Hand Traps - May 2024 | Ultimate Counter Guide (1/3)

Snake-Eyes, Tenpai, Voiceless, Branded, Yubel
How to beat them and effectly use hand traps against them!
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[@speedfreakygo3322]

2 am drop be hittin

[@weeniehutgames5538]

God, I remember Squiddy being such a troll in the Pojo days, now man’s making actual content. How far he’s come.

[@jorganquesavidez6618]

I distinctly remember him from XStevens channel. YOU CHET

[@Squiddys]

chet! 😂

[@Squiddys]

just log onto pojo and saw i have 10,000 poasts 🗿 good times

[@Dinkle97]

I see squiddy every day on the judge lounge asking questions with every word spelled in correctly, he’s still a troll

[@Squiddys]

@@Dinkle97 XD

[@RNE1993]

Ogre is actually ok into Branded. If you hold it for the Cartesia, you can keep them off of Granguignol and force them to fuse off other stuff to resolve it.

[@apologizethatyouwerebornin2616]

If you hit cartesia it doesnt get to fuse?

[@RNE1993]

@@apologizethatyouwerebornin2616 you still resolve the effect, but they can’t go into Granguignol because Cartesia won’t be able to use herself as material.

[@ItSpooling_]

Yeap

[@rangeless]

Brilliant guide.

[@n3kuzya]

Yubel is already resilient to ht, Phantom being a possible ht negate through the combo and an extender at the same time will be mad crazy

[@rachidsouki8614]

Ciao caro! Da quanto tempo? XD Una volta abbandonato infernoble, ti stai dedicandoti a Yubel? Il mazzo effettivamente è molto potente in un meta orientato verso le ht perché tendenzialmente soffre più i board breaker. T2 minimo!

[@n3kuzya]

@@rachidsouki8614 ahahah la hit di Isolde mi fa ancora male al cuore xd... comunque si, Yubel è l'unico combo che mi interessa, inoltre con il phantom diventerà davvero forte. Forse con Fiendsmith sarà tra i best deck, davvero promettente

[@ItSpooling_]

Ash and ogre kill yubel

[@n3kuzya]

@@ItSpooling_ ash doesn't kill yubel at all. Only kills it when you draw near to unplayable. I agree for ogre, but if you have throne + pain you can do something about it. But you will be able to summon phantom even before you even start your combo if you have the right hand to do so, that is why it is crazy... and even now if you draw starter + beckoning beast you are kinda safe around hts

[@rachidsouki8614]

@@n3kuzya domanda: qual è la board finale di yubel? Questa board finale comprende anche super poly aggiunta in qualche modo?

[@Fischkudda]

that content is insane man

[@NioNerd]

Thanks for the video, Tombox!

[@naiyar3573]

Everything is accurate but to add fuel to ogre being worse against branded, just know that you can’t even use it on branded lost in the activation window 😭

[@JEL625]

Dont forget, you can also ghost ogre fallen of albaz in a simplified game state to stop them from fusing away your monster.

[@javiernieto2617]

Love the content

[@user-of8gd2ix5i]

shoutout squiddy GOAT

[@PrototypePlatform]

31:49 something very important that you missed, ashing lubellion to add a bystial stops them from setting up regained or lost, and lost can help win games by itself. but the most important thing you missed, was ashing albion the branded dragon in end phase. most good branded players use ablion in EP to help them recoup from the other points of interaction you had, being able to set branded in red for chimera, or being able to set banishment is a big deal when you're 2 cards down before you start your turn,

[@erinmedina5403]

It's about time

[@jacobfroese3485]

Crow is great this format too

[@Boristien405]

Not good enough vs Snake Eye variants. It's got a usage for every matchup but it's just low impact 99% of the time.

[@user-xw5of1lh7u]

Are you counting the ghost mourners and veiler together?

[@nukegames99]

What do you think of bystials in the side for handtraps?

[@christopheraponte306]

Reject droll, embrace colossus

[@geogreysword]

For droll in branded, it is decent after frightful patchwork so they cannot go into chimera

[@vmox7453]

chimera?! on turn 1?

[@n3kuzya]

Chimera going first 💀

[@spncrgrn]

Squid is the goat all i gotta say

[@Squiddys]

🙌🏿😊

[@Shinde425]

Ghost ogre + Nib against Snake Eye should be nib on the board of IP, 3 Lv 1s, and Flamberge in the S/T, then chain ogre to the temple.

[@Squiddys]

🎉🎉🎉

[@A-G-B]

I know they mean barrier at 17:40 but yeah Ash hits almost everything but Lo and Blessings. It hits Pre-prep. Prosp, Radiance , Barrier, skull guardian, both Diviner effects, old man sauravis. Every other engine people play as well. Melodious, Branded, Drytron and even Nekroz. But tbf almost every single relevant handtrap hits Voiceless pretty hard in some way.

[@bruniTCG]

The beauty of the deck is also no single hand trap beats it. Sequenced properly with average hands can play around 2-3 hand traps

[@A-G-B]

@@bruniTCG aye that's true. Only when you open 1 card to play and get's ashed or imperm is when actually hurts (which it does happen often but that happens to all decks tbf) but if you open full combo they might as well have 5 hantraps, otherwise you'll end on skull guardian and Lo regardless

[@Alenmo]

You guys say it’s a handtrap format, Joshua shmidt says he’s going to play with boardbreakers, who should I trust 😂

[@gubigubigubigubi]

I like how you can just look at this video and see snake-eyes is still a problem lol

[@unwantedzero228]

I have a question Can I use Stardust synchron's effect to Tribute Promethean princess on the field as cost to active the special summon from grave effect. Can I tribute Promethean princess as cost to special summon a non-fire monster or am I still fire locked Thank you for your time Grateful

[@michaelmorales1602]

You cannot attempt to summon any non-FIRE monsters while Prom Princess is on your field, even if paying a cost would remove her from your field.

[@GoadedYGO]

Auto upload for 12am rather than 12pm?

[@PunchM3]

Ima bout to be dropping shifter every game with this one

[@andresledesma9807]

Two imperms doesn’t work in bp with tenpai. If they chain the second you can’t imperm again since you control a card. Don’t you just imperm the lvl 7 sync?

[@rorschach4502]

If tenpai is in battle phase...that means you went first...why are the imperms still in your hand where the restriction applies??

[@clownworld3382]

I wonder if D.D. crow is main deck worthy

[@blacknbald]

no sleep gang

[@ChristosEglezos-nr9js]

If they normalnsummon poplar and my only ht is imperm, and i decide to not use imperm lets say they summon witch after this. Should i imperm the witch or wouldnt it be better to let priginal activate then then imperm the ash instead ?

[@Squiddys]

hit witch so they dont ash into rotation to ravive of princess (or get a draw with wanted in grave)

[@Stylercom113]

Well i liked the crosses etc. More than this

[@MidnightWolf0801]

imperm does not make talents or thrust live where is that info coming from??? Only monster effects can.

[@stonalisa3729]

Thrusts becomes live when a monster effect is activated

[@thorbenlippoldes1571]

​@@stonalisa3729 but imperm is a trap effect

[@ReneBrain]

They mean veiler since both of them are in the same row

[@BM-kw2tu]

Wait is effect veiler not good in the meta right now???

[@krisrutschke161]

I don't play hand traps anymore cause they make my decks clutch alot

[@EltonLeonidas]

Against yubel you have to imperm the dark beckoning beast, no question. It is insane. It gives you more body, and ways to extend, and setup varudras. If it doesnt start with beckoning beast but samsara, then dont imperm it. If you dont have ash, just let that go through and imperm the spirit. If they start with lotus, ash it, but if they start with nightmare pain, you should ash that. Ghost ogre is insanely good on nightmare pain. It cuts them off from sooo many extension. Nibiru is good most of the time, except if they open full combo. Belle is ass.

[@KiraScofield]

Tom! Who wins, If scareclaw tri heart is on the field and Plasma is summoned to the field, does plasma stay in def postion or attack postion and shuts down all effects on opponent's side

[@littlech4os331]

Whichever was first on the field “wins”

[@KiraScofield]

@@littlech4os331 nope plasma Shuts it down

[@MrShorttj]

Quick ruling question: How does Forbidden Droplet interact with 0 ATK point monsters?

[@eg4358]

0 / 2 = 0

[@n3kuzya]

Yugioh players when math:

[@vigilantegaming3644]

It negates

[@polodoskyz]

about branded, you cant ghost ogre branded lost, use it on cartesia, it's the only target

[@Rubentempo]

The only time you can use it on branded lost is if the fusion wasn’t cl1 in the previous chain. If the fusion summon happened as cl2 or higher, and if in the new chain they make it so lost ends up being the last trigger in the chain, THEN you can chain ghost ogre to pop it

[@doktorsmirnoff2484]

Where is shifter?

[@LelouchViBritania0904]

Belle can also negate Ostinato in VV

[@DarkyMcSadSad]

you're so incorrect about droll against tenpai. for them to not play into it requires them to have so much engine in their hand which is just not likely. it stops them from otking like 70% of the time

[@mythostcg]

starts video, melodious not listed.... Okay i dont want anyone to know how to stop my deck either. :)

[@polb.9201]

DN's Squiddy???

[@Squiddys]

👀

[@weedhigh2564]

while they make good points and observations about the cards, i still dont like entirely playing handtraps in this format in my deck, Vanquish Soul. I much prefer boardbreakers and the thrust package combined with Kaijus than any handtrap in the TCG. The deck performs way better and you can even sometimes play out of dead hands which previously was never the case, not to mention thrust getting you to one of your best starters if you should need it. Problem is, none of the handtraps have any sinergy with the deck except for Ash and ash is by far the weakest of them all in the TCG, OCG and MD are a whole different beast and you need to have Ash at all times.

[@Kiritojk]

Actualy first..😅

[@Synapse32]

Quick yubel comment: droll stops 1 card combos. If they open grave squirm its still like 80%. Second, djinn buster is becoming more popular, making nib null.

[@RoBeeBot]

first

[@asuraphreak]

Is it just me or are the words blurry?

[@Boristien405]

Prob just you. On high quality it's good. But the font is kinda thin and light if that's what you're thinking.

[@shterkz777]

Hating on branded gotta stop 🙄