Ishizu Tearlaments (2023) vs. Runick Spright (2022) | Cross-Banlist Cup 2024

[@jsahm38]

SPOILER SHIELD!!!

[@shadowspector3611]

Doesn’t work

[@victikirby15]

Drawing all three Lava Golems in a row during Game 1 was hilarious

[@otsman5614]

I once drew all 3 copies of harp horror off of fountain. It wasn't pleasant

[@Carlitonsp1]

Runick Spright just looked unstoppable in games 1 & 3.

[@musiyevonchilla6769]

In the end both decks are cancerous

[@Rain593]

​@@musiyevonchilla6769 Tear is based.

[@fumitann]

They weren't actually going against any real disruption from the tear side during their turns so they were free to build a board.

[@Jcbryant123]

@@musiyevonchilla6769 Being powerful isnt inherently equivalent to being cancerous. The same way some players like 10-deck formats, others prefer a tier 0 formats. And as long as that only occurs once every 3-5 years, for a 3-4 month or less period, I dont see what the huge issue is. What's the problem? There are different skill sets required to be successful in a mirror match format versus formats with lots of variety. Some may accell at knowing how every tier 1-2 deck performs, every deck's combo lines and when to handtrap every deck.Whereas some players enjoy a format where the game comes down to having the same tools as your opponent, and the winner determined by who is superior with those tools.

[@colossaldonut5190]

The rematch we've all been waiting for! Well, this and Spellbooks vs Exodia.

[@Jaddas]

When there were less than 2 minutes for the last game, i thought "Oh no, Tear is cooked", but you can never count out the Sea princesses.

[@verbalengine95]

I saw a minute left in the video and spright was up 2-1 and I'm like "Oh so obviously they win, right?"

[@johnathanlkjunior4204]

Yeah me too. It was a big surprise :D

[@andrejv.2834]

I knew tear would win in that situation, runick games take a while to finish even if the opponent has realistically lost after turn 1 most of the time

[@zawarudogaming3961]

Droplet in tear are insane. That card supposed to go minus but in tear it's +10

[@juliamedina3322]

Same.

[@charlesfort6602]

Game 4 all they needed was 1 lava golem, it would break the whole board

[@reaperdeathgod1]

Wait i think i've seen this before.... Many times.... At my locals.....

[@red_paradise]

I hated Tear as much as most people back in the day, and both matches with Spright going full "you can't play the game" most of the time were still unwatchably bad for me. Nice revenge match for Tear, and a well earned place in the finals!

[@julioortiz8453]

Damn PotE really did powercrept ygo 😳

[@ShinerCCC]

the game will never stop going through shockwaves of power stampede every 3 months ever since Zoodiac broke the game, by making 2 of a kind into 1 of a kind

[@floooowandereese]

Thank you! Strongest Tiaraments!

[@TheCrankyTechnician]

A lot of experts here like always

[@cirnospaghet]

It's so funny how these decks could have realistically play each other with only a few changes. Really goes to show how much a single set can do to a format

[@thanderhop1489]

clutch droplet

[@juliamedina3322]

This feels like a tennis match. If you manage to break a serve, it's very likely you'll win.

[@Linkingx2]

Thankyou Battary man for Tear videos for xmas and new year - mill 8 feel great in this year as well :)

[@animevolution880]

Now its gonna be funny between snack eye and tiaraments strongest, Snake eyes handtrap may not be enough to stop tear if even one of the millers connect

[@andrejv.2834]

I wonder what weird play or misplay is gonna happen that makes tear win in 5 this time, it seems that's often the case with their matches

[@hieubuiminh4739]

I mean we already see what happened in the group stage. But I wouldn't be surprised if Snake Eyes somehow sacked its way to a win in the 2nd match

[@actrose4272]

@@andrejv.2834 I think you meant to say how tear can misplay so it even gets to a game 5

[@andrejv.2834]

@@hieubuiminh4739 yeah we saw snake eye misplay and lose, I wonder if they'll do that again

[@hieubuiminh4739]

@@andrejv.2834 I mean to be fair what deck has truly been played to its fullest potential in a CBC, if one takes a read at the comments in other videos

[@HenryHl-m8c]

Appreciating all the recent content

[@maxicruz246]

Tremendo final, dos decks de casi el mismo formato muy parejos. Ese último juego fue asombroso de ver.

[@bossman4799]

Very close again and now we get to see another big rematch with Exodia and Spellbook.

[@TCGSyphax]

i skipped 30 seconds ahead in game 1 like 7 times and it was still going. runicks lack of BP in games they are going to win is just funny

[@doomdd3860]

Let's GOOOOOO

[@Dwerynith]

Welp, tear is unstoppable if you don’t floodgate them

[@antonbrown17]

As much as Tear as overtuned, these games showed me why people liked the deck a lot. You actually got to interact, where as some of the best decks immediately before and after it were just floodgate stuff

[@stevendavis6157]

​@@antonbrown17 Yu-Gi-Oh community is full of hypocrites! Cry about the little things and support the big problems like tear.

[@ElGrandeFalco]

Bruh 3 lava golems in hand 😂😂😂😂

[@Jakc_Tk]

Game 3, it was really important to play around called by

[@ranmaster17]

I celebrated the win like i was watching a world cup semi final

[@Kuribohdudalala]

POTE might’ve been the greatest format of all time

[@rueblie2627]

Well that’s the tournament then, nothing else left stands a chance.

[@savk0n1memes]

TEARLAMENTS COMEBACK, LET'S GOOOOOOO

[@MistBestWaifu2]

MY GOAT TEARLAMENTS!!!!!! Intentionally losing so you can beat every deck in the losers bracket is crazy lmao. Can't wait for the 6-0 in the finals

[@angelrosado3011]

Wow that was an oppressive game 4 and 5 by tear

[@rythvicr3240]

Definitely one of the more exciting matches, even if tear is a ridiculous deck to face against. They might actually stand a chance against the exodia menace.

[@srvntofAllah987]

@Lithium2300 how can Tears draw TTT in 1st game, when they play TTT only in Side Deck??? Some mistake there

[@jazealticktactic2921]

I seen this battle a thousand times

[@不只是谁所无名找小二]

Wait, again? Didn't we have this matchup 1 week ago

[@Lithium2300]

Loser’s bracket, yup

[@antonbrown17]

Tear said "run it back" 😤

[@alalmass7536]

@@antonbrown17lol they now there the strongest deck😂

[@FostedFlake]

Very nice of them to make the games so close when tear honestly could have taken all 5 of those games problem is tear is so difficult

[@DaviLSWithYou]

Grande Tear, perdiendo a propósito antes para humillar a Bricktira y Midrunick spright. Se notó personal 😂

[@rocapbg9518]

Why did Spright go for blue off starter in game 5? Wouldn't it be better to go for read/carrot?

[@charlesfort6602]

They were out, they only play 1 each

[@orga7777]

Ahhh. Perfection.

[@jared_tech3511]

LET'S GOOOOO YESSSS

[@nbonasoro]

That game 5 made my heart sink. Spright deserved to win this.

[@antonbrown17]

won game 3 off a floodgate, it deserves nothing!

[@MayhemMessiah]

No matter how good you are at this game, you can always just die to RNG.

[@HYDEinallcaps]

Get real, but this is Runick with a Spright engine. Mill slop is not Spright, don't slander a kickass deck like that.

[@edoardoporta9607]

I think g1 if you had kept your hand, ns shuffler and play with bystial during his turn it would have been better, the endboard couldnt go further and he cannot kill

[@Broadbull-q4f]

Great video

[@parkouremaster]

"Modern Yugioh is boring" Modern Yugioh:

[@StormFate]

Spright "won" the diceroll in both tear/spright matches. Even if tear is a really strong deck, we all know the importance of going 1st for most of the decks. I think it would have been fairer to allow tear to go 1st in this match, and in general make sure that for every rematch, the going 1st deck is the one that was 2nd on the first match.

[@Drilbit]

For next years cross banlist cup it would be cool to see more ocg decks like baboon burn or tyrant neptune ftk. Its interesting to see meta decks we never got in the tcg lol

[@pedrohulk6928]

I feel like these matches for tear were way closer than they should have been, maybe it was just the bad openings and mills but maybe tear could have been piloted better 😂❤

[@musiyevonchilla6769]

I mean, its not like Sprights are fair & balanced either, so surely they can compete with Tears with their own broken stuff

[@pedrohulk6928]

@@musiyevonchilla6769 true spright and runick on their own are already broken and unfair, combine them together and it’s a nightmare

[@musiyevonchilla6769]

@@pedrohulk6928 I bet Konami will really come up with something like that in the near future

[@MistBestWaifu2]

It's mostly due to this Tear list being made to beat Tear and nothing else. A list like the one that won YCS Lyon would be far better for CBC

[@andrejv.2834]

Tear is just not as good as people remember, it's like with old games where you go "the visuals are great it doesn't need a remaster/remake" and then you boot up the game and see the actual visuals are bad but your brain filled in the memory blanks so it looks better in memories Most people don't know much about tear besides "tear 0" and "tiaraments strongest", based on their actual results they aren't "even" as good as snake eye for example (lower average representation and lower ycs win percentage) Ofc it's a very strong deck, but without custom side decks and non engine most matches between modern/mr5 cbc decks will go to a game 5 as going 2nd is extremely difficult in these circumstances (snake eye was one bad topdeck away from losing to spright after hand trapping them 4 times for example)

[@Lucky-st8ly]

What a match

[@frankartanis1290]

I have a question. How does the CBC determines which deck goes first? Spright almost defeated Tear there thanks to it going first again just like the last time. It puts decks going second in a huge disadvantage.

[@sejotejerina3732]

Welcome to Yu-Gi-Oh xd. Luck is factor in this game like it or not. Also, luck decides your opening hand, that's important because you cannot search nonengine (side deck in general). That's a factor a lot of players refuse to accept but that's how it is. Edopro replays don't save the rock/paper/scissors like duelingbook replays unless I'm missing something, so we can't see that 🤔.

[@frankartanis1290]

@@sejotejerina3732 I have seen similar cross banlist tournaments where each decks takes turns to choose whether they want to go first (usually this means the players take turns to go first). After every even number of duels, if one deck wins 2 more games than the other deck, this deck wins the match.

[@sejotejerina3732]

@frankartanis1290 oh no I think I have argued with you before, you are the one that suggested "tenis alike tie breaks"? If that's the case I'm not gonna discuss that again, I'm just gonna tell you that's not how this series works dude, and that's for the best, since 2021 we have this tournament system which is the best and most accurate. Nothing to change here.

[@frankartanis1290]

@@sejotejerina3732 I don't know how tennis works, but if that's similar to what I suggested, I'm all for it.

[@wtfbros5110]

runick literally got T1'd hahaha

[@MarioLopez-xs3vc]

It's amazing how difficult a time Tear has outing something like I:P Avramax without finding exactly Droplet. But of course they sacked their way into it Game 5.

[@pargustavsson712]

They have multiple ways, the issue occurs when they need to get through avramax AND multiple disruptions

[@zenmaines355]

It’s because this awful list doesn’t have Zeus in it

[@antonbrown17]

You watched Runick Spright win a game off the back of a floodgate and this is what you have to say. Smh

[@chewdoom8415]

​@@pargustavsson712This list, in particular, does not have many ways to out avramax with engine alone. Making baronne in order to crash would be the best cost effective way I think

[@pargustavsson712]

@@chewdoom8415 baronne is indeed one of the ways you do it, herald is another. and ofc half the side exist to deal with "break my board" situations

[@ParadiseExile]

TIARALAMENTS STRONGEST

[@SiRarayBeureum666]

BOTH OF THEM ARE TOXIC

[@passaroquetzalcoatlus6205]

I love yugioh

[@alalmass7536]

Bruh pls stop tearlamenst why there so good lol😂

[@Thedowche]

As someone who stopped playing in 2020, I was completely lost on what was happening this entire match 😅😅

[@andrejv.2834]

Weird sequencing in g4 from spright, with those talents they could've tried to snipe one of the backrow with destruction, maybe even activate fountain beforehand to bait out the known cryme and then take elf/merrli that elf reborns in response, make gigantic and get another starter from get (rulk negates activations) and go from there Sure they don't have access to the runick engine this way, but tear is on nothing but a rulkallos after elf gets banished by smashers so pure spright can easily do it from there

[@ssengageisop3952]

Yah spright had some lines with the destruction

[@MistBestWaifu2]

Doesn't the Merrli still mill even if you take it? I'm assuming the I:P vs talents ruling applies in this case. They milled a shuffler and miller so they can keep you off all monsters on field. I may nit be understanding what you're trying to say tho

[@andrejv.2834]

@@MistBestWaifu2 if they chain elf to talents to reborn merrli and you take her you'll be the controller on resolution, which is when the window for her effect would be So you can mill 3 as the runick spright player if you want to, but that's only good if fountain is up They can also go talents to draw, but yeah parlereino could pop merrli and perform a fusion summon, most likely for dragostapelia Activating fountain could also bait either the pop, in which case you take with talents and maybe win, or the cryme, in which case you're relying on 2 random draws against an additional dragostapelia as the spright player

[@MistBestWaifu2]

@andrejv.2834 That's the OCG ruling. Look at the TCG ruling for such interactions. Say you have I:P and your opponent uses talents to take and you chain I:P to it to bring out S:P and they take the S:P. On resolution you (the player who summoned S:P) would be the one who gets to activate it even though your opponent controls it. I don't see why it would be ruled differently for this interaction. By baiting the pop are you talking about Perehlerino? There's no reason to pop the field spell on their turn while you have shufflers in the gy unless you are scared of giving them one draw

[@andrejv.2834]

@@MistBestWaifu2 do you have a link for the ruling? I tested it on edopro (not official ik, but idk what to search to find this case) and it works as I said it would, with sp in mind the player who takes control of sp would get to activate her effect after the chain resolves (talents cl1, ip cl2) And yes I am talking about fountain, but I also mentioned merrli as that's a much better target to pop, even cryme shouldn't be used on fountain, but trying to snipe it with the 50/50 is still better than whatever spright did in the actual game

[@donaldlivingston75]

Wow. Ishizu Tear is clinging onto this tournament by the skin of their chinny chin chin. Could not have been any closer to elimination the last few games. I'm surprised the games were so difficult for Tear...the normal non Ishizu variant dominated vs an equally or more powerful Spright deck last year. Next matchup should be a nice 3-4 minute shortie. Exodia duels are never long no matter which way they go. Gotta give it to Spellbooks just becaue Jowgen ends Exodia on the spot.

[@engelsvladimir7727]

This version of tear was tier 0 so the lists were built mainly for the mirror.

[@JackTheRiffer024]

Only reason Tear won game 5 was because of droplet. Clutch as fuck.

[@elementalherosparkman168]

Okay cool. Can the Tear elitists finally stop crying now and can we finally move on with the tournament?

[@thenightstalker6165]

😂 anyone playing these types of decks are scrubs with no skill these decks just 1 card combo and have hand traps for anything you do it's toxic you can't say ones elitist and not the others

[@toadfan64]

Tear players are more annoying than Yugioh boomers at this point. I'm glad that deck was destroyed by the banlist and they'll never have it back.

[@MistBestWaifu2]

Ironic huh. Your comment history has literally just been crying about Tearlaments. If you don't like the deck that's fine but you're literally calling the kettle black

[@thenightstalker6165]

@@toadfan64 any deck after 2017 needs to be destroyed by the banlist so annoying watching someone link climb off one summon get 3 negates and 3 hand traps 🤣 no skill involved there

[@toadfan64]

@@thenightstalker6165 Konami needs to do something about 1 card combos, and these decks that combo endlessly.

[@CrystronHalq]

Yeah great... missed that 1 runick card for game 5. Unfortunately. Ishizu tearlaments has been very lucky this cross banlist.

[@andrejv.2834]

Their opponents misplaying helped them more so far

[@pargustavsson712]

"Lucky". Basically every game where their opponent fails to floodgate them or build an unbreakable board Tear just destroys their opponent

[@antonbrown17]

​@@pargustavsson712exactly like what are they talking about

[@bdc129]

​@@pargustavsson712bro that's how modern yugioh work, you either going first and set up unbreakable board or play 20+ handtraps to stop your opponent completely

[@pargustavsson712]

@@bdc129 not sure why you are talking about hts in relation to tear, when tear is one of the best decks at ignoring hts

[@ssjason1962]

As much as old yugioh is better, when two equally op decks face off, you get a decent, if dice-rollish type match. If spellbooks win the dieroll I expect them to win.

[@orga7777]

I hope so. Screw this Exodia deck.