Ranking all 300+ Yugioh Decks Because Someone Had To | Part 1 - The Bad

[@Fa1thIn0thers]

Amazing as always amd you are nuts for even attempting this lol

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

Someone had to do it. Why not me?

[@Fa1thIn0thers]

@@MonkeyFightTCG I guess so looking forward to the other parts

[@gamersrus1551]

“15 years of hero support can’t fix this shit” subscribed good sir

[@jayd.doubledubs]

The concept of Dragon Rulers and Scorpions being in the same tier is so funny to think about; all because Tempest was taken off the banlist

[@Nopenguinyt]

I feel personally attacked for penguins being so low. Penguins are nuts. with only a couple cards, it can pump out multiple negates + penguin brave. The syngergy of squire, puny penguin, and Great emperor penguin is too insane to have it below a deck like ally of justice. babyrant over

[@keeganwullaert4996]

I agree i feel penguins should easily be in tier 3 and could be pushed up to tier 4

[@LazurBeemz]

Penguin Knight alone is better than anything else in Tier 1.

[@DestinedBeastx]

And could even be tier 5

[@fluffyplayery3017]

Definitely way too low, Penguins aren't meta or anything but worse than Watts, Dustons and Djinns? The fuck?

[@jaernihiltheus7817]

Yeah, pretty much the only thing penguins are missing are the other 2 penguins in penguin brave's artwork, a searcher for gardens, and another boss monster.

[@anya_screen]

At the end of this you could have a series of tournaments where people can only play the decks in each tier. I would enter the tier 1 tournament for sure, to make Marx proud

[@fireheart8878]

I second this. Essentially segmenting tournament play by the quality of the decks would allow for a lot of fun. Most rogue decks nowadays need to play cards like DPE or Scythe just to not be eradicated by the current meta, so forming a tournament like this would allow for fun and unique deck building, since they would only need to compete with other decks on their level.

[@jaehparrk]

any tier can beat any tier with the right player and right side deck

[@jaehparrk]

@@fireheart8878 lol my glad beast can easily beat "meta" decks you are over estimating the overrated decks

[@fireheart8878]

@@jaehparrk sure, with scythe or nib in the side deck, any deck can make the game unfun. And Crystal Beasts? You’re deck only works because you have the third best thing to cheat out with Verte. I mean, I play Simorgh Lyrillusc so I can’t say much.

[@jaehparrk]

@@fireheart8878 you are right that we must play some crazy amount of hand traps and floodgates or very targeted side deck cards and then have "some" luck in order to beat the meta decks

[@salem7699]

How could you forget Iron Chains? Unless of course they end up high tier for defining how NOT to design a meta relevant deck.

[@weebcraft6829]

Can you even call it an archtype when half the deck has been missing for years?

[@deleus]

Iron Chain has unironic cool plays with repairman and coil if you can get revives on repairman, you can spam level 7 synchros/link 2’s. Sadly a lot more terrible without MX saber invoked

[@BigToeJ0e]

This is, unironically, the best tier list I have ever watched in my life.

[@ButterNuss.]

Funfact: Using Eatos corresponding Equip Card causes Misstimings. Meaning you can't even use her own Equip spell on her

[@Phantazmay]

This list is actually quite good. I'm very happy someone competent attempted this huge project. Appreciate it!

[@Dylligraphy]

Super Quantal definitely feels too low, there's a regular Chalislime player called Cursed-Eyes who's seen great results with them in recent times using a build featuring Trias Hierarchia and Diviner of the Herald. It has some genuinely good cards like Red Layer (a FIRE Warrior that Special Summons itself and searches, has seen play in everything from Monarchs to Gouki to Infernobles), Magnacarrier (enabler of 1-card Xyzes in the vein of Zoodiac, but for a discard), Magnaliger (which is like a proto-Dingirsu), Grampulse (Rank 3 with an MST effect, is a Tornado Dragon if Blue Layer under it) and Great Magnus (3400 ATK unaffected Colossus with Quick Effect non-targeting spin). It's a shame Hunders haven't gotten a Link Monster or something, they were topping consistently including a YCS top circa 2013/14. I wonder what an optimized modern build would look like. Vylon Prism lets them go into Level 8 Synchros like Chaos Ruler that they could make use of, and they had a lot of room for techs that they'd use for backrow back then but nowadays could use for handtraps. Thunder King Rai-Oh and Denkko Sekka are still a threat to a lot of decks. There's a PK Xyz Djinn variant do some pretty nutty things using Humhumming and Infernity Conjurer for easy Utopic Draco Future and Requiem Dragon. You can see it on MST.TV's channel courtesy of Vanilla Spice. The Shinobird Rituals can be great boardbreakers as they spin 3 cards and tutor Amano-Iwato ignoring Summoning conditions, and since Amano was Special Summoned it stays on-board. You can use them with Impcantations and/or Drytrons. Koa'ki Meiru is such a weird archetype as so many of its monsters have been relevant alongside their respective types, but they mesh very poorly with eachother. Guardian is such an important part of Adamancipators though. Volcanics have Rokket, Shell, Scattershot, Blaze Accelerator Reload and make for a decent Trap deck. They have more synergy with DPE than Shaddoll, and are good with Paleos in general as Shell grants a free Dinomischus and Scattershot can be used for Rank 2s. Just some comments based on my experience of these archetypes, idk if they'd change anything. Kuribohs and Penguins at tier 2, and Counter Fairies, Volcanics, Spellbooks, Super Quants and GKs at tier 3 feel a little low to me as they involve floodgates and/or advantage engines that are still relevant to the current game. This is a very ambitious project so kudos.

[@shawnjavery]

Quants always felt like they were this close to being playable. White layer is an absurd card, but they don't have one card combos and their set ups are just a little bit too janky to see consistent play. I used them as an orcust engine with mermaid legal, it worked better than you'd think.

[@jamesbrincefield9879]

Destiny Board is such a neat concept. I wish they would give it some absolutely broken support. I wouldn’t mind taking a loss to it every now and then. It’s kinda hard to get mad about it unlike FTKs, Mystic Mine, etc. I think as long as that back and forth between the opponent’s deck is there it wouldn’t be considered degenerate. It doesn’t need to be overly consistent or anything either, which would keep it in check and make it seem fair, just good enough to win if you do happen to draw into it’s full combo. I went against one or two on my way to platinum and once I figured out what deck i was up against I just passed my turn a few times in a row in order to give the guy a chance. Then I started actually playing the game and they were done the very next turn because the deck doesn’t actually do anything at the end of the day. It’s kinda sad how bad it is. I hope they give it more of a buff one day.

[@payne9682]

I am just now seeing this video (after youtube recommended it to me), but my hats off to you cor making this deck. Really puts into perspective what archetypes need support/are good :)

[@TheArchfiendGuy]

Summoned Skull definitely needs more support! I'm interested in seeing where you think Archfiends sit on this list, as it's technically the overarching archetype to Summoned Skull

[@Geildus]

Literally the beginning of the best tier list ever can’t wait for part 2!

[@gb696]

Me a gravekeeper player from 2011 that just restarted playing in the last month that saw the new support, and excitedly bought it: "Why, why did you have to hurt me like this?"

[@rockstickcomics]

I wanna cry I miss my boys

[@mkrudesign4036]

This was such a good watch. Looking forward to the next one!

[@abdulmunem2162]

Infinite negates with Apex Avian + Thunderbird is worth a mention for Mist Valley though it doesn't change it's ranking. For Toon the bullet points still show the characteristics of the previous Twilightsworn.

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

Shoot. That's what happens when you try to do 71 decks in a single video. Lmao

[@markchang2964]

17:25 Yubel is now tier 1. September 2024. Crazy how much has changed. (edit): Tier 1 meaning it is now the best deck in the format since the nerf of Snake-Eyes.

[@biztek5726]

I feel like the number tiering should've been opposite, any other tier list ever would have tier 0 being the pinnacle of the best but it's the worst here

[@MetalSandshrew]

Yeah calling my Dark Scorpion deck tier 0 got me banned from the local Discord for a week.

[@ObviouslyDeven]

yeah, should've said power level or sum shit. But tier is quite like a rank and tier 1(/0) is always the best

[@noodletornado309]

It's not a feeling it's a fact. You arnt the only one.

[@Scarecrow545]

@@MetalSandshrew I spat out my drink

[@MetalSandshrew]

@@Scarecrow545 Don Zaloog was my first ever Ultra Rare. Even as a kid I never understood why they chose that to be an Ultra Rare. Then again I was running Legendary Ocean beatdown.

[@volphin2015]

Great video, AMAZING, please do part 2 and 3 as well, I'll wait for it c:

[@frankunodostres473]

I was a bit concerned if this was another one of those "ALL decks rankings" that only take into account the best 50 or so decks that were released in the last 5 years... safe to say my doubts quickly vanished when I saw you mention malicevorous in the intro :D I applaud this ambitious undertaking! also malicevorous isn't better than earthbounds^^ you can make them work with mayakashis, while admittedly the latter do most of the heavy lifting, putting an earthbound god on your board is a nice payoff.

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

I disagree. Malichevorus are a super free engine and they work with a few cool pieces of support.

[@KrookTM]

how you haven't gone crazy from creating this is crazy also thank you for reminding me of the itsu archetype, love those funny guys

[@BlakeTDavis64]

I can't even imagine the work you did for this video. Thank you for the hard work! This video is awesome!!

[@thundertheory1785]

Haha yo I take the mention as an honor! Although I do want to mention that the 'every deck' was related to every deck that is somewhat metarelevant (hence the "competitive Tierlist" title). Nevertheless, great video and something that was long overdue to be done by someone! Good job! :)

[@oceanviolets1306]

As a cloudian player I think they should be one rank higher due to just how easy it is to go into turbulence and having 3 cards for 4 special summons, 3 for 3, and 3 for 1 plus an extra monster on the board. Also theyre a lot of fun

[@jamesbrincefield9879]

😂

[@four-en-tee]

For what its worth, we're apparently getting new support for Gate Guardian in the near future (at least if mkhol40 is to be believed)

[@Geckarbor5LP]

Attack mode decks can be really badass. I once met someone at the Gamescom tournament 2019 who played with the then new support. In the end he won the tournament. I got the deck list back then, and I can honestly say that the deck always puts 1-2 Stardust Dragon/Attack Mode on the field. I also regularly upgraded the deck with new cards. All the new support cards can always search for each other, search for an "attackmode activate" to activate and set their level so that you always reach level 8 with 2 monsters. It is really strong.

[@francovictorio8324]

This is amazing, the ultimate tier list i didn't know i needed so much. Great video!!!

[@Duke2010]

Can't wait for part 2. I use to play b.e.s. back in the day and always enjoyed it. Glad too see you mentioned it

[@zoa9720]

Gate Guardian still gets beat by handtraps like Kuriboh, Battle Fader or Swift Scarecrow. It's part of the Guardian archetype too, so twice in the lowest tier. It's funny how Guardian has some strong cards, because random good cards have it in their name. Although they have only a single card, that mentions the archetype. Extra deck spirits are called Neos lol.

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

You're technically right about those handtraps but you know what I meant. I'd definitely consider gate guardian and guardians different strategies and therefore different decks.

[@zoa9720]

@@MonkeyFightTCG Yeah, none of those were criticisms. They just did some weird stuff with Guardians since they forgot or don't care about the single connecting card.

[@DeceitfulRain]

Part 1 - The Bad (aka the decks they made us play in the first few years of duel links). A+++ content good sir

[@SnailSnail-lo4pm]

13:26 reptiliane + venom is actually pretty solid except for it's slow start. Snake rain and vennominion pretty much carry the deck since you'll have a hard time bringing out venomminaga (unless you use 2 specific trap cards at the same time and not get negated)

[@GarlyleWilds]

I was worried how much would be missed. Then you started on a goddamn _Gate Guardian_ deck and now I am here for this list.

[@vv2955]

I personally think you ranked Gravekeepers too low. It's a solid stun deck in certain formats and definitely more viable than the other decks you mentioned. It has good searchers and Necrovalley + Hidden Temples / Royal Tribute is a pretty strong turn 1 play.

[@agreactor2585]

Thanks for making this series because I love trying new stuff and this will probably resurface some older gems

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

That's been my favorite part about doing research for the more obscure casual decks in yuigoh. I've found some truly fun decks to play. Downside is it takes a lot longer to research than I'd planed. But I should make up for it by showing off some cool stuff.

[@SirLordHatCawk]

When I played Legacy of the Duelist years ago I absolutely loved playing a venom swamp deck against the countless amounts of Blue Eyes & Kozmo decks I'd run into. Run phantom knights traps with moon mirror shield on the snakes along with floodgates like vanity's emptiness or lose one turn and hoo boy. It was such a strange setup but when it worked it was absolutely hilarious. I named it "Shrek's Swamp". But yeah. Venoms need EVERYTHING they can get. I love the idea of slowly poisoning an opponent but the game is too fast nowadays. Great video! Subbed.

[@catsarecool9773]

The funniest thing about Umbral Horrors is that in the anime, the character who plays them had to outright *break the rules* just to put three level 4s on the field to make his boss monster. Which isn't even terribly broken for that era of Yugioh--plenty of other Zexal decks can do it easily--the deck is just THAT BAD. It wasn't even a matter of cards doing different things in the anime, like the card text was a bit different but it was just a straight up illegal interaction. Absolutely hysterical, 10/10 deck. I want it to get support just for the meme, at this point. It was episode 23 of Zexal II. IIRC he summoned two monsters off Ghoul. Yuma should have called a judge.

[@StarkMaximum]

Of all of the archetypes shown in this video, the one I most want to get actual support is Celtic Guard. Celtic Guard is one of my favorite normals, and I'd love a chance to run it in something that isn't generic Warrior toolbox that's running it as a bad Dai target. And while I get that Noble Knights are also in that sort of "cool fantasy knight wielding weapons" style, I don't think I want them to become a total crossover archetype, like Photon Galaxy. I'd really like Celtic Guard to stand on its own. Charmer is one of those decks where I like the concept and I like the themeing, but honestly I just wanna run every version of Aussa and toss away the rest, lmao. She's my favorite but most Charmer support assumes you're spamming the whole crew. Like I know it's dumb to want to play just one part of a four-creature lineup but I would give anything to be able to go Full Aussa Earth Beatdown. People will often tell you "Superheavy Samurai can run any Spell/Trap that banishes itself out of the graveyard for an effect! Since they remove themselves from your graveyard you'll get their effects and then keep them out of your graveyard!" These people are gremlins and should not be trusted. The only good use of that is Light of Sekka and even that's a little mixed. If you want to play Superheavy Samurai, you may as well just go deep into it. The first time you ever run into the problem of "I can't banish this out of my graveyard in time and I really need this effect that's shut off by a spell/trap in the graveyard", you will never want to try teching banish spell/traps into SHS ever again.

[@IamJerf]

I mean now that Aussa the Earth Channeler is revealed in Power of the Elements, you can actually running a solid Earth Charmer deck using only Aussa while trying to run some extra deck monsters or anything in the main deck of different attributes to help utilize the backrow cards.

[@wakapout630]

Super quantal is honestly not bad. Along side danger monsters and staples you can have great combo potential. Yes it dies to a kaiju but it's like every boss monster oriented strategies. If batteryman is not in tier 3 neither should super quantal. Great vid tho I'm so hyped for the other parts

[@kittengold9814]

I was like wtf is Quants doing in the same tier as like BES and stuff, definitely not a great deck but should be higher than 3

[@shawnjavery]

Quants really feels unfinished right now. To me it feels pretty obvious that the deck needs a link 1 field spell searcher. Having to search it is a huge damper on the plays you can do.

[@suezuccati304]

I feel like Extra Deck Spirit Support would be a cool thing, maybe a Link Monster that allows you to Summon Spirit Monsters in your Opponnent's turn

[@benjaminbrand3714]

Love this! Fun fact, one of the best ways to fire off Huge Revolution is to use Treasure Panda!

[@JumbaJumby]

Penguins having easy access to Bahamut Shark and in turn Toadally awesome automatically should put them in the 2-4 range. Especially with the new support, in combination with nopenguin which is a free extender each turn and causes all bouncing effects to banish, they should be much much higher. But I get it. Nobody plays them so it's easy to assume they're unplayable.

[@AshBlossomWorshiper]

0:21 PREACH BROTHER! I think the last time I subbed this fast was to TFS ep 28 back in the day

[@TheDocperian]

Ayo boss do I see XYZ unions to the left of Dustons but not talked about in the video? Fun watch, not sure I agree with everything but that's the nature of subjectivity. Thanks for going through this massive undertaking!

[@realnova7429]

FINALY SOMEONE THAT DID A VIDEO LIKE THIS, I was searching for this for some time. A few things about decks you talked about in this video I have been playing for ages: -Destiny Board is shitty but is very elastic in his playstyle, if they destroy your Destiny Board and Spirit Message is no problem at all, you can reshuffle them back with the spell and draw for each, also with 3 skill drain and with the strong synergy of the deck with the fiend type you can actualy play Lilith, Lava Golem and other monsters to make Destiny Board adaptable, with cards like Prosperity and Extravagance is not even inconsistent, butif you don't draw Skill Drain or a way to set Mystic Mine (there are a few) you are gonna lose most times so I admit its still a shitty deck but its not 1/10. -Constellar is super weak on its own but its power is the xyz adaptability, thanks to Gaia, Ptolemy or Satellarnight xyz you can throw 6 material Zeus like nothing, the best way to play it is to build it going second OTK with Utopia Double in the main and full going first artifact in the side, Artifacts works stellarly with Constellar (see what I did there) because Scythe is a LV5 light that can be first summoned to lock your opponent and then used to xyz summon and otk easily. If Utopia fails in game 1 you just summon a Zeus with 6 materials, lukily the deck has lot of space so it can play 20 board breaker. -Hunder is super slow and need a turn to set up but its strenght is not much its recycle of cards or lv4 spam but how it can play so well with a lot of power cards like Rai-oh (cause its thunder can be summoned by other Hunders), TT, honest + double or nothing because even going first it can OTK turn 2, lightning storm cause it usualy ends up with a good setup but no face-up cards at the start of your second turn, basically it works with every staples -Worm is trash, its one of those decks what were made before synergy from cards of the same archetype was a thing, only the trap is decent but not even much, I tried everything to make it work, it just doesnt, you give it to much credit -If build properly with machine dup, DPE, prosperity and skill drain Malefic are almost a combo deck, they are weak as fuck to interuptions but the consistency is not that bad and it can end up with some huge board like Baroness+DPE+Shenshen+generic 4K atk. Its surely not a beatdown deck. -You described Vylon perfectly, nothing to say. -I would agree pure Spellbook is bad except for the existance of Dragoon, being spellcaster that card can synergize with every spellbook except Power, best way to play it is to play magicians souls and other spellcaster extenders other can a fuckton of spellbook, you are gonna go into a little combo with with link of archetype and Selene, also you can abuse Knowledge with Life and Fate to get free +1, if you play it going second with evenly match and nibiru is not pretty effective and you can side op cards like Spellcaster Village -Gravekkeper is okaycause it can spam Dragoon turn 1 and play winning conditions cards like Royal Tribute and Hidden Temple after side, main monsters are bad, the one you are talking about is Spy and is not even played

[@skiing4everPS3]

Mate.... there's no way Charmers and Possessed, which actually *support* decks like magisustus, dogmatika, as well as their own relatively-competent stun variants, is in the same tier as vehicroids. The deck plays too well with other spellcasters to be languishing in tier 3 here.

[@BDT17]

Agreed, Charmers deserve a higher spot :D

[@davidtowers1863]

The field spell alone can shut out most of the decks in the tier

[@IamJerf]

Deadass. But apparently he's only looking into decks in a pure build or based by archetype only, but even so a pure build with Charmers/Familiar-Possessed can do so much than every deck on Tier 3. Their backrow has decent recovery and disruptions and the Field spell helps stop handtraps. Also Wynn the Wind Charmer Verdant isn't so much the key card in the deck whatsoever, it's Spirit Charmers and/or Lyna and Dharc links

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

@@IamJerf that is not what i'm doing.

[@GriffinRB]

When the man calls your yu-gi-oh mommy a man (2:28) but still gets a thumbs up you know the content is solid.

[@king_acceler8755]

War Rocks are basically just cruddy Ancient Warriors. They basically just took Ancient Warrior and then moved all their effects to the battle phase.

[@professorivas]

Definitely liked and subscribed for the dedication! Looking forward to part 2.

[@EntropicUsername]

The new Penguin support is actually pretty okay. The Great Emperor Penguin is their other starter. Garden gets you to it, Icejades give you more access to putting the bodies on board without eating your normal summon (read: Tremora and Cradle), they work well with other generic water good stuff like Coral Anemone and Ice Barrier (the trap; their starters are level 5), and they play fine under Gozen Match. Also Nopenguin is one of the most bonkers cards I've ever seen. Earthbound Immortals are hilarious. They are designed from the ground up to not be a deck and instead be splashable bosses for other decks... then they tried to make it a deck. Dafuq.

[@xerospades]

My man's said "depending on what type of brand of glue you want to eat" lmfao

[@dom2056]

shinobirds are insane with all the generic ritual support around, though its basically 2 ritual monsters with amano iwato and impcantations or something

[@alejopeth]

Can't imagine the amount of time and knowledge needed for this video! nice one

[@ezrasizemore4175]

I play charmers and I know as a mono-deck they do not do well but they do great with adding Fairytales and witchcrafter Golem with them. Making them a lot better deck that can actually beat stuff like swords souls and other things

[@IamJerf]

Agree. Alone as a pure deck i would agree to this tier but put together with engines like Fairy Tail, Dogmatika, and Magistus they easily take Tier 5 maybe 6

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

The problem with that mind set is that just about every other deck can work just as well with outside engines. That's a key thing I had to keep in mind when making the tier list.

[@IamJerf]

@@MonkeyFightTCG also pointing out that the deck doesn't use up alot of one ofs when they only use 4 (which are the Familiar-Possessed monsters which isn't alot), you most likely never play the level 3 Charmers. Their playstyle honestly plays better than the other tier 3 decks, especially War Rocks. As a huge Charmer fan, I do really hope for more Charmer supports in the future. We're still missing some cards but I also want to see some new spells/traps and an actual boss monster for the deck.

[@BDT17]

@@IamJerf They actually use 6 Familiar Possessed, thanks to the addition of Dharc and Lyna :D and if you have Unpossessed, it's worth setting the level 3 Charmers to activate their flip effects, or just to stall out

[@IamJerf]

@@BDT17 true but Lyna and maybe Dharc level 3 are probably the more subtle use of the others to use more just to see if you are able to summon their FP forms from the deck to activate their search effects. Just hoping there's a support card that prevents cards from activating when a Charmer effect activates since their effects can be slow and it's a target effect. Lyna's and Dharc's familiar still need their retrain and I think with these two coming out they would be most effective in the deck. Seeing that they can make the field spell more consistent, the level 4 forms would have amazing extensions and search effects when sent to the GY, and the level 5 forms would just have the effects of the Spiritual Art traps without the cost (Light special summons a banished monster, Dark draws 2 cards), they can make the deck alot more viable with the resources they have now. The only other thing is that we would need a card that searches the field spell as well as the quick-play spell.

[@neko-ikathemysteriousyo-ka1937]

Genex May be tier 2 but some madman managed to make them into a Trish spam deck

[@PaladinfffLeeroy]

I just found this through episode 3 and I am loving it. Just ignore the people claiming things about their favourite decks having to be higher up on the list. Tierlists are subjective to begin with. Maybe they will put Cloudian FTK in tier 8. Who knows.

[@isabellesmith7578]

I gotta disagree with the shitting on metaphys. admittedly the deck folds super hard to negates, but metaphys daedalus can banish your opponents entire field fairly reguarly. you seemed to give the impression the only gameplan it has is swarming with big attack numbers and honestly that's just not how the deck is played, to the point where most people don't even run the field spell that lets you normal the big guys without tributing because they don't get their effects that way. honestly I just wish they would get some support that lets you use their nuke effects at times other than the standby phase and battle phase. I honestly think that would be enough to make them a decent casual deck. more low level monsters might be nice too, but honestly aloof lupine and necroface are already really good for the deck.

[@WarTex]

THATS RIGHT! Metaphys Gang Rise up :^)

[@DinoBat]

weird how the main metaphys boss monster is so terrible no one runs it except in janky grass variants (but it is kinda funny in those decks i guess). its field spell also feels like a bit of a dud, where the only point of running it is for the negate protection. such a fun deck though, shame it crumbles to anyone who can read decoy dragon's effect.

[@isabellesmith7578]

@@DinoBat yeah tbh. it's a good thing yugioh players can't read.

[@boraaksitozgun9912]

While I think the deck is terrible, they're wyrms. Meaning you can play them with Swordsoul, an archtype that actually has plays. With that, it cleans up anything in its tier and above.

[@fluffyplayery3017]

I feel attacked by the placement of eyes-restrict

[@saad.f101]

Finally, a good and comprehensive tier list

[@luish8056]

Whole video I’m excitedly waiting to hear words on my favorite archetype, Gravekeeper’s, and the opening line for them was hilarious.

[@kiddsmoov7]

Man i was wondering where my charmer deck was going to show up on this list and man im not surprised but i and saddened. Trying to play charmers in master duel is depressing lol.

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

They keep getting new stuff. But instead of fixing the decks problems it just adds new gimmicks. It's super sad.

[@IamJerf]

They just need to properly retrain the Charmer/Familiar-Possessed monsters and that's almost it. The Channelers I don't consider a retrain because it doesn't support the archetype at all. If they have good retrains that's all the archetype needs to become a better deck than they already are. I've played Charmers in Master Duel myself and have gotten all the way to Platinum with them with not a lot of struggles. The only time I have had difficult fighting against were Drytrons (because of Herald) and Lyrilusc & Phantom Knights (they have access to Draco Future). Majority of my duels were also against Blue-Eyes so it was just easy wins from there.

[@TheSgtslow]

As a Gimmick Deck Connoisseur, I only play the most hottest of garbage. Like Law of the Normal, Huge Revulation, Mokey Mokey Beatdown, Blackland Fire Dragon Torbo, Itsu Beatdown. Their are two ways to play the game the fun way(aka Causal), and the efficient way(aka Meta). I'm able to see both sides in more Causal play I'll put down the power cards and play a bit more on the goofy side, and in tournaments I'll play whatever I can have fun with or use something that's not being really focused on in the Meta currently just to make things more interesting. One of my favorite decks of all time are Goblins just cause I can have a lot of fun with playing bad decks, while I can also enjoy decks like D/D/D, Monarchs, and World Chalice. I do like how you can fine something good to say about most decks, when so many people I know these days call a deck bad by default since it's not Meta. Keep up the good work Dude.

[@pixelhavoc4950]

Honestly Aquaactress desperately needs support and I really want to see it get it. It's a really cool deck that makes Wetlands Beat down a more threatening strategy, it just doesn't have enough cards to make anything it does viable, and the level 6 being the searcher is genuinely just terrible

[@Giru]

Whoa, amazing stuff, can't wait for part 2!

[@MajicLaMa]

i'd place watt way higher because double watthopper is a lock allowing you get the engine rolling with direct attacks

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

It's a really solid lock but it's just too hard to set up in my opinion.

[@MajicLaMa]

@@MonkeyFightTCG fair enough. I tried a few times today and got smoked 😂 Btw tell me you forgot about crystal beasts, or is it yet to be on the list? As a crystal beast player I'm staggered to see it higher than 4

[@Wumbo_the_Mumbo]

Seeing dragon rulers that low hurts. I understand why it's so low, but it was a stupidly strong deck matched only by spellbooks during their time.

[@Lunacorva]

Something I've noticed is that the power of a lot of these decks is often contextual, for example, my group mostly plays Tier 4-5 decks with a lot of meta cards like Ash Blossom on the ban list, and in that format, tier 2 decks like Constellars and Jurracs have been able to compete with Tier 4-5's like Ice Barrier and Magnet Warior/Fossil decks.

[@elliecccg7791]

penguins literally can end on barron de fleur, crystal wing synchro dragon, tzolkien through a hand trap

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

Do it consistently.

[@elliecccg7791]

@@MonkeyFightTCG it does it consistency. the deck has 23 2-card combos which is as much as drytron. it just has zero recovery. anecodotal evidence is my boy at locals sometimes tops. but we have a bunch of people who top regionals/ycs here so it depends on if any of them are playing. also the deck is way better if you add bs, check out yacine's combo video

[@dude1414145]

I'm just happy to see Superheavy Samurais recognized regardless of tier placement.

[@DragnSlayrYGO]

Restrict is technically part of the Relinquished archetype, which works well with kaijus

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

They are the same. I counted them as such. I just went with restrict as the name.

[@davidtowers1863]

Mate. There's like 2 flip monsters in gravekeepers. They have 2 good searchers, fusion on summon, revival, recovery for multiple monsters at a time

[@jamiewarren6041]

YOU HAD ME AT MENTIONING MALICIVOROUS Time to binge the hell out of this video

[@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor]

Yoooo I thought I was the only person who understood the true glory of Paleo-Penguins, that shit was my *JAM* on Dueling Book.

[@mariusweber4990]

Love this stuff! I quit Yugioh long ago, but seeing what's going on is still so interesting!

[@seekertosecrets]

29:03 There is one card that can be used in Counter Fairies that allowed you to activate counters with out paying or discarding anything, but if you play a card that states you have to reveal a counter trap card, that can cost you some opportunites.

[@AlexaRobin21]

That's Guiding Ariadne.

[@GuyInHisOwnWorld]

Correction on the Vylon portion, Epsilon isn't the card that special summons a tuner, that's Vylon Element. But yeah the deck is super vulnerable. But if you're able to get the Halq combo off, you can end on some pretty nice boards of Vylon Omega + Baronne + Dweller. Vylon support when Konami?

[@windwaker0rules]

Tier 0 gate guardian without context is the best

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

It is as I planed it

[@UniGya]

Assault Mode isn’t a good deck, but similarly to Invoked it’s a decent engine for any deck that doesn’t need its normal summon. 3 Psi-Reflector, 3 Assault Sentinel, 1 Assault Beast, 1 Assault Mode Activate, and maybe Fire Formation - Tenki. It gives you access to the whole pool of level 6-9 Synchro monsters that require only 1 non-tuner. Assault Sentinel even lets you make some with restricted materials since it can change either it or Psi-Reflector’s type and attribute. If you’re feeling really spicy you can bump it up to 2 Assault Mode Activates and include a Stardust Dragon/Assault Mode, but generally that’s not a great idea. It is funny, though

[@Alex_Barbosa]

I use watts in master duel and yea they aren't top tier or anything, but dude it's so funny seeing the confusion in people's plays when you successfully hopper-lock someone that's never encountered it before, and pairing it with a few thunder dragons and opening with Colossus is just funny to use that just to support your wattcobra. It's just a fun deck that while not super consistent, is consistent enough to be a lot of fun.

[@SaintoftheHonest]

I will say, you went WAAAAY too hard on -Eyes Restrict. The deck's basically the modern take on Village Stun, allowing you to deny Spells with Secret Village as you keep your L1 Spellcaster on the field. The difference ends up being that while you USED to rush to Decree to lock traps and use Releaser Djinn to deny special summons, nowadays you don't care about Traps (they're too infrequent to main an answer to) and you use Millennium to deny the opponent's monster effects. It uses Illusionist cards for what's functionally quickplay equip on a hand trap and the floating from Faceless means that even if they DO get a way to destroy you (with a monster eff that doesn't go off on field/in GY), you still deny their spells. Then, when Faceless dies and special summons MER again, you get your hand trap back for a take, so your opponent can't just ignore monster effects and beat over your monster. Don't get me wrong, it's not a GOOD deck, but it should at LEAST have been Tier 4-5 instead of Tier 1. Edit: /Assault Mode is a deck of literally 13 1-card synchro plays that also searches AMA. Even if you draw your /AM monster(s) (1-2 SAMs, 1 TGAM if you wanna play Reboot), you can search Assault Mode Zero to unblrick it and then you back up your SAMs with SkD and Mound of the Bound creator and it's surprisingly effective. Again, easy Tier 4.

[@Rivarham]

In defense of Kuriboh, their deck is a bit more resilient (doesn't make them less bricky) as it's full of handtraps. Kuribohrn has the potential to swarm the field immediately on the opponent Battle Phase and, if 2 or more Kuri survive, next turn could be an easy Rank 1 with Numbers using Number Archive or Link 2+ summon. They are heavily dependent on Extra deck or an engine that can take advantage of their summon power (may be able to survive Nibiru). They can also run Relinkuriboh (albeit being extremely slow), for a bit of draw power using it for summoning a GY Linkuriboh for insurance or Tribute Summon Vanity's Fiend for SS Lockdown; OR, as i always mention, going full Link 4 for a Saryuja, getting all its effects (Add 1 of 4 excavates, SS from hand, gaining ATK). I love these furballs, and i know they'll never be meta, but they are really fun to play.

[@themaverick427]

I used to play a Hazy Flame deck and by far the best build is Evolzar Solda Turbo using Peryton to summon two Hydra to the field and making a 4 material Solda which can actually straight up win you some games. If you somehow manage to get a 5 material Basiltrice on the field it can beat some decks too. Main problem is that both strategies lose to either one Ash Blossom or One Kaiju.

[@platinumnovawarriorrx20-en57]

I've listened to this video twice now. Incredible content!!!

[@NICOCLASH]

6:42 Some madlad in ocg arrived 2nd in a rather recent tournament against some meta powerhouses with a deck filled with every celtic guardian mosters

[@KuroNa_NaShiro]

wait, a channel that does excellent Yugioh AND Vanguard content?! take my sub

[@chrismiller3548]

I really like mashing thousand eyes and kaiju into one deck. Also numeron is the only way to not completely neg with the Egyptian gods

[@shimakazan7309]

im so sad seeing super quantals that low. i just hit plat 1 with super quantals having a danger engine in it and i love the deck to death, but you are right at its major weakness to handtraps. man im hoping if they ever release more rangers to support, that they definitely up the desks consistency. its my favorite deck of all time.

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

It's such a cool deck strategy it just needs new extenders to help it into current yugioh.

[@NICOCLASH]

Isn't the strategy just the fastest and most monke and boring way to turbo out Great Magnus, like Phantom Knight's strategy in master duel is the fasteat and most monke and boring way to turbo out Heroic Champion Rhongomyniad?

[@JudojugsVtuber]

@@NICOCLASH isn't the strategy of like every deck in the entire game right now to turbo out one specific boss monster or 3-5 negates on a couple?

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

Yeah but those do more, do it more consistently, and can work better with other engines.

[@JudojugsVtuber]

@@MonkeyFightTCG I more just meant like in general yugioh as a whole has gone the full monke route. I think it's weird to say one deck is more simplistic then another when the vast majority of decks in the game are super simple and set up the same board every time.

[@Mrrullings]

Definitly waiting for the next part !

[@EddieintheLoop]

Great vid! Very excited to see where my V-World deck lands 😏

[@Ocsttiac]

Gravekeeper corrections: Hidden Temples of Necrovalley (aka continuous spell that can stop special summoning) is actually searchable. Granted, you can only search for it with the Fusion monster and be forced to wait a turn to use it because of that. Also, only 2 of the main deck monsters are Flip monsters (3 if you count Ambusher).

[@Syrus_Priest]

One thing I have to say is vehicroids can run skill drain at 3 in a very neat way because of megaroid city the only vehicroid on field who's effect you'll activate is mixeroid and submarine roid in terms of main deck so you can setup a megaroid city and skill drain and hold out till you set up your board using cards like ready fusion in combination with searching connection zone to get out mobile base as a 5k beatstick when you swap it with the field spell and then when you want skill drain gone you can use the field spell to pop it for a +1 which in all honesty could just be dragonroid to add whatever roid monster you want helping to fill the grave for mixerroid

[@byssted]

You are absolutely correct, C104 IS the best card to use The Seventh One on. C107? Never heard of her. She doesn’t halve my opponent’s life points. Based take.

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

Look if it doesn't do something over the top and flashy is it even worth running?

[@eloanpedraza4603]

YES, FLOWER CARDIAN PASS VIDEO ONE, LETS GOOOO

[@cyberdarkturtle6971]

Neo-Space is actually semi competent these days, thank you legacy support

[@MandalorianRaider]

I'm pleasantly surprised that none of my preferred archetypes were placed on this video.

[@jedaye47]

Wattlock was such a pain in the ass, respect for the amount of time you must've put into this tho dude! Subbed

[@Pattex_]

“Destiny board is a stall variant for Mine players wanting to change up the brand of glue they’re eating” BURRRRNNNNN

[@FlavinatorXD32]

In terms of versatility, penguins have little to none, since you can’t really mix them with anything. However, they are way stronger post Burst of Destiny, and easily outclass 80% of tier 3. But huge respect for taking on this massive task that, like you said, no other yugituber has undertaken in the way most people want.

[@maxkuozc]

Krilin can delete Yamcha got me right in the funny bone haha nice one

[@roku-toiletpapersquad8664]

Finally, ive been blessed once again by the algorithm