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With a new format starting, I'm hoping to get back on my feet. Hopefully with the result of some practice I am going to be better than ever!

For now, this is day 1.

I think I will begin the new format with altergeist. [url:2swpktab]https://imgur.com/wZ3r9ca[/url:2swpktab] Draft 1 of my list to test the new format. I know trap decks have been told to be weak, but I have a soft spot for these disrupters.

So a bit of early DB grinding. Nothing special, just playing some games, getting the feel for stuff.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-9769997
Altergeist vs dinosaurs 1-0
Game 1 I go second after losing RPS and start a bit slow, he makes a field and uses his disruption poorly. We both play a bit meh and make many mistakes. I misread oviraptor when he uses it to target itself, lol. I win with a better engine and better plays, and he goes offline after I win game 1.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-9770399
Altergeist vs Pendulum Magicians 2-1
Game 1 I open with backrow after winning RPS and going first, he nails my hand trap with called, and his pit hits solemn strike, but he has no gas and gets grinded out by minimal alt stuff.
Game 2 he opens weak but I open 6 altergeist, third game in a row to open manifestation I think? I only play 1, lulz, but oh wellz. He cannot internet well, and lags into wrong searches sometimes.
I take game 3 with a good set of backrow, warning for the denko and limit to lock him, easily beating him with altergeist cards from there. I need to decide if denko or evenly is more likely, I do not think as much of denko when they like to normal a pend, but they like their BP too, says how good dropping faker early is vs not.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-9770800
Altergeist vs Thunder Dragons 2-0
Game 1 I go first winning RPS, open weird with one for one getting melu to normal faker into a hextia play into silq and a faker. Wanted to see how that played out. I should have used melu under hextia since faker is already in GY. Anyhow, my backrow is drained, by danger, but he runs out of gas and does some weird stuff when I refuse to silq a danger to let him go again, resulting in me breaking his board and pretty easily controlling the game from there.

Game 2 I open faker infinite, but he quits. Wasn’t quite sure how I’d side, starting shooting solemns and went for pankra rather than evenlys. A single duality went out but I kept the other, might have been a mistake. But he goes for a thunder dragon and quits. Guess he bricked.

Change to list
-1 Imperial order: It is looking very weak. I think I will cut it, while my game testing is low, I see now the card being weak going second, combined with any potential thunder dragon play, makes this seem weak. I see no reason for it to be stronger vs much else, maybe a cute lock piece for random spells going first, but with sky strikers hit, I doubt this is needed.

+1 Effect Veiler (in main): Card has proven itself at least usable in my 3 matches, eats up most altergeist hate like denko and dodging evenly.

-1 Effect Veiler (in side): Moved to the main ofc.
+1 Super Poly (in side): A field breaker and possible disruption. Take that Salamangreat! Take that Thunder Dragons! Hey, maybe you too pendulums! Or dark dudes in general. Idk, trollsy card is trollsy. Will test at 1, if it is good, might try a second copy, given it moved up.

-1 Altergeist Kidolga: Card sucks, never makes it, but space was a bit open. Now I need the slot.
-1 Chimeratech Megafleet Dragon: Troll cybers, slot was open, now it isn’t.
+1 Starving Venom Fusion Dragon: Darks are good on field, this kills them.
+1 Salamangreat Violet Chimera: Because Salamangreat is a good deck to have side for.
Wonder if I still just run the 1 copy of extradeck slot for the super poly if I do run it at 2, or if I will just go for the openers, altergeist is grindy enough and has a bit of a flexible extradeck to actually mull over those redundancies.

https://imgur.com/8COUlje A new screenshot of my list! Want to keep it timestamped so I can see what it looked like back then.

Want to note an addition to my intent for duel gameplay notes. The format will now be as follows.

Duel Replay Link
My deck vs Opponent’s Deck (my wins-their wins)
Will aim to give at least a basic note on each game. I will add siding choices for each game now, as I think this will help see my sideboarding philosophy for the match-ups.

[url:mktiwfa4]https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-9782062[/url:mktiwfa4]
Altergeist vs Thunder Dragons (1-0)
Game 1 I win the RPS and start, faker infinite is a flop going first, duality a warning, hit the solar and my faker is ashed. Faker silq beatdown for 2k apiece does them in until they quit. Checking the replay shows their hand was dead in the opening, they did not wish to IF me because of silq getting faker reset for no reason, and super poly is trash in this match-up. So their deck actually had some function, but flopped hard in the match-up and hand given.

[url:mktiwfa4]https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-9782180[/url:mktiwfa4]
Altergeist vs Trickstar Sky Striker(1-2)
Game 1 I lose the RPS and get chosen to go first. Faker infinite is meh, but I don’t melu start, bit of a goof, but didn’t show them what I was playing. Distracted start on my part, was better to just melu. My [YGOCARD]Summon Limit[/YGOCARD] and infinite get set early to dodge any evenly nonsense, maybe should have set all backrow. Misplays, he shows hand, but I do not use info after he made an error with stage into stage. I play poorly and make clear mistakes, should have set the other infinite.

Side:+3 pankratops +3 [YGOCARD]Heavy Storm Duster[/YGOCARD] -1 veiler, -2 [YGOCARD]Summon Limit[/YGOCARD], -3 infinite impermanence

Game 2 I go first and set 3. [YGOCARD]One for One[/YGOCARD] seems weak and my faker gets ashed after evenly hits me. I find out they only use desires, no extravagance. My own copy gets my [YGOCARD]One for One[/YGOCARD] online and melu hextia pressure eventually get the better of their plays. I goof and make unicorn after trying to link without prime, need to check my extra and note it more. They made a goof and failed to [YGOCARD]Reboot[/YGOCARD] my warning, which cut off their play source, which may have cost them.

Side: +1 veiler -1 [YGOCARD]Solemn Strike[/YGOCARD] Wanted to keep the chance of going first, which ended up happening. Strike is better there, but kept veilers for anti-reboot.

Game 3 I start, get rebooted and die to an otk.

Match-up seems awkward, seems they can side savagely for us and keep on trading, but alts have a better engine if they can grind. Odd case of their disruption techs being stronger, but monsters power might be weaker attritionally.
Initially had a brief glitch where I couldn’t use the see both hands but was fixed on the second attempt. I may give this replay a harder look later, I was on part distracted early on trying to get these notes set-up, I should spend more time focusing on the duel and making the notes afterwards. Getting distracted is my fault. But that’s what these notes are here for, seeing mistakes and looking back.

https://imgur.com/PKYo3Mz I recently made a Salamangreat list! I am not that familiar with using them. So guess we'll see how it goes.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-9785905
Altergeist vs U.A.s (2-0)
Game 1 I win the RPS and start. We play poorly and my double veiler opening was eh, but I outgrind them. Altergeist> U.A.s

Side +3 Pankratops, +3 Heavy Storm duster
-3 Effect Veiler, -2 Summon Limit, -1 Infinite Impermanence

Game 2 we trade heavily, they let me start and twitwi me, getting their trap effect off but ashed. We exchange some cards and I pankra top melu to win the grind.

Nothing special, just a quick stress match to pass time.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-9790092
Altergeist vs Anti-meta (2-1)

Game 1 I lost the RPS and faced down boarder. Despite numerous attempts to get around it, his traps shut me down for a clean game 1.

Side: -1 silq, -3 veiler, -1 solemn warning, -3 solemn strike, -2 summon limit
+2 boarder, +3 pankratops, +3 evenly, +3 duster

Game 2 my side brutalized him.

Side: Kept the same

He was brutalized game 3 as well.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-9791642
Salamangreat vs Trickstar (0-2)
Lost RPS and hit Scythe off his set game 1. Failed to veiler candina is a big error.
No side game 1
Game 2 I get hit by the main package, looks like an artifact deal that shuts me off, and I’m negated out into a loss.

Haven't been around for a bit, but with the new releases, I'm going to play True Draco for a bit until I get a good grip on what decks like mining will do in the meta. https://imgur.com/6QWQWbp Draft 1 of my list, I'm not much of a True Draco player.

Ririka, you seem to be banned on DB.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-9866142
True Draco vs True Draco (1-2)

Game 1 I win the RPS and start but draw bad and get eaten alive by the mirror, my floodgates doing nothing. Banishing 3 heritage off of desires hurts, haha, having 3 diagram overall. Yeah, quickly get mopped up.

Side: +2 Strike of the Monarchs, +3 Cosmic Cyclone, ,+1 Imperial Order, +1 Solemn Judgment
-3 There Can Be Only One -3 The Monarch’s Erupt -1 Skill Drain

Game 2 I made them go first and throw off their evenly, quickly break their board, stop an evenly from them, and gain a clear lead with some decently timed negation. Forgot to use my effects to get an otk and instead watched my OPTs, which was a goof on my part. But I still won convincingly.

Game 3 they open with the MetaltronXII unaffected by monsters, spells, and traps with digram up. I get dinomight to 3100 with his diagram and my diagram. (Not sure if the card is outable if they didn’t have diagram up. They get the naturia fusion out and cut off the diagram I needed to get my trap to kill it. I can’t get a monster so the trap couldn’t be tribute for a pop and I lose. I should have used desires before attacking but after I got the dinomight set-up, R.I.P. Did not know what their play would be, but had a chance at outing it with proper play if I had.

https://imgur.com/DxApf9x
A new extradeck variant of True Draco. Inspired by the list I recently faced to improve disruption from non-trap sources to avoid reboot. It would seem to give extra attack and defense angles at the price of erupt.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-9869099
True Draco (Extradeck) vs Sky Strikers (1-2)
Note: I might have extradeck=ED on the deck names from now on.

Game 1 I lose the RPS

Side: +1 Strike of the Monarchs +3 Cosmic Cyclone, -1 Skill Drain, -3 TCBOO

Game 2 was a grindfest where I called their plays and had a crazy chain but sealed it with a metalron at the end of all things.

Side stays the same. Been that way for a bit, but haven't noted it in earlier posts, sorry if it isn't there, if I didn't say anything I probably forgot to say I didn't do any extra siding.

Game 3 I brick, try and get an solemn Stall, but just fail and lose.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-9871952
True Draco (ED) vs Thunder Dragons (2-1)?
I win RPS game 1, open bad, but get a Draco into Imperial ftw.

Side: +3 Sphere Mode, +2 Super Poly, +3 Infinite Impermanence
-2 Strike of the monarchs, -1 Pot of Duality, -1 Imperial Order, -1 Solemn Judgment, -3 TCBOO

He makes me go first game 2, I open bad, not even a monster, and get shredded by evenly. They soon take the game away.

Side: +3 Inspector Boarder, +3 Strike of the Monarchs, +1 Pot of Duality, +1 Solemn Judgment,
-2 Super Poly, -3 Sphere Mode, -3 Infinite Impermanence

Game 3: We go back and forth, but they eventually DC in what looks to be a favorable position. Skill Drain is locking them up but also gumming up my plays, Draco does lack a certain amount of floating resources, especially under skill drain, and thunder dragon beatsticks were showing it, though Draco Trap popping the fusion protections under drain was nice.

Not sure I really deserved this win.

Notetaker is a bot or a person?

[url:3ri14kav]https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-9872507[/url:3ri14kav]
True Draco (ED) vs Altergeists (2-0)

I win the RPS game 1 and while I start slow and barely squeak a Draco backed by strike and TCBOO his evenly gets gobbled and his backrow is eaten alive despite me forgetting a disciples.

Side: [url:3ri14kav]https://imgur.com/rSJSNYf[/url:3ri14kav] +3 Boarder, +1 Strike, -1 Metaltron, -1 Ipstart, -1 Order, -1 [YGOCARD]Skill Drain[/YGOCARD]

Game 2 they start with an eh opening which I eat alive till I trigger waking turn 1 into ultimate falcon. After some stalling on my end, I use my Full Armored Crystalzero Lancer the extradeck utilizes to win it.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-9887175
True Draco (ED) vs Plant FTK (2-1)

Game 1 I win the RPS and start weak, but still get ignis with TCBOO and imperial. Turns out I can’t do anything under my own imperial, miss an ignis trigger, but they can’t get over imperial and stall wall me until it dies. I have so much advantage and TCBOO is enough to lock them up for game.

https://imgur.com/FlUxGYa Side: +3 Sphere Mode, +2 Super Poly, +3
Infinite Impermanence
-2 Strike of the Monarchs, -1 Upstart Goblin, -1 Imperial Order, -1 Solemn Judgment, -3 TCBOO

Game 2: I get FTKed, didn’t draw infinite, might have sealed their fate if saved for the burn guy. My board breaking cards would have been dead.

https://imgur.com/OfWCq9g Side: +3 Boarder, +3 Strike, +1 Solemn, +1 Imperial, +3 TCBOO
-1 Metaltron, -1 Disciples, -3 Sphere Mode, -2 Super Poly, -1 Apoc, -3 Infinite

Game 3 I start with a strong ignis boarder backed by strike and TCBOOx3, probably overkill. Should have done mild heritage drawing and given up the third copy, but oh well. Boarder protects me from reboot and strike gives extra disruption+out to evenly. He doesn’t even get to TCBOO and drops to the boarder beatdown with ignis. In hindsight should have sided out more of my Draco traps and kept more of my draw spells/draco spells, starters were key, traps to do a bit of popping, only needed 1-2 of them if that. Having one pop effect be searchable would be cute, but drawing floodgates was the key. Note: Using strike to get around evenly makes little sense in hindsight, the deck’s FTK runs a “cannot conduct BP” effect, so that would be dead if evenly were used, so unless they had yet another wincon planned, doubtful they used evenly. Still passable vs reboot and works vs twin twisters.


After looking at the FTK for a bit I made this draft build. https://imgur.com/a3sxjrt and then did an FTK combo on solo. https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-9890046

Decided to dabble with cybers as well. https://imgur.com/0E7JIXT Draft 1 of a list. Looks like there is a fairly active thread for that. A few nifty ratios after seeing a particular video on cybers topping.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTXVnk4XULI&t=315s

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-9907954
Cyber Dragons vs Sky Strikers (with mine) 0-2
Nothing worth saying, I played poorly and they played poorly. Tons of mistakes were made. Will be adjusting my list though.

https://imgur.com/0E7JIXT Adjustments to this list.
-1 Qliphort Genius +1 Platinum Gadget: Forgot link climbing was gone, who cares about that restriction now? Summoning from hand is probably stronger than unaffected and negation.
-3 Artifact Sanctum, -1 Artifact Scythe, +3 mystical space typhoon, +1 Cybernetic Overflow
Outs to mine are a must, and I don’t want to use go first reliant siding, especially when the decks it could be used on could just as easily go first for their own hate rather than pick second to disrupt me.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-9910258
Cyber Dragons vs Zombies (2-1)
Game 1 I win RPS and go second, zombie world trolls me, I break it and win.
https://imgur.com/vKPh3PB Siding
Game 2 I lose due to my own salt, get hit by Cursed Seal of the Forbidden Spell when I have 2 and draw a third.
https://imgur.com/BoBAg9v Siding
Swat them with twitwi on their zombie world and screw over all their plays. Easy win.


https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-9918641
Cyber Dragons vs Trickstar (2-0)
They win RPS game 1 and make me start. We have meh hands, but mine wins out. Seemed like an awful player, failing to call my ash when viewing the replay. Granted, I don’t think I played great either.
Side: https://imgur.com/FsOde5Q
Game 2 is another bout of meh hands with me starting, again I eventually make the field and win.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-9918971
Cyber Dragons vs Pendulum Magicians (0-2)
Was tired this match, missed stuff and would appreciate feedback.
Game 1 I lose RPS and go second. Don’t think they opened too strong, but my hand wasn’t too fantastic either. Have a bit of a grind dance, but one point of note was when I used rampage to pop, likely should have gunned for the scales. I end up losing.
Side: +2 Super Poly, +2 Panktratops, +3 Effect Veiler, +1 Cybernetic Overflow, -3 Ash Blossom, -1 Instant Fusion, -3 Twin Twisters, -1 Cyber Dragon Vier
They open strong when I let them go first game 2, only super poly and them letting some early spell stuff slide let me pull off the SEGOC I did to get their negates killed and my guy boosted, but I think it was a misplay to not try and ram him for more power, or leaving a guy in atk to eat up with infinity rather than go for damage. I was greedy and stupid and it cost me.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-9933859
Cyber Dragon vs Mystic Mine Burn? (2-0)
They win RPS and start, but I can quickly see they are not a good player and their deck looks weak. I decide to play it safe with infinity disruption and advantage. I make short work of metaverse, not knowing what to expect but trying to avoid mine. I get baited by a ties of the brethren which I should have let pass and they slide a mine on me anyways. I force its self-destruct next turn but leave myself in a weak field position, which their deck cannot take advantage of. I easily finish the game, correcting their pendulum error and choosing to swing with another monster to speed up their admitting defeat rather than explain to them my quick effect.
https://imgur.com/JELsHoI Siding leads me to side for removal effects and trimming non-starters, as I feel comfortable playing even a minimal package and do not feel the need for a strong hand, only a passable one that can pop mine.
Game 2 gives me a strong opening, but I make a misplay by not ashing metaverse. This leads me to have my mst hit by solemn judgment, and my core machine dup opening leads me into fortress to force the self-destruct. I again misplay by making my cyber dragon link instead of my genius, but have so many resources I make genius using the cyber anyways to create the otk.

This match gave me an appreciation for how much I was missing, facing a terrible player, let overlooking the truly critical aspect of what was game changing. My adjustments proved enough, but that’s all they were, adjustments I had to make because of my poor decisions prior.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-9962161
Cyber Dragons vs Mystic Mine burn (2-1)
Game 1 they take it with a mine lock despite me ashing their pot, I am locked down until they drop Goddess Skuld's Oracle, at which point I scoop to avoid revealing any cards in a game already lost. Might powercode talker or gaia saber, (saber seems better with stats, arrows, and machine type) be a decent ED option for things like ojama trio vs mining burn?
https://imgur.com/u7WBRT4 I side out my fusion spells and my infinties to get in my msts and my reboots. Idk if instant fusion was a good cut choice or not with the life payment, but I decided bodies were better and random pop effect might come up, though I’m finding this unlikely even vs mine.
Game 2 I get locked up but finally squeak a reboot. I then draw the mst for their field and despite their countdown reboot stops the solemn from protecting them and I squeak enough to win.
https://imgur.com/ENenFdO Keep it the same as game 2.
Game 3 I end up opening up reboot and going for an otk through their attempt to set-up after being certain I had an otk and confident I did not want to risk waiting to see what would happen in a build-up.


https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-9962471
Cyber Dragons vs kozmos (2-1)
Game 1 I win RPS and go second, ashing demise but finding myself facing tincan. I don’t use my twin twisters on his two sets, fearing chainables, particular any kind of mine nonsense, idk what decks use it and which ones do not anymore. I may starting maining mst instead, seems safer to just snipe that mine, and I keep siding them in, but for now, will stick with the better known twitwis. They destroy my cyber dragon and kozmojo core. Rather than push for a developed field for infinity, etc. I decide to hold back and get back core, attempting another stronger push next turn, but get otked for my troubles.
https://imgur.com/43mCV6x A couple overload and an instant fusion, alongside the infinites, dropped for mst and reboots.
Game 2 I end up taking it to their uber brick. R.I.P. their hand.
https://imgur.com/kndzCGX No change.
Game 3 I set up infinity with defense herz, not sure if they run the chimeratech stuff to hit cyber dragons in their spare slots, but I soon see them simply kill herz early to avoid letting core get grabbed back and baiting infinity with pankratops. I am easily pushed out by destroyer but they forget to swing. They set 2, getting blasted by a developed overflow, only to reveal sanctum popping destroyer and the useless scythe. I get hit. I drop cydra to face a tincan set up by their destroyer pop off of sanctum., only to face an eclipser. I let it slide and take more damage and watch them set a card. I had saved my fortress for this occasion and use reboot to seal my game ending push.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-9962903
Cyber Dragons vs Traptrix (2-0)
I lose the RPS and go second. His deck is meh, but I play dumpster fire terrible, still winning despite numerous misplays and atrocious blunders.
https://imgur.com/wslRKHV Nothing much to say here.
Game 2 I win because my monsters are better than his traps and card advantage is cool.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-9982641
Cyber Dragons vs Altergeist (2-1)
Game 1 I win the RPS and go second to their silq protocol, but no faker, opening. It is weak enough I easily bait silq and their backrow before using overflow to clear what was left for an easily winning position. Was betting against kunquery for an otk attempt a good plan, or was I safe enough to make a controlling play? Didn’t seem likely they had kun. They scoop before we find out.
https://imgur.com/tAJ5Th1 Focused on the starters, wanted my mst and reboot, not sur eif going first or second, didn’t go for pankra, trimmed out my instants, an ash, and the infinites, made the curious pick of cutting an overflow. Wanted to keep my main starters, thought IF was the least needed and awkward to EMZ fit vs a deck with silq, but idk if that was correct
Game 2 I brick, they didn’t quick scoop, they choose first for what it’s worth.
https://imgur.com/kWkUvan No changes, thought about ash in for the pots or something, pankra is cool, but I didn’t go for it.
Game 3 He marions into manifestation, idk why, and sets two others. They get spoofing twitwied on activation and I take out the set infinite, which I expected to be protocol. Bad plays are bad and a simple sieger rampage otk wraps it up. Did I leave my GY empty at a bad time, given my repair plant went dead for a turn? Thought there might have been better sequencing to go off of there.


https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-9982842
Cyber Dragons vs Darklords
My deck is better, ash em game 1 and them winning the RPS to start doesn’t mean much when I otk.
https://imgur.com/Hqv97Y8 Thoughts on this siding?
Game 2 doesn’t go much better for them, flimsy opening meets cyber boards, he can stop my otk plan, but I have control of the board. Again, curious on my sequencing. IF earlier might have been good, not sure if it changed my plays.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-9983334
Cyber Dragons vs Salamangreat (2-0)
This match made me cry, I did so much stupid stuff, summoning into their wolf’s zone, not seeing called, forgetting sieger was in GY for a bit, though I made it through anyways. Overall just tired, made lots of errors, would love to hear feedback.

I take game 1 with a clean rampage otk, but should have used twitwi tossing herz in order to get cyber dragon in hand so that my other herz would have a secure shot if it got ashed. Instead if it did, I was in way more trouble. They didn’t have it and I took the game.
https://imgur.com/jalTXeO Made some choices in case I went first, thoughts?Was just fine going second, but still.
Game 2 I chip away, get trolled by super poly, and have a surprise kill I didn’t see until I was finishing up. So many choices I probably missed. Felt there were outlet with a rampage kill using the searchable fusion spell, but too tired to go over and see if I could make it a kill by only swinging with it.

[quote="Strike Ninja":knm0jonh]Face it no one replies to your posts except me, so now it's spam and you wasting life for an archive that deletes itself in 5 years.
Why are you wasting your time doing this, instead of something productive in life?[/quote:knm0jonh]

Why do anything by that logic? It will surely delete itself in x number of years as well. You aren't the first person to reply, or even the highest post response. I post because it is productive, and it is something I should have done years ago. Looking at your posts to see what you might be referring to, I see nothing in them that would make my own posts any more substantial. I post for any interested in watching, or better yet helpfully commenting, and most importantly for my own benefit. I try to give each post some kind of meaningful content/data, or at least some ideas to work with. I open up my duels for any to see and judge, and they aren't perfect, or in some cases even well-played. I do it to set a standard for myself to improve, to avoid ignoring bad duels because I didn't like to think about them. I have focused it on a single thread with this purpose and have continued to post in it. If people are not interested, they do not have to read it, I do not force them to look at it. In order to read it, they have to enter the thread I made for this purpose. It is my personal goal to improve at this game, and this is the forum of the site that lets you play it. This is what I have chosen to do for now, and so I will do it.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-9993928
True Draco (0-2)
Got paired against someone that is likely a solid player. Lost RPS to go second, and got flooded and backed by strike for the brutal shielding. Twitwi could not save me. Guy had the sly idea of holding back dinomight so he could use erupt in chain and still be able to chain the strike while dinomight was on the chain with erupt. Seemed weird at first, but pretty sure it was correct, waiting to dinomight the on field soldier eff rather than the in hand eff.
https://imgur.com/sBUMuIK Hardcore siding pls help.
Got wrecked game 2 by another solid opening, thought about ashing desires, but figured they would get their spell, would rather hit any open demise instead, or heritage for 3. They end up getting duality for the strike again, OP. Didn’t end up mattering, no side drawn, wouldn’t have saved me, and my attempt to dodge any early erupt by using sieger instead of core so I might slip in a genius failed when they flipped TCBOO instead. Doubt core for a trap would save me vs a deck with backrow removal that cared little about overflow’s search or a hand with strike.

In other works, I got wrecked.


https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-9994440
Salamangreat (0-2)
I win RPS and go second. They open fragile with gazelle as their only card, but I have nothing and they go on. I open double twitwi and try to out the backrow, but it ends up getting eaten by their counter trap and a meh cosmic cyclone. R.i.P. me. My play is for soldier herz, but maybe a core attempt would have been better, idk. I did not expect disruption, but their veiler snapped my play.
https://imgur.com/XjldsUL Not sure how I feel, twitwi for msts. Cutting infinite, not sure if that was good plan, trying to get reboots, etc.
In the end game 2 makes little difference, a solid open and triple backrow, I mst the roar but get hit by called infinite on my soldier herz play, I try herz link 1 since I feel soldier is already the weaker end and they could stop it if they cared enough anyways, but the double shot, mostly called, rips apart the rest of my hand and I fold.

Thoughts: Is Twitwi really that good? I’m liking to out stuff, but mst maybe is just better, I want a clean shot, and when the discard isn’t proving useful, which is fairly fringe, I’d rather hold on to the card for other pushes rather than out a random set, or just get eaten by a counter trap/disruption piece for such spell effects.

How helpful in the kaiju? I have yet to want to search it or need it, might be time to cut/side it. Backrow threats, not monsters, are proving my undoing.

How good is infinite? A part of what was said earlier, card has constantly been sided out, but is cute vs salads, I guess. Maybe card isn’t so much bad, but it is underperforming so far.

[url:3idarzyl]https://imgur.com/7uViZaG[/url:3idarzyl] My old list
Main:
-3 Twin Twisters +3 Mystical Space Typhoon
-1 Infinite Impermanance +1 Cosmic Cyclone
-1 Jizukiru, the Star Destroying Kaiju +1 Cyberload Fusion

Side:
-3 Mystical Space Typhoon +2 Cosmic Cyclone +1 Infinite Impermanance
-1 Cyberload Fusion +1 Jizukiru, the Star Destroying Kaiju

[url:3idarzyl]https://imgur.com/zMl0twp[/url:3idarzyl] Current list

Changes made in light of old concerns for testing. Let's see how it goes.

https://imgur.com/Kha0OVQ Old Salamangreat List

Changes:
Main Deck:
-3 Called by the Grave +3 Cosmic Cyclone
-3 Effect Veiler +3 Cynet Mining

Side Deck:
-3 Twin Twister +3 Mystical Space Typhoon
-1 Pankratops -1 Phantazmay +2 Effect Veiler

https://imgur.com/N9bTsFi New List

Deck is made with expectations of facing more Draco and Mine decks. Preferring single target to multi target removal since most targets would be single option and most threats are straight negation for it, so getting the extra target isn't worth the discard, even if semi synergetic.

Still need to give it a spin, will probably be making changes if I get the chance to test, just giving my initial thoughts at the outset and keeping my salamangreats somewhat updated.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10074267
Cyber Dragons vs Mine Burn (1-0)
Poor player, I win RPS game 1 and go second. They don’t get their mine set-up until I special. I manage to get my overflow to resolve and win when they oked it. They tried to argue and rage quit when they realized I was right. The only real note is that token flooding is getting really annoying. Really thinking of finding a link for that.


https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10093235
Cyber Dragons vs Salamangreat (2-1)
Game 1 I open very strong after winning the RPS go second, cosmic and mst prove better than twin twisters here as they force his trap and let me otk. Did soldier herz as bait, but trying core first and then using herz to grab it back if things went south may have been better. Ended up otking, but a way to not risk having to trigger his link monster would have been ideal. Should probably rewatch this again to see what I could improve.
https://imgur.com/LaAAjV1
Really nice siding… for going second. Ended up cutting hand traps and going in on backrow hate.
Game 2 was my fault for not prepping for going first with more disruption, keep the Instants and hand traps, don’t put in the reboots, etc. I didn’t have enough power and ended up getting beat pretty good, goofed my life total with cosmic awkwardly, mst would have been so much nicer.
https://imgur.com/8EAm75B Keep the side, is a great go second.
He opens weak, I open strong. I have the reboot for the set so save the pankra in case I go to grind vs hand traps. He flops and I win upon my machine dupe resolution.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10094066
Cyber Dragons vs Pendulum Noob (1-0)
They do stupid stuff and leave. Recorded so I can account for it.


https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10094482
Cyber Dragons vs True Draco (0-2)
This was just an awful match for me. I should have added the trap instead, and seen I couldn’t otk, but I was dumb and went for the spell, which proved to be of little value at all. Well full blown retard on my end and forgot to check basic genius rulings. Decided to call a judge instead of double checking the double negation. The judge proceeds to mess up on an unrelated issue of chalice, but ultimately gets the issue right, which is just awkward for everyone. Sigh. Guess I’ll apologize to the judge for my attitude, they may have been wrong, but I was still in the wrong as well, and that’s just not ok by me.
https://imgur.com/HB83RDX
Just got wrecked by floodgates game 2, but maybe should have seen if I would try and negate my way with genius. Think floodgate #2 was going to wreck me though.


https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10095597
Cyber Dragons vs Mekk-Knights (1-0)
Smh, another bad match. I brain fart and forgot my trap won’t interact with my hand. Was thinking of using my set to them setting, knowing mekks coming down when they go second and column set-up. They try to BS refusal my chance to think, and then it ended up not mattering. I would win easily and they end up quitting as their hand was trash.

[url:bex6308s]https://imgur.com/LN0RBO8[/url:bex6308s] Made Dark Magicians for the heck of it. Might give them a spin again. Draft 1 of my list in the new format.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10103622
Cyber Dragons vs Thunder Dragon Dinosaurs (1-0)
They start comboing, then end up quitting? I win RPS going second. They possible forgot an ED monster, maybe whatever destrudo was for.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10103742
Cyber Dragons vs Salamangreat (2-1)
He wins RPS going first. Snap him with a field over dweller and he scoops before I wrap it up.
https://imgur.com/FoeP5qk
They go AFK for well over what should have been a match loss, returns and gives some wimpy excuse. What am I to do with no judges on… He’s got the double veiler and cuts up my plays from there.
https://imgur.com/QWyDOwu
I go in with my spell/trap hate only to open no cybers game 3. Great… My super poly is cute and I do a bit, but they ultimately just fail to finish me, and when I pull herz he dies, even with the hand trap.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10104913
Cyber Dragons vs Mine Burn (1-2)
Get token locked out game 1, end up scooping despite outing mine.
https://imgur.com/OFfLUbU
Win game 2 after outing mine and making infinity.
Lose game 3 on DC before we even start.

https://imgur.com/3ZFutAH Old Build

Main:
-3 Instant Fusion +1 Foolish Burial +1 One For One +1 Cyber Dragon Vier

Extra:
-1 Panzer Dragon +1 Gaia Saber, the Lightning Shadow

Instant fusion has been underperforming, so I cut it for cyber cards, foolish is a known utility option, as is one for one, cyber dragon vier increases my cyber dragon density further and keeps my machine rate going. My level 5 rate goes down, but oh well.

Panzer is out, and now Gaia can be used to get rid of token fields. Getting full blown token locked can be absurd, but even basic token disruption is incredibly annoying.

Current List https://imgur.com/5P7zw0I

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10117419
Dark Magician vs Salamangreat (1-2)
Win RPS and start game 1. Try to cut them off with ash on the debug and circle on the bale, but they had the mining and went off, taking the game.
https://imgur.com/1h3GAuH
Game 2 I start and disrupt them enough, when they fail to GOSR my circle due to rod preventing it they scoop.
https://imgur.com/wcSPupE
Idk if I misplayed game 3 or not. I would have otked if they made a bit of as larger board, all without DM cards, lulz. Instead they don’t and disrupt my plays, twin twister my eternal soul and super poly, the latter set as protection. I get hit by strike on my rod at the end where I still manage to push to the brink of their negation, but it falls flat as my engine fails to go off. My techs were strong, but they had too much disruption at the best times.

https://imgur.com/XaTB1SE Old Altergeist List
Main:
-3 Effect Veiler +3 Cosmic cyclone
-2 Summon Limit -1 Solemn Warning +3 Heavy Storm Duster

Side:
-3 Droll & Lock Bird +3 Effect Veiler
-1 Pankratops +1 Super Polymerization
-3 Evenly Matched +3 Unending Nightmare
-3 Heavy Storm Duster +2 Fantastical Dragon Phantazmay +1 Fairy Wind

Extra:
-1 Clara & Rushka, the Ventriloduo +1 Salamangreat Violet Chimera

My deck upgraded spell/trap hate with an increase density of Draco and Mine decks around. Reworked the side to improve super poly a bit.

https://imgur.com/iKsBBna Current Altergeist List

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10154557
Cyber Dragons vs Fire Fist (1-0)
Win RPS, go second, and get a passable hand with machine dupe, was tight otherwise. They go stupid and lance me, must be match lossed by judge.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10154924
Cyber Dragons Vs Sky Strikers (2-0)
We duel with them winning RPS and going first, and they end up scooping, might be the loss of kagaris for them making the situation seem bad, but I thought they had a shot at fighting still.
https://imgur.com/ZLcMu0d Wondering if the kaiju should have been sided in, but I didn’t feel the need. Idk, turning off their MMZs is cute, not a terrible hard draw, but not necessary either. Might be under stating the value of the kaiju, but I’m not feeling the need for it.
Game 2 I end up breaking through their negation and outgrind them. Props to a hard drawn cyberload letting rampage cut off their resources, but saving infinity for engage might be ideal, shot off the field thinking letting them chain for a free grab was silly, but really the engage was their fastest and most dangerous resource. Just because they didn’t capitalize off of those cards enough doesn’t mean I didn’t screw up.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10155397
Cyber Dragons vs Anti-Meta (2-1)
He wins the RPS, goes first, dynas into my scooping to not show my deck. Maybe should have waited a bit, taken some hits, before doing it so early and showing the impact dyna made.
https://imgur.com/Cdqus22 Go for reboot pushes to otk and avoid one for one spell/trap trades since I think their threats are facedowns rather than floodgates that are face-up. Mst>cosmic due to the valuable lifepoints.
I play poorly and really fail to manage my resources. Wanted to give up, but it turned out they had no real threats density and quickly ran out of threats despite being way up on CA, with me BSing my way into a win. They reboot me and instead of a reboot to parry future reboots I go for another cyberload when they rebooted my original, fearing spell/trap removal. I underestimate the angles the deck was attacking from, but they should be using wiretap, not reboot, lol.
https://imgur.com/frV3Vx0 Stays with the side
They have no threats and just stall, I get a bit too comfy and let it go, rather than take a -1 to summon cyber dragon from hand to hit them or try and otherwise secure a threat rather than wait for them to somehow make an unbreakable. They had a weak anti-meta deck and I BS my way out of it anyways.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10154557
Cyber Dragons vs Fire Fist (1-0)
Win RPS, go second, and get a passable hand with machine dupe, was tight otherwise. They go stupid and lance me, must be match lossed by judge.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10154924
Cyber Dragons Vs Sky Strikers (2-0)
We duel with them winning RPS and going first, and they end up scooping, might be the loss of kagaris for them making the situation seem bad, but I thought they had a shot at fighting still.
https://imgur.com/ZLcMu0d Wondering if the kaiju should have been sided in, but I didn’t feel the need. Idk, turning off their MMZs is cute, not a terrible hard draw, but not necessary either. Might be under stating the value of the kaiju, but I’m not feeling the need for it.
Game 2 I end up breaking through their negation and outgrind them. Props to a hard drawn cyberload letting rampage cut off their resources, but saving infinity for engage might be ideal, shot off the field thinking letting them chain for a free grab was silly, but really the engage was their fastest and most dangerous resource. Just because they didn’t capitalize off of those cards enough doesn’t mean I didn’t screw up.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10155397
Cyber Dragons vs Anti-Meta (2-1)
He wins the RPS, goes first, dynas into my scooping to not show my deck. Maybe should have waited a bit, taken some hits, before doing it so early and showing the impact dyna made.
https://imgur.com/Cdqus22 Go for Reboot pushes to otk and avoid One for One spell/trap trades since I think their threats are facedowns rather than floodgates that are face-up. Mst>cosmic due to the valuable lifepoints.
I play poorly and really fail to manage my resources. Wanted to give up, but it turned out they had no real threats density and quickly ran out of threats despite being way up on CA, with me BSing my way into a win. They Reboot me and instead of a Reboot to parry future reboots I go for another cyberload when they rebooted my original, fearing spell/trap removal. I underestimate the angles the deck was attacking from, but they should be using Wiretap, not Reboot, lol.
https://imgur.com/frV3Vx0 Stays with the side
They have no threats and just stall, I get a bit too comfy and let it go, rather than take a -1 to summon Cyber Dragon from hand to hit them or try and otherwise secure a threat rather than wait for them to somehow make an unbreakable. They had a weak anti-meta deck and I BS my way out of it anyways.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10156759
Cyber Dragons vs Salamangreat (2-0)

I lose RPS and go second. Guy isn’t familiar with his deck and def doesn’t know cybers. He pops my nova and gets rampage otked. The real question is when to have used foolish, early to bait ash? Should I have dumped core or nachster, core gives added grind power, nachster is an added push. Did not expect my otk shot.

https://imgur.com/zruRV4k Went for the hand traps to stay for turn 1 disruption, thinking I might go first.

I end up going second game 2 and misplay by using core under his counter trap, which they overlook. I tried to see if I could bait a veiler on core so if I used it for megafleet I’d have a named cyber dragon for sieger. As it happens, that was an error and I am lucky they forgot their counter trap was dead, instead core ate an ash. I end up having overload to otk with sieger rampage again, otking them in one turn both games.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10158670
Cyber Dragons vs Madolches (1-1, win match on their DC)
I lose RPS and go second, but decide to make Pleiades to recoup my guy and have a threat. As it so happens their pankratops eats that idea alive. I use my eff to force it to do something but he lets it go to hand. As it turns out getting that Pleiades out is awkward. I have enough resources to easily dominate the field, ripping out his bluffed backrow with an overflow while forgetting to search off my trap effect. I had so many resources I ended up taking it anyways, but bad plays are bad.

https://imgur.com/Jcn3Str Bad siding is bad, was 100% going first with two go seconds facing off, he wasn’t likely to try and bluff a go first plan with that deck. Should have gotten rid of the spell/trap removal and use more hand traps, etc.

Game 2 I lose to otk, not sure what to ash, so hit an OPTed angelly and let them madolche lock, but I get called. He kills me.

https://imgur.com/Jcn3Str Trim a bit of spell/trap hate but go in with pankras, not sure if they will surprise floodgate me somehow. Honestly think I hyped that idea too much, my core can out floodgates what am I afraid of? More likely should be fearing their otks, and kept up hand traps/engine pieces after choosing second. Poor call on my end, but they DC and I win the match by default, odds having been in my favor due to finally going second, but still, they had a full game to still gut me.


https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10159754
Cyber Dragons vs Altergeist (1-0)
Game 1 they win RPS and get their pot ashed. They still have faker set-up. I bait silq with my link and poop out machine dupe for what wouldn’t quite get game if they GOSR the sieger and melu for 500 off. Think it goes to infinity vs their faker/melu search and super poly. R.I.P. Hopefully they didn’t run megafleet/fortress or banished them. Their DC makes it an unknown stand-off, but I should have grabbed core off of herz for any back-up now that I think about it. Or was there a better field to make that couldn’t chance a game shot but would hold up vs their counterplay better?

[url:2y4cedbj]https://imgur.com/ZhLkPqt[/url:2y4cedbj] Old Altergeist List

Extra:
-1 Knightmare Cerberus +1 [YGOCARD]Gaia Saber, the Lightning Shadow[/YGOCARD]

That link 2 only really comes up vs dinos to randomly pop an annoying monster with a monster and a token they may have let me have. But Gaia is going to be used to burn up tokens handed from mine burn, etc.

[url:2y4cedbj]https://imgur.com/Ds55EJR[/url:2y4cedbj] Current List

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10160812
Altergeist vs True Draco (2-0) (note: Replay may still be glitched, asked for them to fix it.)
I get the start by winning RPS and see no extra. Wondering if mine burn but ends up being Draco. I get cosmic off extravagance only to use it to disiples pop. I hold them off by using a linkubiroh to bait ignis with strike and get faker set up. I use the faker to get to melu and put down a silq to keep down any annoying floodgates. They find themselves short on options and as melu cuts off cards an ash no diagram proves disastrous for them. I grind them into dust.

https://imgur.com/a0bKkXA Bye solemns, cute as they can be, throw off a protocol and one for one and in goes my spell/trap hate package of half a dozen cards. No evenly in side, they prep too much for it and the card seems to be weak overall vs other decks.

Game 2 they get the start and my melu faces the wrath of their solemn judgment. I avoid letting them trigger, seeing as they would gain off of ignis if I played my duality. A set trap eats the wiretap I saw off of their error, but in any case the card proves unable to allow the ignis to add. I try to marion and the guy floodgates. They mess up and forget to sue ignis as link 2, but I figure duality will have to grab something anyways, and in goes unending nightmare, shredding their field spell, floodgate, and just baiting them well all together. I grind them to dust as they try to use their trap to decent effect to troll my plays, but they run out of gas and I finish them off.

Thought: Maybe a third duality for consistency would be good. Or maybe a desires instead, failing with extravagance but working with future dualitys.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10163359
Cyber Dragons vs Mystic Mine Burn (1-0 lost to DC)
Game 1 I win RPS second. Cosmic, mst, double machine dup and ash looks like it might go somewhere, and I am thrilled to see it be mine. I force bribe to protect mine and manage to out it, after eventually getting to core. I control them and win it from there.
https://imgur.com/oBsNGZu Siding out the fusion spells and the infinites to slip in spell/trap hate.
Lose to DC, it happens, just crashed.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10163522
Cyber Dragons vs Salamangreat (2-0)

Losing RPS to go second game 1. My ash gets called but I otk.
https://imgur.com/pXyOkYJ Wondering if I should use my kaiju in the side in case they might go for bagooska. As it is, focus on disruption since I’ll likely go first, no need for spell/trap hate.

I end up making a play, get disrupted, they can’t deal with my field quite right through my own disruption and I finish the job awkwardly the next turn. Think there might have been better ways to play around future disruption, was not feeling the ways I was gunning for.

https://imgur.com/lpCyPBn

Sometimes you have those crazy moments where you just want to try something. Welcome to Inferno Reckless Summon in Cyber Dragons and draft 1 of my attempt to witness it in action.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10164753
Altergeist vs Subterrors (1-0)
https://imgur.com/kM6los6 To say this was my opening hand and I won it… Well, was battle of the brick hands, I win RPS and start with that.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10181971
Cyber Dragons vs Danger Orcust (2-0)
Game 1 they RPS to first. They have a weak hand and set 2. This is where twin twisters would have outclassed mst. As it so happened, the other set was the trap that would negate said card if they had made a link, lulz. Still, twitwi would have been safer this game, even if mst on the trap got rid of it when I chained. I took control and won.
https://imgur.com/0Sg7cLX Wasn’t 100% sure what it was, first time facing orcusts, but the fog blades made me guess based on their reputation. Was a bit conservative since I was unsure, still need to figure out my siding policy for that match-up, mull over how many veilers I really need.
Game 2 they start and eat an ash and an infinite, his mermaid can’t stop megafleet beatdown and my ability to make infinity the turn after thanks to a tribute summoned galaxy soldier did them in.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10182292
Cyber Dragons vs Sky Striker Mine (1-0)
Guy locks thing up with mine, I thought they would turn it off, but it came to me to shoot it. Set up an otk through his disruption, then the guy tries to use eagle booster and widow anchor on my qliphort genius, doesn’t work well and they rage quit when I don’t give them the link 2. Some people should just read the card, or communicate when they see a hiccup.

https://imgur.com/l6qnwtQ Draft 1 of my pendulums attempt, will likely be going through some rapid changes with suggestions, or a total revamp, but we shall see.

[url:21kxr0ri]https://imgur.com/k6qdkzG[/url:21kxr0ri] Netdecked Electricsoldier's list as well, will give that a go first, then I might end up deleting the list I had.

[url:1u3g5fl7]https://imgur.com/ia0rHXZ[/url:1u3g5fl7] Cut 3 called from the start. Thinking the meta won't support it well. We shall see if I am right.

[url:28a0ppxo]https://www.pojo.biz/board/showthread.php?t=1305467&page=35[/url:28a0ppxo]

Rather than post all the little changes, just noting it is on that page, lol.

https://imgur.com/hS12ol9 Current draft.

https://imgur.com/8Hc026H Deleting my initial draft of pendulums for now. Going with be running with the combo package Electric has instead, and I see no need to run around with two pendulums decks for the time being.

[url:3s8off0j]https://imgur.com/hS12ol9[/url:3s8off0j] Did a small switch of the LANphorhynchus for Beat Cop from the Underworld.

[url:3s8off0j]https://imgur.com/ulMhBNS[/url:3s8off0j] Current list.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10183584
Cyber Dragons vs Red-Eyes (1-0)
He activates his red-eyes fusion, I decide to double check how that thing works, was pretty sure it read as an effect and two conditions, but these days, so many cards that have the “thou shall not do things” as an effect, so it gets negated if I ash it. Fortunately, not how it goes. Have to call a judge for the guy trying to force his play when I told him to wait, and the ensuing rage quit when the judge made them back up. My next draw made my whole hand live even without his help. In hindsight, idk if ashing the fusion was the correct play though.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10221673
Altergeist vs Thunder Dragons (Pure) 2-0
Game 1 was me drawing a bit awkward but facing weak thunder dragon power, which I easily handled, despite going second after losing RPS.
https://imgur.com/CeidQus Cut away spell/trap hate for a couple veilers, pankras, and super polys. In hindsight a third veiler should have been used for sekka, etc.
They make me start and I think evenly, forgetting sekka is their favorite and I fail to hold up my trap to avoid that issue. They have little power though and I clean them up easily enough. Turns out they played both evenly and sekka, too much tech fluff, too little power.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10222655
Altergeist vs Danger Thunder Dragon (2-1)
I flop despite winning the RPS to go first, he flops harder, danger vanilla sticks do nothing.
https://imgur.com/niSzd5u
Game 2 they start. Phant is eh as they drop the spider, I do sneak a veiler in, but they combo too hard. Still, their hand was crazy strong, so idk if I want to say phant did all that bad.
https://imgur.com/fKEwtwX Forgot to use the screen in siding, here is what I sided in total from the main.
I start but eat two ashes, one on melu, one on faker, but my manifestation on melu keeps me afloat. A veiler on his batteryman cuts them off cold, and soon I out grind them as my engine goes on full throttle. His attempts to bait me fail and I win cleanly.

https://imgur.com/Ds55EJR Old Altergeist List
Side
-2 Inspector Boarder
+2 Sphere Mode

https://imgur.com/ifO088d Current List

A bit more hate for swarm, at the cost of my anti-reboot starter/hate for the mirror and some anti-meta. Oh well.

[url:p1824omu]https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10242300[/url:p1824omu]
Zefra Endymion Pends vs Orcusts (1-2)
Game 1 I win RPS, start comboing and they scoop. Edit Note: The cerb scale play was illegal.

I don’t side since I have no idea what I’m facing. In hindsight backrow hate may have been a safe bet, but who knows.

Game 2 they start, combo and easily disrupt ftw.
[url:p1824omu]https://imgur.com/voj6LSt[/url:p1824omu] Get those called in.

Game 3 I open strong going first but a Gnomaterial gets me pretty good and I get screwed up, my field pushed over, but I used a disruption earlier than I think I should have, not being particularly familiar with orcust, don’t seem to see them much. Thoughts? We both misplay and miss stuff a lot, and my endgame plops out both luckwise and playwise, so notes on better plays I could have made would be appreciated, both in combo building and in the interactive stage. Still in that dumb phase you get when you are trying to piece together how the deck works and you miss obvious stuff in the process of thinking elsewhere.

Think I'm at the point where I at least can solve what cards are for at a reasonable enough level to start editing around some, but we'll see. I have a few questions to mull over.

[url:3j631q1i]https://imgur.com/wkjQh75[/url:3j631q1i] Electric's list. I'll probably end up clearing my edit and putting one up myself, just good to keep track of in case I get lost, haha.

https://imgur.com/HXwvedH My current list, deleted Electric's in favor of messing with my own stuff for a bit.

https://imgur.com/N9bTsFi Old Salamangreat List
Main Deck:
-1 Crusadia Reclusia, +1 Mystical Space Typhoon
Side:
-3 Droll & Lock Bird -1 Mystical Space Typhoon
+1 Dinowrestler Pankratops +2 Called by the Grave +1 Imperial Order

https://imgur.com/LUgFcUz Current List

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10277348
Salamangreat vs Trickstar Invoked (2-0)
Game 1 I win and start, showing my inability to combo by failing to get my first wolf shuffled in. Nearly die but my disruption and some of their misplays save me.
https://imgur.com/I7a1RKG
Game 2 has me start by their choice and allow stage through to freeze my counter trap and nearly die to borrel, but infinite saves the day! I outgrind and lock them up with disruption from there.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10278960
Salamangreat vs Salamangreat (2-1)
I win RPS and start off with enough disruption to keep them down.
https://imgur.com/ChwjPQV
All that siding is cute, but when game 2 comes around and I go second, I have little engine, despite not cutting back on starters. Neither do they and we go back and forth, my super poly, then their own gets me later. I can’t get enough up to overcome their field and lose.
https://imgur.com/k5wA1Oz
Closing it up with a going first disruption spree that keeps them down. They try to hold me off, but I have more stuff and win off the CA.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10279889
Salamangreat vs Sky Striker Mine (1-2, DCed)
They start game 1 and keep me disrupted with a bit of mine,. I make severa misplays and easily get swatted.
https://imgur.com/Cr5hpV6 Hard siding.
Imperial+Counter trap and field OP
https://imgur.com/ZyCJMFF A bit of change.
Crash and lose match.

[url:9l9yqvzg]https://imgur.com/LUgFcUz[/url:9l9yqvzg] Old Salamangreat List
Main: -1 Salamangreat Fowl -1 Fusion of Fire -1 [YGOCARD]Mystical Space Typhoon[/YGOCARD]
+1 Salamangreat Mole +2 [YGOCARD]Effect Veiler[/YGOCARD]

Side: -2 [YGOCARD]Effect Veiler[/YGOCARD] -2 [YGOCARD]Super Polymerization[/YGOCARD] -2 [YGOCARD]Mystical Space Typhoon[/YGOCARD] -1 [YGOCARD]Starving Venom Fusion Dragon[/YGOCARD] +1 Salamangreat Fowl +2 Gnomaterial +1 Called by the Grave +3 [YGOCARD]Unending Nightmare[/YGOCARD]

Extra: -1 Salamangreat Violet Chimera +1 Mekk-Knight Crusadia Avrama

[url:9l9yqvzg]https://imgur.com/irHVwg1[/url:9l9yqvzg] Current Salamangreat List

https://imgur.com/ifO088d Old Altergeist

Main: -1 Cosmic cyclone +1 Imperial Order
Side: -1 Fairy Wind +1 Cosmic Cyclone
Using a floodgate and cutting away the fairy wind overall.

https://imgur.com/9SFQLAp Current List

https://imgur.com/BRSZ26o A pendulum draft I'm going to test to get a better feel for pendulums.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10290239
Pendulums vs Danger Orcusts (1-2)
Start, but end up losing as my negates are pushed over. Next time I’m negating the dangers.
https://imgur.com/DzRIvbq Side in some hand trap hate.
Game 2 I start and lock them down by stopping dangers.
https://imgur.com/p8fTvGH
Lose game 3 not drawing any side, play poorly and lose to disruption.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10291638
Pendulums vs Orcusts (2-1)
I start and they scoop before I see what they are playing.
https://imgur.com/vwE3X2A Side in pankra not knowing the match-up I’m about to face.
I lose to their start when my call is negated, no scale 8.
https://imgur.com/rk2Sv3z
I take game 3 with a negate on the danger with my start despite being hit by two hand traps, and keep the dangers down.

Still drafting my pendulum plan and list.

https://imgur.com/BRSZ26o Old List
Main: Added cards, upped an endymion spell, got another jackal, cut off the odd-eyes cards, etc. Testing archfiend eccentrick.

Extra: -1 Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon +1 Arcanite Magician
https://imgur.com/K4pU3iY

https://imgur.com/xVq03mJ Current List

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10296526
Cyber Dragons vs Dark Magician (1-0, lose to DC)
Game 1 they win RPS and go first, getting otked.
https://imgur.com/fdm8kD6 I side a bit, then crash.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10296666
Cyber Dragon vs Salamangreat (2-0)
Game 1 they win RPS and start. I do some work on their disruption and take control of the field, winning the grind, of all things. Guess they tried too hard to avoid an otk and forgot to not run out of gas.
https://imgur.com/GV3PstD Bit of siding for disruption and super polys in case I go first.
Game 2 I get forced first and make Pleiades, which gets nabbed. My overflow doesn’t and soon I keep control of the game and wrap them up when they run out of stuff.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10297621
Cyber Dragon vs Salamangreat (2-0)
I win RPS and go second game 1, only to see a tornado dragon in the start. Idk what they are doing, but they aren’t getting through this, haha. I get veilered but still take control. Nearly get blown out by a fusion of fire play, but not enough to kill me. My next turn was.
https://imgur.com/EKUoxY5 Prep for going first, perhaps time to run a third infinite over my one for one.
Game 2 I start, go for a Pleaides opener but get GOSR. Unfortunately for the guy I still can infinity with a herz under. They dodge infinity fairly well and I choose to let them go off field to avoid fusion of fire, despite not thinking they had it, better safe then sorry. I forget I had burned a nova and had infinity in, and try to go for a double rank 5 play with nachster, only to see that they strike the first nova to get rampage otked, which the spell I add allows me to do, though the best play was to just make sieger, and add something else, a follow-up or overflow, then have rampage killed regardless. Oh well, I stole that one.

https://imgur.com/lpCyPBn Old Inferno Cyber Dragon List
Side: -1 UFO Turtle +1 Ash Blossom
https://imgur.com/LjOA8aM Current List

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10317447
Cyber Dragons Inferno vs Pendulums (0-0 DC loss)
I win RPS and go second, then crash.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10317497
Cyber Dragons Inferno vs Danger Thunder Dragons with legacy package (2-1)
They win RPS start with unbreakable and I die.
https://imgur.com/jQSh7u8 Bye mst, hello hand traps.
They brick and I kill them going second.
https://imgur.com/khJP466 A bit more hate, R.I.P. overflows.
Ashed Draconet hoping to shut them down, they keep going, we went back and forth and I got them. Made an awkward illegal play with herz, but caught it. No IRS drawn all match.

Going to blitz some replays, meaning I intend to post the replay and the siding, but try to get through more matches rather than post up the typical notes, so I can move up to the higher slots and face better players. I may later revisit some of the replays and add notes though. We will see.

Blitzed with the IRS cyber test variant.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10333086
https://imgur.com/7lEiYUp
https://imgur.com/dR3cUNM

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10333910
https://imgur.com/lWJck2x

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10335255

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10335543
https://imgur.com/PYlqcuG
https://imgur.com/q4Nuuno

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10336541
https://imgur.com/rfW8bfe

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10336924
https://imgur.com/1YGr4WS

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10337183

Fortune not on my side today, oh well. Didn't do awful, but had some unfortunate opponents, took more time and got less rating than hoping. I'll get to my correct rating eventually.

https://imgur.com/LjOA8aM Old Inferno Cyber Dragons

https://imgur.com/zeBZTNJ Current List

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10338780 My one replay between changes, is alone because I made a swap soon after.

https://imgur.com/zeBZTNJ Old Cyber Dragon Inferno List
Swapped a nachster for a vier.
https://imgur.com/m6Va9Ce Current List

[url:1dkxe7x6]https://imgur.com/Br4yQLW[/url:1dkxe7x6] DB user Wokky let me try out their Orcust Trickstar list, I'll be putting some adjustments to it after I try it a bit, as I imagine we have different metas and mentalities, as almost all players do, but for now, a starting draft!

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10339073 Another match with Cyber Dragon Inferno

Some singles testing with orcusts, idk what I'm doing yet.
https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10340303
https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10340348

[url:1iogium8]https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10341063[/url:1iogium8]
I don't have a lot of toxic matches, but this is one of them. You want to get on my bad side, the whole group of "all people playing the same decks, meta sheep," group do it. Bonus points if you don't even know the rules of this game. That's my saltfest, and yeah, I was def not nice to them. I think having someone look down on people for playing the "trendy deck" is pathetic. I make plenty of misplays, and def noting some trends on my errors I'll have to pick up on.

In hindsight, while I still hate such users, I need to cool down. I can't let them get to my head. Apologized to them afterwards and explained the link issue. I think typing these things up helps, because even if I'm pissed, when I look back, how intelligent do I really feel bashing a user? For what, hating a deck/people? Am I any better for then counterhating them?

https://imgur.com/02m37k3 Old Altergeist List
Main: -3 Heavy Storm Duster +2 Effect Veiler +1 Cosmic Cyclone
Side: -2 Dinowrestler Pankratops +2 Artifact Lancea -2 Effect Veiler -1 Cosmic Cyclone +3 Heavy Storm Duster
Seeing less Draco and Mine Burn, a bit more Orcust, adapting my side to reflect that, Cosmic is better going second and seems overall playable, duster was more of a hard backrow hater, but even with faker synergies, is just outclassed atm by faster removal main-wise, better sided.
https://imgur.com/xAzhP3l Current List

I do not know how you were not already running Heavy Storm Duster, alongside Trap Trick for Backrow removal (Especially with Red Reboot / Wiretap being problems).
Also why even run Pot of Duality? It sucks in Altergeist, trust me.
No Trap Trick at all? It really helps get HSD for backrow, Manifestation for bringing back your power, or impermanence for negating issue monsters / negating a same column s/t

I will get my list, to show you.

More Singles Replays with Trickstar Orcusts
https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10351355
https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10351719
https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10351842
https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10352092

[quote="xDEADCENTREx":vabst6vx]I do not know how you were not already running Heavy Storm Duster, alongside Trap Trick for Backrow removal (Especially with Red Reboot / Wiretap being problems).
Also why even run Pot of Duality? It sucks in Altergeist, trust me.
No Trap Trick at all? It really helps get HSD for backrow, Manifestation for bringing back your power, or impermanence for negating issue monsters / negating a same column s/t

I will get my list, to show you. https://imgur.com/a/H2GGDxF[/quote:vabst6vx]

Heavy storm duster was mained before, now it has been downgraded to sideboard status for not being that good in the main. Not the best disruption vs combo decks and not great going second vs many of them either. It's sided for the particular match-ups altergeists struggle with due to their floodgates. Trap trick is a card I have seen in some builds, but it leaves you far too open to evenly and reboot, especially now that we don't use mind crush atm. Using 2 manifestation is an unfortunate trend under trap trick, I am glad I no longer need desires so I could trim it to 1 and open it less.

Why do you play Altergeist Camouflage? The card has not seen much success, to the point where it is not even mentioned in lists playing altergeists as a card. It doesn't serve as negation and while its protection is cute we do already have an effect to bring it back we have enough of already, (manifestation). It would be hard enough to justify 1, let alone 3. Without a way to proactively send it to the GY, witch of the black forest is not a very good card. I'm not sure why you are not running clara to trigger it with this in mind for going second.

Duality has been a known staple in altergeist for a long time, run in topping list after list. It adds essential consistency both to the actual engine and to the trap cards used to support it. Consistency is a must for altergeists, and we do not rely on our special summon heavily on the first turn. if we can special summon, then we are in a good place and I will be happy to leave my duality dead, as my engine is already functioning. But my disruption is made on backrow which does not get cut off by duality, and the fakers summoned on the opposing turn rather than my own early on. It is essentially what witch of the black forest wished it could be, a way to get to your needed cards turn 1, while unable to directly go for the monsters, it will snatch for something.

Your sideboard only having 8 cards is astonishing for a deck that needs its side to face so many decks. Hand traps are a must for going second and to play under reboot. Inspector boarder as an out to the mirror is a bit outdated with alts falling back, not to mention pankratops being such a savage out when played, a card I only recently dropped. Boarder being cute going first under backrow as a stall method reboot could not out was a path that had crossed my mind and been used in other formats, but seems weaker now. I have focused my sideboard on holding the stronger spell/trap removal, hand traps, and board breakers for particular match-ups. Hey trunade, while nifty on backrow like that of sky strikers, is not going to intimidate many decks to that degree. You may gain a mild position with a melu poke or so, but their reestablishment will punish you. I am curious to see what it has done for you, as I'd think straight removing the backrow to be better. I would suggest playing ningirsu in the extradeck, as it can out untargetable threats at only 3 monsters usage and without a battle phase unlike borreload's 4 and BP. Needing say, a linkuriboh and a knightmare with the altergeist is not much of an issue for a deck with a root in melu and so many different names, might even get a co-linked pop and draw, lol.

Match with Salamangreat

[url:1dxxdu6r]https://www.duelingbook.com/log?id=407264-10354898[/url:1dxxdu6r]
[url:1dxxdu6r]https://imgur.com/UTW0fYl[/url:1dxxdu6r]
[url:1dxxdu6r]https://imgur.com/W2Z0IkO[/url:1dxxdu6r]

Put it in since I'm going to make edits again. Need to remember to use my field spell when possible, and also to take into account the recent usage of the Paleozoic trap. Phant can be quite the mean monster, lol.

https://imgur.com/l3Ytmfh Old Salamangreat List

https://imgur.com/lehprKT Current List

[quote="-Vantage.Princess-":ngmvxtq4]Is this a bot? xD[/quote:ngmvxtq4]
No it's a person that's using a non spam section to advertise their dueling, and looking for people to assist them with ideas. I assume that's why it's in serious discussion. Could DM the user also, which I advise in the future to avoid clogging their thread.

[quote="-Vantage.Princess-":2rnwbe8p]Is this a bot? xD[/quote:2rnwbe8p]

Not a bot, lol.

[quote="xDEADCENTREx":2rnwbe8p][quote="-Vantage.Princess-":2rnwbe8p]Is this a bot? xD[/quote:2rnwbe8p]
No it's a person that's using a non spam section to advertise their dueling, and looking for people to assist them with ideas. I assume that's why it's in serious discussion. Could DM the user also, which I advise in the future to avoid clogging their thread. [/quote:2rnwbe8p]

Yeah, I'm posting my duels, lists, ideas. It lets me better analyze them, look back, and be honest with myself. It also lets others chip in and improve my builds and thoughts.

https://imgur.com/MetSa0c First draft of sky strikers, deck is common enough I should carry a list. Draft 1.

https://imgur.com/FafQGZo Old Cyber Dragon list
Main: -1 cyber dragon nachster +1 In finite Impermanence
Side: -1 Infinite Impermanence -2 Dinowrestler Pankratops +3 Artifact Lancea
https://imgur.com/kxCgNWt Current List

https://imgur.com/Gu7hYPu Someone was looking to make a trickstar list, so I made a list to see what I could come up with. Draft 1 of my trickstars.

Cyber Dragon Inferno Replays
https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10397784

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10398077
https://imgur.com/cO5p0uE

A couple of True Draco matches, the first was one I wanted to give up but pushed through and won, despite not maining overflow nn the inferno build. The second was a grind vs true Draco that ended with me pulling out ahead game 1 and blasting through game 2 with what seemed to be a few misplays on both ends.

Cyber [YGOCARD]Inferno[/YGOCARD] Replays
[url:344rzwis]https://www.duelingbook.com/log?id=407264-10412404[/url:344rzwis]
[url:344rzwis]https://imgur.com/R1ckxmk[/url:344rzwis]

Don't normally only give 1 replay in these, but since I'm making an update, need to have this mentioned before the change. Did a quick mop-up of salamangreat, some misplays made.

https://imgur.com/yDjIgR9 Old Cyber Dragon Inferno List
Extra: -1 Gaia Saber, the Lightning Shadow +1 Cyber Twin Dragon
https://imgur.com/b7QDLUD Current List

https://imgur.com/zNFJbVR Old Cyber Dragon List
Extra: -1 Gaia Saber, the Lightning Shadow +1 Cyber Twin Dragon
https://imgur.com/vxuASsm Current List

Put up two changes on decks since they were mirrored for very similar decks. Mine burn is seeing less play so I decided to include cyber twin as a card who has a BP usable effect for the quick-play cyberload fusion tactics I had overlooked. Don't think it will come up much, but we shall test it out.

Cyber Inferno Replays
https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10412404
https://imgur.com/R1ckxmk

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10413467
https://imgur.com/5Ey5OEK
https://imgur.com/ehmOQiq

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10414525
https://imgur.com/o3tsNgV

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10414984
https://imgur.com/9HyMh1R

Stupid me, overlooking vier boosting itself trolls IRS. Didn't come up that much I don't think, but still, ugh, dumb me. Hit me in the middle of a game, didn't come up, but I was so irked when I realized it.

https://imgur.com/yDjIgR9 Old Cyber Dragon Inferno List
Main: -2 Cyber Dragon Vier, +1 Cyber Dragon Nachster, +1 One for One
https://imgur.com/83EGT6w Current List

https://imgur.com/G5ffM6c Old Salamangreat List
Main: -1 Salamangreat Roar -1 Salamangreat Rage -1 Salamangreat Fowl +3 Called by the Grave
Side: -2 Gnomaterial -3 Called by the Grave +3 Artifact Lancea +1 Fantastical Dragon Phantazmay +1 Salamangreat Fowl
https://imgur.com/zJJ7TMT Current List

More Cyber Dragon Inferno Replays

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10416028
https://imgur.com/AbUbTxN
https://imgur.com/DI4J7oO

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10416703 Disconnected
https://imgur.com/Xs6fvmi

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10416766
https://imgur.com/l1mrxah

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10417359
https://imgur.com/YpdshTG
https://imgur.com/RiZf2w8

One more Cyber Dragon Inferno Replay

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10418839
https://imgur.com/2Z3M7Zz
https://imgur.com/3C57rAF

Going to mull over the deck a bit, but play something else for a while now.

Salamangreat Replays

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10419233
https://imgur.com/qKJH9Kt
https://imgur.com/iUgHEA2

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10419606
https://imgur.com/uCr0uG6

https://imgur.com/mJAj17l Old Salamangreat List
Just swapped fowl and second jaguar from side to main, etc.
https://imgur.com/HIh4zW8 Current List

Two quick announcements
1. Cyber Dragon Inferno is gonig to be deleted
https://imgur.com/QSGeW16 The list.

That said, it will soon be replaced by something very similar, doing a revamp of my card choices, expect only minor changes, just want a perception refresher.

2. DB replay blitz has ended, back to my old replay views, need to give my matches a better look.

https://imgur.com/b8QTsfK Cyber Dragon Draft. A similar build to what I have worked with before, just a reboot to get my brain going again.

Cyber Dragon Draft Notes

Main Deck
3 Cyber Dragon: Staple Engine piece and came for plays, machine on board.
3 Cyber Dragon Core: Staple engine piece and name, toolboxing and two bodies if needed.
3 Cyber Dragon Herz: Name, +1 engine piece, combos with soldier and GY utility.
3 Cyber Dragon Nachster: Name, double body for two cards, can revive infinity/rampage.
3 Galaxy Soldier: Level 5 name, 2 bodies with herz, or a +1 level 5 machine. Toolbox option.
3 Cyber Emergency: Staple search engine piece, grabs any cyber.
3 Cyber Repair Plant: Wider range of grabs, but needs cyber dragon in GY, mild recycling.
1 Cyber Revsystem: Revival, searchable machine body and could revive nachster to make it two.
1 Cyberload Fusion: Attritional quick-play fusion off banished cards, also can use cyber twin.
3 Overload Fusion: 1 card Rampage with mild resources in GY, major damage.
3 Machine Duplication: Two cyber dragons out of the deck if you have a small one.
3 Inferno Reckless Summon: Special summon little cyber dragon means giant field vs their field.
1 Foolish Burial: Loads the name for combos for machine dupe, IRS, etc.
1 One for One: Grabs a array of names from deck for machine dupe, IRS, etc.
3 Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring: Staple Disruption that works vs nearly everyone
3 Cosmic Cyclone: Spell/trap Disruption is very strong and needed for certain floodgates.

Extradeck
1 Cyber Dragon Sieger: Cyber name, added damage with multiattack and spreads it
2 Cyber Dragon Nova: Leads to infinity, creates bodies, nachster/sieger revival
2 Cyber Dragon Infinity: Over nova, removal+negate
2 Chimeratech Fortress Dragon: Cyber dragon is machine wipe, 2nd copy for strikers/orcust.
2 Chimeratech Megafleet Dragon: Cyber Dragon monsters are EMZ wipes.
1 Cyber Twin Dragon: 5600 pop off of Cyberload Quick-play when I want other attacks
3 Chimeratech Rampage Dragon: Lethal fusion with machine fuel and some spell/trap wipe, third copy for the really grindy bouts that might be happening, usually only need 2.
1 Constellar Pleaides: Allows for second xyz besides infinity, more disruption and flexibility.
1 Qliphort Genius: Two arrow link 2 with mild disruption and immunity, stats work for otks.


Siding Notes:
Vs Orcusts: Going First: -7 Going Second: None Needed
Vs Salamangreat: Going First: -7 Going Second: None Needed
Vs True Draco: Going First: -6 Going Second: -5
Vs Thunder Dragon Dangers: Going First: -8 Going Second: -3
Vs Sky Strikers: Going First: None Needed Going Second: None Needed



Side Deck:
1 Jizukiru, the Star Destroying Kaiju: Strong vs sky strikers and toolbox piece
3 Artifact Lancea: Good vs Chaos Engines and Orcusts
3 Effect Veiler: Vs Combo, (orcusts, salad, dangers), cannot be phoenixed
1 Cybernetic Overflow: Searchable Disruption Going First
3 Red Reboot: Locks backrow for the turn for otk (for Salamangreat and Draco)

Vs Orcusts: First: -3 IRS, -3 Cosmic, -1 Foolish, +3 Lancea, +3 Veiler, +1 Overflow
Second: -1 Nachster, -1 One For One, -3 IRS, -1 Repair Plant, +3 Lancea, +3 Veiler
Vs Salads: First: -3 IRS, -3 Cosmic, +3 Veiler, +1 Overflow
Second: -3 Cosmic, +3 Reboot
Vs Draco: First: -1 Nachster, -1 One For One, -3 IRS, -1 Foolish Burial, +1 Overflow, +3 Red Reboot, +2 MST
Second: -1 Nachster, -1 One For One, -3 IRS, -1 Repair Plant, +1 Overflow, +3 Red Reboot, +2 MST
Vs Thunder Dragon Danger: First: -3 IRS, -3 Cosmic, +3 Lancea, +3 Veiler
Second: -1 Nachster, -3 Cosmic, -1 Repair Plant, +3 Lancea, +2 Infinite
Vs Sky Strikers: First: -1 Nachster, -1 Foolish, -3 IRS, +1 Kaiju, +3 MST, +1 Overflow
Second: -1 Nachster, -1 One For One, -3 IRS, +1 Kaiju, +3 MST, +1 Overflow

https://imgur.com/oNPtuaW Someone was working on dinosauras, decided I'd try a draft.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10429429
Cyber Dragon Draft Vs Salamangreat (1-2)
My opponent wins game 1 and starts us off with a very secure engine with dweller, ash, and a set roar. I know the roar is set and see dweller go off, but it means little. I easily disable the trap by taking out the wolf. They do not realize repair plant is my vulnerability, (not that they should, given I have numerous starters and normal summons that all could have made ash on such a card dead.) Once I have core effect activated, it is pretty much over. I grab an unneeded fusion spell and easily force their ash with my IRS. An overload sieger otk wraps it up nicely.
https://imgur.com/vqc9c6F I side ready to star, getting disruption to maintain control.
I am surprised game 2 to see them choose to start, but most of my disruption works going second as well. I draw none of it. I have an opening fragile to lacking a cyber, but draw nachster. I am glad to see the card, it being a special letting me using my repair plant to get core, but it gets striked, ruining my plans. I am only left wit a megafleet and they establish strong disruptive control to win it.
https://imgur.com/ef0rjD4 I switch out the ashes and trap disruption, leaving veielrs as they are not OPTed and can hit wolf. I quickly see they opened strong with some sets, but draw no cybers. I do not fault the techs in the deck for this, as I maintained a high cyber count, but drew none of my names. Such hands are never going to work short of numerous level 5 techs to make infinity without using any cybers, an improbable task. A brick is a brick.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10429974
Cyber Dragon Draft vs Bad Lightsworn Mix (2-0)
They win RPS and make me start. I infinity with herz under it. No mained overflow makes my core a bit weak. I stop their solar and consider if I can make a better field, but decide to keep infinity. They have nothing worth noting and scoop.
https://imgur.com/HOkhMyM Go for some disruption, no need to take risks.
They start weak, easy otk.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10430246
Cyber Dragon Draft vs Pendulums
I win RPS and go second to them opening insane. I push, but can’t break the field, despite running through many negation.
https://imgur.com/f6yUf3B
Game 2 I side to start, but I think I misplay in my disruption, under valuing my trap to take care of his stick, and popping phoenix instead of letting it stay as a thorn. They go for damage but screw up and fail, I manage to finish the job, misplaying, but still getting the kill.
https://imgur.com/chI5uNV I mistaken side to go second, I should have kept spell/trap hate over IRS, which would have taken game 3, oh well.
They choose me to start and break through my ash infinity, eating ash with cerb and I get my infinity baited by pankratops. I end up getting pushed over as they just squeak over with ravine, and so go off. Dead IRS costs me.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10432846
Cyber Dragon Draft vs Pran-Kids (1-2)
Otked them game 1.
https://imgur.com/qq1g712
Got disrupted out games 2-3 and reshot. Siding was the game. Perhaps should have gone first, I didn’t really know what this deck did at all tbh.

https://www.duelingbook.com/log?id=407264-10433527
Altergeist vs Orcusts (2-0)
They play poor game 1 and fail to do anything despite having two monsters. Easy win.
https://imgur.com/EvmErJS
Game 2 no hand traps, but they do a garden opening and stall themselves out. Poorly played match overall, but their poor technical skill allowed me to take what probably should have been a lost match.

A constant struggle for me is dealing with people who don't use the resource they have to effectively confirm rulings they have no business not knowing, especially when confronted by such resources. (As opposed to just making a simple mistake and after a google check fixing it.) It does me no good to lash out and break down these players though, all it will do is make things worse for everyone. It was a struggle I recently had in the prior duel, and while the player played poorly and made many mistakes, I let things accelerate beyond what they needed to. I later apologized. Just another post to remind myself of what I'm trying to do. To see my failings and work to improve them.

Is this another internet "mystery" attempt as Cicada 3301?

[quote="!!! (AQ) Blinkill":1v4re867]Is this another internet "mystery" attempt as Cicada 3301?[/quote:1v4re867]

I'm just a regular poster posting their stuff, lol.

https://imgur.com/IcZWLKa Going to remove the Gigaplant FTK deck, was a nice flashback from https://www.pojo.biz/board/showthread.php?t=1307923 so while it will still be on my thread, it will not be in my decklists on DB atm.

https://imgur.com/pjuBx8B Wanted to give some different variations of Salamangreat a try. https://www.pojo.biz/board/showthread.p ... 47&page=15 The discussion on this page started by Yamatoishikedaortiz just made me want to try some stuff a bit more. This is just a draft to start messing with, get a feel for different tricks.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10457455
Trickstar Orcust vs Mine Burn? (1-0, 1-0)
Back to back singles wins going second after losing the RPS and winning game 1. I misplay the combo, failing to use my silent boots for fodder to set up my link for the counter trap and most effectively control the field. I still win due to their deck being so weak to me ashing metaverse, from the looks of things. https://imgur.com/FfhRMrA I’m so tired I side out called by the grave for pankratops vs the deck that keeps no monsters. Yikes. Take the next game with easy stage freezing and combo with ash on metaverse again.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10457652
Trickstar Orcust vs Artifacts? (1-0)
Another singles bout. I take the RPS win, which goes a good way to me winning the duel right there, easily swarm and despite brain farting on my counter trap, I think getting it for protection was a good idea given my overwhelming disruption count making it unlikely they would swarm in a way that needed the card removal plan, more likely to meet some evenly to troll me than that. Still, I think this deck could use some work to improve the chances of opening a playable hand that nets both the trap and field spell play. Still need to practice that silly combo, lol.

Unrated replays with wokky, first one was a singles bout I won going second, second was a singles bout we both god handed, but my start wins. Third is a replay of us messing with stuff from that hand, probably ways to do it better, but we tried stuff out, haha. Might fill in more notes later.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10474415

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10475226

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10476499

Bit of singles testing with Salamangreat Draft. I lost RPS all 4 times, haha, but they didn’t have powerful turn 1 fields.
https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10485201
Salamangreat Draft vs Thunder Dragons (1-0)
They bricked and I didn’t, they scoop. Mulling over my link choices a bit, and the second tested stallion for the list, but no real conclusions yet. Realize counter trap set-up is better to hold up brick since I need no special damage output.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10485310
Salamangreat Draft vs Altergeists (1-0)
They set 5, have a spoofing but end up rage quitting when I start making plays.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10485378
Salamangreat Draft vs Combo Deck (1-0)
He bricks on garnet, but draws ash and GOSR. I use foxy, they ash, I mindlessly called but tbh should have let it through, I easily have an otk under ash and could hit a more important hand trap later. They goofed a GOSR but I ignore it and plow over it for an otk anyways. The foxy getting fusion of fire by accident was cute, but having fennec access made the hand otkable without called on ash.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10485629
Salamangreat Draft vs Mine Burn (1-0)
They start with chain energy, making me think burn, so I hold on to cosmic for the possible mine, ends up taking the game for me as I break the rest of the field.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10486270
Salamangreat Draft vs Salamangreat (1-0)
They win the RPS and do a weak foxy move with 4 backrow. I simply make my pushes and they quit, despite it being a match. Recurrance proved a cute add off of foxy.

https://www.duelingbook.com/log?id=407264-10486372
Salamangreat Draft vs Thunder Dragon Danger (0-2)
I lose to their field game 1 after losing RPS.
I switch out 3 cosmic for 3 lancea.
Game 2 I start with a dweller counter trap board, but still get otked as I flip my trap on their thunder dragon fearing threats, only to realize I needed it for a much more threatening link play, etc. Dangers are a minimal link fearing force. Maybe even setting rage instead would have been better.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10486993
Salamangreat Draft vs Salamangreat (2-0)
Game 1 they win RPS, my disruption on mirage stalled them. I push over backrow but forget to give myself a spare bale. Regardless, mole ends up giving me large CA and I grind them out.
https://imgur.com/swLmoKw We shall see how good crow is.
Game 2 they start and I nab the normaled gazelle’s spinny with crow. Easy push and I keep them off their engine and they quit.

Salamangreat Draft Singles
https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10488214
Salamangreat Draft vs Burning Abyss (1-0)
I lose RPS and see BAs starting off, basic plays make them quit later.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10488383
Salamangreat Draft vs Subterrors (1-0)
I win rPS and open awful, but their opening lacks starters so their disruption trades with my eventually drawn gazelle into me winning.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10488692 Salamangreat Draft vs Mine burn (0-1)
They openly godly, I don’t. They nail me and lock it down.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10488900
Salamangreat Draft vs Mine Burn (1-0)
I open, probably should have thought about gunning for a trap play or a dweller, but their deck is trash and they quit when I flip my quick-play to avoid the shuffle, despite having metaverse, which they did not know I had ash for, lol.

Salamangreat Draft Singles
https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10488214
Salamangreat Draft vs Burning Abyss (1-0)
I lose RPS and see BAs starting off, basic plays make them quit later.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10488383
Salamangreat Draft vs Subterrors (1-0)
I win rPS and open awful, but their opening lacks starters so their disruption trades with my eventually drawn gazelle into me winning.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10488692 Salamangreat Draft vs Mine burn (0-1)
They openly godly, I don’t. They nail me and lock it down.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10488900
Salamangreat Draft vs Mine Burn (1-0)
I open, probably should have thought about gunning for a trap play or a dweller, but their deck is trash and they quit when I flip my quick-play to avoid the shuffle, despite having metaverse, which they did not know I had ash for, lol.

Spam.

[quote="!!! (AQ) Blinkill":1lvlc4ii]Spam.[/quote:1lvlc4ii]

Please don't spam this thread. I use one thread to keep track of my Yugioh process, let me keep it focused for that. I'm happy to hear thoughts from other people on stuff here, but not aimless posting.

Doing a clear out of my DB account to start anew. Maybe I make the same decks again, or different decks, idk yet, I just want a fresh start. To review what is being moved out for now, though I will try to leave it saved elsewhere.
https://imgur.com/p1wg2NS Altergeist
https://imgur.com/vGyl2Ge Cyber Dragon
https://imgur.com/iwyaBJP Cyber Dragon Draft
https://imgur.com/NJS1aNG Dark Magician
https://imgur.com/4XBJ4Z5 Pendulums
https://imgur.com/Qg1Q7r3 Pendulum Draft
https://imgur.com/7XiEFXS Salamangreat
https://imgur.com/2vDBYut Salamangreat Draft
https://imgur.com/MhHJiTW Sky Strikers
https://imgur.com/czGN5Gt TK Dino
https://imgur.com/nQHG7ZF Trickstar Orcust
https://imgur.com/6IasF4Q Trickstar
https://imgur.com/rOfoclR True Draco
https://imgur.com/Dce3aYz True Draco Extra

All right, gave my first go at thunder dragon danger combo. I've not looked at any list format, but faced a few and have a pretty decent idea how they work. https://imgur.com/VszCIPO First draft of my understanding of the deck without any viewings of other decks to modify with, that way I can see what I know prior to my input.

Thunder Dragon Danger Notes

Thunder Dragon Engine
Mained
Monsters
3 Thunder Dragon: Activates in hand for colossus, adds 2 more for dangers, and fulfills lights.
3 Thunder Dragondark: Activates in hand for Collossus, adds itself, if banished, adds anyone. OPTed
1 Thunder Dragonhawk: Eh opener, but a combo piece for plays.
2 Thunder Dragonroar: In hand renewer, summons from deck if banished, OPTed
1 Thunder Dragonduo: Searchable chaos monster
Spells
1 Thunder Dragon Fusion: Searchable high level drop recycler spell.
1 Gold Sarcophagus: Triggers any Thunder Dragon
Extra
3 Thunder Dragon Colossus: Easy to summon mistake lv 8 wall.
1 Thunder Dragon Titan: Removal, also banishes from hand if need be. Light attribute.

Chaos
1 Darkest Diabolos, Lord of the Lair: OPTed level 8 from colossus tribute, eats hand.
2 Chaos Dragon Levianeer: Level 8 OPTed hand eater chaos monster with grind utility.
1 Chaos Emperor, the Dragon of Armageddon: OPTed +1 chaos monster. Potential removal.
2 Eclipse Wyvern: Light banish for chaos monsters, dragon for guardragons
3 White Dragon Wyverburster: Light summons, adds the dark version, banish set-up, dragon
2 Black Dragon Collapserpent: Dark summons, adds light version, banish set-up, dragon
Extradeck
1 Number 38: Hope Harbinger Dragon Titanic Galaxy: Spell negate rank 8
1 Number 22: Zombiestein: Giant stick that negates anything rank 8


Dangers
3 Danger!? Tsuchinoko?: Self summoning Danger
3 Danger!? Jackalope?: Any level summoning Danger
3 Danger! Nessie!: Danger Searcher
1 Danger! Chupacabra!: GY revive Danger
1 Danger! Thunderbird!: Level 8 and set popping Danger

Guardragons (Extra Deck)
1 Guardragon Elpy: Dragon fuel, summons dragon from deck
1 Guardragon Pisty: Dragon fuel, summons dragon in GY or that is banished
1 Guardragon Agarpain: Dragon Fuel, Summons Dragon From Extradeck
1 Hieratic Seal of the Heavenly Spheres: Ending Dragon of Disruption
1 Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss: Agarpain Summon, negate stick

3 allure of darkness: Draw power, potential +1
1 Phantom Skyblaster: Swarmnig is fun

Extradeck Power Cards
2 Saryuja Skull Dread: CA producing Dragon of summoning power.
1 Knightmare Phoenix: Blowing up backrow is fun
1 Borrelsword Dragon: Otks are fun

Sideboard:
3 The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode: Bye swarms, titan can pop, or I’ll just let it go
3 Artifact Lancea: Light Attribute combo hate ftw
3 Called by the Grave: Outs hand traps and disrupts some turn 1 support lately
3 Mystical Space typhoon: Outs mine, orcust field spell, backrow, floodgates etc.
3 Red Reboot: GG traps

A few singles replays of me noobing my way through with the deck.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10513621
Thunder Dragon Danger vs Danger Orcust Big Eye (0-1)
They win RPS and I don’t think either of us really knew what we were doing. I ended up losing with my poor plays.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10513928
Thunder Dragon Danger vs Noble Knights (1-0)
They win RPS (time to start picking paper in singles, geesh), and start with a weak NK field. It is clear they do not know the deck very well. That’s fine, I poorly pilot my own list to an otk, despite forgetting wyvern, among other misplays.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10514235
Thunder Dragon Danger vs Salamangreat (1-0)
I win RPS with scissors, lol, forgot my own comment. I start with thunder dragon and danger, they quit, Idk if DCed.

Long story short, still have no idea what I am doing, have a few suggestions for edits in mind, but first wan to get a feel for the deck before I make calls.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10528951
Thunder Dragon Danger vs Salamangreat (1-0)
Lost RPS again, really should choose paper, haha. Anyhow, I otk them with what seems to be a strong hand with a ton of resources. I am a bit worried about the thunder dragon density, that needs some figuring, might be high, but I like thunder dragon fusion. Still, if I’m not using many other spell/traps other than allure vs sarc, it may be better to go with sekka’s light in the main for the easy +1 reshuffle. Heard of a little dragon that may be worth using with guardragons, saw a list with spell canceler. More and more handy ideas, will run by my side when I get used to the main, want to make sure I better understand my combos. Otked without doing the math and thought I needed borrelsword, lel. Yikes. Need to decide how to use the guardragon pisty, if I want to triple burst to justify it or not, or just use it as a play over-styled card effect. Think I’m comfortable enough to get a grip for what kind of fields they make, we’ll see.

[url:wl3s2ck2]https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10555353[/url:wl3s2ck2]
[YGOCARD]Thunder Dragon[/YGOCARD] Danger vs bad Hero deck? (1-0)

Misplays for days, I start with rock and take the single going first. I nearly miss my mandatory effect, probably sequence into skull dread poorly, and think I may like the guardragon play with that little dragon who can discard and add, Omni Dragon Brotaur. Would allow the play to create the bosses a bit easier. I still end on multiple monsters that troll their plays, but it could have been played better. [YGOCARD]Thunder Dragon[/YGOCARD] Fusion for Titan is nice. Use it to wipe board, though that was an overkill mission, will need to think how needed that is. Their engine wasn't really important, just there to watch the solitare.

https://imgur.com/R4f0PjL Old Thunder dragon Danger List
Main : -1 Eclipse Wyvern +1 Omni Dragon Brotaur
Side: -1 Sphere Mode -1 Mystical Space Typhoon -1 Red Reboot +3 Spell Canceler
https://imgur.com/gnVuAfv Current List

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10567715
Thunder Dragon Danger vs Cyber Dragons (1-0)
Another singles, I take the RPS with scissors, (horray!) and start, but get my dread veilered. Think I could have sequenced a bit better, but win on colossus floodgating their search and basically doing a thunder dragon grind. Since I’m going to make an edit, guess this gets its own post. Note to self, remember your chaos dragon thunder dragon, lol.

[url:2j9hq7bd]https://imgur.com/gnVuAfv[/url:2j9hq7bd] Old [YGOCARD]Thunder Dragon[/YGOCARD] Danger List
-1 [YGOCARD]Thunder Dragon[/YGOCARD] Collossus +1 [YGOCARD]Thunder Dragon[/YGOCARD] Titan
The intent is for a grind package if we stall and trade resource, forgot titan needs a titan to cycle up and keep summoning more thunders.
[url:2j9hq7bd]https://imgur.com/uJeQdNq[/url:2j9hq7bd] Current List

Been considering using high level dangers, either in main, or side, particularly for going second, as level 8 is best danger level in thunder dragon danger builds and their stats for the best for attacking without executing disruption vulnerable plays. Also, their pop effects are solid going second for outing annoying issues when you discard them, hence the go second thoughts for the sideboard rather than the main.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10621755
Thunder Dragon Danger vs Orcusts (0-1)
They started (need to really stop choosing scissors in singles) and opened godly, picked godly on dangers, too much disruption and I lost.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10622022
Thunder Dragon Danger vs Salamangreat (0-1)
I am not choosing scissors anymore in singles… They start with dweller, they have the counter trap and veiler. Not a lot I could have done.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10622242
Paper wins me the RPS and I start. My hand is so weird the guy thinks the build is pure until I get dread online. A third colossus would have helped here. Oh well. Still got it with a solid opening and disruption.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10632667
Thunder Dragon Danger vs Madolche (1-0)
I need to stop picking scissors, geesh, lol. I lose RPS and they start, not much to say, they don’t use their xyz aggressively enough and quit as I go off because of it.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10632753
Thunder Dragon Danger vs kozmos (1-0)
I choose paper, lose RPS, go first. They are playing kozmos, and despite infinite on dread drop to my field. Having no mini dragon out there stung a bit.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10632858
Thunder Dragon Danger vs Gravekeepers (0-1)
Mindlessly choose scissors and draw, lol. I lose RPS anyways and face the god hand of necrovalley backed by double solemn and a turn turn clock afterwards. I force both solemns and later hit a virus. I wasn’t getting out of that, lol.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10632920
Thunder Dragon Danger vs Trickstar (1-0)
His droll wrecks me, he has gozen, but at the end of the day, they suck and their engine is garbage. A simple jack in defense stalls for a turn, colossus in defense does them in.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10650450
Thunder Dragon Danger vs Bad Anti-Meta (1-0)
Guy seemed like a bad player, too focused on only winning if they start, haha. He opened dyna, which trolls this deck, lel. Thinking this build is a bit unstable vs rogue. Brokenness is cute, but when many decks can take going first wins, how good is it really? Easy win long live paper for letting me start.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10650925
Thunder Dragon Danger vs Mekks (1-0)
I choose scissors, stupid me, and lose, only to get chosen to go first. I make field and win. But I goofed, should have gone for dark into hawk for more resources, but thought roar was better. I failed to account for my lack of link plays here.

https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=407264-10651182
Thunder Dragon Danger vs Salamangreat (1-0)
I choose scissors again, ugh, and lose. This time they start with some negation, but I run through their counter trap and ash to make a field they scoop before I finish.

Had a busy day yesterday. Anyways, some brief business.

https://imgur.com/YRfcopT

Going to move this to my storage, don't feel like messing with it atm. Still not sure how they solve their floodgate issues and make too many easy auto-losses. Might come back to it later, but a deck being unfair only means so much, everyone has unfair interactions these days, you have to be able to take it as well as dish it out. Still have things I did poorly on, but I don't get the impression this deck fixes its problems.

Been a bit inactive lately, used a casual account on duelingbook for a bit, but anyways. Calling another blitz series, where I just go at it for th games, get the feel back.

Been working on making some standardized lists for testing purposes. Since they are not my testing builds or even always placed on The Notetaker, the decision to place them here is still being thought over, and if I do, to do it in imgur stamps like before, or use the duelingbook deck updates for the regular screens. Even if I'm posting them one at a time or in a group is in question, and when.

https://imgur.com/CkEtG4j A casual build trying to make use of the dangers to filter into the blue-eyes ritual through their effects, making skull dread, etc. The 3s with the lv 1 tuner had a cute interaction with herald. The spells could be set and discarded rituals even grabbed back. Just thought I'd drop it here.

Going to be a bit inactive today and tomorrow, have some stuff to take care of.

Still been fairly inactive, but kept thinking about how I wanted to use the same cards regardless of the deck. Patterns that hit decks even if I had not confirmed that they worked. Too many standalone techs without regard for what the deck should have been doing.

https://imgur.com/ADSGwah Been inactive again, just wasn't up to doing as much Yugioh I guess. Hopefully I'm back. Going to just get back into the feel of salamangreat, mess with a few things.

Well, we've passed July 1, the no soon than date. This means the list could come at any time. With that in mind I plan on mulling over my plans for the next format. Plans on activity, and my notes for my posts here for the next format. I plan on reformatting a bit. Early issues involved the overfocus on individual games that did less, not following the decks enough even though I did some practice, and a lack of overall activity in the format.

While posting replays, remove the in-game notes for average games. General themes are nice, but these specific notes are best for significant games or anything particularly important about the matches worth directly remembering in the future. Important patterns, etc. The replays can always be watched to acquire such information as the score, opponent, etc. but the record is hardly worth following as opponents vary in skill, as does personal gameplay with the deck. Even deck modifications can be clean from image to image, focusing on general things. Listing general techs are ok, things being tested.

Focus on increasing the game count early, quantity>quality. The practice from the format with various ideas are better than focusing on quality when ratings are irrelevant, and games are of questionable value with opponents regardless. Dozens of meh games are better than 3 goo ones early on, quality comes later as ideas form and comfort with the format is established.

Get unrated games with people you know or learn about. Search for experts to practice with to get specific ideas focused on. Random opponents are valuable in most cases, but sometimes ideas must be focused on.

While the format is ending, focus on practicing under it a bit more, this is to maintain practice with the cards and for staying in shape for when the next format rolls around to start it running out the game. When the new F/L list is released, work out what decks will likely be meta and establish potential builds and ideas.

https://imgur.com/ADSGwah Old Salamangreat List
-3 Fantastical Dragon Phantazmay +3 Infinite Impermanence
https://imgur.com/cpqn9NR Current List

Tbh, after doing some testing elsewhere, I'm realizing phant can really suck. It is so sub-par going first and going second you don't even always draw into a hand trap, etc. Would rather just use a real disruption like infinite. Even sky strikers can get kagari negated. But yeah, the stick isn't great, the draws aren't always the best, even fi the filtering is nice, and the weakness to ash is mildly irritating, though eating ash in general is nice, so I won't hold that against it too much. Rather than use a filter, just use a good draw. Card is a cute advantage piece, but it just doesn't get the job done for dealing with combo decks, the big reason to need hand traps, and generally if they aren't comboing why do you need it, some decks like draco not using links just makes this more annoying.