Notes & Combos

Took 44 wins to hit KoG (minimum is 33). A few changes this month:

1. Swapped Monster Reborn for Storm
2. Removed Metalfoes Fusion
3. 2nd Anchor instead of Rainbow Life

With Borreload Savage Dragon and Dragonmaid Sheou in the meta, hard opening Widow Anchor turn 2 gets more important, so the second copy is used again and Metalfoes Fusion is removed.

Storm is really good, dealing with many backrow at once (especially useful against face-up backrow such as True Light and Stars Align Above the Shrine) while popping my own backrow with useful GY effects such as Area Zero and Hercules Base (can also chain quick-play spells for even more value).

The ideal going first setup continues to be Rank 4 + Eagle Booster. This board becomes better in this meta since not many decks (Trap deck, maybe Chimera and Utopia) use Kaijus anymore, so the survival rate is high even without Wightprincess (weak to Book of Eclipse though). Abyss Dweller and Tornado Dragon continue to be the best choices, at least one of them will definitely disrupt any opponent's deck. Spellbook continues to be the best engine, giving card advantage to make the turn 1 setup easier.

Going second is still fairly smooth for Sky Striker as it is a going second deck by design. Shinobird may be the hardest matchup if I am going second, as Sky Striker has no in-archetype ways to banish Stars Align Across the Milky Way. It requires making Abyss Dweller to force it out (demonstrated in attached replay), but is quite difficult to pull off.