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 November 10, 2025 to November 17, 2025

  • Speed Format
  • Rush Format

Performance Metric

Remarks

No big surprises compared to the KC results. The whole metagame has revolved around BE, Shino, and Rebecca, with some solid decks like Dino, Chimera, and DM

Tournaments considered

Format Players 1st 2nd Top 4 Top 4
Meta Weekly #402 SE/No Side 19 Shinobird Blue Eyes Guardian Angel Shinobird
DLTC Weekly #2 SE/No Side 74 Blue Eyes Shinobird Shinobird Blue Eyes
Quantum Dailies #487 SE/No Side 53 Dino Chimera Guardian Angel Shinobird
Cloudy City Weekly #58 SE/No Side 86 Blue Eyes Blue Eyes Shinobird Speedroid
Starry Cup #74 SE/No Side 69 Shinobird Blue Eyes Swordsoul Dark Magician
Suisen Weekly #175 SE/No Side 45 Shinobird Guardian Angel Blue Eyes Vaylantz

Winning Deck Examples

1st Place in Meta Weekly #402 - Qwerty
1st Place in Quantum Dailies #487 - MaxxCarteira
1st Place in DLTC Weekly #2 - Stromhank

Performance Metric

Remarks

Konami only needs to make a few small changes to Jointech to balance the deck. I hope they do something Rush-related in the upcoming banlist

Tournaments considered

Format Players 1st 2nd Top 4 Top 4
Quantum Rush #86 SE/No Side 21 Music Princess Music Princess Jointech Yamiruler
Rush Duel Links Weekly #46 SE/No Side 22 Jointech Jointech Jointech Music Princess
Rush Duel Dynasty #27 SE/No Side 24 Jointech Jointech Cyber Dragon Music Princess

Winning Deck Examples

1st Place in Quantum Rush #86 - Sak7k