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I come from the dark future where Fire King is the best deck in the room
I came from the darker future where it is the second best deck
I'm so sorry people of the past
You *do* realize Tear happened before this video right? Now that was truly unplayable. I mean Kash was too but for a different reason
Spyral >>>>>> Your favorite deck
Now let's be honest here, it's all Snake-Eye's fault
Golden Castle Gren Maju was a deck that came out of nowhere. It's such a cobbled together mess of archetypes. Love it.
Absolutely, my favorite way to play Gren
Golden Castle is still one of my favorite decks, the closest modern YGO ever got to a beatdown deck again, just so so fun.
this is literally my deck to this very day and it can sometimes even beat the meta atm!
It’s extremely funny that after a certain point it got rid of Manju and just became a rank 8 deck
I loved the deck because you got to see in real time your opponent learning what the fuck Golden Castle does lmao
Dire is never going to run out of cartoon intros
I love Dire.
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Imagine coming from 8 months in the future, knowing Fire King is now Tier 0
Snake Eyes was tier zero, Fire King was played in some Snake Eyes decks while other people played Snake Eyes pure. Fire King was never the stuff that made that deck tier zero levels of power.
Imagine it still being that way 4 months later
Battlin Boxer was a surprisingly potent rogue deck in HAT format. Many decks struggled to out Lead Yoke and Boxer players could run their opponent out of answers to it by summoning it over and over.
100% agree. I won locals for weeks in a row in that format with Boxers and people had to start playing compulse cus they got tired of Lead Yokes shit XDXD
Sorry but if you insta lose to Lead Yoke in HAT something is wrong with your list. There are so many generic outs to it such as Breakthrough, fiendish chain, compulsory, Warning, Black Horn, 101, Pleiades... Not counting archetype's specific cards like Spellbook of Fate, Tiaramisu, Felgrand, Alsei, Abyssgaios.
@@ivanmaterazzo2631its not insta losing but rather the opponent summoning yoke over and over again and just overwhelming you
Stfu y'all. The point is It never really happens and you know shit about HAT format.
Most of my memories of HAT come from the time where i was playing Battlin Boxer, it's was a cheap cool deck
This was a really fun one with people just feeling nostalgic. And Dire's editing was top notch as usual. The Generaider under the iceberg killed me
Pacifis is such a great deck. One of my first builds on master duel that were not "meta" but with great results. In an auto sim people simply don't understand what Sea Stealth Attack does and they keep doing the exact same thing lol.
i know what to do!!! activate evenly matched?
@@kindklan8020 Chain sea stealth to tribute token, keep pacifis, token generates after evenly resolves, the other interruptions are on hand so doesn't matter.
All that without playing the "huehuehuehue I have the out on hand always of course"
@@arkadarkartist the only time pacifis didn't pull through for me was when someone I was dueling ran one of the chain traps that banish all other copies of a spell I play
Pacifis is a N/R format MVP fr fr
I remember when it came out I tried to splice it with swordsoul to mid success
remember that time lunalight topped during toss and after people stopped doing uwu jocks they realized that it's like the most broken shit you can do during that time because azathot was legal. thats the perfect example of a deck being not even considered at all just to rise to best deck status in seconds
I remember that. It was most a danger deck utilizing the Lunalight tiger resource loop. Then people realized the resource loop was kinda insane and we ended up with insane strats that ended on a infinite negate bird strat with simorgh.
was that the time moron scalpers bought out Lunalight Fusion....which the topping lists weren't even playing?
@@lilsunny7399 the lunalight support came out a while ago and it just took a raphael naven in a no deck pinch to realize that it's actually just good but he played wolf as miracle fusion is infinitely better in lunalight than shaddoll fusion and then people cut that as well because utopia dubble existed. thats the only timeframe i can give
Fire kings will always hold a special place in my heart, it was the deck that just clicked with me. So much fun to board wipe over and over and over again, and in formats that board wipes work, it can make surprising runs. Effective against most floodgates, as it can be played with them too. Made them work against skill drain eldlich, mystic mine, or even statue floo (need other board wipes like raigeki but still). You can never go far but can steal a win or two which is so staisfying to me lol
Hopefully their new Structure Deck is good, like new Dark World good instead of new Agents "good".
Fire king yubel comeback baby! (Unlikely, but the support should at least make it run a bit I hope)
@@xdragoonzero0 Well thanks to the year of FIRE being absolutely insane, Fire Kings are evidently in the top 2 decks in the OCG, just behind fellow FIRE deck R-ACE.
I knew the Xyz was gonna be batshit but goddamn, was this update just one big heroin-infused steroid injection for the archetype.
@@Monroah Last format they were completely destroyed, but it seems like this is the standby phase now...
@@xplorer2111 Now THIS is the kind of dumb wordplay I like to see
Puppets are one of my favorites. Not gimmick puppets, but the defunct chess archetype that synergizes with war rocks. It doesn’t have knight of bishop, but I still love it.
Between Dragon Rulers and HAT meta is when i started playing. It was the best era of yugioh, so many viable decks and strats.
How
It was skill drain turbo
@Mata Hari No one played Floodgates then because they were bad. We're talking about an Era where mst trapstun and wiretap are staples because 1 of copies of bottomless and torrential. Skilldrain turbo wasn't a deck, and even if it existed, it was trash tier. Tier 3 goat format decks aren't doing anything in 2013/2014.
Id say the format just after with Duelist Alliance and the following several formats were some of the best yugioh had ever been. When people didn't draw Vanity's Emptiness that is
@Judojugs Vtuber LOL now im getting flashbacks of Vanity's Emptiness being at 1 for ever. I think generally post dragon rulers and pre links was a good time for yugioh in general. Which just happens to be when i started and then when i quit. Maybe im a bit bias.
This was the heyday of the game, and then it became such nonsense once Duelist Alliance was released
World Chalice.
Just before Spyral 1 format it was playable and got tops. Most wins were the result of the opponents dying of old age, since it was the ultimate “just spam monsters that do nothing strat” and arguably the one of first real abusers of Firewall Dragon. The funniest thing about it, was how good it was at abusing Gameciel for all the wrong reasons
I still love my world chalice gladiator beast codebreaker deck, taking it to locals every time I get.
Would that count as an underdog deck, though? I remember Konami pushing it pretty hard. Heck, they still push it pretty hard.
I think the core problem with World Chalice was mainly that the archetype was based around normal monsters going into link monsters. But, there was not much really stopping you from just using the World Chalice cards with other normal monsters.
I still have WC and play it at locals sometime. Newer support like Avramax, Lib and World Legacy's Sorrow give it a much better T1 end board. Side note: why the fuck do people play Beckoned by the World Chalice? ermagherd 1800 atk, yeah that never comes up, and Chosen is a level 3 psychic, for e-tele.
@@lilsunny7399 Level 4 Warrior for Rota.
6:25 this clip didn’t age quite so well
The edited cartoon titles are getting so good
Swear it half the reason I watch the videos lol. And the memes😂
2013-2014 Chaos Dragons, post release of the Lightsworn Structure deck. Chaos Sorcs, Darkflare, Lightpulsars, Eclipse Wyvern, Dark Matter Dragon. Was easily my favorite deck pre-HAT format.
Fun times man
Ya, I was on lightsworn chaos at that time. It was great times.
That was during HAT format though, I remember topping my locals with that deck. I still have such affection for it because of it's high ceiling but also just being a straight up fun deck that was somewhat competent
@@alonsoarana5307 True, HAT had been a format for 2 months by time we got the Lightsworn Structure.
Post covid i got back into yugioh and to learn those weird blue cards i decided to pick up Crudadia as the older tins were pretty cheap and the deck core was pretty easy to pull... and it was fun, and stole quite a few wins at locals.
It's funny how broken Crusadia is in some of the events in Master Duel. Like, if Ash, Called By The Grave, Maxx C, and pretty much every other UR staple is unavailable Crusadia just destroys everything.
Zombie combo was such a cool way when halq was legal, it was an oddly consistent midrange-y deck that had a lot of weird yet very cool plays with the new zombie support that came out in bach/difo (I forgor when they came out)
DiFo
And the structute deck had the spells, traps ans balderoch
Infernoid Lair is one of those weird decks that had just sheer stupid power in the Spyral format cause it turns out it's really hard to out a board of DD crows when all your monster,spells and traps get sent to the grave and you never have a hand to play with
Love Fire Kings, I have way too high of hopes for that structure deck
Honestly, the best way to upgrade cards like Garunix and Yubel is to turn them into Metaphys Daedalus. Destroying effects just don't cut it anymore.
I beat a trash talker at my locals for all of his cards with Fire kings vs machina
Looking forward for me high avatars, a mechanic like destroying cards from your deck and moving turns forward may make it so much better (won't happen but fun to imagine lol)
@@bron379So, How do you feel now?
@@xplorer2111 feel good to be wrong what can I say lol
Definitely a couple decks I felt were slept on relative to how good they were was sylvans post HAT (leveraging the easy rank 8 access to make a felgrand and play a midrange style strat with fertilizer and a few traps was surprisingly good, especially since the deck had easy outs to dante and winda's large statlines) and Marincess pretty much anytime before POTE (yes this includes before the support, the deck has resource recursion as strong as striker). Oh and for Master Duel, I loved playing Dlink during pranks/VW VFD turbo/tenyi synchro aurorodon pile format (the halq rose dragon boards were so unbreakable and the deck had some decent board braking tools like levy)
I am a hardcore sylvans enjoyer and i agree, super fun deck
Well fire king is tier 0 9 months from now
Dragon Ruler Sylvans was a deck I still love to this day. You would use the Sylvans, Blaster, Tempest, and Pheonxian Cluster Amaryllis to create a constantly recycling XYZ resource loop that also could burn your opponent along the way. You could then tech in cards like Raging Mad Plants for a surprise OTK that even if the opponents survived would allow all your Amaryllis to revive, be destroyed to burn again, and then resummon themselves in defense. Having incredible cards like Miracle Fertilizer and Dandylion werent slouches either.
My jam used to be Inzektors but i only started playing it after it got hit by the BL and a friend, who loved them even more, convincing me to play it with him. We played it all the way through the last Dragon Ruler format tho ( when i eventually stopped playing YGO at all ). One unique thing the deck had was simply the ability to use S/T hate as combo tools when not needed for opponents S/Ts. We always looked for new cards to improve the strategy, with new combos in general and ofc against the meta and we actually came up with quite some good stuff. We invented the use of Insect Imitation f.e., we came up with many combos such as the basically unbreakable Shock Master combo and we were the first ones to play Nr104 Masquerade before more and more people picked up on it in other strategies to reliably finish games without the fear of Scarecrow, Gorz etc. Our highlight was probably him going to a YCS during DRuler & Spellbook format at full power and being unbeaten for many rounds making quite some people super curious about Inzektors which was nice to see.
Crystal Beasts was a surprising sleeper deck. I built it in MD one day thinking it'll be just "for the meme," and then I went on a 12 win streak. Now, Foolish Burial Goods is basically dead.
This discussion is how I feel about Chaos Synchro in the modern era. It feels like it's RIGHT on the edge of being there, with the dark warrior package or Metaphyss, but most people are just focusing on how good of a generic tool Chaos Angel is.
D/D/D definitely comes to mind as a rogue alternative, with so many combos depending on what you draw with so many lines and it largely uses their own cards and extra deck, but it's just a sad it dies to a negate on gillgamesh.
I remember buying 3 ddd structures like a month before MR4 killed the deck. I genuinely consider DDD the godfather of all modern combo decks, they had to change the entire game rules in order to create new decks without ddd just slaughtering everything in the process.
Saw the Fire King thumbnail, been huffing the copium since it's release of the structure deck. Can't wait for more support coming September.
Brooo don't say that lol copium for me for sure... we need more special summons and interaction on opponent's turn for sure
The only thing going for that deck is arvata negate which is really sad cuz i love fire kings so much, hope we get some new support soon
@Kono Linku da! ok so Structure deck coming September 9th confirmed ocg
One of my favourite decks during certain formats were definitely Ritual beast during nekroz format and Graydle kaiju whenever they were out. lovely stuff.
a cool twitter thread idea might be "What random card(s) do you want a fully fledged archetype built around?" in the same vein as Hungry Burger or Seiyaryu
3.5 Axis Fire-Fist’s during and post Djinn lock Nekroz. They surprisingly did really well to out the lock and outplay both Nekroz and BA, but the Shaddoll matchup was tough because of Winda putting a stop to any XYZ or Synchro plays available to the deck.
The Fire Kings structure deck was what got me into yugioh. Love the theme and the art so much.
They're releasing another Fire King structure deck soon 🥳🥳🥳
the answer for me has and always will be Ritual Beasts, solid match ups with the better decks, a satisfying loop and could play D fissure not only as a flood gate but a enhancer. I'll still bring it out to play every now and again to this day
Suship Supremacy all I have to say. I went to locals with it as a haha fun deck and realized UDF is maybe the craziest card against Superheavy Samurai and Suship does a really good job of fitting a million hand traps
Big fan of gladiator beasts I wasn’t really involved when they went on their historic run from total irrelevance to tier 0 but I like their designs ideas and play style
I started Yu-Gi-Oh in 2018 as well. It's still crazy that despite having the actual worst kind of format 2018 was actually a massive spike in the games popularity.
DESKBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTS!!!
I was well-feared at my local shop because of them. Or, as they were called, Dickbots. I had an answer for most things they did, due in large part to also running something like 15 traps. Never did too much, purely because everyone was siding CyDra and Machine Down for the Kozmo matchup at the time. But it always gave people trouble, and it was always fun. Probably my favorite deck ever. And one I'm praying someday gets a piece of legacy support to make it great.
For me during the time where all of the stuff from duel overload was legal, I made the most disgusting and weird brew of machina with Mecha phantom beast. At my local I got 3 tops and was playing against a sweep of ,,meta" decks like vw, dragon link etc.
Back in tear zero format I was cooking Ishizu ABC because milling letters for regulus or milling a rainbow bridge seemed really busted, on top of that you could also just spit out a rank 4 in addition to a regulus, buster, and IP with mud or keldo then recycle busters for the grind game with them.
Unfortunately everyone was either playing tear or main decking dimension shitter so I never got too far out side of a locals top or two 😅
Super glad you brought this up. Tier 2 and lower decks in certain formats are an under studies format of yugioh
The decklists flying across is a great include, good work DIre.
Threw mid to late end arc-V dinomist alway crepted in as a potenial rogue option and i love thay deck and the fact it was one of the few pendulum decks that wasnt some massive wombo combo but just this straight forward battle phase deck that had options and tools to make some pretty great ED monsters.
Man I feel bad for most pendulum decks in mr 3, they are really undersportedbso much nowadays
No matter when, where, or why, I will always go up to bat for Battlin' Boxers. Deck was so much fun, especially when you can just Dark Hole and detach 1 from Lead Yoke to pump him up and clear the opponent's board. Real good times. I will also be a Harpie Lady apologist until the day I die.
..........and now fire kings gets new support.......my favorite fire deck. Fire kings and volcanics are exactly how a fire should be themed.
I don't know if it even placed on a board but I messed with both Inzektordolls and Prediction Princess Shaddolls and man it's a ton of fun being able to just yank Jar of the Forbidden out of my deck.
I remember a very brief bit of time when Windwitch Gusto was getting hyped up because both archetypes got support, and that is far and away my favorite synchro deck I've ever witnessed. It's like earth machine, but it's extra deck toolbox has cooler effects and they always have the last resort of crash-looping themselves in the battle phase with Sphreeze on board and just winning.
I’m just getting back into Yugioh having never played competitively and the last time I even played casually was right when Xyz first came out
And boy there are a lot of cards I have never seen before, even after months of getting back into it, constantly I’m seeing new cards and decks
I was too strong in school lunch league with my OG Hazy Flames. Absolutely goated deck, Purrely but shit. I would kill for it to get a fresh wave of support
Mekk-knights, in particular Morning star were good for link spam and lockdown especially when paired with iblee, Lib and i:p masqurena. Granted the main 3 main deck monsters were Blue sky, Purple nightfall and Indigo eclipse.
The thumbnail aged poorly
facts. this comment might age poorly too :>
Even if FK gets destroyed on the next banlist, it’s already cemented its place in YGO history, it can’t age poorly
Zombie players are low key just as dedicated as HERO players. The only difference is that nobody knows they’re in the background brewing combos until the end of time.
I'll always have a place in my heart for Raidraptors. I enjoy them so much, and they're very much a playstyle I adore. Beeg fighter jet bird go brrrrrrr
0:06 Dire got creative with the danny phantom reference
4:32 The closest you can get to a "World Legacy Lore Deck"
Look, I just wanted to play traps
Fusion Lunalights will always be a favorite of mind, especially during TOSS format. I have a particular memory of taking Lunalight to locals around that time and absolutely bodying two Sala players. I got 2nd place, as I lost to someone playing Cydra, and as a prize I got two packs of Savage Strike. One of them contained a 1st ED Phantasmay, which really made me the true winner of that night.
Earth Machine has been my favorite thing since 2010 when we got Machina. I was already playing with Ancient Gear, but Machina forever changed me. During Bujin format, I was still playing it making my rank 4/7 plays with Redox and Fortress.
I set it to the side for awhile to play Qli, Kozmo and ABC/cydra, but since the 2nd SD ive been rocking it once again, and its more fun than ever.
I love Darklords. especially when Despia just came out.
I hate Darklords, especially Desire. That card was so obnoxious in Duel Links for months, maybe even a year!
Darklord branded is such a fun deck- who knew that the despia field spell makes the darklord boss not as hard to summon?
One of my favorites was when I played Crystron during the start of Zoo format as well as right when Sky Strikers were released with much success at locals where many sweaty meta players usually gather. Crystron had so much gas and I still lab the deck to this day.
2016 masked law toadally awesome turbo. It wasn’t mid but a pretty solid contender at the time, it just felt so fun utilizing heros with other generic warrior support and having an actual toolbox instead of a bunch of heros that just modulate atk.
Post Plant Rulers 2014 really was one of my favorite times in Yugioh, there were like 20 different brews you could just pick up and do pretty well with. I wish I could have been playing yugioh competitively at that point because Naturia Traptrix after NECH was such a fun ass deck. Using Sacred Tree to cycle between copies of Myrmeleo and Dionaea was really cool (and you could even play like an Atrax in the board), but you also got to play Naturia Mammon which is still one of my favorite dark horse cards ever printed. Actually insane card in an archetype of pack filler.
It was really only good against Qliphort but my god
I dominated locals during Nekroz format with my Lightsworn Infernoid deck (Raiden and Lumina for mills/solid normal summons and Ehren as my Djinn out; searchable with Charge of the Light Brigade). Explosive potential, countered BA, Shaddoll, and Nekroz and had an innate out to Towers (Onuncu is level 10 and nukes all monsters). Ran Spell Canceller in the main and End of Anubis and Jinzo in the side since hitting any of those with Gate/Reasoning could win you the game against the meta and rogue stuff at the time (having 1s, 3s, 4s, 5s, and 6s means you're probably going to get your summon off Reasoning). I'll never forget the Nat Beast Turbo guy's face when he realized Charge of the Light Brigade milled for cost. "Charge, mill 3." "Umm, Nat Beast negates it." "The mill's a cost, I just don't get my search off." "Wait, what?!" "Yeah, banish 2 for Attondel, banish 2 for Seitsemas, battle phase. Game"
Currently playing Marincess and having a blast with that, too :)
While most of its notoriety came from Hoban, Sylvans in and around HAT format/Primal Origin was such a fun deck to play. While yes soul charge was absurd, thinking your excavations through and stacking your deck accordingly feels really rewarding planning ahead. (Also orea bouncing miracle fertilizer is nutty)
Tbf, Sylvan's were prolly more like the 3rd or 4th best deck at the time rather than 6th or 7th.
During TOSS format Zombie World was a fun rogue strategy for sure. It was able to get tops here but nothing major.
I actually built zombie world early in toss cause it was cheap and then suddenly having a meta contending deck about 2 years later cause it just happen to have good match ups was crazy. Then it fell off the face of the earth but the couple months it was close to meta was fun.
It's a shame that Zombies haven't ever quite been meta in modern Yugioh, it's always just a smidge underneath other decks. But at the same time, it lets cards like Mezuki get to stay untouched.
That all being said, the current format is the worst zombies have been since Balerdroch released. We desperately need a link one and a new starter.
@@pkjk1255 A link one would be huge. The deck is full of extenders but can be to reliant on the few starters that one or two hand traps can stop it dead in its tracks.
I used the shit out of Karakuri's, Evilswarm, Constellars, Madolche, Gishki and Monster Mash. There were archetypes and decks I wanted to play but werent released till sometime after I quit. One of the big ones for me was Fossils. Jim Cook was one of my favorite gx characters and I loved his cards. Being able to fuse using your opponents graveyard I think was the first time that had been done.
I've been perfecting my Dogmatika ritual build for CYAC and now that its finally out I think its performing really well, the ED ripping limits plays so much and the new Quem and Luluwalilith cards allow for some brutal interactions turn 2, which the deck was lacking when it was just sitting on Alba Zoa
Dragunity for me. Deck was a good midrange deck in multiple formats after Ravine came out, evolved into a combo deck with the release of Atum and Zephyros (I even got a Regional Top with this version), got a spike in consistency and follow up with the Dragon Rulers then died when Ravine got banned...but then then became a playable rogue deck again when Ravine got unbanned plus legacy support and the Struct-Ghosts from the Past set came out. It just recently topped a Regional a month or two ago too.
There are so many cool decks that just go under the radar. For instance right now im labbing a nee eddison list and that is: edison format toons because there are so many cool theories going on with it
Fire King High Avatar Garunix was in a starter deck i got nearly a decade ago so im happy toi learn more about it and how its an amazing card
Branded Zombie Eldlich was a great discovery for me in pre-POTE format. It came out of nowhere and got me more results than I'd have ever thought
Fire Kings, DInos, Zombie, and currently Machina have been my go-to's over the past several years and they're still my favs to play with even now.
Hunder Family is one of my favorite retro decks. Super fun and satisfying resource management
Spaceships! As the modern successors of the legendary Alex Mitchel, we 5 gradius players continued his legacy to play a de Jure archetype based on a vanilla monster (lol), and it keeps getting better, both on making people shocked on their screen, and also support wise (Vic Viper T301 is a great science project winner konami)
2023 calling, and now we created a light-machine deck. Boardbreakers, beefy kaijus (all of them light so...Leeching The Light), plus ol reliable honest and limiter removal. Oh yeah, do i forgot to mention they can access rank 4s easily, then zeus?
I played a lot of Rank 10 Trains, the precursor to Earth Machine, during 2018 TOSS Format and it was really fun. I topped my locals at least a dozen times and even took 2nd a few times, once losing to Striker specifically.
When I first got into duel links, I loved Bujins. They were fun and had interesting gimmicks.
Rescue Cat Otk was great during goat format. Gyaku Gire Panda boosted by Milus Radiant and some equips, plus main decking Des Wombat for the occasional Rogue Birn Deck. That was my first competitive deck way back in the day.
Pretty powerful decks I have are
D/D/D or Patroll.
But my pet deck will always be my dear Fur Hire, something funny is tobsee how he can adapt to the meta, earlier with Tri-brigade, now in Spright or Runnic.
And idk for you, but mystic mine show one thing : stupidly strong stun need huge maintenance cost, and drawbacks to not be a problem.
My fave deck was a going second ABC deck me and a buddy cooked up right at the start of Salad.
It was ABC with triple Pank, triple Mind Control, triple evenly, three ash, and three desires, and maybe twin twisters?? I made top 8 at a 40 man OTS tourney lol.
For the past year Swordsoul has been my absolute favorite. The engine is so compact it gives you room to play 12 (or 14 if you're daring) non-engine pieces to deal with effectively everything any deck could ever throw against you. If those solutions don't exist in your main deck then that's what the side exists for.
Fire fists and Fire Kings are both fun to play sometimes
Sad that Zefra didn't come up. By far the most fun deck I have ever played. It just feels right. And if you ignore the fact that Drident hard counters you and MR4 without a good Link (thx Konami for the useful Zefra Link 3) makes it hard to play, the deck actually isn't that bad throughout 2017 and 2018 and i topped locals consitantly. Earth-Chaofeng was good against Zoo and killed Spyral. It also got unlucky that it was indirectly hit multiple times for YEARS, starting with Denglong banned and ending with Calamities banned. (Zefra has a really easy Calamities line but was too vulnerable for it to be anything more than Tier 6, but now it struggles hard for any payoff, free Denglong pls)
I like playing majesty's/vanity's fiend in zefra to replace vfd
But I don't feel right putting them at three
@@kechitiabderrahmane6357 I mean thats the only thing Zefra has going for it, you can search every monster in the game with the fieldspell+Stardust Charge Warrior combo so you don't need Fiend at 3. I personally like to search Cyber Stein to end on Naturia Exterio + Zefra Strike + anything I open. But maby Fiend is better right now.
Toss format had cydra become one of the top decks with the orcust variant being the combo deck until striker orcust took over by the end of toss format.
It's kinda sad how little respect Cydra gets despite always being a solid deck in every meta.
I mean, even when Megafleet could destroy any monster in the extra monster zone, the deck still didn't see much competitive play despite countering pretty much every popular deck at the time, and having Cyber Dragon itself in a lot of meta decks.
I mean, just being able to consistently bring out Infinity on the first turn and OTK on the second with pretty much anything in the deck should earn the deck a little more respect.
@@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917 yeah, the engine fits nicely with so many different decks, it's crazy how overlooked it is.
I ran a cyber dragon spright deck at YCS sydney back in january, only reason I didn't top was my own misplay game 3 of final round of day 1. The deck performed flawlessly and was easily one of the best spright variants back in that format imo.
megafleet for EMZ removal that doesn't trigger tear effects, infinity for removal that also doesn't trigger tear effects, 1 card full spright combo, plenty of room for hand traps/bystials/board breakers, easy otk lines, the deck had so much going for it, but because it wasn't runic or pure spright, nobody took it seriously.
The typical end board of toad, elf, infinity, double cross was nasty to play through, even during full power tear format, even tear struggled with it. Full end board added sprind for an additional bounce and either red or carrot.
There was also a build a friend worked on that could put up toad, elf, double cross/smashers and winda on turn 1.
Unless you are a big fire king enjoyer like me and like 5 other people, you wouldn't know that the decks early days actually werent its best, that is actually when arvata came out in cibr. That card actually made it possible to play a true king/fire king deck that was actually pretty insane, true king vanisher is an insane card and could single handedly break the spyral board (before trigate came out) just by popping a garunix, you had 3 island 3 diagram and 3 terra and 3 tenki, the deck was super consistent, arvata gave the deck negatation, big pushes and a grind game making a garunix loop super easy to do, and if that all wasnt good enough, calamities was easy af to make. I'm pretty sure only me and like a couple other people knew about this deck but it was crazy strong and I don't think there was ever a trace of it at the time from what I can tell
Certain decks are being absolutely slept on. No idea what they are, but they are there.
Also, Real Talk: Abyss Actor was the secret best deck in Master Duel's first Duelist Cup.
I will NEVER get tired of remembering old mid tier decks.
Reaper format's spellcaster package was really interesting, either as an aggro beatdown style deck or as a grindy recruiter control list. Sadly very few people were experimenting with it. I'm faily certain a better player than me could've at least topped with it.
I will stand by the fact that Rokket Dragon link was good in 2019. And I don't mean your rokket dragon link playing Tracer, Recharger, and Synchron.
I mean the whole package with Magna, Auto, and Silverokket dragon. The removal was incredible and the resource loop was insane.
To clarify for anyone who doesn't know, Rokket dragon link saw little to know representation after the release of Rokket Revolt, which boggles my mind since they had so much powerful stuff. I played it, and the deck could easily look at your opponent's extra deck and banish something before getting a non-targeting not-destruction pop for either spell/traps or monsters.
I will say though, I hindsight I may have added 1 Anthesrokket Anthesrokket is a powerful negate that, guess what, doesn't target.
I may have debatably added Metalrokket and/or Shellrokket. They are powerful forms of removal that has the downside of being really obvious on what they do. The reason why I might've added them is because they could theoretically lock down some zones, making my opponent hesitant to use anything in those zones since I could destroy them at any point.
Or maybe punish someone for not reading.
so glad Zombie PUNK was mentioned here. Zombies have been my favorite for like half a decade now and it really is like 2,000 between Facebook and Reddit reading every single zombie card and seeing what worked together in a deck lol. A shame about Chaos Ruler man....boy do zombie needs new cards that are actually good
The Infernoid represent can bring a tear(lament) to a longtime player's eye.
Just a shame Ishizu/Tear 'Noid never panned out.
Funny story, at the height of true brigade meta I was playing phantasm at locals. I was paired up against a tri player and it was the third game, I had it won, 4K damage on board but they flipped imperial order and it threw me off for a second and we tied bc of time
Block BA was the most fun deck I’ve ever played. Such sick combos and the way it played was just so much fun.
mermail atlantean and speedroid are both pretty cool ones.
Ive been playing Skull Servant for years. Its such a fragile strategy due to how many bricks and garnets you have to run but some decks just cant out a 10k normal summon with protection.
I also have been sold on crystal beasts. I bought two starter decks at my local walgreens and when i was looking up decklists happened to notice Neshy doing Neshy stuff and I immediately built the deck in Master Duel.
I went undefeated at my last locals tournament with pure phantom knight. like i 2-1'd a superheavy player by opening a droplet and making zeus. it used to be super meta if i remember correctly but even since its fallen out of contention it feels like pk just sneaks tops. The only other deck i can think of that is similar in that regard is plunder.
I'd forgotten all about darklords! I loved that deck, the face my friends made when I performed an FTK (when I was the starting player) priceless
Its funny because Silent Voice is like the 3rd or 4th best deck right now (behind Snake Eyes, Fiend Link, and maybe Lab) but I completely forgot about its existence.
Scare-Brigade during Kash format for me. It was so unbelievably satisfying to watch a Kash players cry when Arise-heart couldn't banish my tri-heart because he was locked to defense. Even more satisfying was when they summoned Shangri-la and I hit them with a revolt into Omen to remove it ending their combos.
i played evil swarm during dragon ruler format, that was fun. but my all time favorite archetype is fableds.
Darklords was literally the bane of many duel links players, not only the cards were too strong before, now they are still limited to oblivion, its impossible to splash them somewhere, much less build a darklords deck, but what trully made them strong and viable in duel links was the 2 skills that ran with it, and one of them gave konami a ridiculous amount of money...
Compensation, which would let you dump the top card of your deck to the hy each time you took 1000 or more dmg, which is what darklords do, and this wasnt once per turn and had no limits to how many times you could activate it, so you could activate a dark lord, dump a card, activate another darklord, dump another and so on... now its once per duel.
The other skill, and the one that gave konami a shit ton of money, was kaiba corp bling, at start of your turn, if you lost 1000 or more lp, instead of conducting your draw phase, draw 1 random glossy or prismatic card from your deck, in other words, "draw your glossy or prismatic banishment every turn", why this gave konami a lot of money? The chances of getting a glossy or prismatic card from a box is super low, but an UR card from a main box? Thats insanelly low, you can go sooooooo many boxes without getting 1 prismatic/glossy ur/sr card, to try and get 1 expecific card? That would take sooooooooo many tries, and main box has either 180/200 packs with only 1 banishment in them...
Now its 2000 or more dmaage and once per duel.
Rare Dire W for using the Pokemon Sun and Moon clothing shop theme as the background music for this video
My favorite was always rhongomyniad control, burden of the mighty/pumprincess being essentially a worse drident was great
Gren Maju r8nk is my guilty pleasure, you control the board with your r8nk toolbox and draw power, but sometimes you simply draw the Maju and just punch really hard
Edison plants would've been my answer too
foolish dandylion, get the spore token, NS fire blossom, use it to summon tytannial, boom you got a 2800 beater with targeting protection with only two cards.
also if you manege to SS fire blossom without using your NS (like with call of the haunted), you open the door to gigaplant shenanigans
deck is good and so much fun