I started SS because master duel was showering me with high rarity cards so I begrudgingly looked up a list and gave it a shot. Quickly became one of my absolute favorite decks its a ton of fun and very straightforward, but the more you play it the more additional lines of play you begin to see and it can get quite intricate. Congrats!
See, this is what I love about your videos. They're so well laid out, really well paced, and you really dig into the 'why', and your combo demos are really thorough and easy to digest. This kind of content is what is really keeping people interested and is helping the player base improved, me included. I'm definitely a better SS player from watching your videos.
Glad to see someone else is playing destrudo rn. I've been playing it a lot in my punk kashtira bystial deck lately because since all of the little punks are 3's it gives you another easy way to access punisher using a level 4 destrudo + a kashtira as materials. It's also cool because you can do stuff where you can go like destrudo eff target deer note, make destrudo a 2 and go into a 9 using kashtira's, or a 7 if you wish using the deer note. Gives you some extra utility options which always a plus.
@@ThePinkishObject baldrake won't be hit at the same time And and until then everything is hit and we can play the deck nearly normally again probably So I see a future for the deck It's just not that bright in phhy
Your list is so cool and well thought out. I've personally tried to play a more pure list, since I would like to make this deck IRL eventually and can't afford Bystials, and decided to go 3 Dragon Circle and 2 Chunjun. I think they're incredible cards for the deck since basically every deck this format targets, it allows you to dodge targeting effects really effectively which also means you can resolve important effects by removing boss cards from field. Not only does Circle give a lot of follow up, but Chunjun is so useful going second since he banishes on synchro summon, and can trigger Chengying right away for a triple banish on the opponent. His battle effect is also a nice niche way to clear a boss monster before they can further interrupt your plays. While I love the way you've built the deck, I also think that building the deck around dodging targeted effects is a really valid strategy. It's won me so many games vs hand traps or other meta decks.
Very clean take on the deck. I like the reasoning and will be trying out dharc this weekend with the Bystials; I got Bagooska’d at locals tonight and lost because it shut down my turn. So knowing druiswurm into dharc clears it is actually sweet 🎉
Broooo im so damn glad you keeping this deck alive. Not only swords are my favorite deck but also synchro is my favorite summon method and the artworks are just lit!! Selene is a awesome tech choice definitely will try it! How did you feel playing imperm instead of droplets? I feel like sometimes you have a hard time outing something in the Elf zones Big thanks Pak 🙏🏻
Thanks for these Swordsoul vids man. I really appreciate you explaining your thought process for different scenarios/matchups. I recently learned how to play and will now pick this deck up. Seems fun and like their artwork
Way to go Pak, glad to see some swordsoul representation. I love the deck and would've taken it to that regional but I felt like crap that weekend so I didn't attend. Also way to go, keep up the great work
Using Kelbek on longyuan isen't even the best time to activate it , summonig the baronne should go through because you will be activating kelbek on the next summon like the MOJE or Taia Token/xixao since if kelbek goes to grave because baronne negated it,kelbek will trigger the mill 5, and you will lose the monster anyway so you lose the negate and 1 monster .
Yo Pak what do you think of Evenly Matched this format? It still seems like such a blow-out card in the right circumstances, but like Imperm it feels like it contradicts with Bystials.
In the combo u talked about with destrudo vish long and mo, you could have ss destr targeting mo to make him lv3 insted of 1, and made an early synchro 10. This way u wend with both synchro 10 + chixiao
Dark ruler is better overall as you don't lose to a toad. It's not always going to be a hand where you can bait toad then follow up with raigeki and them taking it means you can't really put up a board.
0:35 - I'd like to say that it doesn't particularly matter how "good" or "bad" a decklist is. In fact, I think the whole term is hilariously wrong, as at the end of the day it doesn't matter how great your proportions are between the cards, which one-offs you put in, etc. if you don't draw to them when you need them. What really matters is what you drew for a starting hand and what your opponent drew, relative to which is going second and which is going first. You can go first with an absolutely crazy combo hand, but your opponent has imperm, psyframe, and Bish (Ash Blossom) which makes your Mo Ye, Longyan, and Ashuna completely useless. Assuming you had another Tenyi in hand, that would result in an end-board that is Mo Ye, Monk and whatever was the fifth card. At a level where misplays really aren't all that prevalent since players know the chokepoints of other decks and all the key plays, the duels are won and lost before they start, simply based on the starting hands, and that potential top deck when going second. Also to add on a bit of a different note, watched your 20-win streak with Swordsoul in the duelist cup and I noticed you didn't have White Aura Whale in your extra deck, meaning that if you managed to go up against a Cook deck, you'd lose the moment Cook hits the field as you'd have no outs to it. However, in every other situation that doesn't include an unaffected monster that can't be destroyed by battle in defense position, your decklist would've been better. The bottom line is, unless you have Millenium Puzzle and Eye to be able to cheat out the correct cards on the draw according to what your opponent has, the decklist matters extremely little as it doesn't matter what you have in the deck if you don't draw into it when you need it.
The point of good deckbuilding is balancing percentages and accessibility so that you reduce the amount of times you don't see what you want. Using your example of hands, seeing ash+imperm+gamma is a 2.31% chance, basically a 1/50 hands. Meanwhile, with searchers, you will see Mo Long Ashuna far more often, about 10.48% chance, aka 1/10 hands. His proportions let him see his best hand roughly 5x more often than the best hand to stop it. You also seem to misunderstand misplaying. It's not just making a bad play, it can also be about not making the best play. Say I ash a pot of desires, but your hand really needed Emergence to resolve. With the info I have, ashing desires is always a correct move, as I trade 1 for 1 and prevent you drawing 2, however in the grand scheme of the duel, you now no longer have to worry about other searchers being stopped, and I couldn't know you had Emergence when I ashed. This means there is plenty of variance and skill expression if players can properly read where the best place to interrupt is, even in decks with clear chokepoints. It's like saying in poker the game is over before it started since I got dealt a better hand, ignoring that bluffs and reads are a major factor in high level play. Finally, the Cook point doesn't mean anything, as the nature of having many diverse playable decks means one of the first decisions in deckbuilding is "what kind of decks do I expect to play against". If I expect to see backrow decks 80% of the time, I will use the flex spots in my deck for cyclones and twisters. If Tearlament is 90% of representation, you may play 7-9 Bystials as they are the best handtrap against them. Importantly, that comes at the cost of knowing if you run into Floo, those cards are dead. It's a known risk, because if you instead try to have 1 card for every possible deck you may ever face, you inherently reduce the odds of seeing the right combo of cards at the right times. It is absolutely correct to not prepare a card for Cook if you see it less than 1% of the time, when you could instead slot in something that will have far more common use. TLDR; you don't seem to understand the numbers game side of yugioh.
@@bofoshow5189 Ahh yes, trying to use numbers to back up the randomness of drawing... aka the most pointless thing in the entire universe. It doesn't matter what the odds are when they don't happen when you need them or they happen when you don't want them to happen. Also you miscounted (oh the irony), it's not just Mo Ye, Longyan and Ashuna. You also need a discard for Longyan, otherwise Ashuna would be dead in the graveyard so the field would be only Mo Ye. And no, I don't misunderstand misplays. I know it's not just about bad plays, but stopping the correct thing. With your Desires example, I would never ash it, because it doesn't matter if they draw 2 if none of those draws gives them what they need at that moment, meanwhile stopping a search prevents them from getting what they need. Card advantage means nothing if they can't use the cards in their hand. Not to mention Desires banishing 10 can screw them over more easily than it will help anyway. The amount of times I banished all my Taia's or Mo Ye or Longyan's when they were the card I needed, ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. And you can shove those numbers of how likely it is to happen up a certain place, because they don't apply to real life. It happens more often than the numbers would suggest and it tends to happen in the worst moments as well, not when you can deal with that issue. Also bluffing in Poker is part of the game, bluffing in YGO is not allowed as it misrepresents the state of the game, nice hole in your feet btw. Also the Cook point was in relation to Master Duel, not TCG in case it wasn't obvious from the "20 win streak in duelist cup". Best of 1. There that one bloody deck can screw you over and you have to be prepared for such one-offs as you can't side deck. Not even have a second chance at it. TL;DR; You seem to not realize that numbers are only a mathematical representation of the odds, not what actually happens and most importantly WHEN it happens.
@@Ryu_Makkurowhat’s your point then? “Oh I only care about what happens in real life not the odds of it happening”? Go play exodia and talk about being the best duelist ever the one game out of 100 you resolve him. Every game with any amount of chance component has times when you are just unlucky, skill and deck building value come from how you mitigate bad luck and capitalize on good luck. Also all I did worth the hands is talk about the odds of opening the exact conditions YOU said, if anyone miscounted then it’s you in the setup example. Bluffing in yugioh is complicated. Obviously bluffing in the sense of “I don’t have handtraps go ahead” and then handtrapping isn’t allowed, but bluffing 100% exists. For example, setting a spell that does nothing to bluff a trap is allowed and happens all the time, now you’ve baited a pop effect on something worthless. Judges have confirmed that counting summons out loud is legal since it’s tracking the gamestate, yet that also bluffs having Nibiru. Going “enter battle phase” to bluff having evenly matched to force your opponent to use effects happens too and legal. Nice hole in your feet. I don’t even know why I’m engaging you though, after the desires comment that should be all I need to know you genuinely don’t understand the game. I bet you think desires is a -10 instead of a +1. I encourage you to find some resources to actually explain and understand the game and card game strategy concepts if you want to make bold claims like this.
@@bofoshow5189 I think I made it very obvious with my original comment. Doesn't matter how great your proportions are. Starting hand is what matters. You can have the best hand possible and still lose because your opponent drew into such a hand that they can stop every move you do, regardless of the baits. Or they can simply let you play and then just "Lightning Storm, chain Forbidden Droplet send Lightning Storm" and your board goes bye-bye. "if anyone miscounted then it’s you in the setup example." "Mo Ye, Longyan, and Ashuna completely useless. Assuming you had another Tenyi in hand, that would result in an end-board that is Mo Ye, Monk and whatever was the fifth card." Thanks for confirming you don't even bother to read what I wrote, alternatively can't read. Pick whichever applies. Set card being a spell or a trap isn't even a bluff. Sure you can try and bait with some dead spells/traps into thinking you've set an Imperm, Called by or Blackout, or whatever your deck runs, but ultimately if someone needs to get rid of any potential backrow that could stop them, they would do so anyway as it would stop them entirely. If they can't take out the backrow, then they hope it is a bait. At the end... comes down to starting hand. The real bait is thinking that it's a bait when at the end of the day if you can clear the backrow before making plays, you will do so as there's no point in to trying risk your plays being disrupted. And if you can't... well, you don't obviously. Anyone falling for counting the summons as having Nib in hand has to have a negative IQ. If they have Nib, you're gonna get it, if not, you won't. The only time it matters is when you have a hand that can bring out a non-targettable monster or an omni negate on the field within those 5 summons. Which brings us back to the "only starting hand matters". I would give you the "Evenly Match" bluff if most cards had the restriction to Main Phase, but almost every Spell Speed 2 can be used at the start of Battle Phase, which is where you can make plays more safely (since no danger of taking OTK into the face anymore) before they can deploy Evenly Matched. And this also implies they don't have a negate for a trap and can remove most of their field to the graveyard, because otherwise why even bother using those effects when their results will be banished face down anyway? Didn't notice you had two holes in your feet. Desires is a +1, although that terminology completely misses the fact you're getting two cards that can or can't do anything in a given situation. So the card is mathematically a +1... but realistically you have no guarantees that you'll be able to use those two new cards. With a search however you do know what you get. Also Desires into Desires is not exactly uncommon. You seem to be too focused on the maths and "card advantage" side of things, that you keep forgetting that fairly often, you need one specific card not many others. Especially on the first turn, search is WAY more valuable than a +1 since that guarantees you plays. Search in a simplified state... more complicated. You may not even have a search target, to begin with and you may not have a hand that can make use of those that can be searchable, so in that situation, +1 will be more valuable. But still no guarantees. That said you can still do desires into two desires or TTT into two TTT and just flip the table there and then because the universe hates you. Lastly, just because I don't follow the same thought process most YGO players do, doesn't make me wrong or that I don't understand things about it. Unlike your Poker example, where starting hand doesn't really matter due to the bluff nature of it, in YGO you can only do things that the cards you have allow you to. So there's a very limited amount of options they have regardless of their skill. I'm fairly sure that from a certain level, players could literally just show their starting hands, and based only on that they could tell with very high accuracy which one would win, potential draws and mills included. You'll probably think I'm full of shit but that only shows that you don't want to open your viewpoint to more than just "maths".
@@Ryu_Makkuro riddle me this then. If starting hand is all that matters, why are there consistently topping players? If tommy 10 year old and Pak are playing with the same deck card for card, is it completely random who will win, based on their hands? Or, is there skill and understanding that influences games? Can a good player make a better outcome with a bad hand than a lesser player, or do you think everyone that gets into tournament top cuts only had fantastic hands all day long?
What ego???? Bro is just explaining why he did well and what got him there. And if u think he is bragging then he has the right to he is better than like 99% of the yugioh playerbase
I started SS because master duel was showering me with high rarity cards so I begrudgingly looked up a list and gave it a shot. Quickly became one of my absolute favorite decks its a ton of fun and very straightforward, but the more you play it the more additional lines of play you begin to see and it can get quite intricate. Congrats!
See, this is what I love about your videos. They're so well laid out, really well paced, and you really dig into the 'why', and your combo demos are really thorough and easy to digest.
This kind of content is what is really keeping people interested and is helping the player base improved, me included. I'm definitely a better SS player from watching your videos.
Glad to see someone else is playing destrudo rn. I've been playing it a lot in my punk kashtira bystial deck lately because since all of the little punks are 3's it gives you another easy way to access punisher using a level 4 destrudo + a kashtira as materials. It's also cool because you can do stuff where you can go like destrudo eff target deer note, make destrudo a 2 and go into a 9 using kashtira's, or a 7 if you wish using the deer note. Gives you some extra utility options which always a plus.
Pak single handedly keeping the deck alive after both OCG and TCG abandoned it 😂
Probably has stacks of mo ye
i never dropped this deck, i just love it
Until bystials get hit, then it's gotta get dropped again
@@ThePinkishObject baldrake won't be hit at the same time
And and until then everything is hit and we can play the deck nearly normally again probably
So I see a future for the deck
It's just not that bright in phhy
2 people top 32 ycs Sydney with it
Your list is so cool and well thought out. I've personally tried to play a more pure list, since I would like to make this deck IRL eventually and can't afford Bystials, and decided to go 3 Dragon Circle and 2 Chunjun. I think they're incredible cards for the deck since basically every deck this format targets, it allows you to dodge targeting effects really effectively which also means you can resolve important effects by removing boss cards from field. Not only does Circle give a lot of follow up, but Chunjun is so useful going second since he banishes on synchro summon, and can trigger Chengying right away for a triple banish on the opponent. His battle effect is also a nice niche way to clear a boss monster before they can further interrupt your plays. While I love the way you've built the deck, I also think that building the deck around dodging targeted effects is a really valid strategy. It's won me so many games vs hand traps or other meta decks.
Yo my man, I love swordsoul. Just picked it up because of you. Its nice to see that you do good with it.
Very clean take on the deck. I like the reasoning and will be trying out dharc this weekend with the Bystials; I got Bagooska’d at locals tonight and lost because it shut down my turn. So knowing druiswurm into dharc clears it is actually sweet 🎉
I saw so much Swordsoul at the Iowa regional last weekend. I'm convinced it's Pak's fault lol.
It is lol just bc of the past few profiles he’s thrown out I’ve put nib back in my main and watch ss players overextend like crazy
Broooo im so damn glad you keeping this deck alive. Not only swords are my favorite deck but also synchro is my favorite summon method and the artworks are just lit!! Selene is a awesome tech choice definitely will try it! How did you feel playing imperm instead of droplets? I feel like sometimes you have a hard time outing something in the Elf zones
Big thanks Pak 🙏🏻
Thanks for these Swordsoul vids man. I really appreciate you explaining your thought process for different scenarios/matchups. I recently learned how to play and will now pick this deck up. Seems fun and like their artwork
This list looks so clean. Love the content man keep doing what you're doing.
Way to go Pak, glad to see some swordsoul representation. I love the deck and would've taken it to that regional but I felt like crap that weekend so I didn't attend. Also way to go, keep up the great work
This was super helpful I hope you do more swordoul content for this format!
How often did you banish the 1 Vishuda off of the desires? That seems kinda bad if that happens. But I’m not a SS player.
TOKENS, where in the effing eff did you get them?! Someone, ANYONE, please direct us to this sorely needed accoutrement!! 😫
Loved the video! Can't wait for the new deck profile on PHHY meta!
Still rocking the deck since July. Love to see the sword soul content
Recently got back into Yugioh on master duel and love Swordsoul your videos are awesome keep it up brody
PAK is the nuts... bro I am very grateful for your content. So sick how you took this AGAIN bc 99.9 percent of people would abandon it.
Pak the master ! Love the walkthrough of the lines. Always learning something new.
Using Kelbek on longyuan isen't even the best time to activate it , summonig the baronne should go through because you will be activating kelbek on the next summon like the MOJE or Taia Token/xixao since if kelbek goes to grave because baronne negated it,kelbek will trigger the mill 5, and you will lose the monster anyway so you lose the negate and 1 monster .
Where can I get those swordsoul tokens ?
So clean list, congratz! Would you replace saronir with baldrake after they come out?
where did you buy the tokens?
Where did you get that Mo Ye Token?? 👀
Where did you get the tokens? They look great!
This deck is Hell flames. Good job
Wow. This is so cool. 11th place with swordsoul.
Good stuff man, you are truly a great player and am thankful for your content to help learn this game. Also where you get those tokens at?
Anyone got a link to the tokens
Yo Pak what do you think of Evenly Matched this format? It still seems like such a blow-out card in the right circumstances, but like Imperm it feels like it contradicts with Bystials.
In the combo u talked about with destrudo vish long and mo, you could have ss destr targeting mo to make him lv3 insted of 1, and made an early synchro 10. This way u wend with both synchro 10 + chixiao
Where’d you get those tokens from 😩
real talk tho.. how much for those damn tokens? Looking absolutely gorgeous. Keep up the sick content!
Super dope decklist. Congratulations! Good job!
Thanks for the guu! Swordsoul is my comfy deck
Got 12th at des moines regional last weekend finishing x2 after 8, good job
great list! what sleeves are those?
Bro I NEED those tokens. Where can I find them?
where can i get/make so nice tokens ?
I want to get some of those tokens. Where did your friend get them?
What your thoughts on triple tactic in the main?
Really good
New gu cast when?
fire deck, what are your thoughts on droplets in the main?
Still really good
you’re my inspiration for playing sword soul in master duel
yo did u not banish vishuda often with pot ? and then ure REALLY missing power to break a board
Opinion on droplet, cbtg or a 2nd blackout
Damn those lines against kelbek are cool
Do u like this list better than last list u posted for swordsoul
Sword soul is still very good..
I like it very much 🔥👍
Greatest swordsoul player in the world
Hey Pak✌🏻what was your matches in the regional?
omg im the swordsoul mirror match you faced round 2
selene to ecclesia tech is spicy
would you say this deck is still viable without bystials? talking more about locals rather than big tournaments
Depends on what they're using at your local but might be
Yes, but play heavenly circle.
SWORDSOUL BEST DECK LETS GOOO
Im not surprised! Why only just 11th?!
It’s a full power deck that can OTK still and set up interruptions. take Tear out of the format and it’s a strong contender
What happened to the 5 raigeki side 👀
Dark ruler is better overall as you don't lose to a toad. It's not always going to be a hand where you can bait toad then follow up with raigeki and them taking it means you can't really put up a board.
Long live swordsoul
0:35 - I'd like to say that it doesn't particularly matter how "good" or "bad" a decklist is. In fact, I think the whole term is hilariously wrong, as at the end of the day it doesn't matter how great your proportions are between the cards, which one-offs you put in, etc. if you don't draw to them when you need them.
What really matters is what you drew for a starting hand and what your opponent drew, relative to which is going second and which is going first. You can go first with an absolutely crazy combo hand, but your opponent has imperm, psyframe, and Bish (Ash Blossom) which makes your Mo Ye, Longyan, and Ashuna completely useless. Assuming you had another Tenyi in hand, that would result in an end-board that is Mo Ye, Monk and whatever was the fifth card.
At a level where misplays really aren't all that prevalent since players know the chokepoints of other decks and all the key plays, the duels are won and lost before they start, simply based on the starting hands, and that potential top deck when going second.
Also to add on a bit of a different note, watched your 20-win streak with Swordsoul in the duelist cup and I noticed you didn't have White Aura Whale in your extra deck, meaning that if you managed to go up against a Cook deck, you'd lose the moment Cook hits the field as you'd have no outs to it. However, in every other situation that doesn't include an unaffected monster that can't be destroyed by battle in defense position, your decklist would've been better.
The bottom line is, unless you have Millenium Puzzle and Eye to be able to cheat out the correct cards on the draw according to what your opponent has, the decklist matters extremely little as it doesn't matter what you have in the deck if you don't draw into it when you need it.
The point of good deckbuilding is balancing percentages and accessibility so that you reduce the amount of times you don't see what you want. Using your example of hands, seeing ash+imperm+gamma is a 2.31% chance, basically a 1/50 hands. Meanwhile, with searchers, you will see Mo Long Ashuna far more often, about 10.48% chance, aka 1/10 hands. His proportions let him see his best hand roughly 5x more often than the best hand to stop it.
You also seem to misunderstand misplaying. It's not just making a bad play, it can also be about not making the best play. Say I ash a pot of desires, but your hand really needed Emergence to resolve. With the info I have, ashing desires is always a correct move, as I trade 1 for 1 and prevent you drawing 2, however in the grand scheme of the duel, you now no longer have to worry about other searchers being stopped, and I couldn't know you had Emergence when I ashed. This means there is plenty of variance and skill expression if players can properly read where the best place to interrupt is, even in decks with clear chokepoints. It's like saying in poker the game is over before it started since I got dealt a better hand, ignoring that bluffs and reads are a major factor in high level play.
Finally, the Cook point doesn't mean anything, as the nature of having many diverse playable decks means one of the first decisions in deckbuilding is "what kind of decks do I expect to play against". If I expect to see backrow decks 80% of the time, I will use the flex spots in my deck for cyclones and twisters. If Tearlament is 90% of representation, you may play 7-9 Bystials as they are the best handtrap against them. Importantly, that comes at the cost of knowing if you run into Floo, those cards are dead. It's a known risk, because if you instead try to have 1 card for every possible deck you may ever face, you inherently reduce the odds of seeing the right combo of cards at the right times. It is absolutely correct to not prepare a card for Cook if you see it less than 1% of the time, when you could instead slot in something that will have far more common use.
TLDR; you don't seem to understand the numbers game side of yugioh.
@@bofoshow5189 Ahh yes, trying to use numbers to back up the randomness of drawing... aka the most pointless thing in the entire universe.
It doesn't matter what the odds are when they don't happen when you need them or they happen when you don't want them to happen. Also you miscounted (oh the irony), it's not just Mo Ye, Longyan and Ashuna. You also need a discard for Longyan, otherwise Ashuna would be dead in the graveyard so the field would be only Mo Ye.
And no, I don't misunderstand misplays. I know it's not just about bad plays, but stopping the correct thing. With your Desires example, I would never ash it, because it doesn't matter if they draw 2 if none of those draws gives them what they need at that moment, meanwhile stopping a search prevents them from getting what they need. Card advantage means nothing if they can't use the cards in their hand. Not to mention Desires banishing 10 can screw them over more easily than it will help anyway. The amount of times I banished all my Taia's or Mo Ye or Longyan's when they were the card I needed, ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. And you can shove those numbers of how likely it is to happen up a certain place, because they don't apply to real life. It happens more often than the numbers would suggest and it tends to happen in the worst moments as well, not when you can deal with that issue. Also bluffing in Poker is part of the game, bluffing in YGO is not allowed as it misrepresents the state of the game, nice hole in your feet btw.
Also the Cook point was in relation to Master Duel, not TCG in case it wasn't obvious from the "20 win streak in duelist cup". Best of 1. There that one bloody deck can screw you over and you have to be prepared for such one-offs as you can't side deck. Not even have a second chance at it.
TL;DR; You seem to not realize that numbers are only a mathematical representation of the odds, not what actually happens and most importantly WHEN it happens.
@@Ryu_Makkurowhat’s your point then? “Oh I only care about what happens in real life not the odds of it happening”? Go play exodia and talk about being the best duelist ever the one game out of 100 you resolve him. Every game with any amount of chance component has times when you are just unlucky, skill and deck building value come from how you mitigate bad luck and capitalize on good luck.
Also all I did worth the hands is talk about the odds of opening the exact conditions YOU said, if anyone miscounted then it’s you in the setup example.
Bluffing in yugioh is complicated. Obviously bluffing in the sense of “I don’t have handtraps go ahead” and then handtrapping isn’t allowed, but bluffing 100% exists. For example, setting a spell that does nothing to bluff a trap is allowed and happens all the time, now you’ve baited a pop effect on something worthless. Judges have confirmed that counting summons out loud is legal since it’s tracking the gamestate, yet that also bluffs having Nibiru. Going “enter battle phase” to bluff having evenly matched to force your opponent to use effects happens too and legal. Nice hole in your feet.
I don’t even know why I’m engaging you though, after the desires comment that should be all I need to know you genuinely don’t understand the game. I bet you think desires is a -10 instead of a +1. I encourage you to find some resources to actually explain and understand the game and card game strategy concepts if you want to make bold claims like this.
@@bofoshow5189 I think I made it very obvious with my original comment. Doesn't matter how great your proportions are. Starting hand is what matters. You can have the best hand possible and still lose because your opponent drew into such a hand that they can stop every move you do, regardless of the baits. Or they can simply let you play and then just "Lightning Storm, chain Forbidden Droplet send Lightning Storm" and your board goes bye-bye.
"if anyone miscounted then it’s you in the setup example."
"Mo Ye, Longyan, and Ashuna completely useless. Assuming you had another Tenyi in hand, that would result in an end-board that is Mo Ye, Monk and whatever was the fifth card."
Thanks for confirming you don't even bother to read what I wrote, alternatively can't read. Pick whichever applies.
Set card being a spell or a trap isn't even a bluff. Sure you can try and bait with some dead spells/traps into thinking you've set an Imperm, Called by or Blackout, or whatever your deck runs, but ultimately if someone needs to get rid of any potential backrow that could stop them, they would do so anyway as it would stop them entirely. If they can't take out the backrow, then they hope it is a bait. At the end... comes down to starting hand. The real bait is thinking that it's a bait when at the end of the day if you can clear the backrow before making plays, you will do so as there's no point in to trying risk your plays being disrupted. And if you can't... well, you don't obviously.
Anyone falling for counting the summons as having Nib in hand has to have a negative IQ. If they have Nib, you're gonna get it, if not, you won't. The only time it matters is when you have a hand that can bring out a non-targettable monster or an omni negate on the field within those 5 summons. Which brings us back to the "only starting hand matters".
I would give you the "Evenly Match" bluff if most cards had the restriction to Main Phase, but almost every Spell Speed 2 can be used at the start of Battle Phase, which is where you can make plays more safely (since no danger of taking OTK into the face anymore) before they can deploy Evenly Matched. And this also implies they don't have a negate for a trap and can remove most of their field to the graveyard, because otherwise why even bother using those effects when their results will be banished face down anyway? Didn't notice you had two holes in your feet.
Desires is a +1, although that terminology completely misses the fact you're getting two cards that can or can't do anything in a given situation. So the card is mathematically a +1... but realistically you have no guarantees that you'll be able to use those two new cards. With a search however you do know what you get. Also Desires into Desires is not exactly uncommon.
You seem to be too focused on the maths and "card advantage" side of things, that you keep forgetting that fairly often, you need one specific card not many others. Especially on the first turn, search is WAY more valuable than a +1 since that guarantees you plays. Search in a simplified state... more complicated. You may not even have a search target, to begin with and you may not have a hand that can make use of those that can be searchable, so in that situation, +1 will be more valuable. But still no guarantees. That said you can still do desires into two desires or TTT into two TTT and just flip the table there and then because the universe hates you.
Lastly, just because I don't follow the same thought process most YGO players do, doesn't make me wrong or that I don't understand things about it. Unlike your Poker example, where starting hand doesn't really matter due to the bluff nature of it, in YGO you can only do things that the cards you have allow you to. So there's a very limited amount of options they have regardless of their skill. I'm fairly sure that from a certain level, players could literally just show their starting hands, and based only on that they could tell with very high accuracy which one would win, potential draws and mills included. You'll probably think I'm full of shit but that only shows that you don't want to open your viewpoint to more than just "maths".
@@Ryu_Makkuro riddle me this then. If starting hand is all that matters, why are there consistently topping players? If tommy 10 year old and Pak are playing with the same deck card for card, is it completely random who will win, based on their hands?
Or, is there skill and understanding that influences games? Can a good player make a better outcome with a bad hand than a lesser player, or do you think everyone that gets into tournament top cuts only had fantastic hands all day long?
Love the SwSo content! Can we see some games against tear if possible?
Respect Pak… Fkn respect
The guuuu swordsoul best deck
a lot of starlights cards
Pak can win against full tear board with one Taia in Hand lmao.
Why did you do this to all Flunder players who were happy to dont see this deck anymore :(
That’s Guu asf
Labrynth next deck
why does everyone always have to touch the cards 60,000x. absolutely disturbing.
Lmao I also got 11th place at a regio with almost the same exact list.
Sourdsoul? so pure skill i guess
i ordered sws cuz of u pak, thanks for giving me hype for the game back by keep pushing the swoswoswoswo propaganda into me
Top 8 or bust
NIce
cool
Based
dont count if youre not in the top 8
*TSX1 COOL VID THO
thanks for this lol.
who brags about this? like hey I didn't win but I did good enough to have a massive ego.
What ego???? Bro is just explaining why he did well and what got him there. And if u think he is bragging then he has the right to he is better than like 99% of the yugioh playerbase
Gr8 b8 m8 I r8 8/8
@@phoenix5095 99%? that's kind of pathetic of a perspective if your idea of best is that narrow.
11th with a non meta deck is pretty good.
@@DarkLawYGO wow expand your internet searching skills if you really think that is in any way decent