GALAXY PHOTON - Ten Minute Testing

[@VamYGO]

Joseph’s honest reaction in the intro when Gage said “Chicos and chicas” was so honest and funny to me

[@chrisb.2028]

Honestly, I think if he just said "y" instead of "and", then it would've sound better..

[@AnuxeL]

The sand is probably the only thing whiter than those two on that beach

[@popeval6654]

​@@AnuxeLand thats only because they're already red as tomatoes from sunburn

[@DeepCDiva]

Gage's little wave when Joseph says "the one, the only Nyhmnim" was extremely cute. Oh yeah i guess theres YGO or something in here too nice cards idk

[@roseArchr]

"photon lord is now no longer 50 dollars" you're right, its 60 now

[@TheSeptimus7777]

I agree with your conclusions. Still my favorite deck and the hand you said loses to 1 ash was crazy even if you get ash blossomed

[@thefloridaman41]

No Nova, Infinity or Link BLS is kinda crazy to see in the extra deck.

[@jimthekidd]

The first kash player beat you if he wasn’t dumb. Book the spell negate to which you have to negate. Summon ogre e con take the photon lord. Prosperity hoping for fenrir or unicorn. Birth bring back ogre if needed an basically pick apart your board an setup for the crack back

[@pickuptruckreviews7085]

Hearing mbt steadily loosing hope in the current format of kashtira was a treasure.

[@moonjelly5]

8 days left.

[@FranklyImaPerson]

Man, flying all the way out to Cancun just to film the opening of a TMT. Its good to see the patreon money being spent as it should o7

[@dragonMaster24921]

Yeah imagine going to an old format ycs kekw

[@dewey8015]

Happy that gage is letting small creators like MBT on his channel.

[@hoangnguyen0721]

Galaxy Photon is a deck that either extend through everything bc every card have "Special Summon" in its text or just brick harder than Blue Eyes bc all the special summon require a specific card on field/GY

[@Monroah]

Sometimes we can play through disrupts/handtraps and somehow end up clogging our boards with rank 8s and sometimes we open 3 GEPD, a Vanisher, and a Lightning Storm when we're the turn 1 player.

[@ToxicAtom]

Galaxy-Eyes is 100% one of those decks that loses to itself more than it loses to its opponent

[@aliesterus1.023]

"bricks harder than Blue-Eyes" As someone who pivoted from Blue-Eyes to Blue-Eyes/GalaxyPhotons to just pure Galaxy/Photons, I find this patently incorrect. Even before all the support they got, pure Galaxy/Photons could drop two level 8s much easier than Blue-Eyes could, with much less investment.

[@ToxicAtom]

@@aliesterus1.023 It doesn't brick _as bad_ as Blue-Eyes, but it bricks pretty bad. Source: I've been forcing Galaxy-Eyes at the locals and regional level since Duelist Pack: Dimensional Guardians reprinted Prime Photon Dragon in 2017.

[@blackfiresprout]

I wanna smoke whatever you're having if you think Galaxy brick harder than Blue-Eyes.

[@skilledsummoner4274]

I feel like this tmt had by far the most card explanation in the card-by-card.

[@carstan62]

Because there are like 2 staples in the main. This list was all engine cards that people who don't play the deck won't know what they do.

[@passtheyaoi]

@@carstan62 also like every card was like exceptionally long textboxes

[@lukemacinnes5124]

​@@passtheyaoialso just a lot of different single cards compared to a lot of multiples

[@wren5413]

@@carstan62Also its on 11 main deck 1 ofs

[@justinpennington6680]

Cards that have so much text but don’t do much in all honesty. I thought about trying this in master duel but gave up on reading for the day😅

[@RamixTheRed]

Joseph are you okay? Are you being held hostage by Kite cosplayers? If so post three shorts about this deck and we'll come rescue you

[@quangduybui2181]

IMPORTANT: Cipher X works differently in the OCG/on MD compare to TCG - OCG/MD: Cipher X can only protect monsters CURRENTLY on the field when the protection is activated. - TCG: Cipher X can retroactively protect monsters Summoned after it activates and resolves the effect.

[@DictatorHeartless]

Yeah I dunno why the TCG allowed for that to work but I'm not complaining one bit lmao

[@rinnepy]

isn't the ocg/ master duel ruling just wrong? the card states "you control" and not "currently control" so it should act retroactively. Maybe this is just from translation error and its too late to reverse it so the tcg side just went with it lol.

[@ahirugaodoreru]

The Japanese card doesn't mention "currently control" it just says "Light monsters on your field" I guess I'd have to compare it to another card that has a similar effect to see if the wording is different.

[@quangduybui2181]

@@ahirugaodoreru check the ruling section of Cipher X in the OCG by going to the official database, opening Cipher X and change the language to Japanese. It states clearly that it protects what's on the field at that moment only. OCG cards do not have strict PSCT like the TCG, hence their ruling sections are so detailed. They try to answer any common question they can think of. For anyone being lazy, here is the original: 【①の効果について】 ■フィールドで発動できる起動効果です。 ■対象を取る効果ではありません。 ■『相手の効果の対象にならない』は自分のモンスターに適用される効果ではありません。(処理時に自分フィールドの光属性モンスターが他のモンスター効果を受けない状況でも、相手の効果の対象にならなくなります。) ■処理時に自分フィールドに表側表示で存在していた光属性モンスターが、相手の効果の対象にならなくなります。 and my translation About the (1) effect (the effect that protects the monster from being targeted) - It is an Ignition effect that activates on your field - It does not target - It applies to LIGHT monsters you control by the time it resolves (which means it does NOT protect monsters that comes into the field afterwards) - The "your opponent cannot target LIGHT monsters you control with card effects" part does NOT affect the monster. As a result, if you control a LIGHT monster being unaffected by monster effects while this effect is activated and resolves, that monster can still not be targeted by the opponent's card effects. www.db.yugioh-card.com/yugiohdb/faq_search.action?ope=4&cid=15854

[@ahirugaodoreru]

@@quangduybui2181 I'm not disputing that, I'm just curious what other cards that do a similar effect say in the Japanese version of the card that actually works the same way in the TCG.

[@Stardust_262]

Disappointed Joseph didn’t mention seeing galaxies in Gage’s eyes

[@XandiG]

I wish the Deck Discussion was less, "Read the text on every card", and more "Here's what this does in layman's terms, why it's run/how important it is, any personal opinions." It feels like older TMT's did this more.

[@gaemr_o5147]

Yeah there was hardly any commentary there

[@BatmannotBruceWayne1]

13:50 “we’ll banish this Zeus face down” No MBT, you are not playing Kashtira, there will be no face down today

[@evschib]

love that he was like "Photon Lord is now no longer 50 dollars." correct! it's now closer to 70 dollars. :) MBT did you just assume it would have gotten a reprint by now like I did?

[@achilles8283]

I'm 99% it was official that it's getting a reprint, but I can't remember what set

[@GoneRampant]

@@achilles8283 Reprint confirmed for the Battles of Legend set next year.

[@rundyftw]

I know it’s a rank 4 staple but just hearing bagooska the terribly tired tapir among all these badass dragon and photon names with no elaboration on its effect is so funny to me.

[@FakeHeroFang]

Who at Konami has a hard-on for extra deck rips recently? Let me know, I just wanna talk. I swear, I just wanna talk.

[@geminimaxxim]

Konami: "Since going first is so good, here's an archetype that REALLY excels at going second!" Players: "But can it go first?"

[@harrya9458]

I mean, yeah. The fact that going first is way better is a problem, but that doesn’t mean a deck that can only go second is the solution. You’re going to be going first and second in yugioh, not one or the other. The game doesn’t need more going second, it needs more balance between the two

[@Greyhoundsniper]

It actually can but the list is ass and is worse in both turns due to the ratios

[@NoxiousAffection]

@@Greyhoundsniper this list literally topped like a week ago

[@Greyhoundsniper]

@@NoxiousAffection yet this was dog water ratios, for example 2 braves

[@MythicAce218]

form me i ALWAYS lose when i go second. it honestly seems to do better going first. also i exlcusively play galxay eyes. i just think going second is a genuine problem. by that point my opponet has so many negates i can't do anything. that or i just always brick going second

[@Curelax]

You really want to go off on the Jank train? You can tribute Adventure Tokens for Hyper Galaxy

[@mayayamato7351]

my favorite thing about how MBT mentions that Photon is basically 3 archetypes (Galaxy, Photon, and Galaxy-Eyes) is that there are actually more. There's also Tachyon, Starliege, and Cipher. Some anime characters are like Jesse and have a bunch of Crystal cards with sub-archetypes or like Jaden and typically go for one sub-archetype like his Elemental HEROs. And then others are Kite and play decks that are actually half a dozen archetypes stapled together.

[@MrGeorgFTW]

Don't forget Number

[@TheLVJ]

Number C62: Galaxy-Eyes Prime Photon Dragon represents 5 archetypes on its own @_@

[@mayayamato7351]

@@MrGeorgFTW Number is kind of a super archetype that tends to cross over with other archetypes regularly. So I suppose it counts, with a bit of an asterisk. Although Kite is the Number Hunter so I mostly agree with you, even though he's by far not the only Number focused duelist. Almost all the main characters had a Number at some point.

[@MythicAce218]

YET IT WORKS and is so much fun it will always be my favorite deck

[@carstan62]

Not a fan of this list, but ultimately the judgement on the deck is still mostly accurate. You can actually build the deck to play into Dark Ruler better. By including Eternal Galaxy you can turn a rank 4 into one of the rank 8 negaters, and you can do so after you've waited for a Dark Ruler to drop. This line means you'll likely have to do the rest of the combo with 1 less extender though because you use GPD's search on Eternal Galaxy instead of an extender. Sadly, the main problem is that there are still too many hands where you literally cannot play a single card in your hand. I run only 4 lv8 monsters in my deck (2 GEPD, 1 Afterglow, 1 Emperor) compared to this deck's 8 and my deck still runs into that problem too often.

[@blackfiresprout]

give me your discord and i can make your deck not brick as hard

[@lohithveeramachaneni236]

I thought this day never would come after photon hypernova

[@createrz8433]

That giggle gage made at the end of the clip is so adorable omg

[@hootclesia]

That kash player when he finds out book of moon/econ have text

[@cedricwong0]

Shame that this was filmed before the banlist came out. Not that the result of that last bo3 would have changed, but the deck is certainly better positioned after Ariseheart's jailing.

[@wooloowantshugs6035]

My favorite part of this video was when Galaxy Soldier said "its galaxy soldierin' time" and then proceeded to Galaxy Soldier all over the place.

[@stuckmeister7750]

Kashtira is simultaneously the best and the worst deck ive ever played at the same time. Its incredible

[@bangster1869]

With the new support it now feels like a good deck with consistency.The only issue is that it needs better xyz monsters for going first the deck is already good going second.

[@MajorCrasher]

Damn it's almost like Kash isn't actually that good and instead just abuses shifter and i guess ariseheart against decks that can't out a single monster with no protection.

[@CaptinHavoc1]

Hearing MBT talk about how Kash clearly isn’t the best deck in the format tells me that in about a month people will be talking about how fair the deck was and how based anyone who plays the deck is

[@smoke4818]

when i go agianst photons and am able to monster reborn their galaxy eyes oh do they have a hard time

[@hakeem311]

I actually added galactikuriboh to this deck since when you would be attacked you can discard it to special summon gepd from hand or deck and force that atk to be on gepd and when in gy you can banish it to protect galaxy and photon monsters

[@GoneRampant]

Galactikuriboh is also a perfect Small World bridge to banish from deck.

[@TheBaldingPied]

There's a balancing act you have to play in this deck. It's either have no handtraps or 50/50 brick chance. 3 trade-in is unpopular amongst galaxy players but even they'll admit that every other game a trade-in would've saved their hand even if the draw was negated. I personally run 2 trade-in and 2 jumper 2 vanisher and 2 trance (and then 2 roach 1 ash 2 called by since it's master duel) Trade-in pitch emperor turns on trance if you keep it in the graveyard. The summon turns on vanisher and expedition. Unfortunately there's no r8's that search pieces that you need unless you have/used afterglow, then u can maybe extend a bit further. But you can still end with a Lord that can't be destroyed by card effects and can search for the next turn, or a towers in the form of c62. I've managed to salvage a surprising amount of games (two) by managing to pitch photon emperor for cost and ending with tachyon dragon pass with transmigration in my hand. No fucking idea why the purrley player i was up against thought it was a good idea to do like a chain link 6 when i clearly had transmigration but we take those lmaooo

[@cosmicvoid-phantom2968]

Haven’t started the video but so glad mbt is showing love to my favourite archtype

[@hugh7619]

I loved the part where gage said it's "Spanishin time" and chicos and chicad all over them 😮

[@eggzisstenshulldredd1626]

But Tachyon stays getting no recent support, huh? 😭 I'm happy for y'all Photon fans though, love the monster designs.

[@chkmte1304]

It's almost time everyone...the twenty minute testing is almost upon us

[@k-dawgHI]

I’m gonna be honest. I don’t know what to think of this list. I’m very happy that Galaxy-Eyes actually perform somewhere as I personally like the deck (it’s also the pet deck of a friend of mine)! But some of those main deck choices and ESPECIALLY the side deck seem… interesting 😅

[@morphogames]

Wait... you're telling me that Mr. Master Balls Tournament (MBT) was a few hours away from my home?

[@xdragoonzero0]

"Until now!" Tachyon stuff to activate counter traps from the hand? Yes please.

[@josepharmstrong6852]

Why on earth did the kash player not book hope then play prosperity like Jesus read ffs

[@quassar4618]

So we get photon but not cydra ten minute testing? 😢 like, yeah cydra sucks but we got clockwork night which turns everything into machines and lets us chimeratech the whole board and also duality which is metamorphosis for the deck😓

[@astercat49]

Actually a good list! I’m personally not a huge fan of trade-in, but that’s really more my personal preference than anything.

[@violetprison5478]

I ran it as I wanted to eliminate bricking as much as I could, specifically for hands like you saw in G3 against Kash. It's definitely something you could cut if you're a braver man than I 😅

[@astercat49]

@violetprison5478 I’d been running prosperity for a while now, mostly because I felt like I was bricking more with trade-in. But I changed my list recently so I think I’ll give it another shot.

[@KingFlex73]

GEPT NATION RISE UP I LOVE GEPTING

[@LowTier4Life]

I'm a big fan of Galaxy Photon and I'm very mixed on the list. I feel like the guy could have cut back on some things to play more handtraps or board breakers.

[@catfan913]

he said he went first

[@leodeleon3990]

going first board is decent if you know the lines. ideally you want both rank 4's for targeting and card desctruction protection, photon lord and the link.

[@andrewbell8164]

7:08 You respect prime photon dragon 😡 it’s the perfect going second attacking card, does 10k+

[@blackfiresprout]

And dude acting like monster recursion isnt still a thing in current ygo 🙄

[@kosigisa]

I am one of them pet deckers

[@Wumbo_the_Mumbo]

It's been a while since I've played. Can someone explain why Honest isn't in the deck?

[@stayflyxx]

This video made me realize that the Photon player I faced was cheating....I just couldn't be bothered to read all of their cards because there is so much going on with this engine.

[@zacross8504]

How so?

[@pie_flavour1]

Love the skit of Gage pretending to be friends with Joseph!

[@slanax]

love how there isn't even just Photon, Galaxy and Galaxy-Eyes in here, but a bit of extra deck is also part of Cipher, the weird GEPT kinda-retrain from ARC-V. could call the deck Kite Pile honestly

[@GoneRampant]

We don't talk about the main deck Ciphers.

[@slanax]

@@GoneRampant I have now looked at the main deck Ciphers and I agree

[@lordgrub12345]

Joseph really teached the cosmic dragons how to xyz summon while in the beach. Truly the most skillful duelist.

[@urd3adnow]

hi joseph! hope you had/are having fun in cancun. i'm a runick spright player and i'm a little confused - at 11:30 the guy plays slumber to summon hugin. shouldn't he use either of the other 2 and then slumber to draw? or do you think keeping the interruption of flash fire/curse is more valuable?

[@shadexvii3975]

I must admit I don’t like that this version of the deck has no copies of photon sanctuary. It’s a good starter

[@blackfiresprout]

photon sanc is decent, not too important to the overall line but yea, the decklist here is questionable

[@shadexvii3975]

@@blackfiresprout I mean, I don’t entirely disagree, but in my head, it’s a starter that isn’t as easily messed up by handtraps as most others

[@zaphkiel2241]

Honestly just picked up Galaxy Photon about a week or so ago in master duel, I just play it as a blind 2nd deck, it’s been working wonders for me, only time the deck has flopped on me is in the mirror match, because going first with galaxy hundred basically let’s you summon the different number cards or banish Zeus, or finishers like C62 or number 107 for negating the mirror match battle phase effects

[@starscorpia4005]

My gf runs Bujinki instead of one of the solflares because it's a decent anti brick

[@sahilm483]

Joseph with his Boyfriend. Lets goooooo

[@shaquilleeurope2600]

The pure, unadulterated hating during the Kashtira best-of-3 match was hilarious.

[@crowsfoot_]

this was one of the longest 10 min testing deck profiles ever just to describe "an ok one of that almost never comes up" like 20 different times. lmao

[@rajkanishu]

alright I'm now about to find out why a card that skips your battle phase is supposedly good in a deck that literally only wins by attacking

[@Grimsonated]

I just wanna ask about the music MBT uses in the outro

[@lioganda]

I love how he says photon lord is no longer $50, but it literally went back up over $60 this past week lmao

[@shen.daniel]

Ah yes galaxy, my favourite Mexican deck. Some would even say it's one of the strongest edison deck!

[@ai2802]

Love Galaxy!! Just hope Konami actually gives us a proper starter and turn 1 play one day 😅

[@violetprison5478]

Ikr? Retrain accelight please!

[@Freebird1994]

I love how most of his complaints with kashtira is “this deck dies to any piece of commonly played non engine interaction” but that doesn’t stop it from winning games. Though now that ariseheart is banned, kash decks will need to change up massively.

[@dracoblizzard7944]

Yes, change up massively by not being played at all.

[@iamtearabyte4595]

@@dracoblizzard7944 nah they'll change by turning into a pure stun deck

[@joplin4434]

kash is dead, jim

[@DrAiPatch]

​@@iamtearabyte4595 they don't have enough interaction to be a stun deck.

[@iamtearabyte4595]

@@DrAiPatch what I mean is, they'll start slapping a number of floodgates and become what runick stun is. Funny enough actually, I've seen a lot of kashtira runick stun in master duel. But I'm certain that's only a master duel thing

[@BUNJIN40K]

still trying to figure out whats on that tank top he wears all the time

[@valtaroy3546]

I thought Afterglow was Starry Dragon and i was like "what kinda jank ahh build you got going on here?" They both look so similar

[@amiablereaper]

So nice of MBT to release this just after these cards released...in Master Duel. (Really tho thanks you run the best deck breakdowns on this webbed site and I'm overjoyed to have one ready for a deck I'm really excited to build

[@Dramatic_Gaming]

Ahh yes. The Space Church of *BIG NUMBER.*

[@papernes]

My buddy got you to sign a Tearlaments Scheiren at nats earlier this year. Hope to see you at YCS Indy cause I got a Merrli and Havnis waiting for your name on them 😏

[@Greyhoundsniper]

man's rlly played the worst build of the deck

[@blackfiresprout]

For real, then they complain about it like wtf 🙄

[@Greyhoundsniper]

@@blackfiresprout this is why I don't trust every topping deck

[@garreonlefay6703]

I still dont get why people dont use Nebula Dragon, considering it helps cheat out Galaxy Eyes Photon Dragon and allow you to combo in a Galaxy Expedition for an Afterglow Dragon. After that, you just go into Galaxy Eyes Prime Photon Dragon and OTK But for some reason, the only person I have seen using the thing is Merryweathery. A Vtuber who makes the Galaxy Eyes archetype look as consistent as fucking Cyberdragons!

[@katsenpai6957]

I'm 5m in and I've watched over 2 minutes of ads. Another KZbin moment. It's like they want me not to watch videos on their platform

[@rishiranger7049]

Im so mad, that Kash game WAS SO EASY TO WIN. but a very important weakness,is the fact u need NAMES ON FIELD.

[@cottonuwu3167]

What do you mean “lack of things to do going first” deck can plaster hope , felgrand, photon lord, solflare pop infinity and any rank 8 you want. Honestly i think relying on trance to do shit is just habdicapping the deck. A prosthetic arm made of gold is still no limb.

[@MythicAce218]

as a galaxy eyes player i don't think its that compicated to play. actually since i picked it up(whcih was for like ever) i have never once struggled to figure out what to do and when to do it. not until i started changing my strat with photon jumper which even then it took a few tries before my brain clicked. i actually prefer going first(in master duel) because negates go brr photon blast,photn lord and if ur lucky solflare dragon and im most of the time okay. if i go second its a matter of weather or not my opponent gets all there negates out. point being i either love galaxys eyes to the point it doesn't feel complex or well idk tbh. interesting decklist tho i'll be sure sure to try this one out. also 14:06 why wasn't galxay eyes speical summoned when bkast dragon was summoned?

[@manporo5865]

The more I see it played, the more I am convinced that Kashtira is only good because pro players want you to think it's good (like X-Saber in Edison and Inzektor in HAT).

[@Red_Steampunker]

Watching me negate every extender card and praying they don’t have more extenders is a pups dream. They always have a way to get them out. Summon “do 1 billion lp damage” win card everytime

[@Weebfox]

My favorite archetype of all time \o/

[@MythicAce218]

same

[@P.I.M.P.]

Wtf is that list bro? At least 5 unnecessary cards in main deck and very questionable going first cards in a deck specialized for going second OTK. Worst thing is droplet and lightning storm sitting in the side

[@darkreuchiha1842]

Galaxy eyes really does just feel like a fancier blue eyes

[@DrAiPatch]

That's because it is it does all the same things as Blueeyes but with a longer combo.

[@darkreuchiha1842]

@DrAiPatch I wish master duel would give us alternative ultimate, I would play blue eyes non stop

[@juan_sh28]

I was hoping the announce in the begining was for the suckoff series

[@Adalon-]

Honestly this deck is the perfect example of a sleeper deck imo. Not like sleeper T1 or anything, but a solid high rogue that people absolutely overlook

[@asdfasgdfgsd107]

Why didn't kashtira just book of moon then steal with enemy controller for the other monster. Like dude the kash player was so fucking bad

[@adraxer1365]

You two are my favorite white guys Misspronouncing Spanish 😂. Buena esa Gage, te queremos.

[@trihazardknight]

Gage saying chicos and chicas and then flashing a white supremacy symbol. You couldn’t make this up lmao

[@DaShikuXI]

Man I forgot about the whole anime thing where only numbers can destroy numbers. I feel like all numbers should get that effect in the tcg.

[@blackfiresprout]

they made a Numbers trap with the effect to protect Numbers, similar to the anime

[@ShadowHazy]

So you want to turn all Number to Zeus?

[@leonardomiguelnanorodrigue8431]

I like to pretend Gage is Davinator 1212 just shorter and with higher pitch voice

[@eleonarcrimson858]

erling haaland playing kash makes sense.

[@Daniel-ne5ms]

Is Triff there? His dream was having a trip to Mexico with his favorite Yugitubers.

[@crowcoregames1785]

that was a weird ass list like i dont play that ratios 3 dragon is bricky imo and idk why we are playing brave its garbage but it toped a torment somehow also mbt is laying my pet deck so yay

[@Ceroba_]

this is really funny cause this was uploaded like an hour after i destroyed my first ever galaxy photon player at locals

[@Apeman773]

I'm not an hour late for once

[@Crabmanager]

The level 4 that summons another copy of itself might be the push the deck needs to de-brick itself

[@Ragnarok540]

Is it me or MBT sounds specially jaded in this one? At least Arise Heart is no more.

[@themarvelamerica]

The decklist is hot garbage could be much better but galaxy players inhale a lot of copium

[@Rojo9149]

I saw Transmigration in side and audibly screamed Have never seen that card resolved