Ironic how Tearlaments utilizing the Spright Engine(even if it's just Elf+Sprind) was key for them winning this matchup. And that's why MD decided to hit Merrli instead and even with Kitkallos the deck's just mid over there now.
I don't understand how ocg/tcg try so hard to not straight up ban 1 of the three mermaid after so long. Could have address the problem much sooner and more effective.
Md decided to ban merrli instead of kitkallos because one is a UR and the other is not. Kitkallos will always be the better ban. Also merrli ban was kinda irrelevant, everything else there is banned except kitkallos
@@PyroniumZ its bc of they dont want to ban 3 card (kitkallos, elf and sprind) also kitkallos is SR With only ban Merlli and limit beaver they shutdown tearlament and any spright melffy variants I think MD did a good job there.. Fur hire, live twin even gishki is rogue viable thx to elf but spright with melffy end board is no more.. While OCG/TCG ban kit and elf doesnt kill tear and spright at all
This game was obviously going to be a wash with POTE spright not having access to sprind and the bystials in comparison to DABL tear with rulkalos and sprind
@@vehicledestroyer something being "a wash" means that neither side gains nor loses anything from whatever is going on and i've never heard it in another context tbh :p
@@rafiurrahman5208 i get that they meant it that way, i was just saying that per definition/typical usage of the term that's not what it means :D although im really not like, idk i just wanted to mention it x)
Tear having DABL cards really turned the tides here, Spright might've been able to snatch another game or maybe even the set had it not been for that. Also I believe during POTE format Runick Spright was preferred over pure.
I know this is cross banlist cup and understand how it's run but i genuinely just realized the spright list is from POTE fresh released and the tear list is from DABL which is 2 whole set ahead that 100% make so much impact to power level of this 2 deck. If tear can have rulk and sprind then spright should have like 6 bystial in main deck. I know lithium doesn't want to use bystial spright because it's just too broken for other match but seeing tear can use sprind but spright can't use it to send nimble angler is so unfair in my opinion. But this is just a fun duel, keep your good work lithium.
The fact is that aside the cards you mentioned, tear was able to comeback the first two games because of scream, that card on its own makes tear a different beast from the one of POTE
Tear played more dangers and had snow in pote though, that was probably a better version of the deck overall Also bystial spright would be bad for the cbc, it's a meta call that can't work outside of it's meta
@@andrejv.2834I don't say bystial is op but i *heard* or *seeing* some time ago lithium don't want bystial because it's too strong for cbc. But that aside, YCS Niagra and YCS Utrecht literally have more spright variant in top cut than any tear variant because support in DABL doesn't exist yet. It supported by the fact that YCS Minneapolis after DABL legit have 50% tearlament top far from even spright with all their bystial. I don't care about danger and snow in tear if i get scream, rulk and sprind.
@@sdedy379 spright had more top cut representation but a worse conversion rate in top cut, tear always got deeper tournament runs Also the dangers gave more gas going 2nd while also giving better going 1st boards that don't lose to board breakers thanks to gryphon + curious, this wasn't legal in dabl format
@@andrejv.2834 Curious was banned on December 1st, so little over a month after TCG got DABL. The ishizu cards came in about 2 weeks after DABL came to the tcg. Danger tear just did not have much time during DABL
Man, these games were great, but looking at them, it's almost hard to believe that there was a time where Spright was considered better/T0. The whole time tear must be thinking "Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power."
TCG spright wasnt t0. Spright didnt actually get a leg up over Tear until Runick Spright comes to tcg Like the meme about spright was during their tcg run was that banning Toadally Awesome was a massive buff for them
Was never a tier 0. It was tier 0 in ocg because tear wasnt explored as much, even before they started banning everything in ocg tear was catching up. This match up wasnt that fair because one is tear with darkwing blast cards and the other is spright with just POTE cards. No sprind and no bystials make a big difference
@@PyroniumZOh was it Ronin?(hey theyre both toad) I only remembered it killed the toad line.... and then won the next YCS and clearly a dominent deck the format after. Its funny af
This match shows the power of Tearlaments. It was able to 3-1 the strongest version of spright going second. I thought this set would be closer but wow.
Honestly with you, If the Tear player (Lithium) negated Spright Elf with Toad in game 3, Instead of negating Ronintoadin, Then Tear would've won 3-0. Literally.......
That was...incredibly impressive from Tearlament. Particularly game one, they just completely plowed through the resources like nothing. Just goes to show that you REALLY need turn ender cards against them...one off disruptions just don't work. Pretty much has to be exactly Abyss Dweller and Dimension shifter. The turn ending VFD lockout was why VW was able to beat them. Next matchup, should be an easy walkover for Fire Fist. Chaos Dragon lost my vote when they resolved Future Fusion twice in a row and lost both times. If your absolute best banned power card cannot win you a duel against a not very great deck, Idk what to say.
The deck isn’t dead. It’s only struggling because of kash and especially unicorn rip in a best of 1 format. If kash was like it was in tcg right now tear would be crazy good because there’s still kit.
@@AndrewUdal it seems good on paper, but it’s really not that good. Kit and chaos ruler give you only 10 - 12 mill if you get lucky and you only have 3 girls and 2 different names. At max your fusing into kit to go into rulk and that’s all the fusing you can do. That said, it’s a 100% playable, and by no means a bad deck. It’s just not as crazy as you think it would be after ariseheart ban. Funnily enough, people run a lot of kashtira cards as well as thrust package, meaning ariseheart isn’t a one card ftk for this deck any more.
@@Csthh that’s still not entirely bad. Keep in mind that if the ocg can do it then so can master duel. The millers are crazy good but when kit is around suddenly rino is busted. If it’s 1 thing I’ve learned, it’s that when you think tear is dead, it’s not. I mean the deck is literally tier 3 in this current format with lash around. That speaks volume
@@andrejv.2834 That is true but I'd still put these as the 2 favourites to win. I won't lie though SS is definitely scary especially with protos available and full knowledge of what they're playing against
Embarassing from the spright player. those spright starters into negates were not good. If you see scream on field, you just try to starter into red asap to prevent a special summon. Super poly first game would have ripped 1 card away atleast. And the 2nd game after dark ruler not SS red right away was also a mistake. Specials from hand into screams snowballed too quick there.
and always going for 3 on prosperity makes no sense for me. also, pre dabl spright with no sprind and no bystials, although having ronin, feels strange against dabl tear
@whendelgabriel6772 I think they chose this list because spright was considered better than tear at the time, and they are taking the deck at their most successful form? What doesn't make sense is that tear isn't running any of the MAMA Ishizu cards, but I probably missed lithium explaining the reason for that
maybe. About no running the ishizu cards, lithium explained the reason for not choosing the ishizu version when the decks were announced, i believe. He said that ishizu tear would be way too powerful which i completely agree, just see the "a challenger appears" with ishizu tear@@rileyvantriet
Insane misplays around 6:30 by tear. They use make kit before mudragon. No reason to not have the 1st name make mudragon, then 2nd name make kit. Kit wouldve resolved and the game is gg from there. End result was all the same but a huge throw that game
This was more one sided than I expected. Spright only really managed to get a good start in game 3, which was the only game it won, so... yeah. Anyways, going with 3-axis Fire Fist 3-2 in the next one. More recent deck. Access to Dragon Ruler engine. Yeah, this should be a no brainer.
That depends, do you root for “you will watch me build a negate board 2020 version and no interaction.” Or “interaction gone wrong feat. Mermaid Waifus 2022 version.”
@@johnathanlemus5584 In the end I’ll probably reluctantly root for Tear. Be like rooting for the Chicago Bears over the Green Bay Packers as a Vikings fan, lol.
@@johnathanlemus5584 Tearlaments all the way. Adamancipator full power just screams toxic for me. Meanwhile Tearlaments is just built different archetype.
Chaos ruler was banned at that point and even when it was legal(together with halq), it was a worse version than danger tear, wasnt worth the bricks and the worse mills. With every tear at 3 you arent desperate for mills
the deck statistics really start to no longer make any sense. why is tear not 5 in everything, why is spright more defensive than tear, and why is spright with 4 recovery when it is almost guaranteed to do full combo the next turn most of the time
Tear only mainy plays drnm and super poly as their defensive options and doesn't play/can't side in that many generics because of consistency issues anyway Spright has more hand traps, which are defensive cards, and doesn't really have good recovery as they've already went through most of their stuff that's not blue/jet on turn 1
I also think it doesn't make sense. Defense should probably be "Number of interruptions" or something like that. Tear boards are beyond busted af, So that's an easy 5 for them in defense (And everything else)
Bystials don't help Spright THAT much in reality. Technically they would if they faced this Tear deck, but that wouldn't be a fair match. A Spright deck with Bystials would be an updated deck. You'd then be putting in the Ishizu Tear deck with their own Bystials that they run who are even good against Spright, even if they aren't as good as they are against Tear. Not to mention, Ishizu Tear is FAR better than Danger Tear. Spright would much rather take on Danger Tear without Bystials than Ishizu Tear with Bystials.
Before watching it's close as this is literally a POTE match lol but tear almost always wins they draw spoly or dark ruler. The tear list is shit and the spright list has a lot of HTs though so if tear isnt good ato pening spoly or dark ruler then spright takes this
@@snakevenom56 More like if lithium negated Spright Elf with Toad, Instead of negating Ronintoadin 😂 Then yeah it would've been 3-0. Tearlaments are simply far superior to Spright even without Ishizus
If nothing else, Spright Elf being run in both decks and the types of plays that were enabled because of it are a testament to the reason it's banned.
Still walking free in MD tho 😂
@@CaliburXL99 Well, another level 2 card is also walking free in md 💀
This was more of a showcase as to why Elf is banned lol. Such an insane card
Tear without Ishizu is still insane.
If only it went against the spright deck of the same format and not the previous format
It was nice seeing the resource loop of both decks. 👍
Ironic how Tearlaments utilizing the Spright Engine(even if it's just Elf+Sprind) was key for them winning this matchup. And that's why MD decided to hit Merrli instead and even with Kitkallos the deck's just mid over there now.
I don't understand how ocg/tcg try so hard to not straight up ban 1 of the three mermaid after so long. Could have address the problem much sooner and more effective.
Only Merlli? Everything else is at 1 and the millers are banned. The problem with the deck is consistency, not power level
Elf and sprind should not have been a thing in the first place
Md decided to ban merrli instead of kitkallos because one is a UR and the other is not. Kitkallos will always be the better ban. Also merrli ban was kinda irrelevant, everything else there is banned except kitkallos
@@PyroniumZ its bc of they dont want to ban 3 card (kitkallos, elf and sprind) also kitkallos is SR
With only ban Merlli and limit beaver they shutdown tearlament and any spright melffy variants
I think MD did a good job there.. Fur hire, live twin even gishki is rogue viable thx to elf but spright with melffy end board is no more..
While OCG/TCG ban kit and elf doesnt kill tear and spright at all
go tear :)
This was a really fun duel, but i think tear was incredibly well prepared for this matchup in a way that i dont think spright was
Different formats, one is spright from power of the elements and the other is tear from darkwing blast
Spright is from POTE format while Tear is from DABL format (pre MAMA)
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Tear is really broken 😅
Thanks for the usual spoiler
Este duelo de decks de la época lo viví como si hubieze sido ayer. Gran batalla dieron y bueno, ganó el mejor.
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This game was obviously going to be a wash with POTE spright not having access to sprind and the bystials in comparison to DABL tear with rulkalos and sprind
The term "wash" does not mean what you think it means :D
@@Flexy59 i mean...the context here fits. maybe you dont know what it means lmao
@@vehicledestroyer something being "a wash" means that neither side gains nor loses anything from whatever is going on and i've never heard it in another context tbh :p
@@Flexy59wash like in this case can also mean one sided
@@rafiurrahman5208 i get that they meant it that way, i was just saying that per definition/typical usage of the term that's not what it means :D although im really not like, idk i just wanted to mention it x)
Tear having DABL cards really turned the tides here, Spright might've been able to snatch another game or maybe even the set had it not been for that. Also I believe during POTE format Runick Spright was preferred over pure.
Yeah, but that was only for the few weeks before POTE format ended
Damn in some duels I couldnt even tell which duelist had their turn 😂
Too much action for me as a Yugi Boomer tbh
Must have never seen ishizu tear mirrors. It looked like the players were doing a deck profile mid duel but it was just the chain links and graveyards
This is nothing. Ishizu Tear mirrors is where is at in the matter of not knowing what turn it is.
@@PyroniumZhere comes the elitist
@@hyoroemongaming569 Here comes an actual elitist who also doesnt read what i said
@@PyroniumZ puke my words back, metasheep with no originality
This isn't even cross ban list at this point! I love it.
Almost not because its POTE spright vs DABL tear
I know this is cross banlist cup and understand how it's run but i genuinely just realized the spright list is from POTE fresh released and the tear list is from DABL which is 2 whole set ahead that 100% make so much impact to power level of this 2 deck.
If tear can have rulk and sprind then spright should have like 6 bystial in main deck. I know lithium doesn't want to use bystial spright because it's just too broken for other match but seeing tear can use sprind but spright can't use it to send nimble angler is so unfair in my opinion.
But this is just a fun duel, keep your good work lithium.
The fact is that aside the cards you mentioned, tear was able to comeback the first two games because of scream, that card on its own makes tear a different beast from the one of POTE
Tear played more dangers and had snow in pote though, that was probably a better version of the deck overall
Also bystial spright would be bad for the cbc, it's a meta call that can't work outside of it's meta
@@andrejv.2834I don't say bystial is op but i *heard* or *seeing* some time ago lithium don't want bystial because it's too strong for cbc.
But that aside, YCS Niagra and YCS Utrecht literally have more spright variant in top cut than any tear variant because support in DABL doesn't exist yet. It supported by the fact that YCS Minneapolis after DABL legit have 50% tearlament top far from even spright with all their bystial. I don't care about danger and snow in tear if i get scream, rulk and sprind.
@@sdedy379 spright had more top cut representation but a worse conversion rate in top cut, tear always got deeper tournament runs
Also the dangers gave more gas going 2nd while also giving better going 1st boards that don't lose to board breakers thanks to gryphon + curious, this wasn't legal in dabl format
@@andrejv.2834 Curious was banned on December 1st, so little over a month after TCG got DABL. The ishizu cards came in about 2 weeks after DABL came to the tcg. Danger tear just did not have much time during DABL
Man, these games were great, but looking at them, it's almost hard to believe that there was a time where Spright was considered better/T0.
The whole time tear must be thinking "Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power."
The tier 0 stuff was just hype, spright vastly underperformed later on, at least if your expectations were t0
TCG spright wasnt t0. Spright didnt actually get a leg up over Tear until Runick Spright comes to tcg
Like the meme about spright was during their tcg run was that banning Toadally Awesome was a massive buff for them
@@screwtokaiba you mean ronin, toad is still legal
Was never a tier 0. It was tier 0 in ocg because tear wasnt explored as much, even before they started banning everything in ocg tear was catching up. This match up wasnt that fair because one is tear with darkwing blast cards and the other is spright with just POTE cards. No sprind and no bystials make a big difference
@@PyroniumZOh was it Ronin?(hey theyre both toad)
I only remembered it killed the toad line.... and then won the next YCS and clearly a dominent deck the format after. Its funny af
Be interesting to see runick spright run the challenger appears circuit
"let me say in the other way, Tearlament was a bit too strong".
Humm, you mean to tell me... that maybe... Tiarament strongest?
Even when Tear majorly bricked, they still almost won against the numerous disruptions of Spright. Wow.
They only lost because of lithium negating Ronintoadin instead of Spright Elf, Using Toad smh
This match shows the power of Tearlaments. It was able to 3-1 the strongest version of spright going second. I thought this set would be closer but wow.
Honestly with you, If the Tear player (Lithium) negated Spright Elf with Toad in game 3, Instead of negating Ronintoadin, Then Tear would've won 3-0. Literally.......
really baffled by the lack of redoer in the tear extra deck 😱
It's not the deck profile your thinking of which would that would be tear ancients
That was...incredibly impressive from Tearlament. Particularly game one, they just completely plowed through the resources like nothing. Just goes to show that you REALLY need turn ender cards against them...one off disruptions just don't work. Pretty much has to be exactly Abyss Dweller and Dimension shifter. The turn ending VFD lockout was why VW was able to beat them.
Next matchup, should be an easy walkover for Fire Fist. Chaos Dragon lost my vote when they resolved Future Fusion twice in a row and lost both times. If your absolute best banned power card cannot win you a duel against a not very great deck, Idk what to say.
Merrli being a lvl 2 is just too cracked lol
MD banning Merrli also showed that, killed the deck
The deck isn’t dead. It’s only struggling because of kash and especially unicorn rip in a best of 1 format. If kash was like it was in tcg right now tear would be crazy good because there’s still kit.
@@AndrewUdalit wouldn’t, there are no Ishizu millers.
@@Csthh true but there’s also chaos ruler. And a single rino or that’s other one that normals and sends an aqua equals kit
@@AndrewUdal it seems good on paper, but it’s really not that good. Kit and chaos ruler give you only 10 - 12 mill if you get lucky and you only have 3 girls and 2 different names. At max your fusing into kit to go into rulk and that’s all the fusing you can do.
That said, it’s a 100% playable, and by no means a bad deck. It’s just not as crazy as you think it would be after ariseheart ban. Funnily enough, people run a lot of kashtira cards as well as thrust package, meaning ariseheart isn’t a one card ftk for this deck any more.
@@Csthh that’s still not entirely bad. Keep in mind that if the ocg can do it then so can master duel. The millers are crazy good but when kit is around suddenly rino is busted. If it’s 1 thing I’ve learned, it’s that when you think tear is dead, it’s not. I mean the deck is literally tier 3 in this current format with lash around. That speaks volume
You know when he says "I can't lose this one right", he's gonna lose this one.
YO LET’S GO THE POTE META
I reckon these 2 might see each other again in the finals. I don't know if any of the other decks can truly compete with this kind of power creep
Any deck with drnm has a pretty good chance against spright going 2nd, and tear is hardly favoured against vw or swoso
@@andrejv.2834 That is true but I'd still put these as the 2 favourites to win. I won't lie though SS is definitely scary especially with protos available and full knowledge of what they're playing against
This aged very well lol
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it REALLY isn’t my year 😭
Feels ike they should really make card effects be activated either on your turn quick effects OR your opponents turn and not both.
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Embarassing from the spright player. those spright starters into negates were not good. If you see scream on field, you just try to starter into red asap to prevent a special summon. Super poly first game would have ripped 1 card away atleast. And the 2nd game after dark ruler not SS red right away was also a mistake. Specials from hand into screams snowballed too quick there.
and always going for 3 on prosperity makes no sense for me. also, pre dabl spright with no sprind and no bystials, although having ronin, feels strange against dabl tear
@whendelgabriel6772 I think they chose this list because spright was considered better than tear at the time, and they are taking the deck at their most successful form? What doesn't make sense is that tear isn't running any of the MAMA Ishizu cards, but I probably missed lithium explaining the reason for that
@@rileyvantrietthe list was before Ishizu cards was printed to make it more fair. Ishizu tear with everything at 3 beats everything
@@mussie8129 tear ishizu is the honorary winner of the cup, disqualified for being too good lol
maybe.
About no running the ishizu cards, lithium explained the reason for not choosing the ishizu version when the decks were announced, i believe. He said that ishizu tear would be way too powerful which i completely agree, just see the "a challenger appears" with ishizu tear@@rileyvantriet
Insane misplays around 6:30 by tear. They use make kit before mudragon. No reason to not have the 1st name make mudragon, then 2nd name make kit. Kit wouldve resolved and the game is gg from there. End result was all the same but a huge throw that game
The spright player had a lot of sequencing issues when it came to spright starter
Damn it's kinda crazy and unfortunate for the loser that these two decks faced each other in top 16. Could have been the finale as well :')
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This was more one sided than I expected. Spright only really managed to get a good start in game 3, which was the only game it won, so... yeah.
Anyways, going with 3-axis Fire Fist 3-2 in the next one. More recent deck. Access to Dragon Ruler engine. Yeah, this should be a no brainer.
Spright would've lost 0-3 if Lithium negated Spright Elf with Toad, Instead of negating Ronintoadin (In game 3) lmao
Tearlaments will always stay strongest.
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God do I hate Tears. But mannn, I see they're up against Adamancipators next and that's my most hated deck ever, so idk who I'm rooting for there.
That depends, do you root for “you will watch me build a negate board 2020 version and no interaction.” Or “interaction gone wrong feat. Mermaid Waifus 2022 version.”
@@johnathanlemus5584 In the end I’ll probably reluctantly root for Tear.
Be like rooting for the Chicago Bears over the Green Bay Packers as a Vikings fan, lol.
@@johnathanlemus5584 Tearlaments all the way. Adamancipator full power just screams toxic for me. Meanwhile Tearlaments is just built different archetype.
Playing pre ishizu tear and not playing punk is insane
His rationale for ishizu tear is that it's just too strong. I am in agreement.
Chaos ruler was banned at that point and even when it was legal(together with halq), it was a worse version than danger tear, wasnt worth the bricks and the worse mills. With every tear at 3 you arent desperate for mills
That's completely Not needed smh
SUSSY waifu meta
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the deck statistics really start to no longer make any sense. why is tear not 5 in everything, why is spright more defensive than tear, and why is spright with 4 recovery when it is almost guaranteed to do full combo the next turn most of the time
Tear only mainy plays drnm and super poly as their defensive options and doesn't play/can't side in that many generics because of consistency issues anyway
Spright has more hand traps, which are defensive cards, and doesn't really have good recovery as they've already went through most of their stuff that's not blue/jet on turn 1
I also think it doesn't make sense. Defense should probably be "Number of interruptions" or something like that. Tear boards are beyond busted af, So that's an easy 5 for them in defense (And everything else)
Bystials don't help Spright THAT much in reality. Technically they would if they faced this Tear deck, but that wouldn't be a fair match.
A Spright deck with Bystials would be an updated deck. You'd then be putting in the Ishizu Tear deck with their own Bystials that they run who are even good against Spright, even if they aren't as good as they are against Tear.
Not to mention, Ishizu Tear is FAR better than Danger Tear. Spright would much rather take on Danger Tear without Bystials than Ishizu Tear with Bystials.
yeah spright played really bad all the games ☠
Tearlaments made a mistake that costed them an entire round. Be grateful xd
first :]
Before watching it's close as this is literally a POTE match lol but tear almost always wins they draw spoly or dark ruler. The tear list is shit and the spright list has a lot of HTs though so if tear isnt good ato pening spoly or dark ruler then spright takes this
Nvm, open spoly into open druler
should have been a 3-0 if he dracostapelia'd the jet, turning it into a level 1 and thus having no ways to make a zeus
@@snakevenom56the jet had targetting protection
Big difference is that this was DABL tear, if it was a POTE match it would be way closer or spright could actually win
@@snakevenom56 More like if lithium negated Spright Elf with Toad, Instead of negating Ronintoadin 😂 Then yeah it would've been 3-0. Tearlaments are simply far superior to Spright even without Ishizus