commenters already phantom babyraging

I was here when it still said Phantom Darkness 🧓

@@spicymemes7458 as a perfect circle player myself, we do not talk about that set

Could be intentional. Hasn't this set elicited some rage from the players?

@@xCorvus7xthey’re yugioh players they get upset by every set

E. , Danny

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it introduced my favorite card, rookie fur hire, which allows me to tribute a monster and summon from deck or hand a monster fur hire that is one level higher or one level lower than the tributed monster

you dont have to even go that far. at 4:00 that talk reminded me a lot of the adventure engine a year ago.

Furthermore, those decks play the Snake-Eye engine because they specifically synergize with the engine thanks to having an archetypal level 1 fire, whereas with Zoodiac basically any deck could find a way to utilize a Zoodiac engine.

Honestly full power Kashtira vs full power snake-eyes isn’t as bad of a match up as you say for two reasons. A: Since the fire king variant can play on opponents turn, if you play lancea you can drop it on your opponents turn which not only hurts there combos, but let you continue to play. B: the deck fits soooo much non engine that it will most likely see a nib or book. C: the deck literally has a card that searches the best out to the board, kurikara. If you go normal ash add kurikara you check Shang + more importantly arise heart and then you’re chilling. If anything, the match favours snake-eye.

Prolly it was a stretch to say Snake Eye is better than everything ever printed since we have yet to recover from Ishizu and Kash. Yet the ability of starting your one card combo in many different ways, the resilience to interruptions, almost half of your deck at your disposal for non-engine... We sure haven't seen anything like that before. Yeah Kash might come close, yet an end board of just arise heart plus something to back him up is not enough. Tear might come close to Snake eye resilience, although choke points do exist. Maybe not hard enough to put at hold their whole turn but good enough to make their end setup way more manageable. Also both those deck suffer a lot from Dbarrier (strange lab MU) while Snake eyes couldn't care any less. I believe that if you put those three in the same room they would find their own balance and representation since one is the best Macro deck and the other can match snake eye unfairness. But probably Fire would play the big dog role.

​@@AndrewUdalyeah and needless to say the amount of non engine snake eyes can afford. If you are going to sack them going 1st you would have to go through 2-3 handtraps and at that point we are not talking about snake eyes, I think you would win against any deck if you are playing a modern Yu-Gi-Oh deck

@@AndrewUdal I didn't say it was a bad matchup. Kash with ariseheart simply weakens every deck that needs to use the graveyard. Full power tear still won the tournament because of the outs you just mentioned but just as easily you don't see them or you open diabellstar line instead of ash normal and lose that way, + the usual getting dshifter'd. In that format it would be 2nd best deck because it would beat Kash a bit easier than Tear but have no way to play around a shuffler in grave.

@@ivanmaterazzo2631 So my point is less that they're not of similar power, but that Tear has a matchup edge so obscenely strong that beyond Snake Eye's better performance against Kashtira, it would be shut out of that hypothetical format. Snake-Eye's power comes from the number of ways it has to stay ahead on the cards it needs to resolve the summons without losing bodies. It is heavily taking for granted that no decks in the current meta contests how it keeps ahead on those bodies. Tear absolutely does, with one shuffler, they can't resolve flamberge, with two shufflers, they can't resolve popular. Add to that the lack of easy rank 4 access, and Tear is pretty much guaranteed to win game one, and even if it gets shut out by something game 2, that's nothing new to the deck in all the formats it dominated in.

I already pre-ordered the booster box a while back just for the Yubel stuff. I dont buy a whole lot of video games or anything (i buy used PS2 era games at a bargain), so I'm willing to put up a bit with some of these prices. Wanted is not one of them. I'm proxying it for personal use until it gets reprinted since i know I won't take it to locals. They need to limit Wanted and ban Poplar or whatever that little scrungle's name is. Princess will be fine, we have DD Crow and we could move Called By back to 2 like in the OCG. Either that or Konami could print bystial type monsters designed for non light/dark monsters.

Because the Katakana for it on the Japanese reads Po-pu-ru-su. They had nothing else to go by

@@Kintaku Ah okay that makes more sense. But we should've known it'd be named after a tree

@@captainsunshine64 I mean maybe but Popurusu in Japanese means Populous. So they were calling by the actual name of the card. No reason to assume people would call a card anything other than its actual name.

@@Kintaku I get that, but if there's a naming convention in place that should be considered. But I suppose not many people probably realised they were named after trees anyway. And since Poplar came out later it could've been named after a plant instead of a tree

@@captainsunshine64 there’s a naming convention but there’s also the theme of the original sin, which makes Populous not entirely crazy depending on the context. I get what you’re saying though

To be fair, he mentioned runick specifically, because he mentioned runick earlier and he really likes the deck and dimensional barrier shuts down almost every deck, that uses the extra deck to any extent. What are you doing with Swordsoul, if they call synchro (especially if you already have a token on board), what are you doing with Purrely, if they call XYZ? The only decks that manage to survive through dim barrier are either decks that do not need to access the ed, or decks that only link summon.

Same for Majespecter. Imperm the Nue and watch them pass.

It's ragebaiting.

It's a common technic to get engagement, and it worked, seeing your comment.

@@Ragnarok540 Either this or whoever made the thumbnail had a big fuck up. Either way it's funny.

Maybe it comments on the response Phantom Nightmare elicited in the playerbase?

I’m more mad at the shitty cropping. There’s a lot of the background still left in the letters

Take my word with a grain of salt. I've been playing MTGA for 3 years now; and granted playing it online is not exactly the same as paper - I don't remember having a single deck being 65%+ of the meta. Usually decks don't even get to above 15%; except for MTGA specifically with the flavor of the set aggro deck which is usually at 20-25%. Those aggro decks don't really perform well in tournaments, people just use them to finish their dailies fast. Of course this is for standard only. I have no idea how the meta is in the other formats.

Tier 0 metas are very uncommon in MtG, the last tier 0 meta was rakdos scam in Modern, and even then it was 30%~ meta share, and the remaining meta beyond that was much more diverse. Cards in extended formats in other games also just hold their relevance far longer than in Yugioh. Lots of meta decks in MtG modern hinge on 5-10+ year old build around cards like ad nauseum and lands. Ironically, the biggest shift in MtG Modern (the most competitive and popular non rotating format) were caused by Modern Horizons 1 and 2. These were packs that were never standard playable, designed for and released into the non rotating formats directly, and had been designed with an intentionally high power level so they'd be meta in modern (despite having tons of unplayably bad cards that existed for no reason other than to pad out the packs and make the actually good cards more scarce, many of which were esoteric references to old legacy cards which were well liked but not good enough to be played.) Basically they intentionally employed drastic powercreep to effectively rotate a technically non-rotating format. Even old decks which were fully formed ended up swapping out at least one card for a Modern Horizons card. The optimal version of each meta deck has at least 1 or 2 MH cards in them. Modern Horizons 2 went on to be among the top 5 highest selling sets of all time because of this. Even though tons of decade old archetypes are playable and even meta Horizons totally rewrote what these decks look like and how the format feels. Goyf isn't even really relevant anymore for instance. Players often cynically refer to Modern as "Modern Horizons block constructed" and the inevitable Modern Horizons 3 as "next rotation". So you know, MtG's most recent tier 0 format was a direct result of designing supplemental products in precisely the same way Yugioh designs all of their products.

Secret Village solos snake-eye unless they open exactly ash

Idk if it was on purpose, but I think as a growing player, I too would like to learn about different decks, why they are or aren't competitively viable, how they fare in the matchups. We often miss that.

Yeah not sure why they skipped it. I know josh hates birds but bruh. Pretty sure farfa likes this deck so idk why they didn't even mention it

You, Josh's editor and I are of the same opinion it seems (Josh's "We need to talk about Snake-Eyes" at 12:20 for reference)

You're probably better off playing Inscription if possible

dddeez nuts

Its probably due to his perspective as a competitive player. He wants to play the best deck in the format and feels like the mirror is "fun" unlike mannadium where the mirror just comes down to the die roll and handtraps. However this sort of arguement is nonsense because the health of the meta isnt just how good the mirror is in topcut.