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OCG 2018.10 Metagame Report #8, #9

 

Week #8, #9 of the OCG 2018.10 format.

 

This report will cover 95 top-performing decks from 14 tournaments that were held in Japan, Singapore and China during 24 November – 4 December 2018.

 

The following were excluded from this tabulation as LINK VRAINS Pack 2 was not allowed in these tournaments:

 

Center CS in Koiwa

Hatti Grand Championship 2018

 



 


Metagame Breakdown

 

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21 Sky Striker

 

13 Altergeist

 

13 Gouki

 

10 Magician

 

5 Subterror

 

4 Good Stuff Link

 

3 Cyber Dragon

 

3 Trickstar

 

2 Burning Abyss

 

2 Link Doppel

 

2 Magical Musket

 

2 Orcust

 

2 Thunder Dragon

 

2 Train

 

2 Zefra

 

1 Blackwing

 

1 D/D

 

1 Dinosaur Mekk-Knight

 

1 Greener Dinosaur Invoked Shaddoll

 

1 Meta Beat

 

1 Mekk-Knight

 

1 Mekk-Knight Trickstar

 

1 Six Samurai

 

1 Zombie

 



 

 

Sky Striker

 

Sharurun (しゃるるん) went 7-1 and finished 1st in “6th Yu-Gi-Oh! Cardbox Fukuyama CS” (Team 3v3) which had 21 teams (63 participants).

 

Not only is he running 3 Effect Veiler and 3 Infinite Impermanence in the Main Deck, there is another 3 PSY-Framegear Gamma and 3 Different Dimension Ground in the Side Deck.

 

Gouki is so resilient that only by opening with 2 to 3 ‘Hand Traps’ do Sky Striker stand a chance at disrupting the combo.

 

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Altergeist

Kai (かい) went 5-3 and finished 3rd in “6th Yu-Gi-Oh! Cardbox Fukuyama CS” (Team 3v3) which had 21 teams (63 participants).

 

He ran a copy of Witch’s Strike in his Side Deck for the Altergeist mirror match.

 

Altergeist runs quite a number of negation in their deck, namely Altergeist Hexstia, Altergeist Protocol, Solemn Judgment and Solemn Warning. This satisfy the activation condition of Witch’s Strike, destroying all of the opponent’s cards on the field and in the hand.

 

However, Witch’s Strike is largely unreliable as it relies on the element of surprise, so most players would only run 1 – 2 copies.

 

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Gouki

Gohan (ごはん) went 7-2 (including 1 bye) and finished 2nd in “Hatti CS × Surugaya Cup in Surugaya Takatsuki Trading Card House” which had 52 participants.

 

He ran a copy of Tackle Crusader in the Side Deck as an out to Kaiser Colosseum, Gozen Match and Rivalry of Warlords.

 

By Normal Summoning Mathematician, its effect can be activated to send Tackle Crusader from the deck to the graveyard. That would trigger Tackle Crusader‘s effect to return Kaiser Colosseum, Gozen Match or Rivalry of Warlords to hand, thus allowing the Gouki player to follow up with Psychic Wheelder or Emergency Teleport and continue the combo.

 

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Magician

HAJIME went 5-1-2 and finished 2nd in “6th Yu-Gi-Oh! Cardbox Fukuyama CS” (Team 3v3) which had 21 teams (63 participants).

 

He ran PSY-Framelord Lambda in the Extra Deck.

 

PSY-Framelord Lambda has a generic summoning requirement of “2 monsters, except Tokens”, making it an appropriate replacement for LANphorhynchus or Police Patrol of the Underworld.

 

Lambda’s effect also allows “PSY-Framegear” monster’s effect to be activate while there is a monster on the field, allowing him to run PSY-Framegear Gamma in the Main Deck. Gamma was mainly ran in the Side Deck as it was only good while going first to negate ‘Hand Trap’ when setting up.

 

Lambda allows Magician to open with PSY-Framelord Omega and activates its effect to banish itself and a random card from opponent’s hand. During the End Phase, Lambda would then add PSY-Framegear Gamma from deck to hand.

 

During the opponent’s turn, if PSY-Framegear Gamma was activated to negate a monster effect, that would caused Gamma and PSY-Frame Driver to be banished during the End Phase, then Lambda could add another Gamma to hand.

 

Omega would return during your Standby Phase, and then during the opponent’s Standby Phase, Omega’s effect would return the banished Driver to the graveyard, thus enabling Gamma to be activated again.

 

This essentially creates a soft loop that continuously reloads your hand with Gamma.

 

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Conclusion

 

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Sky Striker took back the lead, but Altergeist and Gouki follows close behind.

 

LINK VRAINS Pack 2 has a small but noticeable impact on the competitive scene.

 

PSY-Framegear Gamma is already a very popular tech in the Side Deck, which makes PSY-Framelord Lambda a great addition to many decks that could afford to spare an Extra Deck space.

 

Six Samurai went 8-2 and finished 2nd in “Asia Championship Winter 2019 Singapore Qualifier” with the boost from Great General of the Six Samurai, improving the consistency of opening with Gateway of the Six.

 

We are also seeing some experimentation with Magical Musket and Train decks using their respective new Link Monster – Magical Musketeer Max and Double Header Anger Knuckle.


 



 

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Asia Championship Winter 2019 Taiwan Qualifier

 

The Asia Championship Winter 2019 Taiwan Qualifier was held in Taipei during 9 December 2018 and had a total of 32 participants.

 

The Taiwan Qualifier is an invitation-only tournament made up of 17 from Northern Taiwan Qualifier, 7 from Central Taiwan Qualifier and 8 from Southern Taiwan Qualifier.

 

1st Huang Cheng Yao (黃承堯) Gouki

2nd Liu Tzu Wei (劉子維) Dinosaur Thunder Dragon

3 – 4th Hsu Li Te (許立德) Sky Striker

Tsui Cheng Hao (崔丞皓) Gouki

 



 

1st, Huang Cheng Yao [Gouki]

 

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2nd, Liu Tzu Wei [Dinosaur Thunder Dragon]

 

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Asia Championship Winter 2019 Thailand Qualifier

 

The Asia Championship Winter 2019 Thailand Qualifier was held in Bangkok during 15 December 2018 and had a total of 101 participants.
 
Credit to Yu-Gi-Oh Thailand for the information.
 
1st Thee Wongyai Magician
2nd Wittawin Waitsuparat Gouki
3 – 4th Satanantana Rungnoppakunsi Magician
Thotsawat Wannako Sky Striker
As the champion, Thee Wongyai, is unable to attend the Asia Championship Winter 2019 held on the next month, the finalist, Wittawin Waitsuparat, will be representing Thailand instead.
 

 
1st, Thee Wongyai [Magician]
Source: Yu-Gi-Oh Thailand
 
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2nd, Wittawin Waitsuparat [Gouki]
Source: Yu-Gi-Oh Thailand
 
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3 – 4th, Satanantana Rungnoppakunsi [Magician]
Source: Yu-Gi-Oh Thailand
 
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3 – 4th, Thotsawat Wannako [sky Striker]
Source: Yu-Gi-Oh Thailand
 
ACSW2019Thailand_3-4thB.jpg
 

 

 
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Asia Championship Winter 2019 Philippines Qualifier

 

The Asia Championship Winter 2019 Philippines Qualifier was held in Manila during 15 – 16 December 2018 and had a total of 184 participants.

 

1st Angelino Espiritu Burning Abyss

2nd Elvis Agoto Jr “Junjun” Thunder Dragon

3 – 4th Jude Macaranas Zefra

Francis Amoroso Meta Beat

5 – 8th Benn Alcantara Gouki

Kiệt Ngô Sky Striker

Christopher Rico Badilla Trickstar

Xavier Jensen Martos Ignacio Subterror

 




 


Asia Championship Winter 2019 Philippines Qualifier

 




 


1st, Angelino Espiritu [burning Abyss]


 

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2nd, Elvis Agoto Jr “Junjun” [Thunder Dragon]


 

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3 – 4th, Jude Macaranas [Zefra]


 

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3 – 4th, Francis Amoroso [Meta Beat]


 

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OCG 2018.10 Metagame (1 Oct – 31 Dec 2018)

 

The OCG 2018.10 Limit Regulation had hit the big 3 – Sky Striker, Altergeist and Gouki – but they remained as the top contenders for another season.

 

The biggest change was the diversifying of the competition. Sky Striker is no longer the best performing deck and the top-cut is shared more evenly with Gouki and Altergeist among many decks.

 

Compiled from a total of 489 top-placing decks from 80 competitive tournaments held in Japan, China and Asia, here is the final metagame breakdown of the OCG 2018.10 format.

 



 

Metagame Breakdown

 

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97 Sky Striker

84 Gouki:

75 mono Gouki

9 Grass Gouki

64 Altergeist

48 Magician

 

37 Trickstar:

35 mono Trickstar

1 Mekk-Knight Trickstar

1 Trickstar Link

 

22 Subterror

19 Thunder Dragon

16 Good Stuff Link

 

15 Zefra:

14 mono Zefra

1 Metalfoes Zefra

 

10 Gandora-X FTK

8 Burning Abyss:

7 mono Burning Abyss

1 Phantom Knights Burning Abyss

7 Link Doppel

6 Cyber Dragon

6 Dinosaur Thunder Dragon

6 Mekk-Knight

5 Infernoid:

2 Grass Infernoid

2 Lair Infernoid

1 mono Infernoid

5 Meta Beat:

4 mono Meta Beat

1 Artifact Meta Beat

4 Zombie

3 Six Samurai

3 Train

3 Orcust

2 Magical Musket

2 World Chalice

1 Blackwing

1 D/D

1 Dinosaur Mekk-Knight

1 Gem-Knight

1 Greener Dinosaur Invoked Shaddoll

1 Herald Impcantation

1 Junk Doppel

1 Madolche

1 Phantasm Spiral

1 Prankids

1 Qliphort

1 Red-Eyes

1 Revendread

1 Salamangreat

1 Sekka Kaiju Luna

1 Sky Striker Invoked

1 Sky Striker Luna

 



 

Sky Striker

 

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Sky Striker begun with an overwhelming lead, but soon declined after the release of Savage Strike.

 

Sky Striker Ace – Kaina was mostly a situational card and had little impact compared to the new supports that the other decks were getting.

 

Sky Striker grinds out the opponent by generating card advantage through Sky Striker Mobilize – Engage! and recurring it with Sky Striker Ace – Kagari. However, Pot of Indulgence gave other decks the ability to generate their own card advantage, allowing them to keep up against Sky Striker.

 

OCG 2018.10 → OCG 2019.01 Limit Regulation changes:

 

Sky Striker Ace – Kagari – 3 → 1

Having Sky Striker Ace – Kagari limited to 1 greatly crippled the deck’s ability to generate card advantage over multiple turns. Sky Striker is no longer the best deck in OCG 2019.01, but surprisingly with the aid of Pot of Avarice to recycle Kagari, the deck is still able to remain competitive.

 



 

Gouki

 

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The lost of Summon Sorceress was a huge detriment to Gouki as it struggles to go into Firewall Dragon.

 

Then Savage Strike gave Gouki Psychic Wheelder, a Level 3 Psychic Tuner monster that could be Special Summoned from hand while you control a Level 3 monster. This was a huge boost to Gouki since it could be used to bring out Isolde, Two Tales of the Noble Knights (via M-X-Saber Invoker), Crystron Needlefiber or even Cherubini, Black Angel of the Burning Abyss.

 

The flexibility of Psychic Wheelder made it difficult to disrupt Gouki, especially with Emergency Teleport that essentially function as additional copies.

 

Playing against Gouki boils down to whether you draw sufficient ‘Hand Traps’ in your opening 5 cards to disrupt their combo. Else they would go into an unbreakable Extra Link board of Knightmare Link monsters with Tri-Gate Wizard and have Topologic Gumblar Dragon discard your hand.

 

OCG 2018.10 → OCG 2019.01 Limit Regulation changes:

 

Dandylion – 1 → 0

Mathematician – 3 → 1

Glow-Up Bulb – 3 → 0

Blackwing – Steam the Cloak – 1 → 0

M-X-Saber Invoker – 3 → 0

Crystron Needlefiber – 3 → 1

Knightmare Goblin – 1 → 0

Firewall Dragon – 1 → 0

Divine Sword – Phoenix Blade – 3 → 0

With so many hits to Gouki, especially with Firewall Dragon gone, the Link spam variant of Gouki is no longer viable.

 



 

Altergeist

 

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Altergeist was one of the biggest beneficiary of Pot of Indulgence.

 

Before Savage Strike, Altergeist relied on Pot of Desires for card advantage but it runs the risk of banishing Altergeist Multifaker and Altergeist Silquitous.

 

Pot of Indulgence is a much safer choice as Altergeist mostly needed Linkuriboh and Altergeist Hexstia, and they could counteract the drawback by running additional copies of these two cards.

 

With the additional cards from Pot of Indulgence, it was much easier for Altergeist to control the game with an assortment of Traps and ‘Hand Traps’.

 

OCG 2018.10 → OCG 2019.01 Limit Regulation changes:

 

Altergeist Multifaker – 2 → 1

Personal Spoofing – 3 → 2

Altergeist Multifaker took another hit and the semi-limitation of Personal Spoofing made it much harder to open with Multifaker. In OCG 2019.01, players are running Sangan with Salamangreat Almiraj as an additional method to fetch Multifaker.

 



 

Conclusion

 

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By narrowing down to only the 1st place of each tournament, we have the above breakdown. The value in white is the total amount of 1st placing, while blue represents the amount of 1st placing in team tournaments and red represents the amount of 1st placing in individual tournaments.

 

Gouki and Sky Striker have almost the same amount of 1st placing. While Gouki did equally well in team tournaments and individual tournaments, Sky Striker performed much better in team tournaments.

 

Surprisingly, Altergeist, Magician and Trickstar have almost the same amount of 1st placing that Sky Striker has in individual tournaments.

 

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