Why Was Salamangreat Tier 1? - Yu-Gi-Oh!

[@chat124]

When Konami makes flaming animals it’s “cool” and a “great deck”, but when I go to the zoo with a flamethrower it’s a “felony”

[@08megamon]

Technically they are cyberse, so they are just code, unlike animals

[@YungJayDaRBL]

I like your style

[@wabai_879]

Ikr doesn’t make sense

[@schpoopl]

I’m here to remind you of this absolutely hysterical comment

[@SirNilooo]

I’m here to remind you of this absolutely hysterical comment

[@Dyleniz]

I love how he casually said he topped with the deck

[@Instinct_JM]

I topped TWICE with the deck. Was that casual enough?

[@calosso1337]

It's called a shameless brag

[@killerfox9674]

I still remember when we were calling Salamangreat, Salamediocre pre- structure deck

[@Magicapplegaming]

Biggest problem with miragestallio is it’s banned

[@tickledeggz]

I mean and its also an archetype specific Firewall Lite (with extra steps) for the deck.

[@Pacchy]

NOT ANYMORE LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOO

[@francescorumiz4167]

This.... didn t Age well

[@jordanduran859]

@@Pacchy letssss gooooo

[@bearxbear]

Salad has to be one of the most annoying decks to play against because of how recursive they are. They're also I believe one of the only competitive decks to not really have an effective Ash target. Every time I Ash this deck, it's like they have 3 other draw/search/send cards available at their disposal ;'( . One cool thing I think you could've mentioned about Parallel eXceed in the end is that it lets them go into Rafflesia and use Gravedigger's Trap Hole to counter their biggest blowout card in Nibiru. Great video Bladey!

[@ProphecyPhrase]

This!

[@___i3ambi126]

You either want to ash their first Rota and hope they dont have follow up plays (which is a tossup depending on the format/banlist) or you just want to hit the gazelle dump since that is the only way to reliably search a trap as interuption. One option is risky but has huge reward, and the other is very consistent.

[@neondisguise1587]

Aromage: *laughs in health*

[@doomkingraye7692]

"eldlich"

[@bearxbear]

@@doomkingraye7692 Ash can hit Eldlich pretty hard actually. Ash'ing Fibrax and Sanguine can be pretty rough for them.

[@HeroesNights]

We went from being Salamediocre, to salamangreat to still very salamangood today

[@neondisguise1587]

You mean salamangod?

[@HeroesNights]

@@neondisguise1587 shhh dont let the tier 1 decks know, I want it to be a surprise

[@esphir5471]

I think a Orcust video would be really cool to. Showing the rise and the fall and the overall power of this deck. I mean, it could be quite interesting to see how it changed throu the years, with new support and new strategies (PK Orcust, Sky striker Orcust, Orcust as an engine in other decks, etc.).

[@chris9874]

It's probably too early too make an Orcust video, since we have yet to see how the new support impacts the meta at real events. But it would be a great to see a video about the transformations of Orcust once we can play IRL and the meta settles.

[@m7in]

remember when orcust was just an engine?

[@BladeYGO]

I'm honestly not sure what I want to do about that. I agree that an Orcust video would be great and that when the time comes I'll definitely do one, but, honestly, I was reluctant to do this video because Salamangreat is still relevant. There were a lot of people requesting this though so I had to deliver, and I have to figure out what to do about the other 3 meta 2019 decks. I appreciate the suggestion though, and this will definitely eventually become a video!!!

[@hi-uz6uo]

Esphir Orcust is bad rn but I hope they Return via a power Cresendo to Attack the Core of the meta I know the pun ain’t good but I needed to write it

[@josecastro5795]

Remember when blade said Salamangreat was dead after the July 2019 banlist. Pepperidge Farm remembers

[@BladeYGO]

true😂😂

[@IamBlackwing]

Just got back into Yugioh after about 10 years of “Quitting”, my first deck back was Salamangreats right before Eternity Code came out, and man, playing the deck through the set release and being able to play the variant with Accesscode and Parallel Exceeds and topping my last couple locals with the deck, makes me excited for the future of this deck this format.

[@gravekeepersven82]

It's a great success from the r and d card design from konami on the cheap.

[@Nephalem2002]

gravekeepersven82 Mostly

[@dakotadragon01]

BladeYGO: "This is where Salamangreat Sunlight Wolf comes in, being the main core boss monster of the deck." Heatleo: *"Am I a joke to you?"*

[@hat3rgaming959]

Accesscode talker has left the chat

[@Rypio_39]

@@hat3rgaming959 Back in the day there was no Accescode Talker

[@hat3rgaming959]

@@Rypio_39 but there is now. and we're never going back.

[@mechatecha8514]

Pyro Phoenix: hold my beer

[@jamesbrincefield9879]

I’ve been playing this deck in Master Duel for the past couple of days and it’s insanely strong and super consistent. Miragestallio is ridiculous.

[@micahalan]

1:10 Jack Jaguar doesn’t need a Salamangreat Link monster in gy to special summon itself, it needs an extra monster zone a Salamangreat Link points at to special summon itself with a Salamangreat monster in gy.

[@gamersreactions9267]

But realistically you will be shuffling link monsters back 95% of the time

[@woops9343]

Salamangreat is my favorite archetype of all time! I was always interested in YGO, but I didn't want to spend too much money on a card game. That was until I met Salamangreat. The deck made me fall in love with YGO again and it was used in the anime which made me even happier.

[@acsu96]

Salamangreat has been my favorite deck to learn getting back into ygo after a long hiatus. Simple 1-2 card combos and recursion have been fun ways to learn how to manage card advantage and to stay on the board after spending time in games like hearthstone. Also along with Dino's has the honor of being a long-lasting budget option

[@gravekeepersven82]

Facts

[@sweetpotatoffa94]

0:07 missed opportunity to say ,” we’ll reincarnate right back!”

[@micahalan]

Funny thing is there's actually a white outline on Sunlight Wolf.

[@DarkFun25]

Still my favorite & current deck today. Just so consistent

[@banyuwangy232]

A Burning Abyss vid would be cool, i'm really interested on how the deck could survive as a rouge strategy for so long

[@JamFlexx]

they just kept getting support. I remember the first wave with scarm, they were good. Fast forward and people are playing 1 good & evil maindeck now, some fire lakes then boom they get beatrice & virgil I come back after a huge hiatus and wham they get phantom knights which jive perfectly they were a hit in the tcg & komoney kept it rolling haha, good times

[@lyubot.9138]

Why is salamangreat no longer tier 1? *everything else is too unfair* But seriously, since salad is probably the most fair meta deck ever it won't be hit any time soon

[@Denter_g]

that’s what everybody said, but it still got hit previously

[@YungJayDaRBL]

Got hit like 3 times I think 😂

[@leoishere9834]

@@YungJayDaRBL i think he meant like, from now on

[@leoishere9834]

@@Denter_g i think he meant like, starting now 😅

[@danielwan2410]

Can I say: "please do a lightsworn history"? I've heard that it has lasted for years, how did it do that?

[@yata3826]

Their mechanic of milling is too op bro

[@BladeYGO]

100%! After this next wave of videos come out (Why Was Blue-Eyes Tier 1 and What Yu-Gi-Oh! Deck Would Giorno Giovanna Play), I will add that video to the list!

[@jofx4051]

Burning Abyss lasted longer than it

[@RanserSSF4]

I want to see the history of Dinos being done. Been playing the structure deck since release, and boy they've had a very interesting history where it's always close to being Tier 1, but wasn't due to other aspect of certain formats and how they always managed to make a comeback in certain formats

[@photonman0018]

Full orcust combo is still one of my favorite memes.

[@___i3ambi126]

As a salad player, my favorite format ever was "tier 0 orchust engine" (before mermaid ban and ip:masq release). Not only were the top 4 decks still great at that time, but a ton of old tier 2 or worse strategies began running the engine to top tier success. To me all of these variations felt very different to play against with their most unifying feature being what you side against them. This meant it felt like a 9+ deck format only it didn't suffer from the normal problem of imposssible to optimize side decks. Extremely diverse, playstyle for everyone, and most all of the top decks were known for only being unfair in how consistent they were and how long they can play. A real pleasure. Sad to see it go when they banned mermaid.

[@SinfulPack]

Great Vid! Seems amazing I also recommend one on Sky Striker to its unique evolution from pure to trickstar to pure again to Orcust to Pure again with all of those hits to 1 then engage banned but it’s deck still doing well

[@BladeYGO]

Yeah definitely will be doing that eventually. The only problem like I said on a different comment is that I was even reluctant to do this video because the deck is still relevant. There was enough request though so I gave my audience what they wanted. I'll have to figure it out, but eventually that will be a video!

[@AkemiTCG]

Hope you read this! Your videos have been recommended to me for weeks and just today I took the plunge to watch one. The editing and the explanations in this video are top notch. I've always played against Salad and never actually took the time to figure out how it worked. Your video makes the deck VERY easy to understand in less than 15 minutes. You honestly deserve so many more subs and I firmly believe if you keep this level of content up, you'll be top tier =).

[@BladeYGO]

Thank you so much for the compliments man!! It really does mean a lot ❤️

[@oceanman4413]

I know this isn’t connected to ygo, but I hope you get more subs man. You’re video edits were simple yet clean and smooth and the video structure was well organized. Keep it up!

[@BladeYGO]

Thanks fam! I appreciate it :D

[@lyubot.9138]

This is probably my favorite video on this channel, great work!

[@TheFallinhalo]

You: Salamangreats Me: *Proceeds to have Vietnam style flashbacks of Link Evolution against Soulburner and the deck just nuking my entire field all in the same turn. That deck was the Bain of my existance,

[@YungJayDaRBL]

Bruh when the structure deck came out it was literally invincible lands on stallio two of the traps, wolf and like one other interruption I think lol literally beast

[@Galbertao]

"They will BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN! With lemons" - Cave Jonson

[@kinglawson1749]

Never changing my opinion that this deck got hit as hard as it did cuz it was easily accessible.

[@erikludwikowski1267]

Salamangreat are my favorite architype and I miss the old days when they were op and could overwelm any deck

[@xdem2lldeadGaming]

Ho can u hate on salads, they are the fairest deck ever. Its the type of deck that is good for yugioh. Cheap, good but bot broken, easy to learn but decent skill cap and good anime representation of a cool character :)

[@ditto493]

This was a "Great" video on Salamangreat!

[@nobody-ol4ir]

Love it I play it since realise of the structuredeck and I can't get enough of it

[@ueuedeplatano6931]

I remember this deck was so good so hyped and so cheap that Konami had to limit basically everything on it to reduce his power and make him descend on tier until people forget about it.

[@phuonghuynhduy6917]

Still remember Salad topped every single national but NA (which it came 2nd) Lmao

[@kaibamaneltcgmaster]

Yeaaah, and won 2 of the 3 WCQs for the TCG

[@The_Real_Ryan]

I think that they won’t bother hitting it again tbh. There’s almost nothing left to hit without killing the deck, and it’s currently helping to sell eternity code in the form of accesscode talker. I think that if you haven’t already, you should pick up the deck as it’ll probably remain a good tier 2 to rogue deck depending on what is competitive and how powerful everything else is.

[@ceasebenjaminbeast3947]

Imagine talking about accesscode talker in salads but bring up splash mage instead of update jammer

[@gusmethenitis7003]

Please do burning abyss next these are my favourite decks

[@thomasfalk8906]

Konami HQ: we need to hit salamangreat how do we do it? Konami: Maybe limit lady debug? Salamangreat players: Not even close.. Komami: Limit gazelle and circle? Salamangreat players: That aint it chief... Konami: Ban miragestallio?!!!!??? Salamangreat players: We're still here... Konami: We've tried everything now just release adamancipator and eldlich surely salamangreat won't be viable after that Salamangreat players: Parallel eXceed go brrrrr.... Abyss dweller go skrrrrrr... Konami: .....................

[@gravekeepersven82]

Lmfaoo

[@UnKn0wn23.]

i have to say its my fav. deck of all time. Always managed to survive :D

[@Nephalem2002]

I played this deck, but when Mining came out it was out of reach price wise. So I kept going with all the budget options, with mediocre success😅

[@gamersreactions9267]

I mean, mining is 10€ a copy now, you should be able to afford it

[@Nephalem2002]

Vincent I. And I have a job now!

[@TheoJay615]

Looking back at this deck years later, Konami did not want Salamangreats to fail. They got in-theme versions of: Stratos, Armageddon Knight, MX-Saber Invoker, Infernity Barrier, Icarus Attack, and fucking Soul Charge. Not to mention that common Ash Blossom reprint which sold the deck either way!

[@oranganewton]

And now Stallio is back!

[@harryhunt9175]

salad is still tier, it has a 50/50 match up against eldlich and loses most times to adamancipator, other than that it trumps any deck other than shaddoll's being a tough match up. on dueling nexus i made it to the top 100 playing salads and the only decks that are played in there is salads, adaman and eldlich

[@rockbert6482]

pro tipp: If you cant afford Accescode, play double Pyro Phoenix as a win condition

[@ProflugiaSH]

You forgot to mention that Gazelle also dumps spells and traps, and that's why this deck is so versatile and powerful !

[@RealHumanVT]

So after this I rewatched the salamangreat deck profile for the UDS where is the blade ASMR you were talking about doing in 2019

[@BladeYGO]

I don't know what you're talking about 👀😜

[@RealHumanVT]

BladeYGO I have no idea what I am talking about either I was just seeing if I could get a response by saying something this random

[@Iverson1590]

Superb video dude, Salamangreat is my favourite deck and this was a really cool history.

[@kallumnufc50]

The bit about the wolf keep coming back to blow the house down is me lol

[@chelsymcclinton8799]

0:07 🗿☕🎶

[@yagorosadeoliveira3622]

I just love the aesthetic of your vids Well done, Blade

[@shura8865]

Salamangreat the best deck for big brain duelist, i love this deck, this deck is a rare meta deck fair, Salamangreat is my favorite deck =3

[@cheaterxl243]

Kill a deck Give it support to keep it good Kill consistency once again Give it support Repeat the process

[@Majoraspersona]

I remember when we ran Fusion of Fire before Super Poly was unlimited and before Stalio being banned tightened up the Extra Deck space, forcing us to cut Violet Chimera.

[@_arkoner_2274]

I still Play Violet Chimera and Fusion of Fire at 1 and its suprisingly good

[@g-moneypartyrock6421]

Day 2 of waiting for Blade to make “Why was Hungry Burger tier 0”

[@ahmedbrahim2974]

salamangreat will back soon and it have a supp will come to tcg soon and link 5 monster

[@dcdubzgaming3846]

12:45 missed opportunity.. shoulda said "he'll huff, puff, and blow your board down.."

[@alexanderespinoza]

You should make a video on why Upstart Goblin got limited and why everyone is bad for not still playing it!

[@arcadeproalex1255]

This video makes me wanna play this deck since it looks so good and the logic is still pretty sound for it being good, but it just isn't great rn and I feel bad when playing it.

[@ninjoson8367]

Nice i love salamander

[@adamropka6440]

What’s the name of the music/song in the background from around 5:30???

[@gunner-chan-senpai4888]

Watching the video where you topped with the UDS was so interesting, your voice was so high and stuff haha, Do you think that enemy controller is still a viable choice in 2020 Salamangreat? I didn’t think about using controller and damn, that’s potent. I dunno if it’s great against adamancipators and Eldlich but I think it’s a great stun card tbh

[@13pyroboy]

It was particularly good in that format, because it was decent against other decks and you sided it out for games 2 & 3 but the most important reason people played it is that it was excellent in the mirror match which happened a lot because salamangreat was the most played deck at the time) to steal your opponent FIRE monsters. It is not as good as that period because the deck is way less played so good luck to make it work. Otherwise you have enemy controller to steal but it has been touched on the banlist

[@_arkoner_2274]

What do you think of Miragestallio at 1 at the July 2021 bannlist

[@hi-uz6uo]

My favorite history channel

[@kenzofromtheyu-gi-squad2601]

I see, another vid to add to my « why was » playlist

[@TheUltimateCancerCell]

Soulburner's Burning Draw xD

[@andyvargas7142]

Jack jaguar doesnt need a salad link monster. Just a salad monster. However using a link monster is better

[@JacobKendrick]

No what he meant is salad needs to summon itself from the GY to a zone a salamangreat link monster points to. Can you shuffle back anything but you must control a link.

[@azurestar-ch1]

i remember on a match in master duel I beated an eldiich player with fire phoenix cuz he could not overcome racoon's effect, it's just too op

[@m7in]

i wonder how strong full power salamangreat would be rn with all the new cyberse cards

[@kaibamaneltcgmaster]

I think it would be the best deck of the format, Eldlich is already quite easy for salads, imagine salads being at full power with all of their consistency and easy way to have full Gy setup, even with stallio at 1 the deck would be significantly better

[@kaibamaneltcgmaster]

@@Bazoo_the_Soul-Eater You can spin the backrow with heatleo, destroy the continous cards with foxy, pop more cards with rage, conquistador almost doesn't do anything because of balelynx protection, you can even blow the entire board with zeroboros (wich is a card that I still play because the eff to banish the entire board comes up a lot and has won me so many games as well as having it as a big body that can OTK by itself), the deck is really recursive, not only the engine but the fact that you can get back ash from the grave is huuge for those scarlet sanguines, the deck has easy access to bagooska and dweller wich are helpful, the eldlich deck doesn't make huge plays during their turns because during their turns is when they banish their cards from GY to set their traps, wich obviously can not be activated until your turn, so the fact that they have to pass to have their interruptions available and ONLY if they control the lord on board is what makes you generate more and more resources turn after turn, in some games you can even make your opponent waste their entire engine, so they won't be able to set more traps and push for game from there, but yeah, eldlich is not that hard for salamangreats in comparison with adamancipators. Btw, I am not talking about the synchro combo because it only takes one handtrap to stop them, I also didn't mentioned that roar is very good to negate the cursed eldland because not only prevents your opponent from searching a card but it also prevent your opponent from triggering the eff in GY to send a card from the deck to the GY because the activation of the card was negated, so it doesn't count as if it was sent from the field to the GY, and roar is also very good to negate scarlet sanguine, the golden land cards or any way your opponent may have to put the golden lord on the field

[@chargebladeygo6889]

It meta because you top with it

[@brianevald6286]

Please do Thunder Dragons next

[@dingstar308]

Skystriker a brief history next pls

[@khrismanauval4383]

Now we back again boiss in Duel Links 2022. Salamangreat tier 1 again

[@FinalMorningstar]

3:52 salamangreat roar: bruh

[@theholy1191]

You should cover Orcusts next I think, since that deck just refuses to die, adapts to every format, and has yet to drop below tier 2 even now.

[@speedybuilder1953]

you're always making very fun and informative content :) Keep up the good work!

[@hi-uz6uo]

Salad is my 2nd favorite deck after Orcust

[@Roscoso]

I would think the best ending phrase would be. huff puff and burn your house down XD

[@laurentvanoverschelde9624]

and one year later, the deck still T1

[@horizon7897]

Love it when people make a video that we already know.

[@ReliousFlareStar]

Subbed for the Eric Andre reference.

[@hutaocleookitavoidshiki1470]

It was tier one because we need to be reminded about are diets

[@cyberflamexyz2953]

Rest in piece Stallio

[@_arkoner_2274]

He is back

[@jamtheman13]

If altergeist is able to come back, Stallio should too

[@someperson8569]

The difference is altergeist wasnt ever massive meta threat, salamangreat was a big boi meta deck, the card that could come back the most is circle.

[@jordanduran859]

@@someperson8569 salad is non meta relevant right now at best their a rogue deck stallio can come back to 1

[@Sheikah_Architect]

Can you make a video on Qliphort and then on Ptolemaeus? Qliphort was incredible when it first came out! I accidentally realized God EXISTS from researching that deck.

[@aaronstevenson8925]

3:53, actually you just have to have a salamangreat link monster, it doesn't have to be reincarnated to use roar.

[@OmegaRpg953]

love these videos keep them comeing

[@nightcrawlery2j]

I think sky striker fit the theme more. Even with everything limited and engage banned striker is still a tier 1 deck and beat the goldboy and rock(when a good player pilot the deck). And right now in ocg stiker is a tier 1 deck with dragma

[@tresquattro3995]

Oh Boy...the deck is nowhere near tier 1 or even tier 2...

[@nightcrawlery2j]

@@tresquattro3995 the latest ocg pie chart striker is join second with dragma invoked and dragma shadoll with 12.5% just after inferno knights 17.5%.eldlich and orcust is behind with 10 and 5%

[@darkside7802]

I’m missing 15 cards to make my deck meta. :(

[@hero_triple3796]

Wait wait wait orcust was good before dingirsu and crescendo?!? Some please explain how

[@kaibamaneltcgmaster]

Yup, they used to summon azathot during the opponent's turn with the PK rank-up spell, locking you from activating monsters effs and OTK you next turn, also there were some decks that based their strategy on ending their turn with bomber, babel and orcust setup in GY, so during the opponent's turn they could summon orcust monsters to the zone bomber points to and blow their monsters in the main monster zones twice or up to thrice per turn

[@hero_triple3796]

Kaibaman el TCG master thanks 👍

[@nesunimm9508]

It was all going well before I activated Darkfall

[@swampshark6033]

yo do you think nekroz will be meata agin with the help of dragmas

[@ImWeirdBoy]

@BladeYGO Would you please make a video on True King of all Calamities?

[@aerialjohn8631]

Wait did you say jacques jaguar needed a link monster in grave? Is that a mistake? Because i can only read "monster" and not "link monster" in his effect

[@somerandomweeb4836]

I activate enemy controller a, b, c up down left

[@oranganewton]

Stallio is back! Let's goooooo!!

[@Aceshot-uu7yx]

Can we get a history of pepe I looked it up and the top video was skull servants

[@ac923alexis]

They all look like legendary Pokemon

[@zest7812]

Do a vid on Orcust or BA next?