Top 10 FTK Decks in Yugioh's History (Decks That Win On Your First Turn)

In Yugioh, winning on your first turn, before your opponent gets their turn at all, is called an FTK. And FTK decks are very rare or incredibly inconsistent, so you don't see them very often. But occasionally a viable one comes around and gets a bunch of cards from that combo banned.
Script by Noah Pather
-The List-
Intro: (0:00)
10:Gallis the Star Beast Monster Mash FTK: (0:19)
9: Magical Explosion FTK: (2:16)
8: Gishkill FTK: (4:12)
7: Exodia FTK: (5:37)
6: Empty Jar FTK: (7:25)
5: Gem Knight FTK : (9:15)
4: Pendulum FTK: (12:52)
3: Danger Dark World FTK: (14:45)
2: Frog FTK : (16:52)
1: Magical Scientist FTK : (18:20)
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[@UltimaShadowX]

The timing of this video as Ronintoadin gets banned and Subsitoad is freed is pretty hilarious.

[@hakimdhaou]

It's more or less pouring Salt in an open wound...

[@TheFikFikri]

@@Laszlo_Vasko me as a paleo frog player, honestly i would suffer, as ronintoadin such a good combo extender in my deck

[@simon3078]

@@Laszlo_Vasko if roanin was erratad to a hard once, it would hurt pure frog builds, but would mean sprights would still get the same value out of the toad engine as they always have.

[@Kylora2112]

@@hakimdhaou Ronin is the problem card (and a problem in Spright). Substitoad is fine without Ronin.

[@Average_CoD_Clips]

I used to main Frog Monarchs as back in 2006ish. RIP Ronin.

[@bsgfan1]

The irony of Exodia is that it also doubles as a balance warning. Like you said, it’s always one card away from being viable. So whenever Exodia starts seeing play, Konami knows some draw card or engine needs nerfing.

[@NotSpecialDude]

I think most if not all the "alternate win" cards are balance warnings. Final Countdown, Destiny Board, Holactie, Jackpot 7, and so on are all impractical but have the capability to be practical. So if you ever see these cards make waves in the meta, it means there is a card that is seriously busted.

[@roncerjani9063]

@@NotSpecialDude I agree for the rest, but Holactie? Konami can't make that card see play even if they wanted do. I mean, look at what lengths they're going to make individual God cards remotely playable. Slifer got a trap version of anime Cards of Sanctity for God's sake.

[@NotSpecialDude]

@@roncerjani9063 Yeah, but if history has taught us anything, Yu gi oh players don't limit themselves to Archetype when it comes to breaking the game. Nightingale caused a ton of FTKs and none of them required using Lyriluscs. And Crystrons have never been relevant but everyone knows of the archtype's Link, Halqifibrax. I'm just saying, Holactie were to become playable. It wouldn't be because the Gods became playable, it would be because a card or combination of cards were made to get around that restriction. Plus on the off chance that an engine can cheat out all three gods in one turn, that would be pretty OP.

[@captainmunchlax4808]

@@NotSpecialDude you literally have to bring out all three god cards for Holactie though, seeing as there’s no way to cheat it out(like with a wild monster appears or something)AND it requires that you tribute three monsters who’s ORIGINAL names are those of the three god cards, so sure it is possible, it always has been, but unless they print a card that allows you to summon all three gods in one turn, gives you extra normal summons, AND allows you to search out holactie ALL in one turn, it’ll never be viable as a win condition

[@dudono1744]

@@captainmunchlax4808 holactile is a special summon no need for extra normal summon

[@AdamAnouer]

The Supreme King OTK was banned before Verte Anaconda was introduced into the game. Effectively the way you would enable the OTK was by using Instant Fusion (usually searched by Gate Zero and Infinity) to get out Nightingale and linking it off with Electrumite for Zeframetaltron before Pendulum summoning the 4 material needed for both Supreme King Servants to copy lyrilusc to burn for 4000 a piece. The deck usually bought out Electrumite turn 1 via Supreme King Darkwurm (which could search Gate Infinity or Zero) or Astrograph/Chronograph Sorcerer to bring out the other Magician. Usually the Gate monsters in the extra deck would act as material for the Supreme King. Yet Konami rather than hit the issue cards, instant fusion and nightingale decided to hit Supreme King Starving instead.

[@danielak1666]

I think Nightingale hit is enough. Without broken fusion monster to go to, instan fusion is not that dangerous at 1 or 2

[@AdamAnouer]

@@danielak1666 You know what I'll agree with that. I actually like Instant as a one of utility card rather than a crutch enabler for combo abuse so seeing it at 1 is honestly fine with me + it is fairly searchable. Nightingale can die in a fire though, copy and paste effects were never an issue until this card showed up.

[@danielak1666]

@@AdamAnouer actually copying monster from grave already a problem since synchro era. Infernity did abuse that kind of trick to mass an advantage and even hand loop. But consistent way to do ftk burn is something else tough

[@birdmanjon]

For more context, the ftk was in early 2018. Electrumite was one of about three good Link monsters in the game at that point. Not only did we not have the Knightmares yet, we had only had ONE good Link-focused deck in Spyral. We were more than two years away from Verte

[@AdamAnouer]

@@danielak1666 Oh you mean One-Hundred Eyed Dragon? Going to be honest I actually forgot about him. I won't disregard what your saying about the FTK burn though that was so hilariously consistent and TBH if even if you couldn't get all the material there was nothing wrong with using 1 SKSV to copy lyrilusc and use it a MASSIVE beater that was unaffected by other card effects and had piercing. I guess what I'm getting at is you're only as good as the cards you're copying. Phantom Of Chaos was pulling this trick off way earlier and I don't recall any such degeneracy with it.

[@nattapakniranittikul]

Lyrilusc/Ghostrick FTK is also viable. Assuming that you don't get inturupted by some hand trap then it is consistent enough. But even if you can't pull off FTK you can still end in a good typical board to play in normal way too.

[@Hugelag]

I have suggestions: Top 10 splashable extra deck monsters for each type Top 10 worst mill cards Best Story cards part 2 Top 10 cards that show actual cards Top 10 stall cards. Top 10 generic pendulum cards. Top 10 special conditions in the games. More Rescue Rabbit, please.

[@allmight2679]

And maybe also "Top 10 Number Monsters"

[@jeromejordanstan4308]

Rescue Rabbit Adventures part 4!!!!!

[@robertoschirmer5530]

@@allmight2679 And at Number 10 we have Number 10: Illumiknight. This is a Rank 4 XYZ monster with...

[@nathanaeljosephkristian7616]

@@allmight2679 shockmaster, rhongo

[@RaceBandit]

@@jeromejordanstan4308 | Probably got derailed by a banlist/errata update.

[@tho_tho]

Since you mentioned Frogs, a video idea I've suggested before is a top 10 cards whose existence forces other cards to change their wording, like how Frog The Jam forces Frogs/Toads to specifically mention it in their effect every single time or how Weather Report makes monsters that attack multiple times to specifically say "during each battle phase this turn" and so on, they are mostly really old cards so would be interesting to have a list that doesn't really involve meta cards or strong combos!

[@LORDMEHMOODPASHA]

Honorable mention for Meteor Black Comet Dragon Inferno Fireblast FTK, if your opponent doesn't have an Ash Blossom and you open with a single copy of Red-Eyes Fusion and 2 copies of Inferno Fireblast magic cards and you run at least two copies of Red-Eyes Black Dragon, 8,200 points of burn damage. Red-Eyes Insight makes this even more possible.

[@HarveyDangerLurker]

Played this once lost game one to FTK, won game two because Dark Law shuts it down, game 3 yes Ash Blossom.

[@Wolf_Nations]

Oh yes, I lost to that once, i had lots of cards that cuold stop it.... but none of them in hand

[@simonpetrikov3992]

Prosperity also help this also

[@randomcatname7792]

Honestly that should be number one, it doesn't rely on broken banned stuff and is actually very consistent (assuming they don't stop it)

[@Preceyese-Seyeght]

made in DUEL LINKS, FTK/OTK with "Hayabusa Knight" and "Armed Samurai Ben Kei". I thought; "hey, Links has only 4000LP, time for some beat down FTK/OTK's. I was right, i reached LEGEND Rank, with classic deck. Only newer cards were Drowning Mirror Force and Power Of The Guardians. Hayabusa Knight + Axe Of Despair = GAME (lot of times, opponents dont play a card in their opening turn, i use that opportunity) Either Ben Kei or Hayabusa, i have both in my deck. I only use 2 cards with Hayabusa, i broke record by finishing the duel by battle, also with exact damage. 2 times 2000 ATK. Fastest duel took 10- 15 seconds. Opponent ends turn after 4 or 5 seconds. I summon Hayabusa, equip Axe and 2 ataks. Done !!

[@AtelierGod]

I once dealt with a FTK effect in a tournament, it was a spell counter FTK using an synchro monster to remove said counters to burn for 8000 points of damage and the guy was so confident about its consistency that he would brag that if he went first during the first duel of the match he’d guaranteed himself victory of the whole match.

[@mycreativeandgamerschannel]

The odds of pulling all five Exodia cards as part of the initial draw is 1 in 658,008. This means that players shouldn't be too concerned about losing to Exodia on the first turn, since the chances are incredibly slim.

[@poochyenarulez]

drawing the 5 cards you need in a deck of 40 is more like 1 in 13. You don't need to draw them in order.

[@devanbrowne8706]

1st card drawn must be one of five cards. Odds are 5/40, or 1/8. 2nd card drawn must be one of four cards. Odds are 4/39. 3rd card odds: 3/38 4th card: 2/37 Last card: 1/36 (1/8) * (4/39) * (3/38) * (2/37) * (1/36) = 0.00000152, or 1/658,008

[@GigaOtomia]

Lanphin is talking about turn zero, though. The initial five cards before the first draw phase (wherein nobody draws anything) even happens. With the right deck and hand, even if you get Ash Blossom'd, drawing all five Exodia cards is a guarantee.

[@randomperson5579]

It's still the ztk with the highest chance of happening, all other ztks require your opponent to do specific things, most notably, Jackpot 7s ztk (due to being the only ztk to appear in the anime/spin-offs)

[@thedarkebika9488]

Yami yugi : i belive in the heart of the cards, I DRAW ( drawing all 5 exodia cards)

[@anonjohn9760]

An honorary mention should go to Blaze Bombardment Bird, since if you can summon and recycle it enough times it's a guaranteed FTK that you don't need to draw into with the right deck and engines. Cyberstein is the easiest way to summon it, and since it's a Level 2 Monsters it's not all that hard to make a Spright FTK deck that can pivot into its regular plays if overly interrupted.

[@shadowofsunderedstar679]

Just make sure you don't forget about chicken game when you're about to do the final burn in Gishki FTK ;)

[@cdub4626]

I know it wasnt discovered until GOAT format was already over, but the royal magical library + reversal quiz + black pendant FTK deck is ridiculously over powered and should be on here.

[@abuhassan8849]

Slash Draw FTK definitely should've been included in this top 10 list.

[@Megaomg00]

I think Mayakashi FTK too

[@MaxwelloftheClocktower]

I remember an episode of a Warhammer 40k fan based parody called "If the Emperor had a Text to Speech Device" where the main character duelled a Chaos God using Yu-Gi-Oh as a base. The Chaos god used Morphing Jar with Book of Moon, Card Destruction and Magical Explosion and for a while I honestly thought that would be a viable FTK strategy. It probably still could be if Morphing Jar would be more than just limited

[@juliusosorio9056]

Love that you talked about decks over individual cards more please!!

[@soukenmarufwt5224]

Magical Explosion has been banned for a long time now in the OCG. Life Equalizer is also banned in the OCG. Exodia was a tier 0 deck in OCG 1999. Not always an FTK, but point still stand. After that format, Witch and Sangan were errated. Pot of Greed and Graceful Charity were at 3 in OCG 1999

[@zukrad634]

Yeah, the fact that Witch and Sangan worked when sent from hand to gy just made the '99 Exodia deck a certified funny deck

[@IyoMaestro]

Don't forget how stupidly broken Last Will was. Special summon a monster every time a monster on your field is sent to the GY during that turn. Sangan/Witch + Cannon Soldier on field + Last Will = FTK.

[@EinSilverRose]

Super early Konami OCG was wild without a banlist. Even with all of that monsters with 900 attack were premium monsters you had to run after they introduced Tribute Summon.

[@TheGuyWhoIsSitting]

@@IyoMaestro The Last Will debacle was based on some judges ruling it to be as many times as you wanted in a turn when active vs. the clearly intended once. It's pretty clear that they should have been more specific when they first printed it, I can see it being interpreted both ways, hence the fact that some judges said as many times per turn as you meet the condition and only once in the turn.

[@U1TR4F0RCE]

@@EinSilverRose I believe they had started having a limited list by the time of Exodia FTK. But the format was really crazy.

[@Apalapan97]

As I understand it, the Exodia FTK is a good tool to measure how broken an engine is: if the Exodia FTK becomes a little too consistent, then something has to be banned.

[@ggwp638BC]

I like how older metas had FTK strategies that revolved around making your opponent mill and draw so much they decked out, while today Maxx C is basically that but intentional and it's one of the strongest cards in the game.

[@davidagosta]

Would have expected Dark Strike Fighter FTK to make the list. Konami hit the deck on the ban list and it was still viable until they banned DSF. DSF stayed banned until it was errata'ed to be once per turn.

[@dragonmaster951753]

It wasn't really a FTK but an OTK. You would battle and during mp2 burn your opponent by tributing every monster you had for game

[@davidagosta]

@@dragonmaster951753 Ah yes that's right. Back during an era when games normally lasted 10-20 turns it felt like an FTK :)

[@ShiningJudgment666]

@@davidagosta Games still didn't last that long back then... but pre-errata Dark Strike Fighter ended games fast.

[@michaelvalentinoyo1259]

@@ShiningJudgment666 imagine dark strike in frog FTK lol

[@ShiningJudgment666]

@@michaelvalentinoyo1259 It would be unneeded anyway. Mass Driver was legal and all you needed was the seemingly endless and easy tribute fodder from the combination of Substitoad and Ronin Toadin and a deck loaded with Frogs. The deck was cheap both in price and in play.

[@iCyberDev]

I'm surprised the Nurse Gift FTK dead was not on the list. Combo was nurse or bad reaction to simochi and the drop 3 gift cards or 2 gift cards and one "path" and then nuke them for 8 or 9k DMG at the end of the turn.

[@j0j0dartiste21]

Since it relies on traps, i fell it's more of a "1½TK"

[@bismarckimperia8781]

Its not consistent and needs a few turns if you brick, especially with traps that can be blown easily. It deals good damage when you manage it but being a trap made it easy to deal with it.

[@Teixas666]

~DTK's Cant rely on Traps that are only live once you end your turn as in you cannot actually execute the strat unti lthe opponent ca nstart their turns proper menaing they a lot more power to stop it.

[@bismarckimperia8781]

@@Teixas666 Gift Card, Bad Reaction of Simochi and that card that randomly deals 2k in a coin toss is usually the centerpiece of this combo. 3k x3 and 2k x3 then 3 copies of Simochi, then draw cards. Even then you will most likely to brick and not get Simochi, Makurya, or enough burn damage to finish your opponent. Thats not even including being second, negates, and facedown cards being destroyed, Simochi being destroyed ruins this combo easily. For you to win on your first turn you need to have 3 Gift Cards, 1 Simochi, 2 that coin toss 2k card all in your hand, Makurya or enough draw power to get all pieces. Getting the Adventurer engine is a must here to last at least a few turns to draw the necesarry cards, Temple of the Kings can win games if you failed on your first turn and Lord of Heavenly Prison protects backrow so he is a must.

[@bismarckimperia8781]

@@Teixas666 So yep, its bad as an FTK deck but a good burn deck nonetheless.

[@PerfectChaos7]

Magical Scientist FTK only needed to use 2100 ATK fusion monsters x7 to deal exactly 8000 damage, not 2200+ ATK that was mentioned at 19:07. There weren't even any fusions Magical Scientist can summon with over 2100 ATK when the FTK was first possible.

[@patrickmangels9171]

Technically there was exactly 1 fusion monster with 2200 ATK that was released before Magical Scientist was banned, and that was Dark Flare Knight.

[@PerfectChaos7]

@@patrickmangels9171 I said "when the FTK was first possible" for a reason. The FTK was achievable without Dark Flare Knight. And if we are counting DFK, then tributing Scientist at the end isn't even necessary, so the statement is inconsistent regardless (not to mention DFK gives us only 3 fodder at 2200+ at the time).

[@Karkesis]

Surprised not to see Blue-Blooded Oni FTK. It was insanely consistent, took 40+ minutes to complete like the Gishki one so no game 2, used a like 90-step loop, and won a Nationals. Thing came out of nowhere and I think was part of why Lavalval Chain got banned.

[@sagacious03]

Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

[@nichidoushiro]

I think honourable mention should be given to Tempest Magician ftk, which did not make as much impact as it should be because konami always pre-emptively banned it before it saw a chance to be played, but during that short period when it was unbanned in the OCG it did see competitive presence, given how an Endymion deck could play the game normally, but when the chance arises get Selene and Tempest magician for the ftk

[@HazhMcMoor]

It's surprising how long Tempest Magician FTK can win competitions in OCG until it's banned.

[@ShiningJudgment666]

Tempest Magician was a card that was a ban waiting to happen...

[@KuronekoBokusu]

Really great video! I use the red eyes FTK fun deck and still usuable in master duel. But sometimes, one ash can interup the combo but still a fun deck to use if you can pull it off.

[@Jaice00]

It says Frist in the thumbnail lmao

[@sowhazupguy]

Frist Trun Klil!!

[@Budasac]

I can’t believe DuelLogs would do this 😔😣

[@safehouse432]

New list idea top 10 duellogs bloopers

[@roto469]

It’s for flavor.

[@Alexalibur13]

Even the Duel Logs is writing first so fast he got it wrong. Comment section moment.

[@edwardkelly1262]

I was surprised that the dragon link/rose garden FTK wasn't on the list. It wasn't round for that long but it is probably one of the most recent FTK that could play through some handtraps even.

[@wyyyve]

Dragon link ftk was actually topping like a year ago, if you failled the ftk you were still playing the best deck in the format rather than instant losing because plan a failed.

[@caffeine3845]

Duell logs: faills to succesfully pull of his gishki ftk Duell logs: i should make a video out of this also i saw your play there in the beginning of the video love your content cant wait for the next video

[@puppieslovies]

I'd like to see a list on FTKs in the traditional format, since they have a unique banlist and players expect different hand traps I think they would be interesting

[@MrZer093]

At this point, I think Magical Scientist FTK would be the meta now that a lot of other cards have gotten errata’d (like Makyura and Exchange of Spirit). He’s easy enough to summon from deck now and there’s a few cards that can abuse all the stuff he brings out. As the draw spells would still be at 1 and the discard spells would be legal, exodia really wouldn’t be any good

[@Hclody95]

just wanted to mention that magical explosion ftk used to be a thing even before synchros, deck was basically a diamond dude turbo with reasoning and dmoc, then recycle with cyber valley to recover the milled magical explosion, was so consistent that almost won some SJC and was the reason why magical explosion got limited so early. also i mention that the strongest point of empty jar FTK was during goat format, where cyber jar was not banned yet, abuse book of taiyou and the shallow grave and finish with card destruction chained with serial spell

[@rodriguebrvd1993]

Could have mentionned the Plant FTK, which was cut short in the TCG with Amaryllis getting banned before Jasmine release, but which was crazy strong in OCG. At least could have group that into a "Topologic Bomber FTKs" group, because both Samsara Lotus and Amaryllis are still banned to this day before of those FTKs. Also Slash Draw ftk also saw some succes even at some big events (YCS Milan ?) as a replacement as a Danger! FTK instead of the Dark World Canon Soldier versions after Firewall got banned (same the card is still limited to this day)

[@melvinshine9841]

Kind of surprised Exchange of The Spirit didn't get mentioned. I don't know how it was done, but I'm pretty sure it involved original Makyura and original Exchange of The Spirit, obviously. With Makyura being able to activate Traps from the hand, I imagine it involved using a bunch of the Traps that drew cards, getting 15 cards in your Graveyard in the process, while drawing into Exchange of The Spirit, activating it and milling your opponent's whole deck before their turn ever starts.

[@ShiningJudgment666]

That's basically how it works and it was super consistent.

[@sallas09]

While the FTK was very powerful, it unfortunately was never legal in the TCG because Makyura the Destructor was banned before Exchange of the Spirit was released.

[@archmagemc3561]

There was an FTK that was as consistent as Toad FTK and could play through 1 interruption without issue, and its the FTK deck that got Ancient Fairy Dragon banned. Harpy FTK. You only needed 2 cards out of 28 cards in your opening hand to do the FTK, and you could play through an interruption if you had another combo piece in your hand which was incredibly common. (Especially since going first drew 1 card as well during that time.) It worked by using the Genex engine and harpy channeler/dancer. You would get Divine wind of mist valley on the board, sync for Ancient Fairy dragon, and use AFD's effect to swap through field spells. Once you had some setup on your board, you'd swap your field spell to Black Garden to flood your opponent's board with rose tokens, then go into fusion gate to fuse off everything into burning phoenix and just burn your opponent into oblivion. It got banned pretty fast in the OCG and was pre-banned in the TCG before it came out here.

[@calemr]

I used to help out at a games store that ran Yu-Gi-Oh tournaments occasionally. Upon seeing someone mill their opponent's entire library turn one using empty jar, consistently enough to win the tournament, I decided that I'd stick to playing M:tG. I would later play a few of the video games though.

[@Charmander_R27]

Idk how long you've been playing, but they used to be very common, and used to come around a lot. Maybe not at the top of SJC/YCS, but especially in the DM/GX era they were a frequent entity you should have expected to regularly see at locals. Hand traps were the biggest killer of these types of decks. Even Herald of Orange Light and Hanewata were common side deck cards in 5D's era due to how often you'd expect to see this kind of strategy.

[@four-en-tee]

You overlooked the fact that you can do Gem Knight FTK with Black Rose Guardian in order to flood your opponent's board and kill them without needing to burn three times. I ran this FTK during, like, the first or second week in Master Duel since Gem Knights were a free deck.

[@joebaumgart1146]

At my last MTG Vintage tourny I pulled of a T1 win. My hand was Black Lotus, Mox Jet, Mox Ruby, Vampire Hexmage, Dark Depths, Swiftfoot Boots, and a Mountain. Black Lotus, Mox Jet, and Mox Ruby a for 4 black and a red, Dark Depths as Land for turn, 2 black to cast Vampire Hexmage and sacrafice it to immediately remove all counters from Dark Depths bringing out Merit Lage. I use the remaining 3 to equip Swiftfoot boots giving it haste. I attack for lethal. The entire match lasted less than 3 mins.

[@milezw]

Cover the Morphtronic Cannon Soldier FTK deck, it's really cool and a phenomenal deck!

[@Batrstad]

Equip Cards as a whole probably suffer under RoyalMagiclLibrary. The return effect couldve been on alot of cards if it werent for RML

[@captainmunchlax4808]

I have what I think is a fun suggestion. Top ten best boss monsters, that never see play. Like maybe some of them just have really bad summoning conditions, but otherwise great effects, maybe some of them have a terrible archetype that is incredibly bad at bringing them out.

[@nathanielbass771]

My favorite is exodia incarnate. It has a ton of awesome effects including being immune to any card which affects it directly (ex, destroy all, target X, etc). It can only be special summoned by sacrificing a piece of exodia, starts at 0 attack points and gains 1000 attack points per piece of exodia in the graveyard. At the end of each turn, you return 1 piece of exodia from the graveyard to your hand. Funnily enough, while it does not "directly" benefit from cards, due to being unaffected, you can do things to target its battle phase such as equip cards, field cards, etc and likely other aspects of the card such as "owner chooses 1 card and adds attack" which i've seen affect it with "owner must destroy" etc

[@justinsmith5870]

Was ftked on the ocg and was just impressed. I've seen people mill 90% of their deck then quit so someone actually getting one to work was satisfying to see.

[@Sour_AppIe]

You need about 16 counters with tempest to win, tempest is the only card on my short history of dualing that broke my heart My set up was usually to try and get magical exemplar I think she’s called on the field, set up citidel magical abductor and another pendulum at the time and then use magical blast to rack damage and build counters for tempest. Sometimes I could just use spell books for draws and counters to gain and then tempest but once I got tempest I knew the game was set for me rarely did she not resolve

[@mortonandroy]

I was particularly fond of the FTK that used Elemental HERO Bubbleman, Elemental HERO Electrum, and Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Gustav Max. The FTK was possible if you used Bubble Illusion to activate the trap Chain Material from your hand, and then you could cycle Electrums and Gustav Maxes until you've burned your opponent 4 times.

[@albertorodrigomolinasortiz471]

My own exodia ftk deck used coelacanth, fishborg, tg librarian, formula synchron and stuff. Generally opponents surrendered once the second shooting quasar hit the field. That was the first time a bankist hit more than one of my cards.

[@urielduenas8613]

Maybe the Bishbaalkin FTK and Cyberse Clock Dragon FTK could make into the list, but i don't how good they are to be in this top 10. :) Good video.

[@shapesnatch1341]

Comet Dragon FTK is still my favourite

[@analoghabits9217]

The original magical explosion in the ocg was with dogma & my favorite combo in the game ddr kuraz draw 2 hidden armory repeat, phoenix blade free discard. Junk collector took so long to come to tcg, but i love it now with isolde & bamboo swords. My main combo is get collector from isolde, summon lightray grepher & pitch collector to set up kuraz, phoenix blade banish collector, storm dragon's return on collector.

[@kirinkirisake8719]

soul absorbing bone tower has some ftk variants, mayakashi being the most recent but as duel logs said modern hand traps have hurt the competitive viability of it so it's only used casually or on master duel. as you can tell i'm a big fan of dragon/zombie decks, i also like crystal beast and cyber dragon/cyberdark and gishki's as well.

[@Bakadono7525]

I'd like one of these channels to explore a deck I discovered years back. There was a Hard to build level up Dragon Deck that could lock your oponents field and secure level 10 armed, 8 Horus and 1 more high level extra deck Dragon. The third being extra was really important, as the full effect could be made constant without it. I still have the deck somewhere and managed playing a friend to repeat the end result with multiple different Fusions but King Dragun was my favourite as I could summon a fourth and had protection for dragons. Without finding it, the exact decklist escapes me, but the deck successfully OTKd around 9/10 times. Only way to beat it required massive beat sticks with effects protection and field removal. One of the Blue Eyes Ulti retrains; twin burst was good against it (cannot be destroyed by battle), IF you has effect and spell protection. Only other counter was special summon prevention if you went first. If you went second was a 90% chance you'll be totally spell, trap and effect locked. Deck is old now though and likely getting weaker every year

[@l1ghtg30gd7]

Was searching for a video like this yesterday xd

[@faereman]

I've been a "victim" of the Starving Venom Lyrilusc FTK recently. But that one used Cyber Stein alongside Reproducus and that one equip spell that make Psychic monster effects costless. The rest is history.

[@LivingShdw]

I remember a different version of Empty jar that looped Morphing Jar #2. It would activate final attack orders after the opponent summoned a few times, which would then trigger morphing jar 2 and shuffle all monsters into the deck, the same amount facedown (milling from the top of the deck to search for them). The overall build was similar to what you mention here. Also, shoutout to Sound the Retreat Exodia.

[@rodlurks66]

Level resist wall/sound the retreat ?

[@LivingShdw]

@@rodlurks66 That's one variation, yes.

[@blazingrune8535]

Honestly I would think that the Firewall Dragon FTK is the top 1 imo mainly because like, Firewall Dragon himself literally made up 2018 as an era - The FTK Era. I think that was a really big deal and I would considered putting Frog FTK as like, 3rd, with MAgical Scientest as 2nd cuz of consistency issues and whatnot. But that's just my opinion anyways

[@tanngrisnir6089]

Verte was not used in Pendulum Magician FTK, it was not released back than. Instead the eff of GateZero was used to search Instant Fusion.

[@BloodfelX]

I feel like Gem Knight FTK is even more powerful when you incorporate Black Garden - which is pretty easy to do given the recent low level Synchro support that card has gotten. Why deal 3000 damage three times when you can deal 4000+ twice? (Well, consistency - but is Black Garden really that much of a consistency hit compared to the benefits it provides to the FTK.)

[@gandalf33107]

Man I was *just* done binging more of these videos because I have to go to bed, I work in 6 hours. But here we are, gonna stay up another 20 minutes ahahah

[@Aldurfel]

There is also many, many, many ftk decks that use Morphtronic Telephon (who is still at 3) as infinite material to make strong synchros, loop xyz monsters, and sometimes link into big cards.

[@patrickcomerford6153]

i remember playing against some guy on ygo pro for the ipad back in maybe like 2015 whos name was "ban effect monsters" it was a weird dinosaur heart of the underdog deck and by like turn 2 he had 2 of them and was drawing his whole deck and it wasnt until he revealed exodia that ii realized it. tbh it was really funny and made me run an exodia deck, although mine was a crummy hope for escape trap build

[@AntiJewluminatiDwarf]

Also if someone attempts to veil or ash blossom jar you can chain flipping it now and the effect fizzles so it's actually rather hard to stop with a hand trap

[@supremettt3255]

Another good FTK is Morphtronic FTK, the one that uses Telefon to give infinite fodder to cannon soldier, it is at least better than some of the lower spots on the list.

[@Teixas666]

its just a reskinned Frog ftk.

[@HoDoBoDo]

Manticore Of Darkness + Card Of Safe Return + Exodia (Not sure if you can get it started on your first turn, but this allows you to keep drawing cards until you get every Exodia piece and win the duel).

[@Yakuo]

Thank you!

[@Average_CoD_Clips]

I remember in the Duel Network days there was that crazy E-Hero Electrum deck that OTKd by abusing Fusion Gate, Chain Material, Electrum and Dreadnoughts. I think there was a way people cheated the Chain Material out on turn 1 but it was inconsistent.

[@fernandorios474]

Yeah for Exodia has a REALLY small frame of getting out on the very first turn on 0.000152%

[@ensamvarg8504]

Yes i love winning on my "frist" turn

[@not_relevant1353]

Shoutout to Morphtronic FTK. It's like a two card combo for the FTK, or maybe one, and even though it's a Cannon Soldier FTK it doesn't get fucked over by Ghost Sister & Spooky Dogwood. Though, it hasn't really seen play since it just came out.

[@StereoxAS]

Is that your clip of Mind Augus FTK "attempt" that ends surprisingly unexpected?

[@bensell982]

A video on ftks in Yugioh and Cannon Soldier never gets mentioned. That's surprising.

[@gilangagsuroaldiapala5172]

The igknight pendulum also use for starving venom lyrirusc ftk. It pretty much appear on master duel and it is not mention on explanation on starving venom ftk.

[@WolodiaStudios]

I thought there would be the Mayakashi Bonetower FTK on this list.

[@ashurayasha]

Taking the Maxx C challenge and winning with pendulum FTK (and a lot of luck) feels good man.

[@luka3933]

You could make a video with all the lesser known ftk's that have not been meta vialble enough to get hit (like bishbaalkin, six samurai, mayakashi etc)... so basically a table 500 duel logs video :)

[@mist666999]

Top Ten Table 500 decks? lmao

[@luka3933]

@@mist666999 I'd definitely watch that! 😂

[@iclimbeverything2990]

I find it funny that genex ally birdman's "bounce 1 special summon this from hand" was so powerful that zephyros the elite has a once per duel of that from the graveyard and is considered very good.

[@zeusalternative1270]

Pend FTK is one of the best FTKs for me due to easily going into negates if they can't assemble the combo, also it can resist handtraps, unlike another FTKs like Exodia and is consisten enough too.

[@ShinennoHikari]

So there's one I found recently that isn't exactly important, but I enjoy it as it uses trains. It involves chain material, fusion gate to fuse for elemental Hero Electrim, ranking up into gustav, burning for 2000 dmg, fusing gustav off for elemental hero Gaia, then back to electrum to return banished materials and start the loop over again. I know there's a way to make it an FTK instead of an OTK despite chain material being a trap card, but at the moment I can't remember exactly how...

[@delta3244]

There are a pair of cards - Makura the Destructor & Temple of the Kings - which let you, once during the turn they are activated, activate a trap card from hand/the turn it was set. I vaguely remember encountering a more modern card like those two recently-ish, but can't remember its name if it exists.

[@ShinennoHikari]

@@delta3244 Ah Temple of the kings, that's the one I was trying to remember! Makyura had come to mind, but I discarded the idea - having not wanted to review it's effect post errata to see if he'd still work, plus having to use the normal summon that way.

[@AntiJewluminatiDwarf]

Empty jar better be on here. Was so hilarious to deck out a 60 card deck with a 40 card deck, just gotta be smart with your card destruction and phoenix feather

[@GuigoDoMal]

Dark World Danger is quite consistent in drawing the deck, so i'm using it to draw Exodia and win quite a large amount of my games. of course, with gy recursion.

[@garrettsmith4034]

My first experience facing Otk was CED at pre release because one kid was buying people's pre kits with trading cards and assembled 3 Cyber, 1 twin and 2 end. He fired off a turn 2 attack with CED (stacked his deck much) as I went first. Flipped Magic Cylinder for game one. Game 2 he gave me first play and tried to Otk me with Cyber Twin instead. Magic Cylinder for attack one. RoD for game XD (I played trap jank trap heavy decks cuz I was poor) Pulled a Cyber Twin from winnings.

[@StarTard8]

Scientist FTK finally gets the coverage it deserves! The OG finally gets the spotlight.

[@thedragonauthority]

This takes me back. I've used some of these in the past. Lol. How about Top 10 cheese decks that are surprizingly effective.

[@LuisEduardoGalarzaCervantes]

I was kinda expecting to see the cyber-stein FTK and d.d. dynamite pseudo FTK somewhere in this list given how many bots were abusing it in masterduel. I also used to have fun playing the Afterglow pseudo FTK (which is the same as the exodia one but more consistent) against Eldlitch players as they usually play no handtraps at all.

[@99099]

Gem ftk is still very consistent dependent on how you build it as the new support helped a shit ton. Although the banning of halq and chaos ruler hurt a little bit, it is only a minor setback to the deck, as it can still ftk in around 90% of opening hands.

[@simonpetrikov3992]

It would be more interesting if it could do that 45% of the time but after being Handtrapped twice

[@99099]

@@simonpetrikov3992 It can tbh, in the version of gem-ftk that I play, I utilize the punk engine heavily as it helps to make garden rose maiden which searches black garden, which makes up the core of the ftk. As an added bonus, the Punk engine allows me to go into an omega (formally the chaos ruler RIP) which allows me to potentially rip a ht. As well as this, I may choose to go into a photon lord which allows me to make a monster negate to stop any stray ht that may come my way. Similarly, before halq and chaos ruler bans, I'd make an apo. As well as this, gamma and imperm don't really hurt the deck as the opponent will control a monster thanks to the effect of black garden, and dd crow doesn't do enough against the deck to have any real impact. Main ht to watch out for are nib, ash, veiler and belle (potentially droll as well if you didn't just draw the cards you needed to search). Overall though, even if they did draw one ht you can normally play through it. Also, tear plays no ht other than havenis. So basically free wins if you go first and they don't have it or they miss their mills, especially since they now control a monster.

[@polocatfan]

he is back

[@foxxinrox]

Treasure panda Exodia is basically unstoppable if you opponent doesn't start with handtraps, and can "relatively" consistently play through an Ash, depending on if your hand started with treasure panda or not. There are a bunch of draw card alternatives that are only slightly less consistent than the TCG limited ones the deck can use. It's definitely not great, or even viable, but it can win probably 80% of turn 1's if it doesn't get interuppted

[@animeslayer24]

I knew another way to win in the first turn, I was playing with my little brother and whenever I played delinquent duo he quit and threw his deck to the floor, instant win.

[@cinway9189]

Pure evil...I like it

[@DrMDHyde]

Exodia, the lord of sweat. If he breaks free, Konami must call upon the council of the banlist to reseal him.

[@andrewwadsworth1143]

Used to run a dragon master knight /blue eyes deck that could get 3 dragon master knight out on first turn for like 15000 attack. Good times

[@zishere48]

How did the Gearfried/Magical Library combo work as an FTK? I assume there was another combo piece that gave you a second normal summon or special?

[@SKuusk95]

A suggestion, in case that list hasn't been made yet: Top 10 "Infernity Barrier"-type cards - Counter Traps that work only with/for specific archetypes. At least I imagine there ought to be more than 10 of these.

[@ShiningJudgment666]

I think Infernity Barrier did it first but yeah, that would be interesting and there'd be more than 10 by now.

[@jackmomsen2365]

I used a pendulum ftk deck in master duel during the era where almost everyone used that one broken card that if it has a bunch of materials you can’t activate anything

[@ryanager8029]

Gotta give a shout-out to the Woodland Sprite FTK from Duel Links. THAT was a mistake and a half

[@TaIathar]

Poison Jar FTK is ALWAYS missed in videos like these. The idea is to play 1 copy each of Mask of Darkness and Poison Mummy and 3 copies of Morphing Jar #2. You also play 3x "The Shallow Grave" and the rest of the deck is card draw (upstart goblin) or stall tactics (threatening roar, waboku, etc.)

[@superbearchrist1716]

With my magical explosion ftk I use sky strikers though I usually go for an otk to be on the safe side as I was using this on dueling nexus before master duel completely took over and since magical explosion is banned I'd have an easier time using blasting the ruins ftk that utilizes the sky striker engine along with tools for good discard draw cards like trade in or it's level 7 variant mix that with skystriker engage and it's somewhat reliable not on the level of swordsoul obviously but it gets the job done. Side not swordsoul is insanely broken, easy to use, and all their decks are exactly the same to the extent that I asked myself I thought we had a ban list because of the old chaos decks and everyone using pot of greed, graceful charity ect back in the day making them mostly identical to a t

[@gonzalosibaja801]

Nice video

[@alialluaibi3008]

Please do Top 10 fusion monsters that can only be brought out by polymerization or a fusion method !

[@theother1s220]

Firewall dragon was the source of a lot of OTKs that worked with a lot of archetypes.

[@DETERMINATION355]

My personal favorite ftk that you can only really lose if you brick really hard consists of summoning 2 lvl 4 photon/galaxy monsters (1 should be vanisher or some other way of getting galaxy eyes into hand) xyz summoning photon blast dragon (he gives spell/trap immunity to monsters with 2k or more atk) use his eff to ss galaxy eyes ss afterglow from hand xyz prime photon start your BP use primes eff discard afterglow use afterglow to ss another galaxy eyes and double primes atk at this point you have a spell/trap immune 12k atk monsters ready to attack then you can slap on photon trident for pierce if needed (with the right photon deck this can be preformed in turn 1 of any duel you dont ultrabrick with your hand or get ash blossomed)

[@suddenlyeva]

I think Stein FTK variants are actually strong. The ones that put Cyber stein under Reprodocus to make it a psychic then equip telekinetic charging cell to special out a bunch of fusions and burn your opponent for game instantly. Most variants are incredibly consistent, even one card combos. I played a version with aqua dolphins too at one point so you could even rip hand traps before comboing off.

[@phonixzocker6294]

so catapult turtle + cyber dragons or better chimeraoverload dragon will be to inconsistent?