The Creative Deck Strategy Showdown 5 has Arrived!
Check out the next creative deck tournament, featuring all types of brand new strategies, and please provide feedback on my content!
The Creative Deck Strategy Showdown – V!
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 10 videos made to cover the tournament. Lastly, I ask that you leave feedback on CDSS5 in the link provided in the Feedback Warrior section near the end of this article (or here). If you missed out on CDSS1, CDSS2, CDSS3, or CDSS4 – be sure to check those out too!
Who is participating in CDSS5?
32 different strategies, pulled from past articles as far as my early articles 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 many of the older strategies may have gotten a significant upgrade! For a rundown of the participants and their custom promo art, open the spoiler below!
Links and Event Details:
How do I watch?
As CDSS5 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 CDSS5 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.
The Pods:
Pod A Matches
Pod B Matches
Pod C Matches
Pod D Matches
Pod E Matches
Pod F Matches
Pod G Matches
Pod H Matches
Top 8:
Top 4 and Finale:
Winner’s Decklist:
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-received, and thus I don’t have any intention on stopping them as of now, 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!
Please let me know how you liked CDSS5:
If you’re reading this far and you’ve engaged with parts of the CDSS5 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/d4Ecmq79Up5fuPFt5
Thanks for reading/watching, and I hope you enjoyed each of the 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 next week when I *hopefully* get back to regularly posting new CDPs!
