Notes & Combos

Many of you didn’t heed my warning about the second coming of The Chronometa. As a result, you were woefully unprepared to interrupt my based OOPArts combos. In your hubris, you neglected to read my deck explanation in the Chronomaly MDM discord channel, but your blunder did not go unchecked. I would know because I watched many churlish meta sheep misplay handtraps and flounder in their attempts to break my board. As the majority of you Master Duel Andys obviously lack the discipline to anticipate meta threats, I have created this explanation so that you may properly respect the burgeoning Chronomaly metagame.

The primary theory of the deck is that access to the Fiendsmith combo line and any level 4 monster will allow you to make a rank 4 (exciton knight) that you can retain in the GY even after executing full Fiendsmith combo. The rank 4 that remains in your GY can then be used as a target for Chronomaly Esperanza Glyph, allowing you to summon Chronomaly Vimana. For a number of reasons, the optimal play is to progress through your fiendsmith combo until you summon level-4 Lacrima & activate her effect, then normal summon your level-4 to make exciton knight before resuming your fiendsmith combo. Considering that the Fiendsmith combo line doesn’t need to normal summon, Chronomaly Nebra Disk (your ideal level 4) can be normal summoned to search Esperanza glyph. With these factors in mind, a formula for a consistent win condition begins to emerge.

I opted to play boardbreakers over handtraps for the most part because I found handtraps to be ineffective against most meta threats over the past 1.5 seasons. Considering board breakers prevent the Chronomaly strategy from accessing its rank-4 recursion engine, I chose not to max out on magella & tuspa because I doubted I would find the opportunity to use Nebra Disk’s GY effect. Furthermore, using the battle phase to access AA-ZEUS was not always possible because I sometimes needed to run over a low-atk interruption (opponent’s Desirae/Apollousa) with TY-PHON or activate Evenly Matched. Like in earlier Chronomaly builds, Triple Tactics Thrust is primarily used to search board breakers, but also gives you the option to search for combo pieces (Tract/Esperanza glyph) as needed.

Also, your win ratio playing any Chronomaly strategy will rise significantly if you play with the moai cannon mate. Trust. I'll provide youtube replays in the comments if theres any interest.