One of the coolest things about Grand Archive is the ability to customize your Material Deck, including your Champion Levels! In our very 40th episode of Recollection Step, World Champion Taylor and I discuss how we approach such an open metagame, and the look at 3 decklists that show off an element of GATCG that Maindeck has always been fond of - hybridizing the champions in your Mat Deck!

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DECKLISTS:

Whimsy DTR Store Champs - KevinSan's Fire Prismatic Crux Byakko Guo Jia/Merlin: https://www.shoutatyourdecks.com/decks/453d15a1-549c-4906-b74d-e17ff7b1c253

DTR Regional Reaper Game Store - Kaze7869's Wind Allies Wakeup Lorraine/Nico Hybrid: https://www.shoutatyourdecks.com/decks/6a55209b-ab6f-4673-b613-9e7d9edae337

Modern Table Top Regionals - 404Bassics's Fortuitous/Regular Wind Arcane Rai: https://www.shoutatyourdecks.com/decks/404918bc-ece6-47a0-b2ec-a773016fd2c0

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0:00 Intro, Store Champs, and DraftKings

7:57 The Open Metagame

16:26 History of GA Metagames

23:03 How to Support Maindeck

24:19 New Merlin Meta in PTM?

27:00 Thought Process Going into Niagara

38:25 Hybridizing Champions - Ways and Reasons

44:03 KevinSan's Guo Jia Merlin

52:22 Kaze7869's Wind Wakeup Lorraine/Nico

57:29 404Bassics's Fortuitous/Regular Wind Rai

1:06:26 Final Thoughts on Hybrids and Outro

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