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Master Duel Meta Report: Battle Trajectory
With Selection Pack: Battle Trajectory arriving near the beginning of November, people were not particularly hopeful for the upcoming release due to its poor performance in paper formats, leading many to expect another month of Despia dominance.
While this expectation did indeed come true, the introduction of certain cards within Battle Trajectory made more of a splash than the predecessor, Cosmic Ocean, did.
Data sourced from tournament reports on MasterDuelMeta.com
A Scareclaw Arrival
Forecasted to bomb by the community, Scareclaw saw little success at this point in time in paper formats. A difference maker in Master Duel was the early release of Power of the Elements support cards Scareclaw Sclash and Scareclaw Light-Heart, the former of which is a useful protection tool or OTK enabler for a deck who aims to do just that, while the latter is an immensely powerful support card that makes one wonder how the deck was even intended to be played before it had released. With this early support, Scareclaw saw decent levels of success both as a pure variant as well as alongside the Tri-Brigade engine, eventually peaking with the grand finals of Dkayed Meta Weekly #41. Despite this, the deck did not clear the prerequisite success to get an individual segment further in this article.
A Long-Awaited Banlist
November hit us with what most would agree is a long-overdue of Barrier Statue of the Stormwinds, and with its departure, Floowandereeze also exited stage left. Despite several tops during the month of November, the complete destruction of the deck's competitive viability has left it without further mention in this article. No longer would the player base have to deal with a floodgate that locks the majority of decks out of playing. Unless...
Despia
Despia put out results even greater than ever before comparatively, far outstripping other decks in the same period. The addition of Secret Pack: Alba Abyss, which gives further support to what is already the most powerful deck, has led many to think that December spells the demise of the deck after the Duelist Cup. Until then however, Duelists are faced with an even stronger terror than that of Barrier Statue of the Stormwinds in the form of Loading... setting up Ido the Supreme Magical Force or Gimmick Puppet Nightmare to prevent the opponent from playing the game, with the option of pivoting to the traditional Despia playstyle if interrupted.
While this may be fearsome on the ladder, players in tournaments have by and large chosen to play the deck as it was originally, opting to set up a Loading... play on the opponent's turn, bolstered by Loading..., which while generally powerful proves itself absurd in the mirror.
Players should be prepared for yet another month of Branded Despia domination unless Runick manages to shake the meta as it has appeared to do so far.
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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
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 browser console => Paste the export code there => 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 and hit Enter
Save the deck
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
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
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 browser console => Paste the export code there => 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 and hit Enter
Save the deck
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
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
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 browser console => Paste the export code there => 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 and hit Enter
Save the deck
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
Dragon Link managed to be the second greatest contender this month despite no new support, though it was still a significantly worse showing compared to Despia. Even with Alba-Lenatus the Abyss Dragon giving Despia a completing free matchup going second, the deck is a powerhouse and can often play through multiple disruptions. With the potential hitting of Despia and Branded cards this month, it would be no surprise to see Dragon Link become the top dog.
Apologies for taking so long on this one. Future Meta Reports will ALWAYS be on the pack release day, so look out!
I'm going to run out of Despia banners soon, so hopefully the meta changes soon. Once again they are so far ahead of everything else, so they do not share banner space with anything else. At least the art is fitting considering Swordsoul's gigantic drop-off.
Edit: the chart itself was not working, but it's fixed now.
The deck was always good enough to never have left. Though adam players were kinda in the process of trying to figure out whether grass or 40c was actually better. Surprise surprise they both work with different upsides and risks. After an actually huge rocksies unlimit and the deck lists mostly figured out it got traction again
Because people are dum and insisted the hits back in April? barely did anything, while Rocksies to 2 was actually a big deal because it killed the engine and really hit the ceiling of the deck by taking away the free link-2 and 2x earth in GY. Deck already sucked (relatively) going second and Analyzer to 2 hurt that even more, but it was Rocksies to 2 that killed it.
Not really coincidence that it comes back right when Rocksies gets unlimited. Asia especially started playing a lot of Adams immediately.
Also, people aren't bored of it anymore and have also started using some funky new stuff that they didn't use back then (Brilliant Fusion and/or Ra'ten locks).
That's my take, at least. Kind of interesting though, considering it didn't see a whole lot of tournament success back then against Trizoo and Drytron, so it's doing better now than it ever did, albeit apparently mostly in Asia.
Am I wrong? I did forget to mention how the reduced Droplet/DRNM/etc helps, but is the Rocksies semi-limited = unplayed, Rocksies unlimited = played not accurate? The people are dum part was obviously tongue-in-cheek, but the assertion that the Adams hits in April or whatever didn't make a big difference definitely doesn't seem to have been the case.
Data sourced from tournament reports on MasterDuelMeta.com
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