So the deck works pretty much as you can guess it does. Tricky + Cerburrel into Arcanite is the main draw to it. It has a lot of little bits that make this build really fun though. Obviously, Arcanite is useless once Canadia’d or Floodgate, so I’ll usually open with a Cerberus, maybe equip a PotG to him and set a Bestiary. People either destroy PotG or just swing blindly with BEWD or whatever OTK Beatstick they have out. That’s when you use Bestiary on Cerberus or PotG and get a 3900 good boy to get them over.



It’s good to get Cerberus out before Arcanite so you can have a nice well of spell counters to clear the field. Explosive Magician is there in case you can’t find Tricky, Parshath is there in case you STILL can’t find Tricky. Giganticastle is there when Arcanite has no more spell counters.



As far as skills go, Ties that Bind or Beatdown work well. I used both, but I prefer Ties in case I have my level 4 Cerberus out, because he gets to 3900 very and with Ties, it can be an OTK. Mind Scan is good to know what to pop with Arcanite, but I lost a lot in plat with that, so I’d prefer Ties or Beatdown.



Matchups were wild with this, I’ll go down a short list for those:



♦ Red-eyes: almost always won, unless bricked. The surprise Cerberus Beatstick always wrecks Red-Eyes Slash.



♦ Neos: Pretty much the same story as Red-eyes, but the builds that use Sazank (or w/e the annoying Karakuri is named) and Girastag were tougher, as they don’t destroy monsters so the protection granted by PotG or Tetra doesn’t help.



♦ Six Samurais: I mean, it’s Six Sams. If you can immediately get Arcanite and use all of your spell counters to pop Shi En, congrats, you now have a 400 ATK baby on your field. So good luck. I’d say it was like a 50/50 or 40/60 win/loss ratio with them.



♦ Subterror: Won almost every matchup against Subterror saves a couple.



♦ Metaphys: these were hard mostly because I didn’t know anything about this archetype. I only hit three on my way up the ladder and I lost two. But the third one went well, as long as you focused entirely on their back row.



♦Weevil: Lava Golem? okay, I’ll just tribute summon my tricky. The only trouble is if Parasite Paracide is out because you need spellcasters to summon Arcanite.