Meta Championship Series #8 Report

Tournament Information

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• Saturday 12th May, 1pm EST / 6pm GMT
• 7 Rounds

Format

• Tournament capped at 140 players
• Best of 3, Swiss
• 1 Deck with a 5 card Side Deck

Full Standings

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Top 32 Breakdown

Sponsors

Top Sponsor: FireNeo - $200

Top 16 Decklists (Main + Side Deck) - Prize Support: $2,171.10

1st Place - Stevie: $868.40

Grit

20 cards

Side Deck

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Prerequisites

• A registered Konami ID linked to your master duel game
• Must login to Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards DB using the same Konami ID
• If the Yu-Gi-Oh! DB website asks to login with Game Card ID just click "I don't have a game card ID" and fill some basic information to proceed

Export Guide

- Via the MDM extension (Recommended): Download on Firefox, or Chromium Browsers
For Chromium browsers (Chrome/Edge/Opera/Brave...etc) just click "Add to chrome" on the store page and it'll work on most if not all chromium browsers.
After using the extension, go to the Master Duel game => Main menu => Deck option => The Card database option at the top right corner => locate the deck you exported and copy it

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- Manually

1. Click here to copy the export code
2. Go to Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards DB and click My Deck => Add a Deck
3. Once the deck page loads click Edit then do one of the following based on the platform your device is running:
• (PC Only): Press F12 to open the DevTools window => Navigate to the Console tab in the window => Paste the export code => Hit Enter
• OR (Other platforms/PC): In the address bar of the current tab remove the URL and type "javascript:" without the quotations then paste the export code, then if you're on mobile look for the *globe* icon and tap on it to run the code (Chrome only), for PC users just hit enter.
4. The deck will save automatically
5. Go to the Master Duel game => Main menu => Deck option => The Card database option at the top right corner => locate the deck you exported and copy it

Click here for a more detailed guide

I'm a former TCG player and YCS winner. I know people are both shocked and disgusted that Sylvans took the MCS this weekend, but I wanted to give some people perspective into why I chose this Deck from the mind of a competitive Duel Links player. I love unconventional strategies (meme Decks) as much as everyone else, but this is the Duel Links tournament with a $2000+ prize pool and I wasn't going to play anything I didn’t consider the best Deck.

My Main Deck was incredibly standard. This is the Sylvans decklist that was standardized by Billy Brake with the single copy of Loading... . I was originally running triple Loading... instead but I found that it was better to draw 1 Tribute to The Doomed and 1 Enemy Controller in most scenarios than 2 Enemy Controller. Tribute to The Doomed was also a way to get Loading... into Graveyard without committing a Normal Summon. Because the Sylvans core takes at least 16 slots in your Deck, I believed these to be the 4 best Spell/Trap options for the metagame.