Today I Learned about Tenpai Dragon

[@GaoofEXP]

Today I learned about Runick Tenpai Dragon

[@Rabidragon9241]

😂

[@david_8916]

💀

[@juksleo6257]

Finally. The best runick variant

[@stefdatboi1481]

Better than Bystial Runick?

[@KevPlusBenji]

@@stefdatboi1481😂

[@babrad]

This is the start of "field spell makes you ignore the opponent" and we even see it in the following set with Puppets, as if every competent deck having a ROTA field spell wasn't enough.

[@otterfire4712]

Veidos:

[@xXNeoNashXx]

They gonna make ashened playable

[@jonathanlarge7647]

Veidos

[@gimlion4602]

Misc still at 1 tho

[@mickjaegar2379]

glad we're going back to the "skill drain on crack" school of card design

[@YeetThyMeat]

I think the wildest shit you can probably do with the deck is just some smokescreening. Duel 1 just play Lab and side all of Tenpai in for Duel 2. I love how compact that shit is.

[@Groxworld1]

bro I went up against Dino and Voiceless, both of them smokescreened into Tenpai, it's crazy I am unironically considering siding Battle Fader or Swift Scarecrow

[@babrad]

@@Groxworld1 since they can play around them with the new synchro 10, it's better to play Waboku. Extra Lab synergy lol

[@ducky36F]

@@Groxworld1 Voiceless smokescreen into Tenpai is kinda hot ngl 😂

[@mourex22]

​​@@babradsorry to bother, but what is the name of the new synchro 10? Edit: u were talking about the tenpai 10 lmao, mb

[@giftedhippos]

@@Groxworld1 thunder of ruler is a lil better, would reccomend that card

[@pringerx5768]

I see we're back to deciding the winner based on revealing their starting hands again.

[@hurrdurrmurrgurr]

Poker is my favourite yugioh format.

[@Yogy19]

Always have been

[@alicepryke6766]

In the OCG, you never have to pick between hand traps and board breakers. Maxx C existing means you always pick hand traps as they are relevant to draw. However, In TCG we often have to decide if we want to break a board or hand trap it, and examining what Tenpai should be doing is something we for sure have to think about

[@jovannyhernandez6530]

🐐 answer

[@FGj-xj7rd]

TCG > OCG 🗑️

[@LS-qs9ju]

Tenpai play BOTH handtraps and board breakers in the deck. Guess what, Maxx C also helps you draw the board breaker lol. Except DRNM for obvious reason.

[@tabbune]

The other half of this equation is that if you want to play against Maxx C, you're going to put in Ash Blossom anyways, so you're already 6 cards into being a handtrap pile

[@dyrothobee]

Knowing tcg, they will just tech tenpai on turn 1 decks. Turn 2 decks can't exist there.

[@josephcourtright8071]

You have to play a billion hand traps, because every deck plays through one hand trap. And if someone manages to combo going 1st, then they put up so many interactions that its basically an FTK. Boards are just getting harder and harder to break with each format.

[@WhatsUrName0o7]

It’s clearly time for Konami to make a new board breaker then

[@bobby45825]

@@WhatsUrName0o7 Wrong, it's time for Rush Duels, both on paper and in MD.

[@JuanGonzalezZzZzZz...]

Goat and Edison, then Vegas and Tengu are duperior to that Ps1 yugioh you call Rush ​@@bobby45825

[@blastchaos4286]

​@bobbykuhn4582 what will that do for duel monsters format though

[@bobby45825]

@@blastchaos4286 Can't save what's beyond saving.

[@zerochill4096]

Snake-Eye is a symptom of the egregious focus of the evolutionary war between generic Extra Deck disruption pieces/OTKs and the handtraps that stop your opponent from playing the game. Even without Snake-Eye in the equation, Tenpai Dragon will still play the same way and be a top Deck because all they need is 1 of their 18 cards drawn to OTK the opponent and they can fill up the rest of the 22 with Handtraps to shut every possible play your opponent can do down. Tenpai Dragon represents the evolution of Battle Phase Deck in this evolutionary war of stupidly good generic Extra Deck monsters and Handtraps and it unfortunately leads to the situation of "I win the turn you let me play" even more

[@xCorvus7x]

But doesn't the viability of handtrap-heavy decks depend on how much handtraps affect the other decks in the format?

[@yamine_Q_ray]

its kinda why as much as people hate on it, kash format was great cause most people just ran board breakers. sure it was a 'draw the out format' but imo it feels a lot better than 'who has enough extenders'. like even josh's boardbreaker snake eyes at the end of the day is still snake eyes. i honestly cant believe theres people that hate on circular but look at snake eyes and say that theres a difference.

[@zerochill4096]

@@xCorvus7x There are more Handtraps than Ash and Imperm tbf, and the variety of Handtraps that are playable each format varies a lot. Droll is an excellent example of this since it's either unplayable or the most broken thing in the format. D.D. Crow and Ghost Belle can also end up being the best Handtraps of the format if there's a lot of Decks that have key GY interactions that they don't want interrupted. And if Boardbreakers end up being popular, Tenpai Dragons can add more of those in too because the core engine is flexible. Either way, the range of Handtraps existing shows that there will never be a format in where Handtraps are never good. Weaker than other options yes, but never a bad addition if it stops your opponent from achieving certain plays

[@Shione_Starlight]

@@yamine_Q_raynah, tear format was the best format. It was skill based and the way the deck worked you couldn’t stop it with a single handtrap(except shifter in most cases but not all) and or board breaker, you had to break the board with engine. Board breaker formats arent that great imo because it doesn’t feel good to just win or lose from one or two drawn board breakers and tearlament format didn’t allow you to focus hard on one way or another, it was interactive all the time, every game.

[@chaotixthefox]

​@@yamine_Q_rayI wil be admitting you into the asylum.

[@ivicapavic3381]

Konami needs to stop with the "15 1 card combo archetype + 20 hand traps" bullshit.

[@MiyaoMeow588]

unless we get a total revamp of the game, i think this is just yugioh forever now. i don't know how you can power creep that

[@traplover6357]

@@MiyaoMeow588 or they can just nuke the entire meta/format and make stronger decks that are weaker to boardbreakers.

[@StriderYGO]

​@@MiyaoMeow588the next development to that is either having cards that just brush off HTs or having a deck like Tear, where you mostly play engine and where the engine is just so versatile and vast that it trumps 'half-engine, half-techs' decks. Being able to search a tech card or being able to make plays with a tech card is superior to a mere tech card.

[@Thestar17x]

Rush duel ​@@MiyaoMeow588

[@Numbwill]

Yes, Bring tear izhizu back

[@guilty_neco]

Before: "guys this deck sucks, it's a battle phase archetype" Now: "the field spell does WHAT???"

[@josephcourtright8071]

I just wanted to summon things in the battle phase. Now it's going to be expensive. Go back to thinking it sucks everyone please.

[@PyroniumZ]

Damn, maxx c and shifter make the game way more interactive, trust

[@6210classick]

Gotta love when TCG exclusives tear up the OCG meta

[@traplover6357]

@@6210classick tbf, OCG and TCG R&D both team up to make the cards. They just release it as a TCG exclusive cuz why not. That reminds me, Maxx C, Nibiru, and now Shifter. Guess our handtraps are just better than our exclusive archetypes ☠️

[@nightwish7074]

Time to start siding in fucking Dragon Capture Jar I guess. Edit: It's actually hilarious to me that out of all the joke responses this comment's gotten, Dragon Capture Jar is arguably still the best choice. Gravity Bind's reciprocal, Shadow Mosquito's a Rank 2, Threatening Roar only works for one turn, and Battle Fader requires a clear monster zone to activate.

[@OlgaZuccati]

fucking gravity bind

[@alphashina]

Just use roar

[@6210classick]

Shadow Mosquito 😈

[@alphashina]

@@6210classick And Assembled Nightingale(easy for snake eyes). But if they have droplet😅

[@monkfishy6348]

Battle Fader about to go nuts.

[@aetherblackbolt1301]

Restrain yourself from trying to make Runick Tenpai work Josh :0

[@mattimatronic8152]

How does that even work?

[@winter945]

​@@mattimatronic8152it doesn't

[@HDLSGaming]

@@winter945could make a better turn 1 xD

[@babrad]

@@mattimatronic8152 Just use your runicks during BP to bait/destroy their board then OTK with the Tenpais. Smokescreening both engines at least works because they can be 15 cards.

[@kps3252]

​@@babradtenpais work because you cannot put negates / big monsters with so many handtraps. Runick cards are useless going second in T1. Going second, you will only use 1 destroy and 1 negate at best since you wont have fountain. Also they either negate the tenpais or your runick cards, so gl with that

[@tamanobu9208]

Funny enough, there is now a blind second deck and a ritual deck in OCG competitive environment .

[@quassar4618]

Ritual? How come?

[@davidjimenez3822]

​@@quassar4618Voiceless Voice

[@The_Young_Lion]

@@quassar4618Voiceless Voice, the Skull Guardian archetype.

[@McDerpyderp]

As it turns out if u have 1 card starters that end great you can run a crap ton of handtraps

[@alphaaqua2869]

This deck is gonna be hell on Master Duel’s BO1 format

[@FakeHeroFang]

Numeron with Heat Wave and 20 hand traps, just shoot me and get it over with.

[@bobby45825]

I might, seriously, dismantle my numeron deck for this. It seems strictly better.

[@PyckledNyk]

Players with a million hand traps already crafted are gonna dominate. Newbs are going to be more isolated from the game than ever because hand traps are almost all UR and there hasn’t been a “Rarity Collection” for MD that would provide hand traps in a convenient location.

[@bobby45825]

@@PyckledNyk Which, unfortunately, Konami is probably aware of and ok with because they've gotten tired of how generous the f2p aspect of this game has been. I haven't put in a single cent on my account but I've been playing since the game released. Like you mentioned, there will be a clear f2p wall for newer players once some of these decks hit.

[@delta3244]

1:12 - The year is 202x. Yugioh has grown so fast that handtraps are the only possible response to every deck's speed, and a perfect mix of engine and non-engine is required to succeed. Because of this, the winner of a match depends solely on opening hands and the coin flip. Players have grown ridiculously skilled at manipulating their decks perfectly, watching their opponents shuffle, and flipping/predicting flung coins all without sleight of hand due to them being the only remaining factors in deciding matches.

[@Gravitysonic0]

I swear to god I think I saw a trap heavy version of this deck that played a labyrynth core on the side to just straight up change decks during siding

[@b4sh936]

eww

[@churroburrito-o7u]

That’s fucking hilarious. Start of game 2: *Dragon takes off mask* HAH IT WAS ME, LOVELY ALL ALONG

[@septimus5729]

Depending on what you are willing to spend extra deck slots on you can actually go first with this deck. Going first any 2 card combo except the two spells lets you go into Ancient fairy dragon and set up necrovalley. Using AFD and the lvl 7 Tuner Synchro you summon Tzolkien which summons Black Winged Dragon. Make seals with Black Winged Dragon and one of the maindeck dragons that got revived by the Tuner. Finally banish Black Winged Dragon and Bident Dragion from the grave to summon Black Winged Assault Dragon This way you end on the Tax Dragon, Seals and Necrovalley. On top of that Seals will summon Baidora from deck on your oppoenents turn, which then will set a spell to your board, triggering Tzolkien again. You can then Summon Shooting Riser Dragon to quick synchro into any lvl 10 (usually Baronne). Not bad considering you only really have to run the 1 necrovalley in the main to make this board possible. All those snychros do make your deck weaker to D-barrier however.

[@ItSpooling_]

Doesn’t necrovalley stop some of their summons in battle phase?

[@septimus5729]

@@ItSpooling_ yes but you wont ever enter battle with nercovalley up. you simply activate another Brimming Sangen Manor turn 3 and otk as usual. The quickplay spell you set off Baidora during turn 2 searches another Baidora, which in turn gets you the field spell.

[@116_Gaming]

Also, Happy Easter everyone

[@InhaereBisecare]

You too! Have a blessed day

[@casualplayer8464]

U2 bro

[@NewtBannner]

You too man

[@plabcentral630]

Happy Easter to you too. Let his resurrection brighten your day.

[@meiyagii]

The look on Joshua's face when he realized what the deck actually does is hilarious

[@pockit5107]

I love how the viability of modern yugioh decks literally boils down to how many handtraps you can squeeze into a list and nothing else. It doesn't even matter what the deck does as long as it can one card combo and can run 15+ non engine.

[@masterh2o2]

I wished @Ignister was meta because of that.

[@PyroniumZ]

Not always, but some formats yes

[@Exisist5151]

The thing with these decklists is sometimes they’ll just win, that’s a fact. It’ll happen. They’ll open crazy and you won’t open enough. That won’t be a majority of games though. If the format continues to look this way, we’ll see a rise in Crossout, Called by, as well as Talents & Thrust to punish the number of handtraps being thrown around. A lot of the innovation going forward is going to be in deckbuilding and not gameplay. This is going to be for making the deck that is most resilient to handtraps. On your end what you should do is: Decide what non-engine cards are common in the meta, if you’re going to play around them, & how you’re going to address them.

[@churroburrito-o7u]

@@masterh2o2ignister always gets random tops in ocg

[@traplover6357]

That's because even if you run board breakers, you still need to have an actual deck engine to build towards and the remaining cards in your opponents hand will be handtraps. So handtraps are more economical cars advantage wise than board breakers.

[@guillermoguzman8953]

The turn one board is either heatwave and shifter pass or its seals, ultimaya, tax dragon, then quick synchro into a baronne or a crystal wing on opponents turn with necrovalley. They can also end on nirvana high paladin with secret village. How do i know? Because theyre me of course

[@Groxworld1]

How do you get Secret Village into rotation? Or do you just pray you hard open it?

[@alphashina]

@@Groxworld1Ancient Fairy Dragon

[@6210classick]

Tax Dragon as in the one Branded plays or the Red-Eyes Xyz?

[@felipebarreto97]

​@@6210classick Assault Blak Winged Dragon

[@MonkUnitBrawl]

@@6210classick Black-Winged Assault Dragon

[@randommaster06]

Modern meta archetypes are so compact that you can now actually just play it in the meme deck of all hand traps and it's actually good.

[@colossaldonut5190]

This is what War Rocks should've been.

[@BoBnfishy]

They weren't dragons though, so 6-year-olds are more likely to like this one

[@116_Gaming]

Happy Easter Joshua

[@Otzkar]

the meta doesnt care about enjoyment it cares about winning. and if handtraps win thats the way the format will shape up to be. its kinda like evolution in that way. what works sticks and what doesnt doesnt.

[@MahaXad]

Yeah, except evolution has no one controlling it. Yugioh is still decided by Konami, they can change the way the game is played, they decide the banlist, they print the cards.

[@Otzkar]

@@MahaXad thats what the liberal agenda wants you to think.. if you actually used your god given senses and tuned into the frequencies you could also spontaniously evolve and open your third eye.. your SNAKE EYE! everything is connected and we are all too focused on card games to realise! You sleep while THEY live

[@zeothesnowwolf2937]

​@@MahaXad we've seen with tear players that it doesn't matter how much you try and murder a deck. People are gonna find some weird ass synergies and be able to do stupidly well with them

[@MahaXad]

@@zeothesnowwolf2937 Because tearlaments was a tier 0 deck from 2022 to begin with, not yet powercrept. And deck milling existed 15 years ago. Best example of Konami deciding the meta is ritual and pendulum summons. Konami decides when ritual based decks are meta, examples nekroz and drytron herald. Pendulum summoning was so busted when it was released, they were forced to change the master rules for pendulum summoning from the extra deck. So yeah, Konami decides how the game is played 90% of the time. The other 10% is player creativity.

[@deboltteamenlight3480]

Prosperity: „Every damage your opponent takes this turn is halved.” Tenpai: 😏

[@Ikhebhonger1]

"Why aren't they surrendering?" Because you're not allowed to concede in the OCG. Why? Who knows, weird rules. This was especially bad in Tearlaments format where sometimes it was impossible to hit game 3.

[@MaxwellAlvarado]

This is honestly side effect from two things 1-How disgustingly strong and punishing decks are to other decks when you brick, even none meta decks with their current support can easily develop OTK fields like it's nothing 2-Tech cards becoming so stupidly powerful as a way to deal with it As a result the best decks need 1 of 2 things 1-a small self efficent engine so they can fit in as much tech cards as possible to counter other meta decks 2-cards in their archetype that are so good to the point they dont even miss using the powerful tech cards If you are neither of these things you wont be meta right now, the game desperately needs to slow down

[@churroburrito-o7u]

Tenpai gonna be a menace in Master Duel

[@grillmaster95]

Feel like this is barreling toward a hard reset type of change to the game. Whether through a massive banlist or through a new master rule or something, it just feels like that's where this is headed

[@fellowinternetstranger8700]

Or just killing the game so that they can focus on pachinko like they did with silent hill.

[@r3zaful]

​@randombadchannel8700 again, konami isn't a company that prioritize foreign market and they don't make much money off pachinko AND their biggest games aren't even in English, outsold both xenoblade and elden rings in Japan, quess the name? Momotaro dentetsu and power pro. Go search off it by yourself if you didn't believe me.

[@Alkhemia8]

they have a hard reset it rush duel we just not getting it

[@leonHHHtriple]

The thing is the tuner red dragon, while summoning the searcher white dragon resolving their effects in damage step, so they're immune to Ash, only way to stop them is imperm the red tuner dragon on the board, assuming there's no other dragons on the field

[@thimbletoe]

Commenting super late but the fact that the decklist was over half Hand Traps I feel like this is the breaking point for the game. I dont think you should ever have over half your cards having basically 0 synergy with you deck and just relying on stopping your opponent doing anything

[@nerfirelia8235]

Swift Scarecrow and Battle Fader could unironically see play after this deck comes out. It's very likely they attack directly before they get the synchro out that stops you from activating effects so the cards could definitely work.

[@6210classick]

Those 2 are bad, Shadow Mosquito is better

[@antonbrown17]

a sneaky part about what makes the deck hard to play against is that the main deck monsters arent once per turn. I remember going forst against them and getting more board shredded by board breakers but i thought i was ok cuz i negated the tuner that special summons. Nope, they were able to reborn it somehow and do their standard combo. I like that they're making the battle phase relevant but it doesn't feel play against something that has a field spell that discourages interaction, few once per turns and then hits you for 30K damage

[@dannylongfellow]

Modern tenpai dragon has shifted to setting up Secret Village if they go first game 2, by making AFD, specialling one of the many level 3 hand trap tuners, then making nirvana high paladin for the spellcaster requirement.

[@timbahr1792]

Unaffected during your MP1, opponent can’t nib, you make meteor burst meaning your opponent can’t use monsters in battle phase either. Tenpai is stupidly broken

[@Xero-rr2ol]

not stupidity but hard

[@timbahr1792]

@@Xero-rr2ol the deck literally has a 83% chance to open 3 handtraps every single time most decks cannot play through 2 let alone 3 or more. This deck engine is ALL one card otk. This is by far the best thing coming out of legacy

[@babrad]

@@timbahr1792 i will be genuinly surprised if they don't end up all secret/ultra for this reason. Rip wallet.

[@gabrielarocena3074]

Going 2nd sure, since they can play through hand traps, break boards and OTK in the battle phase even under Pot of Prosperity. Only thing they really need to worry about is D. Barrier hence all the anti-S/T cards on the side Going 1st, they make weak end board ( one monster on board) and rely primarily on hand traps or side decked cards like Heat Wave and Kaizer Colosseum to get to the the next turn, which can be played around by fire decks by stuff like Triple Tactics cards and generally by extenders. Still, it's one of the few decks that can run D. Shifter which is basically a blowout against majority of decks. It's still a great deck, but it's not just some deck you can easily pilot compared to Snake Eyes or Fire King where you can focus on building a board.

[@vegetavsluigi]

@@gabrielarocena3074D-Barrier is why you run the Princess into Raging Phoenix into Worldsea line in your Extra Deck. D-Barrier can call Synchro, but it can’t call Link.

[@alimuhsen11]

I just found back to yu gi oh and saw these broken decks like snake eye and fire kings its just frustrating to play against.keep the work up josh

[@Anans1_Spyd3r]

This is literally the Prankid Effect. A new deck that works outside the norm of the meta. Once we may become familiar this deck is going to get accelerated to a breaking point where it is no longer an issue without new support.

[@matthewhhawk17]

This deck is crazy cuz it can also play shifter. It can lose to back row really hard though. Definitely something I wanna play when it comes out!

[@solobugg5087]

This is what the TCG wanted War Rock to be like

[@gungnir382]

The Crazy thing is they can otk with Pot of Prosperity

[@AM-wy1fc]

Yes.. and Konami will not limited this unhealthy card

[@seppmeierthegreat332]

Remember when we said Tear was ahead of its time and too strong for the competing decks in the format? That we had to wait a long time until it's possible to unban some cards? I didn't think we would reach that point in time so effin fast... Not to set the names to 3, but to 2 maybe and Kit to 1. Also probably Ariseheart to 1 to keep Tear in check and get some competition for Snake-Eye in the format. With the upcoming Tenpai Dragons that would be a format I'd like to see.

[@WhatsUrName0o7]

I remember 10 years ago hearing people describe the Dark Matter Dragon Ruler deck as “ahead of its time” because it could easily put over 12000 damage on board and I think we’ve finally reached that peak again

[@Rahochusosu]

11:01 BASED BASED BASED

[@eu4um]

Tenpi is good into Maxx C and Nib cus they do everything in the battle phase where you cant do anything about them and then just kill you.

[@jarvanlightshield9944]

Welcome to OCG, you never knew what sht is good until we cook it

[@jiroweiler5883]

6:45 Those handtraps need more deck... LITERALLY

[@PyckledNyk]

Konomi really saw that meme about making a deck of pure hand traps and said “bet.”

[@adamking5563]

If they make you go first you side in Heat wave and they can't summon monsters period until your next draw phase then you just OTK them as usual.

[@coders1786]

Already Saw someone pre selling the main deck monsters for like $40 each on eBay 😂

[@timbahr1792]

Tenpai can do 34,700 damage through a prosperity

[@tristianmeganblagoueakajay9174]

Wtf 😂 yeah this shit tier 0

[@DaxtonOliverAshlocke]

Love how the prosperity half damage effect doesn’t matter to this deck. Definitely going to use it in this deck. It’s the same as how the banish 10 effect of desires didn’t matter in swordsoul but was actually a benefit

[@ManyTanks1]

WTF i thought I was 15-16k through prosperity not quadruple over lethal

[@tristianmeganblagoueakajay9174]

Idk after learning and playing the deck last night it's Def not tier 0 it is probably in the same bracket as voiceless if not worse. I don't think it is that good. It relies too heavily on the spell card for otk. It sucks horribly at going 1st its rogue match up is horrendous.

[@tristianmeganblagoueakajay9174]

It struggles with veiler, Impermanence and ogre slaughters the deck

[@NewtBannner]

Tenpai Dragon Link is the way to go, it can go first and second

[@dyrothobee]

I think some of their cards prevent you from summoning extra deck monsters other than synchro

[@NewtBannner]

@@dyrothobee the black metal one-line-combo (first turn uninterrupted) gets you, Dis Pater, Savage, and Borrelend, and worst case is a seals pass … TCG is probably the best build going first since we don’t have Kaiser

[@SirDelow]

If I have to sit through another format of hand traps, I’m quitting

[@ashemabahumat4173]

Lol, probably won't be a teir 0 format for much longer. And ngl, an extended fire format dosen't seem too terrible as long as theres at least 3-4 different archetypes up top

[@alphashina]

I'm a OCG player, and using 3 roar ,dimensinoal barrier in my side to fight against Tenpai. Triple Tactics Thrust also helps a lot. Give up the 1st is still a bad idea.

[@OlgaZuccati]

Konami should seriously increase the limit per card to 4 so I can Kan my dragon cards.

[@katzuma7641]

What if they made a card “if the opponent has summoned five or more monsters last turn, add one card from your deck to your hand.” As a hard once per turn obv.

[@Valyanth]

happy haircut everyone

[@iLune218]

The best strategy when you go first is putting 15 Voiceless Voice cards from your side deck and kicking off all the Tenpai Dragons

[@iLune218]

I have tried kashtira when I go first in ocg, making Arise Heart still needs 2-card combo and Arise Heart may limits your Tenpai Dragon to otk in turn 3. Rather, Voiceless Voice is a good choice for side engine in ocg, and someone really used that in competitions. In tcg you don't have Arise Heart but have 3 fenrir and 3 unicorn, kashtira maybe a good choice.

[@DarkNightwind]

I guess we probably will just eventually get a deck will play nothing but handtraps but still can otk the opponent. Fun.

[@tristianmeganblagoueakajay9174]

I think voiceless voice may actually have a decent match up against this. My issue is voiceless does not play well in to real hand trap situations. Idk I think this deck is tier 0 if it opens the field spell. Good thing we don't have Maxx c and have no since like 12 years ago. However, this deck being able to kill you and Shifter you is nuts. Even without those options this deck is insane. 22 hand traps without snake eye opening perfect makes it the better deck. It is the equivalent to voiceless vs snake eye. If snake eyes will have a chance to beat this they will need to be at full power. Making it go first is not enough as they can play the black goat and ht you out the game with seal pass. And basically play off 1 extra card and still win. Plus it's next turn draw. So you loose regardless. The best way to beat this deck with snake eyes honestly is to build very heavy go first builds but the issue with this is you become weaker to loosing the die roll against decks like Voiceless Voice. I think a deck that will be able to handle this deck decently is one that can put up enough bodies to get to the next turn through hand traps. Snake eyes can do this so there may be hope. Fire king will be it's worse match up. As the deck has to deal with too many pops for it's field spell, arvata and the rest of the board. This deck is probably more susceptible to hand traps than fire king and snake eyes. That is it's weakness. Cards like ogre will be fantastic against it because it needs all its bodies early in its combo.

[@esrohm6460]

can't wait for today i learned about tenpai runick. i know josh is gonna make it work somehow

[@christophersebastiao7501]

Old school Donkey Kong nostalgia music.

[@sandythamtono2081]

This is the kinda of deck that will make grinding master duel so much easier. Hand trap enemy to a standstill and otk them next turn Rinse and tepeat grinding points to eternity 😂😂😂

[@therobloxmonkey6704]

Should I be happy that I get to play with awesome FIRE dragons or scared because we now have an archetype that can do so much with little cards lost and the fact that newer decks are getting filled to the brim with handtraps, thus neglecting room for a web of strategies? Hmmm........

[@Mugen1874]

YOU GO INTO RUNICK AND YOU GO INTO RUNICK EVERYTHING GOES INTO RUNICK!

[@johannesschneider5209]

yup, when the mini game becomes the actual game

[@alexc3337]

Labrynth teching threatening roar is the new meta

[@duelistzach]

I’m glad I bought a Dragion when they were revealed

[@fulloffool5925]

Battle Fader seeing its time has finally come😂

[@renzokuken9623]

Tenpai just play - Heat have -Kaiser coloseum (ocg) -shifter -dumb other HT

[@plabcentral630]

With enough hand traps and extenders world chalice can prolly be good.

[@adityawiryawan560]

Going first is an option at that point

[@Freefidy]

Josh filling up a binder with wabokus rn

[@jcw034]

This deck gonna make the "zombie girl" that heals for summons meta relevant. Every time you summon you cancel out the possibility of losing.

[@LuaShine]

they can kill through prosperity, don't think it's gonna be enough on it's own but it sure helps

[@kusanagi-no-tachi5303]

Spooky Dogwood

[@ct1296]

I can see it, but at that point is something like Battle fader not better if you’re siding into something specifically for Tenpai? If they drop Dogwood in the main phase, and you have enough handtraps to just wait out a turn, you can do so without committing resources to the board. Battle Fader puts a body on your field, and forces them to cycle through a decent number of names before revealing it, making turn 4 a lot harder for them if you can out their board. Not super familiar with the cards so there’s something I might be missing. Transcend Dragion can turn off battle phase effects, so maybe there are hands that beat Fader and not Dogwood. Then again, a card like Trident Dragion gets multiple attacks so can do more damage than the life gain - so maybe they can play around either with the right hand.

[@jcw034]

@@kusanagi-no-tachi5303 yep that's its name

[@LS-qs9ju]

@@ct1296 Dogwood is great on TCG. Both Josh and Jesse bring three of them on their YCS/UDS win. With Tenpai that card will only be more relevant.

[@mynamesnotchom366]

Honestly ow is the time to play pure engine decks. Push through hand traps and set up interruptions

[@Timeater]

I think you can/could do something similar with Superheavy Samurai.

[@RanDoomPuff]

Tenpai personally made me realise the reason the tcg has split releases from ocg is so they can know which decks are good and artificially increase those decks rarity. I would have gotten tenpai as soon as possible because i just love blind second decks but now tcg konami will make it super expensive so i guess i can go fuck myself.

[@ManyTanks1]

It’s been like that for ages even before the banlist split. I remember as early as photon shockwave (deffo earlier but that’s the set I first started getting more competitively minded about the game and noticed this) rescue rabbit was a rare and iirc laggia was a super in the OCG and I was super stoked to play Dino rabbit. Boom set comes out in the TCG and rabbit’s a secret and laggia’s an ultra plus the secret rare tcg exclusive dolkka. Even recently, WANTED is a rare in the ocg, bonfire’s a super over there fetching max 20 USD a head whereas both of those that had 100+ presale prices that have only recently settled into the 40-60 usd dollar range with only higher more expensive rarities as your alternative.

[@FleetAdmirable]

every deck even the snake eyes you like does the same thing playing 50% staples and 50% engine

[@TheWiseguysTCG]

I think that konami wants battle traps to be relevant again

[@hamster6216]

blind 2nd sky striker goes well on your format, while we (OCG) prioritizing going 1st striker that basically shizuku control with bunch of floodgate, I can see tenpai could potentially be contender. Also you guys still has 3 prosperity, its insane consistency

[@Ragnarok540]

would you believe that some people in the still TCG claim that prosperity is not OP? They are very scared of it finally getting hit.

[@hamster6216]

@@Ragnarok540 well some people in TCG do tho, they mostly said if you drew multiple prosp you basically have brick in your hand, they prefer either ban it or unlimited

[@LS-qs9ju]

@@Ragnarok540 Most of them pay a hefty amount for Prosperity before RC.

[@traplover6357]

What OCG region you play in? Just curious if each regions have a slightly different meta from each other even within the same format.

[@hamster6216]

@@traplover6357 indonesia, SEA region

[@WombatOfDisaster]

OCG rarities & card quality are much better, do smth about this please, honour-KONAMI member Schmidt-san!

[@brandonlewis3938]

Tempai dragons featuring DK Country

[@testifacatehour101]

I think im on the horizon of taking a break, I'm lucky my locals has moved away from snake eye but if i ever go to higher forms of play ill probably not enjoy it lol

[@goobiehome3235]

Scrubbed raid is now a floodgate

[@markchang2964]

22 handtraps is cursed!

[@Zeroyue622]

We need to bring back tear to counter the fires XD

[@CrisisCore62]

Hey @JoshuaShmidt have you Seen the New way to play tempai? Tempai strikers

[@RoyaltonDrummer922]

This game blows right now

[@ducky36F]

Dragons best deck lets go 🐉🐉

[@Zester141]

Bro finally!

[@galaxydragon8326]

if only we had a certain level 4 cyberse mathmech monster

[@soundgreyhound]

Mekk-Knight Invoked was a chad going second strategy. This is a chode.

[@fjorddkcckkc3783]

I don’t doubt it, misc is a helluva card

[@Nv-yi1jh]

Runick goes so crazy in this deck

[@tylerwylde4100]

It seems like maybe Tenpai might be fun. It seems like it doesn't hard lose to maxx c.

[@BGLoscar]

Welp, time to maindeck Hallowed Life Barrier.

[@PyckledNyk]

3:01 this isn’t any archetype’s fault, this is Konomi’s fault

[@jonanderirureta8331]

The deck is powerful but if you hit anyone not playing floo with the shifter Maxx C combo you win.

[@shimoanime9443]

KONAMI FIX HAND TRAPS PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE