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 September 29, 2025 to October 06, 2025

  • Speed Format
  • Rush Format

Performance Metric

Remarks

New box is so good. I think this update is even better than previous new worlds. Blue-Eyes is very powerful, but I think there is still room for experimentation, and we can see meta changes in the upcoming days.

Tournaments considered

Format Players 1st 2nd
Suisen Weekly #169 SE/No Side 44 Shaddoll Ra
Grand Prix #124 Swiss/No Side 84 Despia Shaddoll
Quantum Dailies #470 SE/No Side 56 Generaider Ancient Gear
Quantum Dailies #471 SE/No Side 48 Blue Eyes Speedroid
Quantum Dailies #472 SE/No Side 59 Blue Eyes Speedroid
Starry Cup #62 SE/No Side 60 Blue Eyes Tindangle
Seal Cup #48 SE/No Side 29 Guardian Angel Gusto
Cloudy City Weekly #53 SE/No Side 49 Speedroid Gusto
6K Duelist Kingdom #7 SE/No Side 83 Blue Eyes Tindangle
Dynasty #31 SE/No Side 50 Chimera Blue Eyes
Big Blow Cup #9 Swiss/No Side 108 Swordsoul Shinobird

Winning Deck Examples

1st Place in Big Blow Cup #9 - mfmj
26 cards
1st Place in Quantum Dailies#470 -
1st Place in Suisen Weekly #169 - かめさん
1st Place in Seal Cup #48 - losprin
1st Place in Dynasty #31 - Alone
1st Place in Cloudy City Weekly #53 - GALAXY
1st Place in Quantum Dailies #472 -

Performance Metric

Remarks

I understand Konami is focusing on speed, but even a slightly better banlist would have been a nice change while we wait for new content.

Tournaments considered

Format Players 1st 2nd
Galaxy Rush #31 SE/No Side 27 Sevens Road Metarion

Winning Deck Examples

1st Place in Galaxy Rush #31 - ProPlayer