I play that in MD as of late, it's pretty good against combo decks assuming you don't brick. Like it does lose hard to other Water decks, the annoying Runick Stun, and other big meta decks like Branded Despia. The deck also has an interesting Swordsoul matchup, as Swordsoul has Water monsters to get around the Kairyu Shin, but the old ass A Legendary Ocean field spell messes up their token's levels for their Synchros while locking them into Synchros.
I'm so glad Mystic Mine was never in Master Duel. That Runick shit is insufferable enough, can't imagine the absolute nightmare it'd be with Mystic Mine. How that card took so long to get banned in the TCG is beyond me.
Yesterday I blew out my opponents fluffal board 5 turns in a row using blind second Unchained And every single turn they managed to go from 0 to 4 cards in their hand and rebuild their board every time. Completely outgrinded me into the ground.
I know they're pretty easy to play around, but I'm surprised Gravity Bind and Level Limit: Area B aren't on the list, if only cause of their legacy. Plus people on Master Duel don't seem to know about them until they play against them, making them waste time as they try to do plays they can't do.
Man I remember in like 2009 I only played with friends and I had a machine monster mash deck that abused Spell Canceller and Jinzo and they all hated me.
9:55 Maybe because if you have Monarch Erupt, you can't activate the effects of the small birbs, and that's quite a problem. Monarchs and True Dracos can use them effectively
the chat comment while mystic mine is being discussed saying it's "unironically the most skilfull deck and the amount of game knowledge required to pilot it optimally is insane" i feel requires contest because the latter may be true (may be) but also you do not at all need to pilot it anywhere near optimally to win or get to a point where your opponent scoops in frustration an awful lot of the time which hugely diminishes the skill factor, you can in many cases just slap it down whenever you have it and win
I think depending on the format, shadow imprisoning mirror is very good. That card has won me so many games agains tear and branded. Its a slept on card I think.
Magistus Calamity is probably a healthy B tier, locking out 2-3 types of ED monsters in your 1-1.5 card combo and potentially setting up a negate with shark toad or potentially having secret village set up to completely ruin any chance at popping the backrow can be auto win against a lot of decks
I wonder if a lot of these floodgates would be fixed if they had a steep activation cost or maintenance cost. What annoys me the most about most of these is there basically free to use
If u normal summon amano when bagooska on the field, it basicly a mistic mine. U dont need to detach material from bagooska, amano stay on field forever, ur opponent cant activated monster effect and they cant attack
Koaiki meiru Draco is a good floodgate. Searchable during your opponents turn with hieratic seal and prevents light and dark monsters from being special summoned. So you can bounce their normal summon and proceed to instant win against despia
Floo doesn't play many floodgates because the deck is already extremely prone to bricking. They'd rather add pot cards and consistency boosters to get to their in-archetype floodgates most of the time
Mask of Restrict’s language is so you cannot pay any costs that require tributes, which normally would be possible if not for that specific wording. I’m surprised Lose 1 Turn is only C tier, wins games pretty often in this wombo combo format.
Had this one kinda funny duel against TCBOO when playing Magikey. They flipped the floodgate on my first summon, but I basically did my regular combo like nothing happened and proceeded to "floodgate" them back with negates next turn. Besides the two rituals every Magikey monster is a different type for whatever reason. For this deck tierlist kinda surprising how chat didn't cry out on Madolche. Considering he put them this low, while they actually are good enough to regularly top community events in MD (so I guess this should count as "seeing competitive play"?). Compared to most of those A and B tier decks that currently do pretty much nothing...if you see them at all.
Where shenshen and empen, they're kind of interesting floodgates that don't fully stop the game Also no dark law, dark angel, protos, eschatos, or RDA King Calamity Also gravity bind and level limit area B
Hot RDA King calamity is easy A tier and after the support for resonators and crimson dragon it’s now easy to synchro summon during your opponent’s turn, therefore S tier
I have never been so irrationally angry at one video I loved Eldlich for its glorious splash potential and extra board presence, my favorite being Dogmatika Invoked Eldlich Shaddolls + 2-3 misc engine decks due to the insane synergy I hate floodgates. They're not hard for me to beat, but they make the duel so boring when I use them - I just prefer the back & forth of removals and negates so to see everyone else just copy-paste the same floodgate lineup was heartbreaking, but then Master Duel limited Conquistador, taking away the one main reason to splash Eldlich in the first place
I feel like because mask of restrict only stops like 3 decks being master ☮️, dragon lords, and monarchs. It should be a d teir card. But eh I'm suprised inspector border wasn't on here.
Some players thinks that is the easyest way to win to lock opponents They dont look at the beauty of the game, interactions between players with some nice strategies At the end all that matters is results .... Yugioh 2024
I would put Mask of Restrict in D tier, I've never run up against a deck where they tribute more than one card in their entire deck and usually none, it's all special summons.
Plays gravekeeper's. Understanding why you put necrovalley on that tier. But gravekeeper's deck necrovalley is the top floodgate. However outside card's tend to work for the deck. Ash blossom, imperm. Necrovalley, there can be only one, gozen match.
Crazy that they ban floodgates because they won't let your opponent just play solitaire instead of Yu-Gi-Oh. Floodgates are great and prevent combo cancer and resource loops that make the game so unenjoyable.
Floo cannot play monarchs erupt because the deck cannot play with skill drain on board... Also if abyss dweller is considered a floodgate then why isn't vfd and flower cardian boardefly?
You included Mistake but not TD Colossus which is kinda weird because it has that effect... Also u forgor Very Fun Dragon, Artifact Scythe and Amorphage Goliath....
macro doesnt deserve s tier. it's too slow compared to the alternatives. opponent activates havnis and you just have to ask why you didnt play fissure/shifter/necrovalley instead. flunder doesn't run this card even in sideboard because there's no space for this after fissure shifter feather storm judgement. necrovalley is at least a tier. it's so insanely good. its even searchable off terraforming and labrynth can search it with metaverse. it's super good with set rotation. it's a spell so it works on your first turn. dweller is also s tier for sure just because it's a lingering effect that demands an immediate answer. if you dont have imperm or droplet you lose on your standby. even if you prosp into imperm droplet it doesnt matter. it's one sided gy floodgate. tear cant play shifter or fissure but it sure as hell can play abyss dweller. it's a generic rank 4 that so many decks can go into. both bagooska and dweller should go into s tier because of how generic and broken they are.
A floodgate is something that prevents a specific action of ever occuring unless the floodgate is removed. Runicks don't prevent anything. Their effects require you to activate a quickplay spell first and none of their cards continously prohibit a certain action. Chaos hunter on the other hand is a floodgate that works very well against Runicks since it prohibits any banishing and the runick cards' banish effects are not optional.
The best floodgate is to not play the game. It completely prevents your opponent from making plays.
this is how im stopping runick in master duel rn
Ah yes. The Sans strategy.
Well actually, they do have an interruption for that. It’s called a gun.
And protect you from cancer too!
@@scottbecker4367 Nah, that would be running the clock until your opponent gets bored and quits.
The ocean dragon lord/sea stealth is an absolute brutal floodgate deck.
Bonus points for also involving water
F tier, too much water
I play that in MD as of late, it's pretty good against combo decks assuming you don't brick. Like it does lose hard to other Water decks, the annoying Runick Stun, and other big meta decks like Branded Despia. The deck also has an interesting Swordsoul matchup, as Swordsoul has Water monsters to get around the Kairyu Shin, but the old ass A Legendary Ocean field spell messes up their token's levels for their Synchros while locking them into Synchros.
I'm so glad Mystic Mine was never in Master Duel. That Runick shit is insufferable enough, can't imagine the absolute nightmare it'd be with Mystic Mine. How that card took so long to get banned in the TCG is beyond me.
Because it’s *LE MAXX C* of the TCG.
@@johnathanlemus5584 *was
I like how people don't take Fluffal seriously. Makes attacking with wolf 5 times after destroying their board with tiger and kraken a lot funnier.
I mean how can you, they're adorable 💕
Yesterday I blew out my opponents fluffal board 5 turns in a row using blind second Unchained
And every single turn they managed to go from 0 to 4 cards in their hand and rebuild their board every time.
Completely outgrinded me into the ground.
I know they're pretty easy to play around, but I'm surprised Gravity Bind and Level Limit: Area B aren't on the list, if only cause of their legacy. Plus people on Master Duel don't seem to know about them until they play against them, making them waste time as they try to do plays they can't do.
i had someone use vanitys emptyness with macro cosmos against me in MD it was a pain in the ass trying to get rid of it
The four old school battle floodgates:
Swords of Revealing Light
Gravity Bind
Messenger of Peace
Level Limit - Area B
Man I remember in like 2009 I only played with friends and I had a machine monster mash deck that abused Spell Canceller and Jinzo and they all hated me.
I once got locked with ground collapse, Ojama King, Spell Canceller, and Jinzo.
You missed a couple of floodgates which I consider to be A Tier.
Harpie's Feather Storm
D/D/D Duo-Dawn King Kali Yuga
u just dont know what is a floodgate, Harpie's Feather Storm isnt a floodgate
9:55 Maybe because if you have Monarch Erupt, you can't activate the effects of the small birbs, and that's quite a problem.
Monarchs and True Dracos can use them effectively
nah with monarch it still disables their tribute engine
@@WaningLoon Ah yes, good thing Proof of Pruflas and Anchamoufrite helps it a lot
"Virtual World, D tier" and I took that personally
As an evil twin player I love flipping Grave of the super ancient organism
the chat comment while mystic mine is being discussed saying it's "unironically the most skilfull deck and the amount of game knowledge required to pilot it optimally is insane" i feel requires contest because the latter may be true (may be) but also you do not at all need to pilot it anywhere near optimally to win or get to a point where your opponent scoops in frustration an awful lot of the time which hugely diminishes the skill factor, you can in many cases just slap it down whenever you have it and win
Dimension Shifter isnt on this list. Thats wild.
I'm sorry, but a temporary floodgate is still a floodgate. Put Dimensional Barrier on there too.
I think depending on the format, shadow imprisoning mirror is very good. That card has won me so many games agains tear and branded. Its a slept on card I think.
15:40 as a dark lords despai player i do play it.i send it to the grave through branded fusion and resummon it by dark lord boss monster effect
Magistus Calamity is probably a healthy B tier, locking out 2-3 types of ED monsters in your 1-1.5 card combo and potentially setting up a negate with shark toad or potentially having secret village set up to completely ruin any chance at popping the backrow can be auto win against a lot of decks
I wonder if a lot of these floodgates would be fixed if they had a steep activation cost or maintenance cost.
What annoys me the most about most of these is there basically free to use
Well, outside of best-of-one play you can relatively easily side deck cards to counter pretty much all of them.
They really only steal wins.
If u normal summon amano when bagooska on the field, it basicly a mistic mine. U dont need to detach material from bagooska, amano stay on field forever, ur opponent cant activated monster effect and they cant attack
Sadly, Bagooska's detach effect is a cost, not an effect, so it will still detach under Amano Iwato, and will even destroy itself under Amano too.
@@dannylongfellow no, u can try it. It just like ronggo+ sales ban
@@dannylongfellowbagooskas detach is a maintenance cost for its effect not cost for activating its effect so under amano it wouldn’t detach.
The fire barrier statue is hidden Volcanic support
This deck list looks kinda funny ...
It's the no fun allowed decklist
Koaiki meiru Draco is a good floodgate. Searchable during your opponents turn with hieratic seal and prevents light and dark monsters from being special summoned. So you can bounce their normal summon and proceed to instant win against despia
Doesn't Branded centre on Superpoly or are they so tight on extra deck space that there's no room for Mudragon of the Swamp?
This is like 20% of all the floodgates.
Floo doesn't play many floodgates because the deck is already extremely prone to bricking. They'd rather add pot cards and consistency boosters to get to their in-archetype floodgates most of the time
Mask of Restrict’s language is so you cannot pay any costs that require tributes, which normally would be possible if not for that specific wording.
I’m surprised Lose 1 Turn is only C tier, wins games pretty often in this wombo combo format.
Had this one kinda funny duel against TCBOO when playing Magikey. They flipped the floodgate on my first summon, but I basically did my regular combo like nothing happened and proceeded to "floodgate" them back with negates next turn. Besides the two rituals every Magikey monster is a different type for whatever reason.
For this deck tierlist kinda surprising how chat didn't cry out on Madolche. Considering he put them this low, while they actually are good enough to regularly top community events in MD (so I guess this should count as "seeing competitive play"?). Compared to most of those A and B tier decks that currently do pretty much nothing...if you see them at all.
Madolches are actually good, idk why C tier.
Lol the TierZoo reference XD
I love that Channel
DNA Surgery+Cipher Soldier is one hell of a floodgate. Atleast in Joey's Revenge.
The Last Warrior from Another Planet has to be the coolest card ever made.
Where shenshen and empen, they're kind of interesting floodgates that don't fully stop the game
Also no dark law, dark angel, protos, eschatos, or RDA King Calamity
Also gravity bind and level limit area B
Always loved the zombie world/warlord/doomking combo
I wasn’t looking when he said spell mining cave…I was thinking, huh, what’s that?
Naturia Bamboo Shoot: "Am I a joke to you?"
Yes, I use Winda too on the early days of Despia in MD, not a lot of players used it too so it went under the radar
Boy missing the best one:
Umi control!!
Hot RDA King calamity is easy A tier and after the support for resonators and crimson dragon it’s now easy to synchro summon during your opponent’s turn, therefore S tier
Summon limit is broken AF. Mainly because you can chain it to your opponent’s second summon and win the game on the spot if they can’t out it
16:41 That's rather the fault of Small World than of Kristya.
The best floodgate is the continuous trap card Respect Play. It's simply just respectful
Why does everyone forget Gravity Bind
I blame Xyz monsters
It's outdated due to Xyz and especially Link monsters...
No Rexterm, Rhongo, Empen, Collosus, Inspector boarder etc…
Arch lord krystya can be searched by celestial knight lord parshath and special summoned by him for the hand
Where is darklaw
The black flame dragon lv8 shuts down spells of your choice. It just hard to get out
I love slow life in Ursarctic. If you special prepare to have your XYZ and Links skill drained.
I have never been so irrationally angry at one video
I loved Eldlich for its glorious splash potential and extra board presence, my favorite being Dogmatika Invoked Eldlich Shaddolls + 2-3 misc engine decks due to the insane synergy
I hate floodgates. They're not hard for me to beat, but they make the duel so boring when I use them - I just prefer the back & forth of removals and negates
so to see everyone else just copy-paste the same floodgate lineup was heartbreaking, but then Master Duel limited Conquistador, taking away the one main reason to splash Eldlich in the first place
Iron Wall is my best friend on Master Duel with how much play Runick is seeing play.
Non of the virus cards I'm having fun with Eradicator Epidemic Virus calling spells on runick bye hand.
Wait, hold on, I need to know who's the madlad that plays Lunalights
I mean I'm not a VTuber, but I play LunalightXYZ
2 card combo into... whatever tf I want.
Normally AbyssDweller + Appolusa + Cyberdragon Infinity
I feel like because mask of restrict only stops like 3 decks being master ☮️, dragon lords, and monarchs. It should be a d teir card. But eh I'm suprised inspector border wasn't on here.
Andy’s reaction is totally justified. Dog would have won it for him.
Summon limit is probably S tier since it got itself banned in the TCG for its overuse
blue eyes spirit dragon is a floodgate that i noticed is missing.
Time for Logs to rate Stax pieces next
Grave of the super advanced organism should be here.
I love floodgates! They really stump people who put no thought into their play.
Some players thinks that is the easyest way to win to lock opponents
They dont look at the beauty of the game, interactions between players with some nice strategies
At the end all that matters is results ....
Yugioh 2024
Forgot narrow pass. Not really that great anymore but was awesome during the slower game states
I would put Mask of Restrict in D tier, I've never run up against a deck where they tribute more than one card in their entire deck and usually none, it's all special summons.
it also stop tributing for effect tho, no?
duellogs Makes a tier list of the forgotten floodgates pls
20:36 is this good against tearlaments?
Secret Village of the Spellcasters is great in Altergeist
how the hell can barrier statues be on top of pachycephalo?
Why isn’t droll and lock bird on the list?!?!
Plays gravekeeper's. Understanding why you put necrovalley on that tier. But gravekeeper's deck necrovalley is the top floodgate. However outside card's tend to work for the deck. Ash blossom, imperm. Necrovalley, there can be only one, gozen match.
You forgot Inspector Boarder. 2K atk and def ain't nothin' to sneeze at.
Saw marincess B tier: huh?
Saw cutia C tier: huh? Cutia fet SSS tier. Anyway solfachord is fun.
What about Alien floodgate? There's Cosmic Slicer Zer'oll with Planet Pollutant Virus
Crazy that they ban floodgates because they won't let your opponent just play solitaire instead of Yu-Gi-Oh. Floodgates are great and prevent combo cancer and resource loops that make the game so unenjoyable.
People put like pachycephalo with like equip spells to make it unbeatable😢
Where would inspector boarder rank?
No five rainbow magician? That card is almost op with dekka
how could monarch erupt be below skilldrain?
Can anyone point out the deck of the vtubers and their user?
I only know blue-eyes = Nova
Virtual world = Leah
Sky Striker = Cattleya(?)
Bro I'm buzzing. Where tf is the nats.
Love you tho ( key word almost) I figured it out
Best floodgate is high five rainbow magician. Winged kuriboh. Gravity bind/level limit area b hands down
🤣
Floo cannot play monarchs erupt because the deck cannot play with skill drain on board...
Also if abyss dweller is considered a floodgate then why isn't vfd and flower cardian boardefly?
Not even Naturia Bambooshot
You included Mistake but not TD Colossus which is kinda weird because it has that effect... Also u forgor Very Fun Dragon, Artifact Scythe and Amorphage Goliath....
Dragonmaid seems more like B tier to me as someone who have played a fair amount of it on master duel.
macro doesnt deserve s tier. it's too slow compared to the alternatives. opponent activates havnis and you just have to ask why you didnt play fissure/shifter/necrovalley instead. flunder doesn't run this card even in sideboard because there's no space for this after fissure shifter feather storm judgement.
necrovalley is at least a tier. it's so insanely good. its even searchable off terraforming and labrynth can search it with metaverse. it's super good with set rotation. it's a spell so it works on your first turn.
dweller is also s tier for sure just because it's a lingering effect that demands an immediate answer. if you dont have imperm or droplet you lose on your standby. even if you prosp into imperm droplet it doesnt matter. it's one sided gy floodgate. tear cant play shifter or fissure but it sure as hell can play abyss dweller. it's a generic rank 4 that so many decks can go into.
both bagooska and dweller should go into s tier because of how generic and broken they are.
Royal decree is WAYYY too low. I’m playing it in MD because labrynth and floodgate runick are everywhere and it gets a ton of value.
Rip my boy Cactus Bouncer. One of my favorite floodgates to play in Sunvalon.
the anti tribute mask isnt really good vs floow cuz the map makes them able to send it to the grave as cost
Not as cost and not the field spell. But you right it is outable.
Inspector board?
Where is Warning point?
Where's Dragon Capture Jar
Timestamps?
No timestamps or anything in the description deserves a dislike. How can I sit here and listen to every card
Which vtuber plays solfachords?
TierLogs
You're missing Ido and Ra
VFD and Utopic Zexal also forgotten, sad
Where is the ocean lord?
Whyyy flufall is c and trickstar is B?
Does runick count as floodgate? And what is floodgate?
A floodgate is something that prevents a specific action of ever occuring unless the floodgate is removed. Runicks don't prevent anything. Their effects require you to activate a quickplay spell first and none of their cards continously prohibit a certain action. Chaos hunter on the other hand is a floodgate that works very well against Runicks since it prohibits any banishing and the runick cards' banish effects are not optional.
one card that doesnt let you play a specifc type of card. Runick is considered as combo deck that doesnt let opponent play
@@devallen2942 what you just described is called a control deck. Runicks are not a combo deck. Period
@@JunTheDude32
But what if you used dpe, tenyi and adventure with them ???
@@Honest-King I think you should be building houses for the homeless instead of putting all the bricks in a single deck.
Buster lock?
Which vtuber uses solfachord
Where's shockmaster?
Dark Law?
Rongo Bongo?
VFD?