YCS Rhode Island Top 32 Deck Feature: Chris Gong

    Like I said yesterday, Samurai are a force to be reckoned with. With that being said, which samurai deck did I like the best out of the YCS decklists?

That would be my good friend's decklist, Chris Gong. His deck choices were unique and not used in many "top" samurai decks. Here is the list to the top 32 as well as his decklist.
Top 32 YCS Rhode Island Deck Lists

Monsters: 15
3 Kagemusha of the Six Samurai
3 Legendary Six Samurai – Kageki
3 Legendary Six Samurai – Kizan
2 Grandmaster of the Six Samurai
1 Hand of the Six Samurai
1 The Six Samurai – Yaichi
1 Spirit of the Six Samurai
1 Enishi, Shien’s Chancellor


Spells: 17
1 Gateway of the Six
3 Six Samurai United
2 Shien’s Dojo
1 Reinforcement of the Army
3 Shien’s Smoke Signal
1 Dark Hole
1 Monster Reborn
1 Giant Trunade
1 Book of Moon
2 Dimensional Fissure
1 Mystical Space Typhoon

Traps: 9
2 Solemn Warning
1 Solemn Judgment
2 Double-Edged Sword Technique
1 Mirror Force
2 Musakani Magatama
1 Royal Oppression

Now what makes this deck so special?
      Firstly, the inclusion of dimensional fissure. As he and I discussed before the event, dimensional fissure is good against EVERY meta deck. It even works against gravekeeper's because they have to tribute recruiter to search for cards. It works in the mirror when they can't double edge their monster's back and can't use grandmaster's effect. It works well against plants, frogs, and even blackwings. The inclusion of two in his maindeck was an absolute beastly choice and worked out well for him on his quest for top 32.

     Secondly, he ran two cards that samurai players tend to neglect. Yaichi is a really good card against many decks because it can pop a spell or trap once per turn. So many times when I have test played against him, he had yaichi and kizan on the field, he would always protect his yaichi in order to pop more cards. That won him plenty of games. Another card that many neglect to play is spirit of the six samurai. Spirit is another out to stardust dragon and is a great card to abuse in order to draw cards. He would have grandmaster in hand and I would have stardust and gorz on the field. He would draw smoke signal or spirit, summon spirit and grandmaster, equip and run over stardust, then draw an out like monster reborn or mirror force or whatnot.

     Lastly, the inclusion of oppression is just devastating, especially when you get out to a quick start with your samurai's. Even if you go 2nd, oppression stops many cards in your opponent's deck and it is just knowning when to activate it that separates average players from good players.

These tech choices in his main-deck forced players to play around even more than the usual Shien and warning. This is an example of scouting the meta and ensuring that your main deck is highly likely to win game 1.