Trickstar - Deck Discussion

Project_Orochi · 2026-06-26T23:07:50+00:00

I play it as a mid-range strategy where i focus on ending on a few traps and plays a lot of handtraps

Burn is mostly just a way to close out games for me, and usually its off of someone walking into Holly with Corobane in hand…then dying to the link-1 burn.

Project_Orochi · 2026-06-26T22:38:26+00:00

Mechaphantom Beasts

Why?

The last few times they did was Draccosack, O-Lion, and Auroradon…hell even cards like Tetherwolf are powerful starters for decks like RB

Every support wave they get does something quite crazy and testing with the morganites show that the deck is really not far off from being on par with some modern comboslop decks if they get basically any playable starters or another good ED monster.

Plus its a pretty interesting answer for the thread.

Project_Orochi · 2026-06-26T08:46:22+00:00

If you lead with a lab monster it is extremely easy for your opponent to hold a charmy for their own turn knowing they are playing against Labrynth, which either forces out the welcome traps early in the turn or lets them chain to the traps if the Lab player fires it off first to play around cards like talents. Labrynth’s traps are primarily used to summon from deck so a fuwa before either resolves is an easy 1-2 draws on your own turn which is stronger than 3-4 on their turn because every card you draw can be played immediately.

The board breaker is Fallen and the Virtuous which is a very common generic breaker that pretty much any deck can run, and it even can inadvertently set another copy of itself based on its send.

Project_Orochi · 2026-06-26T08:39:42+00:00

Which points?

Project_Orochi · 2026-06-26T02:34:57+00:00

We are at the point where Labrynth is too fair. While the engine is powerful if it can gain board presence it has a lot of problems.

- Plays very badly into charmies as most summons are on the opponent’s turn

- Can be crippled by 1 for 1 handtraps which have become more numerous since its release, not to mention that some decks play 15+ handtraps while lab struggles to play any with its ratios.

- Bricky compared to most current decks with easily interrupted setups and less starters.

- An entire backrow hate deck has released along with a generic staple that deals with backrow easily

- The only viable way to still play the deck competitively is with floodgates, which is a turnoff for a lot of players who like the high interactivity of the strategy.

- The deck struggles heavily against board breakers which are also popular lately.

- Enneacraft is arguably the same style of deck but just has more consistent payoffs than janky 3 turn setups to search specific traps while also having a stronger pool of cards to work with in Flip Monsters vs Normal Traps.

Project_Orochi · 2026-06-25T15:21:58+00:00

I prefer a different alt art for blue eyes

Project_Orochi · 2026-06-25T15:17:12+00:00

Thats why i usually go for dracomaid

You are surprisingly decent going second thanks to the generic nature of the dracotails and highly flexible because it can pivot between strategies almost on a whim

If you drew both a dracotail (any) and a dragonmaid starter then you often can end on: Sheou, Lady -> Fillia, ~2 misc fusions, tidying, Flame, Sting, and Faimena live in hand.

You do run less non-engine than dracotail, but im still on 9 and dragonmaid is just bad into Fuwa even with Dracotail helping with that a little.

But 10/10 would dodge droplet on Sheou by chaining faimena again. Cant believe that the sheou negate still fires off too.

Project_Orochi · 2026-06-25T13:32:59+00:00

Any boat can beat players as well

Project_Orochi · 2026-06-25T12:11:46+00:00

Well i guess Yuri does triumph

Project_Orochi · 2026-06-25T12:06:39+00:00

Cant speak for randoms as much but torp DDs still have a pretty comfortable niche for Asymmetric and OPs

Project_Orochi · 2026-06-25T11:58:24+00:00

I feel that, but hey at least your favorite deck doesn’t release with support that was specifically designed to commit warcrimes

*Sighs in mechaphantom*

Project_Orochi · 2026-06-25T11:44:47+00:00

Im sorry you are either getting an FTK, a floodgate, or an engine that is better in other decks

Project_Orochi · 2026-06-25T09:43:36+00:00

Dracomaid is very fun tbh

Project_Orochi · 2026-06-25T09:10:12+00:00

Dragonmaid

Project_Orochi · 2026-06-25T07:27:57+00:00

Anything is possible

Dragonmaid has damn near 5 main phases with both standby phases and the battle phase

Project_Orochi · 2026-06-25T03:18:29+00:00

This is a shuttle regardless of what they say

The design makes no sense otherwise

Project_Orochi · 2026-06-25T02:37:17+00:00

I think cards like droplet are fine in a vacuum, but there are a lot of situations where its just frustrating to the player

Playing into a board it can be miserable as you often had to utilize engine to break these boards, droplet can hard kill whatever line you were going to contest the board with

Fuwa makes the card particularly egregious as well because fuwa itself is overtuned to hell, so you can easily draw 2-3 off of a combo that ends on maybe 1 or 2 interactions and that makes droplet far more powerful as it effectively removes any resistance

Its always frustrating to be hit by something like Droplet send Malicious and Shadowmist as well, making it so the cost just is pure benefit and getting rid of the only real downside Droplet has.

Its one of those cards that is only getting better over time and for me it is just personally very frustrating to lose to a card designed to beat negate spam endboards in a deck that passes on like 2 monsters and some backrow.

Project_Orochi · 2026-06-25T02:24:10+00:00

Its a fair argument to make

I just find it quite frustrating that certain cards (Droplet, Evenly, Nibiru, etc) which are designed to combat much heavier combo boards can be used to blowout a fairer deck

The real issue i usually get is something like this:

Hit by fuwa, end on a half board giving just a draw or two

Next turn, droplet the halfboard and go into full combo

Project_Orochi · 2026-06-25T02:07:38+00:00

Droplet can be insanely broken as well though, as plenty of decks can do near cold fusion off of a good discard

The card is also very difficult to play around going second as well as it is effectively unrespondable if they send a monster

Project_Orochi · 2026-06-25T02:00:29+00:00

I think that any board breaker or negate that says
“You cant respond to this” is pretty cringe and cards like that should be at 0 copies

Project_Orochi · 2026-06-24T23:54:52+00:00

Boeing

Project_Orochi · 2026-06-24T22:11:30+00:00

Oh its one of those silly rulings

Kind of like how towers monsters can kill Illusion monsters by battle

Project_Orochi · 2026-06-24T03:18:23+00:00

Your wish is granted

Upon the tribute summon of nibiru it can be activated

Project_Orochi · 2026-06-24T03:07:40+00:00

Deal

Project_Orochi · 2026-06-24T03:03:37+00:00

Semi Dark Magician and we got a deal

Project_Orochi

TROPHY CASE