RAIDRAPTOR - Ten Minute Testing 

A majority of this video wouldn't even exist without the incredible work done by Daimax. His channel (including MORE discussion of this deck) is here: ►www.youtube.com/@finaldaimax The article I referred to: ►medium.com/@finaldaimax/please-stop-making-worse-centur-ion-b00b6092402b

The "ten minute" part of ten minute testing has never been less accurate

Hello angry commenters! I’m Daimax, the person that built this decklist here to explain as much as i can because i know how… *opinionated* yall get when people dont play your exact 70 card list so here i am to answer all your burning questions. If i dont cover something here, feel free to ask away in the replies, just keep it civil please. I am open to a calm discussion about ratios or whatever, but i do not have the time to spare for a dick measuring contest even though i have absolute confidence that i will win. WHY PLAY PURE OVER KALI YUGA? Historically, Kali Yuga Turbo has been the most successful way to play raidraptor and its still an extremely valid way to play these birds, but there are a few key things that i feel make kali yuga the wrong pick in the current format. The main issue with playing Kali Yuga (or any turn skip, really) right now is that it has to justify itself. Centurion exists, and is far and away the most efficient deck at putting up a turn skip consistently and through interaction. While I am a hater when it comes to Centurion’s place on a tier list I can recognize that you need to have something to differentiate yourself from Centurion and give you an edge over that deck against the people who are ready for a tun skip, because people ARE ready to be turn skipped given how easy it is to pump out 2 level 12 synchros these days. I made a whole Medium article about my thoughts on the position of turn skips while centurion is in the picture, you’re more than welcome to give that a read for more about why I value pure’s niche more. I also take issue with Kali Yuga Turbo’s individual card quality. While Pure has to run some stinkers (FUZZY) the extra deck is filled to bursting with so many powerful options that theres no room for all of them. Kali Yuga has to dedicate a decent enough chunk to the extra that i feel its something of a waste unless you go first every game. I put a lot of emphasis in deckbuilding on flexibility and having cards serve multiple purposes and stuff like gagagaga magician and kali yuga himself are pretty one-note. Games in this format are also EXTREMELY grindy, and so Pure’s ability to keep up in a grind game is something i put a very high value on. As long as Roost doesnt get banished you will almost never run out of high value plays, and you havent lived until you’ve ground a fire king player out of a game. Obviously your grind can be cut short by S:P Little Knight, but often people will use S:P to force out your Rise RUM early to remove the looming threat of a board wipe rather than cutting you on your grind. Things might change down the line, and Kali Yuga might become the better positioned option in the future but as is I think Pure has more going for it. CARDS IM NOT PLAYING Ash Blossom Main - This one took a lot of time to settle on, but as good as ash is against everything its too low impact at the moment. Realistically its only good into the decks just below the top decks and firing ash against a fire deck is basically active throwing unless they open a supremely shitty hand because any 2 monsters makes hiita which makes S:P or Princess which ruins your day. Simorgh targets - I am playing Simorgh as a searchable Sakitama because its an extender that plays nicely with Fuzzy and Tribute’s locks, but I’ve opted not to play any targets for Simorgh’s on summon effect. This is because the targets are honestly pretty lackluster. Elborz is a double summon which can be amazing, but it’s a terrible draw. In this format every card in hand has to have an impact, and so cards like elborz are a massive risk. There’s an argument for siding Simorgh Repulsion for backrow hate and I’m not entirely against the idea, but by the time you search it your opponents backrow could already do some serious damage to your setup. Arc Rebellion XYZ Dragon - Arc Rebellion is a great OTK tool, but it never came up in testing, mostly because by the time i cleared the path for it to actually kill through interaction i usually ended up fuzzy locked. I opted to run a different OTK tool that plays nicer with the locks i accept instead. The Kashtira Engine - 3 Fenrir, 1 Riseheart, X Field Spells is the common ratio and frankly i dont think its a very good engine. Yes, it is more 1 card combos but if riseheart gets interrupted your turn ends and thats not hyperbole, and who tf isnt prepared for fenrir pass this format? The Kash cards conflict pretty hard with Bloom Vulture, Fuzzy Lanius and basically every extender except exactly Strangle Lanius, but the Kash cards also dont enable Strangle to summon itself unless everything goes through anyway so why bother? The Arsenal Falcon the kash names summon is also supremely low value because it doesn’t float into anything. All in all just not worth the deck space and MASSIVE choke point. Rokket Engine - Emergency Teleport is only a good card when you are playing targets anyway. Im sorry but its the truth. Much like Kash this engine adds more 1 card starters but unlike Kash the cards are far more flexible, playing nicer with your extenders and even serving AS extenders but i do not think its worth the deck space because RR isnt really hurting for what it provides. You’ll get it if you try it and open a hand with 2 rokkets and no quick launch. TECH CARDS Skull Meister - This is one that people get on my ass for a lot but I genuinely believe this is a crazy handtrap right now because of it’s sheer versatility. It’s not the highest impact card yes but it is able to fill the role of every good handtrap in almost every matchup. Against Fire King it’s a non-OPT belle. Against Labrynth it negates rollback dd crow style but it can also negate Black Goat Laughs. Against Unchained/Yubel it’s Ash Blossom. Against Voiceless Voice it’s crow, belle or ash depending on opponent’s hand. It can hit diviner grave eff or lo grave eff and it can stop Saffira from ritual summoning. Basically the only matchups its truly useless in are Kashtira and Floo. TLDR Meister is good because its a non opt handtrap that can play the role of basically every other handtrap in the meta depending on the matchup. Soul Shave Force - SSF is another preference pick, I wanted a third RUM so i could make full use of Tribute Lanius and Wise Strix’s effects, as with only 2 RUMs Tribute’s crazy second eff is completely extraneous and Wise Strix triggers on your opponents turn and whiffs. SSF is the RUM of choice because it is an INCREDIBLE proactive thrust target that makes going second infinitely easier in conjunction with Revolution Falcon. Raider’s Knight didnt stick? Kill Em! Force Strix ate a Princess pop? Kill Em! Got Nibbed? Kill Em! SSF also shines going first as a way to full combo through nibiru at awkward moments. While RR can and does play through Nib with ease, having SSF ties up the odd ends against opponents who know your deck (and you do have to know this deck if you plan on competing, sorry to be the one to break this to you) or getting nibbed when you go for an imperm safe line by summoning the second Arsenal Falcon and fishing out the missing pieces of your combo after getting hit on choke points. Revolution Falcon - This one is a very specific tech. Basically I wanted an archetypal rank 6 for Soul Shave Force purposes to make sticking bodies going second easier. Revolution Falcon is the one i chose because it is absolutely incredible at breaking boards and dealing massive damage. The attack reduction is a phenomenal effect, and combined with Revolution Falcon’s ability to attack the entire field you will be OTKing very easily against an exhausted field, then the pop and burn can clean up whatever’s left on your opponent’s field. You have not lived until you’ve copied the effects of Revolution Falcon with Rising Rebellion. There’s an argument to playing Air Raid instead as it can be summoned without activating any cards or effects on field, but Air Raid not being able to detach at will pushed Revolution over the edge in my eyes. In a budget build play both though because being able to Air Raid to force a negate and destroy then floating into Revolution and killing them dead is so strong. Swallow’s Cowrie - Honestly I’m shocked I might have to explain this one, because Cowrie is an incredible card. People looked at this card on reveal and immediately drew a comparison to Advent in Floo, and because of that I think people’s ability to evaluate this card is kind of stunted. Yes, Cowrie *can* be used to dodge imperm, and if opponent tries to imperm Tribute they get totally owned by cowrie tribute tribute add bloom tribute resolves mill fuzzy/mimicry but thats not a very high value play to set up for because realistically speaking the cards where imperm really hurts dont have a level like Raiders Knight and Wise Strix. The real reason this card is here is because it is small world on steroids. Being able to fix hands and set up specific 2-3 card combos is highly valuable in a deck like raidraptor where you only have so many 1 card starters, and being able to do so in draw phase is especially powerful. This card lets Pure live with Shifter by getting names in grave to extend with before shifter resolves, lets you resolve 1-2 searches before Droll can be live, lets you dodge targetted removal on your normal summons and makes so many weak hands much, MUCH stronger. I love Cowrie. I think that should be everything that might raise some eyebrows, but if you have questions feel free to ask. Raidraptor is a deck with a LOT going on and a lot of potential deckbuilding choices and that makes it close to impossible to cover everything in a single youtube video. I tried my best when deckbuilding but this list is fine tuned to my exact tastes, and yours may be different from mine in key areas so feel free to experiment with different tech options, different combo lines, etc. Cy@

To be fair, the Raidraptor pilots falling short of Fire Piles and Labrynth is a lot better than Shay, the ANIME’s Raidraptor pilot, falling to FUCKING FLUFFAL.

The fun part of Towers turbo decks is just watching the opponent scramble as they realize that if they didn't bring a Kaiju they have to find some way to beat over it. The 2 Raptor Towers basically look at most decks and go "I played college ball."

You know the Ten Minute Testing will be good when it is 34 minutes

they went from "ohh towers turbo" to "ohhh even bigger towers turbo!"

I really love the longer form deck building segment, especially how, it's a shift from "how to pilot" a deck and to "how to build the deck and choose tech cards"

Where's the five minute Ash Blossom explanation.

My new favorite TMT. The slower, more analytical pace in the deck profile made me feel more confident about checking out Raidraptor and I could follow the plays better when actually watching the duels. The humor and fast pace pulled me into watching MBT's content, but I really hope we get more tmts like this in the future.

Judge here. 31:41 This is a bug. The Flamberge in the Spell/Trap Zone should not have been considered in the damage calculation of Rising Rebellion Falcon's effect, as it was not a Monster with an original ATK when it was destroyed on the field. This comes from an OCG ruling on the matter. Although this almost certainly didn't change the outcome of the duel.

I've been a big fan of Skull Meister for years. It feels like a slightly worse Ash while often being a functionally identical Belle. Plus it has 1700 attack and 4 stars which comes up so often you would not believe it.

My head spins after watching this video. This was an incredible showing. It felt to me like I've been watching LIVE Yu-gi-oh climbing a whole level in powercreep and complexity, between your Snake-Eye Fire King TMT and this one. And yet I'm so happy to see Raidraptors - of all things! - fighting back and winning against the practically tier 0 deck. This is eye-opening to me.

I call this deck "Lord of the Wings: The Three Towers"

IVE BEEN PLAYING RAIDRAPTOR SINCE THEY CAME OUT AND I LOVE THE NEW SUPPORT ITS SO SILLY

I appreciate you expressing an interest in cutting the chaff in some of the deck explanation. I feel like any time you are compelled to explain something as fast as possible it should not be mentioned, because I cannot comprehend the complexity of a card I'm hearing about for the first time. I think assuming we know what the cards do and explain about the interactions in a macro sense is more impactful than just telling me what something does in rapid fire.

You can play around super poly by ending on two Force Strix, because Garura requires material with different names.

The TMTs where you go into detail with the card by card are my favourites.

Rise Rank-Up-Magic should absolutely have been called Rise-Up-Magic and given a clause that made it a Rank-Up-Magic.

This is one of the best Ten Minute Testings I've ever seen. I love how much more information you put into the deck profile.

As an avid Raidraptor fan I am so glad this deck is finally getting it's own chance in the spotlight without just being pure combo extenders in any other dark type deck

"Turn skips don't matter if your opponent can just set 3 labrynth traps" Who's gonna tell him Kali Uga's other effect?

It’s hilarious how Arc V decks either have a billion different archetype locks (see this, D/D and Abyss Actor) or none whatsoever (Pend Magician, SHS)

Thanks for the effort in the deck profile. I appreciated the explanation for why you were doing it that way. I especially appreciated that you still took the time to explain the gameplan and the choices made. It really helped break up what would otherwise have been 5-8 solid minutes of you reading cards verbatim as fast as possible. It made the video longer but to be honest this was one of the more enjoyable TMTs I can remember in the last year. My eyes have glazed over during TMTs half as long.

I half expected him to just immediately open the door back up and go, "Its just dark xyz spam."

Give me the 5 minutes of ash discourse that was cut!!

I take it back i appreciate the deck profile explanation. In so many dexk profiles they just show you the cards and im like now what. Thank you

"Your opponent can just set three Labrynth traps" Meanwhile Duo Dawn King casually having a feather duster effect because why the f--- not

Long video but man i loved every second of it, recently instead of the card by card being "let me read you the text word for word" youve been going into more of a discussion about how the pieces work in the deck and there reasoning for inclusion along with the roles in the deck and MAN i love this decision its so nice being able to watch the duels portion of the video and be able to follow along and even know what pieces should be coming next in the turn. great stuff with this video as well and i for one welcome the longer deck profile discussion portions going forward into other TMT's

I've always enjoyed playing Raidraptors and a small Phantom Knight package as a complementary engine in Blackwings turns out Level 4 Dark Winged Beasts is a pretty sizable pool of monsters

I've never been a raidraptor player but this has become one of my favorites TMTs in recent times. Funny, extremely informative both in terms of deckbuilding and theory behind the deck, along with really fun and well played games. As a MD only player i might have to play this deck when it releases in 2025!

I've been practicing this deck's combo lines for the last couple of months. I'm excited to see this one.

Great video, and I personally really like the new explanation tempo and style. Thanks!

Where’s the tangent on Ash you semi-promised us on Twitter?

This is one of yours best videos yet. Really does get me to want to try this deck out

Thank you for evolving the deck profile from just reading each card to now talking about how they actually work together. This had been one of my biggest peeves with this series for a long time, where I felt as much of the nuance in every card and its interactions got lost in the fast-paced jumping from text to text.

This is the most impressive showing of Raid raptor that I have ever seen. I like this new format alot, going through all the cards individually and explaining how they interact with each other or with the opponent's interactions is great, I hope there are more videos of this format in the future. I do suggest Tenpai dragons for a future tmt.

This might be my favorite TMT, possibly bc of the runtime and I love how MBT and Daimax explain the choices in this list.

I actually appreciated the extra thorough deck breakdown

4:05 homie just forgot Kali Yuga blows up backrow too as a quick effect

They say if you're 10 Minute Testing until the 30 minute mark you become a Time Wizard

This is a very good video, thank you to both you AND Daimax for making this.

Seeing this video makes me unfathomably happy because Raidraptor is one of the main decks I play.

The D/D/D spreadsheet got nothing on BIRD RANK UP

OMFG RAIDRAPTORS?????? LEETS GOOOO shout out to my favorite deck

I love the depth covered by this video!

Finally, someone using Swallow's Cowrie. I thought i was the only one that realized how busted it that card is.

Deck seems really cool and fun, and I appreciate the more in depth nature of this one

Raidraptors are my favorite deck, and I am so glad their recent support is good. I'm definitely gonna take inspiration from this in tweaking my own deck

This is the best TMT youve done. Great work

Raidraptors, my beloved. This was the first deck I built since the archatype’s debut in Secrets of Eternity. They hold such a large place in my heart. Might as well call myself a bird nerd

I love how in Duel Links Satellite Cannon Falcon can be set up reliably due to the RUMs and the Skill support it has.

every TMT intro with jillian warms my cold dead heart a little bit. these last few TMTs have been especially incredible!!

appreciate the effort put into this TMT

These new Raidraptor cards look awesome! I was already playing Raidraptor in the past, but I might need to revisit it now.

Kali Yuga does something other turn skips don't do: it has built-in feather duster

This video is made better by .75 speed during the combos. And I'm not joking. Actually had a better understanding thanks to it.

MBT, read kali yuga, the opponent CANT set 3 lab traps because kali yuga can destroy all spell and traps in the endphase

31:44 rising rebellion dragon 😂

If you karma cannon the big unaffected raidraptor birds, do they get sent to grave on res since they couldn’t get booked by karma cannon?

How much longer until we get a 40 minute testing

Shoutouts to the guy who made the deck list going ham in the comments. It’s random deck mains like you that could probably solve cold fusion but instead dedicate it to making the funny birds turn into black birds.

Just want to comment I really enjoy the long deck profile for TMT! Get to see the deck building philosophy and the goal is great for learning a new deck!

Sir, a kaiju has hit the second tower.

So I have never really like play kali yuuga in my RR list and honestly this vid help me learn soooo much more about the rr list so much that I want to try them out again even

"A room temperature IQ duelist clutching their snatch" is definitely one of the MBT quotes of all time

As a longtime Raidraptor player, I approve. Definitely gives me some ideas for my birds going forward.

I should try to pick up this deck, I played raidraptors a lot a year and half ago so I'm familiar with some lines, mostly need to adapt to what's new

Memes aside, I wanna say that this type of in depth explanation is really cool Joseph, I personally like this much more than reading the cards and explaining the games in the vaccum, the only thing I missed here was the 5 min rant about ash

This deck looks so fun!

“Cheap. Powerful. Hard. Rewarding.” You had me at cheap!

Always a highlight of my week

I like the Pringles can in the opening skit

I have never played Raidraptors, but this has inspired me to give them a try when the support comes to MD. Great TMT.

Those raptors do be raiding

"Nobody is packing Sphere Modes anymore" ooh boy I have some BAD news for you...

First deck profile to be longer than the lifespan of the micro wasp

Watching this video reminds me of when Amulet Titan first made its appearance in the Modern format. Deck was capable of some of the most insane lines while also having the tightest deck space imaginable, and at the same time nobody outside of like...two people played it because it was too difficult to master. Maybe Raidraptor could be YGO's Amulet Titan.

Looks fun as hell

loved the card by card

Raidraptors is how i got into master duel after not playing yugioh for about 10 years. Mecha birds is a slam dunk of a design for me and Ultimate Falcon will always be funny to resolve

raidraptor? more like OH MY GOD THAT VIDEO LENGTH

This is probably the best TMT you've done.

Joseph finally playing my favorite deck in yu-gi-oh

"Thankfully our opponent is saving this D.D Crow for next game" brother that shit killed me😂😂😂

I think the deckbuilding section would benefit a lot from not reading every effect verbatim. It all turns into white noise after a while. Rather than "this is word for word Noir's effect" why not "it lets you add a raidraptor with a different level than one you control on field and can banish itself from grave to increase raidraptor levels by 1." Nobody is going to be able to pilot the deck perfectly without rereading the cards themselves, so just giving the basic purpose of the card is more serviceable to what is essentially an introduction than reading the exact text on every card you think people havent seen.

i like the 20 mins explaining the deck

People forget that ultimate falcon also locks your opponent from doing anything on your turn when you detach a material lol

YEAHHHHHHHH!!!! 35 MINUTE RAIDRAPTOR TMT

7:35 funny lanius is my favourite raidlaughter monster

You can make SCF work by running a different RUM called Phantom Knight's Rank-Up-Magic Force. By god I will try to make it work because all of these birbs are some of my favorite cards in the game and getting that SCF and blowing up like 5 back rows is the most satisfying feel in the world. The opportunity-cost doesn't seem too high, but I'm also on copium since we're talking about one of my favorite Archetypes. Raidraptor best deck let's go.

So that is where the Rum has gone to.

I've always wanted to play RR back when OG Rev Falcon came out in 1800 BC, but god damn the deck looks so good nowadays!

Ive leaned into a blackwing raidrapaptor dark brew. Needs some updating and testing the new support. Most RR stuff i run came from phantom rage and 1 of each singing and pain lanius. Just bird spam into extra deck summons

I'm glad this video gave me a master duel ad

Ok, as someone that really liked rr when they were released and stopped playing them when they turned into kali yuga turbo or just the other half of pk, im really liking this list and probably going to test it when i can.

Ah yes my favorite mbt series, 34 minutes testing

My fav 10 min testing so far this was great! yo also what's the joke with snake-eye ash being called snake eye excel on omega?

The ten minutes were really the friends we made along the way

34 minute testing, my favourite!!