Notes & Combos

Still no blinding 2nd needed... cool!

Once again made it to M1 before the banlist dropped, so I have no testing against Primite / Necroquip but Tenpai still had 2 Kaimen, Beatrice was still legal, and the 3rd Dark Kitty hadn't come home. (The good times...)

The cards I will be talking about are in the side deck for reading, but they are not necessarily substitutes. Case in point...

If your opponent has any idea what they're doing, Impulse is a blowout, activatable on Dark Kitty and Lyeap with no opportunity to prevent it or Triple after. If you already have MFP, Street, and Lyeap, consider searching with Dark Kitty a Normal-able Light Kitty, assuming they're holding an Impulse for Dark Kitty. Also consider setting two Lyeap with Mini Noir: Impulse negates its activation, so the 2nd one would still work. I can't really use Dominus traps myself since the deck requires usage of multiple attributes (it might've been cool though, but regardless I don't have the dust to spare).

Droll and Fuwa are your best tools against Fiendsmith. Droll will only stop the turn on its own if their first move is Engraver, but always fire it as early as possible (what are they gonna do, Gamma? With it at 1?). On the other hand, wait to Fuwa or C until you think it'll draw you a card. Early versions of this deck had Nib (and 3 Fuwa instead of 2) to further help with Fendsmeets, but left it weaker to Tenpai, which I think was actually more common between M4-M2, so I swapped in Ogre, doubling as link mat denial.

• Triple Peek... speaking of Tenpai, it saved my bacon a couple times against them by ripping their only starter and / or letting me know I need to make Nightingale.
• Triple Take is great against Apollousa or IP if your opponent is playing through a Droll or Fuwa, which you might otherwise struggle with. (Sneksmeet players, please stop putting your Promethean in the backrow...)
• Triple Draw never came up.

Veiler isn't very good against Sneksmeet, but it is good against many, many other stuff (including Tenpai! Keep Veilering that Paidra), so I found it worth slots for that and its not-OPT regardless.

I missed with Princessprite every time. Consider Ensemblue instead of it or Nightingale.

Early versions had a 2 Etele / 1 Derp / 1 Lizardose package as extension (shout out to Mila @thetys. on Discord), but this played badly into Fuwa / C, so I dropped it. Unplayable opens will happen, just stay calm and go next....