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[TCG] Week 3: Top 20 Decks and Cards

Mid August update on the top decks and their performances

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Dan
Aug 14, 2018, 3:15 AM -
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Again, shoutout to our boys at YGO Scope for providing such a sophisticated tool.

I've spent the last week working with the boys at ygoscope, to help refine their tool. Too often, things like 'frog'. 'paleo frog', 'sky striker frog', 'sky striker paleo', 'paleozoic', etc were dividing up the results, and a lot of the time, the one thats just frog, is paleo frog that just didn't draw his paleozoic stuff. Last week I manually compiled it all together, but some still slip through the cracks.
We took a weekend to re-define how each deck is decided, and updated the tool a lot for this week. It does mean some of the earlier data doesn't use the new setup, so the fruits of this labour will be much clearer next week, but we'll still take a look. Let's start with Decks.

Top 20 Decks:
  • SPYRAL - 76.92%
 Starting us off this week is another tcg archetype deck that won't seem to die. With big thanks to Knightmare Unicorn both discarding rescue and putting resort back in the deck, Spyrals returned to their former power, and frequently synergize with gouki's motif of extra linking Knightmare monsters. Many players even still ran gouki's, though that's been getting rarer as people realize the SPYRAL engine in the deck was just stronger.
  • Dinosaur - 73.68%
 Still rocking the Naturia Beast and True King cards of an era long-gone, this deck got some nice help in Cybernetic Horizon, and with such a few number of people playing the deck, it had much fewer mirror matches than other top decks (which drag a winrate closer to 50%, for better, or worse).
  • Gouki - 72.24%
 Just like last week, it's barely behind dinosaurs just due to how many mirror matches drag it down towards 50.
  • Pure Sky Strikers - 70.29%
 Now overtaking gouki as the most played deck, it will have had the most mirror matches. Nothing surprising here, but what's fascinating is how close its sister is to it.
  • Sky Striker Trickstar - 70.27%
 You read these numbers right. These decks are at this point identical in success. It helps that there is no time limits in online play.
  • Frog - 69.47%
 This deck has taken a bit of a fall. It's actually only a fall of about 1-2%, but everything else jumped back up as people had new bad decks to try this week. Still playing almost no mirror matches as well. This is still a very real threat this format that people still just aren't taking seriously.
  • Invoked Mekk-Knight - 68.42%
 One more week. Just one more week.
  • True Draco - 67.29%
 Like Dinosaurs, but with mirror matches. There's nothing really to be said. Dig fast. Floodgate often.
  • Pure Trickstar - 65.65%
 You win worlds one time and suddenly you're the 2nd most played deck in the game. Again I've seen 3 replays just from the ones I watched where somebody used reincarnation + droll on the opponents draw phase, without them playing a card, and the opponent being okay with it. This does not work. You cannot do this. Stop doing this. You require them to have added a card first (or a 2nd reincarnation to add 5 for them).
  • Altergeist - 64.56%
 This deck is just nuts. A few people have started to tech Clara to play around their rivalries, but opponents are starting to play around things like typhoon more often to severely inhibit the success rate of this deck. It's still a crazy deck. Most of the losses had one thing in common: Traps that responded to summons like bottomless trap hole or Torrential Tribute.
  • Zefra - 64.29%
 ヘビーメタルフォーゼ・エレクトラム
  • Cyber Dragon - 62.42%
 The representation is steadily declining, but those sticking to this deck are seeing above average success with it. I think this is a good deck to play with for a few days to fully understand it, and prepare for the upcoming support its getting in the near future.
  • Burning Abyss - 61.04%
 I really am a fan of the play that makes beatrice turn 1 to dump snow and set up the cir dante loop. It's crazy to me how consistently well that has been working for months now.
  • Mekk-Knight - 60.01%
 A pure Mekk-knight deck using the field spell to nuke boards, the new link monster, and a bigger focus on the column traps. World Legacy's Secret is one of the games most under-rated cards.
  • Infernoid - 58.88%
Another deck using the sky striker engine, and primarily fueled by void feasts almost assured victory upon resolution. It's very disruptive of opposing graveyards which helps this deck win. It doesn't go 2nd well enough to be a top contending deck.
  • Danger! (usually with Dark Worlds) - 57.89%
 This wasn't last place this week. Still yet to see it win without getting lucky. Its record for this week was 11 and 8.
  • ABC - 53.85%
 I guess the outer entity nyarla is supposed to make this deck become better, but it's already good. Better than these results represent. A rise in the use of Ghost Belle, and the general oppressiveness of altergeists; who get more popular every week, has been rough for these mechanical dragons.
  • HERO - 50.00%
 Win with Dark Law. Lose without Dark Law.
  • Mermail - 42.86%
 Only 1 guy played this deck. He played it 7 times. He lost 4 of them.
  • Pendulum Magicians - 41.67%
 "Most Consistent FTK EVER CHECK OUT MY YOUTUBE"

Top 20 Main Deck Cards by win rate:
Set Rotation90%
Mythical Beast Garuda88.89%
Survival's End88%
Secret Village of the Spellcasters86.96%
Babycerasaurus83.78%
Infernoid Attondel83.33%
Gilasaurus81.63%
Miscellaneousaurus81.40%
The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode80.95%
Hey, Trunade!80.95%
Sauravis, the Ancient and Ascended80%
Performapal Odd-Eyes Dissolver80%
Sky Striker Mecharmory - Hercules Base78.57%
Altergeist Emulatelf78.57%
SPYRAL GEAR - Drone78.57%
Giant Rex78.33%
Souleating Oviraptor77.42%
Gouki Riscorpio76.44%
Thunder King Rai-Oh76.19%
Ultimate Conductor Tyranno75.44%
Top 20 Extra Deck Cards by win rate:
Altergeist Hexstia77.59%
Topologic Gumblar Dragon77.50%
Panzer Dragon76.92%
Mekk-Knight Spectrum Supreme76.47%
Ningirsu the World Chalice Warrior75%
Summon Sorceress74.85%
Underclock Taker74.48%
Knightmare Goblin74.17%
Evolzar Dolkka74.07%
Firewall Dragon78.21%
Evolzar Laggia91.67%
Reprodocus85.71%
Borrelsword Dragon83.87%
Tornado Dragon83.33%
Clara & Rushka, the Ventriloduo82.35%
Tri-Gate Wizard81.75%
Dante, Pilgrim of the Burning Abyss80.95%
SPYRAL Double Helix80%
Trickstar Holly Angel80%
Leviair the Sea Dragon80%
Top 50 most used cards by high rated players
Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring1268
Sky Striker Mecha - Hornet Drones910
Sky Striker Ace - Kagari900
Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage!896
Infinite Impermanence802
Terraforming674
Knightmare Phoenix656
Sky Striker Ace - Shizuku639
Pot of Desires552
Sky Striker Mecha - Widow Anchor549
Called by the Grave542
Droll & Lock Bird537
Linkuriboh515
Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit451
Twin Twisters438
Sky Striker Ace - Raye421
Sky Striker Maneuver - Afterburners!420
Sky Striker Ace - Hayate415
Knightmare Unicorn409
Knightmare Goblin363
Knightmare Cerberus333
Knightmare Corruptor Iblee330
Sky Striker Mecha Modules - Multirole325
Trickstar Light Stage320
Trickstar Candina320
Altergeist Meluseek318
Isolde, Two Tales of the Noble Knights316
Trickstar Lycoris310
PSY-Framegear Gamma305
Altergeist Marionetter300
Sky Striker Airspace - Area Zero295
Gouki Suprex288
Altergeist Multifaker288
Reinforcement of the Army287
Knightmare Mermaid286
Divine Sword - Phoenix Blade285
Firewall Dragon284
Evenly Matched280
Altergeist Silquitous279
Rivalry of Warlords278
PSY-Frame Driver275
Gouki Octostretch266
Scapegoat263
Trickstar Reincarnation259
Gouki Twistcobra253
Altergeist Protocol251
Ghost Reaper & Winter Cherries250
Solemn Strike248
Gouki Headbatt239
Foolish Burial Goods228
Tier 1 Decks (>3000 decklists analyzed), by percent of the field, demonstrating Representation:
  • Pure Sky Striker - 14.8%
  • Altergeist - 11.9%
  • Pure Trickstar - 10.9%
  • Gouki - 10.4%
  • Cyber Dragon - 6.1%
I'm only going to be doing top 5 decks from now on so the data is more clearly presentable. We have one deck sticking out as most used, and then 3 decks that are all very similarly used.

Tier 1 Matchups:

Sky Striker
  • Sky Striker -> Altergeist - 52.94%
  • Sky Striker -> Trickstar - 27.27%
  • Sky Striker -> Gouki - 50%
  • Sky Striker -> Cyber Dragon - 33.33%
 Altergeist
  • Altergeist -> Trickstar -  50%
  • Altergeist -> Gouki - 58.82%
  • Altergeist -> Cyber Dragon - 50%
 Trickstar
  • Trickstar -> Gouki - 54.55%
  • Trickstar -> Cyber Dragon - 66.67%
 Gouki
  • Gouki -> Cyber Dragon - 100%
 Huge thanks and shoutout to our friends at https://www.ygoscope.com for compiling such valuable information!

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