South America WCQ: Top 64 Players and Deck Breakdown
Here are the Top 64 Duelists, their countries of origin (where available), and the Decks they’re using.
Rank | Full Name | Country | Deck |
1 | Orbea Davila, Galo Guillermo | Ecuador | Mekk-Knight Trickstar |
2 | Castillo Aramundiz, Jose Antonio | Chile | Mekk-Knight Trickstar |
3 | Goncalves da Silva, Paulo Roberto | Brazil | Sky Striker Trickstar |
4 | Salas Arreaga, Alex Arturo | Ecuador | Mekk-Knight Trickstar |
5 | Campoblanco Nunovero, David Humberto | Peru | Mekk-Knight Trickstar |
6 | Azocar Salinas, Andres Alejandro | Peru | Sky Striker Trickstar |
7 | Alzamora Guzman, Jose Alejandro | Peru | Infernoid |
8 | Delgado Portilla, Gerardo Jesus | Peru | Mekk-Knight Trickstar |
9 | Perez Romero, Fabian Alejandro | Sky Striker | |
10 | Millan Leon Rodriguez, Roberto Fernando | Peru | Mekk-Knight Trickstar |
11 | Rodrigues Batalha, Marco Roberto | Brazil | Infernoid |
12 | Carreno Cartez, Daniel Esteban | Chile | Trickstar |
13 | Mamut, Martin | Argentina | Sky Striker Trickstar |
14 | Salas Reyna, Jefferson | Peru | Pendulum Magician |
15 | Miranda Visa, Christian Felipe | True Draco | |
16 | Coba Rodriguez, Patricio Daniel | Mekk-Knight Trickstar | |
17 | Choque Pastor, Alexander Jorge | Peru | Burning Abyss |
18 | Vargas Rivadeneira, Gabriel Sebastian | Ecuador | Gouki |
19 | Marquez Ramos, Johan Manuel | Peru | Sky Striker Trickstar |
20 | Asfour Al Jabri, Kanaan | Venezuela | Sky Striker Trickstar |
21 | Gonzalez Ohep, Miguel Angel | Venezuela | Sky Striker Trickstar |
22 | Urias Moreira da Silva, Felipe | Pendulum Magician | |
23 | Ludena Rincon, Juan Jose Daniel | Peru | Sky Striker |
24 | Dratwa Mutzenbruher, Pedro | Sky Striker | |
25 | Contreras Gonzalez, Aksony Javier | Colombia | SPYRAL |
26 | Espinoza Campos, Joao Lucas | Invoked | |
27 | Vera Avila, Nicolas Miguel | Mekk-Knight Trickstar | |
28 | Delgado Chavarry, Santino | Peru | Sky Striker Trickstar |
29 | Llinas, Facundo Leonel | Argentina | Sky Striker Trickstar |
30 | Hernandez Rodriguez, Daniel Alejandro | Peru | Sky Striker Trickstar |
31 | Lopez Acevedo, Matias Daniel | Argentina | Sky Striker |
32 | Vergara Giraldo, Federico | Colombia | Burning Abyss |
33 | Vargas Ferreira, Jhon Brayant Manuel | Venezuela | ABC |
34 | Andrade Castro, Juan Sebastian | Peru | Mekk-Knight Trickstar |
35 | Manganoo, Justin Elton | Trinidad | Sky Striker |
36 | Sepulveda Marcelli, Rodrigo Ernesto Alejandro | Chile | SPYRAL |
37 | Iglesias Tolentino, Renzo Alexandre | Peru | Infernoid |
38 | Medina Tapia, Max Joel | Peru | Altergeist |
39 | Vergara Gazul, David Antonio | Sky Striker Trickstar | |
40 | Pena Hurtado, Jose Alejandro | Colombia | Mekk-Knight Trickstar |
41 | Yanac Ortiz, David Moises | Peru | Altergeist |
42 | Hernandez Canales, Rafael Andres Fernando | Chile | ABC |
43 | Quijano Ono, Javier | Peru | Sky Striker Trickstar |
44 | Lopez Raffaele, Matias | Argentina | Sky Striker Trickstar |
45 | Perez Rivas, Juan Pablo | Chile | Burning Abyss/Infernoid |
46 | Ramirez Alegria, Fabricio Ramon | Peru | Mythical Beast D/D/D |
47 | Loayza Jordan, Alejandro Juan | Peru | Sky Striker Trickstar |
48 | Buritica Gonzales, Manuel Felipe | Colombia | Burning Abyss |
49 | Lira Alban, Martin Alonso | Peru | Pendulum Magician |
50 | Rodriguez Rios, Yandi Sebastian | Colombia | Mekk-Knight Invoked |
51 | Duenas Iglesias, Jorge Luis | Ecuador | Altergeist |
52 | Miceli Schroeder dos Santos, Victor Hugo | True Draco | |
53 | Ramirez Medina, Anthony Alexander | Peru | Sky Striker Trickstar |
54 | Rosemberg Collante, Roger Anibal | Ecuador | Gouki |
55 | Torres Fonseca, Rodrigo | Brazil | Mekk-Knight Sky Striker |
56 | Orihuela Castro, Gonzalo Mijail | Mekk-Knight Trickstar | |
57 | Da Hora Martinho, Phelipe Kuzcmeda | Brazil | Sky Striker |
58 | Torres Vargas, Sebastian Eduardo | Chile | Mekk-Knight Trickstar |
59 | Sarmiento Mesones, Renato Ricardo | Peru | Paleozoic |
60 | Venegas Acevedo, Diego Alejandro | Chile | Sky Striker Trickstar |
61 | Galarza Reich, Sergio | Peru | Burning Abyss |
62 | Gamarra Cavero, Sebastian Agustin | Peru | Sky Striker Trickstar |
63 | Lucero Sanchez, Leiner Lenin | Peru | Sky Striker Trickstar |
64 | Alva Cuadros, Jose Luis | Peru | Altergeist |
17 Sky Striker Trickstar
12 Mekk-Knight Trickstar
6 Sky Striker
1 Trickstar
1 Mekk-Knight Sky Striker
1 Mekk-Knight Invoked
1 Invoked
4 Altergeist
4 Burning Abyss
3 Infernoid
1 Burning Abyss/Infernoid
3 Pendulum Magician
2 ABC
2 SPYRAL
2 Gouki
2 True Draco
1 Paleozoic
1 Mythical Beast D/D/D
As many predicted, about half the tournament is using some variation of Trickstar or Sky Strikers. The most popular version is Sky Striker Trickstar, with Mekk-Knight Trickstar next. A few Duelists are using no Trickstars at all, either with pure Sky Strikers or builds mixed with Mekk-Knights. Even though all these Decks are in the same family, there’s a lot of ways to customize the strategies to your own liking.
The other half of the Top 64 is very interesting – there are nearly a dozen different strategies represented! It seems that the Trickstar and Sky Striker Decks are most popular, but are not so dominant to shut out other strategies entirely. Rather, we have a meta that allows for all kinds of strategies to work! There are Extra Deck combo focused Decks like Pendulum Magicians, D/D/D, and Gouki. There are also slower controlling Decks like Altergeist, True Draco, Paleozoic, and ABC. There’s even a bunch of Infernoid Decks, something we haven’t seen much of since That Grass Looks Greener was Forbidden.