Thanks to , Archeops can come into play on the first turn of the game, and its Ancient Power Ability can shut down any strategy that relies on evolving Pokmon
Oh yeah, one last thing: for the rest of the article, rather than calling the decks by their proper names, we'll be going with their colors which are shorter and easier to type (as a refersher, Esper is Subjective Reality headed by Aminatou, the Fateshifter, Bant is Adaptive Enchantment headed by Estrid, the Masked, Jund is Nature's Vengeance with Lord Windgrace and Izzet is Exquisite Invention with Saheeli, the Gifted as the facecard)
That makes sense, since ostensibly the whole point of the Japan Championship is to find the best Yu-Gi-Oh players who live in Japan, not the bext Yu-Gi-Oh who just happen to be traveling through Japan at the time
This difference in quality is even more apparent under infrared lighting
Fear of Missing Out provides an aggressive extra combat phase with plenty of card types in your graveyard