Top 20 WCQ Labrynth Deck Profile

Kevin Tam, a YuGiOh Player from Vancouver placed in the Top 20 of the Burnaby Yu-Gi-Oh WCQ Tournament. Cardboard Kitchen has partnered with a local card shop in Richmond, The Trading Gallery, that hosts Yu-Gi-Oh OTS Tournaments, to do a deck profile on his winning Labrynth Deck. 

You can watch the YouTube video by The Trading Gallery on their channel here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akzJUbLg0Q4&t=1s&ab_channel=TheTradingGallery

Kevin Tam’s Deck List:

Monsters:

2x Lady Labrynth Of The Silver Castle

1x Lovely Labrynth Of The Silver Castle

1x Arias The Labrynth Butler

3x Arianna The Labrynth Servant

1x Ariane The Labrynth Servant

2x Labrynth Cooclock

3x Labrynth Chandraglier

3x Labrynth Stovie Torbie

2x Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring

1x Droll & Lock Bird

1x Mulcharmy Purulia

Spells:

3x Pot of Extravagance

1x Called By The Grave

1x Labrynth Labyrinth

Traps:

3x Big Welcome Labrynth

2x Welcome Labrynth

2x Destructive Daruma Karma Cannon

3x Infinite Impermanence

2x Different Dimension Ground

2x Transaction Rollback

1x Dimensional Barrier

1x Simul Archfiends

1x Trap Trick

1x Ice Dragon’s Prison

1x Eradicator Epidemic Virus

Extra Deck:

3x Muckraker From The Underworld

3x Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis

3x Chaos Angel

1x Underworld Goddess Of The Closed World

1x Dharc The Dark Charmer, Gloomy

1x Clara & Rushka, The Ventriloduo

1x S:P Little Knight

1x Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS - Sky Thunder

1x Number 41: Bagooska The Terribly Tired Tapir

According to Kevin, his deck cost around $1700 at the time. Yu-Gi-Oh is known to be an expensive game but there are budget options, especially for the labrynth deck as with the new Yu-Gi-Oh tin, 25th Anniversary Tin: Dueling Mirrors, introducing some notable Labrynth reprints like Big Welcome Labyrinth and Arias the Labrynth Butler, this deck can be built for much cheaper.

Here is a budget example of the deck

https://ygoprodeck.com/deck/labrynth-526938

Deck Tips:

Kevin’s goal when piloting this deck is to set up your board to play on the opponent's turn because all the Furniture Monsters are quick effects and Labrynth Cooclock and Arias the Labrynth Butler, make all the traps you set off their effects during the turn able to activate on the same turn. This gives you ample interruption on your opponent's turn. 

Notable strategies Kevin mentions are using Dimensional Barrier, to stop ritual-reliant decks or decks that heavily rely on the extra deck. Simul Archfiend is used as a floodgate card to lock players into only one of each type of monster. 

Kevin suggests using Trap Trick, to search your deck for any of your trap cards to immediately place on the field by banishing a copy of it from your deck. Some search targets Kevin suggests are Durama Karma Cannon, to make the opponent's monsters face down so they can’t link summon using them, Different Dimension ground, Welcome Labrynth, Big Welcome, and Infinite Impermanence.

Side Deck Suggestions:

Kevin suggests Siding out Different Dimension Ground if the opponent is playing a Dimensional Shifter deck.

If you are going second with this deck Kevin suggests Siding out Pot of Extravagance, called by the grave, 1x Arianna The Labrynth Servant, 1x Labrynth Torbie, and Different Dimension Ground and replacing them with various hand traps to combat the current format.

Strong Matchups:

Kevin says that playing against Tenpai, Runick stun, Branded Despia, Rogue decks, and a Labrynth mirror match are favorable matchups for him.

Weak Matchups:

Kevin says he had a hard time playing against Snake Eyes Fiend Smith and Chimera decks as they have a lot of cards that give them recursion.

Basic Combo:

Requirements in hand: Lady Labrynth Of The Silver Castle + Labrynth Cooclock + Welcome Labrynth

1. Send Labrynth Cooclock using its effect.

2. Activate the trigger effect of Lady Labrynth Of The Silver Castle, to special summon herself from the hand because a Labrynth monster effect was activated.

3. Set Welcome Labrynth, face down, and end your turn.

4. During the opponent's Standby Phase activate the set Welcome Labrynth, then chain Lady Labrynth Of The Silver Castle effect to set a trap card from your deck to the field.

5. Resolve the chain, Lady Labrynth Of The Silver Castle will set a trap card from your deck, then Welcome Labrynth will special summon Arianna The Labrynth Servant from the deck to your field.

6. Arianna The Labrynth Servant trigger effect, when special summoned you can search your deck for a Labrynth monster to add to your hand, add Labrynth Stovie Torbie to your hand.

7. Use Labrynth Stovie Torbie effect to send itself and a trap card from your hand to set a trap card from the deck to your field, set Labrynth Big Welcome from the deck to the field.

8. Labrynth Cooclock effect will trigger allowing you to add itself from the graveyard back to your hand.