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The Rotation Format discord just had its first ever unofficial community tournament with the core set, which is the set of cards that will be permanently legal moving forward while other yet-to-be-released sets rotate out. (For more information about Rotation Format, check out this post)

The results, while largely expected, also had a few surprises. The picture in the post title is the overall breakdown of entrants. And the picture below is top 10:

And the overall winner of the tournament was Quantal Think on a pretty conventional Salad list. The most notable departure imo is the three maindecked Fusion of Fire, which is used in this format to break opposing Salad boards:

As these results show, Salad is - at least based on this limited amount of data - the king of the core set. The deck excels at trading favorably with a Balynx-protected Rage and grinding out games while other brews struggle to keep up. Everyone went in thinking Salad was the best deck, and that seems to be the case.

But a bit more surprising was the performance of a deck that thus far has lurked a bit under the radar: Subterror. Despite making up only around 17% of the initial decks, a full 30% of the top 10 was Subterror. I am not a Subterror expert, but my experience is that the deck in the hands of a competent pilot could really pack a punch, and is hindered only by a tough Salad matchup (but then again, what isn't?). I'm just excited to be able to side NoC and not feel bad about it.

Other decks significantly underperformed expectations. Utopia had exactly zero representation in top 10 despite having the same percentage of initial entrants as Subterror - ouch. Though the deck can go off if allowed to combo, Utopia may just be too weak to a single point of interaction to be very viable as the format becomes increasingly solved. Iris Control (aka "Lesbian Turbo"), despite being a fan favorite, also had a disappointing day. Iris piles vary widely in what techs they use and what staples they run, but a lvl 8 "boss" that is finicky to get out and easy to brick on may be having a rough time against more consistent archetype-based decks.

Tldr: Salad good, Rage strong, Subterror is a legitimate threat. Will be interesting to see if or how the meta shifts prior to the official MBT tourney projected to occur sometime next week. I'll be posting a breakdown of that tournament too - try to contain your excitement, everyone!

E3 just posted this video about a Gemini deck designed for the Edison format. Gemini looks . . . disturbingly playable. The Gemini-focused stuff starts at 13:00.

RDA has always been a pet deck of mine, and I'm super excited for the upcoming structure deck. This brew seems like a cool take on the archetype!

Saw this mentioned in another post, but I lost it and the idea bears repeating: Sorting by Top -> Day really makes the user experience on here much better. The posts are fresher and more relevant than the ones you get by sorting by Hot or Active imo.

As a follow up to yesterday's Springan appreciation post, here's a cool MD deck. Using fours to go into Redoer and search Gamma off of the Psyframe link makes happy chemicals go off in my brain. Definitely not a T1 deck but very fun imo

I love the Springans. They are just such funny little dudes.

That's it, post over.

MBT has been talking about this idea for a bit, and this is the result: a custom-designed sealed format. This is the first part of the series and involves the release of a "core set" of cards (a handmade cube, basically). The cards in this core set will remain permanently available while cards from other sets, which will be released in waves, will rotate out. It's basically kind of like - may God forgive me for even uttering the word - how Hearthstone handles it. The core set is linked in the description of the video.

I think it's a super interesting concept. There's going to be tournaments held using this core set/any future sets, and I definitely intend to try my hand at some brews.

Got my butt absolutely blasted in the Legend Anthology event by this deck. He used the Speedroid cards to make the lvl 3 synchro, activated the synchro's effect to summon the other two, summoned the Wheelder from hand, overlaid for the XYZ, and equipped Psychic Blade. I was on earth machine - he walked over my Super Dora and Anger Knuckle and swung for game. Pretty funny!

There's a glitch where brand new posts keep popping up at the top of the feed and pushing the post I'm trying to look at down. It is driving me absolutely nuts. Is anyone else having this problem/is there a way to fix it?

Come hang out and discuss all things Yu-Gi-Oh! Thought it might be nice to have a specialized place in addition to the general gaming communities.