In the next couple posts I will be talking about a few topics for this upcoming weekend; not this weekend but the next weekend: What decks to expect to see, Great tech cards, deck that I will be playing, what cards to pick up and drop.
What decks you should expect to see play.
The obvious Top Tier decks (Rabbits, Inzektors, Chaos Dragons, Final Countdown)
I am not going to really touch on these because they are all obvious decks to see in the top tables.
I expect to see a lot of HERO decks also. It is a fairly cheap deck and it does not take Tour Guides to win. The issue with the deck now is that Rabbit since it is a for of control take away a lot of the stem a HERO deck can half. HERO deck's plays are very telegraphed and if you stop one part the chain of them winning nearly falls a part. HERO decks were very good because they had big beaters and if go rolling then it got shut down. Now, with Chaos Dragons, hitting the mainstream play, HERO's big 1900 then turn into 2500 attackers really aren't doing any good especially with the soft loop of Lightpulsar Dragon and Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon.
Dark World, finally won the 100th YCS, I don't expect to see a lot of play. Obviously there are dedicated Dark World players, such as myself (although I am not that dedicated anymore), that will be there to compete but the deck is just so lackluster now and if you don't get a grapha to the grave then it is game over. I just don't see them really putting up much of a fight against Rabbit or Chaos Dragons.
Wind-ups, the most underrated deck, will definitely have their dedicated players as well. These players most likely will stay true to their love of the deck but again a well placed effect veiler just shuts the deck down and its all down hill from there.
Then we have Gadgets. Gadgets took Spain national by surprised for a lot of the community in the North American TCG. I don't think any really expected it but I think as players in this community should expect to see a lot of people coming out of the dark with Gadgets especially full on net-decking. I don't know what this dude played against but I don't think the meta is anywhere near the same as North American TCG. I expect a lot of people to play Gadgets but I don't expect them to do well because most of them are probably not well practiced with the deck. Also a lot will have to do with if Stock Master is legal or not.
Obviously there will always be the random decks that will see play: Sabers, Lightsworn, Blackwings, Hieratics, Monarchs, Stun, ect, ect. I just don't think that these decks in the North American meta stand much of a chance. Innovation is such an amazing thing to have especially when it comes to such a competitive card game BUT if you are wanting to win then you are going to have to play on of Top 4 decks that I means to even be considered. You can look at the other nations winning decklists, those are meaningless especially when you are comparing the meta of the two nations.
I expect in the Top 32: 9 Rabbits, 8 Chaos Dragon, 4 Inzektors, 3 Countdown, 3 Wind-up, 2 HERO, 1 Dark World, 2 Random Squeeze ins.
Our nationals are also very clean cut and straight to the point. I just want the best players to win; so they can represent us well in Tokyo.
Stay tuned for another article in the next for hours about Great Tech cards for the main deck or side deck that nearly every deck so have.
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