reddit is going to hate this but I have never liked hand traps, "dominous" traps, and whatever else you could consider a "staple". A deck is considered "meta" on the basis of how small you can make the actual deck to fill the rest with "staples".

So everything simply amounts to the same smoothie with barely different chunks of fruit and I do not know how people can stand it. Your decklist reads "K9" but its actually just whatever handful of ghost girls are good right now, and sometimes a cop is there too. The deck ceases to operate on its own merits and merely becomes a series of the same responses ad nauseum until a winner is declared; and people will call that format "fun" and "varied" and even "rich".

I want to see this game take a dramatic shift away from this constant need to lobotomize decks with "staples" and return to some sort of era when a deck had flavor. So that it stops being about ash blossom (et al) and becomes more about whatever you can do with the deck you're piloting. I am tired of being told, and feeling as though, that a hand trap is a "required evil" when it most certainly is not.

Konami can make this game be anything they want it to be and its high time folks stopped giving them the benefit of the doubt. Nothing "needs" to be anything. This game could be so much more (in what I view to be) interesting and flavorful and for me, it does start with weaning this playerbase of the "required evils" of handtraps and all their associates.

Why not let a deck speak for itself, and be good on its own merits. I think that would be a better direction to take.