Decks You Don't Want to Play

[@TheBlindWeasel]

You can't stop me from playing a Blue Eyes deck that only has dragons in it

[@tahjkuemmerle]

Calm down, Kaiba.

[@flyer3154]

You mean a dragon deck featuring Blue-Eyes

[@_404notfound_3]

Im still playing my trash slifer deck just because i like the cards lmao

[@soleo2783]

@@flyer3154 Yep, blue-eyes is there as a freebie for dragon shrine and to enable blue-eyes jet dragon, and that's pretty much it lol

[@AshZy33]

Facts

[@pavi42069]

I always look at the art and not at the playstyle. For example, i made a Myutant deck... it sucks but the art is just a chef kiss

[@NotAbot1011]

Same with kash. I was like "Wow, a capitalism archetype", turned out to be about as fun as capitalism.

[@funnybone8262]

Myutant can be quite broken if you know what you're doing.

[@narcarossj9937]

Same. Probably why most of our decks suck...

[@shaquilleeurope2600]

this is how Melffy robbed me of every penny

[@streetgamer3452]

@@funnybone8262no they can’t

[@braingamer5820]

There's also another, more prevalent reason why some people won't play a deck: They don't have the money to pay for half the cards in the deck, let alone all of them.

[@tzukan9039]

This OMG it's sooooo annoying looking for cards to make a deck playable and finding the cards is a pain in the butt

[@testudoeratnumen01]

I'd love to play Snake-Eyes Volcanic. But I also love to keep my kidneys...

[@z1u512]

I also like how you can have headcanons of mixed decks, like how i imagine my gold pride punk is just the punks performing a pre show before the racers of gold pride prepare to race during the opponents turn, and the grand finale OTK on the 3rd turn if they win the race during the opponent's turn. People that plays this deck will understand what i mean

[@STEPHxCA]

Someone told me Gold Pride is a Jojo reference (Steel Ball Run specifically)

[@czss6214]

That's how I am with my Tistina Eldlich deck, two forces of nature, gold and riches, team up to cover the world in their glory!!

[@dalesabandal9113]

honestly same with snake eyes infernoble. You got an emperor (charlemagne), princesses (anjelica and the promethean fire princess), knights (all the other infernobles), Witch (diabellstar), dukes and dutchess (phoenix gearfried and baronne (rip)) and the peasants (fire flint lady)

[@otterfire4712]

Played a locals with Volcanic Ashened. Played against a Dark World Danger deck. Thought it was funny that it was two decks using GX era archetypes matched with a TCG exclusive archetype.

[@Maliwans_Executive]

Meanwhile my Mekk-Knights just got super salty and decided to side with the Kashtira after getting smacked around by better decks.

[@Createrz2015]

I suddenly get a huge motivation boost to make a deck. I make it on edo, research, playtest, and once im done and go to make it, I realize I dont have half of the cards I need from the archetype.

[@pk_tuneworld]

Ay, just make the financially irresponsible decision like I do - find a deck you want to play, buy all the cards BEFORE TESTING IT, and then test it and find out it's not as great as you want 🙃

[@Createrz2015]

@@pk_tuneworld that too. Also buy it right before a banlist drops that completely destroys the rogue deck for some reason.

[@pk_tuneworld]

This brought up an awful memory of me buying a Terrortop set for my Madolche deck during Zoo format only for it to be limited the day after LOL

[@Createrz2015]

@@pk_tuneworld hey you got your moneys worth at least.. just needed to wait more 6 years later

[@OrochimaruYugioh]

@@pk_tuneworldI feel attacked

[@JahanSoundSystem]

Cyber Dragons are my favorite archtype from a design view. Basic Cyber Dragon is just a simple but effective design and each new monster is clearly either an upgrade, modification, evolution off of one and the other. Also the name "Chimeratech" OOOOOOOOOO IT'S BEAUTIFUL! It gets me to headcannon that Chimeratech is a corp that builds all the Cyber Dragons and I can imagine the presentations of each new monster in the way that a mission briefing is done in Armored Core 4 and For Answer.

[@DiverseStyle]

Despite the thumbnail, the reasons described encompass why I love Exosister: - Playstyle : Xyz is my favorite mechanic, Meadowlands (Mermail) format will always be a golden age for me. - Art : Pax is peak. Military nuns go hard. - Lore : this is universal for every deck as said, but I like lore as a tool for support; “Martha is still MIA … so where the new Martha form support card??”

[@steberdeber6223]

I mean, the playstyle is what makes the deck frowned upon. And im not talking about the xyz aspect. The deck wins and dies because your opponent cant play GY. If GY doesnt matter to your opponent, youre pretty much a dumbed down beat down deck

[@pk_tuneworld]

Thumbnail admittedly is semi-bait. Exo is pretty neat - art is cool, I like my XYZ spam deck, and idk the lore but sure. I just found that the deck was extremely fragile, however - I swear you actually lose to every single hand trap in the game.

[@DiverseStyle]

@@pk_tuneworld well, you don’t lose to Belle/Crow (the deck does play Shifter itself), but definitely the big 3 of low-impact being Ash, Veiler, Imperm. Exo can play past 1, but not 2, sadly.

[@thedigitaldummy3098]

I love the art for Exosisters but I can never see it the same way after Duel Logs pointed out that the TCG made all the uniforms brighter for some reason. Let me have my military nuns the way God intended Konami. Also the darker colour palate just looks nicer as well.

[@pk_tuneworld]

Ay, don't forget what the ROCK is cooking either I will admit, my interest in them was piqued again recently because of a funny strategy one of my friends came up in. Dunno how viable it is, but he was playing a Cyberdark package - Claw + Realm + Edge. The concept was that: if your Martha gets Ash'ed, you can start up the above package. > Claw search Realm > Realm search Edge > Normal Martha > Realm additional normal to get out Edge, and then Edge equip Claw The last step triggers Martha to Rank-up into one of your Exosister XYZ's. So you functionally play through Ash. Again, don't know how viable it is, especially given you can play through Ash already at times. But thought it was so funny, figured I'd bring it up.

[@cage5577]

I remember when Nouvelles came to MD and I was so excited because the art, the gimmick, and the play style was fun to me. I hated everyone talking about how bad rituals are because I don't care, just let me cook! I like the ritual animation in MD kinda reminding me of stove turning in with the flames to add to the immersion. I was so very offended when Baelgrill didn't have an animation despite being able to clear the opponent field. All of it came together as a deck I care about regardless of tier. I'm still salty Princess Nemleria has no animation too.

[@IC-23]

I mean rituals do suck though... the best things nouvelle do vs decks that can just summon in def is countertrap pass and hope you drew into maxx C with the fish and field spell draw. I was so happy when I randomly played nouvelle for fun and Baelgrill had such a vibrant animation that he should have had day one, honestly I wish we also got a hungry burger animation considering it's another board wipe and you're probably losing if burger hits the field.

[@hopkinsstefan454]

​@@IC-23nouvelles doesn't die to Maxx c they dies to ash blossom

[@IC-23]

@hopkinsstefan454 how are you losing to ash with Nouvelle? you have preprep rite a normal summon searcher and a field spell? droll or the card's veing when is usually the issue. also I was saying nouvelle is one of the few decks that is buffed by the existence of maxx C

[@hopkinsstefan454]

@@IC-23 you need to 1. The right ritual monster and spell 2. Preparation is hopt with other searcher this deck is very easy to end up with 4+ spells in hand one ash on your pre-pre or menu can be means scooping. 3. Imagine staring a baron with ash blossom in hand, you know how that feels?

[@hopkinsstefan454]

@@IC-23 nouvelles doesn't fold to Maxx c they dies to ash blossom

[@notaheretic6675]

Kashtira was a mistake

[@megaspacewaffles]

Aw what how

[@NotAbot1011]

Nuh uh!

[@gravekeepersven82]

No it wasn't

[@anthonyg5001]

Kashtira truly is a cancer

[@__-be1gk]

I agree, Branded IS a terrible story

[@gershizzle7914]

They can never make me abandon you, Exosisters.

[@bingbong5076]

I love Skull Servants because they've turned one of the very first weakest monster into the absolute unit that could swing for 9000 easily. I always imagined that it's so sick of being called weak and rises in power through others skulls shown in it's art like saying, "Who's the weakest now, huh?" Well, nowadays they're more goofy with the 'lore' of it having a family with the other skulls and even happily eating baked yams but that's okay. It earns the wights to relax after a good day at beating up it's opponent in one turn.

[@galaxyvulture6649]

I swear konami just made the support to spite you for dissing their blue eyes pet deck

[@callumparker7737]

I gotta say, this video is helping me through a nasty funk I’ve had with Yugioh lately. Going through Master Duel and I just keep losing to Albaz and Snake Eyes decks over and over and just keep thinking what’s the point of playing anything other than meta? You’re helping me look at deck building again through the lens of what looks fun to play, even if it isn’t current meta. Planning a Monarch/Kashtira deck with the idea of the Monarchs being an invading army and the Kashtira’s acting as hired mercenaries and their advance force. And got a couple other ideas swimming around too. Thanks for helping me out of my bad mood, my dude.

[@Dinosaurman34]

I love playing monarchs. My absolute favourite deck from its playstyle to its lore. It can brick like hell but it’s surprising how some people can’t deal with the floodgates it can put out like domain and erupt. It’s slow and bricky but it’s the deck I love.

[@GreyValkrie]

I play Red Dragon Archfiend because Jack Atlas is cool, and Resonator interactions to barf out a whole board in a stupidly long synchro chain scratches my brain in just the right way. Now, Noble Knights though, is my favourite pet deck, cause I love the entirety of Arturian legend, and the fact they made an entire deck theme around them just absolutely enraptured me.

[@pk_tuneworld]

Ay, you and me both! I have a max rarity NK core (like the OG waves, not the Infernobles) just because of how unique the cards look. Though I'm not too keen on the Arthurian legends, I do find it neat they are associated with the archetype.

[@Beans-m1x]

as a blackwing player I also love stupidly long synchro chains lmao

[@TarosTheVoid]

I have mad respect for you as I also play RDA bc of Jack Atlas But I also play this deck for my own reasons than just that, I just love the aesthetic of RDAs monsters and the Resonators are lovable scrimblos to me

[@kylemarlobaula987]

I play for lore. It shows the strengths and weaknesses of an archetype - balance.. like playing moba or any mmorpg.. you have a hero and it has its specialties..

[@Karkuzz]

I am in love with Cubics since i watched The Dark Side of Dimensions for the first time, even tho their current strategy is blowing your opponent up with the 3k effect damage monster, i loved how vijam was used to create the other monsters, and the deck even has 2 types of play style, the "battle phase" monsters (garnex, garoodia and buster gundil) and the burn mode (gueira guile, vulkan dragni and indiora doom volt)

[@purewhiteloverbizarrejelly]

I miss when Yugioh was slow enough for Alien’s counter based gameplay. There was no greater feeling as a kid than infecting my opponent’s monsters with A counters and brainwashing them to push for game

[@user-xb8cf6xd5l]

Whenever I play blue-eyes, its not to win. It's to channel that nostalgic feeling of watching Kaiba on the tv summon BEWD while I held the card in my hand in awe. Listening to all the characters react and adapt to the massive beatstick on the field. if I wanted a win id play galaxy-eyes ftk and swing for 11200

[@erikburgos744]

Galaxy is just xyz blue eyes

[@madgameplay4658]

You still probably wouldn’t win with that either lol

[@Justcallmeaqua420]

But stronger that blue eyes​@@erikburgos744

[@menghao3674]

go play duel links, BEWD tier 0 there, it's all cause a skill

[@Kewaaaaa]

Lmao you’re not winning with galaxy eyes either XD

[@nekipeh7373]

Lore, art and cool mechanics is main reason i play Ice Barriers, War Rocks, Noble Knights, Fire Fist in Master Duel And Agents for that middle of lore/power and Dinos of course. I love dinosaurus. They dont have any lore pretty much, art is just ok, but popping and banishing is interesting mechanic, which is the only deck i ever used in real life, and again in MD.

[@Tohob]

icejade curse mentioned! (shown) absolutely adore that card art, poor aegirine.

[@pk_tuneworld]

I have an Icejade deck IRL, so had to mention it LOL The art is also so damn killer. I get they're ice creatures, but they look like beautifully carved glass figurines. And, of course, Aegirine's story is pretty damn tragic.

[@Jrpg_guy]

Oh man, all three ice jade players combined under 1 video damn

[@InfinityMayo]

I'm not gonna say I was personally attacked in that intro, but that did hit pretty close to home to my own thoughts when building a deck or getting a new idea lmao. Wonderful video, Tune World, I really like how you went through the different reasons someone may or may not play a deck. The moral and final thoughts that wrapped up the video, hoo, the chef's kiss. New favorite vid from the channel, thanks for taking the time to make it 👍

[@pk_tuneworld]

Thank you for continuing to support me, InfinityMayo! Yeah, definitely poured a lot more emotions and personal anecdotes into this one to make it feel less rigid like some of my early essays. Hoping to continue producing stuff in this direction since I do think this style is definitely more entertaining.

[@clarkside4493]

17:23 It helps to break your work into 25-minute intervals with 5-minute breaks between them. Mark down each interval and take a 30-minute break after 4 intervals (so basically 2 hours of work). Rinse and repeat. It's call the Pomodoro Technique and it's how I get a lot of my work done efficiently.

[@scooterberry0605]

i absolutely adore decks with risky playstyles, can i brick? sometimes but those high moments where everything goes perfectly are just the best. so anyways i made a Poker Knight/Egyptian God deck because i think they are neat lol

[@kabedig]

Same here, I run a utopia/zexal weapon deck, and although you gotta be lucky to get the right cards (Typically ZS- Armed Sage and ZS- Ascended Sage are the best to use to xyz summon him) its Hella fun when I can bring out Ultimate Leo Utopia Ray, equip him with 2 of each of the Xyz Zexal Weapons, and a Burner Visor (yes this actually happened one time in masterduel, it was great)

[@Lukaz2009]

When I last played Master Duel, I was working towards building two of the archetypes featured in the thumbnail. S-Force, Time Thief, and PSY-Frame. Mainly because I was pulling from the S-Force pack since it had Gamma, Omega, and Redoer. But I ended up pulling really good and getting most of the high rarity pieces for all three archetypes, so I decided to keep pulling for them. Didn't take me too long and too many gems to get everything. And I wanted to build them just because they look cool for the most part. PSY-Frame being a bit of an unconventional Synchro deck tickles my fancy since Synchro is my favorite Extra Deck type. Time Thief having reckless disregard for other people's property is just funny to me. And S-Force just look really cool. I knew they were bad just from reading their effects, but their lore and art is just cool.

[@Ultradragon16]

I love Time Thief. It's fun splashing in generic rank 4 stuff that has ties to the anime. Really makes me feel like I stole cards throughout time to make the deck

[@6MasterWilly6]

The art caught my attention of Plunder Patroll. And then the gimmick of them tagging out to summon the ED monsters made it super fun for me. It's never a linear combo like my Zombie World or my Exosister decks, my moves depend on literally the decks my opponents play and whether their monsters or backrow is a bigger threat. The cherry on top is that I sucked at piloting the deck. But i was SO determined to play Plunder, I studied potential combos and bought expensive cards for support. It's now currently my best deck and opponents never know when to ash or who to imperm.

[@iarmandov2]

It’s the Pokémon music playing on a yugioh video that’s making my brain have some tingly sensation haha

[@maxlegolus2817]

I did not think going into this I’d been given life advice. Underrated channel.

[@0live_highscore]

As an Evil★Twin player, the only reason for anybody to not like my deck is them being wrong, clearly

[@jhonasbroto]

i always try to make a unplayable decks playable, with the addiction of such staple cards like kashtira or general monsters that can make your deck work with unique interactions, an exemple is Hieratic normal monsters with keeper of the shrine whitch can create loops to bring normal monsters from your graveyard to your hand like normal tunner monsters. It is so mind opening to do this, just don't give up on the deck, try your best, and you might fing gold.

[@user-qy8tu2bk9m]

This is exactly why I built my toons deck on master duel even though every resource online says its a waste of gems. And I love it

[@freak3d]

I always add black rose dragon in my extra deck just because i love the effect lore and art for it even if its not optimal i sometimes force a black rose dragon summon just for the thrill of wiping the field

[@emred4653]

Noble knights were one of my favorite decks. Its a shame they feel really slow and aged/fair compared to never cards

[@renaldyhaen]

I want to explain the True Draco (or officially it is called True Kings lore). But it is very long like World Legacy because it involved a lot of arctype and sub-arctype. But to make it simple, it is Visas, but better. If the other characters are Visas on different planets. In True King lore, Master Peace is also started with amnesia. But his power is spread to multiple different worlds like Zoo, Crystron, Dinomist, Majespecter, & Igknight. They're not a part of Master Peace, but they got the fragment of Master Peace's power, and he must collect it to beat the True King. In Dragonic Diagram art you show, that this is when the tribes combine their power to Master Peace. At the same time, he gets his power and some memories back, and turns out he has a connection with the True King. . But too bad the story ended before the big fight between Master Peace and True King. You can see the start of the fight in True Draco traps. . Anyway, bro, you scam me. I clicked this video ASAP because I saw S-Force Nightchasser in the thumbnail. But you didn't even mention this police once. I always tell everyone that S-Force and Live Twin are in the same lore. I was very happy when Konami "confirmed" it with their Art Book last month. . Also, this is disappointing because most decks with unique effects are always bad in standard format. I hope we have an alternative low-power format to make those unique decks playable too. It is a waste when Konami releases dozens of new archetypes every year, but the playable decks are 3 or fewer, or worse when those small decks make the other decks unplayable (Tier 0 or near it).

[@Zenbon111]

😴

[@BlancTangerine]

I also noticed how Nightchaser was switched with Ze Amin in the video's version. I'd say I was baited, but I was going to watch the video regardless.

[@napplepapple]

That retarded and over complicated. Visas is stupid and so is that master peace guy. You want some real honest to god lore? Phantasm spiral dragon deck. The whole story is self contained and told with pictures and flavor text, and it’s based

[@pk_tuneworld]

Okay, the True King lore does sound kinda interesting! So it's basically like all the different worlds coming together to reunite Master Peace and overcome the True King menace. Might be an interesting video topic for the future 🤔 Also, apologies LOL - initially, PUNK Ze Amin was in the thumbnail in place of Nightchaser. But then, I realized I had kept baiting people with PUNK cards too often, and decided to switch over. Nightchaser was with art I really, really liked, and the color palette was a nice contrast to the other cards featured in the thumbnail.

[@babrad]

@@pk_tuneworld About the True King lore, VFD is literally Satan ("the beast", 666) and Master Piss Jesus. Then we have Vector, perhaps the darkness/sin inside him being the greatest challenge that when he overcomes he regains his true power in preparation for the ultimate faceoff. This entire lore is incredible, in both story and art (although the use of floodgates still leaves me with a bad taste

[@DavidEllner]

You should do a video on the most unique archetypes or all the unique mechanisms that are least utilized. Like ursartic for example being the only synchro summon mechanic that decreases value versus combing stats up or how you even mentioned glad beasts tagging our system (even tho the contact fusing isn’t too unique anymore), even centurion in recent having the first monsters that then turn into continues traps (since prior it was only monsters turning into spells in the back row).

[@pk_tuneworld]

This is definitely a topic I want to tackle eventually. There aren't too many videos online that talk about all these niche cards/ archetypes on YT. Would just need to figure out whether to make one big, long video, or to make individual videos catered towards a different mechanic. Probably the latter since it gives me more content :P

[@jojo-ln7zd]

I fell i love with the insane gambling and artstyle of the danger darkworld structure deck now it is my best one

[@rennenb]

Gladiator Beast mentioned let’s go, I remember building a deck when I was younger they are dope cards and the support is great

[@CocTheElf]

I gotta agree. The visual part of the cards serves as the hook. But I can't be engaged playing a deck if it's not fun to play. Like, Snake Eye looks amazing. Otherworldly being, Witches, an eldritch dragon?? But it ends up being bland in its playstyle.

[@mariojordan9543]

I just wanna mention every time someone mention the banana in the wall (9:26) its the art equivalent of getting rick rolled. DADAISM STILL KEEPS WORKING (nice video)

[@hopefulkoronesuki5608]

Madolche's artwork and playstyle has always been perfect for me. Oddly hyper aggressive cute dessert archetype that removes any problems it has in it's way. I've been playing that deck for like, almost a decade at this point and I'm still not tired of it lol

[@CoachDoug100]

Glad to see the mention of Gladiator Beasts, been my favorite deck since I discovered them years ago, still whipping the meta with them

[@fabiant.2485]

I love Unchained. My perfect mix of tragedy and unhinged unfettered DESTRUCTION.

[@pk_tuneworld]

Also one of the sickest decks to ever be called Meta IMO

[@whiteshadow2535]

My favorite deck being salad makes this work so well lol. Its got nothing really lore wise, but I love the digital beasts aesthetic of them. Play style wise I really like long grinds where the monsters just keep coming back with near infinite recursion and having long interactive games (rarely siding going first cards so all the games go on long). I love trap cards and figuring out how to play a hand against interruption (this improving after the new support imo). One other thing is how many variants you can play with adventure, punk, kash, goblin biker, mathmech (before circular's ban lol), bystial even (during tear format), runick, and horus / starter variations with debug, fire, bufferlo, and even gen/ken if youre insane enough. That being said, all those things are not loved by everyone so its 100% understandable if you dont like the deck. It can seem to do the same thing over and over with little skill to be used (though Id argue firmly against that lol especially after watching db salad players), and having no real lore sucks/the designs dont hit everyones sweetspot

[@hyperspacesushi]

Icejade will forever be my pet deck because of the sheer amount of lore hidden in their names, art and effects It may play like ass but that's a downside I'm willing to work with if it means playing a deck I *love* playing, over winning a game with a deck I hate playing

[@RuneKillerz109]

If you want a fun icejade deck play ursarctic ice jade. Most hands are able to end on flagship+floodgate+sep but you lack game enders. You could also play water pile and get up to three discards (if you only put in tremora you can get up to 5 but you'll lack the icejade floodgate) and the floodgate and have mermails/update jammer+access (whatever you prefer) to finish it. (And yeah most of the icejade decks i play don't really use the synchro 10.) I win pretty consistently against non snake eyes and going first i destroy snake eyes with the water pile. The ursarctic deck sucks major doodoo tho. Lmao

[@hyperspacesushi]

@@RuneKillerz109 I tried Ursarctic-Icejade before! If I'm being totally honest, it really wasn't my style, because it Level locks you, meaning you can't go into Mermail Abyssalacia/Level 7 XYZ. That being said, it WAS still a fun deck to play tbh! Gymir/other Level 10 Synchros are absolutely vital to winning though, ngl- The version I play is actually Atlantean-Icejade with a small Kashtira engine (Fenrir, Unicorn, TearKash & Birth) since the deck doesn't WATER lock you! I end on at least 2 Level 10 Synchros & 1 Kashtira monster by sheer luck. It runs consistently but it doesn't always win, and that's completely fine

[@RuneKillerz109]

@@hyperspacesushi bruh we basically play the same decks but go for veeeeery different lines. lmaoooo

[@EnergyBurst2]

An interesting IceJade deck I saw a year or 2 ago was gameciel control using the Kaiju field spell to just let Gameciel negate everything your opponent tries to do since i think icejades like to destroy themselves or leave the field or something and each time they do it adds a kaiju counter to the field spell which gameciel cashes in on your side of the field to use its negate effect.

[@hyperspacesushi]

@@RuneKillerz109 We should totally play sometime then! I always love a fellow Icejade enjoyer 💪🏼

[@flamelash1283]

Everytime I play fire kings I always enjoyed to think how every board wipe was just a giant wave of fire, where one legendary bird stood tall and mighty in between the flames. Hell this can be said about many decks but this is my experience

[@TheMasterBlaze]

Seeing OG Noble Knights in the "Trash" thumbnail hurt my soul even though it's an accurate statement 😭😭😭

[@relaxispower]

We keep normal summoning medraut my man, the opp ash blossom does nothing if you brick on no equip

[@pk_tuneworld]

If it's any consolation, I have a max rarity OG Noble Knight core just because of how godly the cards look. Such a damn shame Isolde had to take the banlist axe - hopefully we get a replacement sometime in the future (or just errata it so it requires NK names or something)

[@TheMasterBlaze]

@@pk_tuneworld Albeit sad to she her go; Sir Tristan's Girlfriends DID deserve it. Isolde was never used for Noble gameplay lol

[@pk_tuneworld]

I mean sure, the card was abused, but it was definitely a really helpful card for pure, OG NK. Getting all the equips in grave so you can equip them immediately + resourcing out whatever NK monster you needed. Borz is only so good on its own + even with the massive card pool the archetype has, the deck is surprisingly awful at getting to something as simple as Medraut + Equip

[@SuzakuMurkrow198]

I'm starting to see you everywhere Blaze, I would also like to request more Noble Knights support

[@AngelWardVT]

This was really good video. Honestly you perfectly encapsulated all the things i love that makes me build a deck, from themes to art to lore. All things that make me love yugioh.

[@gigagines]

It's not just about winning, but winning WITH YOUR FAVORITE. There's this quote from a Pokemon game that stuck with me and I think it applies to how I play Yugioh as well. I'm paraphrasing as I dont remember the exact quote.

[@MadParrot88]

I gotcha fam "Strong Pokémon. Weak Pokémon. That is only the selfish perception of people. Truly skilled Trainers should try to win with the Pokémon they love best." - Karen

[@Spleenpuncher8]

Make the win that much more savory

[@easiestcc6451]

True honestly. Flower Cardians may not be great, but DAMN IT I love playing them because it's super simple to play to the point where a literal chicken could be trained to play it and sometimes win.

[@lukeellis758]

I was always a red eyes guy, but recently I've been using cyber dragon and have been having SOOOOOO much fun, drawing powerbond with the materials for cyber end dragon is one of my favourite feelings

[@dantekirenryu980]

It’s the same feeling with me when I got Maze of Memory and I saw how the Gate Guardian cards got revamp. I immediately love them for how creative they are with their effect to be placed in the S&T

[@tylerdurden8270]

I also love how creative it is like if your Gate Guardians combined was to go down you can special summon a gate guardian fusion from the extra deck and if that would go down you can bring back one of the materials that was banished onto the field. Almost like if your Gate Guardian was to be destroyed a piece of it will sacrifice itself for the other(s) to stay on board.

[@kagachi3779]

Sometimes I like blending archetypes and creating my own stories and themes. My main deck is primarily a Red-Eyes/Buster Blader hybrid, but also has things like silent swordsman, dark rebellion xyz, fallen of albaz, black luster envoy of beginning, etc. sprinkled in. The theme I went for was "an order of dragonslayers allying with like a family of dark dragons." and just built around that theme primarily, with my extra deck bosses being the result of such an alliance, like red-eyes slash or dragoon. My best friend was mainly playing blue-eyes at the time, and I just naturally gravitate toward fantasy themes like warriors, spellcasters and dragons, so it was like- these two factions had a common enemy in the form of blue-eyes. It's my main cuz it's alot of fun to play. Even when I fail to bring out dragoon, I still have options to go into, and it's even gotten me to platinum recently on master duel

[@Kojir0555]

Kinda wanna see more PUNK lore cards in term of their world. Like a scenery or interaction between the monsters (other than the current spell we already have). Psychedelic Cyberpunk scene like that of Cyberpunk 2077 Japan town zone specifically.

[@pk_tuneworld]

Lowkey hoping for this too. The art is undeniably hella nice + as stated in the video, the references to parts of Japanese art are pretty neat. Nonetheless, would be nice to see some in-archetype lore beyond just this.

[@cooptionalxb1]

The archetype that brought me back into playing Yu-Gi-Oh is without shadow of a doubt the Evilswarm archetype. From the creepy but cool art, to the playstyle, to using a mechanic that was new to me at the time (Xyz Summoning), it was perfect. I'd like to learn its lore if any, but Evilswarm will always be one of my favorites, along the likes of Frightfurs, Satellarknights, Constellars, Heralds, and Galaxy Eyes.

[@M1A2C.]

Kashtira is my favorite archetype for all the reasons mentioned in the video, it's playstyle is really fun and also very strong, the playstyle of Kashtira is you invading and colonizing an alien planet, you start by deploying one of the Kashtira generals (Unicorn, Fenrir or Ogre) who scout the world and facilitate the arrival of the Death Star-like Kashtira Shangri-Ira, who's zone lock effect is in reference to it making the planet literally uninhabitable for its native life. Shangri-Ira lets you further extend your conquest by easliy bringing out the other Kashtira generals and (when he's not banned) the Leader of the Kashtira; Kashtira Arise-Heart. Its art is amazing (especially Arise-Heart) and unique and the lore is also pretty cool. I know people hate on Kashtira because it's powerful but i love it regardless and hope Arise-Heart comes back at least limited (for now i play Kash in MD where we still have Arise-Heart at 3).

[@Dinosaurman34]

I enjoy playing Monarchs. There an old bricky and slow deck but I love the design, lord and playstyle. Rather unique deck that takes advantage of not having an extra deck to lock the opponent out of theirs and since it’s a tribute deck it locks your opponent out of using effects of non tributed monsters. As a control player it’s one of my favourite decks despite its flaws. Though I do have DDD and dinosaurs that I play at locals over it.

[@g.sergiusfidenas6650]

Lore? You mean there's lore behind those weird birds, Lyrilusc, that I enjoy crashing against my opponent's monsters and in-universe reasons why one of them can morph into Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS - Sky Thunder?

[@imposifle9792]

Lyrilusc specifically, like most anime archetypes is a no Zeus however, it makes total sense. It’s a “final weapon”. It’s summoned after conflict (battle phase) has taken place

[@Deathmare235]

@@imposifle9792over anything though?

[@Kintaku]

Your take on Labryrinth is basically the same as mine. I love the art and appreciate what the deck does outside of the blowout traps but I just don’t enjoy piloting it most of the time.

[@williamtakeda]

i ´play it online and tcg, and man, playing irl labrynth drain my brains out in no time lol

[@Kintaku]

@@williamtakeda lol I totally get it. The funny thing is I’m a big fan of control decks like Runick Fur Hire, Zombie Eldlich (minus floodgates except ZW), Vanquish Soul, etc. so I really don’t get why I dislike playing Lab. I just don’t find it fun

[@timtam2400]

"Stereotypical waifu bait". 😂

[@kashira-0]

I don't see how Raye is stereotypical waifu bait. She's a god-send for the rarity that is anime girls in badass full-body armor suits, and there isn't some sort of weird self-insert dude in her manga they want you to ship her with. She's written pretty conservatively. OP is tripping lol

[@abhabh6896]

They are still nothing compared to the Blue Eyes White Dragon who is the best yugioh waifu!

[@TarosTheVoid]

​@@kashira-0she is pretty boring tho, but then again I am a huge hater against the playstyle of the deck

[@TarosTheVoid]

​@@abhabh6896you are a real one

[@wario1226]

I love it because yu-gi-oh is the hyperfixation of hyperfixations. Do you have an abnormal love for ____? There's a deck for that! If you know the rules and like the game, there is an archetype for literally anyone. It's a beautiful thing, really, to have such a sandbox exist within our otherwise rigid card game.

[@pk_tuneworld]

Yeah, honestly! I can’t think of any other card game like it. Even if I do really love the Pokemon and One Piece fandoms + those specific card games. There’s so many random decks you can try

[@AdamWholfer]

I just made a pure fire king deck and all i keep on getting are brick hands, i think is a sign

[@Kewaaaaa]

I’m so happy that my preferences just so happen to be fire decks, Dinos, normal summon spam, and dragons

[@DirtCheapFU]

I play War Rock for it's implied lore. It reminds me of an old cartoon that I can't remember the name of it. I'm curious of how the story grows with Fortia glowing up into Meteoragon. What happened to his friends, Gactos and Wento. Or the big sis, Skyler. Or his big bros, Mammud and Orpis. Why was Meteoragon fighting a bearded Bashileos in the artwork of Generations? How much time has passed since the events depicted in War Rock Ordeal? But the biggest question and mystery, what was the fire beast that they fought(Ordeal) and was it through that thing, Fortia was able to find his new Dignity through the Medium of fire? Seriously, there's a story there with no story 'there'.

[@saintxie6730]

I highly suggest you make archetypal lore videos, if anything I'd honestly love to see it.

[@kylestephan9340]

Im a ghostrick enjoyer. Wish i had an anime lol.

[@Realdeal958]

One day we will have our support.

[@pk_tuneworld]

Played this deck during high school. Wasn't great into Duelist Alliance format, but I would at least get a kick out of things when I would resolve Ghostrick Scare to flip down a board of BA's. I don't know how Konami can fix the archetype without pulling a Superheavy Samurai moment and printing a whole new broken wave of support. At the very least, an anime would be stellar!

[@JR-gh5gc]

I'm not sure if I can agree with you on your assessment of playstyle. Salamangreat's deck mechanic revolves around the concept of reincarnation(or tansmigration, to be more exact). The monsters are thought as switching forms, gaining advantages during the process. They even have cards that lets you link summon using only one card with the same name. Not that I have a problem with you not favoring the archetype, It just that 'wolf, gazel, set' sounds like a huge understatement for such an unique deck.

[@StarryNightLover]

I really love some of the anime decks like resonator's, galaxy eyes, heroes etc. btw your videos are soo good hope you get more subs ;)

[@dustyfedora]

I play Darklords because I brought an absolute stinker of a deck that was a poorly made pile of cards to a local game store’s tournament where I bought a box of Destiny Soldiers and fell in love with both the art and playstyle. I’m still praying for more in archetype support to be made for the deck.

[@STEPHxCA]

Magical Musketeers + Runick sounds fun

[@NotAbot1011]

It's pretty ok, especially if you splash a dpe verte engine

[@arthurdias6860]

And the idea of some gunslingers using ancient runes along with demonic magic to make them a bigger shot is very cool

[@NomadxElliot]

Dang, I came here to take notes on what I didn't want on my deck. This ended up being a video essay of finding your heart in the cards. I just main Red Eyes Black Dragon because I think it's cool.

[@JohanLucain]

gears and neuron noises were on point!!!🤣🤣

[@Ruby_Mullz]

I like snake eyes, no not because it’s tier 0, but for the reasons u said. Putting cards in the back row is cool, it’s crystal beast but good. The artwork is cool, I like snakes and um, there’s no way to say I like Diabellestar without being a degenerate, but I do like the lore about her stealing the sinful spoils. I even grinder to get a royal copy in MD, getting it from packs for free from festival gems on my 5th set of 10. Basically, all I’m trying to say is if there’s gotta be only one deck to play this meta, at least I genuinely like it.

[@kashira-0]

"There's no way to say I like Diabellstar without being a degenerate" Comments like these never existed for previous lore saga MCs, but now liking the protagonist is suddenly degenerate because it's a girl this time. We truly live in a society. :')

[@Ruby_Mullz]

@@kashira-0 lmao never heard a more true statement in current year.

[@maximilianwonschik1304]

Bro this guy is a professional yapper tbh

[@distractedgaming4526]

I just seem to like decks that have weird column based gameplay. My favorite deck of all time, is Vaylantz. A deck that is supposed to be a tabletop strategy RTS kind of thing. You use the pendulum zones as "Spawn points" for your units, and can move them from the spawn point onto the battlefield, then have other cards and effects to move them around to allow bigger monsters to "spawn." You then have their fields that allow you to pull a monster from your spell and trap zone onto the field, or as long as you have a monster in the same column, push an opponents effect monster into their spell and trap zone. (These fields are also turn dependant, so your opponent can use them on their turn too.) We have a fusion monster that you can summon by sacrificing 2 level 5 or higher Vaylantz monsters, OR just ONE lv 5 or higher Vaylants monster that is in the same column as the extra monster zone. The deck itself isn't that great, and can be shut down in so many different ways. (If you block even one of my pendulum zones, I'm done. A single ash can ruin my day. Only one 1 card starter in the deck, and even that is very fragile.) But god DAMN is it fun to move things around on the battlefield. A deck that I've been learning lately is Vanquish Soul, which while not as crazy fun gameplay wise as Vaylantz, still has some of that fun column based stuff with Razen and Pantera. Nothing feels better than popping an extra deck monster and another monster behind it with Razen's effect.

[@timfaulkner5010]

Yesss fellow Vaylantz enjoyer ❤ It really is so satisfying to move the pieces around and really think about placements and order etc. The deck really could do with some more support, but there’s been a couple nice non-archetype boosts to it recently with Pendulum Witch (searches Shinonome, and bridges into most cards with small world), and Varudras (rank 10 omni negate, can make somewhat easily with two Genesis grand dukes)

[@four-en-tee]

>"who cares about what the art looks like as long as I'm winning" To whoever said this to you: Most of the community avoids Traptrix like its the plague specifically for this reason (even though Pinguicula is a stupidly good XYZ monster, i'm personally running it in Exosisters for additional GY control because its effectively DD Crow on a body and can interrupt GY lines). The art does matter objectively to an extent because it can completely turn a massive amount of people off from an archetype. But you're right: it is mostly subjective taste. I can't even bring myself to try Mannadium because the art is just a bunch of balls, the lore be damned. The archetype just doesn't look very interesting aside from it being able to support Scareclaw decks.

[@thedigitaldummy3098]

They just got filtered, Traptrix art is peak

[@kotkafer2292]

"Most of the community" meanwhile Sera literally won the MD sleeve vote in Asia

[@HighLanderPonyYT]

I'm new to actually learning YGO. The MD solo mode lore and decks have been great fun. Figuring out them out and learning core mechanics through them. Gladiator beasts were a highlight but there's still a ton to go.

[@kaisermaximal8123]

My head canon is that the exosisters are just the card game equivalent of "Charlie's Angels"

[@djharris10]

I run dragunity, honestly my lore with it is that they’re a holy army of warriors who have dragons as both weapons and trusted allies, rushing in to destroy their enemy, and banish the heretics, then the bystial dragons come out to play when the dragunities need backup

[@christiansamaroo]

I always play decks I enjoy

[@Cryptic265]

Curious? What deck do you play? I play Galaxy eyes.

[@cesarokada4229]

As a MD player, this video is a nice refresher. I kinda love both gameplay styles and lore. I know people don't like ritual decks, but i have one that i keep as my favorite (both tells a story with the cards and the gameplay is interesting): Libromancer. This deck makes you feel like you're reading a full-blown superhero comic, with a rookie boy growing up to become a awesome superhero (including some power of friendship cliché lol) To end this topic, i feel captivated about the art, which reinforces the comic aesthetic. About the lore, the World Legacy left me wordless. That's my favorite lore from all the other decks (I wish to, one day, build a World Legacy deck). However, another one that caught my attention was the Shiranui + Mayakashi (That one was my first complete deck on MD) On the other side, i play more because of the gameplay. Althrough i agree some decks doesn't feel fun to play (both with and against), the playstyle is one of the core parts of the card game that keeps me always interested to play Yu-Gi-Oh. Synchro stays as my favorite mechanic (I have a RDA structure IRL), but i'm always up to try the other ones. Sorry about the long text, but i really wanted to tell my experience inside this "Children's card game" And to close my comment: Awesome vid, keep it up!

[@TheUltraKekster]

I just collect cards tbh 😂

[@meganwhitcomb6577]

This ain’t no Pokémon gang get him

[@TheUltraKekster]

@@meganwhitcomb6577 I play them too ofc lol

[@loxul2239]

My favorite archetype is HEROES. Just love the art style and simplicity to them. Plus, the many sub-archetypes within. From Omni-Heroes, Masked Heroes, Neo-Spacians, D-Heroes, Evil Heroes... so many ways to play them!

[@GiafyViews]

BRUH THE FIRST CARD IN YOUR THUMBNAIL IS NIGHTCHASER HOW DARE YOU OFFEND S-FORCES I'M ALWAYS JAMMING SOME RAPPA CHIYOMARU IN MY NON OTS LOCALS HLW DARE YOU MAKE FUN OF MY GIRL

[@pk_tuneworld]

Ay, but the art works so well for the color palette of the thumbnail :(

[@GiafyViews]

@@pk_tuneworld art was also a great factor in me choosing to actually spend money for that dogshit deck

[@xmv19]

For me personally 90% of the time i play machine decks only, Sky striker Drytrons(no herald bs) cyber dragons ancient gear Earth machine deskbots etc basically any deck i can run My favorite OG card of all time Limiter removal on

[@vincentlo8693]

Nice video! I’m always fascinated by random comments sharing how a deck plays and how it complements the archetype’s lore. I really hope they make a lore anime. It feels like there’s a lot of potential there.

[@thecursed_1lordofcats738]

You wound me! Stun isn't a sin, i just have fun telling my friends no whenever they try to do anything. On the other hand, I find it equally satisfying playing Mikanko featuring Pheonix Gearfried and Mahama the Fairy Dragon.

[@NotAbot1011]

I agree with the community post, this is absolutely up there in your videos. I'm so excited for the new light fiend support. Magical musket best deck!!

[@pk_tuneworld]

Thank you for the continual support, NotABot101! Just gotta see how I can top this one.... And yeah, definitely looking at Muskets again now that the new fiend support is on its way. The game looking a little more interesting with the new list + all these cool cards coming out.

[@TheRamblemanWhoSings]

9:05 it's interesting how I know a decent amount of people who at one point built nekroz, including me

[@sendark]

I dont even play ygo irl, or even master duel or duel sims bc my favourite archetype is literally odd eyes

[@DavidEllner]

I still remember early 2010’s when gimmick puppet came out I loved it so much and played it long after, the unique aspect of rank up cards and cool artwork was amazing. Then fast forward odd eyes became such a great deck, so many effects of big dragons trying to manage burn effects and managing resources if a scale came off was always great challenge plus the ability to fusion out unique monsters or choose to overlay was great. But my favorite OG deck I ever made was synchro monarchs, it was the first time when I was a kid I was actually being competitive. The only summoning condition I didn’t go crazy for was links, the only deck I really focus on it is with my visas scareclaw. But that is what makes this game so amazing, through the years so many mechanics and you will never get tired of making something new.

[@5mm]

10:46 MY GLORIOUS QUEEN! Madolches are my absolute favorite archetype I'm hoping masterduel adds the new cards soon. Just started playing again after like 12 years and have had insane luck with my Madolche x Vernusylph deck. So much fun to make people quit lol

[@duyknguyen]

This is Single Best Reason to play Yugioh!! (No matter how dull Modern Yugioh is). No single TCG in the world allows you to play literrally "anything in the world" from Decking Out- Runick, Burn- Volcanic, Exodia, OTK Dragons, Stun, Trap Control Labrynth, Ninja- stealthy facedown, Magical Musket/Mekk Knight Columns, Crystalized monster Crystal Beast, Dice... (hope Konami will support them in the future) 🎉 When it comes to "FUN", weak decks can also be super enjoyable

[@box_cardboard]

recently picked up unchained because i thought the big dog was badass, then i realized that the entire gimmick of the monsters destroying and "unchaining" themselves is so ridiculously cool. beyond that, my pet deck is sharks because they're just cool ass mechanical sharks, the boss monsters literally eat other monsters and kragen swarms the field with its spawns. when art and playstyle both align it's just such a cool feeling.

[@MattyP0313]

That's why I like Albaz so much, the art and story within the cards is what makes it my favorite

[@EnergyBurst2]

If you had asked me what types of decks I like I wouldn't have known how to answer, like if you asked why I liked toons I wouldn't have had a definitive confident answer, but last week I saw some MD vids about watts and after watching how they played realizing that I kinda wanted to try watts, in that moment I realized that the kinds of decks I like are probably those that can direct attack, or effectively ignore monsters on my opponents board, which looking back on it explains why I really liked the card Raging Flame Sprite as a kid.

[@natsukumo6280]

There has been no greater feeling than summoning a 0 attack ball in defense mode and passing in style. Man i love hieratic and bricking to high heaven.

[@brasheasily4348]

This is the most awesome video I’ve seen on KZbin in my entire life. Great stuff and you earned this sub

[@Agertar]

The Reverse:1999 appearance was a surprise to me lol. Anyways, great video!

[@pk_tuneworld]

You play it? I really love the aesthetic and the storyline (even though I struggle to understand it at times). Last I played was when 37 came out - got distracted by personal stuff followed by a ton of new game releases elsewhere.

[@Agertar]

@pk_tuneworld Yeah, funnily enough I started playing when 37 came out, but yeah the aesthetician is absolutely beautiful, and the translation,at least from what I've heard of what it used to be, is much better and only has a few straggler typos.

[@shilvor]

This video is on point with why I build my 2 favorites decks in MD: U.A and Trains. For U.A it's all the points: You're the coach of a team, you replace your players, make contract to get star players, give them directions and go for the win! it have lore, the art stick to that fantasy of augmented champions, the gameplay feels like you're playing a management game,... For trains, I play pure and infinitracks mix. Infinitrack is purely because as an engineer, i like big machinery, and the cards are cool. For trains, it just feel so good to play urgent schedule, so my trains arrive faster, having my crane train removing obstacles on the tracks, letting the place for more rails, and then gustav and the big train come CHOU-CHOU Both of these are absolutely not meta, sometimes bricky, but I like playing them just for the fun of it. My other favorite is a bit more meta and it's traptrix. I don't really like the artstyle though, I just really like gameplay around traps, and the sometimes "I don't read cards" opponent that try to infinite impermanence my monsters (when most of the extra deck traptrix are immune to trap cards). There's a lot of reason to play a deck, for me the most important is fun. That's why snake-eyes, tearlaments and to a certain degree swordsoul are not my types, I feel like playing the same combos over and over. But to each their own!

[@randomuser4486]

That might be the most calming video I've watched this year. Idk why, but it's so peaceful

[@pk_tuneworld]

That's the vibe I strive for! The type of content that's casual enough to make you feel relaxed but still relevant to be worth watching!

[@Armament0fJustice]

I have a love/hate relationship with the game.... I love how deep it gets in some playstyles, and I prefer combo decks that rely on multiple pieces in order to make a boss. I like the idea of smaller and weaker gears banding together to make an unstoppable machine. One of my friends preferred a strategy where simple plays would be made to adapt on the fly, not really wanting to construct the deck in service of speeding to the win condition. Another of my friends played themes that looked cool. I would spend hours learning and lots of money for decks I liked. The game has a wide variety to suit many people's tastes. The problem is how compatible those decks are against each other. I never went to tournaments because the decks I liked were either too expensive for me to build, or not tuned enough to compete. I'm also very introverted and large groups make me anxious. The decks my friends built were either less solid to the point I would steamroll them, or would only answer my abilities in certain ways that I could bounce back from. I liked combo a lot because I could be challenged in a way to find a big boss at the end of smaller things coming together. "This is the culmination of years of training, all the little lessons led to this", was how I liked it. My best friend didn't really like sitting there to watch it come together and didn't care to understand what could lead to what or have a plan to stop it. My other friend liked to see the potential play out, but the potential usually came to a boss that could stop him from reaching his. I don't enjoy a game when someone isn't enjoying it with me, so I would weaken my strategies or make it inconsistent enough for me to not even enjoy my own builds. Yugioh is too vast in its options of playability because the options are not balanced. Now, I only get cards for collections because I still like the art and lore. This isn't even the only problem I have with it though... Komoney is massively mismanaging how to obtain cards. I've transitioned to Cardfight as my favorite card game. While the company running it is bad at making cards accessible, the games are generally pretty balanced, last more than a few turns, and have a lot of interaction.

[@philithegamer8265]

Why do you say Cardfiggt Vanguard is a very balanced game that has alot of interaction?

[@ggwp638BC]

The 3 a.m intrusive Yugioh thoughts is very real, and it's how I ended up with my Arcana deck. It's not great, not even good really, but it's a fun deck that can recycle a lot of material and it just feels like every turn you are playing a puzzle - the challenge is the opponent's board, and the solution is something to do with whatever pieces you have on your hand. Surely, putting Queen's Knight, King's Knight and Jack's Knight on the field is a usual start, but not always, and the deck can work surprisingly well when you have only two of these, of even just Joker and Jack. And from them you have no real limitations, just an extra deck full of Rank 4 and 5 former generic staples from previous formats (and Divine Arsenal Zeus because it's good to win sometimes), which aren't all ideal, but they are still powerful in their own right and if played correctly can absolutely turn the game in your favor. The deck can OTK, it has removal with Zeus, Constellar Pleiades, Exciton, Black Luster Soldier and Honor ARK, it doesn't have omninegates on demand but it does have some target protection with the Arcana Fusion and Link Monsters (and Apol as a last resort), it has battle phase options with Utopia and Excalibur, and from time to time I even get lucky and manage to bring out a Slifer onto the field. The deck has very short combos, which helps keeping my sanity, it's very malleable, and feels fresh every duel and match up. All things I love in a deck (which would be surprising considered I came from link dragons).