The Decks of the European WCQ 2026 Playoff
The 2026 World Qualifying Points Playoff ran alongside the European WCQ at Brussels Expo (Palais 3) on July 10, with sixteen duelists playing four rounds of Swiss for three tickets to the Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship. The winner earns a direct invite, while the next finishers played off for the two remaining seats. Here is every deck that made the field.
Deck Breakdown: Playoff
Complete 16-player Playoff field: Kewl Tune 5, Branded 4, all others 1 each.
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Danilo Siracusa (Italy) was the only duelist to finish the Swiss undefeated, taking his Invoked deck to a 4-0 record and the direct invite to the World Championship.
Four more players closed at 3-1 to fill out the top of the table and play off for the two remaining invites: Josh Kelly (Great Britain) on Light and Darkness Ritual, Yannik Ackermann (Germany) on Branded, Leonardo Sacchetti (Italy) on Artmage Power Patron, and Kevin Zueger (Switzerland) on Kewl Tune.
A wide-open field
Nine different archetypes showed up across the sixteen seats. Kewl Tune was the most popular choice with five pilots and Branded followed with four, but every other deck, from Elfnote and Maliss to the Power Patron and Ritual builds, was a lone entry.
Source: Official European WCQ coverage