Sean McCabe and Traviis Massengale have been showing up in YCS playoffs quite a bit lately! McCabe has scored multiple Top 32 appearances since exploding into the spotlight late last year, while Massengale made his first top last Summer at YCS Chicago. Both have come deleriously close to winning recent Championships: McCabe made the Finals of YCS Atlanta in December, while Massengale came within a hair of winning YCS Dallas in February. McCabe was playing X-Sabers, while Massengale was running a cool Debris Zombie Deck.
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Joseph Giorlando is undefeated with a draw, and Kenneth McCarthy is paired up with a 6-1 record. McCarthy is playing T.G. Plants, a groundbreaking Deck the likes of which we’ve never seen before. Giorlando is running X-Sabers, which have performed extremely well here today. Giorlando’s knowledge of the T.G. Deck and the cards it plays may prove to be a deciding a factor in this Match. A win here would place either Duelist in great position to make the Top 32 tomorrow.
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Luke Patterson and Stephen Silverman are both undefeated so far. Patterson made it here with his Scrap Deck packing 2 copies of Meklord Emperor Granel, and Silverman maintained his winning streak with X-Sabers. At the end of this round, one of these Duelists will have a perfect 4-0 record.
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Billy Brake just came from a Top 8 victory over Fish, but now he’d have to repeat his success: Nicky Lacaille is playing the same deadly strategy as Brake faced last Round.
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Two Fish Decks are still alive here in the Quarterfinals, but only 1 X-Saber Deck remains in the tournament! Billy Brake could take X-Sabers to the Semifinals, but to do that, he’ll need to overcome the vicious power of Tahan’s Superancient Deepsea King Coelacanth. A win here would for Tahan would be a huge leap forward for Fish Duelists!
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Five weeks ago, Nizar Sarhan won YCS Dallas with Six Samurai. At the time, it was a new Deck that was unfettered by the March 1st Forbidden and Limited List. Now, Sarhan’s Deck only has 1 Gateway of the Six, and just 2 Solemn Warning… But that didn’t stop him from going undefeated in this weekend’s tournament! Sarhan was the only Duelist to win every Match he played in the Swiss Rounds of this event: now he’s earned a spot in the Top 16, and he’s looking to repeat his Championship victory! A win here would be almost unprecedented: no Duelist has won back-to-back Championships since Ryan Hayakawa’s 2-time Championship win in 2005.
But his opponent this Round is Stephen Silverman, another YCS winner! Silverman is playing X-Sabers, and the veteran Duelist has a pedigree that extends far beyond Sarhan’s win in Dallas. The X-Saber / Samurai matchup is going to be big in this new format, and this Match is bound to be a formative one for the months ahead. Both of these competitors are truly great Champions, but only one can make it to the Quarterfinals!
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Jack Hoyt and Alex Vansant last faced off in the Points Playoff Finals in San Jose. It was a close Match that eventually ended in a victory for Vansant in overtime. But Jack Hoyt is bringing his X-Saber Deck back for revenge, this time against Vansant’s Warrior Toolbox Deck. The winner here will receive a Super Rare set of Darklord Prize Cards.
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When Rescue Cat was Forbidden on September 1st, many Duelists were skeptical about how well X-Sabers would do in the new format. But over a month has passed since the new Forbidden & Limited List took effect, and X-Sabers are still getting to the top of tournament scene. Sean McCabe earned a 3rd place finish with his X-Saber Deck and took home a Set of Darklord Prize Cards this weekend. Here’s the Deck he did it with:
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This is Kenny Kwan’s first ever YCS playoff appearance and he’s made it to the Top 4 with a Quickdraw Deck. His opponent, Sean McCabe, has topped 2 previous YCS tournaments, and made it here with X-Sabers. The winner here will be guaranteed a set of Darklord Prize Cards and continue to Duel for the honor of becoming the champion of YCS Philadelphia.
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Only 4 competitors remained in this tournament, and the winner of this Match was guaranteed to go home with a set of the Darklord Prize Cards! The victor would also win their way to the Finals, where they’d Duel for a heap of prizes and the honor of being a YCS winner. James Neumann was piloting X-Sabers, while his opponent Thanh Nguyen was running Plant Synchro.
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