YCS Chicago

Infernities won. That's good, for me, anyways. There might be a price hike, and that'll help when I'm trying to sell my Infernity cards.

Regardless, here's the list of decks for the Top 32:

Infernity - 5
X-Sabers - 12
Gladiator Beasts - 3
Blackwings - 2
Herald of Perfection - 3 (various builds)
Frogs - 4 (1 was the FTK variant, while the rest were Monarch variants)
Quickdraw Plants - 1
Synchro Cat (with teched Doomcaliber Knights) - 1
Machina Gadgets - 1

And their distribution:

1st: Infernities
2nd: X-Sabers
Top 4: X-Sabers (2)
Top 8: X-Sabers, Gladiator Beasts, Blackwings, Happy Herald
Top 16: Infernities, X-Sabers (4), Gladiator Beasts, Frog Monarchs (2)
Top 32: Infernities (3), X-Sabers (4), Gladiator Beasts, Blackwings, Herald of Perfection (2), Frog FTK, Frog Monarchs, Quickdraw Plants, Synchro Cat, Machina Gadgets

Based on this, we can get a pretty good representation of the current meta in the TCG.

Some people complain that Infernities and X-Sabers are tier 1 and that all of the other decks are below them. Depending on how you look at these results, they can either confirm or reject that argument. Infernities and X-Sabers did take the all of the slots in the Top 4. But, plenty of other decks made it up to the Top 8.

There were an unusually high amount of X-Sabers in the Top 32, though. I've personally never played against X-Sabers, which is bad, since I don't have much experience against them to discuss.

I've seen what they can do, though, which usually revolves around the idea of somehow getting two X-Sabers onto the field (Rescue Cat, Boggart Knight, Fulhelmknight, Pashuul, etc.) so that they can drop XX-Saber Faultroll. They're like the new Lightsworn, since they cost a bunch of money to get and require very little skill to play. The only decisions you have to make are which order to Synchro in, and that's not exactly difficult.

I'll probably continue this discussion in a later post, once I get more experience against X-Sabers, because somehow this post turned into an examination of X-Sabers...