r/YGO_Genesys

A lot of factors to think about when it comes to what should or should not be playable in a format. And of course it's all subjective. But I personally don't think Dracotail should be a playable deck, in almost any capacity, in Genesys format for the following reasons. Now there are no "criteria" for what should be playable or not. These are just some overall opinions I have.

I think the deck is able to play through all of the available handtraps too easily. It's not particularly bothered by the cheap 1 for 1 handtraps in the format. Veiler, Ogre, Mourner, Belle, Crow. The deck was made to generate advantage in such a way that trying to hit it 1 for 1 isn't feasible. All of this is possible because each card serves 2-3 purposes such that stopping one of the effects isn't good enough. Additionally the deck doesn't play into Nibiru. Realistically, just think, what are you supposed to do when you have 2 handtraps in hand and your opponent fuses away 2 Dracotail monsters, what hinders them in a way that is equivalent to your own minus 2? I just don't think it's feasible to play against them without harsher handtraps like Ash available. So the deck isn't stopped by the nonengine so many of us are relying on. Maybe board breakers are a better way to go, I'd need to test more, but I see similar issues arising there.

In return the deck has little to no difficulty putting up interruptions greater or equivalent to the number of cards the opponent has in hand. 3 Dracotail traps, a quick fusion or two, and then fusion material recycled by Arthalion that disrupts when sent to gy as material.

The deck is good going second. Like alluded to earlier, the Dracotail fusion material monsters help you break boards as a bonus effect on their way through their normal combos. They excell going both first and second, due to bonus effects playing into a board, and I'd feel better if they had some kind of weakness to balance out their strengths.

I understand that the deck cannot play pointed non-engine. But I'm saying that their engine is strong enough such that they don't need to, to win games. (List shown above is 105 points). One single concession must be made, but they otherwise have access to their entire engine with decent consistency.

And subjectively, the deck to me, is just too recently viable in the TCG for me to want to be seeing it in Genesys. I know that this is a large issue people have with Genesys right now, that meta decks playable in the last 2-3 years are pointed less heavily than meta decks playable in the last 5-8 years. It's just not the kind of decks people coming into Genesys want to see. They want to see old decks viable, not neutered new decks playable.

I know a lot of people consider Dracotail to be one of the more fun and fair TCG decks of the last few formats, but I still just think it's not the fit for Genesys.

Maybe I'm wrong and just need to get gud, entirely possible I need to address some things with my own play, Dracotail still just seems too good. But that's what discussion is for, something I don't see often enough on this subreddit.

Gimme your thoughts below.

I haven't played Genesys in a bit due to my locals not hosting it, but they recently switched from only doing bi-weekly Advanced to Genesys on non-Advanced weekends, so I brought out my favorite deck for Genesys!

A major note about the list is that I don't have access to the new Kitt at the moment, as I've not been playing Yugioh much at all lately. But with my locals now doing Genesys every other week, I'll probably pick that up to add to the list.

Matchups were:

✅️🎲 2-0 vs HERO
❌️🎲 2-1 vs Fairy Tail
❌️🎲 0-2 vs FK Snake-Eyes w/ Jurrac
✅️🎲 2-1 vs Invoked Chimera

The most frequent struggle for me today was opening multiple normal summons or monsters that could only extend if I had access to Albaz/a way to dump Albaz. Biggest example of this was against FK Snake-Eyes where both G1 and G2 I opened no extenders, I found myself getting Veilered on my normal summon and passing, and they set up double Meteor G2.

Invoked Chimera was also a really scary matchup, as I think I ultimately only won because I got lucky winning the die roll. G1 I got Fuwa'd and Purulia'd and played through it decently and topdecked better than they did to keep momentum. G2 they performed full combo and ripped out Dogma/Ecclesia/Lubellion from my Extra Deck, then interrupted my normal summon and I had to scoop since I only opened one extender and it folded quickly. G3 I got Fuwa'd and Purulia'd again, but was able to play through it decently and opened/searched enough non-engine to stop their plays and push for lethal Turn 3.

I ended up getting 4th overall after tiebreakers, as all of top 4 were 3-1. I really loved playing this list and I'm hoping to tune it some more to keep playing Genesys!

For some of the card choices: chalice is there really just to get to 100 points, but it’s not like it’s a bad card. The Angelechy trap has a grave effect so it’s not terrible to run 2 and you can always discard it off of the furniture if you don’t have an Angelechy monster yet. Malong is in there from when Dogmatika punishment was still in the deck, but you can technically make it and it is a light tuner for the other chaos synchros. Could definitely have some better options in there though, but is also just stuff that I had. Also I’m a fan of battle traps which is why those along with labrynth archfiend have made it in. I did feel that lady lab was required, especially since this deck does kind of want the grind game a bit. In the flip side, I really wanted to utilize the Angelechy monsters if they were going to be part of the deck at all so I decided to cut welcome labrynth since it has that lingering fiend lock on it.

Tinkering after the latest points update. I’ve been using the Kewl Tune package for some months & swear by it. Hypernova is a meme but occasionally is very useful.