Zefra Endymion Deck Profile - 1st Place Locals - Unplug Your Opponent's Controller Combo

[@MSTTV]

I played this at locals today ended 1st. #Win divine strike wins games.

[@MrShorttj]

I think you can definitely cut the hand traps and just play it like Thunder, if you go first set up the omni negate board, and if you go second you just make borrelsword for game.

[@mintychan4883]

Het Tom, can I use "My Body as a shield" against Levianeer or Rage since they don't specify?

[@MSTTV]

@@mintychan4883 I need to check

[@mintychan4883]

@@MSTTV Well I'm really curious because it would be dope side deck.

[@mintychan4883]

Any info on my question?

[@immunok948]

I subscribed. I had never seen you before two weeks ago, saw your tournament rules update video and youtube has been feeding me with your videos since then. And I have to say this is some really good content. Serious work. Keep up, man, I'm on the boat you're the captain of, now.

[@zefrasol446]

I'm gonna start calling destrudo "the strudel"

[@Kykuzon]

"I gotta stop putting those in the graveyard" immediately puts one back into the graveyard

[@pilgrim43]

deck looks sick am going to test it out asap!

[@tacetjackalmighty]

Just got top 16 at Charlotte with something similar. Deck's hype.

[@dthesecond]

Hi Tom, love the decklist! I'm an old Zefra player (my first top was with Zefra back in April of 2018 and I've been playing the deck casually since zefraath came out) so obviously I was super happy when Endymion came out and some realized just how good the combo was. I would love to theorycraft this deck with you sometime! I've got some unique techs of my own and I'd love to introduce you to them!

[@joepiazza3756]

What some people may not notice is that he had to normal summon Servant because it can only be special summoned once per turn.

[@astrograph7875]

Which version of Endymion do you think is the best rn?

[@tengtx]

none. both suck.

[@LittleDethGaming]

@@tengtx get a loada this guy

[@yugiohlegend]

tengtx What do you mean ‘both’ suck? What the fuck are ‘both’? There are more than 2 versions you shithead

[@zefrasol446]

I think the zefra variant is the best. Spitting out 5 negates easy along with the hieratic seal getting you to special summon amorphage goliath or sloth on your opponents turn. Pure endymion is okay but it bricks more for me

[@itzmeee73]

What I've been waiting for!

[@SavageSaitou]

There is NO MAX on Jackal King. Keep climbing bro!

[@galaxy-eyesknight4056]

So would you do the tempest magician ftk version of Endymion?

[@IrooYGO]

14:40 You could Pendulum summon with Gate Zero in Skale, then pop Gate Zero to add Servent and normal summon Servent cause you havent used your normal summon til this piont. Just in case none of your random Cards in Hand are Monsters.

[@andoresue]

"Borrelstab Dragon" and "Borrow and Loan Dragon" 😂

[@w33zythedreadedeagle]

LMAO

[@SWBF24ever]

Also TomBox we've talked about the pronouncation of German cards 👀

[@erikhernandez3608]

"unplug yo controller dawg. Forfeit my nigga. HE FORFEITS"

[@devote5750]

Details for the locals bro; -Matchups -Event Difficulty ETC

[@jamescraig7621]

Good to know you’ve came up with almost exactky the same deck list as me, have you considered looking into pendulum halt from DANE

[@skippernolen5644]

It's really just a win more card, nothing worth playing.

[@skippernolen5644]

Also, worse Pot of Desires since you have to use it at the end of the turn while desires can be used anytime, and even that isn't too good in this deck.

[@lightning0938]

just watched some endymions on the pro play game tour. Not a lot of reps and most were using the pend magician variant.

[@skippernolen5644]

* Meta Sheep Nostalgia Variant

[@ivantorres796]

“Unplug your opponents controller” 😂😂😂 great video.

[@kishima08]

The strudel 😂😂😂 dead

[@ND-tp7st]

How does this deck perform going second? Against strikers or Salamangreat

[@MrHaloartist]

Zizou Grastaf I played at locals yesterday and worked nice with negating salamengreat cards

[@colinmartin3468]

It’s a combo deck as ever (like litrally needs 3 spells and a servant to resolve) going is hard vs negates but because there is soo many turbo cards in the deck you can bait out the negates and just borrlesword for game

[@colinmartin3468]

Been testing this build for a while and I must say .. having magister is really nice as a scale 8 would replace for the chronograph

[@justjosh0696]

I run 2 magister and 3 abductor to extend my plays and abductor is nice to see as long as I open enough spells

[@consolas2514]

I do question why you opted against Yazi into Mare Mare. It's a combo that helps you into borrelsword/general L4. It's something I prefer in my personal build but if possible could you explain why you opted against it because I'd like to hear your personal reasoning.

[@snipsnapification]

I would assume it's because it's only good on the draw, takes up three valuable extra deck slots, and doesn't achieve an otk any easier than this deck already does

[@consolas2514]

@@snipsnapification That is so but there are monsters that could definitely be cut (borreload isn't necessary, savage is situational and I'm sure there are other work arounds). Yes it does add a garnet but it's a going second option with the security Dragon bounce and Yazi pop. I suppose it could be a side deck option for a going second matchup since the deck is primarily first with some (minimal) going second potential. It's just a personal thing I like to break boards when you can't make one going first

[@MrKenkennek]

He runs alot of bricks in the first place. Gate O and the zefra trap along with handtraps. The more bricks you load your deck with the more your hands become unplayable with.

[@consolas2514]

@@MrKenkennek You're 100% right on that however 1 garnet for an entire going second strategy has value in my opinion. If you're more concerned with the bricking, put it in the side for if you do end up second. Yes, it does take up side deck space which is needed for anti-spell removal but (as a draco player) when you've got nothing for going second it can feel like it's impossible to break through a board and this tech is very good at picking apart the board and dwindling the opponents resources while still making your own advantage. You do run that extra brick chance but when you can yazi pop and security Dragon bounce and make a borrelsword, you're going to break through their board if you've baited the negations. At the end of the day it's how you prefer to play but that's just my reason i like to run yazi mare mare

[@johndoe-uu2zq]

Zefra Wendi is also a psychic for summon sorc plays. I'd cut saryuja or absolute for summon sorc. Helps extend plays a tooon when drolled. Also metaphys Horus is nuuuuuttttsssss. It helps stack shit with oracle and draw it when u overlay into bounzer

[@SniperDoogie]

Banned

[@langui888]

Y is only one of the pendulums in the extra and once in grave?

[@AgentOfPowerSun]

Hey Tombox, what do you think of the Spellbook variant? Also, do you think Judgment at one would make the variant broken?

[@lightning0938]

Endymion jowgen makes me shudder so yes it would be broken. Having negates and locking summons with beefy bois on board, yeah no thanks and I played judgement when it was legal and felt bad every single time for how broken it is

[@victorcamba7249]

Thanks, I've won today a local tournament with this recipe...!

[@CosmicDogoran]

Amorphage Endymion version next? I saw that version on stream, using goliath on board and Lechery on scale to lock out spells til your next standby

[@jesseberry4766]

What sleeves are those? They look nice and slick. Also, cool profile my dude.

[@Dreycoh]

@MST.TV have you ever heard or seen of anyone playing the gellenduo ftk with the Endymion support?

[@skippernolen5644]

Probably not, it sucks.

[@Dreycoh]

@@skippernolen5644 how, you can splash it in easily and it's a consistent ftk?????

[@skippernolen5644]

@@Dreycoh Dies to every hand trap in the game unless you play the Orcust engine, which also dies if your opponent draws more than one. You probability don't open with more than one Called by the Grave, assuming that you even play any copies at all. Also, if you do, you probably bricked.

[@drifthgz192]

Doesn’t elpy lock you from even summoning dawn dragster? Cause u can only summon dragon? If I’m wrong lmk cause I’m so confused!

[@itsthemightyd2339]

you link away the guardragons into hieratic seal before you summon dragster

[@vunguyenducthai7572]

Oh nice, that SKTT1 reference

[@kylliangovindin9163]

14:07 Activate pendulum Halt -> Draw two ... Damn pendulum will be very efficient after DANE ...

[@Jonnyboy477]

How is Jackal getting a spell counter off of Servant's effect to SS herself from scale? @ 13:31 I wouldn't think Jackal would get a counter. Someone explain this lol

[@lightning0938]

When servant SS she and the monster summoned get a counter

[@freman007]

Sloth being able to be pendulumed is good, but I've found 2250 is easier to punch over.

[@FirstLast-ns2ce]

I still personally prefer the Zefra board of Vortex, Goliath, Elpy, Electrumite, Ib, and Divine Strike. 2 negate anything's, Goliath as a big body, with Ib protecting it and Vortex while not being able to be destroyed or targeted itself

[@Titusjunge252]

Carlos Alves nice Decklist bro?:)

[@edule1]

Yo this is sick

[@burgersaurus4573]

I noticed recently that I’ve been having a Thunder Dragon engine of 3 Dark and 1 Hawk to summon Colossus in basically every deck I’ve built. Should I?

[@geekorino]

If you wanna run TDs, just play 3 OG Thunder Dragon... If you open it, pitch it to search 2 more and pend summon both of them, use one for Destrudo/Dawn Dragster and and use the 3rd for a Colossus

[@burgersaurus4573]

Jake O'Malley Genius! How have I never thought of that? Thanks btw :)

[@SWBF24ever]

SKTT1 Gate Zero If I ever play for SKT I'll have this name lmao

[@nardoleito]

Base combo: you send zefraxi, not a 7 scale zefra and call zefraath "scale 7" with Zefraxi sended. Waht a big warning. But i got it. Ty for the deck profile.

[@adamsherwani3971]

Spellbook Endymion next?

[@vparsa87]

Tombox, do you think Endymion works with spellbooks? If so, will you make a deck profile.

[@riccardodeltorre2493]

How do you make the Borrelload Savage?

[@MSTTV]

Destrudo. Target level 3, and sync with a level 4.

[@riccardodeltorre2493]

@@MSTTV Oh there it is, I see. You may be right about cutting it by the way, it is not a play that you can make very often. Thank you anyway 😊

[@Uchiha_Sasuke209]

nice one i hope u dont forget to relax sometimes

[@SixSamuraiUnited]

Could you play Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss so you don't have to burn the Vortex?

[@MSTTV]

It's an option

[@Louis-cm9tu]

Did you miss master cerberus at all?

[@MSTTV]

I did. Not gonna lie wish I didn't play Ash sometimes.

[@andreking5239]

Can u do a Endymion Tempest deck too?

[@apocalyps586]

Actually you misplayed in the first combo. Instead of recurring servant by popping zero you should have recurred jackal by popping oracle. That way you can get 2 jackal on board and the rest stays the same. Also you are perfectly allowed to pendulum under electrum. Just link it away with the electrum to make triple burst

[@blakekillganon846]

how did you summon destrudo in combo 2?

[@anotherbeaconhair]

With Elpy's effect

[@S3rv3nT4p]

Which deck is better for Competitive play?

[@skippernolen5644]

Zefdymion.

[@S3rv3nT4p]

@@skippernolen5644 is that like the consensus now?

[@skippernolen5644]

@@S3rv3nT4p Lol, idk really.

[@thatwackycardgame5655]

Better off adding in a magician engine aswell and overclocking the 40 card deck. You can make stronger boards and can shrug through multiple negates. Only problem the deck honestly is hurt from is Droll, but what deck isnt

[@kidcudilova1]

Zombies isn't

[@skippernolen5644]

Dude, literally anything that can run Orcusts.

[@septo3466]

A bunch of misinformations here. You can't pop the hieratic Seal during your turn. Also there's no need to make a dawn dragster instead of a cyberse quantum dragon, which helps protect your board. Also, sometimes (like in your test hand, when you have enough negations to protect your amorphage), is better to summon Goliath off elpy, to completely shut down your opponent. Also, aether is a very nice hieratic spheres target, since it provides double disruption out of One single card effect. And please, fill the zone under electrumite with a monster. Every Monster is good. You're going to link It away for making your triple burst anyway. Always pendulum summon as many monsters as you can. Oh, and for god sake, put in more dragon Shine. You need to see destrudo as soon as possible, otherwise the whole extra deck is almost useless.

[@bendlance]

From now on it's Time Garnet Magician B-)

[@NecrovoidTV]

lol this deck is all over the place XD

[@MSTTV]

It's great!

[@just4credits]

Im not a fan of the first combo you showed, there is so much potential in this 3card combo, for example 5Negates + (any Handtrap, Exterio, thunder king rai-oh, restricting special summons)

[@CReaToRxPR]

How?

[@apocalyps586]

yeah he could have ended with a second jackal next to what he already had

[@just4credits]

@@CReaToRxPR my Zefra decks plays 60 cards with D/D and Pk engine

[@nikolaydimitrov2915]

How much does it cost 😄

[@patd4ddy500]

Why isn’t he using Mythical beast master Cerberus

[@ND-tp7st]

Pat D4ddy I have the same question

[@TheFinalSummonFFX]

Servant of Endymion can summon jackal from the deck

[@lightning0938]

@@TheFinalSummonFFX servant can also summon Cerberus. And jackal can summon Cerberus from the extra. That remove 4 to banish effect has saved me several times

[@mr.pyukumuku4692]

Is it wrong that I want to call this deck Zeframdymion? Also first...

[@hsinhaowang]

I've been calling it Zefrandymion since the deck concept dropped.

[@Odysseus25]

Im testing.. and im getting bricked.. Hand: Called by the grave Ash Blossom Mythical beast King Jackal Ritual Beast Tamer Zefrawendi Zefraxi, Treasure of the Yang Zing

[@DCComicsAndSomeOtherThings]

How many times have you drawn bricked hands

[@Odysseus25]

4 times i tried lol :( maybe im just utterly unlucky.

[@takotaleonard7930]

Cut your hand traps, throw out your low scale zefras, toss in some more consistency cards. This is the deck I play and I've topped with my list. You really want a lot of consistency spells

[@Tristanzabinski]

Why would you prefer sloth? It’s the same card

[@just4credits]

Tristan Zabinski if it‘s in your hand you can Pendulum Summon it

[@johndoe-uu2zq]

I'm not usually a rarity whore(in fact usually downgrade when reprints come out) but man ya gotta get some secret darkwurms they look sooooo nice

[@travisspicer4395]

can i just get the cards actual name plz

[@MSTTV]

Go-to yugipedia. Full list available

[@Nevesdeath]

"What're you gonna do about it?" Lol

[@Smeik2901]

This is the reason why i ususally don't like pendulum decks. They are all just a mix of the best pendulum cards we have and most of the time end up on pretty much the same board with a few deviations for each version. At this point it's like there aren't pendulum archetypes, but pendulum itself is the archetype. Thats why i like Endymion so much. It has it's own personality and doesn't need all of this other pendulum stuff, that pretty much every pendulum deck ever plays. Even Electrumite is more like a bonus you can go into rather than a must resolve effect. Even though you pretty much have to play Mythical Beasts in every build, with their gimmick also being spellcounters, it feels more like a second half of the Endymion archetype rather than just another generic pendulum uargh. This profile makes me sad... I don't say this to offend anyone, but because it basically confirms what i just said about pendulums. Though this mostly only counts for competitive Pendulum decks.

[@andrewalvarez4975]

Dont worry the zefra variant is not better than the pure build with endymion and mythical beast... this deck bricks hard... especially this build which I have been trying out all day compared to others with more pure builds that can get you the same amount of negates

[@skippernolen5644]

Pure Magicians are actually quite different from pure Zefra. : I

[@Smeik2901]

@@skippernolen5644 I'm talking about competitive pendulum decks. Pure Zefra can hardly be considered competitive so i'm not counting that.

[@skippernolen5644]

@@Smeik2901 Not competitive? You mean a deck that can make the same number of negates as Magicians is not competitive? Sir, I dare say that is a huge exaggeration.

[@Smeik2901]

@@skippernolen5644 What can pure Zefras do except building Electrumite, extradeck monster X and setting divine strike?

[@sebastianlaluz5378]

1st

[@josemendoza2152]

Trashhhh