He’s one of the first “normal”people in terms of his presentation, while being extremely good at the game, to not make yugioh look like a bad game. 😂 like he’s never making things into a bigger thing than they are, which Konami does a good job of hiring people like this already, but these older employees are just not gifted at the game like Josh. He just feels like someone you’d like to know at your locals, who wouldn’t shark you or rip you off. He’s too busy being great!!!
It's scary as hell. The deck is busted. Konami has a method to there madness tho. Foresight and hindsight 20/20 where they nerf snake eyes before fire king comes into the game lol.
Doesn't help when every other relevant deck looks like it's playing a singleton format MD and ocg banlist looks retarded Maxx c makes this worse too lol
I started labbing Snake-Eye in MD with separate Rescue-ACE and Sky Striker builds and Immediately saw results. Going to need to craft Linkuriboh and/or Relinquished Anima for all those Level 1s(Linkuriboh since it works on tokens and allows for easier Heatsoul access, Anima because you can actually steal monsters with its SUCC if you run enough Snek engine to summon them out). Also tried to do some Infernoble stuff but I don't know the Isoldeless lines thoroughly yet so I need practice with those in case I have to run a TCG variant of the build. Poplar allows for some complex options, especially if you run any searchers for it(mainly Where Arf Thou and 1 for one until Bonfire gets added to MD). Maxx "C" complicates things in MD though since this engine can do a lot of special summons, enough that you can actually get hit by Nibiru and want to set up potential countermeasures for that by placing certain monsters in the Spell/Trap zones or using certain floats/backrow like Diabellestar, Reinforce, or even the Tribute Immunity of the Hornet Drones token to brute force through it(assuming you don't get a Barrone/Apollousa opening early enough, which is unlikely with all the hoops you have to go through just to get to Jet Synchron/Renaud).
genuine question why do you like snake eyes but hate Mathmech. Playing against both decks it just feels like snake eyes is just a better mathmech. It link climbs (a mechanic you said you despise), it has one card combos and lots of non-engine meaning 4 hand traps and 1 ash is gg (aka 4 handtraps and 1 circular), the deck doesnt really care about handtraps if it has 1 of their million extenders, which usually leads to like 5+ interruptions with infinite follow up, making the handtrap game feel very irrelevant at times, and the deck can also just shit out 13k damage to easily otk going second. It just feels incredibly frustrating playing against the deck even as somebody that plays a pretty good deck myself, however great video as always
Insanely helpful to make the viewer understand the strengths and general strategy of Snake-Eyes variants in a condensed form with commentary of what's happening without just mindlessly going through a long combo, really enjoyed this kind of competitive YGO content
Ridiculously broken decks that power creep the whole meta are always expensive until they get hit. Konami needs to just release ban lists with the new set every time they make a game changing card in high rarity.
Stay optimistic find a way to make more money grind it out ask for a miracle never believe b can't get it !!!I believe u would be a snake eyes specialist sooner than never u legend!
I'm OK with Diamond and Master Rank being a shitshow. I don't really need to sink a ton of time and money on an engine. Even when it's ostensibly cheaper in MD, I can't say it interests me. I'll play fire decks to try stuff out, but I am not married to a deck just because it's popular.
I don't really comment on YT videos but this is exactly the kind of quality content YGO lacks - informative, relevant, no nonsense, and coming from someone who obviously knows what they're talking about. And it's not just "here's my combo with no explanation", it's a wider discussion about the archetype as a whole. Love it
The problem is just generic extra deck. I looked at the deck and boards and its just generic extra deck turbo. When are we going to realize those are the problem. Generic extra deck monsters hamper the ability to be able to make unique and interesting main decks. An in deck plus 2 is insane but it would be balanced by the fact that snake-eye monsters themselves don't do anything besides be bodies. If we didnt have such generic extra deck monsters, I guess the boss in this case would be promethan princess which is good but not something we have no answer for.
Promethean princess is also a generic extra deck monster. They end on Amblowhale (generic), IP (generic), and maybe Appo (generic). They were designed to be a generic link spam deck (what's a xeno-lock?). Generic extra deck will never be fixed, Konami obviously don't want to. And it sucks, because rogue decks rely on generic cards, and meta decks can easily abuse them.
@@_GLObotPromethean princess is generic, but the type restriction and her pop make it so you need a specific deck to utilize her well. If you were to, for example, ban orginal, then she would still be usable but would rely on further fire support in order to see play in a top meta deck.
What's funny is that the Snake-eye engine plays very similarly to Cyberse decks (play a lot of 1 card starters and then link climb, ending on layered interuption AND playing 12-15 non-engine), Mathmech *cough*, so it's a little funny hearing him give this deck/engine so much praise. Sounds a little hypocritical
I can finaly play a version of Infernoid that isn't "you better draw Resolve/Monster Gate/Grass or you're screwed" until the support gets into MD in 50 years.
12:20. Mathemech Circular: Hardly sees any play and is banned. Snake Eye Poplar: It's a better circular and won't get banned. F in the Chat for Circular.
This deck would’ve been really fun to play with and against, if it wasn’t for the price tag. Now if you can’t afford it you just aren’t playing Yugioh.
@@createrz8433 you are right, actually. I think droll is being designed for with all of the “put a card from your deck in the st zone” but d shifter is so good decks that don’t play well under it are using it 🤣 point being is hand traps are losing a lot of impact as long as Konami is on this “st zone placing and summoning” centurion I’m looking at you with mixed feelings for starting a trend 🤣
the major problems with this deck is maxx C resolving, ash blossom, any trap or back row deck. if your opp ashes the snake-eye ash your whole play is over.
Maybe try playing against a hand with extenders next time maybe that’ll change your mind. Snake eyes and snake eye variants are the best decks in the ocg btw in a maxx c format
Thank you. I find it easier to follow the combos when you use actual cards as opposed to someone screen sharing MD or whatever Dkayed uses. And I’m not trying to throw shade on them, I just find it easier to follow for some reason.
At this point, i don´t know what´s worse: The fact that Konami is instrumentalizing "Tier 0" decks to be a regular part of the metagame instead of sth. that happens unintentionally...OR the fact that the community is so braindead stupid to be ok with this happening every year now and still shoving thei money up Konami´s a$$...It truly baffles me that people are so ignorant, they just don´t see it or cope with all that crap. HOW DEAD INSIDE CAN YOU POSSIBLY BE?!??! This crap isn´t happening in other TCGs in those extreme ways, because players would be rioting. However, Yugioh players show so little confidence that they just accept these things. It´s so bad.
A thing I'd like to mention is that the Master Duel version of the deck actualy has one thing the tcg version doesn't:Spright Elf. This single factor means that they can actualy have Formula Synchron AND I:P Masquerena at the same time out of just 1 Ash. You are losing out on Anblowhale if you do this but you still have a Baronne, 4 material Apollousa, and a Spright Elf that can point to both of them to give them targeting protection so I'd say that the Master Duel version actualy isn't that far behind the tcg version, despite lacking Bonfire
From my experience with Snake Eyes in Masterduel so far, I have to say the deck is strong but it has some glaring weaknesses. 1. It has some hands that just loose to a single handtrap. 2. It struggles greatly with monsters/cards that cannot be targeted or destroyed. Almost every single removal it has either destroys or targets or most of the time both. 3. It can be awkward to OTK with Accesscode thanks to Prometheans fire-lock, as well as the lines being pretty free-form and having to be thought up on the spot. 4. Afformentioned lines being free-form means that time can geniunely become an issue, especially going second. I am aware that upcoming cards will fix these issues, notably. 1. Bonfire makes the deck far more resilient and consistent than it already is. 2. S:P Little Knight and Zealantis make removing troublesome cards far easier. 3. Zealantis + Salamangreat Raging Phoenix make OTK far easier. 4. Points 2 and 3 should also help with the timer. Greatly looking forward to those cards to help the deck become even better!
Why can snake-eye ash search for snake-eyes poplar but divine temple does not add 1100 atk points to snake-eyes flamberge dragon? Is there a misunderstanding in the snake eye architype? I see a discrepancy here 🤔i want to know this since i want to know if Hero of the ashened city counts as a "HERO" card (elemental, vision, destiny, Xtra)
You can make sargas for an omni in fire king but difficult to get a 2nd 8 out AND flamberge summon. Wierd tech, kinda mid but funny, if you draw island, kirin, garunix or circle (any access to 2 pops on your turn), Garunix pop mini kirin, (can also send a snake eye to summon if no access to that side) to send the new Magmacho, use circle, kirin or or field to pop something, summon magmacho and get a draw, then thats your two level 8s for sargas. Its more fragile if you dont draw big kirin as you rely on Princess pop to trigger garunix, but having magmacho in the GY is nice for grind: use it for xyzs and you have a bonus draw every turn. Issue is its another 3 cards in deck that are kinda soft garnets. Drawing regulus is usually nice though, at least going first. Circle means flamberge is easier to recover though without playing 2
Kurikara is such a good card vs Purrely with all of its draw effects during your turn. It counts as a tribute so EXCELLENT board removal of those annoying cats.
instead of amblowhale in the first combo, you could end with formula + flamberge on field with IP in the spell/trap zone & princess in GY which imo is better than amblo.
Question? Am I the only one that's thinking, "Thank gosh I dont have to deal with this format?" Not that the deck doesn't seem fun, for the moment, but more about the price and stagnation of the game for the next several months.
I would say having the physical cards helps me better understand the combo but having the cards shown on DB makes it easier for me to read them. This style of video did help me a lot! Keep up the good content.
I cringed when he added Sinful Spoils instead of the field spell. There's much better 1 card combos with Masquerena and Linkuriboh.. You have the option to make SP, Unicorn, Underworld Goddess, or a 4 mat Apollousa protected by Linkuriboh. You also get to keep the field spell, have better followup, and it makes your link monsters indestructible. This line gets you a draw and a single omni-negate. Oh and I guess you can revive Sunlight Wolf on your opponents turn.
The question its ., how to counter this deck beside play mirror..joshua i like your content if you could show us how you will play a dragon link for this new meta game .
Definitely enjoyed this. I think, in addition to the combos, getting into the underlying thesis of the deckbuilding would be potentially valuable. For example, I see that you're playing or at least considering jet synchron whereas I haven't seen anyone else talking about it. Why are you looking at those? They're clearly "an option" but what is actually drawing you to them?
@rand0mlyhere I see that, but that's so simple as to not even constitute an actual explanation. "I added 1+1 to make 2" okay, but at what point did we decide 2 was necessary to make or that addition here is the most axiomatically correct thing to do? These are the interesting questions at hand that simply pointing at the cards cannot answer. I can come up with my own reasons why these synchros are interesting in the upcoming format, but I have no idea if I've seen every angle nor do I have the practice to see what's better in practice than on paper.
@@DaedricSheep I see. Unfortunately: it would seem I’m not the internet stranger to answer this question. Though, perhaps, this could start an interesting discussion. A few other benefits, not including Formula Synchron shenanigans, that could come from the use of Jet: Extender, Searchable with Snake-Ash (and Original Sinful Spoils) if you’ve run out of in-engine targets, helps discard (which could be used to draw through the grave effect of Seeker of Sinful Spoils. Maybe there’s more, but this is just what comes off the top of my head. Maybe this should’ve been my initial comment to begin with. Maybe I’m blowing smoke? Ultimately, I’ve just found the card to be a convenient/comfy as a 1-of in my current list.
Big boy Drytron ritual destroys pure snake eyes. He don’t care if you special summon after he destroys on field monsters as he can attack over every single card you bring out.
Only thing I would say is in the 1 card combo with the Fire King engine you want to use Ash before Island otherwise you severely lose to Nibiru. You need to place Flamberge on board on your 5th summon to have the best possible follow up Board is less broken than yours but still ends on Amblowhale, Flamberge and IP with Oak still in the deck which I would only use turn 1 if I get Droll, otherwise it’s an awesome follow up for next turn
I get the sense that this engine will go through the usual meatgrinder of product. It is super popular and expensive, and I get a few months out of it until bannings and limitations, repeat.
Why would you let your opponent play whrn one motorbike is scythelock plus 4 negages + handtraps + followup? Droll exists but just Droll isnt gonna make me move away from SHS
Oh yea flamberge is gonna break the whole game isn't it? It's literally the same effect as the vaylantz field spells. And if you guys can't see that, see that the deck has 1 starter and the pay off is a vaylantz field spell, well you guys are thick for thinking it's going to be tier 0. Literally any deck beats this shit, it's soooo fuckin ass
Love these kind of videos Josh, you do a really good job of explaining the combos! Can't wait for the next ones :) Such a shame that Poplar is ~35€ (so 105€) Wanted is 70€ (so 210€), Bonfire is ~75€ (so 215€) and S:P is 110€ though (Cardmarket prices, no idea for TCGPlayer). 640€ just for 10 cards is unfortunately way too much for the majority of players :( At least you can have "budget" versions of the deck (which, by the way, would be even more awesome for you to cover in these videos!) that don't run Wanted/Bonfire/S:P, as there are other ways to get to Diabellstar. It's harder to make it without Poplar, but it should still be doable. Is it less efficient? Obviosuly, but I'm sure you can still get there, it will require more steps (and more prone to interruptions).
I have a rulings question. Suppose you use a card to send an extra deck monster to the graveyard. Can you use Flamberge’s effect to treat it as a continuous spell? Can you then also use Flamberge’s effect to SS it, even though it was never properly summoned? This probably has an obvious answer, but I just want more insight on the rulings if anything.
Extra Deck cards need to be properly summoned first before you can special summon them by other means, so sending something to the graveyard with e.g. Nadir Servant and then summoning it back with Monster Reborn or Flamberge isnt possible
Oh wow a reply!! Thanks, that’s what I thought, I remember that the proper special summoning condition was specific to the graveyard, I wasn’t sure if it applied here, but it makes sense that it would! Thanks!!
The way I do the snake-eyes ash one card combo I end up having formula synchron on field along with Flamberge and Masquerena on spell/trap zone to summon during opponent's draw phase and Promethean Princess and Linkuriboh in grave.. I basically trade Amblowhale for Masquerena to go into Apollousa with 4 materials after I summon Baronne off Formula Synchron and Flamberge
Very good video thanks I've learned a lot. Would appreciate if you post a line vs Maxx "C" for MD. I've invented a 2 lines (draw 2 and draw 4) but maybe you have better cuz world champ..
Played against this in person for the first time yesterdays locals. Played through 5 back row set (2 imperm, welcome, anti spell, ice dragons). Fenrir special > bounce anti spell. Diabellstar activation > set imperm #1. Welcome > special lady. Poplar hits GY > ice dragon banish Poplar + Snake eye ash. > chain lady set big Flamberge effect > set imperm #2. "Fenrir is the only reason I won." maybe I played it a bit wrong not using imperm on fenrir for anti spell, but you'd think 2x imperm 1x ice dragons is enough to stop it. lesson learned lol.
Where Arf Thou? has been my Bonfire replacement on MD. If your Ash gets negated, or don't have it in hand, but you do have a different level 1, you can follow it up with WAT like you would follow up with Bonfire. It is not as good as Bonfire, but it gets the job done.
I've been thinking, is typhoon (the trap) a good side deck option? Because it would break the formula or IP on THEIR turn. If requirements are met. What do y'all think?
Really interesting, right now my best friend and I are running Centur-ion Horus for me and Fire King Snake Eyes Diabellstar for him, since PHNI it's getting difficult to break his Turn 1 I hope this can help me. It could be really really interesting if you were doing this kind of combo explanations for other kind of decks in the current format. If your experience could help me mastering my Ceur-ion Horus deck I would happily learn from you ! Thanks a lot.
Burch is cool cuz you can do some cheeky Masquerena stuff with it. Like one ash gets you Princess in gy, 4 mat Apollousa, and Whale on board with Burch. You end on Burch, Flameberge, IP in s/t and whale
What's the smallest version of the Snake-Eyes engine you can get away with using? I wanna try using it with Evil Eyes, but they're already kinda demanding a lot of deckspace. If you're asking what the synergy with Evil Eyes is; there is none. It's literally just cause they're both eye-themed lmao
Snake-Eyes pure reminds me a lot of Mathmech or other cyberse piles. You play lots of starters or ways to get to them, as many handtraps as possible and link climb like crazy in your turn. Then you win via card advantage or with Accesscode. The monsters as continuous spells is a cool gimmick and the deck is fun but the price is preposterous both in MD but specially irl.
This is a fantastic video and I really hope you continue. The yugioh community has enough deck profiles and master duel highlights. As a follow up, I would love to see a comprehensive guide to going second with this deck. Almost all the Yugioh content out there is about turn 1 combos, which are relatively easy to learn off by heart from any source. But it would be really nice if, for example, you would fishbowl some test hands going second against an established snake eye mirror match board, talking through your process, what effects you are trying to bait out, when to draw vs steal with talents, etc. That content is severely lacking in the Yugioh space I feel.
Josh saw all the "we cant get a serious discourse about ygo" debate and simply say Ok, I will do it myself. Loving the content, keep it up good sir
He’s one of the first “normal”people in terms of his presentation, while being extremely good at the game, to not make yugioh look like a bad game. 😂 like he’s never making things into a bigger thing than they are, which Konami does a good job of hiring people like this already, but these older employees are just not gifted at the game like Josh. He just feels like someone you’d like to know at your locals, who wouldn’t shark you or rip you off. He’s too busy being great!!!
Rescue ace snake eyes already started topping tournaments in MD despite missing support lmao😂
It's scary as hell. The deck is busted. Konami has a method to there madness tho. Foresight and hindsight 20/20 where they nerf snake eyes before fire king comes into the game lol.
I mean there isn't much powerful decks that can rival it in MD most of the decks got hit by the banlist
Doesn't help when every other relevant deck looks like it's playing a singleton format MD and ocg banlist looks retarded
Maxx c makes this worse too lol
It was my snake-eye deck of choice for md
I started labbing Snake-Eye in MD with separate Rescue-ACE and Sky Striker builds and Immediately saw results. Going to need to craft Linkuriboh and/or Relinquished Anima for all those Level 1s(Linkuriboh since it works on tokens and allows for easier Heatsoul access, Anima because you can actually steal monsters with its SUCC if you run enough Snek engine to summon them out).
Also tried to do some Infernoble stuff but I don't know the Isoldeless lines thoroughly yet so I need practice with those in case I have to run a TCG variant of the build.
Poplar allows for some complex options, especially if you run any searchers for it(mainly Where Arf Thou and 1 for one until Bonfire gets added to MD). Maxx "C" complicates things in MD though since this engine can do a lot of special summons, enough that you can actually get hit by Nibiru and want to set up potential countermeasures for that by placing certain monsters in the Spell/Trap zones or using certain floats/backrow like Diabellestar, Reinforce, or even the Tribute Immunity of the Hornet Drones token to brute force through it(assuming you don't get a Barrone/Apollousa opening early enough, which is unlikely with all the hoops you have to go through just to get to Jet Synchron/Renaud).
genuine question why do you like snake eyes but hate Mathmech. Playing against both decks it just feels like snake eyes is just a better mathmech. It link climbs (a mechanic you said you despise), it has one card combos and lots of non-engine meaning 4 hand traps and 1 ash is gg (aka 4 handtraps and 1 circular), the deck doesnt really care about handtraps if it has 1 of their million extenders, which usually leads to like 5+ interruptions with infinite follow up, making the handtrap game feel very irrelevant at times, and the deck can also just shit out 13k damage to easily otk going second.
It just feels incredibly frustrating playing against the deck even as somebody that plays a pretty good deck myself, however great video as always
"vibes"
Hypocrisy at it's finest
perlereino + scream: makes your monsters 1000atk stronger than your opponents. konami: make the field spell say 1100 atk lol stonks
Insanely helpful to make the viewer understand the strengths and general strategy of Snake-Eyes variants in a condensed form with commentary of what's happening without just mindlessly going through a long combo, really enjoyed this kind of competitive YGO content
This is probably one of the best introductions into a deck i have ever seen
This is the content the community needs.
Pure Snake-Eye is some of the most fun I’ve ever had playing this game and it’s heartbreaking to know I’ll never be able to afford to play it in paper
Maybe in like 5 years
@@Delir1umTremens when it will be limited
Ridiculously broken decks that power creep the whole meta are always expensive until they get hit. Konami needs to just release ban lists with the new set every time they make a game changing card in high rarity.
Stay optimistic find a way to make more money grind it out ask for a miracle never believe b can't get it !!!I believe u would be a snake eyes specialist sooner than never u legend!
Budget is very playable.
i think weve learned from the January F&L that when this guy talks, konami listens
Josh is a Konami employee confirmed
That Master Duel version really has 43 UR out of 55 cards lol.
Bonfire will no doubt be UR so that isn't even its final form.
Wtf pay wall much .. Guess that's one way to get money from the players
Recently Konami has been bumping rarities more and more, guess I'll keep using branded and swordsoul
By the time bonfire come, i expect it to be limited just like rota, powerful yet 1 is enough
@@foxblackbirds777you can easily get all of them for free if you've played for a while. As opposed to the tcg where this deck would cost 800€+
I'm OK with Diamond and Master Rank being a shitshow. I don't really need to sink a ton of time and money on an engine. Even when it's ostensibly cheaper in MD, I can't say it interests me. I'll play fire decks to try stuff out, but I am not married to a deck just because it's popular.
12:21 LOOOOOOOOOOL TRUE
I don't really comment on YT videos but this is exactly the kind of quality content YGO lacks - informative, relevant, no nonsense, and coming from someone who obviously knows what they're talking about. And it's not just "here's my combo with no explanation", it's a wider discussion about the archetype as a whole. Love it
Lmao the meme on 12:21
The problem is just generic extra deck. I looked at the deck and boards and its just generic extra deck turbo. When are we going to realize those are the problem. Generic extra deck monsters hamper the ability to be able to make unique and interesting main decks. An in deck plus 2 is insane but it would be balanced by the fact that snake-eye monsters themselves don't do anything besides be bodies.
If we didnt have such generic extra deck monsters, I guess the boss in this case would be promethan princess which is good but not something we have no answer for.
I've been complaining about how generic some ED cards are, some of those cards deserve the Goyo Guardian treatment
Promethean princess is also a generic extra deck monster. They end on Amblowhale (generic), IP (generic), and maybe Appo (generic). They were designed to be a generic link spam deck (what's a xeno-lock?). Generic extra deck will never be fixed, Konami obviously don't want to. And it sucks, because rogue decks rely on generic cards, and meta decks can easily abuse them.
@@_GLObotPromethean princess is generic, but the type restriction and her pop make it so you need a specific deck to utilize her well. If you were to, for example, ban orginal, then she would still be usable but would rely on further fire support in order to see play in a top meta deck.
In other words: An unfair deck.
What's funny is that the Snake-eye engine plays very similarly to Cyberse decks (play a lot of 1 card starters and then link climb, ending on layered interuption AND playing 12-15 non-engine), Mathmech *cough*, so it's a little funny hearing him give this deck/engine so much praise. Sounds a little hypocritical
I can finaly play a version of Infernoid that isn't "you better draw Resolve/Monster Gate/Grass or you're screwed" until the support gets into MD in 50 years.
Well, there was also the option of Set Feast-Pass. Having a real play on turn 1 is nice.
Oh, sure. Circular and Loci are cringe and bad, but Snake-eyes having 6-9 ways of starting the exact same way is fine. Hypocrite.
12:20. Mathemech Circular: Hardly sees any play and is banned.
Snake Eye Poplar: It's a better circular and won't get banned.
F in the Chat for Circular.
I could see Poplar beeing banned 2-3 ban lists from now.
It will be banned eventually, or maybe othe core snake eyes cards. Tho not anytime soon, maybe half year more lol
Nah you meant L in the chat
Lmao poplar is like a half circular
Poplar is not as good as circular
21:19 Jesus fucking christ 33/40 and 10/15 cards of the deck are UR lmao
This deck would’ve been really fun to play with and against, if it wasn’t for the price tag. Now if you can’t afford it you just aren’t playing Yugioh.
So this thing is going to be close to tier zero, right? Lab is the only real competition. I’m honestly just curious about what Konami is going to ban
Lab 💀
41 ultra rares btw in master duel
This was really good/helpful! Only thing missing for me is how to play against this deck, but maybe that would be a video on its own.
Break their board, I think hand traps are officially dead this format.
@@Saixjacket I wouldn't say completely dead. Droll and shifter are decent.
@@createrz8433 you are right, actually. I think droll is being designed for with all of the “put a card from your deck in the st zone” but d shifter is so good decks that don’t play well under it are using it 🤣 point being is hand traps are losing a lot of impact as long as Konami is on this “st zone placing and summoning” centurion I’m looking at you with mixed feelings for starting a trend 🤣
Super poly if your deck can side it. Droll isn''t enough
the major problems with this deck is maxx C resolving, ash blossom, any trap or back row deck. if your opp ashes the snake-eye ash your whole play is over.
Maybe try playing against a hand with extenders next time maybe that’ll change your mind.
Snake eyes and snake eye variants are the best decks in the ocg btw in a maxx c format
Holy, HR Lady jumpscare. Someone watches MDM meme review lol
i mean showing combos in master duel is obnoxius yea.
Thank you. I find it easier to follow the combos when you use actual cards as opposed to someone screen sharing MD or whatever Dkayed uses.
And I’m not trying to throw shade on them, I just find it easier to follow for some reason.
At this point, i don´t know what´s worse:
The fact that Konami is instrumentalizing "Tier 0" decks to be a regular part of the metagame instead of sth. that happens unintentionally...OR
the fact that the community is so braindead stupid to be ok with this happening every year now and still shoving thei money up Konami´s a$$...It truly baffles me that people are so ignorant, they
just don´t see it or cope with all that crap. HOW DEAD INSIDE CAN YOU POSSIBLY BE?!??!
This crap isn´t happening in other TCGs in those extreme ways, because players would be rioting. However, Yugioh players show so little confidence that they just accept these things. It´s so bad.
LONG-FORM JOSH CONTENT!!!!!!
Listening to the yoshie's island music in the background during the 1 card combo was so nostalgic 😊
A thing I'd like to mention is that the Master Duel version of the deck actualy has one thing the tcg version doesn't:Spright Elf.
This single factor means that they can actualy have Formula Synchron AND I:P Masquerena at the same time out of just 1 Ash.
You are losing out on Anblowhale if you do this but you still have a Baronne, 4 material Apollousa, and a Spright Elf that can point to both of them to give them targeting protection so I'd say that the Master Duel version actualy isn't that far behind the tcg version, despite lacking Bonfire
You are the GOAT
I loved the content. Id be happy watching an even more detailed version of a guide like this but hey, thats what the streams are for, lol
Thanks for explaining the deck since it's been years since I played YGO. A lot of Tubers just say hey here's a tier list video
Editor is an real one for the Mathmech comparison lol
great video like always :)
WTF is This...U need to be a doctor to know these combos...THA hell KONAMI.....dont wanna play it any more.....
but the important part, where do i ash blossom? i think in the send 2 cards to summon from deck right?
What I'm here to find out also
From my experience with Snake Eyes in Masterduel so far, I have to say the deck is strong but it has some glaring weaknesses.
1. It has some hands that just loose to a single handtrap.
2. It struggles greatly with monsters/cards that cannot be targeted or destroyed. Almost every single removal it has either destroys or targets or most of the time both.
3. It can be awkward to OTK with Accesscode thanks to Prometheans fire-lock, as well as the lines being pretty free-form and having to be thought up on the spot.
4. Afformentioned lines being free-form means that time can geniunely become an issue, especially going second.
I am aware that upcoming cards will fix these issues, notably.
1. Bonfire makes the deck far more resilient and consistent than it already is.
2. S:P Little Knight and Zealantis make removing troublesome cards far easier.
3. Zealantis + Salamangreat Raging Phoenix make OTK far easier.
4. Points 2 and 3 should also help with the timer.
Greatly looking forward to those cards to help the deck become even better!
Josh: We don't have enough competitive Yu-Gi-Oh content.
Everyone: *...*
Josh: Fine then, I'll do it myself.
Why can snake-eye ash search for snake-eyes poplar but divine temple does not add 1100 atk points to snake-eyes flamberge dragon? Is there a misunderstanding in the snake eye architype? I see a discrepancy here 🤔i want to know this since i want to know if Hero of the ashened city counts as a "HERO" card (elemental, vision, destiny, Xtra)
You can make sargas for an omni in fire king but difficult to get a 2nd 8 out AND flamberge summon. Wierd tech, kinda mid but funny, if you draw island, kirin, garunix or circle (any access to 2 pops on your turn),
Garunix pop mini kirin, (can also send a snake eye to summon if no access to that side) to send the new Magmacho, use circle, kirin or or field to pop something, summon magmacho and get a draw, then thats your two level 8s for sargas.
Its more fragile if you dont draw big kirin as you rely on Princess pop to trigger garunix, but having magmacho in the GY is nice for grind: use it for xyzs and you have a bonus draw every turn.
Issue is its another 3 cards in deck that are kinda soft garnets. Drawing regulus is usually nice though, at least going first. Circle means flamberge is easier to recover though without playing 2
Kurikara is such a good card vs Purrely with all of its draw effects during your turn. It counts as a tribute so EXCELLENT board removal of those annoying cats.
This is all from one card. Scary. Has Yu-Gi-Oh finally jumped the shark? No wonder retro formats are becoming so popular.
instead of amblowhale in the first combo, you could end with formula + flamberge on field with IP in the spell/trap zone & princess in GY which imo is better than amblo.
If I just started master duels and want to go this deck. Should I be spamming packs and dismantle every UR to gradually build it?
This video was absolutely helpful. That fire king combo is insane. Thank you
Question? Am I the only one that's thinking, "Thank gosh I dont have to deal with this format?"
Not that the deck doesn't seem fun, for the moment, but more about the price and stagnation of the game for the next several months.
I would say having the physical cards helps me better understand the combo but having the cards shown on DB makes it easier for me to read them. This style of video did help me a lot! Keep up the good content.
I cringed when he added Sinful Spoils instead of the field spell. There's much better 1 card combos with Masquerena and Linkuriboh.. You have the option to make SP, Unicorn, Underworld Goddess, or a 4 mat Apollousa protected by Linkuriboh. You also get to keep the field spell, have better followup, and it makes your link monsters indestructible.
This line gets you a draw and a single omni-negate. Oh and I guess you can revive Sunlight Wolf on your opponents turn.
People cringe over the weirdest reasons these days.
The question its ., how to counter this deck beside play mirror..joshua i like your content if you could show us how you will play a dragon link for this new meta game .
I really like this vidéo
How about the pure snake eye combo that ends with bow of the goddess and IP misquarena
Definitely enjoyed this. I think, in addition to the combos, getting into the underlying thesis of the deckbuilding would be potentially valuable.
For example, I see that you're playing or at least considering jet synchron whereas I haven't seen anyone else talking about it. Why are you looking at those? They're clearly "an option" but what is actually drawing you to them?
Jet Synchron was already played in OCG, especially in the last weeks bc most players switched to the synchro version bc it has the better end board
One reason I run it (in MD) is the option for Formula Synchron, which lets you make Borrel-Savage or Baronne on your opponent’s turn
@rand0mlyhere I see that, but that's so simple as to not even constitute an actual explanation. "I added 1+1 to make 2" okay, but at what point did we decide 2 was necessary to make or that addition here is the most axiomatically correct thing to do? These are the interesting questions at hand that simply pointing at the cards cannot answer. I can come up with my own reasons why these synchros are interesting in the upcoming format, but I have no idea if I've seen every angle nor do I have the practice to see what's better in practice than on paper.
Jet Synchron is already played a lot, there are a bunch of DB duels you can watch
@@DaedricSheep I see. Unfortunately: it would seem I’m not the internet stranger to answer this question. Though, perhaps, this could start an interesting discussion.
A few other benefits, not including Formula Synchron shenanigans, that could come from the use of Jet: Extender, Searchable with Snake-Ash (and Original Sinful Spoils) if you’ve run out of in-engine targets, helps discard (which could be used to draw through the grave effect of Seeker of Sinful Spoils.
Maybe there’s more, but this is just what comes off the top of my head. Maybe this should’ve been my initial comment to begin with. Maybe I’m blowing smoke? Ultimately, I’ve just found the card to be a convenient/comfy as a 1-of in my current list.
Big boy Drytron ritual destroys pure snake eyes. He don’t care if you special summon after he destroys on field monsters as he can attack over every single card you bring out.
i dont know why you're even making this combo video, we can't afford the cards anyways
12:20 the hypocrisy
Yea...cuz 5+ disruptions with 3+ omni-negates is real fun to play against..
Looking at how much they get from just 1 card makes me to not want to play this format at all. Seems like I'll have to invest into an edison deck.
Im not complaining necessarily, but its just crazy to see a wall of URs for that deck list
Just bought a $50 and $60 ultra for a budget deck... pray for me 🙏
Only thing I would say is in the 1 card combo with the Fire King engine you want to use Ash before Island otherwise you severely lose to Nibiru. You need to place Flamberge on board on your 5th summon to have the best possible follow up
Board is less broken than yours but still ends on Amblowhale, Flamberge and IP with Oak still in the deck which I would only use turn 1 if I get Droll, otherwise it’s an awesome follow up for next turn
Really hope ash got banned/limited and bonfire to semi to drop the stability for it's one card combo
Ngl I wish you could make a guide on like Branded Chimera or other decks.
I get the sense that this engine will go through the usual meatgrinder of product. It is super popular and expensive, and I get a few months out of it until bannings and limitations, repeat.
Yep
Im sorry? Your not allowed to make videos that arent reacting to Yugioh content creators reacting to threads on twitter
Bro, why do look constipated in your thumbnails? 😂
More videos like this one please, with real cards and for the tcg
I love this style of video! Your insight on stream is great, but an organized and planned out video is even better :D
I would definitely watch a video of this style for each new deck that comes out in the game
I hope snake eye ash gets banned just so I dont get confused when someone is talking about it.
We need a new Master Rule. Maybe a new kind of card (not extra monster card)
Wasn't subbed, i do apologize. Quality content keep it up
12:21 Josh, do you have anything to say about these allegations?
Josh once again proving why he's the goat, keep up the amazing content king
Why would you let your opponent play whrn one motorbike is scythelock plus 4 negages + handtraps + followup? Droll exists but just Droll isnt gonna make me move away from SHS
Fun?
I really really hope that Fire Kings don't get hit because of Snake Eyes, but I know they probably will
Limited Kirin i think
@@Renannreis08 I could live with that
Oh yea flamberge is gonna break the whole game isn't it? It's literally the same effect as the vaylantz field spells. And if you guys can't see that, see that the deck has 1 starter and the pay off is a vaylantz field spell, well you guys are thick for thinking it's going to be tier 0. Literally any deck beats this shit, it's soooo fuckin ass
Lol, lmao even
great content need more videos like this
Love these kind of videos Josh, you do a really good job of explaining the combos! Can't wait for the next ones :)
Such a shame that Poplar is ~35€ (so 105€) Wanted is 70€ (so 210€), Bonfire is ~75€ (so 215€) and S:P is 110€ though (Cardmarket prices, no idea for TCGPlayer).
640€ just for 10 cards is unfortunately way too much for the majority of players :(
At least you can have "budget" versions of the deck (which, by the way, would be even more awesome for you to cover in these videos!) that don't run Wanted/Bonfire/S:P, as there are other ways to get to Diabellstar. It's harder to make it without Poplar, but it should still be doable. Is it less efficient? Obviosuly, but I'm sure you can still get there, it will require more steps (and more prone to interruptions).
I have a rulings question. Suppose you use a card to send an extra deck monster to the graveyard. Can you use Flamberge’s effect to treat it as a continuous spell? Can you then also use Flamberge’s effect to SS it, even though it was never properly summoned? This probably has an obvious answer, but I just want more insight on the rulings if anything.
Extra Deck cards need to be properly summoned first before you can special summon them by other means, so sending something to the graveyard with e.g. Nadir Servant and then summoning it back with Monster Reborn or Flamberge isnt possible
Oh wow a reply!! Thanks, that’s what I thought, I remember that the proper special summoning condition was specific to the graveyard, I wasn’t sure if it applied here, but it makes sense that it would! Thanks!!
its the same as the cheated out captain roland and the infernoble field spell. you can not summon them
joshua shmidt snake eyes runick please god if ur real
please try to play snake-eye runic. its best runic deck imo
The way I do the snake-eyes ash one card combo I end up having formula synchron on field along with Flamberge and Masquerena on spell/trap zone to summon during opponent's draw phase and Promethean Princess and Linkuriboh in grave.. I basically trade Amblowhale for Masquerena to go into Apollousa with 4 materials after I summon Baronne off Formula Synchron and Flamberge
I really tried with traptrix man but I just can't 😞
Very good video thanks I've learned a lot. Would appreciate if you post a line vs Maxx "C" for MD. I've invented a 2 lines (draw 2 and draw 4) but maybe you have better cuz world champ..
So then how do you counter play this deck?
Played against this in person for the first time yesterdays locals. Played through 5 back row set (2 imperm, welcome, anti spell, ice dragons).
Fenrir special > bounce anti spell.
Diabellstar activation > set imperm #1.
Welcome > special lady.
Poplar hits GY > ice dragon banish Poplar + Snake eye ash. > chain lady set big
Flamberge effect > set imperm #2.
"Fenrir is the only reason I won." maybe I played it a bit wrong not using imperm on fenrir for anti spell, but you'd think 2x imperm 1x ice dragons is enough to stop it. lesson learned lol.
Where Arf Thou? has been my Bonfire replacement on MD. If your Ash gets negated, or don't have it in hand, but you do have a different level 1, you can follow it up with WAT like you would follow up with Bonfire. It is not as good as Bonfire, but it gets the job done.
Jesus christ that master Duel deck is more Ur than fire rofl
I've been thinking, is typhoon (the trap) a good side deck option? Because it would break the formula or IP on THEIR turn. If requirements are met. What do y'all think?
Really interesting, right now my best friend and I are running Centur-ion Horus for me and Fire King Snake Eyes Diabellstar for him, since PHNI it's getting difficult to break his Turn 1 I hope this can help me.
It could be really really interesting if you were doing this kind of combo explanations for other kind of decks in the current format. If your experience could help me mastering my Ceur-ion Horus deck I would happily learn from you ! Thanks a lot.
Burch is cool cuz you can do some cheeky Masquerena stuff with it. Like one ash gets you Princess in gy, 4 mat Apollousa, and Whale on board with Burch. You end on Burch, Flameberge, IP in s/t and whale
Only 12 non UR cards (including ED)
What's the smallest version of the Snake-Eyes engine you can get away with using? I wanna try using it with Evil Eyes, but they're already kinda demanding a lot of deckspace.
If you're asking what the synergy with Evil Eyes is; there is none. It's literally just cause they're both eye-themed lmao
Snake-Eyes pure reminds me a lot of Mathmech or other cyberse piles. You play lots of starters or ways to get to them, as many handtraps as possible and link climb like crazy in your turn. Then you win via card advantage or with Accesscode. The monsters as continuous spells is a cool gimmick and the deck is fun but the price is preposterous both in MD but specially irl.
Hope a big ban list for this unstopable deck
This is a fantastic video and I really hope you continue. The yugioh community has enough deck profiles and master duel highlights.
As a follow up, I would love to see a comprehensive guide to going second with this deck. Almost all the Yugioh content out there is about turn 1 combos, which are relatively easy to learn off by heart from any source.
But it would be really nice if, for example, you would fishbowl some test hands going second against an established snake eye mirror match board, talking through your process, what effects you are trying to bait out, when to draw vs steal with talents, etc.
That content is severely lacking in the Yugioh space I feel.
Yet Rikka and Mathmech were a problem.
Bro snake eyes is trash just play pure preformapals 😂