Joshua Schmidt Reacts to New Tenpai Dragon Support

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[@HumanoidCableDreads]

It's cool that Konami announced this right before the set comes out in the TCG so that the prices will go up even more.

[@walder69]

Very cool

[@mike.hawk666]

Komoney has done it again

[@imfirinmyfrazer965]

They gotta make money somehow when half the deck is hand traps everyone already has 😭

[@Nobodyslittlebirb]

it is now 69

[@maxs_420_grow]

Konami prob buys out the secondary market, then sells it back to players lol

[@lucaslennan3356]

This feels like they pushed the limit of an otk deck and it was too late to not print this when they realized they had found the breaking point.

[@Jacobe_Nguyen]

"no need to ban poplar if we give every deck a poplar right?" - konami probably

[@arjanzweers6542]

Tenpai Dragons' going first strategy is basically the same as when they go second, hand trap the opponent into submission. The trap helps them survive the opponent's battle phase so they can OTK on the follow-up turn

[@yaminegira9239]

which is the same thing as most snake eyes decks plans going second. like even if you go 'people will just side in the ashned that pops field spells', the deck is still worth respecting. like if cyberse piles was still relevant for a while cause of circular and 15 handtraps, it prob wont be the best deck in format but its not gonna be as irrelevant as some people like to think

[@Dragonage2ftw]

Unless it’s game 2 and you’ve forced them to go first, in which case they just slam Heat Wave down and pass

[@diagnosedtumor9153]

@@Dragonage2ftwbad players think heatwave is good

[@Dragonage2ftw]

@@diagnosedtumor9153 In Tenpai it is.

[@Srinivas_M17]

Today I learnt about Tenpai runick

[@Petsinwinter2]

Almost certainly can't happen XD

[@quacksayssquawk2899]

That is sekka's light sky striker levels of bad

[@FloatingAmongTheCosmos]

​@@quacksayssquawk2899Can't stop Josh from trying it out tho lol

[@jimtsap04]

​@@Petsinwinter2 Well well well 💀

[@Matthew-he6id]

Masterduel being just a single game will make this deck pretty interesting

[@zekeryaoumar2356]

My toons deck is waiting for it's poplar that makes it finally good

[@katzuma7641]

Tenpai can otk through spooky dogwood

[@j2c695]

It sure can!!!

[@katzuma7641]

@@j2c695 yeah felt amazing to do it too

[@noga5008]

Cute and funny

[@엘렉트럼]

Summon Trident Dragion, heal 3000 and take 18k lol

[@katzuma7641]

@@엘렉트럼 yep

[@alicepbg2042]

Josh when the field spell works with a card made to work with the field spell: I don't think it should work

[@youtubeenjoyer7279]

that trap is the new go to card when tenpai players are forced to go 1st kaihou will end their mp then if super dragon on the field, it will force their monster to attack resulting to a board wipe and you drawing cards, flood summon and recovery/follow up next turn. (time it good and your opponent might otk himself) they can skip mp1 and bp to avoid selfTK but during mp2, the moment they summon 2+ monster kaihou will be activated, forcing them to end their turn 🤣🤣🤣 backrow removal will definitely became staple now

[@geiseric222]

Why would your opponent play into a trap they know is there

[@invertbrid]

​​@@geiseric222i mean u have not much option except to play into it willingly, rip ur 2 monstee at least and take bunch dmg, and rhey get followup. Or skip ur turn entirely. Or u prepare to counter it with cosmic or kaiju

[@youtubeenjoyer7279]

@@geiseric222 unless you have a way to remove that trap, you really dont have a choice.

[@forgeree]

@@geiseric222 you have to threaten knightmare phoenix (thats assuming your deck can play it) and then if your opponent still trades 2 for 1 and takes your battle phase i would say thats a pretty fucking good card

[@RandomZXTester]

Tenpai can essentially skip your turn if combined with either Thunder of Ruler (skipping battle phase means skipping mp2), Terminal World, or Parthian Shot. Thunder of Ruler have the advantage of being used in the standby phase.

[@PyckledNyk]

I’m interested how history will view this insane era of YuGiOh

[@babrad]

I can't wait to summon 3 Ojama Tokens and then OTK the opponent on their BP with the new Trap + lvl 10. I won't happen a lot of times but the opponent getting it wont forget it.

[@superhume]

Konamis recent design decisions are seriously questionable

[@ataviciach.9543]

TODAY I LEARNED ABOUT TENPAI DRAGON RUNICK

[@MonstreHunter]

lmao

[@Austin-l1j]

No

[@Vexiratus]

When i have to skip my battle phase as tenpai

[@mrhondo12345]

Tenpai Runick with Evenly Matched would go crazy

[@queenbrightwingthe3890]

Konami: Lets see how much effects we can copy paste into one monster before its becomes broken to play against.

[@invertbrid]

Tachyon also have it xD. Every archtype needs their poplar now lol

[@ManuelRiccobono]

Step 1: every deck needs ash blossom to counter searches Step 2: every deck needs a poplar-like card to play better Step 3: ... solitare gameplay?

[@Kaichi223]

Step 4: Vomit at least 3 generic omni-negate Boss monsters

[@samspencer3518]

I absolutely love this video with the different profiles and how each work.....CANT WAIT TO PLAY THIS DECK!!!!

[@jacobwoodard818]

One of the benefits of White Woods Runick is that it can use Black-Winged Assault Dragon as a win condition that allows you to win quickly without the need to use the battle phase. The other is that Formula Synchron allows you to make Herald of Arc light.

[@anthonnynavarro8486]

Transcendent Dragion + the trap destroys all opponents monsters on their turn.

[@116_Gaming]

TODAY I LEARNED ABOUT 60 CARD AROMA RIKKA SUNVALON

[@PoorPlyser]

AND I ADDED RUNICK TO IT

[@116_Gaming]

Lol

[@davincameron7627]

the moment tenpai Dragon realizes they can just make Calamity on their opponent's turn the frame it becomes the draw phase is when we're all cooked

[@croczOTK]

They can’t lol. Not without a supporting engine

[@ryuuohdeltaplus7936]

Calamity is already banned in the OCG, it's not that they "didn't realize it" it's because you can't do it

[@jvsonic2468]

15:35 - 16:30 The thing is tho. Tenpai Dragon can be a representation of all of the Battle Phase related effects to become relevant again due to how much they dodge removal and the application of going 2nd cards being incredibly strong. I hope they provide other decks that go 2nd and OTK like Numeron, Mikanko, Raidraptor, Ancient Warriors, etc Tenpai Dragon's design in the future whether directly or indirectly. *THEN*, they need to make broken, but conditional in deck-building requirements alongside restrictive cards that fixes the issues towards cards with effects that can ONLY be activated during the Battle Phase and/or benefit to being activated during the Battle Phase like stat reduction of the opponent's monsters when they attack or battle. There are ways to make this work and having the opponent try to play around them will be significantly reduced due to how specific and slow Battle Phase related effects are, so Force Attack effects has to be included within the effects of cards that needed it and making certain effects at least not be negated is required. There will have to be some bullshit that cannot be avoided in their design, so break hell loose; it's the least Konami can do for wasting so much cardboard to modern cards that have Battle Phase related effects.

[@masterofrites2749]

Bro are we really calling on summon search effects Snake Eye Ash now instead of Stratos? 😭

[@Kyugired]

The trap is actually disgusting (in my POV) if they open Field spell when going 1st. BECAUSE IT MAKES YOUR MONSTERS UNAFFECTED DURING MAIN PHASE 1,) they can make the Sangen Superdragon Transcend Dragion (Their lvl 10 Synchro) and its somewhat of a floodgate during the battle phase since it FORCES ALL MONSTERS IN ATK POSITION AND CRASH INTO IT, also NOT ALLOWING YOU OPPONENT TO ACTIVATE ANYTHING (Cards/Effects) DURING THE BATTLE PHASE. And if they attacked 3x that turn and tries to enter Main Phase 2 you'd be able to SKIP THAT MAIN PHASE and also trigger: " If 3 or more attacks are declared this turn: You can banish this card from your GY; draw 1 card, then you can Special Summon any number of "Tenpai Dragon" monsters from your hand." WHICH IS LITERALLY A PENDULUM SUMMON that prepares for follow-up. (Also quite similar to Snake-Eye Ash/Poplar being summoned by Flamberge after being sent to the GY at your turn). Now this is not fool proof, but atleast the deck now has in-archetype options in case of going 1st.

[@chewdoom8415]

Dawg... the field spell only gives your fire dragons immunity during YOUR main phase 1. There are people who got this wrong in the comments when the archetype was first revealed.

[@Kyugired]

@@chewdoom8415 I didn't notice that, thanks for pointing it out. I'd make sure to read them properly in the future to prevent any more misinformation to spread. Again thank you

[@iHORUSx3]

16:30 holy shit what a brainlet

[@dingding12321]

Sangen Kaihou is basically Threatening Roar with a condition, that makes your battle phase in and of itself a win con with 3 attacks.

[@RoyaltonDrummer922]

This deck needs the SHS treatment

[@Cybertech134]

I, for one, like the reintroduction of unga-bunga big monster beat as a viable YGO strategy.

[@Senshi00]

Josh’s toupee is slowly dissolving

[@brandonsims4104]

Josh always has good music playing in the background in his videos

[@carlandtreecko7061]

Colossus pass is all i need to beat tenpai

[@marcusking332]

I've already preordered a few boxes of the upcoming set. As I hope to get playsets of all the Tenpai Dragons support.

[@joestar222]

Sweat

[@DJGoldenWolf]

The trap would be only good to avoid nib in the first turn, other then that, usually u can manage to go first

[@Nepu_Nep]

Found the shiny new toy. Rip Sneyes

[@ravitegar6582]

Battle Fader format let's gooo

[@youtubeenjoyer7279]

i wonder how are they going to create warrock support 🤣🤣🤣 thinking about gets me excited to wear my primitive costume and play in my locals 🤣🤣🤣 (already done cosplaying as a sushi chef)

[@lvcka7416]

Breaking boards gang

[@kingamacius8141]

So does this deck lose to threatening roar🤨🤨

[@DonMarzzoni]

Kinda you need more than that

[@SuprapolyJohnny]

Dark Highlander prevents synchro summoning, but not special summoning synchros. Do with that information what you will

[@elwinroyale]

What about the tachyon support?

[@j2c695]

Cool but not meta or relevant. Tenpai is gonna body decks, tachyon is still a fun/casual decks with 0 tops

[@bobshnitzel2608]

100% not something I could see being discussed positively on this channel, its good support and the transmigration plays are gonna be really fun but it's not gonna make galaxy eyes meta at all unfortunately

[@FloatingAmongTheCosmos]

How long will it be until Tenpai drops in MD?

[@shien-ryu4395]

Every new archetype is gonna have cards in the banlist at some point.

[@mclambtj]

I feel like this reminds me more of Crusadia

[@grodon909]

I think the trap is really strong, but I don't think it's as strong as all the doomposting I've been seeing. First, you need to get to the card. Assuming you run the field spell at 3, you have a decent chance of not opening the field spell, and then you have to use Paidra's effect to search the field spell. If you run the trap at 1, then you're very unlikely to see it, so you may need to run it at 3 and get lucky, or forgo manor turn 1. Running a trap that may only get one use at 3 is risky for consistency, especially if they still play the other pseduo-turn skip ones like heat wave, since you increase the risk of bricking. If you do hard open it, you start weakening one of the main upsides of the deck, which is the ability to run a ton of non-engine. The endboard turn 1 then needs to be a single fire dragon. Any more and a lot of decks can still do a lot of damage if allowed to get two bodies out. At minimum, 2 bodies can threaten Knightmare Phoenix which just wastes the resources or consistency you used to include the card. But at that point, it's a pretty trivial board to get over, and the tenpai player diluted their chances of drawing their defensive options. On top of that, it then just folds to a cosmic cyclone, a feather duster, any backrow removal, etc. That plus all the other tools available that neuter Tenpai makes really hurts the deck. Don't get me wrong, it's still a strong card and I'm not convinced that it's healthy. But it doesn't seem like a huge threat into a meta that is prepared for tenpai.

[@ThatOneWeirdFlex]

Backrow removal. In a format where over 50% of decks are completely unaffected by it and over 50% don't even sweat once their backrow is dealt with since they're usually searchable 3-ofs.

[@grodon909]

@@ThatOneWeirdFlex Yes, backrow removal. You're not maining it anyway, and Tenpai usually wouldn't be playing it round 1 anyway as a blind second deck. Additionally, you're using it against barrier of the VV, can come up for Yubel, and stun (chain burn, runick stun, horus stun, one bad day all have recent tops) is floating around so you want backrow removal anyway unless you just want to lose. We're also talking about INFO. We almost certainly have a banlist within the next 2-3 months, and if SE gets a hit, we could see a similar meta to OCG's developing one where R-ACE shot up. And that's all assuming that nothing else in INFO releases that likes having a backrow. Besides, I named cards like cyclone or phoenix as easily accessed cards in most decks. Some decks can still deal with it in-engine.

[@speedfreakygo3322]

Can we leave the bazaar theme alone for the next video? My brain can only handle the loop so many times 😅

[@EMPCraft]

It's literally poplar. Exact same summon effect And basically both send 1 monster from your field to the gy to summon from deck (just poplar needs the original as extra step)

[@lament22]

ngl this is the first time i feel like yugioh might truly be becoming unplayable

[@j2c695]

Just play tenpai 5head

[@chewdoom8415]

Overreacting. If you did not think that was the case during tear format, then you should not be thinking that now. I could probably do research on the formats prior to when I started followings the game in 2019 and find formats worse than what people think it will be with tenpai

[@tokemon1547]

Kash full power entered the chat… all seriousness just side Threatning Roar & Wobaku. That’s just off the top of our heads.

[@tbates2906]

@@j2c695or mikanko zero head 🤗

[@jacobexum9972]

Full Power Tear and Kashtira make the decks now look like crap

[@PyckledNyk]

Aw yeah hand trap format baybee. No wonder they were releasing staples like gang busters with rarity collection. They were getting people ready to fork up money to get the tenpais to complete the deck

[@fapuloes]

Ninepai after konami releases a tenth one

[@ohwhatnow1213]

if yall think this is bad wait til gimmick puppet ftk

[@alimuhsen11]

Oh no not more meta snake eyes :(

[@j2c695]

I’m so happy Konami is power creeping snake eyes with this DRAGON DECK LETS GOOOOOO. I feel bad for everyone who bought the $800/$1000 deck, cuz this blind second OTK main decks 18+ hand traps and can do 30k damage!!!! I just wonder if it’s good with runic KEKW

[@esrohm6460]

me asking why another combo starter is good and then next things next go back to playing my snake eyes deck that has 14 startes. how could having starters possibly help in making a deck good especialy those that that can also act as extenders when you can do the optimal lines

[@CardCommander]

Edison time

[@christianshield6029]

lol omg i just wsiting for this on md

[@lastmexicano]

Why the hell didn’t ancient gear get support like this??? Of course they get shafted by another OTK deck

[@did_you_know496]

I find it funny that the more consistency the deck becomes the worse it becomes, because drawing into less handtraps in a deck that is 66.6% floodgates and hand traps is a bad. The deck is really bad but it can out hand trap snake eyes so frequently and does not care about Maxx C which completely boosts its viability.

[@r3zaful]

Tenpai sangen.

[@dariuspenner2528]

That field spell is going to have me siding Ghost Ogre. Not a fan of towers monsters. Exact same reason why Purrley was by far my least favourite deck to play against during Kashtira format into early AGOV format.

[@crosshair4483]

Genroku gives the deck access to LV6 Synchro plays, but idk how useful that is. Dora Draco reads crazy but I think it suffers from the same problems as Elemental Hero Prisma in mannadium

[@babrad]

Dora Draco is protected by the field spell so you just special Zhongdora and get your full combo. Prisma has 3 bricks if you draw it and goes balls to the wall provided you resolved it but Mannadium has a huge engine unlike Tenpai that is literally 15 cards maxed out.

[@Zerosenpai25]

Ok so let me get this straight. People call THIS deck toxic when runic, snake eyes, tear lament and kashtira exist ? Decks that can 99% of the time can play through pretty much any interaction without consequences and in some cases just straight up delete your deck and banish your shit left and right leaving you with absolutely nothing to retaliate with ? I'm sorry but i fail to see the logic here

[@j.ksimmonsplaysmysticmine6656]

If this becomes another expensive deck i am done with the game

[@ThatOneWeirdFlex]

You know its gonna. Just take your break now and live a normal life

[@invertbrid]

Very nice to see blind second deck actually meta relevant. Its been long time. Konami need to make more of em. Hope they poppin off in TCG as well.

[@forgeree]

it would be nice if it wasnt a 24 handtrap no interaction deck. this is gonna be the worst meta to come

[@invertbrid]

​@@forgeree snake eyes already do that anyway. This not much different, xcept its still weaker than snake eyes in general. I think its the direction konami wanna go for meta deck going forward, just gonna get used to it. Small engine and ability to use lot nonengines. They already printing more and more poplar, now for tenpai and tachyon too, and op field spell fhat make ur cards can go uninterrupted like tenpai / gimmick puppet.

[@DarkCT]

@@invertbrid this is my take. never expected a better when going second deck to be getting the "concern" comments. so I guess now the agreed upon fine deck is specifically going first combo now? it's sad that Paleo can't really get a poplar...

[@j2c695]

@@forgereeit’s 18 in main and 6 more in side kekw

[@ThatOneWeirdFlex]

​@@j2c695with 15 engine. They literally play more handtraps than in-engine pieces.

[@canyouwavedash3298]

And they made circular for Techyons!?!

[@Billie.Hardrock]

Which card is Circular for them?

[@canyouwavedash3298]

@@Billie.Hardrock Schwartzchild Infinity Dragon

[@arrownoir]

Konami is hell bent on making everything super consistent. For how powerful cards are nowadays, a chance to brick should exist. Too many one card starters and starters that doubles as extenders.

[@timbahr1792]

If any “Top” player wants to say a deck that can easily and consistently 1 card otk through prosperity while running 20+ handtraps is just “ok” your opinion is just invalid. The decks about to get a poplar 2.0 / ash but yet the deck is just “ok”

[@nouvelle147]

It's already falling off in the ocg. The deck is good but definitely overhyped.

[@voltrya6844]

otking thru prosp isn't even that amazing, Ancient Gear can do that, it's just the raw consistency and non-engine room

[@bizTCG]

lol this shit is just Dino’s

[@Trappu-]

This just feels super overkill, idk. Tenpai was pretty well-rounded, non-engine issue aside. These newly announced cards just seem stupidly broken

[@matiaspereyra9392]

Uggh I'm already tired of the original tempais and now you tell me they're giving them the 2 parts that I'm kinda already getting tired of in snake eyes?

[@hihoreter5445]

warum ist konami so dumm?

[@Stylercom113]

Yeeeeees ten gay

[@derohneleben8205]

?

[@Stylercom113]

@@derohneleben8205 tengay

[@lament22]

​@@Stylercom113are you 11?

[@Stylercom113]

@@lament22 i played Euro 2011 of course iam 11

[@nickyheart]

​@@Stylercom113 you're sad

[@assumingfrog7944]

Gonna be a good format to take a break when this stuff drops lol

[@O6i]

Just play stun 😈