This edition of the Tier List has special attention paid to the World Championship Qualifiers, and occurs right after Meta Championship Series 19. As such, this Tier List is specifically for the best of 1, ladder format of the Region Representative Qualifier (RRQ).

Tier 1

TPC Comments:

Brenduke

Blue-Eyes is fast and consistent and as such is perfect on the ladder. Adding in to the mix with solves some of the decks issues and is better than using snipe hunter.

Koa’ki Neos has proven itself as the strongest Neos variant. The deck has a lot of raw power, is quick and easy to play. Expect it to do well in a ladder environment.

Irving

Blue-Eyes is the best deck there is to play for the RRQ. It has the ability to control the backrow easily with , and usually has a great front row advantage as and can easily get out multiple times in a single turn. Not to mention 3000 ATK/2500 DEF are stats to be reckoned with. Pair it up with , a valuable card that can potentially board wipe your opponent and , also very useful in surviving big turns from your opponent. All around this deck has everything which is why it’s the best to play and sitting strong at Tier 1. Just remember to tech in some s for those feisty Buster Blader players, the only deck that gives blue eyes some trouble.

Koa’ki Neos is one of top decks there is at the moment, with a lot of tech space to adapt to any deck. and have the strongest pair of effects and are the driving force of the deck. and with their protection effects also make it impossible to deal with through common destruction effects like . Techs like can be good against this but is used quite a bit in these decks. There are so many things to be mindful of such as techs like or the combo of and . The versatility of this deck obviously makes it extremely difficult to know how to play against it which is its biggest strength.

PaugiN

Blue-Eyes is the best choice for this RRQ in terms of consistency and fast games. The deck can deal with backrow and clear boards really easy with great OTK potential.

Koa’ki Meiru is one of the best choices for the RRQ grind, the deck is explosive, has fast games with great OTK potential and multiple combos, but it needs to be built correctly with the engine and not pure Koa’ki. This deck has in its arsenal one of the best destruction monster effects in the current meta in , since the meta is heavily based on special summoned monsters. Even decks like Blue-Eyes have started playing instead of . This deck has space for different techs and different play styles and it can adapt to the most played decks during the RRQ as the meta changes over the span of 3 days.

Snyffus

Blue-Eyes had a really good showing this MCS, getting the most spots in the Top 32! Although people are trying harder to counter them, which is shown by the rising popularity of Red-Eyes and Buster Blader they continue to do well. They’re also a relatively fast deck which could be important in the RRQ.

Tier 2

TPC Comments:

Brenduke

Demoting Red-Eyes was a mistake. It has gone on to top and win many tournaments after its optimisation. Additionally, the meta has evolved to give it favourable match ups.

Spellbooks are a solid ladder deck if you can pilot it well and play through . It is probably the most consistent deck in the format, but it has some coin flip matchups and can be overpowered by sacky decks.

PaugiN

Subterrors are a great choice for the RRQ, even though the deck struggles a bit against the other Top Tier decks, it can easily streak and maintain a great winrate. Although with the current point system, where the quantity of duels matters more than the quality, Subterrors are weaker since they are a kinda slow deck that needs to set up.

Snyffus

People have finally found a good Red-Eyes build utilizing . Thanks to they can stop and which were previously 2 of the biggest threats of the deck. Buster Blader can be very dangerous for Blue-Eyes to deal with.

wayne kenoff

Red-Eyes can dominate matches with its massive size and ability to negate targeting cards but also can fall prey to being easily countered by other deck types. could either be extremely strong this RRQ or extremely weak depending on the way the meta shapes.

Tier 3

TPC Comments:

Brenduke

With a Dragon-dominant meta, Buster Blader is likely to see play and do well. Builds have proven to be very consistent.

Pure Neos control builds are now too slow to compete and anyone still using this deck should consider the Koa’ki Meiru build.

Irving

Although Ancient Gears can be explosive, they lack versatility and there are many decks that can easily provide disruption. and have been used a lot as of late in some of the best decks we have such as Koa’ki Meiru, Subterror and even Blue-Eyes. There also isn’t as much flexibility in techs so if this deck would be a top RRQ choice, your best bet to play it would be with 6-7 protection cards. Of course it would be mean the build would be able to OTK alot less but at the very least you have more protection, which is extremely valuable because Ancient Gears are very streaky in nature and can go multiple games with bricks or very solid hands

Six Samurais is a solid deck with the ability to control the board with enabling more usage of , and of course ’s strong effect. Unfortunately high usage of with effect destruction is common and hinders this deck quite a bit. Overall not a terrible deck but there are simply more powerful and efficient ones that can get the job done much easier

PaugiN

With Blue-Eyes deck being the most played deck, Buster Blader will rise up and give it a hard time in the RRQ.

Snyffus

Ancient Gears are just too bricky and too sacky to perform well in this meta. They have a couple good matchups in the Top Tiers but that alone doesn’t push them enough.

Combined with and the Red-Eyes engine Buster Blader also received a nice boost from the last box. However, their main push was Red-Eyes coming to the meta which means we now have two Top Tier Dragon decks and this can benefit from that a lot.

Synchrons are an extremely powerful, however, they do have their problems. They can be bricky at times and especially the coin flip is very relevant for this deck, given it doesn’t really have a strong opener. When going second tho this deck can be nearly unstoppable and with a good hand it can OTK you easily.

wayne kenoff

Synchrons possess possibly the most explosive turns out of all the tiered decks but are a bit more fragile and combo dependent.

Removed

TPC Comments:

Brenduke

Dinos and Metaphys preyed on the popularity of subterror. Dinos aren’t really worth using over the other decks in the format. A good Metaphys player can do well on the ladder, but again, other decks are more viable.

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