Best Decks in Master Duel after Tenpai Release

[@Diego-vt3kv]

Branded is under represented because there's so many dang URs to craft

[@blackmanta66]

Tbh i see so much branded on ladder, maybe third most common after tenpai and yubel

[@acrien]

I had branded when it first came out, left MD for a while and came back during end of yubel, can't afford to play branded anymore with all the new URs, just crafted yubel instead (3 field, 2 phantom) and I'm good.

[@the_nerd_showtv5562]

I have a friend that is still building branded after 3 months, it's insane

[@Boost7603]

Branded has been about for so long, it was only a few new URs to craft after each wave of support. Things like the Thrust and white Lubellion playset are gonna be good in other decks too

[@interferno2297]

​@@the_nerd_showtv5562I'm in month 4 still not done and i only have 2 playable decks 😂

[@rastafari2k3]

Thunder dragon is deffo really good vs tenpai. I'm playing it, and even though people have been telling me the board is super easy to break.. my experience is quite the opposite. They need to hard draw chundra, droplet or multiple imperms + me not having any another interactions than Colossus to even play the game. People seem to forget that Colossus' protection effect doesn't activate, so it works in the BP vs the lvl 10

[@TLG_Daception]

I play Spright Watt Thunder Dragon & I agree. Colossus is only easy to remove if your board isnt built around negates and protection. I actually Tenpai'd Tenpai with Wattkyuki and it was so funny because they couldnt do anything because of Colossus.

[@yogsothoth915]

Hardleg's Ancient Gear ladder climb was farming Tenpai undefeated for a very long time. Tenpai has an out to it, but they rarely managed to use it.

[@grimrapper5202]

Just make Transcendent while you have Chundra/Fadra on the field

[@iewad8761]

Got to Master 1 for the first time thanks to the release Tenpai. Flipping starlight road against Tenpai makes them ragequit every time

[@NeostormXLMAX]

There is an obscure card called “dark sacrifice” that i believe is much better in testing, especially for paleos or labrynth since it lets you send any level 3 or lower dark monster as well like backjack or furniture cards. Dark sacrifice also can negate ANY card that says destroy and even includes opponents destroyed themselves, like yubel, much more flexible and very strong

[@brockfg]

how do they trigger starlight road except with the 2 Lstorm and 1 duster

[@ninelie0854]

​@@brockfgmd has 5 duster (duster, storm, ls), and md shuffler would always gave them one

[@fredo5475]

@@NeostormXLMAXstill learning the tenpai matchup. What does dark sacrifice hit??

[@DaviRenania]

I'm not gonna lie, I've got Master 1 with Voiceless this season. While the deck gets completely carpet bombed by Fire King and Yubel, my winrate against Tenpai whenever I was able to set-up my board was 100%. Everything about that deck is great against Tenpai: Spell negation followed by a Battle Phase floodgate, Sauravis banishing their synchros, the floating ritual spell against board wipes etc.

[@Fratzu]

Yep he is underrating voiceless. got master 1 this and last season pretty easily with very good win rate. pretty sure it would be above centurion in the ranking

[@rustik6096]

Pro players always underrate vv. They’re too biased to combo decks which is kinda weaker in MD due to maxx c. Plus, this is one of the best going first decks.

[@illseeyaonthedarksideofthemoon]

I mean, every deck in this list is a win when is perfectly set-up.

[@DaviRenania]

@@illseeyaonthedarksideofthemoon that's not what I meant lol

[@rustik6096]

@@illseeyaonthedarksideofthemoon vv got 3 tops in rating duels. The deck is very well set up in this current format and shows this video is false.

[@RealPeasantLord]

Vaalmonica has a surprisingly good matchup against Tenpai. apparently a non targetting bounce that you can usually activate at least twice on their turn is pretty good, plus it can pop the field spell.

[@0dddballl750]

I was farming tenpai players during the event with vaalmonica. And it's even better on ladder thanks to the option of bagooska. Shame it's... Vaalmonica.

[@RealPeasantLord]

@@0dddballl750 Yeah, I only lost against Tenpai once because I bricked, and once cause they shut down my turn with hand traps

[@RealPeasantLord]

@@0dddballl750 I actually enjoy playing vaalmonica though

[@0dddballl750]

@@RealPeasantLord yeah me too, fun deck. Just... really mediocre. I actually took it to nats in february this year lol (went 5-4)

[@RealPeasantLord]

@@0dddballl750 it’s good once you get setup, but it does kinda just die if you brick or if your opponent has enough interaction to shut you down

[@brettfettbeargaming]

With how many UR's Tenpai is, that deck got Konami a LOT of money

[@aetherwolf9288]

I was scared of Tenpai. Bo1, g2nd, otk deck that can’t be responded to. However I forgot that Tenpai is forced to play HTs because otherwise bots would flood the ranks farming Tenpai as they couldn’t defend themselves. So bo1 isn’t an advantage for Tenpai. Its a detriment (because board breakers in MD are insane to the degree you could play Tenpai as a control strategy as they g1st go all out you break their board, survive the crack back via Superpoly and Droplet and Blackrose during their turn and kill on the next). So now I feel like with Tenpai being public enemy number 1 its a similar situation as in pokemon VCG and Mega Kangeskahn. Clearly it was the best however it never topped because everyone preaped against it. I as of now lost exactly one match against Tenpai (when I could construct my deck myself and didn’t play to farm the Proficiency Test). I would even go so far as to say that Tenpai atm is best in a DLink deck as a back up plan while DLink tanks the negates and actually can set up a board turn 1 (Tenpais wouldn’t be dead turn 1 as quick sync into Blackrose or Transendent is still insane).

[@M1A2C.]

Yeah my Snake-Eye/Fire King deck has been abusing Tenpai, when your deck forces you to go second against a handtrap resistant deck that also puts up insane boards there's really not much you can do as the Tenpai player. Even my Kashtira deck, which is pretty inconsistant can destroy Tenpai as long as i get a starter + any lvl 7 extender. Two Shangri-Iras and an Arise-Heart isn't fun to go up against, especially if you lose 4/5 monster zones and have to do your Tenpai OTK with a single Paidra on field.

[@cn_cien]

Good take brother

[@uuh4yj43]

dlink tenpai was insane to play against, they crushed me, im glad not as many people are playing it.

[@plabcentral630]

Branded is so expensive, but you can craft it once and then play if for like 6 years it’s great.

[@baldiii7830]

I only recently got back into Yugioh with MD so take what I say with a grain of Salt, but I have been grinding ranked play up to Diamond with Scarclaw/Adventure engine and I have to say that it feels really good. You roll over Tenpai (only hard droplet draw is a bit rough) and with smart play you can work out wins against most decks. Yubel matrchup is also very interesting thanks to ScarKash. I also just like how scarpy and low to the ground it feels.

[@Jackinthebox1719]

Yeah tri-hearth is really good against tenpai as long as they didn’t have/draw the right boardbreakers. But I believe it’s bad into everything else, first of all yubel, because S:P is literally in every deck and outs trihearth easy.

[@baldiii7830]

@@Jackinthebox1719 Yubel is actually an ok matchup. Thanks to adventure you have an omni negate and a bounce on your turn which is especially nice when going second. ScarKash puts also a big chunk of pressure on Yubel. Some matchups are rough going first but going second you have a lot of pressure and even going first with proper handtraps you can make things work. I agree SP is rough but you can play around it.

[@alphalumoss]

I think spright is underrated here. Nimbles and frogs are dead but the dark beckoning beast stuff is really good, it’s 3 bodies and you can play nightmare throne to search it, plus EVERYONE negates dbb on summon because they think it’s yubel

[@Ragnarok540]

I play Gishki Spright and yeah, people misplay against it and I usually put enough interaction to stop most Tenpai hands. If Elf ever gets banned the decks becomes pretty much unplayable...

[@DDemiGodd]

Ice barrier is actually pretty good especially if you end with ice mountain and the ice jade boss monster. Argerine protects you from destructive board breakers and just let ice mountain summon defender of the ice barrier preventing them from attacking.

[@watermellonchainsaw699]

personally i go for cyromancer off lancea for tenpai matchup

[@RNGHater]

Just summon Raiho. What are they gonna even do? Attack and Minus themselves till they can't play? The field does NOT stop continuous effects, aka the Raiho negate.

[@Gandarion]

Dinomorphia is a very good Rogue option into Tenpai. The deck can pop the Field Spell and easily prevent Tenpai's plays, as Rexterm can shutdown the deck before and during the Battle Phase. Even under the Field Spell, Dinomorphia is favored because Rexterm is not an activated effect (only the attack reduction is). Ferret Flames is also insanely good to prevent them from Synchro summoning into Vorpgate (that guy is actually very annoying for Dinomorphia to deal with, 0 attack monsters are the bane of that deck), not to mention that between Sonic, Iron Thunder and Solemn Judgement, there is plenty of protection against backrow removal. Plus Solemn Strike and Intact provide handtrap protection for the fusion traps. I easily climbed to Master I this season playing nothing but Dinomorphia (from Rookie, I just came back after not playing for 7 months), even ending on a 5 win streak from which 3 duels were against Tenpai. The event was also really easy to farm from Fusion side, as Dinomorphia was completely unhit and the most common MU's were either Tenpai or Centur-Ion.

[@dardanik]

I played with the 'Morbs in the tri-event. Easiest Tenpai farm ever, they even let you go first. The losses are quick, too. They negate your fusions traps and you can't stop it? You go next

[@Gandarion]

@dardanik sounds about right

[@xerael4659]

I played like 4-5 times during the Triangle Event vs Dinomorbia as Tenpai, won every single time, despite Tenpai being weakened for this specific event. Thunder Dragons on the other hand...

[@versutus2699]

I think another going first farmer that's worth mentioning is adventure synchron it's very easy to get hand loops and negates set up (unless shifter but you mentioned that for other decks too)

[@bschneidez]

I think fire king is so underrepresented because the poplar nerf made it feel so much rougher than it actually is... I've played a little fk/se since the nerf and even though it doesn't usually affect my games it always affects my follow up plans so I notice it every game... Also it feels horrendous to open poplar, which I did three times in my hour of playing that deck.

[@dumon4264]

There's so many Tenpai players in master duel right now, but there are so few good tenpai players in master duel. 1 well placed handtrap can really show if they know what they're doing or not. Probably 70% of the time they have no clue what they're doing

[@NinthSettler]

every time i ash the kaimen they have chundra anyway

[@frosticle6409]

I just play striker and otk them instead lol. Once my Tenpai package is ready, I’ll be unstoppable.

[@frosticle6409]

I also ran into a guy play Ken+Gen+Reasoning in Striker. He lost to my burn deck somehow after I flipped Skill Drain.

[@nasty_playzyt4888]

This is the problem. The average Tenpai player is actually just Dogshit at the game. The average Tenpai duelist just seems to be worse at the game than the average duelist who literally plays anything else not named Stun or Exodia.

[@frosticle6409]

I just lost to burn deck myself😔Karma. I played horribly.

[@NotJohnnyKim]

Because this is a master duel video, it would be cool if, in the card popup, you replaced the current price of a tcg card with master duel info of the card, like what rarity it is and what packs it’s in

[@magicmuffin247]

In regards to Voiceless Voice: Josh said it was underrepresented, but even then I don't think he's giving it enough credit, since it has a built in answer to Tenpai in Pendulumgraph. Pendulumgraph can negate their first board breaker or Sangen and tag into Meteorburst, which will lock them out of their battle phase combos while preserving your Skull Guardian negate.

[@Goku-zu3rk]

He doesn't know anything about voiceless. He didn't even look at dkayeds' last tournament 🤣

[@Latias38]

@@Goku-zu3rk In all fairness though Voiceless Voice has a decent chance of bricking, plus you have to consider that there are other decks besides Tenpai. He also literally only said good things about it, and he has plenty of past tournament expierience against it, so he knows to a good extent how the deck functions. Overall I would say a tier 2 placement is a good spot. I wouldnt call it tier 1 or anything.

[@Goku-zu3rk]

@Latias38 it depends how you set up your deck. With nadir servant and preprep you have high consistency

[@armandonoriega681]

Don't forget Sauravis that is able to negate a synchro summon if they do not chain correctly to make it lose timing.

[@JosephHk743]

I feel like Vaalmonica is also an underrepresented Rouge deck that can most often setup tons of protection through the counters and can end on Bagooska as well. They don’t play well into shifter or if the opponent ends up with specifically 3 board breakers in a row and uses up the counter protection. However, I found Vaalmonica solid enough of a deck that can handle Tenpai since they like to go first anyway. I agree with most of the thoughts on the other decks highlighted. I will mention that 40 Card Pure Tearlaments have been doing fine for me and have been consistently handling Tenpai by playing Black Goat and running Grapha + King of the Swamp. Good video Josh!

[@kit2877]

Low-key raidraptor slaps tenpai. It's good fun would recommend

[@sleekchaser3049]

My tenpai just slapped a raidraptor with a single droll😂

[@something12340]

I've been playing Thunder up on Twitch, and here are my takeaways. 1. Thunder absolutely slaughters tenpai with access to multiple colossus and being able to justify zombie vampire and Archnemeses Eschatos(searchable via Melody of Awakening Dragon alongside Levianeer, Chaos Emperor, and Diabolos) 2. Colossus demands an answer by basically everything in the format and will almost always force them into an awkward line that also eats their S:P 3. The deck can pivot from Horus and extenders to more non engine including shifter on a dime and function relatively the same if you notice an uptick in which version is better when. 4. The deck requires a ton of knowledge on sequencing and being able to bait handtraps accordingly (i.e. recognizing when Grass is probably the weakest starter in hand but knowing you can eat the Ash because everything else will resolve) 5. Much like Bagooska pass, Thunder can often times just go Colossus pass under maxx C to give only 1-2 draws and sometimes is enough. Hopefully that helps anyone else interested in picking up the deck rn

[@CaliburXL99]

Infernoble still never making on these lists is a crime. The endboard at best can be Double Link Charles(Spell/trap negate + pop), Baronne(Omni), & Gearfried(Monster negate), & Angelica’s Ring(Spell negate for Droplets, DRNM, & Super Poly). With sometimes S:P on field or PP in gy. Tenpai can’t play through it unless they open an ungodly amount of handtraps &/or shifter. Definitely a tier 2 deck in MD, Isolde is still legal & Invoker is crazy.

[@Jackinthebox1719]

All lists I faced didn’t have room for enough nonengine. It also has no plan B under maxx C, plays bad into established boards and handtrap on Isolde and the enboard sucks. It wins if it goes first uninterrupted, like so many other decks too.

[@CaliburXL99]

@ Personally I play a 60 card list so I’m able to play enough non engine + extenders to playthrough handtraps. The deck is very complicated so it really takes a skilled pilot to play it. And usually when I get to even a generic endboard of Charles, Baronne, & Gearfried the deck doesn’t lose. But Maxx C is a pain too if I don’t open Ash, called by, crossout, or gamma. The best I can try to do is make Bagooska or S:P pass.

[@sachannnel]

have you read maxx c

[@CaliburXL99]

@@sachannnelHow well do Mathmech & Plant link fair against Maxx C yet they’re at least(by Joshes opinion, I respect it 🫡) Tier 2? At least D-Link can make Seals pass under the bug.

[@aetherwolf9288]

Infernoble is an inferior warrior pile. And the warrior pile struggles with bricks, linear combo lines and Maxx C. Same issue with RDA and Speedroid

[@Daenijel]

Stun is underrepresented because all of these glue sniffers started playing Tenpai instead.

[@Ragnarok540]

I don't think that's correct, the kind of player who plays Stun don't just suddenly switch to play the top tier meta deck.

[@thegreatbambino3358]

I've been playing a going second unchained deck in preparation for tenpai coming out and it's honestly worked out well. Win probably 70% against them

[@AverageGhotiEnjoyer]

I'm currently running a Tearlament Grass Kashtira Snake Eyes Horus Yubel pile and it is extremely fun to pilot. Horus ties so much together because cross sheep + any fusion gets you access to any engine in your graveyard for the most part. Shifter destroys it but I think it is one of the most fun decks I've piloted and the endboard payoff playing through interaction is extremely satisfying

[@GlacierMoonDragon]

40 card tear still playable without the 60 card non-sense. The Deck can run (hard draw) called by, fenrir, snow, and bagooska for shifter. And for Combo Decks, Tear can play on oppo turn with Havnis and Tear Kash or run droplet, fenrir, and super poly.

[@WhosA1Trick]

we should start talking about tri brigade in master duel :) fire king and scareclaw tri brigade combos are crazy good, and these decks also go second incredibly well with multiple strong pushes into your engine that also inherently have combo peices which contest endboard peices. You also have a few easy and effective ways to otk opponents, and these variants can run up to 18 nonengine

[@SenecaYGO]

Josh talking Yugioh with pokemon music…. what in the multiverse is going on here

[@melie6484]

Thoughts on Infernoble? Be it the 40 cards lists with just fire good stuff or the 60 cards pile with mikanko/snake eyes

[@donjulio1033]

I don't think it's resilient enough against handtraps and it can't play that well going second imo. If you could go first every game and combo off uninterrupted it's a tier 1 deck though.

[@TheTolleyTrolley]

Dragon Link is much better if you run Scareclaw Tri-Heart as a generic Link-3 that you make with I:P going first. Tenpai has few options to remove a monster that can't be destroyed by card effects and changes all their monsters to defense position.

[@abdulrhmanelfeky8534]

Respect for categorize the video

[@DevastatingWarrior]

Where would you put a pure Evil Eye list with Grave of the Super Ancient Organism? Does it even go on tier 4? No one actually seems to build that deck, so I genuinely have no clue how it ranks against other stuff right now, but I feel it's decent even in diamond. Tho I do know it's not super strong lol

[@JoshuaSchmidtYGO]

probably good enough to climb through Diamond, but I dont think its better than anything on this list, so T4 max from me

[@mionatsume7335]

It might be a silly one but what about Mikanko with Ken&Gen + Isolde - Acid Golem lock ? It's been getting some good results lately and I wonder where you'd place it

[@michaelshine8837]

Loving my FK SE build. Makes ranking fun

[@epsapphire]

Tistina... goes second and plays quite a few interruptions. not a one card combo deck but puts up quite the grind game and steals some wins

[@Jack-zy7rd]

what do you feel about runick fur hire spright?

[@krazypoke]

It's good deck

[@jayduel7897]

Runnick is extremely good in anything right now. They are board breakers and interruptions. They are non engine that extends and gets free draws and can ftk on the spot if you banish important cards from your opponents deck

[@ryuuohdeltaplus7936]

Going first Striker with the Kengine and running the Solemn brigade is actually great in MD.

[@the.Apollo_Project]

Im loving rikka! It's my first time playing it, And you can't go wrong with evenly matched and dark ruler no more

[@peterpfrushell9922]

Pokémon music went hard tbh

[@kayne_vk]

I always play purrely and it is hilarious how underrated it is, you can do 2 summons under Maxx C, play around imperm and veiler plus draw 4-6 with so many handtraps plus bossmonster... just look at the winrate in MD Meta

[@snowm4n41]

With plants, your endboard shouldnt be weak to boardbreakers. Regulus omninegate+hyperyton spell negate+rosewhip floodgating spell/traps after the first, along with magnolia giving destruction protection to your monsters. Tenpai needs to hard draw droplet, along with a great hand to play through the remaining interaction.

[@strike4489]

Plant player here: problem isnt your endboard, if you can set it up you win 90% of times. Playing rosewhip isnt really a thing because its a brick and if you would have it on your endboard you would already win. Plants is very weak to maxx c, you can theoretically deckout your opponent but they will draw into handtraps so that aint happening. It is also weak to handtraps by themselves. Most times you loose its because your dryas search gets negated and your hand can only end on mudan set konkon sheet pass.

[@snowm4n41]

​@@strike4489 I saw twitch chat say that pla nts had a weakness to board breakers, and I wanted to post why imo it shouldnt. Also, people play and sideboard rosewhip, if the meta is weak to it, adding one soft brick to your 60 card pile deck can be worth it. With maxx c and handtraps, maxx c is a turn ender, thats something you accept when playing a combo pile deck. with the Raika and Aroma engines, I've been able to play through 1-2 handtraps much better.

[@strike4489]

@@snowm4n41 This is a Master Duel Tierlist, so sidedecking isnt really a thing to consider here. Yes, if you can Summon Hyperyton or Regulus, board breakers aren't an issue. If you end on Mudan + the Rikka spells, they kind of are. If your opponent for example draws Maxx C and Lightning Storm, you dont want to give them 30 draws so you end on the Mudan board and they can pop konkon, sheet and whatever else you had. To the "adding one soft brick to your 60 card pile deck can be worth it" - absolutely disagree. Just like cactus Bouncer, Rosewhip isn't an extender, she isn't a combo starter and also has no GY useage like sunseed twins has if you can discard that card with blend/evil seed. Your biggest weakness is bricking when playing plants and if you'd play it you would understand why adding an other "copy" (so another brick) of laurel/twin/regulus/konkon/sowing/any Handtrap/any boardbreaker/crossout/called by in the form of rosewhip feels terrible.

[@snowm4n41]

​@@strike4489 I wouldnt recommend replacing extenders with Rosewhip. Also I wouldnt say bricking is the biggest weakness, instead not being able to extend enough through interruption and getting hit by maxx c/dimension shifter. Anyways I dont want to keep defending rosewhip, just make the point that if your plant endboard dies to boardbreakers, you should change what you are ending on.

[@Unarmed_black]

Thunder dragon branded low key cooks. If you have one of the decks I say try to make the deck and have fun.

[@olliezoop]

Introducing Tenpai into a BO1 format was legitimately one of the dumbest things I think Konami has ever done

[@oldboykenji]

Striker main, basically playing Striker only since MD started. I did finish the last event with only 4 loses. Had a few tenpai, fucked them all, except for 1 game. This deck is only as good as the pilot, but we really need meta relevant support. SS is not on BEWD or DM level, but it is still a fan favorite. I hope for a structure deck.

[@kappamaster7179]

he has to be the only one that constantly rates centurion that high but voiceless that low.

[@ddd7007]

infernoble is definitely notable.

[@NOCAPSALLOWED]

Where do you feel vaalmonica would be in this list?

[@CrowQQ]

Me skipping video to see where lab landed and then commenting about it.

[@isaiahjack3140]

Lab has and will always be good

[@azmapogi]

Voiceless Voice sometimes not to be able play at all is a pain.(Still love the deck) Also what do you think of Vanquish Soul?

[@JoshuaSchmidtYGO]

VS is playable but not great, low T3

[@ashikjaman1940]

The playability of VS depends on how free Fenrir is, for every one missing it drops a Tier

[@juangarciac06]

Thanks for the video Joshua! What do you think about HERO decks for this format?

[@M1A2C.]

Dragon Link has an amazing Tenpai matchup because of Borrelend Dragon, with Borrelend on field Tenpai literally cannot kill you (unless they Droplet or Imperm it). Trident Dragion can hit for 6,000 3 times, it attacking into Borrelend will leave you with 500LP, that's the only damage they'll ever be able to do to you. Not to mention that Borrelend can spell speed 4 negate Trident (as long as the Tenpai player destroys Transcendant Dragion for Trident's effect). Borrelend pass is unironically an out to Tenpai. Other than that Snake-Eye/Fire King is still the best deck to me, it really bullies Tenpai when played well especally with all the different interruptions it has. Out of the big three meta decks in the current format; Snake-Eye, Yubel, and Tenpai, Snake-Eye is still the best, as it can reliably defend against Tenpai, while also having a good matchup against Yubel. Yubel is second because its also got a good Tenpai matchup, it's just not as versatile and adaptable as Snake-Eye. And Tenpai is third, still an amazing (and quite braindead) deck that is good against every deck in the format.

[@galderon125]

60 card grass pile tear is not really viable for me because it's either inherently really bricky or you get bad mills, depending on your deckbuilding. I'm running a 40 card list with wraitsoth/fenrir and the horus enginge and it's really viable

[@forsakenknightmax3520]

I’m currently using code talkers and ladder has been extremely easy especially tenpai with multiple negates and destruction protections and the very obvious no effects in battle phase to basically instantly win

[@anthonypeluso3775]

I haven’t really had many issues beating tenpai both as tearlament and now unchained. I think you just need to play chainable back row into the deck. Great example IMO is something like threatening roar you just remove the decks win condition/gimmick and it instantly falls apart it’s not gonna change lines and make 5 negates another card I find very powerful in that matchup is ice dragon since the entire deck is mono type a well times idp can end their turn and I have yet to see any ritual beast decks which I think is also completely fine with closed moon in the game now you can just link that decks field off and it’s GG. Tenpai is so free even the new inferno deck can gas them up I am shocked that’s not on sleeper tier here that deck very easily produces flood with feast access with a dev/on setup so you end on double deca + 1 large body to negate. The noid deck is very subtle though with the new link 2 they got enabling easy link climbing into princess on the way to flood your typically ending on 5 interactions I think this format is super fun the only annoying strategy in master duel currently is stun when they drop cards like difi macro and other cheesy floodgates. The only other thing I am not a huge fan of is tearlament being almost gone from the meta because the field spell hit it just seemed to be too large of a hit not only did you nerf their consistency which already could be a issue but you removed shufflers from the deck aswell after seeing field spells like sangan i really changed my perspective on tear field spell. Hell even older field spells like spyral resort were way more busted so I think they over shot nerfing that strategy. Kinda like when the TCG got shyvara to 1 then in the very next format you have full power unrestricted snake eye running around and people are questioning if the hit was even warranted. Tear in the worlds format was much stronger then ladder because of deck building constraints opened up the very versatile engine to be uniquely strong there on ladder though you were just being triple hand trapped and passing turn missing that field spell is such a huge deal you can’t get triple stopped and grab a schiren for example to use a negated rhino to make redoer so I think the strategy just ends up being too far behind the higher tier meta decks. Besides those complaints the format is good

[@starbomber]

It's wild to me that Maxx C, a card that is banned in the TCG, still averages six or seven dollars (Don't remember what the Euro conversion is, maybe 4,95 euro is closer to five dollars now)

[@Zmon3595]

I’m out of the loop on yugioh more than I thought. I thought all of these decks were Tier 1 or 2 but I guess I don’t understand how tiers work.

[@nasch3391]

its funny that goblin is down there, while in OCG its clapping the best deck ryzeal now

[@Ragnarok540]

Is a hard counter to XYZ decks, specially if they need to have specific XYZ materials attached.

[@ZafranGG]

The goblin biker disrespect!

[@xenonim]

Tenpai if just a strong deck, i think is still fine. However, the thing is Tenpai is the most easiest top meta deck to play it, even beginning to Masterduel, yugioh or returner can master this deck in just 10 minute. The good thing of Tenpai release it actually give some returner and new player to enjoy yugioh with top meta deck and deck is affordable not that crazy busted expensive like VV, dinomorphia and hero deck. It only become a problem when the deck been play by veteran player and tournament player play it which make the deck busted. This the good time for new player and returner to comeback to play yugioh since the Tenpai is ridiculous easy to play despite veteran player and tournament hate it, which in reality veteran player and tournament player make Tenpai busted. Let beginner enjoy playing Tenpai while for veteran and tournament as new challenge to counter the deck.

[@jarom1144]

In Jesse's hands, Thunder dragon is tier 2 at the least.

[@Void-rj3sq]

What about Phantom Knight? Fog Blade works under Summoning, and gryphon rider can negate the harpie's too. The deck's got a very solid gameplan against boardbreaker tenpai, though I guess they do kinda struggle against handtrap tenpai

[@crosshair4483]

10,000 years of the Mahjong Dynasty. Long live Emperor Shi Huangdi

[@tcg-channel3761]

I Play Thunder Dragons since 5 Years, it is still a good Deck, but i still miss a Good Support Wave for the Deck. Everyone get‘s it, we don’t, but i wanna 😢

[@drmrguy2]

what are some of the potential ice barrier engine pairs I could throw in to make it a better deck?

[@JoshuaSchmidtYGO]

Runick :)

[@garrettrowe1847]

Been having some success with Ice barrier

[@streamydodo2016]

I think that traptrix is a good deck to go against tempai... if they let you go first every time, you can build a bord and also have a way to defend your traps with arcnochampa... the problem? If they use their terrain... at that point, you would need a miracle to be able to summon the only traptrix that can brake cards on summon

[@KamuiShiro101]

I'd say heroes and Salamagreat are some sleeper decks

[@armandonoriega681]

Salamangreat definitely. A friend of mine reached around 1720 only with Salamangreat.

[@geaarmel6764]

True

[@dotreant5264]

im doing fine vs tenpai with pure unchained since u can play 3 thrust and go for any good trap, but the match up is naturally hard because of their fieldspell and Rage beign mainphase only. could be tier 3 maybe tier 4

[@caryymytank8300]

What do you think of Mikanko in this meta?

[@JoshuaSchmidtYGO]

I am not a fan of Mikanko, think it goes somewhere in lower T3

[@caryymytank8300]

@@JoshuaSchmidtYGO I see. Thank you for your input.

[@JackYakumo]

What do you think about Chimera and their combinations?

[@TheLamartian]

Obviously weak to Shifter but I think the battle-indestructible Illusion monsters and Chimera the Illusion Beast specifically is a pretty decent counter to Tenpai. Even if they pop it, you can get it back with King of Phantom Beasts. You may not stop them dead but they usually can't otk, and your followup should be enough to finish them after. Droplet is a jumpscare though.

[@denz9424]

What do you feel about Mikanko after Gen and Ken release? Bystials to tribute summon over Acid Golem are rare, and I can rip Droplet from Tenpai players hands with Talents. Going second it's decent because it's still a Mikanko deck.

[@micha-elhorus5799]

Why Pokemon musics suits tier lists so well😂

[@JungleRice]

I feel like vanquish soul and dinomorphia should probably be on here if purrley, swoso, thunder dragon, etc are on here

[@spitzkopflarry4977]

what do you think about D/D/D? i think it has a good match up against tenpai because of the spell negate from siegfried + Baron as a omni negate and the floodgate

[@JoseMunoz-cs8le]

Vanquish was tier 2/3 a few months ago and has representation in worlds lol

[@JamesHawnn]

Im just farming tenpai through diamond on runick paleo lab. Deck is so much fun

[@Aldamani]

Fellas now I know no one cares, but scareclaw is farming the meta currently with the high amount of tenpai players

[@ZordOne44]

Thoughts on Ghoti builds?

[@winter9348]

Oh right where's memento man?

[@kit2877]

Have you seen the vitual world sword soul deck? What would u rate it Tenpai has a hard time with it. Double Monster negate + 1 pop grave and field banish (non target) field to grave= banish floodgate massive attack reduction and a pop + if you want a battle position changer. Shen shen is also bigger than bident so they have absolutely no way to prevent getting floodgated unless they have a negate

[@froggingfroggy]

Gatchiri singularity single handedly cooks Tenpai.

[@nicolaspoirot52]

What about Traptrix ? Imo it's a pretty cheezy call, but i had good results with it What are your feelings ?

[@TCakes]

Is this based on ranked? Because personally i've found VV gets the best results recently.

[@bachouvenn3563]

4:41 Branded never plays Jowgen, it's just bad. People always think that Jowgen was banned because of Branded, but no, it was banned because of VV, they abuse the shit out of the card. To use Jowgen in Branded, you need a SPECIFIC unsearchable card, which is just very inconsistent. Branded has better cards to play outside of Jowgen, but generally you get a better end board + better follow ups if you play without a lock.

[@JoshyyBear_]

I see your tempai dragon and raise you an electromagnetic turtle.

[@fierypops6508]

I main strikers and really loved playing it when it was just Yubel in the top. I always destroy them going second. This season with Tenpai, I always get fcked.

[@browking8161]

So I think the actual best deck of the format is Ritual Beast and not Tenpai. Hear me out. 1- Shifter shits on the other tier 1 decks (FK, Yubel) and while it's not amazing against Tenpai it still benefits you more than it does them. 2- You don't have to worry about Tenpai mirrors forcing you to go 1st into auto-lose. 3- If you're forced to go first, you can just leave Protos/Eschatos and call Fire/Dragon, or leave a Bagooska and force them to draw the droplet. You can also opt for colossus, which is also good, but not as good. 4- There is no reliable way to handtrap them unless you have Nibiru and wait until after they summon Nochi. But guess what? No one is playing Nib right now because its useless against what people (wrongly) believe is the best deck. I'm a plant player, and when the new pack released I played against Tenpai a bunch, and got a whole lot of free wins from farming them. So much so that I got close to 1800 rating mid-season and almost broke into the top 10. But then the hype died down and I started seeing a lot more RB. My matchup against RB is awful and I gradually lost a lot of rating. There's also the fact that RB is the most represented deck among the top 10 ranked players. I don't think I ever disliked a deck as much as Ritual Beast, other than Floo. It's because RB's whole purpose is to floodgate your opponent out of the game. Colossus, Shifter, Bagooska, Protos, Eschatos, even their in-archetype boss monsters function as floodgates in some capacity. Ulti-Gaia basically functions the same way as Apollousa, and Ulti-Reirautari for some reason has a floodgate effect attached to it that prevents tributes. The only pieces of interaction they end on that are not floodgates are S:P and Steeds.

[@amircat1009]

gai apelio is actually even better than appo as he omni not just monster negate

[@MasterDuelJourney]

Dang need to do some research now.

[@Zefa1412]

what do you think about mannadium at the moment

[@EuwKingwolf]

never played before - picked up tenpai deck after the tutorial and got plat in one day

[@soup3583]

I've been cooking with fur hire runick spright

[@heulg.darian2536]

I use Ghostrick purrely and Tenpai match ups have been carrying my ass. I think I lost like once to them and that was when they droplet send reboot into a second reboot. Maxx-c can be tough but I don't even play called by because majority of times I can access small noir with a single draw and I'm on 14 hand traps cause of this.

[@gta201]

How about Adventure Scareclaw or Scareclaw Kashtira?

[@warincon39]

Where would you place Scareclaw?

[@metalmariomega]

I built Sky Striker to beat Tenpai in that one event and it was never an issue. But the kind of cards you have to run to ensure you beat it kind of gimp your game against other stuff, which is annoying, and the main reason to put it in "meh". I REALLY don't think Tenpai is a better deck at going 2nd(since it auto-loses whenever it fails to OTK while breaking a board is usually enough for Striker to win in comparison), just a better deck at OTKing, which makes a difference for ladder climbing speed but not much else.

[@wiliamfelipe1337]

Tenpai in event is very weak compared to the normal one, thats make huge difference

[@ottfriedteske2977]

I know you talked about Unchained but where you rank it? The tenpai match up feels really hard because Rage is dead so often. Also where would you rank Infernoble?

[@VerGiLL1]

At least tier 2 imo, if you use the dark beckoning beast package it helps the deck a lot under Maxx C and it'usually Ash bait in case they have it so you can go into your normal Unchained combo after. Yeah the Tenpai mu is annoying but the deck still pretty good. Josh forgot that the reason why Unchained didn't take of In MD was not really because of Maxx C, sure that is the factor but the real reason is that we recieved the Unchained support after full power Snake Eyes for some reason.

[@zexalplays]

2 weeks late but im wondering where kozmo would be thought of landing on this tier list

[@Alexalibur13]

"People seem to have a LOW opinion on voiceless voice" nice one

[@brunchigigena3844]

Where is vylon - ally of justice?