Of course this is Blue-Eyes we're talking about so the x5-6 level-8 dragons-all of whom are considered 'Blue-Eyes White Dragon' on the field or in-grave, mind you-are joined with a host of other level-8 dragons. That's basically heresy among Blue-Eyes players, who have feverishly insisted that the vanilla is played at x3 and the Alternative White Dragon at x2 (some die-hards insist on playing it at x3 but this is no longer widely accepted). But what really got my attention with HaltessiaGaming's build was that, originally, he played the vanilla Blue-Eyes White Dragon at x2 and the Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon, which is treated as the vanilla on-field or in-grave, at x1. I was skeptical of the Blue-Eyes control build for some time-mainly turned off by how fragile a strategy revolving around True Light seemed. Practice is the sole criterion of truth, and the fact that no other Blue-Eyes builds are seeing success-let alone topping-tournaments speaks for itself. Whether players take up the trap-control build or not, they're worth studying for competitive players because of how fearlessly they cast away long-held deck-building dogma around 'how you have to run Blue-Eyes'. Credit to HaltessiaGaming, his YouTube deck profiles and combo videos go over the theory behind his deck-building strategy in great detail. HaltessiaGaming (YouTube channel name) has won several OTS local tournaments playing this variant of Blue-Eyes, gradually over time moving towards a heavier fusion build.

For my part, I have not competed with this deck in a tournament yet, though I plan to take it to locals while Skill Drain is still at x3-if for no other reason than to have fun playing Blue-Eyes again.īut the reason I've embraced this build at all is because of the success of other players who have taken similar builds-the Blue-Eyes Trap Control build-to locals and won.

Players would do right to view any claims like that with a lot of skepticism, especially if they lack documented success in competitive play. No audacious claims here that this is 'the best, most consistent, least bricky Blue-Eyes deck ever'.

V1.033.d ygo pro