Notes & Combos

So, I decided to do my first master climb in 10 months with this deck — bystial warcrime. Yes, what an odd name, but it is an accurate description if you look at the most weird combination of engines ever in a deck, backed by handtraps, and held together by verte.

This deck is in no means original, however it's a very good deck that got tops from a few asian MD players, then got completely abandoned, so I decided to check it's efficacy into 2025. Made some slight adjustments in main and side, but overall the same concept; eat handtraps, set up grind game, resolve verte. I must say this deck is still surprisingly good, and more importantly there may be some unholy cooking to be done with the scareclaw engine in the future, as it has plenty of potential.

For those to whom this deck is alien, allow me to explain: all 3 engines (bystial, Kash, scareclaw) have a very distinct purpose. Scareclaw is the main engine which gives the deck its power, its oomph, as a single reichheart can put up baronne verte. Now there are many one card combos that can do way more, but if you look at engine commitments, then at the fact this engine chews through handtraps and is very versatile, it makes it the best link normal summon engine you could play in a deck like this, in my opinion at least (there have been lists that have played aleister too!). Kash is fairly self explanatory, very powerful field presence, good going second, and free link fodder if needed. Bystial is the main engine here, as it ties in with branded; like kash it's good going second and for providing field presence, as well as linkage, however you can also send retribution with saronir to recover brafu.

To top it all off, the deck is held together by verte ft. albaz and branded fusion. Since you play a small engine, sometimes you'll only have enough for a link 2, however that link 2 can do so much for your deck, as, by sending branded fusion, you access mirrorjade which is 2-3 interruptions on its own, and can get you recursion through retribution too. You send rindbrumm of MJ, then can summon back albaz, and potentially go into borreload furious. Then, if you can recover brafu with retribution to go again.

Overall a very fun deck, would recommend a try. Some personal choices I made: bystial aluber is a handy versatile card, though I may cut it since it can be bricky; monster reborn is a goated card in this deck; s:p ofcourse and lizard, which is very versatile.

Lastly, free my boy saronir!