summon Shinobaron Peacock as a backup plan.
What were some tech choices you made? Would you make any changes to the list moving forward?
I decided to add the Ritual engine as a backup plan because of Bystials. The Instant Fusion engine was also new. I also replaced Outstanding Dog Mary with Albion the Shrouded Dragon because it's a better draw and is DARK. Lyrilusc - Assembled Nightingale was very good, blocking a ton of attacks and stalling.
I would play Rituals with less ATK since summoning a 3k+ Ritual was way too difficult. I would also play Spiritual Swords of Revealing Light since I was taking too much damage this tournament.
How did your deck handle the other pilots? Any notable moments?
Wuh's deck was playing the Ishizus, so that was a tough matchup in Swiss and top cut. I also instantly lost to Kd when they used D.D. Crow on Chaos Nephthys since I had no way to get Drytrons out. I did get to mill a lot of cards throughout the tournament, so it was a good run.
What type of Yu-Gi-Oh content do you like to watch and why?
Joshua Schmidt's accent makes the videos sound nice imo, and he makes nice content about competitive Yugioh.