Notes & Combos

Great banlist changes, mainly Called by and Droll hits which are toxic cards and even with Maxx c legal those shouldn't ve justified to be legal as well. Apollusa ban doesn't chnage much anyway, it was mainly impactful with bad players that don't play around hand traps as the decks that had good hands to make Apo will still be as hard to beat, as the main issue is how broken their starters are.

Since it's Diamond rank I didn'tneed to try as hard. So I decided to play the Fiendsmith Engine list as it recieved A Bao, while it lost Apollusa, and I also hadn't played it in a while.

A Bao gives access to some lines where you can reborn a Thunder Dragon monster to make Colossus, which let's use your normal summon on a Fiendsmith or Hand trap to get to Requiem and with the discarded ThunDra, otherwise you would usually tirbute summon them over a Bystial and keep the Lurrie/Lacrima in hand, so nice boost there.

Regardless this list isn't the best ThunDra variant as it struggles going 2nd as you are playing less non-engine, and if you go to much over 40c to include more non-engine you won't draw your engine as nothing bridges well into the ThunDra portion of the deck (Reaper kinda does but it's not a very good bridge, tho I probably need to still try it, despite that playing more non-engine will also make the mills worse).