With Witch of the Black Forest still legal and D.D. The 2nd Nobleman is used because the opponent may be more inclined to play defensively against beaters. I’m not claiming this to be the best deck of the format, but in an era of weak monsters, these beaters can stomp, deal damage and force removal to be used on them. As a result, getting direct attacks and triggering effects via battle damage can be a great way of reducing the opponent’s arsenal to preclude late-game power plays. Since this meta is so spell-focused, there are less resources spent on protecting life points with monsters and traps. Also Mirage of Nightmare (combined with a spell like Mystical Space Typhoon) was a good combo for card advantage that a portion of competitive players used. Many players still used them, especially Scientist. Please forgive my disdain of Cyber Jar, Fiber Jar and Magical Scientist. However, there is some discretionary room for what LV4 monsters you would like to use for battle. Decks needed LIGHT’s and DARK’s, as well as the many staple cards which have been increasing over the months prior to this format, so the deckbuilding is creatively limiting. Chaos was the standard, apart from weird OTK’s involving cards such as Butterfly Dagger – Elma. These are examples of deck lists you may find in this format. However, keeping the number of LV5+ monsters in this deck low is important there are already a lot of power cards in the format (which benefit from being held onto) so having too many potentially dead-draw monsters is ill-advised. With low trap counts and weak monsters, Airknight Parshath is a better choice than Jinzo in many cases. Tomato is still good for searching Witch/Sangan, but with DDWL around to counter it, it’s not quite as assential. Miscellaneous observations: Painful Choice is just crazy at this point. Overall, it’s a slow cozy format, which has potential to become extremely lethal at any moment.
Also, the hand removal cards like Confiscation can preclude CED entirely. But since many of the best monsters in this format are relatively weak, players will be poking each other with cards like Witch, Mystic Tomato and DDWL until substantial plays could be made. There are power spells, but players often save them until they could combo them with powerful monsters. Until a player draws into one of their two Chaos monsters (and has a worthwhile opportunity to use it), the games are actually quite slow-paced and tame. However, upon testing this format for a dozen or so games, I found that it’s not as lethal and chaotic as many would think. These degenerate elements can unfortunately be very annoying at times, and a ban list was needed eventually to make room for new cards and strategies. Another win condition: if CED nuked your face-up Sangan or Witch, you could use it to search Yata-Garasu which could instantly Yata-lock the opponent. CED allowed players to easily deal thousands of life points worth of damage at once, especially if they landed a brutal attack from CED first. Chaos Emperor Dragon could nuke the entire field and both players hands. In some ways, CED-Yata was the apex of broken-ness in Yugioh. * Chaos Sorcerer was at 3, but Chaos Emperor Dragon and Black Luster Soldier (EOTB) were Limited to 1. Warrior Lady and Mystical Space Typhoon are still at 3. This is the last format before cards were banned. Most recent release was Invasion of Chaos (IOC).
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