Benjamin Deeter made it to the Finals of the UDS Invitational Summer 2019.  Here’s the Deck that got him there! 

Monsters: 39

3 x Super Quantum Red Layer
3 x Junk Forward
3 x Marauding Captain
3 x Blue Mountain Butterspy
3 x The Phantom Knights of Ancient Cloak
3 x The Phantom Knights of Silent Boots
1 x Chaos Dragon Levianeer
1 x Destrudo the Lost Dragon’s Frission
1 x Omni Dragon Brotaur
1 x Orcust Knightmare
1 x Orcust Harp Horror
1 x Orcust Cymbal Skeleton
3 x Neo Space Connector
1 x Neo-Spacian Aqua Dolphin
1 x Dark Grepher
1 x Armageddon Knight
3 x Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring
3 x Droll & Lock Bird
3 x Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit

Spells: 11

3 x Instant Fusion
1 x Reinforcement of the Army
1 x Foolish Burial
1 x Divine Sword – Phoenix Blade
1 x Autonomous Action Unit
1 x Overdone Burial
1 x Living Fossil
1 x D.D.R. – Different Dimension Reincarnation
1 x Orcustrated Babel

Traps: 5

3 x The Phantom Knights of Shade Brigandine
1 x Phantom Knights’ Fog Blade
1 x Orcust Crescendo

Side Deck

3 x Called by the Grave
3 x Gnomaterial
3 x Dinowrestler Pankratops
3 x Twin Twisters
3 x Cosmic Cyclone

Extra Deck

2 x Isolde, Two Tales of the Noble Knights
1 x Invoked Raidjin
1 x Guardragon Elpy
1 x Triple Burst Dragon
1 x Guardragon Agarpain
1 x Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss
1 x Hieratic Seal of Heavenly Spheres
1 x Knightmare Mermaid
1 x Knightmare Phoenix
1 x Knightmare Unicorn
2 x Galatea, the Orcust Automaton
1 x Longirsu, the Orcust Orchestrator
1 x Dingirsu, the Orcust of the Evening Star

The Main Deck is 55 cards, but as we’ve seen in Feature Matches this weekend, that didn’t lead to a lack of consistency.  This Deck revolves around sending specific cards to the Graveyard to setup the combos that end up making the optimal Orcust field of Galatea, the Orcust Automaton, Dingirsu, the Orcust of the Evening Star and Orcust Crescendo in the backrow.   The Deck also uses Isolde, Two Tales of the Noble Knights as a means to add specific Warriors like Armageddon Knight and Dark Grepher to the hand, but also leverages Isolde’s second effect, sending Equip Spells from the Deck to the Graveyard to Special Summon a Warrior from the Deck to extend combos as needed.

The Isolde package also synergizes with the Neo Space Connector suite of cards, with Neo-Spacian Aqua Dolphin being able to strip an opponent’s hand trap from the hand before going into the combo and giving Deeter full information about what’s coming up on the opponent’s turn.  As we’ve seen, Aqua Dolphin can single handedly force a concession just minutes into a round.

Congratulations to Benjamin Deeter for making it to the Finals!