FM 15-card race strats

ABBREVIATED SUMMARY OF ROUTE:
- Start with Raigeki
- Farm Rex or DMK until you have 3 Thunders
- Farm Pegasus BCDs/A-TECS until you have 6 equips (MM counts as 2)
- A-TEC Kaiba
- Do mages in this order: Ocean --> Mountain --> Desert --> Meadow --> (Meadow farming) --> Forest
- Farm Meadow Mage until you have 4 monsters with 2500+ ATK (MBD counts as 3)
- Skip Seto 2

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- Acceptable starting decks:
	> Any deck with Raigeki and a THTD equip
	> Most decks with Raigeki and a non-THTD equip
	> Any deck with Dark Hole, 1 Thunder and Dark Energy/Beast Fangs
	> Any deck with Dark Hole, 2 Thunders and Invigoration/Dragon Treasure/Horn of Light
	> Some decks with Dark Hole, 0 Thunders and Dark Energy/Beast Fangs
	> Some decks with Dark Hole, 1 Thunder and Invigoration/Dragon Treasure/Horn of Light

Saving strategy:
- Never save for Rex
- Always save for Weevil
- Save for Keith if your win rate is <98.5% (depending on quality of Weevil/Mai drops)
- Save for Bakura if you have 0 cards that can beat Wall/Shield, or 1 card if you skipped saving for Keith
- Always save for Pegasus
- Always save for Isis
- Always save for Kaiba
- If buying a Thunder before Ocean, save for Ocean (and always skip saving for Atenza)
- Save for Atenza if your win rate is <98% (depending on quality of drops)
- If buying a Thunder before Desert and didn't save for Atenza, save for Desert
- Always save for Meadow
- Always save for Forest
- Always save for Final 7

Farming strategy:
- As a very general rule, increasing your win rate on Final 7 by 10% saves 3 minutes. So if you have a 35% chance of beating Final 7 and can increase that to 38.5% in less than 3 minutes of farming, that farm is worth it. Note that this does not consider 1) the time you save on Final 7 by having better decks, and 2) your position in the race relative to your opponents.
- Get ~2 Dragons and ~3 Thunders from Rex/DMK (and decent Fusion material)
	> If 0-1 Thunders: Farm DMK
	> If 0/2: Farm Rex
	> If 1/2: Farm Rex
	> If 2/2: Farm DMK
	> If 3/2: Farm DMK
	> If 4/2: Farm DMK or duel Weevil
	> If 5/2: Duel Weevil
	> If 0/3: Farm Rex
	> If 1/3: Farm Rex
	> If 2/3: Farm DMK or duel Weevil
	> If 3/3: Duel Weevil
- BCD Weevil
- Go for A-POW on Mai and Keith, but don't force it unless you already have a trap
- BCD Shadi
- BCD Bakura unless you already have a trap
- BCD Pegasus
- BCD Isis
- If no trap or very low monster count, BCD Pegasus until. Otherwise, A-TEC Pegasus
- Go to Kaiba once you have:
	> (As a general rule, 6 equips, with Megamorph counting as 2 equips)
	> 3 Megamorphs
	> 3 Bright Castles and 3 Dragon Treasures
	> 3 Bright Castles and 2 Megamorphs
	> 3 Bright Castles, 1 Megamorph and 1 other THTD equip
	> 2 Bright Castles, 2 Megamorphs and 1 other THTD equip
	> 1 Bright Castle, 2 Megamorphs and 2 other THTD equips
	> IF YOU HAVE GOOD MONSTER REMOVAL: 3 Bright Castles and 3 other THTD equips
	> IF YOU HAVE GOOD MONSTER REMOVAL: 2 Bright Castle, 1 Megamorph and 2 other THTD equips
	> IF YOU HAVE GOOD MONSTER REMOVAL: 1 Bright Castle, 2 Megamorphs and 1 other THTD equips
- A-TEC Kaiba or Kepura if all conditions are met:
	> Reasonably fast and safe setup for getting the A-TEC
	> Deck benefits significantly from removal, BC or DE
	> Less than 3 Bright Castles
	> Less than 3 Dark Energy
- Even if your equips are very strong, consider farming Meadow Mage before Final 6/7 if you are weak in the following card types:
	> 10+ Thunders
	> Thunder Dragons
	> Big dragons
	> GOOD big dragons (Curse of Dragon, Sea King Dragon, etc.)
	> Kaminari Attacks
	> MBDs
	> Skull Knights/Dark Magicians/Zoas
- Also consider the synergy of your deck:
	> Equips and Yamis for Skull Knight/Dark Magician/Zoa
	> Ability to SA-POW Sebek, Neku and Heishin for Yami-boosted monsters
	> Ability to get MBD to 4500
	> Big Dragons/Thunders that get boosted by Umi (if running <3 MMs and no MBDs)
	> Equips for big dragons
- Do not do Meadow before Ocean/Mountain/Desert

MEADOW FARM NOTES:
- 1 duel gives:
	> 0.34 Dark Magicians
	> 0.15 Skull Knights
	> 0.15 MBDs
	> 0.78 big dragons
	> 0.15 Kaminari Attacks
	> 1.57 useful cards
- 3 duels give (approximately):
	> 1 Dark Magician
	> 1 Skull Knight OR MBD
	> 2 big dragons
	> 1 Thunder (Kaminari Attack + star chips)
- Decision to farm can be simplified to 2 questions:
	1. Is it worth spending 4.5 minutes to get 1 Dark Magician, 1 SK/MBD, 2 big dragons and 1 Thunder?
	2. Do I have a narrow lead that I will lose if I spend any time farming Meadow?