The Dragonfly Lair

THE DRAGONFLY LAIR

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DrunkenDraco’s solo practice table, flown under the DragonFly Studios banner. No accounts, no sign-ups β€” nothing you enter here is collected or sent anywhere.

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Both tables are hotseat duels on this device, run by the same rules engine as the Engine Duel view β€” Pass & Play adds the private pass-the-device handoff. Each rival flies an original brood banner drawn by the table β€” no licensed card faces. Rival seats a frozen pilot across the table in an Engine Duel: a fixed, community-tested decision policy that runs entirely on this device and can misplay β€” not an LLM, not a Konami AI.

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Techs & Testing

Notes from the Houston weekend and the Lair’s own engine room β€” every number dated and sourced.

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Techs of the week Β· Elfnote

The tuner rule: Imperm the raise, not Medius

If you hold Imperm against the Portal opener, you spend it on the Level 1 Power Patron’s level-raise β€” not Medius.

Source: DragonFly Studios Elfnote cheat sheets Β· Updated Oct 17, 2026.

Techs of the week Β· YCS Houston

Droll decided the final, then went to one

Droll & Lock Bird decided the YCS Houston final on Oct 18 β€” and the emergency TCG list limits it to 1 copy from Oct 19.

Source: the Lair’s YCS Houston tracker Β· Final logged Oct 18, 2026.

Techs of the week Β· Format watch

The Houston emergency TCG list is complete

34 Forbidden + 8 Limited, effective Oct 19 β€” TCG only, with Master Duel untouched. Elfnote Tinia and Varudras are Forbidden, and Gustav Max is Limited to 1.

Source: the Lair’s YCS Houston tracker + this table’s TCG data Β· Oct 18, 2026.

From our testing Β· The Matrix

Timelord-Tanks posted an 83.5% row

Across 40,000 engine duels: Elfnote 76.2% Β· Maliss 96.2% Β· Ryzeal 79.6% Β· Blue-Eyes Primite 81.9%.

Source: DragonFly Studios Tanks Matrix β€” engine testing Β· Oct 18, 2026.

From our testing Β· The Matrix

For the validated Tanks list, Elfnote is the wall

Its hardest completed Matrix matchup is Elfnote at 23.7% over 10,000 engine duels. Bait sequencing is the lever.

Source: DragonFly Studios Tanks Matrix β€” engine testing Β· Oct 18, 2026.

From our testing Β· Master Duel ladder

Specialists lead the ladder; Kewl Tune leads the crowd

Vanquish Soul K9 owns the top win rate at 57.0% on a 2.8% play rate. Kewl Tune is the most-played archetype at 9.4%.

Source: Untapped.gg Master Duel snapshot, via the Lair’s weekend meta sweep Β· Oct 18, 2026.

From our testing Β· YCS Houston

Houston’s paper top tables tilted Elfnote

The Elfnote family held about 35% of Advanced top tables, with Angelechy at 22% β€” paper TCG at YCS Houston.

Source: Team Budget chart of Konami’s final-Swiss update, via the Lair’s weekend meta sweep Β· Oct 18, 2026.

Built by DrunkenDraco Β· DragonFly Studios Β· Drunkendragonfly / DrunkenDraco

The Engine Duel runs on free software: the Project Ignis core (ocgcore, via ocgcore-wasm 0.1.4) and the ProjectIgnis/CardScripts corpus, both licensed under the GNU AGPLv3-or-later. The complete Corresponding Source for this build is downloadable from this page itself: · A public GitHub mirror of the source is planned but not yet live, so this page is the source home for now.