Notes & Combos
Thrust felt good. Not good enough to play 3, but good.
Trunade felt mandatory. Otherwise, resolving Subversion or Flamberge on the opponent's monsters going 2nd was almost impossible.
Branded gave me a lot of troubles, but still wanted to maintain this board breaking playstyle instead of stacking handtraps and praying on drawing them if I went 2nd.
Maybe a 2nd Silvera makes this deck brick less going 2nd, but I won't play a 2nd Silvera never ever ever. That card is awful to draw and increasing my chances to do so, ever so slightly, isn't something I want to do.
Borrelsword came up. If your opponent has big chonky monsters in plural, he's the best finisher you can make. Even more so if you made it with I:P, because then it becomes completely indestructible.
Luckily, this decktype is really good, to the point of being currently represented in Worlds, so nothing I can showcase about it will be better than watching the best players in the world use these cards.
Still, here are some, the older ones (from beginning of the month) are from another version entirely, which I think is strictly worse than the one I'm submitting here. Might serve as comparison tho, that's why I'm sharing them here.
Replays
https://duellinks.konami.net/att/0740d3cc11fb4c5efe47f0a031eca465df008ca13a https://duellinks.konami.net/att/07afccdcb91abfd8c33baccd3160ccd71c865b44f6 https://duellinks.konami.net/att/063076931d4813e8b316ca54007002863e1700c2e4
(older version)
https://duellinks.konami.net/att/034f3821aea48e85b5700e4da1a30d6c2c2a5bd52f https://duellinks.konami.net/att/000d82f8465cf37d559023930760177a670b11ccb1 https://duellinks.konami.net/att/04438157c8f130750246a64f9f8a1693b7259a0f9a
(newer version)