Notes & Combos
Honestly, I've had a frustrating past week.... As a challenge, I chose to stick with this deck even if it's not the most powerful. But the ladder was absolutely swamped with Odion! Even then, I got to the rank-up game to M1... and then lost 7 in a row for the derank @~@
Then maintenance hit, and with it, Vanquish got their support and K9 arrived on the scene. With them, thankfully, the Odion and Maliss disappeared in favour of new toy syndrome, and the climb back up became smoother.
Despite your first turn play allowing Izuna, they can't really hold it for too long, else they get taxed trying to use it, or worse, your Murakumo pops the Izuna before Lupis can do anything about it. Hence, I actually found K9 matchups easier than Dracotail, where you'd have to do some flippy tricks to avoid the turn 0 Faimena and first action Ketu.
... and yes, this deck can play Shifter. Sorry. But try not to let exactly Kusanagi hit banishment, because if he does, any of your cards that hit banishment are gone for the rest of the game, as well as any spell that hits the GY and isn't Mirror (having zero Prayers available because of this hugely affects your ability to play slippery).
Replays
In-Game: 598-734-854 (mix of going 1st and 2nd -- and this time I've also saved some L's, because I wanted to show that the deck is kind of bricky and you need to not get frustrated by this)
Discord: @dinosore_rs "Infy the Mischievous"