The Cubic Order Awaits

The Performage Ready their Wands

Together they Watch the World Burn

The first piece of this loop enabling comes in the form of Soul – a Special Summon that just adds an additional body to your field. Whenever you draw Soul with Duza (Or Karma), simply Summon Soul, Summon Duza, then use its effect to send a Unification. This unlocks a chain of link summons, since using Duza as Link Material triggers your Unification in GY to summon a new Duza, which then sends a new Unification… and so on. Combine this with other Performages, like Trick Clown sent off of Foolish or Hat Tricker, and you can keep summoning Link 2s. With just 1 other such extender (also including Giera Guile the Cubic King), you can go through 2 Knightmare co-linked Link Summons, getting you even more draws to get to your ultimate Win Condition – burn damage.

But enough about the various win conditions at play in this deck – let’s check out the decklist since we’ve already covered most of it!

Sample Decklist

Click to view the TCG decklist in the Official Card Database

Foolish, Foolish, Foolish, Foolish, Desires

Future Adjustments

While I may be shooting the gun a bit on this strategy, it is very important to highlight that Cubics have some impending new support that will take a strategy like this to the next level. In the Duel Overload set releasing in mid March, Konami has announced that new Cubic cards will finally be imported to the TCG. While we have yet to have confirmation from Konami on the exact contents, there are three Cubic cards that still remain OCG-only, and each can offer a significant boost. Let’s check them out:

When Duel Overload is released in March, I recommend editing the sample decklist by removing Giera, Reborn, and Hat Tricker, then adding 3 copies of Dharma and 1 copy of Ascension. This gives your deck even more consistency and draw power, in addition to giving more “Cubic” names to reveal to summon Crimson Nova! It’s a win-win-win-win? Perfect.

Additional Tech Options

Conclusion and Wrap-up:

You made it this far so thanks for reading! Cubics and Performage may seem like two very different themes that shouldn’t mix, but all it takes is a generic power card like Magician’s Soul that can tie them together. But even more on top of that, throw in some Rokket support and you got yourself a creative potion that can knock your opponent down before they’re even ready for it! You may not make many friends using burn damage to win, but you certainly get to have fun doing so! I hope that this article inspired you to bring a bit more Cubics back into your life – it is a cool archetype that has been criminally undervalued. But if this article wasn’t your cup of tea, try checking in next time for a new strategy! The current plan is to cover one of the debut archetypes from Ignition Assault, so see you next time for that!

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