Top 5 Best Decks To Play Against in Master Duel!

[@thatwarframeguy3855]

I literally had a dude at a card shop straight up say, “Let me guess, a White stone of ancients” when I set a card in face down defense and passed with my otherwise bricked hand. 😅

[@honeyjm8324]

Starts sweating

[@v-trigger6670]

Your opponent : summum Chaos MAX with double piercing damage ...

[@thatwarframeguy3855]

@@v-trigger6670 I run a Blue-Eyes Chaos Deck. So nah, it’d still be me summoning Chaos Max. 🗿

[@Kurzwife]

feels . this was me last night. they set up a 5 min combo and all I could do was set stone lol still my favourite archetype even though I lose alot

[@thatwarframeguy3855]

@@Kurzwife Mix up your build with some Galaxy-Eyes or Felgrand spice if you don’t already. Blue-eyes, despite all its support is still a pain to play a pure build with. It’s possible to pull off, but it doesn’t have nearly enough protection cards to deal with the negate/hand trap shenanigans of today’s meta.

[@LemonYGO]

"He's not playing chaos max, stop saying it!!"

[@masterminer2338]

Stop saying Chaos MAX, he's not playing it*

[@ChongDog420]

Defense toon monster with toon kingdom vs chaos max (💀)

[@PhoenixLive_YT]

Branded is a good example of a fun deck to play against, they have no negates and still manages to do stuff, meanwhile your average swordsoul player is sitting on a baroone and grandmaster every fucking duel lol

[@painvillegaming4119]

Damn did I enjoy it when they had no answer for my blackluster soldier

[@kenpokid10]

Best we got for negates (other than generic handtraps) is, like, Branded Retribution. And Dramaturge, but that's suuuper conditional.

[@ether2275]

We live in a day and age where Shaddoll cards are considered fair and balanced. Insane what a few years of powercreep can do to a game.

[@ephiemarklustiva9515]

I still hate that shit from the bottom of my heart. It gave me first trauma and my deck using it is blackwing

[@XenoDBlade]

Winda is not balanced nor will she ever be balanced

[@Ronan-ht6jc]

​@@XenoDBlade cry harder, combo baby

[@XenoDBlade]

@@Ronan-ht6jc cry harder set 5 pass baby

[@grandpulse7970]

​@@Ronan-ht6jc cuck

[@easternsheep6995]

While I agree that branded is no where near as annoying as swordsoul was, running into "normal summon aluber the goober of doober" 12 times in a row does get irritating very quickly

[@ErosIRL]

Also yes you can stop their cards with hand traps pretty easily, but every one of their cards basically reads “fuse using materials from deck” and you have to draw an equal number of unique hand traps and also hope you also mix a starter in with it. The board is still playable around, so I still ultimately agree it’s better than other metas

[@darkmeme2289]

@@kauanjos3199 most don't even need it

[@darkmeme2289]

U can say the same for every deck honestly as a starter

[@tylerturner8070]

Swordsoul has around 4 interruptions typically so does branded it's damn near the same both plus 2 as well

[@slenderman4788]

@Philip mcgrath Branded also essentially has a non-targeting pop 2. Protos is the only really unfair thing about Swordsoul. And that only exists in MD and OCG.

[@bigounce8087]

Salamangreat is also a really fun deck to play against, it never feels unfair in any way and most of the time it ends up being a match where the player with more skill wins

[@annoyerboka]

Ya.. Im no nothing about salamangreat.. Try using it, and get reek by kaiju deck...

[@jgamez106]

So you’re just gonna sit there and act like there arsenal of spells/trap, grave effects and synergy with cyberse cards aren’t at least a little unfair. Hell I only beat it on master duel a little bit ago because i had enough hand traps and then set up an early Necrovalley

[@bobjoe2955]

One rocky boy (Nibiru) destroys salamangreats. Just about every hand trap out there stops salamangreat. When they released they were busted, now they’re just another rogue deck.

[@ColdTiger]

​@@bobjoe2955 reminds me of a salad mirror match i had once. When it was my opponent's turn, i nibiru'd them and i won with update jammer accesscode

[@syhoang1342]

As a Karakuri player, thank you for recognizing that deck as a fun deck

[@robinlinh]

the reason I like to play against Karakuri is people often play the deck with the same theme play field, and the music of that field is lit bro

[@dankanubis1345]

Finally someone recognizes the little machines.

[@idkidc7513]

Tri-Brigade meta was the best meta Moderately fast-paced, tons of interaction between players. Other than set revolt and pass it was quite entertaining (at least more than negate/floodgate city)

[@tomikaaranyosi1961]

I mean, revolt pass is still fun, as both players imo

[@MEGASTRIX]

SOMEONE ACTUALLY MENTIONS KARAKURI???????? yooooo

[@gamakujira64e23]

Dark magician is so easy to play against because eternal soul is basically a self-destruct button

[@NikemanBOOM]

We karakuri players appreciate you. Reminds me I need to update mine a bit.

[@HowdyItsMarc]

Someone actually mentioned karakuri, I've never seen another user other than myself

[@HowdyItsMarc]

@@HandlesTheCyberman yeah

[@ikepetro6263]

@@HowdyItsMarc Got a decklist? I have most of the cards, and I love the gameplay style of them, just not sure about the overall deck construction.

[@HowdyItsMarc]

@@ikepetro6263 Monsters: 3× Karakuri Gama, 3× Karakuri Merchant, 3× Karakuri Komachi, Karakuri Bonze, 1× Karakuri Strategist, 3× Infinitrack brutal dozer, 1× infinitrack trencher, 1× infinitrack tunnler, 1× machina fortress, 1× machina metalcruncher, 1× machina citadel, 1× super express train bullet train, 1× heavy freight train derricrane, 1× ancient gear box. Spells: 3× machina redeployment, 2× karakuri Gama oil, 2× heavy forward. Traps: 3× evenly matched, 3× machina overdrive, 2× karakuri cash in. Extra: 3× karakuri steel shogun mdl 00X, 2× karakuri super shogun mdl 00N, 1× karakuri shogun mdl 00, 2× infinitrack Goliath, 1× double headed anger knuckle, 1× ancient gear ballista, 1× infinitrack river stormer, 1× infinitrack earth slicer, 1× Gustav max, 1× rail cannon super Dora, 1× juggernaut liebe.

[@991yugioh]

@@HowdyItsMarc I'm upset I don't see Naturia Beast and Barkion in this list

[@riccardomaftei8015]

Me against my first blue eyes player: ah well he is ni- Him: *summons chaos MAX*

[@katakuri7526]

If his hand have sage with blue eyes and the white stone of ancient then he could technically get chaos max by round 2 if he went first

[@calvinanderson4245]

You against your first blue eyes player: gg-

[@clayblob2]

If F E A R was a card

[@sebastianadams7460]

I run a blue eyes / chaos max deck and to be honest if you make galaxy eyes extra deck for it it’s pretty nasty. On average I get chaos max on the field first or second turn pretty wild!!

[@jethrotheguy2375]

Now that you mention it, I don't think I ever complained about dueling against branded. It's usually swordsoul or Floo that I complain, but never branded

[@r3zaful]

Flunderezenuts is a sack.dek

[@darkira2129]

So I am playing with Eldlich + DPE, So when mirrorjade banish, I chain DPE and pop my own card, and they ended up banishing their own mirrorjade... Like this is why Yu-Gi-Oh the most fun Card game.

[@brolythekingoflegends2252]

As a tri-brigade player I thank you for also knowing that my deck is fun to play against and it is fun to pilot it as well.

[@sniped041]

Karakuri finally getting the recognition it deserves!!

[@fuzzythoughts8020]

Probably my favorite duel ever was against Invoked sky striker, I was on Plunder and it was an amazing back and fourth.

[@popo74aa]

Oh my gosh finally someone giving the truth about branded! I was playing it since before b. fusion release when it wasn't quite as good, but it's still much more interesting than a board of negates, games are usually quick in either direction but with a lot of play, and mirrors are hella interesting. Plus you can splash a lotta different stuff in to customize it!

[@francisharkins]

Thats why I like it. I combined Branded with Buster Blader and its just flat out fun... plus abusing bots with it. Beyond that I would run Stardust or once in a blue moon meme with yubel and kaiser colloseum to see how certain decks handle it being restricted to 1 monster well a reflector is on the field. Plus Branded got me a W agsinst Eldlich sooooo no hate to it lol. Really only decks I despise are bot decks like Floow, Swordsoul, Eldlich, and Numeron. Those are just annoying.... that and the new FTK bot bs with Samsara Lotus+Trickstar Black Catbat+ Topologic Bomber Dragon. Why so many Trickstars and plethora of "waifu" cards don't have once per turn effects illudes me.

[@readytogetricked1767]

Yup the tribrigade play style is my favourite

[@bugboy485]

As a shaddoll player it's a deck that can go against high tear decks an low tear decks and still be enjoyable.

[@dragonmaster951753]

I agree with this list. I never was bothered playing against these decks, besides turbo wynda. Shaddolls are annoying but everything else is a cool match up

[@CronoEpsilon]

I like Tri-Brigade and Branded quite a bit Though, if you simply do not draw the interruptions and you don't have an answer for the set Branded in Red for Chimera + Ad Libitum with Branded Opening in the gy, or an answer for Tri-Brigade Revolt, you do just lose on the spot.

[@L1nk2002]

"number 4: Shaddol" my brother in Christ, we have very different definitions of fun

[@SnowiKs]

Yeah, that why it my list.

[@L1nk2002]

@@SnowiKs fair enough

[@Christ_the_only_way]

Me as a flowandereeze player: 👁👄👁 „uhu… ok“

[@biggieboy3570]

Man I'm just out here with some scrap in the shape of a velociraptor and a dream

[@thewisegnomeman1260]

same here

[@EarthyRanger772]

As a Destiny Hero player, that tribrigade being fun to play against hurt.

[@Igorx222]

I personally love the set one pass as a cubic player

[@TheYugiohChessDude]

I agree, synchro summoning is DA BEST

[@zeria9344]

As a Shaddoll player, love to see this

[@NomadxElliot]

I get excited when I duel other Red Eyes, but I've never dueled a well developed exclusive one.

[@vitanv4413]

Good thing i built a tri-brigade lyrilusc in the tcg :D

[@omardanelli2911]

While i absolutely love tri brigade, most of them time they end a board with simorgh, and f0- (if they're playing the lirilusc variant) but i ultimately agree its not a bad deck to go against (unless they have the 6 interruption variant)

[@SnowiKs]

That's why I didn't say the lyrilusc tri-brigade. That deck sucks to play against. I should know, I play it. But the more pure variant is super interesting.

[@omardanelli2911]

@@SnowiKs i play that deck too, and yes pure tribrigade it's a really interesting matchup, they have a lot of options, but their board are never unbreakable.

[@yasakamagatama4089]

Agree with branded despia, it's more fun than meet swordsoul player

[@CreepyAurores]

As a shaddol player, i approve of this message. I can be easily otked if i brick, but if i manage to get the ball rollin' then i'm difficult to be dealt with...but never impossible.

[@earlofsquirrel1469]

The thing is, winda is straight up unfair tbh, shaddoll would be so much more fun if it didn't rely on floodgates but instead interrupts the opponent with negates, banishes or pops

[@CreepyAurores]

Winda is the only floodgate of the archetype, and i don't use other floodgates so i have no idea what are you talking about. Other shaddols players run floodgates?

[@earlofsquirrel1469]

@@CreepyAurores winda is enough, some people play stuff like summon limit or anti spell going first, but winda is the reason i don't like playing against shaddoll because you need to draw the out to be able to play

[@Ronan-ht6jc]

​@@earlofsquirrel1469 cry harder, combo baby

[@molanogan7409]

​@@Ronan-ht6jcyou know you quite literally cannot Xyz or Synchro Summon under Winda?

[@bencrandall-malcolm8303]

If you think Tri-brigade isn't annoying to play against, I'm clearly not doing my job well enough

[@gizmojams6556]

At first try was annoying when my deck Evil Twins didn't have their boss monster and I was just getting back into the game learning the link mechanic and how to do the plays. I just ran into Tri-birds and Tri-zoo all day and I'm like.... . .. bro . . . . Yup. . . Okay.. . . .all that for a rank 4? Now it isn't a hard match up now I've gotta a fairly solid diamond 2 peak with twins. It's good to see improvement.

[@CrnaStrela]

Tri brig is fun to fight, you have to save interruptions on correct cards to stop them, I had a lot of fun stopping their combo or let them go so I can dismantle their plays on my turn. However their variations are whole different story, Jesus I hate the lyrilusc version so much, the zoodiac version main play is at least "only" 6 mats zeus, lyrilusc just do it better on top of making 7 non opt bounce on special summon.

[@fbiagent6456]

Tribrigade board breaks in 1 lightning storm.

[@sonicbreaker6991]

The only reason I hate fighting blue eyes is because it's always the same combo egg pass or summon alternative

[@Lagaffinity]

I just play a "Joey" deck where I literally gamble my board just to remove a monster on the field

[@Deiect97]

I play Kozmo’s on Master Duel as one of my signature decks and it throws people SO off because they don’t know what it is. It’s fun and hilarious

[@farrasismawan3352]

I like shaddol too since this archtype revive flip effect😊

[@Jonesz68]

Monarchs really get no love anymore

[@linc4205]

I still play a Monarch deck sometimes. I just know I’m gonna lose a lot while doing it 😭

[@Synchrojikan]

Went to a regional this past weekend, first event in about 4 years, had no clue what the meta was, took Weather painters. My round 1 was vs Branded and it was my favorite match, so hard agree on that. Felt like he could keep going regardless of how many interruptions I had, or skill drain. But none of his monsters seemed unfair and it wasn't just "here's 8 negates, go." It was fun.

[@DarthRyueken]

@@Synchrojikan you lost that duel

[@mustafaoh9866]

What about the dork magician one banish during your turn and that's it

[@SnowiKs]

Yeah, kinda boring.

[@damionbaxter4912]

So you haven't ran into the draw 3 pop 1 banish 1 every turn variation yet?

[@Smallsmallrose]

Until they flip the Skill Drain anyway

[@FullUhFools]

Hey why you gotta Doodoo on Dork Magician like that? 😂

[@ahmadhazem1507]

As a branded player I see so much hate from people and I face so many people who surrendered after seeing my deck and I feel happy u said branded

[@tanacebron7658]

I knew Shaddoll will make it to your list 😌, I like playing Shaddoll Only Deck. I play Blue-eyes too. It's my majority of using deck. Blue-eyes will always be special to me 👌

[@arcturus6909]

I was playing swordsoul against a branded despia deck. Was honestly the most enjoyable match to lose for once.

[@JustSimplyBrandon]

My favorite decks to duel against in Master Duel @Ignister, Salamangreat, Rokket/Borre-, Spright, and Tri-Brigade

[@Junglehunter677]

As a swordsoul player, I'll activate chixiao effect by banishing 1 wym monster in grave to negate the emotional damage effect of your opinion on my deck

[@dustyfedora]

Fun thing that can make blue eyes more effective. Linkuriboh as it a a link-1 so you can pop the white stone to the grave more easily to speed up the deck and protect your board more from attacks on turn two.

[@soulfireartist]

Me and my master duel friend group always tell out of all the decks I use they have the most fun with Earth Machines, always get a good laugh about I manage to worm my way through their boards. Although one or two do get annoyed when I flip over torrential lol.

[@sirshoelad8042]

I feel like a counterfeit Kaiba with my Drytron Chaos Max

[@Tomie..]

Tri-Lyrilusc… making 10 minute combos lol

[@YarnLalms711]

I'm a Cydra player cause big numba, also, going second against the Numeron bots and Machine based decks is great when you just yoink their whole board.

[@redx670]

as a PK player getting my Bardiche, Arc Reb RaidK or Break Sword banished is the most frustrating thing since most likely I havent even gotten enough material for an F0, Appolousa or Accesscode Talker.

[@HighordStarkiller]

My raidraptors lookin at all the special summons:👍

[@vincere4591]

“Shoot I bricked hard. I’ll set one(monster)/pass.” Opponent: “I activate ‘Bingo Machine, Go!’ It calls ‘Chaos Form’, ‘Chaos Form’, and ‘Chaos Form’! Pick a random card.”

[@22co.remixed29]

Reassuring that it could be fun to fight against branded as a branded player

[@williamruiz4571]

Anything but the Penguins.

[@Bombssivo]

I love faced branded the most

[@gabrielcurry457]

I love playing tri brigade zoo it has alot of different boss monsters you can go into you got borrolend apolusa access talker dpe, zues, and the tri brigade boss monster

[@williamoldaker5348]

Scareclaw Tri-brigade has been a wonderful deck to pilot.

[@k-koldgaming2509]

Love to see tri brigade on this list :3

[@arsciencekid4489]

I know it is probably going to be lost with how late this reply is but what are your thoughts on superheavy samurai? I know it isn’t the best deck and it has some annoying plays (cough cough can’t be destroyed by battle and all in defence cough cough) but most decks have outs. And that one time I got an otk with steam train and soul horns was amazing.

[@dotreant5264]

agree , cyberse strats are also fun to play against

[@smart7927]

Funniest match I’ve ever had was Ninjas vs Six Samurai. All I could think of was, “how do I get passed this dudes Shi En.” Then I realized, “Yaguramaru is all I need, and it’s all over.” Literally won in 5 turns.

[@sebastianadams7460]

I run a blue eyes / chaos max deck and to be honest if you make galaxy eyes extra deck for it it’s pretty nasty. On average I get chaos max on the field first or second turn pretty wild!!

[@why7370]

Bruh, I use to play blue eyes like that until I added some galaxy cards to it. But that set one pass is so real 😅.

[@ardianhesa4340]

I like fighting against timelord when I'm using Raidraptor, because it's just me, chilling with ultimate falcon until he drew a bad card

[@Micahangelo_YT]

Use to have a Eldlich deck because I wanted to compete against the floodgates but now I use Branded deck which is pretty fun. I feel like Yubel in the anime.

[@Pete-the-Potatoe]

As a xyz main who was raised on yu gi oh zexal as his first yu gi oh show and his favorite I took the “synchro is the best thing as an act of war” 😂😂😂

[@muhammadsholihudin8979]

when my opponent summon chaos max, I'm as Gusto player be like :)

[@chancecigola6098]

My favorite deck is code talkers, and usually the goal is to extra link. But the combo takes fooorrrreeeevvvveeerrr. So if I can, I try to go second and OTK with accesscode. If I get annoyed with heavy negate decks and keep not being able to play yugioh, I switch to altergeist, my second favorite

[@crowofjudgement4297]

YEAA FINALLY I FOUND ANOTHER KARAKURI ENJOYER

[@sewshy2588]

I truly love Tri Brigade thx lately im trying to combine them with crystal beast( the new card) idk if it will work

[@marcroeffen4701]

Branded is not the worst to face against (unless they prevent u from playing the game at all cause there branded decks like that) but the amount u see it just becomes annoying at somepoint

[@haydenbennett3547]

I play Branded Blue-Eyes 😂 Almost ALWAYS end on a board with backrow, mirrorjade and at least 1 jet

[@2XocraM]

I actually enjoy breaking a soulsword board.

[@kingzarc7284]

it's swordsoul

[@jacobjones1849]

Set 1 pass mentality is me. First day I was like shit I can’t find a deck, I’m just going to get dlink. Bought fully optimal deck, was like all this shit does is set 1 pass. Found a video the next day of it just going off. Was like nope too confusing, and reset my account.

[@sozenbrightblaze7932]

As a blue-eyes player I use linkuriboh to get my stones in the grave. Bonus it can stop an attack or two in a dire situation. Chaos max is really good as long as it isn't the focus of your deck.

[@yuto2464]

رغم كوني عربي إلا ان فيديوهاتك تعجبني ^^ استمر😄

[@galactic-hl3vl]

what do you think about the odd eyes deck?

[@yugi.boomer]

Branded is the most fair meta deck. The worst they'll do is use your monster for a fusion summon with super poly.

[@duskhk8666]

As a player who's used a branded deck. Can definitely verify my oppents have fun

[@skyslasher2297]

Can you tell that Shaddoll point to my friends

[@xzafir515]

I loved that I beat a blue eyes deck with one card

[@JokingThief]

You had my like until you brought up that godforsaken zoo as number 1.

[@dylanf3108]

Thank you as a Karakuri player

[@tacoedits3302]

I literally just played against a karakuri deck and one with a freaking code talker deck

[@silverfang4583]

salads feel good to play against and are somewhat common, (with circular normally unfortunately

[@kolofqux]

As a branded player i feel like branded is a chess match of not getting the right thing ashed

[@speedupslowdown358]

Hey frosty I’ve never played branded despia before and I was wonder if you have so you could tell me if the decks are worth it I’m trying to not lose a lot and to just have fun

[@SnowiKs]

Branded Despia is probably the 2nd or 3rd best deck in the game right now. It ends on a board that has a lot of interaction, that isn't just negates, and sets up follow up as well.

[@speedupslowdown358]

@@SnowiKs ok cool sounds very good thank you for your answer and time

[@onenormalguythatbreathes7603]

Honestly when you play a pendulum deck (specifically odd eyes) a unbricked blue eyes is actually fun to to against Unless They summon the spirit of the blue eyes or something that can't make me go +2 on pend(I can make it work tho)

[@megAJuan31E]

What’s the general consensus on Labyrinth decks? Both in terms of facing them and using them

[@WolfDragon6000]

I like using blue eyes, because to me it’s simple yet fun to use. Yes it’s not the best, but it’s customizable, and It tested my IQ. Unlike most people. I don’t need Tearsment to have fun with the game. Ps. Started using Red Dragon Archfiend. Fun as hell.

[@hue_marlon727]

I like playing blue eyes because it was my favorite card when i was a kid and i think its fun

[@Meridianblood]

I love Blue Eyes players, they're giving me a free win.

[@JohnSmith-uf9mu]

Swordsoul isn't that bad, a 2-3 negate board is very playable, I've had branded get way more than that, since everyone knows that pops like mst negate

[@shubhamsonsurkar3782]

It's all fun until you see blue eyes Tyrant dragon abusing solemn judgement, solemn strike and skill drain again and again

[@98あり]

Tri zoo was my favorite deck

[@belckroz1952]

Whit blue eyes did he mean that weak tuner that special summon a blue eyes from the deck?

[@justarandomdudeintherabbithole]

me who plays crusadia otk: u go first and build your wall of desruption before i hit you with the big iron