YCS Toronto: Results and thoughts on the results

Wind-Up, piloted by Joshua Graham took the first YCS title of the format after defeating Jeff Jones's Psychic Grandsoil deck.

Apparently there were 5 Wind-Ups, 4 HERO, 2 Rabbit, 2 Geargia, 1 Dark World, 1 Psychic, 1 Burn deck that made it to the top 16.

As can be easily seen, Wind-Up has become the dominant deck right after the Forbidden/Limited list takes effect. Because it's still powerful or because it's the deck which got weakened the least? I don't know LOL.

From the featured matches which can be found on Konami Blog, Geargia is quite an explosive deck in any of its variants, from Geargia Karakuri to Geargia Machina. However, no HERO deck got a featured match, therefore we cannot see what kind of HEROes topped (original HERO Beat, Bubble Beat, or A Hero Lives OTK). Also, Dino Rabbit is still a competitive deck, and at least for now, there're spaces for rogue pick such as Psychic, Dark World and Burn (if I'm not wrong it's not a Chain Burn deck, it's a deck that is based on Magic Cylinder, Dimension Wall LOL)

Jeff Jones, despite losing his final match, will be remembered for taking Psychic, which never found any spots in the top cut, to the final. Psychic may or may not be the Chaos Dragon of September format (which became a tier 1 deck after Peter Gross's and Alex Reed's achievement), but it has many similarities to Chaos Dragon: Jeff did not run any real traps (Psychic Overload is the archtype's own Pot of Avarice), and his deck has the ability to explode and even OTK (look at the duel log of the final, Jeff's field had Naturia Beast, Naturia Barkion, 2 Grandsoils and a Card Trooper). But if you did not notice, he tuned Tragoedia and Psychic Commander for Naturia Beast.

What can get over that field? Shark Magician LOLOL.

Wind-Up is still very powerful as with those 2 cards in hand, you can break through almost any rough situations (provide you're not stopped by traps). It has anything you can ask for in a deck: consistency (3 Wind-Up Factories...), flexibility (OTK, control, hand destruction, or just poke with Rat/Rabbit LOL), speed (Shark Magician into whatever, 2 xyz monsters or more than 9000 damage) and will still be the deck to beat in TCG for some time (until more broken TCG exclusives are released)

Top 4 decklist:

1st: Joshua Graham - Wind-Ups

Monster [20]
3 Wind-Up Shark
2 Wind-Up Magician
3 Wind-Up Rat
3 Wind-Up Rabbit
2 Maxx C
2 Thunder King Rai-Oh
2 Snowman Eater
2 Tour Guide from the Underworld
1 Sangan

Spell [11]
1 Dark Hole
1 Monster Reborn
1 Heavy Storm
1 Pot of Avarice
2 Mystical Space Typhoon
2 Pot of Duality
3 Wind-Up Factory

Trap [11]
2 Mirror Force
2 Torrential Tribute
2 Solemn Warning
1 Solemn Judgment
2 Bottomless Trap Hole
2 Dimensional Prison


2nd: Jeff Jones - Psychic Grandsoil

Monster [25]
3 Grandsoil, the Elemental Lord
3 Serene Psychic Witch
2 Tragoedia
2 Giant Rat
2 Psychic Commander
2 Psychic Jumper
2 Card Trooper
2 Maxx C
2 Effect Veiler
1 Gorz the Emissary of Darkness
2 Silent Psychic Wizard
1 Neo Spacian Grand Mole
1 Esper Girl

Spell [15]
3 Emergency Teleport
1 Creature Swap
2 Mystical Space Typhoon
2 Pot of Duality
2 Miracle Synchro Fusion
1 Pot of Avarice
1 Dark Hole
1 Heavy Storm
1 Mind Control
1 Monster Reborn

Trap [1]
1 Psychic Overload


3rd: Jordan Kornntoff - Geargia
Monster [15]
3 Geargiarmor
3 Geargiaccelerator
2 Geargiarsenal
3 Machina Gearframe
2 Machina Fortress
1 Machina Cannon
1 Machina Peacekeeper

Spell [10]
2 Pot of Duality
1 Book of Moon
1 Dark Hole
1 Monster Reborn
1 Heavy Storm
1 Pot of Avarice
1 Soul Taker
1 Forbidden Lance
1 Mystical Space Typhoon

Trap [15]
2 Solemn Warning
1 Solemn Judgment
2 Mirror Force
2 Torrential Tribute
2 Starlight Road
2 Compulsory Evacuation Device
2 Bottomless Trap Hole
1 Fiendish Chain
1 Dimensional Prison


4th: Peter Tran - Wind-Up
Monsters [19]
1 Effect Veiler
2 Maxx C
1 Sangan
2 Tour Guide from the Underworld
1 Gorz
3 Wind-Up Magician
3 Wind-Up Shark
3 Wind-Up Rabbit
3 Wind-Up Rat

Spell [12]
1 Dark Hole
1 Monster Reborn
1 Heavy Storm
1 Mind Control
1 Book of Moon
1 Pot of Avarice
3 Mystical Space Typhoon
3 Wind-Up Factory

Trap [9]
1 Solemn Judgment
2 Solemn Warning
2 Torrential Tribute
2 Bottomless Trap Hole
2 Dimensional Prison