Cartesia Shaddoll Deck Profile (January 2024 Format)

[@ScylIssue]

The Turn 1 Combo for the deck that I referenced a bit in the video can be found here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q37EpH-GYst9jMU

[@PhuckedUpPhilosophy]

What’s your side

[@ScylIssue]

I'm waiting for LEDE to drop, since Tenpai will probably be a somewhat real deck, but outside of that, it depends heavily on your locals. 3 Super Poly/3 Droplet/1 Duster/3 Cosmic and then whatever else you want to prep for seems like a solid start tho. Obviously, it's subject to change upon further testing.

[@PhuckedUpPhilosophy]

@@ScylIssue would you side anything for going first ? Judgment ? D barrier?

[@ScylIssue]

​@@PhuckedUpPhilosophy Depends on whatever you're expecting in the meta. T Roar for when Tenpai Drops. Ash for Branded/Runick/Lab. Super Poly and Cosmic can dual as going 1st interruption vs certain decks. You could even be cute with something like Cursed of the Forbidden Spell. D Barrier's fine, Judgment's also fine etc. Again, a lot of it's personal preference.

[@PhuckedUpPhilosophy]

@@ScylIssue I’m playing a winda turbo build so I’m leaning judgment just to protect the winda.

[@lightshard8]

No hand traps lmao at least veiler and nibiru which are light

[@saskara6641]

no shaddoll hound? that card really helpfull tho

[@ScylIssue]

Shaddoll Hound is pretty bad. A completely brick that does nothing of value and you'll never mill it with Shaddoll Fusion going 2nd in any match-up, rogue or competitive. Genius/Dragon/Ariel are just better Fusion Targets 100% of the time. If it Book of Moon'd a Monster, then I could see it, but just change positions is pretty substandard.

[@saskara6641]

but u also right about the "brick" part is

[@strangerdecks]

@@ScylIssue Appreciated your decklist. At the same time, I disagree with the comment on hound. Despite not being as useful as squamata/wendi, it is not a brick that does nothing and it is probably better than genius in most cases. Some possible uses of hound: protect winda from atk of a bigger monster, or survive if you are near time call; resh summons construct from grave, construct sends hound, hound turns construct in atk and it can attack that turn; opponent nibiru you during your turn when you go second, use hound to turn the (usually big) nibiru token in atk mode (I did otk a few times with that); if you resolve shaddoll fusion going second, you can send wendi and squamata for apkallone, then squamata sends hound and flips the monster you set with wendi: this can become a bounce effect (drago), or draw (beast), or banish if you use void, for example, and you can do it in a similar way with construct. Also, if you set a squamata/dragon during your turn and have construct in grave with resh set, you can summon construct, send hound, and disrupt your opponent with a bounce/monster destruction during his turn. Instead, genius is often not useful because it does nothing against quick effects (unless you chainblock and want to force activation), so it is not a veiler. This because it prevents activations, so if the effect was already activated it does nothing, and against a quick effect the opponent can activate it in response so again it does not stop it (unless you run meltdown/branded lost). Just my 2 cents as a fellow shaddoll player.

[@NinthSettler]

@@ScylIssue do you not like drawing 2 and discarding 1 or searching schism?

[@ScylIssue]

@@NinthSettler You can easily get to Schism with Construct/Apka. And Drawing 2 and Discard 1 in a deck like this isn't really useful. The best you're hoping is to try and fish for a bomb card going 1st, which isn't worth the consistency of having bomb cards in the ED that can be easily accessed.