These no BS In-depth analysese from a very skilled player on non-meta strategies through a FULL local tournament is one of the greatest contributions I could ask for in the Yugioh scene. PLEASE keep doing these.

47:36 The fusion trap requires you to use Veidos as fusion material. You used TY-PHON and Memento Dark Blade to fuse Embers, which was an illegal play. It's why I like running spoly to fuse with my opponent's monsters without Veidos access.

The commentary over the gameplay is a really nice touch that you don’t see others do with locals gameplay videos. Thanks for the extra effort!😁

Can we have the decklist please? Or was that mentioned somewhere and I just missed it? Anyway, thank you very much for doing a video on Ashened! It's definitely nowhere near as bad as people were saying it is.

i just threw these with snake eyes (minus witch) and I have so much fun playing, not gonna lie 1) at minimum you'll have like 4 pyros from your field + veidos for the fusion at all times. 2) soooo many bodies. but nib spooks, BUT you can play a liiiitle bit around it 3) the only problem is, if you absolutely need to use rekindling or awakening, you'll have to do all the snake eyes first and then ashened plays. 4) but with a perfect hand. you'll be able to intertwine plays seamlessly. 5) from all my playing. my build at least peaks mid- early late game. your climax board wins a majority of the time. but if they survive, you'll have some SCARCE resources. but that's where snake eyes picks up the slack with all the recursion. 6) with all the high level monsters, you’ll be very susceptible to bricks, and there’s so many engine cards that I’m having trouble figuring out what to take out for more draw power, with prosperities or even the 1 of chicken game

Adding timestamps and chapters would make longform videos much more watched, since people will give it more of a chance.

This is the second time I watch this. I'm absolutely obsessed with this deck. Can we find your deck list somewhere?

In the last round in game 2 your opponent used the scale to search the melodious spell even though he couldn't because he controls a non melodious monster

Ashened actually synergises really well with melodious as the melodious engine can easily make a banshee inorder to search veidos and hero of the ashened + melodious fusion makes dracossack allowing you to do a bunch of link spam combos

Great video, love hearing an in-depth + gameplay analysis of TCG exclusives. It’s cool to have another perspective with these decks that a lot of people want to immediately can because it isn’t an insane powerhouse.

I miss the days when we could rely on a TCG exclusive archetype to be good before they got their OCG support

I’ve been running this deck since lede dropped day 1. It’s gotten a crazy amount of hate but I’m glad to see it’s getting the recognition it needs! It’s a super fun deck with a fun play style that’s hard to get around if you aren’t prepared for it. Even as a pure ashened build without the usual kash or volcanic engines, it can hold its own no problem.

I've played against Ashened and all it needs is a well timed Cosmic on their fusion trap. Once its gone, all their disruption is handtraps. Also it dies to a single ash blossom on Veidos most of the time, as you cannot set up the super poly play for your opponents turn.

Thanks for showing off Ashened! I'm the only one where I live that runs the deck because everyone else thinks it's trash. I love this deck to pieces

I have been waiting for your follow up on Ashened since your first video and I am impressed

Whoever did the art for ashened needs a raise

1:05:00 Veidos the Dragon of Endless Darkness is not a negate. It is a Ghost Ogre.

Interesting and well made video, would have been nice to see also the deck profile. I also noticed that in game 2 of the final, the Melodious-Snake Eye player used Couplet's pendulum effect to search for Concerto while controlling other monsters beside Melodious ones, and this can't be done because of this same effect's requirement to be activated.

For anyone wondering about whether Obsidim can trigger by activating another field spell, the reason it can't is because field spells are no longer destroyed by game mechanics. They were up until mid-2014.

Love these kind of videos. In my opinion the best local kind of content. Good explanations of your train of thoughts. :)

I feel ashened is super close to being good but all the cards are like one change from being really good, why is spearhead not a quick effect why can veidos be ashed, why are the fusion cards locked into pyro fusions, why does the rota lock you into pyros, its just annoying since these are very small changes to make the deck feel so much better

is there a full deck list anywhere?

So happy about this. Been playing and having so much fun with the new support

Hey, great video as always! It's super interesting seeing a pro player dive into these more "underwhelming" decks! What I personally would be really interested in would be Virtual World and Centur-Ion (but more Virtual World; also Centur-Ion without Calamity). There are some people who put those two together even, but that's off topic. Virtual World was one of my favorite decks and I really really like Shenshen, so it would be interesting to see what you make of either of those decks!

Thanks for the effort this is great content! love the ashened deck

The content I was most waiting for this year.

Great content as usual and I remember you saying roughly what was changed but was hoping for a full list or at least skeleton included somewhere

I did pull an ashened card in a pack and it looked sooo cool so I wanted to play a deck around it so your video was the first that popped up, and after watching I’m glad to see it’s a decent deck seeing that I won’t go to ycs much… but nice to know it can beat snake eyes and my favorite deck: Tenpai!

these are my favorite of your videos. would love to see you play the (non branded) illusion chimera deck edit: for feedback, really liked how you gave the quick profile on the yugi deck, but we didn't get one for the ashened at the start of the video. adds a lot to see the decklist quickly lined up and broken down at the start of the vid

You might not believe me, but in Tistina's defense, I tried doing for it the same study that you did for Ashened, and I honestly felt stunned by how much it was misunderstood by the players. The archetype has actually the clearest game plans both going 1st and going 2nd, and its randomness only makes it more flexible, especially when it comes to the xyzs, which act as tools in the same way they were used at the beginning of their own era.

I've been using horus as a side engine. It ignores the board pop, and threatens them when they try to disrupt you. Embers is level 8, so it helps with the rank 8 plays and facilitates otks

47:34 Jesse ! You can't fusion summon Embers with Eternity here, since that trap forces you to use one Veidos from either side of the field to perform the fusion summon ! It's not really a super poly ! 😂

35:00 This is why it's important to read and understand your opponent's face-up cards. The opponent could have avoided such a huge misplay if he had checked the field spell beforehand.

I would really love to see you giving Unchained another shot

I would love to see you try out majespecters! It's a cool control deck that can be very strong going first with searchable secret village and kirin, especially against decks with lots of targeting effects. I've been playing it for about a month or two and have been really enjoying it

I liked the look of Ashened and seeing its one of those "forward thinking" decks is great since I find those most interesting. Ninjas and to some extent Vanquish Soul felt like that too

I love this video style. Hope u make more.

Seeing this deck go 4-0 at a locals, one of which was against a Snake Eyes opponent, is really validating. Especially after some of the misplays I knew this deck was competent and this is a good showcase of that

sometimes this deck can be very slow to close a game ,thusi am using 1 volcanic emperor for an extra 3100 atk free summon and burn potential.you can dump it with banshee or you can add 1-2 copies of fire ejection,if you dont care about losing some consistency.

Is there a deck list we can check out?

Is there a decklist for what you played during this tournament? Anything you would of changed in the list that you played?

Hi Jesse, thanks for the great vid. I would love to see Ice barrier closer to its release. It has a very good multi 1 card draw four comboes and could do better in TCG with the lack of Maxx c :)

You're just naturally funny, it's hilarious.

What it needs - a card tht act or is always treated as The ashened city (field card) for example umi. There's hella umi cards tht act as if it's umi - another boss monster thts easy to summon - another searcher - Super poly

Was hoping for you to post a decklist, the gameplay was nice though.

I'd love to see you take the Lightsworn Horus Bystial pile to locals, that deck is crazy fun to watch and play

I would love to see a decklist. Im playing ashened and i would love to see ratios to figure out what are needs and nots

Veidos is just a solid card in the current meta that it feels like Ashened it almost decent. I love a good control deck and the art on these cards is sick. Hoping the next wave of support gives it a little more flexibility of what it can do rather than just printing more bodies.

Kind of a off topic question, but do would you say it's better to play 3 yama in Unchained or play Ty-Phon?

Thank you for the very long 1h video, it was clearly very high effort.

Chaos archetype would be a cool deck. I love those cards

I’ve been tinkering with this deck for a bit and I think I have something with this new support.

you should check out Volcanic Emperor. you can send him off flame banshee, and he is an instant 1500 burn, then 500 burn when your opponent special summons and can set the trap that burns for another 2800. this makes it way easier for the deck to kill

Id love a visit to gold prides. Its another tcg exclusive that feels way more up to par than the others recently

Asheen needs more support to be good. But it can be a good support engine tho

Is there a decklist posted anywhere?

I would love to see the deck list

1:01:02 he can not use Couplet to seach, because he controls S:P and Diabellstar.

They fixed that after geartown because that was broken for field spell destruction versus placement. I wish that worked

YOO where is that frog playmat from it’s fire Also love the video, wish more pro players did deep dives into rogue arch types. Would love a series on GP

i really wish you would put a final stinger image of your decklist in these videos so we could potentially use them as a base. I really wanna make this deck but I'm short a copy of veidos and without knowing your HT ratios its hard to decide what to do with the stuff I have vs don't. PLEASE consider adding a list either in the description or in the video.

Ngl i needed this video

can we get a decklist? or did i miss it in the video?

How would DNA surgery in the side sound, for game 2+ when going first?

I would love to see goblin riders!

I think you should do videos of melodious testing similar to how you did with lightsworn that deck is like if pends and gouki had a baby 😅

i find it amazing the way u play it's clear u have a lot of experience but do u have a deck recipe or are u gonna keep it a secret (fair enough to keep it a secret)

52:20 videos the dragon of endless darkness cannot be target by your opponent, so the imperm shouldn't have resolved.

Could we get a list of the ashened deck?

minute 47:41 you can't fusion with the oppo stuff you don't have veidos in your own or your opponent field

The best player in the game giving inside in new decks, a more control deck, hopefully they will get some more support that gives it even more power.

I enjoy these vids maybe a lightsworn deck next?

Would love to see some Beetrooper Raika once INFO drops. The deck's actually pretty competent with the level 4 and the in-built talents bees have (Sting Lancer). Even though it's more raika n generic insects that actual beetroopers buuuut that's for another dau

Other than ninjas, id like to see you play mekk knights!

Omg where can I buy that jacked???

After InFo releases can you try Fiendsmith D/D and Memento?

This deck will eventually has it's time to shine. People are being too rough on it. Try it out with Volcanic, Jesse!

1:01:10 opponent can't actually use couplet's pendulum effect bc they control a non-Melodious monster games were really fun to watch still overall, well done !

R3 G2 u have to fuse using Veidos so embers was illigal

Round 3 Game 3 . Did he imperm the Veidos fusion? I thought it couldn't be targeted

Will you be uploading a deck profile vid?

I really liked your previous video on this archetype, thank you for the sequel, this kind of content is amazing!

opp activating rivalry during your turn with veidos on his field, when you have obsidim is such an hilarous fail. It already happened once to me and it's was the only way i could win x)

Hi Jesse, good content buddy, I love this archetype and I was wondering if you could share with us your profile and some changes you would do after the local experience

Anyone know if the list is available anywhere please? Got most of it figured out but not sure😁

Play Chimera please! Would be fun to see the deck in competend hands

This video makes me want to make Ashened.

The fact you got 16 packs for a first is crazyyy, I think out first is 2 packs + OTS pack 😆

Ashened needs just a little more support to be there competitively. Veidos is a very good card as is and next format will see a lot of play outside of ashened. The deck as Ana archetype needs a just a little more to really thrive.

can we get an deck profile from ashened?

Wish you had a deck list for me bro lol

What support would Mayakashi archetype and Ancient Warriors archetype need to be considered good.

You gotta try vaalmonica or memento for locals next

Can we have the decklist?

Fadra can ve destroyed by battle, it isnt a dragon on your turn with Obsidim up

Has anyone the actual decklist?

Let’s see ragnaraika next :)

Where is the deck list?

This deck goes so hard with trains. There's a fusion that deals dmg and the materials are 1 pyro and 1 machine. Nothing locks you with the machines.

Jesse would you try to build a Hieratic deck?