Joshua Schmidt Reacts to Trif making Top 4 with Mannadium

[@lobsterbisque333]

As Josh said, this is art. Its impossible to brick unless you brick. You lose to droll, but its easy to play around it. This. Is. Art

[@WithBeautyAndWithLove]

I mean, to be fair, he's right. Mannadium is not bricky at all, literally half the deck is a one or two card combo, and the fact that fenrir leads into more gas than it does in actual kashtira is hilarious to me lol

[@Manuelbacon40]

@@WithBeautyAndWithLovethis is the way... combine all the visas lore into one deck

[@XxlMaS3lxX]

@@Manuelbacon40 what I want to do

[@OdachiTetsunoko]

Trif be like "they tied me up. Stole my deck. 2-0"

[@duelme1234]

At least he didn't win after oversleeping this time XD

[@joeymayson8279]

"My unmatched perspicacity, coupled with sheer indefatigability, makes me a feared opponent in any realm of human endeavor." - Strongest Mannadium player

[@darethepolarbear5647]

*Least scary Manadium player

[@risay6968]

​@@darethepolarbear5647*most scary

[@Ben2k109]

@@darethepolarbear5647*most scary

[@threevelayt5302]

Least scary is correct

[@chewdoom8415]

Emory Tate

[@itsjayn4538]

trif and joshua is like yin and yan ... we need both in this world

[@ivanZ.4]

A man that plays 0 hand traps in the main deck , fears nothing 😤 !!! 🤴🏆

[@keithjunior6130]

typical pendulum player. all gas no breaks and dares you to stop them

[@renaldyhaen]

That's why he call it as Pendulum deck without scales

[@dave9020]

@@keithjunior6130 Gotta stick to the gameplan, just like the tattoo on his arm says

[@Vendetta162X]

In a format like this 1 hand trap isn't enough for the top decks so you might as well make your deck to just push through

[@Manuelbacon40]

Remember every card is a full combo

[@donjuan6996]

“This deck loses to Droll but there are ways to play around it.” How? Explain. “Play the deck perfectly.”

[@GodzillaFreak]

He does explain though, you either draw the called by or thrust for dbarrier into the auto win matchup

[@k-dawgHI]

Trif is truly the politician of YuGiOh. Does his best to speak extremely eloquently. Makes the most outrageous hyperbolic claims about the given topic (in this case his decklists). But god forbid you ask for the how 🤣. Josh was bang on when he said that the whole “talking so much without saying anything” is an art form! Literally like watching a political speech.

[@simplydreamers]

True triff is literaly that dud that makes absolute mind boggling decks (sometimes borderline trash) but when you see him play it, its literaly the most genius thing u see

[@vedantgupta2145]

true but this deck build was actually good, he understood that mannadium needs more resillience and not more win more cards

[@ducky36F]

Facts 😂

[@Arrhythmatica]

Trif played in one of DBGrinders tournies with this deck, pre-AGOV, and did some MAGIC going second to break boards. It was crazy to watch, its in one of DBGs posted videos. Watching that will help with understanding how he broke the Tearlaments board.

[@tehy123]

Yeah he COOKED

[@MuhammadReza-te9ct]

I was in awe watching that

[@geek593]

His approach to deck building is to maximize consistency and always have a way to play into boards. His priorities show up hard in how he plays and it's always fun to watch.

[@Ironpecker]

I think that Trif's biggest strength is that he builds decks in ways that aren't the standard, and he thrives in format where combo decks are strong and he has a lot of wiggle room in his decklist to adjust it with peculiar choices that work for him (like tons of extenders/starters, board breakers etc). Honestly being so mindful of your own strengths and playstyles you excel at is a kinda underrated skill, a lot of people try to optimize a decklist in a vacuum (which isn't a bad approach) but being able to fine tune a decklist to your playstyle needs while taking into account the meta is really impressive.

[@DamnZodiak]

That's the first good thing I've ever heard about triff that I actually agree with. He might be the antithesis my preferred type of content (and person) but this is a genuine skill of his.

[@iewad8761]

„Uhh, yea. Play it, thats the corrct ratio“ „..ok“

[@aczeos]

"Saying so much while also saying so little...it's almost an art" -Joshua Schmidt 2023

[@woodwire7150]

Trif is THE ONLY Yugioh player able to Cowboy for game on stream without even being on feature 😤💪💪

[@TheDjdeath45]

I'm still malding we don't know the details on that tear game, like how, literally how did he win that.

[@createrz8433]

Had a better deck box

[@LegitSk8ing]

gagaga cowboy that's how.

[@jamessimbolon3887]

@@LegitSk8ingGagaga cowboy attack position eff is pretty strong after all

[@bernardosales1044]

7 negates, 6 negates

[@doughbag2951]

I'm thinking Evenly. Maybe in conjuction with another board breaker.

[@phoisguud]

Trif is the GOAT

[@DeepSolid43]

Trif is an outstanding player. You see him surgically dismantling boards in db replays and his streams with engine alone He memes a lot but he should not be discredited, his skill has been proven time and time again over the course of his career

[@geek593]

I love how everyone doubts him and his deck building until they lose to him.

[@absentmindedshirokuma8539]

​@@geek593nobody doubt his skill, just his attitude sometimes give them doubt if he was serious or not. Also as josh said, he mastered art of talking a lot without actually telling anything.

[@aaronlawrence4218]

​@@absentmindedshirokuma8539and Josh doesn't do the same thing?

[@absentmindedshirokuma8539]

@@aaronlawrence4218 what do you mean same thing?

[@aaronlawrence4218]

@@absentmindedshirokuma8539 talking alot without actually telling anything

[@LS-qs9ju]

The answer is simple, Tear player use Kelbek and Agido, milling cards that benefit Visas Samsara or Vicious Astraloud. Combine it with cards that already in his hand, it become winnable.

[@chewdoom8415]

Exactly.

[@lockednumero1]

Trust me I was right there watching the top 16 match and I must say it was the best yugioh I’ve ever seen played before. How he did it is so convoluted that it’ll take forever to explain the play by play.

[@mrbubbles6468]

Someone aleeady did

[@Otzkar]

josh needs to pay for a coaching lesson from trif

[@PKSparkxxDH]

I watched Trif's breakdown of his Mannadium deck and wrote it off b/c the way he speaks confuses me. But having you translate it makes a LOT of what Trif's saying make sense lol A lot of his decisions are incredibly smart. Good stuff.

[@Saixjacket]

If you see American, you’d be racist, but since you aren’t, we will let it slide 😂 🤡

[@ducky36F]

I love how he said that “Cowboy attack position” line with a completely straight face 😂

[@sburbtube6766]

Trif dodging another ban thanks to cowboy has to be the best part, this video was full of great moments

[@xCorvus7x]

Dodging a ban? For what?

[@sburbtube6766]

Trif got banned once for like a year or even two from official Konami events because he made a deck profile where he said that he used Cowboy to win in time. Konami thought that was admitting to slow play and stalling and banned him. Thats why he joked about playing Cowboy for the 2500 atk instead of the burn damage. @@xCorvus7x

[@xCorvus7x]

@@sburbtube6766 Ah, okay, lol; thank you.

[@ethansmith1991]

in one of the dbgrinders tournaments, he broke a full tear board and otkd through it like twice💀 super fun to watch

[@xCorvus7x]

Can one see that still somewhere?

[@ethansmith1991]

@@xCorvus7x its on dbgrinder streams channel

[@xCorvus7x]

@@ethansmith1991 thx

[@xCorvus7x]

@@ethansmith1991 Do you mean the two-days-old video from this event?

[@mohwe1007]

It took droll 2 games back to back to stop this guy

[@Jjepwns]

I played this list. Play's through everything it's sick. If you don't have droll you just keep going. Pop pop pop pop pop pop pop GG's

[@jangaman7823]

But how though?

[@SamBsound]

@@jangaman7823 dude if you're gonna ask questions at least watch the video smh... just play perfect

[@myoblivion420]

​@@jangaman7823You don't need an explaination. Just like Trif concluded: He broke it easily 😂

[@jangaman7823]

@@SamBsound I was being sarcastic

[@jangaman7823]

@@myoblivion420 I was being sarcastic

[@eu4um]

Josh asking the sarcastic rhetorical questions in such a naive voice is so fucking funny.

[@wadedavids1276]

Triff is right, i OTK'D through Dimensional barrier with this deck... You can't lose with this deck.

[@snipeshot556]

The good ol access astraloud KEKW

[@zelandmusic]

Trif's deck profile made sense to me. He just covered all of his bases, and even noted what he lost to a lot and just made the adjustments. He's been hyped about the deck's potential for so long, it wasn't too hard for him to perform consistently.

[@yuseifudo6075]

PENDULUM BEST DECK LET'S GOOOO!!!!! . . . . wait wrong video but true statement

[@ricardoalfaro2580]

This whole thing is so funny. The deck profile, the chat and the gifted subs were hilarious

[@BLAST3RJOK3R]

So i was there when it happened and i vaguely remembered how he played that game 3... he was under dweller the whole time and avoided playing the balls and started pick-pocketing the board/interruptions. he had samsara and both hearts/field spells in hand to pull it off. he just kept making plays which i don't remember unfortunately but i do remember he was played into super poly from the scareclaw field spell but kept playing. he had enough materials in grave to contact into astraloud (he popped one of the monsters to gain atk) and enough link materials on board to make a 4300atk accesscode talker which was able to pop 2 or 3 more cards (again i don't remember) because he had enough link monsters with different elements in the graveyard and still had the visas and heart monster in the gy to make another astraloud which pop JK's last monster and gain the atk by then proceeded to go into battle phase and go berserk. tear player was gassed out by that point. Edit: Econ was also used during this turn.

[@mrstealcar4702]

Stop asking how he did it. No ones gonna explain their 30 min combo on how he broke the board. The focus on the deck list is the cards and why he played them and he explained it just fine. For those roasting Triff saying hes a clown in the YT chat; then you try getting top 10 in a YCS. Triff is a great and entertaining player. Just because he isent so "serious" like you guys dosen't mean that he's any less of a player.

[@jackpino-wn8bu]

3:38 without scareclaw kashtira you literally lose to unteargettabke undistructable monsters like ZARC it’s so funny

[@ThatOneWeirdFlex]

Trif is single-handedly one of the most interesting yugioh players, both a problem and a solution for the game as he is.

[@uriel6873]

How is he a problem for the game?

[@biglickerj4150]

@@uriel6873 JOKINGLY

[@poontycoon7354]

Bro will say it’s easy to play through 8 interruptions then not say how💀

[@Zensei_Tensei]

It is like two different worlds when I watch both of these KZbinrs

[@thanhlengoc3805]

Triff is the living embodiment of "Git gud"

[@tcg-channel3761]

Trif:“You have to play this and this and this and when you play it otherwise i will slap you and so u win.“ Joshi:“HOW?“😂

[@jelasby2809]

The Beauty of Trif is saying so much yet almost nothing at the same time lol. “I played through 20 negates, I won’t tell you how, but I played through 20 negates”

[@jelasby2809]

Trif in all honesty probably has no clue how he was breaking these boards or at least he can’t recreate it in his mind so he brags about it, but can’t explain it.

[@D-vb]

​​@@jelasby2809I would say the same too, I brag but I won't be able to tell how (cause it's hard to explain or I either went through a hundred matches to forget how I won over it), but if I have a replay I would gladly share how I won certain match ups.

[@SlackerXYZ]

im not even a fan of triff but the yugioh community needs personalities like him

[@edwardlynch6550]

The reason he didnt need to explain it. Is because mannadium players already know. There is no path. You just do it. Break the board.

[@justusneubeck]

Joshua just wants information so he does not lose when worlds come around so he wants to know what they cook but trif aint telling him he just does.

[@barrymchugh667]

This feels like Steiner Math the deck profile

[@thevexxus8055]

hes using eulogy to get cards in grave to combo thats main reason i think the rest of effect is bonus

[@Nexit1337]

brother got caugth on camera again with cowboy 🗿certified trif canon event

[@im_yucky]

I genuinely believe that trif is tge most insane Yu-Gi-Oh player in the world. Bro invented pendulum and inovates with every deck he plays.

[@Yoyo4lyf]

The people subbing without the sub message didn't know how to send the message

[@mauricioramirez5948]

You know they say all decks are created equal, but, you at look at my deck and you look at your dexk and you can see that statement is not true! See, normally if you go one-on-one you got a 50/50 chance of winning. But I’m a gifted duelist and I’m not normal. So you got a twenty five percent at best at beat me! And then you add Appalosa to the mix The chances of winning drastically go down. See you got a thirty three and a third chance of winnin now But I got a sixty six and two-thirds chance of winning, cuz my opponent knows he can't beat me and he’s not even gonna try.”

[@lenabo9929]

hes the donald trump of yugioh

[@jamespage7924]

@Joshua he drew into his most powerful card in the deck (credit card). 😂

[@geek593]

His list was actually one of the cheaper ones in top cut if you can believe that.

[@metalmariomega]

When almost every card is a starter, your only brick hands are overdrawing into your same named HOPTS. It doesn't take an entire video to explain that unless you're trying to be as entertaining as this dude.

[@garethm9523]

Trif style over content personified. The perfect deck that has the same success rate as the cologne "Sex Panther" 😂

[@bluie639]

visas starfrost

[@deshtom]

What’s more unhinged: the Trif deck profile, or Josh’s twitch chat.

[@isaacsamuel6035]

Remember when triff would say every deck he played was tier zero lol

[@definitelynotmany4972]

I have wet dreams of Triff classifying for Worlds. He goes undefeated out of the camera, then arrives at the finals with the reveal that he is playing “Pendulum Best Deck.” It will not happen, but it would be the best moment in Yugioh History.

[@fotiosvakakis1723]

Trif be politicianing

[@lenninho5113]

it’s funny cuz as a German, Joshua is still reading “Rescue Ass” as Rescue Ace

[@davecatss6652]

PEND BEST DECK LETS GO

[@jaybeecaranza9471]

Pend god is doing it

[@arukorubasuke]

it wasnt enough negates. thats how

[@MomirViggwilv]

enough about the decklist; what is going on with bro's moustache?!?!

[@tubbytoadinc-yugioh7220]

So how many years of schooling do you have to take to speak fluent trifanese

[@laby1827]

Funniest deck profile with funniest twitch chat lmaoo

[@tykirklin7102]

bro hyperanalyzed a Trif deck profile for half an hour, great content 👍

[@BusnelliR]

I loved the "I thought it was impossible! How did the impossible happen?".

[@walkmanstudios9733]

I regularly take my locals with mannadium because no one there seems to run droll or dark ruler or they never draw it lol

[@jofx4051]

So pendulum isn't best deck, lesgooo?

[@totalpartykill999]

that gold rota is just killin me

[@ebrake.5889]

Jokingly

[@arcvigaming8198]

5:11 HOW SWAY?!

[@joebey7446]

someone get triff a link to a hyper geometric calc app, 13 defensive cards in 40, wants to open 2.....47.7% up to 64.4% with ur 6th card, slightly off from 90-100% but i got nothing but love for trif his energy is so great we can let him exaggerate a bit

[@ianwentz6617]

Having never seen Trif before, guy's hair and beard look like they belong to two different people. Overly puffy beard with super thin hair combo lookin kinda weird. Edit: I also love how you keep calling him out for essentially being a clown for never explaining anything. Is that content that people actually look to for advice nowadays?

[@YGOandMasterDuel]

Probably the best comment in this video. You are a genius sir for noticing that lol!!! I notice it too but never comment it lol!!!

[@OlgaZuccati]

VISAS STARFROST

[@KompletterGeist]

Trif's deckbuilding has always been based

[@mirceadolineanu9715]

I beat tearlament who put up 8 interruption, because I play this deck perfectly. ... Meanwhile, in his top 8 match the opponent played tear and got a slow play game loss in g2 going first because he couldn't pilot his own deck, lmao

[@BigBootyBatman]

The tear match in question wasn't the one that was featured where his opponent got dq'ed.

[@LS-qs9ju]

Different match, we're talking about top 16 match

[@mirceadolineanu9715]

@@LS-qs9ju I'm just punning on how he over exaggerates stuff, and says bombastic things but never how it happened:)))

[@WithBeautyAndWithLove]

@@mirceadolineanu9715 but he did dissect a full tear board and kill same turn, the "how" is just crazy mannadium shit. Any card turns into full combo and leads into an insane board, basically 30 minute combo with barely any chokepoints into 3 oiled up and greasy men punching directly for 12k.

[@puckstopper1937]

Trif’s opponent was a paid actor: made the board and didn’t use and effects or cards

[@sakulugh]

what happend with the pend god ;D was looking for some siilly pend tecs ;D

[@KosPepeHands]

god damn the facial hair massacre hapening on that man's face

[@nola3344]

WHAT 9 CARDS DOES HE SIDE AHHH

[@kuchikibyakuya7872]

Let the man cook dont hate on trif

[@kuroneko687]

Who is Sky Striker Ace Raye? For the blind, she is vision. For the deaf, she is sound. For the hungry, she is food. For the thirsty, she is water. For the ones that have lost their way, she will be the path. If Raye speaks, I listen. If Raye opines, I agree. If Raye orders, I obey. If Raye has a million followers, I am one of them. If raye has only 1 follower, I am them. If Raye has no followers, then I am no longer in this world. And if the world is against Raye, I am against the world.

[@xCorvus7x]

What are you paraphrasing?

[@jimtsap04]

​@@xCorvus7xtrif's love for electrumite

[@xCorvus7x]

@@jimtsap04 for real? has anyone clipped this?

[@jimtsap04]

@@xCorvus7x not on video it just constantly plays inside his head over and over every waking hour of his day

[@xCorvus7x]

Is this Nijika's pledge?

[@Kiba114]

trif the goat

[@AdreusF]

Man best deck

[@austintaylor1448]

I’ve definitely had situations going second where chengying was indeed the correct call, NOT barrone. Because I made vicious after and then got the double banish plus pop, broke the board and pushed for game. Cheng is a must. Card is too good.

[@jumpiestaman100]

Yeah the deck is good, but you build for events. Building it for the YCS, this list works well. But if you try it at some locals, it very likely does not work like ever.

[@Jeff-qi1hb]

Stop asking how did it happen no one is writing down their 30 step turn from one game of one match for a deck profile

[@chewdoom8415]

Nobody should need to go through all that to explain. He had the right going second cards in hand and the two sided mills have him monsters in grave that let him make two astounds

[@Thenelsonking2010]

w list

[@thevexxus8055]

him and sam from tsx1 are the same beat 25 negates but how idk lol

[@ivanlovera4567]

I love how in almost every deck profile we see pretty much the same cards 😂😂😂😂 the gameplan is most important. Stick to the gameplan. If only trif would tell us the gameplan

[@sergioquesada398]

Gold rota ….

[@bigpablo673]

This that dude who Stans Tate right?

[@salbaca1104]

Ok then so for me right i have played this game for 20+ yrs now 15 of them now comp. And i for example win with budget techs or if you have the exp i do use your knowledge, for example sprite format (misspelled on purpose) i played encore as a hard counter to gigantic long before it was seeing play as i told my friends the deck at its core needed it to protect itself from nib and while i like trif and his entertainment value he brings he has yes to beat a player with more than i would say 10 yrs of exp. and while that is a lot i would say he has not played many skilled rogue players just my thoughts one more thing sorry if this is not clear i have a disability issue that affects my ability to use proper grammar and i am not home to use my special autocorrect tool

[@jacobcoates7987]

Clearly he bricked because his opponent cheated and stacked his deck. I dont play tcg so konami cant ban me for making that claim.

[@bobjones4469]

Making the most outrageous claims, saying so much while explaining so little. So he's kinda like Sam.

[@thomascoats9556]

Ima keep it a buck with u if u don’t know why scareclaw Kash helps just deleted the vid bro 😭

[@Gilgamesh-em6ru]

the one thing I don't like is how pro players don't like wide formats but they also don't tell people how to beat certain decks so those other 5 decks in the format that shouldn't be there are still there because they like to hold information for themselves.

[@LS-qs9ju]

In this case it's just Trif being shit at explaining things. But he did give us some info: 1. Build your deck so you can go first or second. Sacrifice win more card for card that can work going first or second (like putting the quick spell in the main deck even tough it's less impactful than Reframing). 2. Always bring Thrust and D Barrier when going first after game one, in case your turn is skipped because of high impact handtrap like Nibiru/Droll/Shifter, so you can also skip your opponent turn. 3. Side Herald of the Abyss because pro like Joshua and Pak for some reason really love using Purrely. This one is made up by me, but notice that his side only contain one targeted hate.

[@gianniskarageorgos6040]

Andrew tate 😂

[@SnMcCall]

It really is an art-form. The way Triff speaks very much gives off Andrew Tate vibes and we just eat that shit up while screaming about Pend best deck.

[@honks_in_banana3864]

Smh i bet he cheated by slow playing and cowboying for game

[@autobotstarscream765]

It's not slow play if you actually combo for 45 minutes ending in a ping. 😂

[@aaronlawrence4218]

He topped because hes better than you plain and simple this aint europe bra this America

[@chewdoom8415]

Who hurt you?

[@autobotstarscream765]

​@@chewdoom8415Runick. 😂