In Yu-Gi-Oh, forgetting about your opponent is much more deadly than it is in Vanguard because of the amount of disruption they can potentially cause during your turn. The reason I never made it far was because I wanted to make the flashiest plays possible but completely ignored the most important thing: my opponent. Toping with a non-Meta deck at a tournament like WCQ is possible but you’d need complete mastery over your deck and play. I always focused on cool cards that created insane boards to leave the opponent with no chance of winning.

I only played the decks I liked and I didn’t play meta decks.Before we start the article, let me tell you a little story.īack in 2016, I was playing Yugioh and spoiler alert, I never topped a single big tournament. Hello everyone! My name is Maxime, also known as Madnissimo, I recently topped in BSF Germany and France. The following terms will be used during this article for the sake of brevity WCQĪ Variant of Megacolony deck using Fabricated Dragon of Ruination to play Order for free.

Since it is an article about competitive Vanguard, Thavas will be the variant we will be focusing on but a lot of the points in this article can translate to other decks or even clans more broadly. The goal of this article is to introduce you, the reader, to some competitive deck building concepts like consistency focus, matchup prediction and the low roll rules. This article is mainly about deck building and how card choices can transition into good or bad situations in practice.

Coral, Nerissa and balancing multi attacks and big columns.

Match ups and playing to the strengths of the Clan.

Example of my building philosophy: Building Thavas Premium.

Don’t Fall Into The “Win More” Cards Trap.

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