MELODIOUS- Ten Minute Testing

[@StarBomer]

I swear to god, if I go to locals and my opponent starts singing. I’m going to scoop, they won.

[@S1lentScarlett]

Same ngl.

[@nguyenphamthanhgiang8951]

You would love it when your opponent form some weird hand sign then start an ancient chanting

[@theredarmy4884]

🎵 There's a place called tomorrow A place of joy, one of Ostinato! Can't you see? There's a fusion for you and me! 🎵

[@cloverfieldmonster7599]

I'm just going to look at them for a second and continue comboing on their turn.

[@christopherb501]

Stay away from MtG circa 2004, then. That year gave us Unhinged, which had cards that required shouting, kink, and yes, singing.

[@Auctvix7801]

ah I see you were a choir boy Joseph good for you

[@SeraSmiles]

...is it tho

[@bombatwombat3680]

as if we couldn't all already tell

[@eu4um]

"These people need to start playing hand traps." Every Darkworld player: "No."

[@Rabbitlord108]

I think you mean hand traps.

[@TnPGmbH]

if the player is as bad as the first guy, the dont have to play yugioh anyway

[@ashikjaman1940]

I am a believer of recursive trap Dark World control

[@olvynchuru1663]

But I thought you LIKED sending monsters from your hand to the GY!

[@bosintang985]

god that was the worst piloted dark world hand maybe ever

[@VanessaVersus]

"They are just swimming in Diabellestars" god I wish that were me

[@esteban8471]

Honestly, I get it.

[@firepuppies4086]

Honestly.... Would

[@Zanman29]

As a previous choir kid that cold open was funny as hell😂

[@snazzy3743]

Really liked the inclusion of discussing potential avenues for the deck. Definitely should be a mainstay!

[@samjackson9394]

*1st Movement Solo rises in price* Me, looking at the set that's been sitting in my trade binder for years: "Finally, your time has come."

[@thornyrose2424]

Lol for real, I remember pulling it and thinking "wtf is this!?"

[@YuseiTheSynchroHero]

We have come quite a ways since the Melodious TMT over 4 years ago. Lmao.

[@kirbyale7948]

16:08 you can use etoile effect to clean gour monster zones so ostinato is live

[@winter9348]

hold the fuck up give me that "you sing like a horse in danger" meme sauce

[@15bjackson16]

If you're talking about the first animated clip it's Sagwa the Chinese siamese cat

[@winter9348]

@@15bjackson16 looked it up on youtube No meme clips Pain

[@charlesfort6602]

He said "you sing with the voice of a thousand angels"

[@theduxabides9274]

​@@15bjackson16 I KNEW IT!!!

[@winter9348]

@@charlesfort6602 i like my version better

[@michaelramstad2122]

Damn Joseph! You sing so well you don't need tuners for synchro summoning

[@autobotstarscream765]

So basically Joseph becomes Chaos Angel?

[@gageh9218]

Bouncing the Ash back to your hand was hilarious

[@lancerguy3667]

Ah yes, the archetype whose boss monster turns them into a tsundere. "I-it's not like I'm meta or anything, b-bacha..."

[@halqthedarktemplar]

Uhm aktually, it's a reference to the famous composer Johann Sebastian Bach 🤓☝️

[@AznYunHou]

@@halqthedarktemplar Just make sure you finish on the Bach, never finish on Debussy

[@chukita374]

​@bren8511 never thought about, but I guess this joke lost its meaning over the last 20 or so years. Bussy wasn't always a word

[@thatotherdan9984]

@bren8511 news flash most people are straight....

[@thatotheratrocity]

fun fact, etoile refreshes schuberta's effect

[@johnnyhall9154]

I'm fine with cards like this being splash able engines as long as the deck they are meant to support benefit the most

[@ianr.navahuber2195]

Agreed. As long as the deck it belongs to is the one that reaps the most benefits, then Is fine if it is splashable

[@Endershock1678]

⁠@@ianr.navahuber2195 I’d so much rather take this than something like Verte which doesn’t even work in its own deck due to predaplants having a bunch of fusion locks.

[@napoiskafarming669]

It wouldn't hurt to put a little more locks on them though As a SHS fan I really don't want a repeat of that

[@galaxyvulture6649]

​@@napoiskafarming669I just saw them splashed in snake eyes and I wanted to kill myself 😂

[@johnnyhall9154]

​@@napoiskafarming669 Most of their best cards, not Ostinato, lock them. So it's splashable with Ostinato but not the entire engine

[@FAlynn92]

So glad the new support made this archetype meta relevant. I had been playing this as a pet deck for years, hoping to get some better legacy support than Bloom Harmonist and Ostinato.

[@OmarAhmed-rp6vz]

The new support will make the deck strong, but in reality, all upcoming decks will use it as an engine, and this is disgusting, and therefore it will be banned like the phantom of yubel in the future 😮‍💨

[@Ragnarok540]

Yet another custom archetype support that Rata conjured into existence by making a video.

[@ctusiard9755]

Fortunately the Snake-Eyes game isn't really representative of the deck's full capacity. Usually you don't have to turbo into Etoile to avoid Nib, as the regular Ostinato combo puts it as the 5th dummon.

[@Playgame-1111]

This is not about the Melodious deck but about the engine, here is a stupid thing you can do active Ostinato sending two Refrain's to fusion summon Bacha Bacha effect to summon the third Refrain from deck and use Refrain's effect add Couplet Couplet effect to summon Refrain from gy Scale Couplet and use her effect to add concerto then use it to fusion summon Schuberta using Bacha and Couplet Bacha effect to summon Refrain from gy and Couplet effect to scale itself from the extra deck use two of the Refrain's to link summon Beyond the pendulum Beyond effect to add Lebellman then scale lebellman Link summon Exceed the pendulum then pen summon the 3 Refrains Lebellman effect to make the 3 Refrains level 5 and use all 3 to xyz summon Pair-a-dice Smasher and use its effect Use Exceed's effect to summon a Refrain from gy then link summon Codebreaker Virus Swordsman co-linked to Exceed by using Refrain and smasher Swordsman effect to summon Zero Day and use Swordsman and Zero Day form Codebreaker Virus Berserker co-link to Exceed Berserker effect to summon Zero Day and Swordsman Use Swordsman and Berserker to link summon The Phantom Knights of Rusty Bardiche Bardiche effect send Ancient Cloak and set Shade brigandine Cloak effect to add Silent Boots from deck to hand Summon Boots and use Exceed and Boots to link summon a 2 mat Apollousa Use boots to add Fog blade To now have a 2 mat Apollousa, Schuberta, Fog blade and 2 level 4 to do whatever you want with, you could make an Evilswarm Nightmare. Is this combo line Good? God no Is it funny? Its funny to me edit: This combo does not use your normal summon so you can use Cloak to add Torn Scales instead and do something there but if you do make a PK Melodious deck work all i ask of you is you call the deck "Phantom of the Opera" thank you for reading this

[@dgayle2348]

why isnt it good? it seems good based on how you described it.

[@Ind3xPlus]

How does the theatre kid not know how to pronounce Bach. He's saying it like an embarrassed anime high school girl.

[@fortidogi8620]

its a bit. he knows. dont fall for it

[@sodalangstson9438]

​@fortidogi8620 even for bit it really just annoying

[@boejeck1345]

​@sodalangstson9438 its a bit exactly for this reason by pronouncing it wrong hes gonna get a lot of comments saying that he said it wrong and more comments = better for the algorithm

[@sodalangstson9438]

@boejeck1345 that double edge sword though that type stuff u turn off the video because it too obnoxious

[@hankhill6404]

​@@sodalangstson9438yeah most of the time theyre pretty ignorable or something you could believe someone actually reading the card as. Once in a blue moon though its something that sounds less like a joke and more like bro just cant read and makes you click off immediately. For me its him calling onomatopaira "onomatopyra"

[@CodyTheJester]

I am actually now super interested in picking this deck up. Thanks as usual MBT!

[@RobinsAssistant]

Good luck.

[@ChaoticMeatballTV]

Melodious Con-Chair-To? If I heard Edge and Christian singing opera while squishing someone's head with two chairs during the attitude era I would've laughed my ass off.

[@fasce]

That's the correct pronunciation

[@VanillaMidgetSSBM]

Christians 2002 theme song is as close as it gets "CHRISTIAN, CHRISTIAN, AT LAST, YOU'RE ON YOUR OWNNNNN!"

[@rexdudeclone]

Bah gawd!

[@Shinigami13133]

honestly, I'd love to see you do a whole rendition of nessun dorma

[@neurotypicalkirby]

Anyone else catch that "soon" during the outro for MBT play madolche? It's almost time

[@Jearil]

As it should be

[@PrototypePlatform]

i loved that intro xD "what are you--WHERE DID ALL THESE MONSTERS"

[@skyslasher2297]

And with that all the brackets girls decks have been meta at one point

[@Hatzmanialand]

A lot of builds are also playing powersink stone in the side because it turns off for your turn, and you can turn it back on in draw phase on the opp's turn. Talents is also incredibly impactful, coincidentally a lot of top decks have fairy monsters, specifically apo and lo. Baiting an interaction means you can steal the lo/apo and make the mel link 2 since it only needs fairies. Bacha CAN be impermed/veilered/mournered to stop it from specialing from deck. You can activate ash too but youll like a fool since it resolves without effect. Finally, resolving ostinato can end on bacha + bagooska + etoile, at which point youve locked out the opponent and can still bounce cards since bacha prevents bagooska from negating the etoile.

[@Hatzmanialand]

Also wanted to add a single special summoned aria can make tenpai miss lethal :)

[@MVAS-mp9oo]

Mystic Mine may be closed, but Karood still had the damn stone.

[@ctusiard9755]

Plus with Powersink you can go "end phase effect of Stone" then use Étoile to bounce the opponent's face up monsters, and just attack directly on your turn.

[@SnailBot]

In ocg melodius is really popular to pair with voiceless, pendulum pile just for free apollusa before normal and commit to their main combo .

[@omegaelement]

While far from being meta, I've found Pure Melodious (pre-new support) can be decently flexible if you're not just trying to do the same old "Access Code Talker & Baronne" End Board strategy. I am eager to update my IRL Melodious deck with the new cards though! It'll be interesting to see if they make up for the lack of draw power the deck has with the targeted searches. Also, hell to the yes another Fusion that doesn't require a Maestra! A shame we didn't get another spell and/or trap that has Melodious in the name on top of Concerto, as Illusion really isn't great (and useless if you have a special'd Aria on field). Also, it's always fun to just special out 2 monsters, link into Composer, ditch one to special Aria and Elegy, then normal something (preferably Soprano) and fusion it with Composer for Schuberta (well I guess Bacha now too).

[@knocturna9731]

Melodious, hell yeah! I’m an OG fan of the archetype, so glad they got support!

[@bryanboria608]

I remember hating playing melodious in duel links cause you couldent target the fusions and there wasn’t any spells or traps around that so you couldent out it

[@uzakikena8294]

Another arc v deck that should have been gotten pend cards that make em crack. Oh its super heavy all over again

[@CountofBleck]

Well shs actually had pendulums already. Melodious, the archtype who revolves around activating effects on special summon, had 0 for almost 10 years. Which is ridiculosly frusterating

[@N12015]

@@CountofBleck Blame whoever wrote Arc-V for that, because they handled the Bracalet girls HORRIBLY and one of them was the Melodious user.

[@ShinerCCC]

Speaking of Gilgamesh, D/D/D could really use a link 3. The material could be Fiends to support the Yubel/Unchained pile so the sheep will be happy

[@elliotkach1265]

Your intros are definitely getting better!

[@HeartYgo]

Great bit at the start, good list and fucking banger explaining some card choices. Good replays too. I think MBT you don't know that you could use Etoile to remove your board to use ostinato/1st movement but without elegy that line doesn't add much as ostinato will pop your fusion(giving 2 more bodies), that line also loses to nib if they have it. Both of those reasons are why they choose to not use ostinato on game 2 in b03 ironically tenpai is a melodious favored match up

[@BloomBox36]

I don't think MBT knows much about the matchup, honestly. We've figured it out slowly ourselves and I know for sure he hasn't taken interest in pure until very recently. Even then, he got through Supremelodious first, which... Didn't go well for him.

[@jamesmancuso165]

As an opera singer, thank you so much for covering a favorite archetype :)

[@caelephaisking3842]

MBT hitting the cleanest "Nessun dorma" Ive ever heard left me absolutely flabbergasted. ...the deck is fine too

[@amenperson]

I don't know why that Lightsworn Runick player thought they were going to draw anything other then the Weiss they put back. The cost is putting the card ontop of the deck, the effect is sending the top cards. So if you ash it, they literally bricked their next draw without any way to shuffle.

[@codycarney2311]

Is that a fucking Sawga the Chinese Cat reference in 20 god dammed 24!!??

[@N12015]

I honestly I expected a mention to Arc-V's Yuzu. She's the one who ported Melodious in the anime. The reason why it was a half-baked deck for over 8 years is because Arc-V itself is a half-baked anime with awful Season 2 and 3, and Yuzu was the main victim of it.

[@ashikjaman1940]

​@@N12015 don't you know? Yuzu *IS* Sawga the Chinese Cat

[@N12015]

@@ashikjaman1940 I though it was part of a woman who saved the world, but hey, the writing was awful after the end of S1 so I wouldn't be surprised.

[@DaemondMandiGrey]

22:21 “MBT PLAY MADOLCHE” Mbt: SOON….

[@SuperMiracleMan]

MBT pulling content from the depths of the archives. Completely forgot about Sagwa until now.

[@MiyaoMeow588]

If Ostinato being abused by other decks causes it to get hit on the list and therefore killing the pure variant I will unleash a death metal scream loud enough to cause tremors Also does Bloom Diva not hard counter Tenpai?

[@dartanionlehman3729]

It does, which is great because that means that it plays well into two of the best decks right now

[@edymiguel4247]

Gues i gotta cook and get ostinato hit

[@autobotstarscream765]

Trust me, if Ostinato becomes a problem, the pure Deck needs to die too. I just got done watching an entire video about pure Melodious end boards.

[@_g_h_]

Bloom Diva doesn't do much if they are on Samurai Destroyer, which Tenpai will likely want to run anyway once Phantom of Yubel drops

[@autobotstarscream765]

@@_g_h_ Tenpai has already started running it and will only proliferate in its use.

[@SeraSmiles]

I'm irrationally happy that we're finally getting scales in this deck & the support is good on top which is just so cool

[@sludgeg1rl]

YES!! THE OLD AD READ!!!! GLORY TO YGOPRODECK!!!

[@DexxusAndres]

The new support makes me excited, I used to play Brilliant Melodious in high school and kept it built. Thankfully I still have the deck built so I can make a few changes and have a new meta deck.

[@Billy-ot8mk]

Between this and the Gimmick Puppet support unplayable decks becoming playable is awesome.

[@malevolenceygo249]

White boy low key flexing his pipes on the community. I see you, Joseph. This former band kid giggled with the intro.

[@jaybiffle5183]

That might be one of my all time favorite MBT intros

[@newttrain8667]

This deck actually seems pretty cool. I've pretty much only been playing Tear in Master Duel, might change it up when the new stuff for these gets added.

[@kodytiffany5686]

Always a fan of the fairy monster type. Especially ones like Melodius that were laughable for a long time and finally get good support. If only my girl Artemis could catch a break I'd be golden. No clue what her arch type would be called (Greek God themed?) but her ability to so easily burn to death opponents by making use of summons is good... but needs support.

[@infiniteshay8660]

Yeah I've been going back and forth between this and Yubel this format. This deck is so tricky and back when Tenpai was doing their whole turn in Battle they did a lot more for sure. Snake eyes, I'm still learning how I'm supposed to deal with them

[@ctusiard9755]

Kinda what MBT did with Étoile, but you can also banish all level 1s for Flamberge's effect.

[@S-B-R]

As a permanent Darkworld player...I hate that you're right. I play 4 hand traps in my deck and it feels gross but it saves my ass so often

[@Khaous-yj9so]

Seeing any deck from Arc-V get more support makes me happy

[@henrymaler8678]

Sagwa the Chinese Siamese Cat shoutout!!

[@johnuselmann2704]

Thank you, I needed to know what that show was called!

[@Winterthorns]

I am so fuckjg happy this deck is finally good. Been playing it for like a decade now. Or as close to playing as you could

[@AAP4life]

Drinking game: Take a shot each time MBT says "crusty" this episode

[@kajin807]

Probably my favorite skit so far! Only thing that could have made it better is a badly edited cut where the field goes from nothing to full.

[@Shrimp4Gura]

Melodious went from dirt tier to rogue threat, love it

[@brianaguilar8283]

It’s Spyral all over again

[@Shrimp4Gura]

@@brianaguilar8283 and like with spyral, its all thanks to the ocg

[@hopeiscute4772]

You unlocked a memory with the sagwa reference jfc XD

[@TheMasterBlaze]

Oh... I'm on time for this one. Neat.

[@xtc_w]

16:00 you could have used etoile to clear your board for ostinato. The bounce is optional

[@lucaleccese6436]

Who knew mbt had so much musical talent, first the cello now the opera

[@connorsweeten2953]

If you sing loud enough, you can't hear your opponent trying to interrupt your plays. Truly, an archetype for the ages.

[@DatAsuna]

I've been a long suffering melodious player since 2018 and while I am grateful to finally have some much needed support for an admittedly bad deck beforehand, I'm not that enthused that it came in the form of splashable out of archetype cards because now it just feels like a countdown till they get hit on the banlist to make way for new product later.

[@daberry9159]

Snake-eye player gave u that 1 for content

[@alphu5]

1 copy of Performapal Odd Eyes Synchron can make synchro 10 by adding it with Beyond and Sp summon it with Exceed.

[@keetomimak9690]

Shout out to that Sagwa the Chinese Siamese Cat deep cut reference I forgot that cartoon existed

[@dianatheascian8701]

Suddenly glad I held onto my 1st movement solos I got during middle school

[@somerandomweeb4836]

Fluffals should be the next arc-v support

[@Rabbitlord108]

Still find it HILARIOUS that the new fusion spell can summon Trickstar Sweet Guitar.

[@GameConnoisseur69]

maindecking the rivalry is nasty work uncle joe

[@liverusrock6789]

One of the best intros in Yugitubiing

[@wademiller8276]

MBTPlayMaldolche - SOON! THE AWAITED TIME APPROACHES

[@WitchVulgar]

Was that a Sagwa the Chinese Siamese Cat reference?

[@aluntumsudnit2526]

Game three vs snake eyes: You had the play turn two with summon aria , special summon sonata and then go the link to build board. Probably coulda won that one ….

[@stuckmeister7750]

This play gets cooked by any hand trap (and they had veiler) and then you lose orange light access and you also turn off like half of your good top decks. Definitely correct to hold off.

[@BloomBox36]

Herald wasn't live to protect the Harmonist and she's vulnerable to any handtrap under the sun. One could have risked it but considering the opponent didn't commit to that last card in hand he was right to hold off.

[@aluntumsudnit2526]

But he didnt know their hand and one card in hand that they send to grave puts you at a card advantage . We had the ash to check their starter too. Anyway both of you bring up good points and technically we’re all right in certain situations but i still stand by point that there was a play :)

[@CarbonMalite]

I recognized that literal chinese children's cartoon but I can't even begin to figure out how to Google for it without getting Cory in The House for all the search results

[@davinconway3164]

Fave ygo series on KZbin!!

[@PrecursorIdeliron]

Joseph, so far I’ve seen enough theater stuff to get you top billing off-Broadway, you’ve played what I think was a cello, and now you’ve done tenor singing to make full board. Is there anything else I’m missing in the well of talents?

[@TrevorHicken]

Melodious has finally reached its climax

[@thomasjaworski3575]

You missed my favorite nifty tech you can pull with this deck! Bacha also says that the activated effects of your melodious monsters cannot be negated. This means you can summon bagooska alongside etoile and Schuberta turn 1 and your opponent is negated but you can still bounce their field and banish their GY. You can get there pretty easily with ostinato +1 melodious in hand

[@thediceleo434]

-clears throat- THERES NEW MELODIOUS SUPPORT!!!!!! i was excited for penguin support but my DIVAS!!!!

[@KingpinFox]

That friggin' hand shuffle everyone does

[@Merlin69_hahahaha]

"Special summon VENI VENI VENIAS, NE ME MORI VACIAS, response?"

[@dhanyl2725]

I TAKE MY WISH BACK, PUT SOME MORE RESTRICTIONS TO THESE LADIES AAAA---

[@nickschoenherr2238]

I love how Kanomi finally respected Yuzu after they gave her so much hate in the anime and in real life

[@danielrangel-santos6960]

I did not have a reference to Sagwa the Chinese Siamese Cat on my MBT Bingo Card, but it is music to my ears 😏

[@ThurzagLP]

Ghost mansion and haunted chilli sounds godamn amazing and I demand a recipe from you sir

[@Harrowing999]

I’m confused. Melodious fusion monsters’ activated effects can’t be negated because of Bacha, but why does Mourner still work on Bacha’s effect to summon from deck?

[@indescrepit9973]

Mourner, imperm, and veiler all negate the entire effect of the card. Bacha's negate protection only prevents "Activated effects" from being negated, but that protection is a continuous effect. Because of that, the continuous effect will be negated and can't protect the activated effects. So Bacha will lose to those cards

[@mr.toaster4503]

Iv come to realize if you have the Aria lock it's way safer to summon everything in defense position. Dodges lightning storms

[@skirch6094]

Not running Elegy in the side deck or main deck is so troll in a format with this much card destruction. Especially with how easy it is to get aria, etoile, schbuerta, and elegy on field.

[@nuxushunter581]

Yoo new upload

[@cyphate]

When etoile banishes Aria and it comes back, does it remember it was special summoned?

[@indescrepit9973]

yup!

[@zz_boo]

You would of won the games vs snake eyes if you just etoile on raging Phoenix/zealantis. They have no other out unless their on godess. But even then they have to out the etoile without triggering the second eff(which is not opt, and bacha can bring her back). As well as leaving sonata on field when it just makes u lose to ty-phon

[@ahmadidrees127]

" Never play dangers against MBT " Cimooo

[@louc.6735]

Not Sagwa the Chinese Siamese Cat being referenced. Something in my childhood came back to punch me in the face.

[@eat00002]

MELODIAS, FROM THE SEVEN FRIENDLY SKINS???????

[@zeiicypher6667]

I got mentally flashbanged by the sagwa clip.

[@badcompany5132]

MBT is such a good writer

[@orynette]

i used to play Melodious actively on master duel before switching to Lunalight, wish these cards came out sooner ; - ;

[@galaxyvulture6649]

One again melodious are proving the waifu tax will make any deck meta. When the board becomes icky the playmate will become sticky.

[@jonathantyler6012]

I think you may have got this one a little wrong about Tenpai Mr. BT. Sure while the Aria lock can be outed by some of the Tenpai engine, it’s not outed super consistently. Also, while relatively easy to out with drawn non-engine like raigeki, the bagooska end board is very difficult for the deck to out otherwise. Aria lock and bagooska is hard to out for a Tenpai player already, but the fact that the Melo player WILL be on at least 18 non-engine ensures they’ll have at least a hand trap to contest key cards resolving like Paidra or the quick play.

[@GrievelornTCG]

Or just make Bloom