DJ CDisk Blog.... Breaking down the Meta

[DJ Cdisk]

Thanks to everyone who commented on my very first yugioh blog/article, I really enjoyed everyone’s feedback and hope you guys like what I continue to bring to the Yugioh Community. As we flourish in number let us always remember our past, It may have seemed that I was giving Konami a lot of praise while giving Upper Deck the negative, but without Upper Deck’s well ran organized play and the hundreds of volunteers/workers for Upper Deck, Yugioh wouldn’t be where its at now (probably just another game on the wayside of games). So thank you Upper Deck for that.

As months will go by you will probably see me less at regular Tourneys and hobby leagues mainly due to my future plans in getting married in July 2010. So to continue to help out I will try to keep up with the game as best as I can and giving my best analysis of the game. I know I may not be the best player around, but I can give many new players out there a better insight on the game we love to play. So from time to time I will give new deck ideas for people to try out, “tech” updates, and I will even try to do Player Profiles on Great players here in Hawaii. Metagame.com was such a big channel to improve your game; many will say metagame.com was only for people who “net-deck” which is true, but it also showed analysis of top players and tons of coverage (play-by-play) of the big events. I will try to give a “taste” of what that was to new players. I will try to write a blog every few weeks or so depending how busy I am. Please continue to Comment good/bad because it will help me improve my future writings as well as add some flavor and a different POV. Anyway, onto my topic for today

As our first Konami Regionals have come and passed, the “meta” has defiantly shifted from the last format where Tele-DaD roamed undaunted to other builds. With 96 players wielding so many different decks, what is the best deck to play? I will go through the top 2 decks (Tier 1) and then the 2 decks that are on the rise. These decks will continue to dominate til the next format (which by the way is only 2 months away!!!).

So the number 1 deck in this format is………………………………….Blackwings!
Now I’m not just saying this just cause it won at Regionals, or because 22 players played it then, here is why; it runs 3 Gales and 3 Black Whirlwinds! “Gale the Whirlwind” is probably the best card in the format right now. This little card can take out so many decks by itself, it can kill decks like GBs and Zombies with ease (“I summon Shura/Bora, Special Gale, Use Gales effect to cut Laquari/Gyzarus/Heraklinos by half and attack….gg people”). Against other decks, Blackwings are simply too fast for it. Their ability to swarm the field is mainly due to “Black Whirlwind”, the best support card for a sub-type ever made. The ability to search for a Blackwing is alone a powerful effect, but since it's a continuous spell, your opponent either has to get rid of it, thus losing a card; or let it stay on the field and watch you gain +1 or more card advantage with it. It’s a lose-lose situation for your opponent. With even more new cards coming out with Ancient Prophecy (i.e. Vayu, the Big Flag), Blackwings will be on top for a while.

Right next to Blackwings we have Twilight as like a 1B if Blackwings is 1A. Twilight is interesting because it’s like the two best deck choices from the last format (Tele-DaD & Lightsworn) fused together (Fusion-Hi!!) to try and beat the top dog in this format (Blackwings). Just like Blackwings, Twilight has 2 cards that make the deck so good… “Judgment Dragon”, and “Dark Armed Dragon”. These 2 cards took big hits from the last format by reducing their limits to 2 and 1 per deck respectively, but their powers caused that to happen. Both have huge attacks and field clearing abilities which can change a game so quickly if unprepared. What makes this my deck of choice (special thanks to all that help me finish it), is that it has so many outs if you’re playing from behind, from Celestia, Chaos Sorcerer, and Phantom of Chaos, you can never count a Twilight player down til they’re at 0 life points. They're always a top deck away from swinging momentum or even winning the game.

Regionals also did bring a few new decks to the forefront, Rock Stun and Syncro-Cat

Rock Stun is this formats “Little City”. “Koa’ki Meiru Guardian” from Raging Battle is a beast with his ability to negate a effect monsters effect and destroy it, along with a 1900 attack, it's so hard to get around this card. And speaking of Beasts, “Beast King Barbaros” is huge at 3000 attack and can be easily summoned to the field. Rock Stun is a pretty tough deck to beat using cards like Royal Oppression, Fossil Dyna and Skill Drain to negate Blackwings and Twilight, and should be here to contend with the best.

Lastly, another deck on the rise is Syncro-Cat. A very controlled based deck using the abilities of “Summoner Monk” and “Rescue Cat” to get Syncro Monsters like “Arcanite Magician” and Black Rose Dragon to clear the field. “X-Saber Airbellum” is what makes the deck tick not only because he’s the Tuner that does all the Syncro Summoning, but in his ability to hit your opponents hand if your opponents not prepared for is key. A loss of 1 or 2 key cards in your opponents hand can break the game wide open for you and you can just smack him with Gravekeeper Spies for game.

These 4 decks should continue to rule the tops of many Tourneys from now til September. I don’t see any other deck coming from left field and start winning in last 2 months of this format, so expect to see these decks at every Tournament you attend.

My Next Blog will either be a new deck idea or a player profile; I just gotta find someone to interview (LMK if you're interested). If not I have an awesome Deck Variant that should raise eyebrows if and when I play it. I might even do a Tech Update from a few interesting cards that I saw being used at Regionals. It’s all up in the air. Let me know what you guys want me to write next.

Til then keep playing, trading, and most importantly have fun out there!

Nick a.k.a DJ CDisk

[kjay]

another side against cat decks is Goldd/Silva they work really good against airbellum. AND lightsworn can use it with beckoning light because its not a cost.

[Anthony"Mr.Regionals2009"Lauth]

ok here's my opinion.As for the top decks of this format of course LS and BW are the top two because they have the most powerful search cards in the game. Charge and Black whirlwind. those two cards alone make those two decks so hard to beat. they are just two broken. LS is second to BW because its not as consistent as BW.And because whirlwind isnt as iffy as charge is. I meen charge you mill three get LS. but if you mill bad then you kind of have to depend on the monster you grabed. As opposed to whirlwind, summon BW search for BW and go for game or just totally control the field. for those two reasons alone i think BW have the upper hand. but LS still is second because they can basically have six trump cards in their deck. 2 JD 3 celestia?(maybe) 1 DAD. And Twilight/LS players tend to get crappier hands more often then BW players. pretty much the crappiest hand a BW player can get is all spells and traps but as soon as they draw a monster the deck can pretty much go off (unless its a kalut). And even then that kalut can do some damage. play whirlwind....summon kalut...search gale halve monster sinc goyo take monster and control the field. blackwings have too many outs.. where as LS there only out is to hope they get a good mill(if they can). there ability to sincro just about any monster at almost any time makes so much more better than LS.

Sincro cat and rock-stun are tied for third but they are far from top two. Sincro cat needs to sincro in order to win. so if they cant draw rescue cat or summoner monk they will lose 90% of the time. and about 80% of the time they a turn or two to set up. And in those 1-2 turns the game could be over.

As for rock-stun its Anti-meta. All Anti-meta has done ok never great. because of the OTK ability that the top decks have. All it takes sometimes is a heavy storm and you can beat it. its just one of those decks that needs really good hands to win. and with those decks its really hard to get good hands all the time.

[chad]

cat isnt that strong against BW. BW has the speed that cat cant keep up with. as for LS its just as fast, maybe faster. wen ancient prophs comes out, and we get those new BW, itll be interesting to see how much BWbuilds will change to support the new tuner and how the use of crush will be used, since vayu is below 1000 attack. from my knowledge, it seems that taking out any BW might hinder the deck replacing it wit vayu. so lets see how creative BW gonna get.

[Asar]

The new support will definitely bolster the deck but right now Lightsworn and Cat provide strong rivalry for Blackwing. But then again I'm no BW expert..

[G.I. Jordan]

how about with the new cards thats comming out in ancient prophcey (vayu), wil those cards will blackwings have the top spot?

[Asar]

Update: Germany Nationals-
1. Oppression Dark Armed
2. Skill Drain Dark Armed

@Mario:
I'll PM you the Chaos Decklist.

[Asar]

Europe has Cotlb but I know they only got Raging Battle recently (so BW decks may not have flourished as much yet) and I'm also not sure if they got starter deck 2009 (so cat decks might not be popular yet either)

from what i hear europe has been getting LATE shipments. or something like that

[Mario Talub]

so in the isarel nationals what is a chaos deck

[Derek]

Thats a great list Asar. If I'm not mistaken Europe doesnt have COTLB right? I may be wrong.

[Asar]

im pretty sure the banlist is hitting cat n maybe Judgment.

im guessing DSF to 1 n Judgment to 1.

cant say much about anything else although obviously there will be more.