First week of March'12

So the first weekend of locals here in Singapore have come and gone, here's a break down of the decks that topped.

This is including the 10 player 3 round swiss tournament we had at Yew Tee today, where we cut to Top 4.

Inzector : 8
Laval : 2
Karakuri : 1
HERO : 1
Wind - Up : 1
Six Samurai : 1
Scrap Anti - Meta : 1
Machina Gadget : 1
WWBF : 1
Verz : 1

Clearly, Inzectors hav become the mainstream deck of the format which many hav expected. 2 Torrential, 3 Call, 3 Card Car D and losing essentially nothing, the dominant deck of later Sept'11 format extended its already existing lead the arguably reach Tier 0.5 status.

Interestingly enough though, the 3 locals I took into consideration, being JCube, LAS and Yew Tee, Inzector only managed 1 win, with a Top 3 share of Laval, Six Sam and Inzector at LAS and Laval taking the win at JCube.

Clearly, Laval is also a force to be reckoned with. They do not require one to commit to the field until there is enough build up, hence is effective against Inzector and causes them to stray towards the Gulf build more.

Furthurmore, the Top 8 breakdown of the previous week at Yew Tee where we used the March'12 list looked something like this.

Inzector : 2
Lightlord : 1
Chain Burn: 1
Infernity: 1
Empty Jar : 1
Offering Gadget : 1
Laval : 1

Clearly at the locals level, expected top tier decks other than Inzector are not really doing their thing. There appears to be a decline in HERO and Rabbit play. Where there used to be about the same number of HERO and Inzector decks, only one made the top cut this week, Rabbit being totally off the radar.

Another point to note is the lack of Heiroglyphs in this list, if they are as over hyped as I predicted them to be though, we still have to see.

This is still Week 1 of March'12 but it has become clear what the decks of choice in Singapore has been. The threat of Laval is smaller than Inzector though, as Inzectors are readily available, unlike Laval cards.

Furthurmore, the upcoming Asia Championships do not allow the use of Duel Terminal cards. Decks that will be scrapped off the radar for the event are predominantly HERO and Laval.

I'll see how the decklist distribution looks like next week before I make some radical move to mod my deck to counter solely Inzectors. But it won't be long before some decks start swapping their Torrentials and Bottomlesses for Chain D.