Master Duel Meta Report - Cosmic Ocean

Published on November 16th, 2022 by

Updated on November 16th, 2022

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Master Duel Meta Report: Cosmic Ocean

With Selection Pack: Cosmic Ocean arriving near the mid point of October, hopes were not high for the new cards to have a significant impact on the meta. Indeed, Marincess failed to make a splash beyond a few sporadic tops, Umi Control performed even less satisfactorily, and Icejade not making an appearance at all. While these decks are capable of succeeding on the Ranked Ladder, regarding the competitive side of Master Duel, Cosmic Ocean is more of a resting point before actually relevant decks and stratgies surface (or as a pessimist might say, "a wash").

The Master Duel meta is largely the same as it was during the previous month, though there have been some noticeable changes, most notably Loading... finally making its arrival to be a huge consistency increase and resistance to interruptions for Floowandereeze decks, curbing their biggest weakness. Additionally, the rise of Salamangreat can be attributed to Structure Deck: Burning Spirits, an extremely affordable Structure Deck that provides immediate access to almost the entire Salamangreat core in addition to the long-awaited Loading... . While the power of the deck has moderately increased, the ease of accessibility has made it a more popular deck to play with.

Although we received a new Forbidden & Limited List during October, the alterations were not significant enough to be a major impact on the meta. While consistency for the top decks decreased, and increased for weaker decks, the amount to which this matters is only minor.

As a forewarning, segments in this article may be smaller than expected; decks still play mostly the same with little exploration and the objective of this article is not to fulfill a word count.

Data sourced from tournament reports on MasterDuelMeta.com

Despia

Despia remains just as powerful as it has been since the inception of the Branded cards released in Selection Pack: The Newborn Dragon, being the most dominant deck of the format by far for the second month in a row. With the ability to not immediately lose to the game-ending Loading... , an array of powerful disruptions going first and high impact board breakers like Loading... going second in combination with exceptionally powerful bosses, potential for massive generation of card advantage, and one of the strongest followup turns in the game, Branded Despia is likely to hold the crown until archetypes from TCG set Power of the Elements arrive to form a new meta. While the Patchwork variant is the most popular, the Adventurer engine is still seeing some use.

Despia's biggest weakness is playing second into floodgates; cards like Loading... and Loading... threaten to end the game instantly, and Loading... can limit plays heavily. Despite this, the deck is still undoubtedly the strongest in the format.

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1st Place in Third Eye Weekly #31 –
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Floowandereeze

Floowandereeze has seen a surge in play rate after the release of Cosmic Ocean, following the long-awaited Loading... giving the deck the ability to dodge interruptions including Loading... and Loading... without the need to play Loading... . The deck still plays identically as it has during the previous month, being a control deck that revolves around Loading... and Loading... which potentially automatically win duels if the opponent is unable to find their unsearchable outs in the opening hand. Despite the semi-limit of Loading... , the increase in consistency granted by Loading... serves to mostly nullify this. The benefit of being able to use the extremely powerful Loading... and near complete immunity to Loading... makes Floowandereeze an extremely solid meta contender

The deck still struggles at times, however, most noticeably when made to go second, as the deck is unable to use uncounterable removal like Kaijus or Loading... . Being extremely focused on one (sometimes two) Normal Summon per turn reveals extremely vulnerable chokepoints that if disrupted typically result in the end of the duel the next turn. In spite of this, Floowandereeze continued to see success over the last month.