Ns air grab emergency, activate snake summon hydrant, hydrant eff grab preventer, summon linkuriboh then summon preventer banishing hydrant, then you can make SP with hydrant on board and emergency in hand to dodge imperm/veiler or use the linkuriboh and the preventer to make proxy f and use it plus the hydrant (off preventer) to summon mudragon. Both these lines play around imperm since you have turb in hand already. Second hand he could've linked off the hydrant for linkuriboh/anima, banished for preventer, summon either SP with hydrant or go for the aforementioned mudragon combo to leave preventer and hydrant in grave for the turb in hand. That was either a paid actor or someone literally just pressing buttons, no shot you pilot R-ACE that poorly.
I think Tistina is the prime example of a lack of Identity. You look at their cards, read them, and think the deck wants to go 2nd, but some of their cards don't promote that and the ones that do require too much setup alongside some of them not having synergy with each other very well. At least with decks like Ghoti, War Rock, and Myutant you knew what the decks wanted to do, but this one... I still scratch my head figuring that out.
To be fair, dont use the traps, apart from 1 Discordinence. Fallen and Returned are starters. Hounds and Sentinels are extenders - apart from Sentinel who is a starter if you have a fd card. and Demigod and Crystal God are the beatsticks.
it wants to go second, the trap disruption isn't particularly strong for going first anyway. With all the in archtype searching, you can play 1 or 2 of the situational traps to shut down your opponent if you can't otk, an event that is pretty likely since the deck's main beatsticks cap out at 2k. There are things that could have been done smoother, but the intended lines are pretty straight forward. even hound has a kind of place, securing the otk, if you have to deal with a monster that may float if simply removed from the field.
I would've just given them all the summon from GY ignition effect. A boneless soul charge archetype with cool boss monsters at least sounds fun to play. I would've also swapped the levels on the water and fire so I can turn it into another Diabellestar pile.
I don’t know what’s funnier; the fact that Joseph actually did a TmT on Tistina despite it being arguably the worst TCG exclusive archetype, or the fact that his only lose in the video was to Predaplant that opened Cobra
idk, U.A. after it's 2nd wave of support was pretty bad especially considering they limited rota i think the next banlist. people were trying to make it work with things like spell striker and reasoning and then reasoning also got limited lmao. "did i draw midfielder? no? okay i set one bluff spell and pass"
@@skarn- Dream mirror was made in the wrong era, I guarantee you if they made dream mirror now they would all trigger on normal or special as well as triggering on the effects of dream mirror monsters.
Tistina is unironically one of the best TCG exclusives we've gotten in years. Just a weird deck that people are having a hard time figuring out, but it mixes with good cards a lot better than basically every other TCG exclusive we've gotten in the last 4 years besides like.. Gold Pride exclusively
Was so weird to learn how unsupported the Aqua type is. There is a lot of support for WATER but very little that can help non WATER aquas Also annoying that they made the fire tistina level two when we have level 1 fire support through diabellstar. Would have been better if water was level 2 and fire level one - but probably didnt want too easy to make Toad?
What'd it take to get a tourney of all the TCG archetypes? What I'd give to watch sleepers like War Rock face-off against META tyrants like Tistina. Which deck is truly the greatest?! (But also Beetrooper, Plunder Patroll, Kozmo etc would actually be cool to watch face-off.)
@@GholdengoFan i hope someone plays U.A. and gets matched with all the B.A. players for the maximum hate. slugger just turns off the whole decks effs lmao
I applaud you for giving even a glance at this deck. Thank you for giving this deck it's 12 minutes and 1 second in the sun before it fades from memory entirely
A couple of months ago, i pulled Crystal God Tistina in an entry pack for the 3V3 YCS in São Paulo, and gave it to my teammate, who gave me 3 rare Salamangreat Sunlight Wolfs in return because he felt bad that i was giving him a secret rare for free and knew i would need them for Fire Kings. I dont even think i'll play it in Fire Kings, but regardless, i feel like i ripped him off with that trade
So I really like this archetype. Been tinkering since wave 1 first hit. Attempting a tistina deck mixed with a chaos max engine. Im not gonna win any tourneys, but I'm stubborn, and gonna have fun with my shiny rocks.
Im so happy that someone used this deck. I managed to snag a win against Tearlaments with Tistina, even after they made Winda on my turn. Seeing them lose their marbles was quite hilarious. Gotta love swarming the board with Hound, Demigod, and managing to get Crystal God out via Baatistina and just atk directly after Daruma Cannon them on legs.
As a lover of gemstone related archetypes like Gem Knights and Crystrons, I’ve now had to see the extremes of the last 2 archetypes of that theming being either absurdly strong that it actively lead to the rock typing itself being nerfed (RiP block dragon) and one being so…. Nothing. It ain’t easy being shiny I guess.
The deck technically has a one card combo if baatistina's bonus effect is live. sending sentinal, and summoning crystal god at the same time, immediately turns on sentinal, who can pop itself to get whatever you need. If you can get away with that you might as well search tainted of tistina tribute something you flipped with the crystal god to summon it as a level 10. and set up for the themed OTK. I think this might be the best way to play Tistina, a small otk package when you burn through other disruption. While I'm not certain it might be worthwhile to use ken and gen to put a monster on your opponents field that can be flipped face down.
Sentinal pops to search because it can pop itself, then reborn itself if you control a Light Tistina. That effect makes sense, even if it’s mildly gimmicky. Breath flips face down as searching any card for free would be ridiculously broken. In addition, it provides incentive for players to use the Light Tistinas so you can flip your opponents monsters and search, even if it’s not much. The field spell requiring face up cards also makes sense, as it’s supposed to be a “comeback” effect. Your opponent starts playing, and you’re a bit scared of their board? BOOM CRYSTAL GOD BITCH The XYZ should’ve been Crystal God on the field though.
There are a bunch of decks nowadays that just say add any card, directly or indirectly. Unchained got one, infernoble got one, purrely and tear have one sort of indirectly (w/ the black cat and foolish burial goods for sulliek or trivikarma)... It's just something that decks are allowed to have nowadays. The first interaction you describe is... just not minusing? How are you supposed to get out a light tistina before resolving sentinel? It would still be a comeback effect even if it worked on face-down - set 5 traps is scary ^^
Hey, do you know how the guys on Tumblr are continuing the Greek Mythology by creating new gods like God of the UwU, God of the Basement Dwellers or God of the Terminally Onlines? Yeah, apparently Tistina is one of them.
I did play a Tistina 8-Axis mash-up list two times at locals and was actually quite positively surprised by its performance (3-1 and 3-2). This is definitely not a meta deck by any stretch but I think it can fill the role of a rogue deck.
Ive been running the deck sense it was announced and ive found so many cool tips on it that will blow your mind, diabellister effect pitch a card, ss self search the sin to send herself to ss the Evoltile Megachirella, use effect tribute self discard and ss the evolsaur lios, use on summon effect to set Evo-Singularity, afterwords use effect to send your copy of misc from deck to gy, use effect of misc ss Animadorned from deck, use effect pop lios search pill, link into linkuriboh then into gravity controller. Use pill ss ultimate conductor (banish animadorned and kuriboh) from deck and go right into tistina combo with whats left in your hand. Then at DP use trap set by lios go into evolzar lars for 2 negates. Your field will be uct and 2 negates plus your tistinas. All this off of one diabellistar btw
I tried to play a Tistina/Kashtira go 2nd deck after the first wave. It could have done okay (the Kashtira were meant to bait most of the interraction, before going in for an OTK with the Tistina line which, yes, relied on the Hound). HOWEVER Where it fell apart was that to OTK, I needed my opponent to have 3 face-up cards. And. They. Never. Did. So now I'll try playing it using Black Garden to force them to have face-up tokens on their field during my setup. ... Once I'm done playing every other deck.
2:04 I use that effect of Breath of the Tistina along with the effect of the hound of Tistina to attack the opponent directly (If I have switched one of their monsters to face down defense).
I've been testing out Tistina the past couple days. It's really bad if you don't get into a combo, but if you do (say, playing with lower power decks, or pack something to help with that) it can potentially steal wins. That said, I don't think this is the correct build strategy for the deck. I run it as blind second, and use the concept MBT mentioned in the Watt video of just simplifying the board by running Kaijus. Usually if there is a problem monster that can't be flipped or sent, a kaiju will handle it, and then you can play against your kaiju. Running it as a going second deck eliminates a LOT of issues. You can flip it with whatever, then tribute it for the dark tistina, which is a level 10. You can usually go into the field spell running x3 +x3 of the searcher, so you have crystal god. The both of those are 8000 damage if you get to battle phase. Returned gets you to a level 10 as well, but only 4000 on its own. Dog lets you ignore any on destruction effects and just swing for game. In a pinch, use the trains to burn for 2k and swing for 6000. No idea why he's not playing the reborn as an extender. It folds very easily to non-destruction removal, but I think it at least plays better than this build which does a lot less.
This feels like an archetype that should've been an anime exclusive that never got printed and benefited from it looking a lot cooler when you get to plan everything that happens in a duel.
I tried tinkering with this deck by adding a Danger engine plus moray of avarice and supreme mare mare. Still thankful at least for the one extra deck monster they added but I've just been making masquerena anyway.
The attack over face down monsters would make some semblance of sense if it kept them face down permanently like floodgate trap hole, just because it could lock a monster with a grave/destruction effect out of the game for many decks
Attack directly does have some synergy with flipping opponent's face down because that way you can keep pressure without flipping them back... Except of course that, unlike Ninjas, this Deck doesn't flip permanently, so the obly benefit is maybe OTK with the Xyz... that nukes all face-down cards on Summon
The sad thing is that I've lost to this deck twice. In my defense, the first time I played against it, the deck was 40% Kashtera. I was also playing a plant deck I didn't understand in an attempt to gain experience with for the second time (a plant player later took pity on me and showed me how to do the combo).
If nothing else, I love the aesthetic of an unfathomable assimilating crystal god and everything relating to the archetype just being offshoot or cast by it essentially; like a budget ORT/Type Mercury. Playing ORT's themes over EDOPro duels made my patience for how.. obtuse the deck is to play go up vastly more.
I felt pain on so many levels with this archetype. I pulled both Crystal God Tistina and Xyz Tistina in my Duelist Nexus and Age of Overlord boxes and I have no plans on using either one.
I've faced against tistina paying with the full armored XYZ engine and that deck seems to do decent. They get to it through 2 sentinels or sometimes even through returned as well.
I hold to the belief that Tistina was designed by two different people/teams. When the first batch was released, the archetype had to be handed over to someone else who threw something together in a rush or were trying out their very first project. The support feels super disconnected from the first release, in effects, design philosophy and even the art.
I feel like when these TCG archetypes are basically pennies you might aa well buy a set because the OCG might just give them random busted bullshit. Not like it hasn't happened before. Also, while not a TCG exclusive archetype, Rescue Ace was just a quirky trap deck on release and it's now a top tier deck.
TCG Konami has little incentive to make a decent archetype since they're usually taking up some of the 20 extra slots added to a core set from OCG, most cards are common so they don't want players to have easily budgetable options. Dragon Ball Super has made several budget archetypes that are fairly playable or sets where you can get just about everything for a core and they'll support them through several sets.
I think the deck was purposely played wrong. As someone who did actually play with this deck as well, I feel like they should be seen more from a going second perspective- cards like Tainted of the Tistina (that you didn’t play) are great at further cracking boards you already stagger and quickly establishing lethal without the need of out-of-engine pieces like Liebe, especially with the first round of that R-ACE match. If anything, this deck needs more go-second resiliency and boardbreaking in-engine, as going first is something they clearly aren’t as well-designed for.
9:37 R-Ace was supposed to linkuribo the hydrant, preventer banish hydrant summon, link 2 into sunlight wolf,a charmer or proxy F…..literally ANY LINK 2. Then revive from banished hydrant. Off the preventer. Then link off the revived hydrant and the link 2 into S:P. After the 2 names in grave get banished for a turbulence summon. After use turbulence to set 4 and pass with 4 cards set and droll in hand. Literally such a bad R-Ace player. He had combo and fumbled
Now I haven't really discussed yet what I found to be the most odd and out place card of the archetype. It's a level 8 Divine attribute pyro type tuner. The monster is a talking pizza roll and has effect text that say to butcher your wife in the bathtub. I found this card to be really out place and not make a whole lotta since in the context of the archetype. I'm not sure what Konami was going for here, but considering some of the other cards in the archetype I guess it made since.
Not gonna "um acshully" you here but there is a 1 card otk with fallen that clears the entire board.... all you need is the opponent having 3 face up cards and no interuption 👍 What a lovely deck
I have no Idea what that R-Ace player was trying to do, blud wanted to do something super fancy. It is nice though to have a meta deck that requires a decent level of competency to win.
@stevenashley27 That's rough, luckily I have the tistina answers and time is short for them and they are a 25th ani exclusive hence why this deck was given sooo much at one time....🎉 I cant wait to upset the meta with its own medicine
Me when the deck that literally wants to go 2nd and OTK since half of the cards already want a monster on the opponent's field to function sucks making boards going 1st: 🤯
My favorite part of the skit is using the oven hand thingy to open it and the bare hand to pull the dish out
oh cool, i didn't even notice that, good eye
“The oven hand thingy”
The… the oven mitt…?
@@CuriousLumenwoodno no, he was right the first time
it's called performance art
Well he'd only need the mitt if the archetype was cooking anything
Now we wait for Tistina Double Helix and Tistina Circular
We need tistina naybee.
Anything short of an Archetypal Soul Charge + Painful Choice in 1 card that also searches an Infernity Barrier will do absolutely nothing.
We also need Guru of Tistina
I’d say Demigod is a bad Tistina Circular
Tistina halqifibrax
That R-ACE pilot literally did exactly EVERY POSSIBLE THING IN THEIR POWER TO LOSE
"Jokes on you I play to lose" - that raceist not even probably. Like. Definitely.
Yeee that guy was surely a paid actor that threw for content haha :p
Nah bro Tistina is just that powerful
@@Y0G0FU not really its just the average edopro player
I was gonna say… it’s a competition between this guy and the Vanquish Soul pilot from the Mannadium TMT to see who the worst TMT BO3 pilot is
That match against RACE is the first and probably the last time I'll ever see Tistina win a match
Ns air grab emergency, activate snake summon hydrant, hydrant eff grab preventer, summon linkuriboh then summon preventer banishing hydrant, then you can make SP with hydrant on board and emergency in hand to dodge imperm/veiler or use the linkuriboh and the preventer to make proxy f and use it plus the hydrant (off preventer) to summon mudragon. Both these lines play around imperm since you have turb in hand already.
Second hand he could've linked off the hydrant for linkuriboh/anima, banished for preventer, summon either SP with hydrant or go for the aforementioned mudragon combo to leave preventer and hydrant in grave for the turb in hand.
That was either a paid actor or someone literally just pressing buttons, no shot you pilot R-ACE that poorly.
I mean, last night I did beat Tearlaments with Tistina, even after they made a Winda on my turn. Twas quite funny seeing the dude lose his marbles.
lost to tistina with yubel
to be fair, it was yubel
But just imagine usin Tear, and losing to Tistina xD@@voltrya6844
@@voltrya6844with or without support?
I really don't know how the OCG is gonna save this one
book of moon and teleport for tistina in one card
Print 1 card that say "Win the duel instantly"
the same way they saved beetrooper
Prints soul charge from deck for cost and a circular and a sigma, and an xyz that adds the spell anyway after a ht. Surely this is enough
Double emergency teleport.
I think Tistina is the prime example of a lack of Identity.
You look at their cards, read them, and think the deck wants to go 2nd, but some of their cards don't promote that and the ones that do require too much setup alongside some of them not having synergy with each other very well.
At least with decks like Ghoti, War Rock, and Myutant you knew what the decks wanted to do, but this one... I still scratch my head figuring that out.
To be fair, dont use the traps, apart from 1 Discordinence. Fallen and Returned are starters. Hounds and Sentinels are extenders - apart from Sentinel who is a starter if you have a fd card. and Demigod and Crystal God are the beatsticks.
it wants to go second, the trap disruption isn't particularly strong for going first anyway. With all the in archtype searching, you can play 1 or 2 of the situational traps to shut down your opponent if you can't otk, an event that is pretty likely since the deck's main beatsticks cap out at 2k.
There are things that could have been done smoother, but the intended lines are pretty straight forward.
even hound has a kind of place, securing the otk, if you have to deal with a monster that may float if simply removed from the field.
The identity is literally going 2nd and summoning Divinity/Tainted + otking, but people are obsessed at building the deck as going 1st
I would've just given them all the summon from GY ignition effect. A boneless soul charge archetype with cool boss monsters at least sounds fun to play. I would've also swapped the levels on the water and fire so I can turn it into another Diabellestar pile.
there is already too many Diabellstar piles
@@johnnywilson3071
I'm still in awe there was a person who wanted to play Rescue-Ace and managed to read negative two of their own cards.
This is the closest to ten minutes a ten minute testing can get
I don’t know what’s funnier; the fact that Joseph actually did a TmT on Tistina despite it being arguably the worst TCG exclusive archetype, or the fact that his only lose in the video was to Predaplant that opened Cobra
idk, U.A. after it's 2nd wave of support was pretty bad especially considering they limited rota i think the next banlist. people were trying to make it work with things like spell striker and reasoning and then reasoning also got limited lmao. "did i draw midfielder? no? okay i set one bluff spell and pass"
As a dream mirror player I think you are wrong about tistina being the worst
@@skarn- Dream mirror was made in the wrong era, I guarantee you if they made dream mirror now they would all trigger on normal or special as well as triggering on the effects of dream mirror monsters.
Tistina is unironically one of the best TCG exclusives we've gotten in years. Just a weird deck that people are having a hard time figuring out, but it mixes with good cards a lot better than basically every other TCG exclusive we've gotten in the last 4 years besides like.. Gold Pride exclusively
@@johnofalltrades8266 Sniff sniff
This reeks of someone who topped a locals!
Was so weird to learn how unsupported the Aqua type is. There is a lot of support for WATER but very little that can help non WATER aquas
Also annoying that they made the fire tistina level two when we have level 1 fire support through diabellstar. Would have been better if water was level 2 and fire level one - but probably didnt want too easy to make Toad?
What'd it take to get a tourney of all the TCG archetypes?
What I'd give to watch sleepers like War Rock face-off against META tyrants like Tistina.
Which deck is truly the greatest?!
(But also Beetrooper, Plunder Patroll, Kozmo etc would actually be cool to watch face-off.)
Myutant Sweep
It's probably just gonna be spyral vs ba or danger
@@GholdengoFan i hope someone plays U.A. and gets matched with all the B.A. players for the maximum hate. slugger just turns off the whole decks effs lmao
Pure Kaiju sweeeeeep
Me when its just Spyral vs Gold Pride vs BA with a Kaiju/Plunder Anti Meta pick
I applaud you for giving even a glance at this deck. Thank you for giving this deck it's 12 minutes and 1 second in the sun before it fades from memory entirely
It lives in my heart. I beat Tearlaments with Tistina last night. Felt good.
A couple of months ago, i pulled Crystal God Tistina in an entry pack for the 3V3 YCS in São Paulo, and gave it to my teammate, who gave me 3 rare Salamangreat Sunlight Wolfs in return because he felt bad that i was giving him a secret rare for free and knew i would need them for Fire Kings. I dont even think i'll play it in Fire Kings, but regardless, i feel like i ripped him off with that trade
I think 1 Sunlight Wolf is good in FKs.
You most definitely did lol
The strongest play ever facilitated by crystal god tistina
If I had to choose between a QCR Crystal God Tistina or losing my apartment, I’d lose my apartment if that says anything
Is this because you signed a 25th Anniversary Tistina at Richmond?
MR.ZEEF
The clip at the very end made the whole video worth it I love how long this bit is lasting
So I really like this archetype. Been tinkering since wave 1 first hit.
Attempting a tistina deck mixed with a chaos max engine. Im not gonna win any tourneys, but I'm stubborn, and gonna have fun with my shiny rocks.
I haven't been this disappointed in a crystal since Krystal got damseled 10 minutes in Star Fox Adventures.
Im so happy that someone used this deck. I managed to snag a win against Tearlaments with Tistina, even after they made Winda on my turn. Seeing them lose their marbles was quite hilarious. Gotta love swarming the board with Hound, Demigod, and managing to get Crystal God out via Baatistina and just atk directly after Daruma Cannon them on legs.
As a lover of gemstone related archetypes like Gem Knights and Crystrons, I’ve now had to see the extremes of the last 2 archetypes of that theming being either absurdly strong that it actively lead to the rock typing itself being nerfed (RiP block dragon) and one being so…. Nothing.
It ain’t easy being shiny I guess.
Crystrons are machines though-
and block got banned because of adamancipator
@@stardust9470 Gemstone RELATED.
That's what they were referring to as "absurdly strong"@@fasce
Coal
I like to put the XYZ Armor line in, so that you have the Demigod line and still have Quick Effect XYZ into the Extra Tistina
The deck technically has a one card combo if baatistina's bonus effect is live.
sending sentinal, and summoning crystal god at the same time, immediately turns on sentinal, who can pop itself to get whatever you need.
If you can get away with that you might as well search tainted of tistina tribute something you flipped with the crystal god to summon it as a level 10. and set up for the themed OTK.
I think this might be the best way to play Tistina, a small otk package when you burn through other disruption.
While I'm not certain it might be worthwhile to use ken and gen to put a monster on your opponents field that can be flipped face down.
Ninja Fusion: Oh my gosh this is so cool that you can attack directly with your whole board
Tistina card: OMG WHAT YEEEEEEEEEEEAR IS IT!?
My mouth burnt just thinking about that reference
This TisTina Ten Minute Testing is Truly Terrific. Totally Tubular.
imagine losing to Preda Branded but then sweeping Rescue-Ace
The Race pilot did everything they could to lose
Love the opening, he had an oven mitt, but was so angry at konami the pan was no longer hot.
Sentinal pops to search because it can pop itself, then reborn itself if you control a Light Tistina. That effect makes sense, even if it’s mildly gimmicky.
Breath flips face down as searching any card for free would be ridiculously broken. In addition, it provides incentive for players to use the Light Tistinas so you can flip your opponents monsters and search, even if it’s not much.
The field spell requiring face up cards also makes sense, as it’s supposed to be a “comeback” effect. Your opponent starts playing, and you’re a bit scared of their board? BOOM CRYSTAL GOD BITCH
The XYZ should’ve been Crystal God on the field though.
There are a bunch of decks nowadays that just say add any card, directly or indirectly. Unchained got one, infernoble got one, purrely and tear have one sort of indirectly (w/ the black cat and foolish burial goods for sulliek or trivikarma)... It's just something that decks are allowed to have nowadays.
The first interaction you describe is... just not minusing? How are you supposed to get out a light tistina before resolving sentinel?
It would still be a comeback effect even if it worked on face-down - set 5 traps is scary ^^
Hey, do you know how the guys on Tumblr are continuing the Greek Mythology by creating new gods like God of the UwU, God of the Basement Dwellers or God of the Terminally Onlines? Yeah, apparently Tistina is one of them.
Yu-Gi-Oh really is the sleeper agent of chronically online culture
I did play a Tistina 8-Axis mash-up list two times at locals and was actually quite positively surprised by its performance (3-1 and 3-2). This is definitely not a meta deck by any stretch but I think it can fill the role of a rogue deck.
Having seen your art, I find it has great value on the marketplace! Your protest is itself the commodity now! Yay!
In my testing of this drck, I've pretty much realized the best way to play this deck is to OTK with Hound after getting Demi and Crystal on Field.
Really still playing fenrir, and ash at 2023 close xD. CMON PEOPLE.
THE PIZZA ROLLS!
Also the deck is neat or whatever.
Everyone ignoring just how much of a godsend small world is in this deck
Ive been running the deck sense it was announced and ive found so many cool tips on it that will blow your mind, diabellister effect pitch a card, ss self search the sin to send herself to ss the Evoltile Megachirella, use effect tribute self discard and ss the evolsaur lios, use on summon effect to set Evo-Singularity, afterwords use effect to send your copy of misc from deck to gy, use effect of misc ss Animadorned from deck, use effect pop lios search pill, link into linkuriboh then into gravity controller. Use pill ss ultimate conductor (banish animadorned and kuriboh) from deck and go right into tistina combo with whats left in your hand. Then at DP use trap set by lios go into evolzar lars for 2 negates. Your field will be uct and 2 negates plus your tistinas. All this off of one diabellistar btw
I tried to play a Tistina/Kashtira go 2nd deck after the first wave. It could have done okay (the Kashtira were meant to bait most of the interraction, before going in for an OTK with the Tistina line which, yes, relied on the Hound).
HOWEVER
Where it fell apart was that to OTK, I needed my opponent to have 3 face-up cards. And. They. Never. Did.
So now I'll try playing it using Black Garden to force them to have face-up tokens on their field during my setup.
... Once I'm done playing every other deck.
2:04 I use that effect of Breath of the Tistina along with the effect of the hound of Tistina to attack the opponent directly (If I have switched one of their monsters to face down defense).
I think the reason Tistina flips cards down is its like, forcing them to bow to it.
The opening rant before the card-by-card is every single problem I found with the deck. So interesting, yet designed like this is 2008.
the Dog's direct attack effect is probably because you set monsters. it's like a bad Meizen the Battle Ninja
Everyone talking about him not using the oven mitt, but just ignore this maniac putting the ENTIRE CROCK POT in the fridge?!
real mbt fans saw him accidentally turn on his stream to record the intro
11:57 ...Yes, I am still upset you think putting the inner container of a crock pot into the fridge by itself is crazy, thank you very much.
I've been testing out Tistina the past couple days. It's really bad if you don't get into a combo, but if you do (say, playing with lower power decks, or pack something to help with that) it can potentially steal wins. That said, I don't think this is the correct build strategy for the deck.
I run it as blind second, and use the concept MBT mentioned in the Watt video of just simplifying the board by running Kaijus. Usually if there is a problem monster that can't be flipped or sent, a kaiju will handle it, and then you can play against your kaiju. Running it as a going second deck eliminates a LOT of issues. You can flip it with whatever, then tribute it for the dark tistina, which is a level 10. You can usually go into the field spell running x3 +x3 of the searcher, so you have crystal god. The both of those are 8000 damage if you get to battle phase. Returned gets you to a level 10 as well, but only 4000 on its own. Dog lets you ignore any on destruction effects and just swing for game. In a pinch, use the trains to burn for 2k and swing for 6000. No idea why he's not playing the reborn as an extender.
It folds very easily to non-destruction removal, but I think it at least plays better than this build which does a lot less.
Where would you fit the reborn into the deck though?
i hate that i also made the tistina's pizza rolls joke to my friend.
what a great start to a great video
"here's what I've been cooking, Nothing!"
Well at least he's honest
This feels like an archetype that should've been an anime exclusive that never got printed and benefited from it looking a lot cooler when you get to plan everything that happens in a duel.
I tried tinkering with this deck by adding a Danger engine plus moray of avarice and supreme mare mare. Still thankful at least for the one extra deck monster they added but I've just been making masquerena anyway.
The attack over face down monsters would make some semblance of sense if it kept them face down permanently like floodgate trap hole, just because it could lock a monster with a grave/destruction effect out of the game for many decks
Ive found success runing the armor XYZ package with the trap, and Totem bird Is a nice little addition to the board If you cant make anything else.
The deck can run the armor xyz lineup super easy so I'm surprised you didn't go that route
Attack directly does have some synergy with flipping opponent's face down because that way you can keep pressure without flipping them back...
Except of course that, unlike Ninjas, this Deck doesn't flip permanently, so the obly benefit is maybe OTK with the Xyz... that nukes all face-down cards on Summon
'Tistina wins, but how?'
'Gustav MAX.'
'Earth Machine, got it'
Truly peak of Konami design, Pisstina
The bizzare mismatched effects reminded me of Nordic oddly enough
The sad thing is that I've lost to this deck twice.
In my defense, the first time I played against it, the deck was 40% Kashtera. I was also playing a plant deck I didn't understand in an attempt to gain experience with for the second time (a plant player later took pity on me and showed me how to do the combo).
He had the perfect opportunity to make a "low-tier god" joke in the thumbnail and he didn't.
If nothing else, I love the aesthetic of an unfathomable assimilating crystal god and everything relating to the archetype just being offshoot or cast by it essentially; like a budget ORT/Type Mercury. Playing ORT's themes over EDOPro duels made my patience for how.. obtuse the deck is to play go up vastly more.
really hoping we can get a Vehicroid Ten Minute Testing
Nothing wrong with some battle direct attack effects. My and your favourite deck LIBROMANCER lives off that shit :D
The Princess Jane t-shirt feels apropiate
Wait 7 months from now this is going be tier 1.
Crock Pot discourse reference made an otherwise forgettable episode memorable-it's bookended by *two funny segments*
Yo dawg the new Edison hotness just dropped gotta check out that amoeba deck
I felt pain on so many levels with this archetype. I pulled both Crystal God Tistina and Xyz Tistina in my Duelist Nexus and Age of Overlord boxes and I have no plans on using either one.
Ghostrick Tistina has to be a thing right?
no
I've faced against tistina paying with the full armored XYZ engine and that deck seems to do decent. They get to it through 2 sentinels or sometimes even through returned as well.
I did try using small therion package and the new armored xyz. Seems to work though we dont have the armored xyz spell yet
id LOVE to see a tmt with the earthbound servant stuff
Get that race player into the NFL the way he punted those games
"Crystal God Tistina"
Oh boi, this name is def going to be changed.... for nothing
I hold to the belief that Tistina was designed by two different people/teams. When the first batch was released, the archetype had to be handed over to someone else who threw something together in a rush or were trying out their very first project. The support feels super disconnected from the first release, in effects, design philosophy and even the art.
I use the Tistina’s and I use the Paleozoic’s with them for a more field control deck
I feel like when these TCG archetypes are basically pennies you might aa well buy a set because the OCG might just give them random busted bullshit. Not like it hasn't happened before.
Also, while not a TCG exclusive archetype, Rescue Ace was just a quirky trap deck on release and it's now a top tier deck.
When i 1st saw these cards i thought they were adamancipators without the people
A light tistinia lvl 4 that foolishs on summon and has an effect when destroyed might make this deck at the level of burning abyss
Tistina sounds like something a doctor would tell you you have a deficit of after reading your analytics.
Tistina Torsion
TCG Konami has little incentive to make a decent archetype since they're usually taking up some of the 20 extra slots added to a core set from OCG, most cards are common so they don't want players to have easily budgetable options.
Dragon Ball Super has made several budget archetypes that are fairly playable or sets where you can get just about everything for a core and they'll support them through several sets.
MBT showing us that tistussy PogChamp
I think the deck was purposely played wrong. As someone who did actually play with this deck as well, I feel like they should be seen more from a going second perspective- cards like Tainted of the Tistina (that you didn’t play) are great at further cracking boards you already stagger and quickly establishing lethal without the need of out-of-engine pieces like Liebe, especially with the first round of that R-ACE match. If anything, this deck needs more go-second resiliency and boardbreaking in-engine, as going first is something they clearly aren’t as well-designed for.
THE PRINCESS JANE SHIRT
Thinking of testing this one with Ninjas.
That rescue ace player. Wow...
Tier nine or not, book of moon destroys purrely
Great video
Well you're at 19,738 right now, so close!
9:37 R-Ace was supposed to linkuribo the hydrant, preventer banish hydrant summon, link 2 into sunlight wolf,a charmer or proxy F…..literally ANY LINK 2. Then revive from banished hydrant. Off the preventer. Then link off the revived hydrant and the link 2 into S:P. After the 2 names in grave get banished for a turbulence summon. After use turbulence to set 4 and pass with 4 cards set and droll in hand. Literally such a bad R-Ace player. He had combo and fumbled
Don't worry white boi
The fish are going to save us in February
Went 4-0-1 at locals yesterday. That draw was against Tistina.
Now I haven't really discussed yet what I found to be the most odd and out place card of the archetype. It's a level 8 Divine attribute pyro type tuner. The monster is a talking pizza roll and has effect text that say to butcher your wife in the bathtub. I found this card to be really out place and not make a whole lotta since in the context of the archetype. I'm not sure what Konami was going for here, but considering some of the other cards in the archetype I guess it made since.
That R-ACE player was a paid actor, change my mind.
Cuz it’s a going second deck… people so used to going first in yugioh they can’t see the opposite villain mechanic
Not gonna "um acshully" you here but there is a 1 card otk with fallen that clears the entire board.... all you need is the opponent having 3 face up cards and no interuption 👍
What a lovely deck
I have no Idea what that R-Ace player was trying to do, blud wanted to do something super fancy.
It is nice though to have a meta deck that requires a decent level of competency to win.
@stevenashley27 That's rough, luckily I have the tistina answers and time is short for them and they are a 25th ani exclusive hence why this deck was given sooo much at one time....🎉 I cant wait to upset the meta with its own medicine
When I first looked at this archetype I couldn't figure out what the deck wanted to do
Glad to see konami didn't either
I'm surprised Joseph did t comment on how some of the monsters names read off like its a fan fiction
Where can you get this version of edo pro? Looks really cool
Me when the deck that literally wants to go 2nd and OTK since half of the cards already want a monster on the opponent's field to function sucks making boards going 1st: 🤯
That R-ACE player had to have been a paid actor