Hilariously, it was one of the only cards that I found that could make my Vampire deck playable....allowing me to put the level 1 familiar again and again in the grave. Rip.
@@Set2Seth Problem is, I can have only one of it in a rotation at a time, and vampires kinda suck at getting anything that isn't vampire out of the grave. Linkuriboh was god for this as I can just tribute my level 1 easily.
Scareclaw Light Heart is obviously played in Mannadium but upon release it saw play for being a link-1 tribeast that Tri-Brigades could summon from their effects.
Basically, he is a link 1 that can be summoned with the effect of a tri-brigade. You can't acctivate it's search effect, but you can use it as link material to go into something like Farrijit. From what I have understood, he's main pourpose is making plays even if you only have a tri-type in your GY to banish
Oh boy! Do I get to talk about Tyhone #2?! Okay, so Tyhone #2 is a vanilla lvl 6 Fire Dragon-type with awful stats. However... This is super useful in Hazy Flames, a Rank 6 Toolbox deck. Because it's a normal monster, it can be summoned out from deck using Hieratic Dragon of Tefnuit, which is also a free Special Summonable lvl 6, so you're running him anyway. On the off chance you draw it, you can send it away with Celestial Observatory, a draw card that needs you to pitch a lvl 6. Didn't draw Celeestial Obseravtory? No problem. Hazy Flame Peryton, the playmaker of the deck, needs you to tribute a Fire in hand to summon two Hazy's from deck. Would you look at that, Tyhone checks that box off as well. It can also be brought back from the GY with Hazy Flame Sphynx if you don't have any other applicable lvl 6's to access the Extra Deck. Super niche, but super useful. Love the little guy.
I was going to ask why they didn't use Twin-Headed Fire Dragon instead, but for some reason that's a Pyro instead of a Dragon. I will never understand monster types.
Yeah it turned a bunch of random monsters into 1 card combo starters like sangan, aleister, cyber dragon core, pk cloak boots and greaves, whitebeard etc.
Yeah almiraj was kinda the core issue of the link mechanic for a good while as it gave you the ability to freely trigger graveyard floating provided you met its condition. If they ever print a Link 1 that just has 0 text but generic materials its gonna be such a busted card.
Emerald Tortius saw play in Ishizu Tear Format because the Crystal Beast Trap could search (from GY) any Field Spell + A Crystal Beast. Emerald Tortius was Aqua so it could be used as material for some of the Tear Fusions.
It could be used for kitkalos which was the only reason it was good, cause kitkalos is your starter and you could recicle the turtle making it so you could run multiples of the trap or never brick on the trap cause you could shuffle the turtle back and search again, gamaciel was also used on tear for the same reason, it's an aqua monster so it's half a kitkalos or a kaleido-heart
Us Tear players will do anything to search Perlereino. I play two of the garnet, Triviakarma, a completely dead card on draw that can’t be pitched off Scheiren because it’s not a monster, or Reino because it’s not a Tear card, because milling it is a free Planet.
The release of Promethean Princess led to play for Amphibious Swamship Amblowale, a card nobody had heard of before, because it's a generic link-4 fire monster with a decent effect
I remember playing in master duel a long time ago when there was one of those festivals where salad was playable but accesscode was banned and... well it is a link 4 that gets kind of large.
Gotta shout out Artemis, the magistus moon maiden for enabling invoked decks by being a link-1 light monster using aleister as material then fuse into mechaba. Can’t forget secure gardna either.
Rocket Salamander is especially funny for this. Not only is it a level 1 fire, but it is also a level 4 or lower Pyro monster and a 1 card Ib synchro right when the card got unbanned.
It could maybe be useful for Diabell pitch a dragon, ib add guard dragon. Maybe Ib add succession could be pretty good too, since the bonfire pop line gets you a link on field on summon of Ib
Sometimes Koanmi will just randomly print a new 1500 def spellcaster and immediately every Charmer player will rush to see if this card will finally make them playable.
@@mayayamato7351 I wasn't playing since 2010 (when I played very casually) and got back in 2017 when I saw those robot dinosaurs. sadly I hadn't too much time to enjoy the deck before mr4
Metal Armored Bug happened to be playable in 2006 because it was an 8 star vanilla insect and thus demise otk used it, just in case it ran out of insect knights.
Just adding to this. Metal Armored Bug also fit a fun requirement as Swing of Memories could be used as a Monster Reborn if it was sent off of Advanced Ritual Art. Affter paying the 2K for Demise, King of Armageddon. A Doom Dozer or Metal Armored Bug with Megamorph + Demise just happened to be exactly 8000 damage. Weird bug just fit to damn well.
Extra deck Monarchs needing exactly a level 5 normal light fairy and using Dark Witch: - lvl 5 to tribute over seraphinite and trigger return, also for overlaying with red layer + prime monarch. - normal to be added back from brilliant fusion with gem knight lazuli. - light as a target for seraphinite. - fairy to allow you to play through rivalry of warlords. turning brilliant fusion into the entire tribute for erebus / ether and activating return was amazing for consistency in a fairly bricky deck.
X-Saber Palomuro during PePe format. It was a Reptile, so you could search it with King Of The Feral Imps, and it was a Level 1 EARTH Tuner, meaning you could use it + Hat Tricker to make Naturia Beast. It was the only Level 1 EARTH Reptile tuner in the game. Still is 😂
A fun little thing to add to instant fusion targets: Zombie Warrior, on account of being Level 3 and Dark, shot up to nearly $50 in 2021 because of Phantom Knights specifically, as it was only printed in an old-ass OTS pack.
Oh, god, I have to talk about my two Skill Drain Beat boys, Beast King Barbaros and Coach Captain Bearman. I recall the latter being used in past builds of Fire Kings (the one that came out with the original Onslaught of the Fire Kings structure) because it was a level 8 Fire Beast-Warrior that can be summoned without tribute, with an effect that could modify the levels of level 4 Beast-Warrior monsters you controlled; it and Coach Soldier Wolfbark allowed for a competent rank 8 engine in that build, from what I understand. The former is similar, but I recall it being used in the new Horus engine to - once again - facilitate rank 8 plays, as it was also a level 8 monster that can be summoned without tribute. One that I personally enjoyed was Photon Sabre Tiger as a Small World bridge in Wanghu Adventurer stun: it was level 3, so could search out any of the Ghost Girl hand traps and Water Enchantress, it's Beast so it can search out Wanghu, it's naturally 2000 ATK, so it can search out Illegal Knight and Wandering Gryphon Rider, AND it's Light, so it can search out stuff like Nibiru. I felt so smart when I found that out.
Vorse Raider saw some fringe play because it was searchable with Fire Formation Tenki then on field became a 2K beater so it could be Tributed for Deck Devastation Virus, to wipe out all 1500 or less ATK Monsters the opponent has.
@@pickyphysicsstudent201This is why I think Rescue Rabbit has an unfair rap. It’s a cool card with interesting deck building restrictions that made a bunch of fringe shit like this theoretically viable. The problem was that they printed a walking Solemn Judgment with material requirements that were too generic at a time when practically free negates on bodies weren’t common. I blame the frustration of Dino Rabbit on Laggia and, to a lesser extent, Dolkka, not Rabbit itself. Every other deck I’ve seen using Rabbit was doing cool stuff like this or tagging two Andals into an Essedarii, or using two Anu Piranha to drop Faultroll. Meanwhile, the most creative thing to do with Laggia was run Hydrogeddon in Heroes.
Chimeratech Fortress Dragon. It's just a beater on the field, but its ability to contact fuse your opponent's machine-type monsters make it the sole reason any machine deck has to keep looking over its shoulder.
I love that rush duels does this with every archetype. For example, the Onomat retrains all works around level 4 fire, so they played a bunch of random stuff that wasn’t Onomats.
Small world in Floo is wild af Reveal Raiza > reveal droll > add Robina Reveal dd crow > reveal raiza > add water barrier statue I accept all forms of digital payment and compliments 🐧
Some cards I think are neat for interesting reasons, with varying amounts of "good": Doomdog octhros is a level 3 fiend (summonable off tour guide and can be used to make cherubini) that searches a level 8 fiend (lady labrynth of the silver castle), while cherubini can indirectly search a normal trap that can be activated in the same turn. Back in TOSS, darkest diabolos, lord of the lair is a monster summonable in sky striker that opposing sky striker have next to no outs for. Harvest angel of doom is a generic scale 8 with a positive effect, making it one of the best searches off beyond the pendulum if you used darkwurm and are not playing a pendulum deck, but want to pendulum summon (solfachord dremia is another option due to coolia existing, but that only has scale 7). Besides level 2, level 6 (beatrice). Time thief winder is a monster that detaches a material from an xyz and summons itself, meaning it can be played in live twin in order to use 2 ki-sikil frost (which are level 2 aqua's) to summon toad, then use winder to detach one of the frosts so you have a ki-sikil in grave, and a second monster to use as material for evil twin li-la, unfortunately there is no time thief card worth searching. Exchange used to be one of the only ways to remove opponent's handtraps. Jigabyte is a level 4 water reptile that can special summon itself if you control a spellcaster, meaning it's about to see play in vaalmonica as it's searchable off king of the feral imps, and seletrice vaalmonica is a level 4 water spellcaster, meaning the 2 can be used to make bahamut shark (and the bahamut plus king of the feral imps makes UDF). Doombearer psychopompus is one of the few cards that makes the opponent move a card from their graveyard for exorsister, and it's "searchable" off crossout designator. Rescue ace turbulence and machina metalcruncher are debatably the best monsters to summon off world legacy monstrosity. Hallohallo is a level 3 dark fiend tuner normal pendulum monster, making it the best thing to summon off rescue hamster alongside sangan.
Not sure if anyone mentioned it on the thread but back in the day people were looking for stuff that had the Monarch stat line of 2400/2800 and 1000 def because of hype around their new stuff. Yeah you could search D.A.D. but people also played some real bad mons just because they fit in with the kings
I once used *Elemental Mistress Doriado* in a Megalith synchro deck (with Block Dragon) in Master Duel. She’s a level 3 Ritual monster, so she’s easy enough to find with generic ritual support, and to summon with Megaliths or Impcantations. And when she’s on the field, she’s treated as (among other things) Earth. Meaning her + Adamancipator Researcher makes… Naturia Beast.
Wait, no Elemental HERO Neos Alius? Only reason the kid isn't just another Gemini (not an awful Gemini, because the whole lot of them are terrible) is because he had the "anime-protag god-tier" luck to be a Level 4 LIGHT Warrior that was a HERO monster. If the stars that he would've been sent to had he been bad not aligned perfectly, he'd be just as forgetable as Red-Eyes Black Flare Dragon. (As a side note, did you know or even remember that Red-Eyes has THREE DIFFERENT Gemini monsters in its lineup? What in the hell does Konami have against that deck?)
"It might be time to take this card out to pasture" when talking about Linkuriboh. If only he knew what would happen in the TCG just under 2.5 months later.
I remember a while back, when Brotherhood of the Fire Fist was collecting steam in the TCG, they were a bit lean on monsters, so Coach Soldier Wolfbark was a three-of in Fire Fist decks. Coach Captain Bearman was not an uncommon find to go into Coach King Gaintrainer of all cards. I've never seen these 3 cards played again after Fire Fist got an actual full deck's worth of support cards to use. It didn't even really "break" these cards, but Bro Fist was the new hotness at the time and what they had was "good enough" to justify playing these other cards for a while, so people just did it while they waited for the actual cards to come in during the next few sets. Also helped that they could be searched by Tenki.
This reminds me of the early days of the synchro era when players were unironically usong Flamvell Magician because it was one of like 2 level 4 tuners that didn't have a downside
I agree that the tri type monsters of Tri-brigade and Raika are some of my favorite released cards because they let your deck building be more flexible and varied.
@LightningsRinRin well you know how things go, Konami can't ban a card until they stop selling product it's in. And ho boy, do they love the money snake eyes is bringing in.
@@Gh0stWh33lthat’s honestly a big problem with the game they take so long to ban the actual problem and just ban cards that are mediocre and are good in that particular archetype
About Spright: Chemicritter was cool to play with Magikey, now it's even cooler now that the Level 2s are bridge for the little spark sons. 👀 And speaking of Magikey, I would say that any deck that could use Benten for anything could merge them with Libromancer, all you needed is either Fire, Geek Boy or an access to the Field Spell + Benten or Preparation of Rites, and now you have Doombroker with a Omni-Negate Set and the Light Fairy of your choice, as well as 1 ~ 3 Libromancers (if you're playing Agent) to do anything else. Link climb, Synchro with them, Fire could give you Linguriboh, the world is your oyster at this point. And with Magikey, I usually search Manju with Benten, spend my Normal Summon on Manju to add High Ritual Art, XYZ Manju + Fire into Vepartu, activate its effect to add Clavkiys and now I have Full Magikey Combo as well, being able to either summon Dawn Dragster with Batosbuster + Geek Boy, or Baronne with Agent (which is not required but an option if you want to recycle the Omni).
2:06 When he said "Hopefully we wont play Archfiend Eccentric in 2024", I then realized that it is indeed a Light Fiend and will break Fiendsmith. Oh god noooooo 😢😢
Ancient Gear Box and Ballista being playable in Earth Machine because Box allows you to add a 500 ATK oder DEF EM monster is one of the funniest examples imo.
In an attempt to build t.g in master duel, I opened twenty ride into the future packs and only got half a snake eye core and an ENTIRE INFERNOBLE DECK. I realized relatively quickly the possible synergies with the snake eyes cards but thought surely infernoble snake eyes would suck. It was literally the best deck I'd ever built in master duel. Snake eyes is absolutely ridiculous
I like to imagine an alternate universe where this was the primary design philosophy of the game instead of archetypes. Create a game where decks can be more toolboxy and varied, reflecting the player's playstyle and deckbuilding process.
It doesn't have to be hyper-specific in this hypothetical though. There's enough common threads in the game that I think it's easy to imagine a world with more of them. Earth Machine, Fire w/ 200 Def, Level 7 Spellcaster, etc.
In Dino rabbit format, kabazauls became a 3-of 1700 vanilla monster 🤣, in dark wold format, dragged down into the grave became a 3 of staple, I've seen spright decks play hero kid, dragon knight Draco equiste being a super poly target is also hilarious, the fact that pot of duality is good again because of floo, the fact that level eater was banned because of link monsters, and substitoad was banned because of frog ftk, like the list of cards that are terrible but become great because of new cards is just never ending.
I find it hilarious that Two-Mouth Darkruler has a place in a deck, but Thunder Dragons never used Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon. Too high level for instant or ready fusion; they used Kaminari Attack to bring out a Thunder fusion.
Floo setting such a low bar for wind attribute winged-beasts to be useful will always be funny to me because they will never top how low a bar beetroopers set for a generic bug
no, its resonance insect, any level 5 or higher insect or any insect that wants to be in the grave. the moment an insect that is level 7+, earth, 1500- atk, 2000+ def, and has at least 1 of the following: wants to be in the grave, summons itself, or equips a card, its broken, because its a target for both effects for reso, and now retaliating "c" and if it equips you can use cocoon of ultra evolution and material for ultimate great insect, or its any level 4 insect that can do something or has the lowest attack, normal, between killer needle, big insect, kamakariman for ocg, because gokipole exists weevil is literally just 1 or 2 cards from being rogue tier, because cocoon and parasite paranoid, it just needs something to search the cocoon and a playable level 7+ that you want to cheat out with parasite
Here's a pretty funny one. Back in 2014 Tyhone #2 actually started seeing play in probably one of the most poorly aged archetypes of that era.. Hazy Flames.. gobble or get rekt. It was the only Normal level 6 Fire Dragon type monster in the game and Hazy Flame Basiltrice requires level 6 fire attribute monsters for it's xyz summon (and lots of them to be a threat). Tyhone #2's existence was the soul reason people started running a small Hieratic engine of 3 Seal of Convocation and 3 Dragons of Tefnuit in Hazy's of all places. If you opened up Hieratic Dragon of Tefnuit and Hazy Flame Peryton going second you could actually summon a 5 materials Basiltrice as of the printing of Hazy Hydra in Primal Origins. 5 Material Basiltrice was 3.5k, immune to targeting, and immune to effect destruction. He was one of the first remotely viable Apoqliphort Towers-ish monsters and Towers himself hadn't even been printed to coin the term until 6 months after Hydra. That was very hard to get over in 2014 yugioh and was basically considered a win condition if you weren't running D - prison. We take Kaijus for granted now. 2014 jank 2ish technically 3 card 5 Material Basiltrice Combo Special summon Tefnuit cyber dragon style -> Tribute summon Peryton -> Tefnuit summons Tyhone #2 -> Use Peryton's effect to tribute itself and discard a Hazy Flame Monster from hand to summon 2 Hazy Flame Hydras -> Overlay Tyhone #2 with the 2 Hydra's to make a 3 material Basiltrice -> Both Hydra's effects activate to attach Peryton and the Hazy you discarded from the grave onto Basiltrice as material. Additional fun fact the only time Basiltrice became relevant after was when Igknights where printed mid pendulum era. They where basically a toolbox of pendulum fire warriors from levels 3-6 and they could pump out a 5 material Basiltrice turn 1 consistently without any Hazy Flames. Too bad their ability to make 5 material Rhongomyniad turn 1 outclassed it.
Hazy flames are really terrible, and one of the few archetypes I remember having a bunch of as a kid, was really hoping they'd get some support in year of the fire
@@Lobster44 They where actually pretty decent in their prime but even back then they bricked tremendously and the decks intended strategy forces you to go minus 1 just to summon the things. So naturally even with archetype wide target protection they have just aged like milk. Haven't gotten a single piece of support since hydra's printing as far as I know so it's been a decade. It's a shame because Basiltrice was sort of a meme amongst the community thanks to an old channel called yugimation. He used to make animated yugioh content but he moved onto other stuff. I can't really blame him.
I remember seeing Jesse kotton at a regional use triple bursts EFFECT to win vs an altergeist player when he was on danger thunder dragon . It was literally so fuckin epic and i hav never once seen anyone use its effect
The entire threat and nobody mentioned being a level 7 in Kash format? Like many people played the thunder hammer guy just because he was a level 7 body that can jump on the field at the expense of 3000 LP, and people play all kind of level 7 bodies in their deck because Kashbirth can normal summon it without tributing.
Genuinely surprised his favourite card wasn't mentioned; neos alius. It sucks ass but it checked just enough boxes to frontline that one sucky ass gemini spark deck
Trigon saw some play in Dragon Ruler format. It has 500 or less attack, so Debris Dragon could summon it. It was level 3, so you could immediately go into a 7 synchro to overlay with a dragon ruler. It’s of course a dragon to be banished, and it’s also a fire so they had more targets for blaster’s hand effect.
1-2-3 ghosttrick xyz s or probably the most wellknown, Elemental Hero Neos Alius, the type, name, attribute and stat line blended so well together and briged several unplayable arctypes that it spawned hero beatdown as it's own deck
Two funny examples. 1. Watt Kid being a "Watt" normal monster makes it very helpful for the deck because having an extra body off unexpected dai makes Wattrain better. 2. Literally any "Synchron" being searchable in 5 different ways and also making Junk speeder better. Cyberse being a good enough second level 1 incase you open Jet is probably the worst example.
Speaking of Duel Links, don‘t forget about Temple Of The Six in the Six Samurai-mirror match! It gets a counter whenever somebody summons a Six Samurai-monster and it reduces the opponent‘s ATK-stats by 100 for each.
Love how yugioh has come to a point in which a +3/4 card, in order to be considered *playably decent* , has now to have practically no garnets and assure you plays through hts and follow-up. Like we were all playing shit like carbonnedon or alexandrite dragon with summon dai to make ib and if someone stopped it we were just gonna pass, and now we have things like the snake-eye engine which practically doesn't need any "brick" and just goes +6/7 on its own while basically playing around or through anything and guarantees you at least 2 cards on your opponent's turn. I honestly fail to see (at least now) how much more broken yugioh could eventually become from this position in this sense
tbh its hard to say. lately many decks have had ways to play on turn 0 (so you can combo even if your opponent goes first) so i think we might be heading that way at the same time decks like voiceless voice and fire kings dont really do that and theyre the strongest decks rn so idk lmao still i think yugioh still has a lot of room to explore card design. rn theyre experimenting a lot with monsters that become continuous spells/traps (centurion, snake eyes, the new millenium stuff, theres probs more)
@@SloopYGO I can't imagine something better than fullpower tear honestly: deck was the best ever, it could combo its way out both going 1st and 2nd, played through anything and had practically a response for every possible interaction in the game. Only way I'd see another powercreep situation as we have seen with tear would be if *that* would actually become the standard level for all decks... but then again, what could possibly be better for that level to be considerd a "standard" one?
@@SloopYGO the issue is most of the space is never gonna be explored as if you haven't noticed every modern deck boils down to using whatever gimmick they have to throw bodies on board on to be used to make extra deck plays and that's about it as you don't see any other kind of pay off for gimmicks because swarming the board is all that really matters with the speed of the as it is
D.3.S Frog! Before Darkwing Blast, some tearlament players were tinkering with using branded in high spirits as a way to get a kitkallos on board in draw phase to play around some hand traps. Combo wasnt terrible (got significantly better with cartesia and rulkallos) but saw play in some topping decks. The problem? At the time there was literally one card that was level 8 or higher, fusion, aqua, with 2500 or more attack or defence, and that was D.3.S frog. The big croaker got replaced with rulkallos in the combo after that, and I still stand by BiHS Tear post DABL pre MAMA was my favourite build of tear
its slightly more niche, but labrynth makes maindecking normal traps that are usually reserved for the side deck possible due to the toolbox effect of the lady of the silver castle. Especially in the non-sidedeck of masterduel many traps that would absolutely never see play get to exist because lab can use normal traps in deck as a side deck
4:30 played against a t.g deck that did this in master duel, it went through its entire extra deck including getting king calamity out and I still beat it with dark magician 😭
The best thing about LANphorhynchus is that it still sees play currently in Swordsoul as a generic, non effect link monster if you need to clean up your board.
I absolutely love Hieratics. But you know, what we are missing. A level 5 vanilla dragon tuner. I will be honest though, any time a new vanilla dragon gets printed I have to take it kitchen to see what we can cook with it.
@@xdragoonzero0 Overlord is hardly support considering how currently we play. Maybe back in 2015 it woulda have been nuts, but targeting negates tend to not do as well. That being said, I make him anyways if I know my enemy mains Imperms.
You could actually play a lot of those winged beast monsters in Lyrulisc Tri Brigade because of the Simorgh, Bird of Sovereignty line. Bird Up's easy access to The Big Bird is what got Simorgh banned. Also most bad beast, beast-warrior, and winged beast decks were at least playable on ladder due to Tri Brigade, Harpies being one of them.
I still use Triple Burst a lot in Duel Links, just to shut down sent to graveyard effects and deal with defense position monsters when going for the kill
I feel like the armored xyzs only allowing leviathan dragon is intentional because its a shark(the character, not just the fish) deck and Shark was the one who used both leviathan dragon and the armored xyz cards. It also technically works with Shark Drake, whose his ace, but it requires 3 mats and its affect is a battle effect so its much worse than just summoning levi, detach, go into the armored xyz
2 months after this video's release Linkuriboh has been taken behind the shed for snake eye's crimes. RIP
Hilariously, it was one of the only cards that I found that could make my Vampire deck playable....allowing me to put the level 1 familiar again and again in the grave.
Rip.
@@aryanbhatt3436 On the bright side, at least you have Relinquished Anima.
Not as cute, but it does the same job.
@@Set2Seth Problem is, I can have only one of it in a rotation at a time, and vampires kinda suck at getting anything that isn't vampire out of the grave. Linkuriboh was god for this as I can just tribute my level 1 easily.
4:00 "Some day in the far-flung future we will have to send this card out to pasture. It might be *now*"
It would seem that the time was indeed now
Was gonna make that comment, thank you 😂
o7 for our boy linkuriboh
Favorite extra deck card I've never summoned
Scareclaw Light Heart is obviously played in Mannadium but upon release it saw play for being a link-1 tribeast that Tri-Brigades could summon from their effects.
I play it in bird-up, you don't know how many times I played through hts with this interaction lmao
Can you explain why Light Heart works in Tri-Brigade? I mean, I don’t get what’s his purpose
I genuinely think people who play it in mannadium are coping
Basically, he is a link 1 that can be summoned with the effect of a tri-brigade. You can't acctivate it's search effect, but you can use it as link material to go into something like Farrijit. From what I have understood, he's main pourpose is making plays even if you only have a tri-type in your GY to banish
@@matija9540 easy link 1 for the archtype, so you don't need 2 tri brigate in the gy to make a link 2
Oh boy! Do I get to talk about Tyhone #2?!
Okay, so Tyhone #2 is a vanilla lvl 6 Fire Dragon-type with awful stats. However...
This is super useful in Hazy Flames, a Rank 6 Toolbox deck. Because it's a normal monster, it can be summoned out from deck using Hieratic Dragon of Tefnuit, which is also a free Special Summonable lvl 6, so you're running him anyway. On the off chance you draw it, you can send it away with Celestial Observatory, a draw card that needs you to pitch a lvl 6. Didn't draw Celeestial Obseravtory? No problem. Hazy Flame Peryton, the playmaker of the deck, needs you to tribute a Fire in hand to summon two Hazy's from deck. Would you look at that, Tyhone checks that box off as well. It can also be brought back from the GY with Hazy Flame Sphynx if you don't have any other applicable lvl 6's to access the Extra Deck.
Super niche, but super useful. Love the little guy.
Cant wait for legacy hayzs that turns them into the sprights of lv6 fire
It was also a cool tech in hieratic rulers in 2014
Based Jack Spicer enjoyer.
I can only dream.@@Rod_C96
I was going to ask why they didn't use Twin-Headed Fire Dragon instead, but for some reason that's a Pyro instead of a Dragon. I will never understand monster types.
Kashtira Ogre being a monarch is hilarious since it means it's both a monarch AND tribute fodder since it summons itself
I'm surprised to not have seen Almiraj there. Like come on, the dude just exists to turn a normal summon into a link 1.
Yeah it turned a bunch of random monsters into 1 card combo starters like sangan, aleister, cyber dragon core, pk cloak boots and greaves, whitebeard etc.
Yeah almiraj was kinda the core issue of the link mechanic for a good while as it gave you the ability to freely trigger graveyard floating provided you met its condition.
If they ever print a Link 1 that just has 0 text but generic materials its gonna be such a busted card.
@@luminous3558Clara and Rushka is about as close as they could ever get without something breaking
Almiraj is an honorary Plunder Patroll monster for this reason
editing wise im pretty sure dire didnt include it because its very similar to the linkuriboh joke
* every single Garnett has entered the chat *
“My time to shine baby.”
funnily enough, not the actual garnet.
@@TheBaldingPiedwait I swear the actual garnet is perfect for this list, maybe now it’s good but definitely not at the time
Emerald Tortius saw play in Ishizu Tear Format because the Crystal Beast Trap could search (from GY) any Field Spell + A Crystal Beast. Emerald Tortius was Aqua so it could be used as material for some of the Tear Fusions.
It could be used for kitkalos which was the only reason it was good, cause kitkalos is your starter and you could recicle the turtle making it so you could run multiples of the trap or never brick on the trap cause you could shuffle the turtle back and search again, gamaciel was also used on tear for the same reason, it's an aqua monster so it's half a kitkalos or a kaleido-heart
i was going to bring this up! i was suprised it wasn’t in the video lol
Us Tear players will do anything to search Perlereino. I play two of the garnet, Triviakarma, a completely dead card on draw that can’t be pitched off Scheiren because it’s not a monster, or Reino because it’s not a Tear card, because milling it is a free Planet.
The release of Promethean Princess led to play for Amphibious Swamship Amblowale, a card nobody had heard of before, because it's a generic link-4 fire monster with a decent effect
Yes, it's useful in my old fire deck (Suship) and now my new fire deck (Snake eyes)
@@ravenstales6457how was it useful in suship?
@@anonymous71207 because I could link off stuff into her, summon it back and still have an xyz
I remember playing in master duel a long time ago when there was one of those festivals where salad was playable but accesscode was banned and... well it is a link 4 that gets kind of large.
Gotta shout out Artemis, the magistus moon maiden for enabling invoked decks by being a link-1 light monster using aleister as material then fuse into mechaba. Can’t forget secure gardna either.
The Secure Gardna line provides access to 3 different Elements too so you could go into any of the decent ones.
Artemis is mostly just alright since almiraj and secure gardna did it before her.
The Linkuri ban wasn't even that far into the future
Rocket Salamander is especially funny for this. Not only is it a level 1 fire, but it is also a level 4 or lower Pyro monster and a 1 card Ib synchro right when the card got unbanned.
And for some reason I haven't seen people labbing on it as much as I expected
It could maybe be useful for Diabell pitch a dragon, ib add guard dragon.
Maybe Ib add succession could be pretty good too, since the bonfire pop line gets you a link on field on summon of Ib
I don't know what you're cooking, but color me interested.
Sometimes Koanmi will just randomly print a new 1500 def spellcaster and immediately every Charmer player will rush to see if this card will finally make them playable.
There are alot of decks that are one card away from being broken
Every time man every time
And it never does.
The entire Dinomist archetype. Back in time it was crazy to have access to Cyber Dragon Infinity and Toadally Awesome (via Bahamut Shark)
i love the dinomists so much. the master duel event recently that had them as a loaner deck was fun.
@@mayayamato7351 I wasn't playing since 2010 (when I played very casually) and got back in 2017 when I saw those robot dinosaurs. sadly I hadn't too much time to enjoy the deck before mr4
Imagine if we look back at tearlaments and think "they used to be good"
@@Thekulprit92remember when dragon rulers were op? they can come back unlimited. power creep is crazy
@@Virulence-xb2rvwere they really op though
Metal Armored Bug happened to be playable in 2006 because it was an 8 star vanilla insect and thus demise otk used it, just in case it ran out of insect knights.
That's fair. Demise OTK was a great Deck.
Just adding to this. Metal Armored Bug also fit a fun requirement as Swing of Memories could be used as a Monster Reborn if it was sent off of Advanced Ritual Art. Affter paying the 2K for Demise, King of Armageddon.
A Doom Dozer or Metal Armored Bug with Megamorph + Demise just happened to be exactly 8000 damage. Weird bug just fit to damn well.
Demise otk was better with 2 lvl4 normal insects for doom dozer to make the otk online automatically
@@kevincapote82It was, but some builds still ran the one Metal Armored Bug just in case they drew too many level 4s over the course of the game.
The prophecy is fufilled. Linkuriboh is dead.
Extra deck Monarchs needing exactly a level 5 normal light fairy and using Dark Witch:
- lvl 5 to tribute over seraphinite and trigger return, also for overlaying with red layer + prime monarch.
- normal to be added back from brilliant fusion with gem knight lazuli.
- light as a target for seraphinite.
- fairy to allow you to play through rivalry of warlords.
turning brilliant fusion into the entire tribute for erebus / ether and activating return was amazing for consistency in a fairly bricky deck.
Real men played Ocubeam instead.
rip linkuriboh, lil dude didn't stand a chance
X-Saber Palomuro during PePe format. It was a Reptile, so you could search it with King Of The Feral Imps, and it was a Level 1 EARTH Tuner, meaning you could use it + Hat Tricker to make Naturia Beast.
It was the only Level 1 EARTH Reptile tuner in the game. Still is 😂
A fun little thing to add to instant fusion targets: Zombie Warrior, on account of being Level 3 and Dark, shot up to nearly $50 in 2021 because of Phantom Knights specifically, as it was only printed in an old-ass OTS pack.
Hell, the thing is STILL commanding a $20 price tag because of his limited printings...
@@mystikx2205 Sitting pretty when I picked mine up for $2 like two weeks before everyone picked up PK back then
Oh, god, I have to talk about my two Skill Drain Beat boys, Beast King Barbaros and Coach Captain Bearman. I recall the latter being used in past builds of Fire Kings (the one that came out with the original Onslaught of the Fire Kings structure) because it was a level 8 Fire Beast-Warrior that can be summoned without tribute, with an effect that could modify the levels of level 4 Beast-Warrior monsters you controlled; it and Coach Soldier Wolfbark allowed for a competent rank 8 engine in that build, from what I understand. The former is similar, but I recall it being used in the new Horus engine to - once again - facilitate rank 8 plays, as it was also a level 8 monster that can be summoned without tribute.
One that I personally enjoyed was Photon Sabre Tiger as a Small World bridge in Wanghu Adventurer stun: it was level 3, so could search out any of the Ghost Girl hand traps and Water Enchantress, it's Beast so it can search out Wanghu, it's naturally 2000 ATK, so it can search out Illegal Knight and Wandering Gryphon Rider, AND it's Light, so it can search out stuff like Nibiru. I felt so smart when I found that out.
Vorse Raider saw some fringe play because it was searchable with Fire Formation Tenki then on field became a 2K beater so it could be Tributed for Deck Devastation Virus, to wipe out all 1500 or less ATK Monsters the opponent has.
Wait, I've never seen that combo in my life.
@@Lord_Phoenix95 I think this was during Fire Water Format. In addition to using Rescue Rabbit to access the Rank 4 toolbox with ease.
@@pickyphysicsstudent201This is why I think Rescue Rabbit has an unfair rap. It’s a cool card with interesting deck building restrictions that made a bunch of fringe shit like this theoretically viable. The problem was that they printed a walking Solemn Judgment with material requirements that were too generic at a time when practically free negates on bodies weren’t common. I blame the frustration of Dino Rabbit on Laggia and, to a lesser extent, Dolkka, not Rabbit itself. Every other deck I’ve seen using Rabbit was doing cool stuff like this or tagging two Andals into an Essedarii, or using two Anu Piranha to drop Faultroll. Meanwhile, the most creative thing to do with Laggia was run Hydrogeddon in Heroes.
Chimeratech Fortress Dragon. It's just a beater on the field, but its ability to contact fuse your opponent's machine-type monsters make it the sole reason any machine deck has to keep looking over its shoulder.
To everyone who came back to this video to mention linkurikoh being banned. Yep, he's really gone
I love that rush duels does this with every archetype. For example, the Onomat retrains all works around level 4 fire, so they played a bunch of random stuff that wasn’t Onomats.
Was not expecting the Sousou no Frieren OP for the intro.
Also such an amazing anime to watch.
MBT after History finishes: Why didn’t I get to know him better?
Small world in Floo is wild af
Reveal Raiza > reveal droll > add Robina
Reveal dd crow > reveal raiza > add water barrier statue
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Some cards I think are neat for interesting reasons, with varying amounts of "good": Doomdog octhros is a level 3 fiend (summonable off tour guide and can be used to make cherubini) that searches a level 8 fiend (lady labrynth of the silver castle), while cherubini can indirectly search a normal trap that can be activated in the same turn. Back in TOSS, darkest diabolos, lord of the lair is a monster summonable in sky striker that opposing sky striker have next to no outs for. Harvest angel of doom is a generic scale 8 with a positive effect, making it one of the best searches off beyond the pendulum if you used darkwurm and are not playing a pendulum deck, but want to pendulum summon (solfachord dremia is another option due to coolia existing, but that only has scale 7). Besides level 2, level 6 (beatrice). Time thief winder is a monster that detaches a material from an xyz and summons itself, meaning it can be played in live twin in order to use 2 ki-sikil frost (which are level 2 aqua's) to summon toad, then use winder to detach one of the frosts so you have a ki-sikil in grave, and a second monster to use as material for evil twin li-la, unfortunately there is no time thief card worth searching. Exchange used to be one of the only ways to remove opponent's handtraps. Jigabyte is a level 4 water reptile that can special summon itself if you control a spellcaster, meaning it's about to see play in vaalmonica as it's searchable off king of the feral imps, and seletrice vaalmonica is a level 4 water spellcaster, meaning the 2 can be used to make bahamut shark (and the bahamut plus king of the feral imps makes UDF). Doombearer psychopompus is one of the few cards that makes the opponent move a card from their graveyard for exorsister, and it's "searchable" off crossout designator. Rescue ace turbulence and machina metalcruncher are debatably the best monsters to summon off world legacy monstrosity. Hallohallo is a level 3 dark fiend tuner normal pendulum monster, making it the best thing to summon off rescue hamster alongside sangan.
Not sure if anyone mentioned it on the thread but back in the day people were looking for stuff that had the Monarch stat line of 2400/2800 and 1000 def because of hype around their new stuff. Yeah you could search D.A.D. but people also played some real bad mons just because they fit in with the kings
Minutiae, also known as the size of my…extra deck with the prices rn
If only this was made later
"Light Fiend with some sort of special summoning effect? Alright we'll put you on the 'considered' list"
1:26 Oh my gosh, that's cyberknight. I really enjoy his opening videos
I once used *Elemental Mistress Doriado* in a Megalith synchro deck (with Block Dragon) in Master Duel.
She’s a level 3 Ritual monster, so she’s easy enough to find with generic ritual support, and to summon with Megaliths or Impcantations. And when she’s on the field, she’s treated as (among other things) Earth. Meaning her + Adamancipator Researcher makes… Naturia Beast.
That intro is a massive Dire W
Wait, no Elemental HERO Neos Alius? Only reason the kid isn't just another Gemini (not an awful Gemini, because the whole lot of them are terrible) is because he had the "anime-protag god-tier" luck to be a Level 4 LIGHT Warrior that was a HERO monster. If the stars that he would've been sent to had he been bad not aligned perfectly, he'd be just as forgetable as Red-Eyes Black Flare Dragon.
(As a side note, did you know or even remember that Red-Eyes has THREE DIFFERENT Gemini monsters in its lineup? What in the hell does Konami have against that deck?)
I love how dire also made sure that the Katakana in the intro matched to spell MBT, that's dedication!
i have never seen anyone summon rocket salamander from 1 to 1, nor have I ever seen anyone use number 17 to go into armored xyz plays
Royal swamp eel is a perfect example recently. It’s a fish tuner that doesn’t do anything besides be a fish tuner in ghoti.
"It might be time to take this card out to pasture" when talking about Linkuriboh. If only he knew what would happen in the TCG just under 2.5 months later.
I remember a while back, when Brotherhood of the Fire Fist was collecting steam in the TCG, they were a bit lean on monsters, so Coach Soldier Wolfbark was a three-of in Fire Fist decks. Coach Captain Bearman was not an uncommon find to go into Coach King Gaintrainer of all cards. I've never seen these 3 cards played again after Fire Fist got an actual full deck's worth of support cards to use.
It didn't even really "break" these cards, but Bro Fist was the new hotness at the time and what they had was "good enough" to justify playing these other cards for a while, so people just did it while they waited for the actual cards to come in during the next few sets. Also helped that they could be searched by Tenki.
I remember teching Gate Blocker in Adams because it shuts off Runick Fountain. Ah, good times. RIP Lego Dragon
I love that "level 1 fire" became "light fiend" in 6 months
I'm from the future
Linkuriboh is banned 😑
This reminds me of the early days of the synchro era when players were unironically usong Flamvell Magician because it was one of like 2 level 4 tuners that didn't have a downside
I agree that the tri type monsters of Tri-brigade and Raika are some of my favorite released cards because they let your deck building be more flexible and varied.
4:03 god speed linky
Godspeed You died for the sins of Snake-Eyes
@@Gh0stWh33lhe didn’t nothing fr fr 😔
@LightningsRinRin well you know how things go, Konami can't ban a card until they stop selling product it's in.
And ho boy, do they love the money snake eyes is bringing in.
@@Gh0stWh33lthat’s honestly a big problem with the game they take so long to ban the actual problem and just ban cards that are mediocre and are good in that particular archetype
@SupremeKingZA-RC to support your point, how long was Halq legal? How many Tuners died for its sins?
i love these videos becuase you learn about so many weird cards and archtpyes that you just dont see in tsx1 decklists
About Spright: Chemicritter was cool to play with Magikey, now it's even cooler now that the Level 2s are bridge for the little spark sons. 👀
And speaking of Magikey, I would say that any deck that could use Benten for anything could merge them with Libromancer, all you needed is either Fire, Geek Boy or an access to the Field Spell + Benten or Preparation of Rites, and now you have Doombroker with a Omni-Negate Set and the Light Fairy of your choice, as well as 1 ~ 3 Libromancers (if you're playing Agent) to do anything else. Link climb, Synchro with them, Fire could give you Linguriboh, the world is your oyster at this point. And with Magikey, I usually search Manju with Benten, spend my Normal Summon on Manju to add High Ritual Art, XYZ Manju + Fire into Vepartu, activate its effect to add Clavkiys and now I have Full Magikey Combo as well, being able to either summon Dawn Dragster with Batosbuster + Geek Boy, or Baronne with Agent (which is not required but an option if you want to recycle the Omni).
2:06 When he said "Hopefully we wont play Archfiend Eccentric in 2024", I then realized that it is indeed a Light Fiend and will break Fiendsmith. Oh god noooooo 😢😢
Shoutout to level 5 Water monsters, in particular Giga Gagagigo and Terrorking Salmon.
Ancient Gear Box and Ballista being playable in Earth Machine because Box allows you to add a 500 ATK oder DEF EM monster is one of the funniest examples imo.
In an attempt to build t.g in master duel, I opened twenty ride into the future packs and only got half a snake eye core and an ENTIRE INFERNOBLE DECK. I realized relatively quickly the possible synergies with the snake eyes cards but thought surely infernoble snake eyes would suck. It was literally the best deck I'd ever built in master duel. Snake eyes is absolutely ridiculous
3:57 and just like clockwork
They finally fcking did
Time to play anima!
I like to imagine an alternate universe where this was the primary design philosophy of the game instead of archetypes. Create a game where decks can be more toolboxy and varied, reflecting the player's playstyle and deckbuilding process.
Hyper-specific stat lines and explicit archetypes are just two ways to segregate effects.
It doesn't have to be hyper-specific in this hypothetical though. There's enough common threads in the game that I think it's easy to imagine a world with more of them. Earth Machine, Fire w/ 200 Def, Level 7 Spellcaster, etc.
A world where the 6 monster attributes have overarching mechanics akin to MtG's colours
Something tells me that the Diabellstar Lore will continue with the other attributes after Fire, it could be Wind, Earth or Water format next.
Looks like it’s light spellcasters right now
Damn just came back to this video to say he called it on linkuriboh
I guess it’s now
2:04 [Looks at my Starter Deck Yuya] Not me, that's for sure.
In Dino rabbit format, kabazauls became a 3-of 1700 vanilla monster 🤣, in dark wold format, dragged down into the grave became a 3 of staple, I've seen spright decks play hero kid, dragon knight Draco equiste being a super poly target is also hilarious, the fact that pot of duality is good again because of floo, the fact that level eater was banned because of link monsters, and substitoad was banned because of frog ftk, like the list of cards that are terrible but become great because of new cards is just never ending.
I find it hilarious that Two-Mouth Darkruler has a place in a deck, but Thunder Dragons never used Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon. Too high level for instant or ready fusion; they used Kaminari Attack to bring out a Thunder fusion.
It saw some fringe usage after colossus was banned.
Floo setting such a low bar for wind attribute winged-beasts to be useful will always be funny to me because they will never top how low a bar beetroopers set for a generic bug
no, its resonance insect, any level 5 or higher insect or any insect that wants to be in the grave. the moment an insect that is level 7+, earth, 1500- atk, 2000+ def, and has at least 1 of the following: wants to be in the grave, summons itself, or equips a card, its broken, because its a target for both effects for reso, and now retaliating "c" and if it equips you can use cocoon of ultra evolution and material for ultimate great insect,
or its any level 4 insect that can do something or has the lowest attack, normal, between killer needle, big insect, kamakariman for ocg, because gokipole exists
weevil is literally just 1 or 2 cards from being rogue tier, because cocoon and parasite paranoid, it just needs something to search the cocoon and a playable level 7+ that you want to cheat out with parasite
Damn, he didn't even TRY to pronounce Hraesvelgr.
3:56 he called it.
Editor, I loved the Frieren intro, keep it up with seasonal series ♥
Here's a pretty funny one. Back in 2014 Tyhone #2 actually started seeing play in probably one of the most poorly aged archetypes of that era.. Hazy Flames.. gobble or get rekt.
It was the only Normal level 6 Fire Dragon type monster in the game and Hazy Flame Basiltrice requires level 6 fire attribute monsters for it's xyz summon (and lots of them to be a threat). Tyhone #2's existence was the soul reason people started running a small Hieratic engine of 3 Seal of Convocation and 3 Dragons of Tefnuit in Hazy's of all places. If you opened up Hieratic Dragon of Tefnuit and Hazy Flame Peryton going second you could actually summon a 5 materials Basiltrice as of the printing of Hazy Hydra in Primal Origins. 5 Material Basiltrice was 3.5k, immune to targeting, and immune to effect destruction. He was one of the first remotely viable Apoqliphort Towers-ish monsters and Towers himself hadn't even been printed to coin the term until 6 months after Hydra. That was very hard to get over in 2014 yugioh and was basically considered a win condition if you weren't running D - prison. We take Kaijus for granted now.
2014 jank 2ish technically 3 card 5 Material Basiltrice Combo
Special summon Tefnuit cyber dragon style -> Tribute summon Peryton -> Tefnuit summons Tyhone #2 -> Use Peryton's effect to tribute itself and discard a Hazy Flame Monster from hand to summon 2 Hazy Flame Hydras -> Overlay Tyhone #2 with the 2 Hydra's to make a 3 material Basiltrice -> Both Hydra's effects activate to attach Peryton and the Hazy you discarded from the grave onto Basiltrice as material.
Additional fun fact the only time Basiltrice became relevant after was when Igknights where printed mid pendulum era. They where basically a toolbox of pendulum fire warriors from levels 3-6 and they could pump out a 5 material Basiltrice turn 1 consistently without any Hazy Flames. Too bad their ability to make 5 material Rhongomyniad turn 1 outclassed it.
Hazy flames are really terrible, and one of the few archetypes I remember having a bunch of as a kid, was really hoping they'd get some support in year of the fire
@@Lobster44 They where actually pretty decent in their prime but even back then they bricked tremendously and the decks intended strategy forces you to go minus 1 just to summon the things. So naturally even with archetype wide target protection they have just aged like milk. Haven't gotten a single piece of support since hydra's printing as far as I know so it's been a decade. It's a shame because Basiltrice was sort of a meme amongst the community thanks to an old channel called yugimation. He used to make animated yugioh content but he moved onto other stuff. I can't really blame him.
I remember seeing Jesse kotton at a regional use triple bursts EFFECT to win vs an altergeist player when he was on danger thunder dragon . It was literally so fuckin epic and i hav never once seen anyone use its effect
It was also useful against sky striker because you could negate raye after destroying their monster.
I fully expect the sinful spoils will eventually end up having an e tele for every attribute at a particular level
The entire threat and nobody mentioned being a level 7 in Kash format? Like many people played the thunder hammer guy just because he was a level 7 body that can jump on the field at the expense of 3000 LP, and people play all kind of level 7 bodies in their deck because Kashbirth can normal summon it without tributing.
Genuinely surprised his favourite card wasn't mentioned; neos alius. It sucks ass but it checked just enough boxes to frontline that one sucky ass gemini spark deck
Oh hey, today’s the day they sent linkuriboh out to pasture! Goodbye Smol friend.
As someone who’s built LAVAL DECK, that REKINDLING Spell card is basically 1,709% your win strategy….
4:00 aged like fine wine
Trigon saw some play in Dragon Ruler format. It has 500 or less attack, so Debris Dragon could summon it. It was level 3, so you could immediately go into a 7 synchro to overlay with a dragon ruler. It’s of course a dragon to be banished, and it’s also a fire so they had more targets for blaster’s hand effect.
3:51 Little did we know, 2 months later, Linkuriboh would've been cast down for the Snake-Eyes' sins.
1-2-3 ghosttrick xyz s or probably the most wellknown, Elemental Hero Neos Alius, the type, name, attribute and stat line blended so well together and briged several unplayable arctypes that it spawned hero beatdown as it's own deck
In 2019/2020 when any Rogue deck could end on an omni negate with significant protection by literally just putting two monsters on the field
and now every 2 monster make Sp. how shit comes back lmao.
Two funny examples. 1. Watt Kid being a "Watt" normal monster makes it very helpful for the deck because having an extra body off unexpected dai makes Wattrain better. 2. Literally any "Synchron" being searchable in 5 different ways and also making Junk speeder better. Cyberse being a good enough second level 1 incase you open Jet is probably the worst example.
Yes these are both in my name. No I didn't think of that until I had written the post.
Speaking of Duel Links, don‘t forget about Temple Of The Six in the Six Samurai-mirror match! It gets a counter whenever somebody summons a Six Samurai-monster and it reduces the opponent‘s ATK-stats by 100 for each.
Love how yugioh has come to a point in which a +3/4 card, in order to be considered *playably decent* , has now to have practically no garnets and assure you plays through hts and follow-up. Like we were all playing shit like carbonnedon or alexandrite dragon with summon dai to make ib and if someone stopped it we were just gonna pass, and now we have things like the snake-eye engine which practically doesn't need any "brick" and just goes +6/7 on its own while basically playing around or through anything and guarantees you at least 2 cards on your opponent's turn. I honestly fail to see (at least now) how much more broken yugioh could eventually become from this position in this sense
Oh that's easy we are inching closer to true FTK becoming just normal and then we gonna hit the start of ZTKs
@@michaelkeha well... we already had 2018 for that and it was only the meta because we lacked cards like nibiru xd
tbh its hard to say. lately many decks have had ways to play on turn 0 (so you can combo even if your opponent goes first) so i think we might be heading that way
at the same time decks like voiceless voice and fire kings dont really do that and theyre the strongest decks rn so idk lmao
still i think yugioh still has a lot of room to explore card design. rn theyre experimenting a lot with monsters that become continuous spells/traps (centurion, snake eyes, the new millenium stuff, theres probs more)
@@SloopYGO I can't imagine something better than fullpower tear honestly: deck was the best ever, it could combo its way out both going 1st and 2nd, played through anything and had practically a response for every possible interaction in the game. Only way I'd see another powercreep situation as we have seen with tear would be if *that* would actually become the standard level for all decks... but then again, what could possibly be better for that level to be considerd a "standard" one?
@@SloopYGO the issue is most of the space is never gonna be explored as if you haven't noticed every modern deck boils down to using whatever gimmick they have to throw bodies on board on to be used to make extra deck plays and that's about it as you don't see any other kind of pay off for gimmicks because swarming the board is all that really matters with the speed of the as it is
5:41 RIP #47 Nightmare Shark
The key word is proactive
Here with linkuriboh being banned today 04/13/24
Rest in Peace
Very deserved hit....how else could you hit snake eyes?
Really cool to see cards playable because of something other than their name ;)
Wind WBs get all the love. I'm aware Raidraptor got support recently but I'm greedy. Give us more non blackwing, dark WB
Konami is still sweating to release any good reptile arch types when snake rain exist.
D.3.S Frog! Before Darkwing Blast, some tearlament players were tinkering with using branded in high spirits as a way to get a kitkallos on board in draw phase to play around some hand traps. Combo wasnt terrible (got significantly better with cartesia and rulkallos) but saw play in some topping decks. The problem? At the time there was literally one card that was level 8 or higher, fusion, aqua, with 2500 or more attack or defence, and that was D.3.S frog. The big croaker got replaced with rulkallos in the combo after that, and I still stand by BiHS Tear post DABL pre MAMA was my favourite build of tear
Shoutout to River Stormer for making anything Earth Machine basically one giant archetype
its slightly more niche, but labrynth makes maindecking normal traps that are usually reserved for the side deck possible due to the toolbox effect of the lady of the silver castle. Especially in the non-sidedeck of masterduel many traps that would absolutely never see play get to exist because lab can use normal traps in deck as a side deck
5:29 Bois you all know what's coming in the next Durltaining episode...
The gift of prophecy
4:30 played against a t.g deck that did this in master duel, it went through its entire extra deck including getting king calamity out and I still beat it with dark magician 😭
Well the Linkuriboh thing came true aha
Weird place to find in a deck. Link-4 Tri in Dreaming.
The best thing about LANphorhynchus is that it still sees play currently in Swordsoul as a generic, non effect link monster if you need to clean up your board.
I absolutely love Hieratics. But you know, what we are missing. A level 5 vanilla dragon tuner. I will be honest though, any time a new vanilla dragon gets printed I have to take it kitchen to see what we can cook with it.
I'm still waiting for actual Hieratic support beyond Spheres and Sky Dragon Overlord.
It's the next Year of the Dragon, so now is the time.
@@xdragoonzero0 Overlord is hardly support considering how currently we play. Maybe back in 2015 it woulda have been nuts, but targeting negates tend to not do as well. That being said, I make him anyways if I know my enemy mains Imperms.
Every deck in Duel Links had to add Link Disciple to avoid the Iblee lock. EVERY DECK.
You could actually play a lot of those winged beast monsters in Lyrulisc Tri Brigade because of the Simorgh, Bird of Sovereignty line. Bird Up's easy access to The Big Bird is what got Simorgh banned.
Also most bad beast, beast-warrior, and winged beast decks were at least playable on ladder due to Tri Brigade, Harpies being one of them.
I still use Triple Burst a lot in Duel Links, just to shut down sent to graveyard effects and deal with defense position monsters when going for the kill
Triple Burst was crazy for awhile before Guardragons because it could negate Raye in the grave; it was also pretty lenient on its materials
thank god there's no decks currently that can use the Light Fiend Archfiend Eccentric
I feel like the armored xyzs only allowing leviathan dragon is intentional because its a shark(the character, not just the fish) deck and Shark was the one who used both leviathan dragon and the armored xyz cards. It also technically works with Shark Drake, whose his ace, but it requires 3 mats and its affect is a battle effect so its much worse than just summoning levi, detach, go into the armored xyz
I still think it’s very funny that Cupid Pitch has the “level 8 or lower” clause which, at the moment, excludes exactly Nibiru.