If you enjoyed these Master Duel Metagame Reports, consider supporting Road of the King on Patreon. These tournaments are not included in the report. There are many other tournaments that are trying out different tournament formats, such as DLE Damage Step Tournaments has a 15 cards Side Deck, DMC Meta Weekly Tournaments has a two decks Conquest format, and the North America Remote Duel YCS Master Duel Tournaments has a Side Deck which is every card in the collection. This report will tabulate only tournaments that are played with No Side Deck, which is currently the most prevalent format. Slower decks such as Eldlich are unable to follow up efficiently with Forbidden Droplet and would choose to run Evenly Match instead. The most significant change in deck building is the inclusion of Forbidden Droplet in the Main Deck in almost every deck. Eldlich continues to perform, while Virtual World is slipping down. Drytron has also made a huge stride this season, showing how difficult they are to handle with No Side Deck. Tri-Brigade remains in the lead, but is shrinking in dominance as many decks are now prepared against them. Instead it relies on Pot of Prosperity to improve its consistency by excavating 3 or 6 cards to find that key Forbidden Droplet or Lightning Storm needed to break the opponent’s board. While the deck could still bring out Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS – Sky Thunder via Sky Cavalry Centaurea using 2 Xyz Materials from Rescue Cat, it is still relatively less consistent when compared with Zoodiac monsters which can be fetched by Fire Formation – Tenki. However, Rescue Cat is still exposed to Effect Veiler and Infinite Impermanence.

This build has PSY-Framegear Gamma to protect Rescue Cat and Tri-Brigade Fraktall from being negated by Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring. Mono Tri-Brigade build has seen a significant increase in Season 2.

Toki-kun (ときくん) went 8-0 and finished 1st in “Koyubi Cup” which had 249 participants. Crossout Designator is especially devastating in the mirror match when used to negate the opponent’s Tri-Brigade Revolt. In addition to negating the standard ‘hand traps’ such as Maxx “C” and Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring, Crossout Designator has a wider coverage in being able to negate Forbidden Droplet and Infinite Impermanence as well. Hirataira (ひらたいら) went 7-1 and finished 2nd in “Koyubi Cup” which had 249 participants.Īs the metagame becomes more defined, Crossout Designator is seeing an uptake in usage. Tri-Brigade continues to be a popular pick among players but we are seeing a bigger split between Zoodiac Tri-Brigade build and mono Tri-Brigade build.

Crossout designator