The Fiendsmith Kashtira Deck I made Top 32 with at YCS Bologna 2024!

[@colossaldonut5190]

Fiendschmidt.

[@guymitchell9234]

Bro saw the opportunity and captured it immediately

[@captainsunshine64]

I knew this would be top comment

[@reeonboi937]

Ally of the greenschmitd

[@heya-x7n]

Im dead

[@reezyrenzel439]

Someone has dubbed it "Joshtira Fiendsmith" actually

[@Anxomaxo]

"The Fiendschmidt isn't real, it can not hurt you"

[@Belowone]

kashtira hand trap is more of a degenerate problem than FS

[@yuricahere]

at 23 handtraps, you can actually just call this a Ghost Girl deck.

[@jotinhafilho5920]

Lacrima really established herself as the best Fiendsmith card.

[@nouvelle147]

I remember when it first came out that people didn't pay much attention to it. Admittedlly, Beatrice was legal back then, but still

[@supremeboi1x]

Idk why u guys thought it wouldn’t be good, when I read it’s effect I realized it’s literally just a better necroquip that gives u another light fiend name, meaning u don’t need to play Ptolemy or any of that goofy stuff, it being a lvl 4, being able to send any fiendsmith card, and summon a link back on opponents turn were all added bonuses

[@nouvelle147]

@@supremeboi1x Because people were trying to make Beatrice witu the Fiendsmith stuff, Requiem summon Lacrima doesn't do anything for that

[@crimsecretxd-ex9fb]

Josh filming out of the basement were his editor rests

[@JoshuaSchmidtPlus]

LMAO

[@chitahitsu4743]

LMAO is that short for Let My Ass Out?

[@tsaad41]

Thank you for signing my runick fountains! Hope I didn't bother you by asking to do that! Congratulations on top 32!

[@Team-Demise]

It’s the Fiendschmidt Dinh-Khashtira

[@wildwombatarmy]

Fiendschmidt-Kathdinhra

[@colossaldonut5190]

Fiendschmidt Dinhk-Paktira

[@speechless1887]

Fiendschmidth din-khashtira with 50% pak traps

[@ivanmodesto7947]

I appreciate your deck profile every time, because you never use the words like "broken, you must play this...etc" which make me quit watching other ppl deck profiles before they even started. It's short and it gets to the heart of everything that ppl need to know with an example of some interaction most of the time. Just ty man. 🙏

[@LIKEMIKE593]

I watch Josh, Jesse, Hardleg and MBT. They explain things well, no buzzwords, Broken etc, as you mentioned or if it does come up there's an explanation of why and and what it is

[@artemisgrace8438]

Shoutout to the Lidl bag in the background

[@TCGSyphax]

as a master duel only enjoyer, seeing 3 fenrir and 3 planet is a fuckin jumpscare

[@thecroza]

Honestly hate how md hits consistency over power, would rather have 3 fenrir 3 planet than ariseheart honestly

[@superpolymerization4169]

@@thecrozano please Them having less ways and openers is 1000 times better than banning ariseheart

[@bearkey5346]

Ariseheart as a boss monster is fine, the problem is when kash gets 2+ arisehearts on the field turn 1

[@easyygo3008]

No, it is not. Killing the problem card while leaving the deck usable as an engine or rogue option is actually way better. Is not like kashtira is doing unfair stuff, is just there and cycles with the format

[@mikeholland6750]

Ariseheart is cringe though. Kash as an engine is fun to use​@@superpolymerization4169

[@yugitalk]

some days ago this guy was talking about a healty format were people play muktiple engines in exchange of flex and then proceed to play a 15 card engine and 25 flex deck

[@darth_Lefeon]

9:32 quick correction. It’s not a fiendsmith card. It’s any non link light fiend in grave. This card has a lot of application in plunder patrol and other decks that use fiend monsters and 100% would recommend people try out

[@stefano5776]

Might be wrong but pretty sure Plunder Patroll doesn't properly summon the extra deck Ships with Blackbeard, so I assume you can't special summon Lys (light fiend one) back from the GY with the Fiendsmith's Link3

[@darth_Lefeon]

@ the line I normally go with is you do your normal plunder stuff trying not to lock yourself then when I get to Jord and make the light fiend token go into requiem and do fiendsmith line and instead of making the fusion I make lys with your plunders in grave and then link 3 into agnumday special back lys either on ur turn to make him untargetable and really big or on ur opponents as an interruption

[@NinthSettler]

@@darth_Lefeon fabled agmunday

[@roberthaynes3245]

Nobody else just feels bummed out that it’s 50% handtraps now

[@Lessonius]

Oh I personally absolutely do, stopped playing last year where 15 became the norm. Game became diceroll simulator into handtrap simulator, the actual gameplay is horrendous 90% of games, the 10% of actual back and forth simply cannot compensate. Switched to OPTCG, best decision ever, couldn't be happier. There's actual gameplay there that doesn't feel absolutely atrocious. Given how things are now much worse and keep getting worse just reinforces my belief that YGO is practically dead for anyone who isn't coping hard and/or is too invested/relies on it for income.

[@humbertoalvarez9696]

Not really most hand traps still take skill to properly utilize, excluding shifter and droll. I personally think boardbreaker formats are horrible because you lose to your opponent either drawing the out or not.

[@traplover6357]

Having more handtraps doesn't like a bad development when most are one for ones. It's the one card starters thats the problem

[@NinthSettler]

i quit tournament play because it's unbearable last regional i played fire king sealed and it was great, won the mat

[@easyygo3008]

This isn't different from edison with 16-20 defensive cards. Like... Just because they are hand traps, changes nothing

[@captainsunshine64]

This deck being in rotation made the event so much more fun to watch. Its very satisfying to see an anti meta pick come out of nowhere and do well

[@Ralir]

Bro it's literally a "good cards" pile. Anti meta what? it's literally using two of the most popular meta engines and 22 hts

[@michaelmorales1602]

@@Ralir Kash isn't a popular engine right now, hasn't been for awhile

[@Brettendo64]

@@michaelmorales1602 It is quite literally a popular engine right now. You can find Kash cards in pure Kashtira, Snake-Eye variants with Kashtira cards splashed, and now this Fiendsmith variant. All of which topped this event.

[@cightless]

the anti meta engine known as fiendsmith

[@ItSpooling_]

@@cightlessfiendsmith has been a part of the meta since it came out lmao

[@peloifrancesco8027]

Thank you so much for stopping and signing my mat while running to your table for the top 64❤

[@Cloroxrants]

Fien fien fien fien fien fien🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣

[@DiploRadio]

The edit of the video is insane. Explanations with cards showed is amazing. Gg josh, this game deserves more people like you

[@tengeri1001]

Josh just made his own Mathmech deck

[@stiggy8258]

Long story short, Moon is the enabler this format. I wonder if she'll stay or get put on the chopping block

[@michaelmorales1602]

she's fine

[@TemporalDelusion]

What oversleeves are those? They seem to have a tighter fit than dragonshield overs.

[@RashFaustinho]

Aww, Joshua was here in Italy and I didn't know. It would've been cool to meet him

[@6210classick]

He streams by the way

[@NinthSettler]

That lighting makes you look 20 years older than you are

[@KiarouW]

DinkhSchmidt Paktira is just hella funny😂

[@errikos-georgiosbek7406]

The lightning seems great! Amazing airbnb choice 👌

[@huntsmanspider9053]

will you put runick in it later

[@souliswinter1024]

we throw in 2 splashable engines with a ton of handtraps and called it a "deck"

[@traplover6357]

I mean, this was Sky Striker with going 2nd spells in 2019 and Sky Striker as a engine for Orcust decks

[@Ralir]

Someone in the comments called this an "anti meta" deck 😆

[@Brettendo64]

@@traplover6357 Not the same thing.

[@brittis_n3xus]

It gladdens me that you respected ritual beast and acknowledge their ability to push through regular handtraps. As an RB player myself I feel that detail is often overlooked and it has contributed numerous victories on my behalf. As for the deck itself, I think it was very well thought out, and maybe post CRBR it could be just as good. What were your thoughts regarding Bystials? I havent seen anyone bring it up, and the FS engine is very weak to them, so the Centur-ion matchup is kind of dicey on that regard I would think.

[@traplover6357]

Wonder what the Fiendschmidt thinks of Magical Musketeers with the same concept of minimal fiendsmith + tons of handtraps deck that won

[@Tarmaccafe]

Ghost belle on dyna mundo goes crazy

[@AhmedNasr-ow1jv]

We have reached a point where half handtraps decklists can top This is a horrid development of the game I'm genuinely sad to see

[@Jyxero]

"Welcome to the future", be thankful it isn't half other 1 card engine to compensate the space

[@premejon8300]

This isn’t much different than half ur deck being quick play and trap cards back in the old times, Yugioh has always been a game of “who can fit the MOST non engine and still be consistent” lets not be facetious and pretend like handtraps are the issue here, the issue is overloaded engine pieces that do SO MUCH on their turn and the FOLLOWING turns, that u cannot afford to NOT play hand traps. Stopping these absurdly powerful cards from developing into a snowball of degeneracy is the problem modern Yugioh faces. Instead of blaming the outs u have to hard draw and play 20+ of, blame the engines that are forcing players into this method of deck building.

[@Err_Sauce]

Joshtira Fiendschmidt

[@henniman]

This Deck rocks!! I would love to play it myself at the german open this december. BTW are you going to be present at the german open?

[@CrisRullz]

let's gooo, soon decks will consist of full on 35 handtraps with 5 starters

[@bdc129]

Soon we will see decks with 40 handtraps that go full combo with any normal summon

[@dennisbernhard3117]

Insanely cool list! Congrats on the top! :)

[@DanielHAlba]

No collector lurrie? You just broke my heart, Joshua :c

[@zrq4773]

why Gaia not dark knight lancer

[@dmcenforcer5237]

what card is on the mat?

[@Malister23]

Man this deck looks so cool,cant wait for kashtira and fiendsmith heavy bans :D

[@lcho_gaming3487]

Yo josh, what do you do in the labyrinth matchup, cuz i found it really hard?

[@BoyNextDoor6699-wi6mq]

How about replacing Gaia with Full Armored DarkKnightLancer? It could suck opponents' monster as its material while having the same function as Gaia (for u xyz summon it on Caeser or M7)❤

[@RetroYGO]

Dam Josh Really doing everything he can to not use the Pak Century Rare Hand Traps

[@Leyus03]

Finally, the FiendSchmidt

[@philippsteiner7731]

yo did i miss something? why did no fire king snake eyes top the event? they were the best deck a week ago and now nobody plays them😅?

[@ScorchYGO]

5 Fire King topped the YCS

[@gregorstrugale3203]

Everyone plays 17 plus Ht*s. That means you only get to make any real board around 40% of the time. Also the whole Fireking-Azamina Deck Omega loses to Handtraps, cuz every card needs a discard or an other resource. E.g: With pitch a card. Gets Veilered and then you just traded -1.

[@mattex200]

you guys are geniuses for coming up with this deck !

[@roberthaynes3245]

This a troll

[@mattex200]

So i can't say his team genuinely came up with an great idea for one event ?

[@easyygo3008]

They really aren't. Everyone good was already on the known that 20 hand trap / 20 1 card plays was the best deck. They just were the first ones to top a ycs with it

[@ivansosa6116]

Which outersleeves are those? Looks cool

[@psykotik142]

Hi, i used to play the TCG when i was a kid but we played with shitty decks we made with our collections, since then i've played a lot of duel links and master duel and i just got back to the TCG. My problem is that i want to play decks with card arts that i like so i've made a Lyrilusc, Live Twin/Spright and Traptrix decks. It is mostly to play with friends and for collection but maybe i could play some tournaments from time to time. Do you think i could perform in tournament with those decks or is it too much off-meta?

[@DarkLawYGO]

If we dont have purge what else can be played?

[@uzelac1372]

What do I replace purge and malchurmies with?

[@NinthSettler]

@@uzelac1372 play a different game

[@Leo98pm]

literally nothing

[@el_DartoSuprapto]

nothing really, probaby droll at best

[@yuricahere]

the b and c tier handtraps.

[@Mojo1800]

Shitter hand traps

[@Enby_adams_]

I was really waiting for this

[@masterisac5301]

What is the brand of the double shield?

[@Meme-pg5tw]

this is handtrap turbo with a kashtira engine and a fiendsmith engine congrats on doing so well i just dont like how we have to run so many handtraps due to snake eye fiendsmith and tenpai all having a million pushes

[@Liliana_the_ghost_cat]

Yeah. I agree.

[@ianlee5008]

How is the deck gonna look & perform on master duel?

[@TruePartyKing]

Ah yes solid list overall but 50% handtraps.. yay … this is why I’m on Edison lol

[@easyygo3008]

Esison is 50% defensive cards LMAO Just learn to play good decks.

[@boraaksitozgun9912]

​@@easyygo3008yeah but Edison is fun.

[@Liliana_the_ghost_cat]

​​@@boraaksitozgun9912I agree. Edison is fun. Which is why I think that decks looks fun as well. Handtraps are themselves not the issue, the issue is that there are decks that can make absurd end boards while also having small enough engines to fit a ton of handtraps. In my opinion, a deck should have to sacrifice a lot of non-engine slots if it wanted to make powerfull combos. Decks should either be low-ceiling high handtrap slots or high-ceiling and low handtrap slots. (Idealy though. The high-ceiling decks shouldn't be that high. No one card combo should make 5+ interruptions)

[@serycleancooking]

Man the thing i learn from this is insane. I like the way JS taught us so much how to actually use the deck after see the profile.

[@TgsMaverick]

I got smoked by this deck yesterday at our regional and the pilot finished 3rd. Really tempted to build it but I suspect fiendsmith cards are going to skyrocket, and there may be a banlist soon. Great list and good job!

[@easyygo3008]

They are not going to hit fiendsmith cards lol

[@clydezied9118]

no one cares about fiendsmith. the meta will shift with ryzeal

[@fredplaysbgs5756]

How do backrow heavy decks feel? I feel like this would struggle to play second into lab or stuff like that

[@easyygo3008]

Trap decks die easily. They have to commit resources every turn to stop recurrable threats. Is very easy to put an engraver at 4.8k that is untargettable and pops cards. FS is really strong vs any type of grind deck

[@mikc3261]

Hallo Josh, hier dein Fan aus China. Ich weiß nicht, ob du vielleicht irgendwo gehört hast, dass du ziemlich viele Fans in China hast. Viele meiner Freunde fragt mich, wo man deine Videos finden kann(da die meisten in China keinen Zugang zum KZbin haben). Deswegen frage ich hier nach deiner Erlaubnis, diese Video in BILIBILI (eine chn. Webseite) mit chineseschem Untertitel zu hochladen. Natürlich werde ich dabei die Quelle bzw. die Link zu deinem Channel hinzufügen. Falls du Intresse in langfristiger Zusammenarbeit hast, bin ich bereit mit dir in Kontakt zu kommen.

[@frankunodostres473]

so... is fenrir finally gonna get banned now? also I'm shocked you don't play SCR kash birth, when you usually go for max rarity :D

[@abendsonnewarriorcats9474]

This deck looks super enjoyable. Unlucky that I didnt think of this choice

[@roberthaynes3245]

Sarcasm?

[@watcher2624]

@@roberthaynes3245no

[@angelgmoralesramos9660]

We all can agree he is the best and most geniune yugituber right?

[@thereaper5171]

bro wants fenrir and requiem banned alongside pak and ding kha

[@gungnir382]

Fiendschmidt Team ❤

[@Gymantis]

I think this guy bought spreadsheets from a guy called Pak

[@jzriw]

Jesus christ 23 handtraps eeewwww

[@dingstar308]

What about cosmic cyclone in the side ?

[@easyygo3008]

You can do that, but all of the ht's they played stop azamina decks early enough

[@dingstar308]

@easyygo3008 yeah but cosmic for random runick matchups and for fireking island, and stand up centurion

[@lightningboltc2683]

Finally pure fiendschmidt (kash is basically non-enigene) is good. Deck seems fun af. Nice work!

[@jamismiscreant7514]

Pretty decent Could use more hand traps 23/42

[@herolindgashi3462]

Congrats on the top but man i miss when decks would only run like 9 non engine at more. More then half the deck being handtraps is soooo lame

[@benjaminlahoy1324]

All hail fiendschmidt 💪🏽

[@cwill102able]

Maybe you would've done the back-to-back if you put Runick in the deck. Cool concept tho, still the GOAT.

[@AndresPurrely]

thanks for signing my cards. for me you are the best player ever

[@RuruRampage]

Now everyone going to say i copied you with paradise. Been running it since day one.

[@massimodecimomeridio6191]

But u all played without a wincon on time?😊

[@Leo98pm]

aaaand purge is now $30 every time lmao

[@martinschoofs1932]

Question about the agnumday combo: can you also equip the sequence from grave during the battlephase for additional damage, right?

[@subspeciandialect2550]

its not a quick effect so no

[@michaellockett4044]

54% hand trap is crazy. This game has lost the plot. Good job though.

[@anhkienhoang3212]

Question: If Tenpai and Fire variants are the decks to beat, why is Bystials in side deck falling out of favor? Looking back at the event almost everyone is running some sort of Fiendsmith so wouldn't that work?

[@flary18]

Lacrima is the best Normal Summon. My brother, its the only normal summon xD

[@Liliana_the_ghost_cat]

Lurrie is a normal summon

[@MrGshinobi]

I'm sorry but decks being able to run 20 + handtraps is just ridiculous, this game's balance has gone way out of control.

[@Liliana_the_ghost_cat]

It depends on how strong the deck is. If your deck makes a one card combo that ends on 5+ interruptiond but then also has 20+ hand traps slots, then that's unfair. But if it's a deck like this which makes a relatively weak end board, then I honestly believe it deserves to have all those hand traps. This deck just straight up looks like a MTG control deck. I will definetely try it out once I get the chance to

[@easyygo3008]

For clarification, agnumday revives non link light fiends, not just fusions. This is relevant because reviving engraver at untargetable 4.8k (or lacrima at 4.2k) does come up often and helps win the hand trap wars as you really don't anything else once lacrima and agnumday are down

[@NioNerd]

Super dope deck.

[@gtafan110010]

bologggna

[@carloseduardopereirocid5149]

Althoght is better pronunciation than MBT 😂😂😂😂

[@gtafan110010]

@@carloseduardopereirocid5149 BOWLOKNAA

[@vaonir9164]

The deck looks like a warcrime

[@trevorpinkney3364]

ive been testing my own version of this for the last 6 weeks and it feels really strong, i went alot heavier into the kash cards tho, like maining rise ogre tear scare and theosis, they seem strong but i think the hand traps would be way better, also tested like 46 main to try fuel grass to enable early birth reborns or engravers in gy

[@RedDarkMoon]

Das ist ein Fehler in der Überschrift! Es heißt: Fiendschmidt. :D

[@ivancannistra1188]

Gorgeus

[@nickching3128]

Very nice im playing a similar pile. Just slightly different 😊. Kash + hand traps are soo good . Fiendsmith is nuts

[@wumboneff7155]

23 handtraps in the main deck. What a format trolldespair

[@Greeds_]

dont worry next format ocg players are dropping handtraps for mainly boardbreakers

[@Youtubewatcherloll]

I don’t remember a time in the last 3-4 maybe 5 years a single player was happy with the yugioh format. Tear is an exception

[@TheDarknightRemix]

​@@KZbinwatcherlollNovember 2023 was a great format. Just after AGOV.

[@alex-plorateur793]

@@KZbinwatcherloll stop playing, a lot of us had a lot of fun this year. This format in particular is fine

[@Avermra]

People not playing the game telling you the game you are playing right now is not fun is one of the takes of all time

[@AnotherWindaSimp]

Holy bazonga.

[@NBF803]

FIRST! CONGRATULATIONS JOSH KEEP DOING GREAT AND MAKING GREAT CONTENT !

[@Chillyvanilly]

josh only plays top32 decks

[@keinelusteinenfakenamenzue7625]

The question in yugioh years ago: "What are the view handtraps, that I want to add to my engine ?" The question today: "What are the view engine cards, that I want to add to my pile of hand trap staples?"

[@martinschoofs1932]

The GOAT

[@TeaRektum]

❤

[@ShinerCCC]

Putting Blossom and Dominus Purge together is peak meta player brainrot

[@nsiderultimaseth]

Me: "Man, I'm tired of this 15+ handtrap meta. Hopefully in the future things will change and-" "Yeah I played 23 handtraps in my 42-card deck."

[@yugitalk]

some days ago this guy was talking about a healty format were people play muktiple engines in exchange of flex and then proceed to play a 15 card engine and 25 flex deck

[@nsiderultimaseth]

@@yugitalk I don't mind the concept of this deck; I think, on its own, it's very cool. But it does concern me that this might be a sign of Yugioh only trending further and further down the "one card full combo + maximum handtraps" style of deckbuilding. Ryzeal also seems to follow this deckbuilding philosophy. I have a foreboding of a Yugioh in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the TCG is a handtrap and one-card economy; when nearly all the flexible engines have slipped away to other binders; when awesome interrupts are in the hands of a very few; and no one representing the local duelists can even grasp the issues; when the duelists have lost the ability to build their own decks or knowledgably question top players; when, clutching our dice and nervously consulting our hypergeometric calculators, our creative faculties in decline, we slide, almost without noticing, back into DM staples and darkness...

[@crimsecretxd-ex9fb]

Hi

[@Hunter-s7n6i]

This is just too much HTs, if this is yugioh future it won’t last a few more years…. Congrats tho Josh!

[@easyygo3008]

How is this different than 2011 when everyone ran 20 defensive cards?

[@Lessonius]

@@easyygo3008 You mean cards that you could actually outplay instead of hoping they don't have it? That actually forced people to interact with each other? That didn't instantly end a duel on the spot, turn 1? Where opening 3 of them meant you probably weren't going to be doing much else, as most decks didn't spam out their entire deck from 1 card? The cognitive dissonance to compare modern day handtrap roulette to that is immaculate.

[@Rukarin-]

Solid decklist. But does nobody else get kinda sad to realize the game is all handtraps now?

[@Corey91666]

Definitely bothers me a little as well. If you semi limit handtraps combo decks could get out of hand. But i also dont want engines to play through 3 handtraps. At least not going full combo. I definitely like this kind of state though better than the combo madness. I hope though that not all decks become super grindy. If its fiendsmith identity im cool. If every deck starts Recycling stuff when making plays it will lead to a pretty high floor for lower level strategies to climb. Im interested to see where we continue.

[@Greeds_]

​@@Corey91666next format in ocg due to how immune ryzeal is to handtraps everyone is dropping any handtrap that isnt maxx c/ash and running mainly board breakers

[@kemor6861]

@@Corey91666 I think the real issue is that most modern combo decks don't really get punished by Droll & Nibiru anymore. Yubel just specials Phantom, SE summons a Ceasar or leaves the Flameberge on field for a long time. The play around Droll by placing cards they add instead of adding them to the hand. That's why combating modern combo decks requires either a ton of handtraps like this build, a braindead going 2nd option like Tenpai or you have to win the dice roll and put up 5-8 interactions.

[@easyygo3008]

No one is going to drop hand traps. Veiler, imp, mourner and ash are quite good vs the duo drive, which is the card you should be targeting while impermanence actually shurs off dreadner. Also, ryzeal won't be tier 0, there is other stuff you need to combat aswell.

[@easyygo3008]

Also game being all hand traps is no different than retro formats where decks all played the same 20 cards: bottomless, torrential, warning, book of moon, etc.

[@TheBluntsmith69]

This is just stun and you can’t tell me it’s not

[@number-qx1kw]

No one's dumber than a yugioh player