Notes & Combos

Just under the wire! I’m not a 5th rate duelist with a 4th rate deck: I’m a 3rd rate duelist with a 6th rate deck!

I’m gonna be so real with you: the only reason I’m playing Red-Eyes is because I’ve decided I want to challenge myself to hit KOG every month this year using at least one Ritual monster in every deck, specifically with the purpose of actually Ritual summoning it and using it in my end board. I’m doing this because I love Rituals, and the Armament skill revolving around a Ritual monster as a search engine totally fits the bill…even if Lord has to bring his cringey stoner older brother Dragoon along.

The big reason this took me so long to complete was because I was using a Pure variant for most of the month which totally sucked and I kept getting demoted from Legend 5 or 4. Relying on Joeys cards, Kaijus, and occasionally Spheres was not cutting it against literally any competent player, and my only good matchup at all was TrapTrix and mostly because they have no natural outs to Dragoon, which I don’t want to rely on entirely to win. Thus, in the last 3 days of the month I regrettably made the switch over to this Chimera variant, which sucks for me because I think these cards are UGLY as sin! Don’t get me wrong, I respect their highly flexible playstyle and I had an exponentially better time at completing the climb…but girl come on these dudes are hideous! But hey, they put in results and made my matchups against stuff like Brandon or Tachyon much more manageable, though I’m not gonna lie and admit that Anubis cleared so many games against the former.

I’m looking forward to seeing what other Ritual decks we get this year! I’m gonna use Shinobird next month before their Skill gets nerfed (WHYYYY??? Starslop was right there!!!), and I also have Drytron & Mikano locked and loaded, but I’ll have to see what else we get this year. I’m hoping for Voiceless Voice and the updated support for Vendreads, Gishki, and Nekroz. I may also run Dogmatika back if they get Alba Zoa since their playstyle is significantly different from the Invoked variant I played last month.