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I recently played ursartic and played the best build possible against meta.......it didn't end well

Shoutout to Stevie for forcing us to watch MBT videos a second time

I agree. 2022 was my worst year of yugioh because I couldn’t pick a deck and wasnt confident in anything cause of my budget so I kept bouncing from deck to deck when I should’ve just kept playing bird up. A deck I knew Inside and out regardless of what people thought.

Buddy of mine made the point that while MBTs argument was right about the idea about Edison not being figured out for years, we live in a era where information and statistics about the best decks in WAY more reachable instead of being secret to just the top players. Like in Edison we were still looking up rulings through the wiki and fucking poyo. Now we have YGOpro and THE BEST PLAYERS IN THE GAME AS YUGITUBERS. The fact that Jesse Kotton, Joshua, and Pak who are top players will consistently give insight, advice, and the right logic required to play decks optimally. Back then we had to rewatch ARG replays of Billy Brake or ProWinston Videos just to get an idea of how pros thought and played

20:20 Remember a while ago when the statement was, "If you want to enjoy Yugioh, pick a top tier"?

One-tricking psi-frame has unironically been very interesting; even with gamma limited, cards like Hop Ear Squadron and Baldrake synergize super well with the archetype, letting you keep your driver unbanished, or even making omega or accel stardust on your opponent's going 1st turn. optimizing deck comp so you both get the field spell and as many psi-frames in hand as possible along with enough materials for lambda is super sick.

I definitely feel how the “bad deck” mentality shapes the metas around you and in larger tournaments. I’ve been playing Bird Up, and it’s definitely not a bad deck. It plays around/through nib and other disruptions, it has follow up, it can break boards with Zeus and such, it doesn’t play into Bystials, and siding against combo decks is pretty good. However, decks that center more around destroying cards, or have better grind games can either clear the birds or out grind it, and decks like Unchained, like Labyrinth happen to be more prevalent at the larger tournament scene. But decks like Purrley, like Tear which are decks better suited for the current tournament meta, would have a harder time against it.

HERO player tries to convince everyone that HERO is not dogshit

I one-tricked rocks. I miss Adamancipator Magnet Fossil, but Vernusylph Magnet Adamancipator combo game is pretty sick.

I would love it if Konami put a league event queue in MD. You pay some gems to enter, then have rewards for doing 5-2 or better (or whatever record Konami wants) It'd give platers an incentive ro not just scoop when things look bad AND have something else besides the ladder to play.

Makes me happy now that my locals has a few guys who do top regionals on occasion it’s made me improve drastically

Bouncing around decks is good for learning the weaknesses of decks but you always gotta have your main that you know inside and out.

I will never stop forgetting how to play d/d/d and abyss actor every other month. It is new,just not the first time

It feels like the low power locals just dont exist in my area lmao. Been to a few different ones, all of them have regular top cut players but yeah, just sticking with sunrikka did pay off for me. As did the switch to a reasonably competent deck in the first place. Doubt I would be as successful with some of my other decks

On one tricking: one of the most satisfying things that can happen is that you main a rogue strat and whatever balance changes come out buff your deck significantly or nerf your worst matchup out of the format. Feeling a month ahead of everybody on matchup knowledge is unreal.

In contrast to LOL, there is considerable difference between archetypes like ursartic and r-ace or lab. It doesn't matter how well you know your match spread, combo lines, or tech options, most of the games you are winning will not be because of using an ursartic engine and how skilled you are at using it.

I’ve been playing Cyber dragon since I started the game (DIFO format) and it’s been fun. Eventually, I learned how to play better and decided to play predap. Both decks have become large parts of my identity as a player and I feel like I’ve gotten better because of learning these decks as much as possible. I really agree with this video because of this

When I played league more often, I fuckin loved Dong Huap videos and the analogy fit perfectly. I been playing a load of bujin and enjoying it although the meta between my brother as my only opponent and myself is a lil different from any meta

Ah mtg, the game where you can remove capacities of a card and somehow they still apply

"Focus one deck" I feel that. Not that I'm a great player or even get to do much in the way of locals. It's mostly just me and two friends who like keeping up with modern games and play our weird ideas from time to time. But Fur Hire got me back in the game and I've played every variant of that deck since coming back. I'm probably the last person to not add spright into the Runick fur hire that did well in tournaments a few months back. My friends play a lot more grind than disruption, and I liked having seal and filo over the absolute gas of more spright. Board wipes mean nothing to me when I've got so many ways to use the fur hire engine to spam out huge board presence / control Its weird how much time we all put into being prepared for current meta when we're always too cheap to get the $500 current meta threat package

For me it was Fur Hire (pure, Helmer and all). When Dabl dropped Rex and Donner. It was essentially me learning a whole new deck. I still think old me would sweep the floor with current me.

Hey wait a second didn't Boros Burn actually just win a Magic event? I don't play or follow the game but I feel like I heard of that

Calling rikka not that good is a very hot take imo

Id say another problem with ladders is that you can just bash your head against the meta brick wall until you find enough loose bricks to get through, the first time i hit king of games in duel links was when everyone and their mother was playing blue eyes with a ton of discard cost traps like Karma Cut, and in the middle of that I was playing Dragunity, a deck that at the time lost instantly if you interupted their normal summon, but i just kept hitting duel and eventually got enough lucky games to get through legend to kog

As someone who's main competitive game is Super Smash Bros. Yeah no sh*t you don't know what is good. Smash ultimate has 82 fighters (not counting echos, some of which should probably be counted and some of which shouldn't) and after 5 years there's still people surprising by winning with characters that were considered out of meta contention for years. Melee still has occasional minor shifts in the meta and that game has 26 characters and has been out for over 20 years. Yugioh keeps getting new cards and has hundreds if not thousands of legit decks you can play. I don't think there's any way you could fully figure out what's good in a format even if no banlists or new cards release in a year. And with the constant additions and changes I don't think it's realistically possible to ever have a good grasp on what the game would look like if the meta got the chance to fully develop. If we spend like 10 years only playing late 2022 TCG format I would not be surprised if it turns out tierlaments is just alright compared to the real meta treat of ojama ftk.

I have been playing around with Time Thief for a very long time and believe it or not, I've been pairing it with Heraldic Beasts of all cards. Heraldic Beasts are capable of spamming the field with their monsters and spells and through Leo have a pretty good resource system that will give you a level 4 in hand and even though Heraldic Beasts can lock you into Psychics (and Machines for some weird reason), you don't really care because the Time Thief cards are Psychics and you can still go for Zeus because he's a Machine.

Because I am a fighting game player that sticks to 1 character per game, when I started playing yu gi oh I decided I would onetrick zombies because I liked Shiranui in Duel Links. I remember that I made the switch around covid era when Drytron and Dragon Link where tier 1, and pisty was still legal. Time passes, and I just decided to get better and better, learning what I can revive with Mezuki when ZW is on, how to chainblock with Gozuki or other monsters so people cant ash Halq or Glow up Bloom. And when PUNK Zombies was a thing, a lot of people genuinely didn't know what the fuck to do because lines changed so much depending on the hand you opened. And the moment when it all felt like it was worth it was when Floo was tier 1 years later, because they get absolutely fuck be ZW. One-tricking may be hard and it will take a long ass time, but the moment it pays off, boy will that feel like the greatest high you will ever feel as a player

Stevie... Boros burn is literally a meta force and a top 15 deck and has taken down relatively prestigious events.

Im gonna add to thks and locals bias by using my TCG of choice BSS (battle spirits saga). We've actually had this quite a bit in our relatively short run so far, with metas that tend to shift week by week to sometimes day by day within any of our 3 formats so far. People have gone into locals with cards that were borderline broken in the OCG only to learm that the actual meta of that point couldn't care less about them. Meanwhile decks that looked super weak turned out to be incredible once piloted at regional opens, the king of that being red terrasaurs, a deck that turned out to be so broken they needed to ban a vanilla to kill it. We just had blue introduced and while everyone was playing it for deck destruction, its since turned out in regionals that it was actually fantastic against dominant aggro decks as a midrange floodgate style.

Oh damn Stevie cut his hair, RIP long luscious locks

I 1-tricked monarch... Needless to say the deck has no much options available to it for the domain variant, but a lot of the new addtional tribute fodders aren't compatible with the extra deck variant :(

Got me and a friend back into yugioh recently, I played my swordsoul and numeron deck and got washed by his kozmo deck, I didnt win a single match. We both take those same decks online (MD) and I'm doing just fine, made it to diamond in a week, he is stuggling. Depends on the match up and what types of matches you're likely to see.

When I started getting into competitive Warhammer my testing team once told me that I shouldn't switch to T'au (the best army at that point in time) because I won't win a major being the third best at the best (referring to the best army). So I submitted a pretty decent, albeit gimmicky Ork list and I went 4-1 and getting fourth place due to tiebreakers. I vastly outperformed for my first ever major tournament, mainly because I was familiar with how my army plays and how people THINK my army plays. I always think that in a tournament setting factors like comfort to play, adaptability, familiarity with rogue and meta match-ups and fun are key. If you play a Deck that you aren't enjoying it is mentally taxing and you will make a costly mistake at some point.

Also some decks just shut down certain other decks in rare showdowns. For instance, I got back on masterduel after a few weeks, and had been knocked to bronze. So I started grinding back up. But I really only have 1 or 2 decks that can go against the meta, and I get bored. So I play other decks, that are bad because I like them. I used War Rock and got to plat 4. I went up against braindead, pendulum, swordsoul, kashtira, and somehow won. But the biggest one was vs vanquish soul. I locked out the deck. 😅

Yo! Stevie with the new haircut. Looking clean

With the right floodgates any deck is playable

I've been playing Armed Dragon for 2 years (since Blazing Vortex was released). I sucked ass at first, and I could've easily bought any structure deck on the locals I normally went to. Am I the best duelist in the world? No. Am I the best Armed Dragon player? Nope, not a chance. Am I the guy that would play the archetype better than any of his friends? Definitely.

Can't wait to come back in a few days and see Boros Burn win a MTG event... no? I mean it would be funny

i think my favorite deck i one tricked was xyz infernity. no one at my locals was on that deck at the time.

That's why I'm running cyber dragon ABC. Favourite deck is Cydra.

I wanna one trick Steelswarm or S-Force, but each of those decks feels like they wouldn't be able to put up a good fight against something like Purrely. But I am just using Vanquish soul as my current tournament deck and learning how to change it up for each deck I wanna beat at my locals, only deck that has given me trouble is a Tearlameants pile deck

I've been using Magikey+Dolls. It's my for fun not serious deck with no hand trap and 10+ normal monsters. In the current Duelist Cup I've only lost twice in 15+ games. And every time was pure luck tbh

I have played nothing but Spright and Spright variants since it’s release

Ive been one tricking Dinomorphia for a couple months and won 1st at an ots tournament a few weeks ago, and before that got second at AGOV sneak peak. Resxterm is annoying for big bungus monster combo decks, and even going into game 2 knowing your opponent will be on board breakers, you're naturally playing multiple counter trap omni negates. Still have to watch the timer, half the time people just bang their fists on the table or grumble for 2 minutes straight about how the deck is bs.

I play thunder dragon and have ONLY played thunder dragon since 2019 after dropping dragon link. I know my deck is not a top deck anymore and it may never be one ever again, but I can say confidently that I know my deck inside out and virtually any line that could happen. It lead to my first regional top earlier this year and I continue to perform well at local tournaments regardless of how shitty my side deck is. I have not met a single person that knows more about my deck than I do. My solution to the problems I face in the meta game is to basically adopt a new engine into it. At first I played pure, then chaos control, then a lot of combo variations, PUNK Thundra, DPE Thundra control, Bystial Thundra, and now Thundra Handloop. A lot of times my deck has an inherently good matchup against some of the good decks because of how differently it plays compared to other decks and I use that to my advantage. This format has been a bit rough, but because it’s more of a grind game format: If I can get 2-3 hand rips and my Thundra fusion in rotation, there is almost no deck that can out grind me. You can recur your Thundra fusion infinitely by searching the correct thunder monster. And if you choose to use 2 chaos creator you can actually have a constant loop of chaos creator every turn. Not to mention Titan doesn’t care if fire king tries to pop it since it can banish 2 to save itself. I don’t think I’ll ever stop loving this deck, and I will only ever get better with it. (Also learning a new engine is way easier than learning an entire deck… just saying)

I know my Ursarctics are never going to constantly win, or break even on win losses during tournaments sometimes. But i love my space bears.

I usually bounce around decks every month, though my pet deck is - and always will be - Magikey. It's not a good deck, it's full of bricks because it's both a Ritual Deck and a deck centered around Normal Monsters. I've tried more than 10 archetypes and nowadays I'm sticking up with Magikey Libromancer, while recognizing Magikey Bystial as "the superior deck" and Magikey Impcantation as "the most optimal deck". I still want to learn more about the deck and I'll be forever studying and optimizing it, though it's the one deck I want to make it work and feels good to play, as well as being good enough to snatch some wins.

My Locals has 2 worlds competitors and I literally dont remember the last time either of them won a locals. I think im doing okay in this one regard

Hi, i’m here representing the ursarctic Discord server, I even played the CADT with the urea team, and I can confirm, ursa ain’t a good deck

kci combo was the first deck i built :)

A really good example of the LoL analogy in real life is aMSa from meele community, dude took one of the worst characters by majority of the community and won one of the hugest tournaments after years of mastering that character

Im a locked in blackwing player who always gets slapped by the dice roll.

Lightsworn, noble knights and.... warrocks..., Fucking love their themes and flavor effects

Ways to get out your 7 card draw for ursarctics. 1)summon mikpolar search ursatron special ursatron to get your 7 card draw. 2)foolish burial send ice barrier to the grave to send ursatron to the grave add ursatron from gy to hand then special summon ursatron add 7 card draw to hand 3)special summon ursatron to add 7 card draw to hand 4) play ursactic departure discard a card search for miktanus or mikpolar and ursatron. Summon them and add your 7 card draw to hand By playing 3 ursatron 3 mikpolar 2 foolish burial goods 1 ice barrier. You effectively have 9 copies of your 7 card draw.

I one-tricked traptrix for a good while, but ive recently switched to sky striker, mostly because the most effective way to play traptrix is a lot more stun-ish and a lot less combo-ish that i like to play it as.

Hey, I one trick Kuriboh link and the amount of people scarily underprepared for dealing with constant generic link boss monsters popping up one after another after another is very disappointing to me.

18:52 yeah that’s why people think blind second mikanko is good in master duel, because it’s good at sacking wins in BO1

My deck changes depending on what locals I'm going to

Learning a deck vs playing the best deck...depends on how hard the deck is to learn, and if the deck you learn gets nerfed.

If certain deck builds and cards are objectively better than others, and we have a general consensus that they are because they have consistent results within a given format, then that's not a "social construct". That's just reality. Nobody is imagining the metagame. Now obviously, the above applies mainly to the competitive scene. If you're playing casually, then a good deck is just whatever you like playing

I will say that I do love ursarctic, but deck knowledge of what what your playing is your true friend

Let me tell you the secret to beating Rikka Sunavalon. Ash the Sewing. It's hard OPT.

My MD one trick takes 3 minutes to prep and sucks ass

Im super into dragunity due to nostalgia and after the new support that its been getting both in and out of archetype i think it genuinely has a decent ability to establish good boards and play through certain interactions, as well as some interesting going second tech. Its weaknesses are some kind of defined chokepoints especially on normal dux/legatus or with dragon ravine, and it doesnt do too much that other combo pile decks can pull off. Overall tho i think it could compete in an event and do decently given enough testing, innovation, and time. It already has had some occasional surprise success in some smaller events.

any deck that has a full deck can be good it's just how you build it remember how long rikka was a joke.

I will play Marincess until the sun stops rising. Give me my Toad back you Master Duel cowards

Omg, i knew the moment he posted the video that you will respond to it... Lets see what you have to say. Took you long enough haha.

Why is Stevie in a classroom?

I love seeing Mathmech on ladder in MD, cuz i've never lost to it with Speedroid cuz the deck cant get over a Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon, cuz none of them seem to run Raigeki

Wait so r u telling me to pick a waifu deck and just make it better???

Dawg his name is MonoBlueTron, and you're surprised that he brings up MTG? 😂

I don't quite agree with the notion that there are no good decks, or that the only way that people know a deck is "good" is if it tops rcs or ycs, which I find relatively silly. The way people find out that a deck is good is by observation, seeing how many people are playing a certain deck like, say, Kashtira and all of its variants, a deck that, unless you're prepared for it, is kind of a pain in the neck to play against because it's an archetype based around very hard removal in face-down banishing, lock-down and having the ability to regain resources with relative ease. Personally, I would call that a massive pain in the ass and the Visas line should be thrown into Mount Doom with The One Ring and Nickelback, the fact remains that it's a good deck, it's designed to be easy to play and hard to deal with, the other side of this coin would be like saying that pure Venom is a good deck, a deck that has no recursion, has no way to get their bigger cards out outside of their boss cards, also their mechanic fails completely and utterly if you get rid of their field spell, the only way those stupid venom counters could do something outside of venom burn, and I should know, I played the deck, it hurt to play....back in the GX era. Personally, I wouldn't call a meta a "social construct" because metas are ever changing beasts, what might be meta defining one year could be rocked and tossed aside the next, nothing in a meta is set in stone, unless he just means "a meta" is a social construct which is true, but the meta is usually boiled down to following the path of least resistance, usually in choosing the strongest/most optimal option to win, which I think is something that MBT either forgets or chooses to ignore, there's a reason Lab and Rescue Ace or Kashtira decks are played and why stuff like pure venom isn't.

#BorosBurnGang

I feel like yugioh players have a bias towards decks with high ceilings regardless of how low the floor is. But I'm also a pretty casual player.

Baronne? Bruh ursarctic is a bishbalkin deck

In duel links I sticked to Ritual Beasts for such a long time that I could pair up with almost any of the meta decks for months and months by only adapting my playstyle with the deck. For example when thundra was meta my cannahawk elder endboard was the ult pettlefin with 2 windas banished and a bond set, no matter the hand, thundra couldn't otk and I could just win on the turn 3. I still love rb to this day

I don't know what "one tricked" means, but my favorite deck is Harpie Lady.

Ursarctic? More like ass-arctic

Steal prog at this point

What happened to Stevie's beautiful long hair? D:

We out here slandering a super solid deck???? Ursartics are such high powered deck that has been proven to have the space for multiple non archetypal engines with event tops. As someone who plays the deck it feels outrageous to see it being called a failed deck even now😔

Burn in MTG Steal games all the time and it's funny as hell watching someone fetch shock into a thoughtseize game 1, only see they already did 1/4 of the work for the burn deck. Unlike in Yugioh, Burn is a real deck in MTG. Mill on the other hand it more a joke, until it was stapled on to a agrro deck in standard, that happened to have milling as a Win Con in control or long game match ups.

1st?

rikkasun can win you just need to be european

Here's one social construct : MBT has shit takes, always.

Ursartics are about as good as ol stevies haircut.... Sorry couldn't help myself