Meta calls

When you don't want to play the meta because you're trolling people, you do something called meta calls

Basically you gather a pile of anti-meta cards together, put it in an anti-meta deck, and go to tourney

This strategy is only good if you're playing a tournament full of top tier decks

So, for the Dragon and Spellcaster meta, just auto include: 3 Imperial Iron Walls, Book of Moon, Effect Veiler/Breakthrough Skill/Forbidden Chalice/whatever that hates monster effects

So, for some solid choices for the meta, this is a basic list:

1. Gravekeepers: Royal Tribute is a good card to open against Dragons and Mermails. And even though it does basically no damage to Prophecy, you have Necrovalley to handle Fate, and Priestess at some extent. Your monsters are bigger than Kycoo which is a good thing. So watch out for the Star Hall ATK boost.

And the deck can side Malefic Cyber End Dragon, Fuslisier, Skill Drain and EEV too

And if you're on DN, you can easily summon No 66 Master Key Beetle and protect Necrovalley/Iron Wall/Vanity's Emptiness

Aren't those advantages enough?

2. Gadget/Hunder/Fire Fist (teched with Kycoo and such): Which can make Shock Master/Abyss Dweller easily. Enough said lol. Gadget is a better pick thanks to the ability to push for damage and make Dweller with 2200 ATK thanks to Goldfish, and the generally better match-ups against the rogue deck

3. Infernity: For fuck's sake, Infernity Brick Break and Infernity Barrier are too good cards. The only disadvantage of the deck is itself: Draw 4-5 monsters anyone? I tried the deck my self, and those kinds of hand sucked. You can also list Dark World here, you can EEV everyone, and Grapha is bigger than anything

4. Piles of good cards: I'm serious, because top tier decks now often die to 1 card

Just make a deck that consists of: Thunder King Rai-Oh, Fossil Dyna Phachycephalo, Banisher of the Radiance, Macro Cosmos/Imperial Iron Walls/...

I'm deadly serious

And you can also consider Dragunity/Hieratic/Karakuri/any other OTK-based deck. Maxx "C" is a thing, Effect Veiler is another thing, but there're good cards like Debunk and Mind Drain

However I'm not gonna list those decks for meta calls, because I played them all and scrubbed. Guess that's because I suck, however

So, until Sunday, for the second part of the tourney report

For the Europeans: Good luck this weekend ;)