So sad that Megas got cut in a tax off. Such a great show.

That deck has more problems than "what outs" Towers, I dont think it can ever be viable again without modern support or Vanities Emptiness coming off the list.......and going to 3. That deck wins by forcing the other deck to slow down to its pace, but it just doesnt have a good way of doing that without overpowered floodgates. Also, it relies on Scout to get going which loses to damn near everything under the sun these days.

No, they didn't make a summoning mechanic that beats Towers. They literally just changed the rules to be objectively worse in every way to push a product. And then changed it back once they sold enough product. Also like, Kaiju exist.

@@krullachief669 I think he was referring to Link Monsters which get around Towers' Protection. Yes they also changed the pendulum zones to nerf that and help push Links, so its both of what you guys said.

wait you guys are summoning towers nowadays? XD

@@kindklan8020 I brought it one week a couple months back to a locals. Had it loaded up since I never off'd the deck. It was terrible lol. Won a single Match by the end of it because my opponent bricked both rounds. -Ive officially retired that deck since, but I still have it. (Normally I play Machina)

He is the catalyst for JJ to save the world

It's a shame couple of aces has a hard once because I draw into my other copies so often that it could be "better" cup of ace!

Just win the coin toss, it's that easy

@@AwesumVloggin see but then it’s just plus 6 and that would break the “this lets me draw two cards” anime rule

@@nathanmurillo1767 Except the anime literally had cards that drew 6.

@@Merilirem and we have Ursarctic Radiation

Same.

Revolver had good taste in dragons

never really thought about it, but it's true. borrelload is a dragon with guns, and borrelsword is just a dragon who's in RWBY

When you run outta gunsauce, you have a capable back up plan.

One of the few French wins

Isolde doesn’t even really count as a noble knight, also what does it mean for the actual noble knights

Give targeting and negation immunity to all divine-beast monsters.

Reptiles suck so just give all of them a rota as an activateable effect because why not

Almost every Illusion. They’ve already broken it and made a monster without the effect.

This one is good. Free content Joseph!

@@Dexiekun Its a normal monster tho it *barely* counts. Plus, Toons have Toon Aligator, and Spirits have both the spirit pends and Yamato-no-Kami. A few exceptions are allowed

Of course, nowadays, if you ever see Barbaros, it's usually as a normal-summonable Big Chungus beatstick under Skill Drain, or a quick material for Rank 8 plays.

Veiler is also better if you play Fantasmay as its actually live if you draw it off it.

​@@Eiji475yeah for real in any deck that draws during opponents turn like Purrely Veiler can be better than Imperm in a lot of situations

Anyone remember the Selenecode Talker engine where Veiler off of a Halq got you to Accesscode Talker? Good times.

Those cards are still good in Lunalight actually, Underclock especially. The best way to win in general with the deck is to get out Leo Dancer, and you're almost assuredly going to be able to reduce an opponent's monster to 0 attack with Underclock's ability combined with Leo Dancer's 3,500 attack. With her 2 attacks plus Underclock's 1,000 attack and her ability to destroy all special summoned monsters after an attack; just those two monsters together are quite often an OTK.

Pentastag my beloved Utopia OTK on a facedown enabler

@@windchimes8764 literally the best fucking feeling in the world.

Me coming back to Duel Links after 3.5 years last week and throwing Pentastag in my Machina deck to give Liebe piercing.

Played pentestag in Dino’s yesterday at locals still a great card

Tbf those are entirely different use cases

That’s because the big OTK enabler is Zealantis nowadays

Reinforcement of Da Army?

Pretty sure some still play it in Invoked just cuz it gets you a FIRE monster for Purgatrio

I remember when Halq legal Striker use it as a target for link climbing into Accesscode because Selene need Spellcaster monster

Impermanence is also not once per turn.

I just love my veiled because its a light. Chaos loves light/dark hand traps.

​@@yasharthpandey6317no one is gonna remember that ,unless they are on a simulator

@@yasharthpandey6317 they explicitly said "my blind going second deck" because if the opponent draws Imperm and has something on their field it's dead, while Veiler can be freely used. A good example is in Marincess where they can draw with Bubblereef or Heatsoul decks.

You can still use infinite impermanence even if you control monsters. You won't be able to activate/use it in hand, but you can still set it and use it like a traditional trap card if you do.

Not in my heart

That is too specific for a tech card. SP is better in 99% of bored states cherry picking a few doesn't mean it didn't replace it.

​​@@DrAiPatch I'm not saying Unicorn can or should be run over S:P; I just think the two cards have slightly different utilities; S:P can be used defensively, whereas Unicorn is used for big pushes. I'm playing both in my SS Fire King deck.

@@UshiUshiKakuThe2nd I mean SP is a blatant example of power creep, but let’s be real, she doesn’t really replace a lot of these cards. DPE is still good as removal because it doesn’t come back and it’s destruction can cause degenerate game states (looking at Scythe still banned), but SP is just generic and easy to use it every deck going first or second.

Yeah this video really missed the mark imo.

Yes and no. I think the great thing about having powerful generic cards like these is it gives more options for rogue strategies to close the gaps between their and their opponent's deck. The biggest downside is too many decks ending on similar boards. I think it's great that many decks can run 2-3 generic boss monsters out of a pool of 20-30 in addition to their own though

@@ImSumGuy That's true, but what I would really like to see is Decks that rely on engines instead. Engines add a small piece of a deck that fits well into another decks strategy or share a similar attribute or removes their weak points. Like adding in the branded engine or dpe engine if you bricked. Or the Adventure engine to gain an additional negate that doesn't require a NS. Most of the time these engines have 2 flaws that I think is fair: consistency and garnets.

TRUE! The only other card with the same magnetude of cards that it powercrept like this is S:P Little Knight

Funny enough, honour ark is kinda better again as the destruction protection means you can punch something big and then go into zeus.

Black Ship Of Corn!

You absolutely still played silent honour ark after castel came out. Yoinking a one of means it's place in rank 4 toolbox lasted a while after castel

Speaking of Dinos, Borrelsword still has a valid spot in that deck! If you're running xeno meteorus and you lock yourself with it's effect, you can still link into borrelsword, where you wouldn't be able to with accesscode!

Fun fact: The main character was voiced by the dad from Wizards of Waverly Place.

@@xatuyou8045 welp, that's a funny image,

If you have a Crimson Bladder you should go to a doctor.

Literally because that Lv10 Ice Synchro ended up being splashable in Swordsouls, almost every Lv10 Synchro that came out afterward started REQUIRING a specific, non-wyrm type tuner for their summons. It was so funny.

For swordsouls little night goes to much minus to benefit from both of her effects cause the token locks you into synchros aslong you Control them so you need to synchron them 1st summoning some other Guy Link into her but without having a token on your field. If you Run Appledragon you could Run little knight in swordsoul but linking chixiao away still feels Bad i guess. Only the tenyi Limes get her Out pretty easy but ashuna does Lock you into wyrms only so its Not really good too

I forsee a lot of non link decks in the immediate future coming with "Cannot Summon from ED except Fusion/Synchro/Xyz" depending on the deck.

​@@lilsunny7399 Or just „cannot summon monsters by Link summon“.

Albaz requires a lot of ED space, though, so I can see why that didn't last.

@@xCorvus7x they banned anaconda

@@xatuyou8045 ha, that too

Veiler is also a tuner, which can be a big deal for some decks.

Gotta respect the nightbeam

harpie lady is currently better than cyber harpie lady, by virtue of being a normal monster and thus having access to normal monster support.

But nowadays you’d probably prefer the original for use with stuff like Unexpected Dai.

This is false. Harpy Lady got replaced by Harpy Lady 1, but by the time it was a playable deck, the original was played because of Unexpected Dai.

Not zerofyne?

based autism enjoyer

Yugioh has lore?

WE DIG GIANT ROBOTS

NICE

CHICKS DIG GIANT ROBOTS

Guess what, Imperm can be used on a field with cards on it too. You see trap cards have this interesting property where you can “set” them, and then use their effect on the opponent’s turn. Crazy huh.

@@jk844100 unthinkable. get out of here with that nonsense

Well, yes. But also: Who plays Invoked in 2024?

Okay but taking a DM player as the standard for "good cards" is kind of counterproductive 😂

i dont please enlighten me

The Fiendish Chain>Forbidden Chalice>Breakthrough Skill example is that, the first 2 cards are from 5Ds, the later is from Zexal. I guess a broader example would be the synchro 6/7/8 pool being replaced by the rank 4 toolbox.

Most of the stuff around 5ds was still konami trying to figure out what they wanted the extra deck to be, so a lot of cards had wildly different effects, that could feasibly fit different situations, even if 1 card was better than another in most of them.

that happens to every older meta deck. only issue is konami is making so many new busted cards at an increasingly high rate

Well elf is Just a Problemcard in General and Not only for its archtype wich is why elf is banned i think

swordsouls has protos banned or it could ftk pretty much and spright has the toad line banned

@@andreabuzzolani7205ygo, by this point, not taking the "x and y are banned WITH each other. meaning x nor y INDIVIDUALLY are banned, but only when in the same deck

Dragoon didn't get replaced because it was actually never in the meta since there was no real meta from March 2020 to about March 2022. Even then one of the best decks ran dragoon because the other card can prevent you using from using your drytrons

Celestial was a big part of the power of the DPE package. He dropped off when Celestial got banned. Then there were like 3 or 4 metas in a row that hard countered him.

Things that didn’t happen in the tcg…

In the last year dark hole has been played more than raigeki though

Well they came Out in the Same Pack so it doesnt really Count nowadays darkhole IS more playable than raigeki wich is kinda funny to be honest