The lack of a provided deck list is intentional. The written guide has suggestions for engines, techs, and ratios--toss in whatever sounds fun. You'll figure out a streamlined list for your play style long before you've figured out how to navigate the main combos. Sapphire Surprise guide: docs.google.com/document/d/1UUw5Vbp1EooOqos5Ko4C_Bu1s6RXgzFxNZhkWq8YO54/edit
Totally depends on your hand and what extenders you run. You can also fake out the opponent by going through combos whose outputs are search targets which you've secretly already drawn.
This is the kind of content the average deck profiles are missing: actual discussion of synergies and setups. It doesn't matter how messy a deck is if it can be properly explained.
Thank you. I've been wanting to try my hand at the YugiTube because I've been similarly disappointed by the quality of too many deck profiles. Although you can tell from the audio that I wasn't expecting this to get more than 40 views!
I agree!! I have a sloppy Swordsoul/Branded/Chaos deck on Master Duel that can create crazy boards on either turn. Hop ear is becoming my favorite tuner. I use the effect of whatever level 8 I have, wait until they target it, then synchro into something more powerful to dodge effects 😂😂 I agree Golden Swordsoul is a fantastic card. Great extender, possible etude of branded on their turn.
Spright has a unifying trait of "level 2 monsters" across everything it plays. Lyrilusc Tri and Branded Tear combine just two archetypes. Not to say they aren't creative or skillful decks, but there's a reason why those hybrids were discovered quickly by many people, while Sapphire Surprise wasn't. In the early days of building this deck, my friend Terrence found Tri-Brigade combos which even pure Tri-Brigade players hadn't found yet. This goes back to what I was saying at the start of this video, about Branded Fusion and Verte: Verte wasn't being used because it was the best card, but rather because it was the most power for the least amount of effort/skill, and a higher power level would've required a disproportionately far higher amount of effort/skill to build and to pilot. Like, Verte is 90 points of power off of 2 brain cells, whereas High Spirits is 100 points of power but requires 20 brain cells. Most people are going to take the 90 and call it a reasonable day.
This is the exact kind of ygo content I've been looking for. Deep explanations of decks, with 15-page documents explaining what doesn't fit in the video. Honestly this is such a crazy deck and I'm amazed you looked at the crystal beasts and thought "what if I used these to summon almost everything from the Albaz lore," I'm envious of the creativity
Wow, someone actually found the guide! The idea started with my friend Terence wanting to add some Albaz Strike cards to CB Tri, while I was tinkering with a bunch of instant boss monsters. There was a brief moment when Tri-Brigade decks were summoning Mirrorjade through Verte, but when Verte was banned, everyone (else) assumed the hybrid was dead. My tournament vlogs tell the story of THAT moment in Yugioh history.
I have one question: What are the ratios for someone playing Master Duel? Because I love this deck but without a proper decklist I am worried I miss something (great job btw with the guide).
There’s so much going on. The dripped out clothes, the max cooked deck, the intense lines of combos, the absolute depth and creativity. Bro you more than earned my sub i’m definitely trying this deck out
how lucky am i to find this in my feed? i clicked expecting a deck tech, but this feels a lot more comprehensive than a lot of other similar ygo content i browse. also super hyped to see someone use nemeses other than corridor! absolutely hype list.
Thanks for the kind words. And yes, Nemeses are so much fun! I want to throw them into every possible deck. I love how they recycle each other while also recycling other cards/engines, summoning materials, and bringing their own floodgate boss.
i can imagine that the 3 beast types + dragons are great at managing eschatos already, must be devastating to throw down onto an established board post setup.
We need more talented and original people like you on here. So many people who just copy others nowadays. You got my sub and I would love to see more from you.
The absolute gall of you people to subscribe and ask for more when I said this was supposed to be my last Yugioh video... I do not have a crazier deck than this!
The last time I played Yugioh my friend had a monster that could directly attack my life points and I just got decked. I probably should've considered omitting some cards from my deck so that I could have an actual strategy like you instead of winging it. The anime prepared me for NOTHING
OMG John, I hope you didn't sit through this whole video. The monster on the mat is Rainbow Dragon Overdrive, whose ATK is so high it can deplete your life points in one hit even if you have a Blue-Eyes White Dragon protecting you.
Have you got a standard decklist available? i think that i would have an easier time wrapping my head around playing the deck if i had a point to start from
What I like most is: Ash and Droll are a minor inconvience at most. Veiler and Imperm can hurt but if you opened some of the other engines, it doesn't so much. Only D.D Crow, The Bystials, Ghost Belle and Lancea do anything but they aren't commonly main decked atm. Overall. Based/10.
I've been studying this deck for days . Once I think I cracked it there's another line to discover. Amazing combo deck with so much main deck room for options. Your a master chef .
When you were partying, I studied the Sapphire Surprise. (Oh man, you thought DAYS would be enough to learn this deck? I'm still making new plays and I invented this thing like two years ago.)
Messing around with Snake-Eyes on YGOPRO, I have no idea what I'm doing yet my field is overflowing every time. Diabellestar is a fantastic discard outlet for things like Rainbow Bridge of Salvation, and they have a strong field spell to search. However, the price tag alone seems enough to keep me away.
Yea the wanted and Diabelstar cards are expensive but you can mitigate that by playing 3 Diabelstar & 3 original sin sinful spoils or whatever sinful spoils spells you need instead of 3 wanted, 1 Diabelstar and 1 sinful spoils since the purpose of the engine is to grab a sinful spoils card. Or if you want to go even more budget just play 3 of the sinful spoils cards without the Diabelstar
Because if you think about it, wanted searches Diabelstar and Diabelstar searches a sinful spoils spell. You can essentially achieve the same effect (albeit without the draw) by increasing the number of sinful spoils spells(most of them are like 3-5$). I would HIGHLY recommend you get flamberge dragon regardless. That card will be 40-50$ soon, at the very least get it, test stuff out with it and then trade it for profit
Here is the decklist i've been testing around so far: Monsters: Crystal Beast Sapphire Pegasus x3 Rainbow Dark Dragon Crystal Beast Rainbow Dragon Crystal Beast Cobalt Eagle (can be placed on field with Crystal Bond and bounced to hand with Sargas as an extra Card in Hand) Fallen Of Albaz x2 Albion The Shrouded Dragon The Golden Swordsoul Blazing Cartesia, The Virtuous x2 Guiding Quem, The Virtuous Incredible Ecclesia, The Virtuous Iris The Swordsoul (can be summoned from Deck with Ecclesia) Springans Kitt x3 Tri-Brigade Mercourier x2 Tri-Brigade Fraktall x3 Tri-Brigade Kerass x3 Tri-Brigade Kitt x2 Tri-Brigade Nervall x2 Dynatherium (the monster special summoned to your opponents side can be bounced back to your hand with Sargas) Noble Knight's Shield-Bearer (searches Dynatherium) D.D. Crow (can be searched by Shuraig) Spells: Rainbow Bridge x3 Crystal Bond x2 Awakening Of The Crystal Ultimates Rainbow Bridge Of The Heart Branded In Red Branded In High Spirits Branded Fusion (optional) Branded Regained (optional) Tally-Ho! Springans Fire Formation - Tenki x3 One For One Allure Of Darkness Traps: Tri-Brigade Revolt Extra Deck: Mirrorjade The Iceblade Dragon Albion The Branded Dragon Brigrand The Glory Dragon x2 Granguignol The Dusk Dragon Rindbrumm The Striking Dragon Springans Merrymaker Gigantic Champion Sargas Tri-Brigade Shuraig The Ominous Omen x2 Tri-Brigade Ferrijit The Barren Blossom Tri-Brigade Bearbrumm The Rampant Rampager Raidraptor - Force Strix Apollousa, Bow Of The Goddess Borreload Savage Dragon Other considerable cards: Crystal Miracle Ancient Warriors Oath - Double Dragon Lords Guardian Chimera
Cute use of dynatherium + Sargas; never considered that. Any reason for cobalt over the beast topaz? Curious to hear how you like allure; it was historically a key inspiration for the deck, being able to banish both RDD and mercourier, but now RDD typically wants to stay in hand until high spirits can use it.
"Any reason for cobalt over the beast topaz?" No, there isn't. I just started experimenting, but i change it because Topaz Tiger seems slightly better If Simorgh, Bird Of Sovereignty comes ever of the banlist, Cobalt will be better though. In terms of Allure i'm not sure if i keep the card in my deck. I need to make more test plays :)@@flipflipshift855
Omg Terrence read the guide so you can learn how to play Sapphire Surprise. 😘 Birds are now better High Spirits discards than beasts. Anyway, it's interesting to see how other people build this strategy. I haven't tried The Iris Swordsoul.
You can see most of my deck throughout the video and my written guide has a section on ratios. More importantly, just throw in whatever engines/techs look cool to you and you'll figure out the best ratios for your play style as you learn how the cards interact. A good list won't really help you pilot a combo deck until you're familiar enough to decide it for yourself.
Damn the spice of this deck is phenominal. Its so original that i dont even dare to touch the deck. I have most things although some tri brigade/springans things are missing. Pretty good. Love it.
Random recommendation, but this dude was a lot more fun to watch than expected. Also for some reason it's a lot easier for me to follow these explanations when the cards are physically moved around on screen compared to master duel guides. That was very surprising. Maybe I should try getting back into the TCG.
This has been so fun to watch. CRYSTAL BEAST???? Like I didn't see how it would connect but you showed me the vision. I (as a masterduel only) will try to make this and go to master rank for my ranked climb
Can we get some time to appreciate not only this man's creativity but also how he explained how everything works in detail instead of just telling how to do a 1 card combo
This is pretty cool, the springgan engine is something I haven't considered but I might look into. Feels a little fragile though I'm not sure how well this will be playing into hand traps or an established board I'm seeing a number of choke points here and crucially a number of the starters such as the crystal beasts and some tribrigades etc cannot serve as extenders if you've already normalled. Some very interesting theory crafting though.
Imagine my surprise when finding both a well done and interesting deck profile, but in the description i find a deck primer on the level of what I'm familiar with from cEDH! Masterfully done!
I appreciate the video and your manual, they are very useful and pleasant, but for me, I love combining strategies like you just did, I hope to see more from you.
During the the fraktall + Tri combo you can also summon the merrymaker back as well to go into F0 with the raidraptor. Very niche and it costs probably to much extra deck space but it’s a nice interaction.
Good call! (So long as you have an extender so Apollousa still gets enough materials.) But I think the opportunity cost of F0 is too high considering it's either an Apollousa sidegrade or an addition to a board which already has ten disruptions.
This is why decks like bystial runicks wins a YCS, because are not the original meta contenders, but have a lot of analysis, deep discussion about the engine and how it can be very consistent in a duel, i love it, and also because is around pegasus, one of my favourite cards of Yu-Gi-Oh ❤❤
Can i have a deck list to test with because ill be much better doing test hands with the deck to see what cards i like what feels bad until i can get a more concreat list. I just find it hard to build a deck ive never played before especially a combo one.
currently into building this deck and figuring everything out. very thankful for this video. this is in my opinion what a true in depth guide to a deck should be.
The guide linked in the video description has a section on ratios. What works best for you will ultimately come down to your play style and whichever engines/techs you decide to include.
Maybe it's my love of cheesy fonts. Maybe it's because I slacked on the production quality because I figured this would get even fewer views than my usual videos.
Tbh it was the lighting that threw me off until I looked at the date. Very inspiring video though. Dunno if it's realistic to pull off. A good follow up video on how to play through x hand trap with y extender would be ideal but dunno if it's realistic.
Here is a playable (I think) decklist to start off with that teaches you most combo lines. Please tweak after testing Main (51) -2x rainbow dark dragon -1x crystal beast rainbow dragon -1x albion the shrouded dragon -3x tri-brigade fraktall -1x the golden swordsoul -3x crystal beast sapphire pegasus -2x fallen of albaz -3x springans kitt -1x guiding quem the virtuous -1x incredible ecclesia the virtuous -1x blazing cartesia the virtuous -1x crystal beast cobalt eagle -1x noble knight's shield-bearer -2x tri-brigade mercourier -3x tri-brigade kerass -2x tri-brigade kitt -1x tri-brigade nervall -3x sauravis, the ancient and ascended -1x allure of darkness -3x crystal bond -3x rainbow bridge -1x tally-ho! springans -1x called by the grave -1x branded in high spirits -1x branded in red -1x rainbow bridge of the heart -3x fire formation tenki -3x infinite impermanence -1x tri-brigade revolt Extra (15) -1x guardian chimera -1x mirrorjade the iceblade dragon -1x brigrand the glory dragon -1x rindbrumm the striking dragon -1x albion the branded dragon -1x borreload savage dragon -1x gigantic champion sargas -1x springans merrymaker -1x raidraptor force strix -2x tri-brigade shuraig the ominous omen -1x apollousa bow of the goddess -1x tri-brigade bearbrumm the rampant rampager -1x tri-brigade ferrijit the barren blossom -1x ancient warriors oath: double dragon lords Not doing a side figure it out yourself Please don't use this decklist permanently, its probably very bad
Deck is fire! I’m trying to build it in MD any chance I could get your ratios or a deck list I’d like a more solid staring point before I get to crafting?? Edit: saw your previous reply to a comment and I agree to an extent but in MD especially I’d find it a bit easier to tweak a list based on my collection as to save cp instead of using UR/SR dust and cutting something later.
Sooooo is all the synchro stuff dead now in the TCG since Savage is banned? The 8 pool is not very good generically, which is a shame cause I really liked the synchro element of this deck
The Albaz tuners still get used for Bystial stuff, I'll miss Borreload. For spell negation but mostly the gimmick of using all 4 ED summons. That space can go to Thunder Dragon Colossus now, if you draw Nemeses.
I didn't showcase any counters here, but even without them, a combo deck full of combo cards can push through a lot with a sixth draw. Yesterday I OTK'd through Shifter, through Primal, and through Traptrix with four traps. Hand traps especially can actually slow yourself down unless you can afford to run a large enough number to get lucky enough to draw multiple plus play starters.
Siding in/out entire engines is another level of shenanigans which I wanted to get into, but I ran out of mental stamina. And extra deck space. So I'd just side the usual board breakers.
cool deck profile and guide, but somehow you didn't provide an actual list in either. I'm guessing there's almost no room for non-engine? My kinda deck!
this is what I love about yugioh sometimes. Not just the gameplay aspect but the deck building aspect, its just genuinely fun to find interesting synergies between decks and actually making it work. Obviously its not going to be amazing in practical, but you can just tell you are having so much fun in this video explaining what the deck does and how it functions. Props you to
The Golden Swordsoul is among my favorite tech cards in any deck I have ever made, people just do not think about it much. I am currently playing a lot of an Albaz pile deck trying to play as many different albaz archetypes at once without being entirely uncompetitive. It has a higher potential output than each of the individual strategies, but in return you can usually only do an archetype's combo once or twice due to the tight extra deck.
Everything about building and piloting big Abyss lore mashups is so open-ended that I tend to lose interest. Like, the deck is going to be weird and zany and fun no matter which themes I put in it, but truly optimizing it could take dozens of hours. This one already took too long to build.
@@MarkThePage i really enjoy the open-endedness of these abyss lore piles because they give me something else to work with every single time. Consistent combos just eventually get boring to me :/ So strangely I often enjoy worse decks much more than actually good ones
Hey! Firstly, I want to say that I love the concept of this deck profile. Combining tri-brigades with normal branded stuff is something, as a normal branded player, I have been trying to figure out, and this guide is so incredibly helpful with that. Would you mind if (once I figure out my own version of this list) I posted a variant of it to RU-vid (with a link to your channel obviously)?
That they are! I don't think there is a single branded card that is too unplayable that no build should use it. I will have my personal take on the list up hopefully by friday@@MarkThePage
Please just put a decklist somewhere, I need a place to start from and it's overwhelming to have to build my own version of this before I even understand how it works. Its much easier to learn with a functional deck profile, then tweaking it after
Ratios and specific techs don't matter when you're still learning. The cards are shown all throughout the video. And if you read the guide, it includes all the suggested cards and ratios. Building your initial list will be the LEAST demanding part of the process.
@@MarkThePage that STANKY JANKY. It's generally confusing messiness is a good thing. Thanks for this. Stank is that unique style Jank is the fact you used crystal beast since they're generally considered to be not very good mark.
Play this in master duel. I’d love to watch some clips with this deck. You definitely enticed the community with this post and ngl I enjoyed your explanation throughout the entire video. Looking forward to what you do next
The deck is very fun and i love the idea behind it, but if these are the combos you played during events, you cheated on all your opponents. Bearbrumm locks you into tri-brigde monsters. Using bearbrumm to summon and then linking it of for appolousa is not possible.
*After* Bearbrumm is sent to the GY and its search effect is used (usually to get Tri-Brigade Revolt) is when the "Tri-Brigade"-only lock is used. Making Bearbrumm and using it as link material for Apollousa is a tried-and-true Tri-Brigade combo path; it restricts upon resolution of its GY search effect, not prior to that. You might be thinking about the other Tri-Brigade lock which restricts the player from using anything but Tri-Type monsters (Beast, Beast-Warrior, and Winged Beast) as link material, but that doesn't affect which Type of Link monster is summoned, only the materials used for that summon; so long as those material otherwise satisfy the Link materials needed for that Link monster's summon, it's fine.
Wow. This is really incredible. So cool to see a deck that's this interesting, powerful, and unique. Loved the explanation of all the different combos and how to work with different types of hands.
Bond grants you one extra card in hand because you can put back the bounced pegasus to deck off spriggans kitt. Pegasus works as well, but you'll have to put back a blank.
I've been playing branded for about a year now, and I'm always so excited to see new branded synergies, it makes me wonder what other kinds of fun branded synergies and combos could be made and discovered!
2:13 YESSIIIIR TALK TO EM ABOUT THEM BOYS honestly you get a sub just off of that lmao i been trying to tell my boys about the power of the golden swordsoul but they just roll their eyes
The Golden Swordsoul... It... cute... lovely... smart... plus... amazing... you think so?... oh yes...it... stunning... kindly... love it! Hug it...when... sleeping...warm and cuddly... spectacular... ravishing... ...Oops! Look at the time! (gives you a bicycle)
This is a hilarious deck 😂 Used to play Tri, went to Branded Despia, Runick Bystial now, but always missed the tri-brigade... This is sweet and will definitely build and bring to locals soon 💪🏻
Im just getting back into Yu-Gi-Oh and have always wanted to be able to play my crystals at a decent level so was delighted to find this video. The deck seems like a cool blend of new stuff and my pet deck so I'm slowly trying to put it together. I really appreciated the emgine breakdowns and how they synergise (I've not seen such in depth explanations before for the newer ones).
Welcome back! Sapphire Surprise is too intense to recommend to new or returning players... but there are countless ways to play Crystal Beasts with the new support they've received.
