Which Yugioh Deck Is For You? | What Deck is Best For a New Player?

[@depressedboymoder]

Number 1 tip before buying any deck. Play it. Should be obvious but make sure you actually enjoy it before commiting a months worth of groceries into purchasing it.

[@thezestylime0989]

personally i wouldve liked to see a small side discussion on the furniture build of labrynth, as it plays radically differently to the "stun" version shown.

[@Jyxero]

The skill expression & ceiling in furniture version... Imagine getting Nibiru'd in Labrynth

[@YohananYGO]

Or the control dark world that doesn't use dangers

[@zer0sy51]

That's the type of content we need consistently in the TCG

[@guyS5476]

10:56 That list is fusion summoning Dragoon using Muddy Mudragon and Ultimaya Tzolkin,basically they cheat out Crystal Wing using Tzolkins effect,then make Muddy Mudragon and use it's effect to Fusion Summon,also Muddy can be treated as a substitute for one material so it replaces required Dark Magician,and second material can also be any Dragon Effect monster.

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

Oh lmao

[@thezestylime0989]

ya blackwing can basically use the same thing, but with black winged dragon.

[@juurk2.020]

You can also play caliga in place and it doesn’t change anything else about the list or combo

[@earlofsquirrel1469]

​@@juurk2.020 true, caliga is actually better imo

[@paintingcube3853]

@@MonkeyFightTCG I'm hoping that a good exodia deck I'm trying to make that's not just about stalling my opponent will seem promising. I have one listed here that I need some feedback on if your able to, anything your able to propose to make it a better structure build. I call it.....Waking the Maxx C Exodia deck: max c 3x soul charge 3x swift scarecrow 3x waking the dragon 3x treasure panda 3x onmoraki 3x obliterate! 2x dark factory of mass production 2x graceful charity 2x swords of revealing light 2x delinquent duo 2x ra sphere mode 2x santa claws 2x exodia 5 each pot of greed ash blossom & joyous spring imperial iron wall extra deck: shock master xyz raidraptor ultimate falcon xyz lavalval chain xyz infinitrack fortress megaclops link naturia exterio invoked mechaba the last warrior from another planet scarlight red dragon archfiend crystal wing synchro dragon barronne de flleur

[@jaycejones1024]

Dude! Im so glad you released an updated version of this video

[@jurtyt4514]

Nice to see Marincess. I always recommend it to new players because of the price and the fact that it’s actually solid.

[@saudmubarak1876]

It needs support

[@jurtyt4514]

Not wrong

[@saudmubarak1876]

This deck needs its normal to summon to function. Branded have the same problem but branded is cracked

[@jurtyt4514]

Yerp

[@Nimlu]

Nice video, but I have one suggestion in builds with expensive staples like Thrust or Prosperity make a note as to how much the deck costs with them and without.

[@zaikoyuto1150]

Great video, it's sad that you didn't show a build for Dragon Link, but I understand that it's a deck that can be approached in many ways. A deck that I would probably recommend for beginners is bystial control, it is a deck that is more oriented towards using various main deck handtraps with a consistent Bystial engine, it is not complicated to play, as overall, its play main thing is to do Hieratic Seal and pass with several handtraps in hand, and the deck has the advantage of being able to use floodgates without suffering much damage, such as Skill Drain, in which the effect of Hieratic Seal of tribute to bounce a card is not negated, since in terms of price I don't know if it would be too expensive, since I don't know how much an American earns, but I think it's a deck to keep an eye on if you're a beginner.

[@AdamChopdat]

I'm just picking up the tcg and picked dragon link as my first deck. Not willing to spend on lubellion just yet so going to focus on getting my rokket plays consistent.

[@TCG9777]

How're you able to make such engaging content that not even the top 5 yugitubers cannot?

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

tbf my content takes a lot longer to produce than a lot of major yugitubers. it would be very hard to sustain a living for them using my style of production.

[@OverlyMediocreGaming]

So as a stax player from magic, the labrynth line really is exactly why I bought the deck as a new player. I started with traptrix and love the deck and saw lab was doing a little better. I agree that difficulty is subjective though, since I found traptrix to be a lot easier since Rafflesia gives instant access to traps whereas lady requires you to plan for the future. Something I do comment about is that at least coming in, the combos felt like the easy part (at least traptrix lines were simple after i watched a guide), the hard part is that with the amount of tools its hard to know when to pull the trigger so personally I find the "control" playstyle incredibly punishing initially since I am handtrapping, or just trapping, in the wrong instances. Maybe since I haven't messed with many decks, but being on the defensive for the most part my lack of knowledge definitely lead to some losses out the gate since so far I have really just done research on my decks.

[@BroMorris0341]

Recently came back to dueling and this is *EXACTLY* what I was looking for. Thanks! liked & subbed

[@duyknguyen]

Again, just gotta love all your series!! This is super helpful for everyone

[@pineal0ptics928]

Didn’t even know what kind of decks I was really playing until I watched this. I play on master duels but collect the card I like. Will be trying the types I haven’t yet for sure.

[@CaptainMarvel4Ever]

This will make for good sharing material anytime I run into anyone asking how to get in. My main method is usually just to direct them to Master Duel Meta’s Secret Pack database. I just tell ‘em to scroll and click on anything that looks cool and try that (while hoping they don’t pick the Alley of Justice Flamvell pack).

[@DigiTism]

I was honestly surprised to see Dracoslayer on the list. Is it that popular? I’ve never ran into another Dracoslayer player at any of the locals I go to.

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

I've seen it a few times. It's mostly on here so pendulums can get some representation if people want to look into that deck.

[@tanngrisnir6089]

I played against several Dracoslayers at Local Level

[@whenisdinner2137]

It's not super popular but because of all the bans it's one of the most playable pendulum decks so I'm sure it's there just to represent pendulum players who are down cataclysmic

[@raleogan]

Would love a video on how to disrupt / counter each deck, like which key cards to look out for / negate

[@WhatTheAlva]

I know you mentioned Prosperity being a good card to cut for budget, but I also would've specified it's basically $130 worth of cut. Since I don't find $300 dollars to be a very budgety target myself for a new player, those $130 make a lot of difference. Though you could argue there's also no side deck.

[@PandaHero-yi8pq]

Prosperity is only 2$ in OCG, play OCG

[@WhatTheAlva]

@@PandaHero-yi8pq I have no idea how to respond to this.

[@remixchamp]

just look for builds with extravegance in them

[@revelati_n]

@@PandaHero-yi8pqmaxx C is at 3 in the OCG 💀

[@pabloac.8100]

Great vid, bro...Covers tons of things for new players, and still gets to be interesting for veterans..

[@lemlem35]

I'm on infinite copium that Shaddoll is viable. It's the only deck that truly resonates with me (even though I play like 7 or 8 decks regularly) and I'll probably never give up on it no matter how power crept it gets.

[@99099]

Same, bought some ulti constructs recently too, it'll be good I swear cope.

[@lemlem35]

@@99099 Also have the ultis as well, and got some ecclesias about a week ago too I feel you

[@MachineMan-on4ul]

late reply here, don't give up on shaddoll, I'll be honest I only got back into yugioh in 2020 and only properly this year but I've seen shaddoll used as a hybrid, normally with branded or kashtira or something. lore wise shaddolls have taken their forms from other monsters in the game, some of those in lore monsters work with the deck core... some do work better than others I personally am looking into maybe trying to see if I can build a chaos engine into a shaddoll deck for competitive play, a couple of simple cards like chaos sorcerer as fodder or something

[@lemlem35]

@@MachineMan-on4ul Thanks for the reply :) It makes me happy to know others still play it too

[@remixchamp]

nothing like winda turn 1

[@jessiebessie3616]

Thanks. Am new to Yugioh, like 1+month. I find Eldlich and Labrynth to be really helpful and easy to understand, with good artwork. Others give me headache.

[@remixchamp]

learn scrap dino when you master that you'll get a better understanding of comboing. Then when you can learn salamangreat and learn the power of accescode talker.

[@broelocklite3875]

i’m just getting into ygo, thank you for this vid

[@kricketune3531]

great content, subscribed

[@Cody.Shepard]

Keep up the good work my guy. Wonderful and insightful content. Much appreciated.

[@HeyTekko]

thank you SO much for making this video!

[@_Hamraz]

I'm a little sad there's no plunder, as I think they're pretty good. Regardless, great video!

[@PetaNight]

As a long time player I’ve come to this video seeking a new deck to play/build since they murdered my custom Tear/Despia/Branded deck

[@isaiahsanchez7969]

Love YU-IG-OH deck summon monster reborn blue eyes white dragon rainbow dragon

[@safeandsound712]

I love this video. It's very very helpful. You did a great job. I'd recommend you keep doing stuff like this. It brings out the best in you. Thank you for making this.

[@DavidEllner]

😢 the pain when I hear pendulum decks and it’s not odd eyes. I still think it’s the best deck in that category. Also for super budget deck that’s new, cheap, and fairly easy for beginners I’d say is the gate guardian. If they use needlebug nest and hand destruction it’s really easy to speed up the process to spam the boss.

[@littledyu-gi-oh3580]

Really good analysis and very good deck lists 👍👍👍

[@thewakster5846]

I would recommend showing off the new water barrier turbo for marincess. Its a really easy, cheap and fun way to play a floodgate while still playing something closer to control.

[@Cherrydaruby]

Can we get an update version?

[@GamexHunter10]

Me who is not new to Yu-Gi-Oh at all, still watching this video

[@mahirkarim6884]

thanks for very informative video...keep more coming.Also, can you make combo video using this decks.

[@lamMeTV]

I cant wait for Purrley to get to MD its adorable

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

Same, maybe they won't be so expensive online

[@lansoprazolo6101]

Got mine set for 65 bucks lessgooooo

[@LunaDachi]

A picture of Agido and Kaleido-Heart with a big ole rogue sticker slapped on it still feels very wrong lol

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

The ban list do really do that

[@Gentleman_Bandito]

Can we have an updated version of this video? Would be very appreciated!

[@anoahlated8317]

Yo please make another one of these this was extremely helpful 🙏🙏🙏

[@Okabe_67]

I always enjoy this kind to video that help new player but I would love to see a video like that which would show some other more casual and budget decks like melffy and suship to players who don't really care about the competitive scene and just want a cheap deck to try out with fans or at locals.

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

Well if you want something like that you could check out my tier list series where I cover every deck.

[@Okabe_67]

@@MonkeyFightTCG will do

[@alucardygo4239]

Great content 🎉🎉🎉

[@anoahlated8317]

You should make a new one of these for the new tier 0 format

[@TheLoneAlpaca]

Really leaning toward dark world. Just for clarification, when you say it doesn’t play like other decks is that a knock against power level or just that it’s different? Like if I learn dark world it’ll be harder to pick up other decks in the future because it’s unique

[@malfeasancewithornament7573]

I want to say, as an eldlich player I wanted a replacement of my deck, something that I would like, a deck that sets traps and doesn't die when their cards gets banished. Rescue-ace was truly a fun deck (and it will be better with the incoming support). Combo deck but not that much (I can't stand decks that take 20+ minutes to play), sets 4 traps directly from the deck. Can go blind 2nd and the side deck can be potentially any card you want. Tbh this is my favorite deck ever. It's not tier 1 but the blind going 2nd could get you wins as a rogue without support, then it could be tier 2. I forgot to say, the deck could potentially set a whole board going 2nd on your opponents turn. And it's not broken, just a skill deck with many options.

[@remixchamp]

traptrix lol

[@EliteElk221]

Great video, though I think Traptrix is more deserving of a placement in the stun category, most especially if you shell out for staples and the extra deck. The usefulness of the best of the Hole normal traps combined with handtrapping your opponent to death on turn 1 and the rank 4 tool box to me makes it less about control and more about stun locking, especial with cards like evenly and imperm with traptrix thriving as a turn 2 deck. Just my humble, non-competitive opinion,

[@lordkroak6670]

I like how every deck has Ash Blossom

[@charlesca5763]

Anyone know what Summoner's Art is doing in Darkworlds? Doesn't seem to have any targets

[@thatasianwaiter4559]

As a veteran and competitive player, i found despia a lot more easier to play than V World. And im still learning V world as my For fun go to deck outsude of generaiders xD

[@babagryva5954]

I love your videos man

[@spynix0718]

I haven't played YuGiOh in years but I want to get back into it. I know this is a death sentence because I still don't know how link summoning works, but I will learn it. Either way, my old deck was Blue Eyes themed, and I want to upgrade. There are just so many options though.

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

The best option for a better dragon deck is to play dragon link or bystials. I can't recomend blue eyes since they're not great in the current game. But good luck getting back into the game!

[@remixchamp]

depends what you want master. traptrix so you can learn exceed, salamangreat to link, dino to combo, despia to fusion.

[@jaimeordonez468]

Dracoslayers do not use bystials, or any pendulum magicians at all, we’ve optimized the pure build pretty well and currently working on the shs/Dracoslayer build

[@TaelAlchemist]

I assume Summoners Art in the Dark World deck is a proxy for Dark Corridor ^^"

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

Ye

[@consulemanimedrawings2275]

Why Is there Art of the summoner in the danger Dark world decklist?

[@exarion2239]

if u dont play stun lab its pretty difficult to play

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

Well yeah, that's beacuse the deck is great with stun

[@Jyxero]

Management of furniture & know what trap to set with Lady is key, ofc amongst more details like react to boardwipe, or play around staples like Ash

[@fredbird7257]

I think you’re overstating how much it costs to play Branded. Sure if you want to play 2 Cartesia and 3 Lubellion it costs alot but you really don’t need all that. The guy who won Louisiana regionals was playing a Branded deck that cost $170. You can still play it at a super high level for around $200

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

Yes budget builds do exist, however there's a reason the expensive builds top with a much higher frequency. It's because they're significantly better. For competitive play I have to tell players an arcuate take of what the meta game looks like. Even if it means showing the much more popular and successful expensive build of a deck. Plus branded is likely to get more new support in future so the price will likely remain high after reprints.

[@LEGENDUUUU]

what are some more general decks?

[@naimfahmi1177]

what's your opinion on P.U.N.K deck?

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

Punk gold pride is a very solid deck this format.

[@mrmeow2297]

My friend were only willing to learn Speed Duel 😂

[@DracoLaDraco]

Wait cant stun floodgates and control all be put into one category? Also what about aggro decks can you please give examples of that too? And ramp decks

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

Ramp doesn't exist in yugioh since everything is so fast. Aggro decks are called otk decks in yugioh. An example of an otk deck is madolche or galaxy. Floodgates control is more like stax/taxes and control is more like running a bunch of negates

[@asakayosapro]

When I first played Master Duel, I chose Egyptian gods as my first deck. No regrets. Even won games all the way to gold ranked. Though this was before things like ruinick….

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

So uhh, I hate to break it to you but Egyptian gods were never good and the new decks are only bad for you beacuse you just got into higher and more competitive ranks.

[@asakayosapro]

@@MonkeyFightTCG Eh, i just play vernusylph radolche, floodgate warcrime labrynth and ishizu tear with gravekeeper spice 😄

[@skyknightking0]

I want to Make a 60 card cyber dragon Deck for this format

[@CrimsonPhoenix96]

If I wanted to build labrynth, how do I go about it? Buy sets and pull for it?

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

Buy singles off of a site like tcg player

[@Andarilho1999]

I like control decks

[@dudono1744]

Guess I should give a shot to rikka given 2 of my favourite decks are drytron and shs

[@heartrobin]

I play Digital Bugs, Crashbugs, Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth, Frightfurs, Beetroopers, Battlewasp, Trickstars, XYZ Sharks, Raidraptors, Armed Dragon Ojama’s and Ojama’s

[@datnoobbee8576]

choosing my first deck was easy. I saw a funny looking mega tank and looked up a premade deck using it because i know nothing bout deckbuilding

[@JamesNelson-j4j]

So monster cards with negate effects are called disruptions

[@marvinzx]

Great video! Can you do an update? :)

[@justinwaller9665]

I choose decks based on how much I like the art do not care about how good they end up 😂

[@chilogutierrez8760]

bro no guru control... Im telling you that deck is lowkey amazing

[@phoenix5029]

from a gameplay perspective, how much of these recommendations can carry over reliably into Master Duel? as far as budget goes, I imagine that would need to be rewritten to account for what rarities certain cards are, and you did already mention that not all the cards featured are in Master Duel currently... there's also the fact that Master Duel is best of 1, as you know, so the banlists are different from that perspective...

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

meta-wise a lot of the decks here don't have their support yet. a bigger issues a lot of these decks don't play well in to tearlaments. if you want a better picture of the master duel format you can check out my video for a tearlament format tier list. it's not one to one but itll give a better picture of how decks transfer over to master duel in terms of power.

[@phoenix5029]

@@MonkeyFightTCG you... might have to point me toward it... I glanced at the video list, and I'm not immediately seeing which tier list video is which... and considering Master Duel is a bit delayed from the IRL card game in terms of new releases......

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZ7UoH6Koq1koKM

[@stamossarris7969]

I just wanna ask since when purrely its a hard to learn to play deck

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

While purely options are straightforward for an experenced player, a new player might have trouble understanding the decks options and how they need to interact with an opponents deck

[@stamossarris7969]

@@MonkeyFightTCG fair however personaly i mostly think the mid difficulty on purr is mostly the understanding on the discard engines and the extra techs you can use in your extradeck

[@WujuCake]

And there's me start with zombie world and red eye zombie lord

[@danceciuls4620]

When you buy purrely day 1, biggest plus i haver had in my life

[@sevenwarlord1255]

i like the video but for for beginners we don't even understand the name

[@phnty]

best deck if u r newbie is exosister not much thinking and u can learn quickly about interactions

[@BallentineLP]

I think the best thing people should do is find a card they think is cool and build a deck around it. You’re probably going to get stomped against sweaty people but realistically that was going to happen anyways lol. I’m a Toon man myself

[@Kingj987]

Are you sure ishizu tearlamnets is rogue

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

Yes easily

[@prairietan]

As a noob who tries to learn the game the old-fashioned way and pivoting my deck from Agent hyperion to skystricker. Hearing that it's good and will get more support puts me at ease. If your going to take control of monster what do you do with them? I'd love to hear creative ideas!!

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

You use them for link summons

[@prairietan]

@@MonkeyFightTCG right but like is there any secret spice? Lol 😆

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

No not really, Unfortunately. It's kinda just the charmer links and then try for selene

[@tokki8282]

Wait what, Live Twin Spright is weak? I've only been gone for 2 months, how did that happen?

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

The meta has moved very very quickly

[@idrinkpolonium8520]

No Phantom Knights/Raidraptor :((

[@marcelmichels2925]

what is this Marincess deck list? 3 Mandarin, 3 Wave, Crystal Heart? I do appreciate the deck being mentioned a lot but deck list shown seems off to me but quite a bit. I play this deck a ton irl and in masterduel and while its not the deck I am best with, I'd say I still have a good understanding off how it plays and how to build it. I know this won an event but still, it feels bricky and weaker than it could be to me.

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

That deck performed very well at a regional and is very standard for decks that do win those events.

[@marcelmichels2925]

@@MonkeyFightTCG interesting to me but i suppose that could just be that in my region different decks are being played.

[@NeviTheLettyFan]

Not sure if I'd consider Rikka Sunavalon to be hard to use You pretty much learn one big combo and then learn how to deviate from it once you get interrupted I'd say it's as hard as Kashtira

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

I mean, I never had much difficulty with but for new players it can be rough.

[@MasterPeaceTrueGlue-EatingKing]

Everyone knows the current best deck for every skill level is 3-Hump Lacooda turbo.

[@DragonKingRyu993]

Damn, no d-link recommended ?

[@protobass0451]

Dinosaurs have problems with the current meta game, one card combo decks and banish cards (misc at 1 is a real pain). At least future support will give you more flexibility, but it will still be a two card combo. It's not a bad deck, is just a bad time

[@snazzy_nugget2870]

peak content

[@mourex22]

Is it me, or I skipped the dlink build?

[@matejidk]

This is all cool and helpful but what do you mean 300$ is budget I can buy so much more useful stuff for that price then so Yu-Gi-Oh cards

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

Yeah its unfortunate it costs that much. But for yugioh decks that is the cheaper side of the spectrum.

[@blackzero786]

Watching Alubar decks lose against a Skull Knight/Saint Joann Fusion deck is pretty Hilarious.

[@wilsonl3911]

Madolche the closet thing to an otk deck? When many is complaining about how easy is it to get killed via update > accesscode in cyberse decks AND mathmech is on the list? Weird.

[@mk30b25]

Add in the list shown doesn’t have the said otk line.

[@abhineelbajoria5238]

Mathmech. One word. Circular.

[@Jyxero]

Thought it was Superfactorial

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

Well circular gets to superfactorial. Circular is just a crazy starter and extender

[@lioganda]

No punk gold pride in the video 😢

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

Theyre not a popular deck

[@lioganda]

@@MonkeyFightTCG It just got new support in the latest set and got quite a bit of hype behind it

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

They hype is for the deck to be good in the future, not as it is now

[@lioganda]

@@MonkeyFightTCG sure it's not one of the 'greatest decks' in the format, but it's sure as hell better than invoked or VW. All I'm saying is you should've given it a chance.

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

I did. It doesn't have a tournament presence and it's also not cheap making it a bad recommendation.

[@dancemademyday3686]

Try to choose a deck where chances are the highest where konami thinks that has a big fanbase

[@tanngrisnir6089]

So blackwing!?

[@srdjanjankovic5655]

Synchron for me

[@dededemanreal]

How come live twin spright is 1 star but normal spright (melffy?) is 3 stars also this is 100% my own personal cope but marincess is at least better than dracoslayers rn and it has more placements than a lot of other 1 star decks

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

Normal spright has better disruptions and is more consistent just focusing on its own combos

[@dededemanreal]

@@MonkeyFightTCG ok thanks

[@scottkeenan3214]

So far I don't see to really really really good decks on their you water control and ultra athletes

[@medaliboulaamail6491]

You totally forgot about dragon link

[@mattjayce2339]

I'd put Purrely in Easy, not Mid. The deck is literally modern Qliphort.

[@vaylantz_enjoyer]

I'm very simple, Looks Cool = I play

[@michaelbrown2496]

Where is anchient warriors

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

Theyre not a popular deck at all thos format. If you want to here me talk about them.you can check out my tier list series