Winning In Tier 0 Fire Format - The Pak Episode | Heart of the Cast #6 

that was a very competitive heavy episode. thank you farfa for pulling the breakes every now and then and clarify so people like me got the chance to follow up and not get left behind at some point

Paks 'Ballin on a budget' are always a treat. They truly show how far raw skill can get you, even when you only play 3x structure deck.

Man its unbeliviable how good of a host josh is the man is the GOAT

What makes me admire PAK in the first place is how he understands the game mechanics to its finest especially during his YCS-WINNING deck profile explanation on Prank Kids, its playstyle, how to chain block and many more. which is quite rare since he's just like a year or two in the game

Bruh Farfa and Josh waking up the entire community literally and figuratively

sir Pak bring always good content in yugioh. salute from Chile!

As someone who lives in eastern standard time, yes

This was a really good episode, my favorite one so far. And I couldn't be further from a competitive player.

I just found this series. Amazing episode, lmao link summoning was a trip to come back to 😂

wow i didn't knew that pak was a 'recent' player

And yeah, open decklist just seems awful for a Bo3 format where you're specifically trying to surprise people with your card choices both before(to win the blind and gain advantage) AND after siding(where you know if you're going first or second after a loss and switching around cards accordingly). Maybe for a Bo1 it makes more sense since that gives you options to strategize in a situation where any mistake in gameplay can prove instantly fatal, knowing if you have to play around hand traps or board breakers will force you to set up specific boards and the opponent to order their interactions to play around what board they managed to set up, removing a lot of the extra variance inherent in that style of format that people complain about. And honestly feels more skillful than blind siding even if it makes deck building TOO important compared to execution.

Nesh on ycs stream would be insane

Amazing quality video! Bravo to all three of u

Great motivation words from Pak

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="437">7:17</a> yeah friends. I need those

Yeah, I think they're right about the "all in" approach to board breakers and hand traps this format. Good use of hand traps can just be turn ending for the Snake-Eye engine(especially on pure builds that don't have many side lines to work with, essentially "bricking" on their hand traps), and doesn't give good targets for your board breakers right now. Your goal with Board Breakers then is to shut off their interaction with your setup(by attacking their GY and backrow rather than just the field ironically enough), use the monsters on the field against them(whether it's as resources or beaters), and attack for game before they can rebuild. Any hand traps you ARE playing then should just be Crossout targets meant to punish excessive use of the things.

You guys need an intro and outro

Paks been my favorite duelist for a while- definitely made me push to be more competitive

Things like open lists works for things like Pokemon VGC because you cant guarantee which 4 of 6 mons a player will bring to the game, but when you only have 15 spots to flex into in only games 2 and 3, it gives the going first player so much more agency

That Sam text comment had me on the floor

I've been playing the paper card game for 8 years now on a casual level, and even tho I love the game, the points Josh raised at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1412">23:32</a>-<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1471">24:31</a> is exactly one of the single biggest things that's kept me from diving into the competitive scene. I dont have an issue with the side deck conceptually, but the way it's used in modern yugioh honestly takes a lot of the fun out of it for me.

pak the goat in the making

Nice podcast 😎🎉

Is there a way to also get this fed to the RU-vid Music feed? I can't seem to find it amongst other podcasts i listen to on that side, but either way thanks for the great content y'all!

Pak’s the best great episode

Learning a lot here. I’m learning the basics of infernoble, in masterduel, got full snake eyes during my pulls trying to get the infernobles so will learn pure snake eyes next. Good to know I can skip chasing the rescue ace cards next pack and just stick to pure snake eyes worst comes to worst since pak said it was too bricky

This content is the best

More than a little late to the party here, but it is interesting how, important, it seems, networking can be in such a game. PAK is obviously an amazing player, but it seems like after he was on the radar, he was a part of "The Club" as it were. Its then also interesting to hear such people dissmiss the idea the friends scouting others cards compared to open decklists

PAKAWAT Clap

Thought this was post YCS Las Vegas but great nonetheless

Like but like and like like you know and like bro just like... jesus bro can't leave "like" alone 😂

Technically you can superpoly Baronne and Savage, but you have to summon Draco-Equiste, which only works for those two monsters. No one plays it tho

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2660">44:20</a> no farfa, most people will not put more effort into the game knowingly that there is a deck that when played correctly insta wins turn 1, they will play shifter.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1415">23:35</a> I would like to push back on what Josh said here about the side deck. The side deck in Yu-Gi-Oh is pretty much an exact copy and paste of the Magic sideboard, just as many games have taken inspiration for things from Magic and big blowout cards is exactly what Magic's sideboard was for, that is where you run your Gloom, Circles of Protection, and Boil. Yu-Gi-Oh had blowout cards in the early days as well, they were just more main deckable.

A question for all those who feel that the game is hostile to newer players at the competitive level: Where do you propose all the new faces in tops are coming from? Also "How am I selling these cards without knowing how to play them?" and what followed is the most important mindset to have in any customer facing business. EVERYONE needs to internalize that kind of thinking.

afaik some other card game also sometimes implement open list on top cut, bcs the game is slower in turn, and that cause more layered thinking and approach for players. But I totally agree with pak&josh, for modern yugioh open decklist is not good and giving first player too much advantage.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="170">2:50</a> another based take

Great podcast but the questions asked were really long and guests shouldn’t be interrupted lol.

Nice collab, waiting for more guess, bring aps paul (great name) or the G megacapital

Honorary guu cast episode?

crazy cause mathmech was the problem

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QCR > UTR

Josh, Runick is such an niché and specific deck ... can you please make one episode just about the best runick variants jk ... fk runick, fk lab , fk VS , they are just stun decks with more steps

The real way to win is to not play.

tribute me ,daddy

Snake eye is just the best deck because Konami made it more broken than any other deck. Just a bunch of dual purpose 1 card combo starters that are also extenders. Just get lucky and outgrind your opponent through their handtraps in the mirror and win. I wouldnt really call it a more skilled deck than others. Kashtira you actually have to think about actions you take vs each deck. Its literally one banish and one Extra deck rip. How you use your Monsters and Extra Deck has to be skillful to win. Unless you drop shifter then yeah thats not very skillful. At least its not pay to win lol

I only play masterduel and even I know snake-eye is completely broken ... not really familiar with voiceless , but snake eyes is tier 0 100% ... pretty boring format imo