NO MONSTERS! All SPELL vs TRAP Yu-Gi-Oh Duel!

A Yu-Gi-Oh deck is normally made up of some combination of Monsters, Spells, and Traps. Monsters are typically the star of the show and are backed up by Spells and Traps. But we were wondering if you can make a deck of ONLY Spells or Trap cards. And would a deck like that even work? So we dug through all our Spell and Trap cards and crafted decks of the best ones we could find! One deck is all Traps and the other is all Spells. Which deck will reign supreme? Let's find out!
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[@TeamAPS]

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[@vileluca]

Alec using Ekibyo Drakmord on Paul was such sweet irony

[@dragonlord45461]

during the second duel the turn before you ended it you had game if you had summoned the paleozoic olenoides that was used to destroy the stung ray

[@garcardosotan6172]

No chain energy or toll? What a terrible spell deck.

[@777CrimsonChaos]

“I’m not under your Spell yet, but you’ve fallen into my Trap!” Love it, that was definitely an interesting match indeed

[@MrGeorgeFlorcus]

Alec is the adventuring party exploring a dungeon, and Paul's trap deck is the dungeon

[@Mangakamen]

Here's a fun idea - How about building main decks made up of only extra deck monsters (save for links) and have them playable like regular monster cards? With the levels/ranks under the normal summoning conditions?

[@TeamAPS]

Hmm!

[@Daxxon10101]

That'd be busted due to things like instant win cards now being much easier to access

[@jakk2631]

Hi kaman fancy seeing you here

[@jakk2631]

​@@Daxxon10101 naw xyz requires martial for effects only problem would be fusion and low level syncors

[@Daxxon10101]

@@jakk2631 Effects that discard the materials for an instant win wouldn't need material to summon out

[@MournfulDust]

Special kudos to Alec, that's a cool way to run a pure spell deck, ofc the trap deck is good too but playing trap monsters seems a lot more commonly known than running a spell deck that actually can bring some battle power to the board as well.

[@vileluca]

I think he just needed more stall pieces like Swords of Revealing Light, and maybe some burn. A single Ookazi would have finished Paul in game 2.

[@zhubwat]

@@vileluca lol, fr. I was waiting for him to play Sparks or Hinotama

[@Hurricane1990]

I figured the spell deck would be a Jank burn deck. This was surprising

[@madhatten00]

​@@Hurricane1990 didn't even need to be jank. Wave motion cannon decks used to be a meta of sorts for a while.

[@alecfields1153]

We did our best building these all trap and spell decks! What cards should we add for next time??

[@MochiiMochaPop]

Final Countdown

[@SHOGUNTE]

Magic Cylinder, Poison Of The Old Man, Mirror Force... Some classics that can HURT in a style like this. Heck, an Ookazi in that second duel could've clutched it easier than a token.

[@ferdinandpurczeld234]

Wave Motion Cannon

[@Billy_Wyatt]

Burning spell cards.

[@SHOGUNTE]

@@Billy_Wyatt with that, add Barrel Behind The Door? Lol

[@Si1verArchAngel]

Duel Challenge! Each duelist draws 2 random letters out of a scrabble bag and can only use cards whose name that start with one of those two letters in their main/extra deck.

[@BretGammons]

I'd love to see a version of this Duel where Main Deck Monsters are still prohibited but Extra Deck Monsters are legal. Imagine Paul using the Paleozoics to their full potential or "Link Spider" turning Alec's tokens into Link material. It could open up plays in an interesting way.

[@SargeWolf010]

Odion's Traps Deck is my personal favorite traps only deck [never seen a spells only deck tho]... this should be interesting 🤔

[@SargeWolf010]

To bad De-spell is a Magic/ sry Spell Card 😅

[@MsMiDC]

Normally Mine Burn was played with just 1 monster, Silent Wobby in deck, most burn strats dont run any monsters, and when they do they never hit the field anyway. You can get a lot with just spells though. Tokens, burn damage, stuff like that.

[@GameJade]

It would be interesting to do a challenge where your hands are always revealed along with the top card of your next draw. All traps, spells and monsters are played face up but can still be activated as normal. Could call it the Millennium eye challenge or something :)

[@pol610]

An automatic Heart of the Underdog kind of

[@MsMiDC]

4:43 this activation of Danger Zones effect is illegal. Azurune summons herself as an Effect monster.

[@GodStarLuna]

Yo someone noticed.

[@BLonsdale912]

I love all these special duels! I think it'd be interesting though to see a Teams APS tournament with everyone using their best decks.

[@Billy_Wyatt]

What a fun duel! Trap monsters carried the duel in favor of Paul and I think Alec should've used the burning strat with spells but he did pretty well nonetheless.

[@tmm_3003]

I love your enthusiasm 👌👌

[@LARZMARZ94]

This was fun and entertaining to watch! Imagine alec winning with Hinotama or Final Flame towards the end

[@CanadianCrits]

What an anime style comeback! Great show as always guys!

[@zarthus2623]

I love the specific requirements you guys make for the vs challenges. I was always curious which would be better in a Spell vs Trap duel. Thanks for the content!

[@franchottwoodjr6181]

I have been watching your videos since the very beginning and love them all.

[@christofferthorsson607]

are we about to see Odion 2.0?

[@xakannax]

@4:43 fwiw didn't matter with the imperial custom but you couldn't have activated danger zone there, the trap he summoned was an effect monster this was a surprisingly interesting matchup! cool video

[@DarkSymphony777]

I mean it's easy to assume that they think they are still normal monsters

[@synryx6061]

Also the misplays of setting trap cards with trap monsters that's still considered a trap. The zone would've been locked and couldn't be used. Unless they are playing MR5...

[@MedatonOrtano]

Here's a fun weird one: you can only play monsters that are boosted by the active field spells. Players can start with a basic gen-1 field spell in play

[@VixYW]

That was certainly one of the duels of all time. I just imagine playing Uria in that trap deck. Oh boy.

[@franchottwoodjr6181]

I love all of your duel challenges.

[@jonoesquirryl]

I’m not surprised traps won, but I am really surprised and impressed by the fight that Alec managed to put up with the Spells! Nice one, guys!

[@shivur5073]

This is awesome

[@samwilkins4569]

Very entertaining! I remember I used to run an all spells deck with the jam machine card, wetlands, united we stand, and a buncha other supporting spells! Keep 'em coming!

[@imafireIsFroent]

At 4:43 Danger Zone should not be allowed to activate because that Trap Monster said it is an Effect Monster, as explained when it is destoryed by battle it destroys what beat it in battle.

[@atoFPC]

This is not a special thematic duel but ever since the new support on master duel came out that I would love to see a duel between the Sharks and the Ghoti decks, XYZ fish vs Synchro fish, either irl or on MD

[@xTGE]

As someone who mains a deck built on literally just magic and trap cards and wins 80% of their games with the deck, this video makes me so giddy.

[@Hyodazo]

@14:21 That had to be weirdly therapeutic for Alec after getting hit with that card for basically the entirety of Rare Hunters.

[@AkioKasai122591]

The double solemn judgement had me absolutely rolling. Good stuff guys.

[@MiserusMusic]

i loved the battle, i loved the thumbnail and i loved Alec's goatee keep it up guys!!!

[@jamichealgates]

18:05All of the things this year from yugioh and I definitely wasn't expecting that

[@mememcqueen5052]

Can I just say, I absolutely love how yall say things like "your move duelist" and act very high energy when activating cards. Really reminds me of low stakes childhood games that acted as stepping stones to my adulthood at ots tournaments

[@scarlightemperor3410]

Wait a minute... THIS ISNT SKY STRIKERS VS TRAPTRIX!

[@xyelsha5363]

Possibly an upgrade of this challenge is just Uria trap monsters Vs Hamon crystal beasts (always a fun time)

[@robjenkins494]

Okay, I haven't played yu-gi-oh since middle school and this was STILL amazing to watch

[@pol610]

A couple of ideas. 1. A time trial duel, like having Final Countdown automatically at the beginning of the duel. First to defeat their opponent within ie: 20 turns. Draw if the turn limit is reached. 2. A Life Points goal, ie: first to 20k LP, not accumulated but just the actual LP going to or beyond the set goal. You can burn your opponent to halt their LP down. Monsters effects or battle damage still applies. 3. Each deck of their own. Both will build a deck but the other will use the deck built by their opponent. On the spot strategizing. Every draw is likely unknown to you. Alot of these could still be revised. Its just at the top of my head atm.

[@ReifinDFanchon]

I was thinking, "hmmm, maybe Malevolent Catastrophe would help." Only to snapped back to reality as it destroys all S/T on the field.

[@Lucarivyle]

Now that was really was fun to watch, lots of fun old cards!

[@Kazantha]

Very interesting decks. I haven't played Yu-gi-oh in a long time, but seeing this... I'm thinking about getting back into collecting them again

[@inkarozu2309]

Before seeing anything I was 100% expecting Metal Reflect Slime into Egyptian God Slime, GG.

[@sephirothbahamut245]

Spells have better strengths than token monsters. Wave Motion Cannon and Cauldron of the Old Man, with magic reflector to make them survive longer; clock tower prison to make you unkillable by direct attacks, I have a "mostly spells" deck that does pretty well against old school stuff (my friends didn't really update past synchro and we play quite casual). The few monsters I have are just for "alternative" removal like lava golem and ra sphere mode, or survival like scapeghost.

[@Ilias24.]

This such Unique idea love to watch more haha

[@aetherwise2159]

That was a great duel! This is the first time I’ve seen your channel, but you two play excellently. There were so many counters and “but wait” moments that it was like watching a duel on the show. Nicely done

[@hmoobdaj]

Mirror deck challenge! Both players builds the same deck, or deck type with or without the other player knowing. Then go blow for blow.

[@VictorHernandez-nj2lo]

I like that Uria was mentioned at 7:53, I use 2 copies of it on my goblin deck (irl & master duel). Btw, my fave combo in that deck is the trap final attack orders w/the various goblin attack force cards 👍

[@EdwardSanchezProductions]

I love this channel so much

[@codyfranczak4493]

Was fun to watch love when you guys do duels like this.

[@wickederebus]

Imperial Order in the Trap only deck to insta kill Spells. Also Anti-Spell Fragrance. And a bunch of Trap Monsters to facilitate damage

[@MidoKageTTV]

@1:29 That whole talk was something else.

[@jjay2771]

Glad it came up during the duel that some of the trap monsters are effect and some are normal; that had me pretty confused cause I knew a few were effect monsters when summoned lol

[@Faltron533]

I didn't understand most of this, but I love the banter!

[@HunterDaggers]

The "I'm Really Confused Over Here" Challenge: You can only use cards that belong to an archetype, no generics, and you can only use 3 cards maximum from each respective archetype. Just a huge mishmash of random archetypes that somehow work, or dont, together.

[@ZhuLeeDTT]

"Are you running remove trap?" Well to be fair if I was Alec 90% of my deck would have just been multiple backrow removals.

[@FakeHeroFang]

Trap monster decks are such a neat control strategy. If you aren't a complete purist, you can toolbox the extra deck with a bunch of xyz and link monsters, as well. Spells put up a good effort, but trap monsters reign supreme. 😎

[@watsonwrote]

It's really not over until it's over, huh? That was fun to watch even for someone still new to the game

[@ramzikawa734]

Wow, speaking as someone whose main experience with yu gi oh was the DS games, the depth of the game is crazy. And the fact that spell and trap cards can just combo off for free feels insane, “oh yeah, I just dump my entire hand for free in my first turn, your move”

[@davidsosa6056]

You guys should try doing a tournament style on master duel either against each other or have others duel each other with a member of Team APS as the final battle

[@apakatsuki1406]

The only question I have is when Alec equipped ekiboyo drakmoid 2 Paws trap card monster as he had a fullback role was that possible because doesn't it get equipped into Paul's back row zone?

[@vileluca]

18:14 Paul's heel turn.....

[@vincentlai12]

I saw a misplay right at the start. When alec was explaining fateful adventure, he said the wrong effect. It only protects minsters equipped with a card once per turn by battle.

[@imbadatygo73]

Paul in the last game had game earlier because of the paleo in gy. Also could have played evenly, tokens can't be banished. But still a very good video. Thanks 😊

[@BigCheechin]

I love watching the joy in your faces when you play

[@nathanchristman6660]

As someone who has ran trap heavy decks and spell heavy decks i'm not surprised traps won.

[@gundamkaizer6947]

I was half surprised by lack of Tremendous Fire or Ookazi. Or Magic Cylinder/Mirror Force variants

[@anthonymurray545]

I didn’t read other comments but Alec would’ve lost because Moon Mirror Shield’s effect to pay life points and return the top or bottom of the deck is mandatory!

[@JoeyWinsSometimes]

great video! love you guys!

[@TheKidblazer1]

i was thinking paul going second his first turn goes to battle phase and at the end evenly matched

[@DJgamer-sq5fq]

So statue is actually really funny to use because you can summon 4 cards at least to destroy that many things during your opponents turn with protection with tikis it’s funny how well it works

[@larhyperhair]

Obviously it would be against the spirit of the duel, but packing in Anti spell fragrance would have been really funny

[@DarknoorX]

4:41 How every duelist at an advantage boasts that advantage.

[@RhythmOfWaterTV]

Fake Trap, on the activation of remove Trap, is top tier game play!

[@masongrae5010]

I wanna see a house tournament with your guy’s favorite personal decks just once cause why not

[@wastelanderghoul]

I would love to see y'all do a singleton / highlander format duel for a video. It was my favorite master duel event besides the common/uncommon one.

[@EpsilonThirteen]

1:07 Paul's unenthused face is priceless.

[@justuspariah]

It seems Paul learned from when he did the all trap duel with Cimoooooooo a while back.

[@Percedal036]

That was cool. But ps, 1. Usually in games, monsters that are still traps still use a trap zone AND a monster zone and 2. At the end when anguish destroyed the token, that was a chain so the token would've been destroyed before the spell, thus it would've survived. Still enjoyed the duel. Built a spell token deck once too

[@akmalfakhruddin7285]

That was changed few years ago.

[@outsider8209]

There was such a small hope he was gonna play sparks, it would've been such a funny card to just lay down

[@SwortsHowenger]

Me personally I would have gone with Imperial Order and Solemn Wishes, upkeep could be steep but literally negating the opponents entire deck from functioning sounds effective, anti-spell fragrance would also be effective. Cemetery Bomb can hit pretty hard if the game drags on. Anything more interesting than a game with no monsters where they just... use monsters anyway.

[@digitaladventurer2142]

I'd say in the modern game spells have the edge over traps. the whole having to wait a turn to use them really hurts

[@sonamancer]

Somehow the least degenerate duel is when you use only kne card type. Honestly this had some of the most card interaction I’ve seen in a while as opposed to either list of omninegates or megacombozone

[@hat_sauce3846]

I wonder if there is any way you can play synchros with a deck with only spell or traps. Maybe it would be cool to see this challenge again but you are also allowed to play extra deck monsters of a certain type. Anyways great video and creative video idea. Love to see this type of interesting challenge. It really allows unusual strategies to see the spotlight.

[@spyro2002]

There are 2 trap monster tuners

[@FakeHeroFang]

You could definitely do it with spells. There are spells that just let you treat a monster as a tuner, I guess you could play those with a bunch of token generators. It's really bad, but it's doable.

[@hat_sauce3846]

@@FakeHeroFang Hmm interesting. Thanks for the insight.

[@billywood895]

Imagine if Alec pulled a Kaiba, screwed the rules, and brought out jinzo 🤣

[@Shamazya]

This would've worked well as the premise to a GX episode. Maybe have some kind of 'creative dueling' class and this as an exhibition?

[@akifanman7040]

Imperial Order would break a face here.

[@k-dawgHI]

I’ll be real… when I read the thumbnail I expected this to be pretty boring and long due to the nature of trap cards. Then I saw the damn Adventure engine and the trap monsters (especially the Paleos) and I suddenly got extremely interested. Actually very fun themed decks that can both put up a fight against each other.

[@BelleVEX]

Fun! I think horizontal camera frames might work better. There's a lot of ... out of framing.. going on.

[@TheKaosKilla16]

Not gonna lie, i wouldve died of laughter if Alec heavy stormed Paul on turn 2

[@SakuraAvalon]

"Aren't all dragons ridable?" I would advise against trying to ride Solar Flare Dragon.

[@MatthewHWise]

I think Alec could of won if he had the spell card Night Beam as it would target trap cards and cannot be negated. It could possibly turned the tide in his favour.

[@ericbreese3071]

I’m also glad to see that the trap deck didn’t run Evenly Matched

[@ericbreese3071]

I’m glad to see you didn’t go full burn with each other

[@dragonknight1560]

I had no doubt Trap would win: Monster Traps are annoying and OP under the right game. Plus Secret Barrel would have been good to use for burn but then again, Spells would win more times than Traps if Burn cards were used. Great duels!

[@CompressionPolice]

I really appreciate that it didn't just come down to burn decks.

[@colby.elliott]

This was such a fun duel to watch. I think we need a second duel though, maybe with the decks tweaked

[@mothman_slayer4217]

Love the video keep up the amazing content this was an fun watch 😂

[@virginiavallek1654]

Imagine a deck with 0 monsters. Just all burn spell & trap, counters, banishing and re directe

[@notcool8737]

hahahahahah somthing abaut paul cussing is so funny

[@GrievousFrom]

Paul and Alec at it again! XD