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I imagine some of us are Master Duel enjoyers - what are we playing at the moment? I'm having lots of fun with a Dinomist deck that splashes a small Symphonic engine to search off Electrumite. As long as you pretend zone locks don't exist, you can almost imagine it's a good deck!

This deck is, like, actively not good. There are so many better things you could be doing with the new Unchained support. But I read Manadium Abscission and turned into one of those pointing soyface dudes, so I had to try and brew some jank with Visas and Unchained.

This is a going second deck since Unchained can play through a decent amount of interruption, so we get to run Illegal Knight as another Fiend body/a bit of interaction. Possibly the funniest play in the deck is a two-card combo with Visas and any of the little Unchained dudes. Summon the Unchained, pop with Visas to special summon itself, then use the popped Unchained's effect to go into Sharvara. Send Visas and Sharvara to make Ultimaya Tzolkin; and since Sharvara sets a trap when it goes to grave, it instantly triggers Tzolkin, letting you summon out Crystal Wing. I'm sure there's much stronger things you could do with two 6s (Beatrice?) but I love Tzolkin.

Continuing the trend of pairing cool mech designs with goofy anime girls, Centurion is like Sky Striker thematics combined with Crystal Beast mechanics. Also a generic 12 star synchro - not too many of those running around.

Extremely funny that two notorious banned cards - Samsara Lotus and Grinder Golem - are getting retrains as Yubel support. I never watched the GX show; were they a part of Yubel's deck originally?

The new quickplay spell looks particularly good - pop your dudes, get their effects, and destroy your opponent's cards. Really happy about all the Fire attribute love lately.

Here, at least according to YGOProdeck, is Paulie Aronson's tournament-winning DLink deck. I don't know the first thing about DLink; is 45 cards standard? Is it normal to run 2 Seals in the extra?

Clearly it worked for Paulie!

Paul Aronson of America wins the championship with DLink! The deck truly will not die. Seals pass is an OTK.

Again, I don't have his exact decklist (i.e. YGOPro hasn't posted them yet). I'll look to do a master post with a list of the Top 8 decklists once they're released.

Josh, Quantal, and Emre take home the first ever Master Duel World Championship. I was really hoping to see Jesse Cotton go all the way, but there's no denying that Team Euro are a force to be reckoned with.

To see the archetypes that they were playing, check out https://www.masterduelmeta.com/articles/news/august-05-2023/world-championship-rundown. Note that this doesn't include the actual decklists, which I imagine we'll get pretty soon here now that the tournament is over.

Just announced on the Day 2 World Championship stream: a Sevens world and the Rush Duel format are coming to Duel Links! I personally know very little about Rush Duel, but I know there are a lot of people who are interested in the format, and it's cool that they'll now have a way to play it. Maybe Konami will be more open to importing Rush Duel product if the Duel Links stuff does well?

Here are the results as they were going into Top 8. Note that this is a TCG sweep - no OCG players made it into top 8. Pretty cool representation too. Top 8 was 2 Rikka (Jess is built different), 2 Mathmech, 2 DLink, 1 Swordsoul, and 1 Vanquish Soul.

Top 4 is set to be played today. Much to my dismay, the Rikka and Mathmech players bit the dust. Top 4 is thus Swordsoul, Vanquish Soul, and the two DLink decks.

Sorry for no fancy graphics/being able to show what players are playing what decks. I'm sure we will get more info as the tournament concludes.

Edit: Found a tweet explaining who is playing what in Top 4.

Jeremy Mitchell (USA): Vanquish Soul Paulie Aronson (USA): DLink Juan Mateo Augusto Renteria Pastor: (LATAM): Swordsoul Santiago Martin Lopez (LATAM): DLink

Will personally be pulling for Jeremy, VS is such a cool deck.

Hi all, I made an account on feddit.nl and don't plan to use my lemmy.world account much anymore, so I modded my new account. It has the exact same name so it shouldn't be too confusing.