Notes & Combos

Exceed the Pendulum is the new MVP of the deck. With her, solo activation becomes a new one-card combo (almost as good as Shinonome). Arktos becomes so much easier to make. The endboard is usually 2-negate Apollousa (with Performapal Duelist battle protection), I:P masquerna, and dweller/Baronne/Bagooska. This end board may look simple but surprisingly good enough in the current meta.

I think this deck is now better not playing the floodgates (fossil dyna + secret village). With the free slots, we can play more handtraps (11 in my version) and have fewer bricks.

A few notes:

• Baronne and Borreload Savage Dragon can only be made if you have access to Wakaushi.
• Dweller (also our field spells) are extremely good against fire king.
• In many cases I:P masquerna has higher priority than Arktos because it's two interuptions.
• 2 Beyond the Pendulum's help play through negates because it's not hard once-per-turn.

How I play this deck now:

1. Place the field spells if I open them to turn off imperm and evenly match.
2. Make electrumite (or beyond for board breaking or need to play through negates). We can get to electrumite from Shinonome, solo activiation, Joker / Wakaushi + field spell or any special summon.
3. Search for missing pieces with electrumite: my priority is usually Shinonome > Joker > level-6 vaylantz > level-4. Joker will get us the pendulum scales with monkeyboard -> performapal duelist.
4. Make exceed the pendulum. The typical target for recyling from the extra deck is typically the level-6 vaylantz so that you can special summon it by the effect of exceed and make Grand Duke.
5. (Optionally) Make Apollousa to turn off Nibiru.
6. Make the endboard with what we still have after getting negated or nibiru-ed.

I am still learning about this deck:

• How to setup a board under maxx C
• How to use droll to self-lock and still make a reasonable board / OTK going second