Also it's bullshit that's no more: "choose a team, play against the other". Fortunatly I build all my deck to play against every other type, and with Centur-ion I lost just and only the games that I bricked with 0 engine. I'm only pissed off that I did not have a chance for the funniest thing of all: Crimson targets a 10 and makes Dragion... sadge
prospy being banned was unironically a bigger hit. but yeah, 3 dora dora, 2-3 genroku, 3 chundra, 3 paidra, 1 summoning and 1 kaimen. so in total 13-14 one cards starters that kill you. that is still insane.
2 tier0 i was using the shadoll deck with winda and construct tenpai was easier than Centurion because they cant summon because winda/Construct/Apol the one that shuts off abilities-
Very true. I wanted to build a 8-Axis XYZ list and was gravely disappointed. Ended up sticking with going 2nd RDA to gaslight people into thinking I'm on Tenpai
Real issue here is, there's not enough variety of fusion and link decks. If you look closely, the only two fusion decks available are branded which is nerfed, chimera which isn't that popular and maybe invoked shadoll that's also not very popular. In the link side, every single rescue ace card was banned and unchained is also not that popular less so without ceasar or any of the D/D/D package.
Branded was murdered. And its barely a tier 3 deck. Albaz to 1 seriously? Grass greaner banned; aluber to 1; and yeah banned the fricking retribution. The funny thing is tenpai is barely been touched and manadium is running wild; and swordsoul centurion is working a charm.
And you can tell they were trying to make Tenpai the best deck this event because they targeted all cards that prevent opponents monsters from attacking. Red screen is a card searchable with Crimson Gaia and Vision Resonator. They could've been a small yet strong package in a link or branded deck for countering tenpai just for Red Screen if it wasn't banned.
Konami continues to prove they're not worthy of your money. thank god I'm free to play exclusive, I'd be livid if I had any cash tied up in this dumb game
@@TheNewblade1 You starve them of money so that they'll hopefully wise up and fix the game I've loved since childhood. I'm not holding my breath though.
I know this is a hot take... But I liked that labryth event a lot, people running board breakers without realizing that if you don't kill labryth that turn you are out of luck was the best feeling ever, and I liked the lab mirror a lot even with the lady being broken in it
I think the biggest problem is that, fundamentally, Synchro's have the easiest time of these 3 being "monolocked." Think of all the good synchro decks that have dropped since the last triangle, we got free Swordsoul cards, Centur-Ions, RDA support, and now Tenpai. What have we gotten for the other two since then? Yubel, Chimera, and Salamangreat support (which they can't even fully use here, hope you didn't like that XYZ monster TOO much). Fusion meanwhile's taken hit after hit on the banlist, both the normal one and the triangle one; Tear's been nerfed to high heavens (deserved but not the point right now), Branded's equally gutted on the Fusion banlist, and let's all be honest, Yubel's biggest strength comes from its combo ability with Link monsters, without that they only have 1 negate and 1 form of interruption with their super-poly trap (which, btw, Super-Poly was ALSO hit for this event). I gave up on my Ignister deck after a 5-7 W/L and switched to a Frankenstein's monster deck of Ghoti-Ice Barrier just so I wouldn't have to keep fighting synchro decks. I don't even wanna imagine trying to get those 1500 points with Ancient Gear cause they can't use Ballista.
I can guarentee you it'd be neck-and-neck like last year if Tenpai didn't exist. Link and Fusion decks can play mostly in their own lane, but people trying to duck out the way of Tenpai specifically is skewing the numbers heavily.
You're probably better off playing Unchained Yubel without the Fusions than "pure" Yubel without the Links. Either way it's just gimped enough to make dealing with all the blind second nonsense going around annoying. At least the overpopulated Synchro pool means you don't have to worry about autolosing to backrow decks as often(most of which are going to be in the Link section because of Unchained Lab and Sky Striker).
This is like my most hated event like they straight up banned all my mikanko cards like why? And they also banned all kaiju lava golem but not centerion and tenpai made no sense
@@TheShapestofSnatches How come they banned my whole floowandereeze as well? The only deck I can play right now is cubic deck cuz even my pure horus deck everything got either banned or limited and I dont play synchro deck so im pretty screwed. How come they didnt even bother to ban or limit centerion or tenpai but screw other deck that isnt really meta relevant like my mikanko deck
i dont know why ppl surprised .. konami knew what it was doing dropping tenpai then doing this type of event,, and they destroyed branded with this event... while the synchro still almost full power
The only thing that irks me is that they put link instead of xyz. The newest pack has new decks for fusion, xyz and tempai. So now i can’t even play goblin biker in the event…
@@Terwanothat's because alot of xyz decks counter tenpai kash, full armored mikanko, exo sisters, goblin bikers, sharks, purrely and for some fucking reason horus engine is ban in fusion and link but playable in syncro, like what the fuck?!??? fuck them
I'm trying to be Kitkallos' strongest soldier, but god it's rough out there with the previous banlist and the event restrictions. I feel almost down bad enough to start running KOTS or a patchwork engine just to fetch Polymerization, because it's a lot harder to get the ball rolling. Missing Redoer makes the deck feel really bad into hand traps sometimes. Stuff like Destrudo or Trick Clown are basically useless, and you can't just link off Snow to get that little goblin back into the GY. I can stall out Tenpai with Winda, but then you can't really apply any pressure unless you have Sulliek online, so it's a real slog to get that victory. Being a purple card enjoyer is pain.
I'm using my chimera for fusion and I've noticed that my illusion monsters are hindering Tenpai because my illusion monsters can't be destroyed in battle. Thought I'd use my swordsoul tenyi deck. Unless I can build another deck. For Link, I build a dragon link deck. Unless I can build another deck. Was thinking of using rescue ace but they have banned all rescue ace cards from this event. Otherwise, I only have crusade link deck.
I have been playing Darkfluid OTK and didn't really go against any Tenpai decks until I hit 3k points. Now it is all I am going against. 80 percent of the decks I was going against were fusion and the few synchro I faced were a handful of Centur-ion, blackwing and Mannadium. If i could go back to those decks, that would be super cool. That win streak was nice and I miss it
Yeah, I have been part of team LINK this tournament so far, running a tri-brigade / lyrilusc deck. It works pretty well going first or second, and sometimes its funny when I choose to go second, and the opponent auto scoops thinking I am running Tenpai. It is annoying that I get matched against mostly Tenpai and Centur-ion decks (75% of the time). Its fun when I get to face the rare fusion deck.
What baffles me is why put fusion in the event at all if you are going to butcher it like this? Putting in xyz would have made WAY more sense because Goblin Bikers is in the new pack. I get it because maybe they wanted people to try ritual beasts but for a mono lock event like this, xyz would have been a better pick without needing to be gutted like fusions did.
You can tell they were trying to make Tenpai the best deck this event. They targeted almost every card that prevent opponents monsters from attacking. Red screen is a card searchable with Crimson Gaia and Vision Resonator. And though its primarily a RDA thing, this could've been a small yet strong package in a link or branded deck for countering Tenpai if Red Screen wasn't banned. But no, they need to force people to buy their sh*t by nerfing the competition.
I really don't get how Baronne was legal (while other cards were banned), how Tenpai is pretty much released at full power while decks like branded recieved multiple limitations. This isn't incompetence, this is just on purpose.
Yea i used scareclaw a bit too.. tenpai player tried everything to out tri heart and failed! In the end they had to use change of heart for the win lol
Something worth pointing out is everyone has been given pretty much a constructed swordsoul deck and most people just want a cheap easy deck to get wins with
I thought I would be cheeky and make "Fusion" deck with the budget Labrynth deck I've been building up. In a shocking twist, one of the primo anti-Tenpai decks wasn't isn't just limited, but completely banned. Imagine releasing some kind of virulent disease into a population while you cut off all production of vaccines. I just don't understand why they'd abuse the player base like this. They also gutted Yubel despite it losing the entire Unchained support and Accesscode as a finisher. It doesn't feel like this is an interesting environment to work around restrictions, it's just a playpen for the latest pet to curbstomp all challengers (who have been handicapped, just to be safe).
This may be the time I pull out Live Twin with a Knightmare Gryphon lock. Do I lose to forbidden droplet? Maybe. Do I still brick my opponent 8/10 times? Also yes
Gold never gets old... Of 10 matches, only one was vs Tenpai, and one vs fusion (Chimera), everything else were just synchro matches And while this is a stinker of a event, (I hope that) nothing beats Labrynth event... Between Consecrated light and EEV shenanigans, literal war flashbacks
"just play threatening roar and thunder of ruler lol. Tenpai is so easy to counter with these anti battle cards" - Player who bricked on waboku against centurion
I've been running Tear the last few days and just got the 1500 points needed for it (took as long as it did because I really wasn't feeling it). Ran into a lot of Tenpai on the first few days of the event, but I've mostly just been seeing Centur-ions now. I've only seen a non-Tenpai/non-Centur-ion deck four times so far; one Swordsoul, one Naturia, one Ice Barrier, and one Link deck.
80% win rate with Adventure Scareclaw Knightmare Gryphon flood. Heavy focus going first but can play through quite a bit going second. *Played 18 games and all of them were synchro 😂
So I hate Tenpai in a format with Shifter and Maxx C, but the deck has felt pretty reasonable in the event. I’ve been playing against 50% tenpai, 40% centurion, 10% other synchro, and it’s mostly just felt like ladder with a better banlist. I like it
That's what happens when decks that need few extra deck mechanics face a deck that only needs 1. Event is just bad design anyways, even without Tenpai, we have Centurion, Resonator, Synchron and others that make insane boards that other decks with such limitations cannot break. Synchro mechanic is broken when isolated, other modern decks usually use little bit of everything, few synchros, few xyz, 10 links...
@@xnewkingx Because branded has been around forever at this point and is still pretty good and popular. What part of "pushing product first" Is so hard for people to understand???
@sammydray5919 the part in which it makes it not fun for the majority of people, which in turn makes a lot more people less likely to spend gems for the new product since it soured their view on it which leads to both a loss in playerbase and potential gem buyers like fucking ritual beast is practically unplayable without links and you are telling me it was to push the new product that contains them let alone fucking goblin bikers being left out of the xyz cup and now being left out of the triangle event, they get shafted despite being new product also centurion is out of the shop already, why the fuck are they free to run baronne and crimson dragon? do you think people are stupid to gamble in master packs like that isn't the first thing the community tells you not to do ever? Get real
To be honest this is just a Tenpai event. They limited or banned everything that can actually be a challenge to Tenpai. So choosing any other group other than synchro us just a waste of time.
The biggest problem i see with these types of events is that in today's game almost every good deck plays a certain ammount of link monsters, meaning your choice of viable synchro and xyz decks goes down dramatically.
All of my control decks have been neutered by this event, not even ONE BAD WEEK kind of decks but like decks that force players to slow it down like Aromage, SubTerror/Krawler, etc. All these decks I play have been gutted, not even including stuff like Endymion and Dinomists which I cant play because they either use a mix of types or banned cards for the event. I am pretty much screwed in getting any gems.
For anyone looking for another deck to bully Tenpai with, I've yet to lose against them in either ranked or the festival with Ice Barriers. Haven't run it in the festival yet, but my experience with a going first pure Scareclaw deck in Ranked since Tenpai released says it should also be a good option against them.
Ice barrier just as trashy toxic shit though. Yal aint here to plag YGO thats why you like advantages like Raiho and shit. Stop acting like you’re any different
HEROs aren't as consistent, but I've had tenpai players rage quit when i let them commit into trident dragon using the rest of their resources, only to hit them with elemental HERO spirit of neos at the end lmao
@@deletedaccount7 the line ends on Dragion also in the BP which prevents the opp from activating any effect in the BP so spirit of yubel and spirit of noes are almost useless because you can;t even activate them
@@iyato1828 it depends on the line they go into. I've had some games where they assume they had game and just jumped straight into a trident dragon using up and popping their own resources for multiple attacks, only for me to activate spirit of neos on their trident dragon. Once they realized trident dragon couldn't destroy it by battle they rage quit lmao. Does spirit of neos count as an activated effect though? One of my favorite things to do is summon cosmo neos during my opponents draw phase using favorite contact. It basically makes it so that turn the opponent can't activate any card effects. Usually however, if their effects say "you can do *x*" they can just do it without it counting as activating an effect to bypass it. By that logic spirit of neos should still work even if they do summon transcendent right? Spirit of neos is also worded with the same "you can" wording that usually bypasses my cosmo neos lock so i assume it would still work but i could be wrong
@@iyato1828 i think my reply was too long so TH-cam hid it 😩 Spirit of neos bypasses it right? Since it is specifically a monster effect worded as "you can" from the hand? If they choose to go into Trident instead then it works ik that since I've done that before. Cosmo neos similar to transcendent tho also prevents the opponent from activating effects, but I've used that before and people have been able to work around it with monster effects that specifically say "you can" while they are in the hand. If the interaction is similar, by that logic spirit of neos should still work against transcendent, no?
I ended up just playing endymion. Biggest problem was when servant resolved I'd guess the handtrap wrong half of the time. Summoned endymion expecting imperm, only to get double veilered after going promethean. Got a lot of ice barrier and swordsoul too.
For me, I have been playing Ghoti, and I have been agains a good variety of stuff, Traptrix/Ragnaraika, Salad, Fluffals, among other things. Still not too deep into the event, but so far so good.
I haven't played against anything but synchro as a link deck. But i will say i have been clapping up tenpai with unchained in this event. I did find it dumb though when every match was either Centurions, Ice Barrier, Swordsoul, or Tenpai. Centurion was by far the most common match up I have had.
It's always synchro man, i realized vanquish soul is legal, so i'm playing that, but all i face is synchro never faced a fusion or link deck. I've been hit by 3 handtraps(ash gamma ogre) manage to make a board and he dropleted me + 1 card combo and otk, very fun deck to play against
They hit branded like crazy for no reason for this event while all the other meta decks are practically unhit. Every duel I've had so far has been against tenpai or centurion. Only good this is im playing branded burn turbo so going first becomes a nightmare for them if they dont open a board wipe
If you are in synchro and want to avoid tenpai and other syncro decks, only queue in for 15 second then restart. It can take a couple of tries to find an opponent that way but it won't be against the yame group
These mono-type events are always a bit rough for me since one of the defining traits of many of my favorite decks is using multiple, if not all, summon types... holdover from when D/D/D got me back into the game. Did a few duels running Amazoness in the fusion side and Ancient Warriors in the Link side... figured it'd make my duels like normal YGO where the die role determined the victor, except this time everyone will want to go second.
So far I did a few duels in the Link group (using Cyberse Link), I'll do the other two sides for the achievements as well (HERO for Fusion, Blackwings for Synchro)
I’ve made some success, luckily haven’t met up against a Tenpai deck, but I’m fixing to just play my Centeurion Virtual World. It is the best deck, yes. But I would like to mix things up then go purely into a deck. Even tested it and it is pretty fun. Can easily go from 6-12 filling out the 7 and 8 levels slots just in case.
My issue with this event is that its a "pick your favorite mechanic and have fun!.... except we've narrowed the choices for you and from the ones available some are way better than others,.....but have fun!" I know there are alot of fusion and link decks, but lets be real, not many are as consistent as tenpai right now, what are you gonna do when your 1 aluber gets impermed or veiled to search your 1 copy of braded fusion, that will also be ashed? the loaners are kinda awful and it doesnt even encourage anyone to play a different deck if theyre just going to keep losing against the same 2 top tier decks
You can't even recover that branded fusion because they banned the counter trap that recycles it so you can't even send it to grave and recover it if you wanna try to make any plays. And on the links side they banned every single rescue ace card.... Seriously fuck this event 😂
I like this events because generally the power level is lowen and I get to play my bad decks, but how I am supposed to do that when every 2 duels is against Tenpai?
im literaly in the Synchro group atm on Centur-ion and ive ONLY played against Tenpai so far. only played like 4 duels so far though since the bonus quests arent out, so as usual for me theres no point in trying to complete the event when i literaly cant complete it yet.
I ran through the event with Altergeists and fusion decks were a myth to me. I only faced synchro decks. Sorry I only faced Centur-ion and Tenpai. I was shocked one time seeing a Mannadium synchro deck 😂.
It's hilarious how much of that Synchro column is just either Tenpai or people afraid of facing off against Tenpai who are probably on some "go first" Synchro nonsense(yeah Centur-Ion is fine, but it STILL heavily favors going first). At least Terahertz Turbo doesn't care about that nonsense.
@@TheShapestofSnatches oh I didn’t look at the event banlist. I have a deck that doesn’t need the extra, and that normally runs banquet of millions. But I know for a fact that they ban that one all the time. Hmm… maybe I’ll just have to floodgate some other way.
Is say best Anti Tenpai teck is Quaking mirror force flip them bitches face-down and let them chill in timeout. My one match he had a full board all 6 monsters got flipped then end of the battle phase Evenly Matched banishing 7 cards facedown. He immediately rage quit lol😂 I was aww your +4 disruption board didn't help you? What happened 😉.
While I do agree with you, it is really weird for somebody to unironically be whining about "non-games" while playing Naturia. That being said, if the entire event is flooded with Tenpai and Centurion players, then that also means that all you need to do for easy farm is to build specifically against those two.
The funny part is both of the decks have different builds, one wanting to go first and the other wanting to go second, yes if you expected to fight against specific meta games you can build around but tenpai and centurion are 2 decks that don't have the same answer.
ive been doing my link points with cyberse firewall pile. ive personally only seen 2 tenpai in about 15 games. ive seen runicks, chimera, branded, swordsoul, and one brave ghoti duelist
I really wish theyd just make cool events... it really seems theyre afraid of doing anything thats not "uhhh youre locked into one/a few types or summoning mechanics!" theres the duel trials but those only last 3 days
what makes this event worse is replacing the xyz group with link group with those restrictions on link decks. snake-eyes is basically dead but the cards are banned regardless, no surprise about the mathmech restrictions too. and you'd think that making both the sangen spells to 1 would change anything but its pointless since all the dragons are unlimited and they happen to be good searchers themselves. if the xyz cards were allowed instead of link then maybe this could have been more interactive, as the xyz related cards can thrive more in such environment. the only upside here is that you can make a deck that is specifically designed for tenpai and get the win, surprisingly there are a good number of battle related cards allowed/ tech cards and lord of the heavenly prison is unlimited sooo you can still play the event...
Konami is basically saying "hey you want to play this game? build this new deck. Oh you don't have the gems we will take your money to TRY and build it." this is ridiculous. Also I had a friend go 22-3 with ice barriers
The problem is they murdered almost all tenpai killers. Lab, paleo got neutered. One bad day (deserved ly) was thrown into oblivion. Like the only deck that kills tenpai reliably going first is Ice Barrier….the deck whose lore is literally to put dragons on ice
I finished the fusion missions using dinomorphia. I had to add dark bribes, iron thunders, heavenly prisons and soul of the supreme kings for all the tenpai removal. I ran extra Alerts too and they came in handy several times. I'm working on the link side now using reversal quiz otk. Almost everyone is using centurion and the few that aren't are on tenpai. Worst Duel Doritos event yet.
I mean the best loaner deck in the event is the Centurion deck so a lot of people are playing with it, myself included when I change groups, and of course Tenpei just came out as well. For a FTP like me to play a half decent deck of my own I had to turn my Dino deck into a "Blind Second" Link deck which has mostly filler cards in the extra deck.
I went Link with Ragnaraika Bugs, and had to add 3 Roars and 3 Mirror Forces just because i was getting a Tenpai every couple of games, it killed my consistency, but at least i can play the game
I noticed this too. I played i makeshift yubel since it got nerfed to oblivion. But i settled on yubel chimera danger with just the chimera fusion for guardian chimera and danger to help draw into yubel cards. Its ridiculous to play second and face sword soul, centurion ssh, or go first into tenpai. i got wins into all the synchro loaner decks and into my one link valmonica match
I initially tried ducking Tenpai by playing Superheavy Samurai Swordsoul, but I kept getting my teeth kicked in. In a fit of desperation to try and get some enjoyment from the event I pivoted to Link Team with Vanquish Soul. Shockingly I started doing better than anything before. Turns out Snow Devil is a very centralizing card against Tenpai by giving my dudes immunity to the most common board wipes.
So far after 20 games 10 with Centur-ion, 5 with swordsoul and 5 with sky strikers during the sky striker duels I got matched against 2 synchro and 3 fusion, haven’t faced a single link deck yet in 15 matches using synchro deck.
Synchro Summons are just all over the place. I've seen the Loaners, but also Tenpai Dragon, Yusei, and above all, Centur-Ion variants. One with Horus, the others with Bystial. It's basically a Negate competition.
I have 2500 points for the Link team as salamangreat and i have played once against a branded fusion deck. Everything else was either Tenpai or Cent-urion. Btw, the deck has a very decent match up against Tenpai since there is no Max C. It can play through handtraps, doesn't care about droplet and is resilient to board wipes. Also a 5600 Pyro Phoenix is difficult to out.
They banned my lair of darkness. My virus cards. My ring of destruction for fang of critias. Then they hit my umi control. Like all my decks i invested in gutted. So much for my fun
@vergillives9890 having 3 options for Fang is way better than 2 and destruction dragon is spot removal. Makes a lot of difference. Fang of Critias paired with Lair of Darkness is also just really good. Without it I'm basically just heart og the carding everything without a viable way to have an engine.
I've learned I clearly just need to get better. 10 games out of 12 so far where I died to an ftk before even getting a turn. Should have just been better and drew more outs.
20 matches in the event so far. 15 were against tenpai, 3 against centurion and 2 against ice barriers. I'm in the fusion team and I haven't faced any link deck, and I doubt I will anytime soon (won't even see another fusion that's for sure). The only actually interactive matches from these 20 duels were the ice barriers ones. Non Synchro just can't compete with the tools synchros have in this event. I'll just start using my dinomorphia deck for floodgating them and hoping they won't have the outs. One of the worst - if not the worst - event experience of the game and I played since day 1. The worse part is that if they don't do anything to tenpai fast it won't be just this event that is insufferable, but the next duelist cup as well.
I'm currently playing Spyral (lol) and Scareklaw decks. Played almost 20 duels total and all I've played against so far are Synchro decks, with 90% of them being Tenpai. The non-engine in Tenpai is... yeah. I don't think I'm going to continue playing this event 😂
It probably shouldn’t get annoy me this much but it infuriates me how hard branded is hit this event while tenpai is allowed to run almost full power. They literally banned retribution to make pure branded almost impossible to run. And I don’t even think it being playable in other decks is a problem because fusion decks can’t run verte. And if the locks are a problem then just ban sanctifire for this event. Literally makes no sense.
For fusion you can go branded and give the a lock with d/d/d monsters with links there is so much more like making arrival @ ignister or full combo since circular is not banned once they run into such matchups they scoop
Circular is at one and unless using Micro coder or draw Small world, you can't search it since Alembertian isn't available You have to be a main Mathmech to dedicate a list to it, and at that point better play Synchro variant
It's a great time to play mid Synchro decks. Unfortunately a lot of the decks that do the best into Tenpai have been hit or rely on multiple summoning mechanics, but at least things like Dinomorphia and Terahertz piles kinda stand a chance.
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Also it's bullshit that's no more: "choose a team, play against the other". Fortunatly I build all my deck to play against every other type, and with Centur-ion I lost just and only the games that I bricked with 0 engine.
I'm only pissed off that I did not have a chance for the funniest thing of all: Crimson targets a 10 and makes Dragion... sadge
'Tsk, tsk'☝️☝️ ou contraire, Tenpai is the most popolar, but Centur-ion is the best...
Been losing my games on team links with my stall deck from 2014
I played 25 duels in the fusion group. 24 were against synchro. Almost all of them are either centurion or tenpai.
Same for me, its all centurion and tenpai , I played against one ice barriers
Same as a link player, my poor Ignister's can't keep up.
same
Fought a mannadium loaner deck with my scareclaw, poor little guy.
i only found centurion, tenpai and ice barriers. From around 10 duels, 9 were synchros and 1 was bystial.
who thought letting a tier0 into an event is a bad idea??? dont worry guys field spell at 1 surely they wont draw it every game....
prospy being banned was unironically a bigger hit. but yeah, 3 dora dora, 2-3 genroku, 3 chundra, 3 paidra, 1 summoning and 1 kaimen. so in total 13-14 one cards starters that kill you. that is still insane.
2 tier0 i was using the shadoll deck with winda and construct tenpai was easier than Centurion because they cant summon because winda/Construct/Apol the one that shuts off abilities-
Fucking centur-ion was hit harder with emblema at 1,what the hell were they thinking?
Don't forget, they can also use non engine field spell searchers to help their consistency even further.
It's just synchro festival with extra steps
The fact that Horus Engine is Legal in Synchro and Banned in other two is just scream Unfairness
Very true. I wanted to build a 8-Axis XYZ list and was gravely disappointed. Ended up sticking with going 2nd RDA to gaslight people into thinking I'm on Tenpai
And here I thought the Timelord being banned in the other two but legal in Synchro was a weird mistake...
Real issue here is, there's not enough variety of fusion and link decks. If you look closely, the only two fusion decks available are branded which is nerfed, chimera which isn't that popular and maybe invoked shadoll that's also not very popular. In the link side, every single rescue ace card was banned and unchained is also not that popular less so without ceasar or any of the D/D/D package.
Branded was murdered. And its barely a tier 3 deck. Albaz to 1 seriously? Grass greaner banned; aluber to 1; and yeah banned the fricking retribution.
The funny thing is tenpai is barely been touched and manadium is running wild; and swordsoul centurion is working a charm.
And you can tell they were trying to make Tenpai the best deck this event because they targeted all cards that prevent opponents monsters from attacking.
Red screen is a card searchable with Crimson Gaia and Vision Resonator. They could've been a small yet strong package in a link or branded deck for countering tenpai just for Red Screen if it wasn't banned.
@@xnewkingx its atrocious what they did to branded and thats literally my favorite deck lol if they didnt nerf branded it could run this tournament
Links are pretty strong though dragon link and plant link are insanely strong with no maxxc
Didn't they also ban all the snake-eyes stuff?
Konami continues to prove they're not worthy of your money.
thank god I'm free to play exclusive, I'd be livid if I had any cash tied up in this dumb game
This take is why farfa says "just quit". Hard to see logic when u 12k deep.
@@TheNewblade1 You starve them of money so that they'll hopefully wise up and fix the game I've loved since childhood.
I'm not holding my breath though.
Ah... I see you are a duelist of culture as well...
People probably don't want to play against tempai
my most hated event was when labryth was running wild.
I know this is a hot take... But I liked that labryth event a lot, people running board breakers without realizing that if you don't kill labryth that turn you are out of luck was the best feeling ever, and I liked the lab mirror a lot even with the lady being broken in it
Mine too. Probably why Tenpai isn't a loaner here.
I remember that event, I saved a replay where I completely destroyed a Labrynth player with Magical Musketeers.
@@kuribohner7680I need to see it for catharsis
@@minepool4343yeah me too . for me lab mirrors get very fun it’s needed a lot of brain
immediately saw it and "Everyone gonna play synchro"
I think the biggest problem is that, fundamentally, Synchro's have the easiest time of these 3 being "monolocked." Think of all the good synchro decks that have dropped since the last triangle, we got free Swordsoul cards, Centur-Ions, RDA support, and now Tenpai. What have we gotten for the other two since then? Yubel, Chimera, and Salamangreat support (which they can't even fully use here, hope you didn't like that XYZ monster TOO much). Fusion meanwhile's taken hit after hit on the banlist, both the normal one and the triangle one; Tear's been nerfed to high heavens (deserved but not the point right now), Branded's equally gutted on the Fusion banlist, and let's all be honest, Yubel's biggest strength comes from its combo ability with Link monsters, without that they only have 1 negate and 1 form of interruption with their super-poly trap (which, btw, Super-Poly was ALSO hit for this event).
I gave up on my Ignister deck after a 5-7 W/L and switched to a Frankenstein's monster deck of Ghoti-Ice Barrier just so I wouldn't have to keep fighting synchro decks. I don't even wanna imagine trying to get those 1500 points with Ancient Gear cause they can't use Ballista.
I can guarentee you it'd be neck-and-neck like last year if Tenpai didn't exist. Link and Fusion decks can play mostly in their own lane, but people trying to duck out the way of Tenpai specifically is skewing the numbers heavily.
Nah man pretty much every fire/diabel deck do well with link only. This isn't a monolock issue, they just banned all the good cards.
You're probably better off playing Unchained Yubel without the Fusions than "pure" Yubel without the Links. Either way it's just gimped enough to make dealing with all the blind second nonsense going around annoying. At least the overpopulated Synchro pool means you don't have to worry about autolosing to backrow decks as often(most of which are going to be in the Link section because of Unchained Lab and Sky Striker).
I'm just playing Yubel without phantom works okay hate playing tenpai though
@@metalmariomega Someone hasn't seen what lab cards available for this event
This is like my most hated event like they straight up banned all my mikanko cards like why? And they also banned all kaiju lava golem but not centerion and tenpai made no sense
Lava Golem is legal but most decks want their normal summon for this event
@@TheShapestofSnatches How come they banned my whole floowandereeze as well? The only deck I can play right now is cubic deck cuz even my pure horus deck everything got either banned or limited and I dont play synchro deck so im pretty screwed. How come they didnt even bother to ban or limit centerion or tenpai but screw other deck that isnt really meta relevant like my mikanko deck
I'm currently 18-2 on Marincess because none of the Tenpai players understand what any of the cards do.
This is really funny lmao
Unaffected Aqua and wave trap shine
Same with salamangreat. Just ending on terahertz and raging with roar. It’s been too easy
Your deck folds to a single ghost ogre on the field spell
@@nickowens7680I am gonna touch you
Played ten straight games against Swordsoul Centurion, and here I thought Tenpai would be miserable...
i dont know why ppl surprised .. konami knew what it was doing dropping tenpai then doing this type of event,, and they destroyed branded with this event... while the synchro still almost full power
I think it's more of a case of people being completely UNSURPRISED like you could see this coming from a mile away type of thing
The only thing that irks me is that they put link instead of xyz. The newest pack has new decks for fusion, xyz and tempai. So now i can’t even play goblin biker in the event…
@@Terwanothat's because alot of xyz decks counter tenpai
kash, full armored mikanko, exo sisters, goblin bikers, sharks, purrely
and for some fucking reason horus engine is ban in fusion and link but playable in syncro, like what the fuck?!??? fuck them
i heckin love Tenpai festival
I'm trying to be Kitkallos' strongest soldier, but god it's rough out there with the previous banlist and the event restrictions. I feel almost down bad enough to start running KOTS or a patchwork engine just to fetch Polymerization, because it's a lot harder to get the ball rolling. Missing Redoer makes the deck feel really bad into hand traps sometimes. Stuff like Destrudo or Trick Clown are basically useless, and you can't just link off Snow to get that little goblin back into the GY. I can stall out Tenpai with Winda, but then you can't really apply any pressure unless you have Sulliek online, so it's a real slog to get that victory. Being a purple card enjoyer is pain.
I'm using my chimera for fusion and I've noticed that my illusion monsters are hindering Tenpai because my illusion monsters can't be destroyed in battle.
Thought I'd use my swordsoul tenyi deck. Unless I can build another deck.
For Link, I build a dragon link deck. Unless I can build another deck. Was thinking of using rescue ace but they have banned all rescue ace cards from this event.
Otherwise, I only have crusade link deck.
I'm using Swordsoul Tenyi, having moderate success so far
Dealing with Tenpai is hell though
Play salamangreat, cheap, almost free. Have backrow protection in balelynx banish. Can also go terahertz which negate all effects in battle phase
Also salamangreat roar which is omni negate
@@lacrossehilda
I see smart.
I have been playing Darkfluid OTK and didn't really go against any Tenpai decks until I hit 3k points. Now it is all I am going against. 80 percent of the decks I was going against were fusion and the few synchro I faced were a handful of Centur-ion, blackwing and Mannadium. If i could go back to those decks, that would be super cool. That win streak was nice and I miss it
Yeah, I have been part of team LINK this tournament so far, running a tri-brigade / lyrilusc deck.
It works pretty well going first or second, and sometimes its funny when I choose to go second, and the opponent auto scoops thinking I am running Tenpai.
It is annoying that I get matched against mostly Tenpai and Centur-ion decks (75% of the time). Its fun when I get to face the rare fusion deck.
What baffles me is why put fusion in the event at all if you are going to butcher it like this? Putting in xyz would have made WAY more sense because Goblin Bikers is in the new pack. I get it because maybe they wanted people to try ritual beasts but for a mono lock event like this, xyz would have been a better pick without needing to be gutted like fusions did.
You can tell they were trying to make Tenpai the best deck this event. They targeted almost every card that prevent opponents monsters from attacking.
Red screen is a card searchable with Crimson Gaia and Vision Resonator. And though its primarily a RDA thing, this could've been a small yet strong package in a link or branded deck for countering Tenpai if Red Screen wasn't banned.
But no, they need to force people to buy their sh*t by nerfing the competition.
They hit Ice barriers that Prevent attacking?
I really don't get how Baronne was legal (while other cards were banned), how Tenpai is pretty much released at full power while decks like branded recieved multiple limitations.
This isn't incompetence, this is just on purpose.
I haven't played Tenpai yet
because I'm playing Centur-ion
Giving Scareclaw a go this event. First duel had centurion fill up their board and still couldn't get past Tri-heart
goodluck playing against me ill steal your heart
@@jaydee9005 You JUST did bb
Oh a fellow scareclaw player, GL!
Yea i used scareclaw a bit too.. tenpai player tried everything to out tri heart and failed! In the end they had to use change of heart for the win lol
Just trying to play Synchron okay?
EDIT: Fusion was only in the running because of Branded AKA Brain-Dead
Sagen summoning being an SR is no mistake. Konami is gonna cash in and hit summoning to 1 in like 6 months
not only they allowed tenpai, but also banned most counters to that deck, very good job konami!
welcome to synchro(tenpai) event guys
Something worth pointing out is everyone has been given pretty much a constructed swordsoul deck and most people just want a cheap easy deck to get wins with
Majority of players why be skilled when you can run generic negate synchros and Tenpai. Me in fusion: challenge accepted class in session.
I thought I would be cheeky and make "Fusion" deck with the budget Labrynth deck I've been building up. In a shocking twist, one of the primo anti-Tenpai decks wasn't isn't just limited, but completely banned. Imagine releasing some kind of virulent disease into a population while you cut off all production of vaccines. I just don't understand why they'd abuse the player base like this. They also gutted Yubel despite it losing the entire Unchained support and Accesscode as a finisher. It doesn't feel like this is an interesting environment to work around restrictions, it's just a playpen for the latest pet to curbstomp all challengers (who have been handicapped, just to be safe).
This event was just to showcase the new Tanpei archetype. It's all about money. Zombie World might become meta soon.
This may be the time I pull out Live Twin with a Knightmare Gryphon lock. Do I lose to forbidden droplet? Maybe. Do I still brick my opponent 8/10 times? Also yes
I did pretty well with Live Twin Unchained. Had to improvise if they have outs but hey, luck is part of the game too I guess.
Gold never gets old... Of 10 matches, only one was vs Tenpai, and one vs fusion (Chimera), everything else were just synchro matches
And while this is a stinker of a event, (I hope that) nothing beats Labrynth event... Between Consecrated light and EEV shenanigans, literal war flashbacks
"just play threatening roar and thunder of ruler lol. Tenpai is so easy to counter with these anti battle cards" - Player who bricked on waboku against centurion
I've been running Tear the last few days and just got the 1500 points needed for it (took as long as it did because I really wasn't feeling it). Ran into a lot of Tenpai on the first few days of the event, but I've mostly just been seeing Centur-ions now. I've only seen a non-Tenpai/non-Centur-ion deck four times so far; one Swordsoul, one Naturia, one Ice Barrier, and one Link deck.
80% win rate with Adventure Scareclaw Knightmare Gryphon flood. Heavy focus going first but can play through quite a bit going second. *Played 18 games and all of them were synchro 😂
So I hate Tenpai in a format with Shifter and Maxx C, but the deck has felt pretty reasonable in the event. I’ve been playing against 50% tenpai, 40% centurion, 10% other synchro, and it’s mostly just felt like ladder with a better banlist. I like it
Better banlist is a crazy take
Playing centurion. Happened to build the deck a week ago and didn’t know about this event. 8 games and no tenpai yet. Where are they?
Ok so you don’t get match with other synchros 😂
That's what happens when decks that need few extra deck mechanics face a deck that only needs 1. Event is just bad design anyways, even without Tenpai, we have Centurion, Resonator, Synchron and others that make insane boards that other decks with such limitations cannot break. Synchro mechanic is broken when isolated, other modern decks usually use little bit of everything, few synchros, few xyz, 10 links...
Remember pendulum was the problem so we game every new deck a 1 card starter so they can just get their whole deck on board and 50 negates on board
10 seconds queue time. I thought everyone was on synchro LOL
10 seconds, how much you spend on that fast pass?
@@saiba372 that almost the same with me
Only dueled against fusion deck I think bad players duel against the other 2 and good players against synchro tenpai
events are to push product first, game balance second.
its been like this since launch and people are still surprised about event balancing.
Still why fucking murdered branded? Its already super bad matchup when facing tenpai which is barely touched and manadium is working like a charm.
@@xnewkingx Because branded has been around forever at this point and is still pretty good and popular. What part of "pushing product first" Is so hard for people to understand???
@sammydray5919 the part in which it makes it not fun for the majority of people, which in turn makes a lot more people less likely to spend gems for the new product since it soured their view on it which leads to both a loss in playerbase and potential gem buyers
like fucking ritual beast is practically unplayable without links and you are telling me it was to push the new product that contains them
let alone fucking goblin bikers being left out of the xyz cup and now being left out of the triangle event, they get shafted despite being new product
also centurion is out of the shop already, why the fuck are they free to run baronne and crimson dragon? do you think people are stupid to gamble in master packs like that isn't the first thing the community tells you not to do ever?
Get real
That is also why they haven't rerun the N/R festival.
Honestly, the same applies to the Forbidden & Limited List updates as well.
clearly tearlaments were the only problem with the meta and the banlist for the event fixed everything 😂
To be honest this is just a Tenpai event. They limited or banned everything that can actually be a challenge to Tenpai. So choosing any other group other than synchro us just a waste of time.
The biggest problem i see with these types of events is that in today's game almost every good deck plays a certain ammount of link monsters, meaning your choice of viable synchro and xyz decks goes down dramatically.
All of my control decks have been neutered by this event, not even ONE BAD WEEK kind of decks but like decks that force players to slow it down like Aromage, SubTerror/Krawler, etc. All these decks I play have been gutted, not even including stuff like Endymion and Dinomists which I cant play because they either use a mix of types or banned cards for the event. I am pretty much screwed in getting any gems.
I don't play meta or popular decks. I'm playing Links with Rokkets
For anyone looking for another deck to bully Tenpai with, I've yet to lose against them in either ranked or the festival with Ice Barriers.
Haven't run it in the festival yet, but my experience with a going first pure Scareclaw deck in Ranked since Tenpai released says it should also be a good option against them.
Ice barrier just as trashy toxic shit though. Yal aint here to plag YGO thats why you like advantages like Raiho and shit. Stop acting like you’re any different
HEROs aren't as consistent, but I've had tenpai players rage quit when i let them commit into trident dragon using the rest of their resources, only to hit them with elemental HERO spirit of neos at the end lmao
@@deletedaccount7 the line ends on Dragion also in the BP which prevents the opp from activating any effect in the BP so spirit of yubel and spirit of noes are almost useless because you can;t even activate them
@@iyato1828 it depends on the line they go into. I've had some games where they assume they had game and just jumped straight into a trident dragon using up and popping their own resources for multiple attacks, only for me to activate spirit of neos on their trident dragon. Once they realized trident dragon couldn't destroy it by battle they rage quit lmao.
Does spirit of neos count as an activated effect though? One of my favorite things to do is summon cosmo neos during my opponents draw phase using favorite contact. It basically makes it so that turn the opponent can't activate any card effects. Usually however, if their effects say "you can do *x*" they can just do it without it counting as activating an effect to bypass it. By that logic spirit of neos should still work even if they do summon transcendent right? Spirit of neos is also worded with the same "you can" wording that usually bypasses my cosmo neos lock so i assume it would still work but i could be wrong
@@iyato1828 i think my reply was too long so TH-cam hid it 😩
Spirit of neos bypasses it right? Since it is specifically a monster effect worded as "you can" from the hand? If they choose to go into Trident instead then it works ik that since I've done that before. Cosmo neos similar to transcendent tho also prevents the opponent from activating effects, but I've used that before and people have been able to work around it with monster effects that specifically say "you can" while they are in the hand. If the interaction is similar, by that logic spirit of neos should still work against transcendent, no?
I ended up just playing endymion. Biggest problem was when servant resolved I'd guess the handtrap wrong half of the time. Summoned endymion expecting imperm, only to get double veilered after going promethean. Got a lot of ice barrier and swordsoul too.
For me, I have been playing Ghoti, and I have been agains a good variety of stuff, Traptrix/Ragnaraika, Salad, Fluffals, among other things. Still not too deep into the event, but so far so good.
I haven't played against anything but synchro as a link deck. But i will say i have been clapping up tenpai with unchained in this event. I did find it dumb though when every match was either Centurions, Ice Barrier, Swordsoul, or Tenpai. Centurion was by far the most common match up I have had.
It's always synchro man, i realized vanquish soul is legal, so i'm playing that, but all i face is synchro never faced a fusion or link deck.
I've been hit by 3 handtraps(ash gamma ogre) manage to make a board and he dropleted me + 1 card combo and otk, very fun deck to play against
They hit branded like crazy for no reason for this event while all the other meta decks are practically unhit. Every duel I've had so far has been against tenpai or centurion. Only good this is im playing branded burn turbo so going first becomes a nightmare for them if they dont open a board wipe
I am playing centurion don't want to tenpai but still faced this shit
If you are in synchro and want to avoid tenpai and other syncro decks, only queue in for 15 second then restart. It can take a couple of tries to find an opponent that way but it won't be against the yame group
These mono-type events are always a bit rough for me since one of the defining traits of many of my favorite decks is using multiple, if not all, summon types... holdover from when D/D/D got me back into the game.
Did a few duels running Amazoness in the fusion side and Ancient Warriors in the Link side... figured it'd make my duels like normal YGO where the die role determined the victor, except this time everyone will want to go second.
So far I did a few duels in the Link group (using Cyberse Link), I'll do the other two sides for the achievements as well (HERO for Fusion, Blackwings for Synchro)
I really think they hit most other decks more than Tenpai
I did complete almost all the gem rewards yesterday, only missing the number of games played. Didn't see much tenpai as expected
I’ve made some success, luckily haven’t met up against a Tenpai deck, but I’m fixing to just play my Centeurion Virtual World. It is the best deck, yes. But I would like to mix things up then go purely into a deck. Even tested it and it is pretty fun. Can easily go from 6-12 filling out the 7 and 8 levels slots just in case.
My issue with this event is that its a "pick your favorite mechanic and have fun!.... except we've narrowed the choices for you and from the ones available some are way better than others,.....but have fun!"
I know there are alot of fusion and link decks, but lets be real, not many are as consistent as tenpai right now, what are you gonna do when your 1 aluber gets impermed or veiled to search your 1 copy of braded fusion, that will also be ashed? the loaners are kinda awful and it doesnt even encourage anyone to play a different deck if theyre just going to keep losing against the same 2 top tier decks
You can't even recover that branded fusion because they banned the counter trap that recycles it so you can't even send it to grave and recover it if you wanna try to make any plays.
And on the links side they banned every single rescue ace card....
Seriously fuck this event 😂
I like this events because generally the power level is lowen and I get to play my bad decks, but how I am supposed to do that when every 2 duels is against Tenpai?
I played striker and ran threatening roar and book of eclipse cuz it’s like 80 percent tenpai
im literaly in the Synchro group atm on Centur-ion and ive ONLY played against Tenpai so far. only played like 4 duels so far though since the bonus quests arent out, so as usual for me theres no point in trying to complete the event when i literaly cant complete it yet.
I ran through the event with Altergeists and fusion decks were a myth to me.
I only faced synchro decks. Sorry I only faced Centur-ion and Tenpai.
I was shocked one time seeing a Mannadium synchro deck 😂.
It's hilarious how much of that Synchro column is just either Tenpai or people afraid of facing off against Tenpai who are probably on some "go first" Synchro nonsense(yeah Centur-Ion is fine, but it STILL heavily favors going first). At least Terahertz Turbo doesn't care about that nonsense.
Haven’t tried playing the event yet. Might just main 3x trap trick and 3x dimensional barrier for good measure.
Not d barrier since that's banned but you can probably use other things to live a turn.
@@TheShapestofSnatches oh I didn’t look at the event banlist. I have a deck that doesn’t need the extra, and that normally runs banquet of millions. But I know for a fact that they ban that one all the time. Hmm… maybe I’ll just have to floodgate some other way.
Is say best Anti Tenpai teck is Quaking mirror force flip them bitches face-down and let them chill in timeout. My one match he had a full board all 6 monsters got flipped then end of the battle phase Evenly Matched banishing 7 cards facedown. He immediately rage quit lol😂 I was aww your +4 disruption board didn't help you? What happened 😉.
While I do agree with you, it is really weird for somebody to unironically be whining about "non-games" while playing Naturia.
That being said, if the entire event is flooded with Tenpai and Centurion players, then that also means that all you need to do for easy farm is to build specifically against those two.
You didn't pick up a hint of irony in my tone?
The funny part is both of the decks have different builds, one wanting to go first and the other wanting to go second, yes if you expected to fight against specific meta games you can build around but tenpai and centurion are 2 decks that don't have the same answer.
Also weird that hit branded so hard, but I feels like synchro builds were able to full combo through almost anything
I've just been playing Swordsoul honestly. Not being matched up against Tenpai is just an added bonus lmao
I PROMISE you, a fully optimized Thunder Dragon deck COOKS Tenpai
ive been doing my link points with cyberse firewall pile. ive personally only seen 2 tenpai in about 15 games. ive seen runicks, chimera, branded, swordsoul, and one brave ghoti duelist
i will confirm i have been playing synchro just so I don't have to fight tenpai
I really wish theyd just make cool events... it really seems theyre afraid of doing anything thats not "uhhh youre locked into one/a few types or summoning mechanics!"
theres the duel trials but those only last 3 days
what makes this event worse is replacing the xyz group with link group with those restrictions on link decks. snake-eyes is basically dead but the cards are banned regardless, no surprise about the mathmech restrictions too. and you'd think that making both the sangen spells to 1 would change anything but its pointless since all the dragons are unlimited and they happen to be good searchers themselves. if the xyz cards were allowed instead of link then maybe this could have been more interactive, as the xyz related cards can thrive more in such environment. the only upside here is that you can make a deck that is specifically designed for tenpai and get the win, surprisingly there are a good number of battle related cards allowed/ tech cards and lord of the heavenly prison is unlimited sooo you can still play the event...
Xyz would have also made more sense because Goblin Bikers is in the new pack. Also xyz can work decently well being mono locked
Idk why but MD wants me to play Tenpai. I’m opening the new pack so I can get ritual beasts and all of my URs besides one were Tenpai cards.
Konami is basically saying "hey you want to play this game? build this new deck. Oh you don't have the gems we will take your money to TRY and build it." this is ridiculous. Also I had a friend go 22-3 with ice barriers
Tbh i was gonna try mythical beast fusion, and twin/spright link, but idk anymore maybe i should just use tenpai and become evil myself…
The problem is they murdered almost all tenpai killers. Lab, paleo got neutered. One bad day (deserved ly) was thrown into oblivion.
Like the only deck that kills tenpai reliably going first is Ice Barrier….the deck whose lore is literally to put dragons on ice
Stun is bad against Tenpai since they use lightning storm, HFD, and imperm or droplet can negate the normal summoned floodgate monster.
I finished the fusion missions using dinomorphia.
I had to add dark bribes, iron thunders, heavenly prisons and soul of the supreme kings for all the tenpai removal.
I ran extra Alerts too and they came in handy several times.
I'm working on the link side now using reversal quiz otk.
Almost everyone is using centurion and the few that aren't are on tenpai.
Worst Duel Doritos event yet.
I mean the best loaner deck in the event is the Centurion deck so a lot of people are playing with it, myself included when I change groups, and of course Tenpei just came out as well. For a FTP like me to play a half decent deck of my own I had to turn my Dino deck into a "Blind Second" Link deck which has mostly filler cards in the extra deck.
I went Link with Ragnaraika Bugs, and had to add 3 Roars and 3 Mirror Forces just because i was getting a Tenpai every couple of games, it killed my consistency, but at least i can play the game
Meanwhile I'm just playing yosenju go second, went in synchro group to dodge tenpai (mostly because I need to go second) and I'm peacefully winning
I noticed this too. I played i makeshift yubel since it got nerfed to oblivion. But i settled on yubel chimera danger with just the chimera fusion for guardian chimera and danger to help draw into yubel cards. Its ridiculous to play second and face sword soul, centurion ssh, or go first into tenpai. i got wins into all the synchro loaner decks and into my one link valmonica match
I initially tried ducking Tenpai by playing Superheavy Samurai Swordsoul, but I kept getting my teeth kicked in. In a fit of desperation to try and get some enjoyment from the event I pivoted to Link Team with Vanquish Soul. Shockingly I started doing better than anything before. Turns out Snow Devil is a very centralizing card against Tenpai by giving my dudes immunity to the most common board wipes.
So far after 20 games 10 with Centur-ion, 5 with swordsoul and 5 with sky strikers during the sky striker duels I got matched against 2 synchro and 3 fusion, haven’t faced a single link deck yet in 15 matches using synchro deck.
Synchro Summons are just all over the place. I've seen the Loaners, but also Tenpai Dragon, Yusei, and above all, Centur-Ion variants. One with Horus, the others with Bystial. It's basically a Negate competition.
I have 2500 points for the Link team as salamangreat and i have played once against a branded fusion deck. Everything else was either Tenpai or Cent-urion.
Btw, the deck has a very decent match up against Tenpai since there is no Max C. It can play through handtraps, doesn't care about droplet and is resilient to board wipes. Also a 5600 Pyro Phoenix is difficult to out.
They banned my lair of darkness. My virus cards. My ring of destruction for fang of critias. Then they hit my umi control. Like all my decks i invested in gutted. So much for my fun
Cant you use mirror force dragon?
@vergillives9890 having 3 options for Fang is way better than 2 and destruction dragon is spot removal. Makes a lot of difference. Fang of Critias paired with Lair of Darkness is also just really good. Without it I'm basically just heart og the carding everything without a viable way to have an engine.
Should've made it Fusion, XYZ, and Link. Having Synchro when Tenpai literally just released was a bad idea.
I've learned I clearly just need to get better. 10 games out of 12 so far where I died to an ftk before even getting a turn. Should have just been better and drew more outs.
20 matches in the event so far. 15 were against tenpai, 3 against centurion and 2 against ice barriers. I'm in the fusion team and I haven't faced any link deck, and I doubt I will anytime soon (won't even see another fusion that's for sure). The only actually interactive matches from these 20 duels were the ice barriers ones. Non Synchro just can't compete with the tools synchros have in this event. I'll just start using my dinomorphia deck for floodgating them and hoping they won't have the outs.
One of the worst - if not the worst - event experience of the game and I played since day 1.
The worse part is that if they don't do anything to tenpai fast it won't be just this event that is insufferable, but the next duelist cup as well.
I'm currently playing Spyral (lol) and Scareklaw decks. Played almost 20 duels total and all I've played against so far are Synchro decks, with 90% of them being Tenpai. The non-engine in Tenpai is... yeah. I don't think I'm going to continue playing this event 😂
It probably shouldn’t get annoy me this much but it infuriates me how hard branded is hit this event while tenpai is allowed to run almost full power. They literally banned retribution to make pure branded almost impossible to run. And I don’t even think it being playable in other decks is a problem because fusion decks can’t run verte. And if the locks are a problem then just ban sanctifire for this event. Literally makes no sense.
For fusion you can go branded and give the a lock with d/d/d monsters with links there is so much more like making arrival @ ignister or full combo since circular is not banned once they run into such matchups they scoop
Circular is at one and unless using Micro coder or draw Small world, you can't search it since Alembertian isn't available
You have to be a main Mathmech to dedicate a list to it, and at that point better play Synchro variant
@@Jyxero it wont matter because you can cynet and smallworld add on thrust nah you underrating it
It's a great time to play mid Synchro decks.
Unfortunately a lot of the decks that do the best into Tenpai have been hit or rely on multiple summoning mechanics, but at least things like Dinomorphia and Terahertz piles kinda stand a chance.
Heck even many mid synchro decks got hit (swordsoul have no access to protos and cannot link)
I won 22 out of 31 games playing with the mandimum loaner deck.
Tenpai is a cool deck being able to play so many hand traps and to still be able to otk with 1 normal summon
Code talker firewall deck completely destroys Tenpai, both going 1st or 2nd.
Im having more success playing my centurion than tenpai. The way they limited it gives you dead hands pretty often if your opponent has 2 interrupts.