I feel bad that the Ninja player had to start top cut with such a tricky matchup, but you have to be prepared for these situations in events. At least they managed to put on as good a showing as possible.
10:56 what is further wild about that is, if you attack over zero, the special summon occurs in the damage step. So unless you can negate activations you wont be able to respond to the Trishula.
1:37:35 a dude in the chat say "ponix grab the pop spell" when the problem was he cant activate 💀 And there was another dude say "summon too early might get subversion" but doesnt know that if he summon in the main phase diabelle will search for it (if they do play it)
That ninja pilot played insane🤯. I feel like if he built the deck a bit more like how the lab and branded decks are built(primarily full gas) he could give everyone a run for their money. I think he had a bit too much handtraps
Eh the hand traps got him there. Ninjas aren't a super gas deck unless you build them like infernoble. Especially in the 9x Maxx C meta, being able to pass on a bunch of hand traps is important now.
Ninja is a control archetype and cant go full gas . The deck is good on turn 3 while everyone is low on ressources or against slower decks. The deck is simple and dont have any broken card . No one card combo , no +8 card advantage ...
After watching this tournament and playing a little with the new pack I’m convinced that TCG players just don’t know how to play branded. Yes it’s different formats but honestly that doesn’t matter as much as you think it does and y’all have less cards hit on the ban list than MD does. Y’all have had light and darkness dragon overlord forever and haven’t done anything with it cause y’all were so focused on puppet lock. That card is so crazy good it’s not even funny. 3 Omni negates plus a revive of a dragon when it gets destroyed. It works so well in Branded and it is so easy to summon.
Well it's because there's decks that were/are more prevalent in the tcg. Mind you, its not like people in the TCG dont know how to play Branded, it's just there's other strategies that are preferred. You have fiendsmith and all of their variants, yubel, snake-eyes fire king, rituals beast and especially Tenpai (before the banlist back in Dec). Especially with the release of Maliss and Ryzeal last month, you won't see Branded as much probably until they get their new support, since people want to play with the new cards. LaDDO is a good card but it's not so great if you accidentally negate your own card because his effect to negate is mandatory.
You know, i just trolled someone who turbo'd LADDL with a Danger Bigfoot The card is amazing but it's not unbeatable, Apollousa is WAY WAY stronger as it's 4 fucking OPTIONAL monster negates, not once per turn Even disgusting generic negates that also destroy like Baronne are much stronger imo LADDL Being mandatory is the card's weakness
@@2468biohazard I understand all of this. I wasn’t saying the deck is the best deck in the room I am arguing that it is better than what TCG players think. TCG players were saying that the deck was absolutely dead after puppet lock was banned and that’s just not true. Besides the feindsmith engine and the newest decks MD has had all of those decks you mentioned at full power or stronger than TCG did and Branded has held its own against all of them. But I do get what you are saying.
Konami is gonna wait until the chumies are out of the shop and then ban Maxx c just so they get the gem purchases from ppl buying them rather than dismantling their Maxx c to craft them and make the pack purchases dead
At some point we would get 3 free URs. Im not sure, if they Ban it. I mean they implement toxic things unnerfed, and say its Fine with maxx C. With 6 maxx C, they could Even more shit on the Balance of the game
This one was one of the better tournaments for sure! The Tenpai game and the Lab vs Ninja game was beautiful. Branded games are always the best and the one vs Voiceless was great.
MD has become dogshit now, every other game I get sacked by Maxx c or fuwalos, or God forbid both of them on the same turn. Dealing with one was already tiring, I think I'm playing another game until Maxx c is banned.
Is there a place to watch the unedited matches? As a newer player I'd like to see the full combo lines without the fast forwarding so i can better learn what various archetypes do and where to disrupt them
I'm taking a break before jumping into this format but I have to say I was pleasantly surprised with this meta weekly, one of the best in recent memory; the labrynth (specially silver forest), branded and dragon link matches were all great.
Enjoyed seeing the Branded games in this video. I think the Branded vs Puppet could have been different if Branded player went for Furious Dragon. Should consider playing Masquerade too.
with branded, you have to be an elite monster to secure a spot at the extra deck, also you need two masquerade to make it worth it that is why it not played
Well they are probably going to wait for the pack with Mulcharmies to leave the store now. Since if they ban it now people have the choice of if they want to craft or spend money. Later if they ban with let’s say Fiendsmith coming out you might want to craft something from the new pack instead but you will be forced to spend your UR Craft points on Mulcharmies and money on in this example Fiendsmith pack.
Imma start playing exodia in every deck. Right now just running Fuwalos and Maxx C. Opened the pack to pull the Ashen Cards, didn't get a single SR or UR from them. But I did get a Fuwalos, after I had already crafted 3 of them.
"Do not be fooled into anyone calling those 2 mulcharmies as Maxx C 2" "It's a red flag basically for anyone who said that 'there's 9 maxx C in master duel now' doesn't know what they're talking about" - Joshua Schmidt 2025
I generaly splash ice jade in the deck since they r great extenders had a opponent use 3 hand traps on aegerine once.veiler into veiled to stop the second effect trigger so I called veiled and they then used imperm. Aegerine helps ice barriers danger if they negate the normal summon
51:22 Love how someone in chat said " why did appolo die when summoned by I:P". Reading comprehension is not strong in this one. It says opponents card effects not your card effects.
Whenever I see Centurion they get bodied going 2nd. Like that deck needs the extra support and cards that are good at breaking boards to play against others
Seeing Tenpai pop two of these Mulcharmies and Maxx C right after lets me know its time to take a break. It will be a long one. Back to Fortnite for me.
As a yubel enjoyer, it is cring as hell seeing them use ASF, and other floodgates as the deck is plenty strong without them. Rightly deserved to have their own floodgate screw them over.
I spent thousands of dollars on duel links and that was a mistake, I won't make that mistake again with master duel, I've spent 0. And that's because of the maxx c cards
lmao, tenpai losing to time is the funniest shit ive seen this week, i thought that the reason people play tenpai is because they dont want to waste their time doing combo on turn 1 ?
im not really against handtraps but can can konami atleast ban maxxc. deck is revolve around calledby maxxc and ash. this takes 8cards in your deck. and now the new "maxxc" arrive. can we please do something
how is branded still meta relevant? it's been in the meta tier list longer than labrynth, then again, if you have like more than 10 archetypes supporting you, you better be meta relevant for a long time... i feel like this deck is gonna get more hits sooner than later, lol
Card destruction is propably fine, but crossout definetly not. We have enough HTs in the game and funny plays like crossouting a crossout needs anyone.
@@leonkanivora Problem with these cards: how many HTs do you need realistically to not die going second? Propably something around 3? With cbtg and co you need 4 and they can peotect the few chokepoints they have, so no, HT-counters shouldnt exist.
VV has won a couple meta weeklies and is topping pretty much every week and people are still saying things like copeless cope? Lol, literally they are the ones who can't cope that it's a good deck.
The meta is rly disgusting right now, maxc and now this shit, no wonder people quit this trash game. Max C alone was already broken and now instead of banning it, we get another version of max C.
The ninja and d-link duels were really good. Also why is everyone in the comments so happy about ice barrier? Every single card has a floodgate effect on it, though it isn't meta(which is my criteria for a fun to watch deck in 99% of cases), it's cringe as hell and anoying to play against
A lingering lock, which prevents you from summoning or activating a trap twice After the huge effort to bring Both in the graveyard? Yeah, I know whats worse …
If we print two more maxx-c's like monsters we could make that a whole decktype idea and then tech in exodia
At this point we might as well get the anime version of Card of Safe Return where you could draw 3 cards every summon
we need 1 more. apparently there is another mulcharmy monster called mulcharmy meowls
@@02brother guessing if an opponent summons from the Grave, you can draw a card?
Would lose to droll tho
@@QueenofAgnusgrave or banish
That ninja player is insane
It's the best meta weekly from a long time
I feel bad that the Ninja player had to start top cut with such a tricky matchup, but you have to be prepared for these situations in events. At least they managed to put on as good a showing as possible.
Shout out to the Ninja and Ice Barrier duelists in this tournament! That Ninja player was going in that second game!
among bunch of meta, we have ice barrier and ninja player like a bright star 😂
dont forget dlink
Fr 🔥
And Branded
Ice barrier is not a bright star bro 😭
hurt your feelings 😂@@massunoi
There is something poetic about branded being defeated by gimmick puppet
Sweet, sweet karma...
nothing poetic about it
not really
10:56 what is further wild about that is, if you attack over zero, the special summon occurs in the damage step. So unless you can negate activations you wont be able to respond to the Trishula.
1:37:35 a dude in the chat say "ponix grab the pop spell" when the problem was he cant activate 💀
And there was another dude say "summon too early might get subversion" but doesnt know that if he summon in the main phase diabelle will search for it (if they do play it)
*Daruma flipping the ninjas face down*
The Ninjas: Ha! JOKES ON YOU, I'M INTO THAT SHIT!
That ninja pilot played insane🤯. I feel like if he built the deck a bit more like how the lab and branded decks are built(primarily full gas) he could give everyone a run for their money. I think he had a bit too much handtraps
Eh the hand traps got him there. Ninjas aren't a super gas deck unless you build them like infernoble. Especially in the 9x Maxx C meta, being able to pass on a bunch of hand traps is important now.
He should of won. Typical meta play on both players turn rollback nukes field. Very fair 👏. Ninja did amazing. That's a fair balance meta deck.
Ninja is a control archetype and cant go full gas . The deck is good on turn 3 while everyone is low on ressources or against slower decks.
The deck is simple and dont have any broken card . No one card combo , no +8 card advantage ...
That dragon link duel was amazing! That’s a sick deck shout out to that guy!
Ninjas vs White Forest Lab was the coolest duel I've seen in a while.
After watching this tournament and playing a little with the new pack I’m convinced that TCG players just don’t know how to play branded. Yes it’s different formats but honestly that doesn’t matter as much as you think it does and y’all have less cards hit on the ban list than MD does. Y’all have had light and darkness dragon overlord forever and haven’t done anything with it cause y’all were so focused on puppet lock. That card is so crazy good it’s not even funny. 3 Omni negates plus a revive of a dragon when it gets destroyed. It works so well in Branded and it is so easy to summon.
Well it's because there's decks that were/are more prevalent in the tcg. Mind you, its not like people in the TCG dont know how to play Branded, it's just there's other strategies that are preferred. You have fiendsmith and all of their variants, yubel, snake-eyes fire king, rituals beast and especially Tenpai (before the banlist back in Dec). Especially with the release of Maliss and Ryzeal last month, you won't see Branded as much probably until they get their new support, since people want to play with the new cards. LaDDO is a good card but it's not so great if you accidentally negate your own card because his effect to negate is mandatory.
D barrier in b03
@@Spiffyy69 that too
You know, i just trolled someone who turbo'd LADDL with a Danger Bigfoot
The card is amazing but it's not unbeatable, Apollousa is WAY WAY stronger as it's 4 fucking OPTIONAL monster negates, not once per turn
Even disgusting generic negates that also destroy like Baronne are much stronger imo
LADDL Being mandatory is the card's weakness
@@2468biohazard I understand all of this. I wasn’t saying the deck is the best deck in the room I am arguing that it is better than what TCG players think. TCG players were saying that the deck was absolutely dead after puppet lock was banned and that’s just not true. Besides the feindsmith engine and the newest decks MD has had all of those decks you mentioned at full power or stronger than TCG did and Branded has held its own against all of them. But I do get what you are saying.
Konami is gonna wait until the chumies are out of the shop and then ban Maxx c just so they get the gem purchases from ppl buying them rather than dismantling their Maxx c to craft them and make the pack purchases dead
At some point we would get 3 free URs. Im not sure, if they Ban it. I mean they implement toxic things unnerfed, and say its Fine with maxx C. With 6 maxx C, they could Even more shit on the Balance of the game
This meta weekly was absolute cinema! Branded was cooking but ninjas HOLY!!!!
That Buster Blader Dragon Link game 2 legit gave me Berserker Soul vibes 💀
That ninja duel was so fun to watch!
Those ninja vs. labyrinth duels were great. The chat was on fire
2:20 ah yes my favorite monster "Gamer"
Lab and branded saved this week matches
This week is so good
Dragon link as well 🎉
@@horus7814 floodgate turbo.deck*
Not the floodgate with lab tucked in though. That is kinda a letdown, I'm glad as a Lab player that it's going down before top 8.
This one was one of the better tournaments for sure! The Tenpai game and the Lab vs Ninja game was beautiful.
Branded games are always the best and the one vs Voiceless was great.
31:15 dkayed getting fired in chat and dkayedstepson reacting to it hahaha
9 maxx c ….. yeah I’m done for now with master duel now.
MD has become dogshit now, every other game I get sacked by Maxx c or fuwalos, or God forbid both of them on the same turn. Dealing with one was already tiring, I think I'm playing another game until Maxx c is banned.
Floo clears
Bro i feel that, man i Play 3ash 2 called by 3 droll and crossout but never Draw them...
@@ExtroversalBut my 1 Nibiru is constantly glued to my hand 🤣
same here
Cry harder
That Borrelend Dragon, I can't stop laughing.
34:10 is the best part of this video😂
Thx Gia
Is there a place to watch the unedited matches? As a newer player I'd like to see the full combo lines without the fast forwarding so i can better learn what various archetypes do and where to disrupt them
In the Home Screen of the game, on the top right there’s a button that says “Duel Live” You can watch ranked matches there and see what you can learn
I'm taking a break before jumping into this format but I have to say I was pleasantly surprised with this meta weekly, one of the best in recent memory; the labrynth (specially silver forest), branded and dragon link matches were all great.
Thank you gia
That White Forest Lab deck was spicy, excited to see them in top 8!
Enjoyed seeing the Branded games in this video. I think the Branded vs Puppet could have been different if Branded player went for Furious Dragon. Should consider playing Masquerade too.
with branded, you have to be an elite monster to secure a spot at the extra deck, also you need two masquerade to make it worth it that is why it not played
@VirtuMaven yeah but masquerade is a good choice even as a 1 of.
Ice barrier and VV are some of the most fun decks. I wish they were more relevant in this meta and ladder
As a gp main seeing that gp branded match up just feels good
Well they are probably going to wait for the pack with Mulcharmies to leave the store now. Since if they ban it now people have the choice of if they want to craft or spend money. Later if they ban with let’s say Fiendsmith coming out you might want to craft something from the new pack instead but you will be forced to spend your UR Craft points on Mulcharmies and money on in this example Fiendsmith pack.
Imma start playing exodia in every deck. Right now just running Fuwalos and Maxx C. Opened the pack to pull the Ashen Cards, didn't get a single SR or UR from them. But I did get a Fuwalos, after I had already crafted 3 of them.
I fucking love this videos, man, thanks, Gia
How is that Gimmick puppet field okay but Tenpai Field isnt'?
Gimmick puppet will not always Go first, but tenpai nearly always Go second …
that puppet strings rank 9 should be banned or at the very least limited to 1 with an errata
That ninja duel was awesome
I enjoyed watching the Ice Barrier plays. Ice Barrier is some of my favorites.
"Do not be fooled into anyone calling those 2 mulcharmies as Maxx C 2"
"It's a red flag basically for anyone who said that 'there's 9 maxx C in master duel now' doesn't know what they're talking about"
- Joshua Schmidt 2025
This top 16 was really enjoyable ❤
Called by the grave to negate the negate that's negating the negate, negate by fingering the moncouir, mate....NEGATE! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Ngl, watching these make me want to build a gimmick puppet deck.
I use Ice Barriers and that deck can pop off with very easy to use combos. If it ever gets more support, the deck will be top tier.
I generaly splash ice jade in the deck since they r great extenders had a opponent use 3 hand traps on aegerine once.veiler into veiled to stop the second effect trigger so I called veiled and they then used imperm. Aegerine helps ice barriers danger if they negate the normal summon
51:22 Love how someone in chat said " why did appolo die when summoned by I:P". Reading comprehension is not strong in this one. It says opponents card effects not your card effects.
Twitch chat doesn't have the smartest people. Another guy was asking why the VV guy didn't negate Droplet...
did not even seen this a almost 2 hour video
Ninja vs lab is wild.
Whenever I see Centurion they get bodied going 2nd. Like that deck needs the extra support and cards that are good at breaking boards to play against others
Seeing Tenpai pop two of these Mulcharmies and Maxx C right after lets me know its time to take a break. It will be a long one. Back to Fortnite for me.
Seeing ninja gave me hope
As a yubel enjoyer, it is cring as hell seeing them use ASF, and other floodgates as the deck is plenty strong without them. Rightly deserved to have their own floodgate screw them over.
Idk man it's not like tenpai can destroy yubel easily but he still main deck asf
@@JetherArroz-mn2my it's probably to prevent back row removal more than anything else, but still no excuse.
The Gimmick Puppets absolutely destroying Branded with AND without Fuwalos was insane 🔥
@ 46:56 was talking irl to someone dont cook me 💀
Shinobi the Ninja player is quite literally the main character.
That ninja player had kage level strength
I need that lab paleo forest list
I spent thousands of dollars on duel links and that was a mistake, I won't make that mistake again with master duel, I've spent 0. And that's because of the maxx c cards
Speedroid support showcase?
How the hell tenpai get hit with a banlist and feel buffed bc of mulchummies
Well if there was ever a time for a break its now fellas. Lmk when there is an event 😂😂😂
Actually meta is better with mulcharmies pog
Insane Ninja plays 😮
Watching branded get clapped by puppet was oddly satisfying.
Never thought I’d root for Dragon Link but here we are
Maxx c at 9 master duel might as well unban pot of greed at this point
pls karma make a guide for gimmick puppet. you inspire me to play it.
9 fucking maxxxx C, what the hell. I am out for 5 month i guess.
Ugh, first Ice Barrier stun and then Spright Adventure vs Labyrinth. They should call this the Stun Meta Weekly 🤢
GG Honda
lmao, tenpai losing to time is the funniest shit ive seen this week, i thought that the reason people play tenpai is because they dont want to waste their time doing combo on turn 1 ?
More duration pls
yessssssssssss gimmick puppet comeback ftk deck strong even on 2nd turn
3 mat link apollousa, meet 2 mat fusion apollousa
im not really against handtraps but can can konami atleast ban maxxc. deck is revolve around calledby maxxc and ash. this takes 8cards in your deck. and now the new "maxxc" arrive. can we please do something
It’s not that big of a deal honestly. It’s good, but not game killing.
How about none of us play MD for a while to show Konami their mistakes.
how is branded still meta relevant? it's been in the meta tier list longer than labrynth, then again, if you have like more than 10 archetypes supporting you, you better be meta relevant for a long time... i feel like this deck is gonna get more hits sooner than later, lol
Negate war 34:05
Crossout and Card Destruction to 3 please
Card destruction is propably fine, but crossout definetly not. We have enough HTs in the game and funny plays like crossouting a crossout needs anyone.
@ then give me another Crossout at 1 or 2 , we have 15+ HTs against 2 Fingers and 1 Crossout
@@leonkanivora Problem with these cards: how many HTs do you need realistically to not die going second? Propably something around 3? With cbtg and co you need 4 and they can peotect the few chokepoints they have, so no, HT-counters shouldnt exist.
@@leonkanivorajust give us gravedigger traphole but in quickplay spell/handtrap form
Snake eyes player threw game 2 should of normal summoned arvata before 1/1
BRANDED IS BACKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IM GONNA BE CLAPPING PEOPLE WITH MY DRAGON LINK DECK LETS GOOO
51:24 he learned lesson today. Never summon all your monsters in atk position if you are playing against Tenpai
it wouldn't even matter since it was his own island that blew off his field
Ban maxx c or unlimit called by or crossout
VV has won a couple meta weeklies and is topping pretty much every week and people are still saying things like copeless cope? Lol, literally they are the ones who can't cope that it's a good deck.
Idk its always feels Like either its nuts or it sucks completely
The meta is rly disgusting right now, maxc and now this shit, no wonder people quit this trash game. Max C alone was already broken and now instead of banning it, we get another version of max C.
The ninja and d-link duels were really good. Also why is everyone in the comments so happy about ice barrier? Every single card has a floodgate effect on it, though it isn't meta(which is my criteria for a fun to watch deck in 99% of cases), it's cringe as hell and anoying to play against
Pot of greed op guys
Its stays on the banlist hahaha
What a joke
just floodgate them to death huh😅
Im building a deck out card, help me
Danger-darkworld
Nice
Handtraps with no restriction are killing master duel...im out! Screw you konami!
Pfffft self flood😂
Soon maxx C at 15 to be fair.
The meta is ruined. Every game is plagued by maxx C et al.
People still salty over branded. Transition role back meanwhile, most stupid card imo. U can't even avoid it unless u have an omni negate.
A lingering lock, which prevents you from summoning or activating a trap twice After the huge effort to bring Both in the graveyard? Yeah, I know whats worse …
Wow
What kind of tenpai player loses to time limit. You are using an extremely easy and brain dead deck with all the hand traps or board breakers