Notes & Combos

~85% W/R to DLV Max. Probably the highest winrate and fastest climb I've had with this deck so far and I've played it in almost every DC. Very powerful deck if you can establish Kairyu-shin + Umi + Sea Stealth Attack. This deck dumpsters most meta decks if you can establish your board.

Some useful tips and general info of playing this deck:

• If you already have Umi in your hand, then try to bait Ash blossoms using Warrior of Atlantis.
• Reasoning and the Pot cards are good baits if you already have ways of getting Kairyu-shin on the field. If Reasoning mills an Ice Barrier, then that is your access to Kairyu-shin or the Whale
• Get really good at managing your Sea Stealth Attack timings. Generally, you should always activate SSA on the Draw/Standby phase on your opponent's turn. You need this active ASAP. Chain your SSA to your opponents backrow removal effects to prevent them from breaking your board. Use SSA to save your Kairyu-shin if you get Evenly Matched to banish 1 less card.
• Use SSA to dodge targeting effects. Chain SSA to Imperm/Veiler when your monsters are targeted to safely resolve their effects in the banished zone.
• Sea Stealth II protects your monsters from being targeted by non-water monster effects. This means cards like Effect Veiler and Promethean Princess (in the GY) do nothing to you.
• Try to surprise your opponent w/ Dark Reef if you can. Make the opponent commit to a summon before summoning your Kairyu-shin. That way they can't Infinite Impermanence the Kairyu-shin and continue their plays. Insulate Dark Reef plays with Called By the Grave
• Maiden counts as Umi so long as there is no field spell on either player's board. This is important because you can use Dark Reef to summon her onto your field + 1 other monster (usually Kairyu-shin) in case you don't have another Umi. She can act as an emergency Umi.
• Desires is a decent card in this variant of Umi since I am playing 3 copies of the most important cards. Having a free draw 2 is worth the tradeoff of potentially banishing my 1-ofs since this deck is kinda bricky.