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0:00Hey guys, Tomboxer, and welcome to the
0:01Damage Report special. The first time
0:04we're doing a Damage Report within 3
0:05weeks of a previous Damage Report. This
0:07is a banlist historical moment because
0:10we haven't had a banlist that is this
0:12big. This is essentially an e-ban
0:14towards a lot of things, and it
0:16literally kind of took the internet's
0:18wish list and stuffed it into one major
0:21banlist. Whether or not it's good or bad
0:23for the format, I guess only time will
0:25tell. So, in the tradition of Damage
0:27Report, we're going to go over the list,
0:28the winners, the losers, but this time
0:29we're going to add extra report as well
0:32as the philosophy. And this time, the
0:34top tier potential is going to look
0:37actually not as wild as I I thought it
0:39of it initially, but it's still going to
0:41be a significant change. So, make sure
0:43you guys hit that like button, hit
0:45subscribe, ding the notification bell,
0:47and let's get to it. All right, this is
0:48going to be a long one. Now, this list
0:50is huge. I can't even use the
0:52traditional layout of a Damage Report to
0:54show all the cards. So, here we go.
0:56We're going to talk about them in more
0:57depth in the philosophy part of this
0:58video. So, for forbidden cards, we start
1:01off with the Amorphage Sloth and the
1:03Amorphage Goliath, Called by the Grave,
1:06and there's also Aerial Eater and Albion
1:08the Branded Dragon. And then we have two
1:10relatively new cards, which would be
1:12Zany Deserving Doll Maidens and Charmer
1:14Quartet in Bloom. Now, those were the
1:16dynamic duo that really blew off the
1:18power cap of the game. So, the power
1:21ceiling was just non-existent at this
1:23point. Just go wild. And this list goes
1:26to show that, "Hey, Konami can't trust
1:27the players into keeping the boards
1:30tame." Well, yeah, if you're going to
1:31give us something, we're going to put it
1:33to its maximum potential, but clearly
1:35the players innovate way faster than R&D
1:38itself. And that's kind of going to show
1:40what's going on here. Uh and then we
1:42have Beelze the Diabolic Dragon,
1:44Trishula, as well as Gou'ems. Uh those
1:47are all banned, mainly because it's
1:49FTK'ing or hand looping. Then we have
1:51DDD High Wave King Caesar, as well as
1:54the Secret Village of the Spellcasters,
1:56Anti-Spell Fragrance. So, a lot of Spell
1:59Card floodgating is now gone. And then
2:02we have Pharaonic Advent, the ability to
2:03search for Continuous Trap Cards is also
2:06going to be removed as well. I think
2:08it's just a safety net, I suppose. And
2:10maybe they're opening of the design
2:12space a little bit there. Then there's
2:14Cross-Sheep and Saryuja. So, combo is
2:16mainly the target of a lot of these
2:19hits. While they're taking away
2:20floodgates, they're also taking away the
2:22ability to combo at the same time. So,
2:24Cross-Sheep being one of the early play
2:26openers, as well as Saryuja usually kind
2:29of being the end piece that kind of
2:30follows up giving you the additional
2:32hand summon. Then there is Cup of Ace
2:34and Yummy Way. That one got the crowd
2:35going wild as well because now Yummy is
2:37essentially uh well, kind of dead to
2:40them for the most part because you can't
2:42really play the deck without going into
2:44Yummy Way to kick off your combo. It's
2:46also your follow-up to get more stuff.
2:49So, yeah, that one's pretty brutal
2:51considering it they also disabled the
2:52bridging of the deck. Then there's the
2:55triple floodgate of Gozen Match, the
2:57Rivalry of Warlords, and the TC itself.
3:00There can be only one. So, just for
3:03additional measure, aside from Pharaonic
3:05Advent being banned, these floodgates
3:07are also being taken out so that people
3:10are able to play. So, playability is a
3:12very big theme here as well as not
3:14letting the decks go too far. Because
3:17speaking of going too far, Magician's
3:18Souls got banned, and that essentially
3:21is a Foolish Burial Pot of Greed to some
3:23degree, as well as a free summon from
3:25the hand
3:26all in one. It can also technically
3:28E-tele out a Dark Magician if you
3:30consider it like dumping it in the grave
3:32and summoning it back out. Yeah, that's
3:33pretty strong, I would say. And it
3:35really just bridges every single Dark
3:38Spellcaster archetype just right there.
3:41And speaking of uh more Spellcasters, uh
3:44well, rather than Spellcaster canceling
3:46all spells, so Spell Canceller is also
3:47banned. As well as now we have got a
3:48couple of negation-based Synchros. We
3:51have Crystal Wing Synchro
3:52F.A. Dawn Dragster, and Naturia Beast.
3:54Naturia Beast came to me as a bit of a
3:55surprise. Like, what is Nat Beast doing?
3:57But, if Nat Beast lives in the format,
3:59then Nat Beast, if it's ever played,
4:02it's only ever in securing the board so
4:04that your opponent cannot play any more
4:06spell cards. Yeah, and that makes it a
4:09lot more lopsided because the game has
4:12gone to the point where deck ratios are
4:14super spell reliant. And or they're
4:16super monster reliant, but it's usually
4:18a balance between those two.
4:20Next, there's Baguska, which is the
4:22fallback plan for most rank four decks,
4:24but also used in Lunalights as one of
4:27the things that I suppose the Lunalight
4:30Liger Dancer isn't affected by. The
4:32Garrus also took a significant hit here,
4:34which is a bit of a surprise to me. And
4:37now for some of the more surprising hit.
4:39Now, Nishi thought that this one wasn't
4:40going to get hit, and our buddy, or
4:42rather our cameraman Cam, had a bet with
4:45him that no Elfno cards with the name
4:47would be hit, and they were Well, Nishi
4:49was wrong, and he lost the bet. Now, he
4:51owes him essentially an entry for
4:53locals.
4:54That's kind of fun. But, yeah, Elf no
4:56Tenia got banned.
4:58We'll talk about that in the in the
4:59damage report. Then, there's the double
5:02negation duo. We have Azemina Ilia
5:05Sylvia, as well as the infamous Red-Eyes
5:08Dark Dragoon. So, the Dark Magician
5:11package, you know, Dark Magical Curtain
5:13package, everything related to that, I
5:16think the most powerful part of the
5:17package has been, well, banned off. And
5:20then, the one thing that everyone was
5:22waiting for Well, did have a Kirin get
5:24hit. Kirin did get hit, banned. And lost
5:28their, I guess, insulation
5:33against hand traps. So, Verre just being
5:35gone, that's pretty significant. As well
5:37as, you know, Called by the Grave is
5:38gone, and then they also got rid of
5:40Crossout Designator, as well as Triple
5:42Tactics Talent. So, the going first hand
5:46trap counter package is also removed
5:49from the game. Now, as for limited
5:51cards, well, this one was a bit of a
5:53surprise.
5:54They limited a Droll & Lock Bird, so
5:57you're going to get sacked by Droll &
5:58Lock Bird, and maybe this is a precursor
6:00to just banning Droll & Lock Bird
6:02because that card technically is still
6:03searchable with the DM package. I think
6:05people are going to have to re-explore
6:07that package. As you can see, most of
6:10the initial negations are gone. I'm not
6:13saying all of it's gone, but most of
6:14it's gone. Then they have the
6:15pre-release card which we did not expect
6:17here, which is uh Perfectron Hydro Drive
6:20uh Dragon. That particular monster would
6:22be a link that goes into itself into
6:24itself. I think it led to some level of
6:26FTK. Uh that got limited right before it
6:29even got released, which is well, I
6:31think that's very significant. I don't
6:33think they've done something like that
6:34in a long time. One of the times they
6:35did it was for Six Sense, and I think
6:37for a card that straight-up got banned
6:40before we got to play was Temple of the
6:41Kings, and that came out in the like the
6:42Meric structure deck. Now, as for the
6:45other guy that's just taking strays all
6:47the time, Branded. Branded opening took
6:49a hit here when going down from three
6:51copies to one, but Branded wasn't even
6:54like a top-tier deck. For some reason,
6:56Branded was just catching strays, okay?
6:59And then Toon decks, Toon Bookmark and
7:02Toon Table of Contents both went down to
7:04one before the release.
7:06That's telling me that, "Hey, I think
7:09Konami is going to be power capping most
7:11decks for the most part, okay?" That
7:14could mean that decks will actually live
7:16longer and might take lighter taps on
7:18the balance in the future based on
7:20performance, but they're not afraid to
7:22surprise us with these things anymore.
7:25That's what it feels like. Because
7:26Genesis already has rapid updates in
7:28terms of the points list,
7:30I think this might be an approach
7:32towards the actual advanced format.
7:35That's just a thought here, you know,
7:37it's just hypothesis. We will try to
7:38prove it in the future do we see we get
7:40more data. Then there's Griffon going
7:43down to one. Bit surprising, very early
7:45limit, but with Griffon being put down
7:48to one, it also opened the opportunity
7:50like we're we're thinking like, oh, is
7:51E4 also going to go to one? Apparently,
7:53E4 is going to stick around. So, we're
7:55going to talk about that in a second.
7:56And then Gustav Max going to one, that's
7:58prevention of FDK's. And then as for the
8:01last slot for limited, we were all
8:03hoping for E4. It was another stray.
8:06They you know, branded just just can't
8:08you know, they can't take a beating
8:09here. Uh branded opening got limited to
8:12one. And then we had a surprise. We
8:13actually had a surprise, which is
8:16engaged. Sky Striker mobilize engage got
8:18put to two. Yeah, well, we didn't count
8:21for that, but that's the entire list.
8:23For winners and losers, the ultimate
8:24winner of this entire ban list has to be
8:27Angelique. Completely unfazed
8:30whatsoever. All the hand traps are still
8:31available. The hand trap success rate is
8:33also going up and they're also not very
8:35much impacted by hand traps aside from
8:37like ogre, but because you are the most
8:40successful now, you're going to have a
8:41target on your back. Most people are
8:43going to main deck ogres. They're going
8:44to have typhoons in their decks ready to
8:46blow your deck apart so that your
8:48bastions don't land. You don't get to
8:49set up additional back row. That's
8:51what's going to happen to this deck. So,
8:54now that everyone's targeting you, it's
8:56kind of like drytron. When drytron's the
8:57best deck, it's not the best deck. You
8:59need it so that people kind of keep you
9:01under the radar and you are now at the
9:03forefront of everything. Hand trap
9:05success rate is going to go up
9:06especially with Nibiru. Nibiru is
9:10essentially uninsulatable
9:13for most decks. I won't say that every
9:15single negation's gone. There are
9:16certain decks that are still capable and
9:18the top tier potential, we'll talk about
9:19that. And then there's Sky Striker. Oh,
9:22no, we also got hit. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
9:24sure you did. Sure you did. You also
9:27climbed all the way to the top of the
9:28tier list as well along the way. So, the
9:31winners are essentially the players. You
9:33guys wanted all of these things to be
9:35hit. You essentially got the wish list
9:38granted by Konami, which is very
9:40interesting. I've never seen them do
9:41something like this, but there must be a
9:43reason behind it. And I kind of know why
9:45because I've been play testing a lot of
9:46stuff in the future already, and the
9:49world of hand trap is about to
9:51drastically change. Now, as for the
9:53losers, floodgate users, FTK
9:54enthusiasts, extra negation from the
9:57extra deck, and the hand loopers, these
9:58are gone, which is good. You know what?
10:01Take these away because all they offer
10:03is just a bad time. Just turns the game
10:05into a bit of a die roll, and you know,
10:07the extra floodgate is ultimately
10:09unnecessary because it gives access to
10:11decks that shouldn't have floodgates to
10:13have floodgates to make the boards even
10:15harder to break. Now, for archetypal
10:17losers, we have Elf Note or Astinia. You
10:20know, the blue haired girl is gone.
10:23Mitsurugi took a surprising hit at the
10:25very end. Combo power bridges and
10:26anything that bridges into anything that
10:29is meta relevant has been taken out.
10:30Yummy has been hit. Branded took a
10:32one-two punch. Toons got preemptively
10:35trimmed. Anything that is above a
10:37certain line will now be trimmed, and
10:40that's your new power ceiling. It's
10:41going to be capped right there. Then we
10:43have the good, the bad, the ugly. Well,
10:45the good, the bad, the legend.
10:47We got most of the DM package, as a Mina
10:50package, as well as
10:52the Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon. So, yeah, DM
10:55package is significantly hit.
10:57So, for the hits, anything that's in
10:58blue got limited, and everything in
11:00white essentially are all banned. FTKs
11:03and hand loops, Superdreadnought Rail
11:04Cannon that was a triple burn FTK.
11:06Nothing you can really do about it. You
11:08take 8,000 to the face, and that's it.
11:10Beelze the Diabolic Dragon, your
11:11opponent usually gave it to you with a
11:13mind castle, and then with the knight
11:16piece from Angelica infinitely
11:19triggering it, every single burn will
11:21cause it to gain gain attack, and then
11:23every single time they gain attack, you
11:24burn. So, it's an infinite loop that
11:25burns you to death. Essentially. So, the
11:28game of that is also an infinite loop if
11:30you somehow turn into life gain,
11:31strangely enough. And then there is
11:33Trishula, the Ice Barrier Dragon, and
11:34XX-Saber Gottoms, which was a Synchro
11:37combo that kept on bringing it back and
11:39you kept on making more, so you rip your
11:41opponent's hand in an Elf no combo. Uh
11:43that essentially led to them having a
11:45three-card start, sorry, take three
11:48cards out from their start and then take
11:49one more out from the Tinia uh during
11:52the early parts of the game. Then
11:53there's the easy negations that were
11:55just like combo pieces that just
11:56happened to get there. Like, oh, with
11:58Skull Archfiend it got even easier with
11:59the Zoodiac engine. High King Caesar,
12:01Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon, Dawn
12:02Dragster, that's just kind of weakening
12:04the Elf no board in general. Uh As a
12:06Mina Ilia Silvia, Red Archfiend generic
12:08negations for everything, you know,
12:10those are omni negates, and even
12:12Varudras was also part of the problem.
12:14It was just too easy. These cards
12:17ultimately made hand traps worse,
12:20especially Nibiru, the thing that's
12:21supposed to punish combo. Well, combo
12:23decks are making these monsters to
12:25prevent themselves from getting punished
12:26at all. And so they've been stripped out
12:29of the game for now in the advanced
12:30format. As for combo support and
12:32bridges, Magician's Souls gave you all
12:33the Dark Spellcaster, Hane Kiri is the
12:36entire bridge towards the Mitsurugi
12:38package. Aerial Eater gave you uh Fiend
12:41access, basically allowed you to dump
12:42cards out of the graveyard. Again,
12:43Foolish Burial monsters is actually
12:45don't get to live. Albion the Branded
12:47Dragon was too fast. You can still get
12:49access to some of the Fallen of Albaz
12:52cards, but you have to do it a lot
12:54slower now, or you have to do it during
12:56the main phase to get Ecclesia and shut
12:58out your own extra deck to kind of get
13:00that early search. So, there's been
13:02restrictions added to the game by
13:03banning out this card, which does hurt
13:05the Branded deck the most, right? And
13:08the Garrus the Timeless, I don't know
13:09why that got banned. It's just
13:11additional draws for the most part that
13:13that comes with a risk. Then there's
13:15Cross-Sheep, that was an early combo for
13:17link climbing, and it was just too easy
13:19these days.
13:20Uh Charmers in Bloom, come on, Monster
13:23Reborn in the extra deck, that revive
13:24two that it protects it from being Super
13:26Poly. So, are you just Skull Dread, I
13:28think it just extend it. I don't know
13:29why this one got hit. It's not really
13:30relevant right now. Zenais deceiving
13:32down made is a foolish burial in the
13:33extra deck. All those get banned anyway
13:35and also brings back cards out of the
13:37graveyard. What are you talking about?
13:38Called by the grave, crossout
13:39designator, triple tactics talent, these
13:41are all insulating out. So, they're just
13:43essentially combo support to make the
13:45combo decks play better. But, also
13:48triple tactics could look at your
13:49opponent's hand. So, most hand looking
13:50effects are all gone. Now, as for the
13:53next category, disabling game play.
13:55These are the cards that ultimately
13:57don't let people play. I want to call
13:58them floodgates, but in terms of game
14:00design mechanic, you're disabling game
14:03mechanics with these cards. Amorphage
14:05Sloth Goliath, these are extra deck
14:06stuns. Spell canceller, stun. Anti-spell
14:09fragrance, stun. These are all just
14:11spell stunning. Naturia Beast, all part
14:13of the same package. But, Guska not
14:15letting people play with their monsters.
14:16Secret Village Spellcaster, no spells
14:17again. Rivalry of Warlords goes in match
14:19that can be only one. All of these are
14:21just floodgates and Vernal Advent is the
14:24well, the boss that searched them out.
14:26So, it was too easy. And being a
14:28spellcaster, it just made it even that
14:30much easier, okay? So, then as for meta
14:33relevant hit, these are limits to kind
14:34of tone down the power because these
14:36decks were essentially confirmed to be
14:38too strong based off of well, their
14:41bans. Grifole already got hit and Elf
14:43Mateni got straight up banned.
14:46Mateni also looked at the opponent's
14:47hand. So, the spell bridging between
14:51uh Elf Note and uh the Ars Magna took a
14:54hit here. It's not like you can't search
14:55it anymore. It's just that you're not
14:57allowed to use Elf Note as that engine
14:59to search it. You can still use the link
15:00side to get into the Therion cards.
15:03Sky Striker Mobilize Engage got
15:04semi-limited, which is like okay. Uh and
15:07then there's Tunetable of Contents.
15:08Everything here is just power capping.
15:10But, Branded is just taking like a
15:12significant hit in terms of the extra
15:14deck as well as the consistency in the
15:16main deck. You're going to have to load
15:17your main deck with even more cards. And
15:19then Performapal is just like annoying
15:20FTK prevention. So, what's the purpose
15:23of this entire list? This
15:26I think it's aiming to bring players
15:28back. Like one of the biggest issues
15:29that I kind of brought forward is that
15:32usually when a ban list comes out uh
15:35that's supposed to spike your player
15:37base to return to play your next event.
15:40However, statistics have shown that that
15:42was not the case. In fact, there was a
15:44continued drop. But also seeing that
15:46there are no Angeliky cards in this
15:49particular list was this actually
15:51planned out ahead of time? Like they
15:53knew what the players want and maybe
15:55this was the backup plan. Like let's
15:57give let's give the players what they
15:58want. See if they come back. It's kind
16:01of risky to do something like that
16:02because not all player pools agree with
16:05each other. So, there is going to be a
16:08bit of a risk here, but if you look at
16:10what's happening here
16:12combo decks, everything that was part of
16:14combo slop that made it super strong.
16:17Let's just say the resilience of those
16:19combos are not there. Luckily, they did
16:20not hit Selene. So, Selene's still
16:22available without Dragoon. What is the
16:24Selene anyway? You still have your
16:25classic Selene to access code combo,
16:28which is a kind of a cool combo anyway.
16:30It's a very strong one. Kind of takes
16:31us, you know, back to the past a little
16:33bit here. But what else did they take
16:35away? They took away the floodgates that
16:37essentially protected the end board from
16:38interaction. That was like not good
16:41overall because it was just like oh, you
16:43sacked me with a floodgate. And since
16:44they put them all to one, it was
16:46essentially the sack it. Uh but the
16:48power level has ultimately been scaled
16:50down for most of the modern decks except
16:52for Angeliky. Who knows? Are they going
16:54to be that strong? It's just really
16:56weird when you put a stun deck to the
16:58top of the meta. I always have a firm
17:00believer that a stun deck should not
17:02really be the top meta deck. The stun
17:05deck is supposed to be stunning the
17:06meta. It itself shouldn't be the meta
17:10because it kind of sends a message where
17:13the best way to play the game is to not
17:15play the game at all. That's what stun
17:17decks tell us.
17:18And I don't know, maybe that's just how
17:20I feel. Leave it down in the comments
17:21section of how you feel about a stun
17:23deck being the meta deck of the format.
17:25I don't know how I feel about it. It
17:26feels very, very bizarre.
17:28Um and then the future decks essentially
17:30will be more tame. I don't know if
17:31that's a confirmed thing right now. I
17:33can't really confirm that because it's a
17:34bit weird. Cuz yes, they've capped
17:37toons, but toons has always been one of
17:40the decks that players have been more
17:41vocal about, especially online, saying,
17:43"Oh my god, when the toon format comes
17:45over, oh, the whole game's going to get
17:47ruined again." Well, they pre-hit the
17:49cards now. Now now that they've hit,
17:51say, the toon table of contents as well
17:54as the bookmark, you don't have to
17:56really have to worry about the
17:57Eradicator FTK cuz there's only one copy
17:59of toon table of contents. It's really
18:02hard to kind of pile through that many
18:03spells to burn you with Eradicator. So,
18:05that's why Eradicator did not make it to
18:06this list. But also, none of the
18:09Angeliky cards made it either. So, uh
18:12this also goes to show that this game is
18:13not meant to be like 100% like balanced
18:17all across because it's still
18:18technically a trading card game. There
18:20are going to be things that are going to
18:21be stronger than other things. There are
18:22going to be sell points to the product,
18:24and that's still there. But okay, well,
18:26with Angeliky kind of falling through
18:27the cracks here,
18:29that means this is the Angeliky format
18:31where people are going to cater their
18:32decks to deal with it. But ultimately,
18:34with Nibiru kind of running free and you
18:36don't have a way to stop it because
18:37Crossout's gone, so you can't cross it
18:39out. You can't really check your
18:40opponent's hand see if they have it.
18:42There are certain decks that can still
18:43do it, and that might actually push them
18:44to the top if you want to remain playing
18:46in old Yu-Gi-Oh.
18:48But for the most part, yeah, if you get
18:51you're going to eat the nib, your deck
18:52better be able to eat the nib or play
18:54under nib. That's it.
18:56Cuz if you can eat the nib, there are
18:57certain decks that can definitely just
18:58eat the nib and who cares? Like Rollout.
19:00Rollout won't care cuz like, you're
19:01trying to nib me? Dude, my monsters
19:02aren't going to die. My monsters are
19:04going to stay around because you're not
19:05going to be able to tribute them off.
19:07So, there are going to be certain types
19:09of limits. And there's also like one
19:10floodgate that didn't get touched, which
19:12is Skill Drain, still sticking around.
19:14And the Tyrant Tantrum cards, the Tyrant
19:16cards, technically those could become
19:19the new floodgates in the future, but
19:22they're not searchable, so there's that.
19:24But with Angeliky being the top
19:28contender with the target on its back,
19:30deck building is also going to alter.
19:32And combo decks that try to go off the
19:33rails now have solid Nibiru to keep them
19:36in check, and most people might be main
19:38decking triple Nibiru now.
19:39>> Look, I know we're 20 minutes in and now
19:41we're finally getting into the first
19:43combo or deck damage report, which is
19:46going to be Roll Out. We're going to
19:47talk about both the branded and the
19:49combo variants and what really got hit
19:51here. So, one Magician's Souls, two
19:52Gryphons, a Fronac Advent out of the
19:54side deck, also the Anti-Spell Fragrance
19:56out of the side deck, Aluber in the
19:58Branded Dragon for the branded side,
20:00Branded in High Spirits for the branded
20:02side, Called by the Grave generically.
20:03As for the combo side, we're also losing
20:04Cross-Sheep, Zena, Doll Maidens, and
20:06Charmer Quartet. In terms of deck
20:08repairs, you can shove in more Kuribos.
20:10You can explore a new extra deck
20:12package.
20:13Uh, I think most of you already have
20:15done it, but it's hard to recover the
20:18combo because if you play combo, you're
20:20going to be running into a Nibiru issue,
20:23which I'm not too
20:26comfortable with yet. I don't think it's
20:28been discovered of how to kind of work
20:30around it as we don't have access to
20:32Dragoon and Ilia Silvia anymore. I got
20:34to add that also into the combo pile. I
20:36just didn't have space to it. Yes, Ilia
20:37Silvia and Dragoon are also removed from
20:40this list, so
20:41these are some of the things you're
20:42going to have to wonder about. In terms
20:43of what you can add back into the deck,
20:45well, let's address it based off of the
20:46meta itself. We're going to have to look
20:47at Angeliky. We're going to probably
20:49still have to look at some level of like
20:51Elf No Power Patron or Power Patron Ars
20:54Magna. Like they're really trying to
20:56push it towards new product, and that's
20:59something that we're going to have to
21:00look into because Ars Magna likely is
21:01going to be a deck that still kept
21:03everything. Sure, they don't have like
21:06some crazy negation, but they still
21:07technically have number 90
21:09Galaxy Photon Lord. They still have
21:10that. What are you going to do about it?
21:12And then they can replace
21:15uh probably the spell negator with a
21:18hope harbinger. That's also a rank
21:20eight, so they get to play with the rank
21:21stuff. But as for branded here, branded
21:24roll out and roll out combo, well,
21:27branded side I don't think it's too bad.
21:30The biggest hit on this deck has to be
21:32Magicians' Souls. As both variations
21:35have Magicians' Souls as part of their
21:36deck as they can go into Dark Magician
21:39of Destruction to get the Soul Souls can
21:41take itself and the newly turned Gravity
21:44Controller from the Dark Magician of
21:47Destruction, that can help now turn into
21:49a synchro summon of Cookie yummy way and
21:51that plus the Scholar Archfiend gives
21:53you access to Ecclesia and that now
21:54enables you to play with that engine.
21:56The engine is essentially now turned off
21:58for the most part. You don't have to go
22:00into Ecclesia if you don't need to. In
22:03fact, well, I guess for this particular
22:05combo you have to go into Ecclesia and
22:06then you go into Ecclesia into Star
22:09Cartesia because there's no point in
22:11dumping an Albion to the graveyard.
22:13You're likely going to go into a three
22:15Swordsoul Champion to try and get access
22:18to the Ecclesia instead, like Dogmatika
22:22Ecclesia and get that summon out to get
22:24the F&V
22:26So, that's one of the ways that you can
22:27kind of play with it. Alternatively, you
22:29can also play Bandit as your opening
22:31play because you don't really need your
22:33normal summon that way you can dodge
22:34like the Nibiru or rather play around
22:36the Nibiru, but it's like not the safest
22:38cuz double hand trap now makes Nibiru
22:40that much stronger now. You don't have
22:42the negation to deal with it. As for the
22:44combo side, you're losing the Crossout
22:45Designator, so you're also losing the
22:47climb and the draw and the revive, the
22:49Zenalines, the foolish a well, a monster
22:52in the graveyard that can easily be
22:53recursively used either by the Line
22:56Darkness
22:57ritual card or anything for that matter,
23:00like just load the graveyard with
23:04like, what's the point of even putting
23:05in the Black Witch Diabellstar anymore
23:07because
23:08doesn't really work anymore, does it?
23:10You're not getting any gate, you're
23:11getting bodies, you're getting more
23:12stuff to climb. But, if it climbs
23:14successfully, maybe that's a lot better,
23:16but you can still easily get into
23:17Charmers, so you're going to have to
23:18re-explore a new extra deck package and
23:19maybe find ways to close out games. But,
23:21at the very least a Rollad package won't
23:24be affected by Nibiru all that much.
23:27Maybe there's a new way to kind of play
23:29a more pure version of the deck, but I
23:31you're going to have to do a little bit
23:32of a soul searching here because
23:34Magician's Souls is gone now and
23:36bridging that as the auto foolish burial
23:38that was also searchable from a card
23:39from the extra deck, yeah, that's not
23:42part of this package anymore. But, they
23:44didn't touch Skull Archfiend for reason,
23:46so maybe we can still play, but I'm
23:49guessing they want to keep us a little
23:50bit more tame. We can also have a bit of
23:52a struggle to check your opponent's
23:54hand. So,
23:56is there a way to blend the two builds
23:57together? Is there a way to use cards
24:00like Mind Drain to hand check the
24:01opponent? Cuz I would say hand checking
24:03the opponent now is a very much a valid
24:06strategy. I 100% would just go
24:09Magician's Curtain just to see my
24:11opponent's hand with a Mind Drain. And
24:12then,
24:13well, then I feel like kind of like a
24:15cool tune player, to be honest, but it's
24:17KO.
24:18If I can do it, why not? I get the get
24:20that level of security and just play
24:21around the problems uh rather than play
24:23into them. So, yeah, this is a
24:26significant hit, especially the
24:27Magician's Soul. That's that's the one
24:29that hits every side. Every time it
24:31hurts. So,
24:33are you going to go for like a Droll
24:35search line by going into the Witch of
24:38the Black Forest?
24:40Yeah, and there's no direct set, so I
24:42guess using Dogmatika uh
24:45Ecclesia is probably the best way if you
24:46want to get access to Fallen Virtuous.
24:48And is that Fallen Virtuous that
24:50important now? With only one Gryphon, it
24:52also makes the Angeliky deck even
24:55stronger because Gryphon on draw face
24:57could get you the spell shattering sword
25:00to destroy the field spell and the
25:03bastion. Now you're not going to be able
25:05to do that anymore because if you try to
25:08open with like a multiply kuriboh,
25:10that's not going to work cuz that's a
25:11trap card. You're just stuck with the
25:13multiply kuriboh. It's not the same
25:15thing. This whole list is somewhat
25:18catered to making that deck stronger. So
25:20having fallen virust be able to like hit
25:22the card, combine it with like a ghost
25:24over cuz I can hit two cards
25:25might be the way to go.
25:28Okay, report number two. Let's talk
25:29about Elfnote.
25:31I think the elephant in the room is the
25:33Elfnote Tinia is now banned. So for, you
25:37know, war crimes that she's committed
25:39such as ripping your hand apart and also
25:42searching for the spell cards and
25:43bridging into Ars Magma. Well, she's
25:46gone. This was unprecedented and very
25:48unpredicted because I personally thought
25:50it was going to go more like the malice
25:52route where you kind of put each of the
25:53searching names to one and then leave
25:55the Regina at three so you can still
25:56play. But that was still too powerful
25:59and uh I was speaking with my my
26:02roommate and he was like, "Yeah, that's
26:03not possible. If Elfnote doesn't get
26:05hit, it's going to be like impossible to
26:07break them. No doesn't matter how many
26:09hand traps you throw at them, they're
26:10just going to keep on going." While as
26:12one of those decks that can play under
26:14Nibiru, can play through it if you're
26:15smart enough. Now other things that
26:18Elfnote lost would be the F.A. Dawn
26:19Dragster and the Crystal Wing Synchro
26:21Dragon. So if your opening line locks
26:23you into synchro because you have to use
26:24Strelitzia, that means your line is
26:26garbage. That line is not good. It will
26:30lose to Nibiru. You might have to pass
26:31turn before you get into
26:33five because if you summon onto the
26:35fifth, you might just get hit by Nibiru
26:36and then since you're locked into
26:38synchro summons, you might be stuck for
26:40good. That's one of the major weaknesses
26:43that was introduced to the deck.
26:45That being said, you can still fix the
26:48deck.
26:49I mean, Ars Magma isn't a bad archetype.
26:51And also you have like future support.
26:53Konami has already announced the future
26:54support in Immortal Phoenix that be able
26:56to just re-pump out uh the deck itself.
27:00Power Patron's going to be strong.
27:03You're living in that particular
27:05archetype space. Yeah, this is not going
27:07to be too big of an issue. When it comes
27:09to like using two level eights now to
27:11give yourself that bit of insulation,
27:14then you can get it with Hope Harbinger.
27:17Sorry, that's for spell negation. But,
27:18you can technically get into Galaxy
27:21Photon Lord. Galaxy Photon Lord is an
27:24option for you to, well, nib proof
27:26yourself. Unfortunately, Impermanence
27:29probably going to become a thing again.
27:31So, yeah, let's keep that in mind. I
27:34mean, I guess Impermanence did was like
27:36kind of like a 50/50 card. There's just
27:37better hand traps. I want to keep my
27:38deck down to 40. Well, maybe
27:40Impermanence is back to being
27:42potentially some of the best choices out
27:44there. Uh so, in terms of like
27:47replacements for Tinia, there is no
27:48replacement for Tinia. She She did
27:50something that's very, very unique,
27:52which was dig out one of the card types,
27:55which would have been the spell card.
27:56So, you could technically amp up the
27:59numbers of Welcome Home, but you also
28:01risk bricking a bit more because it's a
28:03spell card. And you also don't need that
28:05many copies of it. So, before you had
28:08the consistency, if you want to maintain
28:10that consistency, you might want to play
28:11an extra copy. If you want to continue
28:13to play Elf Note, I'm not sure if Elf
28:14Note Ars Magna is going to work out very
28:16much. Essentially, you lost the Tinia
28:18line. So, if you open with June Pride,
28:21or rather Regina, into Elf Note a Power
28:23Patron, that leads into June Pride, that
28:24leading into Tinia, that is no longer an
28:27option. You can still go into Fortuna.
28:29And if you can find a way to get an Elf
28:32Note card and somehow add that back into
28:34your I don't know how you're going to do
28:35that, to be honest. It's going to be one
28:38of the clear bridges that have been
28:39burned. But, you can still go into the
28:43Purifying Power Patron to go into the
28:45Theorize
28:47route to dig into your Ars Magica.
28:49Considering if you don't lock yourself
28:51into synchros, if you don't have to rely
28:52on Strelitzia,
28:53well,
28:54then you'll be fine. You you'll still be
28:56able to bridge. It's just not the the
28:58cheapest bridge, but you know,
28:59everything comes with the cost now, so
29:01there you go. So, the deck is still
29:03technically playable. I don't think it's
29:04actually knocked off that badly. The
29:07deck is still pretty strong. I mean,
29:09random Lucinas that can just bounce away
29:13potential problems and they can still go
29:15into June Pride to get a pretty major
29:17setup. Like, these are not insignificant
29:19plays. I know that a lot of people will
29:21kind of wish they had Tenyi to kind of,
29:23you know, get that additional follow-up
29:24protect them at middle zone because
29:26right now the middle zone essentially
29:27can be destroyed by card effects. Isn't
29:29that interesting? Like, that that slight
29:31little thought that's like, "Oh, yeah,
29:32before I couldn't blow up the card. I
29:34can use F and V." But, that also makes F
29:35and V slightly stronger because that the
29:39the Welcome Home isn't as searchable.
29:42Right? Like,
29:43it's just something that if they open
29:45with it, they can deal with it. And also
29:46blowing it up hurts a lot more because
29:48it's just less recoverable, too. So,
29:50yeah, there's a there's a lot of stuff
29:51going on here and they kind of took away
29:54a lot of the, well, layered negation
29:56with Dawn Dragster being able to negate
29:58spells and
29:59and spells and traps, rather. And
30:02without Dawn Dragster, that also makes
30:04it so that
30:05the Mind Shuffle stuff, if you're going
30:07to continue playing Roll Lad, that is
30:09going to be a lot easier.
30:12And opening E4 was also kind of negated
30:15by the Dawn Dragster to some degree.
30:17Like, it's not it's not just that, but
30:18like other trap cards as well.
30:20Uh but,
30:21I'm just saying that there's like a
30:22relevancy in terms of like the ability
30:24to negate spells and traps. Now, you're
30:26just down to spells if you decide to
30:27play Hope Harbinger. So,
30:30yeah, I think the pivot is going to be
30:31going a bit more Ars Magica heavy in
30:33terms of playing the particular
30:35archetype here. But, you can also play
30:37Dooms. Dooms is like doesn't sound too
30:39bad anymore.
30:40Now, for Branded and Yummy, I'm sorry,
30:43they dug a huge grave as Habakiri watch
30:45these cards hit the graveyard or into
30:48the shadow realm.
30:50What do you want me to say? A shout out
30:51to Trip. Trip was I kind of grabbed that
30:53picture off of Trip's uh Twitter.
30:55Okay, so
30:57first of all, I'm going to talk about
30:58both of them on the same page because
31:00they're just damage overall and there's
31:02not much recovery. Yummy took probably
31:04one of the biggest hits. It only took
31:06one card and they can It's like that one
31:09card that you would put on a wish list
31:11because you want to take out an entire
31:13deck. Well, congratulations. That card
31:16has been taken out as Cup's Yummy way.
31:18Now with a limited Cup's Yummy, I think
31:21aren't you kind of screwed? Like you
31:23don't have consistency. You don't have
31:25recovery. Your bridging play is also
31:27taken away. This is probably the most
31:30significant hit against Yummy. They they
31:32can't get started with like random
31:34non-engine. They are stuck and there's
31:38nothing that does something as unique as
31:40uh the Cup's Yummy way because Cup's
31:42Yummy way lets you search for two and
31:44dump one essentially setting up your
31:46engine by itself. Can be bridged from
31:48the outside and now you can't. Now
31:51you're kind of stuck. Can you play
31:53another engine to pair with this?
31:55Probably, but also like Reprodocus is
31:58also gone so your ability to go into
32:00like Fiend Smith is a lot more limited.
32:02Like there's there's not much going on.
32:04Even if you go into Fiend Smith, like
32:05what are you going to really do here
32:06now? It's It's not enough. Like you're
32:09still dealing with Like think about how
32:11many steps you have to take and think
32:12about how Angeliky is going to open to
32:15E5 and limit the number of moves you're
32:17allowed to make. That is the problem. If
32:21you take away something as important as
32:22Cup's Yummy way which sets up multiple
32:24things for your deck. And then there is
32:26the branded. Why are you hitting branded
32:28so hard? What did they do? Well,
32:31is this just a long overdue hit? Did
32:34Konami just look at like Zodiac Duelist,
32:37like classic Yu-Gi-Oh! fans or whatever,
32:39and then be like, "Oh, I'll just take
32:41inspirations from each of these guys."
32:43It's like everyone submit your wish
32:45list. Santa's
32:46Santa Konami is
32:48granting all your wishes.
32:51Well, this is kind of what it looks
32:52like, and it is a
32:54a complete shake-up to the entire
32:55format, the entire game for that matter.
32:58Nothing has been this significant since
32:59the splitting of TCG OCG, right? So,
33:02well, let's go figure what else is going
33:04on here. Branded, how do we recover with
33:07the loss of two openings and one spirit?
33:09You can play more Alubers. And for the
33:12loss of the Albion,
33:14you might have to go back into playing
33:16Lubellion the Searing Dragon to get your
33:18Fusion plays online again. I don't think
33:20that's significantly that bad, but
33:22Albion's like one of the best things
33:24that Albion offered essentially was that
33:27you're allowed to dump uh I believe
33:30you're allowed to dump a Light monster
33:31to the graveyard. So, the Lubellion
33:33line, like the the Bist Lubellion line,
33:35I think that got cut cuz you can't
33:37really toss the card into the graveyard.
33:39Well, you technically can. I think you
33:41have to use Titanic Clad to kind of set
33:43that up. So, you might have to replace
33:44it with like an additional Lubellion the
33:46Searing Dragon and as well as another
33:47copy of Titanic Clad or one of the other
33:49Branded Dragons are available that uses
33:51Fallen of Albaz in the extra deck. I
33:53mean, you can try to make use of most of
33:55that utility,
33:56but the Fallen of Albaz virtuous slow
33:58down doesn't really change. That is
34:01still happening.
34:03If you can find a way to dump a card
34:05into the graveyard, I can fetch the card
34:06back, get the Fallen of Albaz virtuous
34:08back, but otherwise you're going to have
34:09to rely on say Ecclesia to be summoned
34:12at the very end to get you that search.
34:14Or you can do it early and just try to
34:16leave most of the Fusion related stuff
34:18on the board, and you're playing kind of
34:20a slower version of Branded, but still
34:23technically more advanced than when it
34:25was first released. That's This is a
34:27kind of a weird position. Again, a lot
34:30of these positions that these decks are
34:31being placed into have never really
34:33happened for. It's like this is like
34:36an alternate universe where the most
34:37powerful card never got released, but
34:39everything else kind of came about.
34:41Yeah. It's kind of like if Cool Tune
34:43never got Road Warrior, but they got
34:44everything else. So, it's a weak
34:46position, but you have more option. And
34:49I guess it's leaving it to the players
34:50to discover what's actually good, what's
34:52actually bad.
34:53But taking away two consistency pieces
34:55out at the same time, that is that's
34:57kind of mean, to be honest. Uh okay, so
35:00yeah, I guess they can cry on the
35:01shoulders of Lou Bellion. You know,
35:04they're well welcome home, I guess.
35:06Yeah, this is a this is a tough one.
35:09It's it's really hard to see how these
35:12two archetypes are going to survive. But
35:13I think branded players, they're strong.
35:15They know how to do it. They also have
35:16the best two profile options among their
35:18monsters and everything.
35:20They'll be fine for the most part. Sure,
35:23Albion no F&V pre-setup, that part still
35:26kind of sucks. But it's so that the
35:28other decks don't have access to it,
35:29right? So, as the Habit Hero was digging
35:32the grave for everyone else, um
35:34it itself fell in as well. Yeah, go
35:37figure.
35:38>> [laughter]
35:39>> It was one of the most hyped moments for
35:41sure when it comes to the the ban list
35:44chant, uh but Habit Hero is gone. It was
35:46the easiest thing to bridge into. In
35:48fact, everything got toned down
35:50significantly because Cyberse Witch
35:52exists now, and it bridge into
35:57the Dark Spell Casters quite easily by
35:59searching Illusion of Chaos, and then
36:00you get access to the Magician's Souls.
36:04Or instead, you can get access to a copy
36:05of Habit Hero. But there's a lot more
36:07ritual access thanks to the Roll Out
36:09package even existing. So, this is in
36:12another one of those like I have future
36:13tech, but welcome to the past where the
36:16most important card's not there. So,
36:18same idea, kind of back to the futurey.
36:21So, you can try like Ruler of the end of
36:23the world if you want to get access to,
36:25you know, cheating out some of the
36:27ritual summoning. It's a possibility,
36:30for sure. You can use that to dump like
36:32Misairugi Ritual and then just drop a
36:34dude. But, you're not going to be able
36:36to get the quick search and the
36:38essentially the search and the dump
36:41available from just having Habakiri.
36:45Yeah, it's it's kind of a strange place.
36:48But, there are more cards than before.
36:50You have Cyberse Contract, Witch Line
36:53that will use the
36:55Everything kind of just went straight
36:57into Habakiri to some degree. So, you're
36:59going to have to not go straight into
37:00Habakiri because the things that make it
37:02good are also the things that probably
37:04can save it. I'll I'll put it that way.
37:07Cuz
37:08you can kick off the engine. You can try
37:09different things. Ruler of the Ruler of
37:11the end of the world can give you quick
37:13access to a spell if you don't have
37:15access to a spell. Skull Archfiend of
37:16Chaos can still fetch you a card and
37:18still dump the Misairugi Mirror into the
37:22graveyard, which means you might want to
37:25play
37:26Which one was this? Kusanagi? Whatever
37:30whichever one that actually lets you add
37:31back something from banish or from
37:33graveyard, you know, the the the
37:34purple-looking one. Let that summon out.
37:36Let that grab it back. It's You have
37:38Ragged Record of Rituals that can still
37:41dig out your cards. You have Mirror.
37:43I'm going to say it still hurts, but
37:46>> [sighs]
37:46>> at least it's playable, right? You still
37:50have Marakumo. Marakumo is one of the
37:52scariest cards. You still can dig for an
37:54omni-negate. Although, you only have two
37:56searches now. Aside from like the most
37:59important thing from Habakiri was that
38:01it summoned out the Sajin out of the
38:03deck. I think one of the biggest issues
38:06is that you lost the additional like
38:09omni-search. You still have Trouble
38:10Prayers, though. So, I would say that
38:12the deck isn't completely dead.
38:15It hurts, for sure, but it's it's
38:17nowhere near fully dead yet, and you're
38:20not allowed to just dump cards. I think
38:23most decks that like have some level of
38:25like an Ash target, like the most
38:27important Ash target, every deck got
38:29something like that trimmed out of their
38:31deck, so that Ash is going to be even
38:33more effective against most decks. Yeah,
38:35that's actually a pretty easy way to put
38:37it.
38:37Okay, so this is a very preliminary top
38:39tier potential update. And now, the top
38:43tier potential essentially is how
38:45they're expected to perform, not exactly
38:47on how they're going to land. And I've
38:49included this as a couple of future
38:51archetypes in here because I really
38:53can't put everything in here. There's
38:55just too much, so please leave it down
38:56in the comments section. I would like to
38:58know two things. What, you know, a deck
39:00that you wonder that's not on this list.
39:02And the second thing is going to be are
39:05you more inclined to play Yugi Yu-Gi-Oh!
39:07now now that everything's kind of been
39:09like hit to the ground. But, you know,
39:12you know, leave it down in the comments
39:13section. I really want to know. Like,
39:14was this move a successful marketing
39:16ploy from Konami?
39:18You know, are is it pulling you back in?
39:20Would you want to go to the next
39:21regional?
39:23It's a pretty big one. All right, top
39:24tier potential.
39:26You know, the obvious one, Angeliky.
39:28It's going to burn people to to the
39:29ground. It's going to happen. Unless
39:31everyone decides to stop it. I think
39:33Ghost Ogre and Typhoon might be seeing a
39:35lot of main deck. All right, that's
39:38probably just the thing to be. I think
39:40it might even put people to put
39:43put people to put them. Okay, well, it
39:44might, you know, push people to put like
39:47Special Hurricane into their deck to
39:49deal with some of these cards. It is a
39:51non-targeting removal against some of
39:52these back rows, and that's that's all
39:54it really takes here. Next, there's Sky
39:56Striker. They survived. They survived
39:59and they got pushed to the top. They're
40:00very strong, and they naturally run a
40:02ton of quick play spells.
40:03Radiant Typhoon stuff weren't like
40:05essentially stunned, so they can even
40:07put in Mystical Space Typhoon to deal
40:09with a lot of that stuff. Like, if you
40:11can just directly search for Mystical
40:13Space Typhoon, why wouldn't you search
40:14for Mystical Space Typhoon if you have
40:15to deal with Angeliky, right? And you
40:18can do it during the draw phase, which
40:20makes it even better. Now that, you
40:22know, they have to try to get that E E
40:23for setup, they can't unless that's the
40:25whole point, right? You don't want them
40:27to get the E for setup. You know, I've
40:29seen so many games that kind of fall
40:30apart when the E for just fails. Thanks,
40:33there's tunes. Tunes still going to be
40:34very strong. Don't get me wrong. The
40:36rabbit is ridiculous. The ability to
40:37blink, the ability to just crazy search.
40:40There's a reason why Droll and Lock Bird
40:42isn't like fully banned because it still
40:44keeps some of these decks in check. And
40:46being searchable
40:48probably is one of the biggest advantage
40:50of that package. Like the D mod patch,
40:52so not the D mod package, but the um
40:54the
40:54Dark Magical Curtain package, that is
40:56being altered to be a utility engine
40:59rather than just being for use for
41:01negation. Then there's Ars Magica Power
41:03Patron. I think that's probably going to
41:04be one of the more powerful ones. There
41:05might be like remnants of Elf Note in
41:07there as well. I don't think they're
41:09dead just yet. They're significantly
41:11hurt, don't get me wrong, but I think
41:13anyone that knows anything about Ars
41:15Magica Elf Note can tell you that, you
41:17know, using Tenyi isn't the only line
41:20available.
41:21The other lines are a bit more resource
41:23intensive, but
41:25if you have it, you have it and it just
41:27makes it so that Regina opening isn't
41:29automatic access to Tenyi and like yeah,
41:33certain lines are cut, but it's still
41:35playable.
41:36Then there's Ritual Beast. I don't think
41:37this deck is dead because you can easily
41:40replace the Gryphos with the
41:41Multi-Caribo. Not to mention that the
41:43Skull uh the Skull Archfiend Dragon,
41:46that is insanely powerful. Being able to
41:49just set you up with stuff. You're
41:51already naturally immune to well, not
41:54immune, but more or less unaffected by
41:56Nibiru and you somehow have the best
41:59monsters in terms of aggression and
42:02offensiveness and the recursion from
42:03spell cards. This is still going to be
42:06one of the most annoying decks out there
42:08to my knowledge, but it's going to feel
42:09a lot more fair and it's not going to
42:11feel like an unbreakable board that you
42:12have to climb uphill. It's going to be
42:14interactive base that you guys are going
42:15to deal with each other. Or they're
42:17going to get snowballed and lucky. I
42:18don't know.
42:19They Without the Grifos, the Angelics
42:21definitely got a lot stronger. Then
42:23there's Invoked. They were essentially
42:25untouched.
42:26So, extra deck ripping is going to be a
42:28very big part of Invoked. So,
42:31that's that's all I'm going to say.
42:33Invoked is just chilling. Now, for a new
42:35deck, Raise Moon, that is going to be
42:38the deck to get. It is naturally immune
42:40to Nibiru for the most part, and it has
42:43a nasty combo to prevent Nibiru, prevent
42:45Bandit, because they're all level seven.
42:47So, if you can get the Raise Moon
42:49monster out of Maybe I shouldn't talk
42:50about this so soon, but I'm going to
42:51talk about it anyway. But one of the
42:53most dirty combos that I've been
42:54experimenting with is I put three
42:55Metamorphoses into this deck, and
42:58here's the thing.
43:00Uh
43:00Raise Moon No More Bets in the extra
43:03monster is unaffected by all card
43:04effects. So, when you have a leftover
43:06monster, okay, hear me out. When you
43:08have a leftover monster, and then you
43:10use Metamorphosis on it, and then you
43:11make Last Warrior from Another Planet,
43:13your opponent cannot search.
43:16And they cannot summon. That takes away
43:19so much of Yu-Gi-Oh! that I think most
43:22people just scoop at that point. It
43:24really sucks. And even if they clear the
43:26Last Warrior, they still have to battle
43:29face to clear out the No More Bets in
43:31the extra monster zone. Trust me, you're
43:34not going to enjoy
43:36under essentially a permanent Thunder
43:38Dragon. And not to mention that this
43:40deck has the Maxx "C". It has the search
43:44Maxx "C" in the deck. It has the turtle.
43:47In other words, it runs nine copies of
43:49Charmers against you, and they can
43:52essentially activate three. It gets
43:53pretty brutal. Okay, I'm going to tell
43:55you that right now. So, yeah, that
43:57There's a reason why that deck is super
43:59super strong. And now that Droll is down
44:01to one, it makes that even stronger.
44:04Now, for high tier potential, I I
44:05Branded still here. I don't think
44:06Branded is fully gone. I think if they
44:07focus on more on the ability to get the
44:09super poly effect off, getting the
44:11correct synchros out,
44:13and they are more or less they just they
44:15don't really care too much about Nibiru
44:17as long as they can
44:18revive cards and if they have access to
44:20F&V uh with if they're able to pop a
44:23card for instance or dump Rimbor into
44:26the graveyard, resummon, and just fuse
44:28off your opponent's monster, it could,
44:29you know, still have high impact. Then
44:30they have high true potential for Try
44:31Brigade Lyrilusc. It is the banish base
44:33deck. It is super annoying. It also has
44:36omni negates based off of the attributes
44:38that are banish face down. So, Nibiru
44:40might not even land against this
44:42potential deck because
44:43all these monsters, most of them are
44:45soft once per turn.
44:47Then there's Radiant Typhon. I think
44:48Radiant Typhon is a very solid choice.
44:49Ultimately, kind of survive they're
44:52dealing with
44:53Angeliky is not too bad considering they
44:56can dig for MST very, very easily and
44:58cycle that, too. And they can play F&V.
45:00They have a lot of options. So,
45:03this is a deck that I would not kind of
45:05underestimate.
45:07All right, it is really strong. It is It
45:10is very, very strong. And I think they
45:12just got stronger because
45:14um just because they exist, essentially.
45:17Malicious still sticking around. I think
45:18Malicious can bridge into Mythic Well,
45:21they used to bridge into Mythic. I don't
45:22know how strong they are now, but I I
45:24kind of left them here because of
45:25Malicious still one of those decks.
45:28Uh can they get hit? I think they have
45:30pretty resilient play, especially when
45:33it goes against um dealing with all
45:36their stuff removed. But, as long as
45:37they can banish, they can recur. And
45:38once they can recur, they're still kind
45:39of fully in the game. So, that's why I'm
45:41leaving them there. Same with Art Mage.
45:42Art Mage Art Mage Power Mage and
45:44ultimately is still a very strong deck.
45:45Lunalights are still here. They got
45:47stronger because Drawn Lockbird is gone.
45:49And also, Shifter's not here.
45:51A lot of the stuff that deal with them
45:53are gone. And speaking of which, I kind
45:55of want to kind of step back into Sky
45:57Striker.
45:58There's no spell caster. There's no
46:00anti-spell. There is no Secret Village
46:02of the spell caster, a lot of
46:03spell-based negations are all taken up.
46:05There you're really just relying on
46:07having the correct hand trap and
46:08understanding how to disrupt them.
46:10You're going to have to play a lot of
46:11hand traps, that's what I'm saying
46:12there. That's it for Lunalights. So now
46:14Lunalights they lost Babushka as part of
46:16their end board, but if they usually get
46:17to that end board, it's pretty rough.
46:19But without Babushka, sometimes it
46:21that's all it takes to kind of break
46:23their entire board. You just have to
46:24make something that's essentially immune
46:25to destruction. Just drop that on the
46:26board and all of a sudden the board's
46:28already cracked.
46:29So that's something to keep in mind.
46:31Then there's Atlantean Mermail, I have
46:34to put this one. So number one,
46:35Atlantean Mermail won the regional in my
46:37area.
46:38And number two, they have their hand rip
46:40still. They have a triple hand rip.
46:42Remember, they still have Deep Sea uh
46:45Deep Sea what is it? Minstrel?
46:47To look at your hand and take away your
46:49Droll, your Nib. If they don't see the
46:52the Droll, they're going to go off
46:53because Dragoon still at three. They
46:55have the craziest search engine. They
46:57are also the one that is going to rip
46:58your hand apart with Moulinglacia.
47:01Okay? So
47:02go figure. This is the one deck that
47:04somehow survived everything. They have
47:06access to Dominus Impulse cuz they're
47:08all water.
47:10This somehow kind of survived under the
47:12radar, but I guess cuz no one's really
47:14truly playing it.
47:16Uh the banlist hitting this many cards
47:19probably will put them back on the map.
47:21And uh I wouldn't be surprised if you
47:22already have this deck, might as well
47:24just give it another spin if you have
47:25nothing else better to play. Now for
47:27Hidden Potential, let's click. I think
47:29uh they're also going to be getting the
47:30new search card.
47:31Uh yeah, that's that's something.
47:33Synchrons, another deck that can survive
47:36against like Nibiru. If they have Junk
47:38Synchron,
47:40good luck dealing with that Speeder.
47:41You're going to have to double up on
47:43hand traps to deal with Speeder. And uh
47:46if you can somehow force the negation In
47:48other words, if you have two hand traps
47:49you can still deal with it. You can if
47:51you have Nib plus Imperm, you Imperm the
47:53Speeder when it tries to activate,
47:55they're going to Junk Synchron to negate
47:57it or kind of get rid of it. And then
47:59once everything kind of lands on the
48:00board, you can just nib them at that
48:01point so they don't get their proper
48:03synchro. But if they have follow-up,
48:05they will still end on maybe four
48:06negates against you. Then there's
48:08trains. Trains kind of in the same
48:10realm. They have an omni negate through
48:12Regulus, and Regulus is still available,
48:13and it's also searchable for them, but
48:14it does require them to commit a few
48:16cards.
48:17And by that time, I think they're
48:18already nibble-able, but they can
48:20potentially maybe finish with a little
48:22bit more.
48:23Fairy Tail, very strong stuff. Fairy
48:26Tail can be mixed with Invoked. It's
48:27just a spellcaster. This is like
48:29spellcaster slop almost, and I think
48:31can they actually play
48:34the Dark Magician package? I'm really
48:36wondering about that. Or are they going
48:37to be level four locked
48:39too early? I don't know. There's
48:41potential there, but the deck itself is
48:43is very strong. I'm not going to I'm not
48:44going to discredit it. Uh then there's
48:46Elf Note Synchro, or maybe just Elf
48:48Note. I think they're still sticking
48:50around, and I even have fought against
48:52Sacred Beast. They're very scary.
48:55I
48:56They It's just this meta is so unshapen,
48:59but there are, you know, certain common
49:02factors of, you know, what we decide to
49:04be the most strong threat, which likely
49:06is going to be Angeliki and Sky Striker,
49:09and probably Ro Lad, and even Invoked up
49:12at the very top. That's how I'm seeing
49:14it right now, cuz Invoked can just go
49:16off and rip apart your extra deck. Hyper
49:18Invoked Aeon is still very strong. We're
49:20not truly going to be stopping anything.
49:22If you look at whatever that's banned
49:23right now,
49:25the power ceiling of everything kind of
49:27came down to their level. No? Is that
49:30not what happened?
49:31Everything kind of came down to this
49:33level.
49:34But Angeliki is just miles ahead of
49:35everything else.
49:37That's all I can really say. Yeah, this
49:38has been a very long episode. If you
49:40guys have any other decks you want to
49:42point out, leave it down in the comment
49:44section. Is your deck able to play
49:45through any Biru? Are you supposed to
49:47fear Nibiru that much? Are you able to
49:49check your opponent's hand? I want to
49:50hear everything. I want to hear your
49:52opinion about how the format is shaping
49:54up and
49:55how it has impacted your deck cuz I have
49:57three decks that I need to rework and I
50:00really look forward to going to locals
50:01now because anything goes. All right?
50:04So, that's all I got for this damage
50:06report. It's a super long one. I'm
50:08sorry, but I'm not really sorry. Thank
50:11you guys for coming and tuning in. I
50:12know that a lot of guys have been
50:13waiting for this. I want to know more
50:15about this. I'm going to be working on
50:17decks and I might reopen the testing
50:19table and show you guys like different
50:21match-ups because, you know,
50:22everything's completely shaken up now.
50:25Thank you guys for watching. It's Tomb
50:27Box and I will look forward to seeing
50:28you in the next one. Bless your pulls
50:30and I hope you have a wonderful new
50:32Yu-Gi-Oh! format.

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