This is it! The winner of the 3rd Place Playoff will walk away with the coveted prize card, Anotherverse Gluttonia. They’re in good spirits despite both coming off a loss in the Top 4. Pamornsut was eager to add a Super Rare copy of Anotherverse Gluttonia to his collection to go with his Ultra Rare, but LeBlanc wants his first copy! This is the last Match of their tournament run this weekend. They shuffled up, and it was time to Duel, one more time!

Nearly 1500 Duelists entered YCS Richmond, but only four competitors remain! Jack Allen is here from Stony Point, North Carolina, and he is off the chain, er- rather, he’s using an Unchained Deck!

He’s facing Pakawat Pamornsut, a New Jersey Duelist flexing the might of Infernobility, with Infernoble Knights! The winner here will move on to the Finals for a shot at the title of YCS Champion!

Top 8 is about to commence, and we have 2 familiar faces squaring off in the Quarter-Finals: Justin Singh and Christopher LeBlanc are both familiar with the Top Cut spotlight, and have Dueled at the YCS level before. LeBlanc is piloting Purrely, a Deck he’s been using since YCS Philadelphia, while Singh is on Tearlaments, powered up with the new Horus monsters from Age of Overlord. They’re ready to go, and it’s time to Duel!

Christopher LeBlanc is no stranger to Top Cut competition: he’s won 5 YCS events in his Dueling career so far! He’s here in the Top 32 competing with Purrely, hoping to capture his 6th Championship. He’s facing off against Evan Hornick, who’s made his first Top 32 this weekend playing Dinomorphia! We’re in the single elimination portion of the tournament, so it’s win or go home. It’s time to Duel!

This is it, the final Swiss round of the tournament! After this we’ll be cutting to just the final Top 32 Duelists. This Feature Match pits two YCS first-timers against each other! Max Lehmann from Sioux Falls South Dakota is playing Scareclaw, and he’s facing Andrew Willett, from Scarbro West Virginia, playing Runick Stun!

Scareclaws make some powerful plays, and they’re good at fighting a war of attrition thanks to their Field Spell and multiple options for removal. On the other side, Runick Decks like Willett’s seek to lock down the field with tons of floodgates, negations, and well-timed destructions, while keeping their hand full thanks to their own Field Spell. Both Duelists are on the bubble, looking for a win to make that coveted Top Cut spot.

Day 2’s kicking off here on Sunday morning, and Jerrod Dunn from Baltimore is playing Tearlaments, up against Elias Tsirogiannis from Queens, playing Kashtira! You read that right, Kashtira is still alive despite losing Kashtira Arise-Heart on the most recent Forbidden & Limited List. This classic match-up is happening right here at YCS Richmond!

Both Duelists are in great shape to make Top 32 with a win in this Match, while a loss will mean they’ll be dancing with danger. It’s time to Duel!

This is it, the final Round of Swiss competition here in Day 1 of YCS Richmond! We liked Gilles Thomas’s Dinomorphia Exosister Deck so much, we brought him back for another Feature Match. If you missed it, you can see it in action winning our Round 7 Feature Match, where he took down Haris Mirzada’s Adventure Plunder Patroll Deck.

This time, he’s up against Muhtasim Mallick, a Long Island Duelist playing Purrely. This matchup could get interesting, since Purrely Pretty Memory can manipulate the Dinomorphia Duelist’s Life Points, but Purrely are also susceptible to a lot of the Exosister and Dinomorphia effects. There’s only one way to find out how it’ll go: It’s time to Duel!

We’re in the second to last Round of the day, and for this Feature Match we’ve got a really cool surprise! Jim Mayorga is 6-1 using Bystial Crimson King. That’s right, Jack Atlas’s strategy itself, straight from Structure Deck: The Crimson King, combined with Bystial monsters!

His opponent is Mingrui Cai, also 6-1 playing Tearlaments, boosted with the powerful Horus cards from Age of Overlord. Both strategies have been flying under the radar, but both are seeing incredible success today, so this one should be interesting. It’s time to Duel!

This Round 7 Feature Match is going to be a banger! We have two Duelists with 5-1 records and Decks that truly stand out against the expected field. First up is Haris Mirzada, from nearby Bristow, Virginia. Mirzada’s using an Adventure Plunder Patroll Deck with Synchros, Xyz, and Links, while getting extra advantage from the Adventure engine’s tokens and interactions.

His opponent is Gilles Thomas, from not-so-nearby Paris, France! He’s using a Dinomorphia Exosister Deck, looking to make explosive plays that lock down the field and Graveyard at the cost of his own Life Points.

Nathaniel Jadotte from New York is currently 4-1 with an unexpected Deck today: Salamangreat! This strategy got some new support in Legendary Duelists: Soulburning Volcano, and it’s started to see more play. His opponent, Shawn Debrew from Washington D.C. is playing Mannadium, powered up with new cards from Age of Overlord, as well as some personal tech picks. It’ll be a fun Duel, but only one competitor can come out of this match with a 5-1 record.

Debrew was up first. It’s time to Duel!