September format

YCS Toronto just ended and Dragon Rulers, piloted by an Asian, took the champion

Honestly I am not surprised with this at all. Going deeper into the format with more and more testing people will soon realize how easily Dragon Rulers can be beat (Soul Drain rules them all). But this is just the start of the format, and it takes time to define a real top tier deck

The champion's decklist isn't even the "Dragon Ruler Plant" thing that has been floating around for quite some time. It's just Dragon Rulers, with some synchro elements like Debris Dragon/Card Trooper and Dragunity Corsesca. To be honest this is quite similar to my build when I first heard about the OCG ban list (my build was more about summoning Trishula but fuck it lol), aside from Card of Consonances

And, to be honest (again), I really think that Dragon Ruler Dragunity thing is a real joke. You can look at how Patrick Hoban played in the semi-final: It's not about Dragunity after all, and all those Duxes and Mysteletainns just make things worse. Dragunity is a good deck, Dragon Ruler is a good deck, Tempest is a good card and Tempest in Dragunity is broken. That's all. If you want to make more use of Dragon Ravine, play Eclipse Wyvern/LADD instead

Blackwing in top 4 is quite a surprise, but it's still reasonable because that kind of deck with heavy traps and a little aggression never wins but will top a lot. There was also Psychic Madolche in the top 32 (go on Youtube for decklist, I'm lazy now) and in my opinion that mix is another joke. Madolche is good, Psychic is good, but combining them into a deck sucks. I've tried myself, and I realize there're better cards that fuel the graveyard for Hootcake than Serene Psychic Witches

However the things that caught my eye the most was Sorosh Saberian's Mermail and Evan Daniel Waxman's Transmodify Herald Agent. Sorosh has been my favourite player for quite a while (the first time I really netdecked was "building" a Fabled Ragin turbo deck just like his) and Mermail has been my favourite deck for a shorter while. The interaction between Abyssocea, Mechquipped Angineer and Bahamut Shark is quite interesting and I've promised myself to spend some time working on it

That Herald Agent with Transmodify concept isn't new (Robert Boyajian showed us on CoreTCG blog weeks ago), but seeing such control deck in the top is really interesting. Advanced Ritual Art finally made it to the YCS tops

That's just some little talk about what I've seen after YCS Toronto. After some more testing I'll bring you a little more information about how I think the format will proceed. Until next time :D