I UNBANNED TWO THIRDS OF THE YU-GI-OH! BANLIST JUST TO PROVE NOTHING WOULD CHANGE

Will I, like Icarus, fall to my death? Or will I, like Daedalus, not do that?
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Timestamps
Introduction & Bans: 0:00
Decks: 1:12
Top 16: 6:25
Top 8: 40:47
Semifinal: 1:01:00
Finals: 1:09:23
Conclusions: 1:16:28

[@kokorikopi]

"Draw spells are bad because they're not the obscenely broken handtraps you need to equalize" is not the takeaway I expected.

[@ianr.navahuber2195]

After the many times i recently resolved triple tactis or flame bufferlo's "discard 1, draw 2", and using decode talker heatsoul i can attest to that opinion. sometimes blindly drawing 2 doesn't do the trick. especifically searching the card you need does. however, blindly drawing 2 can be a good negate / ash bait

[@jkid1134]

Haha imagine if they made a hand trap that drew cards haha that would be like, "max" broken

[@dontmisunderstand6041]

The silly thing about it is, Pot of Greed is mathematically negative cards in deck. A 43 card deck with 3 PoG is legitimately more mathematically consistent than a 40 card deck with the same 40 cards. Wild that going first is so reliably an instant win that your first main phase is too slow for a card to be worth using, no matter how good it is.

[@DCComicsAndSomeOtherThings]

Main deck the busted hand traps for game 1 and side POG for when you know you are going 1st

[@ano2846]

Draw spells can be anything. Even another draw spell!

[@MiyaoMeow588]

True Draco really was just one Droll away from making it to Top 4 This shit is scary

[@animationtv426]

Not really, the pilot played really good and built a strong deck without really using floodgates, skill drain only came up once and still didn't be impactful

[@therealcroman]

True Draco resurges every single festival/event in Master Duel because the deck is heinous. It should be no surprise that it's just a few cards away from competing at the top tiers of play against the most broken decks ever conceived. Honestly, every top 3 deck of the last several years is 1 wave of support or 1 format nuking ban list away from jumping right back to the top. Modern decks are absurd.

[@bluedemontr-whisperofwind-2296]

The value of each draw in draco is a lot, I honestly think it can get Masterpiece back if we still have demise/diagram in the banlist

[@shen.daniel]

each draco monster needs like two interruptions to stop them from gaining advantages. If not stopped early, their grind game is like one of the best

[@has199]

I could not disagree more, the Dragon Link spieler was winning regardless of if he hit droll or not

[@gatocochino5594]

Making a BSD with no Links in GY is one of the most plays of all time. Lots of yugioh was played.

[@maxa7535]

Woulda been better if they just made donner to clear then summon their kash

[@VinceTheBadASS]

Ngl before halq was banned I would in a D/d legit end a board with a bsd with no links the halq and d/d ghost during their standby banish halq for formula and then synch for hot red archfiend during their turn

[@charleslindita8635]

I synchro summon my BEWD😂

[@Dw7freak]

I think they forgot that Shifter lasts 2 turns.

[@Smallsmallrose]

Never forget the valiant effort True Draco put up against D-Link with fucking Eclipse Wyvern and Elpy.

[@SandroCartoons]

and delquinqent duo + pot of greed open!

[@rinkagami5277]

If they played like 20 games, I bet True Draco would walk away with more wins. Of course it also depends on who goes first, but True Draco just draws like infinite cards.

[@animationtv426]

​@@SandroCartoons facts not only did bro open d.duo but also ripped the droll that might have sealed it

[@pro711200]

​@@rinkagami5277I would bet the opposite lmao

[@zephshoir]

That match was fantastic, highlight of the video imo!

[@PipePlazaStudios]

Not gonna lie, this tournament was less a battle of a banned cards and moreso a showcase of how Quantal and Halfmiss were miles ahead of most other pilots.

[@cooldes4593]

No, dragons need it. Unban Galaxy dark matter, Chaos ruler, and super rejuvenation

[@has199]

@@cooldes4593 Im pretty sure Rejuve has been unbanned for ages

[@cooldes4593]

@@has199 youre right 😨 then give us agarpain, galaxy dark matter, chaos ruler, elpy, and eclipse instead

[@dragonMaster24921]

Quantal just built different

[@Ponjoe15]

I think you are giving too much credit to the true draco player. It's such an easy deck to play

[@nevod.]

at least now we can definitely say that eclipse wyvern cant come off the list

[@lululucente]

Eclipse Wyvern should be the only legal card

[@efd38]

@@lululucente And we will call it "Rokket Tracer Format"

[@lululucente]

@@efd38 and then we are going to try to convince each other how it is legal to have 40 Eclipse Wyvern in the same deck

[@misterart7298]

Full power dlink vs tear0 vs fullzoodiac vs dragonruler?!!

[@Linkingx2]

I mean without elpy it would not be that easily accessed but yeah nice card.

[@haruchafan1109]

No chat during the duel? Aww bummer. My favorite part of watching masochist tournament was chat's reaction 😢😢😢

[@animationtv426]

Yeah that's sad

[@octozed]

Spright vs True Draco Demise into Pot of Greed into Change of Heart "How did we lose that one?"

[@animationtv426]

Lmaooooooo

[@shrimp1401]

That spright player was straight dog ass lmao

[@bennygroysman4205]

Ya, but all of those are at 3

[@Flexy59]

"Draw cards are bad because they arent hand traps"

[@RockmanX47]

I think the true hilarity of D-Link is that it didn't even *touch* the Dragon Rulers. Quantal saw them, pushed them aside, and gunned it for that Elpy + Eclipse Wyvern duo.

[@georgewalters3343]

now imagine if there was a dragon ruler for light and dark monsters and how busted thatd be

[@crazyn0074]

​​@@georgewalters3343 dragon link would play them I'd there were at three

[@freaki0734]

I think there might be versions of the deck that would be playable, I built one with a small dragunity package 3 gold sarc 1 tempest 1 redox, can't remember what my search target for redodx was but I think it was good, would have had to extend to 60 cards with the one grass though. I think it might have been in the vicinity of playbable with 3 crossout to turn of ash before left arm offering and nib and droll as a response. I am not even close to good enough to represent the deck though realistically the dragon rulers represent like the 35th best dragon cards and you need to fit handtraps and staples

[@dharcsynchro4436]

@@crazyn0074 No, the Rulers are bad at this point and as you can see from Quantal's list they're already full of better dragons. The added fact that they dont synergize with the Bystials (which are a morepowerful engine) is also a big point of contention, let alone the -1 effs they have. Dragon Rulers at 3 could possibly be their own deck but they would definitely not be played in Dragon Link.

[@judefowler8145]

@@georgewalters3343 there is mate, its called Chaos Ruler, the Chaotic Magical Dragon Chaos RULER Banishes a LIGHT AND A DARK

[@TheDocperian]

Very funny 2 decks weren't playing Pot of Greed, the DL list of course but the Tear player somehow decided Chicken Game was a better draw spell.

[@kauanjos3199]

If tear somehow has a line to afd it might honestly be better. The problem is getting the tuner

[@alfian4653]

​@@kauanjos3199 They can pray that they mill destrudo

[@imsrchris2052]

@@alfian4653 Funny enough they were actually praying to mill destrudo after last banlist in the OCG. Fortunately, they already moved on from that version

[@joanaguayoplanell4912]

Well, what did you expect? Only complete morons would play MBT's tournament.

[@rocapbg9518]

I am the Tear player, Chicken game was a big mistake, I should've played another copy of the Kash field spell. It's for synergy with Destrudo to cycle for the Perlerino. Chicken game was a really dumb choice.

[@Tegrius88]

"TrapsPlaysGames where's the negates?" "It's right there see I tributed auroradon." "You were suppose to equip it from grave." "Dude I'm gonna." "Oh really? So, equip it from grave." "Ok I will." *Auroradon banished* "I see the problem."

[@blackmark2899]

Eclipse with Elpy and Pisty was too much. Eclipse did so much heavy lifting D-link. But True Draco was so close. Master Peace is a scary boss monster.

[@Y0G0FU]

lets put Masterpiece at 3 :P

[@truegamerking]

​@@Y0G0FU1 master piece, 3 diagram

[@xerospades]

​@@truegamerking please Konami 😭

[@xCorvus7x]

Borrelend is also hard to out, though. Stormforth and Skill Drain are True Draco's only means to do it and neither is in-archetype.

[@blackmark2899]

@@xCorvus7x to be fair Borrelend is kind of a hassle to out period.

[@ratioed1438]

Crazy how unbanning Protos was enough to make Swordsoul hyper competitive again.

[@vincere4591]

It’s insane

[@IamGrimalkin]

The funny thing was that Protos only really mattered one game, the rest of the time it was just there.

[@xerael4659]

Welcome to the Master Duel

[@InterstellarVulpine]

Well, after watchkng that final, I've only got one thing to say... If MY girl and Rokket Tracer are both drowning, and I can only save one, you can catch me at my girl's funeral popping a card on the field to summon Rokket Recharger TO LINK OFF INTO BORRELEND DRAGON AND SUMMONING A ROKKET FROM GY TO SYNCHRO BORRELOAD SAVAGE DRAGON!!

[@qbking3377]

The amount of normal summon Veiler in this is hilarious

[@sofaking9404]

2011 memories

[@rinkagami5277]

Bro True Draco won after getting delinquent duo'ed. If we ran this through again True Draco could definitely take top spot if they play going first. The deck can just ignore like everything.

[@ASecretLynn]

It's so funny to think that this resulted in D-Link v Swordsoul in the same year world's also resulted in D-Link v Swordsoul. It was forshadowing.

[@Ragnarok540]

Turns out Dragons 2 (Wyrms) are still not enough to take the original Dragons.

[@animationtv426]

Robbed my delinquent duo

[@Gaiou0331]

Love Swordsouls but there's no way they were taking out Dragon Link with that amount of power.

[@andrejv.2834]

​@@Gaiou0331 if one of those emergences was a mo ye, taia or ecclesia they're able to go for protos and win Dlink barely got by the two wyrm decks

[@bl00by_]

The True Draco vs Spright match was one of the funniest matches I've ever seen. Not even Alex Cimo could top deck those DM staples like the Draco player did in game 3.

[@YarnLalms711]

Every other deck: This is neat, but I need more of it to work better. Dragon Link: I ONLY NEED ONE

[@AlphaSquadZero]

Eclipse wyvern also put in a lot of work

[@notawaifu4589]

@@AlphaSquadZero literally

[@Dori_Dorifto]

nahhhh D-link was more like: thanks for elpy,pisty and eclipse wyvern swoswo was like: if my girl and protos are drowning and i can only save one, you better catch me at my girls funeral declaring dark and locking out my opponent from using a dark deck!

[@userzero6555]

My favorite part about these tournaments is that they don't actually tell us ANYTHING about this format lmao

[@gtloverboy2785]

MBT back here yet again to claim that literally nothing has changed while having every meta deck lose to some bullshit

[@Maruhodo]

Anddd he’s gonna turn blind eye again.

[@Zayelion]

Some bullshit has entered the chat

[@SammyK-jt3vv]

to be fair, the Spright and Kash pilots were ass then we have fucken Prometheus on DLink

[@newbaroque3193]

To be fair a lot of the pilots were pretty bad .... the finals were sad

[@meathir4921]

@@SammyK-jt3vvQuantal Think is a YCS topper man is a legend

[@Quasartist]

Zoo getting knocked out in literally round 1, and getting 2-0'd at that, is crazy considering how well it did in the last masochist banlist video.

[@four-en-tee]

They should've played Labrynth Zoo and been on 30 floodgates, but we all know that would've been boring despite being the most optimal build for Zoo in this banlist format. It literally sets Zoodiac Combo from the deck among other disruption and shit, it would've been supremely busted to end on Drident and a shit ton of traps.

[@has199]

The Zoo was built semi to go 1st or 2nd which kinda hurt it

[@nonadqs]

The zoo player was ass.

[@scourgeeater]

Tbh it kinda hurt to watch those zoo games lol

[@TheGuyWhoIsSitting]

“Just draw the out!” Duo discards the card that would stop the dragon link’s whole turn. “See!”

[@animationtv426]

Facts, unlike many broken spel cards like d.duo and Potof greed there's no way to stop delinquent duo, no hand trap contests it

[@philosophicaljay3449]

@@animationtv426 "there's no way to stop delinquent duo, no hand trap contests it" Gemini Imps is how you contest cards like Delinquent Duo.

[@DCComicsAndSomeOtherThings]

Unless mistaken the only handtrap that would stop it is hearald of the green light. But obviously that's a deck specific handtrap and you neg 1

[@philosophicaljay3449]

@@DCComicsAndSomeOtherThings Gemini Imps is a handtrap that negates a card that discards on resolution, then let's you draw a card. While situational, it keeps your handsize the same after use and can negate cards like Delinquent Duo. Would certainly be a niche card that only would see play if discarding effects became more common, but if Delinquent Duo became unbanned then it might become be a good side deck option.

[@DCComicsAndSomeOtherThings]

Very cool! Thanks. I have never seen that card. Seems like based on the card art it was pretty made to counter DD

[@orga7777]

Pot of Greed was busted every time it was played. As expected. And Eclipse Wyvern with Bystials. Very pog idea on that one.

[@c_spare]

The deck that won didnt even play it lmfaoo

[@luminous3558]

@@c_spare Are you under the illusion that that means anything? A Bo3 might be more accurate than a Bo1 but its still not that accurate. Nobody is saying your deck needs to play PoG to win, we are just saying its silly to not play it.

[@LuigisLegend]

​@@luminous3558 the d link player won because he knows that pot of greed is terrible

[@user-cj5bw9tw5w]

@@LuigisLegend For sure not terrible but the question would be is it ban worthy? Personally I think limited to 1 or 2 would be fine and I'm not just saying this because my ritual rogue deck needs it😅

[@MegaMegaSamX10]

​@@user-cj5bw9tw5wsame old, same old

[@toadfan64]

Hats off to that Draco player. As someone who loves that deck and still plays it, you played very well.

[@marthofaltea1751]

That Dragon Link/True Draco duel in top 8 was fun to watch, it's always a blessing to watch the non-current meta decks come in swinging at each other.

[@MomirViggwilv]

I was so looking forward to the nightmare combination of Kashtira + Tomahawk + Auroradon, with all the cool things you can do with Iblee and stuff. Those Kash games were disappointing.

[@four-en-tee]

The Zoo deck was disappointing. I expected Labrynth Zoo, though I guess MBT wasnt going to showcase "floodgate stun: the deck" on his stream even though the deck only searches normal traps and has to hard open or draw into floodgates.

[@BorkBigFrighten2]

As it turns out, a deck that already basically FTKs going first doesn't do anything special when you add several Garnets to the deck to try making a shiny board for winning when going first instead of just playing the deck normally and winning when going first.

[@four-en-tee]

@@BorkBigFrighten2 Kash is one of the biggest auto-pilot decks this format, i swear to god. They basically made Floow more lame and turned that concept into a new archetype.

[@BorkBigFrighten2]

@@four-en-tee Going first, sure. Going 2nd with the deck does take a bit of finesse since despite it having access to great board-breakers, it's quite fragile.

[@digitalduken9973]

Had a lot of fun doing this despite that horrible round 1 game 2 nibiru (thought that firewall was gonna be apo and in that case that was the last chance to nib). If you ever need an evil dark warrior player I'm always down to play, just as long as you don't unban protos in which case I'm coming with lots and lots of non-dark extenders and fricken gearfried.

[@Realblack_m0nster]

Well played sir

[@vale3824]

Very well played mate!

[@soup2504]

no hate but why didnt you protos being unbanned was one of the biggest unhits for this tournament im shocked you didnt expect it

[@digitalduken9973]

@@soup2504 I did expect it and I accidentally submitted a list that didn't have gearfried in it. I had 2 lists 1 with duo and 1 with gearfried. Meant to submit the one with gearfried which as you can see would have won me that game. You better believe I was kicking myself when I took a look at my list after I got picked only to realize the mistake I made. I just sort of had to hope for the best.

[@soup2504]

@@digitalduken9973 big rip but hey you might not have been able to go into it so the game couldve been lost anyways so dont feel too bad RNG may have not been on your side

[@ralaturaroth5669]

It's crazy to think that D-link would get better than this over time. Mainly because it takes so long to optimize the deck.

[@hielispace]

Maybe we shouldn't have Eclispe Wyvern and the Bystals at the same time.

[@Y0G0FU]

Yeeeah the Bystials make D-Link pretty absurd especially with Eclipse and Elpy legal :D

[@Exisist5151]

I think you should instead pay attention to the die rolls. D-link won every die roll they encountered. And you know D-Link going first was the issue when the blind second True Draco deck decides “no I need to go first against this deck”

[@KyanbuXM]

You gave dragons everything and it did not disappoint! XD Ah... we're never getting wyvern and elpy back. lol

[@bl00by_]

I could see Wvyern coming off when we get the remake of the chaos dragons structure deck. Elpy on the other hand, yeah he has to stay...

[@KyanbuXM]

@@bl00by_ yeah, i wonder if they'll do that, or just give us a tone downed retrain.

[@MarioLopez-xs3vc]

Deep draw isn't the same as having the disruption needed to stop modern degeneracy from making a board(or to break said board after they made it with enough disruptions to kill your draw engine). Maxx "C" really is more busted than any draw spell because of that.

[@themasterblaze7563]

See now if the Swordsoul player attempted to summon Baroness before commiting to Mo Ye the last duel would have been incredibly different considering the any number of cards that could easily be drawn or searched off of Chixiao 1 Mo Ye 2.

[@Malister23]

He would probably still lose though I only saw the swordsouls player opening hand and I was screaming for him to make baronne first and then I look at the DL players hand and see the game decider veiler 😢

[@themasterblaze7563]

@@Malister23 If he had Baroness instead of Long Yuan the Saronir had no way to force out the Blackout and would have been forced to crash to start the combo. Sadly the Swordsoul player could have walked away with it, but made 1 tech error that ruined the entire game.

[@kashiffarees881]

Quantal could have played around nibiru game 1, so they kinda just ended up trading misplay for misplay.

[@themasterblaze7563]

@@kashiffarees881 fair enough.

[@JABRIEL251]

The DLink vs Mathmech was painful. Dude was fighting for their life in an unavoidable loss.

[@galaxyvulture6649]

Dlink really made mathmech look like a tier 3 deck😭

[@testifacatehour101]

dragonlink never dies. dragonlink always adapts

[@arga400]

MBT will succeed where Icarus failed EDIT: He flew too close to the sun :(

[@maxinesenior596]

Editor masterfully cutting out how he accidentally showed a tri brigade list instead of the 1 to 3 list.

[@michaelgjrjvebs]

What have we learned class? Class: bystials we're a mistake! Thats right class! Now take your ritalin

[@Cool-kk2vl]

you gave dragon link elpy literally gave them whole world

[@galaxyvulture6649]

That eclipse wyvern was insane too

[@sasukekun1997]

the fact the winner didn't even have pot of greed is insanely hilarious to me

[@xlr8248]

It's incredible how Draco only lost to the one deck that's even more broken, if it was matched up against something else it would've gone to finals and lost to d-link there

[@cedricwong0]

I miss having Twitch chat on screen during the games for these.

[@Hempujonsito]

True Draco brethren, we were this close to victory..... Next year will be our year i can feel it

[@aeugh8998]

When I think that "Nah no way Swordsoul goes that far" Swordsoul in final 💀

[@galaxyvulture6649]

It really is funny that the decks that made it to the top were both essentially dragon decks

[@Y0G0FU]

Dragon Link is such a weird deck.. it feels like its always just 1-2 cards away from returning to Tier 1 Status. And hey.. Elpy and Eclipse would just do that. And the Deck got even stronger with the Bystials sliding in so effortlessly.

[@Fahrenheit41]

As a dragonlink player, i would love to see either elpy or eclipse come back this is nuts

[@Unclassified_Wizard]

The meta game hasn’t changed at single bit. Just ignore when it does and we’re good.

[@eu4um]

The tournament proves nothing when the players are braindead 🤣 🤣 🤣 I joke though, these are always terribly fun

[@nonamedpleb]

well you're right though. not even regarding the pilots, the single elim format doesnt do it justice. we need swiss rounds to see how the decks deal with other matchups. But I know doing that would probably double the time it takes to do the tournament (or more) so I understand why he doesn't do it.

[@FuzzymothGames]

"This is me unbanning two thirds of the yugioh banlist!" "MBT, this is the 7th time in a row you've shown Unbanning two thirds of the yugioh banlist in class."

[@kenpatchiramasama1076]

i would love a sadist banlist where we ban thousands of cards

[@luigifan4585]

That's basically what Farfa is doing right now lul

[@ExceedSC2]

@35:20 the Rukallos was only allowed to negate because the Runick player chose to Summon for some reason. You pick which effect to activate when you activate Runick Quick-Plays in the same way you pick effects for Talents, and in the same way if for instance you chose to "Take control of opponent's monster" with Talents, the opponent can't Ash you; you can't Rukallos the Flashing Fire if they chose to negate a monster.

[@malikbeat]

14:41 is the game is the exact reason I've always hated playing against True Draco. No matter what their board state is, you're always just 1 Card of Demise into Duality into Diagram into Heritage away from losing the game.

[@GrieveIV]

Man Eclipse Wyvern was one of my favorite cards when it came out. Glad it’s so good it can’t be used anymore lol. Maybe a hard once per turn😂

[@drowsyCoffee]

eclipse dragon with bystials is fuckin terrifyin holy fuck

[@joseruizdiaz9622]

Thanks for the amazing video as always MBT. This kind of tournament really helps understand the differences between archetypes from many eras. The design philosophy they had, how they are played, what they lack, what they exceed at; how everything contrasts between one another.

[@AvariaDemon]

god this series is so effing hype, i was so excited to see this again, not sure where we go from here but where ever that is i can't wait!

[@WarpedByTheNHK]

I still kinda feel like Tear could've had a good chance if they didn't side Nibiru in for Swordsoul. That deck is notorious for how easily it plays around Nib, and putting in too many handtraps has a good chance of causing you to brick yourself (as seen here). They also had pretty terrible luck game 2, since they had 20 strong mills in the deck and they missed all of them from a mil 5. though siding in Nibiru seemed to be part of the problem again lol. Come on, they knew they were going first game 2 and they still made their deck weaker with Nib!?

[@rocapbg9518]

I don't have a lot of experience against swordsoul and my side deck was complete garbage. Definitely could've done better, though I didn't replace engine for hand traps, I replaced the kaijus.

[@WarpedByTheNHK]

​@@rocapbg9518My bad, that actually makes a lot of sense. Kaiju are obviously trash going 1st so you needed to side them out for something. Super Poly might have been slightly better going first, but you didn't have a lot of strong options. You really were mostly just super unlucky.

[@dragonch0ch0ch06]

i feel like we need a bigger tournament, not just 16 decks mbt chooses with some of them just being a normal deck but with 1 pot of greed. i imagine some of those wouldnt even have made it to top cut. but what do i know

[@Y0G0FU]

Problem is to organize bigger tournaments. This takes tons of time.

[@stephangg000]

MBT has run amok with too much power. He has transcended card text. Edit: have you considered paying royalties to lithium2300 for "time for that all important game 3" 😂

[@RainDaemonic]

i thought it was a cimo reference...

[@ihatemychannelname]

mbt is actually a really good commentator

[@daid1207]

mbt we’ve been through this already

[@spvstu]

Phenomenal content. Great watch and easy to follow for a non-competive player. all the interactions were bonkers.

[@malareon]

Seeing how hard the zoo list cratered this tournament, i think the adventure zoo list i posted might have been better.

[@FurnaxIkki]

F in the chat for the Spright player who opened Pot of Greed and Delinquent Duo and somehow still lost.

[@VaughnGear]

This has been the most entertaining yugioh video i have seen in ages! Thank you for this.

[@ptgia1301]

You could be an auctioneer with how fast you were able to narrate those combo lines

[@leafbladie]

Another amazing vid Joseph, I hope you'll try this series still

[@WShoup9818]

Quantum a good player on d link who was smart and seem like he tested his deck vs most people who seem like it was their first time playing their decks.

[@shion126]

Oh wow, true draco even without floodgates almost wiped the floor with the tournament again, what a surprise, it's almost like master piece is a problem

[@Dori_Dorifto]

masterpeace i think only showed up once with the negates and the being unaffected lol

[@vincere4591]

7:18 I like how I knew you were gonna say “that’s swordsoul” lol

[@Slackker_]

something not mentioned enough is just how crazy good dlink player quantal think is. that deck is hard to play even without all the changes made by this new list, i really think if you gave that list to a regular player they wouldnt make it nearly as far

[@Exisist5151]

It also helps that he won every coin flip in every matchup.

[@GhostKing-bq4sh]

Card Vomit decks like Dragon Link are always a couple cards away from being unbeatable as they either don't have garnets or can still go full combo with them effectively giving them no downsides or weaknesses.

[@casinoroyal93]

The dragon pile never dies 1:16:38

[@crazygreek6341]

My boy D-Link did it

[@absoluteunit8334]

Well thankfully MBT has learned his lesson this time. I'm sure this will neeeeeeever happen again.

[@Ruggi21]

joseph we need our chalislime and banlist tournaments back it was most people's favourite content even if its high effort

[@homecomin]

Dragon Link is actually just the coolest Deck to ever exist. Nothing comes close holy shit

[@secretlyaslug2325]

I play 50 1 of cards with like 7 garnets and I'm going to always open a playable hand because all I need is 1 of my 35 starters.

[@homecomin]

@@secretlyaslug2325 Yeah, that's not how that deck works but sure

[@vaughnrudy8084]

Dragon link is a deck I'd best describe as "yugioh turbo" where you activate as much yugioh as possible

[@youngdoodle]

always has been. was somehow even cooler w pepega ruler

[@frankunodostres473]

mbt talking about ad revenue while I smile at my adblocker :D anyway this was awesome as always! a few noteworthy moments: - 10:00 zoodiac traditionally performed very well in past tournaments but here it got eliminated 0-2 in the first round. wow - 18:05 true draco once again establishing itself as the big villain by beating splight in frightening and cruel fashion - 22:13 bad news: infernity at full power still isn't good enough because of the clear chokepoints. good news: archfiend can come back to 3! see? - 24:58 - dasher + nibiru was fucking hype! unfortunately he couldn't turn things around afterwards - 28:40 let this be a lesson to you kids: if you hold your nibiru for too long, it might be too late... - 40:09 absolutely tragic that we didn't get to see the ftk. incredibly unlucky! - 47:12 this whole matchup was like a 12 rounds boxing match but this was the early cut above the eye that led to TD's downfall. the big evil goes out in the 2nd round. btw eclipse wyvern has such cool synergy with bystials, it's a shame that they could never be played together irl - 52:29 free the cat! prankids is another streamlined deck that loses to 1 simple well-timed interaction. even 1 cat is not enough - 53:40 the lowpoint of the tournament. orcust player sacrifices anaconda to end on 1 negate but kash player summons a vanilla savage... welp - 1:05:20 sometimes it is just nice to watch a cool deck absolutely wreck a boring deck. dragons wiping the floor with mathmech was cool^^ - 1:13:40 didn't expect the final to be as good as it was. the dragon player played out of his mind. not even mbt's favourite mispronounced card LONG ONE could save the wyrms. amazing gameplay. not necessarily the best deck one, but the best player.

[@galaxyvulture6649]

I love swordsoul, but I seriously downplayed it so badly and thought it would get eliminated immediately compared to the other decks. Also that kash player forgot d shifter lasts for two turns oof.

[@sola7099]

Delinquent duo rng hitting key cards is exactly the fun I expected to see let’s goo

[@nnnp634]

I would really like Konami did this. That said, as fun as this was, few things are lacking. 1) Everyone should be allowed to play any deck. Number one factor in determining how good a deck is is representation. Even the best decks can brick once, but that is often absorbed by other decks.Having one Spright and one Kashtira with the worst pilots possible doesn't prove anything about those decks. 2) Number 1 was the main concern, but there should be at least 3 or 4 tournaments with the same list. That all being said, there were enough tournaments to conclude that Wind-Ups and Infernity suck and should be released. Also, would like to see Tomahawk since it does nothing in the OCG or MD.

[@TheFourthBlackReaper]

Dragon Link out here makin MBT spit like an Auctioneer just to keep up.

[@IyoMaestro]

No Adamancipator in the Tournament with this banlist?! If I had known this I would have send in a list myself. I mean Agido, Mudora, Block, Meow-Mu, Grass? Hopefully the next Masochist Banlist Tournament takes place before Superheavy Samurai gets hit. Would be really sick to see that deck at that power level.

[@galaxyvulture6649]

Ikr that shit that was so shocking

[@digitalduken9973]

The reason why adamancipator was not chosen was because it was deemed too uninteresting and too generic good stuff that other decks were deemed more interesting for the tournament. There was only a certain amount of slots as you know, and the tournament organizers wanted to have a mix of current meta decks, ftks and jank decks, and evil combo decks like mine, along with fan favorite moron decks like true draco and zoodiac.

[@Wannabestalker]

banning a large chunk would be super fun, see what happens when all the 'main' strategies are gutted. Or maybe do like a themed event where you have a representative of each major tribe (spellcasters, dragons, warriors, fish, zombies, etc) could be fun too

[@galaxyvulture6649]

Farfa is doing that series rn and it's wild. Predaplant was basically broken in it. I also died a little inside that non floodgate gravekeeper beat madolche. Like it actually won a game.

[@luislfi]

ah yes, coming home from a really wakward drinks night with friends, coming home kinda drunk and really sad, then out of nowhere the MBT video i was waiting for, thans a lot mr rotchild you are an amazing person

[@biztek5726]

I love that the finals is Dragon vs. NOT Dragon

[@cooldes4593]

Durning the finals game 3, no illegal cards were played other than elpy.

[@KosheiDeathless]

Dragon Link and True Draco were the real final.

[@GodzillaFreak]

I was so right about dragon link. Literally every point I made was right, the winning list was 90% identical to mine.

[@galaxyvulture6649]

To be fair the banlist helped them the most especially with elpy and eclipse wyvern. My jaw dropped cause I forgot 1 eclipse wyvern is basically a deck of eclipse wyvern

[@DanBalan1]

17:50 grabbing Pinny over Catty off Melffy of the Foresr had me like 🙀

[@Blackacre438]

Video’s up! Gonna watch it and then go beddy-bye :)

[@yaboy804]

MBT’s slowly building hype as infernity almost started cooking in round 2 just for it to crash in burn was so funny

[@lildannyboi13]

how many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man

[@bombatomica_6449]

this a blast from the past, elpy pisty still one of my favorite duos

[@DGKun]

It took a whole 20 seconds for the Swordsoul player to shit the bed. I know they ended up going far but holy hell that Game 1 setup and the Blackout play in response to Book :x

[@parkersuddreth4921]

Lets goooooo. satisfied with tha winner bbyyy

[@yusheitslv100]

Conclusion: Chaos Dragons VEST DECK LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

[@TheFalconer22]

Watching this after being recommended the original unbanning video.... crazy that the finals here mimiced the finals of the WCS this year as well!

[@munchrai6396]

Attempting to loop Psychic Sword is such a cumbersome way to lower your life points it makes Wall of Revealing light look playable. Alchemistarcher and Almento5010 at 6:30 have the right idea. Dinomorphia and Labrynth are easily the best home for the 2 different sides of Last Turn. Especially since Labrynth is a fairly strong trap deck that could probably preform decently even in this tournament. Though access to 3 Cyber-Stein definitely doesn't hurt

[@syn3475]

Chaos dragon SDR this year btw, eclipse, chaos ruler, and elpy coming to 1 just to spite everyone and promote it.