Winter Champs 2023

What made you choose your deck? What does your deck do?

Same old, same old. Basically my deck has the good pend cards, the pend cards I do not run are bad. The gameplan is to go and win somehow, it basically tries to be midrange but is not really.


What were some tech choices you made? Would you make any changes to the list moving forward?

I will talk a bit about the changes since I last wrote about my deck for the october YTC. I was too lazy to write for my december top, but deck has changed little since then, so we can take this to be inclusive (I was also too lazy to write for fall champs but ignore that, the deck is in continuous progression anyway). Since october the main change has been metalfoes combination becoming forbidden. I, perhaps controversially, decided not to reduce the amount of metalfoes in my deck due to that, so I am still running 2 trinities on foes, as I find being able to freely change around my scales with metalfoes to be too good, also there is no other good source of normal monsters. Next I put giltia in side since opening him up going 1st sucked, though I may cut him since he has not turned out too well even going 2nd. I have also cut foolish burial since I decided it was too risky with one target. A notable change has been the addition of majesty pegasus and the dracoslayer field spell. Basically the field spell is just a plus cause I run a lot of metalfoes, while majesty gets me field spells, which I do want, a lot, it has been good for me overall. I am running scared sword over allure for this ytc compared to the october list, but basically I am just flitting around between these two. Another notable change is the replacement of axi with thuban and consequent lack of archethys. Basically that was not comign up so much so I decided a level 4 that had a pop effect would probably work out better and also give me more ed space. I am not sure if that has been a good decision, it probably depends on preference. For this event I tried exciton knight, it did not actually work that well, I would probably cut it if I had another place to spend a point. I am also back on evilswarm nightmare, which I take out and put back in once in a while. It has not been very good this time, though I still like it as an idea, main problem being that it is inconsitent. For my side deck: at one point I ended up moving persona to side, but I realised you never really side that thing in, so now it is gone from my list entirely. I have also included abyss dweller in side, which was very relevant, a good choice. Double amorphage did not really come up, I never drew amorphages, had to search them, but bascially idea is just a bit more consistency. Most of the rest of the side is just generic cards I flit around on. There are two main changes neeeded: apollousa should be replaced with draco masters, since that guy comes up a lot more, and abyss dweller should find some room in the extra deck, it is too good to side. Probably need to cut exciton to fit him, though you can also cut nightmare. Maindeck is mostly fine I think: I do not see room for significant improvements till CYAC. Losing amorphages in side with the new banlist is big and I do not have a replacement. I had issues with rituals so the sidedeck should probably include cards like dimensional barrier and retaliating "c", can add a maxx "c" to search with that too, also bystials.



How did your tournament experience go? Any notable moments?



It was fine, usual pend diceroll, hope your opp does not draw good cards, I do not think there is a way to build pend that avoids this. Destroying Erika twice was pretty fun, just try that meta-call against pend SMH. Pend is its own meta.



What are your hot takes on the tournament, ban list, or Trinity in general?



Ok so basically, unban aleister: idk why my proposal did not go through last banlist, but aleister does not do anything amazing in current year. Also I still think monkeyboard is bad unban that. Overall though, the banlist and game are in a good state right now, but people like babyraging as usual.



What does your sleep schedule look like and why?

It's all over the place, some days I sleep for 3 hours, somedays 8, somedays I go to sleep at midnight, some days at 7 am. It depends very much on how I feel, not that I go to sleep late cause i'm watching anime or something, it's usually due to health related issues causing issues, or me just getting in the grove with some work and not stopping till i'm dead. It's all crappy overall and I feel like ass in the mornings, but I don't have the will to fix it.