YCS Anaheim Champion, Angel Flores used a Light/Gemini Beatdown deck (as written on the decklist of winners) followed by Jonathan Weigle, who came second, used a Gravekeeper deck and then Majid Khan, who ran Chaos then came X-sabers played by Billy Brake. Top 4 decks seems great to top such a wonderful event which marks the rise of the current meta decks for this format! to see the top 32 decklsits for YCS click
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Aite now to the quick deck analysis of the top 4 decks, then the analysis of the champion's deck last (save the best for last?)...aite, what i can say is tht all 4 decks include at least 1 Pot of Duality! which shows how useful pot can be. All the 4 decks ran 2 Solemn Warnings which is self explanatory, then of course the staples. Other than that all respective decks used cards which fit their archetypes, excluding a few tech like Effect Veiler, Gorz, Super-Nimble for monsters, Spells were also the usual plus the important staples then the trap line...7 tools of the bandit found found some use in 3 of the 4 decks then the staples again...mirror, solemn judgement n etc......
Now to the champion's Decklist!
Angel Flores (1st – LIGHT/Gemini Beatdown) Monsters: 16
2 Cyber Dragon
3 Elemental Hero Neos Alius
1 D.D. Warrior Lady
2 Thunder King Rai-Oh
2 Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo
1 Blackwing – Gale the Whirlwind
1 Elemental Hero Stratos
1 Neo-Spacian Grand Mole
1 Honest
1 Gorz the Emissary of Darkness
1 Ally Genex Duradark
Spells: 15
3 Pot of Duality
2 Forbidden Chalice
2 Mystical Space Typhoon
3 Gemini Spark
1 Nobleman of Crossout
1 Monster Reborn
1 Reinforcement of the Army
1 Dark Hole
1 E – Emergency Call
Traps: 10
2 Bottomless Trap Hole
2 Solemn Warning
2 Dimensional Prison
1 Torrential Tribute
1 Solemn Judgment
1 Seven Tools of the Bandit
1 Hero Blast
Side Deck: 15
2 Miracle Fusion
1 Royal Oppression
2 Kinetic Soldier
2 Super Polymerization
1 Nobleman of Crossout
1 Mind Crush
2 Pulling the Rug
2 Penguin Soldier
2 Summon Limit
Monster analysis
As you can see, he runs the usual hero beat cards like Neos Alius, Thunder King, Stratos, Honest, D.D. Warrior Lady?...then BOOM! tech cards come in~ Duradark was included probably to destroy those annoying dark monsters...Dark Armed? GK (insert of GK name here)? Gorz? Gale?...NICE!...then came Fossil Dyna, bye-bye to special summoning which stops most decks, let's see Gk special summons, chaos special summons, and X-sabers special summons...WIN!..Grand Mole..yeah, to bounce em Synchros n annoying monsters back to extra deck n hand respectively....Kinetic Soldier, saved for warriors ( Six Sams, X-sabers) and the most epic card as a tech......Penguin Soldier!?...haha...first look...."that belongs in a starter deck!"...read effect.."Dude, that can stop swarming decks".....EPIC WIN!..best tech for this format anyone?...hahaha....FACT!
Spell analysis
3 Pot of Duality to search his 16 monsters which is kinda low for a monster count in a deck, but with Pot, no problemO.....Forbidden Chalice at 2 just to power up his monster's ATK by 400 but effects negated until end phase....2 MSTs just to destroy backrow...Gemini Sparks to target 1 card on the field by tributing Neos Alius then draw a card...Nobleman just to destroy those annoying set cards, Spirit Reaper, Pashuul and remove from play flip effect cards mainly GK spy and Guard. Monster Reborn....staple!...ROTA to call his warriors. Dark Hole..again staple...E-call, traget Alius and Stratos...Miracle and super Poly....for fusions~
Trap analysis
Bottomless Trap, Solemn Warning, Dimensional Prison, Torrential Tribute, Solemn Judgment....standard traps...staples for me....just my 2 cents....Seven Tools of the Bandit...Hero Blast, just destroy monster below 1900 by reviving alius...then Seven Tools of the Bandit just to negate traps....Royal Oppression, Mind Crush, Summon Limit n Pulling the Rug....self explanatory....
For the final match-up of the YCS Anaheim, LIGHT/Gemini Beatdown VS Gravekeepers match analysis click the link below!
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