Notes & Combos

Here we are again with twins (best deck).

Pure twins dying to every handtrap and Ariseheart/all the banish tech the ladder is running to counter snake eyes makes it close to an impossibility this season. Believe me, I tried.

Nibiru is once again a real card, alas. This means that you need to respect it once more.

18 HTs synergizes really well with a turn 1 Ki-sikil draw and a turn 2 frost draw (and potentially another Ki-sikil draw for three draws).

Watch your zones, the twin links provide side pointing arrows for Avramax and I:P. I like to summon elf in the left EMZ for this reason.

Given the choice, I bias carrot over red if you can only get to one. You already run 9 monster negates in the form of HTs and negating a key S/T card is very valuable on top of everything else.

Mourner is once again an underrated pick. It working under Ariseheart adds to your board significantly when you get shiftered alongside your carrot/red negates. Working on your own turn for lovely/fallen of albaz is important as well.

The burn from mourner also combines really well with ninja shadow mosquito. Spright and twins are notoriously small bodies and clearing monster spam from snake eyes is truly a problem.

This means mourner on a diabellestar puts them in a crucial range for Ninja Shadow Mosquito to pick up surprise OTKs. Your engine can reliably summon mosquito plus 2 other bodies to attack Flamberg with. Mosquito plus 3 bodies is very difficult and likely will never happen. Watch your LP if you're forced to attack into an attack position monster. You only need to survive the first attack. Importantly, the burn occurs before damage calculation in the second even if you don't have the LP to survive the damage calc on that.

Gamma burst won more than its fair share of games and was infinitely more valuable than smashers this season. Live twins don't plus as hard as the old nimble/frog engine, and I often found myself hungry for bodies. Especially through interruption. Smashers banishing an on field body ended up hurting me more than I felt it provided in value.

Gigantic + Jet + Blue is an otk on an empty board. Crucially, this is also the case through shifter.

Avramax was very good this season as well. I went into it more times than Unicorn, which really surprised me. Protecting your carrot/red is crucial when every deck is running a free 2500 body that can run over them.