CDP: Post-AGOV Tistina, Hybrid Decks: Volcanic, Dinosaur, Ghostrick, & Firewall

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Today’s CDP follows up on the reveal of the newest members of the Tistina archetype, making their debut to the TCG in the next core set, Age of Overlord. If you missed my initial profile, be sure to check that out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGgRfGdK7rI. Now that you’re caught up to speed on a pure build, let’s take this flexible archetype and mesh it with a bunch of other decks, and see how everything shakes out!

Build One: Tistina Volcanic
I’ll start with the clash between Aqua and Pyro, as the Tistina theme takes on burn damage and additional destructive capabilities. The Volcanic archetype, especially following the FIRE Duelist pack, has a lot of potential, but it needs a bit more beef behind its plays to truly work out. In this build, watch as the Tistina can easily bridge to the Volcanic archetype using their newfound ability to Xyz Summon. With the help of Hound of the Tistina and Returned of the Tistina combining to make a Rank 4, this deck uses another new card from AGOV, Infernal Flame Banshee, to tutor any Pyro monster from your deck. With the consistency offered by the Tistina, the Volcanic theme can have its ideal pairing of Volcanic Rocket and Volcanic Trooper to set-up Blaze Accelerator Reload with a Volcanic Scattershot in hand.

Build Two: Tistina Dinosaur
With inspiration from the comments section of my last Tistina profile, I embarked on enabling Ultimate Conductor Tyranno with the Tistina cards, as setting your opponent’s monsters face-down sure left a ripe niche for UCT to run amok. The engine being employed today is slightly more built out than it could be, as the minimum requirement is to have Souleating Oviraptor (and Fossil Dig to tutor it), as Ovi will send Overtex Qoatlus to the GY, tutoring Double Evolution Bill, and bingo bango bongo, you have yourself everything you need for UCT. In my take, I’ve also included Miscellaneousaurus and Animadorned Archosaur, as I also wanted to include Beta Evolution Pill – Ultransendance, as it can be used to bring out a strong floodgate option in Dinomorphia Rexterm, especially later in the duel. Either way, your Normal Summon goes to Dinos in this hybrid!

Build Three: Tistina Ghostrick
It’s spooky season, so let’s bring on the Ghosts! This Xyz archetype is best known for flipping up and down to Scare the opponent with FLIP effects and direct attacks, but it also makes for a decent pairing with the Tistina. Whether it is Swords of Concealing Light, Destructive Daruma Karma Cannon, or even the effect of Ghostrick Fairy, your Tistina will have plenty of help flipping your opponent’s monsters face-down. The benefit of the Ghostrick engine is that it offers easy access to Number F0: Utopic Future Dragon, by combining two Ghostrick Angel of Mischief, easily accessed by Ghostrick Shot. This combo also happens to tutor you a copy of Ghostrick or Treat, giving you yet another disruption going into the opponent’s turn!

Build Four: Tistina Firewall
Taking inspiration from Chris Lin’s Tistina Mathmech combo theory that made the rounds before the AGOV support was even revealed, this theme takes the Tistina archetype out of the Xyz space and into the Link space. Remember, the Tistina archetype gives you no restrictions for using their effects or abusing all of their Special Summoning potential, therefore they can make for great link fodder, especially if going for a big LINK-5 summon such as Firewall Dragon Darkfluid – Neo Tempest Terahertz. Building out from a base Tistina core, I’ve included the option of going for either primary Mathmech Circular combo, whether it is the OTK with Geomathmech Final Sigma or the Turn One disruption offered by Primathmech Laplacian summoned via Mathmech Superfactorial, as well as a few copies of Cynet Mining to make both possible. However, if all else fails, you can always turn to Primathmech Alembertian to tutor out your copy of Circular, like I do in the replay in this video. Beyond that, it’s all Cyberse Links looking to carry you to victory with this build.

Provided Decklists:

Build One: Tistina Volcanic

Monsters: 25
| Crystal God Tistina
||| Demigod of the Tistina
| Volcanic Emperor
||| Volcanic Rocket
|| Hound of the Tistina
||| Sentinel of the Tistina
||| Volcanic Trooper
||| Returned of the Tistina
||| Volcanic Scattershot
|| Volcanic Rimfire
| Fallen of the Tistina

Spells: 12
||| Bonfire
|| Play of the Tistina
||| Breath of the Tistina
| Blaze Accelerator
|| Volcanic Blaze Accelerator
| Divine Domain Baatistina

Traps: 5
| Volcanic Emission
| Discordance of the Tistina
|| Blaze Accelerator Reload
| Volcanic Inferno

Extra Deck:
| Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS – Sky Thunder
| Stellar Nemesis T-PHON – Doomsday Star
| Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Gustav Max
|| Tistina, the Divinity that Defies Darkness
| Number 35: Ravenous Tarantula
| Infernal Flame Banshee
| Submersible Carrier Aero Shark
| Leviair the Sea Dragon
| Borrelsword Dragon
| Accesscode Talker
| Knightmare Unicorn
| S:P Little Night
| Flametongue the Blazing Magical Blade
| Geonator Transverser

Build Two: Tistina Dinosaur

Monsters: 19
| Ultimate Conductor Tyranno
| Crystal God Tistina
||| Demigod of the Tistina
| Overtex Qoatlus
| Tainted of the Tistina
| Miscellaneousaurus
| Hound of the Tistina
||| Souleating Oviraptor
||| Sentinel of the Tistina
|| Returned of the Tistina
| Fallen of the Tistina
| Animadorned Archosaur

Spells: 20
| Change of Heart
| Beta Evolution Pill – Ultranscendance
| Triple Tactics Talent
| Reinforcement of the Army
| Triple Tactics Thrust
| Double Evolution Pill
||| Fossil Dig
| Upstart Goblin
| Foolish Burial
||| Book of Eclipse
|| Play of the Tistina
||| Breath of the Tistina
| Divine Domain Baatistina

Trap: 1
| Discordance of the Tistina

Extra Deck:
| Dinomorphia Rexterm
| Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS – Sky Thunder
| Stellar Nemesis T-PHON – Doomsday Star
| Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Gustav Max
|| Tistina, the Divinity that Defies Darkness
| Number 35: Ravenous Tarantula
| Number 41: Bagooska the Terribly Tired Tapir
| Abyss Dweller
| Accesscode Talker
| Black Luster Soldier – Soldier of Chaos
| Knightmare Unicorn
| S:P Little Night
| Bujinki Ahashima
| Reprodocus

Build Three: Tistina Ghostrick

Monsters: 21
| Crystal God Tistina
||| Demigod of the Tistina
| Tainted of the Tistina
| Hound of the Tistina
||| Sentinel of the Tistina
|| Ghostrick Jiangshi
| Ghostrick Witch
|| Ghostrick Fairy
||| Returned of the Tistina
|| Ghostrick Lantern
| Fallen of the Tistina
| Ghostrick Mary

Spells: 12
||| Ghostrick Shot
|| Play of the Tistina
||| Swords of Concealing Light
||| Breath of the Tistina
| Divine Domain Baatistina

Traps: 7
||| Infinite Impermanence
| Ghostrick or Treat
||| Destructive Daruma Karma Cannon

Extra Deck:
| Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS – Sky Thunder
| Stellar Nemesis T-PHON – Doomsday Star
| Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Gustav Max
|| Tistina, the Divinity that Defies Darkness
|| Ghostrick Angel of Mischief
| Ghostrick Alucard
| Ghostrick Socuteboss
| Number F0: Utopic Draco Future
| Ghostrick Dullahan
| Number F0: Utopic Future
| Black Luster Soldier – Soldier of Chaos
| S:P Little Night
| Ghostrick Festival

Build Four: Tistina Firewall

Monsters: 20
| Crystal God Tistina
||| Demigod of the Tistina
| Tainted of the Tistina
|| Hound of the Tistina
| Mathmech Circular
| Mathmech Diameter
||| Mathmech Sigma
| Mathmech Multiplication
||| Sentinel of the Tistina
| Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring
|| Returned of the Tistina
| Fallen of the Tistina

Spells: 18
| Change of Heart
| Mathmech Equation
| Triple Tactics Talent
| Reinforcement of the Army
| Triple Tactics Thrust
|| Cynet Mining
| Upstart Goblin
| Foolish Burial
||| Book of Eclipse
|| Play of the Tistina
||| Breath of the Tistina
| Divine Domain Baatistina

Traps: 2
| Mathmech Superfactorial
| Discordance of the Tistina

Extra Deck:
| Cyberse Desavewurm
| Geomathmech Final Sigma
| Tistina, the Divinity that Defies Darkness
| Primathmech Alembertian
| Primathmech Laplacian
| Firewall Dragon Darkfluid – Neo Tempest Terahertz
| Firewall Dragon
| Accesscode Talker
| Black Luster Soldier – Soldier of Chaos
| Protectcode Talker
| Decode Talker Heatsoul
| Binary Sorceress
| Proxy F Magician
| Splash Mage
| Link Decoder

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