Love ur frequent content man. Also the thoughts and reasons u r listing within the videos remind me of an power point presentation and it's super helpful and much appreciated. Keep it Up!
Thank you so much. I bought the deck recently, had my first play in locals yesterday and I've already topped. Your content helps a lot, 1st quality content
I'm new to the deck and your videos have been crazy helpful in my ventures to play this deck. I do have 3 questions for you though! 1. in my testing I found bystials to be very subpar in the main, are you just playing them, for the meta with yubel, etc? or do they actually facilitate combos? 2. is nib really worth playing? I personally find that good players always play around it and it never actually resolves in a way that impacts my games. yes, you catch the rouge players off guard but I feel like when everyone knows everyone is going to be playing it, it's just not very good. would it not make more sense to play a different hand trap or possibly even eclipse to dodge imperm/veiler as you did in the RB vs Fiend Smith? (actually don't understand how then imperm'd Cannahawk, while negated you activated Cannahawks effect to banish, then eclipse and had it resolve?) 3. I generally don't understand the shifter combos, I know it will come in time by practicing with it but I can never get the lines right to make anything meaningful did I miss any guides on shifter combos or is that something you would be willing to make into a video? despite everyone saying "shifter makes the combos better" you really don't see a lot online on how to actually utilize shifter.
1) Bystials help facilitate some combos, for example SBTL + Bystial or E-Tele + Bystial. And in my experience, GY disruption is really strong in this format, although bystials do have their bad matchups occasionally. You could swap them out for something more generic like Veiler if needed 2) I think Nibiru is decent in the main after Apollousa was banned which is why I have it at 2. It's strongest when drawn with a second HT but even the best players can't play around Nibiru 100% of the time so it still should have decent value when drawn by itself. As for why I'm not playing eclipse, I don't like mixing board breakers and hand traps in the main. I prefer going all-in on one or the other (with exceptions in the side deck). But in that RB vs FS Snake Eye video I was testing how it feels to play board breakers alongside Mulcharmy Fuwaross 3) Shifter makes all our combos better as long as we aren't playing through any removal effects. Because if we're playing into something like a Nibiru, Torrential, etc, then Ulti-Nochiudrago is unaccessable until we're able to resolve Ulti-Cannahawk. Otherwise, shifter is really good for our end board: - Rampengu becomes a stronger 1 card combo - we can end on more banished names in rotation (better turn 3 follow up) - we can loop Nemeses Flag and Corridor to recycle more resources - we don't need to play around droll/veiler/ogre/crow I made a video on shifter combos almost a year ago but that was using the Zefra RB build (when Baronne and Savage were still legal and Protos/Colossus were banned). Although I might make a more updated shifter video since I've seen multiple requests For now you can check out the last two replays of this video for shifter combos: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VG-nV5qFDwA.html Usually I don't upload many shifter games because either they aren't that interesting to watch or it's hard to get a good replay because my opponent has a higher chance of instantly quitting
List looks clean. Colossus kinda feels mandatory now, Snake Eye is "gone". Sadly you don't have anything for going second in you Extra Deck and Anima lost a lot if it versatility now that apo is gone. Also in my opinion you only can resolve anima against "bad player" so I wouldn't recommend it. What are your experiences with anima? And when you resolved it, because of bad placement by your opponent? Im playing at a high competive local environment. Nobodys makes the mistake playing into anima zones.
I like anima because it's a link 1 that allows e-tele to set up a link monster for S:P Little Knight while getting also setting up SBTL in the GY. For going first it opens up Reprodocus lines while insulated by Ulti-Gaialpelio because it gives us the extra attribute needed to banish for an Early Protos. Its removal effect is just a bonus in case someone does play into anima zones
Accesscode isn't coming up as much in this build because it focuses more on handtraps. My reasoning is that if I can half-stop my opponent's first turn with hand traps, I feel like having Pettlephin, Protos, and S:P is enough for game 1. In some of my older builds I liked running accesscode + unicorn because I was playing board breakers in the main with a smaller amount of hand traps in the side. So if you're playing dark ruler and eclipse I would definitely recommend making some room in the extra to help clear boards
