Joshua Schmidt Reacts to New Tenpai Dragon Support 

It's cool that Konami announced this right before the set comes out in the TCG so that the prices will go up even more.

This feels like they pushed the limit of an otk deck and it was too late to not print this when they realized they had found the breaking point.

Tenpai Dragons' going first strategy is basically the same as when they go second, hand trap the opponent into submission. The trap helps them survive the opponent's battle phase so they can OTK on the follow-up turn

"no need to ban poplar if we give every deck a poplar right?" - konami probably

Konami: Lets see how much effects we can copy paste into one monster before its becomes broken to play against.

Today I learnt about Tenpai runick

Masterduel being just a single game will make this deck pretty interesting

I absolutely love this video with the different profiles and how each work.....CANT WAIT TO PLAY THIS DECK!!!!

My toons deck is waiting for it's poplar that makes it finally good

I’m interested how history will view this insane era of YuGiOh

I can't wait to summon 3 Ojama Tokens and then OTK the opponent on their BP with the new Trap + lvl 10. I won't happen a lot of times but the opponent getting it wont forget it.

Josh when the field spell works with a card made to work with the field spell: I don't think it should work

Transcendent Dragion + the trap destroys all opponents monsters on their turn.

that trap is the new go to card when tenpai players are forced to go 1st kaihou will end their mp then if super dragon on the field, it will force their monster to attack resulting to a board wipe and you drawing cards, flood summon and recovery/follow up next turn. (time it good and your opponent might otk himself) they can skip mp1 and bp to avoid selfTK but during mp2, the moment they summon 2+ monster kaihou will be activated, forcing them to end their turn 🤣🤣🤣 backrow removal will definitely became staple now

Tenpai can otk through spooky dogwood

Konamis recent design decisions are seriously questionable

One of the benefits of White Woods Runick is that it can use Black-Winged Assault Dragon as a win condition that allows you to win quickly without the need to use the battle phase. The other is that Formula Synchron allows you to make Herald of Arc light.

Sangen Kaihou is basically Threatening Roar with a condition, that makes your battle phase in and of itself a win con with 3 attacks.

But I can’t get more swordsoul names for the main deck or new syncros

15:35 - 16:30 The thing is tho. Tenpai Dragon can be a representation of all of the Battle Phase related effects to become relevant again due to how much they dodge removal and the application of going 2nd cards being incredibly strong. I hope they provide other decks that go 2nd and OTK like Numeron, Mikanko, Raidraptor, Ancient Warriors, etc Tenpai Dragon's design in the future whether directly or indirectly. *THEN*, they need to make broken, but conditional in deck-building requirements alongside restrictive cards that fixes the issues towards cards with effects that can ONLY be activated during the Battle Phase and/or benefit to being activated during the Battle Phase like stat reduction of the opponent's monsters when they attack or battle. There are ways to make this work and having the opponent try to play around them will be significantly reduced due to how specific and slow Battle Phase related effects are, so Force Attack effects has to be included within the effects of cards that needed it and making certain effects at least not be negated is required. There will have to be some bullshit that cannot be avoided in their design, so break hell loose; it's the least Konami can do for wasting so much cardboard to modern cards that have Battle Phase related effects.

How long will it be until Tenpai drops in MD?

Josh always has good music playing in the background in his videos

the moment tenpai Dragon realizes they can just make Calamity on their opponent's turn the frame it becomes the draw phase is when we're all cooked

TODAY I LEARNED ABOUT TENPAI DRAGON RUNICK

Found the shiny new toy. Rip Sneyes

TODAY I LEARNED ABOUT 60 CARD AROMA RIKKA SUNVALON

Bro are we really calling on summon search effects Snake Eye Ash now instead of Stratos? 😭

16:30 holy shit what a brainlet

I, for one, like the reintroduction of unga-bunga big monster beat as a viable YGO strategy.

This deck needs the SHS treatment

Battle Fader format let's gooo

I've already preordered a few boxes of the upcoming set. As I hope to get playsets of all the Tenpai Dragons support.

The trap is actually disgusting (in my POV) if they open Field spell when going 1st. BECAUSE IT MAKES YOUR MONSTERS UNAFFECTED DURING MAIN PHASE 1,) they can make the Sangen Superdragon Transcend Dragion (Their lvl 10 Synchro) and its somewhat of a floodgate during the battle phase since it FORCES ALL MONSTERS IN ATK POSITION AND CRASH INTO IT, also NOT ALLOWING YOU OPPONENT TO ACTIVATE ANYTHING (Cards/Effects) DURING THE BATTLE PHASE. And if they attacked 3x that turn and tries to enter Main Phase 2 you'd be able to SKIP THAT MAIN PHASE and also trigger: " If 3 or more attacks are declared this turn: You can banish this card from your GY; draw 1 card, then you can Special Summon any number of "Tenpai Dragon" monsters from your hand." WHICH IS LITERALLY A PENDULUM SUMMON that prepares for follow-up. (Also quite similar to Snake-Eye Ash/Poplar being summoned by Flamberge after being sent to the GY at your turn). Now this is not fool proof, but atleast the deck now has in-archetype options in case of going 1st.

Every new archetype is gonna have cards in the banlist at some point.

Can we leave the bazaar theme alone for the next video? My brain can only handle the loop so many times 😅

Ninepai after konami releases a tenth one

me asking why another combo starter is good and then next things next go back to playing my snake eyes deck that has 14 startes. how could having starters possibly help in making a deck good especialy those that that can also act as extenders when you can do the optimal lines

Colossus pass is all i need to beat tenpai

i wonder how are they going to create warrock support 🤣🤣🤣 thinking about gets me excited to wear my primitive costume and play in my locals 🤣🤣🤣 (already done cosplaying as a sushi chef)

What about the tachyon support?

Dark Highlander prevents synchro summoning, but not special summoning synchros. Do with that information what you will

lol omg i just wsiting for this on md

Josh’s toupee is slowly dissolving

I feel like this reminds me more of Crusadia

Aw yeah hand trap format baybee. No wonder they were releasing staples like gang busters with rarity collection. They were getting people ready to fork up money to get the tenpais to complete the deck

Breaking boards gang

Edison time

if yall think this is bad wait til gimmick puppet ftk

So does this deck lose to threatening roar🤨🤨

Oh no not more meta snake eyes :(

Tenpai sangen.

It's literally poplar. Exact same summon effect And basically both send 1 monster from your field to the gy to summon from deck (just poplar needs the original as extra step)

I think the trap is really strong, but I don't think it's as strong as all the doomposting I've been seeing. First, you need to get to the card. Assuming you run the field spell at 3, you have a decent chance of not opening the field spell, and then you have to use Paidra's effect to search the field spell. If you run the trap at 1, then you're very unlikely to see it, so you may need to run it at 3 and get lucky, or forgo manor turn 1. Running a trap that may only get one use at 3 is risky for consistency, especially if they still play the other pseduo-turn skip ones like heat wave, since you increase the risk of bricking. If you do hard open it, you start weakening one of the main upsides of the deck, which is the ability to run a ton of non-engine. The endboard turn 1 then needs to be a single fire dragon. Any more and a lot of decks can still do a lot of damage if allowed to get two bodies out. At minimum, 2 bodies can threaten Knightmare Phoenix which just wastes the resources or consistency you used to include the card. But at that point, it's a pretty trivial board to get over, and the tenpai player diluted their chances of drawing their defensive options. On top of that, it then just folds to a cosmic cyclone, a feather duster, any backrow removal, etc. That plus all the other tools available that neuter Tenpai makes really hurts the deck. Don't get me wrong, it's still a strong card and I'm not convinced that it's healthy. But it doesn't seem like a huge threat into a meta that is prepared for tenpai.

Genroku gives the deck access to LV6 Synchro plays, but idk how useful that is. Dora Draco reads crazy but I think it suffers from the same problems as Elemental Hero Prisma in mannadium

Gonna be a good format to take a break when this stuff drops lol

Why the hell didn’t ancient gear get support like this??? Of course they get shafted by another OTK deck

I find it funny that the more consistency the deck becomes the worse it becomes, because drawing into less handtraps in a deck that is 66.6% floodgates and hand traps is a bad. The deck is really bad but it can out hand trap snake eyes so frequently and does not care about Maxx C which completely boosts its viability.

That field spell is going to have me siding Ghost Ogre. Not a fan of towers monsters. Exact same reason why Purrley was by far my least favourite deck to play against during Kashtira format into early AGOV format.

ngl this is the first time i feel like yugioh might truly be becoming unplayable

And they made circular for Techyons!?!

I’m so happy Konami is power creeping snake eyes with this DRAGON DECK LETS GOOOOOO. I feel bad for everyone who bought the $800/$1000 deck, cuz this blind second OTK main decks 18+ hand traps and can do 30k damage!!!! I just wonder if it’s good with runic KEKW

Very nice to see blind second deck actually meta relevant. Its been long time. Konami need to make more of em. Hope they poppin off in TCG as well.

lol this shit is just Dino’s

Ok so let me get this straight. People call THIS deck toxic when runic, snake eyes, tear lament and kashtira exist ? Decks that can 99% of the time can play through pretty much any interaction without consequences and in some cases just straight up delete your deck and banish your shit left and right leaving you with absolutely nothing to retaliate with ? I'm sorry but i fail to see the logic here

This just feels super overkill, idk. Tenpai was pretty well-rounded, non-engine issue aside. These newly announced cards just seem stupidly broken

Konami is hell bent on making everything super consistent. For how powerful cards are nowadays, a chance to brick should exist. Too many one card starters and starters that doubles as extenders.

If this becomes another expensive deck i am done with the game

If any “Top” player wants to say a deck that can easily and consistently 1 card otk through prosperity while running 20+ handtraps is just “ok” your opinion is just invalid. The decks about to get a poplar 2.0 / ash but yet the deck is just “ok”

otking thru prosp isn't even that amazing, Ancient Gear can do that, it's just the raw consistency and non-engine room

Uggh I'm already tired of the original tempais and now you tell me they're giving them the 2 parts that I'm kinda already getting tired of in snake eyes?

warum ist konami so dumm?

Yeeeeees ten gay