Notes & Combos

Snake eyes is everywhere... it was tough.

Key cards/strategy:

• Discarding:

If Mothman hits itself, it makes both players discard a card, so be careful with that. Zalamander Catalyzer is our honorary danger; he doesn't draw a card and only discards a fiend or himself to summon either, and he is level 4. Zephyros is another great card that returns a face up card on the field to your hand to summon itself from the grave once per duel, also level 4.

Card destruction will trigger your DW's, but Trade-in and Knightmare Monsters won't since they discard for cost. If you have enough cards, save your trade-ins for lava golems or level 8 dangers. Dangers can be discarded for cost.

• DW Monsters:

Lucent, Goldd, Grapha, and the level 8 Reign Beaux are key. When discarded, Goldd and Lucent summon themselves, and Grapha target destroys a card. Reign Beaux searches these cards + the level 7 reign beaux (Clorless's fusion material).

Grapha and Reign Beaux can bounce a DW monster to the hand to special summon from the grave (the special summon isn't an effect), but Reign Beaux cannot bounce Grapha. Keep a Grapha in hand to fuse with because Zephyros is the only way to add it back. The Grapha fusion monster triggers your DW monster's second effect, so put whatever you want for that in your hand. Genta is the starter and adds Gates of the Dark World, then discards itself, and Snoww searches any Dark World card when discarded.

• Spells/tech:

Dark World Archives works well with Genta and Gates because Gates triggers it's second effect, and Genta chain blocks. Archives second effect will discard a card first, then draw 2. You can chain any card that adds or draws a card to make it resolve if you have no cards in your hand when it activates. Unfortunately, the new spell, Dark World Corridor, doesn't trigger archives.

Virus auto wins against some decks and stops board breakers like super poly and evenly, so I like using it, but you can cut it. Pot of avarice is good too.

• Extra deck

My least used card was Zealantis. It doesn't help to deck out the opponent, which is a situation I often come across, because you get maxx C'd a lot without any handtraps/ways to stop it 😅. I swapped Zealantis for Bagooska, but found Zealantis more useful. Summon it and muckraker; fiend lock yourself with muckraker, then banish all monsters on the field except fiends to OTK.

I love Dark World; try not to run out of time, and if you read this far, thanks. I hope this helped. 👍