DON'T WANT TO BUY BONFIRE? HOW ABOUT AN ENTIRE DECK INSTEAD?

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[@MrChillaxin2010]

I still think we need a Twitter thread about chase commons and rares as a reminder that not all chase cards are Secret/Ultra rare.

[@ungulatemanalpha]

700 posts of pankratops and called by the grave because those are the only ones ever

[@TheForeverRanger]

@@ungulatemanalpha Vanity's and Fiendish Chain but that was after people realized they were good. Vanity also suffered because it was a card from Starstrike Blast.

[@MrChillaxin2010]

@@ungulatemanalpha There's also Parallel Exceed, Scrap Raptor, The Dragon Rulers, Sunlight Wolf for Salad, Gravity Controller, Vanity's, the Barrier Statues, Appointer of the Red Lotus, Lost Wind, Pot of Greed was a rare in the first set of the game. Amazing how many great meta cards were common/rare.

[@kamenridersliv555]

Gen and Ken is 100% the most notorious example in recent times.

[@MrChillaxin2010]

@@kamenridersliv555 Thank you, forgot about them. Cross-Sheep is another as well as Trap Dustshoot. And I wouldn't call this chase or meta, Baobaboon saw some experimentation when it came out.

[@FaolanKitekaze]

Swordsoul is still probably the best new player deck to invest in due to price point, relative competitiveness and being a pretty easy deck to learn. It was my first toe in the water for modern decks along with branded

[@kalamander8563]

I stand by Swordsoul and Floo being the best budget entry points for competitive Yugioh

[@FaolanKitekaze]

@@kalamander8563 agreed, except eff those commie birds and their "our turn" style of play 😆

[@That_Daily_noko]

@@FaolanKitekaze I used to play Floow but I hate that Empen is a floodgate and I feel bad playing floodgates

[@FaolanKitekaze]

@@That_Daily_noko same reason I never played the gimmick puppet lock in branded. Did calamity lock a poor soul in MD though with bystial Resonator once, but I felt bad after winning

[@kalamander8563]

@FaolanKitekaze same. I Hate the deck, but I respect it. The deck, not the players.

[@jonahbyers6183]

Awwwww the MatPat reference at the beginning 😢

[@tyranitararmaldo]

Just an opening idea. In the UK, the Show "Faulty Towers" always had the sign outside being messed with and re-arranged. Perfect for it to instead be changed to MBT...just saying.

[@GirlNotControlledByAntss]

YES

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

Fawlty

[@GirlNotControlledByAntss]

@@nicholasfarrell5981 "always had the sign outside being messed with and re-arranged"

[@maxinesenior596]

I bought a budget version of Fire King, Tri Brigade, for about the cost of 1 copy of Bonfire. It's ridiculous.

[@randomprotag9329]

the real comparison to make bonfire look even worse is pokemon, its likely possible to build multiple pokemon decks for a single bonfire with out needing to have shared staples.

[@DrAiPatch]

Same with digimon for 130 I think you can build the top two meta decks in the game.

[@semenslayer_]

@@DrAiPatchi feel like all of three ppl play digimon so the decks should not be above $100…

[@AoyagiMei]

fr, every ygo player needs to look at meta pokemon decks and their prices once in their life.

[@honorableintent]

Unironically get into Ghoti. Inexpensive, and in February, we get the new fish support which will bring the deck up to a previously unseen level of playability.

[@alexandrubragari1537]

Shhh dont tell em

[@mysticfrace568]

@@alexandrubragari1537 Who taught the fish how to synchro summon???

[@maddinlicious]

As I came back to yugi I build a deck for my gf and it was ice barrier. Experimented with ghoti and fish and water in general. They laughed. Now our time has come!

[@the_sid]

This opening hits all kinds of different now…

[@agoodname6997]

Too soon imo

[@shadowfan115]

@@agoodname6997 agreed MBT needs to have more class that was insensitive

[@bingingwithbabishisamazing4034]

@@agoodname6997 not like matpat wasnt a shit dude, spoken as someone who grew up on his videos

[@christiangarza8122]

Guys, it’s a casual honoring thing. Let him be

[@OsirusHandle]

lmao what did he do. always drama somewhere on youtube

[@Gurrenlagann153]

For anyone wondering, I looked it up. The spell card in the Zoodiac list is full armored xyz.

[@cyke47]

Spell card? Full armored xyz?

[@PrototypePlatform]

joseph on drytron: "pretty minimal banlist hits" it got hit, independently, 3 times, losing Eva, herald or orange light, benten, and union carrier, along with many other hits for other decks later on like halq, o-lion, aroradon, etc.

[@frig7014]

it now has 3 bentens and 3 orange lights (if you really wanna play them), so now as it stands its only hits are not having eva & union carrier, and since most drytron players have pivoted to different win conditions (chaos max & amorphactor) the eva ban is meaningless. Also orange light was hit for tear not drytron.

[@thestormtrooperwhocanaim496]

Yeah but tbf, those were extenders out of archetype. It got hit then later unbanned most of its core. The rest is icing after its long bout at the top cuts. The only thing stopping it from hitting top 64 ycs is confidence to push through bystials and side deck. Especially with everyone deciding to put in dd crows and ghost belles. Like virtual world i think it has a shot.

[@reservationatdorsias3215]

I would rather play Herald turbo than any of the current Drytron variations. They are a snoozefest.

[@AL-ry5ly]

Branded Chimera can be built for under $130, with basically all of the money being in Guardian Chimera exactly.

[@CTKnoll]

Thank you Dire for the actual market price checks! Between this and the AI play examples some above and beyond work!

[@elijahbuscho7715]

As a volcanic player I was super hyped for bonfire to come out.

[@veryfrozen3271]

Ain't nobody care about us 😂😢 Been playing volcanics since before the support back when lose1turn was so amazing.

[@matthewradabaugh1635]

Was

[@invertbrid]

Was hyped too but not anymore with th price tag xD

[@spicymemes7458]

Me too, but we can do without. Not worth spending money on something stupid to prove how committed you are

[@williamfalls]

100% sure the price will drop in about a month of TCG release. Only like 2 deck types would run it and they'd be considered rogue at best. Still sounds like a lot more fun decks than the meta decks, but meta doesn't want you to play and another ROTA for a less supported monster type isn't gonna make it meta in a single set.

[@pickyphysicsstudent201]

It's crazy to me how a single staple (for Pyro) is priced above 2 AAA games. Imagine choosing between Zelda TotK & Baulder's Gate 3 or a single card.

[@maxinesenior596]

heckin Elden Ring and Starfield for the price of 1 card.

[@Lyricaon]

And imagine you need two more after that 🙃

[@Druid-T]

The fact that you can get all six mainline Ace Attorney games *and* the Great Ace Attorney duo for roughly the same price as a _single_ bonfire, Really just illustrates how absurd its price point is

[@yunogasai5479]

Earth Machine is a deck that can be buy for less than a bonfire i think , most of the cards ( except harvester and anchor drill ) are cheap as hell and the deck is kinda pretty good even it's not that competitive ;D

[@landb3607]

It top 8’d a remote regional this month, so that’s something

[@Bricktor]

20 minute turns for an endboard that's fucking nothing

[@otterfire4712]

Machines, in general, are fairly budgetable. I'm on Machina/Symphonic Warrior, a neat matchup of archetypes.

[@handlethesenutz]

​@@Bricktor you put some respect on juggernaut liebes name

[@BanditTools]

@@BricktorThis is the big turn off for me. I played it on MD and spinning your wheels forever for 2 pieces of disruption is unfun imo. Might aswell play combo, your turn will be the same length but you win games on the spot if your combo resolves.

[@gailengigabyte6221]

I really appreciate the recommendations for players on a budget (like me), but I think this shows the serious issue of how broken and dated the current rarity system is in the TCG. If a single generic support card costs twice that of a AAA title, there's something seriously wrong with the game's accessibility as a whole.

[@dudono1744]

Bonfire is literally ROTA for a bad type, it could have come out years ago and nobody would have cared.

[@ThunderflySc2]

People like to forget when mechanicalchaser was $200? The game actually has gotten better in accesibility. Still an issue tho

[@AoyagiMei]

@@ThunderflySc2 $200 should not be the bar for this kind of thing, just because it was once upon a time.

[@ThunderflySc2]

@@AoyagiMei please read my comment again.

[@UncleJrueForTue]

​@@ThunderflySc2 Too late, your comment was not immediately "I agree" so you're now corpo scum by internet rules. Jokes aside, as someone who's been playing in tournaments and regionals since 2011 when I was a dumb broke middle schooler, I'm just happy we've made some progress.

[@JetZV]

You can buy a playset of every single Crusadia card for under 10 dollars at market price. Pair that with every single Kaiju card (minus Gameciel) being worth < 35 cents apiece thanks to structure deck reprints and you can make a pretty solid Crusadia Kaiju deck with a TON of money left over for extra deck pickups.

[@kindlingking]

Yeah, but then you're playing Crusadia

[@stonalisa3729]

Crusaida in 2024 yugioh is not winning many games

[@Meme-pg5tw]

For this one i said mikanko The deck has 6 cards that arent pennies and everything that was expensive got reprinted in rarity collection

[@Thekulprit92]

I hate mikanko, ill have to buy it 😆

[@braveravier2565]

Already looking forward to the structure deck reprint of Bonfire in 4 years

[@jayd.doubledubs]

We making it out of a the fiery pits of bankruptcy with this one! Fantastic editing, dire!

[@spicymemes7458]

Don't be dumb with your money

[@chaos_magician6689]

Something with Lyrilusc is my call. All the Lyrilusc cards are under $1 and they can be splashed into other decks.

[@frig7014]

lyrilusc fire king is surprisingly competent

[@maestrotritone5975]

It's still unfortunate that budget nowadays is around $100. That's still feels too much to ask for.

[@kichiroumitsurugi4363]

Considering you usually change decks every few months only, 100 dollars or so isn't a hard ask

[@MaliEndz]

Spend $100 and the deck survives multiple formats? Thats extremely good compared to a $70 video game you beat in 3 days and never touch again

[@maestrotritone5975]

@MaliEndz are you gonna buy a deck and play it for 3 days and never again? That's not a fair comparison if you use a single player game and compare to a multi-player card game. It has to be a multi-player game with competition like a fighting game or a MOBA or some other type. Which those games can be anywhere from Free to maybe $60-70, assuming you already own the console, which can gives you free access to everything the game has to offer. Where yugioh struggles is that if you dont have access to everything because they are all stuck behind multiple paywalls. If I'm playing Ryu in street fighter but want to play Guile or Dhalsim I can pmay them for no extra charge since i already own the game. But say if you spend X amount if money on let's say a Tearlament deck but then decide later you want to play Rescue ACE, you have to spend more money to get the cards. The only thing that stays constant are potential staple cards that can fit into multiple decks.

[@MaliEndz]

@@maestrotritone5975 it is a fair comparison. You are saying that $100 is still asking for alot on a deck when alot of these budget decks last months if not years until they see any hits if ever compared to other hobbies where you spend the money for a couple hours of enjoyment. MW3 being a great example of a $70 activity for a 3 hr campaign and a multiplayer you will give up shortly after

[@maestrotritone5975]

@MaliEndz Are you gonna spend $100 on a yugioh deck and give up on it shortly after? Or are you gonna be long term with it? Because if you wanna make comparisons you have to use the same setting for it to be fair. Playing yugioh over the course of months or years is not the same as playing a game for 3 days and never again.

[@Abyssfullofgoats]

As someone who's played against Leah's Virtual Worlds multiple times at locals, I can confirm in the right hands it's utterly terrifying. Don't sleep on the deck.

[@TrueBlueMcgoo]

The problem with listing decks like Dinomorphia and Labrynth is that Transaction Rollback is out this set. And it's presale is around $90 USD.

[@MrDegan2]

to hear that Ritual Beasts are apparently good in the OCG with the new support warms my heart, might even get me to pop to a locals when we get them over here since I still have the complete core since day one

[@Angel-qs6if]

Huh noone mentioned P.U.N.K or more specifically the Therion version of it? After the 2 Reprint waves its dirt cheap to pick up and Resonably powerful.

[@lilsunny7399]

while I am spending money on Fire King (already got everything pre-maze) I'm also looking sideways at other cheaper decks. A UK website had a playset of every single earthbound card including the reprints for £9.99 which i bought. Meanwhile a runick core is somewhere in the ballpark of £50-60 mostly because of tip and sleipnir. But that's still like at most £70

[@traitorousturncoat667]

Between this and Little Knight, there's been a lot of discussion about the absurd prices of some cards recently, but I don't see how that ends up translating into actual progress, sadly. The competitive players will pay what they have to, and if people are buying it at that price, it'll stay at that price.

[@nightwish7074]

Traptrix costs like $75 and some pocket lint, has some really good matchups, and can even main deck Anti-Spell. The Prosperity reprint made the full power version so much more accessible. Only problem is it takes more than two brain cells to pilot to success, so most will say it's bad.

[@frig7014]

Traptrix still has a massive going second problem since you are main decking so many traps that are conditional on your opponent summoning monsters, something they don't have to do on turn 3 to dismantle your entire board assuming they let you make one.

[@nightwish7074]

@@frig7014 You can say the same thing about loads of budget decks this format (irt having a problem playing into a board). If you're playing on a budget you're not gonna see the same level of success as people spending $1000 on a deck. That's okay, and literally the point of the video. They're certainly more worth discussing than Earthbounds or Megaliths.

[@frig7014]

@@nightwish7074 well some of these decks listed like drytron and virtual just have an infinitely easier time playing into a board. Traptrix *specifically* has a very hard time playing into a board if it didn't open a non engine board breaker because it only has 2 cards in its archetype that remove monsters already on the board (pudica when special summoned, and atypus) getting either of those two effects off requires being able to already get decently thru your combo. Compare this to drytron which can immediately contest something on the board by making anima, has sufficient board spamming capability to go into generic extra deck outs, and has natasha whichc an steal up to 3 monsters to use for even more link climbing & lethal pushes.

[@nightwish7074]

@@frig7014 Exosisters

[@UncleJrueForTue]

I got the $75.00, but I'm short on pocket lint. Got anything else?

[@level3xfactor]

This is really good to know that there are viable cheaper decks out there. Because listening to almost every YGO player/ content creator out there will make you think otherwise.

[@dpacula63]

Runick fur hire spright might be the fifth best deck post PHNI and without SP it’s cheaper than 1 bonfire.

[@nsreturn1365]

i call it the super fun variant, rn pure with d shifter loop and super poly is just better. Sadly i hate that version is so booring. But krystia solos basically this format. My fav still goes to adventurer frog version

[@swisschese1323]

Thank you for reminding me why I love MD, like yeah we probably not gonna get bonfire or even the fire king stuffs before the end of mankind but at least when it comes I can build the entire deck with (hopefully) less than 30$.

[@noahleach7690]

Then we queue up and lose to max c :)

[@tame1773]

Welp

[@user-gi3cj6rd4r]

Dinomorphia is a competent deck that cannot see competitive play cause of time rules

[@BigManWithNoRide]

Its topped multiple times, that meme isn't true anymore

[@xmangle5382]

is stalling for time a legit strat against dinomorphia?

[@uglyhippos]

I can see transaction rollback being good in that deck which is like a $40 card

[@humanoid251]

“Don’t buy Nemleria” Me, who just finished putting together the deck: too late Joseph 👉🏻😎👉🏻

[@ProphecyPhrase]

Mad shoutout to that one guy who mentioned Weather Painters. As someone who plays them IRL. Mad respect!

[@Ito1298]

I’m surprised ghoti didn’t make it into the video, as I saw people mention it in the thread. In fact, it got to buy the rest of the ghoti core, which aside from white aura whale (which I think you can play without) was very cheap. It’s one of my favorite decks I’ve played, when I first had it in MD. Even better, ghoti is getting new support in Phantom Nightmare.

[@blugger]

Probably because it's not competitive, even with the support :( It has a lifeline in the TCG via triple Crossout (can search Peces/Shef and the little lure dude) that'll keep you from getting fish-out-of-watered by a singular hand trap...but eh

[@lulzvg]

its prolly b/c the react to this one was borderline immediate

[@robertsemon1712]

Huge ups to Dire for editing in the price points for each viable suggestion

[@flyingeaglex6960]

I was able to make a Blackwing Kali yuga build on Tcgplayer for roughly around $70. It might not have the strong additions like dis pater, chaos angel, S:P but as long as you can summon kali it's pretty easy win. Handtraps can be changed however you like or are willing to buy/afford. The more synchro based versions of Blackwings are much more expensive as they like to run accel stardust/dis pater/chaos angel/bystials.

[@j.ksimmonsplaysmysticmine6656]

BRING BACK BROKE BOY YUGIOH!! SHOW THEM THE WAY

[@eugeneoxtord]

"Don't buy Nemuleria" WYM? This deck is so much fun! And it's pretty good fr

[@Swordhand1]

Sleepy girl mass banishing the opponent's stuff is so funny

[@ChampionMarx]

Literally fire kings. Just use dogmatika. Reject sin, embrace the light of Maximus

[@MichaelHansel-i3r]

I am so happy that someone brought up exosister. I've been topping consistently with it at locals for a couple weeks now and it has a pretty decent fire king matchup.

[@slayerrazaro8174]

Ye don't fire kings just play into any of the exosister gy effs?

[@MichaelHansel-i3r]

A lot of decks just end up playing in to it but exosister has really easy ways to remove all their resources with all the banishing and the ability to entirely lock down the gy too.

[@zephshoir]

2:50 the funger sfx chant caught me off guard 😂

[@AllThingsEntertaining]

Surprisingly, if you still insisted on playing Fire Kings this format, you could play Fire King Dogmatika. Every main deck card in there is pretty cheap with the exception of Imperms and a single copy of Maximus being anything over a dollar (barring the structure decks themselves). In the extra the most expensive cards are Garura, Linkuriboh, and Masq, and you can build a pretty competent side board with the most expensive cards for my build being Super Polys. if we were to work around TCGplayer's tax factor, the deck is $110.

[@maxinesenior596]

Tri Brigade is also pretty cheap, like $130.

[@Lyricaon]

I am not on X (only on Threads) so I can only comment here, but I am quite sure the entire Branded Chimera deck is under 130$ The Chimera cards are like 60-70$ with Guardien Chimera and Branded costs nothing. So you can spend the rest on non engine or if you have that allready on a second Guardien Chimera.

[@DreamManmns]

Springans never saw its time in the competitive lime light because it's a deck compromised entirely of 2 card combos that needs to open well to play through a single well placed handtrap and lacked a unique and unfair endboard payoff aside from cyberstein, which was something shs did better anyways. The deck also lacked room for more than like 9 non engine spots as well

[@nsreturn1365]

and it got its last support at a time full power tear izizu was a think XD. Its so sad cause its the xyz Archtype of the branded story but ehh. they where scared cause zeus prob.... Anyways goblin riders look excellent rn, will def be tiered after hits of snake eyes.

[@naggl3s]

Im surprised no one mentioned this, but you can normal summon Aleister for less than a bonfire. Shaddoll was known for quite a while as one of the best budget decks with its trap variant, which can be bought for like $20 due to its structure and the 2021 mega tins, but nearly all variations of the deck can be bought main, side, and extra for less than $100.

[@cancerstinks1]

Thank you Dire for posting the price. MASSIVE DIRE W

[@RamixTheRed]

MBT: "Why did this tier 0 deck that was probably the best deck for several consecutive format just become completely unplayable when one power card got banned?" Because the only reason anyone played those decks is they were tier 0 meta threats, no one actually liked playing with or against them so as soon as they stopped being the undisputed best pick people either migrated to decks they actually like or decks that do the same thing but are the new undisputed best at doing it

[@nsreturn1365]

the thing is, spright was or still is the closest thing we will ever get to modern BA, and as far as toolbox enjoyers goes, we have exactly 3 decks to play rn, Spright(s variants), Rank 3 axis goblins, and exosister( rank 4 toolbox). In my locals its still popular cause the people who play them like me really like them, elf ban hurst, and roninban is super bad but we just splash another rank2 thing in. Its just the classic meta hoe shit. trust me pre snake eyes diverse formats there where around 40 decks viable most people don't know about cause its buried in discord channels. then tier 0 hits and welp , no wonder people just don't care to experiment.

[@joanaguayoplanell4912]

My Crystal Beast deck is pretty budget friendly, the only expensive cards on it are Zeus, Talents and whenever I manage to find one SP (wich currently I do just fine without, Unicorn is just about as good 99% of the time. The only real reason I want to replace it is that SP doesn't mess up the Chidori locks).

[@halfmiss5633]

For anyone wondering, I'm a bit of a dumbdumb and went above 130 on the Zoodiac list bc I accidentally checked an OCG listing for Fenrir lmao. Cut 1 Fenrir and the TyPhon from the ED and you're riiiiiight at athat 130 mark tho :3

[@Bopnan]

Man, don't tell me about Springans. I''ve been building the deck but for some ungodly reason I can't find copies of Gigantic Champion Sargas and Exblowrer ANYWHERE in my country.

[@ddynamite3835]

Abc is also well under this budget if you run 1 rev synchron and 3 tuning

[@Yunglex313]

Respect to the man Matpat. So if you wanted to build Fire Kings, you can still build Fire Kings and run a small amount of Sinful Spoils techs and get same result of running the Sinful Spoils package...well not really, it ain't as consistent but if I was able to play Yugioh, and I wasn't paying for all that expensive ass card board, I would just run more of the Fire King Beast Warriors, 1 Coach King Wolfbark, 1 to 2 of Original Snake-Eyes, 1 to 2 Populus, One for One, and Infernal Flame Banshee to get to the Populus. I just said this on Distant Coder's video about the price of card board being too damn high, but I will say it again. It is crazy, how many people will pay so much money, to consistently summon a level 1 Fire Monster, when cards like One for One exist. I wish it were at 3.

[@frig7014]

You've identified the problem with that build, it is totally possible and I'm doing something similar, but with the good (expensive as shit) cards you can do all that with a minimum number of the beast-warrior fire kings and have all that juicy non engine room too.

[@reservationatdorsias3215]

Just throw in the Dogmatika engine.

[@TheNEPTY]

Marincess is the the most competitive here. It still tops YCSs and Regionals everywhere.

[@chrisburns9898]

Surprised no one said ddd. The core can easily be bought for under $40, and though the deck may be tough, and the deck is very weak to bystials/droll, the deck can be fairly powerful and resilient if you’re willing to be patient

[@nsreturn1365]

problem is everytime som ask for combos they get send a 40+ site spreadsheet. ...its like darksouls of Yu-Gi-Oh. You just torture yourself. Anyways iam playing synchrons since 12 years so for me that again is easy but ohter people want to die. So prob goes for som playing ddd for 8 years.

[@chrisburns9898]

@@nsreturn1365 honestly, I know it seems very daunting, but most of the combos resolve the same once boiled down into their simplest parts. Maybe my perception is a bit skewed cause I’ve had a fairly decent grasp on how the deck functions at most stages of its life since release. I wouldn’t say its combos are particularly difficult, just a bit more involved. Extra steps never hurt anyone, though I get why it’d turn people off. I guess we’re just relegated to unplayable hell for the time being 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@ShinerCCC]

Cheaper SP Little Knight is Pitknight Earlie. It has quick interaction with monsters and returns at the end of the turn to give you more arrows to pendulum summon to.

[@ikmyoo]

Appreciation comment for dire and that intro, and the intro's origins. MBT is here too.

[@GranMaj]

Swordsoul is honestly will always be a decent option. It has relatively minimal hits throughs its lifespan, and its still competent enough to snagging tops. Its the most a bang for your buck deck right now.

[@a_thunderous_hound]

the chimera core is like 60 dollars and will only get better with more illusion support. main deck 3 gazelle 3 mirror swordknight 3 quatl 2 berfomet 3 chimera fusion 3 branded fusion 2 albaz extra deck 1 guardian chimera 17dollars 1 chimera king(you only need 1 trust) 9 dollars 1 illusion beast 2 berfomet king 1 mirrorjade 1 albion 1 lubellion 1 rindbrum 7 dollars

[@xTxCxMx]

I think I paid under 130 for the complete vaylantz core with ALL the collectors rares total price of the deck is kinda impossible to calculate though considering you can just put whatever you want in the extra deck I recommend the otk strategy. The stun build is literally just introducing a ton of chokepoints for an endboard that dies to more things than if you just shoved every stun staple into a big pile. The blind second build on the other hand is resilient enough that I once managed to otk tear 0 despite all my fields getting milled through gas and brute force alone.

[@vjgodlybang]

Yay! I was in the video! I went 3-1 with Swordsoul last night for first locals of 2024, and it was the best I have ever done from my recent start in paper Yu-Gi-Oh!, as well!

[@AdHocWholius]

Orcust when it initially dropped before the sevond wave of support were pennies, you could get the entire deck core and three copies of Return for less than $30. With reprints of Dingirsu and Girsu the entire core is incredibly cheap along with the scrap engine or mekk-knights.

[@YourKingSkeletor]

My Dark World deck, minus the S:P, cost maybe $60-$80. And is pretty solid. But Droll exists. And it's solitaire, not YuGiOh.

[@spicymemes7458]

SP is not necessary.

[@YourKingSkeletor]

@@spicymemes7458 Exactly. Was saying it was the only expensive card in the deck (and only run it cuz I pulled it)

[@spicymemes7458]

@@YourKingSkeletor Mukracker is more important to DW than SP imo. You got this.

[@spicymemes7458]

@@YourKingSkeletor cool that you pulled it

[@ovelhadogelo]

If I could bring my pet deck to paper, Magikey Libromancer would cost 82$. The expensive part would be the Triple Tactics package - 2 Thrust 1 Talents - which elevates the price to 200$ (yeah, Thrust is super expensive). All and all, Ninja has tops and costs at least 40$.

[@Swordhand1]

5:27 PLUNDER PATROLL MENTION, MATEY 🏴‍☠️ (Buy Nemleria. Embrace the sleepy girl)

[@liammcphelin4775]

The best one for sure is salad, i got my entire main side an extra for less than $100, the deck is definetly more expensive now with raging phoenix spiking like crazy, but is still well under $150 for a tier 2 deck thats probably tier 1 with promethean princess.

[@Gravefiller]

Being a dedicated Dinomorphia player, Dinomorphia is underrated and the engine also works in Exo, Lab, Kash, Runik, and (I am not joking) Floo.

[@Swordhand1]

Dinomorphia Floo? I NEED to see this jank

[@nsreturn1365]

pls as a old reliable floo user need to see that shit, i brick harder than darkworlds with base floo already lmao.

[@FBI.sMostUnwanted]

I believe you can build a competent Fire King Tri-Brigade deck (excluding the Diabellstar engine, Little Knight, and sadly, Accesscode. And no, don't abuse Fenrir just because everyone uses it mindlessly like S:P. Besides, Fenrir has no synergy) and have convincing results. The Swordsoul call was on touch.

[@maxinesenior596]

yep! I've not been to locals yet, but I have built this deck, and I feel pretty confident in it

[@GanonAutumn777]

0:46 I hope one day the "but first" clap gets repeated 3 times before the sponsor read xD I dunno why i thought of this but it sounded satisfying and funny in my head lol

[@GeneralNickles]

You could also play fire kings for a grand total of $30. You know, the 2nd or 3rd best deck right now, and it's literally a structure deck.

[@kimoritasu]

I like how for this game a "budget" deck is $100

[@echo5entertainment169]

Then your going have heart attack hearing that 40k budget strategy is five hundred dollars

[@kimoritasu]

@@echo5entertainment169 I don't believe so. I was talking to a shop owner who was telling me that the starter sets can be competitive and they're less than 500 plus upgrades

[@ramoncorrea5716]

A budget magic the gathering deck is about 300+ depending on the format.

[@Jrpg_guy]

​@@echo5entertainment169wtf

[@hiimemily]

A budget deck is $100 only if your budget is $100. There are plenty of functional, even good, decks that cost less than that.

[@honeyham6788]

Plunder is my goat favorite deck. I would absolutely shell out for Adventure-Plunder. My only problem... there's no locals out here to play. so why bother buying physical cards if i can't play physical ygo

[@fidgety9001]

Its really funny, i left a swordsoul comment on the thread that wasn't used, but i think i highlight how crazy bonfire's price is, i bout Swordsoul about 2 months ago for $128, with drolls right before the reprint was announced... With Ty-phon. It wouldn't be doable now, because i caught Ty-phon at $18 where its currently over $30 (mo ye is also up $2.50-3.00 and emergence is up $2.00-2.50). But literally just replace ty-phon with a filler synchro of your choice and its pretty at about $115, with all the staple handtraps and board breakers.

[@corbinkendall6330]

0:09 too soon dire!

[@abcrx32j]

You can build Marincess AND Plunder for less than $130. At least local/regional ready lists

[@nsreturn1365]

for plunder is runick necessary, adventure is a budget and also good option cause it protects your equips

[@fa_say_hi_to_me]

In the Dino Deck, the one spell costs 25€ per card so 75€ then all other stuff, so u maybe with 120/140 in total

[@KiuhKobold]

Here in Brazil I can pay a month of rent and still have leftovers with a single Bonfire.

[@OsirusHandle]

and brazil isnt even that low income. imagine being venezuelan, yugioh cards better than their currency 😂 pay off a mortgage with them 😢

[@KiuhKobold]

@@OsirusHandle I feel ya man. I feel ya.

[@reservationatdorsias3215]

@@OsirusHandleI heard World Of Warcraft currency is worth more than Venezualan $. Its crazy.

[@obsidianblack7249]

Currently working on a Speedroid/Synchron build. Use the roids to go into marcher then have marcher go into either Crystal wing, baronne (if it ever gets unbanned), Stardust assault/charge warrior or just link it into apollousa, rubber shooter or platinum gadget.

[@themerchant9711]

Avid lover of spright here. The biggest problem i find with most variants without elf is the grind game is so much weaker. The deck doesn't have inherent draw power and lacks recursion. The ones that do (runick/live twin variants and tri to some extent) have other weaknesses that elf either solved or just hinder them in the current format. Solid tier 2, but just the power of elf did wonders.

[@LoyalWackGamer]

No one mentioning Gate Guardian being pretty fun and costing 15$ at most to order everything 3x and with rarity collection and all the staple reprints in 2023 it’s honestly really fun

[@alchemistarcher02]

Nemleria is definitely NOT a playable deck right now (I say as someone who picked up the core for pennies and built a shitty Gren Maju blind second version of the deck for like $10) but there’s some silly synergy between it and the new Yugi/Gandora Sarcophagus of Light stuff that should be cheap in LEDE later this year, and I’m excited to try that casually for the cost of one McDonalds meal

[@Kumo-s6f]

I'm on midrange Branded Despia and Swoswo. Don't need to buy S:P if your deck locks you out of it anyway!

[@Omnicrom]

Video begins at 2:05

[@ianr.navahuber2195]

0:07 what was ths reference about? 3:28 $80 dollars is budget friendly?!?! 6:15 dinomorphia, i lov you for online stuff, but irl you are gonna make me die from math 6:52 $130 Is dirt cheap?! 7:10 Heh

[@VGV1deo]

0:07 Game Theory (old intro)

[@lichinthepolo]

This was the perfect video to find wanting to get back into the game. I knew MBT would have the key.

[@MrTmb64]

A lot of these decks are missing some cards at an affordable price sadly... like weather painter cloud, Madolche anjelly, all the springans xyz, rall the ritual beast tamers frop THSF have never been reprinted and very hard to fibd (or at least in europe) etc

[@lunarshadow5584]

While it isn't considered a top tier archetype I started looking through Icejade cards and supports and they are pretty cheap too... Until you reach the best of staples and extra deck. Tactics thrust $90, Baronne $50, Accel Stardust $30 are the three main expensive ones I saw But many of the other supports that work with it are cheap, such as Synchro Overtake into Deep Sea Diva combo or XYZ sharks for N.As.H. Knight, Number 4, 101, and 103 combos. Could also use Kaijus where you use waterfront field spell for the points with Gameciel on your side of the field for multi use omni-negate + banish.

[@steelblake]

Ngl I was waiting for Dire to put Generaiders prices

[@UshiUshiKakuThe2nd]

Ghoti is my choice for this prompt; I think the most expensive card currently is White Aura Whale @ $15. The PHNI cards aren't out yet ofc, but I don't expect them to cost all that much.

[@plamenzlatanovart]

Drytron topped our first local after the December banlist with like 5-0

[@egggge4752]

Mind you the prices on the european market are like 30% cheaper on average and minimal shipping costs 1-2 euros because of the schengen-zone.

[@FAlynn92]

I actually just built Madolche for the first time in years. It was JUST over $130 for me.

[@Jolfgard]

7:20 Vaylantz has been out for long enough that it received TWO waves of support? I honestly thought the archetype itself released last year in the West.

[@haroutkayabalian8591]

People are sleeping on Branded, you can get the entire deck for around 200$ and it's the cheapest competitive deck right now next to Floowandereeze.

[@lukemacinnes5124]

the nemrelia thing is really wierd to me because the deck is not good but there's been builds that have done decent in the ocg running like tiamaton and other coulum stuff and i have no idea why

[@breaky92]

i spend like 40 bucks for a complete nemleria deck. and it's actually better than people give it credit for

[@spicymemes7458]

Good on you. This community doesn't know shit.

[@Protocurity]

I built Invoked Ogdoadic for about $40. I know it has consistency issues and Bysteal crap all over it, but it can go pretty hard off of a two-card combo and it has endless recovery.

[@jojomations2596]

I plan on making pure rescue ace. No Diabellstar here