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Master Duel Meta Report: Cosmic Ocean
With Selection Pack: Cosmic Ocean arriving near the mid point of October, hopes were not high for the new cards to have a significant impact on the meta. Indeed, Marincess failed to make a splash beyond a few sporadic tops, Umi Control performed even less satisfactorily, and Icejade not making an appearance at all. While these decks are capable of succeeding on the Ranked Ladder, regarding the competitive side of Master Duel, Cosmic Ocean is more of a resting point before actually relevant decks and stratgies surface (or as a pessimist might say, "a wash").
The Master Duel meta is largely the same as it was during the previous month, though there have been some noticeable changes, most notably Floowandereeze and the Advent of Adventure finally making its arrival to be a huge consistency increase and resistance to interruptions for Floowandereeze decks, curbing their biggest weakness. Additionally, the rise of Salamangreat can be attributed to Structure Deck: Burning Spirits, an extremely affordable Structure Deck that provides immediate access to almost the entire Salamangreat core in addition to the long-awaited Decode Talker Heatsoul. While the power of the deck has moderately increased, the ease of accessibility has made it a more popular deck to play with.
Although we received a new Forbidden & Limited List during October, the alterations were not significant enough to be a major impact on the meta. While consistency for the top decks decreased, and increased for weaker decks, the amount to which this matters is only minor.
As a forewarning, segments in this article may be smaller than expected; decks still play mostly the same with little exploration and the objective of this article is not to fulfill a word count.
Data sourced from tournament reports on MasterDuelMeta.com
Despia
Despia remains just as powerful as it has been since the inception of the Branded cards released in Selection Pack: The Newborn Dragon, being the most dominant deck of the format by far for the second month in a row. With the ability to not immediately lose to the game-ending Maxx "C", an array of powerful disruptions going first and high impact board breakers like Super Polymerization going second in combination with exceptionally powerful bosses, potential for massive generation of card advantage, and one of the strongest followup turns in the game, Branded Despia is likely to hold the crown until archetypes from TCG set Power of the Elements arrive to form a new meta. While the Patchwork variant is the most popular, the Adventurer engine is still seeing some use.
Despia's biggest weakness is playing second into floodgates; cards like Barrier Statue of the Stormwinds and Anti-Spell Fragrance threaten to end the game instantly, and Rivalry of Warlords can limit plays heavily. Despite this, the deck is still undoubtedly the strongest in the format.
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
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
The deck still struggles at times, however, most noticeably when made to go second, as the deck is unable to use uncounterable removal like Kaijus or Lava Golem. Being extremely focused on one (sometimes two) Normal Summon per turn reveals extremely vulnerable chokepoints that if disrupted typically result in the end of the duel the next turn. In spite of this, Floowandereeze continued to see success over the last month.
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
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
This one took a bit longer despite being even shorter, my apologies but man this month was a snoozefest in terms of ratios changing. KEKW at the Floowandereeze tab being outdated already, RIP Bozo statue you will not be missed.
I initially intended for the article banners to be the most dominant decks (see last month at the bottom of this article) but Despia being so far ahead of the next deck made it feel wrong to have them share a banner. Enjoy!
You said for salamangreat "the power of the deck as a whole has not increased", you are severely understating the impact of heatsoul to the deck. The power of draw 2 should not be underestimated
It's not only draw 2, now they have plays after getting disrupted instead of just going "well I'm dead". It increases the power level of the deck significantly imo. Sometimes people even prefer going into it instead of Bagooska lmfao.
It seems I must have underestimated how useful it is, and for that I apologise. It never came off as particularly impactful in tournaments I watched but that's only a small sample of total games played. I will update that line
draw 1 on ur turn after resolving your plays. pay 2k and its just a diferent target play to get to. more options not more power.. doesnt change the whole turn until u get past the parts u get interupted anyways.
Surprised no comment on pendulum or marincess made it in here. I suppose they didn’t do great in the tourneys? Regardless, I do hope for a significant meta shift that pushes away despia, floo and SS soon as I’m getting tired of facing those. Not sure if P.U.N.K. will make the impact that it did in TCG, but it’ll be interesting to learn to play against anyway.
As far as changes go, I really just want stupid FTK decks gone like the pendulum burn combo, as well as the Rhongo nonsense with numbers evail.
Pendulum did pretty well (6 tops) but if it was included in the write-up like 4 or 5 others would be too. If I recall, Marincess only got 3 over the same period.
The 1st December ban list is probably the last one of 2022 so i just wanna share my next big hopium NEW YEAR banlist:
Supreme King Dragon Darkwurm 1 -> 2
Luster Pendulum, the Dracoslayer 1 -> 3 (Not sure why this thing is at 1 for so long)
Performapal Monkeyboard 0 -> 1
Predaplant Ophrys Scorpio 1 -> 2 (There are some Predaplant supports in DIFO so i hope Konami shows some love for the archetype)
ABC Dragon Buster 2 -> 3 (If Therion wouldn't come in the next pack, i believe this will be fine. ABC is already expensive)
Souleating Oviraptor 2 -> 3 (It's fine i guess?! Maybe not)
Trickstar Reincarnation 1 -> 2 (In TCG it's at 3, in OCG it's at 1 and i believe here it should be at 2 :'))
Dragon Buster Destruction Sword 3 -> 0 (IMO, it's another decent approach instead of banning Union Carrier)
Numbers Eveil 3 -> 2 (Hard drawing Rhongo 4 mat? No way!)
Nadir Servant 1 -> 2 (I don't see why not)
Master Peace, The Draco Slaying King 0 -> 1 (It's COPIUM but anyway...)
I don't know what should be banned because it also depends on the new cards too and we have little information for that at the moment.
Data sourced from tournament reports on MasterDuelMeta.com
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