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This tournament had 180 people attending, and the results about the new format are now somewhat clear.
By the way, don't read the comments because they are stupid.
My predictions about the format were mostly correct. Starlight Road saw little play due to Agent Angels being the abundant top deck, totaling in 2 main-decked copies of two different decks, and side decked at 1 copy in three different decks.
29 copies of Bottomless Trap Hole saw play over the top 16 decks, meaning all decks but 1 ran them, and one deck ran 1 copy (lol).
15 copies of Kycoo saw play, a lot of them main decked.
All decks main-decked Heavy Storm, including T.G.
46 copies of Mystical Space Typhoon were played. I believe the most successful way to play them is with 2 mained and 1 sided. A lot of people did exactly this.
This card was in the 1st place side deck:
http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Gemini_Fiend
Obviously meant as a counter to Dark World Dealings and Card Destruction
12 copies of Chain Disappearance were played, meaning I were correct in pinpointing it as a good card, even if I mainly meant TCG.
6 copies of Puppet Plant, 3 copies of Kinetic Soldier. Six Samurai still seems to be feared...
7 Agent Angel
3 T.G Agent Angel
1 T.G Plant
1 T.G Anti-Meta
1 Dark World
1 Lightsworn
1 Dragunity
1 Vayu-based Blackwing
Not very diverse considering 10 out of 16 played Angels. I do however believe Angels are a very manageable tier 1 deck. I like this format.
25 Thunder King Rai-Oh
22 D.D. Crow
13 Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer
9 Snowman Eater
6 Cyber Dragon
6 Puppet Plant
4 Ally of Justice Core Destroyer
4 Effect Veiler
4 Gemini Imps
3 Breaker the Magical Warrior
3 Gorz the Emissary of Darkness
3 Kinetic Soldier
2 Ally Bomb
2 Card Trooper
2 Greenkappa
2 Lyla, Lightsworn Sorceress
2 Neo-Spacian Grand Mole
2 Spirit Reaper
1 Banisher of the Radiance
1 Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning
1 Herald of Orange Light
1 King Tiger Wanghu
1 Ryko, Lightsworn Hunter
11 Mystical Space Typhoon
5 Forbidden Lance
4 Mind Control
3 Nobleman of Crossout
2 Autonomous Action Unit
1 Dark World Lightning
1 Emergency Provisions
1 Lightning Vortex
1 Soul Release
22 Dimensional Prison
11 Chain Disappearance
7 Chaos Trap Hole
7 Royal Decree
7 The Transmigration Prophecy
4 Mind Crush
4 Trap Stun
3 Black Horn of Heaven
3 Starlight Road
2 Bottomless Trap Hole
2 Dust Tornado
2 Icarus Attack
2 Imperial Iron Wall
2 Pulling the Rug
2 Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror
1 Crevice into the Different Dimension
1 Debunk
1 Gozen Match
1 Malevolent Catastrophe
1 Mirror Force
1 Rivalry of Warlords
1 Torrential Tribute
1 Seven Tools of the Bandit
Thunder King Rai-Oh, D.D. Crow, Mystical Space Typhoon, Dimensional Prison and Chain Disappearance are the cards mostly sided so be prepared.
In my opinion, you should always play a total of 3 MST in side and main deck, and your side deck should contain The Transmigration Prophecy along with 2 Kycoo the Ghost Destoyer. I think D.D. Crow is too easy to counter, even if Debunk didn't see major play. The Transmigration Prophecy essentially does the same thing as D.D. Crow but not from the hand.
Mind Crush along with Trap Dustshoot are key players this format. Get them while you can.
And as a side note, no, I have absolutely no idea about the 1 Emergency Provisions which was sided...
Puppet Plants and Kinetic Soldier is also for HERO and opposing Spellcasters (Kycoo, Breaker, etc.). Also, the Vayu-Based Blackwing deck is called Vayu Turbo/Graveyard BF.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise, good post, thanks for analyzing the results of one of the first major OCG tournament.
While it is true that Puppet Plant and Kinetic Soldier to some extent work against these matchups, it is hard to judge.
ReplyDeletePuppet Plant stealing an Absolute Zero, Great Tornado or Shining does absolutely nothing unless you can tribute it, since they are too high leveled to be used for Synchro or Exceed.
While stealing Alius and the like is possible, I generally don't see that as a major solution given that they can be beaten using Gachi Gachi + Venus, but it is still possible.
Kinetic Soldier on the other hand does a pretty good job on that, but since there were no HERO in the top I find it hard to judge.