
Shootingcode as an UR is... Such a scam. I hope they don't drip feed us each codetalker as an UR each box...

I love all of these decks. But dang, this is underwhelming. Blue Angel's unlock will have to do some heavy carrying to make Marincess playable, and Trickstars viable. The Paleo cards are very nice. Vweiss is 100% a wasted UR Slot, and Xyz Remora is kind of tough to evaluate, but pairs very nicely with Crystalzero variants of Fish Xyz. Anyways, take -100

The marincess stuff could be funny, but I just committed to the money pit known as lightsworn, so this is an easy skip.

I wouldn't go that far... that's a pretty low bar lol Trickstar atleast have a competitive history and annoying as **** with their burn effects.

Trickstar was meta for 2 reasons: Light Stage being a little and reliable engine to link climb (meaning that players used to run the engine + Reincarnation + random floodgates and lots of handtraps) and Reincarnation to banish opp's hand + droll & lock bird. Needless to say that both cards are not in DL and that Trickstar's never been good as a pure "link spam" strategy. With its main 2 threats not being in the game, i currently don't see the deck performing well even at a casual level. Possibly its most annoying thing might be Corobane, but that solely depends on how many copies we can get from Blue Angel's level up rewards.

Light Stage doesn't do anything for link climbing, you're thinking of Live Stage which is in her deck so we'll probably get it eventually. Light Stage is mostly useful for disrupting backrow, adding more chip damage, and adding Trickstars to hand for advantage. Which like, is very strong, but does different things for the deck and doesn't really help with link climbing.

No, i meant Light Stage. The Trickstar engine was composed by Light Stage, Candina and either Corobane or Lilybell and this engine was mainly used to access generic link 2 and then continue your plays (most recent example was Verte anaconda - either drawing Light Stage or Candina was a guaranteed link 2 summon). This engine then kinda died when Light Stage was put at 1.

Trickstar was a deck full of floodgates and handtraps, look at the deck that won WCS2018, it has like 10 trickstar cards and the other cards are just cards like solemns, droll, ash, veiler, ghost ogre, cherries, etc. Trickstar is not a good link spam on it's own, specially if they don't get their field spell and reincarnation.

It's worth noting that Live Stage IS in the game, so we probably will get it at some point. I'm hoping that there's plans for a bit more support down the line and at least giving us it and festival, in which case you could probably make a decent link control strategy with it, either using Light Arena as a janky light stage (which, like, a janky light stage is still not BAD) or using live stage for link advantage. I don't think it'll ever be meta and it's not good YET, but I think there might be reason to not totally lose hope in the archetype in dl. i could see it as a fun little deck you can pick up wins with down the line, even if it isn't competitive.

Only things worth grabbing out of the box seem to be Atlantean Dragoons, the Paleo cards, and VLAN Hydra. Threshold Borg doesn't seem terrible, might try a few things with it. Overall tho, the Trickstars and Marincess cards leave a lot to be desired... Only trickstar I even have an interest in is the one from the event since it's semi-generic so I can toss it in a few other decks.

Jesus. This is the box equivalent of Blue Angel's role in the anime. You're better off using UR/SR Dream tickets when you can to get what you want from this box. Like, seriously? DRAGON CAPTURE JAR in a pack not from the DM era? Hip Hoshiningen and Mistar Boy will likely see staple use in Light and Water decks respectively and the UR/SR cards will have their uses, but the majority of this box isn't gonna see much use until more Trickstars come to the game...poor poor blue angel, the Hans Moleman of anime.

Hmm Atlantean Dragoon for Water Xyz , Search Diva as Followup ? Since its level 4 you don't need to burn the skill. Assuming a Hand with Dragoon and Silent angler, You can do Bahamut & Blackray , search diva for next turn. Or Dweller detach on enemy drawphase , search Diva.
Doesn't sound so bad in theory

Welp, this is disappointing. Guess I can use the 500 gems to dig for 2nd Cynet Mining for Salamangreat. Trickstar has some good framework with Candina + Lycoris but without Light Stage or Reincarnation what are you actually searching here? Yeah you can do NS Candina then add Lycoris, use her effect to bounce Candina to SS Lycoris but what does that actually accomplish? Salamangreat is gonna run through you like a hot knife through butter, heck even some rogue decks just thrash Trickstars it ain't even funny.
And I don't even wanna talk about Marincess. Give us Light Stage AND Reincarnation Konami then we'll have something here.