Notes & Combos

Hello to the TRUE control deck of the meta!

This format feels like Drill Beam Turbo ^^;

I have SOOO much to say about this meta but I will try to sum it up!

1. Obviously Blue Eyes Primite is threat #1 so you need to make sure you have an answer to the Ultimate/Sifr combo, Drill Beam, and their insane recursion
2. The immediate and looping value Drill Beam gives means that if you aren't winning that turn, you must find any way possible to cut off access from it (and pray they don't play multiple)
3. Centurion is a very very difficult matchup if you don't open a way to stop Blazar or open slayer in the case of turn 1 Blazar
4. Back row felt way scarier than anything else which is why I am running triple Cosmic along with 3 backrow wipes
5. Dodging Drill Beam with droplet/linkage or forcing it with Cosmic Cyclone felt like the most consistent way to deal with it
6. BEWD and the other popular decks (Sharks/Memento/Fiendsmith piles) all also work heavily from the gy and so soul release put in work
7. Sometimes you don't see a starter and sometimes you see Raye x2/Roze/Linkage. Just brush it off.

Individual cards:

• Cosmic x3: Incredible. Even if you clear their board, if they top deck Lode or Beryl then suddenly you need a way on their turn to deal with it.
• Droplet: Incredible for dodging Drill Beam and pairs well with Widow Anchor steals on their turn
• Slayer: Cleanest out to either Blazar from Centurion or Ultimate/Sifr. Hits other decks decently as well.
• Upstart: You lose more often to not seeing Engage/Backrow removal than you do to Droll
• Called By: Almost never use on Maxx C. Save. For. Droll. Seriously, unless you CANNOT play through 1 Ash then save for potential Droll.
• Raigeki/Darkhole/Heavy/Harpies/LS: I am not usually a fan of big clunky board wipes because normally decks can play around them but the only way to save your cards for the grind game in this meta is to plus heavily off of board wipes.

Extra Deck:

• Don't need Aggregator for Slayer, just send Ty-Phon
• I like Buchephalos so I can at least turn Slayer into upstart Goblin against a link deck or using it on Seals/SP
• Debated adding another Malong so I have more than 1 Synchro Bullet but Extra TOOO tight
• 1 Hayate is very tough but extra is too tight
• Kaina is really needed when you have to link off for fodder but don't want to waste Hayate/Kagari/Shizuku
• SP/Zeke/Azalea/Camellia - Our quartet of bad girls. All needed for linking off stolen cards.