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@TheSticknstone22 ай бұрын
My hero
@TrevorAllenMD2 ай бұрын
It’s funny bc after making my response my brother made Tenpai, went 13-1, and told me he barely knows the combo. Said as soon as he clears a board and summons a monster the opponent just surrenders. If they stayed there’s like a 30% chance he’d somehow stumble into not doing lethal bc he’s had so few chances to actually do it.
@mrevilducky2 ай бұрын
I'm guilty of surrendering against 1 Tenpai monster However, the one time I didn't. They messed up the combo and I won lmao
@lasoren2 ай бұрын
Summon Fadra. Doesn't have Sangan Kaimen, Sangan Summoning, nor Chundra in hand. Opponent: Surrender anyway
@geek5932 ай бұрын
This is the worst part of the game. There's no fun at all to be found in sticking through a game.
@Endershock16782 ай бұрын
@@geek593 It's not fun, but I've survived more than a few Tenpai games all the way up to diamond 1 even without a way to stop their Field Spell. No matter how strong the deck is, there's nothing more powerful than people being awful at this game.
@Endershock16782 ай бұрын
@@mrevilducky I think at this point, in Diamond, and a little bit in Masters, Tenpai players have like a 60% chance of actually OTKing through 1 or less interrupts. It's amazing how many of them attack, then quick sync and instead of Bident or something that actually makes sense, they go Meteorburst, don't OTK, and then pass.
@@gagster0301...aaaaand then tribute it for Paidra.
@lastetaslocas692 ай бұрын
I read this a majin buu for some reason
@ASecretLynn2 ай бұрын
Went to a con with some friends at the beginning of this year. One of them had never played a game of yugioh in their life, but played a lot of Snap. We convinced him to play a game and gave him a Swordsoul deck to try out. He played against me on Runick Spright, than proceeded to KO me in the cleanest way i think anyone ever has. He has never played yugioh since. He will live on, undefeated at YuGiOh, with Swordsoul.
@SaHa0v02 ай бұрын
Shame that he didn't keep up with the game after that, but at least he quit while he's ahead.
@felixdaniels372 ай бұрын
What a legend.
@TraaaaaasshBooooaaaatttt2 ай бұрын
Win once then retire so you can be undefeated for the rest of your life. Thats how to do it
@Merilirem2 ай бұрын
Genderbend Tea?
@EnergyBurst22 ай бұрын
what's Snap? Also this sounds just like me and the Pokémon TCG, I played it like once or twice against a friend using one of his decks, won, then have somehow managed to avoid playing it with him again afterwards even when he comes over intending us to at some point during the visit and sometimes it's not even because I actually did anything to try and avoid it we just ended up getting caught up in doing something else.
@MiyaoMeow5882 ай бұрын
Mayakashi is an example of a deck that has *exactly* one play and one play only. Impossible to screw up and very linear. Synch, revive Dakki, Synch, revive Dakki, Synch, Revive Dakki, Link, revive Dakki, Link, Revive Dakki. It also takes 20 minutes for no reason I also love it anyway because it's cool as hell
@Salacavalini2 ай бұрын
"Cool, what's the deck's win condition?" "...Win condition?"
@tobyclark73512 ай бұрын
I always preferred shiranui, just their aesthetic and it gelled well enough with zombie engine
@MiyaoMeow5882 ай бұрын
@@Salacavalinihey now, that Link 4 is crazy sometimes. And Normal Summon a single Hajun sets up a monster pop! That would've gone crazy 10 years ago!
@Bigparr432 ай бұрын
OK, but pulling off a successful Mayakashi Mill FTK is the funniest and one of the rarest things you can do. Mayakashi Mill and Trickstar OTK are my favorite cheese straps. Consistent? Hell no. Funny? Absolutely!
@Bigparr432 ай бұрын
@@tobyclark7351I used to use Eldlich Shiranui back when Eldlich was new. Worked surprisingly well to the point where I hated the Skill Drain variant of Eldlich because it was much less interesting. Shiranui didn't get explored enough
@Griever492 ай бұрын
As a follow up to your last point, A lot of players just don't really know how to play the game, they know how to play their deck. The issue is yugioh kinda requires guides to learn how to play a deck, but a lot of people never move past that
@amiablereaper2 ай бұрын
The thing about yugioh as opposed to every other competitive game is not the effort to learn your strategy but the effort to learn everyone else's. Starcraft 2 has some extremely complicated playable races, and knowing when an opponent can get x unit to your base given what you know of their tech and economy is an important skill to know. However, there are only three playable races, and you won't run into someone who looks like they're playing zerg and then pivots into bishbaalkin ftk Knowing what to handtrap is legitimately a skill you have to relearn for every new deck, and because the game never rotates, the number of decks you can face is mostly limited by how many different people you're dueling
@antonbrown172 ай бұрын
I'd add to this that playing against a deck, hell even a few cards you're not familiar with is harrowing because you have to guess what the consequences of an effect resolving without any context for what might happen, as well as keep track of all these new GY effects. The first time I played against mythical beast I didn't realize 2 of the 20 cards in the GY were monster negates. My first time playing against Snake Eyes I got my opponent to no cards in hand and thought I won until I saw that a single wanted GY activation can lead to like 3 cards in hand. And to stop these things you have to know how the deck works, and you multiply that by the scores upon scores of decks that can kill you out of nowhere, it's a lot to learn
@maxmaus44022 ай бұрын
@@antonbrown17 Recently I've been playing Duel Links because it's the format where my favorite deck is the closest to viable, and it really does feel like 90% of games are just a matter of whether my opponent knows my cards ahead of time or I know theirs. This gets exacerbated in that format by both the way its banlist works, and the presence of skills. Like they added Nibiru recently, but against each new deck I have to guess whether they're even allowed to run Nibiru because half the good skills have some form of lock but a significant chunk of them don't reveal their presence until the skill is activated. Even with skills that are revealed at game start, it can be hard to process them mid-game just because they're all structured weird and refuse to follow a lot of PSCT conventions, making them hard to skim if you're used to skimming a real card. It makes relearning the format hard in a way that's super different from the way that relearning a TCG/MD format is - but arguably even more frustrating at times.
@rajkanishu2 ай бұрын
me, I am people
@mateusrp19942 ай бұрын
@@amiablereaper A couple people tell me fighting games are similar in that regard, you have to know other people's characters to know when and where to punish them
@lordgrub123452 ай бұрын
"Lets read the replies" *picture of the dude's house shows up*
@VanessaVersus2 ай бұрын
cj's house is just a castle made of red bull cans, it's not hard to find
@zeusalternative12702 ай бұрын
Live Twins, you have like 12 ways to open the combo, link a couple of times and you get a draw and a pop and draw for next turn, not to mention how easy is for the line to pivot into a colinked Knightmare Gryphon in the middle monster zone, just a skill drain and a cycle, add a couple of traps and boardbreakers or add your favorite main deck cards and you're ready.
@brunop.87452 ай бұрын
I started playing Floos because i thought the birds looked cute. I was very surprised when i learned that people hated them because every opponent in EDOPro kept surrendering the milisecond they saw Robina and one even typed "NO. F*CKING. BIRDS"
@dudono17442 ай бұрын
They usually carry floodgates. Also, Fuwalos is another cute bird people want dead, so there might be a pattern.
@ashikjaman19402 ай бұрын
Floo's reputation would be a million times better if the Barrier Statue was banned way earlier
@friendship5293Ай бұрын
Finally, someone like me. People are like AGH EMPEN, and I'm like 'hehe funni birds on a roadtrip' Although I completely sympathised when I'm on the receiving end
@Ragnarok5402 ай бұрын
Kashtira is a deck that literally plays itself. It feels like is impossible to mess up the combo, and yet I have seen people in MD finding ways to not summon arise heart.
@TheDocperian2 ай бұрын
The last point is correct, a few years back I determined Yugioh just isn't a game I enjoy playing but I still enjoy MBT and Hardleg so I continue to watch their content. Every single one of my opinions regarding the game is just parroted opinions you've stated, hyperbole and all, because it's literally the only medium in which I interact with the game.
@julianchrobak-prince19152 ай бұрын
I appreciate the honesty.
@dardanik2 ай бұрын
That's how a lot of people form their opinions about stuff they arent personally involved, sadly.
@drewbabe2 ай бұрын
For someone like you, then, my advice would be to not have opinions on the game. Like, you can have opinions on the opinions (like, thinking it's annoying to hear people complain about something a lot,) but if you don't play the game, you're better off just not thinking about it too much lol
@dhanyl27252 ай бұрын
Man you must be at a conundrum when mbt said dragoon (or was it dpe shit I forgor) was bad/good
@MrThewooter2 ай бұрын
Weird thing is, I DO play, but not at the skill level MBT gets to, and I don't feel anymore informed about the game than what you described.
@malikbeat2 ай бұрын
Yosenju, the literal baby archetype where the monsters are even numbered for you. First turn? Make Bagooska. Turn two? Summon your hand, try and OTK, then make cowboy. EZ
@MedjedTheEdjed2 ай бұрын
*Plays the Stun Variant What's a Bagooska?
@benvarley29272 ай бұрын
My move for rank 4 turbo lunalights
@victikirby152 ай бұрын
Duel Links has a ton of brain dead decks where the skill just kind of plays the deck for you. Pre-nerf Tachyon is a prime example
@bencrandall-malcolm83032 ай бұрын
Someone brought this up in the thread and caused Joseph to go on a 15 minute tangent about why duel links is ass now. I imagine it didn't make it into the video just for length
@TrevorAllenMD2 ай бұрын
DL is just a brain dead game tho compared to Master Duel isn’t it
@kataphrut77402 ай бұрын
Raging Pendulun was ridiculous. I get that Raging Dragon doesn’t have a reliable way to summon currently (they need to print the anime PK card that does it), but for the price of setting two scales, you get to ignore the summoning requirements for it, as well as a pendulum in the extra and a free lvl 4 conjured from void in the hand. Crazy.
@neonoah33532 ай бұрын
Tbh, compared to the state the tcg/ocg are in, duel links meta is much better. Its true that a lot of skills are either too broken or pretty much garbage, specially shit like fleur which is just a free plant halq, but theres a good amount of non skill decks that shows up in the meta or that becomes top tier. The fact that diet dragon link and lyrilusc are top tier just shows that.
@lordradiance25302 ай бұрын
To be fair its hard to think of meta duel links decks back in the day that WERENT helmet decks
@Endershock16782 ай бұрын
When I was gettingg into MD again, I was wondering why half the decks I ran into in the lower ranks were Kashtira. It got COOKED by so many handtraps, so many popular board breakers, it was NEVER breaking through the FKSE endboard, and it wasn't like it was all that good in BO1. Heck, I have like an 80% winrate against it despite playing Tearlaments because they got cooked alive by Talents. Then the season reset and I got to see what a Platinum player looked like with a more complex deck, like FKSE, or later Yubel, and it's amazing how these decks that can do EVERYTHING uninterrupted could be left alone while I went to get doordash, and I come back only to see them end on SP pass with a Princess and Flamberge conspicuously in the graveyard, or lead with Nightmare Throne and end on Blue Dog, Muckraker Pass, and realized, people play Kashtira because you have to be a moron to misplay with it... And then yesterday, I saw somebody activate planet, search Unicorn, then summon Fenrir with no Theosis or Birth in hand...
@jabermogwai59962 ай бұрын
just yesterday i play againts tenpai player who activated red reboot on me and proceed to miss lethal and its in master, yes those people actually exist.
@ropesnake2 ай бұрын
Kashtira players on MD are consistently some of the dumbest humans on planet earth, I can be in a horrible position against them, shifter, ariseheart, the works, but I will never concede early because if given the chance they will always manage to find a way to lose
@Lyn_Lapislauli2 ай бұрын
My rank up to Diamond a few days ago was against a Yubel plaer who ended on Spirit, Nightmare Pain and a set Eternal Favorite. While they had a Terror Incarnate and Samsara D Lotus in grave, doing nothing with them for some reason. They also had a Grave Squirmer they searched and another Spirit in hand, and an unknown, which wasn't even an handtrap. Like they did not even make Phantom in spite of having the materials for it and then some more. I was thankfull for the free win, but still confused.
@Endershock16782 ай бұрын
@@Lyn_Lapislauli Yubel Players are masters of throwing. I once had a Yubel Player combo me with Abyss Actors and Knightmare Griffon, then got Anti-Spelled with a 5 spell hand, set Maxx C (that I drew for turn), then passed. They couldn't OTK. On turn 3... through a set Maxx C. The following turn, I flipped up Lightning Storm, activated the Raigeki I drew for turn, then flipped the Triple Tac I set... they then surrendered.
@Lyn_Lapislauli2 ай бұрын
@@Endershock1678 Hilarious
@TripNBallsGaming2 ай бұрын
Swordsoul has room for more complex combos, but the main combo is pretty self explanatory. That's what I love about the deck. You can combo off, and with the new "Tenyi" support around the corner it'll only get crazier, but overall it's a pretty simple and straightforward strategy.
@Banunkie2 ай бұрын
I love how Horus literally goes into everything, drop the Imsety, get the box, play the box, dump the cards, bring them all back, wait. No restriction or downside to any of it, a toddler could play the deck, that's me, I'm the toddler, I love this deck
@nziom2 ай бұрын
I love it too
@Merilirem2 ай бұрын
Its just so clean. I wish zombies had some of this going on.
@Merilirem2 ай бұрын
I will say though that you can use it for more than its basic game plan and people still mess up that basic game plan. Like so many people will use the Horus monsters for material and end on a weaker board.
@Banunkie2 ай бұрын
@@Merilirem True. Its that thing of just knowing when to stop, you could make 2 rank 8s but there's nk real point. TBH, I mainly just use it as an engine in a Ogdoadic deck to get the big guys out of my hand while still developing a board
@munchrai63962 ай бұрын
Millennium does offer some genuinely interesting deckbuilding dilemmas. Outside of Exoxdia, the Millennium monsters are incredibly splashable with a bunch of other strategies that move monsters into the backrow. However, Ahnk shuffling all your non-archetype monster cards back into the deck means that it took a lot of trial and error before I figured out which archetypes I could splash in and how to use them. The most success I've had with this deck was a Centur-Ion build that turbos into the traps and sets up monsters in the backrow AFTER you summon Exodia. This gives the deck a really nice additional negate and a really great way to play through certain critical interruptions. Currently working on an Argos build of the deck since Ahnk doesn't shuffle back trap monsters and Argos can summon their traps on turn 1, but the deck is still pretty new and it needs more starters. Its even wilder to me that this archetype is made up of 3 separate parts, one of which, the Wedju cards we haven't even seen the full extent of. Would be crazy if they gave us some generic cards to send your monsters back to the backrow because you do sometimes want to recycle your Millenniums
@rodenbeard2 ай бұрын
I've been considering making a Swordsoul list in MD for a while now, and MBT saying its super brain dead is the exact final selling point I needed
@Akanezulian12 ай бұрын
go second while playing Tenyi spells is not as brain dead at all, no wonder the deck got multiple tops before POTE format, it's a solid deck but people are just used to Chixiao + Baronne when they go first and think the deck is braindead, it's just not solid enough with today's power creep, why would you play a 1.5 card combo deck that is very consistant compared to nowadays being able to go full combo off a single card starter, I am looking forward to the new Tenyi support so we get even more plays.
@ayham6132 ай бұрын
the swordsoul part is braindead but there are some cool combos you can do with the tenyi part
@Endershock16782 ай бұрын
Swordsoul is braindead, but Tenyi isn't. Tenyi actually has a shockingly high ceiling and a ton of skill expression.
@cbbblue83482 ай бұрын
It's brain dead because most SS player on ladder are just Chixao Baron blackout pass
@jabermogwai59962 ай бұрын
@@cbbblue8348and when going second, instead of using tenyi to bait an interuption, they go straight to normal summon moye and kill their own tenyi cards
@sleepy4162 ай бұрын
Saw the title, wondered if Rarran would get burned, wasn’t disappointed.
@pkjk12552 ай бұрын
Would now unironically be a good time to have Ramranch try MasterDuel again? Just get him to build Tenpai and bum-rush his way to Master rank.
@Merilirem2 ай бұрын
@@pkjk1255 This might be true....
@ediscaptain2 ай бұрын
Tenpais strongest soldier
@hoffedemann53702 ай бұрын
Tbh I can't be bothered with long combo lines written by someone else. I'm a brewer at heart. So I gravitate towards "easy" archetypes and include some new tech I thought of/seen somewhere else. Nothing more satisfying than beating people with Gate Guardian and activating AFD/Branded Fusion in the process. Opponents go: "your deck does WHAT?"
@DarkSideOfTheForceKin2 ай бұрын
I want to throw Orcust into the mix. It can be a complex deck if you make it so, but when I played it as a beginner I really liked that making a misplay wasn't just game-ending. Like using the wrong effect at the wrong moment or in the wrong order would usually just mean you'd have a slightly different end board, but almost never would it just cut you off from doing the rest of your combo altogether and leave you with nothing. I also like how, when I did misplay, I could see what order I should have activated my effects in to get the result I wanted.
@BagooskaTheTerriblyTiredTapir2 ай бұрын
Orcust is just goated
@Caleb-zl4wk2 ай бұрын
Orcust can be forgiving but it’s not easy for most yugioh players imo bc it manages resources wayyy too actively. The skill expression in orcust is either killing them quickly (which is really hard) or having something to do on turn 5 (which can be really really hard, especially if your deck is designed to put up a competent board by 2024’s standards.) here’s hoping this is all fixed by the link one that searches the field spell.
@hexi95952 ай бұрын
Orcust’s complexity lies past turn 3. Doing the same thing over and over and over again w seemingly never ending resources is where the deck shines. The problem is that you have to play near perfectly since the beginning to do so. Or you can play some names in multiples just so your chances of not being able to play because you screwed up somewhere become lower.
@lvcka74162 ай бұрын
2:36 The time i got into playing yugioh in depth was during Tearlaments format in MD, i used to play some fun strategies with my friends but never got into the game until this point. I played Crusadia during that format and it was really fun to learn a lot about the game interactions and all sorts of stuff the game has! I went from a silver duelist using evil☆twins to diamond 1 with crusadia for the first time! I tried to play blind 2nd otk strategies after that, but the most fun still crusadia Formud Skipper best starter
@awakenedfurmissile46172 ай бұрын
Numeron will forever be the king of braindead decks
@zaleww58242 ай бұрын
Deck is so cool tho. Get field with like 10 searchers then punch punch kill
@Merilirem2 ай бұрын
Its sad because you can do other things with it. People just don't.
@therranolleo4682 ай бұрын
I'm surprised no one mentioned this in the video (or maybe it got cut) Its a literal one card nuke button going second, but then again so is Tenpai right now
@zexionfan152 ай бұрын
Personally, I think Voiceless Voice is like... in a really weird position. Functionally yes, it is just "summon Lo and Skull Guardian, try to get Voiceless Sauravis out, pass with as many continuous spells and traps as you have access to, and if you're daring today/had a good hand you can even get out Odd-Eyes Pendulumgraph Dragon," but at the same time knowing what to use your interaction on matters a lot. Like, a lot a lot. Just blindly firing your negate on the first card they activate can, and often will, lose you the game on the spot. My experience with the deck is usually "hold the negates as long as I reasonably can and I win, fire them off at their first starter and I lose."
@IkoroseShinsou2 ай бұрын
Absolutely. I also think there’s skill testing done when it comes to knowing when to shuffle back a ritual spell in the graveyard with the trap vs shuffling back a ritual monster in hand. Sometimes you need to retain the spell in the grave for if your opponent outs one of your monsters. There’s also times to know when you DON’T want to tribute Lo on field in order to have your Skull Guardian negate live as soon as it hits the field. It’s really not as autopilot as some people think.
@Caleb-zl4wk2 ай бұрын
You seem to be getting initiated into more control style decks for the first time, maybe? (I don’t want to sound like “clearly you’re bad,” trust me, I was trippin out when I switched from Dragon Link to Runick Fur Hire Spright to Unchained) but yeah most decks in yugioh adhere to that thing you said, “if you negate the first thing they do you typically lose,” but that to me is more the theory of how player interaction works in this game. The same stuff was true way back in like Goat format, just that you’d need to be way better at remembering and paying attention to figure out why it sent you down a losing path. But yeah it’s fascinating, right? The tight optimizations in order you can make between how you play both turns.)
@eleonarcrimson8582 ай бұрын
i mean can you not apply the same logic with swo? baron-chixiao is trap-skull guardian, you fire your baron negate in the wrong spot, you lose the game. Using your interaction in a proper way is not innate to a single deck, it is part of yugioh.
@zexionfan152 ай бұрын
@Caleb-zl4wk I've been playing for quite a while. I've played most of the popular formats, and one of my main decks in 2012 was pure control trap monsters (the other three were Gusto, Ice Barrier as an xyz and Armory Arm deck, and Dark World Chaos). Plus, one of the first decks I picked up on returning to Yugioh after quitting shortly after link monsters were released was Purrely. You want to talk about a control style deck, Purrely fits the bill much more than Voiceless Voice IMO. It's just a lot slower as well. Voiceless is more of a game of resource management than Purrely. Both are arguably extremely skill testing, just a different skill than combo lines. They test matchup knowledge and metagame knowledge rather than combo knowledge. They test "I have 3 pieces of interaction; where is the most efficient place to use them?" You could argue that plant link is also a control deck, but one that actually requires you to know your own deck better on top of it. The point is, even having a super linear opening plan doesn't necessarily mean the deck is easy to play. It means the floor is set pretty high, but I don't know how much I'd say Voiceless fits into the same category as Tenpai, Crusadia, or Swordsoul's "literally just do one thing no matter what the situation" plan. The other major focuses in this video. I just think Voiceless is right on the border of "really high floor with easy bake combo" and "actually needs you to know the deck and the metagame to succeed," and doesn't quite feel as mindless as the video makes it out to be by including it.
@zexionfan152 ай бұрын
@eleonarcrimson858 See, Swordsoul is a little different, IMO. The line is incredibly linear, and the only real variation in play is "do you summon Chengying willingly even when not wyrm locked or just make Baronne pass?" It has a couple different combo lines as opposed to just one core line, but in exchange you aren't managing your grave and hand resources as much. That's really one of the key things about Voiceless Voice that Swordsoul lacks: "Which spells should I leave in the grave? Which monsters need to be on the field? What is the threat to my board state that I need to negate, and what parts of their combo can I allow to resolve?" Swordsoul doesn't have almost any actual resource management outside of "Do I still have a wyrm in grave for Chixiao negate?" Voiceless just doesn't feel even close to the same level of "high floor means that even brand-new players can figure out the deck with minimal effort" as the rest of the decks featured in this video, yet somehow it also still kind of does? It's weird; the main line is as linear as the rest, the gameplan can be condensed down to a single sentence of "end on Skull Guardian, Lo, and as many spells and traps as possible," and the deck can effectively just pilot itself... yet if it did so, it would burn all its resources way too quickly and lose easily. There's a level of nuance in choosing to NOT do things in Voiceless that every other deck featured in the video seems to lack.
@icarus2120012 ай бұрын
Dude said Eldrich like i won't surprise him with misplays
@zaleww58242 ай бұрын
Eldlich trap build is extremely skillful deck. You gotta know when to pop or solemn them to stop their plays. Floodgates are a different question they are braindead lol
@Merilirem2 ай бұрын
@@zaleww5824 Floodgates can turn a tear mirror into braindead gameplay.
@Stoneblazer2 ай бұрын
1:13 whoever put that salmon skin-side up in a pan should never be allowed near salmon again.
@trubb2252 ай бұрын
as someone who is, in the nicest words possible, mentally incapable of multiple things, this video has been quite useful for me, showing a bunch of archetypes that I could use. thanks, twitter! you did something good for once :D
@Ltp13052 ай бұрын
To be fair, Farfa missing lethal is more about Farfa than the deck ...
@snes902 ай бұрын
I believe MBT's remark was to the same effect. The deck may look incredibly braindead, but we have proof you can still mess it up.
@ashikjaman19402 ай бұрын
I think Generaider is a pretty simple deck The deck does pretty much one thing going first or second: brick
@Mouse_Librarian2 ай бұрын
And in the instance you don't brick, you just lose to one hand trap. Vala or Loptr gets ashed and you don't have boss stage? I guess you win.
@xerael46592 ай бұрын
> Activate Boss Stage > ??? > Profit
@ShinerCCC2 ай бұрын
Sounds like Planet Pathfinder and Lonefire for Cattycorn to the rescue
@ashikjaman19402 ай бұрын
@@ShinerCCC if you're running Lonefire you can just summon Mardel to search boss stage
@PinkFrappe2 ай бұрын
As a Swordsoul player, I can confirm. The deck plays itself and 9 times out of 10 I can just turn my brain off and play out my line. I’m trying to build up crafting points for a more engaging deck, but for now I’m Mo Ye pilled
@Hugelag2 ай бұрын
I was able to understand Ancient Gears almost immediately. They're big guys that shut down battle traps and pierce. Simple.
@McChickenJOI2 ай бұрын
holy fuck.
@bogo2462 ай бұрын
I have found the Goblin Bikers to be rather easy. Use Meet up just make Crazy beast, eat any spell or trap they try to place then Pile up into Gabonga to grab Boom Mach. Really hinders people who are relying on one card to make their board stick.
@Mighty-Eight2 ай бұрын
My answer is Pure Naturia on Master Duel but with no blend builds (ex. Runik/Naturia). A friend of mine wanted to play a Deck that had simple cards with mostly Simple effects with simple ways to play but the routes can be varied and can play a through a lot of interactions. 1.) Antjaw can Deck Special on each Special Summon (as Long it's the last thing since it's a "When" effect) which also isn't once per turn. 2.) Mole Cricket can Bring out up to 2 Naturia Monsters if your opponent has the higher or tied ATK. 3.) Sunflower and Vein can negate Monsters (Sunflower) or Spell/Traps (Vein) 4.) Camelia can foolish any Naturia Card and can Send cards from the Top of Deck to Grave if ANY of your Naturia monster would tribute to activate their Effects. I'm barely scratching the surface of the deck as the Archetype has so many cards and effects that are Simple but also effective against certain other decks and I'm only talking about the Main Deck.
@antonbrown172 ай бұрын
I love Swordsoul and it does have more complicated situational lines to go into but its so funny that the deck is so straightforward that people initially played it without the Tenyis. They didnt even bother explore the typing and non-effect synergy before going "Mo Ye is full combo and then you can use fusion destiny to summon DPE at the end" 😂
@jabermogwai59962 ай бұрын
lmao i remember those take from MBT, its crazy how he can be so wrong sometimes, the other funny take is when he says daruma karma canon is bad in lab lmao
@mattbell31302 ай бұрын
What you mean, I played swordsoul with more tenyi than swordsoul the moment it came out. Granted I could not afford moye at the time, but the day I learned swordsoul was coming out I had combined it with my tenyi build. I definitely was not the only one.
@antonbrown172 ай бұрын
@@mattbell3130 you weren't, I played them with Tenyis early on too just because I thought the version without them was boring. I even bought a Tenyi core on announcement. But Destroy Phoenix Enforcer was the new hot engine coming out in the same set so ppl defaulted to splashing it in everything in testing. It's hard to check for now if you don't remember/didn't see but initial consensus was to put that package in over anything else. If you check for Lithium 2300's first video on Swordsoul on announcement, you see he's not playing it with Tenyis, rather DPE. But by the time it was released in TCG a few months later, people released that the Tenyi stuff was more consistent, maybe but looking at OCG builds' success idk. So most TCG tops with it are with Tenyis. Then ppl remembered Protos existed and any version of the deck that wasn't mostly wyrms stopped being worth trying
@mattbell31302 ай бұрын
@@antonbrown17 I forgot you know more about what I have done than me. Let me bow down to your superiority complex. Back then I did not even know who lithium was, I would have said they were a component of a battery. Is it impossible to you that some nobody played swordsoul in tenyi before it became mainstream, and no I did not perfect the build lol I was trying to run 3 Protos back then and had not realized I could search Protos. I just find it hard to believe better players than myself were not testing the same thing early on, and assume dpe variant was probly more common to start with do to low skill ceiling and a potentially better meta relevance at the time. Edit I checked by August 2021 swordsoul tenyi was the best deck in the ocg, less than 4 months after release, other versions fell off due to the rise of token collector. Before that it struggled because it matched up poorly into zues from memory which zodiac was good back then.
@drianna752 ай бұрын
@@mattbell3130 i'm pretty sure it's a misunderstanding and "you weren't" is a response to "I definitely was not the only one" and not "I played swordsoul with more tenyi than swordsoul the moment it came out"
@Billy-ot8mk2 ай бұрын
The Halloween intro is GOATED.
@fatwhiteduke74172 ай бұрын
I was surprised my pet deck Dinomorphia didn't get talked about but don't think I didn't see Rexterm's card text and stats at the top of the screen there.
@mickjaegar23792 ай бұрын
i mean, is it not just modernized counter fairies though?
@Lyn_Lapislauli2 ай бұрын
To be fair, Dinomorphia does have a lot of complexity in how it handles some of it's really bad matchups like Mikanko and Yubel.
@L1nk20022 ай бұрын
Early builds of Branded were easy as shit to play. If you had a little bit of experience with the deck you could look at the cards you had in hand and already know if you could do Mirrorjade + Branded in Red for Chimera or like double Masquerade and maybe a Dramaturge. And all of that took like 1 minute to do. Beautiful format, especially considering that the second best deck was exactly brainded Swordsoul.
@DrAiPatch2 ай бұрын
Literally yesterday on Hardlegs stream he beat a Tenpai deck with zero interruptions ......... who missed lethal two turns in a row because he didnt know how to summon trident dragon.
@youtube-kit9450Ай бұрын
This video just told me that during the time I stopped caring about yugioh about a year ago, they actually fucking retrained one of my favourite childhood cards "law guardian" (Skull guardian I think?) I don't care how monke it is, I'll bite Komoney's bait completely and buy that fucker up.
@baldiii78302 ай бұрын
I have to say, as someone who last played the game in 2010 and is trying to get back into it Scareclaw/adventure has been a pure blessing. Simple, fun to use, bricks rarely, and is strong enough to have a fighting chance against most decks. Without simple decks I don't think I would be motivated enough to do all the work to get back into the game.
@timelordomega59142 ай бұрын
8:40 well, what is in the comments? We're waiting...
@marceloliri2 ай бұрын
I also curious tbh
@dakota93992 ай бұрын
> SPITTING > TRUE > TRUE > Bait used to be believable > Hey, I used to play Goat format all the way back in 2005 and I'll tell you one thing you little whippersnapper You're absolutely correct > (A short thread where someone says it’s blatantly false and someone mentions Chaos? I dunno)
@peekay1202 ай бұрын
I still hold that Swordsoul is genuinely one of the best archetypes ever printed, Its simple and straightforward to pick up and play at a basic level, yet still has quite a lot of depth to it for people who are really good at playing it. Its also a deck that has no crazy one card combos, cant play through seemingly endless amounts of interaction, and doesnt do anything that feels inherently unfair or unfun (Protoss and Baronne are not part of the archetype, so I'm not counting them). Its pretty much the poster-child for the "mid range" deck, and its a deck that I still recommend to new players at my locals as a good deck to teach you the fundamentals of the game.
@mattbell31302 ай бұрын
One disagreement, you can if played right and built for going second play through almost endless interaction. Ok not endless but like 10+ interactions depending on type, obviously not 10 Omni negates.
@Lyn_Lapislauli2 ай бұрын
The hell you mean by saying that Baronne was unfair, she's literally 1 interaction, how brainless are you to group her up with a lingering floodgate like Protos?
@peekay1202 ай бұрын
@@Lyn_Lapislauli calm down buddy, Baronne is a generic omni negate, thats why she was unhealthy, i'm also not saying that swordsoul was the deck that got her banned either, it obviously wasnt. But generic omni's are just not fun to deal with in general, protoss is at least, not completely generic, not that I am defending protoss either, mind you.
@Aimlesswaves.2 ай бұрын
My favorite deck, Purrely, feels like it fits. I'm not saying there aren't the occasional low-resource games where things go past turn 2 and things get scrappy and you're actually forced to make meaningful choices, but 95% of the time it's "Can I make big purple kitty? Yes? I win. No? Better luck next time."
@specter24432 ай бұрын
I'd love to see a vid about what decks are disability friendly or unfriendly. For example, I have terrible memory issues. Fire kings is the worst deck in the game for me because it all either activates or resolves in the next stand by. When someone says "standby, all my cards resolve" I've just got be like, yep, hope you aren't cheating. Heros is a deck that I play and struggle with quite often because I forget to resolve dpe. I'm sure there's other decks that cause different difficulties for others with disabilities. I can imagine that just playing physical would be ni- impossible for people with hand spasms
@DevastatingWarrior2 ай бұрын
A deck that I play a lot in MD that I feel fits this topic (despite how much I love it) is Evil Eye. It doesn't play into Nib, if you get Maxx C'd you can cut your combo short and only give your opponent 1 draw (or no draws if you don't fear called by), as long as you get to equip Selene your monster becomes hard to out and you just kinda wait for your opponent to do something worth stopping before you use your interrupts.
@lusio15792 ай бұрын
edlich is a card that i love but with today's engines like kashtira and bystials, you just can't play him beacause he's gonna be destroyed in seconds
@jmurray1110Ай бұрын
Or they just called by him stopping his revive even with a second in grave and you get destroyed
@Xenonfuji2 ай бұрын
Kozmo fits here. People have gone back to old formats and realized that kozmo really wasn't that good, but it was easy so it saw a lot of play
@shakeweller2 ай бұрын
Floo is easy, but the mirror.... is hard. Navigating around the continuous spell is tough
@windunursetyadi2 ай бұрын
I remember saying this in a KZbin video and got cooked for no reason
@SquibbyJ2 ай бұрын
The nicest thing about Scareclaw is that it is Tri-Typed and their boss monster is Tri-Heart. Tri-Brigade Scareclaw is meant to be(also super easy to play just get your Revolt and Tri-Heart and tell your opponent good luck)
@zaksharman2 ай бұрын
Surprised no one has mentioned Marincess in here. Great deck to learn link climbing, you end on just one big girl, you do the exact same combos game in, game out,. When i finished my first turn with Marincess for the first time i felt unstoppable.
@lmorello992 ай бұрын
Swordsoul can be easy to play, but has some interesting combos and interactions that are big brain. Watching Pak play it a few years ago was crazy
@Brisk832 ай бұрын
If my Magic experience has taught me it really helps to make all your decisions IN deck building. That stressed out tired mid tournament you is NOT going to be able to think that far ahead consistently.
@paoie12362 ай бұрын
Cyber Dragons. >Combo works? > FTK. >Combo does not work? >Surrender button exists.
@CMaxoknight312 ай бұрын
7:19 damn I got called out😭LISTEN okay I stopped going to locals cuz I was looking for some cool new decks to play (I only had AND HAVE my one and only Branded deck), then Snake-Eye came out and I thought nah I ain't dealing with that and now I'm here 💀
@darkanddolly162 ай бұрын
Don't even feel bad about it, a lot of us did that. I left Yugioh two years ago for an extended break to learn Magic's commander format. Coming back because of the Six Sam support. Being less of a player and more of a community member is perfectly acceptable. We just gotta maintain a degree of humility about it lol. 😂
@rocapbg95182 ай бұрын
Damn, I was hoping for a compilation of all the people saying shit like "Labrynth" and "Branded"
@johnnyhall91542 ай бұрын
Swordsoul is a good example of a simple but flexible deck. Great introduction to synchro for new players, and it's non-engine can be where skilled players show their skill
@hi-i-am-atan2 ай бұрын
normal summon aleister's simplicity is a boon when you have yet to figure out how to give shaddoll a turn 1 play that isn't "hope you open fusion and two shaddolls that 141 on an empty board" or "set 1 pass. in 2024"
@awqweird2 ай бұрын
As a person who didn't start actually playing yugioh until master duel came out, I played eldlich, then floo and then sword soul.
@mrevilducky2 ай бұрын
I hate playing against all your deck choices
@awqweird2 ай бұрын
@@mrevilducky if it helps the decks I played after that point were dlink and snake eye they just seemed less relevant to the video.
@avatarmufasa36282 ай бұрын
Those are all decks i reccomend to beginners. SS in particular is really good at learning with a particular emphasis that you can increase the ceiling with tenyis, theres even more support on the way and youll have a blast.
@jianchengzhou34982 ай бұрын
@@awqweird The jump from all these to dlink must be jarring
@voideddragon91042 ай бұрын
fair, I didn't play yugioh outside of old games until master duel, running into three brand new summoning mechanics was..."fun" (never playing any games past synchro era). I ended up maining a dark magician deck for old times sake and pivot into a lyricist deck when I get sick of losing. still lose if my opponent has non-destruction removal but it's fun.
@christopherrindahl18252 ай бұрын
I'm gonna stab at B.A. Not THE most brainless deck for sure but at the end of the day it's.....make Dante, oh and then we'll make another Dante.....what's that on the crackback? Oh hi DANTE!!!!
@greenguylmao2 ай бұрын
i will always remember that one idiot saying labrynth is easy and you just have to set 5
@tamerofthewilds99872 ай бұрын
Earth machine is very much so heavily based around sequencing and knowing exactly how to crack a board. I main Infinitrack so heavily and the intensity I feel trying to get the right pieces out is so frustrating yet satisfying
@nuhrii34492 ай бұрын
i feel they way with beetlesoup, my brain starts melting because i have to think about what should be added to hand and what i want in the grave for future interactions because im using both effects of all three resos in a single turn and what other cards can be banished for further extension from the cards move off those resos based on the cards in my hand at the same time, but it pays out because you get a kaiju, two raigekis, targeted destruction
@MrIsleNFair2 ай бұрын
Ugh, gravekeeper obviously (Share if you Play!). Slot any cards that searches Necrovalley, get the floodgates, if you can fuse Spiritualist, get the in-archetype floodgate, and done! Hopefully your Town doesnt get lightning stroke
@NolChannel12 ай бұрын
8:05 Back in the day (like pre-Nekroz holy shit I'm old) I got my regional invite with HunderWatt. You know, that rank 4 engine that toolboxes out the extra deck? In nine rounds going 7-2 I touched my extra deck a total of five times.
@nicoloviola47892 ай бұрын
Why Monkeyboard is in the photo when there are certain people out there that doesn't know how a Pendulum card function ahahahah
@marluxiavii2 ай бұрын
As a true Draco enjoyer (derogatory) I really didn't think we would make it out alive but we did it boys
@XdefLovesMinecraftАй бұрын
Anecdotal to the opener, I started playing Master Duel again somewhat recently after taking a break from Yu-Gi-Oh, and since I had a friend to do the new and returning player thing with, ended up with the swordsoul structure deck. I found myself laughing my ass off with how stupidly easy and consistent it was to summon bosses with this structure deck I had never heard of or even looked at before. Felt like all I had to do was click the glowing buttons and a boss monster would appear, completely idiot proof.
@MikeRosadoGaming2 ай бұрын
I gotta admit. That might be the greatest intro ever.
@drgamenstein3032Күн бұрын
As a person who recently got back into the game, this makes me question where I stand. I like taking certain archetypes that aren't well liked or regarded in current meta at all and running those engines, which i pick up fairly easily, and my picks usually result in a win, because I'm doing something silly, stupid, or just something the meta has no plans for. Dragonmaids, Exosisters, Vaalmonica, Vampires and Trains have all been fun, but by far, the funniest and most successful deck I've had is pure Witchcrafters, because nobody seems to understand what Verre or Aruru actually do.
@victorleppas30672 ай бұрын
Cardian Flower, vomit your all deck in one/two turns for 2-3 synchro if lucky enough.. Or burn to death with a continuous spell
@nightwish70742 ай бұрын
Agree with the truth bomb, but with an asterisk. I'm assuming the format in reference here (re: people complaining about the format not being skill expressive) is Tearlaments format, since that's the one most people have that specific complaint about. I do think it was skill expressive, but only if you were either playing Tear at a high level event where you're likely to see other Tear players, or if you're playing at a low-power OTS and no one was on Tear. In those specific instances, it was skill intensive because every other deck in the format had cool games against everything not named Tear, but in any other context the format felt horrible because you were either playing Tear versus something that wasn't Tear and you're not really testing yourself, or you're playing something that wasn't Tear versus a Tear player, which felt like the game had already been determined before you even played your first card. Of course if he was talking about the current format, I think it's very skill intensive, but it's miserable for a bunch of other reasons.
@geiseric2222 ай бұрын
I mean yes when people are talking about tear format they are talking about tear. That’s why the format is named after them
@nightwish70742 ай бұрын
@@geiseric222 I think you misread what I said.
@geiseric2222 ай бұрын
@@nightwish7074 I mean saying it’s only skill expressive when your playing tear is kind of a given? Like why would you play garbage in tear format, you played tear.
@renaldyhaen2 ай бұрын
@@nightwish7074 In a card game, even if both players use the exact same deck, luck and randomness still play a role. That’s why I don’t like Tier-0 formats and prefer a more diverse one. In a diverse format, players can leverage their knowledge of various cards to gain an advantage, even with the random factors in play. This type of format rewards players who have broader knowledge. In a Tier-0 format, however, you don’t need that wider knowledge-knowing just one dominant deck is enough. When facing unfamiliar decks, a Tier-0 deck often wins simply due to its power, even if the player isn’t familiar with the opponent’s strategy.
@joplin44342 ай бұрын
@@renaldyhaen "In a diverse format, players can leverage their knowledge of various cards to gain an advantage" tier 0 metas have consistently seen the best players win, it is not luck or cheating but actually knowing how every card works. You could see it in tear with Jesse. If you hear him talk about the final he lost he knows every detail and will tell you all the different things he was playing around and how he knew if the last card was the bystial he would lose. That's not randomness or luck
@dyrr8362 ай бұрын
This video is how I learned what the plural of sarcophagus sounds like
@mrbubbles64682 ай бұрын
My favorite thing about the Exodia deck is all of the main deck support just says ‘get Ankh’ I honestly wish more decks were designed like that.
@Joy_inc2 ай бұрын
sword soul being the first one makes a lot of sense, i think purrely is pretty easy to so hopefully they get a call out
@alternatedimensions2 ай бұрын
While the deck looks like it's just like 20 E-Tele's, Purrely is a lot harder than it looks because which quick effect you have actually matters and changes lines.
@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.99172 ай бұрын
I think if all you're doing is bringing out Noir it's easy, but doing other things is more complicated.
@haruhirogrimgar60472 ай бұрын
The deck has about 10 different lines available to it at any given time and more depending on what they excavate. How is it easy?
@edwiinandresmosqueramarulanda2 ай бұрын
I too thought that purrely was an easy deck until I played it in MD and kept ending on ass boards lol Is very easy to get to the big noire but making a layered board can be confusing
@Ether_Liner_Ado_Edem2 ай бұрын
Purrely can get pretty difficult depending on what interruptions your opponent hits you with
@silverblast4042 ай бұрын
Lunch is actually the most important meal of the day. So much so, that you could actually just skip breakfast with a good enough lunch
@iLoveSilkroad2 ай бұрын
I love my Umi controll deck. Seeing my oppnent rage about it´s bullshit is half the fun.
@JeffreyMilan-fj4nt2 ай бұрын
Very new to Yugioh and picked up a Salamangreat as my first structure deck to start. Oh Boi the amount of defeats just get a hang on this deck is probably a lot.
@mitchellslaughter29632 ай бұрын
my favorite deck to play is Sacred Beasts, as well as individual decks for Uria, Hamon, and Raviel. I run a bunch of trap-monsters in the Uria one (and really want the new Silhouhatte cards for it), the Hamon one has some funny stuff in it such as triple Child's Play, triple Spell Absorption, and 2-3 of Supply Squad and Backup Squad, and the Raviel deck has the Malicevorous monsters and Number 96: Dark Mist.
@MABfan112 ай бұрын
classic Cyber Dragons: Power Bond + Cyber End Dragon or Cyber Twin Dragon = goodbye lifepoints Blue-Eyes White Dragon: summon big beatstick
@trexdrew2 ай бұрын
The bigger challenge for me was “how many of the decks you play, have played, or want to play are on this list”
@paintedpig30212 ай бұрын
As someone who uses Umi it's extremely easy to tell when someone wants to otk by how fast they surrender after I play it
@Ninjya442 ай бұрын
I use kaijus since its mostly just slamming down big monsters and still fuck up constantly. I use the field spell that gives the counters, and i forget all the time that they can use the counters too...
@Konata6152 ай бұрын
I wonder how many of these responses are based on actually playing these decks vs just experience from playing against them. Everything is more intricate than they seem when you actually have to pilot it. With Floo for example, I’m willing to bet that a decent amount of people doesn’t know the line to end on Map + Dreaming Town starting with Robina + another name. And I’ll throw out a more advanced interaction in the mirror match: CL1 Raiza targeting opponent’s set Dreaming Town, CL2 your own Dreaming Town’s GY effect. If your opponent chains their Dreaming Town, whatever Floo they summon will be face down by the time the chain resolves, therefore not getting its effect.
@tenkovito2 ай бұрын
Joseph spent more time during this recording calling out dumb responses to the thread than actually reading the thread LMFAO
@EpicNinjaShiro2 ай бұрын
It's funny how every time I run a thunder monster in a deck, the game pairs me against decks with Colossus.
@kroffen72 ай бұрын
Not a meta deck, but handed my brother a Flame Swordsman deck, it's essentially invoked but with nostalgia bait. And book of moon + The traps teach him about targeting/non-targeting.
@VixYW2 ай бұрын
Swordsoul is such a fun easy deck. And it even presents you a a curve to increase your skills with the Tenyis.
@Takato2 ай бұрын
Surprised True Draco didn't show up. In grindier games you need some decent knowledge for decision-making of what resources you are going to spend, but 95% of the games are like "draw a bunch, summon a draco, set three floodgates, pass" and that's it. And I've won quite a few sets by playing like that, both online and in locals.
@CrimsoniteSP2 ай бұрын
Surprised to not see stun. Ah yes, normal summon barrier statue, win.
@gato637327 күн бұрын
Honestly imma use this as a point of reference to what might be good decks to get my friend playing
@PiantaBroker2 ай бұрын
High skill floor? Isn't it low ceiling based on the topic? Maybe I'm missing something
@Val825.2 ай бұрын
When Tachyon came out in Duel Links it was the living example of this
@ChampionMarx2 ай бұрын
I have a confession to make. I was one of the people who played Umi control. I even used it at locals. In my defense I was just returning to the game after taking a break for all of covid and wanted a simple but strong deck
@STEPHxCA2 ай бұрын
The thing that holds me back from splashing Horus in everything is brick potential and resources. I guess I should probably adjust my ratios tho
@AndrewCrimefighter2 ай бұрын
coming from fighting games I've always found it really funny that yugioh players will usually try to talk up how hard their favorite deck is and get annoyed if you imply the deck is easy cause fighting game players will much more readily brag about how brainless their character is.
@Caleb-zl4wk2 ай бұрын
What fighting games are you playing? I play Jamie, Enkidu, and Kouma, in their respective series. Like hell I’d brag about an easy character. (Oh wait I also play Susano’o, Dragunov, and Ultimate Fox…)
@Lord_Phoenix952 ай бұрын
You can't say "You can stick Gold Sarc/Horus in everything" I will attempt to do it in Raidraptors.
@valritz14892 ай бұрын
I love the deck, but Live Twin belongs here. A kinda threadbare card advantage engine with about as much horsepower as a go-kart propped up by having one (1) piece of non-targeting non-destruction removal.
@sandstorm77902 ай бұрын
I'm surprised nobody mentioned goblin biker. That deck is just turbo out some level 3's and vibe.
@TheBluntsmith692 ай бұрын
I already know from the thumbnail that this one is about to be a BANGER
@golemqueen19882 ай бұрын
As much as i love the deck, and as bad as it is now, i must admit guru control was a pretty much idiot proof deck. The only skillcheck is when to use your negate pretty much and like 1 or 2 interactions with guru/final battle.
@mageius2 ай бұрын
As a Synchron player, I'd say it's both very simple and easy to play, yet stupidity complicated if you want to play it well.
@Honest_Mids_Masher2 ай бұрын
Soo many different variants and builds with soo many different combos I love it.