AROMA - Ten Minute Testing

[@amycatass]

Joseph is a freaky little guy who sits in the park moving plants around in arcane strange ways but if you go up and ask him what he’s doing he’ll tell you he’s borrowing the dandelions and twigs from one table over

[@nyurgh1139]

Then he'll call you out on video for bothering him while he's "theorycrafting" with the silverware.

[@naggl3s]

The hand movements that say that the combo went wrong is the topping on the cake for this skit. Absolutely beautiful.

[@YuniversalYT]

Which hand movement symbolizes “why can’t I activate regulus???? Oh I’m plant locked”

[@thelazyscientist379]

@@YuniversalYT The Flipping the table kind.

[@GGGBOLT]

Joseph really getting to his playing with twigs and spices phase of his life.

[@Auctvix7801]

I stg if I see another “MBT fell off because he didn’t get x amount of views in 5 seconds” I’m going to tweak

[@johntheamazing9337]

Only 196 views in 2 minutes, mbt fell off smh

[@morningcoffee4384]

Only 285 views in 3 minutes, MBT fell off

[@afeathereddinosaur]

​@@morningcoffee4384 What about twerking the instead?

[@drbigglesworth]

Less than 3.5k in 20 minutes? Kinda cringe. MBT fell off.

[@SerpiaXerma]

Hey, better than the "named Ten Minute Testing. is more than ten minutes" jokes

[@mattyorshin]

These opening skits are so good

[@swisschese1323]

Joseph teaches the plant to link summon

[@FakeHeroFang]

Plant is entering the '60 card is more consistent than 40' stage of its life now, huh?

[@dearickangelonej.legaspi6686]

Most decks that enter the 60 cards phase tend to somehow be more consistent than their 40 cards variant

[@Endershock1678]

@@dearickangelonej.legaspi6686 It’s hard to brick when 70% of your cards are starters and 30% the rest are non engine. Even good decks need to play 1-2 bricks, but with 60, you’re less likely to see them.

[@riperkiller9787]

This archetype.convinced me to play again Yu-Gi-Oh when i first saw it in duel links, i really love the artworks

[@hillrp1]

I just liked that over the course of a week or so, you could just buy the cards from the trader rather than hoping to pull cards randomly

[@riperkiller9787]

@@hillrp1 that helped a lot, low rarity archetype and decent to use even in ranked matches

[@nyankoakagami]

this and witchcrafter

[@riperkiller9787]

@@nyankoakagami also melodious now that i remember

[@UMAtronic]

​@@riperkiller9787 well congrats thats getting support too.

[@jeremiahbennett3004]

WE MAKING IT OUT THE EU WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣

[@crazyarceus4617]

Ten minute testing Looks inside 18 minutes

[@VGV1deo]

Series really should be renamed Twenty Minute Testing

[@lilpotayto]

It's fitting because, like a plant line, it's almost twice as long as you ever expect it to be.

[@DirtCheapFU]

You're counting the intro and closing of video and not just the actual 10min testing.

[@browking8161]

You shoulda seen the raidraptor one. It was like nearly 30 minutes.

[@heartlessnobody1143]

Hmmm

[@BBGunRenegade]

Sunseed Jess is a God. To be able to innovate on the plant deck like this even after it got hit is incredible

[@enzoldutronc674]

credit where it's due, quite a few others have labbed the deck with the new support, Moelancholy on youtube has a few combos guides and deckbuilding discussions for example

[@NeviTheLettyFan]

Goddess*

[@nopeno-s5r]

@@NeviTheLettyFan God has basically become a gender neutral term at this point. I support the message tho!

[@kappamaster7179]

it's not just one woman, the whole testing group have had success with rikka plant for a while and others also had sporadic tops with it.

[@enzoldutronc674]

Yeah nah love Jess to death but saying she's the ONLY one to have success with it is a bit too big of and exageration

[@Sassaparilla]

​@@enzoldutronc674 to be fair, Jess has the most notable tournament representation for the strategy, tmk.

[@hannahtcg1080]

​@@Sassaparilla Jess won Euros the year after Marcus Patel (also on Plant)

[@Rojo9149]

He also said "consistently" People have tops here and there but she went to worlds day 2 which is way more consistent wins than anyone else on plant innit

[@Sassaparilla]

@@hannahtcg1080 Jess helped innovate the deck Marcus placed with. She then won the same WCQ the next year and placed for the World Championship in Top8 the same Year. I'd say that's more notable than who placed first, alongside the fact that Jess has represented the deck three more times than Marcus from the listings I've been giving a look over.

[@sonic21blast88]

This is a real nice *garden* decklist

[@Ragnarok540]

Last banlist was just pruning to ensure this deck grows healthy.

[@Christalwing]

where tf is my "good afternoon jank enthusiasts"??? what is he just not gonna introduce us now?!

[@Raminator243]

dire’s 3D edits for the card art look incredible in the thumbnail. 🔥

[@Abyssionknight]

I think both Rikka and Aroma are cool archetypes, but I wish they could stand on their own, rather than always ending up as part of a giant plant pile. I feel like the knowledge they'll all be mixed together holds back what they're willing to give each archetype.

[@dragon-id5uj]

C'est la vie, look at dragons and soon to be fiends with yubel. This is the way.

[@nopeno-s5r]

Honestly I quite like mixing archetypes together, always leads to fun interactions

[@Realdeal958]

I don't mind it too much as they do work well with each and im a sucker for their artworks. The idea of the two archetypes coming together would make for some cool fanart. But i see your point. Sometimes it's nice to be able to just play an Archetype pure. With Aroma's new support they definitely have more of a chance. I think eventually both of them will be able to stand on their own. They just need a bit more. But until then i see it as the two decks supporting each other.

[@gilreygu98]

You can run a pure aroma deck but its a lot more fragile than running the whole plant pile. If you just want to have some fun you can do it and if you want run it as pure as it can get but remain somewhat competitive you can run just the sunseed engine to turbo 2 jasmines and end in the synchro, the fusion, marjoram and the rosemary link turn 1. I personally dont mind rikkas since they are also a cute girls archetype but i get where you are coming from, i would rather play one archetype than play plant engine dot deck.

[@Endershock1678]

It’s the opposite actually, the combination with other decks gives them much more of a ceiling than before. Sunseed can climb through links easily, but struggle to put up a strong board presence or break boards, which is fixed by Rikka, Rikka has strong board breaking, grind game, and varied removal, but struggles with reaching its ceiling consistently, which is fixed by Sunseed and Aroma, and Aroma creates a good board, but doesn’t have the varied points of interaction you would have with the mix. The cards all play nice with each other and let each other reach their full potential. All the cards can reach their ceilings because the other plants support them. And I feel this knowledge lets them print cards that work well on this system rather than their own archetypes. After all, why shouldn’t the plants work together? It’s a garden after all

[@MuteMaiden777]

I have been pet decking aroma, and plants at large since getting back into the game around 2017-2018. Something about the art, playstyle and variations of the deck have always been fun to test, and while I won't lie and say it's a sleeper deck or it's secretly rogue, I will say there are some really interesting things that you can do with aromas depending on the kind of nonengine you use

[@joanaguayoplanell4912]

I mean, it took down Worlds twice, it has to be rogue BARE MINIMUM.

[@DJK707Translations]

Rare footage of MBT outside his natural environment

[@tensai_kodai]

No because the live-action Netflix adaptation of Aromage at the beginning is what's getting me lmao

[@MrDanno]

No to what

[@impermmytrishula]

No to what

[@ccarvalho99]

no what?

[@In.New.York.I.Milly.Rock.]

So true, bestie, it's giving

[@ashikjaman1940]

​@@MrDanno to drugs

[@Elgravo]

Yeah MBT give us the BIG SNIFF

[@mobron3099]

This one is going straight on the goated intro skit list

[@blaakmage]

60 card plant is so much fun to watch!! I've been waiting on Aromas to be some kind of playable for so long and can't be happier!!

[@FallingAtomBlade]

Hey! I love the Aroma deck, one of my favorite Decks! Play it all the time, love to see this list; way diffrent than what I do with some main deck haha

[@silverstar6589]

I can't believe how well the 60 card pile managed to look. More and more interested in building Rikka in MD. Good thing I have 3 Lily Borea and 3 Lonefire Blossom.

[@poro9084]

it was fun, played rikka few months ago (before snake eyes) and i enjoyed it, dropped the deck though because for the more harder comboes i needed to look up guides and i just wasnt able to remember combos:D

[@Capta1nTD]

I like Rikka but really advise against it in Master Duel simply because they have virtually no way to get quick disruption under Maxx C. Maxx C is such a toxic and polarizing card that maining a deck that inherently loses to it is just insanely frustrating.

[@ahmes004]

Thank u for this! Hopefully more people can cover the non-snake eyes nonsense from PHNI.

[@panko2848]

this skit was one of the greatest, short and sweet is the sign of a banger

[@miamira1856]

I wonder how many decks like plants there are out there that are this good but just so unreasonably hard to pilot consistently that they'll never have meta share. We're lucky we have Jess.

[@RoanWitchArt]

Would have liked to see the marjoram lines, especially since it’s quick GY banish is pretty good to make when going first in snake eye format

[@cyberwing89k33]

And her synchro version also turns off Promethean Princess EDIT: Unless you end on Regulus

[@hawkticus_duel_shack]

So there's a fan-made format called One Attribute, One Type which is basically what it says. They obviously have a Heart of the Underdog style additional banlist, but anyway, Dark Plants are hilariously good there because of the new Aromas. Obviously Dark Winged Beasts are the best, but Dark Plants are pretty damn good and Light Spellcaster surprisingly is also good. I just enjoy seeing Aromas be good.

[@N3XTREVOLUTION]

That intro, thought you were a dealer

[@stayflyxx]

Holy....This is actually amazing. The ability to play through nearly everything is next level, though I can see that it takes a good pilot. Time to get my fiance to pick this deck back up before Jasmine gets limited (rightly so tbh)

[@nopeno-s5r]

why rightly so? like MBT said, Sunseed Jess is the only player seeing consistent results with the deck, and a combo deck that sets up lots of interupts is nothing new

[@imnotacat5299]

​@@nopeno-s5r because it's not a hard once per and it's an extra deck monster so you always have access to multiple copies. Just because a card isn't currently seeing play at the top tables doesn't mean it's not poorly designed.

[@nopeno-s5r]

@@imnotacat5299 Raidraptor force strix is an extra deck monster that you can access multiple copies of and has a soft once per turn search. I suppose force strix is badly designed too. Except nobody wants force strix limited, so why would jasmine get limited?

[@imnotacat5299]

@@nopeno-s5r because you can't recycle it from the grave multiple times to keep getting the same effect, and it only counts as 1 for a link; where as you can use 2 Jasmine to get a double search, go inro Bengh, and then use those same 2 Jasmine to bring back Bengh from GY. And Force Strix has to search a Level 4 Dark WB, way more specific than literally any Plant monster. And Force Strix can't chain block another Force Strix. And Force Strix has 1 effect while Jasmine has 3. A Link 2 monster is substantially different from an XYZ because of how link climbing works, but also Force Strix is not even close to being able to do what Jasmine does.

[@ClarkNewman608]

Im finding this deck really tricky to pilot. There are so many variables to keep track of at once

[@nopeno-s5r]

Yes, this is one of the most difficult decks to play in the game The sheer number of different combo lines to play optimally has to be in the thousands (including all possible variations of drawing different cards leading to a different combo to play through more handtraps or end on a better board), which makes the deck humanly impossible to master

[@Billy-ot8mk]

The plants always grow back.

[@lilpotayto]

Currently building this deck and super excited to try it out.

[@farbencut]

The “MBT teaches Plants to link Summon” arc continues…

[@MrPikminmaster]

you can tell he was feelin this one 🔥

[@dhanyl2725]

The grass looks greener no more, it IS greener

[@Tsoleil]

Aroma has been my pet deck for YEARS and PHNI making it playable was a godsend. So glad to see it get some love on TMT too

[@lucas_oreki5287]

I just ordered a whole package of Aroma cards two days ago because i bought some packs of PHNI and didnt know that Aroma support is in there xD So i got rlly nostalgic because I loved that archetype in Duel Links back then

[@zebrath5641]

Aahhh my cat loves you. She sits by the monitor staring directly at you.

[@hoffmanrulez]

someone get this man a lint roller

[@four-en-tee]

We can't even touch grass correctly, we've reached peak gaming

[@dihhvieira6002]

I've been waiting this TMT for MONTHS 🎉🎉🎉

[@monkeykingw]

When was the last time a Ten Minute Testing got a 2-0 in the third game? And the fact that both ended with more than 8000LP is hilarious

[@jinezawa7089]

When the "dry ass, humid winds" joke from dueltaining becomes meta relevant

[@dianatheascian8701]

Honestly the deck seems better now than ever before

[@nopeno-s5r]

It is, the aroma support more than makes up for the lost sunavalons

[@ttgl_bobross]

Sunseed Jess really does have the Mandate of Heaven fr fr

[@RainbowStaple]

This intro skit is one of the funniest I've seen ever

[@Gawatsu]

That intro was made to prove that MBT has touched grass.

[@SuperRedNovaDragon]

Mbt's skits never fail to make me laugh... I spit out my water by accident when he was combo'ing with flowers

[@seph2686]

If there was a ycs in eu again I have no doubt this deck would compete with snake eye for top spot plants is back to being cracked now

[@beech5950]

Im so glad we got new aroma cards, but I wish they went the aromaseraphy route with the card designs. Aromaseraphy Bergamot would have been awesome

[@Shmackle123]

"Hmm. Maybe having three Jasmine is too many searches." "B A N T H E D R Y A S S"

[@esrohm6460]

we really just reaching the point where every deck is payed as 60 cards. at one point only dragons had enough good cards that you couldn't fit them into 40. like we're not even trying to mill cards, it probably wouldn't even be good, we simply have to many cards that are worth playing

[@nopeno-s5r]

the vast majority of playable decks still play 40, this is a huge exaggeration

[@esrohm6460]

@@nopeno-s5r yeah but at one time upstart was to good at 3 and now you wouldn't even think about playing 37 card decks. we are tending in that direction

[@Zman14888]

"How do we make this small, not very good archetype better?" "We make them Dark and give them lots of synergy with an already popular plant deck."

[@shadowpiplup]

I legit thought you were dealing drugs in that intro

[@Eiji475]

Rosalina isn't a Circular nowhere even close to that. I wish people would stop saying that. It's a tour guide get it right.

[@nopeno-s5r]

but you see, Josh doesn't hate tour guide, so its not as funny

[@rovad55]

An iteration of this deck has been terrorizing my locals ever since aromas came out, and initial rikkavalons ever since princess and konkon came out. With the current build I can only pray to draw droll or imperm on dryas and hope its enough that they don't pseudo ftk me

[@lobsterbisque333]

When I first saw the title, I saw a five letter word that started with A, and for a split second I thought it was AGIDO. I have the internet disease

[@cherrychocolate1434]

May these lovely plants live long and PISS SHOUKAN!

[@Ramsey276one]

??? XD

[@Joe-bn1xp]

​@@Ramsey276onepiss shoukan was a dream farfa had involving mbt with plant link iirc

[@Sassaparilla]

​@@Joe-bn1xp to be exact, Farfa had a nightmare where MBT was playing Plant Pile, and every time he Link Summoned, he said "Piss Shoukan".

[@Ramsey276one]

@@Joe-bn1xp O M G XD

[@markburns2621]

Nothing better than watching snake-eyes lose.

[@Nekros4442]

cant wait for the new aroma cards in master duel

[@SephG616]

This deck looks sick, looks difficult as hell but I want to build this in MD

[@hakminblakmin7263]

If it makes you feel any better. It's much easier than infernoble.

[@SephG616]

@@hakminblakmin7263I didn’t have the patience to learn infernobles

[@hakminblakmin7263]

@SephG616 Neither did I. But I liked plants a lot in MD until my fickle self dismantled the URs after 6 months.

[@kevindietrich5028]

Umm you know, sunavalon is still unhit in MD, so you can either play sunavalon therion or sunavalon rikka at full combo without any banlist limitations unlike the tcg format

[@danielbarraganchavez2940]

We need de majespecter ten minutes testing please

[@damionallen938]

9:10 that demonic spell sounds crazy

[@PKSparkxxDH]

Excuse me, Mr. MBT. It's not Aromage Laurel. It's Aromage Yanny. Thank you.

[@W1ggly1]

I cant beleive I heard Dancepione pronounced NOT as Dance-pole by someone

[@MonosEx]

Missed opportunity to scream "I'm teaching the plants to fusion summon!"

[@OpDDay2001]

That's Predaplants' schtick though.

[@dearickangelonej.legaspi6686]

I WAS planning on burning all my Plant cards in master duel but knew there were new cards, I just waited for the TMT and Jess vids so that I can see what the new combos were

[@PlantsBestDeck]

what happened to double strenna steal??? I swear it's better? Love your content by the way

[@MM-lv7iy]

I’m huffing some nice fumes with this one.. snniffff, ahhh!

[@douglasaaronseguraquesada1369]

Hahahaha I loved this video intro 😂😂😂😂

[@streetgamer3452]

So when we seeing plant link with 0 jasmine cuz you just know they’re randomly gonna ban her

[@Fye749]

omg finaly new Aroma cards

[@A1D7]

| wish my brain was large enough to play this deck

[@nopeno-s5r]

SAME

[@Kaizer33226]

Did... Did MBT have a stroke at 9:07???

[@YoYoTomer]

"now banned cardboard" loved that

[@spiritomb108]

That was the dumbest intro skit and yet I'm fascinated by it, it was great.

[@Lyricaon]

Josh we need your world champion powers once again, to get Konami to hit this shit again

[@lordflarus]

Ngl I kinda wanna see a TMT on Vehicroids if it hasn’t been made already

[@leafbladie]

9:09 was MBT speaking in tongues?

[@benji7040]

Topped a regional with a version of this deck last weekend 😎

[@zdelrod829]

My Aroma combo: Set Aroma Jar, pass.

[@sollockhart523]

WAIT DID AROMA FINALLY GET NEW CARDS???? MY FAVORITE ARCHETYPE FINALLY!

[@Its_M0N]

I’m happy Aroma got a little bit of support. But I would strongly like to see darkLord support like maybe a link 1 or link 3 monster and 2 new fusion darklords, and for them to get a fusion spell card

[@Silv3r.8901]

I have some serious ptsd from darklord, no support for them is fine by me. RIP

[@Its_M0N]

PTSD… From duel links?

[@gilles4prezudent650]

Does he begin every video facing his camera off axis?

[@RazielTheStray]

AROMA LET'S FRICKING GOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

[@TylerM-e9q]

Why does MBT look like Dracula Flow at the start

[@themerchant9711]

You saw it here folks, grass beats fire

[@aldoortega3169]

THAT INTRO OMG 😂😂😂

[@VForce_Official]

I wouldn't ever call this a aroma deck, is just another plant mash deck.

[@ct1296]

Even in 2024, people still aren't holding imperm for Jasmine

[@nopeno-s5r]

imperm on jasmine is often not that hard to play through: just link it off and try again

[@ct1296]

@@nopeno-s5r depends on the setup, but negating the hard opt summon effect and forcing them to tribute a monster as cost for no value is still often the biggest chokepoint. If you know they have gas there’s an argument otherwise (especially now that dryas is at 1), but it’s still usually the safest chokepoint.

[@rubilina1357]

God bless. I know while looking into Edison, someone said Amaryllis was the most “LGBT-coded” deck. Plants have *always* been the gay agenda. The games put such a big smile on my face. Love seeing this pile in action, god bless.

[@gz7006]

SNIFFA

[@tensai_kodai]

Not SNIFFA

[@Xenonfuji]

Sniffkin

[@HikariKengo]

Nice vid. Kinda hoping that no RIkka will be involved here, but oh well. Can't wait until the new Aromage stuff released in MD. I usually didn't tribute Benghalancer into Mudan since I personally didn't run any of the Rikka package. That's something new I learned.

[@nopeno-s5r]

This is a plant link showcase, how the hell would rikka not be in here Rikka is the majority of what makes the deck good

[@pentagonofpeople]

I wonder how pure I can play Aroma. I built them pure in master duel but without the brand new wave of custom card tier support they're just not good. At the same time though, I don't wanna spend half an hour cycling a sunseed or devote 20 slots to handtraps

[@jaydenliberty9536]

In all honesty, they used to be hilariously strong before the Zexal era Turns out having a deck that can go into any of the signer dragons on command on any turn with horrifying consistency was good enough to beat meta back then. Kinda an expensive deck to make though, and hilariously time-consuming to play if you wanted the slightly better Luna Spore skill considering her unlock condition

[@adam9279]

You should have said "and the con-cons" at the end

[@SquibbyJ]

Aroma lifegain is just funny. I hate it in paper but its still very cool

[@nopeno-s5r]

did someone say TIME?

[@JABRIEL251]

Looks Like Plant Link with slightly more Aroma.

[@nopeno-s5r]

Thats literally the whole point... of the TMT...

[@JABRIEL251]

@@nopeno-s5r ............and my point was that it is barely indistinguishable from plant link....

[@jade.kittan]

are the deck profiles posted somewhere? id like to try to out and learn the combos :)

[@nopeno-s5r]

im so confused what you're asking for the deck profile is right at the start of the video

[@jade.kittan]

@@nopeno-s5r like a written version.. idk all the cards by the photos. sorry for being a newb

[@nopeno-s5r]

@@jade.kittan he reads out the card names (except for non engine but im assuming you know those)