While by no means i would affirm Trickstars can compete with meta decks, once this format is almost dominated by Adamatia and Eldlich there is always room for control decks to show their grace.
The win condition is take control of the game with hand traps and do your basic Trickstar plays. Summon Candina to add Light Stage, get Lycoris. Remember that Lycoris can dodge negates like veiler allowing your Candina to resolve. Lilybell can be summoned when bounce to hand by lycoris what allows you to push 1600 damage and recycle 2 cards. There's nothing really new that this format promotes to the deck and because we don't have tournaments i'm going to explain how this deck is intended to work against the most played decks of the internet meta.
Against Adamatia you have hand traps like Ash, Veiler and Imperm to slow them down, but while an Ash on Granite can stop their turn sometimes normally it won't happen that way. Your strong cards here are Crackdown and Reincarnation. Take their rocks before they can summon more monsters can end the turn. Banishing the hole hand can hurt a lot because the deck need a lot of engine cards in multiple copies. Going first you can Called by the Grave Block Dragon to avoid them to have follow up but is the type of card you will side out once it doesn't mean a threat to your opponent first turn. You can side in Sphere Mode, Nibiru and Summon limit to have a much more solid chance to win the second game. This logic apply to all the combo decks that the new master rule made possible.
When playing against Eldlich your goal is to banish all 3 golden lords. Either with Call by the Grave or Reincarnation. Enemy Controler and Crackdown are really good to bait your opponent's traps and take the Golden Lord so that his traps second effects are dead. Prohibition and Evenly Matched can very much win the game, or at least change for a Judgment or a Golden Land Forever! which puts you in an advantageous position once this deck can burn for 4000 much quicker and he will not be able to negate your cards.
The Cyber Dragon 1 card engine is really good to out your opponent's Apollousa and gives you a 2400 body. It doesn't start a chain so that's nothing to negate. Honest can be unfortunate sometimes but you will run out of resources earlier so you need a bit of extra damage to push for game faster. Scapegoat, Bouquet and Enemy Controller are also there to help you finishing the game.
Finally some people run Extravagance over Desires, but i don't think that's a good idea. You have a 50% chance of drawing a starter turn 1 while you have a 0.1% of banishing all of them with desires and a 2.9% chance of banishing all Lycoris or all Reincarnation. While Extravagance will 100% banish your Extra Deck cards so you can't rely on them when needed. The chance of banishing an important piece to the Scapegoat Combo is 90%. The Extra Deck cards are indeed not that much used but don't think they are not important. Banish Chimeratech and your Cyber Dragon is dead, Banish Borreload or Ningirsu and you don't have an out to certain cards. There are a lot of Specific cards like Trisbanea that you would just use against backrow decks, but it doesn't mean they are not important.
When building a control deck that's based on a popular engine i feel like there's no sense on explaining how the engine works. It has been working the same way for years. The most important decisions are the non engine cards and how they relate to the new meta game. So, i don't recommend using Chain Summoning, this is not an FTK deck and that card is just a brick in most cases. I'm not using Solemns because Lightning Storm is really popular this format and you don't want to set a lot of backrow. Almost all our backrow is chainable and you can go second and rely on hand traps dodging Storm. Even Going First Called by the Grave can negate Ash or other hand traps that bothers you. The deck also doesn't have a lot of cards on the field, so Evenly Matched doesn't do a lot against it.
Overall, I think it's a really fun deck to play and it can perform better than people are expecting because they have no cards on side deck to counter your plays.
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