Top Player Council Thoughts

As the meta continues to settle in the wake of the most recent banlist, we’re continuing to test formats and this week’s Tier List update will be in the context of the 2-deck format.

Tier 1

TPC Comments:

Sasuke:

Heroes and Vampires both continue to dominate and have great match-ups across the meta. Both decks are highly consistent – Heroes more so now with the use of Balance to always guarantee them a monster, spell, and trap in their opening hand (even if not a key card like , the heavy backrow allows them to sit and play defensively). Double Trunade is starting to seem more reliable than double ECon in Vampires, with the addition of 2x in many builds now to prevent contact from threatening monsters such as , , any Gladiator Beast, or even / .

Tier 2

TPC Comments:

Sasuke:

Blue-Eyes can be really overwhelming for many decks with the huge attack power and backrow removal from , however it has a really rough time against Spellbooks and can often lose to a or even stall. Spellbooks are one of the hardest, if not the hardest of all, decks to beat in the meta but still heavily relies on an early + . If this deck is piloted correctly and opens well, or at least decent, it is really hard to deal with. It also is nearly auto win vs Blue-Eyes, being able to negate one of their most important cards, , and also the 3500 ATK on can be hard for them to remove if you keep their backrow in check with Fate plays.

wayne kenoff :

Blue-Eyes continues to be tweaked and is showing huge promise. An extraordinarily strong opening followed by mediocre mid-game and late-game leaves this deck in Tier 2.

BlackJesus :

Blue-Eyes solidifies its spot as Tier 2. A bit of trouble against Decider/backrow and also /Vampire Vamp, but still able to steal those games if built with the correct tech choices. Also has an extremely bad Spellbooks match-up. However, the sheer power of this deck allows for sneaky OTKs and will run through any deck that cannot counter with its own boss monsters quickly enough (like Gladiator Beasts).

Spellbooks show the true power of non-targeting removal with Fate + Silent Magician, once again. Despite all of the Sealed Tombs running around, the swarm/banishing potential of all other decks was erased when Amazoness were nerfed, which was a much bigger counter to Silent Spellbooks than the Sealed Tombs skill.

Tier 3

TPC Comments:

Sasuke:

Gladiator Beasts have some pretty decent match-ups against the current other 4 tiered decks, however it can hard lose to popular backrow hate/removal cards such as in Vampires or in Heroes. The deck heavily relies on its backrow and an opening hand with 3 monsters + 1 spell/trap is almost auto-lose against any other meta deck. However, when it does open fairly well and runs Sealed Tombs, it can give decks like Vampires a very difficult time and control the board by tagging into cards like to clear or even to banish a / from their graveyard. Also has a very good match-up vs Spellbooks, but struggles against Blue-Eyes and Heroes.

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