We’re halfway into our first day of Dueling, with another Feature Match! This time it’s Kristofer MacNeal, from Baltimore, MD, facing Caedmon Trivette, from Greensborough, NC. Both Duelists are using Horus Decks, but that’s where the similarities end. MacNeal’s rocking an ABC Deck with a ton of Machines and Field Spells for Unions, Therions, Horus, and even the recently Limited Chicken Game. Trivette’s got a Dragon Link Deck, with a major emphasis on Bystials, as well as a some Red Dragon Archfiend cards.

We’re in Round 3 with another heater of a Feature Match! We’re here with Isaiah Raphael, from Miami, FL, playing Centur-Ion! His Deck is teched out to beat the metagame, using Bystials and Super Polymerization to get an edge. His opponent is Cameron Carvella, from Knoxville, TN, with Bystial Runick! This Deck uses Runick spells to control the game and draw a lot of cards, with the Bystials and Runick monsters to fuel Synchro Summons to take over the 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!

Over 1,900 Duelists are reduced to just the Top 32! Logan Kite, from Greenville, TN, finished in 1^st place in the Swiss rounds with his Sinful Spoils Rescue-ACE Deck. He’s facing Kailyn Cooksey, from Kansas City, MO, who just won on the live stream with his unique Horus Bystial Deck! It’s single elimination from this point on, so only one of these Duelists can move on!

Mike Thomas, from Chicago, is back for another Feature Match! Despite his terrible luck in his previous Round 7 Feature Match, he was able to persevere with his Dragon Link Deck to the Top 8! He’s up against Bill Wei, from Indiana, playing Kashtira. They’ve played well to make it this far, but only one of these Duelists can advance to the Top 4!

Day 1 is nearly complete, but that doesn’t mean these Duelists can rest! We’ve got Steven Santoli, from Hamilton, ON, play Exosisters! He’s hoping their Graveyard control will help against the Bystials in the Dragon Link Deck piloted by Alexandre April, from Montreal, QC. April will need to play carefully around all the Exosister effects if he wants to combo off!

This Round 7 Feature Match pits two friends against each other! Michael Thomas and Joe Dietrich are both from Chicago and see each other all the time, but fate has brought them together in this not-so-remote Remote Duel. Thomas even borrowed cards from Dietrich for this event! He’s playing Adventure Spright, while Thomas is on Bystial Dragon Link. Friends or not, only one can win this Match!

We’re only halfway through the first day of Dueling, and the matches are only getting better! In this Feature Match we have David Borgognoni, from Little Rock, AK, playing Branded Despia. He’s facing Dylan Robertson, from Valley, NE, using a Bystial Spright Synchro Deck!