Decks You Don't Want to Play 

You can't stop me from playing a Blue Eyes deck that only has dragons in it

I always look at the art and not at the playstyle. For example, i made a Myutant deck... it sucks but the art is just a chef kiss

I also like how you can have headcanons of mixed decks, like how i imagine my gold pride punk is just the punks performing a pre show before the racers of gold pride prepare to race during the opponents turn, and the grand finale OTK on the 3rd turn if they win the race during the opponent's turn. People that plays this deck will understand what i mean

Kashtira was a mistake

I suddenly get a huge motivation boost to make a deck. I make it on edo, research, playtest, and once im done and go to make it, I realize I dont have half of the cards I need from the archetype.

Cyber Dragons are my favorite archtype from a design view. Basic Cyber Dragon is just a simple but effective design and each new monster is clearly either an upgrade, modification, evolution off of one and the other. Also the name "Chimeratech" OOOOOOOOOO IT'S BEAUTIFUL! It gets me to headcannon that Chimeratech is a corp that builds all the Cyber Dragons and I can imagine the presentations of each new monster in the way that a mission briefing is done in Armored Core 4 and For Answer.

Seeing OG Noble Knights in the "Trash" thumbnail hurt my soul even though it's an accurate statement 😭😭😭

Despite the thumbnail, the reasons described encompass why I love Exosister: - Playstyle : Xyz is my favorite mechanic, Meadowlands (Mermail) format will always be a golden age for me. - Art : Pax is peak. Military nuns go hard. - Lore : this is universal for every deck as said, but I like lore as a tool for support; “Martha is still MIA … so where the new Martha form support card??”

I play Red Dragon Archfiend because Jack Atlas is cool, and Resonator interactions to barf out a whole board in a stupidly long synchro chain scratches my brain in just the right way. Now, Noble Knights though, is my favourite pet deck, cause I love the entirety of Arturian legend, and the fact they made an entire deck theme around them just absolutely enraptured me.

I love Skull Servants because they've turned one of the very first weakest monster into the absolute unit that could swing for 9000 easily. I always imagined that it's so sick of being called weak and rises in power through others skulls shown in it's art like saying, "Who's the weakest now, huh?" Well, nowadays they're more goofy with the 'lore' of it having a family with the other skulls and even happily eating baked yams but that's okay. It earns the wights to relax after a good day at beating up it's opponent in one turn.

Icejade will forever be my pet deck because of the sheer amount of lore hidden in their names, art and effects It may play like ass but that's a downside I'm willing to work with if it means playing a deck I *love* playing, over winning a game with a deck I hate playing

I remember when Nouvelles came to MD and I was so excited because the art, the gimmick, and the play style was fun to me. I hated everyone talking about how bad rituals are because I don't care, just let me cook! I like the ritual animation in MD kinda reminding me of stove turning in with the flames to add to the immersion. I was so very offended when Baelgrill didn't have an animation despite being able to clear the opponent field. All of it came together as a deck I care about regardless of tier. I'm still salty Princess Nemleria has no animation too.

Whenever I play blue-eyes, its not to win. It's to channel that nostalgic feeling of watching Kaiba on the tv summon BEWD while I held the card in my hand in awe. Listening to all the characters react and adapt to the massive beatstick on the field. if I wanted a win id play galaxy-eyes ftk and swing for 11200

It's not just about winning, but winning WITH YOUR FAVORITE. There's this quote from a Pokemon game that stuck with me and I think it applies to how I play Yugioh as well. I'm paraphrasing as I dont remember the exact quote.

I play for lore. It shows the strengths and weaknesses of an archetype - balance.. like playing moba or any mmorpg.. you have a hero and it has its specialties..

icejade curse mentioned! (shown) absolutely adore that card art, poor aegirine.

It’s the Pokémon music playing on a yugioh video that’s making my brain have some tingly sensation haha

i absolutely adore decks with risky playstyles, can i brick? sometimes but those high moments where everything goes perfectly are just the best. so anyways i made a Poker Knight/Egyptian God deck because i think they are neat lol

My head canon is that the exosisters are just the card game equivalent of "Charlie's Angels"

I’m so happy that my preferences just so happen to be fire decks, Dinos, normal summon spam, and dragons

"Stereotypical waifu bait". 😂

This is exactly why I built my toons deck on master duel even though every resource online says its a waste of gems. And I love it

I am in love with Cubics since i watched The Dark Side of Dimensions for the first time, even tho their current strategy is blowing your opponent up with the 3k effect damage monster, i loved how vijam was used to create the other monsters, and the deck even has 2 types of play style, the "battle phase" monsters (garnex, garoodia and buster gundil) and the burn mode (gueira guile, vulkan dragni and indiora doom volt)

Kashtira is my favorite archetype for all the reasons mentioned in the video, it's playstyle is really fun and also very strong, the playstyle of Kashtira is you invading and colonizing an alien planet, you start by deploying one of the Kashtira generals (Unicorn, Fenrir or Ogre) who scout the world and facilitate the arrival of the Death Star-like Kashtira Shangri-Ira, who's zone lock effect is in reference to it making the planet literally uninhabitable for its native life. Shangri-Ira lets you further extend your conquest by easliy bringing out the other Kashtira generals and (when he's not banned) the Leader of the Kashtira; Kashtira Arise-Heart. Its art is amazing (especially Arise-Heart) and unique and the lore is also pretty cool. I know people hate on Kashtira because it's powerful but i love it regardless and hope Arise-Heart comes back at least limited (for now i play Kash in MD where we still have Arise-Heart at 3).

Lore, art and cool mechanics is main reason i play Ice Barriers, War Rocks, Noble Knights, Fire Fist in Master Duel And Agents for that middle of lore/power and Dinos of course. I love dinosaurus. They dont have any lore pretty much, art is just ok, but popping and banishing is interesting mechanic, which is the only deck i ever used in real life, and again in MD.

I did not think going into this I’d been given life advice. Underrated channel.

I gotta say, this video is helping me through a nasty funk I’ve had with Yugioh lately. Going through Master Duel and I just keep losing to Albaz and Snake Eyes decks over and over and just keep thinking what’s the point of playing anything other than meta? You’re helping me look at deck building again through the lens of what looks fun to play, even if it isn’t current meta. Planning a Monarch/Kashtira deck with the idea of the Monarchs being an invading army and the Kashtira’s acting as hired mercenaries and their advance force. And got a couple other ideas swimming around too. Thanks for helping me out of my bad mood, my dude.

I always add black rose dragon in my extra deck just because i love the effect lore and art for it even if its not optimal i sometimes force a black rose dragon summon just for the thrill of wiping the field

The art caught my attention of Plunder Patroll. And then the gimmick of them tagging out to summon the ED monsters made it super fun for me. It's never a linear combo like my Zombie World or my Exosister decks, my moves depend on literally the decks my opponents play and whether their monsters or backrow is a bigger threat. The cherry on top is that I sucked at piloting the deck. But i was SO determined to play Plunder, I studied potential combos and bought expensive cards for support. It's now currently my best deck and opponents never know when to ash or who to imperm.

When I last played Master Duel, I was working towards building two of the archetypes featured in the thumbnail. S-Force, Time Thief, and PSY-Frame. Mainly because I was pulling from the S-Force pack since it had Gamma, Omega, and Redoer. But I ended up pulling really good and getting most of the high rarity pieces for all three archetypes, so I decided to keep pulling for them. Didn't take me too long and too many gems to get everything. And I wanted to build them just because they look cool for the most part. PSY-Frame being a bit of an unconventional Synchro deck tickles my fancy since Synchro is my favorite Extra Deck type. Time Thief having reckless disregard for other people's property is just funny to me. And S-Force just look really cool. I knew they were bad just from reading their effects, but their lore and art is just cool.

For me personally 90% of the time i play machine decks only, Sky striker Drytrons(no herald bs) cyber dragons ancient gear Earth machine deskbots etc basically any deck i can run My favorite OG card of all time Limiter removal on

Everytime I play fire kings I always enjoyed to think how every board wipe was just a giant wave of fire, where one legendary bird stood tall and mighty in between the flames. Hell this can be said about many decks but this is my experience

I'm not gonna say I was personally attacked in that intro, but that did hit pretty close to home to my own thoughts when building a deck or getting a new idea lmao. Wonderful video, Tune World, I really like how you went through the different reasons someone may or may not play a deck. The moral and final thoughts that wrapped up the video, hoo, the chef's kiss. New favorite vid from the channel, thanks for taking the time to make it 👍

Madolche's artwork and playstyle has always been perfect for me. Oddly hyper aggressive cute dessert archetype that removes any problems it has in it's way. I've been playing that deck for like, almost a decade at this point and I'm still not tired of it lol

I want to explain the True Draco (or officially it is called True Kings lore). But it is very long like World Legacy because it involved a lot of arctype and sub-arctype. But to make it simple, it is Visas, but better. If the other characters are Visas on different planets. In True King lore, Master Peace is also started with amnesia. But his power is spread to multiple different worlds like Zoo, Crystron, Dinomist, Majespecter, & Igknight. They're not a part of Master Peace, but they got the fragment of Master Peace's power, and he must collect it to beat the True King. In Dragonic Diagram art you show, that this is when the tribes combine their power to Master Peace. At the same time, he gets his power and some memories back, and turns out he has a connection with the True King. . But too bad the story ended before the big fight between Master Peace and True King. You can see the start of the fight in True Draco traps. . Anyway, bro, you scam me. I clicked this video ASAP because I saw S-Force Nightchasser in the thumbnail. But you didn't even mention this police once. I always tell everyone that S-Force and Live Twin are in the same lore. I was very happy when Konami "confirmed" it with their Art Book last month. . Also, this is disappointing because most decks with unique effects are always bad in standard format. I hope we have an alternative low-power format to make those unique decks playable too. It is a waste when Konami releases dozens of new archetypes every year, but the playable decks are 3 or fewer, or worse when those small decks make the other decks unplayable (Tier 0 or near it).

My favorite deck being salad makes this work so well lol. Its got nothing really lore wise, but I love the digital beasts aesthetic of them. Play style wise I really like long grinds where the monsters just keep coming back with near infinite recursion and having long interactive games (rarely siding going first cards so all the games go on long). I love trap cards and figuring out how to play a hand against interruption (this improving after the new support imo). One other thing is how many variants you can play with adventure, punk, kash, goblin biker, mathmech (before circular's ban lol), bystial even (during tear format), runick, and horus / starter variations with debug, fire, bufferlo, and even gen/ken if youre insane enough. That being said, all those things are not loved by everyone so its 100% understandable if you dont like the deck. It can seem to do the same thing over and over with little skill to be used (though Id argue firmly against that lol especially after watching db salad players), and having no real lore sucks/the designs dont hit everyones sweetspot

17:23 It helps to break your work into 25-minute intervals with 5-minute breaks between them. Mark down each interval and take a 30-minute break after 4 intervals (so basically 2 hours of work). Rinse and repeat. It's call the Pomodoro Technique and it's how I get a lot of my work done efficiently.

i always try to make a unplayable decks playable, with the addiction of such staple cards like kashtira or general monsters that can make your deck work with unique interactions, an exemple is Hieratic normal monsters with keeper of the shrine whitch can create loops to bring normal monsters from your graveyard to your hand like normal tunner monsters. It is so mind opening to do this, just don't give up on the deck, try your best, and you might fing gold.

I just made a pure fire king deck and all i keep on getting are brick hands, i think is a sign

Gladiator Beast mentioned let’s go, I remember building a deck when I was younger they are dope cards and the support is great

gears and neuron noises were on point!!!🤣🤣

I gotta agree. The visual part of the cards serves as the hook. But I can't be engaged playing a deck if it's not fun to play. Like, Snake Eye looks amazing. Otherworldly being, Witches, an eldritch dragon?? But it ends up being bland in its playstyle.

Kinda wanna see more PUNK lore cards in term of their world. Like a scenery or interaction between the monsters (other than the current spell we already have). Psychedelic Cyberpunk scene like that of Cyberpunk 2077 Japan town zone specifically.

I play War Rock for it's implied lore. It reminds me of an old cartoon that I can't remember the name of it. I'm curious of how the story grows with Fortia glowing up into Meteoragon. What happened to his friends, Gactos and Wento. Or the big sis, Skyler. Or his big bros, Mammud and Orpis. Why was Meteoragon fighting a bearded Bashileos in the artwork of Generations? How much time has passed since the events depicted in War Rock Ordeal? But the biggest question and mystery, what was the fire beast that they fought(Ordeal) and was it through that thing, Fortia was able to find his new Dignity through the Medium of fire? Seriously, there's a story there with no story 'there'.

You should do a video on the most unique archetypes or all the unique mechanisms that are least utilized. Like ursartic for example being the only synchro summon mechanic that decreases value versus combing stats up or how you even mentioned glad beasts tagging our system (even tho the contact fusing isn’t too unique anymore), even centurion in recent having the first monsters that then turn into continues traps (since prior it was only monsters turning into spells in the back row).

I just seem to like decks that have weird column based gameplay. My favorite deck of all time, is Vaylantz. A deck that is supposed to be a tabletop strategy RTS kind of thing. You use the pendulum zones as "Spawn points" for your units, and can move them from the spawn point onto the battlefield, then have other cards and effects to move them around to allow bigger monsters to "spawn." You then have their fields that allow you to pull a monster from your spell and trap zone onto the field, or as long as you have a monster in the same column, push an opponents effect monster into their spell and trap zone. (These fields are also turn dependant, so your opponent can use them on their turn too.) We have a fusion monster that you can summon by sacrificing 2 level 5 or higher Vaylantz monsters, OR just ONE lv 5 or higher Vaylants monster that is in the same column as the extra monster zone. The deck itself isn't that great, and can be shut down in so many different ways. (If you block even one of my pendulum zones, I'm done. A single ash can ruin my day. Only one 1 card starter in the deck, and even that is very fragile.) But god DAMN is it fun to move things around on the battlefield. A deck that I've been learning lately is Vanquish Soul, which while not as crazy fun gameplay wise as Vaylantz, still has some of that fun column based stuff with Razen and Pantera. Nothing feels better than popping an extra deck monster and another monster behind it with Razen's effect.

I really love some of the anime decks like resonator's, galaxy eyes, heroes etc. btw your videos are soo good hope you get more subs ;)

I just collect cards tbh 😂

It’s the same feeling with me when I got Maze of Memory and I saw how the Gate Guardian cards got revamp. I immediately love them for how creative they are with their effect to be placed in the S&T

My favourite deck atm is pretty much a combination of all the styles i found fun in the past. See if you can guess before the end xD My 1st deck i built was when i was 18. I was on holiday with my family and i was turning 18 in a day or 2 and there was a casino in the middle of nowhere, my dad gave me some money and i won a bit of money xD bought the noble knight box set. I really loved the idea of summoning a monster and just equipping a bunch of shit on him. Thought it was such a cool idea After that my next deck was dustons! Loved the gimmick of little guys swarming the field, 0 attack monsters. Just loved it, and still got the deck in my file. Even today, sometimes ill play the dolls for their 0 attack After this i really started liking rituals. Loved the magikeys and i built a Nephthys deck and really tried to make it competitive xD This was where i started my waifu arc So naturally my next deck were the dmaids! And then an archetype came out. An archetype that loved to use equip spells, had 0 attack monsters, were WAIFUS AND Used rituals too. If i was an anime character in the show, Ha-re would definitely be my blue eyes

i play Shiranui zombie (no, not zombie world with shiranui support. Shiranui has the stars and zombie world just to help) and really like the deck cause its a gamble do i brick the first 5 turns? or do i get a god-like hand and stomp? or just avarege midtier hand? who knows! and i love it and all this decks start when i open mi 1 cart pack (i was learning with a generic dragon deck a.k.a blue eyes haha) and whats this? i see a card that look really cool and want to use it, that card was Shiranui Spectral sword (that old card still on my deck nowadays) just one cool looking card make me want to search if there were more cards with shiranui on them and build a deck around them as the main focus not just a support but as main Stars of the deck (sorry if too much texts or its really bad redacted english is my second language)

Hey tune just have to say great video and very thought out for your apinion but a question what do you think of gouki

Your take on Labryrinth is basically the same as mine. I love the art and appreciate what the deck does outside of the blowout traps but I just don’t enjoy piloting it most of the time.

Lore? You mean there's lore behind those weird birds, Lyrilusc, that I enjoy crashing against my opponent's monsters and in-universe reasons why one of them can morph into Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS - Sky Thunder?

Magical Musketeers + Runick sounds fun

I still remember early 2010’s when gimmick puppet came out I loved it so much and played it long after, the unique aspect of rank up cards and cool artwork was amazing. Then fast forward odd eyes became such a great deck, so many effects of big dragons trying to manage burn effects and managing resources if a scale came off was always great challenge plus the ability to fusion out unique monsters or choose to overlay was great. But my favorite OG deck I ever made was synchro monarchs, it was the first time when I was a kid I was actually being competitive. The only summoning condition I didn’t go crazy for was links, the only deck I really focus on it is with my visas scareclaw. But that is what makes this game so amazing, through the years so many mechanics and you will never get tired of making something new.

Great video! @ignister is my favorite deck from when I first saw it in the anime. I love how the deck is made up of funny blobby creatures, but then they combine into cool monsters like dark templar and arrival. Heck it can even summon the different variants of firewall dragon which is my favorite card from the anime! I just wish the deck can do more to keep up in the current meta. I try to cook up new ways to all the time but nothing really sticks. Would be nice if there's a channel for ignister like you do for punk haha

I'm not sure if I can agree with you on your assessment of playstyle. Salamangreat's deck mechanic revolves around the concept of reincarnation(or tansmigration, to be more exact). The monsters are thought as switching forms, gaining advantages during the process. They even have cards that lets you link summon using only one card with the same name. Not that I have a problem with you not favoring the archetype, It just that 'wolf, gazel, set' sounds like a huge understatement for such an unique deck.

I have a love/hate relationship with the game.... I love how deep it gets in some playstyles, and I prefer combo decks that rely on multiple pieces in order to make a boss. I like the idea of smaller and weaker gears banding together to make an unstoppable machine. One of my friends preferred a strategy where simple plays would be made to adapt on the fly, not really wanting to construct the deck in service of speeding to the win condition. Another of my friends played themes that looked cool. I would spend hours learning and lots of money for decks I liked. The game has a wide variety to suit many people's tastes. The problem is how compatible those decks are against each other. I never went to tournaments because the decks I liked were either too expensive for me to build, or not tuned enough to compete. I'm also very introverted and large groups make me anxious. The decks my friends built were either less solid to the point I would steamroll them, or would only answer my abilities in certain ways that I could bounce back from. I liked combo a lot because I could be challenged in a way to find a big boss at the end of smaller things coming together. "This is the culmination of years of training, all the little lessons led to this", was how I liked it. My best friend didn't really like sitting there to watch it come together and didn't care to understand what could lead to what or have a plan to stop it. My other friend liked to see the potential play out, but the potential usually came to a boss that could stop him from reaching his. I don't enjoy a game when someone isn't enjoying it with me, so I would weaken my strategies or make it inconsistent enough for me to not even enjoy my own builds. Yugioh is too vast in its options of playability because the options are not balanced. Now, I only get cards for collections because I still like the art and lore. This isn't even the only problem I have with it though... Komoney is massively mismanaging how to obtain cards. I've transitioned to Cardfight as my favorite card game. While the company running it is bad at making cards accessible, the games are generally pretty balanced, last more than a few turns, and have a lot of interaction.

>"who cares about what the art looks like as long as I'm winning" To whoever said this to you: Most of the community avoids Traptrix like its the plague specifically for this reason (even though Pinguicula is a stupidly good XYZ monster, i'm personally running it in Exosisters for additional GY control because its effectively DD Crow on a body and can interrupt GY lines). The art does matter objectively to an extent because it can completely turn a massive amount of people off from an archetype. But you're right: it is mostly subjective taste. I can't even bring myself to try Mannadium because the art is just a bunch of balls, the lore be damned. The archetype just doesn't look very interesting aside from it being able to support Scareclaw decks.

I love Unchained. My perfect mix of tragedy and unhinged unfettered DESTRUCTION.

Also, gagagigo has the SAME (rounded down...) NUMBER OF CARDS AS WORLD LEGACY, 70+

This is the most awesome video I’ve seen on RU-vid in my entire life. Great stuff and you earned this sub

My favorite archetype is HEROES. Just love the art style and simplicity to them. Plus, the many sub-archetypes within. From Omni-Heroes, Masked Heroes, Neo-Spacians, D-Heroes, Evil Heroes... so many ways to play them!

Anyone know what the far left card is in the thumbnail? The colors look kind of like a punk card, but I don’t think it is

I'll find a way to make my Castlevania/vampire deck work

Bro this guy is a professional yapper tbh

I just wanna mention every time someone mention the banana in the wall (9:26) its the art equivalent of getting rick rolled. DADAISM STILL KEEPS WORKING (nice video)

Dang, it's 3am here now as i build a new deck in duel links

I run dragunity, honestly my lore with it is that they’re a holy army of warriors who have dragons as both weapons and trusted allies, rushing in to destroy their enemy, and banish the heretics, then the bystial dragons come out to play when the dragunities need backup

As an insect enthusiast, playing pure Krawler is a joy And all the link monsters having animation in MD is just the cherry on top

I am a really big fan of 2 specific decks. 1. Fire Kings is my favorite deck right now. A bunch of big bird gods with their worshipers just destroying each other to gain advantage is just really appealing to me. I play pure, not the bs with Diabellstar/Snake-Eyes. Give me my birds. 2. Sacred Beast has been one of my favorite decks for years. When they finally got their structure deck to make them into a playable strategy, I was so excited. And boy, they do not disappoint. Big beefy demon gods with their smaller demon minions to control the game? Sign me up. Of course, there are other decks that i enjoy, such as RDA, Blue-Eyes, Branded, Cubics, Traptrix, and Machina are just a few examples. But the main two stick out to me much more.

Im a ghostrick enjoyer. Wish i had an anime lol.

As a MD player, this video is a nice refresher. I kinda love both gameplay styles and lore. I know people don't like ritual decks, but i have one that i keep as my favorite (both tells a story with the cards and the gameplay is interesting): Libromancer. This deck makes you feel like you're reading a full-blown superhero comic, with a rookie boy growing up to become a awesome superhero (including some power of friendship cliché lol) To end this topic, i feel captivated about the art, which reinforces the comic aesthetic. About the lore, the World Legacy left me wordless. That's my favorite lore from all the other decks (I wish to, one day, build a World Legacy deck). However, another one that caught my attention was the Shiranui + Mayakashi (That one was my first complete deck on MD) On the other side, i play more because of the gameplay. Althrough i agree some decks doesn't feel fun to play (both with and against), the playstyle is one of the core parts of the card game that keeps me always interested to play Yu-Gi-Oh. Synchro stays as my favorite mechanic (I have a RDA structure IRL), but i'm always up to try the other ones. Sorry about the long text, but i really wanted to tell my experience inside this "Children's card game" And to close my comment: Awesome vid, keep it up!

My Blue eyes, Gren Maju and Ogdoadic Decks are fun i don’t always win but man they are fun to play and pulling off a win on the meta decks every now and then is so satisfying

Honestly i play mostly either degen strats like my water link deck that's designed to make a negate, floodgate and then fucks you up with 5 discards, or control decks. I kinda dislike modern ygo because of the degen stuff i can do with it. My favourite deck still is fossil adamancipators. You just dig through the excavation site until you find the right rocks to throw at your boss and go home. God it was funny during tier 0 tear meta.

I look at the art and playstyle. Also I need to have an archetype that I can use to just outplay my opponent by knowledge and knowing when to strike. I used to play kozmo wich had a lot to do in both player turn and had a lot of interactions, I found the same energy in magical musketer and vanquish soul. As of now Im playing runick for the same reason to interact with my opponent on his turn. I can't wait for magical musketer fiendsmith to be a thing. I was never really a fan of make the same board and repeat. As I do play quite a lot too. The most fun is to make bad deck look goods for me. Volcanic,Mayakashi,Fire fist,Spellbook,Dual avatar,Spyral. Volcanic Im gonna be honest became too good of a deck with the new support of fire monsters like it's actually crazy how no people are playing them but they can ftk you like at least 70% of the time and have good go second cards.

I love magical muskets, it's my favorite deck.

Honestly the magical musketeers role isn't that deep like its just a bunch of old gunslingers from the old west but their playstyle is really fun , there is also the reference to a novel which is cool

The Reverse:1999 appearance was a surprise to me lol. Anyways, great video!

That's why I like Albaz so much, the art and story within the cards is what makes it my favorite

I really love the recent visas starfrost lore and from years behind, the six samurai story is maybe one my favorites of all. For myself, what i appreciate the most is gameplay, for example my actual deck is a brainwash stun deck, that started as a joke/jank deck back in 2016 to give lava golems and grindder golems to my opponent just to recover them with remove brainwashing and owner seal, but the, with the time keeps evolving from my own imaginación and funny enough, thanks to master rule 4, the links, kaijus and the current meta, it envolver to an amazingly efficient rouge deck, removing any tower-like boss with kaiju, or santa claws, or ra sphere/ lava golem, to them get the back again with owner seal or remove brainwashing, and with some handtraps just completely stop the oponent, also tras like revival gift or nightmare archfiend and even nibiru to give tokens to the opponent that come back to me to finish the duel, a long way trip from a jank to a solid anti-meta that is my own list. Sorry if is so long but i wanted to share it

I always been tempted to build a deck around Mr. Volcano even though other Pyro types have more support. Either that or a Neo the Magic Swordsman deck with Trance the Magic Swordsman thrown in.🥰

Question, what is the monster on the far left of the thumbnail I'm this show?

Damn now I remember when I played vaylantz, it felt like meticulously planning a damn nuclear strike on my opponent's lp

Can i use an exodia deck but add number cards?

The 3 a.m intrusive Yugioh thoughts is very real, and it's how I ended up with my Arcana deck. It's not great, not even good really, but it's a fun deck that can recycle a lot of material and it just feels like every turn you are playing a puzzle - the challenge is the opponent's board, and the solution is something to do with whatever pieces you have on your hand. Surely, putting Queen's Knight, King's Knight and Jack's Knight on the field is a usual start, but not always, and the deck can work surprisingly well when you have only two of these, of even just Joker and Jack. And from them you have no real limitations, just an extra deck full of Rank 4 and 5 former generic staples from previous formats (and Divine Arsenal Zeus because it's good to win sometimes), which aren't all ideal, but they are still powerful in their own right and if played correctly can absolutely turn the game in your favor. The deck can OTK, it has removal with Zeus, Constellar Pleiades, Exciton, Black Luster Soldier and Honor ARK, it doesn't have omninegates on demand but it does have some target protection with the Arcana Fusion and Link Monsters (and Apol as a last resort), it has battle phase options with Utopia and Excalibur, and from time to time I even get lucky and manage to bring out a Slifer onto the field. The deck has very short combos, which helps keeping my sanity, it's very malleable, and feels fresh every duel and match up. All things I love in a deck (which would be surprising considered I came from link dragons).

Artwork and mechanics are what draws me to certain decks and if I gotta be honest flip decks are one of my all time favorites like Subterror Behemoths and as of today I’m actually playing Tindangles😂 it’s so anti-meta that it’s blindingly beautiful ❤. Plus the branded/despian/dogmatika deck with artwork/lore or even the sisters such as ash blossom, Belle &haunted mansion, Winter reaper & Cherries, Red Blossom from Underoot, Moonlit & Chill and ofc Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit.

Nice video! I’m always fascinated by random comments sharing how a deck plays and how it complements the archetype’s lore. I really hope they make a lore anime. It feels like there’s a lot of potential there.

This video is on point with why I build my 2 favorites decks in MD: U.A and Trains. For U.A it's all the points: You're the coach of a team, you replace your players, make contract to get star players, give them directions and go for the win! it have lore, the art stick to that fantasy of augmented champions, the gameplay feels like you're playing a management game,... For trains, I play pure and infinitracks mix. Infinitrack is purely because as an engineer, i like big machinery, and the cards are cool. For trains, it just feel so good to play urgent schedule, so my trains arrive faster, having my crane train removing obstacles on the tracks, letting the place for more rails, and then gustav and the big train come CHOU-CHOU Both of these are absolutely not meta, sometimes bricky, but I like playing them just for the fun of it. My other favorite is a bit more meta and it's traptrix. I don't really like the artstyle though, I just really like gameplay around traps, and the sometimes "I don't read cards" opponent that try to infinite impermanence my monsters (when most of the extra deck traptrix are immune to trap cards). There's a lot of reason to play a deck, for me the most important is fun. That's why snake-eyes, tearlaments and to a certain degree swordsoul are not my types, I feel like playing the same combos over and over. But to each their own!

Im a boomer so i loved gravekeepers, bujin, and Dino. I like most decks except combo because they usually end on the same boss monsters. The decks i like now are Trickstar burn(can't wait for the new cards) Whitchcrafter( I wish it was better even after the support it's just okay) Labyrinth ( I enjoy trap decks but I don't like edlitch because floodgates are boring) It's funny cuz they're all waifu decks but I just really enjoy control or burn strategies. I also love pure fire Kings. As for art the dogmatika cards are peak for me. I don't really care about the rest of the storyline. But the art on those cards could be on stained glass they're just beautiful. Also the punk cards are next level I never learned the playstyle but the only reason I want to is because of how amazing they art is

I agree with the community post, this is absolutely up there in your videos. I'm so excited for the new light fiend support. Magical musket best deck!!

There's also another, more prevalent reason why some people won't play a deck: They don't have the money to pay for half the cards in the deck, let alone all of them.

When I came back after leaving the game in 2008, the first archetype that I picked up was Salamangreat. Loved the whole reincarnation/rekindling gimick, which popping the bird basically carried over into my newest fave archetype, Tistina's, where I don't only pop the bird but flip the bird.

Great video! I completely agree. Well done. 🙏🏼👍🏼

I was only playing blue eyes and war rock, now recently I picked up swordsoul because of the art and loving the deck, now I’m btw trying out unchained or mikkanko or thunder dragon or vanquish

Decks i play for aesthetic alone: Darklords Ogdoadics Wind-Ups Zombies (stuff like mizuke, shutendoji, etc.) Punk Myutant Horus tbfd #1 deck i refuse to stop playing: Inca (sun and moon dragons). I have made 32 decks in MD that I've taken gold-plat+ most of which exist because i love the style, play, or concept of the cards. My magnum opus is a spirit deck that can stall literally any tier 0 deck to 20 turns.

recently picked up unchained because i thought the big dog was badass, then i realized that the entire gimmick of the monsters destroying and "unchaining" themselves is so ridiculously cool. beyond that, my pet deck is sharks because they're just cool ass mechanical sharks, the boss monsters literally eat other monsters and kragen swarms the field with its spawns. when art and playstyle both align it's just such a cool feeling.

I play Megalith, it’s just so creative with the ritual summon monster effect. And the arts are impeccable, it’s just really fun to play.

I love it because yu-gi-oh is the hyperfixation of hyperfixations. Do you have an abnormal love for ____? There's a deck for that! If you know the rules and like the game, there is an archetype for literally anyone. It's a beautiful thing, really, to have such a sandbox exist within our otherwise rigid card game.