Merlin, Brilliant Vestige Re:collection Deck Overview || Grand Archive TCG: Phantom Monarchs @MaindeckGames

Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

Let's deep dive into the new Merlin, Brilliant Vestige Re:collection deck, releasing for Grand Archive's eighth set, Phantom Monarchs! Merlin takes on the Assassin's Mantle in this Water element deck built to explore her backstory!!

We'll explain every mechanic and card, give you core strategy tips and tricks for a better for experience, and upgrade ideas to take the deck even further!

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Merlin, Brilliant Vestige Re:collection Deck Overview || Grand Archive TCG: Phantom Monarchs

$FOUR Podcasters, ONE Winner!! Grand Archive TCG Pantheon Constructed Gameplay! Recorded at the 2026 Creators Summit, today we show off Constructed Pantheon Gameplay with some of the games oldest Content Creators! Which Boomer Booner will leave victorious and gain the blessing of the gods? Maindeck Dan - Fire Kongming/Merlin @lineagebreak Cam - Wind Arisanna @creativeshockpodcast Limelight - Wind Tonoris @truechampiongaming Caban - Fire Jin Five Reasons why Pantheon will CHANGE Grand Archive: https://youtu.be/y916HfsCS60 Pantheon: Opening Rites animated short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEDpAubGjTg Pantheon Format Introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr1qhWzWm8s SUPPORT MAINDECK by shopping on TCGPlayer with our affiliate link: https://tcgplayer.pxf.io/maindeck The ULTIMATE How to Play Grand Archive video: https://youtu.be/I_MjH_qyVcI For more Grand Archive info and resources, check out all the links below: 🎴 ** THE OFFICIAL GATCG WEBSITE! ** 🎴 https://www.gatcg.com 📕 ** GATCG RULES ONLINE ** 📕 👇 Official Getting Started: https://www.gatcg.com/article/getting-started 👇 Official Comprehensive Rules: https://rules.gatcg.com/ 👥 **GATCG COMMUNITY** 👥 👇 Join the Discords below: MAINDECK DISCORD: https://discord.maindeck.games GRAND ARCHIVE DISCORD: https://discord.com/invite/grandarchivetcg 👇 GATCG Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/grandarchivetcg/ 💻 ** Deck Builders! ** 💻 https://silvie.org/ https://shoutatyourdecks.com/ 👇 Grand Archive TCG Analysis and Other Tools! https://silvie.gg/ 👇 GATCG Tournament Results: https://fractalofin.site/ #GrandArchive #TCG #GATCG #tradingcardgame ► We are supported by our generous patrons on Patreon - check out the link here and consider supporting us for bonus perks and behind the scenes content: https://www.patreon.com/maindeckgames ► Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MaindeckGames/ ► Written content, resources and more at: http://www.maindeck.games 🎵 Music from Epidemic Sound!! 🎵 Get access to a huge music library for a small monthly fee. Try it out through my link below to support Maindeck as well! https://share.epidemicsound.com/pa4rmh$ $RILE WAS BANNED - What NOW? || Grand Archive TCG DTR Meta Update 2 For this special who knows? Meta update, 2025 World Champ Maindeck Taylor joins me to discuss the critical question - what the heck do we play now that Rile the Abyss has been banned, and Purifying Thurible has been locked away again until PTM? Thanks to www.tcgarchitect.com for the decklists! See all the decklists we reference below: DECKLISTS Wind Shadowstrike Tristan: https://tcgarchitect.com/grand-archive/tournaments/decklists/2101 Wind Seiryuu: https://tcgarchitect.com/grand-archive/tournaments/decklists/2876 Fire Crux Merlin: https://tcgarchitect.com/grand-archive/tournaments/decklists/2875 Fire Luxem Zander: https://tcgarchitect.com/grand-archive/tournaments/decklists/2881 Fire Crux Lorraine: https://tcgarchitect.com/grand-archive/tournaments/decklists/2866 Fire Aggro Zander: https://tcgarchitect.com/grand-archive/tournaments/decklists/1671 Fire Aggro Suzaku (KFC): https://tcgarchitect.com/grand-archive/tournaments/decklists/2871 Fire Suited Tonoris: https://tcgarchitect.com/grand-archive/tournaments/decklists/2105 Water Genbu: https://tcgarchitect.com/grand-archive/tournaments/decklists/2199 Water Arisanna Fractals: https://tcgarchitect.com/grand-archive/tournaments/decklists/2872 Fire Umbra Ciel: https://tcgarchitect.com/grand-archive/tournaments/decklists/2867 Wind Ciel: https://tcgarchitect.com/grand-archive/tournaments/decklists/1191 Water Aetherwing Diana: https://tcgarchitect.com/grand-archive/tournaments/decklists/2205 Water Crux Merlin: https://tcgarchitect.com/grand-archive/tournaments/decklists/2745 Horse and Taxes Vanitas: https://tcgarchitect.com/grand-archive/tournaments/decklists/2106 SUPPORT MAINDECK by shopping on TCGPlayer with our affiliate link: https://tcgplayer.pxf.io/maindeck The ULTIMATE How to Play Grand Archive video: https://youtu.be/I_MjH_qyVcI 0:00 Intro & The Bans 0:50 Returning Wind Decks 3:15 Returning Fire Decks 11:58 Returning Water Decks 18:05 Ciel and Diana Brews 24:08 Other Rogue Decks & What Do You Think? For more Grand Archive info and resources, check out all the links below: 🎴 ** THE OFFICIAL GATCG WEBSITE! ** 🎴 https://www.gatcg.com 📕 ** GATCG RULES ONLINE ** 📕 👇 Official Getting Started: https://www.gatcg.com/article/getting-started 👇 Official Comprehensive Rules: https://rules.gatcg.com/ 👥 **GATCG COMMUNITY** 👥 👇 Join the Discords below: MAINDECK DISCORD: https://discord.maindeck.games GRAND ARCHIVE DISCORD: https://discord.com/invite/grandarchivetcg 👇 GATCG Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/grandarchivetcg/ 💻 ** Deck Builders! ** 💻 https://silvie.org/ https://shoutatyourdecks.com/ 👇 Grand Archive TCG Analysis and Other Tools! https://silvie.gg/ 👇 GATCG Tournament Results: https://fractalofin.site/ #GrandArchive #TCG #GATCG #tradingcardgame ► We are supported by our generous patrons on Patreon - check out the link here and consider supporting us for bonus perks and behind the scenes content: https://www.patreon.com/maindeckgames ► Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MaindeckGames/ ► Written content, resources and more at: http://www.maindeck.games 🎵 Music from Epidemic Sound!! 🎵 Get access to a huge music library for a small monthly fee. 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$SUFFER Before THE QUEEN!! Fire Umbra Alice Deck Profile + Gameplay! [Grand Archive TCG] Since her release, Alice has been a fan-favorite character, and her playstyle is like nothing else in Grand Archive! She trades limited graveyard abilities and a need to self-curse for nearly unlimited healing, resilience to mill, and the ability to play powerful allies from her graveyard at a discount! Radiant Origins has brought both an updated Mantle of the Abyss, as well as new end game in Argus, All-Seeing Giant, which makes her core reanimator gameplan more effective than ever. Lets take a look at how you can build this deck to play to some of her most fun cards and make your opponent suffer! Decklist on TCGArchitect: https://tcgarchitect.com/grand-archive/decks/019de195-c061-73cd-b0f3-d9017263b0a9 SUPPORT MAINDECK by shopping on TCGPlayer with our affiliate link: https://tcgplayer.pxf.io/maindeck 0:00 Intro 1:31 Material Deck 13:46 Main Deck 34:50 Sideboard 37:00 Gameplay vs Water Crux Lorraine (Blessing Combo) The ULTIMATE How to Play Grand Archive video: https://youtu.be/I_MjH_qyVcI For more Grand Archive info and resources, check out all the links below: 🎴 ** THE OFFICIAL GATCG WEBSITE! ** 🎴 https://www.gatcg.com 📕 ** GATCG RULES ONLINE ** 📕 👇 Official Getting Started: https://www.gatcg.com/article/getting-started 👇 Official Comprehensive Rules: https://rules.gatcg.com/ 👥 **GATCG COMMUNITY** 👥 👇 Join the Discords below: MAINDECK DISCORD: https://discord.maindeck.games GRAND ARCHIVE DISCORD: https://discord.com/invite/grandarchivetcg 👇 GATCG Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/grandarchivetcg/ 💻 ** Deck Builders! ** 💻 https://silvie.org/ https://shoutatyourdecks.com/ 👇 Grand Archive TCG Analysis and Other Tools! https://silvie.gg/ 👇 GATCG Tournament Results: https://fractalofin.site/ #GrandArchive #TCG #GATCG #tradingcardgame ► We are supported by our generous patrons on Patreon - check out the link here and consider supporting us for bonus perks and behind the scenes content: https://www.patreon.com/maindeckgames ► Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MaindeckGames/ ► Written content, resources and more at: http://www.maindeck.games 🎵 Music from Epidemic Sound!! 🎵 Get access to a huge music library for a small monthly fee. Try it out through my link below to support Maindeck as well! https://share.epidemicsound.com/pa4rmh$ $BEAT DOWN Fractals & Aggro with these new decks! || Grand Archive TCG HVN Meta Update Its time for another Grand Archive meta update, and we have 8 decks to look at today! These decks all topped or even won Regionals in the past few weeks, beating tons of meta-relevant decks like Aggro and Burst Asunder to get to their placement! The Abyssal Heaven metagame is moving along at a rapid pace with incredible events in SEA, OCE, and NA to look at for some inpsiration. Get the lists below, and stay tuned for another Meta Update as we head into Nationals season! DECKLISTS HVN 3/22 Taiwan Regional 1st - Yhj0127 - Wind Allies Lorraine https://www.shoutatyourdecks.com/decks/e9f1d9b4-d09d-403e-bb5a-cbea1f5f11b6 HVN 3/28 Dunedin Regional 1st - Maaadaaparkaar - Wind Allies Kongming https://www.shoutatyourdecks.com/decks/90fd7d15-6cb0-4e52-a9fb-363c2c59d8fa HVN 3/30 Philippines Regional 3rd - ahuinan - Wind Allies Exia Jin https://www.shoutatyourdecks.com/decks/6f9c0190-9f10-4677-822d-80e265fa4f89 HVN 3/15 Taiwan Regional 1st - DragonJG - Fire Arisanna Aggro https://www.shoutatyourdecks.com/decks/e8d1712b-e50f-4616-a583-39c6a739d886 HVN 3/30 Yeti Online Regional 1st - Guruthos - Wind Shadowstrike Tristan https://www.shoutatyourdecks.com/decks/6348922f-42d6-4a48-bb15-7002d80560d6 HVN 3/29 Michigan Regional 1st - Maindeck Mitch - Water Fractals Arisanna https://www.shoutatyourdecks.com/decks/0bb426a1-5dca-4258-b6aa-4409510f4262 HVN 3/29 Michigan Regional 2nd - Yoitsu - Water Robots Diao Chan https://www.shoutatyourdecks.com/decks/573c6e16-244d-4d04-8372-7deb40063cf8 HVN 3/30 Yeti Online Regional 10th - Sungorio - Serene Fire Slimes https://www.shoutatyourdecks.com/decks/49f63069-ab54-4026-b937-f9f0471680e8 SUPPORT MAINDECK by shopping on TCGPlayer with our affiliate link: https://tcgplayer.pxf.io/maindeck The ULTIMATE How to Play Grand Archive video: https://youtu.be/I_MjH_qyVcI 0:00 Intro 1:21 Wind Allies Lorraine (Huaji) 5:44 Wind Allies Kongming 8:25 Wind Allies Exia Jin 13:53 Fire Aggro Arisanna 16:19 Wind Shadowstrike Tristan 18:52 Water Fractals Arisanna 20:44 Water Robots Diao Chan 25:23 Serene Fire Slimes For more Grand Archive info and resources, check out all the links below: 🎴 ** THE OFFICIAL GATCG WEBSITE! ** 🎴 https://www.gatcg.com 📕 ** GATCG RULES ONLINE ** 📕 👇 Official Getting Started: https://www.gatcg.com/article/getting-started 👇 Official Comprehensive Rules: https://rules.gatcg.com/ 👥 **GATCG COMMUNITY** 👥 👇 Join the Discords below: MAINDECK DISCORD: https://discord.maindeck.games GRAND ARCHIVE DISCORD: https://discord.com/invite/grandarchivetcg 👇 GATCG Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/grandarchivetcg/ 💻 ** Deck Builders! ** 💻 https://silvie.org/ https://shoutatyourdecks.com/ 👇 Grand Archive TCG Analysis and Other Tools! https://silvie.gg/ 👇 GATCG Tournament Results: https://fractalofin.site/ #GrandArchive #TCG #GATCG #tradingcardgame ► We are supported by our generous patrons on Patreon - check out the link here and consider supporting us for bonus perks and behind the scenes content: https://www.patreon.com/maindeckgames ► Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MaindeckGames/ ► Written content, resources and more at: http://www.maindeck.games 🎵 Music from Epidemic Sound!! 🎵 Get access to a huge music library for a small monthly fee. 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$You NEED TO KNOW these SEVEN DECKS from Boston || Grand Archive TCG DTR Meta Update Ascent Boston has wrapped up, and our metagame is wreathed in flames! Were going to go over each unique deck with at least a Top 8 record at the event, plus a couple more non-fire decks to look at as the metagame moves forward!! There are still many decks we could cover - shoutout to Deathatwars 15th place Fire Oblation/Advent Ciel, one of my favorite decks of the weekend! Hopefully well see some more performance and talk about it on the next Meta Update! What do you think about the new metagame and where it will go with the release of Purifying Thurible? Weve got a full video covering that soon, but let me know your thoughts in the comments below! DECKLISTS DTR Ascent Boston 1st - BobbyTortilla - Fire Ensoul Lorraine https://www.shoutatyourdecks.com/decks/5c501b11-b647-4c85-8dba-eef6cfebbfb0 DTR Ascent Boston 2nd - Picklesword - Fire/Wind Horse and Taxes Vanitas https://www.shoutatyourdecks.com/decks/b4f379d4-4347-44d4-8fe3-c6207b173521 DTR Ascent Boston 7th - Robotron - Serene Fire Luxem Zander https://www.shoutatyourdecks.com/decks/44d7bb63-c91e-4b07-8743-ecc92a69c139 DTR Ascent Boston 8th - Skysama - Fire Specter Suzaku Guo Jia KFC https://www.shoutatyourdecks.com/decks/77fc410f-0fe7-499c-82c9-bcbfb3b9feb8 DTR Ascent Boston 11th - Alexsndr - Serene Fire Specter Jin https://www.shoutatyourdecks.com/decks/da939f13-904a-4e6f-b805-48a310ffc442 DTR Ascent Boston 19th - BaniRien - Water Allies Lorraine https://www.shoutatyourdecks.com/decks/08864aae-0b19-4d63-a0b6-bb51e9ace466 DTR Ascent Boston 23rd - AstarohKing - Wind Shadowstrike Tristan https://www.shoutatyourdecks.com/decks/3c6ce5a9-5066-4756-95b8-37908ee84d4b SUPPORT MAINDECK by shopping on TCGPlayer with our affiliate link: https://tcgplayer.pxf.io/maindeck The ULTIMATE How to Play Grand Archive video: https://youtu.be/I_MjH_qyVcI 0:00 Intro 1:17 Fire Specter Ensoul Lorraine 7:29 Fire/Wind Horse and Taxes Vanitas 13:14 Serene Fire Specter Luxem Zander 18:05 Fire Specter Suzaku Guo Jia Aggro (KFC) 23:29 Serene Fire Specter Exia Jin 30:10 Water Unique Allies Lorraine 34:51 Wind Shadowstrike Tristan 39:28 Outro For more Grand Archive info and resources, check out all the links below: 🎴 ** THE OFFICIAL GATCG WEBSITE! ** 🎴 https://www.gatcg.com 📕 ** GATCG RULES ONLINE ** 📕 👇 Official Getting Started: https://www.gatcg.com/article/getting-started 👇 Official Comprehensive Rules: https://rules.gatcg.com/ 👥 **GATCG COMMUNITY** 👥 👇 Join the Discords below: MAINDECK DISCORD: https://discord.maindeck.games GRAND ARCHIVE DISCORD: https://discord.com/invite/grandarchivetcg 👇 GATCG Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/grandarchivetcg/ 💻 ** Deck Builders! ** 💻 https://silvie.org/ https://shoutatyourdecks.com/ 👇 Grand Archive TCG Analysis and Other Tools! https://silvie.gg/ 👇 GATCG Tournament Results: https://fractalofin.site/ #GrandArchive #TCG #GATCG #tradingcardgame ► We are supported by our generous patrons on Patreon - check out the link here and consider supporting us for bonus perks and behind the scenes content: https://www.patreon.com/maindeckgames ► Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MaindeckGames/ ► Written content, resources and more at: http://www.maindeck.games 🎵 Music from Epidemic Sound!! 🎵 Get access to a huge music library for a small monthly fee. Try it out through my link below to support Maindeck as well! https://share.epidemicsound.com/pa4rmh$