Tenpai Dragon (2024) vs. Ishizu Tear (& MORE) - A CHALLENGER APPEARS! #01

[@averageguyonyoutube3324]

Tenpai is strong but Tearlaments are still on a league of their own

[@tony1992able]

Let me correct you there: Tear Isizhu are on a league of their own

[@Nieblham]

@@tony1992able naw i'm still playing tear and the modern tear vs tenpai matchup still is in the Tear's favor. We don't really care about board breakers, the shufflers can win games by themselves, and can make a lot of interruption. Don't get me wrong tenpai can still win, it's just that most likely tear will win.

[@averageguyonyoutube3324]

@@tony1992able yes man, i meant them. Thanks for the correction!

[@Seidot_]

@@Nieblham " the shufflers" are ishuzu cards

[@potatoexe5410]

​@@Seidot_yes but they are at 1 copy each making it only 2 cards in the entire tear deck. You don't call the deck ishizu tear anymore because of that. Otherwise the entire deck could be Hero (if using the Mali package for Beatrice) Ishizu Kash(Fenrir+TearKash) Shaddolls(if on Beast and Hel for the winda play) Tear. Hence it's just now Tear to make things easier unless it has a 2ndary engine to get it going like the Horus stuff.

[@AMV_KINGDOM_mv]

Tear humbling those dragon putting the fire out with those mills

[@gengstar09]

Kash and Tear reminding everyone that this is their world and we are just living in it.

[@Ragnarok540]

The difference is tear is hard even if you prepare for it, if you prepare against kashtira it becomes really easy to beat. Still, love tear, hate kashtira.

[@georgesagris3508]

Lithium beating domain monarch with tenpai is like the biggest anime betrayal of 2024

[@Carlitonsp1]

Man, Gladiator Beasts look different.

[@j2c695]

Hahahahah

[@Greg501-]

Now they play at the start of the BP

[@ShinerCCC]

But without even taking damage. 1600 ATK Marshmallon is meta now

[@sejotejerina3732]

Tenoai played the 10 matches so... This year every challenger is gonna play 10 matches no matter how many loses? 🤔

[@Lithium2300]

Correct 😄👍

[@xzxInuxzx]

All for it! I still wish to see the "joke deck" at the end. Maybe have an end of the year "anti meta deck vs challengers appear" video?

[@andrejv.2834]

​@@xzxInuxzxkashtira can just have the role of the anti meta deck tbh, they're basically an anti meta deck designed to be meta

[@ulquiorra964schiffer]

tear was like: ''okay brother, let me show you something truly deplorable''

[@AbsoluteIKeatI]

It took Kash, Admancipator, and Tearlaments to stop it, not a bad showing. God this format is going to be bad

[@blueskyalchemist623]

Even worse, cause Tenpai has new stuffs in OCG, and Fiendsmith has yet to come.

[@lhv2k]

This is BO1 here, Tenpai is super strong in BO1 since it's a go 2nd deck, but in normal BO3 it's way worse, not a problem

[@yveslumiere9432]

Not to mention Tenpai is susceptible to the sideboard a lot of decks can tech in cards they can access via engine that can shut them down, going first, in OCG SE plays Lyrilusc Nightingale for instance, Tear could do shit like Rise to Full height target a monster than pop it with the field spell or fuse it away or Electromagnetic turtle etc. Meanwhile Tenpai almost gains nothing postside if the opponent chooses to go second so they can abuse Heat Wave and similar in fact if you gamble on your opponent going second and they go first you now can brick on those cards.

[@andrejv.2834]

I think tenpai might be having the despia situation Like when despia was the best on release when people were playing stuff like droll, magicl spring or ghost ogre to stop the adventurer engine And then when the adventurer decks got hit despia became worse instead of getting better because people started playing dbarrier and ash more And just like branded, in theory tenpai is extremely easy to side against, but no one is siding against them in snake eye format for obvious reasons

[@randumo24]

It's definitely below Snake Eyes, and hard loses to multiple side-deck counters. I mean, you can literally just Waboku or Threatening Roar and you get another turn.

[@victikirby15]

Hoping that BASED re-emerges as a Challenger Approaching deck

[@tehy123]

So why didn't he use seals second effect? Either way this deck is just draw the out turbo. Any of those wins could have been losses.

[@blazingrune8535]

in the duel vs Shaddoll, the Magical Meltdown prevented it from activatable

[@toadfan64]

I know, I love it. Such a high roll deck.

[@andrejv.2834]

Some of those were close calls, like the unfortunate drytron brick as one more name wins the game there, or if lithium picked a more hand trap heavy list, so no raigeki or superpoly, tenpai's road would've ended sooner Also no custom side decks means that if tenpai eventually joins the cbc fully, they'll be massively favoured against almost every deck

[@stiffeification]

helps that the deck is 50% outs

[@baptistem.1192]

The unchained could have won 😞 With the same board (caesar, yama in GY, ash, trap + sharv) Rage is useless in the MU, but abominable soul is broken So when you get LS, just summon a lvl3 body off chamber (reborn or ss from deck doesnt matter) and RAKEA (from the 2nd trap eff or yama + pop) and you just pop lvl3 with rakea on battle, abominable soul the chundra and you can ash the quickspell

[@baldpdeng2035]

It is comical how better Tear is compared to anything else in the history of the game

[@MalikJ.O]

Tear card with ishizus are def just funny and unbeliveable

[@vittoriogulinazzo6881]

They play a different sport 😂

[@wtfbros5110]

Dont worry konami will find a way. We said the same thing to drulers, emem, spyrals and zoo after all

[@joemoore1275]

LETS GO!!!!

[@lunadachi4792]

I was very confused seeing the board vs Unchained and saying “yeah this should be the game” while you have two monsters against four IN THE BP. Surreal

[@thebrunoo2730]

tearlament strongest!

[@tony1992able]

Tear Isizhu* For now.

[@Rncko]

Out of all the winners, only Tear managed to beat it without certain form of Floodgates. (by sheer flooding of card advantage over Tenpai)

[@MofizIA]

why not use the seal at 7:30? a defense dragon is better than taking 3500 damage

[@blazingrune8535]

even if you do use the Seal here, it wouldn't have mattered either way cuz of Fenrir and Ariseheart

[@_Sasuke_99]

Magical meltdown. Seal second effect is mandatory anyways, So if you see that it didn't activate, It means something was stopping it

[@thatsunusual6640]

It’s ridiculous how strong tear will continue to be if it ever comeback to full power. Ishizu definitely made this deck

[@alphacentauri_1]

Most of these matches featured decks opening brick hands, doesn't feel like the matchups were shown accurately. Decks with historically hand-trap resilient hands were folding to an Imperm or an Ash, enabling far too easy OTKs.

[@giftedhippos]

Lithuim once infinite forbidden comes out in the tcg tenpai should be on a level playing field with tear

[@MiguelMartinon]

This will be fire!

[@pablolemus6046]

Yoooo nice video 10/10

[@FinalMorningstar]

Why would you not play tenpai with its latest support?

[@Lithium2300]

Then i would play ocg, with maxx c, nobody wants maxx c 😄

[@NameIsLegit]

Not the strongest unchained end board by a mile

[@yazanabbadi4247]

That OTK through prosperity is sooo disgusting ugh! and the opp scoops cuz it hurts to lose that way indeed

[@Trivedi_Tuesdays]

Tear is a deck frm a diff tcg disguised as ygo cards

[@andarerYT]

Why did you never use the hieraric seal second effect?

[@RicardoReyes-kp3we]

Playing around talents i guess, he use the effect in a few duels

[@Randomguy547]

@@RicardoReyes-kp3we The second effect is mandatory tho

[@toyickon]

Effect is blocked by field spell

[@blazingrune8535]

@@Randomguy547 it's because Magical Meltdown was face-up on the field when it happened

[@passaroquetzalcoatlus6205]

Tear is not a surprise

[@alfredokusuma9511]

OCG Superheavy Eart Pile please for the next challenger

[@Ari-ii9li]

tearlaments saiko!!!

[@allstars9915]

saikoooo

[@emirrungy6818]

Adamancipators And kashtira ❤❤❤

[@buddbrown4910]

Shaddoll was so close smh

[@vittoriogulinazzo6881]

Drytron would have beated his ass if wasn’t for its bad hand

[@otangakudyokeman7124]

i mean ... the dexk already loses to the weakest and most nerfed tear version (aka the current one) obv they would lose against the full power lmao

[@mrkickinthesky]

playing tear is RNG sometimes but no other deck in history gives the opponent the feeling that he cant play,worse is played by the opponent,it plays on your turn,even if you open,it mills frrom both decks and is able to control both graveyards with their shufflers,it puts up a board you gotta play around so it already manipulates the lines you can actually play,and on turn 3 when you are trying to deal with their board it can still interupt you once more,ofc its RNG but if it hits sth your done,and the coin toss who is going first/second doesnt really matter,even full anti decks are struggling cause they cant keep up with their resource,i got the feeling you gotta mystic mine them,shuffle every card back to deck,floodgate them in any way and then still summon a 8000 attack hayate to go for game,it sounds exagarated but it is the feeling

[@andrejv.2834]

Plently of decks give the feeling of being unable to play Herald drytron is probably the most notorious for this, although ishtear is up there too

[@Greg501-]

Sometimes they just want to win more than you

[@Flexy59]

while ish tear is still RNG of course, i feel like when i see them get 20 cards in their gy after just a few effects, it doesnt exactly scream "RNG" lmao pre-ishizu tear or modern tear is much more RNG reliant, because the odds of winning arent like 80%

[@christianordonez9231]

Tear Ishizu was not really RNG, we did have everything at 3 so it didn´t matter what you open, you always had something to play in your hand and every mill was a guaranteed interaction. The deck was beyond any other decks. Even now with this matches that lithium show us, the new decks just get humble when they go against Tear Ichizu, that´s why we have half a deck ban. It was necessary

[@andrejv.2834]

@@christianordonez9231 snake eye could've beaten them had they gone for apo boards, and that's despie tear having a huge advantage in the cbc format since they play little non engine, so no custom sides doesn't really affect them Tear probably won't be humbling most decks though as their going 2nd gameplan is mostly reliant on hoping to open orange light And tear had to get every card hit because of the way the deck is designed, where they don't have one key card but multiple power cards, similar to zoo or dlink for example The amount of hits doesn't really mean anything though, like for example danger thunder has more hits than ishtear and zoo, doesn't mean they're the stronger deck

[@petiteexplication6249]

Idk why but even after seeing this video it doesnt feel like tenpai is all that good its cheesy because of the field which i hope get banned or limited

[@ImHim_BelieveIt]

shifter gap tear

[@iSoaring]

How do I sign up to be a part of this?

[@Flexy59]

nobody is a part of this, it's just lithium and one guy playing iirc, and the impact us viewers have is that we can suggest/vote for decks that are to participate at the start of each season

[@iSoaring]

@@Flexy59 ohh ok thank you

[@spamligawittenbach9300]

Most of the decks had really bad hands😂

[@maple1234567890321]

super heavy sam please

[@agenttatsu]

you chose the worst drytron and dragon link replays to showcase

[@Sauron3rd]

Branded PLESE

[@Lithium2300]

What version tho?

[@Sauron3rd]

@@Lithium2300 Gimmick puppet Lock

[@andrejv.2834]

@@Lithium2300 snow version because it has layered interaction and isn't just puppet turbo

[@BlitzOverride]

Idk the branded version that plays kash and tearlaments is crack.

[@maxicruz246]

Tremendo el poder que tiene.

[@richard8670]

Kinda unfair for decks to choose 2nd when its "blind"

[@Lithium2300]

What you mean?

[@richard8670]

@@Lithium2300 A lot of the decks were going 2nd, but all of these decks chose to go 1st in their formats, and since its a 1 game format it would be "blind" but they chose to go 2nd as if they knew it was tenpai

[@sdedy379]

​@@richard8670i get it but isn't challenger appears function as challenge that prove how crazy some deck to face any deck in history? I once heard, if im not wrong, that challenger only can go 2nd so that they isn't just ftk all their opponent. It's not that fair because this isn't tournament like cbc. Just look at tearlament, they doesn't give a single fvk going 1st or 2nd and still almost sweep 10-0 if they didn't get bricked+sacked by sworsoul.

[@stanimirmilushev3008]

Still it was a bad tenpai list no shifter in main deck playing raigekinso bad

[@shawnjavery]

Raigeki is probably better for a wide event like this. Shifter is honestly kinda meh when you go second with the deck, its only really worth it going first imo.

[@tremmor214xmx8]

Lmao wht and unfair match up