AMAZING Hybrid Champion Decks & Tricks for an Open Meta! || Grand Archive TCG Recollection Step 40 @MaindeckGames

Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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: shoutatyourdecks.com/decks/453d15a1-549c-4906-b74d-e17ff7b1c253

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

Modern Table Top Regionals - 404Bassics's Fortuitous/Regular Wind Arcane Rai: 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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