How a Painful DEATH is happening to Synchro Monsters in Yugioh...
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I like the design of assault synchron and sword soul tokens. They allow you to easily get out a tuner but lock you into synchros only while theyre on the field instead of for the turn.
The problem I feel isnt Synchros its Links them selfs. Link summoning is just too free and has no reprocations in deck building.
I feel the only way for Konami to make the Synchro mechanic better is for them to admit their mistake with links and just start creating more tuners and monsters with good effects that summon themselfs that have this close "This Card can't be used as link material". Unpopular opinion, but if level eater had that close I believe you could bring it back tommorow and it wouldn't be broken even in Synchro decks. Cause Synchros inherantly were designed to make the player give up consistency by making you put monsters with specific levels and types on board and deck that simutaniously are different level wise from each other. The mechanic is just designed to be too fair.
Pendulum became more of a joke than Synchro will ever be. Some people will say Pendulum were a joke straight from the start.
Really?
Nah before master rule 4 pendulum was really strong especially with its grind game being able to summon 5 monsters out of nowhere
You're right. In the very beginning Pendulums were a joke.
Maybe a video on pendulum in the future?
The Power of pend is depending on there archtypes since you cant Play it in every Deck and pend archtypes can be pretty strong since they are able to use all mechanics + they got extremely good Link monsters too and on there Release it was super busted the whole mechanic needed to get nerfed in a new master rule. So how were they a Joke from the start?
Pend before the rule change looked WILD. That mechanic is still a great way to enable strategies, especially involving synchros. It is integral to my link-focused decks. We need some pend support too, even more specific protection and support.
Links have been a menace on yugioh since they were introduced. I don't think that you should be able a random pair of monsters into a full combo line.
Just print Tuner monsters that reward you if used for a scynchro summon and punish you if used for a link summon. Make the Reward efect hard once and the punishment not once per turn and noone will use these cards to link climb if the restrictions or lost resources are just painful enough
this is honestly the BEST solution I've seen that does not require some sort of lock to synchro monsters for the rest of the turn clause to be implemented
Agreed, a very nice solution that can be used in other summoning mechanics like XYZ and fusion, limiting the powercreep of using 2 powerful archtypes in the same deck
That would require Konami to use their brains, which they don't even have
I feel just "cannot be used for..." would suffice.
The solution I would use is to make a generic tuner only, union archetype that can attach itself to cards on the field and can be used to apply an effect based on the monster it's attached to. And can synchro summon with the monster it's equipped too.
I'm noticing thaf once the two Synchros that pushed out 95% of other Synchro boss monsters got banned, people just decided the mechanic is dead because it's not an easy negate machine anymore
You know, as if that was the only thing the mechanic could ever be used for
Maybe it's because they still print trash ones like primeheart that people need them. Ever thought about that?
Yes. Synchro was too focused on negation while the other summon mechanics effects where more broader when it comes to effects.
I wouldn't say dead completely, but synchro took a big hit.
@@friggen_roylty4368 we didn't say they were dead. We are saying that people are leaning towards negations when it comes to synchro. They are following the stardust effect homework but slides different cost to the effect.
@@dajohnniesanders6997errrr yeh they did. OP did, and so did Cali.
Maybe you didn't explicitly, but you said "we".
Synchros if anything are still thriving, links just have a lot of abusive tools that are too generic and need to be reigned in a bit.
Locking people out of linking summoning (or else restricting it to a specific mechanic can help but doesn't solve the core problem)
Meanwhile Rituals...
*cue meme of Rituals being all the way in the bottom of the pool*
Me, playing Tenpai: "Come again, Big Chief?"
Someone has to take the crown, and if it takes making the battle phase meta to do it, I think we should respect that. Otherwise we have awesome protection synchros like auxila and legatia, and chaos angel and dis pater, of course are noice!
Honestly, their whole gimmick could have been accomplished even if they were fusions or links. Them being synchros is kinda irrelevent.
Hot take: I don’t think Tenpai is going to stay a meta relevant deck for much longer. Source: trust me bro
@@RoninOfTheSunflowerGamingSome pros I follow say the deck is outright rogue.
@@ouja8502 I have to agree. It has so many choke points. I can’t talk shit, my favorite deck is pure fire kings and we’re soooo far away from being even semi-competitive without mixing with other decks. Currently I’m running fire kings Tenpai for locals, and I do a bit better than the other Tenpai players (were all budget players so no one has trident nor link packages- if that was the case they’d definitely out class me. One of them has a way to get into Zeus and he and I kind of flop back and forth on which of us is doing better- basically if he gets to Zeus, he wins, if not, I win). None of us have ever topped. It’s always the same Voiceless player topping over here
I think you're being a bit fatalistic, synchros are doing well even without baronne and savage. They also have a new powerful theme for them coming soon in white woods. Actually one of my big problems with baronne and savage is that they completely overshadowed other synchros, even in-archetype ones.
I'm all for new generic synchros for underrepresented levels like 9 and 11.
I've been saying this since the banned list dropped, people just decided it was the end of the mechanic because they couldn't buse it for easy negates anymore, but I would argue that Synchros were in an even worse place BEFORE Baronne and Savage got banned because those two pushed out basically every other Synchro boss monster
Even now people aren't gonna be playing Manaddium Primeheart bro. They print trash boss monsters so people gotta improvise by using the good generic ones. Them replacing hot garbage isn't Barrone or Savage's fault.
@@Honest_Mids_Masher I never suggested immediately going to Prime-Heart? I am well aware of how hot garbage he is for some reason
There are at least a FEW things between how strong the negate Synchros are and Prime-Heart
@@baxterbruce9827 A few things? Most of them aren't generic or don't provide any form of interruption. Especially in the synchro 8 and 10 pool now. Honestly it's kinda funny that synchro 7's are now the strongest with stuff like clear wing which is completely generic and black rose moonlight but guess what? Not every synchro deck has access to synchro 7's
@@Honest_Mids_Masher To be fair, I think Konami made a lot of strong Synchro 7s on purpose BECAUSE it's a slightly awkward level?
Also, yes, there's a lot of garbage Synchro bosses, but let's at least not pretend that's the only mechanic in a weird or bad place, Konami just can't or refuses to make something somewhat balanced for certain things, and then we end up getting another deck that's often a worse version or related hot garbage (Especially in comparison to things like, one of the best Ritual decks in history (Drytron. Yes, even without the fairies. Yes I acknowledge that that's not a high bar for Rituals) or the mess that was Eternal Tears and the subsequent Kashtira 9 zone lock combo that ran around for a bit)
Synchro is just an unfortunate repeat victim to a special extreme
Synchros were peak design
Big facts. Summoning animations were 🐐
They're not xyz monsters tho so that statement is false
@@XenoDBladexyz Is TOO generic and easy to break. Many more pure xyz decks were broken compared to pure synchro decks.
Synchros made you put thought into deckbuilding, Quasar was a perfectly balanced boss monster because it was far from generic, you put in the work. The newer stuff is only in response to how fast the game became
Goddamn right
I know this would be contentious to some, but I expect to see more Tuners like Blackwing Vata are going to be more standard in the future. If fusions can use the deck to speed up their process, why not have Tuners be able to synchron summoning from the deck.
Have you even heard of Vayu Turbo? This time wizard deck revolves around putting Vayu in grave alongside a high level Blackwing so you can get Blackwing synchros, although with effects negated and considered a special summon.
The concept of synchro by banish from grave has been around since at least 2009, so it's not something that's inherently broken or going into unknown territory.
@@N12015 Yeah. Blackwings really were going outside the box when it came to Synchro summoning. I just expect more Tuners like Vata than Vayu in the future.
Good take, I just love how vata is such a good card for my favorite deck
crystrons would be a good start idea, they sync using the banish, hand or grave i think
They still need support they just die to 1 mikanko so I switched to the rda cuz with the support it became decent enough to easily destroy mikanko . I wish the release support for the existing decks already like speedroid maybe a lvl 7 or eight spell trap negate monster or icejade support
I honestly think that if Konami banned their generically good link monsters the same way they banned barron and borreload, a format without access code, sp little knight, masquerena, and appleousa. It would fit things together nicely. I don't argue the generic synchros should've been banned, but then do the same for links and xyzs too. No more Zeus or typhoon or any of the above. Make each deck play within their own archetype a bit more.
That would mean rogue decks with unplayably bad boss monsters would be stuck with them. Take Manaddium Primeheart, and fabled Leviathan as examples of that. Banning cards like Zeus and Typhon would make going second that much worse too
@@Honest_Mids_Masher and that's the paradox of the issue. The logic is then, now earthbound, dragon link, and other rogue synchro strategies can't play because baronne and borreload are banned
If Konami supported every deck based on archetypes, summoning mechanic, attribute, monster type, level, etc. equally then I would say yes. However since they don’t, a lot of rogue/casual decks rely on these generic cards to be viable.
@@aceofdimondsXDPachinkomoney hates Dragon Link, a good portion of the current banlist is Dragon Link hits.
I hope for more synchro decks like centur ion or swordsoul. I really hate how any other usable synchro decks are just synchro spam decks that lasts 20 minutes to finish your first turn like mannadium or synchron
Barrone and Savage deserved to get hit because it made a lot of board breakers, spells, and traps feel bad. You have a right to be able to negate these cards when its not cards like Dark Ruler. But the problem with Savage and Baronne is they were both to flexible by being to able negate monsters, spells, or traps and was to easy for decks to synchro summon and thats why they had to go. For these multiple interruption boards to be healthy for the game they have to lose to something. Thats why Apallousa wasn't banned. It loses to board breakers. The only problem I see with synchros and archetypes that lost Baronne is that Konami either needs to ban Nibiru and remake it to give more tokens or making it so that people can't use it the same turn they have used a hand trap. There is another option but most people don't want Konami to continuously make more negates. They would have to give every archetype a monster negate or make it so that they can make something without being punished by Nibiru and play later on their turn. Nibiru has been classified a problem and apart from marketing purposes they chose to make cards like Baronne to deal with it. Right now Sharks post Rage of the Abyss don't end on anything if Bahamat gets negated and your opponent has Nibiru and pure White Woods take 5 summons to make Fiendess. Nibiru is limiting game design and making so that even new and unique decks can't thrive by themselves. Even though Swordsoul had Baronne people have seen glimpses of this where having to use Baronne on Nibiru often times meant that Swordsoul a deck that considered a mid-range deck would lose. Why can't people agree that Nibiru is bad for the game. The evidence is everywhere even in decks that don't use the grave and its there for people that don't want to protest against Konami but don't want to pretend like the evidence doesn't exist either. Konami has to ban Nibiru or agree that every deck needs at least 1 convenient in archetype way to play around Nibiru that allows you to potentially play through 2 or 3 hand traps as per the modern standard. Yugioh is going this healthy direction that other card games have been striving for in the luck element not meaning you'll brick and giving people a rewarding feeling of satisfaction for skilled play. White Woods have options to play around Nibiru but only summoning making Sivera to search for Effect Veiler and summoning a 4th monster so you can make Witchwolf on your opponents turn isn't really enough by modern standards. It can work but it isn't really something to write home about. Other decks can make 2 or more interruptions that come from 2 or more separate monsters and can beat Nibiru. Some of those decks aren't even combo decks.
That is absolutely why Appolousa wasnt banned: 1. only stops monster effects. 2. slightly more difficult to maximize it's ceiling (you have to use 4 monsters with different negates to get the max number of counters). Now that the generic negate problem has been resolved for now i do agree that it be time to start taking a look at Nib being a little more oppressive
@@RayMon504 I'm not opposed to Konami making more negates as long as they do them right. But what game needs is for more decks like Tenpai and White Woods with different play styles to be both viable and different. We have been stuck on the interruptions and win conditions for years now and it would be good the game to get more archetypes that truly felt unique. I am not opposed to OTKs when you have to put forth real effort. Nibiru easily makes OTKs so long as its paired with a deck like Kastira that can clear the token and vomit out monsters. There is unfair and then their is also to unfair and if decks like pure White Woods have to deal with it while Konami ignores it as they have some other decks in the past whether I be old decks getting new support or new ones that get nothing to deal with Nibiru despite sitting around for awhile. P.u.n.k. is a fairly good example. I think Psychic End Punisher might help you cope with Nibiru but I think in general combos it was something they had to make late enough into the combos that you would get Nibbed anyways and generally changed nothing. I wouldn't be upset if they continued to make generic negates as long as they aren't to generic and is only a monster negate or a spell/trap negate. They give it a restriction like Dis Paters that most decks would have to through the effort of making Accel Stardust to make it easily and costs more extra deck space. Omega is what turns Dis Pater into a double hand loop which isn't good though considering that it can cost 2 or more cards to play around hand traps.
If you think about it ,swordsoul kinda is an example of a good synchro deck, it resolved the problem of tuner monsters by summoning tokens , there's a lot of potential , but we don't know if konami will think about it
I think another possible solution could be to, going forward; make future XYZ and Link Monsters not as generic and as easy to summon. It's fine if you have a generic type of deck, that happens to mesh well enough together. However, the trade-off then should be that the more generic something is; the less powerful it's effects are. This would assist in the direction to get players to play decks that aren't just a pile of cards, but archetypes and cards that "support" the particular play-style that they use.
Now in the Borreload Savage Dragon and Baronne De Fleur examples; being boss monsters that they are(were in TCG until ban-list) is that they were too generic to summon. Chevalier De Fluer as a level 8 Synchro would have been fine as a more "generic" synchro monster, to which Baronne then just needed either a specific tuner, or Chevalier de Fleur as the non-tuner requirement. Borreload Savage Dragon on the other hand being a Level 8 Synchro Monster, that usually needs at least a Link Monster in the Graveyard as a means to equip itself so it can do what it's known for; 1 Dark Dragon Tuner + 1+ Dark Dragon non-Tuner Monsters. Seeing how the Fusion version requires Two Dark Dragon monsters, it only makes sense for the requirements to be a Dark Dragon Tuner + 1+ Dark Dragon non-Tuner Monsters.
With all that said, I hope all who read this have a good rest of your day/afternoon/evening.
synchros have hard time keeping up, they wher meant to be fast extra deck summons, but as combo formats got stronger, and disruptions more versatile, sychros got weaker, every other special summoning mechanic deals with interruptions better:
-fusion:has quick plays; uses materials from hand, graveyard, banished, deck, field and even you're opponent's field; doesn't care about levels,can use face down monsters
-xyz:materials are no longer considered monsters, can be summoned with one card, can be summoned with traps
-links: can use any monster too summon as long as it's face up, doesn't get bullied by dracostapellia because no lv needed, and sometimes uses the hand, the opponent's field without being declared.
-even rituals(i know, not extra deck summon):uses tributes, uses hand, deck, opponents field, face down monsters.
But I think the real shame is the lack of tools for going second, because synchros need both lvls and field presance, they are extremely vulnerable to any type of disruption, and have very few ways of summonig monsters in spell speed 2, making even black rose dragon a slow option for it's time. I mean just look at going second special summoning options : zeus, typhoon, super poly, acsess code... the archetype simply has too much garbage options and enough things to use as a come back because of the speed of the summon. the most recent is tenpai, but, the decks potentiel in going second is for from being playble everywhere and uses other advantages for going second. I really hope konami fixes this, before pendulum ends up catching up
Whether we like it or not, Synchro summoning as a mechnic is just far too fair as it stands given with the way modern-day Yu-Gi-Oh operates. As a person who personally prefers it to any other mechanic, we needed cards like Barrone and Savage to compete with all the other nonsense in the game. The problem was, accessibility.
Honestly, the issue is Baronne and Savage pushed out almost every other Synchro boss monster, I would genuinely argue other mechanics need to be put in check at least as much as Synchros need a buff if losing two monsters can render the mechanic as worthless as some people are saying it now is
@@baxterbruce9827Oh please when cards like primeheart are still being printed as boss monsters to synchro decks of course Barrone and Savage would've pushed them out. It's not that they were too good it's just that everything else is hot garbage.
@@Honest_Mids_Masher While I do agree Prime-Heart is way more hot garbage than it ever needed to be there ARE things in between the extremes of Baronne, Savage and maybe Dis Pater (Super powerful bosses) and Prime-Heart (Why?), like Chengying
Although for Prime-Heart specifically, I feel we might be able to (partially) blame the ridiculous overtuning of Kashtira and Tearlaments that Konami basically decided to pre-emptively nerf the Mannadium
If I had to guess, this is also what happened with Drytrons and Ursarctics
@@baxterbruce9827 Chengying isn't a form of interruption making it garbage. It may as well be primeheart at that point because unless if your opponent banishes cards Chengying isn't gonna do anything. XYZ's on the other hand gets stuff like Zeus. Fusions get superpoly which is one of the best board breakers in the game. Links get stuff like accesscode, I:P, Appolousa, Rituals are ehh ig they have tons of searchers but they do have ultimate slayer which is another good board breaker.
Few arguments here:
We have synchro specific decks that do decently well, and did for their time. We have tenpai and Centurion currently, but Manadium was a meta synchro deck that facilitated summoning from the deck. Not going to dismiss Swordsoul either, which was also good in its time and decent at the moment.
Tokens. While I would agree mostly with you in tokens for synchro materials only, there are decks that specifically make tokens for their strategy, eg Sky striker and the new fiendsmith. An obscure example would also be evil-eye or even generaider. These decks generate tokens to further their gameplay, and the tokens have a specific use there.
We do have some powerful tuners at the moment, but they are deck specific often times, or lock into synchros. I feel that they could definitely print more tuners and try to revive the synchro mechanic more like a synchro summon from deck, but that could be dangerous. Think crimson dragon in centurion, it just creates more advantage without as much worry of nib.
Now, don’t even get me started on white woods 😅.
lmao all those decks you listed combined has less tops than a mid level meta fusion deck like branded or purrly for xyz let alone the broken shit like tears or sprights or kash.
white woods is dogshit right now too. people legit being gaslight by youtube combo vids when the deck is doing nothing in ocg and going to do even less here since their boss got banned.
If they had GY effects they would be used the most, more possibly than the hand-traps.
That Floral Knight thumbnail is really good too! Their addition to DL was a curious one. We have Baronne de Fleur locked behind a character skill so it like never seen, and I was expecting it to be a Limit 1 bundle card which would mean it goes in to EVERY deck! They may do this to the Borrel synchro too...since they are making skills playable by anyway, we could see them there too, like they have for Shadolls and Ogdoadics and more.
All they need is a card that lets them synchro with materials from the deck just like branded fusion does. But give it a restriction. Like branded. It wouldnt be a bad idea for a card.
Ooh that could make options like shiranui a mean deck
All is needed is a tuner that is just super poly that adds any and all effects of any monster(s) controlled by your opponent used with it to synchro summon to the summoned synchro monster. This gives any synchro deck a going second option when needed.
When synchros and 5d’s came out , I was hooked . I love the idea and the mechanics of the gameplay. Till this day I still duel with synchro monsters, especially stardust. In master duel I have this exodia stardust prototype that gets me by in rank; but everything you said about my beloved synchro monsters were true 😢 I even find my self using a dark tuner to get to dharc charmer link sometimes. Since their inception, the world of Yugioh expanded to where they weren’t really able to catch up.
I do like the idea of tuners being used in the hand. Only being able to be used a material for a synchro monster .
Also I thought about a way to keep tuners around, something like the crystal beasts or pendulum monsters. After being defeated, instead of heading to the graveyard, place them as continuous spells/traps. Then let say you have a lv 4 monster or n.summon a monster, trigger the tuner to return to the field and immediately synchro summoning ?
That's kinda Centur-Ion.
I think they could revive synchro summoning with an Archetype that operates similar to Gemini monsters. They'd all have an effect that:
Once per turn, you may activate the following effect: if this card is treated as a tuner, it is no longer treated as a tuner. If this card is not treated as a tuner, it is now treated as a tuner.
Having monsters of all levels that could effectively choose when they are or aren't tuners would greatly expand the mechanic. Because it sucks when you draw all tuners or even no tuners at all. Like those can literally be brick hands for a Synchro deck. This would get around that. But also stay balanced as your opponent could interact with these effects to negate them.
Crystal wing synchro dragon is my favorite synchro card. I found a way to put XYZ and synchros in my dark magician deck a long time ago when card of demise was at 3, somehow ash blossoms helped a lot with synchros instead of saying no. Solem judgement helped out with that. I used to play number 54 for XYZ, it was difficult to summon but fun when it did. Got destroyed right away most of the times.
When I build the dark magician deck to have more synchros, the deck moved but unfortunately card of demise got hit and hella good cards came out during that time period. The salamagreat deck is still legit but the newbies definitely kicking some butt.
I think there could be a solution to the adding levels if we learn from Ritual Monsters who do rely on levels to Ritual Summon. They don't require an exact number, but a minimum level requirement. And if we can create a reason to over tune for a synchro monster, the possibilities are endless.
Having Synchros that can tag out to its level constituents could be a cool mechanic. Like Tenpai but de-Synchro rather than performint another Synchro Summon, or tagging for another Synchro like Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon.
Realistically, the only thing Synchro have that Links don't are that it has DEF and it has levels. So unless you make more effects that support those two, Links will always have better utility due to not caring about levels. So for example, Synchro with following effect:
Monsters with the same level non-Tuner monster(s) used are unaffected by opponent's monster.
I agree with everything said here. And I do like some of your answers to the issues Synchros have. I like the way Swordsoul cards are designed in that they summon themselves with the material needed to make a synchro play. Hopefully we get more of that and some kind of recursion effects like Omega as you mentioned. My favorite Synchro is between Stardust Dragon and Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon. Both of those saved my ass and won me many locals so it's hard to choose. I also love them in the animes I grew up watching 👌
You can fusion from hand - deck, while your tuner monster or insert whatever monster gets effect veiled / impermanence etc. and you already lost the match.
I see why they've made all the Yoaki girls tuners, being handtraps gives them more versatility than just being material.
Stardust Dragon all time favorite!
I do like the idea for synchro summoning from hand or deck just to be able to give the summoning type a way to break its mold like others have.
I think as all the other mechanics have evolved to fuse using monsters from deck xyz using a lower rank xyz and link with what ever synchros need to be able to use the deck more than just what is usually in hand or graveyard
Those specific decks further prove the issue with the synchro card pool. Barone and savage are what really helped them out. SS at least has the set up under 5 summons that gives you an on field monste negate and two pops.
Centur-ion's levels make crmonsom dragon the only good option outside lf their archetype, which encourages the calamity or other level 12 plays, and the level 12s are examples of old high level cards that are not good by modern standards and difficult to make
Assault synchron is another decent tuner as well. It only allows you to synchro. Auradon is one of those cards that allow you to use tokens as synchro material only. Konomi already been workin on these ideas u mentioned, it’s just they want money
Very interesting take. When you break it down though this a very valid perspective on synchros that I didn’t even think about.
I absolutely love Synchros. Them and Rituals are my two favorite mechanics. But I do agree with making them have easier summoning conditions. Treating a non-tuner as a tuner or even banishing the tuner and non tuner from your graveyard would be very helpful. Maybe spells or effects that let you choose a monster from your hand as material too. But definitely do agree with effects that lock in. Maybe not on all tuners (cus then Tenyi and one’s likes that would get boned) but it’s still the best buff for Synchros and debuff for Links
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I think tributing is in an even worse position. You are right about the tuners though! I think a PENDULUM tuner would be what is missing to keep synchros up to any pace. They get sent to the ED after use instead of the GY so there is the inherent possibility of recursion. If the card is an effective wall too, then it could see more regular use on its own. Can we have an extension of the dino set??? Color me partial but Samurai Calvary of Reptier (and Aether the Empowered Dragon) has been what has decided games, so adding a couple tuners would rock!
Also a tuner token card would also be a great idea (I also want to see tokens with effects like MTG has). We only have a few cards that generically enable synchros so some more could definitely help too. Links that assist in synchros is also in order. We have Cyberse Quantum Dragon and some others to help with the links but I don't recall any really enabling that mechanic beyond some archetypal support.
We need more cards like revolution synchron. You can summon a card and use RS to synchro summon. Trying to get the materials on field to synchro summon can be tough. With fusion monsters , all you really need is the fusion spell card to make it happen for the most part.
Is that "Wake Up, Get Up, Get Out There" I hear in the background? Yo, Persona music slaps!!! 🎶
Plus, I got a QCR Black Rose Dragon. I know that it's your favorite.
I believe the link summoning mechanic created the biggest power leap in yugioh history. Not a fan of links.
Synchro summoning is my favorite mechanic in yugioh, and I agree with what you said. We need tuners that can either recycle at the cost of a mechanic lock, or give the synchro monsters summoned additional effects for following the correct use of said monster. Also my favorite synchro monsters are ancient fairy dragon and chaos angel ✊🏾🔥
I think Synchro, Fusion and XYZ are fine right now, with Link being the more powerful summon mechanic and ritual being the weakest one.
If only ritual was in the extra decks would help so much
I wouldn’t say ritual is the weakest one, i mean we have voiceless voice with skull guardian and sauravis, also skull guardian is one of the only remaining omni negates
@@paulallen2804 I'm mostly saying it would be so much easier if ritual are in the extra bed
@@paulallen2804 it is like you need 1 speel + 1 ritual monster + material for that ritual it supper costy and make ritual deck bricky. voiceless voice is an exception the deck is supper good.
Gishki is still strong. Cyber Angels too. There are only a couple sets that were made conscious to the limits, and there's already some specifically curious support for the mechanic, a bit of which I learned of recently is a field spell that adjusts levels of cards in hand based on a ritual monster level. The mechanic has that one advantage over any other, which is why they have not added them to the ED.
I also think the mechanic could have been made integral to the Illusion type.
Synchros are what elevated the TCG to it's first true competitive era and brought more players into the game. It's a shame that they keep doing synchro monsters so dirty every year. I agree with the ban on Borreload (even though it should have been banned during Dragon Link) but the ban on Baronne when it finally became affordable for budget players was a dick move by Konami. It's honestly not even that strong in comparison to something like S.P or I.P . Don't get me wrong i played all 3 when they were first released, but i can still say that Links are doing more damage in meta decks in comparison to synchros.
P.S: Sell your Crimson Dragons and King Calamities now because one or both are getting hit once Tenpai takes over (most likely Crimson Dragon)
You can synchro summon from hand with some monsters (if I recall correctly for Melffy)
One archetype; Speedroids; minus the awful attempts at pendulum summoning, they are super great at synchro climbing and have excellent synergies with Crystal and Clear Wing extra deck monsters and they have the Windwitches that are quite capable and able to work together or on their own in the deck and their synchros are really easy to bring out in Speedroids and I can even say that occasionally I can fusion summon in the deck as well. Just look at the lvl 3 Speedroid tuner; the one that can special summon another tuner from the hand or graveyard by banishing itself from the graveyard. Or the lvl 3 synchro tuner; it can bring a speedroid spell/trap card to my hand or resummon all the resources that went into it if they were all Speedroids. I think I can rest my case; I know it isn't exactly top of the barrel, but it has so much variety and strength in it's strategies that it is at least somewhat good
Also I enjoy synchro's math involved in summoning synchros.
Based Speedroid enjoyer
@@gyppygirl2021 Thank you?
@@pauleffinger7122 Speedroids are my favorite archetype :P
@@gyppygirl2021 I don't know how I landed on them exactly, other than I really wanted to play synchros and I used lots of machine type monsters in Legacy of the Duelist. But one day less than a year ago I think..., I started playing Master Duel. I ended up making my Crystal Clear Wing Speedroid deck. Probably not the most efficient version, but I really meant everything I said above. Of course, we must evolve with our decks, so I really wanted to find ways to spice up the Speedroid formula; since I'm pretty much restricted to the Wind attribute, I decided to give Aleister (did I spell that right?) and his Wind fusion monster a try in a variation of the deck. Not satisfied enough, I looked online and found out about the Windwitches, so now I play "the good ones" from the main deck and some of their synchros and fusions. I'm very pleased with this deck from my experiments on Legacy of the Duelist despite not having it finished yet and frankly, I started Master Duel with the intention of making a extra deck full of a variety of summoning mechanics and now I can rest easy knowing i achieved my goals with a competent deck that doesn't make me feel like an asshole, almost ever, for playing something too meta so my opponent can't stand a chance. Call it a hot take if you want, but some decks are too efficient and I understand why Terrortop is at 1 in the TCG because of what I can do in my deck, though if someone else can explain the interactions it can do for other decks, I'd love to know!
What about tuners that allow you to synchro by shuffling/banishing from grave?
Favorite synchro Shooting Star Dragon. Just for the anime vibes.
I pretty much agree with the video. Playing yugioh aince 2004. My current favorite archtype is karakuri which is the second best synchro archtype behind synchron. Both of them with synchro only dont stand a chance to other decks and mechanics.
Honestly, I don't think they're a dying mechanic. Centur-Ion and White Wood are both prime examples. Removing the generic cards like Baronne and Borrelload was a great move, but I don't believe the mechanic is dying. Just on a backburner.
They should definitely do more things like sword soul makes you have to synchro after pulling out the token
dragonshell is a lvl synchro that can shuffle your synchro back in the deck
Thank you for this video. I’ve been saying this to people for years ever since links were released
Synchros are the last best Extra Deck mechanic. Konami ruined the game after the 5Ds era.
YESSSSS! Preach the greatness of the Swordsoul archetype for summoning a token tuner with the non-tuner monster.
My fav synchro monster is Blood Rose Dragon (Ruddy Rose for you Yanks). It was satisfying to launch out Hop Ear squadron while Gizmek Orochi was on the field during Tear format to banish the grave. Making BR Dragon is a game ender sometimes too
But you wanna know a really cool non tuner monster? The Cyber Commander! It’s a level 3 monster with 750 attack points and does nothing
I see someone is a Tristan fan.
I'm glad to see cards like Baronne De Fleur and Borreload Savage Dragon leave the game but that definitely does leave the Synchro mechanic in a rough spot until we get some new good Synchros. Hopefully Konami can give Synchro the kinda love they've given Fusion in recent years.
As for how to fix Synchros, well honest to god the overly generic nature of Links is just a horrific game design flaw and I think the game needs to *HEAVILY* target Links on a banlist. Really, Links are just too generic and too strong to not cause issues even outside of just power creeping Synchros.
As for my favorite Synchro, I am a lover of the Albaz lore so for me it's Bystial Dis Pater
Stardust Dragon is my favorite Synchro and favorite card of all time. Have a deck for it and a massive collection of Stardust Dragon cards and merch. Every English print, multiple Japanese prints, special playmats, the giant card, and much, much more. I even have the Signer mark as a tattoo. I am dedicated.
What's your favorite summoning mechanic Cali?
Chaos Angel is not an answer. It's a dad joke with no intention to face it's issues.
Its issues: board breakers coming to the face now that the omninegates are no longer around to protect it.
seeing how fusions can fuse without spells, i would agree with more tuners like revolution synchron. Tenpai exists, so synchro has a meta deck currently. We had fusion aswell, now we need pend and xyz. A meta with all mechanics represented would be crazy.
Personal experience below:
Being an antisocial so-and-so, my first experience with Synchros was in WC2011: Over the Nexus, and I just couldn't wrap my head around them.
A specific monster (Tuner) AND the levels have to add up, I couldn't bring myself to do that much math outside specific archetypes with specific Synchro Monsters.
All I remember is turns taking forever, and suddenly there are several powerful monsters on my opponents side of field, and I only got one Mirror Force :P.
Exceed monsters were a lot easier for me to grasp, which also affected which Yu-Gi-Oh anime I enjoyed more.
Is it me, or is there a remix of Nimbasa City playing in the back ground from pokemon black/white 😅
I love synchro and the excel synchro deck strategy I just hope it can get some more love one day
With centur-ion being as new as it is it's hard to say synchro is dying, but I agree it's not as good as Link. Stuff like revolution synchron and the ability to not need a tuner, is definitely a step in the right direction, but having the ability to cheat out boss monsters with crimson dragon could be a good thing to keep in mind too
Cali what about the best mechanic that's essentially as dead as synchros at this point. Pendulums. Especially when tenpai is Dominating right now
Branded fusion but for synchros or more tuners like vata in blackwings
Hey Cali, what about a video about how Xyz monsters got screwed over regarding tokens? Ritual, Fusion, Synchro, and Link can all use tokens but Xyz can’t
My favorite synchro monster….it’s hard to pick just one…but I’m gonna say Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon. It’s a great example of how a balanced Synchro should be imo. It provides a great negation effect but requires a good bit of resource commitment
i think we need better tuners. been playing synchrons for a bit, love the deck. an honestly its a big brain deck, an the amount of options you have is just endless. being able to play after. a negated junk speeder or after a nib is just so satisfying.
i really miss the whole synchron aspect of the deck that reflected in the extra deck. nitro warrior needing nitro synchron for example.
the extra deck is about a quarter of generic cards.
that aside, its our tuners that need a upgrade.
we dont need anymore search power lol just tuners. more cards like revolution and assault. something that recycles a bit or leaves tokens.
STARDUST DRAGON 4 LIFE~
Tenpai - am i a joke to you?
My favorite synchro is samurai destroyer. Summons itself back if destroyed by card effect, negates monster effects of monster battling it. Amazing when it came to duel links. Almost an instant win against the invoked engine
Make more decks like swordsoul, swordsoul had great in-engine synchros, and it was able to summon tuner synchros, so there was no older younger dog situation
well its also the fact people have to do math on top of reading and thinking ahead and yughioh players dont do all 3
Yugioh is cyclic. We have an xyz meta presence with Kashtira, Traptrix amd Purrely, then a Synchro meta presence thanks to Barone and now a link meta thanks to snake eyes. All that with fusion next to them
And people hate that, they want every mechanic represented by at least 1 Deck at all times, which steps on the toes of the card designers that want a clear top 3 or less Decks at any one time.
Does anyone know a archetype that can synchro summon from the hand or take monsters on the hand for synchro summons ?
It's basically just Revolution Synchron
Nordics with Mara.
my fav synchro monster is Ukiyoe PUNK Amazing Dragon and i like your token idea so i hope konami either prints more cards with that in mind or give swordsoul some more support
My Mannadium has suffered greatly after Baronne's ban :(
My favorite Synchro Monster is Scarlight Red Dragon Archfiend.
I’d like more synchros to follow the Chaos Angel design
"First, we ban all the Tuners..."
"Tuners can't be used to link summon, unless the link monster or the tuner SPECIFICALLY allows it."
There.
How do you explain Diabell Cali? Best synchro in the game.
I want speedroid and icejade support in master duel that would increase competition between them and mannadium and superheavy
Honestly rather than fixing the whole thing I would be happy if they give us a Yusei deck that was on par with the Jack one we got. It was cool that the Jack deck was good stand alone and fit well with a few spashes. I would love to see the same for yusei. Just give us a slightly better ability to play pure yusei effectively (aka playing the pure deck as more than borrow a few blackwing cards to make 5 ''quasars".
I like the Team 5D's Deck that uses not only Synchrons but a few Blackwings and a Jack card here and there such as using Stardust Synchron to search King's Synchro to make King Calamity on the opponent's turn, it represents their teamwork and friendship just like Quickdraw Dandywarrior represented true love between Yusei and Akiza by mixing Synchron and Plant Synchro. ☺️
I wonder how effective it would be if tuners couldn’t be used in link summons
Token monsters that can only be used for Synchro Summons? That's just Swordsoul, isn't it?
I really hope one day they start reworking old cards and give them effects or make them tuners
My guy have you heard of a thing called sword soul that thing you were talking about with tokens that can only be used for synchros? It's simple just have it be where links can't use tuners to link. Also I would say that XYZ summoning is harder than synchro is mainly because you have to build your deck around the different ranked monsters depending on what you're doing but XYZ focused decks are way harder in my opinion Yes you did need just two of the same level but if you don't have proper level modulation or they don't sync up and no pun intended then.
The problem was never the Tuners or the mechanic itself, it is always Konami nerfing it like there's no tomorrow. Arc-V and Vrains eras made sure to put every possible restriction on Synchro archetypes, just compare Yang Zing with Shadoll and Tellars or Crystron with Zoodiac and Metalfoes.
2020~2021 gave Synchro archetypes much more freedom and we got lots of competitive stuff for their times such as Adamancipator, Swordsoul, Infernobles, Virtual World (half XYZ, but still), Mannadium, Centur-ion and Tenpai Dragons.
Thing is, we are sadly once again in a moment of Konami nerfing Synchro monsters with the bans of Baronne and Borreload as the most recent examples while the broken cards for Fusion/XYZ/Link strategies are free to stay for really far longer.
As a Swordsoul player, despite feeling bummed out with Baronne de Fleur being banned, I'm still hoping for a way to continue playing Yu-Gi-Oh without binge spending on another deck that's considered expensive. After all, Swordsoul has been my favorite deck since 2022.
Binge $40-50 for an Archnemeses Protos and hop back on those Swordsouls, Big Chungus is still a heck of a card.
@@autobotstarscream765 Did purchase Protos prior to the banlist and it was $8 before that. Still prone to Nibiru and then some.
@@geraldsinger9954 At least with Swordsoul Tenyi, you can use the Tenyis to play through/with the Nibbler Token. 🐉
Comparing the synchro mechanic to an old dog is probably the saddest thing I’ve heard all week 😢
The difference in design between Synchros and XYZ during both of their tenure were that XYZ had more powerful effects, but were temporary, while Synchros had powerful long-term effects.
We should take this to its natural conclusion, make Synchro Monsters incredibly sticky and difficult to get rid of, or make them float back onto the field very easily or into another just as powerful Synchro.
I dont think its going to happen in master duel and the ocg. The ocg will continue to balance the game in there own way being consistency hits so every deck doesnt just get killed like in the tcg.
So what about red dragon archfiend? He’s gotten new support power and has a variety of options of playing. Personally I’ve been playing with red dragon archfiend for a year now and I’ve discovered many synchro options and strategies. I might be only limited to synchros but I’m ok with it as long as I got my synchro solution. I’ve even managed to go supernova in most duels and DP to win.
Good luck going 2nd and trying to put a tuner on the board. A guardian chimera pop 2 could literally end your turn, or a simple book of moon will do that.
I actually use evenly matched, ash imperm droll on second turn helps out
@@Kai-cv9rs True that with non engine we could push through certain weaken boards, but that doesn't solve our inherent weakness of have no play after ash on soul reso (if we do not open bone)
@@quantrinh9824 true but I’ve discovered alternative ways of opening with the bone archfiend
Red Dragon Archfiend+
Power Tool Dragon+
Vylon Omega & Alpha+
I mean, I compete very well against the current meta with my Bystial Resonator Deck
Arcanute Magician is the man, wish I could fit him in something
I like that ghoti can use more than one tuner 🤘
Synchro's are like the middle child of summoning mechanics
This video is low-key showing more of an issue with Links than showing that Synchros are weak.
Man I hope we get a good Synchro deck with good tuners in the future.
Look up white woods
I use my ash all the time to bring out psycho end punisher