Carl Waite's Top 8 decklist from FLC1 was one of my personal favorite lists in attendance at that tournament. Today he's back with some slight changes to the same core concept, and he's taking no prisoners during his Day 1 run thus far.
Carl's deck is interesting because it blurs the line between two traditionally established archetypes, Chaos Turbo and Chaos Control. Like most stock Turbo lists, he plays three Chaos Sorcerer, three Thunder Dragon, two Night Assailant, and a Card Destruction. Unlike those lists, however, he's playing absolutely zero copies of Dekoichi the Battlechanted Locomotive anywhere in his 55, instead capitalizing on the synergy between Dark Mimic and Metamorphosis, each maindecked in pairs. Carl has moved one of his two copies of Scapegoat to his mainboard since FLC1, and he is still playing the Magical Merchant + Monster Reincarnation engine that got him so much mileage at the same tournament. Oh, yeah, and if all of that isn't enough to get him there, he can flip Return from the Different Dimension and randomly win the game out of nowhere.
These choices place Carl's opponents in a position where they are often unsure which matchup they are supposed to be playing. Carl can coast on the threat of Scapegoat while rarely actually having it set, and while he has stripped his list of many of the unique high-end threats that he played at FLC1 such as Dark Magician of Chaos, his core engine is still powerful enough to punish an opponent that waits too long to interact or interfere with it. Defensive pressure is the name of the game here, as Carl often needs only one Flip effect to resolve in order to get the ball rolling.
Carl's signature tech card Greenkappa makes an appearance in his sideboard today, as well as the second copy of Scapegoat that he frequently sides in regardless of his opponent. Two Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer and two Mind Controls round out his sidedecked hate for Chaos Turbo, always the popular choice in Swiss rounds of FLC events. He's started off today 3-0, a shoe-in for Day 2 and close to a lock for Top 4. I think Carl Waite's deck just might be crazy enough to win this entire tournament!
These choices place Carl's opponents in a position where they are often unsure which matchup they are supposed to be playing. Carl can coast on the threat of Scapegoat while rarely actually having it set, and while he has stripped his list of many of the unique high-end threats that he played at FLC1 such as Dark Magician of Chaos, his core engine is still powerful enough to punish an opponent that waits too long to interact or interfere with it. Defensive pressure is the name of the game here, as Carl often needs only one Flip effect to resolve in order to get the ball rolling.
Carl's signature tech card Greenkappa makes an appearance in his sideboard today, as well as the second copy of Scapegoat that he frequently sides in regardless of his opponent. Two Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer and two Mind Controls round out his sidedecked hate for Chaos Turbo, always the popular choice in Swiss rounds of FLC events. He's started off today 3-0, a shoe-in for Day 2 and close to a lock for Top 4. I think Carl Waite's deck just might be crazy enough to win this entire tournament!
