Notes & Combos

Same card pool as last month. Ether Dragon is still the best deck but a new highly recursive version of Wyrms has developed that can definitely compete with it on ladder.

As for my decklist, I am planning on cutting Innocent Fadrawl because there's a lot of issues with the card, such as not hitting the 1k ATK threshold you need for an OTK alongside two of your 2500 ATK boss monsters, situations where its draw effect made Curse of the Rising Light unusable or vice-versa, and how you can't activate it when its special summoned with Balloon Butier.

Overall this month's climb was relatively smooth but not particularly satisfying, the meta is way too coin flippy at the moment with an enormous advantage to the player going second. Between Ace Sword Slash/Curse of the Rising Light being massively buffed for the going second player and skills also only being usable from turn 2 on a lot of the time the only right move going first is just set 3 monsters and pray. I really don't think just nerfing Ether Dragon into the ground is going to be enough to fix this issue, Konami really needs to think about the overall gameplay experience of Rush currently and design future card support and skills to try to make a more skill-intensive and interactive experience for both players.