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I just love running my hero deck it’s my favorite archetype and I slowly built it to my liking since I started building it but I’m purely casual admittedly lol

If we look at percentage of a YCS topcut it simply is Spyral

Striker. It literally is one of the most flexible decks.

My Precious Queen was indeed tier 0 in speed duel, and a dominant tier 0 at that. Anyone not playing My Precious Queen was not a serious contender to win a tournament. However, Jesse is right that nobody played Insect Queen. That card sucks.

You also have to take into consideration the time the deck was released. For its time, dragon rulers was ridiculously overpowered.

Obviously the 2nd best deck is a deck that hasn't been tested. Primite Ishizu Paleo.

I couldn't answer this question in a vaccum. But in a format where tear is the clear best deck i think dragonlink has the options to both, make crazy boards going first and play 20 bystials as an effective non engine to at least have a chance against tear.

I honestly dont hate centur-ion like if you think about what the most played handtraps would be in the format its like shifter, maxx c, fuwalos, ash, droll, purulia, nib and centur-ion is kinda insane into all of them. Youre 1 card combos setup king calamity giving them litterally 2 draws with maxx 1 with fuwa and 0 with purulia under droll shifter and nib. If they dont have those you can also just add a cosmic blazar to your endboard to insulate the king. The issue with centur-ion isnt that its extenders arent good its that it doesnt have enough but that really isnt an issue where you can just fill out your list with 3 pot 3 graceful 3 painful and call it a day. The issue with many of the other shifter shells is that they cant really kill under shifter the only real exception being kash, and while thats mostly true for centurion as well since you can very easily king calamity them it doesnt really matter. Overall, I think its kind of nice and quite possibly the best handtrap shell in the format.

We really did cross a line when shizu Tear was made.

I feel like some sort of Paleo trap pile just having access to busted cards on the level of I/O could make it a strong contender even against Tear since the mills would only help you.

You should start a progression series where all the top decks face off against each other. Just go get a few other people and do a tournament that last a few episodes. I've seen something similar on card market for MTG it's one of thier most watched series

Imo the top three decks in an unlimited format are: Tearlaments. Kashtira. Dragon Link. Tear is obvious. Kashtira is designed as a fundamental counter to Tear and in an unlimited format it would be crazy strong, consistent, and even handtrap resistant. Arise-Heart alone is a Weapon of Mass Destruction. Add in Diablosis and it’s crazy oppressive, Kashtira is anti-everything. The only decks that could challenge full power Kash are Tear and D-Link. And D-Link just has so many tools at its disposal against everything else that it sweeps everything except Tear and Kash. With these three it would literally be “who goes first wins”. Kash and D-Link cannot get through Tear (though Kash has a better chance at doing it than D-Link does). Tear and D-Link are fucked if Arise-Heart hits the field and Shangri-Ira has locked their backrow. And D-Link can do so much that even Tear and Kash might not be able to get through their end board.

This Dragon Link discussion will be Jesse’s version of MBT with Master Peace 😭

Listening to some of these people's takes on older decks really shows how badly yugi boomers underestimate power creep in this game. You could give Zoodiac every card off the banlist right now with Shock Master and 3x pot of greed and that deck is still getting absolutely smoked by the same Ishizu Tearlament list that everyone played in Master Duel a year ago with no extra cards.

Wtffff I never even noticed the face on shockmaster! Creeeeepy!

Imho I think you’re valuing non-engine too heavily in this particular discussion. Non-engine is definitely important but you still need something to DO once you’ve hand trapped your opponent into oblivion. If the goal is to beat IshTear specifically then you need to be able to keep pace with and/or stop your opponent popping off T0 and for that you need a VERY resilient engine that doesn’t die to milling half the deck. I think in a true unlim format the best places to START with beating IshTear are probably some odd-ball variant of Dragon Link, maybe Adamancipator? And potentially a truly disgusting variant of Snake-Eye. There MIGHT be a world where Yubel or Unchained could see some success as well, but Unchained especially would require an INSANE pilot ripping genuinely perfect value out of every last card.

really big of my guy jesse to not ban that dragon link bozo

could you just play some kind of tight rank 4 strat to spam out utopic zexal? any 3 generic 3 4s on the field would be able to end on a 3 material utopic zexal plus an armored xyz line to close out games faster. could then fill the rest of your deck with hand traps. not gonna say its the best, but i think itd be pretty decent at least

It is probably me coping and hating on Kashtira players, but I feel like full power Kash is almost as good as Tearlament Ishizu against everyone else while also stomping Tear. Having Fenrir, Unicorn, Terraforming, Arise-Heart, Shifter and Diablosis on top of that, all at 3 is just unfun and unfair. The only thing Kash can't really do is playing "turn 0".

Zoodics are probably one of the best decks ever that people don't fully understand how insane they are. Obviously, it's compact, but the endboards is produces are nothing to scoff at. The rank 4 pool is arguably the most powerful collection of cards in the game, and Zoodiacs can make pretty much all of them more efficiently than any other deck using things like Ratpier's non OPT E-Tele. Shock Master, Dweller, Bagooska, Ptolmaes into Azathot, are all available, and it can reach any of these multiple times with a very small engine. I've seen Shock Master, Azathot, Dweller with a mere 15 zoodiac cards and the rest non-engine.

The funnier part is that (i think, imho) Jesse missed that most MBT's Twitter follower are Jank enthusiast and meta-hater. Ofc they can't saw a solid perception about Meta decks. Few of them are just sarcastic or typing bits. There's no decks can't close to Snake eye, zoo, or mystic mine for 2nd place best deck of all time.

I love that he's mad at chat for not understanding the landscape of a format he himself was just introduced to

Iblee + Purple Nightfall in unlimited format cooks :)

My personal comment is Synchrons. Although not the best, the fact it can make some many things and play around a decent amount of things st minimum makes me think it would have a decent shot

Hear me out: Fiendsmith Zoodiac. Small enough engine, Doesn't die to the same handtraps that kill Tear, Can spam Dweller using Ratpier, you got Fusion Sub combo, Chakanine can climb you into Fiendsmith combo, and can play that many handtraps that it works.

I love that Jesse can't be mean or have a mean voice. He's still silly, a goofball in general. Would be fun to show up in one of these vids one day, I only started playing Hand Traps recently but I'm centered in playing a "multiple of 5" amount of monsters.

I yearn for the day that tear is power crept and gets some things off the banlist

If it isn’t Tearlament, then it would be either Kashtira or Spright. POTE was treated like the “mistake” set by Konami. They were all strong for like 4-6 months and then got hit on the banlists, and even then with each hit it only slowed them down until they got their final bans/limits yet they are still relevant today.

since tear is a turn-0 deck in unlimited format and considered the best deck, any potential 2nd best deck would need to have a similar capability of turn-0 plays. im not sure which decks do it but if there will be a superior deck released in the future, it will be able to play on the opponents turn

If soyral wa splayable im tcg id go comtrol foshure

Some of these threads have some the funniest, most objectively wrong answers its comedy gold. Would love to see more thread reactions!

The guy who said "Whatever deck my opponent is playing at any given time" is the right answer 😂😂😂

Look I know I’m not good at the game, but I’m also not really bad, because I can beat striker.

Mbt saying eclipse can’t come off ever when painful choice a card is nuts.

Adamancipator in an unlimited format would be insane. I’m surprised it was mentioned so little

Full power Kashtira is the second strongest deck and Infernoble snake eyes is the third best based on the last unbanned tournament in Japan which had 14 tear tops and 4 kash tops with 1 snake eyes infernoble top lol

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I know this video is an opinion however I think you should not waste breath trying to understand reasons from a clown like MBT.

Eric Theodore Cartman.

It is absolutely dragon link, dragon link is so absolutely ridiculous and crazy. Eclipse wyvern and black metal are just insanely plus and can summon any dragons in the game

FIBER JAR is a pretty crazy card. Should be legal. #freeFiberJar

Everyone talking about hts seem to forget azathoth is a thing

It has to be mystic mine stun surely...

Something similar to adventure rose tenyi in md would probably be best deck. Spam halqdon/tomahawk from everything

What about true kings/dracoslayers? Master piece at 3 with all them hand traps

Mbt is obsesses with eclipse wyvern because he did a massive masochist tourney that was won by dragons literally kn the bqck of eclipse wyvern adding lubellion, ced and levi

Plants with Dandylion.

I just want to be In master

Great idea. Loved this video. Your the Gordon ramsay of deck builiding🤣🤣🤣

The only other reason to play two of is, if you play a deck that draws a lot of cards and you don't want to draw multiple, because it's a hard once per turn/not useful in multiples runick is an example of this