This is probably one of the most comprehensive primers to the infernoble knight strategy that I've ever seen, and it's entertaining to boot! You've earned a subscriber!
Omg this was an amazing video, i passed through a lot of infernoble knights video seeking something that really sparks me from inside and then after almost losing all my hope🎉 tan dan here i am haha thanks man for the video cheers from Brazil
I’ve had my flaming knights sitting in a pile for a while cuz I wasn’t sure how to approach this. Your video and advice inspired me to pick them up and finally build a deck! Thank you!
dude this is the first video we've come across on your channel. Love it! you did amazing! made our day and for sure looking forward to seeing more of your content! :):)
Mark tends not to give out specific lists, so you can go off the combos in the video and add the necessary cards, then adjust ratios yourself based on what you’d want to see! He leaves the actual deck building up to you.
This was a great video, always nice to see the fun and passion coming even from the more casual side of the Infernoble Knight players. Awesome Video - Rudy
15:25 i got curious about that idea one time because I was tired of Angelica doing nothing on the opponents turn and the best I could come up with was getting something like a d.d.r. into grave, grab it back with Renault, and use it to revive one of your non-tuner ones and then go into the T.G. level 2 synchro tuner because it's the only quick synchro effect in warriordoesnthas generic material
i really liked your video it was well explained and i discovered a lot of techs that i didnt know , i love infernobles , your video was really fun i was laughing a lot
Is there something I am missing about Camelot / Round Table? Camelot banishes itself until the next standby phase, but also places a field spell. Does that mean when the standby phase comes up, it replays itself and sends the Round Table to the GY? At 11:14 you show it going to your hand, but is that just a visual error? I've loved IKs ever since they came out and have decided to go back to the silly frenchies after all the Fiend Pile investments never paid off, because I love my dudes with swords. Thanks!
That's correct--when Camelot returns during the next standby phase, Round Table goes to the GY. Then when you activate Camelot's search effect again on your next turn, it'll put Round Table back into the field zone (from anywhere). The idea is that you'll continually loop them.
Noble knights and infernoble knights build the castle gameplay is just so much fun and reviwing the things i knew and the things i didnt know made me go back and finish my noble knight catalogue because well You never know when more fun support shows up for our knights
Although, is it really "protect the castle" gameplay when the castle is now so powerful that the game ends in one round? Gearfried and Charles the Great do EVERYTHING.
This video was hilarious and now I know more Infernoble plays outside what I play. May we get a deck list in the future? That way we can get the $60 deck or attempt to make it in MD?
The cards in this video are not all one build or main deck. These themes have so much search power that you can run whatever cards you like (or all of them) and the deck will still work just fine.
My favourite archetype of all time! Infernoble knights kick ass! I personally prefer a going 2nd approach with the deck; focusing on the OG Synchro boss and its board breaking abilities :D
Oh woah, this is the guy who did the outstanding Crystal Beast video. I hope the algorithm helps push your stuff more, such a shame this is the first thing to show up since the Crystal Beast video
He's at it again! While I can't completely blame the algorithm because my channel is all over the place, it's definitely been... interesting to see how inconsistent it can be. Humanity is increasingly deferring our socialization to machines which not even the developers fully understand.
I remember getting (and still have) both my Galactic Overlord promo Noble Knight Artorigus and Cosmo Blazar promo Noble Arms - Caliburn back in the day when card shops did Sneak Peak events. I even pulled a Noble Knight Medraut from my sneak peak Cosmo Blazar which I promptly sold at the time, as Fire Fists was the theme I was more interested in and my wallet wanted 60$. Fast forward many years I picked up an Infernoble core cheap after Linkross got banned. New players would be shocked at the laundry list of past honorary Noble Knights like various Mecha Phantom Beasts or Deskbot 001 that we needed to accomplish the wild boards the deck used to end on. Even now its still my pet deck that Ive been blinging it out with the high rarity love Infernobles have received. Not familiar with your work, video was a youtube recommendation but will definitely check out more.
I also sold my old CBLZ Medrauts back then, when it became clear that Noble Knights would stay far more expensive than they were worth. But let's not call O-lion or Deskbots honorary knights--I do not miss the days of checking out "rogue" deck profiles that were actually just vehicles for the Halq combo of the month. I also appreciate what Infernobles have done, but at the same time... I wish the original cards hadn't gotten so totally abandoned. So many cool designs that will never find a home in any format. :'(
Hi Mark, amazing video as usual. I would really love if you could take a look at the fiend link deck. Its best cards (the fiendsmiths) release in the next core set in July I believe, but i would love to see your crazy take on the deck. Currently most of the strategies used are: Yubel, unchained, sacred beasts, and the fiendsmiths. I know its a big ask, but I would love to see if you could make it viable without the fiendsmiths. It’s a ton of work, so you don’t have to do it if you don’t want to, but i’d love to see it. Thanks for your consideration, keep up the awesome work, we appreciate everything you make for us!
I don't know anything about those Fiend decks, sorry. I avoid popular combo piles because they're more expensive, lack the element of surprise, and most importantly, they require trudging through vast card pools which those themes' veteran pilots will know far better than me. Looking at a list using those four engines... YIKES. I've never seen a deck with so many random cards which were never reprinted! If somebody wants a budget Fiend deck, just hand them Dark World and call it a day!
NK are my favorites and I hate I can't play them consistently. I guess I have to sell my loyalty to the French. Thanks to this video I will bite the bullet. Thanks! You made me a traitor!
Was using the eka combo for a while before isolde ban Recently learned Razen is also a noble knight Also I've been teching the vaylantz field spells recently too. They're tight
You were already using Vaylantz World!? And Eka!? If you were also using it to summon Great Shogun Shien then I don't know if it's safe to let you walk the streets freely. There's genius, and then there's insanity. (TELL ME MORE.)
@MarkThePage here's a funny 2 card combo Snake eye ash+any vaylantz field/search Ash is 1 card combo to double charles + gearfried or any link 2 or lvl 10 synch If you add in the vaylantz cards, you protect yourself from imperm and you can do the following: End on gearfried with double charles, use Shinra bansho to summon charles again and overly for Hyperyton (rank 9 omni neg) In EP, you'll activate charles to equip and hyperyton will chain to add a monster as material. That monster will be Flamberge. Guarantees follow up. Even more so if you linked into promethean
Konig wisson being a strong board breaker is a neat discovery as well. Potential 2-4 for 1 in card economy. A good example I remember is against snake eye, I opened vaylantz, got rid of their field spell, placed their flamberge in s/t, popping their set imperm and cutting them off from I:P and princess. Something ive also been testing is the sky striker engine. Engage going to 3 makes for a lot of board breaking potential. Drones being a lvl 1 is nice with Oliver. Shark cannon is strong in this meta. Also I mentioned vanquish soul. Razen being a fire warrior has good synergy but is a one card apolousa into full combo and has going second implication with razen and mad love secondary effects, depending on your build. Also stake your soul is cracked. It's good ash bait too I love infernoble man
I did NOT know what I was getting into when I replied to your comment. This is a LOT to think about as I reconsider my cards and also life choices. My combos are stale white bread compared to what you've been cooking.
medraut is nice for making infernal flame banshee with ogier bif your willing to run poplar. also using flame swordsman vs medraut at the moment though.
I enjoyed the video enough to forgive the disrespect to my Brit-knights, great video, the hit to Isolde while I still grieve has just cut my deck size from 60 to 45~
Isolde's ban knocking the Brits out of our decks was because Konami knew we weren't going to play good cards until forced to. Being Noble Knight fans meant taking pride in our denial, because it was the only way to numb the pain.
I still have trauma from when Lightsworn was allowed to dominate local tournaments for 2-3 years, so I'd rather tear up every Lightsworn card in existence. UM, ANYWAY... the new LS cards feel much more insular to me--they've moved away from generic milling because of the Ishizu card. There are probably countless LS/Chaos veterans with creative decks to show off. I would only have authority on CB hybrids. LS/CB has been attempted throughout the ages, with Crystal Blessing, Ayer's Rock Sunrise, and Rainbow Dragon, but I never heard of a consistent build, and CBs have little use for random milling anymore. I'll look into it but I've found the new cards clunky so far.
After looking through deck profiles and videos to see if there's anything I'm missing out on in my own build and play patterns, I'm beginning to feel like I'm the only straight person that plays this deck. Maybe there's something wrong here.
15:19 Actually, junk connector can be used to synchro summon the card you're summoning with the trap card. Clunky, but i don't see any other mean to do it lol.
How did I not think to look up link monsters for synchro summoning! I think the best Junk Connector could do is to summon Lavalval Exlord. But at the cost of 2 materials and the EMZ, it's too expensive. Best alternative I've come up with is that Formula Synchron is possible in a Snake-Eye build and can summon Baronne in Master Duel.
You can run the super heavy engine (3x prodigy, 3x motor bike, 1x soul horns, 1x monk) and that can get you to angelica or ip if you’re running it and won’t take up your normal summon plus can get you a pendulum summon. And prometian princess can be helpful
I see... Someone once mentioned Superheavy but I had no idea what they were talking about. (My only experience was somehow beating it at an OTS which I didn't expect would be allowing CYAC early--those couple of weeks when it was an absurdly consistent FTK deck. So I've tried to purge it from my blissful little mind.) I can see that engine being really useful in more link-focused builds. Probably ones which use Flame Swordsman to trigger Cross-Sheep. But I'm not using S:P so there was no point in looking into that stuff. Is it stronger than these budget options? Maybe, but definitely not $130 stronger.
@@MarkThePage you don’t need s:p little knight, and the main thing i use the engine for is just to go into angelica and chain blocking angelica with prodigy so that they can’t ash blossom the angelica searching the card that mentions charles.
Awesome video congrats you deserve that like! One question for you tho, have you experimented with the IB engine Rudy Torres plays with? I want to understand if actually playing IB + battlin boxer is better than flame swordsman
Link-based Infernoble decks are so cool and interesting. They probably play through disruption better even after Baronne's banning, but Sparrer costing your battle phase going second is ROUGH. Considering that Flame Swordsman already sets up remarkably strong opening boards and is $500 cheaper... I'm gonna play the deck that's $500 cheaper.
@@MarkThePage those are my thoughts exactly! However, I didn’t mean the snake-eyes package, instead I meant the Ib the World Chalice Justiciar package as an alternative to flame swordsman… there is no space in the deck for both so you have to choose what works best. If you’ve tried both can you tell me what are your thoughts on that?
I haven't tried Ib, but it looks like that engine works because of Diabellestar -> Original Sinful Spoils -> Ricciardetto consistently enabling a second level 5 synchro summon, then providing material for links or Baronne. Without the expensive stuff, you probably either can't summon Ib often or can't do much with it. Flame Swordsman still has synergy with link builds for triggering Cross-Sheep and fueling Diabellestar's discard cost. I think you could run everything together. This deck has more than enough search power to comfortably go over 40 cards.
@@MarkThePage yes agreed.. the Snake-eyes engine makes everything more consistent and enables more plays or lets you play through more disruptions. The only problem? It’s way too overpriced and even if it’s reprinted it’ll still cost than the whole deck combined… plus, it’s most likely getting banned/ limited by the time it’s reprinted
That's by far the most popular way to play Knights, so I didn't see any need to give my take on it. You can find lots of videos from other people who know those cards better than I do.
On the next turn, Salamandra the Flying Flame Dragon can equip itself from the graveyard again. When it's sent back, it can search for Salamandra Fusion.
I'm gonna be that weird guy that defends Noble Knights You can actually make a cohesive deck using both British and French knights Medraut is a great starter, being able to tag ou Borz, which can search Camelot, Museum and Durendal, granting you basically Angelica and a lvl 4 body on the field Also, Borz can send "Until Noble Arms are Needed Once Again" (or OA to simplify) to the GY, which means that if you reveal 2 by his effect, you'll have one for your opponent turn and one for your next turn, making it amazing on grind Also, there's Custennin, that locks you on Noble Knights if you use him to summon a extra deck Noble Knight. Since Angelica isn't a Noble Knight, Custennin and Durendal is free real estate (especially going second when you can equip Durendal to an opponent monster These are the best 3 for me, but you can use the other knights for some silly interactions. Brothers being soft once per turn makes you grind basically forever. Bedwyr can pass an equip to other monster on field, so if you pass Hauteclere to and opponent monster, you'll trigger Charles, that will pop that monster and then, Hauteclere pops another one. Drystan can be another pop, Eachtar is a recurring extender, and Gawayn can be a extender even if the only monster on your side of the field is the Nibiru token I really love Noble Knights, and its a shame that the deck have a lot of cards that essentially do nothing or simply makes you lose (I'm looking at you Merlin). I hope someday Konami give the deck the love it needs to at least be somewhat playable if played pure, and give us the damn Morgan searcher
By Merlin's beard, he really did it--he found some use for Bedwyr! I doubt it's optimal (especially compared to setting up Angelica's Ring) but I'm excited to have an excuse to try Bedwyr again! One of the best-looking cards ever printed (and never reprinted). Medraut getting Ashed is brutal since it leaves him at level 5, and his Borz combo requires either a suboptimal Noble Arms or two Infernoble Arms. Not sure how you'd get to Angelica from there, since Borz keeps his Arms and 5th star. A Boxer combo would take far less commitment, from the hand and the deck. Also, another commenter has pointed out Medraut -> Ogier -> Infernal Flame Banshee -> Snake-Eyes Poplar, which means Original Sinful Spoils -> Ricciardetto -> Angelica. Sounds better than Borz. Regardless, your kingdom acknowledges your deeds. Continue to bring honor to the crown!
@MarkThePage the idea to use Medraut is to summon Borz, pass the equip, then reveal 3 Durendal, use Durendal ro search Oliver and send the equip on Borz to gy to summon Oliver, so now you have a way to summon Angelica, a lvl 4 body and Oliver on gy to equip on Angelica And yes, the Boxer engine is better, I can't possibly deny that, but if someone really wants to use their platinum cards, that's a really good way (and probably the only good way) About Ash on Medraut: yeah, that sucks, but honestly, with the amount of ways to get Durendal here, this is not that big of deal, and I usually suffer more when they leave Ash to Angelica And lastly, the combo to Medraut>Ogier>Banshee is really good, but I feel that if you're committing to that, it would be better simply not to use the Arthurian cards. Also, even if you want to use both Arthurians and Snake-Eyes on Infernoble, you can summon Banshee later in the combo to make a bigger board Also, your video is amazing. You got my attention on that video about Tri-Brigades, and now you got a new subscription. Keep up the good work
Ah, I forgot about Oliver there! He was important in my old, mixed build, but now I never take him over Renaud. And yes, above all, the #1 strategy is whatever makes your favorite cards as good as they can be. When I'm hard on them, it comes from a place of never settling until finding plays which only those cards can pull off.
What I showed in the video is exactly what I run. You can also swap the spells and traps between the main and side decks if you want--not every player uses them. Try everything to see how it fits with your personal style!
Can someone explain the secondary effects of the infernoble spell cards? When does the secondary effect activate? I know they dont for link summons right?
The Infernoble Arms' secondary effects can trigger if the equipped monster is destroyed, tributed or used as fusion/synchro/link material. Or sent to the graveyard by some non-destructive effect. Almace is typically used for its graveyard effect. Joyeuse's is sometimes relevant for big combos. Durendal's is almost never worth using instead of its search effect.
@@MarkThePage maybe I have to test it out more but sometimes when I link summon the effect doesnt trigger (Master Duels) maybe I dont have the cards to meet the reqs for the second effect or something.
They should trigger off a link summon. Are you aware that the Arms' two effects can't both be activated in the same turn? Even if you have multiple copies, you can't get the other effect.
Those Infernoble Arms have tripped me up too! They're some of the weirdest cards in the game, since their effects are so subtle and don't really have anything to do with being equip spells.
Hey, I just found this video. Do you have any sample decklists to share? Because while the combos look really awesome I would like to know how many garnets this deck has to include
Very few. Just Artorigus, and Ring, Eka, Shien, and Flame Sword traps if trying to break a board going second. Entirely dependent on what engines/combos you want to include in your deck.
I'll actually add the vanquish soul engine with the main monster who is a fire monster summonable with stake your soul, who can basically grant you 2 extra monster for free.
I'm trying this out now! Razen and Mad Love can get 2 level 4s, without a normal summon if using Stake Your Soul, plus they have some removal options for going second. Interesting stuff!
OK so here's the thing: first and foremost, I'm one of those people who views videos and never comments, even if I really could. I restarted playing YuGiOh a couple of months ago with my friends, buuut the cards I had at the time (about ten years ago) were nowhere to be found and the deck I happened to get (weird catch, basically me and 4 guys bought five decks and randomly assigned each) was really meh. So I remembered I wanted to build a Noble Knight deck. I searched on the internet and found my way on YGOPro and Yugipedia, found out about THE NEXT EVOLUTION of Noble Knights and I was completely sold. No really. I found this cool list on YGOPro about Flame Swordsman Infernoble and I quickly bought each card, after little reading. Then came the obsession. I started searching for more ways, more combos, MORE CARDS. And with these also came some doubts (and legitimate questions), since I'm not new, but it's almost as if I were. I found this channel through the first deckbuilding video. Then I saw the second and you swiftly talked about Infernobles. I HAD TO FIND THIS VIDEO. And here's the conclusion that led to this papyrus: this video reassured me. Beside some old Noble Knights cards and Great Shogun (cause like WTF) I was experimenting all of those, and when you said that you didn't know anyone that was experimenting with Eka I kind of felt proud lmao So yeah, thank you fellow heated horseman :D
Wow! Yeah, this is one of those decks with an unfathomably long list of cards with potential synergies. Most of those eventually get dropped in the pursuit of 100% optimization, but I like to see how silly things can get at, like, 95% optimization. Now that Flame Swords are on Master Duel where Isolde is still legal, the possibilities are really exploding for me--the only way to find out what's optimal now is to test everything as if it's all optimal! Godspeed, fellow equestrian rider of elevated kinetic energy.
I've been sticking to one Yugioh video per month so they don't completely take over my channel (or myself). The next upload on May 31st will be about Thunder Dragon Colossus. At this rate the dedicated video about side decks won't be until August. Sorry that feels like a lifetime away...
I probably overestimate how difficult Yugioh is to learn, but there are definitely MANY easier decks than this. Noble Knight isn't the trickiest combo deck (at least if you have Master Duel executing the effects for you), but it is very mechanically complex, with an overwhelming number of options. I would recommend it only if you really love the cards and don't mind a long learning curve.
If you know plant synchro and this video made sense to you, then you'll be fine! The synchro plays here are linear though--if you're pining for the more open-ended style, check out Synchron/Stardust, T.G., and Speedroid. I miss Reborn Tengu. He did nothing wrong.
Sorry, I can't for the life of me get Chazz stuff to function outside of Speed Duel. I was trying just last night! I'll just watch some other people's carefully curated replays of finally hitting an Armed Dragon Catapult combo. :P
The video was great! Glad to see Astolfo show up in a deck profile (i genuinely think its an underrated card in the archetype). Are there any future plans to stream yourself playing the deck, or a variant of it on Masterduel (I think all the infernoble knight stuff is out, but not the new flame swordsman stuff)?
Astolfo is hard to judge, as a level-changing special summon with a cost. I got to resolve the second effect maybe once a few years ago. I don't have this deck on Master Duel and would prefer to wait until the new support is added to the Infernoble pack, but I probably will end up playing this on stream next weekend. Without Flame Swordsman :'(
Charles is such a safe pick. He's the name you blurt out when your classmates ask which Infernoble Knight you have a crush on and you're too afraid to tell them you're not actually attracted to Infernoble Knights.
RIP isolde I loved this deck so much but it aint ever touching an ycs top 8 again, infernoble and mikanko got slaughtered so unfairly while all the top represented decks got slaps on the wrists
I think people are overreacting about the Isolde ban, just because the Easy button is gone. From personal experience with my Sapphire Surprise deck (featured in my first guide video) built around Verte, Verte's ban pushed me to innovate harder and find plays which were actually FAR stronger than Verte's easy but comparatively low power ceiling.
@@MarkThePage I actually really enjoyed your sapphire surprise video, so props there man! In my opinion the thing about isolde ban is that unlike verte where it homogenized a format by making any two effect monsters into a Dragoon, rainbow neos, mirrorjade etc, Isolde was first off, not nearly as generic and was actually the innovation point of infernoble because there was so many different lines, end boards and tech options that the card allowed people create. for example accessing the mikanko package which got you to nini + herald of arc light, D.D.R phoenix blade loops, Shogun shien lock etc. The deck also lost its best normal summon (and one card combo that let you play around hand traps) in neos space connector, you're also hard pressed to add anything useful off of Renaud special summon, playing around nibiru/droll is also way less consistent as well and makes your ceiling even lower and if you can't make angelica ( Which also far more specific to make and easier to stop than isolde) you basically just lose now. With all that said I still think infernoble is a fun, ok deck and it can still win if it goes first and makes it's full set-up but theres no world where it can compete with the current top meta and it only gets worse for the deck when terminal world and infinite forbidden come out. It’s unfortunate but losing 50-70% of your viable options just doesn’t leave much room for innovation.
I think if you try to play Knights as just "Isolde turbo, minus Isolde" then it's definitely going to underperform. I really like the Flame Swordsman cards because they play through disruption going first or second.
I've been all-in on Noble Knights since the very beginning and I STILL can't believe how bad those cards are. It was with a heavy heart that I removed the last Medraut from my deck. Unfortunately I don't think even a Rainbow Bridge of the Heart could salvage the likes of Merlin and Peredurp.
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@@MarkThePage And very handsome! Great personality and banter 😍 I’ve found my husband
Most helpful, informative and hilarious Yu-Gi-Oh deck walkthroughs 🏆 laughing and thinking the whole 30 minutes
I sure do try!
This is probably one of the most comprehensive primers to the infernoble knight strategy that I've ever seen, and it's entertaining to boot! You've earned a subscriber!
Most people are too reasonable to make giant guide videos! They do other things like sleeping or exercising.
"baronne de fleurbidden" haha
Omg this was an amazing video, i passed through a lot of infernoble knights video seeking something that really sparks me from inside and then after almost losing all my hope🎉 tan dan here i am haha thanks man for the video cheers from Brazil
I’ve had my flaming knights sitting in a pile for a while cuz I wasn’t sure how to approach this. Your video and advice inspired me to pick them up and finally build a deck! Thank you!
dude this is the first video we've come across on your channel. Love it! you did amazing! made our day and for sure looking forward to seeing more of your content! :):)
best video about a deck archetype I have ever seen, just bc of this vid i will try this deck again.
You got my attention. Now I wanna play Noble Knights. Do you have a list?
Mark tends not to give out specific lists, so you can go off the combos in the video and add the necessary cards, then adjust ratios yourself based on what you’d want to see! He leaves the actual deck building up to you.
At the start of the video: "How I get here?"
At the end: "This is fun"
*proceeds to subscribe ❤
Welcome aboard! Your confusion will only grow.
You sold me on infernoble, but now i'm begging for a decklist
This was a great video, always nice to see the fun and passion coming even from the more casual side of the Infernoble Knight players. Awesome Video - Rudy
15:25 i got curious about that idea one time because I was tired of Angelica doing nothing on the opponents turn and the best I could come up with was getting something like a d.d.r. into grave, grab it back with Renault, and use it to revive one of your non-tuner ones and then go into the T.G. level 2 synchro tuner because it's the only quick synchro effect in warriordoesnthas generic material
This is by far the most high quality content yugioh has rn, you just make what you like and it really shows
Ok, that "Baronne De Fleur-bidden" hit hard da feelz. Great video. Keep the good work.
I wish every strategy had a video like that
Can we see the deck list?
This was wonderful, glad to see another member of the community playing this confusing deck
This guy just yeeted angelica and tapped his field spell XD
The best way to play yugioh
I played SPYRAL/Metalfoes in 2017 and I've been tapping my spells ever since. Keep track of those once-per-turn effects!
i really liked your video it was well explained and i discovered a lot of techs that i didnt know , i love infernobles , your video was really fun i was laughing a lot
I like how informative and creative this video is. This video should have more viewers.
Is there something I am missing about Camelot / Round Table?
Camelot banishes itself until the next standby phase, but also places a field spell. Does that mean when the standby phase comes up, it replays itself and sends the Round Table to the GY? At 11:14 you show it going to your hand, but is that just a visual error?
I've loved IKs ever since they came out and have decided to go back to the silly frenchies after all the Fiend Pile investments never paid off, because I love my dudes with swords. Thanks!
That's correct--when Camelot returns during the next standby phase, Round Table goes to the GY. Then when you activate Camelot's search effect again on your next turn, it'll put Round Table back into the field zone (from anywhere). The idea is that you'll continually loop them.
@@MarkThePagei didn’t know about this thank you for this tech essentially your looping the 2 field spells
16:00 Use the 3 infernoble cards to utilize the Xyz noble Knights
can pop as many S/T cards as you have equips
can bounce to hand
a fun tech pick: metalsilver armor+oliver equip will target-block your opponent
The best fun techs are the ones which haven't been printed in 20 years!!!
Noble knights and infernoble knights build the castle gameplay is just so much fun and reviwing the things i knew and the things i didnt know made me go back and finish my noble knight catalogue because well
You never know when more fun support shows up for our knights
Although, is it really "protect the castle" gameplay when the castle is now so powerful that the game ends in one round? Gearfried and Charles the Great do EVERYTHING.
LOVE the intro. I'm sold already !
This video was hilarious and now I know more Infernoble plays outside what I play. May we get a deck list in the future? That way we can get the $60 deck or attempt to make it in MD?
The cards in this video are not all one build or main deck. These themes have so much search power that you can run whatever cards you like (or all of them) and the deck will still work just fine.
@@MarkThePage awesome tyvm
Great video! Thanks for the tip on Charizard being not once per turn!
Yes, mega evolve as many times as you want per battle! Don't let the judge stop you.
your videos are always so entertaining 🫡🫡
My favourite archetype of all time! Infernoble knights kick ass!
I personally prefer a going 2nd approach with the deck; focusing on the OG Synchro boss and its board breaking abilities :D
Oh woah, this is the guy who did the outstanding Crystal Beast video.
I hope the algorithm helps push your stuff more, such a shame this is the first thing to show up since the Crystal Beast video
He's at it again! While I can't completely blame the algorithm because my channel is all over the place, it's definitely been... interesting to see how inconsistent it can be. Humanity is increasingly deferring our socialization to machines which not even the developers fully understand.
Nice video!
love the video! thanks
I remember getting (and still have) both my Galactic Overlord promo Noble Knight Artorigus and Cosmo Blazar promo Noble Arms - Caliburn back in the day when card shops did Sneak Peak events. I even pulled a Noble Knight Medraut from my sneak peak Cosmo Blazar which I promptly sold at the time, as Fire Fists was the theme I was more interested in and my wallet wanted 60$. Fast forward many years I picked up an Infernoble core cheap after Linkross got banned. New players would be shocked at the laundry list of past honorary Noble Knights like various Mecha Phantom Beasts or Deskbot 001 that we needed to accomplish the wild boards the deck used to end on. Even now its still my pet deck that Ive been blinging it out with the high rarity love Infernobles have received. Not familiar with your work, video was a youtube recommendation but will definitely check out more.
I also sold my old CBLZ Medrauts back then, when it became clear that Noble Knights would stay far more expensive than they were worth. But let's not call O-lion or Deskbots honorary knights--I do not miss the days of checking out "rogue" deck profiles that were actually just vehicles for the Halq combo of the month.
I also appreciate what Infernobles have done, but at the same time... I wish the original cards hadn't gotten so totally abandoned. So many cool designs that will never find a home in any format. :'(
Hi Mark, amazing video as usual. I would really love if you could take a look at the fiend link deck. Its best cards (the fiendsmiths) release in the next core set in July I believe, but i would love to see your crazy take on the deck. Currently most of the strategies used are: Yubel, unchained, sacred beasts, and the fiendsmiths. I know its a big ask, but I would love to see if you could make it viable without the fiendsmiths. It’s a ton of work, so you don’t have to do it if you don’t want to, but i’d love to see it. Thanks for your consideration, keep up the awesome work, we appreciate everything you make for us!
I don't know anything about those Fiend decks, sorry. I avoid popular combo piles because they're more expensive, lack the element of surprise, and most importantly, they require trudging through vast card pools which those themes' veteran pilots will know far better than me.
Looking at a list using those four engines... YIKES. I've never seen a deck with so many random cards which were never reprinted! If somebody wants a budget Fiend deck, just hand them Dark World and call it a day!
NK are my favorites and I hate I can't play them consistently. I guess I have to sell my loyalty to the French. Thanks to this video I will bite the bullet.
Thanks! You made me a traitor!
Loooved the video thx
Was using the eka combo for a while before isolde ban
Recently learned Razen is also a noble knight
Also I've been teching the vaylantz field spells recently too. They're tight
You were already using Vaylantz World!? And Eka!? If you were also using it to summon Great Shogun Shien then I don't know if it's safe to let you walk the streets freely. There's genius, and then there's insanity. (TELL ME MORE.)
@MarkThePage here's a funny 2 card combo
Snake eye ash+any vaylantz field/search
Ash is 1 card combo to double charles + gearfried or any link 2 or lvl 10 synch
If you add in the vaylantz cards, you protect yourself from imperm and you can do the following:
End on gearfried with double charles, use Shinra bansho to summon charles again and overly for Hyperyton (rank 9 omni neg)
In EP, you'll activate charles to equip and hyperyton will chain to add a monster as material. That monster will be Flamberge. Guarantees follow up. Even more so if you linked into promethean
Konig wisson being a strong board breaker is a neat discovery as well. Potential 2-4 for 1 in card economy. A good example I remember is against snake eye, I opened vaylantz, got rid of their field spell, placed their flamberge in s/t, popping their set imperm and cutting them off from I:P and princess.
Something ive also been testing is the sky striker engine. Engage going to 3 makes for a lot of board breaking potential. Drones being a lvl 1 is nice with Oliver. Shark cannon is strong in this meta.
Also I mentioned vanquish soul. Razen being a fire warrior has good synergy but is a one card apolousa into full combo and has going second implication with razen and mad love secondary effects, depending on your build. Also stake your soul is cracked. It's good ash bait too
I love infernoble man
I did NOT know what I was getting into when I replied to your comment. This is a LOT to think about as I reconsider my cards and also life choices. My combos are stale white bread compared to what you've been cooking.
Can you please share the deck profile.
And thank you for the walk through😊
medraut is nice for making infernal flame banshee with ogier bif your willing to run poplar. also using flame swordsman vs medraut at the moment though.
That is another awesome combo! The leftover Banshee must make for good S:P material in the link-focused strategies.
I enjoyed the video enough to forgive the disrespect to my Brit-knights, great video, the hit to Isolde while I still grieve has just cut my deck size from 60 to 45~
Isolde's ban knocking the Brits out of our decks was because Konami knew we weren't going to play good cards until forced to. Being Noble Knight fans meant taking pride in our denial, because it was the only way to numb the pain.
I would love to see a Lightsworn deck if possible!
I still have trauma from when Lightsworn was allowed to dominate local tournaments for 2-3 years, so I'd rather tear up every Lightsworn card in existence.
UM, ANYWAY... the new LS cards feel much more insular to me--they've moved away from generic milling because of the Ishizu card. There are probably countless LS/Chaos veterans with creative decks to show off. I would only have authority on CB hybrids. LS/CB has been attempted throughout the ages, with Crystal Blessing, Ayer's Rock Sunrise, and Rainbow Dragon, but I never heard of a consistent build, and CBs have little use for random milling anymore. I'll look into it but I've found the new cards clunky so far.
After looking through deck profiles and videos to see if there's anything I'm missing out on in my own build and play patterns, I'm beginning to feel like I'm the only straight person that plays this deck. Maybe there's something wrong here.
15:19 Actually, junk connector can be used to synchro summon the card you're summoning with the trap card. Clunky, but i don't see any other mean to do it lol.
How did I not think to look up link monsters for synchro summoning! I think the best Junk Connector could do is to summon Lavalval Exlord. But at the cost of 2 materials and the EMZ, it's too expensive. Best alternative I've come up with is that Formula Synchron is possible in a Snake-Eye build and can summon Baronne in Master Duel.
You can run the super heavy engine (3x prodigy, 3x motor bike, 1x soul horns, 1x monk) and that can get you to angelica or ip if you’re running it and won’t take up your normal summon plus can get you a pendulum summon. And prometian princess can be helpful
I see... Someone once mentioned Superheavy but I had no idea what they were talking about. (My only experience was somehow beating it at an OTS which I didn't expect would be allowing CYAC early--those couple of weeks when it was an absurdly consistent FTK deck. So I've tried to purge it from my blissful little mind.)
I can see that engine being really useful in more link-focused builds. Probably ones which use Flame Swordsman to trigger Cross-Sheep. But I'm not using S:P so there was no point in looking into that stuff. Is it stronger than these budget options? Maybe, but definitely not $130 stronger.
@@MarkThePage you don’t need s:p little knight, and the main thing i use the engine for is just to go into angelica and chain blocking angelica with prodigy so that they can’t ash blossom the angelica searching the card that mentions charles.
Video was amazing! Do you have a deck list of all the cards you mentioned for "research purposes"
do one for synchrons without speeder and not using the typical stardust lines
Awesome video congrats you deserve that like! One question for you tho, have you experimented with the IB engine Rudy Torres plays with? I want to understand if actually playing IB + battlin boxer is better than flame swordsman
Link-based Infernoble decks are so cool and interesting. They probably play through disruption better even after Baronne's banning, but Sparrer costing your battle phase going second is ROUGH. Considering that Flame Swordsman already sets up remarkably strong opening boards and is $500 cheaper... I'm gonna play the deck that's $500 cheaper.
@@MarkThePage those are my thoughts exactly! However, I didn’t mean the snake-eyes package, instead I meant the Ib the World Chalice Justiciar package as an alternative to flame swordsman… there is no space in the deck for both so you have to choose what works best. If you’ve tried both can you tell me what are your thoughts on that?
I haven't tried Ib, but it looks like that engine works because of Diabellestar -> Original Sinful Spoils -> Ricciardetto consistently enabling a second level 5 synchro summon, then providing material for links or Baronne. Without the expensive stuff, you probably either can't summon Ib often or can't do much with it.
Flame Swordsman still has synergy with link builds for triggering Cross-Sheep and fueling Diabellestar's discard cost. I think you could run everything together. This deck has more than enough search power to comfortably go over 40 cards.
@@MarkThePage yes agreed.. the Snake-eyes engine makes everything more consistent and enables more plays or lets you play through more disruptions. The only problem? It’s way too overpriced and even if it’s reprinted it’ll still cost than the whole deck combined… plus, it’s most likely getting banned/ limited by the time it’s reprinted
If you want to strengthen going second.. mikanko or ninjas.
Could we get a version with diabellstar as an engine cause original sinful spoils can summon riccardeto and Renaud
That's by far the most popular way to play Knights, so I didn't see any need to give my take on it. You can find lots of videos from other people who know those cards better than I do.
What about Mirage Swordsman
That card is unbelievably bad. I was never able to summon it, but even if I could, the only reward is that it can destroy one monster it battles.
So during the "example turn" of the video. How did you Special summon Ultimate Flame Swordsman with the two trap cards again?
On the next turn, Salamandra the Flying Flame Dragon can equip itself from the graveyard again. When it's sent back, it can search for Salamandra Fusion.
@@MarkThePage Thanks boss
I'm gonna be that weird guy that defends Noble Knights
You can actually make a cohesive deck using both British and French knights
Medraut is a great starter, being able to tag ou Borz, which can search Camelot, Museum and Durendal, granting you basically Angelica and a lvl 4 body on the field
Also, Borz can send "Until Noble Arms are Needed Once Again" (or OA to simplify) to the GY, which means that if you reveal 2 by his effect, you'll have one for your opponent turn and one for your next turn, making it amazing on grind
Also, there's Custennin, that locks you on Noble Knights if you use him to summon a extra deck Noble Knight. Since Angelica isn't a Noble Knight, Custennin and Durendal is free real estate (especially going second when you can equip Durendal to an opponent monster
These are the best 3 for me, but you can use the other knights for some silly interactions. Brothers being soft once per turn makes you grind basically forever. Bedwyr can pass an equip to other monster on field, so if you pass Hauteclere to and opponent monster, you'll trigger Charles, that will pop that monster and then, Hauteclere pops another one. Drystan can be another pop, Eachtar is a recurring extender, and Gawayn can be a extender even if the only monster on your side of the field is the Nibiru token
I really love Noble Knights, and its a shame that the deck have a lot of cards that essentially do nothing or simply makes you lose (I'm looking at you Merlin). I hope someday Konami give the deck the love it needs to at least be somewhat playable if played pure, and give us the damn Morgan searcher
By Merlin's beard, he really did it--he found some use for Bedwyr! I doubt it's optimal (especially compared to setting up Angelica's Ring) but I'm excited to have an excuse to try Bedwyr again! One of the best-looking cards ever printed (and never reprinted).
Medraut getting Ashed is brutal since it leaves him at level 5, and his Borz combo requires either a suboptimal Noble Arms or two Infernoble Arms. Not sure how you'd get to Angelica from there, since Borz keeps his Arms and 5th star. A Boxer combo would take far less commitment, from the hand and the deck. Also, another commenter has pointed out Medraut -> Ogier -> Infernal Flame Banshee -> Snake-Eyes Poplar, which means Original Sinful Spoils -> Ricciardetto -> Angelica. Sounds better than Borz.
Regardless, your kingdom acknowledges your deeds. Continue to bring honor to the crown!
@MarkThePage the idea to use Medraut is to summon Borz, pass the equip, then reveal 3 Durendal, use Durendal ro search Oliver and send the equip on Borz to gy to summon Oliver, so now you have a way to summon Angelica, a lvl 4 body and Oliver on gy to equip on Angelica
And yes, the Boxer engine is better, I can't possibly deny that, but if someone really wants to use their platinum cards, that's a really good way (and probably the only good way)
About Ash on Medraut: yeah, that sucks, but honestly, with the amount of ways to get Durendal here, this is not that big of deal, and I usually suffer more when they leave Ash to Angelica
And lastly, the combo to Medraut>Ogier>Banshee is really good, but I feel that if you're committing to that, it would be better simply not to use the Arthurian cards. Also, even if you want to use both Arthurians and Snake-Eyes on Infernoble, you can summon Banshee later in the combo to make a bigger board
Also, your video is amazing. You got my attention on that video about Tri-Brigades, and now you got a new subscription. Keep up the good work
Ah, I forgot about Oliver there! He was important in my old, mixed build, but now I never take him over Renaud. And yes, above all, the #1 strategy is whatever makes your favorite cards as good as they can be. When I'm hard on them, it comes from a place of never settling until finding plays which only those cards can pull off.
can we get the flame swordsman engine decklist?
What I showed in the video is exactly what I run. You can also swap the spells and traps between the main and side decks if you want--not every player uses them. Try everything to see how it fits with your personal style!
Great vid men tks !!!!! Hey do you play master duel ?? Could you do a vid plz plz of infernobles in MD ❤❤
Deck profile, please! 😂
Can someone explain the secondary effects of the infernoble spell cards? When does the secondary effect activate? I know they dont for link summons right?
The Infernoble Arms' secondary effects can trigger if the equipped monster is destroyed, tributed or used as fusion/synchro/link material. Or sent to the graveyard by some non-destructive effect.
Almace is typically used for its graveyard effect. Joyeuse's is sometimes relevant for big combos. Durendal's is almost never worth using instead of its search effect.
@@MarkThePage maybe I have to test it out more but sometimes when I link summon the effect doesnt trigger (Master Duels) maybe I dont have the cards to meet the reqs for the second effect or something.
They should trigger off a link summon. Are you aware that the Arms' two effects can't both be activated in the same turn? Even if you have multiple copies, you can't get the other effect.
@@MarkThePage ah thats it right there. I usually recycle the arms to hand and try to activate the second effect. Reading is hard 😭 thanks so much!
Those Infernoble Arms have tripped me up too! They're some of the weirdest cards in the game, since their effects are so subtle and don't really have anything to do with being equip spells.
Shogun Shien can be whatever he wants 😂😅
Hey, I just found this video. Do you have any sample decklists to share? Because while the combos look really awesome I would like to know how many garnets this deck has to include
Very few. Just Artorigus, and Ring, Eka, Shien, and Flame Sword traps if trying to break a board going second. Entirely dependent on what engines/combos you want to include in your deck.
I'll actually add the vanquish soul engine with the main monster who is a fire monster summonable with stake your soul, who can basically grant you 2 extra monster for free.
I'm trying this out now! Razen and Mad Love can get 2 level 4s, without a normal summon if using Stake Your Soul, plus they have some removal options for going second. Interesting stuff!
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What about Merlin :?
The less we speak of Merlin, the better... Disabling Angelica and Charles the Great make it totally unplayable.
OK so here's the thing:
first and foremost, I'm one of those people who views videos and never comments, even if I really could.
I restarted playing YuGiOh a couple of months ago with my friends, buuut the cards I had at the time (about ten years ago) were nowhere to be found and the deck I happened to get (weird catch, basically me and 4 guys bought five decks and randomly assigned each) was really meh.
So I remembered I wanted to build a Noble Knight deck. I searched on the internet and found my way on YGOPro and Yugipedia, found out about THE NEXT EVOLUTION of Noble Knights and I was completely sold.
No really.
I found this cool list on YGOPro about Flame Swordsman Infernoble and I quickly bought each card, after little reading. Then came the obsession. I started searching for more ways, more combos, MORE CARDS. And with these also came some doubts (and legitimate questions), since I'm not new, but it's almost as if I were.
I found this channel through the first deckbuilding video. Then I saw the second and you swiftly talked about Infernobles. I HAD TO FIND THIS VIDEO.
And here's the conclusion that led to this papyrus: this video reassured me. Beside some old Noble Knights cards and Great Shogun (cause like WTF) I was experimenting all of those, and when you said that you didn't know anyone that was experimenting with Eka I kind of felt proud lmao
So yeah, thank you fellow heated horseman :D
Wow! Yeah, this is one of those decks with an unfathomably long list of cards with potential synergies. Most of those eventually get dropped in the pursuit of 100% optimization, but I like to see how silly things can get at, like, 95% optimization. Now that Flame Swords are on Master Duel where Isolde is still legal, the possibilities are really exploding for me--the only way to find out what's optimal now is to test everything as if it's all optimal!
Godspeed, fellow equestrian rider of elevated kinetic energy.
cover the vanquish soul engine next 😈
Where is the crystal beast side deck video? 😢
I've been sticking to one Yugioh video per month so they don't completely take over my channel (or myself). The next upload on May 31st will be about Thunder Dragon Colossus. At this rate the dedicated video about side decks won't be until August. Sorry that feels like a lifetime away...
Wait? This deck does stuff without isolde?
I don't know what it does WITH Isolde! :D
@@MarkThePage mostly makes non noble knight stuff in MD?
there's a few 1-card setups that allow for bamboo sword turnskip stuff with isolde+renaud
1:39 😂😂😂
"Im all about that rainbow life... gaaaayyy" 😅😅
Could you point me to a deck profile?
As a newcomer/ returner, woudl you recommend this deck to a newbie? XD
I probably overestimate how difficult Yugioh is to learn, but there are definitely MANY easier decks than this. Noble Knight isn't the trickiest combo deck (at least if you have Master Duel executing the effects for you), but it is very mechanically complex, with an overwhelming number of options. I would recommend it only if you really love the cards and don't mind a long learning curve.
@@MarkThePage months old video and a reply. Earned a sub
@@MarkThePage to answer your concerns. I stopped right before pends and loved combo decks that were dumb like synchro plant and such so we will see
If you know plant synchro and this video made sense to you, then you'll be fine! The synchro plays here are linear though--if you're pining for the more open-ended style, check out Synchron/Stardust, T.G., and Speedroid.
I miss Reborn Tengu. He did nothing wrong.
@@MarkThePage Know it might be a bit much... ahha I was definitely carried by Tengu/ Quasar.
Since you talk about Chazz at the end
Armed Dragon thunder deck profile when😂
Sorry, I can't for the life of me get Chazz stuff to function outside of Speed Duel. I was trying just last night! I'll just watch some other people's carefully curated replays of finally hitting an Armed Dragon Catapult combo. :P
She shien my great shogun until I fire warrior
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The video was great! Glad to see Astolfo show up in a deck profile (i genuinely think its an underrated card in the archetype).
Are there any future plans to stream yourself playing the deck, or a variant of it on Masterduel (I think all the infernoble knight stuff is out, but not the new flame swordsman stuff)?
Astolfo is hard to judge, as a level-changing special summon with a cost. I got to resolve the second effect maybe once a few years ago.
I don't have this deck on Master Duel and would prefer to wait until the new support is added to the Infernoble pack, but I probably will end up playing this on stream next weekend. Without Flame Swordsman :'(
Is it bad that i already knew everything in this video?
noble nerd
Charles is the hottest noble knight
Charles is such a safe pick. He's the name you blurt out when your classmates ask which Infernoble Knight you have a crush on and you're too afraid to tell them you're not actually attracted to Infernoble Knights.
@@MarkThePage yeah but I can't just outright tell people Astolfo or they'll think i'm weird
OOF yeah you gotta ease people into that freaky stuff
Still don't know YuGiOh but I heard my name a lot. -Charlemagne
Oh no, you watched another Yugioh video! I would've given you a jumpscare warning. I promise I've had that Charlamagne card since before we met.
The monty python refrence
RIP isolde I loved this deck so much but it aint ever touching an ycs top 8 again, infernoble and mikanko got slaughtered so unfairly while all the top represented decks got slaps on the wrists
I think people are overreacting about the Isolde ban, just because the Easy button is gone. From personal experience with my Sapphire Surprise deck (featured in my first guide video) built around Verte, Verte's ban pushed me to innovate harder and find plays which were actually FAR stronger than Verte's easy but comparatively low power ceiling.
@@MarkThePage I actually really enjoyed your sapphire surprise video, so props there man! In my opinion the thing about isolde ban is that unlike verte where it homogenized a format by making any two effect monsters into a Dragoon, rainbow neos, mirrorjade etc, Isolde was first off, not nearly as generic and was actually the innovation point of infernoble because there was so many different lines, end boards and tech options that the card allowed people create. for example accessing the mikanko package which got you to nini + herald of arc light, D.D.R phoenix blade loops, Shogun shien lock etc. The deck also lost its best normal summon (and one card combo that let you play around hand traps) in neos space connector, you're also hard pressed to add anything useful off of Renaud special summon, playing around nibiru/droll is also way less consistent as well and makes your ceiling even lower and if you can't make angelica ( Which also far more specific to make and easier to stop than isolde) you basically just lose now. With all that said I still think infernoble is a fun, ok deck and it can still win if it goes first and makes it's full set-up but theres no world where it can compete with the current top meta and it only gets worse for the deck when terminal world and infinite forbidden come out. It’s unfortunate but losing 50-70% of your viable options just doesn’t leave much room for innovation.
I think if you try to play Knights as just "Isolde turbo, minus Isolde" then it's definitely going to underperform. I really like the Flame Swordsman cards because they play through disruption going first or second.
Meanwhile Duel Links players:
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Don't disrespect the Arthurian Knigts, it hurts my feelings 😢
I've been all-in on Noble Knights since the very beginning and I STILL can't believe how bad those cards are. It was with a heavy heart that I removed the last Medraut from my deck. Unfortunately I don't think even a Rainbow Bridge of the Heart could salvage the likes of Merlin and Peredurp.