Duel Links Replays Notes #1

Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0i4VWEHVss

1st Duel:
- Not much to say, saved this since I've never seen 3 Jar of Greed chained like that in PvP. Also saved this cause of the BM Sphere play :)

2nd Duel:
- Only saved a couple from climbing during the WCQ, mainly since Rookie thru Gold is full of meh players.
- Mainly saved this for the combo at 2:37. I use cards like Gravekeeper's Stele and Magician's Circle, which aren't optimal but help since I only have 1 Chief.
 - Econ take, tributing Recruiter for his Angler. Search Oracle with Recruiter.
 - Stele into a Chief and Recruiter
 - Tribute the Angler for Chief, bring back a Priestess cause why not
 - Double Summon, tributing Priestess for Oracle. Use Oracle to pop all set monsters
 - Enter BP and attack, using Magician's Circle to summon DMG from the deck. Why DMG? Just for Soul Exchange and aggressive Circle plays. #DatOneChiefStruggle

Before the 3rd Duel, gonna write up an explanation of my Self Mill deck, look at the decklist in the description:

Deck Explanation:
 - This is more of a casual deck. I really like the card Chaos Necromancer, made various decks with it over the years in the TCG. So figured I'd make a mill deck, trying to make Necormancer, and a few other monsters as the bosses in Dark Necrofear and Desert Twister.
 - 24 card deck, running the Balance skill. Fiend Farewell and Tether of Defeat are interesting, but I wanted a deck where I would be guaranteed to open a good s/t every game. With Balance, it's easy to manipulate your opening hand. Commonly you'll see 20 card balance decks with 15 monsters, 5 spells traps for the 3:1 ratio. Because you mill so much sometimes, I wanted to go up to 24, 18 monsters and 6 s/t for the 3:1 ratio.
 - Really wanted to try making Needlebug Nest a centerpoint of the deck. Didn't want to depend on drawing Merchant every game, and tbh I don't want randomly massive mills. Only running 1 Merchant, 3 Needlebug for mills for now
 - 4 Star Ladybug and Skull Mark Ladybug are really good here. 4 Star controls the board, Skull Mark regains LP. They are WIND and EARTH monsters respectively, so they work as perfect fuel for Desert Twister. (Running 3 Skull Mark now, don't have the Headless Knight)
- Tour Bus and Diskblade are really good fiend monsters. Tour Bus can search Diskblade and Desert Twister, I'd run a 2nd copy if I had it (Bakura, gimme dat shit plz). Diskblade often can get the boost since you'll get Needlebug plays off fairly often. Literally the perfect fuel for Necrofear and DT.
- The other s/t I run are Monster Reincarnation, Nobleman, and Econ. Reincarnation can help potentially re-use certain monsters, and gives you access to any card you milled off The latter 2 work well by themselves, just really decent cards.

3rd Duel:
- Assumed this was 3 Star Demotion from the get-go. Leading with a set monster, was thinking it was Blue Dragon Summoner, Legion, or Crystal Seer. Glad I opened a 4 Star Ladybug.
- Still testing how I often want to use Needlebug Nest. Theoretically I want to use it after drawing another spell or trap, or whenever I have Necromancer on field. I had Reincarnation in hand, so figured it may help open up my plays.
- Decided to lead out and attack with Diskblade, unless this Paradox had a really sacky hand I figured I'd live regardless.
- I consider this guy misplaying, in that he kept attacking my set with his Joan to gain back more LP. Especially after the 1st Ladybug, he should have considered a 2nd one coming IMO
- If there's a bit of weakness to my deck, it's that mid-game, Necromancer doesn't work well with Necrofear or Desert Twister (DT). You can often get Necromancer to 1800+, but obviously banishing a bunch from the grave makes it much weaker.
- Fun fact: This guy was a KoG in casual play, surprised generic Demotion is apparently a bit weaker than Dark Magician demotion.

4th Duel
- Saved this for the novelty of how sacky Necromancer + 2 Needlebug can be. 300 ATK to 3000 ATK ftw!
- (Milled off a Desert Twister, so that was the optimal choice for Reincarnation obviously, was just messing around)

Will have more vids of some replays from Plat rank, they get pretty interesting honestly. Would even consider commentary, maybe.