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#YuGiOh #masterduel #salamangreat

[@BootyjuiceJenkins]

Konami doesn't tell you that reaching top rankings in Yu-Gi-Oh may not require just money but a bit of your sanity and soul as well.

[@thijsvisser4868]

Yes you have to risk being sent to the shadow realm

[@dougla517]

Just getting to diamond 5 drove me mad... Not quietly mad, because I was grumbling loudly enough for family to comment on as they walked past, but still mad.

[@YuyaSakaki385]

@@dougla517 I have been staying in gold just to avoid sliver so plat for 5 months with performapal odd eyes with no hand traps

[@eldavid8774]

Someone should really go check on coder constantly during the duelist cup, i dont think stage 2 will be good for his health

[@whatthe573]

Lol its a video game and he's a grown man

[@The_Doctor__]

-Which of the hand traps do you play in your deck? -Yes

[@amethonys2798]

9:41 I'd say Meow Meow and Infant are probably "better" because their archetypes straight up do not function without them. You CAN play Salad without Sanctuary access, but Ignister is the worst deck in the game without A.I.Land.

[@chuggajr]

I wouldn’t say worst deck in the game without Infant, but it do be pretty rough to have to open Pikari or lose.

[@amethonys2798]

@@chuggajr it's not even open Pikari. It's open Pikari AND whatever you would normally search off it (A.I.Meet You typically) or hard drawing Achichi as well. Pikari search field spell isn't good if you don't have names in hand.

[@gamermulti5883]

Its not so bad without ignister I.Land

[@amethonys2798]

@@gamermulti5883 Except it really is. It requires way too many niche card combos to be viable if your Island is gone since chances are you already normal summoned. Yes, if you open like starter+2 extenders you can probably do SOMETHING, but the deck has pretty terrible extenders (usually only opting for 2-3 total out of Hiyari/Gatchikiri/Addition/etc.) when compared to simply opening just Pikari or Achichi. The deck is bottom of rogue with Island because it can run like 20 flex spots due to the "one-card" combo. Without Island the amount of extenders you'd have to run to have functioning hands drops the card quality drastically and is seen with Pranks right now with no Meow. Yeah, if you open like 2 kids and access to fusion summoning the deck can work, but that is such a reach and why the deck is practically unplayable since you aren't guaranteed to draw 3 card combos.

[@gamermulti5883]

@@amethonys2798 You can go with Achichi and Doshin up to Accescode talker ore With pikary and A.I reborn and bururu summon First Windpegasus destroy the backrow and then go with pikary and wingepagesus To lightdragon who can destroy monsters without tarketing and he can summon another link Monster from the GY

[@exmanolive305]

Anything that has an effect to protect your monsters is really good in master duel because people don’t know or forget. The amount of times people have tried to Lightning storm or Feather Duster my pendulum scales after using pendulum call is hilarious.

[@VVheeli]

Effect protection is so funny to watch people just hit buttons trying to out something. I play Marincess and it’s so funny watching people see me Link summon with Crystal Heart and have 0 idea how to out a seemingly 4k Nightingale that recurs its own monsters.

[@DominusZeikyu]

@@VVheeli Relatable, Crystal heart as a Link material while Battle ocean is out and the opponent just wastes removal effects on Argonaut (or in my case Reef cause best girl) is hilarious! xd

[@aquaberrytv311]

Coder humming Gold Finger. Fuck yeah!!

[@lotus_emanon]

The fact that Diamond 2 players STILL don't know about Bale's GY eff makes me feel confident in Branded Opening :)

[@douglasnewdell]

Been consistently playing Predaplant Despia. They almost never know about Branded Opening or Predaplast's GY effects. Predaplast I can understand a bit more since most people run Sundew, Sarra, Scorpio and Cobra which dont really need the Predator Counters but I try playing gimmicky so I usually get a monster protected.

[@ahmedsalah862]

I always forget about opening and bale.... when playing the decks

[@redbars2747]

*When the Opening is Branded*

[@ahmedsalah862]

@@redbars2747 when the bale is lynx

[@Tattybirch96]

I just want to point out a funny interaction I had this morning. I summoned lightshower and boardfly and my opponent summoned DPE. They attacked boardfly only for me to use curtains, afterwards they use DPEs effect with no target and it couldn't summon itself back. Flower cardians hilariously counter DPE. Feels like firewall pass all over again.

[@Murasane]

out of all the things i was not expecting coder to start humming superman by goldfinger lol the tony hawk pro skater remake got me again lol

[@SoulNinjaKen]

Congrats man 15 streak is impressive. Also I really feel like it's a shame that any deck is D1 if half of it is handtraps

[@zoey7514]

That’s how yugioh is

[@Angels-Haven]

gotta play cards that let you play the game

[@FakeHeroFang]

You pretty much have to main them because of the nature of MD being best of 1. Like the only deck that will not play tons of hand traps and still be somewhat competitive is Adamancipator, and they have fallen off the face of the Earth.

[@Degen9111]

Mine don't, i have 3 handtrap only

[@SoulNinjaKen]

@@FakeHeroFang false, I use to make it easy to plat with tons of decks and diamond once it came out with same cyber dragon deck I used for ^ and I use no handtraps, only 1 i even have in some decks is maxx C cause i find it to be the most balanced one, and allows people to still play. People just wanna helmet every deck with the least skill possible. Dont have to worry about your skill if your opponent just cant play the game, then on top of it if u use meta with it, it's basically crayon eatingly easy to win

[@darkwolf9637]

I play salad and when he said salad already has a link 4 i though he was memeing with access code. I completely forgot that pyro phoenix existed

[@Asim-nm1bc]

Understandable tho

[@RiderOmega]

God I remember using Update Jammer to out Heart Earth during N/R fest. Nobody was ready for that.

[@Actormandude766]

Him humming Superman by gold finger made me laugh in the middle of the sword soul duel

[@Omnicrom]

Coder with the godly power of reading cards and knowing what they do.

[@kayanono]

I want enemies like this

[@AstralLaVista]

As someone who played salad during eternal format, it makes me laugh watching someone fight them that doesn't know what they do

[@prohobbyist5872]

Watch out for and report bots

[@medelcastillo7806]

that would be me lol, idk the chokepoints of that deck

[@AstralLaVista]

@@medelcastillo7806 gazelle is the choke point

[@seppe593]

Name a better in archetype link 1 than Bael: Does striker dragon count. Because i think that one is pretty close.

[@TheDocperian]

If we're talking about purely in-archetype, Crusadia Magius is the cornerstone of the deck being able to function

[@cryomancer2768]

Meow Mu no doubt

[@ZeeMo313]

Magical musketeer max is pretty insane when it resolves

[@roguebubble]

Sera made Traptrix into an actual deck rather than just a splashable engine

[@mymetallicarulez]

Dark Infant @Ignister.

[@loganstinson4730]

I’ve literally been saying that Salad best deck since 2019. Feels nice to see a KZbinr agreeing with me

[@Osindileyo]

Fuck salad, all my homies hate salad

[@TenebrisFlamma]

For the brief time I played master duel the great salad was by far my favorite deck. I’m so happy to see you get to diamond 1 with it

[@narutokiubissj2]

I love how Salad still holds up well today

[@johnryanjosey6368]

Salad’s link four is actually really good: raigeki with legs, some nice burn damage, and it’s nowhere near as good as accesscode.

[@daxonion]

I've been running a similar list from the time eternity code was released

[@Bearvas]

GG on the 15peat!

[@demander599]

This reminds me of playing Fluffals vs DPE, it usually goes like this: -Opponent: tries to pop Cruel Whale -Me: Oh no! Anyway, (Banishes Scythe from graveyard), proceeds to win game

[@Dwerynith]

9:41 => striker dragon

[@williamfalls]

I tried playing a deck I made for fun in casual duel... But apparently there's no room for fun in any pvp setting on Master Duel.

[@Ebrahim002]

0:16 goblin on these nuts.

[@I3ULL5HIT]

just rewatching this as i finally reached diamond 1 with raidraptors after getting ptsd from tearlaments...

[@denzelnatha9075]

Salads is easily one of my fav decks of all time

[@Garrrization]

I use Almiraj in my skull servant deck, great tool against DPE

[@Victthequick]

I see you humming Superman

[@damummy3723]

That second guy was the perfect example of "loaded up with meta material but no clue how to play it" Love these people only gets better when they ash themselves.

[@purpleghoster4579]

YO SALAD BEST DECK LEST GO

[@AvengedEagle35]

Magical Musketeer Max is a pretty good in-archetype link 1

[@Solo1028]

9:42 : Striker Dragon.

[@ninjaboyjames]

Your answer to the best in arctype link one is shs scarecrow that card is insane for shs

[@deathpyre42]

To be fair, if you didn't know what the rest of the Salad cards do, imperm Baelynx makes sense since it comes off as a starter/chokepoint type card.

[@colossaldonut5190]

That logic would mean you Imperm Meow-Meow-Mu. People just don't read cards.

[@haruhirogrimgar6047]

@@colossaldonut5190 Striker Dragon would probably be the closer comparison since it also mainly exists to search a field spell.

[@amethonys2798]

@@haruhirogrimgar6047 same with Infant which is another link 1 solely used to get the field spell (on the first summon).

[@MattyC05]

Made it into the video POG. Shoutout Salad Link 4 for being so pointless and worthless that I had no idea it even existed

[@UltanOfficial]

Jack Jaguar does piercing? No way

[@EL3TRICKRAZY]

Who hasn't heard of Superman by Goldfinger?😌 1:07

[@ItzRobbie05]

great content Kevin.

[@JessieGutierrez.]

Is there a trap card, or a spell card, with the effect to move a trap card from my grave yard, to my deck, or hand in master duel.??

[@Iamwar2000]

I gave up on salads a few days ago. I didn't see a single salad card except the field spell for 5 straight games. I rage dismantled them...

[@aftershock6325]

Lmao update jammer effect was so good

[@thefilipinoninja13]

Mermaid was way more busted, the splashability of orcust due to Mermaid was crazy!

[@crypticloki4458]

I'm trying so hard not to play flounder this season. Not just because it's no fun, but because I have dignity. The only birds I want to play this season is Raidraptors

[@el8779]

This deck is pretty affordable. Almost all of the urs are cards which are played in other decks too.

[@Ragnarok540]

Dracoback is oppressive because it can deal with floodgates?

[@ceiuuu8218]

Name a better Link 1 in archetyp… when the kids are pranks my brother

[@kappamonka7804]

Coder, Are u willing to build a deck of choice with someone if he books your coaching? Or is it exclusively about ruling questions?

[@ShortStack747]

Wooo Salad best deck

[@Mewtwoisabeast]

"name a beter in archetype link 1" Prank-Kids Meow-Meow-Mu

[@alexjolly5787]

when the salads r great

[@profatgamer]

Would the magical musketeers have a better link 1?

[@kaiseremotion854]

i really wish making a deck was easier in MD

[@jonathanellwood2093]

For the Salad deck, how cheap is it aside from generic cyberse cards like Mining and Accesscode? I have a mathmech deck and debating making a salad deck

[@dodoofard]

for main deck: gazelle x1, roar x2, sanctuary x2~3, spinny x3, bufferlo x3, circle x2 are SRs, no main deck URs except staples for extra deck: transcode x1, balelynx x2, miragestallio x2 are SRs, almiraj x1, sunlight wolf x2~3, heatleo x2 and pyrophoenix x2 are URs

[@jonathanellwood2093]

@@dodoofard hmmm alright thanks, maybe I won't, looking at building a flower cardian deck that's going to put me out of UR CP, but I appreciate it

[@tonyibarra5930]

can you share your decklist please, there are cards i dont recognize

[@atilliusjr]

For Game 1, I am not sure what card was discarded to summon longyuan. Assuming that the opponent did not discard a Blackout to summon longyuan, the reason they did not banish a Blackout from the GY after sending it the GY with Chixiao is because that would be impossible. Chixiao can only use 1 its effects each turn, not both. Edit: No, I remembered the effect wrong. It can banish right away.

[@Fassle]

chixiao's on summon eff is able to banish a blackout from the deck

[@atilliusjr]

@@Fassle Right. I was wrong.

[@jasonbrannock1698]

That's why I stay in gold v,less of a stress story.good run though. Keep trying dude!!! J

[@jimtsap04]

Quite a based list I must say good sir, resisting the temptation to jam adventurer and dpe into any and every mid range deck that doesn't activate normal summon effects is hard but you proved it can be successful with salads

[@prohobbyist5872]

Watch out for and report bots

[@plenn657]

Yeah, but more than half his monster lineup is hand traps, so it compromises in a different way

[@jimtsap04]

@@plenn657 it doesn't really, salad is a deck infamous for it's compact engine allowing it to play a huge suite of handtraps without taking much of a hit to its consistency , back in 2019 salad lists were topping world's with upwards of 18-20 handtraps, if anything 15 could even be considered a light amount for pure.

[@plenn657]

@@jimtsap04 Ah, cool. I knew it used to be a tier 1 deck, but I didn't know it was known for a compact engine. I'd assumed that Coder's list was compromising because a lot of D1 decks seem to be handtrap heavy. Thanks for explaining👌

[@jdscrub0753]

When the salad is great.

[@CommonFolkYugioh]

Name a better Link 1 in archetype? Traptrix Sera is all I got.

[@jasonfreitas6845]

Better in arc type link 1s: Kagari Shizuku

[@iWillAvert]

If you want to know what MD tournaments will be like, just go watch Duel Links, because it's essentially an identical system which is a terrible one at that IMO but it is what it is.

[@SAGA]

if you wanna duel for fun lets do a vid

[@europaboi]

Salad has a Link 4 Accesscode Talker

[@MattyC05]

LMAO my thought process exactly. Salads link 4 is so worthless that I didn't even know it existed

[@Tealmaker]

Why doesn’t draco back come back after it got popped?

[@danha3107]

6:59 I've been hearing lots of salad players say this lately. Why so? What lines of play make meer so good? I personally haven't run into *any* situations where I'd rather have meer over anything else also 7:11 what's the "regular" combo? Gazelle 1-card combo? Cause I've no clue how you get babussy out of just that

[@ToxicBlur1337]

4:53 v sause moment?? SPEEN

[@cristhianalejandro1606]

The Scareclaw link 1

[@LDRTrejo]

Striker is definitely the better in archetype Link-1.

[@Agno97xD]

Anyone got the list?

[@Iamwar2000]

Can you road to diamond run with crusadia's please?

[@shadowslayer507]

for a link 1 archtype thats broken traptrix sera probably the best archtype link 1 in yugioh if not second best

[@jamesbrincefield9879]

I took Salamangreat (alternated with Code Talkers every few matches) to Platinum 1 during seasons 1 and 2. It was a surprisingly easy grind but I feel like the current matchups are rough, plus it loses so hard to Maxx C. Still, I kinda wish I still had them. The only reason I dismantled them was because we didn’t get Heatsoul, the main reason I crafted Cyberse stuff to begin with, in the first update to the card pool. It’s crazy how we don’t have that card yet.

[@robertfarrell2130]

How dare someone call salads dog water, more fun than half the meta

[@TheUltimateCancerCell]

Yeah man

[@Hunoa44]

Can you do same with danger/link 6 hybrid?

[@bbqsage]

meow mu and knightmare mermaid are the best link 1

[@rifqihermawan1301]

7 out of 10 ss player don't know when the hit "no" when they use chixiao search effect it would banish it instead of adding it to their hands

[@HowToNotMeta]

Where does he show decklist?

[@lazuardiashidiqi4539]

Love to see it

[@davidepagani7476]

Striker dragon or mew are Better in archetipe link 1 than balelynx

[@LoneSkag]

Didn’t the guy that wrote the duels for the anime say salamangreat was a pain bc it was a fairly meta deck?

[@alicetheaxolotl]

Yep. I certainly wouldn't call Soulburner's variant of Salamangreat meta, but it is still a powerful deck, especially in a universe where most decks are just in-archetype cards.

[@elin111]

Indeed reading is too hard.

[@ahmedsalah862]

Gazelle to 3 please konami

[@sborfe6269]

Copium inhaling Speedrun any% wr

[@muzamark]

8:12 Why he has to negate this? I think keep it on the field would be better.

[@mattr791]

You want gryph in deck so you can search it again next turn. The only time you wouldn't negate is if you're afraid of getting otked, playing around gamma or in an extremely simplified gamestate

[@terenwrathkaiser22]

How about trying to climb with gladiator beasts?

[@jeremiahbennett3004]

Literally impossible

[@terenwrathkaiser22]

Thats why i said it :)

[@kashiffarees881]

It might be doable if you play it as a really bad tri-brigade deck, but it won't be fun.

[@SoulNinjaKen]

@@jeremiahbennett3004 nah just make if half handtrap like all D1 decks ur set

[@carstan62]

@@jeremiahbennett3004 You seem to overestimate how hard it is to get to D1. Sure, it'll take MUCH longer to get there, but "impossible" is a huge overstatement.

[@hillmanhung3846]

Hero link is a thing i think. But its not very based

[@Captaindragonfire]

More like Salamanbest

[@ViperineHero]

worth

[@matthewmoosetail9109]

You know if you play the trap card discord swordsoul gets shut down

[@jenostheascended7818]

Salad has a link 4 but having things like Apollousa and Access makes it irrelevant. I hate generic boss monsters ngl.

[@easternwoyer3876]

Your opponents were tossing you wins

[@andrescordero8308]

I mean, most of Master duel players dont know which deck won WCS 2019 xd

[@renaldyhaen]

Highest tier just ready to face same META. Most of them will be confused when they see non-METAs because they need to read and understand "new" things again.

[@LordParaDax]

Gaming

[@SuperShesh2]

I will always say that DPE was skill drain for the actual players, everybody mindlessly using DPE at this point. So many braindead dpe pops in this video.

[@brandonfelix8527]

ello

[@MiyaoMeow588]

Amazing how a bunch of these wins hinged so hard on the opponent just not reading Balelynx for some reason Reading!