Tournament Analysis

Hello! This Tournament Analysis article series aims to summarize the tournament-winning metagame based on data from a weeklong period (for both Speed and Rush formats).

Today's report is based on tournaments held from July 14, 2025 to July 21, 2025

  • Speed Format
  • Rush Format

Performance Metric

Remarks

Same as previous week, the trio AG + Speedroid + Shaddoll is dominating the meta, followed by tier 3/rogue decks with a few tops. Previous week was Agents, now is Gusto and Lyrilusc getting tops.

Gusto in particular is a very good deck but with low representation due to various factors:

  • There are better meta decks, in factor Gusto does very similar combos to Speedroid. Overall, Gusto has a better turn 1 with boards like Loading... + Loading... + Loading... + Loading... but a worse turn 2 where a single Loading... can stop the whole turn.
  • It's hard for people to dig into a Deck Build Box to build a tier 3 deck
  • Hard to pilot, Gusto has a lot of ways to reach the same endboard, and you have to be aware of what to search with the skill based on what you have in hand.

Tournaments considered

Format Players 1st 2nd
Cloudy City Weekly #47 SE 91 Speedroid Utopia
Wolf Weekly Series #1 SE 24 Ancient Gear Shaddoll
Suisen Weekly #158 SE 52 Speedroid Speedroid
Jinzo Frogly #14 SE 76 Ancient Gear Speedroid
Sky Striker Cup #55 SE 39 Shaddoll Ancient Gear
Evil League DL S13 #2 SE/9 Card Side 36 Ancient Gear Resonators
Wolf Series #71 SE 41 Lyrilusc Ancient Gear
Seal Cup #41 SE 30 Resonators Shaddoll
Fraud Nexus Circuit #16 SE 42 Shaddoll Ancient Gear
Dynasty #27 SE 39 Shaddoll Shaddoll
Duel Links Empire Accession #66 SE 56 Gusto Exosisters
Quantum Dailies #450 SE 53 Ancient Gear Shaddoll

Winning Deck Examples

1st Place in Suisen Weekly #158 - ラー
1st Place in Sky Striker Cup #55 - ほわ
1st Place in Seal Cup #41 - GaOV
1st Place in Quantum Dailies #450 - Lucci
1st Place in Wolf Series #71 -

Performance Metric

Remarks

Atypical week, a lot of different decks winning. The explanation can be found between a slightly lower Light Galaxy representation and the common factor meta deck have (otk potential + consistency). To summarize, whoever draw better wins 🧐

Tournaments considered

Format Players 1st 2nd
Rush Duel Links Weekly #33 SE 27 Baseball Dark Galaxy
Quantum Rush #73 SE 30 Hero Light Galaxy
LA Rush Academy #3 SE 23 Sevens Road Hero
Galaxy Rush #21 SE 33 Red-Boot Light Galaxy

Winning Deck Examples

1st Place in Galaxy Rush #21 -
1st Place in LA Rush Academy #3 -
1st Place in Quantum Rush #73 -