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The Creative Deck Strategy Showdown – IV!
Welcome to a digital display of creative decks dueling it out! 32 strategies will enter a knockout bracket, but only one will come out victorious. This event was hosted on my YouTube channel for the site, so please subscribe to not miss future events. This post marks the end of the event and serves as a hub article to visit all 11 videos. Lastly, I ask that you leave feedback on CDSS4 in the link provided in the Feedback Warrior section near the end of this article. If you missed out on CDSS1, CDSS2, or CDSS3, be sure to check that out too!
Who is participating?
32 different strategies, pulled from past articles as far as my second article in 2013, recent strategies as close as those posted 2 weeks ago, cancelled articles from over the years, and themes that had yet to be showcased by me in a profile appear here! From hybrid variants to pure approaches, this list covers a wide swath of favorites from my past builds, and a couple returns of popular themes! All builds from past articles have been updated for the current TCG format and existing cross-region cardpool, so some of the old strategies may have gotten a significant upgrade! For a rundown of the participants and their custom promo art, open the spoiler below! CDSS4 was broken into 8 Pods to consolidate the tournament into a shorter timeframe, each Pod offering a strategy a spot in the Top 8! So let’s get into these Pods!
1. Ancient Bujin Brigade
Inspired by: CDP: Ancient Bujin-Warrior Brigade
2. Evil HERO Grandmerge
Inspired by future HERO article
3. Nordic Thunder Dragon
Inspired by: CDP: Aesir of Nordic Thunder
4. Trickstar Link – Live Burn
Inspired by: CDP: Trickstar Live – Link Burn
5. High Draw Dual Avatar
Inspired by: CDP: Souten-Style High-Draw
6. Appliancer Codebreak
Inspired by: Requested CDP strategy and deferred to CDSS
7. Chambermaid of Blue-Eyes Fusion
Inspired by: CDP: Chambermaiden of the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Fusion
8. Gishkill
Inspired by: CDP: Deep Combo Gishki HandKill
9. Advent of the Amazoness
Inspired by: CDP: Amazoness Assemble!
10. Twinfluencer Live Link
Inspired by: CDP: Chaotic Live Twin
11. Domain of the Monarchs
Inspired by: CDP: The Monarchs Reawaken
12. GX Hybrid: Phantasm Neos
Inspired by: CDP: Neos Kluger Sacred Phantasm
13. Embrace the Core: Koa’ki Mieru Blitz
Inspired by: CDS: Embrace the Core Part One, Part Two, and Part Three
14. Zefritual Beast
Inspired by: Cancelled Zefra Mega Article
15. Chronomcipator
Inspired by: CDP: Time to Rock – Chronomaly Adamancipator and CDS: Chronomaly Inbound
16. Odd-Eyes Magistus
Inspired by: CDP: Odd-Eyes Magistus
17. Windwitch WindBurn
Inspired by: CDP: Magicalized Windwitch Burn
18. Vanilla Dino Pendulum
Inspired by: Pendulum Monsters: What Went Wrong?
19. Scrappy Accel Crystron
Inspired by: Requested CDP strategy and deferred to CDSS
20. Felgrand Dragunity
Inspired by: Requested CDP strategy and deferred to CDSS… for now
21. Machina Infinitrain
Inspired by: CDP: The Machiner’s Infinitrack Railway
22. Burning Infernoid Abyss
Inspired by: CDS: Tierra’s Angels
23. Dinomist ASSEMBLE!
Inspired by: Requested CDP strategy and deferred to CDSS
24. Coelacanth Fish Synchro
Inspired by: Cancelled CDP strategy and deferred to CDSS & CDS: Shark Time Thief
25. Orcustrated Topologic Gizmek
Inspired by: CDP: Topologic Gizmek
26. AliTenyien Synchro
Inspired by: CDP: Alien Tenyi Synchro and CDS: “A”
27. The Once Fabled Dark World
Inspired by: CDP: Fabled Dark World
28. Cynet Lock
Inspired by: CDP: Cynet Link
29. Overlayed Foliage: Rikka Sylvan
Inspired by: CDP: Sylvan’s Rose
30: Crystal Rainbow
Inspired by: CDP: Ultimate Crystal Beast, Rainbow Zenith
31: Numeron Burn
Inspired by: Potential Future CDP strategy
32: Dogmatika’s Evil Eye
Inspired by: CDP: Dogmatika’s Evil Eye
Links and Event Details:
How do I watch?
As CDSS4 was entirely contained within YouTube videos, I’ve embedded the playlist for the entire event below. I’ve also provided direct links to each of the individual videos from the event broken down by week in their own individual spoilers to avoid spoiling winners! Note that all videos in CDSS4 have chapters for you to more easily navigate between the matches and catch the ones you are interested in, plus all decklists are shown at the end of a video in which they are eliminated.
Round of 32 and Round of 16:
Top 8:
FINALE:
Acknowledgements:
As a closing note, thanks again to everyone who has read and engaged with my content since I began posting here in 2013. Each of the CDSS events seemed be well-recieved, so I’d also like to thank all of the individual contributors who have requested strategies over the years, as many of those requests are represented in these events. I couldn’t do it alone, and your input is extremely valuable in crafting what I write about next!
I’d also like to acknowledge Blackbeltsam5610 who assisted with refining the builds yet again for CDSS4. Their help was outstanding in providing improvements and just great overall feedback when preparing everything. So thank you, very much, for all of your input.
Please let me know how you liked CDSS4:
If you’re reading this far and you’ve engaged with parts of the CDSS4 at any point, please also take the time to answer this short questionnaire so I can get some direct feedback. I want to hear from you whether or not you want to see something like this again, and if so, what you would like in the future. The form can be accessed here: https://forms.gle/PCqAAjQdqwKDsBaC7
Thanks for reading/watching, and I hope you enjoyed both iterations of the CDSS and my attempt to provide diverse types of content! Be sure to leave feedback through the above form, commenting on any of these videos on my YouTube Channel, or by reaching out on Discord! Otherwise, I’ll catch you later this week when I get back to regularly posting new CDPs!
