[News] (April 29th, 2016) Jackknife Aster & Dark Kaizerion Tops Star Dragon Cup

Shinjuku, Tokyo. The second Star Dragon Cup ended its run with “Draco” and “Sorter” (pseudonyms) crowned as first place team, piloting Star Dragon World and Hero World respectively. Second place went to “Taro” and “Cosket” (pseudonyms) playing Dragon World and Magic World. 

The Star Dragon Cup is an unofficial 2-man team tournament series that adopts the popular Swiss tournament model. The first place team received 6 boxes of D-EB01: Buddyfight Collection and 2 copies of PR Black Dragon Shield (WINNER ver.), which has gold foil adorning its borders and text box. 

A total of 28 teams attended the event. With the recent popularity surge of 72 Pillars variants in Japanese tournaments, Magic World became the most played flag of the tournament - accounting for 27% of the decks played. Star Dragon and Dragon World were the second most-played flags and both tied at 18%. It is notable that all flags made an appearance with the exception of Katana World. 

Original photo by @stardragonhai

Draco’s Jackknife Aster deck is a popular variant in this metagame, cutting shields in favor of support spells and Dragonarms. The deck focuses on building Jackknife Aster as much as possible with Star Jack Repair and Star Dragoner, Luminous Blue, locking the player at a high life count to consistently cast Star Jack Boost. To improve Jackknife Aster’s survivability, Dragonarms, Divisigator is played at maximum copies. The heightened defense forces most decks to land only one attack on Jackknife Aster per turn, and ideally, even that can be negated by Biggest Dragonarms, The Main Force. Eventually, the Jackknife Aster snowballs into an immovable beast and the opposing player can no longer clear it to deal damage to Draco.

Sorter’s Kaizerion deck employed the Dark Hero engine for gauge accel and card draw. The deck also boasts pseudo-Shadow Dive capabilities with Darkness Fist, Gwen and Long-range Cannon. These are likely specific anti-meta measures – Shadow Dive bypasses Jackknife Aster entirely, rendering the deck helpless to direct attacks. The Dark Hero engine also helped the deck to cope against the heavy-destruction metagame, as the Dark Heroes bounce back to hand and avoid getting targeted by destruction effects. In addition, Sorter also played Unmovable Steel Mech, Gunzellar as a reliable attacker, which is immune to destruction effects entirely. 

29/04/16 Star Dragon Cup 2-man Team Tournament
First Place: 'Draco' 
Flag: Star Dragon World 
Buddy Monster: V Gradation, Quantum Ruler 
Size 3: 2 
x2 Biggest Dragonarms, The Main Force 
Size 2: 11 
x4 Star Guardian, Jackknife 
x4 Radiant Guardian, Jackknife "Aster" 
x3 Jackknife, "Neo Aggressor" 
Size 1: 20 
x4 Star Dragoner, Luminous Blue 
x4 V Gradation, Quantum Ruler 
x4 Dragonarms, Divisigator 
x3 Star Guardian, Jackknife "SD" 
x2 Dragonarms, Transportal 
x2 Dragonarms, Charger 
x1 Dragonarms, Cavalier 
Size 0: 2 
x2 Dragonarms, Garbel Anchor 
Items: 4 
x4 Radient Saber, Providence 
Spells: 11 
x4 Star Jack Boost 
x2 Barracal Barret 
x2 Proto Barrier
x2 Star Jack Repair 
x1 Escape 

First Place: 'Sorter' 
Flag: Hero World 
Buddy Monster: Schwarz "SD" 
Size 3: 5 
x4 Great Sword Deity, Kaizerion 
x1 Fourth Omni Fire Lord, Burn Nova 
Size 2: 2 
x2 Unmovable Steel Mech, Ganzallar 
Size 1: 15 
x4 Beast Diety, Tigerthrust 
x4 Schwarz "SD" 
x4 Darkness Fist, Gwen 
x3 Rescue Dragon Mach Braver 
Size 0: 4 
x4 Beast Diety, Sabird 
Spells: 24 
x4 Hyper Energy 
x4 Call, Super Machine! 
x4 I've Seen Through Your Moves! 
x4 ...Or So the Dream I had Went 
x3 First Darkhero Hideout 
x2 Body of Steel 
x2 Long-range Cannon 
Impacts: 2 
x2 Brave Energy Full Drive!

(Source: Star Dragon Cup's Twitter)

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