A Word From , TPC Manager
Hello all, with the Banlist changes to Salamangreat not being in effect until early April. Instead of a Tier List, this week TPC will be talking about the new cards released in the March 2025 patch. Expect a Tier List Update on April 7th.
New Cards
Masquerena is probably the best card they added in the last update. its currently helping Gemini and Predaplant, but the ability to generically go into Loading... or Loading... on your opponent's turn is really strong regardless. Expect this card to be incredibly important as we appreach the next KC Cup.
New BOX Decks
Resonators received the following cards:
- Loading... - Best starter which adds a Level 4 Fiend (usually Loading... ), also protects a card from being destroyed if you control Loading... (RDA)
- Loading... - It can be Summoned from your Hand/GY by sending a card from Hand/Field to GY - sends a Fiend Tuner frmo Hand/Deck to GY to increase Levels of monsters you control.
- Loading... - Searches any RDA-mentioning card (Loading... /Loading... ), switches opposing monsters to Defense Mode when RDA attacks, and re-summons RDA from grave if a monster is destroyed by card or effect.
- Loading... can Special from Hand if you control a L5+ Dark Monster, and search an RDA-mentioning S/T when sent to GY.
- Loading... : Can temporarily banish a 2000+ ATK monster and sets Loading... if you control RDA.
- Loading... - Negates a Face-Up Card as a Quick-Effect
- Loading... - When sent to GY for the Synchro Summon of a DARK Dragon it summons Loading... and pops all opposing Attack Position Monsters. (You regularly use it to summon Abyss).
Resonators look decent. Loading... is really broken since it can, when combined with Witness Why I Am Known as the True King! , break a lot of boards. This is because Gaia can flip everything Face-Down when Loading... attacks, then proceed to destroy them all with RDA's effect. You also get a Loading... for free from the Skill, which can help with annoying monsters like Loading... or Loading... . It has some issues with hand-traps, which can cook the deck (even with cards like Loading... , since they can just use Loading... on Loading... or Loading... . However, if unterrupted, it leaves a really solid engboard, so once the build is more standardized I could see it doing well in tournaments.
Resonators got some good new cards and a new Skill in Witness Why I Am Known as the True King! that could bring it back in the meta. Loading... might no longer be searchable like it was with the previous Skill, but now the deck has a 1-card combo that ends on Loading... , Loading... , Loading... , Loading... and destruction protection with Loading... (there are also some searchable options if you opened well enough like Loading... and Loading... ). There is also a combo that uses the Skill's other effect to summon a "Red-Dragon Archfiend" monster (reducing your follow-up) in order to end on the same board plus Loading... for an additional negate. This deck might have one of the strongest Turn 1 ever, but it's quite weak to handtraps and disruption: hitting Loading... with an Loading... will lock your Loading... to Level 3, making it difficult to make Synchro plays. The Skill helps for going second with a free Fiendish Chain and a free Synchro Monster, but it doesn't reaally help you set-up the combo (so I don't think this deck will be able to break any board with engine alone). I expect Resonators to be a coinflip deck, as you need to go first a lot to actually do well with it.
Seemingly the best deck in the box, Resonators got a lot of its most recent support and a new skill in Witness Why I Am Known as the True King! which is very strong. The Turn 1 board can be Loading... , Loading... (which triggers the 2nd effect of the Skill to set a Loading... from Deck), Loading... , Loading... to search Loading... and Loading... protection from GY (all from a single Loading... ). Although the deck is still relatively weak to handtraps, it's not as bad as it once was.
Going 2nd also gives you a free Loading... to help going into established boards along with getting Loading... with the Skill for the potential monster wipe + a minor amount of damage with its effect. It has already got some tournament tops, however it is during a fake meta in which Salamangreat is usually banned, so take that with a grain of salt.