Don't forget that Mudragon not only protects itself, but by making it fire; the fire deck cannot target their own fire monsters.

Ghoti’s banishing interactions and the fact that they can always play on your opponents turn (nice follow-up, anyway shif eff to synchro?) makes it seem like a really good sleeper budget pick for the format

I still find it so funny that the Fire King Structure literally came with Droll

Something you didnt mention: Droll is great vs many of the non snake decks... until they drop shifter and its useless.

I feel like D. Fissure deserves a mention here. The fire king and the snake eyes cards must go to the graveyard in order to get their effects. D. Fissure prevents anything that is exiting the board from going to the grave.

Poor ash, you use it and then your opponent will just steal it with hita if you don't add back to your hand😭 it's crazy that fire decks can play through like 3 hands traps. Such a resilient fire meta

Really helpful for someone wanting to learn interactions with board breakers, thank you :)

This was very helpful, thank you!

Love this style of content from Josh

Hope you have an excellent weekend Josh!!💯

Thank you so much for this video!! Ist helps a lot!!!

Those Euro print cards are gorgeous.

Crow is also nice if you draw as 6th turn for princess and garunix

I think the solution might have something to do with Necrovalley.

Great Content, One thing is that you stated to play with the cards but I am unable due to price (Also no one at my locals can afford it either). Would it be possible for you to go over the combo and weak points for hand traps. I do understand, extenders and different variants will have key considerations when hand traping them.

The more they keep doing this the more i want to just all in on a stun deck. If hand traps and board breakers arent enough to beat them might as well go to floodgates.

So there is a lot to take from this video. Thanks Josh for the showing

Isn’t Imperm and effect Veiler not great because they could have the Kirin to dodge? Or do you think the value of removing the snake-eye from the board still value enough?

Question: When eventually Konamy starts depowering the Snake-Eye bs do you think they might hit anything from the SDFK? I wanted to build FKs (without Snake-Eyes) and didnt wanna spend money on a fun deck to get shafted again by the big scary meta monster getting hit. Dunno if Ponix is top priority (feels like the spells and Flamberge are more important to hit) but wa ted to be sure anyway.

whats your opinion on the shaddoll fusion tech?

I love how he tries to defend the fire decks. 1. The mirror 2. If they misplay

My boy Cody just won the 500+ Rosemont regional with FK and he played board breakers. Only Mained droll

Thoughts on kash control this format? Obviously if you open shifter it's great but going 1st feels pretty solid too no? Unicorn and fenrir are both very impactful endboard pieces. Cutting players off of both combo and recursion.

Kurikara is really good as a 1 of in snake eye. searchable, good going second, and gets a boost from the field spell. im running 2 more in the side deck too because my locals has players that like to activate alot of monster effects on my turn lol.

Would maid outfitter be a unique choice in a fire king/snake-eye mirror as a side deck option rather than soul release? Ik it's a banish any one card but if it's a main Deck card it can be a extender. Like banish snake eye ash to add it or popular

Hi Joshua, i have a small question, (i'm actually testing your version of Lab) since you said droll Is not so Good, with what card can i replace It? d.d. crow? Talents? Or maybe main nibiru and side droll? Sorry for the long question

As a fellow player of 20 years, I am here in Texas shaving My head and watching this video and just showing appreciation for the in-depthness of the video, keep it up My wonderful brother 👑💖

E-con & super polly in pure version is pretty nice

Silent Graveyard if you can afford the discard or Gravekeeper's Inscription could be good against fire decks

If you play pure snake eyes and get shiftered depending on when they use it and what cards are in your hand you can just search the traps with pop and Diabell. both traps are so unrated and helped me win at locals. Also the one diabell quick play spell is dirty if timed right.

What do you think about the Shaddoll Fusion Board Breaker approach? Maybe for sidedecking?

Magical Spring is another really good side card. You draw 3 or 2 discard 1 against Snake Eyes. That paired with Phantazmay and Tactics you will actually be able to draw into your board breakers and also keep up with card advantage going second.

For master duel, Retaliating C is actuslly decent. I recommend looking into it.

You could end on Zealantis and Flamberge, you then summon the I:P. Super Poly still works but it’s for a monster no one really runs! Also I got Evenly Matched today and only left Flamberge on field, I won the game. Blew my mind that an Evenly didn’t do much.

whats about silent graveyard isnt this a great choice against FK?

y'all sleeping on Rising Rebellion Falcon..... 🗣🔥

Thoughts in lullaby of obidience. I mean its good for mirror against fire targeting ash, good for bait or +1 in your fire charmer

I think phantazmay is very underrated, because its a free body, trades in your favour and most important it works going 2nd. Overall, it is still card advantage, but of course, it doesn't solve the board on its own.

Thrust into GK Inscription, bait the I:P/ Formula and OTK if your deck can (like Galaxy Photon (yes I am bias I know, but it isn't difficult to otk with N62 or C62))? I dunno, just takin a shot here lol

Im curious as to your thoughts on the shaddoll fusion combo

Something that I want to ask about is silent graveyard. Without a doubt, snake-eye itself can't really use it, but for almost any other deck it should be really effective in the matchup as a going first or going second card. Even for myself as a mannadium player, it doesn't really hurt that much, as it only turns off Meek's, Abscision's, and Light heart's graveyard effects. Not ideal, but it can certainly be played around. Although, I would use dweller instead if I'm going first instead. Unless I'm forgetting something, that only really leaves the fire king variant with Kirin and I:P. There's certainly more debate about how good it is against the synchro variant.

What about shaddoll fusion is that good. I would like a video for that card

What about shaddoll fusion ? Would love to hear your opinion about it.

what do u think about the shaddol fusion package?

I have a weird question about interactions. Say i have Cursed Seal of the Forbidden Spell, if they move a card into the spell/trap zone, would i be able to activate?

how does skull meister compare to crow and belle? considering it for a lvl4 deck

Josh made this video just to flex his ulti’s

Bring back arise heart to kill the graveyard is the only way 😭

Super poly is good if you have the branded lost set up

The money in this video😂

Best hand traps and techs for labrynth? Belle ash and dd crow?

Would silent graveyard be an ok card to side against fire king?

Props for the Celeste music on this one.

board breakers i hate hand traps except imperm drawing hand trap as 6th card is so bad board breakers ftw

porco dio grazie joshua adessoesso delta costerà ancora di più dopo questo video grazie mille

My observation is that I think that if handtraps and board breakers aren't going to be good this format, then the solution is combo decks that have a lot of gas in the tank for early, mid and late game(I have been testing by myself to see how good a 60-card 3X Crimson King structure would handle this best since I have not been testing with handtraps since those can be expensive depending on which ones, and it has a LOT of gas, and can even win via time thanks to Scarlight Red Dragon Archfiend and Red Resonator, fitting for the Master of Faster, Jack Atlas himself) and... floodgates(DISGUSTANG!)... I also expect Soul Drain prices to skyrocket since it is an anti GY and Banishment card though I also expect Imperial Iron Wall prices to skyrocket as well because of banishment decks, which might be tied for tier 1 alongside FIRE Decks, and combo decks with lots of gas in the tank, or Swordsoul Tenyi just becomes tier 0 instead because it is combo deck disguised a banishment deck, though that last on might be just wishful thinking...

Considering on the type of deck you play, why not Silent Graveyard?

Evenly matched x3 in Paleozoics, princess doesn't trigger on normal summon ie Lilith, ojama blue, wannabee... Just saying (Lava and Sphere are for Omni negates and evenly the rest) Raise to full heights, Dinomischus etc

*hears Shifter* Now where did my Floo cards wander

Play against SE FK. Drop Gnomaterial on I:P summon so they can't make Princess or Amblo. Opponent malds.

His take on Evenly is all nice and stuff… but then they keep flamberge to pop it with promethean and I just Ns Robina and they are like: Dude!😮

Can someone explain to me how Nib is good this format, even alongside an Imperm? Where are you going Nib/Imperm to actually break their board?

Also don’t forget Snake-Eye oak can bring a Lvl 1 back from being banished!

There’s actually a pretty cool version of the deck without Bonfire/Wanted (still requires at least 1 Poplar and 1 Princess, and ideally 1 S:P, but could use Knightmare Unicorn/Phoenix/Cerberus if you don’t own one) that uses the Superheavy package to make Infernal Flame Banshee to grab Ash/Poplar that ends on 3 Mat Apo, Zealantis, and Flamberge w/ Kirin in hand, plus 4 other cards. It plays worse into Droll/Nib, but through Droll you can make Dweller or Bagooska.

Time to hide in Edison format until this crazy nightmare blows over lol.

should we delta original or wanted?

15:50 couldn’t you also run Veidos as a hand trap against Fire Kings to blow up Island? Cyclone does have the benefit of being a spell and banishing, but Veidos is at least searchable

Question: Might this be the format were Power Filter is good?

What do you think about dark hole dragon, fantazmay and veidos? Edit: what about burning dragon also?

21:07 the zombie field spell

All I'm getting from this video is guaranteed hit to Snake-Eye and/or Fire King on the next banlist if not an emergency hit already by then.

Minute 6 against Shifter, let the whole world know the secret: Built up Field spell plus Follow-up and a Kikinagashi Fucho.

What about Gravekeepers inscription?

Good tips

Remind me of ishizu tears where we need to clear the graveyard.

As a hard second aficionado, and anti-meta enjoyer, I've been testing every possible non-engine for beating Snake-eyes and I have come to a lot of the same conclusions. I've ended up just playing Ariseheart turbo. I'm not sure what engine you can play to have enough hand traps to stop Snake-eyes besides Snake-eye without bricking since Snake-eyes wins the long game, and going second and trying to board break is just too late. You cannot let them ever get their resource loop up and running. It really is just floodgate or mirror match.

Not me getting double soul released while on branded, lost al my follow up

Looks like I’m maining floo this format lol. It’s been a while

Is shaddoll fusion sending shaddoll dragon and shaddoll Ariel and make el shaddoll apkalone an idea going second against fire King snake eye?

Its really funny seeing you say "I dont see how the board breaker approach works." When last regionals I won the majority of my matches against fireking/snake-eyes with 0 hand traps going blind second lol I'm def not saying its the best way to go but If I only played vs fireking I would be much happier with my going 2nd deck.

Gamma is the only ht against shifter if he goes 1st cuz we can’t use called by the grave😅so saaaaad

Vs evenly you can go summon ip make sp summon ash oak add back 2 then when they evenly you sp your oak and sp. danger is they fake bp but do you care that much esp with kirin in hand

Silent Graveyard BEST CARD!

@Joshua Schmidt great video! could you make a small change to your videos? im a new player so im not familiar with all the cards, and throughout the video you have these really quick popups on the center of the screen of cards you are referencing - but the problem is that they just disappear too quick, move too fast, and are too small for me to read. thanks

Triple/ Double Super poly, with yubel

So what I heard was take a hiatus until this format is over lol

Two words silent graveyard

What about Deck lockdown, and Soul Drain to stop Fire Kings?

I just make a masked hero dark law and see if the fire decks have an out

Exosister and floo players when they happen to draw 2 shifter, 1 soul release and robina/martha be like: 🤑🤑🤑🤑

If dimension shifter is the best anti-fire card, then what is the best shifter deck?

Nutty

He just wanted to flex the rarities on us😂

So looking at this where they rely on the graveyard for a 2nd play, wouldn't necrovally help in this matchup to stop them?

The most fun YCS Vegas top would be Floowandereeze, Runick Stun, Kashtira and Spright. Would be a slap into Konami mouth, only thing better would be if the players take conscience and boycott the event!!! Tier 0 is a issue, tier 0 and price out, great job Konami. The minimum they could do would be make the decks affordable. They are so creepy and arbitrary that they even want to force you to play fire into master duel to. It's like, we gonna decide what you gonna like or not. They are so dumb that theres a chance that in the next banlist they ban or limit shifter, just like they did with gamma on shifter format. Then in four-five months is gonna be Tear, Runick, Purrely, Spright, Dragon Link all over again, it's feels like yugioh TCG become a endless looping...

Fire king snake eye is just stupid Man 😭. That shit gotta get hit quick man. Nastiest deck I’ve seen in a long time

Best upcoming format prob just play shifter deck tbh....at least u have good chance to win if u draw ur shifter. Thats one reason why kash is getting more popular recently. Necrovalley maybe also nice going first option in side deck.

6:45 Fucho+Downerd+Zeus or Dharc summon Shifter make Selene hard draw a spellcaster or Wanted/Diabellstar summon it then make 2 mat Apollousa.

Not even an ulti ghost ogre. What are we paying this man for?

Josh i would play nibiru x2 impermanece x3 and maybe droll or dd crow at 2 each ones in main o would play dragon link., What do you think??