When Tim came and told me he was currently sitting at 6-1, my mind was made up. Guan is playing a hybrid deck that I really can’t explain until you see the decklist.

Monsters: 21

1 Jinzo

1 Mobius the Frost Monarch

2 Zaborg the Thunder Monarch

3 D.D. Survivor

3 D.D. Scout Plane

2 Old Vindictive Magician

2 Dekoichi the Battlechanted Locomotive

2 Magical Merchant

1 Morphing Jar

1 Bazoo the Soul-Eater

1 Cyber Dragon

1 Exiled Force

1 Breaker the Magical Warrior

Spells: 12

1 Graceful Charity

1 Heavy Storm

1 Snatch Steal

1 Enemy Controller

1 Book of Moon

2 Nobleman of Crossout

2 Reinforcement of the Army

3 Dimensional Fissure

Traps: 8

1 Mirror Force

1 Torrential Tribute

1 Horn of Heaven

2 Return from the Different Dimension

2 Macro Cosmos

1 Solemn Judgment

As you can see here, Guan uses a weird mix of ingenuity and innovation to pioneer one of the coolest looking Macro Cosmos decks around. His weird ideas of flip effects mixing with the Monarchs and Cosmos with Return allows him to not only swarm the field like all Cosmos decks, but keep hand control at the same time. This is where Cosmos usually fails, by turn two or three, your hand is rinsed even if you have immense field control. With Guan’s build, he can sit there on turn twelve with a five-card hand and still have an extremely commanding field.

The deck as a whole has impressed all around us. Not only that, it also side-decks in to a Cyber-Stein build! Impressive, huh? With a combination of skill and intense deckbuilding Guan is currently sitting pretty up on table seven and I’m pretty sure he doesn’t feel like moving. He is well on his way to making it in to the Top 8 with the first Macro Cosmos deck to place so highly in a prominent event. Will this make up for the lack of Cosmos decks seen previously?