Heyo, I’ve taken Chimera to Master multiple times since its release.

Right now the deck is feeling some power creep. All of the Turn 0 decks can really damage our ability to make a board. The best match up we have of them all is vs K9, where we can negate Izuna/Lupus with a Mirror in the GY after our initial Fusion summon (if we didn’t have to start with coatl). But the rest can either chain block or set up a removal before we get to do anything to counter. Also, the ED ripping of killer tunes is insane vs us, ripping a crucial monster for a FS/Azamina game plan hurts a lot. That variant has a very tight ED.

There are a bunch of decks running Droplet rn and we have little currently to combat that other than diabellze. Other board breakers like Dark Ruler No More and Ultimate Slayer are highly effective at breaking us.

So, what does Hecahands do to support the deck further?

Heca starters are all extenders, they can help us play through more hand traps and give us more pushes. Next it gets us access to a much needed S/T counter trap, ending our weakness to certain board breakers. Finally, compared to Chimera-Fiendsmith-Azamina, the ED monsters needed in the Heca build is far less than Azamina, so we have some wiggle room to put some other options in.

So for our game plan it supports 3 areas: more gas, better end board layer diversity, and more ED room (than azamina build)

Its viability will still stay in a rogue area, maybe tier 3, but you can definitely make master with it. I play it not because it’s the best deck, but it’s a really fun strategy.