I do really wish this deck wasn't so one note because, as this video shows, this deck has a crazy hand trap game. Having this much synergy with Effect Veiler and Skull Miester is incredibly cool. I do wish we'd got to see the Spooky Dogwood as well because the original didn't run it and I would've liked to know how well it could work in the deck. Especially because Ancient Leaf Dragon Archfiend is up their with Pendulum yosenjus and Elementsabers as one of my favorite What a Decks
I would think Ghost Ogre or Ghost Reaper would have synergy by being LIGHT and DARK hand trap tuners. But only Ogre could be summoned off Emergency Teleport. And their Zombie/Psychic types are a common conflict with the Fiend pile.
Super glad to see RDA get some attention. Honestly they really need a good level 7 and 11. RDAs just need some actual good synchros that aren't just your turn stuff. A quick effect pop and another negate would really help the deck since all they have are field nukes since field nukes are nice but Supernova's best features are often just that he's a big boi who can't die. More protection could be cool if they don't wanna do negates. Like a level 7 that can banish to protect red reign style and a level 11 that negates but takes two tuners would both be great and feel right at home. Also a way to go into the other two tuners RDA's before the battlestep that isn't just crimson resonator. A level 4 non-tuner that specials a resonator from grave or deck by banishing itself with the usual restrictions might makes pure Resonators better than the assault mode package is. Rda's are so cool design wise and I love their sheer field wipe shenanigan's so really hope they get some stardust level of support in the future. I mean they have the luck of being a rival deck so they for sure will I just hope it's good I feel like Mathmech Final sigma is a great level 12 to go into against spell and trap heavy decks. It's easy to go into with how RDAs work and with the Assault mode engine or Abyss's revive effect is super easy to go into and gets Bane off your field since he's not great after reviving your Abyss. I feel like Joe focused a bit too much on the dark dragon restriction since a lot of the resonator support has it but Assault mode engine and Ascator can make other stuff and turn 2 reviving Diabolos leaves you with a lot of options. Sad to see that Joe just had some bad luck against the decks he faced. Also Jojo Meme is always a plus. Thank you lord Cvit
I've alwayds used Star Eater as the 11 and, almost ashamed to say this, Exploder Dragonwing, as the 7. While Black Rose is probably the better card, I just lock myself into Darks too often to use it.
@Cringe Doctor It's ot about getting it out on turn 1 or not the problem with the deck is that it takes to many cards to get there. There are no 1 card starters and because of that you need to many resources to get to a single negation/boss monster. Crimson Resonator helped the Deck a lot but it's not enough. Most 2 card combos can't even get you to a negate you need crimson resonator or at least 3 cards and then there is the thing that you specifically need tuners and non tuners so you need to play a lot of both and they all do nothing. You cant play enough other cards like handtraps you are very limited to engines because your lockedinto Dark Dragon Synchros and the 2-3 card combo that give you 1 negate loses to most hand traps. The Deck has to many flaws it's very sad they could make it so much stronger they don't need to fear that it would be abuses in other decks because your locked into Dark Dragon Syncros anyway I don't get why they don't give good monsters and searchers to the deck.
@Cringe Doctor Yes sure that is possible. But against very well build meta decks played by a very good player you will lose most of the time even if your deck is very well build and you pilot it very good. The deck is still weak even if you beat meta decks with it
I REALLY love this new format. The chapters are snappy and engaging, and they make it really easy to come back to the video and watch it in chunks (but hopefully not watching it in one go doesn't hurt the metrics too much.)
You can play Noble Knight Shield Barrier to search Hop Ear. If you revive Chaos Ruler from the Graveyard you can use him to make Baronne de Fleur on your ops turn. This makes up for the Dark Dragon restrictions
These are by FAR my favorite videos of yours they're fun to see. Would you consider trying aliens? I've been trying to make them work with the broken bamboo and golgar combo. I have figured that going second seems to be the best and dark ruler no more helps. It'd be dope to see it tried. It may be up the alley for this series. at the start of this one so I got my snacks and my work to hang out watching this. Off I go.
@@HardlegGaming What kills me is they have GOOD cards, but the deck as a whole just isn't that great and it sucks cause butt stuff needs to be a deck! lol
Hardleg, I must say, you are the most entertaining Yugituber. And I'm not just saying that because you've played one of my favorite archetypes. Edit: You can actually summon Red Nova Dragon with Scarlight.
When the RDA support finally hits MD (god forbid it’s before the heat death of the fucking universe) I’d love to see a salty run back of this deck because their toolbox+dis pater makes them surprisingly potent Side note, Civit’s editing just hits different man
Hey Joe, happy satisfied patron of yours here, just the other day we had a little back and forth in the comments of a video, and the primary topic was how entertaining and appealing your jank decks are to pit up against meta stuff and low and behold here is road to plat 1 with another janky-ish not at all meta deck and no surprise at all it's highly entertaining. Such a nice coincidence, this might be my new favorite series if you keep it going. Great work again
Yup! That's pretty much my bread and butter, playing jank against meta. That's why I like Master Duel and it's competitive ladder, finally gives me consistent challengers.
Hello hardleg love the content! But as for those "bots" we can confirm that there are indeed a CRAZY number of bot players online, so I'd guess that it's more then likely it was a bot even if it appears to be thinking as sometimes it may just be thinking of how to order the plays it has in it's hand and comparing it to whatever you have on board. It's true most people just sell the accounts, but you can just leave it on a main account and grind for gems forever it just might take a while. If that bot had all those royal rares, I'd guess that person is just keeping all those gems and opening packs for themselves. I don't think it was hacking for higher rarity cards because that has not been a widely observed cheat in the community (as of now), but I guess anything is possible
Just got to the bot part and I'd like to add that all the royal rare and shiny cards are there because it's more enticing to a buyer of the account if it's advertized as "You get a bunch of gems and also it comes with X number of random Royal Rare cards to 'get you started.'" Probably because it grinds gems so much, they're able to open packs when they have free time and pack/craft spam in order to get the royal rarities.
@@emperorlelouch6322 yeah that's totally true, since the cap is 10000 having random royal rares to dismantle is pretty handy to act as extra gems. Although wouldn't it take too long grinding for an account like that to sell vs just selling at 10000 gems? Then again idk how many bots this guy is farming 🙃
Absolutely adore this series, don't even know half of these archetypes, it's great! Maybe next time do one of the solo mode free archetypes? Dinomist? Gladiator Beasts? Ruin & Demise? Elemental Lords? World Legacy? (Or Krawlers! My current main deck :D haha). Etc!
That one deck, the one that you faced around the 45 minute mark. They have Starlight Road and no Stardust Dragon to actually use it with. Good deck. Reminds me of the deck I faced during the Synchro Festival, Blue Eyes, running a single copy of Polymerization...
Isn't it depressing that RDA of all decks has an easier time incorporating LP gain into their strategy than Aromages...I believe they will get something. They have to...
I like that you say "we did it" whenever you win against an uphill battle. Its not just Hardleg Joe (if any'a didnt know) ; its all of us against the broken combo and stun decks.
Just wanted to thank you Joe. Been using my gems to make Synchro decks in Master Duel. Already finished my Speedroids one and now wanna make Red Dragon Archfiend one because you make it look so powerful.
I know that this is a 4 month old video, but coming back to watch it again, I just realized that at 20:13 after the Banquet starts returning all the banished monsters to the extra deck there's a split-second visual bug where Wandering King Wildwind is just chillin' faceup in the extra deck.
You can use Scarlight to go into Red Nova, because it treats itself as Red Dragon Archfiend, I would also recommend playing more Creation and Synkron Resonators, as well as an Engine or 2
I really enjoyed this deck when you played it for what a deck so I was pumped you did this episode for it. I really the editing to it was funny cuts and inserts
If you're interested I'm a player that exclusively plays RDA in Ranked and relatively easy get to the highest ranking every season, there's a lot of improvements you can do to your deck to make it incredibly busted & able to play around everything in most cases. First trick to tell you about is that the only link monster you only need is the Halqifibrax, you don't need any other link monsters, you should also add Shooting Riser dragon (this is what you turn halqifibrax into) & Phantom King Hydride (a tuner monster that counts as a none tuner if needed) so most of the time when you got a dead hand you simply use the red resonator to summon another possibly useless monster that is bricking your hand and this will allow you to go into a setup that will be able to turn itself into a baronne de fleur on the opponents turn, if you're able to play properly & get out a Chaos ruler you can also use the halqifibrax to summon a level 1 tuner which then allows you to summon the shooting riser dragon on enemies turn, put a wandering king wildwind to the graveyard with it's effect and then it becomes level 3 you can then quick effect synchro summon a king calamity on the opponents turn & during your turn you can search out a crimson resonator -> play it use effect and then bring back chaos ruler from graveyard since shooting riser dragon is light and hydride is dark. this will give you a Red Supernova Dragon and basically finish your opponent assuming the king calamity summon shut em down.
Haven’t seen Joe play Red Dragons in awhile, always fun to see Joe play this deck with its new support. I wonder if we will see some of his older decks updated eventually
I was just wondering the other day if Red Dragon Archfiend was any good. It has this edgy dragon BIG NUMBER vibe that just feels very YGO to me, even if the combos take a bit longer than i'd like. Also i LOVE the Resonators, they're just weird little guys(and now a relic from when Konami made Tuners actually related to tuning). I love this series, it's super fun! Keep it up!
Crimson resonator is such a funny card. It's one of the few cards with restriction text that's entirely understandable because otherwise resonators would be insane lmao. Also huh I didn't know dark hole had an animation.
Regarding the smooth sailing in gold: I've noticed the same thing this season where I've deliberately not ranked up to platinum and I think its because you now get locked into plat where before you could derank to gold. Everyone in gold by the end of the season hasn't been able to rank out which means a 99% chance their deck sucks ass.
Some of us resonator players have been tinkering around with a noble knights shield bearer engine. 3x bearer to search the targets, which are hop ear for synchroing barronne your opponents turn and dynathernuim for just a random extender. I also run phantom king hyride for a brick line (summon via halq + shooting riser = barrone)
42:24 The "Scoop after big guy shows up" syndrome is very real in this game, so you have my sympathies in that regard. While grinding out dailies, one of the most consistent issues I ran into was trying to grind ones with attack declaration as the objective, because with decks like Maju Stromberg or Zombie Control, it's actually really hard to keep a player hooked for long enough to actually attack. Once Maju comes in with a 8 000 body or Balerdroch starts existing period, most of the time people just bolt it right away. It's why Rank10 Trains has become a bit of a pet-deck for me, because it's the easiest thing to grind with. I don't know why, but it seems like rushing in with Liebe doesn't give that immediate reaction to scoop on the spot. Maybe because Rank10 fields are usually rather empty, alot of people just don't get that "Fuck this" reaction right away, because there's this idea that "I only need to get over one thing". That's my theory anyway. Even outside of trying to grind dailies though, it kinda does sometimes get on my nerves that people just won't let me do my thing. I understand the frustration of just wanting to get on with the next game or stop right there, but I did make my decks with the intention of getting to play them and I'd rather not feel like I have to play a deck not because I love it and put alot of effort into making it, but because people actually let me play with it. It has admittedly made me more patient as a player. I used to do similarly quite often, especially on EDOpro or in person, where getting right into another game takes no time at all, but now that I know what it feels like to get chronically blue-balled, I have started to stick with duels until the last moment. A sort of gesture of "You played/deckbuilt well, I'll let you do your thing". Although of all daily grinding, one of my favorites to do is trap activation, because I can just imagine the reactions I get from people with my bizarre plays and disproportionately bad deck for my rank. If anyone ever runs into "Big Bunion" in Diamond with a terrible Paleo/Frog deck and a tendency to use Olenoides on their own backrow, that's me (and you're welcome for the free win).
Hardleg has had some great editors for this series and I want to especially say that cvit always make me smile with his edits hahaha it's always a great time when cvits around! Oddly enough does cvit play Yu-Gi-Oh? If so man I wonder what deck they would play haha
the choke in duel 2, Dawn walker could have discarded red reign to summon ascator from hand, then make a level 8 synch, then normal chain resonator to possibly make red supernova with a red reign set by its own effect
This is the most entertaining episode of the series so far. I'm honestly surprised that you weren't able to push into Plat 1 by the end. It would have been nice to see the funny version happen too. Did you finish off the life point gain mission by the end of this?
This was absolutely insanity. Why in the hell are gimmicks all in plat? Awesome episode, thanks for the attempt and I'm so sorry it has eroded your mind a little. Crystrons? No. RDA? No. Egyptian fuckin Gods? Sure. What do you mean "mercy"? Ojama best deck right? XD You can do it you madman
I mean I’m pretty happy that the deck I suggested got so high and did pretty good through most of the matches. I was just thinking what you could have done was have a play to go into king calamity on your opponents turn constantly and just otk from there isn’t necessarily to hard from that position.
Great as always :D Though I'm surprised to see the deck not making it to Plat 1. After the initial duels I thought you'd make it. But maybe the deck's "downfall" is that it seems to only be able to do one thing. But the god news is, in this season, you can try to get into Diamond Rank :D
I've been play RDA for months now and I gotta tell you its super fun but bricky as hell. The assault engine + Barrone + a few other synchros can make the deck a lot better but since they rarely if ever get summoned first turn, things can get difficult. I hope it gets some support in the future that can up its consistency without making into a combo heavy shit show like synchros or speedroids. Awesome video by the way and praise be to the Ojama empire of meme decks.
So, halq takes care of some of the bricks. to further fix it. Shooting riser dragon actually makes a wonderful help. So it's go into halq bring out riser on your opponents turn. if the set up is right you can either go into Barrone OR King Calamity which is almost just an auto win at that point.
Oh my god, that penultimate duel was just an endless mode of top deck bullshit. And well-put in the summary, Hardleg. The low ceiling, linear gameplan, and red rising dragon being very breakable rung of the synchro ladder drag the deck down. Still, there's some novelty to recycling your hand traps with burning soul and 2 recurring banish nukes that do spice up the deck. However, more Synchro's to diversify the ladder and an actual omni negate like their own Shooting Majestic Star Dragon would be nice.
It looks amazing but I can't play it. I sometimes get motion sick from regular FPS games, so I don't think I'd be able to make it through Cruelty Squad's purposely distorted visuals.
I have only ever confirmed one D.D dynamite bot and its because I gave them an abyss actor comic relief and the bot just died and sat there for the entire timer in standby phase
Fun fact, the first anime I watched was 5ds and every time jack said red dragon archfiend I thought he was saying "red dragon archfrey" needless to say I was a little child and felt stupid when I got into the game seriously in 2016.
I'm pretty sure the DD burn deck is Bots just because I run an 8 card extra Deck and I have seen zero ZERO DD burn decks try and play me. Now it could be they all check beforehand but I refuse to believe in 2 months every single one of them checks before they start their plays.
Got an idea for a Plat 1 challenge, that being Solidarity. The only rules are that you have to be mono type and you have to run 2 or 3 Solidarity. If any of the patrons see this, suggest this, please.
Dudes in 2019 were running a Rokket engine alongside Resonators to get a lot of free material onboard using Quick Launch. Not sure how necessary that would actually be, given that I've only seen you brick like two times an hour into this, but it's a fun tech option.
Also Joe, read King Calamity. Bane lets you climb right into it (bring a base RDA back to the field, summon two Resonators by itself through battle damage), and King Calamity pretty much shuts down the opponent's cards for the turn.
Man after sitting through a few solitaires and nearly uninstalling Master Duel, I have to say I appreciate what you do all the more, Joe. This stuff gets frustrating in the modern age. Personally I think you should be able to downgrade your rank in MD to get more people on your level Dx. Stopped being fun in Silver
In my head, Hardleg is the Jack Atlas of the Yugitubers, up there with The Duel Logs as Akiza, and Cimooooo as Crow
so who's yusei
@@VanessaVersus unsure, so far, no yugituber has built and played a synchron deck in a series or has a Yusei profile picture or banner
I believe it's spelled JACK ATLAS. All caps required.
@@bjarneleigh4589 wasn't it basically a Right of passage for every 2010s yugituber to make a Quasar deck
@@VanessaVersus probably azneyes
That burn deck accidentally burning themselves to death was priceless
the best part is you can tell exactly how that happened: they forgot a Kaiju is still originally owned by them and paid the price
Resonator Archfiend beating Adamancipator, Tri-Brigade, and Drytron is pretty impressive.
That anime protagonist was an actual psychopath. It was the closest we could get to a shadow duel because my heart suffered physical damage from that
I do really wish this deck wasn't so one note because, as this video shows, this deck has a crazy hand trap game. Having this much synergy with Effect Veiler and Skull Miester is incredibly cool. I do wish we'd got to see the Spooky Dogwood as well because the original didn't run it and I would've liked to know how well it could work in the deck. Especially because Ancient Leaf Dragon Archfiend is up their with Pendulum yosenjus and Elementsabers as one of my favorite What a Decks
I would think Ghost Ogre or Ghost Reaper would have synergy by being LIGHT and DARK hand trap tuners. But only Ogre could be summoned off Emergency Teleport.
And their Zombie/Psychic types are a common conflict with the Fiend pile.
Super glad to see RDA get some attention. Honestly they really need a good level 7 and 11. RDAs just need some actual good synchros that aren't just your turn stuff. A quick effect pop and another negate would really help the deck since all they have are field nukes since field nukes are nice but Supernova's best features are often just that he's a big boi who can't die. More protection could be cool if they don't wanna do negates. Like a level 7 that can banish to protect red reign style and a level 11 that negates but takes two tuners would both be great and feel right at home. Also a way to go into the other two tuners RDA's before the battlestep that isn't just crimson resonator. A level 4 non-tuner that specials a resonator from grave or deck by banishing itself with the usual restrictions might makes pure Resonators better than the assault mode package is. Rda's are so cool design wise and I love their sheer field wipe shenanigan's so really hope they get some stardust level of support in the future. I mean they have the luck of being a rival deck so they for sure will I just hope it's good
I feel like Mathmech Final sigma is a great level 12 to go into against spell and trap heavy decks. It's easy to go into with how RDAs work and with the Assault mode engine or Abyss's revive effect is super easy to go into and gets Bane off your field since he's not great after reviving your Abyss. I feel like Joe focused a bit too much on the dark dragon restriction since a lot of the resonator support has it but Assault mode engine and Ascator can make other stuff and turn 2 reviving Diabolos leaves you with a lot of options. Sad to see that Joe just had some bad luck against the decks he faced.
Also Jojo Meme is always a plus. Thank you lord Cvit
I've alwayds used Star Eater as the 11 and, almost ashamed to say this, Exploder Dragonwing, as the 7. While Black Rose is probably the better card, I just lock myself into Darks too often to use it.
I think they need 1 card starters that get you to Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss then they are ok eventhough they would still not be good
@Cringe Doctor It's ot about getting it out on turn 1 or not the problem with the deck is that it takes to many cards to get there.
There are no 1 card starters and because of that you need to many resources to get to a single negation/boss monster.
Crimson Resonator helped the Deck a lot but it's not enough. Most 2 card combos can't even get you to a negate you need crimson resonator or at least 3 cards and then there is the thing that you specifically need tuners and non tuners so you need to play a lot of both and they all do nothing. You cant play enough other cards like handtraps you are very limited to engines because your lockedinto Dark Dragon Synchros and the 2-3 card combo that give you 1 negate loses to most hand traps.
The Deck has to many flaws it's very sad they could make it so much stronger they don't need to fear that it would be abuses in other decks because your locked into Dark Dragon Syncros anyway I don't get why they don't give good monsters and searchers to the deck.
@Cringe Doctor Yes sure that is possible. But against very well build meta decks played by a very good player you will lose most of the time even if your deck is very well build and you pilot it very good. The deck is still weak even if you beat meta decks with it
I can't believe how many games you can win off of exploiting a Yu-Gi-Oh player's worst enemy...."basic reading comprehension"
1:45:30 "Aah, you were at my side, all along... My true mentor... My guiding lightning..."
I REALLY love this new format. The chapters are snappy and engaging, and they make it really easy to come back to the video and watch it in chunks (but hopefully not watching it in one go doesn't hurt the metrics too much.)
That freaking Goddess of Sweet Revenge… that was hilarious. Such nonsense in our time.
the duel vs anime protagonist is the best duel ever an absolute 10/10
I'm surprised how often the extra life points mattered lmao.
Love the series, keep it up!
Will do! Make sure you tell your friends! I need all the new viewers I can get!
You can play Noble Knight Shield Barrier to search Hop Ear. If you revive Chaos Ruler from the Graveyard you can use him to make Baronne de Fleur on your ops turn. This makes up for the Dark Dragon restrictions
I am glad you got to play something fairly competent after doing the Egyptian god grind
And then right back to incompetent next month
I think he reach plat 1 with (Numeron) Egyptian god though…..So I really root for him to reach plat 1 with this as well 😅
These are by FAR my favorite videos of yours they're fun to see. Would you consider trying aliens? I've been trying to make them work with the broken bamboo and golgar combo. I have figured that going second seems to be the best and dark ruler no more helps. It'd be dope to see it tried. It may be up the alley for this series. at the start of this one so I got my snacks and my work to hang out watching this. Off I go.
Aliens are on the edge of playability. I'd consider them, but it's really up to the Patrons to vote.
@@HardlegGaming What kills me is they have GOOD cards, but the deck as a whole just isn't that great and it sucks cause butt stuff needs to be a deck! lol
Hardleg, I must say, you are the most entertaining Yugituber. And I'm not just saying that because you've played one of my favorite archetypes.
Edit: You can actually summon Red Nova Dragon with Scarlight.
I’ve actually used red nova dragon in duels to help otk as hot read dragon archfiend bane resummons scarlight and 2 tuners to get to 12 is easy
This series is great and it's nice to see that it's a little bit in the spirit of what a deck. Also shout out to the editing!
I freaking jumped up when I saw that protag player flip over Goddess. Madlad plays.
When the RDA support finally hits MD (god forbid it’s before the heat death of the fucking universe) I’d love to see a salty run back of this deck because their toolbox+dis pater makes them surprisingly potent
Side note, Civit’s editing just hits different man
Hey Joe, happy satisfied patron of yours here, just the other day we had a little back and forth in the comments of a video, and the primary topic was how entertaining and appealing your jank decks are to pit up against meta stuff and low and behold here is road to plat 1 with another janky-ish not at all meta deck and no surprise at all it's highly entertaining. Such a nice coincidence, this might be my new favorite series if you keep it going. Great work again
Yup! That's pretty much my bread and butter, playing jank against meta. That's why I like Master Duel and it's competitive ladder, finally gives me consistent challengers.
"Long Long MaaaaaAAAAaaan"
Cvit's editing is pure gold
Hello hardleg love the content! But as for those "bots" we can confirm that there are indeed a CRAZY number of bot players online, so I'd guess that it's more then likely it was a bot even if it appears to be thinking as sometimes it may just be thinking of how to order the plays it has in it's hand and comparing it to whatever you have on board. It's true most people just sell the accounts, but you can just leave it on a main account and grind for gems forever it just might take a while. If that bot had all those royal rares, I'd guess that person is just keeping all those gems and opening packs for themselves. I don't think it was hacking for higher rarity cards because that has not been a widely observed cheat in the community (as of now), but I guess anything is possible
Just got to the bot part and I'd like to add that all the royal rare and shiny cards are there because it's more enticing to a buyer of the account if it's advertized as "You get a bunch of gems and also it comes with X number of random Royal Rare cards to 'get you started.'" Probably because it grinds gems so much, they're able to open packs when they have free time and pack/craft spam in order to get the royal rarities.
@@emperorlelouch6322 yeah that's totally true, since the cap is 10000 having random royal rares to dismantle is pretty handy to act as extra gems. Although wouldn't it take too long grinding for an account like that to sell vs just selling at 10000 gems? Then again idk how many bots this guy is farming 🙃
Absolutely adore this series, don't even know half of these archetypes, it's great!
Maybe next time do one of the solo mode free archetypes? Dinomist? Gladiator Beasts? Ruin & Demise? Elemental Lords? World Legacy? (Or Krawlers! My current main deck :D haha). Etc!
Next episode has already been chosen, I say it at the end of the episode.
@@HardlegGaming I just got there.... You... Must be insane..
I'm praying for you Sir, Good luck and God speed.
That one deck, the one that you faced around the 45 minute mark. They have Starlight Road and no Stardust Dragon to actually use it with. Good deck. Reminds me of the deck I faced during the Synchro Festival, Blue Eyes, running a single copy of Polymerization...
lol
Isn't it depressing that RDA of all decks has an easier time incorporating LP gain into their strategy than Aromages...I believe they will get something. They have to...
I like that you say "we did it" whenever you win against an uphill battle. Its not just Hardleg Joe (if any'a didnt know) ; its all of us against the broken combo and stun decks.
Just wanted to thank you Joe. Been using my gems to make Synchro decks in Master Duel. Already finished my Speedroids one and now wanna make Red Dragon Archfiend one because you make it look so powerful.
I swear, the amount of times you topdeck Lightning Storm is pure protagonist energy and I love it
I literally just finished a Red Dragon Archfiend Resonator deck today, this video feels like a sign.
I know that this is a 4 month old video, but coming back to watch it again, I just realized that at 20:13 after the Banquet starts returning all the banished monsters to the extra deck there's a split-second visual bug where Wandering King Wildwind is just chillin' faceup in the extra deck.
Wandering King Wildwind pendulum retrain confirmed
The absolute shock in Joe's voice when he saw goddess of sweet revenge was amazing
You can use Scarlight to go into Red Nova, because it treats itself as Red Dragon Archfiend, I would also recommend playing more Creation and Synkron Resonators, as well as an Engine or 2
I really enjoyed this deck when you played it for what a deck so I was pumped you did this episode for it. I really the editing to it was funny cuts and inserts
"Battle Fader, He's Fading your Battles"
If you're interested I'm a player that exclusively plays RDA in Ranked and relatively easy get to the highest ranking every season, there's a lot of improvements you can do to your deck to make it incredibly busted & able to play around everything in most cases.
First trick to tell you about is that the only link monster you only need is the Halqifibrax, you don't need any other link monsters, you should also add Shooting Riser dragon (this is what you turn halqifibrax into) & Phantom King Hydride (a tuner monster that counts as a none tuner if needed) so most of the time when you got a dead hand you simply use the red resonator to summon another possibly useless monster that is bricking your hand and this will allow you to go into a setup that will be able to turn itself into a baronne de fleur on the opponents turn, if you're able to play properly & get out a Chaos ruler you can also use the halqifibrax to summon a level 1 tuner which then allows you to summon the shooting riser dragon on enemies turn, put a wandering king wildwind to the graveyard with it's effect and then it becomes level 3 you can then quick effect synchro summon a king calamity on the opponents turn & during your turn you can search out a crimson resonator -> play it use effect and then bring back chaos ruler from graveyard since shooting riser dragon is light and hydride is dark. this will give you a Red Supernova Dragon and basically finish your opponent assuming the king calamity summon shut em down.
Haven’t seen Joe play Red Dragons in awhile, always fun to see Joe play this deck with its new support. I wonder if we will see some of his older decks updated eventually
That duel with Fossil Dina was the greatest thing I've ever witnessed
Another plat 1 climb video! You love to see 'em
I was just wondering the other day if Red Dragon Archfiend was any good. It has this edgy dragon BIG NUMBER vibe that just feels very YGO to me, even if the combos take a bit longer than i'd like. Also i LOVE the Resonators, they're just weird little guys(and now a relic from when Konami made Tuners actually related to tuning).
I love this series, it's super fun! Keep it up!
The combos aren't that bad
It's literally Crimson Res + Any Lv4 straight into Red Supernova
The rest is just flavour to try and do more
58:10 you place it in a very vulnerable place. If your opponent has a second Transverser, they can switch yours to another monster.
Double Lightning Storm into that Eldlitch Solemn was hilarious.
Crimson resonator is such a funny card. It's one of the few cards with restriction text that's entirely understandable because otherwise resonators would be insane lmao. Also huh I didn't know dark hole had an animation.
Yo! Goddess of Sweet Revenge!
I have yet to pull it off, but props to that person for getting close
Regarding the smooth sailing in gold: I've noticed the same thing this season where I've deliberately not ranked up to platinum and I think its because you now get locked into plat where before you could derank to gold. Everyone in gold by the end of the season hasn't been able to rank out which means a 99% chance their deck sucks ass.
This was recorded fairly early in the season, like the first week. I can't imagine everyone good ranks up in the first 2 days do they?
@@HardlegGaming yes they do I tend to not play of the 1st two days to avoid all the Meta decks.
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Bane has the ability to go into shooting majestic dragon, or summon an assault mode stardust. Also bring out a ghost ogre from the deck.
Some of us resonator players have been tinkering around with a noble knights shield bearer engine. 3x bearer to search the targets, which are hop ear for synchroing barronne your opponents turn and dynathernuim for just a random extender. I also run phantom king hyride for a brick line (summon via halq + shooting riser = barrone)
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Love the content c:
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The fact that Red Reign made it at three in the deck as far as it did is miraculous to me. Makes me quite happy.
42:24
The "Scoop after big guy shows up" syndrome is very real in this game, so you have my sympathies in that regard. While grinding out dailies, one of the most consistent issues I ran into was trying to grind ones with attack declaration as the objective, because with decks like Maju Stromberg or Zombie Control, it's actually really hard to keep a player hooked for long enough to actually attack. Once Maju comes in with a 8 000 body or Balerdroch starts existing period, most of the time people just bolt it right away. It's why Rank10 Trains has become a bit of a pet-deck for me, because it's the easiest thing to grind with. I don't know why, but it seems like rushing in with Liebe doesn't give that immediate reaction to scoop on the spot. Maybe because Rank10 fields are usually rather empty, alot of people just don't get that "Fuck this" reaction right away, because there's this idea that "I only need to get over one thing". That's my theory anyway.
Even outside of trying to grind dailies though, it kinda does sometimes get on my nerves that people just won't let me do my thing. I understand the frustration of just wanting to get on with the next game or stop right there, but I did make my decks with the intention of getting to play them and I'd rather not feel like I have to play a deck not because I love it and put alot of effort into making it, but because people actually let me play with it. It has admittedly made me more patient as a player. I used to do similarly quite often, especially on EDOpro or in person, where getting right into another game takes no time at all, but now that I know what it feels like to get chronically blue-balled, I have started to stick with duels until the last moment. A sort of gesture of "You played/deckbuilt well, I'll let you do your thing".
Although of all daily grinding, one of my favorites to do is trap activation, because I can just imagine the reactions I get from people with my bizarre plays and disproportionately bad deck for my rank. If anyone ever runs into "Big Bunion" in Diamond with a terrible Paleo/Frog deck and a tendency to use Olenoides on their own backrow, that's me (and you're welcome for the free win).
Hardleg has had some great editors for this series and I want to especially say that cvit always make me smile with his edits hahaha it's always a great time when cvits around!
Oddly enough does cvit play Yu-Gi-Oh? If so man I wonder what deck they would play haha
the choke in duel 2, Dawn walker could have discarded red reign to summon ascator from hand, then make a level 8 synch, then normal chain resonator to possibly make red supernova with a red reign set by its own effect
This is the most entertaining episode of the series so far. I'm honestly surprised that you weren't able to push into Plat 1 by the end. It would have been nice to see the funny version happen too.
Did you finish off the life point gain mission by the end of this?
Oh yeah, I finished it off on like the first day lol.
Dude that lightning storm top deck was so sweet 🤣🤣 😂 meme level over 9000
The last duel was the best finale for the series, cant think of the better ending
This was absolutely insanity. Why in the hell are gimmicks all in plat? Awesome episode, thanks for the attempt and I'm so sorry it has eroded your mind a little.
Crystrons? No. RDA? No. Egyptian fuckin Gods? Sure.
What do you mean "mercy"? Ojama best deck right? XD
You can do it you madman
The way the video ended with Joe getting cut off. God basically said no 🤣
At 12:25 if you didn’t activate the dragons effect you could have used the resonator’s effect to summon red supernova dragon. (the main boss monster)
I mean I’m pretty happy that the deck I suggested got so high and did pretty good through most of the matches. I was just thinking what you could have done was have a play to go into king calamity on your opponents turn constantly and just otk from there isn’t necessarily to hard from that position.
Ah beautiful just in time for breakfast and lunch and probably dinner. Thank you good sir
The part with the Swift Scarecrow into 3 Battle Faders is hilarious 😂 "How many Battle Faders do you have, young man?" XD
Great as always :D
Though I'm surprised to see the deck not making it to Plat 1. After the initial duels I thought you'd make it. But maybe the deck's "downfall" is that it seems to only be able to do one thing.
But the god news is, in this season, you can try to get into Diamond Rank :D
After watching hardleg for 5 years, I still can't cease to amaze his inability to do the simplest math knowing he is very intelligent man
I've been play RDA for months now and I gotta tell you its super fun but bricky as hell. The assault engine + Barrone + a few other synchros can make the deck a lot better but since they rarely if ever get summoned first turn, things can get difficult. I hope it gets some support in the future that can up its consistency without making into a combo heavy shit show like synchros or speedroids. Awesome video by the way and praise be to the Ojama empire of meme decks.
So, halq takes care of some of the bricks. to further fix it. Shooting riser dragon actually makes a wonderful help. So it's go into halq bring out riser on your opponents turn. if the set up is right you can either go into Barrone OR King Calamity which is almost just an auto win at that point.
YES I've been waiting for this
Aaaah, Mecha Bunny... that takes me back to World Championship games...
Oh my god, that penultimate duel was just an endless mode of top deck bullshit.
And well-put in the summary, Hardleg. The low ceiling, linear gameplan, and red rising dragon being very breakable rung of the synchro ladder drag the deck down.
Still, there's some novelty to recycling your hand traps with burning soul and 2 recurring banish nukes that do spice up the deck. However, more Synchro's to diversify the ladder and an actual omni negate like their own Shooting Majestic Star Dragon would be nice.
Bruhh, the supernova edit at 30:28 killed me 😂😂😂😂😂.
Did not expect to hear Cvit in this video :D
He's Joe's editor!
42:05 General Kenobi!
Cruelty Squad OST at 26:55, I imagine Leg is a fan too (I think MBT is one too?)
It looks amazing but I can't play it. I sometimes get motion sick from regular FPS games, so I don't think I'd be able to make it through Cruelty Squad's purposely distorted visuals.
I have only ever confirmed one D.D dynamite bot and its because I gave them an abyss actor comic relief and the bot just died and sat there for the entire timer in standby phase
Fuck yes. Skull Meister is the strongest hand trap. He would beat nearly every other one in a fight.
I summoned Ancient Pixie Dragon so much in the Synchro festival because sometimes that was the only thing I could do.
I was so tempted to buy it because it's like the only level 7 you can make, but it's a UR and garbo in every other deck
Ojamas is next!!! Oh boy, if i was intertested on RDA because i like this deck, next one im interested because of suffering.
Nethersoul dragon is a good synchro dark dragon and beelzus dragon
Woah, you mean red dragon summoning something aside a big bungus to smack your opponent
Ok, this deck is heat; once it gets started, it feels like it never runs out of gas. The Jack Atlas fanboy in me is so happy
Fun fact, the first anime I watched was 5ds and every time jack said red dragon archfiend I thought he was saying "red dragon archfrey" needless to say I was a little child and felt stupid when I got into the game seriously in 2016.
44:52 hardleg explains to Gage why not to play chain energy in the progression series
Red nova can be used with scarlight as scarlight is the OG on field and in GU
@49:39 "theyve got a name that makes me think theyre a hacker" joe...
I'm pretty sure the DD burn deck is Bots just because I run an 8 card extra Deck and I have seen zero ZERO DD burn decks try and play me. Now it could be they all check beforehand but I refuse to believe in 2 months every single one of them checks before they start their plays.
Is Ancient Leaf a Dragonball reference?
"It's over _nine _*_thousand!"_* and he just draws two.
i cannot fathom the agony of playing this DARK deck in a format filled with bystials
2:14:12 every once in a while I come back to this video for this reaction 😂😂😂
Dang i would have donated just to see Ghostwood in action
Great vid man
Gotta come out to the streams!
Got an idea for a Plat 1 challenge, that being Solidarity. The only rules are that you have to be mono type and you have to run 2 or 3 Solidarity. If any of the patrons see this, suggest this, please.
1:08:07 is the perfect summary of playing Resonators
1:11:07 You could've tribute set the Dawnwalker to activate Lightning Storm.
The tweaked matchmaking will make the next climb interesting... Hopefully Ojamas arent an obstacle.
Oh they will be. But thanks for the hope regardless lol
He's the master of faster. He rules the duels. He puts the "King" in "So %#$king Jank". Hardleg out here just Full Jack Atlasing it up.
Dudes in 2019 were running a Rokket engine alongside Resonators to get a lot of free material onboard using Quick Launch.
Not sure how necessary that would actually be, given that I've only seen you brick like two times an hour into this, but it's a fun tech option.
Also Joe, read King Calamity. Bane lets you climb right into it (bring a base RDA back to the field, summon two Resonators by itself through battle damage), and King Calamity pretty much shuts down the opponent's cards for the turn.
Man after sitting through a few solitaires and nearly uninstalling Master Duel, I have to say I appreciate what you do all the more, Joe. This stuff gets frustrating in the modern age. Personally I think you should be able to downgrade your rank in MD to get more people on your level Dx. Stopped being fun in Silver
It helps if you have chat to keep you company. And a book, as you saw in this episode.
A good note to remember, if you don't see what your opponent was playing you can go into the match history to check the opponent's deck.
WOOOW RED DRAGON ARCHFIEND, LET'S GOOO!
Time thiefs next? Really enjoying this series!
Nope. I say what's next at the end of the episode, if you stay passed the credits.
@@HardlegGaming yah, meant after the ojamas. Worded it wrong. I assume the goal for ojamas will be to get to diamond 1?
I am McLovin' it as well.
Can't wait to watch the ojamas. Will there be a lime feature?
can you reach diamond 1 with time lords? I reached plat 3 tier so far with them