TIER 0.5 TENPAI DRAGON (Infinite Forbidden)

[@monkfishy6348]

Who knew that the way to make battle phase decks good, was to turn the battle phase into the main phase.

[@Riruka_Dokugamine]

I'm actually very happy that this deck is as good as it is, because the art style is absolutely amazing. And not only that but going second decks are needed as well.

[@Wyrmi]

yugioh players: WE NEED A GOING SECOND DECK yugioh players when they get a going second deck: :( i agree this deck is so cool and i'm really happy we're getting a really fresh contender for the metagame.

[@streetgamer3452]

@@Wyrmi because a big part of why its so good is purely off the back of toxic floodgates and not because its an otk deck

[@Shinde425]

OCG has been playing this with like 20+ hand traps. Don’t gotta deal with full combo snake eyes when you throw 3-4 hand traps at them

[@PyckledNyk]

Great, the grind game gets grindier. That’s exactly what it needed.

[@SimplyXera]

I'm sort of happy we have a battle phase oriented deck getting great support and doing well. Love the art too!

[@undeadinside3571]

Now if only gladiator beasts could get support this good

[@caesar1512]

​@@undeadinside3571link panther is a good support for g beast, maybe if it was 1 link, it would've been better

[@gerbygerbs7705]

@@undeadinside3571 The GB Link2 is so good idk what else they could even print to put it over the edge back into meta contention. I think the core gameplay of what the deck wants to do is just outdated. Maybe some sort of way to fuse on opponents turn or to provide a way to give immunity to your monsters on opponents turn.

[@cightless]

yay so happy we’re getting a deck that’s hard to interact with and can play 20+ handtraps… be fr

[@hamster6216]

@@cightless yugioh player always complain to anything, making full board combo = complain, floodgate = complain, making one card combo = complain, mid support = complain, getting supol'ed,evenly = complain what do you guys really wanted?

[@elionijames598]

A crazy interaction with the new tenpai dragon with magnamhut allows you to special summon it on the end phase, this deck is everything I wanted

[@sekaihunter9378]

I've been saying this for months now, but don't underestimate Tenpai and let them go first. If you're unlucky and they hit you with Heat Wave or this new trap you will regret it.

[@undeadinside3571]

People use heat wave?

[@sammydray5919]

Or just sit on Kaiser Colosseum after making the big boy 😅

[@sekaihunter9378]

​@@undeadinside3571 yeah, OCG players started playing it in the side deck, when they are forced to go first. It's basically a Dimensional Barrier, but works in Tenpai only. You must activate it first in Main Phase 1, but thanks to the new Tenpai monster you can play in the draw phase now. I expect a lot more people will start using the card in the main deck as well, with how nice it synergize with this new support.

[@sekaihunter9378]

@@sammydray5919 Yeah, I see a lot of people play Colosseum as well. It's sort of a fish or bear hand situation tho, both are good but you should only choose 3-4 copies because more is redundant. In the TCG Colosseum is currently banned, so I expect Heat Wave will be used a lot more once Tenpai is released there, or you can use 3 Heat Wave and 1 Colosseum in Master Duel when they come out

[@chaotixthefox]

​@@undeadinside3571Yes, going sevobd decks have started picking it up for when they have to go first. Saw it in a topping Flame Swordsman list a while ago.

[@shien-ryu4395]

Tenpai playstyle is what Watts should have been according to their latest support. Otking with direct attacks and synchro summoning during the battle phase. Tenpai is Watts done right.

[@abdulsalamnajjar1154]

This deck is revolutionary… it changes the aspect of how we look to the game

[@arielgomes7989]

Ngl, its kinda refreshing to see a blind second deck be top tier for once, considering the state of the game

[@Yayayayayyayay]

So refreshing to see a deck that says "your opponent can't interact" be top tier, so much fun and good gameplay sure!

[@MistBestWaifu]

It's refreshing until you actually play against it. People don't like the handtrap meta and this deck comes in with even more. I'm expecting a lot of complaints about this deck once it's actually playable

[@arielgomes7989]

@@MistBestWaifu I did't make any remarks about the deck's playstyle or if its healthy or not. I just find it interesting to have a blind second deck be top tier considering the community almost unnanimously agrees the going first advantage has been a problem for over a decade at this point. That is all.

[@invertbrid]

Agree. Its nice seeing otk based deck actually top tier

[@streetgamer3452]

the deck literally says you can't play against it. It's not refreshing

[@otsman5614]

So they can bagooska pass now

[@alexandreblossom6461]

The dragon year, thx Konami

[@YuseiTheSynchroHero]

Nice D-BARRIER, opponent. Lmao. Zealantis is CRAZY. It was only a matter of time after its initial OCG reveal that it would cause issues.

[@kennethramirez7697]

Insane synergy!

[@Cardlimits]

spooky dogwood is going to be more relevant to main

[@ChloeDReid]

Can probably just kill through spooky pretty easily with trident dragon

[@Cardlimits]

@@ChloeDReid someone needs to get better at math

[@random_name2113]

@@Cardlimits yeah you

[@Cardlimits]

@@random_name2113 can you even do math when it involves more than 2 numbers?

[@ChloeDReid]

@@Cardlimits trident dragon will gain the opponent 3k life. it will become a 6k attack monster from the field spell that can attack 3 times for a grand total of 18k damage. maybe you need to take your casual comments out of here when you have 0 idea how the deck functions. the field spell isnt once per turn either so if you hard open it you can set it again off baidora and use sangen risedragon bident dragion to pop your own field spell giving trident another 3k being 27k dmg

[@deannguyen391]

Dragon capture jar

[@Shinde425]

😂😂😂

[@qaz12301]

it only took 25 years for it to be relevant lol

[@destructionswordspet]

We go buster blader for this

[@konstantinoskoutlas7608]

also setting albaz and going into alba-lenatus

[@sforsyth2911]

Lol ppl didn't even play that card when dragon link was topping

[@toadfan64]

I'm glad to see there is a strong going second OTK deck.

[@Chaos__]

Funny how this deck gets a card that Glad Beasts could have used over a decade ago. The trap card is just busted tbh

[@01Ichirei10]

funny they were saying deck was garbage a month ago.

[@lKaaru]

Again there is no tier 0.5324234234 or Tier 1,43434 there is tier 0 (if possible), tier 1, tier 2 and tier 3.

[@Lithium2300]

Ok

[@verbalengine95]

I think people are dooming about this deck, yes it's super consistent and resistant to a lot of things, but there are a lot of specific cards that are likely to stop it, similar to gimmick puppets tbh

[@Wyrmi]

tenpai players when their opponent drops battle fader: :O

[@invertbrid]

​Fader doesn't matter when they drop the lvl 10 before direct atk, or meteorburst. No one literally use it vs tenpai lol. Thunder of ruler snd dimension barrier are what u want ​@@Wyrmi

[@streetgamer3452]

@@Wyrmi literally NO ONE will ever use that card

[@Wyrmi]

@@invertbrid but did you consider the emotional damage from losing to battle fader 🤔

[@empresscarrie6230]

no they’re not dooming it’s doing numbers in ocg and that’s before this insane support. easy t1

[@xy394]

4:40 You know what else should be banned? Baronne, Apollousa, and Savage

[@Swanjeff1]

And yet you act like kaijus droplet and dark ruler don’t exist yeah that’s a you being a bad player issue

[@r3zaful]

​@@Swanjeff1those 3 homogenize every single archetype in the game to summon them. There's no difference between Shs, vaylantz and Manadome. It's all baron apolousa, every single deck gravitate around that end board is bad for the game. Also if you took Apolousa and baron deck like snake eyes have to rely on their own boss moster.

[@noktal_the_kid]

​@@Swanjeff1 We really are comparing extra deck generic boss monsters with unsearchable staples now ?

[@Swanjeff1]

@@noktal_the_kid since people can’t stop complaining about them yes same with flood gates like anti spell and summon limit you all have an easy put to em but just like to complain cause you wanna be sheep for yugitubers that don’t like em same with tear that ruins the game but freak out when wanting dweller and shifter ban

[@MaliEndz]

@@Swanjeff1drawing the out isn’t an answer

[@PiantaBroker]

5:45 While yes powercreep sucks, I kinda like direction with Tenpai Dragon's battle phase style. Imagine if War Rock was this strong

[@johnnywilson3071]

Surely we can bring back Air Lifter and Sharavara back to 3. They only got 1 format before they got smacked by the F & L list and degen stuff like this justifies bringing them back.

[@Acholight.]

This kind of reminds me of Kozmo where if you're able to swing in damage with Farmgirl, it's gg for your opponent, sometimes pumping out 12k+ damage, except what do you do when everything is a Farmgirl and they're protected, bonkers 🤯

[@Nephalem2002]

I can see this format going 1 of two ways. Either this and Snake Eyes will become Tier 0.5 and it’ll Be a Spellbook Vs Dragon Rulers situation, or Snake Eyes will drop to Tier 1 and this deck will be Tier 1 among others.

[@BFG_Guzma]

Anyone know which simulator he uses? I'm still using Project Ignis but that one doesn't seem to be updating quite as fast.

[@Protocurity]

Looks like Threatening Roar and Mirror Force are going to start seeing play again...

[@mac_chappy]

Is this the part where people start playing Buster Blader again for this deck? Maybe after the banlist because none of their effects will be able to activate when having the fusion on field

[@asuraphreak]

I fucking knew it! I was looking at the new stuff and stated that's broken af. Now I know it's true.

[@alisonarizapa343]

So you are telling me if I don't draw heat wave I can make them go straight to battle phase HUH noice

[@zeeeethezaaa]

what app is this?

[@beastyfamilia4995]

Have ya done a slifer deck? If so can I watch it?

[@LeyMurphyYGO]

Skipping the main 1 is going to be fun against runick decks

[@leviathan5207]

Standby phase Waboku gonna go hard! Thank god I still got my 2002 starter deck Yugi staple in the bulk :)

[@hyperDarklord13]

Why no Blaster lithium?

[@DaxtonOliverAshlocke]

With the support the deck gets in Infinite Forbidden Blaster isn’t really needed. Sure, it’s cool with gold sarc when the deck first comes out at the end of the month but it can be taken out when the other stuff comes out in July

[@p.k3088]

would be interesting to see this vs full poeer ishizu tear

[@tausifulislam987]

Pretty sure it would rip through full power Tear's board since they wouldn't be able to use any of their interactions on them in Main Phase. The only interactions Tenpai would have to play through are Rulkalos, Kaleido-Heart and maybe Sulliek

[@_Sasuke_99]

​@@tausifulislam987 Also Perlereino, Shufflers in GY, And even Cryme too, Plus Scream will reduce their monsters on top. I'm Not saying Tear will have all of those at once, But at least they will have more than half of them at least

[@AngryAyrab]

Every one of those games your opponent bricked. Not sure I would consider those good replays

[@_Sasuke_99]

Also the Snake-Eyes player willingly played into Droll lmao

[@PyckledNyk]

Maybe a toxic deck like this will finally force Konomi to ban or limit some hand traps….. aw who am I kidding? They’ll just double down and eventually make the full hand trap deck meme a reality.

[@youtubeenjoyer7279]

if they make more decks like this battle handtraps like fader,swift, kuribo and gorz might became staple konami might even errata all or some of those battle traps, making them a handtrap like imperm/evenly. imagine getting mirror forced out of nowhere🤣🤣🤣

[@esrohm6460]

saying making the CURRENT hand traps useless when those CURRENT handtraps are 12 years old is kinda yeah you would expect to 12 year old cards to not be strong anymore

[@LoneWolfInsane]

ok how the f*uck is heatwave legal

[@MaliEndz]

Yubel says hi

[@Carlet_S]

I don't care how unhealthy it is that a deck running 15 1 card otks and 20 handtraps can run 2 turn skips, one searchable. It can deal like 30k damage in a single battle phase and that's based, actually. Just blasting your opponent at point blank range with a shotgun. Multiple times.

[@HenryMiranda1001]

Fun

[@SproutFarms]

I hate this so much.

[@colossaldonut5190]

I still find it funny that Tenpai gets a Poplar. I hope every deck gets a Poplar. Kashtira Poplar would go hard.

[@mohamedkoblawi4175]

Can we have a single slightly balanced format for once Konami. Please

[@Stylercom113]

You had before February

[@invertbrid]

Yep u had it before, and some ppl still complaining about diverse and balanced format lol.

[@pablepablo2321]

Yall are claiming this is based now but are gonna realize how toxic and bs it is the second u sit across from it. This deck is cancerous compared to the fire decks This is a floodgate deck disguised as a battle phase deck

[@xantiagoraco]

Fr fr People be like "finally a good BP deck" my brother you are about to get otk'd 4 times over and all that disruption you have does nothing lmao

[@Wyrmi]

tbh the only toxic parts are the handtrap wars (which might just be a product of the format) and heat wave

[@invertbrid]

Not at all. Mostly only heatwave. Which is unsearchable. And u can hit em back with Dbarrier / thunder of ruler The 20 handtraps stuff is just recent modern YGO lol. Snake eyes already did it .

[@streetgamer3452]

@@invertbrid they literally have an uniteractive card in the field spell and a floodgate with the new trap. It most definatly is toxic as helll

[@幽霊船-o4h]

Its literally tier 0 strong and I still dont get how the OCG is STILL sleeping on tenpai??? Maybe because the last banlist basically did nothing to snake eyes. Tenpai will ne tier 0 i feel like and I dont like that. It looked cool and fun when released but now its too strong for me and I dont wanna play it anymore... Thought its gonna be just a good rogue

[@invertbrid]

Sleeping.... what. Deck literally tooping a lo in ocg

[@幽霊船-o4h]

@@invertbrid its not. Loook at ocg charts. Its winning yes but representation is like only 1/8 It should be like 30 to 40percent

[@invertbrid]

@@幽霊船-o4h well snake eyes simply just better then. It can win againts snake eyes sometimes yea. After this new support maybe tier 0 finally who knows

[@me-vx4wi]

​​@@幽霊船-o4hIt's not Tier 0. If it could go first as well as it could go second, it probably would be, but the inability to do much going first sort of keeps it in check in that regard.

[@PyckledNyk]

If enough people start talking about and hyping it, it could make waves easily. Maybe in the TCG since Yugitubers make a big portion of the advertisement over here. I could definitely see it dominating in MD where it’s a BO1.

[@HIllowder]

why must konami keep making cards that are better than the previous (i know its for money), I just really wish they would make cards more balanced to each other, like hit a ceiling on the power creep already jeez

[@Wyrmi]

they make plenty of balanced cards! (you just don't hear about em :( )

[@invertbrid]

Well powercreep is the only way sadly. Other way is to make new master rule which restricting lot what players can do in 1 turn, or make YGO reboot + set rotation. Which i bet lot ppl dont want too

[@klemenhrovat1281]

They need to sell products. They don't want to make balanced game because of that.

[@Ezj9727]

Zealand should be banned W opinion

[@_Sasuke_99]

More like Promethean Princess is what should get banned. Princess is literally what triggers Pyro Phoenix anyways which leads to the OTK

[@Ezj9727]

@@_Sasuke_99 you’re right however o don’t think they’ll do that bc that card is too new still

[@Ezj9727]

@@_Sasuke_99 but also zealand eff resets monster effs so that interaction in particular is what we were referring to being broken

[@ferrisbueller1413]

first replay.. WORST snake eye player EVER? c'mon... we need better replays

[@streetgamer3452]

these new cards are awful... Good, yes, but awful for the game... 2024 has really just not been that fun for yugioh if I'm being honest... Snake Eye is too overtuned and pricy... This deck is just a stun deck that can otk... gimmick puppets is just a consistant boring ftk... trickstars support was awful... the new fiendsmith stuff is gonna be yet another pricy engine... only thing I've been excited for is the new Melodious Support... Outside of that I legit haven't had any real fun or interest in anyrhing new...

[@PyckledNyk]

Konomi saw the money that making game-breaking cards brought in for them, and they decided to double down.