Notes & Combos

Have to say this has been a ton of fun grinding, more than I expected and I was hyped for these cards to get added. The engine is compact and all search for each other which makes it feel consistent, even though it is all 2-card combos (and I find a way to open the soft garnet a lot). I really enjoy the type of interaction the deck uses, mainly board wipes and can only sometimes end with an omni negate or some monster negates. It is also rogue and people do not know where the interaction point is. Most will hold imperm for electrumite which does not stop your basic combo in most cases.

Major downside of playing the deck is that once you start the combo a lot of people surrender so you don't get the satisfaction of the payoff. Otherwise you will have hands where you only have 1 piece or get negated and just have to pass and pray on non-engine. That feels like a fair trade personally and I enjoyed calculating my possible endboards post-interaction as the bottom end still gets you ZARC and I came to learn a lot of decks cannot handle getting wiped out nor can they out ZARC. I won games on just ZARC sitting there.

I opted out of any pendulum magician stuff. Yes, you can always end on a bunch of negates that way and do boring pendulum things. I faced that deck a few times and even though we play overlapping cards I fell asleep watching it spin its wheels. This deck has some more compact combos that still get you to a giant anime dragon so...

The Dark Ruler & Effect Veiler are flexibile, as is Imperm. I found thanks to ZARC I don't really need to OTK going second so I'd rather clear their field and set up to bring out ZARC. I also didn't add harmonizer package because I wanted more non-engine. I've also seen a lot of people do 3 darkwurm 2 lightwurm. I don't want darkwurm in my hand that much, I'd rather bin to use GY effect, and I do really want lightwurm as a scale 8. Darkwurm in GY + lightwurm in hand is full combo for a very strong endboard. Arc Pendulum is a soft garnet, you can summon it off pendulum if it's in your hand since it's a 7 but if it's in your pendulum scale you can't send it off Soul of the Supreme Celestial King and ZARC will be negated.

I have also left some replays public if you like or you can message me in the discord to learn it. If you want to play a deck that doesn't do super complicated pendulum combos but does fulfil your anime dreams for an anime you did not watch, then it's the deck for you.