The July 2018 Trinity Cup was our biggest so far with 26 participants.

These cards have allowed the Invoked deck to thrive even without their Link Monster, Aleister the Invoker of Madness.

Today’s deck is a Harpie deck by Skyscout! Our goal is to make the deck less slow, with emphasis on combos rather than its outdated, slow-paced game plan.

Most card games aim for some sort of mechanical identity where different cards, decks, or archetypes have mechanics associated with them. Perhaps the most famous example of this is Magic: The Gathering’s color pie, where the different colors of mana have associated strengths and weaknesses. In this series of articles we will be examining the mechanical identities of the different attributes in Yu-Gi-Oh! and what that means for card design.

In the first part of this article, we covered the general banlist differences for the World’s Format as well as some of the projected meta decks. Today we’re going to be looking at some more “rogue” picks for the format.

The Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship has been going on every summer since 2003. However, it wasn’t until last year that people outside the elite few could play the format. To help give an idea of the meta and how the normal TCG meta decks are changing for this event, I’ll taking a brief look at World’s Format.

The June 2018 Trinity Cup has come and gone. It was organized through the Trinity Discord, and had 24 players. The Top 4 was as follows

If you’re confused by the title, I would not blame you. “Who’s the Beatdown?” is an article written by Mike Flores in 1999 for The Magic the Gathering website, The Dojo. While the Dojo was shut down in 2000, the fundamentals from these articles stand the test of time.

This is more than just a silly deck profile though. This is advanced winning against the odds through a number of powerful strategies. Through his incredible deck-building, nuanced tech choices and some bonkers interactions between his combo pieces, Rose managed to win.

Sky Striker is a dominant meta deck in both the TCG and OCG. It relies on using a set of powerful generic Spell cards that all require the main monster zone to be empty. Their key card, Sky Striker Mobilize – Engage!, serves as both the main searcher for the deck and its advantage engine. The biggest issue the deck has in its pure form is putting damage on board due to the monster zone restriction.