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After winning Shonen Jump Championship Orlando, Team Nexus’ Paul Lyn is back! He’s packing a new and improved version of Rusty Bucket of Bolts, and, as Round 1 is just kicking off, it seems like a good opportunity to revisit the one Chimeratech tech that might survive into the next format. Here’s what the new version looks like:

Monsters: 16

1 Jinzo

2 Ancient Gear Cannon

2 Ancient Gear Soldier

1 Magician of Faith

1 Morphing Jar

1 Drillroid

1 Card Trooper

Spells: 21

1 Swords of Revealing Light

2 Nightmare’s Steelcage

Traps: 5

2 Threatening Roar

The most notable addition to the deck is a single copy of the hottest card here today: Card Trooper. While Card Trooper offers a lot of different things to a lot of different strategies, here it provides two important assets. First, it’s a Machine monster, so it’s going to act as graveyard fodder for Overload Fusion. It’ll do so without costing Lyn a card in the long-run, thanks to Trooper’s “draw a card when I’m destroyed” effect. Beyond that, it’ll add even more cards to the graveyard thanks to its deck-shredding effect. Even though Lyn is only running 16 monsters, getting things like Blowback and Spell Canceller into the graveyard without having to draw through them can be incredibly valuable. The change was made at the cost of the single Dekoichi the Battlechanted Locomotive Lyn ran in Orlando.

One Ancient Gear Cannon has been dropped, alongside a single Nightmare’s Steelcage. Lyn is still running two of each, and, in return for his cuts, he can use that extra space for two Threatening Roar. Lyn sided in Threatening Roar to compete in his Top 8 matches, but, in this event, they’re going to do more than shut down just Chimeratech Overdragon. There are lots of players running Destiny Hero builds here today, most of which also work towards a big one-turn KO with Dimension Fusion. Threatening Roar will buy Lyn time in any of those matchups, and when time is essentially your win condition that can mean the difference between victory and defeat. Roar will also provide more chainable options against Mobius the Frost Monarch, which continues to see increased play in this format as Zaborg’s popularity dwindles in competitive metagames.

Currently it’s unclear how tough the field may be for those few souls daring enough to run Chimeratech Overdragon. Most of the players I spoke to today had disregarded Chimeratech and were instead devoting their side decks to stopping Destiny Hero, but many were doing it with cards that also help against Machines. While Lyn probably won’t have to contend with System Down, he will run into cards like Solemn Judgment and Cursed Seal of the Forbidden Spell, and those might cause him problems. Lyn’s got his work cut out for him today, but, with everyone fearing Elemental Hero Stratos and Destiny Heroes, he might have yet another field that’s ripe for the picking.