General Tips to Improve your Deckbuilding

[@the_b_emoji]

After I finish watching this, my 60 card dark magician exodia deck will be unstoppable!

[@lobsterbisque333]

Main tip: Play more plants

[@invertbrid]

Plant clearly best deck in EU xD.

[@That_Daily_noko]

Yes, all plant decks are based and they can all access each other via aromageserapy jasmine

[@woofwoofdoggo]

Plants ftw

[@imnotacat5299]

​@@That_Daily_noko It's only based if your name is Jess. Still waiting on someone else to actually perform well with the deck lol

[@lobsterbisque333]

​@imnotacat5299 her friend Laura got top 32 Edit: she got top 16, my bad

[@cnydo]

we need more deck doctor content

[@joshdavis6830]

Joshua Shmidt telling Farfa to give up BA and play Paleo is a vibe. Now I'm scared to submit my Lab list

[@Jyxero]

Friendly reminder that Lady & Paleo both share the same timing, so you better have Subterror Final battle or solve Grass if you want to keep the loop going

[@strike4489]

Thank you for this. I have updated my decklist with 3 small worlds, evenlys, forbidden droplets, cosmic cyclones, nibirus and of course 3 skull meisters. If i dont top my next locals you will hear from me in the mail.

[@MarioLopez-xs3vc]

Evenly Matched is a going second card for "going first" decks. You basically use it to minimize the amount of disruption you want to put up with when making a board to what you'd see when going first. It's fine in stuff like backrow and combo decks for that reason, though in "midrange"(handtrap spam) and OTK decks you're just floating around aimlessly while your opponent rebuilds their board to address your usually worse than middling setup. Actual "going second" focused decks usually want to either make use of the battle phase for using/protecting their effects, or to OTK outright, so it doesn't make sense in those even as a side deck option.

[@NinthSettler]

Exactly. Evenly matched then play your turn 1 like normal.

[@solobugg5087]

8:47 This is something I've been slowly learning to accept and become accustomed to, playing 40 is theoretically more consistent but sometimes over 40 is more so under very careful deckbuilding considerations.

[@theoreticallyinsane5]

The basic questions to ask yourself when it comes to going over 40 are something like: 1) Is my deck already consistent? - If the 41st card won't stop you from finding your starter, then there's less harm in including it. 2) Are there cards in my deck that I don't want to draw? - Adding cards dilutes the chances you'll see bricks by a bit, which has a value worth weighing. 3) Are the ratios correct? Would adding cards lead to a better balance? - If you have a robust engine and are in a format where you need 2 handtraps in your opener to play the game, it's okay to play more handtraps rather than skimp on engine. 4) Are the cards I'm adding as useful as the cards already in my deck? - If there's a clear hierarchy of cards in your deck, you want to see your best cards more often, so you will need to value lower deck counts Ex.\ If your deck is especially vulnerable to handtraps and NEEDS insulation and the only cards that provide it are Crossout and Called By, you might need to stay as close to 40 as you can afford. To be a bit fair, it's not always about consistency; If you have a deck like Salad or D-Link which has a lot of disparate pieces that all have their own unique functions and each have hard onces on them, sometimes running a bunch of different names is more valuable since you can toolbox for them as the need arises, giving your deck the ability to play through more varied interactions. Maybe not ideal in a Tier 0 format like right now where you can generally expect the same or similar from most opponents, but always worth consideration. Consistency should be valued, but there is value to variety, too, and they can be weighed against each other when deciding whether to go over 40 cards.

[@w.a.i.t.]

This video was insanely illuminating, I play D/D and the goblin bikers deck is incredibly similar, I was already upgrading my deck to play handtraps in 1 of and going towards 60 cards cuz there's a lot of engine requirements and starters, so that segment got rid of many doubts

[@ducky36F]

28:37 as a Voiceless player I agree with Josh on Sauravis, I always get baffled when I see Voiceless decks with only one Sauravis, one of the main strengths of the deck this format is it is resistant to hand traps and Sauravis is a huge part of that.

[@losifer3867]

It's just sucks bricking with them though...

[@rubberduckie5518]

Play 2

[@Salati00]

23:56 the "Oh God" absolutely sends me, the list is fire though, I'm sure whoever made it is super smart and handsome

[@hondo4235]

When he bursts out laughing at the chain burn deck is what got me lol

[@Salati00]

@@hondo4235 (I may or may not have been the guy that submitter the list at 23:56)

[@masterchiefblank4885]

Nibiru is the only bridge I need in my deck with small world in adamancipator

[@That_Daily_noko]

Truly the most practical bridge

[@nerazim1110]

me playing speedroids and already having a bridge in droll, unicorn and gadarla be like. No, seriously, even maxx c becomes a combo piece with small world with gadarla as the bridge

[@PyckledNyk]

Using hand traps as bridges is an interesting strategy

[@masterchiefblank4885]

@@PyckledNyk I only have nib as a hand trap nothing else, thats the reason I can play through 2-3 interruptions lol, nib is light so I can bridge into the vaalmonica pendulums as well if I brick

[@SirCorneliusJ]

Seeing him completely skip over Raidraptor hurts my soul. The list looked okay, but: Nest is a 'win more' card that I don't think is needed at all. It's sorta an extender, but requires at least one other extender already to be useful, which is usually redundant. I find running HTs in Raidraptor cuts into space that could be reserved for more engine - Raidraptor is a 2-card combo deck that just needs any two extenders to reach a tower. I am a bit biased because I run boardbreakers instead (TTT, DRNM, Imperm) and I just use the power of the engine to keep pushing through HTs - you only need any two birds on the board to make a Raider's Knight which is full combo and a board-wipe. I also run a copy of Readiness in my main, with 2 more sided for Tenpai match-ups. It's also an incredible time card when paired with a Napalm Dragonius which you can side in game 3 to deal 1600 total burn before passing and flipping Readiness in draw phase. Nice to see Swallow's Cowrie in the list too, it's perfect for rigging hands in the draw phase.

[@NinthSettler]

Tuebotowers decks are not worth talking about

[@NinthSettler]

Josh the time is running out, please make a video about how king calamity, albion jackson and other stupid turnskips should go next banlist since apparently someone at konami in charge of the banlists really likes to watch your content

[@GutsmanLoL]

albion jackson is crazy xD

[@NinthSettler]

@@GutsmanLoL shamona

[@KingLeaps]

I can’t wait for the next plant deck profile

[@barumunkgameslel509]

man, im one of those guys that main like 13-15 handtraps, and side boardbreakers... This kind of videos help me a TON! with deck building things, because most of the times i side deck cards that i never use... thx deck doctor!! you helped me a ton to improve!

[@Jyxero]

30:35 This... I rarely play handtraps nor care about battle phase, so thanks for letting me know that "let opponent cook" isn't always a bad approach

[@joeymayson8279]

What I learned from this is that you should go 4 fountains and 4 engages

[@PartyMarty321]

26:19 seems like you could cut the Triple Tacs and the Terraforming to make it 40 cards, if you want the 3rd veiler then just make the deck 41 cards. The logic in cutting terraforming is that the card is searchable with engine. I personally like running Fenrir in the main deck as it applies pressure and can synergize well with scelta return the searched Fenrir back to deck to draw 2, the longer Fenrir is on field the more you could plus.

[@Element_Doom]

Goblin Rider list looks crisp 👍, only thing that could be argued is missing is either the Ghost Trick package (Shot, Alucard, 2x Angel, F0 Package) or Armored XYZ + Full Armored - Black Ray & Crystalzero Lancer (

[@jaqtonido8251]

Honestly, the ghostrick udf package kinda sucks, its 5 extra deck slots for one monster negate, plus a spell. Feels too wasteful. You could just run a gossip shadow or ashura king for the monster negate and it would require less resources and less prone to playing into nibiru.

[@goldsyerex4529]

20:14 here’s a guy who knows how to play branded: if you chain droplet sending monster to either Sanct or In Red there is literally nothing you can do. If they do in red, you chain sending monster. It doesn’t matter that you can’t activate effects on res bc Sanct is negated. If they do Sanct first and you send, the in red still doesn’t matter. So long as you can’t chain Sanct to Droplet, the lock doesn’t go through. Granted there is always more interruption (unless someone actually doesn’t know how to play Branded and they just go for Puppet lock only) but the puppet lock is what kills most decks You or anyone else is welcome to disagree with me, and argue against this.

[@goldsyerex4529]

Sorry, just remembered Blazing King exists. Although it is being played more now, it’s barely played at all. It is the one out to droplet that always works (unless you just so happen to send monster and trap because you too decked imperm and decided to make it cl1 on some poor MJ 😭)

[@skuamato7886]

In the UK National FInals the branded player sent puppet in their turn and in the opponents turn they activated red, used it to make sanctifier and then used sanctifier in the post resolution window to put up the lock. So no chance for droplet there.

[@snuggstcg]

I did enjoy the chat saying add Parallel Exceed into the Ragnaraika deck in that situation run Rikka princess,, Exceed turns off the Raika combo because its a non Raika Type

[@fortidogi8620]

specifically soldier cant be used in the same turn youve summoned a non-raika type. seed is fine as long as its eff is used after exceed

[@stedo9837]

Goblin Riders is a deck that become stronger the less goblin and more starter/archetype you play inside, you don't need a bunch of handtrap and crossout, you just need more cards that do something and then you summon your Big Gabonga. If Gabonga resolve you probably are gonna win

[@isidoreaerys8745]

Omg I never realized the tenpai deck was only 6 in engine cards and the rest is generic oppresive hand trap stun

[@Neon-yj9xw]

Not sure if you've done this recently or not, but I'd like to see you do a deep dive on the 'red flag' cards/engines you've been mentioning lately (Small World, Assault Mode, Adventure, etc.) and how to identify similar cards that "read crazy," but don't actually do enough to justify playing it over other cards.

[@turtle-bot3049]

Small world is a good budget option in melodious if you don't have access to 1st movement solo (why is this card not reprinted yet). Veiler bridges everything (even ash/mourner) into refrain or an extender and you're already running 3 veiler anyway as a hand trap so no need for a zombina brick to make it work.

[@saitougin7210]

32:47 wonderful those deck names: "Großer Salat" = great salad.

[@namenotavailable6879]

35:42 bro predicted julius basically sweeping german nationals with plants

[@emanuelegennari1112]

30:37 do you think that evenly/dark ruler no more can be used in the side deck if my main deck non engine is book of eclipse, imperm, ash and shifter?

[@jackhendo812]

Joshua Schmidt, so the Tenpai player who sent you the No Droplet, Lightning Storm, Duster (board breakers) and chose All Hand Traps. I agree I just wish e had a SIDE DECK for that as a sample

[@sandstorm7790]

9:27 I was actually thinking about trying to go over 40 in goblin biker because there's a few garnets, but the problem for me is ED space. Any other engines you could play in the deck to give it more starters require more extra deck space in an already tight extra deck, and the main engine I was thinking about was SHS because you can use it to make gear gigant X and search speedroid terrortop to normal summon it and make gabonga which itself leads to a whole combo, and sargas has amazing synergy with goblins and can search regulas for an omni negate, but SHS just feels bad as an engine... Restructing you to not having any spells or traps in your GY to use it means you're heavily limited on what board breakers or non-engine you want to use, some powerful engine cards like emergency teleport also conflict either it, and obviously drawing into it later in the duel is just a dead draw. I'd really like to see your take on goblin biker though. There's so many powerful rank 3 enablers in the game right now especially since terrortop is at 3. I've even thought about playing a few mikanko names with water arabesque as a sort of board breaker that also assists with making a rank 3 since I think water arabasque is just a crazy card.

[@3dkid85]

mikanko goblins with the symphonic engine is pretty good.

[@ace-trainer-aj]

The way Joshua said 54 was the number for the showcased D-Link deck... 😅

[@saitougin7210]

36:47 "Why is there a standard chain burn? Is there a chain burn community?" Hm, now that you mention it, at my locals, there 2 to 4 guys playing some kind of burn spell traps (with maybe some timelords).

[@jankyygo7296]

I have seen the Goblin rider deck at a regional. First player made big fat cat and went sorry I made unaffected cat. Other player drew for turn holding back the biggest grin ever went "no I am sorry I am goblins." Proceded to win.

[@yugiMOWS]

I played melodious chimera at nats on the weekend and I feel like more hand traps over the frightful engine is better

[@armandonoriega681]

When deck doctor for Master Duel? I think Bo1 format has different advice for deck building that would be very interesting to hear from you

[@Glitterblossom]

“Accept your fate” lmao

[@jamespolk6146]

The silence is real when it comes to plants lmao

[@derik4126]

Lol, I played against that guy from 23:16 in my final round of swiss at Austrian Nationals. Shoutout to him👍

[@mickjaegar2379]

tl;dw: "MORE HANDTRAPS MORE HANDTRAPS MORE HANDTRAPS MORE HANDTRAPS"

[@savagecabbagedank3771]

What deck is he talking about at 4:13? I can’t quite make out what he’s saying

[@AnotherWindaSimp]

Lord of the heavnly prison is a great card in a labrynth list, that way you don't depend on lady doing all the hard work+protecting your backrow is a nice bonus

[@RGARDL]

38:52 bump shamans, n stick 3 allure in

[@takashi2435]

how can I find synergic or good cards with my deck to test them? for example dual avatar archetype, I can put has "dual avatar" cards but I don't know what to put for rest.

[@joeycastle1997]

I’d love to get Josh’s input on my White Woods build once they come out

[@egggge4752]

Whitewoods + magistus

[@joeycastle1997]

@@egggge4752 white woods + toy box

[@tcoren1]

@@egggge4752you do not know josh very well if you think he'll play white woods magistus

[@residentgrey]

My decks in Duel Links may be ok in the main format, strangely enough. I just need to pad with staple disruption.

[@harusrl]

9:20 goblins cant play prosp most end boards end with 4 extra deck monsters left most opening hands will have more than 1 starter if you build a good enough deck thats not the problem with goblins its the no follow up thats the problem

[@Cookiiz]

Main Question: how do we still play runick even if mister schmidt says dont? x.x

[@shendelzarescathach1674]

More deck doctor, shit was funny as fuck lmao

[@ChampionOfSkyrim]

The goblin deck probably doesn't need the psychic engine but also goblins aren't really good either, unfortunately.

[@dharcofuruk9105]

that salad list looks like that burn list that did top

[@gabudaichamuda2545]

13:23 So if he's not playing Super Poly, OR Eternal Favorite, how is he getting to Loving Defender? It makes ZERO sense to me. Three Loving Defender with what appears to be no way to actually summon it.

[@幽霊船-o4h]

My problem is bricking. Legit went 5-4 the other day and 4 of these losses were bricking game 1 then win game two and game 3 I get ftkd (puppetlock, calamitylock, snake eyes ftk) And I brick on like 2 trippetactics in hand 2 droplet and 5th card is either a starter that gets negated or gets ripped out of my hand (chimera, labrynth, omega) Like how do I brick less? I brick on non engine and I HATE IT. I cant play full engine because theres not enough cards and I feel it really is just bad luck. Already started cutting down non engines into 2 ofs because it happens way too much I draw 3 ttt or 3 copies of anything else I cant activate immediately

[@PartyMarty321]

If you’re running high amount of interruptions or board breakers your game plan seems to be stopping your opponents full combo or putting the game into a simplified state. Bricking happens in general, I play Snake-Eye and have drawn all HTs before… you just gotta be smart in where you’re hand trapping so you could possibly draw the engine you need, if you don’t you just keep hand trapping and hoping.

[@residentgrey]

No Wetlands in a Paleo deck? Hweird

[@aurora________]

We need a master duel version of this

[@lit_wick]

Overall thought on Crossout?

[@PILA_Was_here]

Gracias por los consejos en goblins y si, es triste que tenga boss monster tan ... débiles, ojalá saquen soporte que le de más iniciadores o algo de extra deck útil

[@goldsyerex4529]

How can I submit a list? I have a Tenpai list that I really think might be *it*

[@ivanantoniomarquezgomez2640]

Whats your thought about play vanquish soul?

[@weckar]

This is so much fun, how do I get in on this?

[@Rahibiz]

josh has personal issue with birds lmao

[@arrownoir]

Yugioh world champion tries to steer loyal fans of certain strategies away from what they love.

[@Ragnarok540]

It's for their own good.

[@MarioLopez-xs3vc]

Gotta farm easy wins off of meta somehow.

[@mfswylin]

Most of the decks ygo players genuinely like just aren’t good or power crept af sometimes we need the world champ to knock some sense into us

[@JuanGonzalezZzZzZz...]

How is Crow any good x Despia? To out Puppet?

[@ArCtic2509]

Your opinion about monarch kash?

[@RGARDL]

11:51 it's not , maybe good to replace nibs with 3 evenly couse if u go first u can discard it for holeutea

[@furiousblueblade957]

I played goblin bikers a few times at locals, don't do it. It plays through handtraps, except for good ones, and does very little for a semi-combo deck

[@ThreeHundredandThirtyThree]

Main tip: play a deck with birds in it

[@mrstealcar4702]

Thanks for the deck list.

[@shortyZzz89]

Kannst du mal ein Dinomorphia Deck bauen wie du es spielen würdest? Ich spiele gerade eine Dogmatika Variante Ne eigene Idee 😅

[@Tortorrta]

So cut one Farfa and you're Gucci?

[@shen.daniel]

"the only tip i need is runick tip"

[@JoeLikesBlue]

Needs this to build playable Crashbug turbo

[@Element_Doom]

Branded Lost = Altergeist Protocol ?!?! Do they cheat what is happening?

[@babrad]

It isn't. Protocol protects [the effects] of your Altergeist cards on the field from being negated (countering stuff like Skill Drain, Ash Blossom, Veiler, Imperm's both effects) Meanwhile Lost protects [the activation] of your cards or effects that include a Fusion summon (countering stuff like Ghost Belle, Solemn Judgment, Apollousa, Baronne/Savage)

[@Element_Doom]

@@babrad so why do they say droplet doesn't work on Albion Sanctifire for Gimmick lock? It makes no sense, Sanctifire effect is not on summon like Guardian Chimera... Yes, Sanctifire can't be targeted, but Droplets doesn't target either, and Branded Lost doesn't change anything about that. I'm confused.

[@MarioLopez-xs3vc]

​@@babrad That's why you negate it during an open game state instead of reacting to its activation. If the Sanctifier was made before your Draw Phase, you can just negate it at the start of your Draw Phase. Which is why it usually doesn't get made that way outside of trying to play around Maxx "C" in the OCG/MD. The issue that makes Droplet "pointless" actually comes when it gets Fusion summoned on your turn, since activation on-summon means Branded Lost stops further interaction with it: With Cartesia you have until the start of your Main Phase to negate that, but if they have a Spell/Trap to fuse with, your only option for stuffing a Puppet Lock is going to be attacking the GY directly with D.D. Crow, a Bystial or a quick play like Called by the Grave or Shark Cannon, which is why Droplet doesn't matter, since an Albion dump means they'll usually have a Branded Spell/Trap to fuse with.

[@MarioLopez-xs3vc]

​​​@@Element_Doom As I stated in the other post, you ideally want to activate Sanctifire as it's summoned so Branded Lost keeps it from being interacted with if your goal is to Sanctifire Lock in some way. The better option against that is actually attacking the GY directly in an open game state(preferably the start of your Draw Phase) to get rid of the Puppet or other summonable floodgate itself, as the Branded Spell/Traps that Fusion summon also pull out Albaz, a Fusion or a Despia card so those are all bad targets to aim for.

[@babrad]

@@MarioLopez-xs3vc What open gamestate? Immediately during Draw Phase? The opponent can chain it if you don't use a monster, Branded in Red if you don't use a Spell and Duplication (or Retribution GY effect) if you don't use a Trap. Furthermore as you said, they can use Red in the draw phase as soon as you pass priority after performing the draw, then make Sanctifire using Albaz + Guignol, and on the summon response window that Lost applies activate Sanctifire to safely summon Puppet. In a proper combo sequence they also have Mercourier in hand for monster handtraps so this limits the counters even more.

[@STEPHxCA]

You should collab with Jesse Perez, he’s been doing in depth vids about math in ygo and I think the two of you could learn from each other

[@DeadmanPauli]

Why so much hate against plant xD

[@timbahr1792]

The superpoly argument I highly disagree with as as long as it legal at 3 the card is worth playing because it breaks boards. Not playing it in a deck that SEARCHES it whenever it wants is bad

[@babrad]

It depends on the current meta. For example if Voiceless is tier 1 and they typically end on Guardian + Sauravis (old man) + Lo, it's worth it to Super Poly their Sauravis + Lo for Mudragon that will also disable the trap which pops as well as Imperm and Veiler (that way they wont float into a new ritual and Guardian loses the omni negate and targeting protection). So you trade 2 cards for 2 cards, with potentially more. Versus snakes you can't super poly Apollo + IP + Flam (or 38), so you need to get a Yubel on the board without Apollo and SP interrupting you first, then you can potentially have a big payout to fuse away their entire board and OTK with 1 attack (Protector 2k burn on summon + 3000 attacking Flam from Pain + 3000 Protector burn and banish). However this doesn't deal with Promethean or handtraps and you have to OTK since their followup is better than yours. So you look at a potentially good card (super poly) + 1 needed discard, being left with 4 cards to make the above situation possible that is quite hard.

[@iainmanapat6643]

I feel bad for the ashened player and we only have Konami to blame for not making it consistent

[@harusrl]

if Goblin bikers has million number of fans I am one of them. If Goblin bikers has ten fans I am one of them. If Goblin bikers has no fans, that means I am no more on the earth. If world is against Goblin bikers, I am against the world. I love Goblin bikers till my last breath

[@jefi1298]

Can't wait to watch this again on Jesse's channel :)

[@kirishatsu222]

Chain Burn is still good IMO.

[@shterkz777]

Damn joshua cooked farfa💀

[@d-booya5089]

Not gonna lie when I saw the words start cutting, is it worth it?, and accept your fate I thought this video was going in a completly different direction. (In my defense I didn't see the title yet so i didn't know.)

[@gino6828]

Poor guy with zombina

[@residentgrey]

There are way too many 3/of's in these decks. Going to 2 in many cases gives you some wiggle room to add some weird techs that can enhance your decks.

[@xxgnrxx]

thanks!

[@Exisist5151]

20:16 Pak is just always on the most degenerate deck in the room huh. 😂

[@116_Gaming]

And he is always losing.

[@ducky36F]

@@116_Gamingawkward moment when Pak just went 10-0 😂

[@woofwoofdoggo]

Plants 🪴

[@3stepsahead704]

Sácale todo, métele Fluffal

[@gunsandroses234]

OMG that Zombina XD

[@bobberick96]

i like to play plants or dark world.. great video

[@zetokaiba5867]

Pendulum

[@leoaltivez7161]

Just turn off your brain and netdeck

[@Oloistogamersloungeeistepisogl]

I have only one tip for you noobs. Take for granted whatever noob Joshua says and do the exact opposite. That's how you will improve your deck building.

[@andrederechte1894]

❤

[@capitalm9304]

Advice if you want more views you need to reduce your vids time

[@LetsPlayerAbo2]

Sup!

[@EmpireOfLEMBERG]

More tips: JUST be lucky, because this is WHAT this game needs. All these BS about ratios of cards etc etc are lies.

[@NinthSettler]

why are english speakers incapable of pronouncing granguiñol properly?

[@uctungle6773]

Because that's not an english word. Surprising I know.

[@sinni2734]

Raidraptor Deck i could help but why 🥰🥹☠️