Remember the casual build of every World Legacy archetype? Here’s how I turned that concept into a competitive strategy.

Reintroduction to the World Legacy:

Terminology Primer:

In this article, I’ll be referring to a number of technical terms related to deckbuilding/gameplay, thus I wanted to take a second to define them upfront for those who are unfamiliar. To dive into discussions on more of the technical side of the game, consider requesting the Student role on our Discord server. Additional information can be found on our “Rules-You-Read-First” Channel.

• Starter – This term refers to cards that initiate your combos. You can identify these cards by wanting one of them in your perfect opening hand. Of these starters, a limited number should require your Normal Summon to function properly, as you only get one of those per turn.
• Extender – This term refers to cards that let you continue your plays, especially in the case when your main combo is disrupted. These cards gain this name because they ‘extend’ your play before you have to pass the turn over to your opponent.
• Removal – Options that can remove barriers or floodgates to allow for you to play the duel. These cards should be selected to best support your deck in getting over its worst obstacles.
• Garnet – This term was coined by Gem-Knight Garnet for its use alongside Brilliant Fusion as a monster – that doesn’t benefit your strategy – that you need to play to unlock another powerful effect or combo.
• Brick – Cards that you draw that are more useful in the deck than in the hand are referred to as bricks. This also is the origin for a ‘bricked hand’, or a hand where you cannot play because your draws did not yield a usable starter with enough extenders.
• Chainblock – This term refers to building a chain of simultaneous effects so that your most important effect cannot be responded to or negated by your opponent. To do so, you would place your important effect as CL1 and a less important effect as CL2. Note that this action can only be taken with Trigger effects that are all mandatory or all optional. For more information on Simultaneous Effects Go On Chain (SEGOC), check out the Yugipedia article on it: HERE.

Winnowing the Lore ‘Fluff’:

I’ll be blunt with you – a lot of the World Legacy cards are extremely situational, and that may be putting it nicely. As a result, it is important to immediately remove most of the cards that function as Garnets for this sort of deck, or usable in only one combo string. Looking back at my prior build, there were a ton of niche sets of cards that served exactly in that function. For example, I used a Level 9 engine to make use of World Legacy Monstrosity, I used a World Chalice engine just to make full use of World Legacy – “World Chalice”, and I had to include a ton of extra dragons to make the Guardragon engine reachable. As a result, the deck frequently could run into problems where I drew multiple pieces of each engine, but not enough to get any truly functional. So all of these were chopped from the island, leaving us with the primary core archetypes of Crusadia, Mekk-Knight, and Orcust that still remained untouched by the carnage. So see if you can imagine how each of these archetypes might play a pivotal role for both the lore deck and this competitive strategy:

Crusadia:

Mekk-Knight:

Orcust:

Balancing the Composition:

After these three engines are compiled, this leaves us with 15 slots left to fill. So let’s talk about tech options to support the goals of each core archetype.

Assembling the Core Composition:

Side Decks are Mandatory:

Bringing Us Home:

Decklist:

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Looking Forward:

Looking to the future, my list will definitely be changing, for we have a couple of cards on the horizon that will completely overturn World Legacy variants. Here’s just a few I think are noteworthy that will probably appear in my future World Legacy hybrid strategies:

Conclusion:

I hope you all enjoyed a return to one of my most popular articles on the site – I definitely had fun rebuilding this deck with a deliberate competitive mindset, and I think the end result is definitely something worth sharing! The triple threat of starters, extenders, and disruptions that each of our main archetypes provides helps to solidify an awesome strategy, one that can break boards as well as stall long enough to be in a position to break them. It can play through disruptions, as well as chainblock your most essential effects. But most of all, you get to claim you are playing a competitive lore deck, then watch the faces of your opponents as their chuckles of confusion turn into disbelief at their loss to what some would consider a fun deck. After all, creative strategies are not always causal ones. Catch you all next time!

Reminder, I also take suggestions for future CDS articles! I really want to see some input from you! If you wish to see a CDS article about the archetype, theme, or strategy you love, feel free to private message me on the YGOrg Discord server, the YGOrganization Forums, or just post a comment in response to this article on our Facebook page with your ideas to keep under consideration! On most YGO-related communities my username is Quincymccoy, so feel free to reach out. As of now, I have a couple of outstanding requests that I am looking at: Ballpark Insect/Battlewasp, Cyberse, Shaddoll, and Speedroid.