Sal is playing this trap dragon beat down deck that a local duelist in Chicago plays. Its a stun beat down deck pretty much that can turbo out big bodies.
I would have saved the smashing g3 and gone for that Fortress Crash for the +1. Then if he has something you can smash and he has the 3rd Force in hand.
i agreer with you on upstart being better than legacy in a lot of decks that legacy just feels thrown in but in a lot of the newer frog monarch decks that have been doing good online you can go into colossal armory arm and that 1000 can hurt you. Also those decks usally play 3 wing / raigeki breakj and mirror / tt so hiding those behind a legacy of yata since theres not much else defense helps
oscar, i have a question youy never played yugioh before you started edison? you seem so knowledgeable about yugioh but didnt hear about spear dragon makes me think you didnt play old school. no judging here 😁