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Idk why but I very much appreciate having the actual cards on screen ^_^

As someone who is not always in the loop of the competitive meta, I really appreciate having pictures of mentioned cards briefly pop up on screen! It really helps me to follow along with his explanations ❤

"Combo damn near unplayable... JOY🎉" this dude 😂😂

My favourite is boardbrealers that are good going first, you get the benefit of regular boardbreakers that need less main deck space and aren't dead when drawn as a sixth card, but also you can still go first and have them be useful by being extra interruptions like handtraps or help you play through your opponent's handtraps handtraps. My favourites are droplet, talents, super poly, the new girsu quickplay, econ, fenrir, the newly unlimited striker engine, book of moon and the best of all is imperm that's literally both a handtrap and a boardbreaker and isn't even once per turn and also synergizes amazingly with droplet. Many of these are deck and/or format dependent though so just test around and see what fits you best.

Not that imperm was a bad card before, but it seems like a HUGE winner for this banlist. It has applications to stop cards like Protos from stopping you from playing you or you can just hold it for your opponent’s appo or Colossus.

Sky Striker hard going second is closely listening😂

Boardbreakers coming back is great. Going second is already a miserable experience so I’m glad this alleviates the issue a bit.

I love choices

banning generic cards specifically omni negate cards like baronne and savage not only lowers the ceiling of the decks that uses them, it makes breaking board going 2nd easy.

Thanks Josh for talking about something i had no idea to consider when building for a format. Just an MD player, but this channel, this video talking about handtraps or boardbreaking metas was key info i was missing as a player.

What pure Snake-Eyes do now is use Accel Stardust as a bridge into Bystial Dispater and then you can make Omega and hand loop for 2

All gas, no hand traps, 60 card pile pure gas decks.

Turns out board breaker is weaker after banlist because now two omni (which you can negate with droplet/DRNM) changed to 2 handrips + 1 monster negate. Or maybe no one is bothered to put Evenly on side deck.

If pure board breakers is the move despia and the 3 ftk decks just go crazy

i'm a HUGE fan of boardbreakers and i love to break "unbreakable" boards and leave the enemy stunned (i play mostly online so they ff) i hope the direction will be as you said, 1-2 handtraps (3x ash/3x imperm for example) and paired with talents etc it would also bring back some grindy decks that just got annihilated by the omninegates which would be awesome because grindy decks are banger

I'm getting friendlier with kaijus and lava golem. Going 2nd Fire king that breaks boards has been a lot of fun

I think all 3 are a must. You need tactics to survive handtraps and you need hand traps amd board breakers to survive going 2nd😅

Dark Ruler also hits all monsters that don't say unaffected by card effects and if you use it and your opponent has Dragoon for example it will temporarily lose its protections and then can be targeted and/or destroyed by card effects. You can also use it when opponent has Apallousa and it will lose all the attack it gained for each material used to summon and put it to 0 for the remainder of the game.

I feel like I don’t have the choice to play board breakers if I just get Dis Pater-Omega looped to not even be able to use those board breakers.

I will likely try and test a little bit of both if I am honest. It will likely depend on what deck im choosing to play

Dinner with Josh everytime

do you think ultimate slayer is playable in this format?

That's exactly the playmat that I've been looking for... does anybody know where I can buy it??

Even though I am currently testing Runick Forest in prepartion for INFO and initially felt a deep level of pain losing Baronne, I do really appreciate how it's pushing people to test new lines. Despian Lulawilith and even Centur-Ion Legatia make for super funny interactions I wouldn't have considered before.

My only thing is decks where more than half the deck is non-engine can use both so those decks I think will use a mix of both and if they can't stop you from playing they'll use Dark Ruler or Forbidden Droplets on you to try and seal the deal.

As a yubel player, it helps that im playing a lot of tribute cards like kaiju/Lava golem, good spot removal that then i can attack into for my win con

I think the only problem on playing board breaker is branded, only good one is droplet againts him and if they full combo is still hard

Okay so i will just play a deck that can go second and extend like crazy... kashtira + punk + gold pride

I think ABC will be in a really nice spot once we get wave 2 Vaalmonica if we're in a board breaker format since they can end on Appo + Regulus and if they nib before you appo you just float with your ABC names and on ABC with 1-2 card Immunities. the deck having a really bad choke point on AFD or losing to droll. The Vaalmonica engine finally making proactively equipping names to ABC relevant is really cool.

For me it looks like a Solid mix with ash, imperm,nib and ruler in the main deck does the job. And then other things like evenly, ghost ogre and veiler in the side and ur gucci? No clue man i think its good

diddy kong racing theme goes hard.

I might go back to playing on master duel if this ban comes to there.

Going second Dragunity Tenpai is going to go hard. Dragunity Whirlwind is such a good going second card, finally get to main deck it and play going second, my favorite llaystyle

On your Point of not knowing which FK SE lines play around Nibiru. A lot of common lines simply summon Flamberge Dragon by summon 5 and then proceed to make Apolllousa OR Garunix to pop Arvata, link into Princess to bring back Arvata before they link off flamberge Dragon.

Anyone think the new endboard is just gonna be two hand rips from omega and Dis pater... Still better than having omni negates in the game but still kinda tough.

I'll probably end up sticking with my 60 card 3 pile that runs just extenders since any two 3s on field is Goblin combo and Goblin combo gets you to all the other 3 engines (save for punk), meaning that most hands can push through just about anything, except droll, or nib, in which case if it resolves I will simply cry

if pure snake eye remains as the best deck, hand ripping two with omega. We are probably gonna be headed back to a ht format

I always hate formats where droll is mandatory, so this makes me happy

I like board breakers that are non interactible like sphere mode,kaiju, divinecarnate, super poly, and ultimate slayer. Ultimate slayer is especially nice if you pitch a n'tiss to pop annoying floodgates. Skill drain? No prob effect activates in gy so it doesn't matter

Why does nobody remember D.D. crow? Its really good because it can hit spell/traps

great video

Im still running Ash x3, Veiler x3, Mourner x3 and Ogre at 3 while still having Talent at 3 and having LS at 2 in my side deck.

Didn't realize it was posted 10 mins ago, am I a fiend?

I’ve been running salad (which sadly does suffer with nib) but i love the non-engine space it provides. Im currently Main Decking: Thrust x1 (im broke) 2 Talents 2 Ash 2 Droll 2 Crow 2 Cosmic 2 Imperm 1 Called By Siding: 2 D Barrier 2 Materialization 2 Soul Release 1 Change of Heart 2 Mourner (time card duo) 2 Dogwood (time card duo) 2 Nib 2 L Storm

FK can play Dullitle Chimera to make Appo before you commit to the FK cards that might be the main route round Nib

I played board breakers only going second and went undefeated with voiceless

I like Imperm, Forbidden Droplet, Super Poly, Talents. Cards like Evenly Matched and Lightning Storm are bad, except against backrow decks.

Book of Eclipse should have a mention

So, as a Madolche player, i can say that Queen is my board breaker, [2 non target shuffles] so i have to play hand traps to stop my opponent from trying to stop her. I guess Nib counts as a board breaker hand trap right?

damn that magical spring was big

Infernoble sounding nice again

Almost seems like they want board breaking cards and handtraps to be more like an engine/kit. Less about innovation in deck building and more about optimizing in-game interactions.

aka Pankratops is still good, right?

Yay

with generic omni negate gone, i wish in-archetype negate will see more play, really hope altergeist get more recognition

running 12 handtraps and 3 droplet . so far so fine ^^

i hope these changes come to md

Watch the list of top 16 Runick plunder JOSHH

ty boss

I had hand traps for hand traps

playin it safe means for me 3 ash, three imperm, three talent, three fenrir. After that we will have to see what makes most sense.

Yo Centur-Ion is coming up! Board destroyer like Harpy feather duster, Raigeki, Lightning storm etc. Are useless against it, You need a card like Super poly or Forbidden droplet to shutdown 'em completely

Purrley goes crazy

I think this Format Kashtira and they are winners this meta for sure because they can run as many hand traps as they need to influence their opponent so they can't get more than 1 or 2 big boss monsters and then they can use Nibiru, Dark Ruler, and whatever else they have at their disposal to bust through and otk you. They have so much for non-engine that you can make them good going first and going 2nd and because you barely need your extra deck you can use Prosperity up to twice per game to search for non-engine and engine pieces. This deck technically doesn't it normal summon so Lava Golem is 100% on the table. I mean think about Rise-Heart, Scareclaw Kastira, and Tearlaments Kastira aren't restricted the same way Fenrir is so you can use them Kashtiratheosis and Wraitsoth to not need your normal summon. I think ban list favors them enough solidify them as a tier 1 strategy. The reason why Forbidden Droplets works so well in Kashtira is because of the way they are designed you barely need your hand you summon Fenrir or Unicorn, they search for the card you need, and then you generally don't need the rest unless your trying to push for extra deck plays.

Playing Handtraps since they are best in Tenpai Dragons :)

At first, I was sad for the baronne ban for my VW brave deck, but honestly if my engine becomes better that might be a nice trade, I just need to pay more attention to nib now (I hate that card)

I hate that were still talking about branded "with gimmick puppet nightmare" I get that some people think a deck shouldn't be a top deck for 2 years, but I feel like without that toxic floodgate stuff it's a really fun and interesting deck. It has a lot of counterplay. It's endboards are interactive too. And because it's been a deck so long, there's lot's of resources out there.

Sounds to me like snake eye is a little too strong tbh

I will still play Gren Maju...thats for shure xD

Uhhh i choose floodgate with boardbreaking defense

Branded Despia beats evenly,lighting storm, and nib

Baronne and Savage were not heavily played in pure snakes wasnt until the end of the format ppl would play them, but its not baronne or savages fault. Konami hit Baronne cuz Tenpai. Why hit Baronne then release a generic rank 10 Negate secret lol. 1 omni Negate was not the issue at all lmaooo i could have 3 baronnes ans 2 savages and snake eye would play through it, the problem is snake eye being a easy link climb was the problem and continues to be the problem. i dont think anyone on earth thought a swordsoul end board was too broken it needed a ban. You ban orginal sinful spell and the format wouldve FAR healthier. Dont like Konami banning cheap mass printed cards after years of a 100 dollare pay wall when WE ALL KNOW snake eye is the issue.

I wouldnt say evenly ls etc punish overcomitting as much as they just punish you for playing the game

Baronne and savage were great hits. Nib is great again.

I have doubts about banning Barone and Savage will change much of the negate meta. Players who relied on negates will find other suitable negates to replace them. Thought, I agree with you on Tactics and Talents, those will still be very strong and they are the ones I thought about playing the most.

sycnro best deck

I only just thought of how much worse TY-PHON is because of this banlist

la verdad me gusta jugar ambas hantraps mas board

Nib is a board breaker. Change my mind.

Choices are great

Super poly to me is one of the best especially since Hero players like me it's so good in our deck

Play a deck that can search secret village of the spellcasters 😂

I'll probably play a mix like have been. I'm so skilled at the game that I was using Dark Ruler No More before the ban list because I almost always made the decisions with the best when it came to my interruptions after and before using Dark Ruler when I get dialed in I almost always play the perfect game and so I could win with almost any deck in the game that could make at least 3 interruptions so long as I had Dark Ruler or Kaiju's to make sure I had the cards to break the boards certain decks I would be playing couldn't break. What helped me get into the game was anime and access to online simulators. Because I've watched the anime since duel monsters I already had a good foundation going into the game and I have a keen sense for whats good. But having KZfaq as a resource allowed to learn of the existence of certain cards faster. Eventually would have figured it out after losing. But because I had content creators like you and the Cali Effect I didn't have to lose to find out about the cards I lost to after searching through the games entire card pool. You can use Dark Ruler, Lava Golem, and Forbidden Droplets and they'll almost never be able to respond to Dark Ruler and Droplets and if you combine that with 3 copies of Shifter the games become incredibly unfair.

mmmm ketchup cards

While I am happy Fleur and Borreload are out, I would still like to see a format that requires brain power and long term thinking. You can't get much depth when every game ends turn 2

Currently at YCS Raleigh. The answer is 100% hand traps. Always hand traps. Very glad I made the right call today. I'm on pure and played through every board breaker that got thrown at me lol

cant wait for tenpai to be in masterduel

Does this mean turn 2 will be giga op?

I love the "catch up" Description for evenly and storm not that the game is pretty much over for the player getting hit by them😂 like imagine telling a trap player hey now that I lightning stormed your 5 sets we are caught up or someone that has all their monsters in atk a link deck for example now we are on even grounds buddy 1-2 cards on your hand to my 5 😂😂😂 Could use a better term in my opinion

If you don't Nib them Centur-Ion can now put up 1-2 Omni-negates by the opponents main phase 1. That's a good thing. Good luck banning Cosmic Blazar Dragon. It's not once once per turn anything lololol.

I'm glad Baronne is gone, this is great

If it's up to me, my dino ftk will get spread everywhere and the format will be absolutely terrible. We will get Fusion Gate banned.

We need more cards like the Bystials. Solid archetype that searches and recycles itself, while being both handtraps and boardbreakers. Hopefully, the new "Minn C" archetype is a similar style of cards. And shoutout to Imperm, probably the best "single card" hand trap in the game. Stopping a combo player's key effect might make the whole game a breeze, and most are reliant on at least one monster effect on the field. Plus, it plays around Talents + Thrust. Kinda thinking one of the best choices is just gas, gas, gas. Not many decks can push so hard, but if every card is a wincon, the negates will run out, eventually. Maybe..

The amount of people calling for generic cards like Baronne to be banned suddenly deciding Baronne is actually based and makes their garbage pet deck playable because it was made insanely cheap by the Rarity Collection is just laughable. The entire discourse around banning these cards hinges around a bunch of budget players not liking the fact that they only got 6 months to play with their $3 Baronne even though the card could’ve been banned 2 years ago. The other bit of discourse is people complain that Apollousa is still around, even though this video hit the nail on the head exactly in that Apollousa isn’t that good when it’s alone. Hence why it wasn’t played until MR5 made synchros playable again so that Savage could protect it. The thing came out July 2019. As in, it was playable the entire time during TOSS since that format didn’t end until the January 2020 list killed all 4 of those top decks. A single Imperm answers Apollousa. A single Talents answers it. If it wasn’t made with IP then every single board wipe also deals with it. It’s also laughably easy to run over in battle, especially now that there’s no Linkuriboh to give it not-quite-battle-protection. If you want to sink most of your board into a 3 material Apollousa then be my guest. The thing has only ever been a problem when Omni negates existed to protect it. Hell the one time it was playable during MR4 was when we had Agarpain cheating out Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss. Because, again, Apollousa is only ever a problem when it has an omni negate protecting it.

I really enjoy this discussion, but I do think your evaluation of Super Poly and Droplet are a bit dismissive. A lot of decks have flexible interactions that rely on responding to your opponent, even if they're not direct negates, or protection from destruction/targeting effects, and having functionally unrespondable interaction at quick effect speed is always extremely powerful. Obviously they're not for every deck-like you said, Super Poly is hard to justify in decks that possess a tight ED, and some decks can't justify discarding or sending cards to grave for Droplet-but they're a real force to reckon with in decks that can afford it

I already play a deck that can handle all three of the best board breakers (Evenly, Nibiru, Storm) effectively... MORPHIN TIME!!!

Fenrir just get princess pop and that’s it. I think Fenrir isn’t that good rn

Neither.

Early bird