Ishizu Tearlaments (2023) vs. Snake-Eyes (2024) | Cross-Banlist Cup 2024

[@Lithium2300]

VOTES: Ishizu Tearlaments (87%) versus Snake-Eyes (13%) Stay safe!

[@ajs8685]

Great series! Can we please se Fiendsmith Snake-Eyes next? Imo that was the beste Snake-Eyes variant:)

[@shreesayajha]

@@ajs8685 mabye even the ocg build of azamina fiendsmith snake-eyes which had beatrice, lacrima, apollusa and maxx c and he does have some ocg decks i believe

[@chinodrisdino]

IshTear showing off what a true tier 0 deck looks like

[@MrLigo9]

Tear 0*

[@taewiz863]

3 games were literally won on the back of forbidden droplet…

[@jotinhafilho5920]

@@taewiz863 Oh no, a 3 off card played to break boards and allow its deck to win broke boards and allowed the deck to win, literally cheating am I right. Also, Snake tried to steal games on the back of Summon Limit as well. So lets be fair here, ok?

[@LucasFleming-lq2ry]

​@@taewiz863Those were in the deck weren't they? That's like complaining that dragoon turbo won because most decks can't handle dragoon. People complaining about the use of droplet are funny because that card was designed to handle degenerate boards. Just because it does its job doesn't mean it needs to be hated. Tear won 6 games. Snake eyes couldn't even win 3.

[@taewiz863]

@ yall way too emotionally invested into this. I didn’t complain. I made a factual observation. Droplet won 3 of those games by itself. That’s just a fact. Not a complaint.

[@jotinhafilho5920]

I expected Snakes to win at least 3 games on a best of 7 😨 6-1 is insane!!!

[@GodzillaFreak]

This isn't best of 7 it's best of 11

[@MistBestWaifu2]

@@GodzillaFreak It isn't best of 11 either. If SE wins 5/10 games it wins the whole thing. The best name for this would be a "bracket reset best of 5" which is the naming convention for most double elimination tournaments

[@jotinhafilho5920]

@@MistBestWaifu2 True, is more of a "best of 10" since its two best of 5 matches. If it was a best of 7, 4 Ws were going to be enough so I messed up there 😅

[@pawjabes2847]

tear having a 4/5 in recovery when they go +3 when you activate duster is pretty funny

[@_Sasuke_99]

I know right? Lol

[@TooLazyToFunction]

Was thinking the same thing lol like how is the other deck all 5s shit can clearly brick by having so many hand traps like wtf

[@marcusjihansson]

Imagine Tenpai vs Ishizu Tear: Activate Duster ok 👍 Activate Raigeki ok 👍 Board is back 👍

[@_Sasuke_99]

@@marcusjihansson Tenpai was shown in a challenger appears, And Tear is the only deck that beat Tenpai without using a floodgate

[@alalmass7536]

@@_Sasuke_99just shufflers lol

[@petiteexplication6249]

The strongest deck in history vs The strongest deck of today

[@fimbulInvierno]

And snake-eyes as well was chop in half

[@MistBestWaifu2]

"You were born in an era without me and hailed as 'the strongest', and yet you turned out to be painfully ordinary" - Ishizu Tearlaments to Fraud-Eyes

[@gabrielgois8724]

"Are you the strongest because you're Snake-Eyes? Or are you Snake-Eyes because you're the strongest?"

[@alexandreblossom6461]

Ishizu tear is really the tier 0

[@_Sasuke_99]

@@gabrielgois8724 You ruined it when you put Snake-Eyes instead of Tiaraments

[@j.s.h7046]

Stand proud snake-eyes you were strong

[@jotinhafilho5920]

Snakes got asswoped badly, Runick Spright was the harder match up.

[@j.s.h7046]

@jotinhafilho5920 runick sprite is way stronger than snake-eyes with the link 2 unbanned

[@CudaWudaShuda]

PHNI Snake-Eyes was the definition of “king of a small hill” ngl. It was always an F/L breath away from plummetting in use-rate and was occupying a power vacuum left by the banning of Ariseheart, and prior to that the culling of POTE. Anybody who thinks this archetype was a paragon of Powercreep or anything more than a passing top dog is lying to themselves. Ishtear played and would still play on an axis most decks literally cannot comprehend

[@charlesfort6602]

I still feel like the game 3 in match 2 was threw, having summon limit there was no good reason to normal that mourner. Had they not do that, they would be able to negate kaleido and had a good chance to get carried by summon limit, and then we would have a game 5

[@Manualzion]

"You did well, Snake Eyes. I won't forget you for as long as I live." Tearlament's Kitkalos, 2025

[@_Sasuke_99]

Snake-Eyes: "Nah I'd wi-" Tears: "Keldo, Response?"

[@lmr4403]

Tear showed why it is the strongest deck of all time, but it also showed the interactability and breaking of boards.

[@Ragnarok540]

I love droplet, it feels so good to go second with that card in your hand.

[@CaliburXL99]

*Me who plays Infernoble on MD* I love players that open/draw droplet too, it’s funny watching them go neg when I full combo.

[@zawarudogaming3961]

Especially if you send Agido and Kelbek, it become the best going second card ever printed

[@MrKM888]

Last video someone commented they couldn't see Snake-Eye losing as they had 2 chances, and that Snake-Eye would at least win 1 time. Didn't think Snake-Eye would indeed only win 1 time xD

[@_Sasuke_99]

@@MrKM888 "At least 1 game.....Yet also at most 1 game" - Yu-Gi-Oh! Gods

[@assumingfrog7944]

@@MrKM888 And Tear still would've won that game if it was played better lmao

[@MistBestWaifu2]

I didn't think my 6-0 prediction would be so close lmao. 6-1 to the GOAT after purposely handicapping itself. Thank you, Tiaraments strongest!

[@MrTaikobo]

First off, Happy New Year Lithium and Yugioh Community! Second: damn, these matches were fun to watch. Forbidden Droplet and Agido top deck for the win. And Game 2 in the first match, all those hand traps and no starters sucks

[@nehalpatel9449]

Thank You Tiaraments Strongest also Happy New Year to Lithium and all in the comments

[@alalmass7536]

🎉🎉

[@notacaxi]

droplet + any ishizu is illegal lmao 😂😂😂

[@FostedFlake]

Goes to show just how insane tear was at the time snake eye would of been basically a rouge deck at the time

[@stiffeification]

*would have

[@FostedFlake]

@ you are a parasite on society

[@andrejv.2834]

Snake eye would be a lot better with custom side decks, low impact hand traps aren't great against tear

[@pargustavsson712]

@@andrejv.2834 keep in mind that in that scenario tear would also be allowed to have side specifically from snake-eye

[@andrejv.2834]

@@pargustavsson712 so not much would change, they'd just add the mulcharmies probably Tear doesn't have much room for non engine so this doesn't impact them as much

[@gergom2699]

This truly was our Yugioh Kaisen

[@pOp-jc4jv]

when things make sense, people dont complain despite 3-0 into 3-1

[@gabrielgois8724]

Where's that guy to say that Fraud-Eyes is better than Tear because X number of reasons lmao

[@_Sasuke_99]

Andrev something lol. The Snake-Eyes defender and Tear hater

[@juksleo6257]

Bruh Keldo and Mudora by themselves dogwalk Snake-eyes

[@otangakudyokeman7124]

why do i feel i know this guy lmao

[@_Sasuke_99]

@@otangakudyokeman7124 Because you DO know him. He's the guy who keeps on defending Snake-Eyes and arguing against Tear. He has a red lion pfp with a black background

[@andrejv.2834]

When did I say that? I remember saying we can't know that without a shared format because the cbc has no custom non engine And I said snake eye had better results in the tcg, which they did, as they had a higher win percentage and higher average representation

[@NikoAmii]

Wow that was brutal lol. Snake eyes ceiling is just too low to compare to tear

[@milto2269]

Tear was able to deal with Summon limit a lot easier than Testudo. Kash and Runick Spright probably had the best chance to knock out Tear if they win the coin flip, but SE could perform better if Droplet doesn't appear in Tear's hand going second

[@yazanabbadi4247]

Best video of the 2024 CBC: Ishizu intentionally throwing when playing vs Spright to prove "I don't need 2nd chances to win this entire thing" Droplets really came in clutch, good games. I think Ishizu Tear will now take a break for 2 years or so from the series

[@stupiddog321]

Turns out it's freaking Runick Spright that gave Ishizu Tear the most trouble and supposedly the "Tear counter" Kashtira.

[@GSchneeglockchen]

Outcome isn't really surprising, i think there's a line on game 1 match 2 to make the score 6-0 for tear instead of 6-1 even lmao

[@_Sasuke_99]

@@GSchneeglockchen Yeah someone explained it. NS Herald and make sprind with it and druis cl 1 druis on apo cl 2 sprind just to chainblock apo from negating Druis. Now princess and imperm will remain (I think mourner too). Tear will have Scheiren, Reino, Sulliek and Field Spell and they dealt with apo and need to deal with only 3 disruptions remaining

[@GSchneeglockchen]

@@_Sasuke_99 After checking the tear list again it didn't run redoer in it since it was very teched out for mirrors, it seems even with that line the imperm on reino would have ended the game sadly

[@_Sasuke_99]

@@GSchneeglockchen Umm....what? I'm saying you discard Reino for Scheiren, Not NS Reino. The goal is to have Scheiren mills plus Sulliek. Maybe you could actually use Reino to discard Sulliek if the Scheiren mills aren't that great I guess

[@GSchneeglockchen]

@@_Sasuke_99 Yeah i get you, its just i expect the worst outcome if that scheiren mill 3 misses then whats left is 2 lv4 on board after that imperm and there's not much you can do after it but then again tear missing any mills in this era is really unlucky

[@MayhemMessiah]

The only surprise is that Tear lost a match to Spright. I expected them to dogwalk every match this year and they only stumbled once.

[@juksleo6257]

I expected Tear to win but this was just bullying

[@leolima9147]

2:03 wait, this cup is played based on OCG rules? Because there is no way that a Cl4 Mourner can be activated in chain to Rulkallos negate

[@Raikiri103]

Very disappointing to see.

[@Mantis24513]

It's still in the summon response window, so Mourner can be activated. It's similar to Torrential Tribute. It has to be activated in the chain after the monster was summoned, but it doesn't have to be CL1.

[@crispy8295]

@@Mantis24513in ocg yes, but not in the tcg. That’s just not correct lol

[@shreesayajha]

yeah edopro i believe uses OCG rules at default, look at tears last matchup, it was talents vs ip, it used the ocg rules for this scenario

[@KeshavKrishnan]

@@crispy8295what he said WAS correct but. The ocg has a diff level of priority for private cards that trigger. You don't have to do cl1 in tcg for mourner to work, you just have to do it at first available trigger window instead of after both players resolve public triggers

[@orga7777]

Wasn't even close. Tear is just insane. Very well deserved winner.

[@gengstar09]

Happy new years Lith and fam! ❤ wishing everyone a tier 0 free format!

[@maxicruz246]

No hubo nada que hacer, de principio a fin se ganó. Gran edición.

[@DinoConV]

Happy New Year! The really only deck that could have stopped Tear was Runik Spright, and that's literally a dedicated Tear hate deck lol What a great tournament overall. Tear and 1999 Exodia were real treats to watch.

[@Funforme-z7c]

Tear as usual making every other deck look like a coughing baby. I miss them man

[@lynathelightcharmer5337]

This match-up is kinda funny because their individual deck list were designed to stop themselves in a tier 0 format and nothing else 😂

[@donaldlivingston75]

Wow. Ishizu Tear came out on absolute fire and took no prisoners. Just an absolutely dominating demolition. We already knew Tear was the undisputed top deck of all time, but they proved it once again here. Congratulations to Tear and Spellbooks on the victory. Tearlament definitely had to work a little harder than we thought they would this year to win though. Maybe next year, have a nerfed Tear build either pre Ishizu or post-Kitkallos ban.

[@floooowandereese]

Pre Ishizu? You mean Danger Tearlaments that won last year CBC? Also, there's no point of not playing Kitkallos. This is CBC after all. IshTear deck used for this CBC is actually mirror-focused (maining Bystials, lack of Redoer and Zeus). The real IshTear is version with Tear Kash.

[@_Sasuke_99]

@@donaldlivingston75 The champion of the CBC before this one is literally Danger! Tear (Pre Ishizu). This is literally the 2nd time Tear wins an entire CBC

[@robertotescione9427]

Waiting to see snake eyes fiendsmith full power in cbc 2025

[@BlueSkyYGO]

Happy new year! Blessings!

[@StriiderEclipse]

The Ishizu cards still remain some of the most absurd cards to ever exist, congrats on taking your place in CBC history Ishizu Tear

[@Natax99Final]

6-1 is disgusting 💀

[@0Lelouch0]

13:26 yoooooooo tearlaments just destroyed the snakes 😂

[@Jaddas]

Kitkallos our Queen once again reigns supreme

[@toadfan64]

Tear just literally always mills what it needs. God do I hate that deck. Actually made me root for Snake Eyes.

[@jacobjensen7704]

The shufflers are pretty cracked. They murdered snake eyes the first time these two faced and they murdered snake eyes again in this match. Konami! Bring back all the tear names to 3! Just leave Kitkallos banned!

[@domafox]

An interesting match up would of been Tears vs Exodia if Exodia did succeed in their brackets, but what would've happened if both decks faced each other? Cause I know that Exodia Pre-Errata had cards that entered the grave by discard gain their effects, but I question what happens via milling those cards?

[@Rain593]

If they didn't win I would have eaten my own shoes

[@fagonfly]

I mean I expected Tear to win, but honestly kinda insane to see just how outclassed full power Snake Eyes is against them

[@johnathanlemus5584]

Ishtear defined modern YGO like Dorian Yates defined bodybuilding

[@vidkarlic7770]

Snake-Eyes won one out of six games, lol. Also, will there be Ishizu Tear vs Rescu Ace?

[@_Sasuke_99]

One out of 7 games*

[@vidkarlic7770]

@_Sasuke_99 true.

[@CrystronHalq]

With Ishizu Tear getting lucky twice against Runick Spright, well... they eventually won. Havnis is such an obnoxious card. Happy new years to you Lithium btw, and hope you have a wonderful 2025!

[@DaviLSWithYou]

This is what i call a rekTEAR

[@shina4229]

Those Droplets were insane

[@acech1089]

I think on the next play with the list that had the millers limited, give the orher decks a bit if a chance

[@andrew-guillen]

Shows how strong those Ishizu cards were at full power. Here’s to Odion having busted cards too!

[@potatoexe5410]

6:24 why go for dharc here. You can instead just pass with Druis+Reino and play on the opponent's turn with Sulliek. It was still a losing situation but it could have also turned this into a 6-0 instead of 6-1 Also 2:03 OCG hand trigger rules aaaaaaaaa

[@shreesayajha]

as 1 commenter pointed out, they could of ns herald of orange light instead, link into sprind and use druis 1 sprind 2 , which chain block the druis from apollusa. Then use the shciern discard rheino and continue from there.

[@NimaHox]

I saw the video was 14 minutes and i was like there is no way tear lost Little did i know...

[@mzakibariza8853]

yeah, its a slaughter

[@Carlet_S]

I mean, what did you expect?

[@w7d221]

Ishizu Tearlaments is on another whole level indeed .

[@ObitachiTfO]

That lean back 13:25 after destroying the snakes in the year of the snake was hilarious. Happy new year, lithium 🫡

[@maingames860]

6 to 1 pro snake eyes got bullied 💀

[@PeterNguyen-di3nz]

I love watch these deck and not knowing who's turn its actually is 😂

[@BBGunRenegade]

Everything about the Ishizu cards is a war crime lmao

[@ghostman169OO]

Tear is tier 0, i dnt wanna hear no one talking about something tier 0 for a while

[@mAsElFsOoZ]

great vid as always Lithium

[@TCGSyphax]

2025 already looking great. tear strongest

[@JumbaJumby]

That was a blowout

[@XYGamingRemedyG]

I remember playing Ishizu Tear when it came out cause i thought the idea of Ishizu having meta cards was funny. I still am not entirely sure how to play the deck, and it still is all thanks to Edopro being automated that i just would will lol.

[@christophertomes6777]

what a slaughter

[@jotinhafilho5920]

Really hope we can have Spellbooks vs Tearlaments in a ultimate final.

[@alalmass7536]

No way 😂😂😂😂

[@jacobjensen7704]

Of all the decks in the top bracket, spellbooks have the best chance because of Jowgen and their resource loop 😅

[@sejotejerina3732]

MMM I don't, in the previous edition the challenger appears decks were included, I don't know what's going to happen now 🤔. Anyway, there is a reason why spellbook is not in the bottom bracket anymore xd.

[@alalmass7536]

@ oh yeah I forgot about jowgen😂😂

[@hieubuiminh4739]

@@jacobjensen7704Personally out of the upper bracket, frankly the only one that can compete with the lower bracket is 1999 Exodia, because of its sheer speed and level of sacking, and the fact not every new deck sides droll. Spellbook is frankly too slow to even make a dent in the game plan of anything new

[@jangaman7823]

Ishizu cards were a mistake

[@adrien4337]

Which simulator is used in the vidéo, looks like edopro with theme ?

[@_Sasuke_99]

@@adrien4337 yes, You can customize your EDOPRO

[@passaroquetzalcoatlus6205]

it was obvious from the creation of the groups who the winner would be but it was still a lot of fun watching everything playing out

[@FinalMorningstar]

next time get either fiendsmith SE w/ Beatrice or azamina fiendsmith SE (maybe FK), these were undoubtedly the strongest variants with the most pushes

[@_Sasuke_99]

......also with even bigger weaknesses to the Shufflers and Dweller, and less space for non-engine. If you want Snake-Eyes to lose even harder to Tear, This is definitely a variant you should try

[@chaosprime1629]

disappointed exodia lost to spellbooks as i wanted to see it face off against tears.

[@zawarudogaming3961]

Mind you, this not full powrr tear because there's no Tear Kash yet. OCG version with Ishizu Tear probably the best deck ever grace to this game

[@_Sasuke_99]

Tear Kash isn't even that amazing lol. Tell me 1 thing that it adds that this version doesn't already have. Using Kash as a 2nd Havnis, Is very neggy cuz of the banish 1 from hand, And you're always tryna grab Merrli with Kit, cuz of Spright Elf (Merrli is lvl 2 unlike Kash), So even the mill 10 combo will come with a cost

[@shreesayajha]

there was a weekend with phhy and before the feb banlist, ycs lille and some 3v3 ycs in mexico, both won by tear. So there is a decklist in tcg with full power tear

[@kierondavis5053]

Its really levels to this shit 😭 they can never make me hate tear 😂

[@Hyuuga2109]

What a bloodbath.

[@flashghost]

All you need is kitkallos

[@darklaw7635]

So happy for this win from tears. Considering its not full power

[@SiRarayBeureum666]

Happy new year bro

[@assumingfrog7944]

Game 1 of match 2 was winnable. You could've normal summoned Orange Light, link with Druis into Sprind, chain link 1 Druis to get rid of Apo chain link 2 Sprind, then you go off with Scheiren discarding Reino

[@_Sasuke_99]

@@assumingfrog7944 Damn 💀

[@Kuribohdudalala]

This wasn’t close. Tear obliterated SE

[@Linkingx2]

Tiaraments strongest! Konami unban Kitkalos you cowards!

[@ElGrandeFalco]

Why did Ishizu tear struggle so hard against runic sprit, but crushed Snake eyes easy?

[@mzakibariza8853]

Because runick spright can outgrind Ishizu tears if played correctly + some luck

[@不只是谁所无名找小二]

Runick spright was designed to play and win against tear, SE is designed to play and win against itself.

[@andrejv.2834]

Runick decks are very difficult to beat without custom side decks when going 2nd Also they didn't open droplet + miller + instant fusion multiple times

[@antonbrown17]

banishing half of Tear's deck and floodgates

[@chaotixthefox]

RunSpright designed to beat Tear, Tear designed to face Tear. Also game losing misplay in the first match.

[@lordofcrows]

3:42 in and we have a 2-0 What the fuck is gonna happen, we just played through like infinite handtraps twice Oh, I see

[@emptymilkcarton3361]

Welp thats why its called Tear 0 lol

[@frankartanis1290]

Runick spright is much harder for Tear to deal with. It has a bigger board, and relies on more non-monster interruptions. Once Tear cleared that (while going second in game 1, might I mention), Tear has basically secured its championship. Snake-eye is nothing in the face of ishizu shufflers and Tear power plays.

[@lesentry9745]

It seems like Snake-eye could have had a much better chance at 9:01 if they chained the summon limit then chained masq link off their whole board for apo. The droplet will fizzle bc there is not two monsters and then the apo can negate one miller while they have summon limit up. Idk if they would have won but it is a huge misplay.

[@MistBestWaifu2]

It was draw phase so they can't use I:P

[@milkgoesinlast]

should retitle it “snake eyes getting dropleted for 14 min straight”

[@chaotixthefox]

Salty fake news. Droplet showed up in the second match after Tear had already 3-0'd SE without it.

[@windunursetyadi]

Runick Spright being the one deck that could defeat Tearlaments than Snake-Eye says something tbh

[@mzakibariza8853]

and snake eyes defeat runick spright.

[@_Sasuke_99]

It says that any deck loses if you misplay hard enough with it

[@mzakibariza8853]

@@_Sasuke_99 fair enough

[@bdc129]

@@mzakibariza8853 snake-eyes needed a perfect hand to beat spright, and there is no miracle like that today

[@mzakibariza8853]

@@bdc129 its called miracle because of that

[@mAsElFsOoZ]

Ishizu Tears need to chill

[@abdulrhmanelfeky8534]

You could dodge the mourner on rukalos if you checked the TCG runing box while making a room

[@_Sasuke_99]

It's good that he didn't, Because Tear won that duel anyways. Now Snake-Eyes fanboys can't say anything to defend Snake-Eyes being better than Tear

[@mzakibariza8853]

@@_Sasuke_99 indeed. and in this match snake eyes also summon apollousa, which one of the mistake pointed out in the previous match (because the pilot didnt summon apollousa). Tear still win

[@_Sasuke_99]

@@mzakibariza8853 And Tear still went 6-1. Literally NO excuse whatsoever to say Snake-Eyes is better than Tear. Literally No version of Snake-Eyes will ever be better than Tear, Because they all have the same weaknesses anyways. Other versions just have less space for non-engine, And a lot of them don't even have Apo (cuz it was banned)

[@vehicledestroyer]

Best deck ever printed won? Weird

[@vonhofentertainment5289]

Bro how is my guy opening ash witch vs no interruptions and not ending on apo savage baron masq

[@tobyjoanaugry1326]

who thought adding ishizu tear was a good idea

[@ccjl9160]

I miss this deck so much. Free Kit, Konami

[@alexandreblossom6461]

Happy new year and Nice victory for tear

[@GerardoRodriguez-nr9ep]

que emocion, mis dos arquetipos favoritos

[@GodzillaFreak]

Tear top decks in series one wtf

[@nnnp634]

Spoiler alert: Oh, the video is 13 minutes long, that must mean there's no 2 matches, right?

[@ChazBlanks]

Tearlament beating Snake-Eyes validates my opinion of Yugioh.

[@judefowler8145]

Game one, that is not how mourner works in the tcg 1:57 - shouldnt be able to activate it as cl4 here

[@countessofcompost1574]

These games basically show that forbidden droplet is the greatest generic card of all time.

[@_Sasuke_99]

Droplet + Ishizu cards** 😉

[@countessofcompost1574]

@@_Sasuke_99 TRUUUUUU!

[@zhipengren]

ganna shed sum tear on that snake eyez

[@_Sasuke_99]

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