BEST DECKS IN THE NEW YUGIOH META!

[@ScarredWill]

Glad to see none of my decks (Plunder Patroll, Suships, and Nouvelles) made the tier list. That OBVIOUSLY means they are too powerful to even be considered fairly.

[@jessekottonygo]

obviously ;)

[@mickeyzer0725]

Bro's got a thing for cooking and boats

[@NotControlledByMillipedes]

Hol up maties, Let em' cook up a feast fur ye!

[@CrisRullz]

would like to see your nouvelles deck if you can provide a link or sth

[@redhalfdragon]

Nouvelle my beloved French Cuisine deck~

[@mostdefinitely7536]

My bizarre sense of humor would like to see Jesse’s background music subtly get louder as the video progresses until all you can hear is the deafening sound of those sick synth notes!

[@theshinobigamer5737]

😭

[@DoeSeeDoe123]

Mimighoul is so good it's not even on this tier list, Mimighoul sweep

[@Ardourieux]

Mimighouls are still facedown, they dont even know its on the list

[@MMHTuba08]

Dominous impulse on Mimighoul maker

[@Ardourieux]

@@MMHTuba08 come on man, thats basically a hatecrime.

[@MMHTuba08]

@@Ardourieux hey man, the amount of times I’ve pissed off a mimighoul player is insane… 😂 but truthfully a good skilled mimighoul player can get away with some craziness

[@Oatly.com1234]

Lol

[@kiketsunoningen]

Jesse makes this video and then rescue ace wins San Diego regional and the runner up is labrynth lmao

[@roxas4587]

how many were the entrees?

[@DrRockso9]

San Diego always the weaker of the CA regionals ngl

[@kiketsunoningen]

@@roxas4587 230 I was the 2nd place lab

[@Darkprince48]

Wee woo wee woo 🚨🚨🚨

[@tomareomotex7451]

​@@kiketsunoningenNeed the list🤣🤣

[@samuelhopkins5383]

Drytron and Orcust Piles (my favorite decks) auto lose to shifter and well timed bystials and one of the top decks plays both.

[@absoluteunit8334]

As Jesse said Runick is poorly positioned I could've sworn I heard a distant scream from Josh.

[@chitahitsu4743]

he hasnt played runick at an event since European championship, and his real pet deck is paleo anyways, he will be fine.

[@randomgenretalk8151]

I called it that Goblin Bikers might be a good deck choice for this meta because they can make Ryzeol run for their money. But there are some Goblin Biker variants (other than Fiendsmith) that could do a lot. One is Goblin Biker with a Gold Pride/P.U.N.K package and one mit the Mikanko package. Both have their qualaties but Fiendsmith is the best version. Maybe some Ryzeol players even tech Goblin Bikers in their deck who knows.

[@jimtsap04]

Pure is the best after fiendmith, engine to engine you smoke ryzeal but they can beat you back hard on the nonengine war which is what makes fiendsmith best as any leftover bodies after getting handtrapped to oblivion can be converted into moon. Pure has more room for nongine to improve that handtrap and boardbreaker war more and can incorporate lancea or chaos hunter searching)summoning lines as a countermeasure to maliss as well. Synchro 6 into rank 6 lines are a really easy low investment way to significantly improve the endboard power and resilience of pure, gold pride is just kinda bad, mikanko can be bricky and hard to pilot, and punk is more suited as an engine you can choose to use rather than a full blown variant, and usually best to use in fiendsmith version. Post suda we get a new variant for the deck that can actually compete closely with pure and somewhat fiendsmith in materiactor.

[@grantmaybe]

@@randomgenretalk8151 ryzeoli ryzeoli give me the formuloli

[@thebeesknees1162]

It'll be super competitive once Kick-Ass drops

[@ryanhall5360]

I think you're vastly underestimating Memento tbh. It should be right next to Melodious in terms of it's ability to compete in this meta

[@ChunkyWaterisReal]

memento is lowkey DOPE in the TCG, its just bad everywhere else.

[@mylesperez403]

click baiting w that purely A😢😢😢

[@WithDoodle]

looking forward to hearing your takes on white forest once supreme darkness rolls around.

[@four-en-tee]

>No Spright on the list Do not test me, this deck can play decently under Shifter and can insulate itself from Nibiru. It could be a good rogue deck this format, its juat that no one's playing it is all.

[@TheBorderlands2Bro]

Best deck in the format is a better version of the deck, not to mention dbarrier/thrust in everyones side playing spright with no elf is lowkey suicide, plus purulia FRIES spright

[@yangboy123]

I currently play Melodious in Master Duel and my thoughts are: *The deck has high potential. There are about 3 or probably 4 one card combo starters. All I know are Refrain Normal summon, 1st Movement solo SS into Refrain, and/or Ostinato start. Although there are a lot of end board combos, I always settle with the Elegy + Aria end board.* The deck can also benefit running engines that doesn't SS lock you from specific Summons. The deck is great, but still needs umph.

[@Umizuha1579]

With Tenpai you kind of have to aim for Elegy + Aria all the time. Melodious is fun but it can also be sometimes frustrating in Master Duel, you are super weak to Maxx C, "only" 9 one card starters can make it slightly more inconsistent than you'd like, and you are very weak into Droplets or Talents, two cards which are super popular right now. Also on the hand trap side you are weak to Ghost Ogre on Couplet or Bloom Harmonist if you need to go into it, which is also popular atm. That said if you set up Elegy + Aria vs Tenpai and they don't have droplet/talents (or you don't need to play into talents) then you should be good. Honestly the biggest issue for Melodious really is just Maxx C (even if you open Ash it can mess up some of your lines depending on your starter), which at least TCG doesn't have to deal with.

[@yangboy123]

@Umizuha1579 yeah my biggest problems is indeed Maxx C. I try to play through it by playing most Melodious cards as one-ofs except the Pendulum monsters. Makes me said the light Harald is limited to 1. That coulda been my answer to Maxx C.

[@norn-sama3407]

floo is not just bad positioned, the deck has already so much problems with consistency. The only good thing is that your maliss matchup is decent because of empen

[@tienminhtrang2865]

Where would you place Unchained? The deck plays pretty well into Detonator, what is it gonna do? Pop your Unchained cards so that you can float into beefier monsters?

[@jessekottonygo]

dweller says hi ;)

[@karasuss3977]

Hi im a total beginner, is white Forrest in those mentions of centurions or runick as well? Or why wasn’t it mentioned? Or is it just that bad?

[@nbonasoro]

Ive been playing fiendsmith, unchained labyrinth with the lightless shadow link and its so fun and oppressive. Reborns with lightless shadow, mukkraker, and the labrynth field spell, graveyard interactions with rollback, unchained link 2 and 3 to link away opponents monsters, unchained link 4 for 3 pops per turn and traps just make the deck so fun. If konami brought back makyura, there would be interactions from the hand too.

[@KebiBS]

I’m happy to see that after 2 long snake eye formats, Purrely is still going strong. I played it at Oceanics dragon duels and planned it to kinda get power crept before YCS Sydney but I’m happy that it’s still an option, even though it isn’t as good.

[@ArunaUtd]

Hey Jesse, so Snake-Eye is very bad as a deck now I completely agree, consistency is gone, no Diabellstar connection, etc. But as an engine it still seems quite strong, where would you rank it purely based on that?

[@ctusiard9755]

What are you engining into? The only good search off of Diabelstar is deception.

[@greg0998]

and once again nobody understands memento

[@lukasguera4172]

i swear i'm so mad the deck is like the best in ocg post banlist

[@khaledk9776]

Bruh he just doesn't know how the deck functions. But he always feels the need to make a comment about memento

[@lukasguera4172]

@@khaledk9776 the deck's only problem is shifter/dweller. without those you just have to face having some bricks in hand with the strongest engine in the format imo

[@khaledk9776]

@@greg0998 dweller isn't a turn skip. U can do otk lines under dweller and certain combos. Both of them actually. Shifter is the only unplayable card for memento.

[@qwertyg3666]

Question for you jesse do you feel reasoning could come back to the tcg?

[@zerro6903]

What do you think about spright in this meta?

[@kyuuketsuki2494]

How has jesse not added FS chimera again to his tier lists??

[@Dylligraphy]

Because it's bad Ojamas aren't on here either if it's not here odds are it's bad

[@Scrafting]

jesse especially thinks that chimera is awful, more than others

[@joshdavis6830]

Bystials seem lowkey pretty good rn. Fiendsmith is everywhere, and they're extenders in Maliss

[@Karmitify]

bro said lowkey when they're known to be very popular and good rn in general ☠

[@jimtsap04]

2:00 uhm akshually mr editor jesse likely mean snake eye diabellstar the level 8 brick not black witch the level 7 starter 🤓👆

[@PrototypePlatform]

i am SHOCKED that Kashtira isnt even on the list, like anywhere. unicorn ripping from the extra deck and (on average) locking 4 zones before the opponent even summons a monster is ridiculous for rank and link decks to deal with. Mvlice really suffers when you take it's spell/trap zones, expecially if you can establish preparations. and kash plays wonderfully under shifter. you can also use the dracosacc tokens to easily set up an I:P + underworld goddess for the ryzeal match-up, and if they fire off the lancea, Kashtira doesnt need to banish to play, at all. lancea only stops you on your turn, not theirs. with thrust and talents, chaos hunter just becomes a free snatch for a rank 7. the deck does pretty well. board breakers work well in the deck, and its happy going second. lastly, shangri-ira does really well against decks that pop, and is an easy Zeus

[@squinja1243]

Thoughts on fire king kashtira?

[@ddbros789]

Thoughts on wf azamina post suda

[@LowTier4Life]

I've been doing pretty well so far with Voiceless Voice. Havent had any major issues playing against Ryzeal either.

[@0senSareru]

VV Dogma or VV Ruyge? 👀

[@paticasartu6736]

do you think crystalbeast could do something in this meta its my favorite deck of all time and i love playing it ill play it either way but if its good

[@hazeljoy1]

I was just looking at a Big Gabonga regional top, funny to see it pop up in this vid

[@Evan20000]

Centurion is so weird. Ass against Ryzeal going second but great against nearly everything else. I find that if I'm willing to just lose game 1 to Ryzeal if I lose the coinflip I can consolidate far more of my board strategy to beat them without having to commit board space to more stray decks. It feels like a call depending on the total ratio of Ryzeal to non-Ryzeal you expect to see in a tournament to me.

[@jaydenwilson9522]

25:20 I'm gonna tell Jaden BR on you!!!! But I will admit, going second in general has been terrible on MD so I was forced into a Eldlich Floodgate Deck and I regret NOTHING!

[@crystaleyez7825]

Just because lightsworn didn’t make the tierlist doesn’t mean i’ll stop playing it!

[@Puffzilla777]

Can't wait for the new Skull Servants support

[@isaactes]

No spright frogs?

[@nichga91]

Voiceless Voice is slept on

[@nightcrawler530]

Nice video!

[@skyjumper4097]

Have you ever considered ranking more archetypes than just the "relevant" ones? I wonder if other formats are as easy to define as this one seems to be. Not Just the Lower-Power formats though, unlimited format might also be interesting (?)

[@Scrafting]

hey @Jesse how would you fill the non engine slots if you were to build a melodious deck this format?

[@bobbywalker2980]

Branded is goated rn . I make 3 dragoons ❤

[@Kyro8254]

I think dragon link might have some low tier contention with the new red eyes and the Tenpai engine could help them extend their combos or to otk going second

[@HERO_GYE]

And spright fiendsmith?

[@nikolasx7765]

wha about azamina white forest toy box???

[@StormXD-YGO]

New branded support announced!!!!

[@StormXD-YGO]

And sky striker prob (bc of new anime)

[@Theray0evan]

where did you saw the announcement, cant seem to find it

[@five6001]

@@Theray0evanthey’re talking about the animated shorts coming sometime early next year. Don’t think it’s true at all, striker just got support like last year and branded would need some story reason to receive any new cards since it’s a lore deck

[@StormXD-YGO]

@ its the announced duelist advance for the new yugioh chronicles anime… there are some rumors on what the cards actually are but if not sure if they’re legit

[@X3ro1-01]

i will always love and play yubel , waiting on varudras and fiendsmith so yubel can be much much stronger.

[@arioruiz9777]

Me and my Sprights feel discriminated here Jesse there will be hell to pay (P.S great vid keep it up)

[@Mark-dl9pu]

I’m glad DBgrinder made this video for 5 seconds 😂👍

[@Burn2themall]

i still wanna know the positioning of raidraptor, dinomorphia, ancient gears, and sharks

[@lawdomega8863]

Ya Soul of Rage wrecks that 2nd Ryzeal summon

[@David-hw9si]

Ryzeal and Bonfire is kind of fire though!

[@chriswhittington5790]

I'm good with me zexal deck. Good beat sticks in my setups.

[@hidesitemg]

Just me playing Exodia and Dragon Ruler pile over here

[@jws.11995]

Meh and Poor seems almost interchangeable in your explanations, is Poor meant to be better than Meh for you?

[@MrShirotomo]

I think he is saying that the decks in poor are overall stronger then the decks in meh but are worse off in this particular meta.

[@plabcentral630]

Floo still alive is crazy to me.

[@alaszrar6202]

Tier 0 decks are so much better than every other deck that it has become unfun to play anything non-competitve. The general power level has gotten so much out of hand

[@Osteo-poro-sis]

Before watching the video, pure fire king is the best deck and if jesse says anything bad about it, I'm deleting konami

[@setojinro]

Jesse, I triple dog dare you win a regionals with a BEWD deck before February ;) Really though I would love to know your stance on how one should be built to at least stand a chance.

[@peterzelaya9948]

Gonna have to wait for the structure deck support. That link 1 with the upcoming primite support coming in suda is cookin pretty recently in ocg

[@ChunkyWaterisReal]

@@peterzelaya9948 shit goes so hard. It's the deck I'm building for friends to play w/ if theyre interested in the game.

[@anthonycosme8203]

Waiting for a goblin biker build from him🙏🏼

[@poro9084]

so weird seeing marincess with snash at same tier

[@5khartsville]

Secrets of the dark magician

[@Arratak]

why didnt you put the DARK MAGICIAN in S tier?

[@naoufalkarroua8922]

Where’s Unchained? They have a pretty good matchup against Ryzeal

[@Silent25]

I mean, Heroes just got some support regarding Evil Heroes…

[@Turtlemaster4]

no chimera?

[@Devilxmanxcrybaby]

Dragon link?

[@Instant_karma89]

No buster blader?

[@NotControlledByMillipedes]

Buster blader is the most flawed archetype ever printed, perhaps excluding some of the duel terminal ones. None of the cards work together (take whelp and the blader retrain), you have NOTHING that stops your opponent, you lose to one Ash, you lose to one negate (which you don't even have) and if your opponent has any card that says "destroy", "banish" or "send to the GY" you immediately lose. It is so bad that it's not even a good rogue deck. In fact, I think that it may be the worst warrior or dragon archetype ever.

[@peterzelaya9948]

​@@NotControlledByMillipedesthat's kinda sad. I really like the dragon destroyer buster dragon lock

[@NotControlledByMillipedes]

@@peterzelaya9948 it really is. A fun concept ruined by shitty designers.

[@infractiion3951]

Can we make SubTerror meta?

[@mrshadowdownsdave6810]

I little disagree your choise of floo. Jeah we have now so many handtraps in play , but floo dont need any more to play shifter in this rotation. So we have more space for other shit . And most of the handtraps , acept droll, dont shut down fully floo. And last but least detonator is strong, but a Single book of moon ore eclips stops😂😂

[@lawdomega8863]

If Yubel wins dice roll Ryzeal BETTER HAVE 2 hand traps w 2 starters

[@ctusiard9755]

Bro, I know my pet decks can't compete but don't call them shit T.T EDIT: I so hope your Melodious rating comes through.

[@Mike-i1t7h]

Bro, my pet deck is gravekeeper's. It is shit

[@skibbidyrizz]

Aromage best deck 🙂‍↔️

[@absolute6798]

Gimmick puppet obv the best deck

[@peterzelaya9948]

Until the new doll and field spell get stopped

[@multimate7760]

imagine playing runnick and maliss player is like, thanks for the free cards

[@EliDSage]

Blind second Sky Striker claps the best deck in haven't lose in db and nexus ranked

[@johhjj]

Weird tier list. I thought everyone knew Beetroopers were Tier 0.

[@laralegaspi7645]

Hello The Legendary Jesse Kotton can I ask for A meta Video About Master Duel Its Getting Hard To Pick a Deck.

[@JohnO-d2n]

I think i can smell him thru the screen

[@theidkygentlemanmagana6579]

Day 20 of asking for T.G. to be meta!

[@josephlopez5149]

SAME

[@bubbletea6255]

You’ll be asking for awhile

[@zefrisk7827]

T.g is catching strays tbh. First barone and savage, then Oss

[@ArunaUtd]

Has a great acronym too This Gshit is ass

[@peterzelaya9948]

Yeah about that....

[@heftyjongle2958]

White Forest is so bad it can’t even compete in Complete Sh*t

[@danielecogotti8394]

It's better than those decks, same thing with chimera

[@anakinsmith4770]

I don't get the giant in depth look cause in reality ryzeal, maliss, yubel or a fiendsmith pile if your not playing these you just ain't playing yugioh. As long as Konami keeps wanting to push the 30 staple narrative yugioh will never have another open format

[@samdiamond501]

Jesse you should make a pool video lol

[@Minorxable]

Memento >> Yubel

[@user-vg1fb6ow7y]

Idc ur ycs champ, in every new format tier list you have the worst takes possible ngl sometimes i think u did this on purpose

[@legendredux1291]

OJAMAS TIER 00

[@Rintohsa]

Dude, just a suggestion but can you turn down the music down in these videos? I want to listen for your knowledge, not the music.

[@NicotheRM]

I feel baited and insulted with this thumbnail showing me Purrely on A D:

[@xXxPakman97xXx]

What about Mannadium? It isnt cheeks right??? 😂😂😂

[@Veryfreshveryflourish24]

Good thing none of these decks play the cards that my fire fist endboard has besides little knight, promethean princess so konami wont come after heraklinos, revolt shuraig, eland, sinto or other endboard pieces i have.

[@grantmaybe]

I'm not gonna lie, swordsoul is not the best deck right now, especially with its glaring weakness to inperm/veiler but it's weird that you'd leave it off the list when you're including decks like salad and pure fire kings. I can understand including some bad decks that are newer like Millennium stuff, & voiceless voice, and I can even understand flow, because it's not awful at playing through disruption, but I don't really feel like any of those decks are better than swordsoul, even with the Baron ban, because of the Protos unban. I can't remember ever losing a 3 set to any of the decks that I listed, except for floow, NGL. I guess I haven't played against Salad since bonfire was released tho 🤔 But swordsoul is my favorite deck, so I'm biased 🤷

[@peterzelaya9948]

Dude I dueled against a good salad player on master duel and turn 1 (I had no interrupts) and I got absolutely cooked.

[@grantmaybe]

@peterzelaya9948 yeah, like I said, haven't seen them since bonfire. I'm sure that's possible, but I just haven't seen it

[@five6001]

Holyyy cope. swordsoul is such old news, it’s not deserving of a mention because who cares about swordsouls positioning of all things compared to the decks that just got hit? Deck also loses to all of the decks you named unless you can guarantee you open your floodgate. Like why did you even expect a tier list for the current meta contenders leading into 2025 to mention fucking swordsoul of all things?

[@Anderzon480p]

Where are the Harpies? I don't see the Harpies? Please my Harpie deck

[@seanpariser7300]

Idk about the Tenpai comments. Anaheim, many were still getting use to the new decks in town. I was there and had trouble myself. But, after some practice and alterations, I have 2-0 Ryzeal and Maliss pretty easily even with the hits. Does take a good player now more than ever though.

[@teamnecrocasters2210]

Maliss isn’t as good as people say. It’s overhyped and will fade away by February

[@ChunkyWaterisReal]

maliss is good, its just complicated and tricky to play, like mermail.

[@TenebraeGui]

No math labyrinth???

[@NovaMan_09]

Day 1 of asking to make tri-brigade meta

[@Scrypt__]

try blackwing pelase !

[@Malidala]

Kashtira Ariseheart is the hero that TCG needs. Bring back my boy.

[@peterzelaya9948]

That walking macro cosmos lookin' ahh card? Nah. Him and kitkallos can both stay banned.

[@JakobDahmann]

Where's mimighoul? :)

[@thomasmurphy5587]

Sharks?

[@jonafrica3750]

True Draco tier 0

[@guilhermerogato3920]

Where's labrynt? 😢