What’re some of your favorite budget decks that I should play at locals?? 👀

I beg you. This is the type of content we need as a community! More of these, please!

Jesse friend, actually marincess can play around Nibiru. You need the Abyss Shark engine. Which consists of 3 Abyss Shark, 1 Silent Angler and 1 Minairuka (Or some other fish you prefer) The combo is: -Normal summon tang, folish to Mandarin -Special summon Abyss Shark, add Silent Angler -Special Silent Angler -Make Bahamut Shark, special Toad in 5th summon From here you make anemone and revive tang to search the field, you summon mandarin 🍊. After triangle, recover and discard to search for wave. And then you bring down Argonaut, having her, Toad and Wave would be 3 interruptions with 2 cards. I would prefer this engine instead of the pot of prosperity, since if they make you Ash Blossom, you keep the abyss Shark in your hand. Thank you for reading.

I loved this video. Budget choices for a powerful deck, please bring more of this video Jesse. I kinda want to start playing TCG

If the horus engine ever gets a reprint to lower the absurd $70 Imsety, I would give Ninja Horus a try as a budget player.

Marincess is one of the first decks I bought getting into the game back in 2019. Deck has always been really afforadable and the new support let it consistantly top to this day. One of my favorite decks for sure.

Please make more videos for budget players, that was really helpful!! Could you make a video about which main/extra deck staples are a must-have, so budget players that are new to the game can learn which cards to get first? The difference in pricing for the already cheap deck you showed us to just the engine itself was still pretty big. I think, I’d go for a relatively cheap engine and afterwards I’d start focusing on getting the staples. That way, I’d be able to play right now and I could make sure to lay a solid foundation so I’d only have to invest in newer engines in the future 😅

My instinctual reaction is "why not play Unchained instead" since I always forget Rage isn't a 0.20€ any longer or Abomination's Prison a 0.50€ (tin reprints) while all the rest are bulk commons/rares/supers. Can't wait to see you play Marincess. We have a really dedicated player in our locals who made everyone know what every Marincess card does by heart because he is an incredible pilot and regularly tops. He always says Bystials and Fenrir are the best non-engine for the deck because the bodies apply more pressure where Marincess lacks a bit, while playing Monster reborn as a Thrust target. While this goes out of budget, the fact you can build into this eventually can be great for long term.

I run the Marincess discord, and honestly you have a lot of great points here. There are other techs you can definitely use as well though such as Icejade engine with the synchro which completely walls Fire Kings. Another somewhat underutilized card is the use of Crystal Heart, and while yes you can go without it, it allows combo lines to be insulated against cards such as nibiru or imperm. My usual play line when I fear nibiru being active is summoning Crystal Heart on fifth summon, which is usually enough for most non-marincess players to shotgun nibiru and they have to find out that crystal heart cannot be tributed by it. Been playing this deck for 5 years now and the discord is also almost 5 years old now too

Thank you for this video Jesse I have been wanting to play marincess for the longest. I have everything for the deck and I was talking about it on my stream last night with one of my followers they recommended your video. I can’t wait to watch you play test the deck, and learn some combos for myself!

Thanks for sharing this option, Jesse. I understand this won't replace a fire deck, but is nice from you to take the time to do these videos for all the players that do not want to break the bank with the current card prices.

dear jesse kotton, as a life time player of marincess, i'd like to recomend a Safer line for blue tang, sending spring girl, and then adding it back with blue slug, reason being, if you sent mandarin you're forced to go into sea angel and search dive, if you send spring girl, you go for blue slug, this will allow you to possibly play trough a imperm/veiler on blue slug since now if you get veilered blue tang's excavate 3 can search more possible extenders in the form of 2 spring girl. 3 sea horse and your 1 dive, (although i play 3 because extender go BRRR) as opposed to if you get stopped at sea angel, where your only mills are 3 spring girl and your 1 dive. and at the end you go triangle + Springirl summoned off dive into splash mage into marble rock. this way you have follow up, and you do give up your draw 1 but you're safer trough handtraps. I know it's slightly less effecient but the safety it provides helps if your opponent has 2 minor handtraps like veiler imperm. or just a well placed veiler. with a unfortunate hand. i hope someone who read this tries this line to be safer.

Kragen is also a powerful floodgate against promethean princess because it turns the opponents monsters water and princess needs to target a fire monster on their field to actually be used, so kragen by himself locks the opponent out of princess. I personally play Shark Xyz and have a lot of experience with that card

Icejade Cradle and Ran Aegerine are both good adds to this deck. allows you to access powerful level 10 synchro plays as well as set up your grave. Great stuff Jesse! Love the content

Nice content! How do you go about the deck being less able to assemble lethal on the first turns, compared to other decks?

Some thoughts on the deck as I've played it on and off since great bubble reef dropped - The l5 marincess is essential for getting an equip on your argonaut without the field spell. It's necessary IMO in hands where you have to search for your dive and still want to end on 2 negates. Its effect on field is also good for protecting your field spell or l4 to make them a pseudo-towers. - Formud skipper is another starter that is on the level of blue tang when it resolves, can become either of your l1s and can search the l5 marincess. It and Blue Tang are the only normals that can get to aqua argonaut with a s/t negate and marincess wave in a 1 card combo. By adding linguriboh/balelynx and 1 copy of scryptron to your main and extra it can still get to bubble reef even if its eff is negated. It's good enough to warrant playing 1 for 1 with mandarin being your other good target. It's a better package vs playing cynet mining as it doesn't play into droll (they droll you after getting your double add... only stops you getting your wave later on and you've got 2 extenders now) Overall this gives you 6 great normal summons (tang + skipper, 7 copies with 1 for 1), 4 good normals (3x springirl, 1x sea horse), and 1 passable normal with mandarin. Of course these all become much better if you draw into multiples. - 3x Abyss Shark 2x Silent Angler package lets you get to your r4s much more consistently and they're just free extenders. Any l4 marincess + abyss shark lets you beat nib with a 5th summon toad and leads to your link 4s. Abyss shark being an extender that searches another extender is just too good. It gives the deck extra gas especially going 2nd. By playing this you have a decent chance of making toad, and in hands where you don't if you can open combo without needing your dive revive you can hold it to recover after a potential nib. Abyss shark summon is also a guaranteed stealth kragen - If you play the above cards I've found you can cut out the more fluff marincess monsters and only play them as one ofs and still have consistent opens. Adding 3 skippers and 1 for 1 means you can cut sea horse, pascalus down to 1 copy just to have the names available (I've cut pascalus entirely - it's the worst normal to play into hand traps and gives your opponent knowledge of your hand if you use its on summon eff) This build I'm running with all this still has room for 15-20 non engine - Stealth kragen + gozen is well known but some other interactions that catch people off guard include it doing double battle damage if you summoned abyss shark that turn, and the fact that its pop + burn eff is a soft OPT, so you can go for 2 pops if you get to it and zealantis (Which is basically any marincess + abyss shark). This pretty much always means you're OTKing if you know what to do. - Gameceil with zealantis summons back to your field - Crystal heart sucks. There's no reason to play it The deck does a lot with a little especially for the price. It's ideal for anyone wanting to play locals but can't commit to buying the newest archetypes or the chase staples, as the non engine the deck generally runs is very cheap cards (thrust will be very nice once it is reprinted and cheap though). I think if anyone is looking to play the deck any time soon they should defo have a look at getting abyss sharks now as they're looking to be on the up being played in basically every decent water deck now. The decks big struggles right now are both of S:P little knights effects and breaking boards going 2nd if you cant climb up to zealantis.

I also like Triple Tactics Thrust in this deck. Being able to set Marincess Wave going first and search Cynet Mining going second is really nice when playing into interaction. It’s not very budget but it’s quite strong if you do happen to get your hands on it.

Can't wait to see the locals gameplay! ngl when I clicked the video and saw Marincess my gut reaction was "ah, Jesse found a deck that can easily play 3 Desires" so very surprised to see you went for prosperity here - I feel like this deck burns through its ED way too much for that, so interested in seeing how it plays in practice.

I like to play Mrincess in MasterDuel and I really enjoy playing them with BoardBrakers. The combination of DarkRuler and Zelantis always warms my heart. Setting your towers turn one always feels good, with Argonaut your Feld-Spell is safe from duster and if the play a monster you can use wave to be uneffected.

Great profile! Not only a great budget deck, but also a great option as a placeholder for when Master Duel Worlds require you to bring a second deck, and you have no intention of playing anything other than almost-full-power Ishizu Tear.

Burn effect definitely matters in time. Also chain blocking with springurl is busted even knowing you can mill because your natural combo recurs cards anyway so if you hit field spell search dive and by the time you link off coral into triangle or marbled rock it’s in your hand.

Been playing this deck since the new support came out in LED9! love to see it get some love and attention from the Ultimate Duelist!! great video!

More Rogue stuff would be so good, I can also absolutely recommend Raidraptor, it’s also a great choice rn

My first week with Fire King Snake-Eye at my locals, Marincess was one of the decks I lost to. It was very fun to watch go.

Fiiiiine...i'll order up Marinecess. Ive been eyeing this deck for a while, and you convinced me.

Sooo where is the follow up video to this 😅 what were the results on your locals and such

im absolutely buying this deck when i can. love budget decks with a strong strategy.

I actually won a locals with Marincess. So I’m happy you brought this deck more to light. I like crystal heart, cuz tower protection is nice, and it applies to any ED monster in Extra deck zone, like Zealantis.

Keep up the budget options! This deck looks fun to try!

nice work always good to see budget love :) keep it up

Add in the adventure package, i play it in my build. Minus 8 handtraps. An silent sea nettle is solid in the deck too.

I unironically think Marincess was well positioned when duelists of the deep came out and was just under explored. Then POTE came out and it squandered it's chance to be a meta threat

Thoughts on Melodious as a budget option post Legacy of Destruction? It's slowly picking up week after week in OCG with newest support.

My answer would be Floowandereeze or Exosister since they can maindeck Dimension Shifter, but it's great seeing that they aren't the only budget options.

hey jess, what do you think about exosisters in the current format? feel like both asophiel and kaspitell are extremely good floodgates vs fire king and the ability of playing shifter is also pretty good, but as you said in the vid it dies pretty easily to hts.

i highly highly recommend olaying 2-3 Basilalima because it protects you from the fire decks and any single marincess is a link 3 or 4 , you can discard it with mining or bury it with blue slug, discard it to search the trap... its been clutch this format for me

Been playing this deck this format, and i have been pretty successful against snakeye. I play doulble thrust, double talents, and monster reborn instead of the prosperities and Cynet. You get nibbed a lot, so thrust into reborn is always good gas. Or thrust into wave if you get drolled after Angel. Its also fun to talents their link 4 and get your zealantis for free in the water lock. I also run water charmer to steal an opponents zealantis since most are running it.

Just so you know, Argonaut has to summon a monster equipped to itself, meaning the double link-4 play with GBR and Argonaut doesn’t work. You can, however, do some nasty stuff with double GBR - it’s a soft once on the draw, both get 1600 attack in the draw phase, AND you get a funny situation where they can’t super poly your board

Jesse the GOAT! Thanks 🙏 for even putting Marincess on ppl radar it’s VERY good against fire 🔥 they really don’t have a way to remove your castle once it’s built, he’s literally just showing you guys look Marincess literally can and does beat fire at it own game. Also notice salad wasn’t chosen becuz it’s a control deck trying to be a combo deck plus every monster in ur deck is usable by ur opponent

Great vid! Next time though can we get a small segment at the end for if you’re willing to spend a bit more money, what cards you’d recommend to pick up just in case?

what do you like to banish off of prosperity ? i can’t see a good 6 cards to banish off of it that is good. that’s why i prefer desires but i’d like to hear your opinion !

Thoughts on the budget Snake Eye Fire King list featured on Pak’s channel? (replacing wanted, blackwitch, and bonfire with SHS engine to make banshee and search ash or poplar)

Been playing Marincess since release, used to top so much in NYC locals it was a crazy fun part of my yugioh career. I randomly showed up six months ago and got second at a 30 man locals in Flushing before sunavalon got hit, felt amazing to play. However, one miserable thing about the deck is that if the opponent sets up one piece of removal interruption you instantly lose the game. So just keep that in mind, this deck has absolutely no going second potential besides sacking non engine (ie nibiru+evenly matched and force them to keep the token)

In the middle of 100 and 1,000, if you include sp and 3 ragpho, you can play salad for like 300 and its REALLY good. Not snake eyes good. But you steal matches "very" often.

I love marincess but i disagree with some of your choices Desires in this deck is best of prosperity because you burn trough your extra a lot Also basilalima in this format is good, two dive increases your chances of drawing and tang excavating making your plays safer

Sleepy Maiden is great. Not only it helps you to extend, obviously, but it also helps you to setup Bahamut Shark/Toad on the 5th summon and still combo with Marincess. Also it enables Blue Tang alone to make 2 disruptions and that is only possible while running Sleepy Maiden. All that being a engine piece, increasing the chance of Blue Tang hitting something good and giving you more options to push. Silent Sea Neetle is good as well, extending and recycling. You can easily play both and still have room for 18 hand traps. This deck needs ways for play through because it isn't particularly "strong" in terms of establishing pressure and forcing your opponent to answer. This deck isn't really a "1-card combo" deck because you need a Starter + Extender to do a decent board(or Tang alone, if you run Sleepy Maiden) but it's one of the best decks - if not the best - in the game to play a "handtrap war". Outrageous number of tech slots and great follow up. It lacks offensive power and its extra deck has little to no toolbox at all, so until we get more good WATER links it'll be just a fair deck. Great video and it's good to see a great player like you giving Marincess a chance!

Another way to play through Nibiru is if you play the link water charmer, secondly monster reborn is a good card to run because if they negate the link one search for dive, you can still get that extension to summon from grave and if they were to out your link 4 you can summon it and zealantis only needs 1 effect monster, super cheep strat lol

Hey so in my marincess list I run three tenyi spirit shatana as well as three silent sea nettles in here. What are your thoughts on that?

springirl mill effect is huge when you bricked, you need for angel to resolve, so chain blocking for ash, crystal geart is played a lot in MD bcs we are missing toad, it protect zealantis, and lot of decks are missing now way to out spell cards

One card I like in the deck as as extender is Silent Sea Nettle. Lvl 4 Water that specials itself if you control a Water monster. It helps form Bahamut Shark into Toad on summon 5 so Nibiru is less of a threat.

dude let this made me sub to you. I was trying out the deck myself and now I really want to try it out. maybe bringing an alternative version of the deck where budget isn't an issue like adding both TTT or so? unless you think this is still better. anyways I think we all have expressed how we would like to see you continue to test this deck further for us to watch its potential!

I love budget options so keep it up 😁

Loved this video, always happy to see people giving budget players options but i do have one criticism: subtitles are a fantastic addition for accessibility but you gotta get someone to double check them or something before the video goes out, there were a bunch of times in this video where the subtitles had really weird typos or mirrored how you talked exactly down to the letter which led to a jarring experience reading them when the typo appeared or when you would stutter a bit/have a cut. again, absolutely love this concept behind this and that subtitles are here at all but i think the subtitles could use a bit of touching up

Would the water statue help against getting neb? Ir might also help against fire kings, idk

Can't wait bro, I really wanna watch how you play it

Hey Jesse, thoughts on running Icejade Ran Aegirine for extension lines past Nibiru? It's not hugely budget but I think it's often slept on in Marincess, especially when it can either pivot into Gymir (which seems quite solid if you're expecting a lot of destruction effects) or be your anemone to get you to alternate lines before you even normal summon. There's also generic 4 extensions ofc like sea nettle which gets run a lot, but I find the extra token can be very useful especially since it can make lines to marbled rock after a nibiru through the use of Eria.

Combos video would be nice new to the game something in this price range seems good to get started

As a dedicated Alien/Reptile player I have my Alien control deck with crackdown, brainwashing beam, and mass hypnosis. Jesse do you think steal effects are effective?

Another good one!! Keep em coming!

Crossout designator helps against nibiru also solid budget deck I used to like is Umi lock with ocean lord Kyrushin

Bro as a hard of hearing person. I’m grateful that you add subtitles, make me understand yugioh more!! 🙌🏻🙏🏻👍🏻🤟🏻😇

The best deck i could make under 100$ was Witchcrafter Control with Branded engine. 3x Cartesia, 3x Fusion Deployment, 2x Fallen Albaz, 2x Branded Fusions and most importantly 2x Magician's Left & Right Hands to cancel first turn imperm and second turn super poly. they also pair well with Bystreet and Battle of Golgonda. Naturally with all the continuous spells and reoccur able withcrafter spells you play 1x Golden Lord. Its easy to play through and ash with this deck now and the new boss monster fusion speeds the whole deck up.

I'm going to count this as reason enough to rebuild one of my favorite decks to try at locals until the new Chimera stuff is figured out. Thanks, Jesse.

If both prosperity and mining are issues, why not use desires? Especially for the amount of non-engine you use?

Wouldn't talents and crossout would be good replacements for prosperity and mining?

Jesse what do you think about D/D/Ds position after legacy of destruction comes out?

What do you think about tribrigade fire king? i built a relatively cheap version for around 120$ and it seems to work well

I would love to see your version of BA. More specifically non budget but not all the money in max rarity more so a best version possible.

Topping locals with Marincess? Looking forward to seeing the games for sure!

Jesse, what do u think about Ghoti Runick? I can see it as a respectable deck and i think it could have even a good match up vs snake eye fk

i don’t know it it’s within budget, but what about phantazmay in the main?

Superheavy Ghoti isnt great bur can play about 15 non-engine without suffering consistency. It helps that your one card combo, even if Arionpos gets negated, it doesnt need a normal summon so Kashtira helps in a non-budget build.

I play with this deck in Brazilian locals, I like very much this deck, I play with icejades it's only 3 cards in main deck and 1 in extra deck. Icejade Ran Aegirine - 3x Icejade Gymir Aegirine - 1x It goes in place of cynet mining. It's pretty good..

With how expensive decks have been getting, ANY budget options are welcome to see just to add some variety to the format.

Been playing this deck awhile. You can play cards like Deck Lockdown and Rivarly of the Warlord to really slow down your opponents. Also cards like Mistaken Arrest don't hurt much on your turn. Monster Reborn helps against Nibiru. Me personally, turn 1, with all the HTs around, I aim to add Dive, and just go for Great Bubble Reef. I love Great Bubble Reef so much, I actually play 2 in my extra deck.

Do you think Generaider Runick will stand out? I like it a lot

I put a floowandereeze deck into TCGPlayer and it was just over $40, assuming you have 15 random extra deck cards laying around

how do you play thru Nib?

Jessie the goat helping the poor people out like myself! Gotta love it!

I used to run a Dark Law Water + Toadaly Awesome deck back when Norden and Instant Fusion were unlimited 😂

if you had a little knight would you run it in this at all?

There are so many Decks I would try with the Horus engine, like Chimera, but those damn prices are so ridiculous

Best player and now best creator!Keep up the content, we’re loving it❤️‍🔥

for the side I was thinkg june moon with the water tournent statue you use june moon to send the water statue then you use coral to reborn the statue. I think for decks that will 100% lose if it were to hit the feild and cant get ride of it.

My favorite budget deck was timelord ED monarchs. It was better than True draco or Zoodiac at the time. 3x time maiden 2-3x Parallel exceed 2x Zaphion for link summons(shuffle all S/T, then draw a card Monarch cards 3xFoolish burial of goods 1x Eldlich Gizmek Orochi Seleglare Would love to see a spin on that deck. It was really good and time lords offered some time to unbrick.

A small note for the subtitles (great inclusion): You want them to have a bit of breathing room towards the bottom, about 70-80 pixels on a 1080p input is fine usually, as placing the subtitles too low can make it straining to read them while keeping tabs of everything else happening on-screen. If the idea here was not to block the extra deck on the DB window, consider placing the subtitles inbetween the side deck and extra deck in future videos. ^^

Hi From France! Pretty good content you did! Wich sleeves did you use ? Looks like OG Pink Player’s Choice?!?

Marincess is my favourite deck of all time after it got all its support and zealantis. Such a fun deck and there’s a lot of opportunity for skill expression.

Jesse I am going to upload my Competitive Sharks Deck Profile. I think you should try Sharks in your locals. The deck has so many secret mechanics

Hey Jesse. I love seeing you trying out my favorite Deck. I have been playing Marincess at competitive events for 2 years and ever since Cyberstorm Access I won multiple Locals with the Deck making it seem like the best Deck in the room for a lot of my opponents. I have some problems with your overall standard Decklist and want to share my thoughts. First off all I really really dislike Prosperity. Usually If you aim to kill your opponent on Turn 3 or 4 you will have used almost your entire extra Deck and if you banish 6 names from there you will just run out of gas since your Main Deck does literally nothing on its own. Also you play Handtraps other Boardbreakers entirely, what I do agree with, but it also takes away prospies capabilities going second Also your Deck has a strong construction error towards it's biggest weakness going second. If someone were to interact with your normal summon with something as simple as solemn or princess popping it you are completely screwd. You play 5 true extenders that don't require on field setup (3 springgirl + 1 dive + 1 cynet mining) what will just make it likely not even drawing one and you instead play conditional weaker ways to get additional bodies (Sleepy Maid, 3 Pascalus etc.) what I'd do to combat that issue is maxing out on dives and minings as well as play some sort of water good stuff like Ran Aegrine who alone gives you an Anemone play to extend or some Synchro access If you go uninterupted.

You should look at swordsouls or invoked dogmatika shaddoll?💪🔥🔥

Thanks for sharing this is really good for new players to get into TCG. Knowing that for under 100 bucks you can play at your locals thanks for sharing this.

sleepy maiden can target a marincess *card* (not just a monster), so it can add a layer of protection for the field spell

This decks matchup into snake eyes is usually die roll dependent. At least in my experience.

Dinomist for these videos in the future 🤘🏻

Ifyou have an S:P what would you swap out theoretically?

My current build is ZHT (Zombie Horus Tearlaments) and as a rouge player, talks like this peak my interest.

Could you do something with punks? 😍

Jesse, you should check out Shannon Long’s approach to playing Marincess. I think he cracked the code and mastered the deck, dude’s a monster Marincess player. The channel goes by the name SCHEME TCG

Sleepy maiden targets a Marincess CARD you control, not a monster. It's how you're supposed to protect the field spell.