The tournament has barely begun, and already there’s a very obvious new deck on the scene. Pot of Avarice has inspired duelists to seek a resurgence in card advantage—a significant departure from the current format’s emphasis on monster advantage. Team Overdose’s Kris Perovic jumped on me earlier in the week to show off the team’s build of this popular theme. It’s an important deck, because while many duelists are running variants on the theme, the Overdose version is the most dedicated. Where other competitors are running one or two of the deck’s key cards, OD is running more, and that factor alone will make or break them.

“Flip Control was somewhat popular at LA, but considering the release of Pot of Avarice (and the decks dedication to making it so broken—we aren’t running Premature Burial, Call of the Haunted, D. D. Warrior Lady, or D. D. Assailant) and everyone running Bazoo, this deck owns so much.”

That’s the strategy’s second drawing engine—the abuse of its card-oriented flip effects in conjunction with Tsukuyomi. Magician of Faith, Magical Merchant, and Dekoichi can all be reused thanks to Tsukuyomi, so a player has to be highly aggressive or risk eating the card advantage created by the small monsters it leaves on the field.

The reuse of Mystic Tomato and Sangan, which is potentially infinite thanks to Pot of Avarice, lets the deck maintain board presence like nothing else in the format. Many of the other variants on this theme that are being seen to day are not running Mystic Tomato, using Nimble Momonga instead or simply not dedicating card slots to this strategy as heavily as Overdose is. Tomato definitely seems to be the strongest best, simply because it leads to Sangan, which in turn fetches Tsukuyomi and allows the deck to grab additional cards.

This deck is amazing in the Return matchup because it denies the tempo control that Return from the Different Dimension needs to go off. The Return deck is all about making one-for-one trades, running the opponent into a topdecking situation, and then breaking stride with a massive Return. Any opponent who’s topdecking can’t hope to repel a three- or four-monster attack. But The Pot Deck never gets trapped this way; as long as it doesn’t suffer from poor draws and massive disruption it always draws enough cards that it’s never forced to topdeck. That fact makes it an incredibly promising archetype in the Advanced environment.

Will this become the new deck to beat? If so, will a dedicated build like Overdose’s become the standard, or will the reserved builds we’re seeing from other duelists reign supreme? The BAR has been reunited for the first time since US Nationals, and Bryan Coronel, Anthony Alvarado, and the returning Rhymus Lizo are all betting that this deck will be the one to beat here today. With strong core theory backing their strategy, exceptionally skilled players, and a lock on the event’s metagame, they could be right.

Overdose may just capture the Des Volstgalph here today.