12-year-old Jake Chammas from Farmingdale, New York is turning 13 on August 27th, so this weekend may be Chammas’s last opportunity to enter a Dragon Duel at a YCS. Benjamin Leverett is 10-years-old from Atlanta, Georgia and will be turning 11 on June 27th. Both of these Duelists are currently 4-0, but only one of them can win this Feature Match and finish the tournament with a perfect record. Read more…

A new YCS brings us a new opportunity to discover an under-looked card that fits into a variety of Decks. But to help put things in perspective, let’s look back at some of the most popular cards used at YCS Orlando. Read more…

If you’ve been following today’s Feature Match action, you saw the drama and the triumph of Sorosh Saberian’s Tengu Fabled Deck that played out in Round 3. Saberian is a veteran Duelist who’s repeatedly made the playoff rounds of Championship-level competitions, usually with highly explosive combo Decks. Today he’s stayed true to his style, piloting an incredibly explosive Fabled build. You’ve already seen it in action, but here’s how the Deck works: Read more…

QQ stands for Quick Questions! Welcome to Rhode Island, the smallest state in the U.S.A., at just over 1,000 square miles. With the tiny size of our host state in mind, we took to the tournament floor to ask competitors: “What’s your favorite small monster with 500 ATK or less?” Read more…

Josh Graham is undefeated with one of the top strategies here today: Tengu Synchro with Tour Guide from the Underworld. Tour Guide gets Sangan, Sangan gets Lonefire Blossom, and from there the Deck explodes. But his opponent is two-time YCS Champion Paul Levitin, armed with an Agent of Creation Hyperion Deck! Both of these strategies represent the cutting edge of Deck building in this tournament, but only one Duelist could emerge from this Match the victor. While Graham has a perfect 7-0 record so far, Levitin suffered a draw earlier in the tournament, and has a 6-0-1 record. A win here would be crucial. Read more…

Luke Mattingly is currently 6-1 with his Herald of Perfection Deck running the new Agents from the Lost Sanctuary Structure Deck. His opponent, Chris Gong, has the same record with his Six Samurai Deck. This may be a tough Matchup for Mattingly, whose Herald of Perfection is vulnerable to Gong’s Musakani Magatama every time he chooses to negate a card with his Herald. Read more…

Both of these Duelists have 5-1 records headed into Round 7, and the winner of this Match would still be on-track to the Top 32 tomorrow. Henry Williams is playing Tengu Synchro, while Reilly is running a similar Deck packed with “T.G.” monsters. This one could be really interesting, and both Duelists were eager to start the Match! Read more…

Mark Lundin and Cebrahil Guler-Carrasquillo are both currently 5-1 in the tournament. Lundin made it here with a Chaos Worm Deck, and his opponent, Guler-Carrasquillo, is using a Scrap Deck. Lundin will be aiming to defeat Guler-Carrasquillo before Guler-Carrasquillo can Summon Scrap Dragon. Once a Scrap Deck Summons Scrap Dragon, it becomes a difficult Match for the opponent to win. Read more…

Christopher Csikortos is undefeated at Table 1, piloting his Tengu Synchro Deck. But his opponent Wilson Tsang is also undefeated, and he’s playing a strategy we’ve never seen in a YCS: a Tengu Synchro variant that packs Destiny Hero – Malicious, Locomotion R-Genex, and a bunch of WATER monsters. Read more…

Willie Newsome and Marc Hahn are both 4-0 in the tournament with vastly different strategies. Newsome is running a standard Plant Synchro Deck, but his opponent is running a planetary Deck that’s focused on Special Summoning big monsters with Valhalla, Hall of the Fallen and Miraculous Descent. Hahn may be able to overwhelm Newsome with his monsters if he can Summon Archlord Kristya, Master Hyperion, or Tethys, Goddess of Light early enough. Read more…