I UNBANNED OVER HALF OF THE YU-GI-OH! BANLIST JUST TO PROVE NOTHING WOULD CHANGE

Konami unbanned Change of Heart? THAT'S CUTE.
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Timestamps
Introduction & Bans: 0:00
Decks: 3:02
Top 32: 14:01
Top 16: 1:29:49
Top 8: 2:09:05
Semifinal: 2:27:00
Finals: 2:34:07
Conclusions: 2:37:42

[@Mantis24513]

I FUCKING LOVE HALQDON. I WANT TO SUMMON HALQIFIBRAX, SUMMON DESKBOT 001, AND SUMMON AURORADON TO BRING BACK THE DESKBOT 001

[@eljidreigon8316]

I love how Joseph unbanned a lot of questionable stuff like Masterpiece and Duo and they did nothing, meanwhile everyone watching was very clearly REALLY excited every time Halq, Zeus, Auroradon, Verte and DPE were brought out. TrollDespair

[@theblackx9429]

I FUCKING LOVE HALQDON. I WANT TO SUMMON HALQIFIBRAX, SUMMON DESKBOT 001, AND SUMMON AURORADON TO BRING BACK THE DESKBOT 001

[@Andy_ARBS]

@@eljidreigon8316 MBT works baby

[@cheeseyexoticbutters]

I FUCKING LOVE HALQDON. I WANT TO SUMMON HALQIFIBRAX, SUMMON DESKBOT 001, AND SUMMON AURORADON TO BRING BACK THE DESKBOT 001.

[@Galchoo1]

I FUCKING LOVE HALQDON. I WANT TO SUMMON HALQIFIBRAX, SUMMON DESKBOT 001, AND SUMMON AURORADON TO BRING BACK THE DESKBOT 001

[@brenomanhaes9322]

I think the only lesson this tournament has shown us is that a 32 man tournament is not a big enough sample size, especially when some of these players are out here messing up cyberse eldlich combos, missing celestial draws and forgetting to set magical explosion

[@misterlinux9290]

Pepega

[@johannkohlderhoff6190]

MBT viewers 🥴

[@fn2025]

Lmao absolutely true.

[@minifeebas8911]

i kinda wanna see this, but with a swiss round and a top 8 (with loser bracket) or top 16, a lot of these decks look like there could be some funny matchups

[@alexYu-gi-oh]

True. These are the worst set of players ive seen in my entire life

[@Salvare___000]

MBT: I unbanned half the banlist to prove that it wouldn't change a thing the proof: literally on the first duel we get a draw, the exact same reason as to why Last Turn was banned

[@michaelgjrjvebs]

I like how the tourney was immediately ruined by a card that wasn't banned at the time of these games and later ruined harder by two rando cards MBT chose to unban. Just a glorious clown fiesta

[@menaatefadly]

And one of them was a freakin Zoodiac card

[@undefinederror5306]

And MBT is the ringmaster

[@ReiMizere]

Wdym? You don't like to see the Auroradon line and DPE over and over again?

[@Ahamkeira]

Glad y'all enjoyed my Infernity match so much. Unironically give Infernity 3 launcher they actually need it only to play a combo deck that auto loses to hand traps and can't run them itself. if it gets to go off they deserve to go crazy

[@hawkticus_history_corner]

Ya, I think Infernity's time has passed. Let them have Launcher back, cuz I don't think it'll be too insane at lower levels of play either.

[@samurexatlas7373]

Give them the OCG normal spell.

[@fatestarne2694]

:3

[@phantom_mist1726]

I've been preaching this for sooo long!! Give us back Launcher and Archfiend! It's basically a glass cannon, since it requires no cards in your hand to activate the effects. It's EASILY stopped by hand traps but everyone argues with me and says it would be too broken. Imho broken is what meta decks today do where they can play through multiple distributions and STILL make their board lol but what do I know I guess lol

[@rodrigomrussano2704]

its weird that some cards are in the banlist in an almost symbolic kind of way, like how archfiend and launcher are there as kind of a lesson in hard opt and loops, so we may never get launcher and archfiend back for that reason alone

[@TheLetterJ0]

MBT when the tournament is dominated by the current meta: "I was right! All these cards can be unbanned!" MBT when the current meta loses to rogue decks: "I was right! All these cards can be unbanned!" I'm starting to think this might be a bit rigged.

[@kyleyuen245]

Always has been

[@JasSpy]

I'm who piloted the Triple Beatrice VW deck, and I might as well say a few things here that I've already tried to say in the Jank Tank. First, in game 2 against The Pile, MBT and his chat either completely missed or ignored the power of a play I made, that being after I Delinquent Duo-ed my opponent, I used Called by the Grave on the Water Enchantress that Duo discarded. So it would've been bad to have discarded Enchantress off Duo, but because cards like Called by the Grave exist, Duo is still broken, but Joseph and his chat just went on blindly jumping to the wrong conclusion that Duo sucks for some reason. Even my opponent secondbass knew how debilitating that Duo/Called play was. And second, in the game 3 against The Pile, I could've done much better than Shenshen pass, but in hindsight, and even at that moment playing the game, I knew that my opponent had too much gas left off the Celestial draws and remaining Magicians' Souls still in deck. So I probably wasn't winning that one no matter what I did.

[@SpencerCJ]

I mean those are 2 one ofs. That is such a small chance of happening. If there was a more consistent way to banish a card turn one with an ED monster then yeah. Don't get me wrong it's a nasty combo but you in that game lucked into Duo with charge warrior. At 1 it's just not quite as good as it was

[@Chris-rn2dm]

Yeah i dont get mbts opinion on duo. its just like omg if pot of greed is at 1 and it doesnt change any of the meta decks or win the game therefore it must be bad. randomly getting +1 or -1 for no cost is just something that shouldnt happen in the game. gj tho, you were the best deck, fun tournament.

[@999lijpo999]

Watching beatrice control was easily the peak of the tournament for me. The deck was so cool.

[@s.t5128]

Why are you playing the assault engine to go into fiber? Isn't deep sea diva just a better option?

[@nnnp634]

@@Chris-rn2dm But it's not a hard +1 like PoG. 1) Cards are going to the gy, so they are not completely gone 2) It's not 2 random cards, but opponent chooses one 3) Opponent has to have at least 2 cards in their hand, unlike PoG which is good in every situation (unless fragrance or io is flipped) It might be ok on the list, but it's much weaker than Pot of Greed

[@Eddiegames9]

One for One at 3 honestly feels like the craziest thing here, but also interestingly a lot of the top archetypes didnt really take advantage of it. Also Beatrice-Virtual World is so sick.

[@mdhutch2002]

I think this tournament revealed that while leaving Halq in the format might not have been the right decision, banning Auroradon was not the the wrong one. Unban literally half the banlist, and you still have everyone playing Halqdon. smh.

[@jadegrace1312]

If they just banned Halq for this tournament there wouldn't have been a single Aurordan being played.

[@maxkuozc]

@@jadegrace1312 It's the same thing again and again, "what can we ban so that we can still play Halq? We have banned all the tuners! Oh, I know! Let's ban Auroradon =)"

[@jadegrace1312]

@@maxkuozc The most annoying thing about it is that banning halq could help slow power creep while simultaneously letting us freely unban some cards that never were problems outside of halq.

[@maxkuozc]

@@jadegrace1312 I wonder how much did Konami made from just that card alone. It's only printed in 2 sets, both TCG and OCG. I wonder if they're printing Halq as singles and selling them off the sides, else the faceless corporation would definitely make their game friendlier to more players so more would play and purchase, right? Oh wait, players power tripping from playing Halq combos pay them more, right =D

[@Mr.ToadJanfu]

@@maxkuozc Halq is like 5 dollars as a single, chill. I have no clue why they refuse to ban it when its the problem card in half of recent bans but its certainly not for all the cash they're making off it on the side.

[@astercat49]

Gotta love how in the Eldlich vs Orcust match the guy playing Mekk-knights forgot to play around columns.

[@frankunodostres473]

the best moments: - scrap recycler milling o'lion to actually avoid losing to last turn - true draco losing first round against my brigade boyz! - the plant vs atlantean handloop battle of the FTKs that turned into a grimey sludgefest - danger dark world winning because card destruction gets rid of the opponent's nibiru was hype - the world finally learning that pure dragon rulers aren't broken! been saying that for ages - triple beatrice into obscure stuff beating sky strikers! - infernity just flexing so much that archfiend runs out of targets :D also, finding a really creative way to combo off in game 3... but still losing - ghost reaper and winter cherries ending a game by banishing saryuja - mbt not knowing denglong is a tuner - zoodiac getting really far despite having arguably the lowest ceiling of the entire field - a single copy of smoke grenade of the thief can apparently turn a non-meta deck into THE best deck

[@haxmode6935]

didnt see ruinforce on that list, must be wrong

[@frankunodostres473]

@@haxmode6935 damn did I really not mention it? Guess I was too disappointed after the anticlimactic defeat in the 2nd round

[@xdragoonzero0]

Admittedly it was Pure Dragon Rulers where 2 where still limited and another banned.

[@Dw7freak]

@@xdragoonzero0 Even if Redox came back at 1, a pure dragon ruler deck wouldn't be as viable. While the rank 7 engine is still good, it's not as powerful as the current link and synchro pools are now. Dragon Link, on the other hand, would love the extra 4 special summons.

[@like17badgers]

dont forget Spellbooks also proved that the pure spellbook deck can almost hold a candle the meta in 2022 but you dont even need Ash or Droll to make Judgement a bricky card

[@DarkKnight179]

Well, we learned a few things. Auroradon being banned was huge for the game. Putting FD to 3 was definitely a mistake and the cards clearly an issue without Verte too. Probably needs to be banned or at least limited. And handlooping is still very good.

[@malareon]

Verte was legal for this tournament.

[@jadegrace1312]

Auroradon doesn't matter when the problem is halq and has always been halq. It's boggles the mind how people dont see that.

[@MathiasGoated]

@@jadegrace1312 I think most people know it’s halq, but they also know that Konami doesn’t care and won’t ban it regardless of how stupid it is.

[@chewdoom8415]

@@jadegrace1312 Honestly, it makes more sense to ban the card that was created to combo to halq and becomes useless without it, versus Banning halq that can be used for other stuff. But, might as well ban it since all the synchro decks that relied on the Auroradon combo are dead or maybe leave it be.

[@jadegrace1312]

@@chewdoom8415 They should ban halq because they can then unban bulb and o-lion and also halq is just begging to be further abused in the future. Aurordan is really not even a very good card without halq. Also even with halq and auroradon legal if mbt hadn't unbanned bulb this tournament would've had so much less halqdon.

[@munchrai6396]

All I have to say to the Last Turn player is that we literally have an archetype that can lower your LP to 1000 in 3 activations and yet you still think Wall is the best way to play this deck?

[@geiseric222]

I think they wanted to use the newly unlimited card. To show why light sucks

[@Phyrrus]

aDuck is a true master of bullshit Decks. And i Love Them for it

[@luminous3558]

Yeah half the players in the ftk section of this just permanently have their brain in 2005 era. Ironically enough you get to your combo trap cards via curious dumping it and halqdon setting it from grave or knightmare gryphon. No need to play cup of ass and you can even play handtraps.

[@Phyrrus]

@@luminous3558 but where is the fun in that?

[@Agumame]

@@Phyrrus because instead of going “see this gimmick from 2005 cant beat drytron” maybe wed see a competent strategy abuse the card

[@henriquebecker4453]

This tournament show us that by far the best hit was Auroradon. Really, two of the top four, including the first place, did pretty much way too many degenerate combos because you can basically trade a single card from your hand in to at least two interruptions.

[@Exisist5151]

Or you know they could’ve sniped halq.

[@cloudmindead5560]

@@Exisist5151 halq isnt a problem anymore. halq is a strong card and... that's it. but auroradon was ONLY ever used for degenerate purposes and the sole existence of auroradon limits what konami can create or not for machine type decks. Because if you make a deck that can summon auroradon too easily without halqi, you're fucked.

[@cloudmindead5560]

the only thing that made halqi really BROKEN was the sole existence of STUPID cards like linkross, summon sorcerer, auroradon, union carrier, verte and all that bullshit. Halqi as a card isn't that huge of a problem, but halqi was released when we had those case of STUPID cards legal on the game and halqi was one easy way to access the degenerate shit.

[@XionSteel]

I love how the situation came up that justified the decision to put Halq at 1. That said, im glad that all the jank decks with heavy brick potential went off at least once.

[@munchrai6396]

I cannot believe that Zoodiac got into finals. This is just such an impressive flex on the power of Zeus and it makes me want to make multi layer Zeus in something like Time Thief just because you can add even more materials to it post xyz summon

[@johnathanlemus5584]

This proves why zoodiac was a mistake and that drident, broadbull, and barrage can’t comeback. Also 12+ Handtraps

[@munchrai6396]

@@johnathanlemus5584 Yeah, someone was legit complaining about these decks not running enough handtraps when most of them don't have the space to run anymore than they already do

[@ashikjaman1940]

@@johnathanlemus5584 I feel like Master Duel alone should be enough proof as to why Drident shouldn't come back

[@kauanjos3199]

@@ashikjaman1940 well two months later in master duel we're like "where Drident" tri brigrate is like rouge status now and playing zoodiacs pure with adventure and dpe is a lot better but still a rouge deck. Funny

[@sampowell6874]

So what I've learnt today is that Dragon Ruler Link is an absolutely sick deck and it must never ever be allowed to exist.

[@four-en-tee]

1) Fill your deck with nothing but floodgates, final countdown, and fiber jar 2) Have fun

[@crashking9930]

The win con is losing all your friends along the way

[@puppieslovies]

Hand snipe cards would do wonders as well Battle fader would also be annoying

[@IamGrimalkin]

Don't they conflict? You can just attack the fiber jar to set it off, and it wipes out all the floodgates. Then you go off in MP2 to prevent them restablishing the floodgates. Realistically, if fiber jar was used it would be offensively in a deck that can trigger it natively. Set off your own fiber jar then otk with the five cards in hand. Or maybe you could make a burn deck that uses fiber jar to refuel; again while triggering it yourself using the decks' native effects.

[@puppieslovies]

@@IamGrimalkin fiber jar is pretty weak but if you have enough disruption it can work Chaining droll is also pretty cheeky

[@IamGrimalkin]

@@puppieslovies Droll would stop you drawing off fibre jar too, not just your opponent though.

[@ChrisPBacon-zf5gm]

as much as i love this series, i dont understand why its a 32 man "invitational" and not open like the chalislime, that would be much better to "prove nothing would change" rather than handpick some decks when half the list came off

[@munchrai6396]

Yeah, considering he does a tournament like it on the regular its not that unreasonable to spread this out over multiple streams for a larger tournament. Also, I'm not sure which Discord I know you from, but its good to see that very chuckleworthy name again man

[@geiseric222]

I feel making it open would make it worse and the players in here weren’t that great to begin with. Honestly it would probably be better if the players got more time to lab their decks. Rather than a tourney with functionally new cards

[@munchrai6396]

@@geiseric222 That's a pretty fair point, though its a wee bit hard to account for due to KZbin's short attention span when it comes to relevance. Still doable just a bit hard to optimize

[@luminous3558]

Because people would just play meta

[@coolwoop]

@@geiseric222 yeh I mean 1 dude literally didn't set his magical explosion so idk wht caliber of players might come up

[@Ahamkeira]

Match timestamps with decks and players: (SPOILERS) Top 32 1, 444 - Gadget vs aDuck - Last Turn 14:01 2, Superprogramer_05 - True Draco vs Wildcard_jr - Tri Brigade 21:33 3, Rinpg333 - Orcust vs Neos Phoenix Enforcer - Cerbse Eldlich 26:18 4, Lady Ilex - Plant FTK vs Betmecham - Water 29:55 5, Acematrix Danger Dark World vs unnamed - Zoodiac 36:31 6, Sebto - Salamangreat vs Some1fromthedark - Pure(?) Dragon Rulers 40:48 7, JasSpy - Beatrice VW vs Qwark Baudelioere 43:55 8, Burritoman - Branded Despia vs Keira (me lol) - Infernity 51:26 9, Marissa - Dragon Link vs Hoffin Seller - Wind-Up 57:14 10, jrive - Pendulum Goodstuff vs Drop The Mike 04 - Infernoble 1:01:52 11, Parkergames - Pranks vs Ricape - Ruionforce FTK 1:04:59 12, Tatsym - Drytron vs Taikun - Tempest FTK 1:09:14 13, lemon_salt1 - Magical Explosion vs Torii - Floowandereeze 1:13:27 14, Faraldo - Swordsoul vs code81423 - Spellbook 1:17:58 15, cosmojenkins - Zefera vs Crazywuzza - Dino 1:21:31 16, Sevje - Infernoid vs SecondBass - Pile 1:27:24 Top 16 444 - Gadget vs Wildcard_jr - Tri Brigade 1:29:49 Neos Phoenix Enforcer - Cerbse Eldlich vs Betmecham - Water 1:33:43 unnamed - Zoodiac vs Sebto - Salamangreat 1:37:28 JasSpy - Beatrice VW vs SecondBass - Pile 1:41:15 Burritoman - Branded Despia vs Marissa - Dragon Link 1:46:55 Drop The Mike 04 - Infernoble vs Ricape - Ruionforce FTK 1:53:10 Tatsym - Drytron vs Torii - Floowandereeze 1:58:17 Faraldo - Swordsoul vs cosmojenkins - Zefera 2:01:46 Top 8 Wildcard_jr - Tri Brigade vs Betmecham - Water 2:09:04 unnamed - Zoodiac vs SecondBass - Pile 2:13:25 Marissa - Dragon Link vs Drop The Mike 04 - Infernoble 2:18:43 Tatsym - Drytron vs Faraldo - Swordsoul 2:22:35 Simifinals Wildcard_jr - Tri Brigade vs unnamed - Zoodiac 2:26:59 Drop The Mike 04 - Infernoble vs Tatsym - Drytron 2:30:31 Grand Finals unnamed - Zoodiac vs Drop The Mike 04 - Infernoble 2:34:07 Wrap up 2:37:42

[@Sassaparilla]

The Based Infernity Player. I tip my hat.

[@bioniclelegend7]

I do love how auradon who just got banned was the most oppressive card of this tournament. Took it a bit to get broken but now it can never go back. I did like the deck variety of this tournament but I think it is a good example of how limiting cards can really prevent some cards from being broken. Floowondereeze ultimate offering but because it's at 1 never showed up. Same delinquent duo, just never really appeared in anyones going first hands and if it did, it's just for one game.

[@MomirViggwilv]

In a tournament with 32 broken decks using some of the most powerful cards Konami has ever printed, the most powerful strategy in every single one of these games has been Auroradon combo. Thank fucking christ that card was banned.

[@spacewizardpip1111]

A card that vomits up free bodies totally couldn’t be broken lmao. Who’d have ever thought

[@shadowmetroid18]

And this is why you run Starving Venom in your branded deck. NS the chain, super poly off the archfiend. The barriers are dead and the Starving Venom can fiend both Fleur negates. Edit: wow this Branded player literally has none of the really good super poly haymakers. Mudragon would have ended the dlink

[@NickWuebker]

Watching this makes me wonder if Zeus should go to 1? One of the things that made that Zoo deck so formidable was being able to drop one Zeus on top of another. That’s like a 3-activation Zeus and that’s going to be nearly impossible for any deck to play through.

[@andrejv.2834]

No need because zoo is dead and no other deck can do this

[@joanaguayoplanell4912]

Oh please, my Crystal Beast deck can slam down a 7 material Zeus immediately if I want it to. And it can also get a full power Great Magnus if I don't feel like messing around with the Tribrigade links.

[@king_acceler8755]

@@joanaguayoplanell4912 Yeah but crystal beast eats dirt if you look at them funny

[@The_Vanni]

​@@joanaguayoplanell4912 shiver my fucking timbers for crystal beasts

[@ashikjaman1940]

I think Master Duel alone gives us the evidence that Zeus should be at 1

[@jamesbrincefield9879]

The third round of that FTK mirror was surprisingly sick. Im glad I didn’t skip through it.

[@fdthqwerty]

All these videos have taught me is that Droll is the great equalizer that holds back the degenerate ftks.

[@haruhirogrimgar6047]

Rule of thumb: If Droll is in the meta, the meta is bad and needs like 3 banlists to fix.

[@voidhug]

The fact that the tribrigade player didn’t play apollousa - or at least never made it part of their endboard - and despite that did so well really baffles me

[@deancombs4075]

Right? I was baffled every time he ended on a fucking shuraig going first and still won

[@TigerT242]

Because these players are a lil bad Lol

[@voidhug]

@@deancombs4075 they went way too quickly through their engine most of the time (completely unnecessarily i may add) only to end on shit that does significantly less than the cookie-cutter board of apo for 3 + revolt lol, besides that i think one of tri-brigade's strengths is not to solely rely on their front row but to fall back on revolt and a bunch of other powerful (hand-)traps if their monsters get outed so they were really just playing with fire for the fun of it

[@ascendedfella5041]

Letting halq and auroradon (and arguably verte too) stay legal for this tournament was a TERRIBLE decision. The other MBTs weren't the greatest themselves, but it didn't feel as homogenous as this one, where half the lists are on the adventurer engine and halqdon combos have even more toys to play with.

[@munchrai6396]

At least some cool decks got to top 8 this time. Grass Roots Dragon was literally the only interesting deck that got any traction last year and even that's debatable

[@justice8718]

I was disappointed that that tri-brigade didn't go branded in this tourney.

[@michaelkeha]

What do you expect from a players base that has been trained and indoctrinated into don't think for yourself don't brew or build just follow what the meta tells you to play like good little sheep

[@DEClimax]

@@michaelkeha chill

[@nethius100]

The decklists were decided before the banlist dropped

[@TwoToneShoes]

>Unlimits Quik Fix, Resort, One For One >No Spyral players Me with the big Sadge. #BringBackMasterPlan

[@DarkKnight179]

Tbh, if you unban Master Plan I dont think you can unlimit Quik Fix. Rest should be fine though.

[@TwoToneShoes]

@@DarkKnight179 Maybe not but we know Master Plan unban is okay. Wasn't even the best deck in 2020 when she got banned lol. You could definitely take Master Plan and Resort off the list and the deck would be worse than modern decks.

[@Ahamkeira]

There was one last time at least

[@jadegrace1312]

@@TwoToneShoes You could put every spyral card to 3 and the deck would be only okay, but people are too scared cause it was tier 0 once and tier 1 two other times. Like I don't know how anyone can say with a straight face that it is better than anything that BASED was doing, and the deck can't even play adventure cause it needs it's normal

[@munchrai6396]

@@jadegrace1312 Actually, considering I was able to get off a pretty consistent Time Thief SPYRAL deck when Master Plan was legal I don't actually think the deck really needs its normal summon effects. It can pretty easily extend just off of a pitched master plan and a few SPYRALS into Double Helix to get Quick Fix. There's also Machine Dupe to consider if you really wanna unlimit Quick Fix so the deck can definitely run Adventure as long as it gets Master Plan back

[@Blackguy610]

Really liked that gadget deck. There's no way it's meta relevant but a one take testing on it would be fun.

[@SquibbyJ]

I missed it live but I love the Moron Banlist. These decks are always sick. I also love that an ad hit me right at the most ironic line.

[@Xxkiller914]

Honestly there's so many skill issues in the tourney, tatsym is great but he got to run away with so many games because his opponents were outplaying themselves like not otking/having a interacting board but instead sitting on a denglong. A lot of the players have great decks in there hands but aren't piloting properly, maybe give them more time to practice before date of tourney?

[@NintendoMasterNo1]

This is a tournament for fun and entertainment, not a serious event. You shouldn't expect YCS level plays here.

[@justice8718]

@@NintendoMasterNo1 YCS is just going to be another Despia win against tons of nerfed decks.

[@Xxkiller914]

@@NintendoMasterNo1 Right but if we're trying to prove that certain cards should be allowed to come off a banlist, a skill level is needed to ensure that opinion has validity, don't you think so?

[@commiecomrade2644]

@@NintendoMasterNo1 He specifically says its meant to prove a point. Several times. I think if you want to truly prove or disprove that point you need more data. Having misplays is realistic since Im sure people misplay at official tourneys. Having a ton of really obvious misplays is less so. The main thing this showed is that the FTKs people are so scared of are much more inconsistent in the current meta. Monsters with on summon effect, negations, protection, and floating effects are far more common. So you really have a different dynamic than you would have back these banned cards first came out.

[@Tatsym]

I was scared to death for the SS player then he said he never played the deck before and well 2/0

[@Sparky-ck5hr]

The real problem with this format isn't the unbans but its the god awful players and lists mbt picks no ones playing any handtraps so we just see a bunch of halqdon and bad ftks stare at each other and it justs end up being a die roll with some random shit come out on top

[@dolukiri]

The tri brigade player, please man. Save us.

[@JudojugsVtuber]

they had way more combo than they had control or stun decks. Just bad representation for the decks that could exist.

[@bhmayhem]

True facts

[@munchrai6396]

Dude, every single player except Noid and some FTKs is running Droll in the side or main deck and most of them are also playing Nibiru and Ash as well. Clearly that's not enough hand traps for you

[@xSailorDoom]

you do realize that even the players who did not get picked to be in the tournament were not using nearly as much of what was available to them in their decks so who is really to blame

[@Carlitonsp1]

I just realized an odd flaw about MBT's unbanning criteria of "The Meta would be unchanged". Doesn't that mean that a great portion of the cards he's unbanning are also benefiting the decks that are already the best? If you unban a card that only cements a Meta stronghold, surely that's good reason to keep it banned. His point would be made a lot better if a Meta deck that played no unbanned cards won, but that wouldn't be very interesting for the player piloting that deck.

[@maxkuozc]

your point would be valid if he allowed more players to play. This 32-player tournament went on for 2.5 hours, imagine if you have to include top meta without the newly unbanned cards, the video would be maybe 10 hours long and I don't think people have the time to sit through that.

[@Carlitonsp1]

@@maxkuozc Fair enough.

[@puppieslovies]

The idea is that the unhits may be annoying but they don't significantly change the gameplay of existing meta decks and they don't make any existing rogue decks better than like tier 2

[@Carlitonsp1]

@@puppieslovies If that's it, then why isn't Pot of Greed and Graceful Charity unbanned? That meets those requirements.

[@puppieslovies]

@@Carlitonsp1 if you put both at 3 then every deck can easily dig 40 cards on turn 1 and reach insane levels of consistency and essentially no upper ceiling on power Even either card at 1 is just a huge free boost if you open with it. At least extra deck cards have summoning conditions and usually only work with some archetypes, even if they are bonkers strong like halq and verte if you hit other cards they stay reasonable

[@UniGya]

I like how through the entire tournament Zoodiac Barrage didn't even come up and Zoo still made it to finals

[@Iceclaw77]

Okay, but that Infernity loss after they had such an incredibly strong game 1 was devastating.

[@PhoenixLive_YT]

That summon of Zeus on top of another Zeus had me cracking

[@bryanperezbustos6049]

The transition from awoke to asleep MBT killed me dawg

[@jcprofit]

That Beatrice deck was so based, I’m so upset it didn’t make it

[@KayBizz203]

What an amazing send off for Infernobles. Gonna miss Auradon.

[@chrisweskamp9466]

can i say... dude be spitin off those card names like a well-seasoned rapper

[@Vasterlan0ftw]

Dam the Beatrice was so cool, I was hoping for that to make it to the end. Also on a side note, I kinda wanna see how crazy the pend decks would be in you take off elect.

[@NoDeePop]

After finishing game 1 of match 1 I can officially say this is the best yugioh video on the internet

[@isamaxwell5347]

1:00:00 That windup player really said “damn, that’s a lot of cards. Too bad I’m not gonna read em.”

[@vehtty]

I absolutely love this video dude. It's chill, hilarious, & epic!

[@Frankd24875]

amazing shout casting/commentary

[@superprogamer_0518]

Man I was so happy when I top decked master peace. Game 2 I might have won had they not hit exactly skill drain. Glad I was able to entertain the draco enjoyers at least

[@fjorddkcckkc3783]

Honestly I wish nibiru tokens had to be in attack position, it would make the card a little more bearable

[@sebastianosuna8498]

I've been waiting forever for this! LESSSS GOOOOO!

[@TheElly750]

Bro in gonna have to thank Dzeef. I found your content only through you guys going at it in the roulette matches. And now i have a nice juicy backlog of content to chew on. Amazing

[@imaxchau7706]

"Diablosis the mind hacker!, what the hell is this card?" And Konami took that personally

[@crusadiamaximus755]

ikr

[@pokefreakplays]

I would be super interested in a community voted Moron Banlist Tournament. Get people to vote on the cards to bring back and see how much chaos is actually caused.

[@b0tjosh]

You're a great commentator been a while since i watched a tournament and enjoyed it

[@BasicallyFuckOff]

I watched the entire video, great content my guy

[@kyleyuen245]

I'm proud that draco took a game off of tri brigade, never gonna forget true draco won one of these

[@killerfox9674]

I can't believe mbt thinks duo is fine but still no redox. :(

[@shawnjavery]

They can all go to three and no one would play them. At best they are going to be playable, the dragon rulers require too much set ups to be good.

[@Nocturne989]

@@shawnjavery Did we watch the same DLink player? Sure the Pure DR list wasn't great, but the Rulers in Dragon Link were completly cracked, literally on their own pulling a win from literally zero card hand and an empty board, just by having dragons in grave, that thing that D Link does really well already just by playing.

[@jadegrace1312]

@@Nocturne989 dragon link is just being left further and further in the dust. I'm pretty confident that within a year the rulers will be able to come back without any issue. not that Konami will do that though.

[@haruhirogrimgar6047]

@@jadegrace1312 Thankfully. No dragon combo deck needs or deserves a buff. They are boring cancer to play against or watch.

[@chrish6415]

@@jadegrace1312 I think the bigger nail in the coffin for a lot of dragon strategies right now is a little something DIFO gave albaz.dek: alba-lenatus. "Oh, you made a huge board of dragons just for me? Let me just set this monster so I can eat it right up". I still think releasing all the cards at once that will trigger PTSD in a certain group of players is a bad idea. Maybe ease them into it: wind to semi and take one of the others to 1. It didn't ruin everything? bring them all to 1 and unlimit wind. Still no apocalypse? Rinse, repeat until they're all off...or until the next dragon strategy ruins the format.

[@llamaryder1]

I love that gadget deck so much. But they REALLY need more quick effects to end on than just utopic future+ basically vanillas pass. There's so many good rank 4s, dweller is an ftk, rafflesia is an interruption that can insulate vs nibiru, tornado dragon maybe, even a redoer would be better than ending on exciton.

[@salehalotaibi2903]

that was fun, for the next one can we unban the pendulum mechanic

[@wildcard_jr7967]

Absolutely loved being a part of this tournament. Didn't expect to even get picked, let alone make it to semi finals! Hopefully I can come back next time for some redemption, or maybe get into a CSM sometime soon. As for why I did pure: I tried out a Bird Up build at first cuz I wanted to use Simorgh, but I struggled while building it. The thing that got me to go pure with the build was the fact that I wanted to use DPE, but I realized while doing test hands that FD conflicts with Simorgh, so that's when I decided to build it pure. Also, sorry for nearly giving you a hernia in my TD match, MBT. Still not used to the EDOPro UI even after 4 rounds of this tournament (hence a couple of miss clicks in some of my games)

[@RiotAugust]

Honestly with how the Infernoble player bungled the combos I'm really surprised they took it but I guess that goes to show how powerful smoke grenade and hand rip is! like i guess im Gianfranco pilled for Draccosack combo lines for that deck tho cause seeing it end with power tool or coltwing on field was sad but INFERNOBLE BEST DECK

[@awildsylveon9896]

48:00 dang, Sky Striker Ace - Destroyer Phoenix Enforcer really putting in work

[@SnailBot]

from this tournament I thing konami just did a lot of right thing. I never ever want to play with that 4 activation zeus and water hand loop again in my life. Thank you mbt to made me remember that.

[@mathewricafrente5984]

I want to see you make a tournament where you unban everything, just to see how much it would destroy Yugioh

[@chainz339]

Just put everything to 3. That would be absolutely chaos and a shitshow. I’m so down for that

[@stephangg000]

This just proved that Joseph needs to go further. Thunder dragon ColosSUS to 3 LETS GO. DONT BE THE COWARD THAT KONAMI IS

[@munchrai6396]

Would be very funny if he did that and we actually got some Subterror representation because the deck can actually go into it fairly easily off of one of their larger monsters simply because its a Thunder that activates in hand. Also, Nemesis could literally get this splashed into any deck that banishes, so there's that working against it

[@menaatefadly]

Dude whenever I play against Thunder dragon colossus, they leave it there for one turn then.. Just stupidly Fuse it away… Like that thing is literally a freaking continuous droll and lock bird ONLY for your opponent Master Duel players mate

[@siftheadsdude]

It could definitely be at 1, I was hoping it’d be unbanned this list because it’d go really well with branded despia…which might be why it wasn’t unbanned lol

[@ACE_77]

26:29 i was in tears from laughter i was waiting for you to tell me which is which and u said idk lmao killed me i swear, decks be playing staples

[@giroppa99]

Expertly selected players we got for this tournament

[@matthewholmes2332]

Anyone else catch that "1 Mind Control"

[@kacpikachu5951]

I decided to do some quick back of the napkin math for how many days yata was banned, just out of my own curiosity. Turns out it’s only about 6,570 days, not taking into account when exactly it was banned or leap days.

[@munchrai6396]

Dang, that's some dedication right there. I wonder how long it will be before Pot of Greed or one of the hand ripping cards will be legal again. I'm not sure which one was banned first honestly

[@leonelcorrales8196]

Been waiting for this one!

[@MrPikminmaster]

Every time I fall asleep to any yugioh video I wake up to this video being about 2 hours in to another rewatch. For some reason the algorithm really likes this one.

[@liviousgameplay1755]

MBT: Chat, the two finalists barely got anything, I don't know what happened?! Auroradon: Don't look at me. Verte: I didn't do it.

[@Stalutes64]

What’s sad is infernoble literally can’t do anything without auroradon I’ve been trying to make it work with the new banlist but it’s just so bad Edit: I found the holy grail of infernoble combos after labbing no auroradon builds till 5 am the dream is not dead in fact I think this build is unironically stronger than before :)

[@johnofalltrades8266]

What did you find for them?

[@Stalutes64]

@@johnofalltrades8266 Isolde searches destruction sword master and special summons Armageddon knight Armageddon knight pitches plaguespreader Plague and Isolde for halq which summons red rose Red rose and Armageddon knight for power tool, then search D.D.Reincarnation Pheonix blade banishing Isolde and Armageddon knight DDR discards pheonix blade and summons back Armageddon knight who pitches zephyros Zephyros bounces DDR back to your hand to summon himself, this sends Armageddon knight to grave Pheonix blade banishing Armageddon knight a second time alongside one of the mats you made Isolde with DDR discarding destruction swordsman, summon back Armageddon knight pitch dragon buster destruction sword Synchro summon shooting riser and send ash blossom to grave to make it level 4 Synchro buster dragon and then use its effect to reborn buster blader (unique interaction with his name change + Isolde) Basal rose shoot + power tool make Baronne de fleur Opponent’s standby phase use buster dragon’s effect to equip dragon buster destruction sword giving its extra deck lock on top of buster dragon’s type change effect Opponent’s Main phase 1 tag out halq for formula synchron to draw 1 and then use formula synchron with buster dragon to make satellite warrior and pop 4

[@johnofalltrades8266]

@@Stalutes64 Honestly really cool combo and I appreciate you explaining the whole thing. The Isolde being able to summon the Buster Blader is news to me actually and was super neat to find out about.

[@fallenred1119]

@@Stalutes64 As someone who enjoys playing Buster Blader, I now need a decklist so I can try a new archetype of knights lol.

[@AlphaSquadZero]

Joseph getting cut-off before the end of a duel makes for quite the funny editing.

[@victikirby15]

Man, I kind of miss these tournaments. I get that there’s not really anywhere to go after unbanning 100 cards, but it was fun to see some weird jank stuff played at a comparatively high level

[@Looneh777]

Watching this now and seeing the diabolis kinda mate my day

[@crusadiamaximus755]

same lol

[@sand644]

I think the thing I learned from this video is no matter how good the deck is, if god says start with garnets, YOU WILL DRAW GARNETS.

[@kotkafer2292]

The thumbnail you did in an earlier episode of this described this entire series best... *The Hubris of man*

[@fosterdawson7339]

Woah! The Hubris of Man Is my favorite KZbin thumbnail and will probably stay that way for awhile

[@iainhansen1047]

Modern yugioh in a nutshell, unbanned tones of cards to help non meta decks and every deck just does halq aura combo, verte into hero

[@bloodarcher7841]

More like the players are unoriginal glue eaters

[@s.dalner7245]

If this tourney sat out to prove that "nothing would change", I don't really think it accomplished that goal. A few reasons: 1: A sample size of a 32 man tournament is simply not nearly enough to determine the trends of an entire meta. 2: Metas take time to be "solved". Weeks, maybe months of playtesting and people going to locals, regionals and other places where actual data can be gathered. With half the banlist suddenly free game, it could even take longer to establish what would be good in this format. A single tournament cannot accomplish this. 3: Other comments have pointed out that many players made subpar decisions in terms of gameplay and deckbuilding. Misplays happen, but to this extent, it muddles the overall results of the tournament, skewing what might be learned from it. Overall, I think this was immensely entertaining, but nonetheless ineffective at communicating the message of "nothing would change".

[@MasterQuestMaster]

I think the message was maybe serious the first time, and since then it's just been "removing cards from the list, then doing an insignificant tournament for content"

[@GalacticFall8]

Wait until he realizes that Beatrice is at three in Master Dual

[@munchrai6396]

OMG, that would be the best episode of Steal My Deck ever. Though I think it may be too expensive to qualify. Still, if he makes it I might finally subscribe to this Meta madman

[@wolfgod6443]

That gizmek dragon guy is a free summon if your opponent has 2 or more extra deck monsters on their field, and can spend LP to board wipe extra deck monsters. When it's destroyed, you gain some LP and I'm sure that counts for something.

[@pikapuffin368]

That Round 1 Game 3 with Water tho…that is as sick as hell.

[@aDuck443]

As the last turn player, that was certainly a game. Cup of ace based tho

[@munchrai6396]

Might I suggest trying to use a small Dinomorphia engine the next time we try Last Turn. They can get to 1000 Life Points off of one card and it even packs some pretty nice disruption ontop of that. Definitely better than Wall even if you have to watch for Ash

[@luminous3558]

Instead of bad draw cards use gryphon to set your trap and send it to grave via curious or goods.

[@aDuck443]

@@munchrai6396 Yeah my original list used dinomorphia instead of numeron, but then Difo wasn't legal SO I had to be less based

[@kenpatchiramasama1076]

bro you CANNOT put master peace back in, even haggis-head farfa understands that lmao

[@kenpatchiramasama1076]

also when the hell is the sadistic ban list (banning over half the currently legal tcg cards) happening

[@Quasartist]

I'm simply in awe over the Water vs Plant FTK match and I'm only 36 minutes into the video. Gonna be a wild ride lmao. You just don't see matches of Yugioh like that anymore, it's like that match was pulled straight from 2011. I find it funny though how the decks not using hand traps end up being the best match (so far). I think next you should consider a no-handtrap tournament and just see where things go, since a lot of decks are completely invalid and walled out by just 1 hand trap.

[@afeathereddinosaur]

That drytron match followed by the Floowandereese match really got my mimimimimimimis going

[@motokuchoma]

Anyone notice that the die roll pretty much won every 3-of? I think these banned cards just show that they make going first insanely OP and it doesn't matter how janky it is, if you go first you pretty much win, especially if your FTK/First Turn Board can play through Ash/Droll

[@nickel-bolas951]

Seeing Auroradon so many times has jokerised MBT

[@johnathanlemus5584]

Mbt is about to say the gamer word.

[@sailornibiru626]

hearing "Master peace at three" ALWAYS makes me coom

[@1stClassGenesis]

Incredible thumbnail, Joseph!

[@chaoticmeatballtcg5825]

Dang, this video be getting ALL the ad revenue with how long it is, next time do 64 players for more lol

[@KyanbuXM]

Clearly we need to unban more stuff. We need to embrace the Chaos.

[@Fressbremse]

This only seems like Chaos because no one knows what to do. If this was the actual banlist, it would take some time for refined decks to rise to power and the formatted would be completely dominated by few absolute powerhouse decks.

[@czzafterlife6308]

I think what should happen for the next one is give players like a month to test decks and then let them duke it out so that people have their decks finalized

[@W0WlS]

love this can't wait for a redo with aroradon and verte ban

[@GentleIceZ]

my takeaway from this is modern yugioh is a fundamentally unhealthy game. Why is everything that's so good also so boring

[@MrTweetumss00]

This is just the master duel banlist

[@jtktheboss5474]

I die inside a little everytime mbt says choosynoko

[@versutus2699]

The Three-atrice deck is one of the funniest and coolest things I've ever seen

[@The808andrew808]

New title: “ I Unbanned over half of the Yu-Gi-Oh! ban list just to justify to Jillian that I could continue to pedal a children’s card game as a viable source of income for ours and our children’s future. ” pretty please MBT!?

[@bububob1]

probably one of the least funny things ive ever read nice

[@sluggernott]

It's funny how it's marketed as "a children's card game", yet even college educated adults don't fully understand it or read the cards properly.

[@Hempujonsito]

@@bububob1 made the whole function laugh fr

[@diobrandooo3061]

Gotta start adding cards to the banlist. Make the healthiest format ever