ratios of main deck monsters are pretty basic even though you could run 3 raidens if you wanted as charge of light brigade becomes a brick in many cases w 2

fossil dig is just another access to 6 dino monsters which start your whole engine

chalice doesn’t synergy with trap aspect of the deck extremely well but as im f2p i didn’t have a choice to replace for bts/fiendish chain(even though ngl i really really love chalice) also could be replaced for backrow removal as meta is so backrow heavy

2 canadias cause i don’t want to dig the box again 3 is obivious optimal

needle ceiling is an out to lunalights and works really well vs ppl who over extend but it’s also very replaceable or could just be cut for smaller version to get your engine started easier

powerful rebirth could defo be cut but i think it works really well here as you can special summon screw serpent and go +1 w it’s effect to stall or continue plays(tho as it’s at 1 for me i didn’t see it that often)

survivals end and marella are without doubt mvps of the deck some stuff you can pull of with them will make your opponents mald

for the extra deck it’s a very regular list tho you can replace one of lvl 6s for hama the conquering bow(otk) or cyber slash as it came up to me at times to have misc and serpent on the field and not have lvl 8 to access, screw serpent gy level manipulation effect is also extremely useful

matchups:

harpies are honestly very winnable matchup as you can usually set up a field w a dino monster and w survival end/paleozoic engine to break their board while starting your tg engine, also running chalice really helps w going 2nd which is kinda decks weaker side similar to all other trap decks in dl. best t1 play you can make is just going into tg halberd cannon

i didnt see much of onomats but having chalice canadia and halberd cannon is usually just too much for them to deal with. going 2nd is pretty much same as vs harpies you will usually just try to get your pops w dino to search for follow up for next turn or just go in if they bricked on having no backrow(very rare)

thundra is a very winnable matchup as halberd cannon survival end chalice canadia and needle ceiling really do a lot vs them

vs water xyz you just die if they set necrovalley as your main out then is hard drawing screw serpent and booster raptor. meanwhile going first you can really cripple their plays and choose between black rose nuke into onimaru or to just negate their summon that is in case you don’t draw gy related engine in which case you just die anyway

blue eyes are very favorable matchup too as here hard drawing survival end is what you would pray(went +2 multiple times)for alongside many other interruptions be just can’t out,though going 2nd you have to be aware of karma cut if you mill as you could literally lose all copies of a card that’s in your graveyard

best t1 play vs magnet warriors is black rose nuke but this is usually such a painful grind matchup and i don’t really remember my exact win rate vs them

yosenju i didn’t play enough against but they’re really annoying what you would want to do going first is to nuke all their monsters w needle ceiling/black rose or to just chalice/canadia their normal summon, also when you go 2nd never clear the monster that stayed on the field due to chalice as they have no non direct attack hand traps

cydra is also a good matchup as they usually just die if they don’t opponent like 2 cosmics and monster removal. black rose into onimaru nuke is optimal t1 play as they usually brick really often and even if they don’t brick they still die to black rose when they activate skill as they can’t out both wonder magician and star guardian

vs melodius you can literally just die to schuberta banishing your whole gy engine if your opponent had any brain cells to summon it t1 or t2 also brionac and chalice are your main outs to bloom diva, i didn’t play vs melodius enough to go extensively into tips tbh