White Aura Ghoti

• If you wonder about the 2-ofs: Either they are at 2, or I want to minimize bricking on double Nib or drawing Mulcharmies after turn 1, etc.

• Main combo is White Aura ending on Bubble Reef (draw 1, banish Psiics), Dragite, Virtue Stream (+ usually Virtue Dragon as fodder), Psiics and Keaf in rotation.

• But there are many two-card combos, for example Mermaid Shark and Abyss Shark using Leaffish and Harpooner.

• I like the field spell (I wish it would be a starter on activation, but having it post-turn 3 is sooo nice). But again, if I see 2 in my opening hand, I will cry. There are decent combos with White Sardine, Mermaid Shark, Leaffish. Mainly a grid/comeback card if your GY is loaded.

• With 2 Sarc and 2 field spell, you get the essential Ghotis (the 4 that are not Keaf) into rotation easily enough that you never need more than one Arianpos, even if it gets negated.

• Yeah, no Paces – Shif is just better, and you really don't want to brick on all the 1-ofs. Speaking of, I feel that all included fishes are needed for some common situations. I guess it would be optimal to learn all the spreadsheet-style combos with all the possible combinations of 1-of cards etc. But you can just freestyle.

• Impuls is super good against so many things, so it’s an easy 3-of for me. Just keep an eye out for sequencing, since you get locked out of Nib and Fuwa. Only from hand, though!

• Mermaid Shark is (unfortunately) still better IMO than Big Jaws. Like yeah, sometimes you can special the guy (but that rarely happens since we don’t run that many spells), but then you get XYZ locked, so you can’t set up your Ghoti plays. Also, if you want to use that card properly, you kinda need to play Fish Poplar – but that card is about as good as White Sunfish (only works in a very limited number of settings and is a vanilla otherwise).

• 2 Askaan is also important. He is an interruption going first but also cleans boards going second. At least he has some redundancy (but only until Toxic Boxfish comes to MD – then I will change one of them out for it).