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 August 25, 2025 to September 01, 2025

  • Speed Format
  • Rush Format

Performance Metric

Remarks

Meta is stalled by now, with Despia, Shaddoll and Utopia in the head of the tier pyramid. Notice that decks used in Worlds were, on the most part, decks performing well in tournaments through the current format.

Worlds Deck Breakdown is as follows:

*Extracted from Diuan X account (https://x.com/DiuanPL)

Despia and Shaddoll were constantly topping in this format. Chimera, Ancient Gears and Utopia were there too, not like dominant decks but with an important presence. Speedroid, Sky Striker and Resonators were good rogue decks in this format.

Tournaments considered

Format Players 1st 2nd
Meta Weekly #394 SE 12 Shaddoll Speedroid
Suisen Weekly #164 SE 55 Sky Striker Gusto
6K Duelist Kingdom #5 SE/ 98 Despia Shaddoll
Jinzo Frogly #17 SE 92 Despia Shaddoll
Latam Showdown #217 SE 52 Despia Shaddoll

Winning Deck Examples

1st Place in Meta Weekly #394 -
1st Place in Jinzo Frogly #17 -
1st Place in Suisen Weekly #164 -

Performance Metric

Remarks

Music Princess is the big winner of the new box. A deck with the ability to play through Shiny Shady thanks to Loading... (backrow wipe). Even if Shady resolves, the deck can flip Loading... face-up again with Trombow.

Tournaments considered

Format Players 1st 2nd
Rush Duel Links Weekly #37 SE 34 Sevens Road Light Galaxy
Starry Rush #11 SE 38 Music Princess Sevens Road
Galaxy Rush #27 SE 33 Jointech Light Galaxy
Starry Rush #12 SE 37 Hero Sevens Road

Winning Deck Examples

1st Place in Galaxy Rush #27 -
1st Place in Starry Rush #11 - Sak7k
1st Place in Starry Rush #12 -
30 cards