The Champions: Chris Bowling " Twilight"

Chris Bowling is a well known american Duelist. After countless Day 2 appearances, the 2008 US National Champion now won his (I think) first Shoen Jump Championship. He used a very special Twilight Version:

3 x Necro Gardna
3 x Honest
3 x Wulf, Lightsworn Beast
2 x Lumina, Lightsworn Summoner
2 x Garoth, Lightsworn Warrior
2 x Celestia, Lightsworn Angel
1 x Aurkus, Lightsworn Druid
1 x Ryko, Lightsworn Hunter
1 x Lyla, Lightsworn Sorceress
2 x Shiny Black “C”
1 x Gorz the Emissary of Darkness
1 x Plaguespreader Zombie
2 x Chaos Sorcerer
2 x Judgment Dragon

3 x Charge of the Light Brigade
3 x Solar Rechage
2 x Gold Sarcophagus
1 x Heavy Storm
1 x Pot of Avarice
1 x Burial From a Different Dimension

1 x Torrential Tribute
2 x Bottomless Trap Hole
2 x Beckoning Light

Side:

2 x D. D. Crow
1 x Card Trooper
1 x Legendary Jujitsu Master
1 x Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer

2 x Lightning Vortex
1 x Twister
1 x Mystical Space Typhoon

1 x Trap Dustshoot
1 x Dust Tornado
2 x Royal Oppression
1 x Dimensional Prison
1 x Royal Decree

At first, this deck looks quite similar to a normal Twilight Deck. 2 Chaos Sorcer, 2 Judgement Dragons and...wait...no Dark Armed Dragon!
Why did he choose not to play DaD?
I think there are several reasons:
- With 2 JDs and 2 CSs,the deck already has enough boss monsters. He simply doesn't need one more of them.
- The DARK part of his deck mainly consists of monsters he wants to remove on other ways: 3 Necro Gardna and Plaugespreader Zombie.
- The deck already plays enough dead draws like Wulf, Necro Gardna and Shiny Black "C" and to be succesfull, you simply musn't play to many deatdraws.
- Most important reason: Try to get your graveyard to three darks in this deck: It's almost not possible.You only play 7 darks total, while you won't want to remobe your Sorcerer as long as you can reuse him with PoA, and you won't want to save your Gardnas or Plaugspreader just to eventualy be able to summon DaD.

Also, Bowling decided to run some techs against the meta: Shiny Black "C" is one of the mopst effective counters against Synchro oriented decks. If you have the "C" in your Graveyard, your opponet has no other choice than summoning Stardust Dragon. Every other synchro, like Colossal Fighter or Armormaster, which are know as big fears to Lightsworn,especialy in combination with Light-Imprisoning Mirror, would simply be destroyed by the "C"s effect. Because Bowling has enough ways to get rid of those threats, he can afford to run only one single copy of Ryko. He also chhosed to play one one copy of Lyla. I think this has one big reason: There are too many chainable Traps in the current meta, so Lyla is not very good. Because she has to stay in defense, she is just a defensles (Ha,word joke!) victim to opposing attacks unless you can tribute her for Celestia.
3 Wulfs without Foolish Burial seems quite crazy on the first look, but as Bowling can use his Plaugespreader multiple times thanks to his Burial From The Different Dimension, he can just stack Wulf to the top of his deck and the special summon it by milling it.
Burial From The Different Dimension has a very different function than in many other decks here:
In Zombie and Blackwing, you focus on the offensive options this card opens and use it to abuse your Mezukis and Vayus.
Bowling on the other hand decided to use Burial as a defense tech: He will mostly send used copies of Shiny Black "C" or Necro Gardna back to his graveyard. By this, he can use up to 6 Gardans and 4 "C"s!. As I already said, Stardust is the only way to avoid "C"s effect, but I don't think Stardust is the Synchro of your choice against Lightsworn because Honest realy kicks his ass. I think Honest is the main reason why Bowling opted to run Beckoning Light instead of Monster Reincernation. He needs as many copies of Honest as possible to get rid of as many Stardust dragons as possible. His single copy of Pot of Avarice simply can help him to avoid a lose because he decks himself out. he also can reuse his Chaos Sorcerers with it.

There is not much to say about his side deck, but I think two cards need an extra explanation:
Trap Dustshoot:
Bowling simply chose that it can only be a good card if you start. So,he only boards it in when he starts the game.
Card Trooper:
Why side him? Because you need cards you can replace Shiny Black "C" with when you play against non-Synchro decks.

I hope you like my analysis, I'm open for your criticism ;)
I also hope there will be a creative deck to analyse today in Wunstorf. See you later ;)