I've heard that Yubel Chimera also works decently well, so that one might also be worth a try (if you have the cards of course).

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It certainly is. And you may pop your own Dark Tear monsters (which is everyone but Reino and Rulkallos) with Nightmare Pain to search. It did came up for me with only Light-Heart on the field, so I see it coming up in a Tear list too.

@@cognitivegrub0 yup. I've been eyeing Yubel as Tearlament support for a long time.. 😆 i know a lot of people hate Tearlament but I'm team Visas and I love all the Visas archetypes. I'll play any Visas archetype until Konami bans them. 😁 I'll be waiting your Yubelament.

I 100% agree! It is up to the user whether they want to free up the extra deck space (as without Stained Greaves, you will need to run at least 2 Break Swords) or the main deck space. I have often opted for the latter, but your option of running Greaves might be better!

That would be an awesome addition to the fleet!

It is definitely harder than either of the pure versions, but I would not rate it amongs the hardest decks currently in Master Duel.

It is now banned in the TCG but still very legal in Master Duel. I don't think that there is a 1-card combo without Linkuriboh for Altergeist at this given moment, but I'll try to find one (if there really is one). To other combo's are not strictly relient on Linkuriboh, so you can always perfom those.

Honestly, I just use Almiraj in place of Linkuriboh. For the most part it works, though you don't get the sneaky battle protection without Linkuriboh

@@JakeTheJay You are right! That would work mostly similar during our own turn, but we cannot use it like Linkuriboh during the opponent's turn (in the 1st combo, we cannot tribute off the just reborn Meluseek to trigger its search effect). So you would have a little less to work with. Edit: Meluseek does need to be normal summomed for it to be eligible to be linked off for Almiraj, so One for One will no longer be a starter for it. Relinquished Anima would then be a suitable target to go in to.

Purrely Spright even topped an event recently, so it is at least decent. Still think pure (with a lot of hand traps) is better, at least, pre-banlist. Will put Runick Branded on the list, but I do have a couple of other things planned first, so it might take a while.

Have a replay of a duel room (I am playing against myself, so I can assure my 'opponent' only does what I want it to do). Replay's ran directly from a duel room are with both hands visible.

Yep, great summary. Was really surprised about Vaalmonica's performance, especially because they aren't at full power yet and at full power in the TCG/OCG they weren't doing much. Regarding ZARC or Supreme King, a Supreme King package is much more potent in Pendulum Magician than on its own. Still outperformed by Vaalmonica's though.

If you have used Exosister Martha's effect (to special summon itself from your hand), you are locked into summoning Exosister's only for the rest of that turn, thus disallowing you to summon Utopic Future. If you managed to get 2 rank 4's on the field without using Martha's effect (or it is a different turn), you should be able to go into Utopic Future. Hope this helps!

@@cognitivegrub0 Thank you for Explaining 👍

@@Ahmed-Rafik Anytime! Glad I could help!

It is a rough one in this deck, as the ED is pretty tight. You can consider replacing the second Merrymaker (when things go well, you will shuffle the first one back to the ED anyway), or by replacing Apollousa. Instead of going into Apo, you can go into S:P for two possible interruptions (1 banish on summon, 1 temporary banish when a monster effect is used). Another option would be to forego on TD Colossus and go for Archnemeses Protoss instead, although I am not completely sure if you can summon it in this version of the deck.

Melffy Mommy can only attach beast-types to itself and Purrely and Purrelyly are both fairies, so I don't see that working.

@@cognitivegrub0i can use reprodocus to help but it's pretty resource consuming

Haven't played them in a while, but I quickly remembered why 😅. Crafted some Shifters for when Ritual Beasts get their update as Shifter can be used as a combo enabler in that deck. And since I crafted them, I thought this would be the best deck to (ab)use them, and they did put in some work (and I know, I could use them in other decks too).

@@cognitivegrub0 to be fair, I really don't like floo, and I especially dislike floodgates. Since shifter is a floodgate handtrap, it's the worst kind of card in my book. Floodgates you can get hit by even if they're not on board, even if you go first and it's your turn...

@@Wortigon2000 I am a little conflicted about floodgates. If you can build towards it with a multi-step combo having plenty of room to be disrupted, I think it is somewhat ok (think Vaylantz ending on Dyna). Floos main line being only 3 steps is a too little short in my opinion. I am a fan of 'floodgates' that limit both players during our own turn only, such as Gigantic Spright shutting down Nib for example. Don't think there are many others (can think off Marincess locks both players into water) What I heavily dislike are the no skill hand trap and or set and flip floodgates such as TBCOO, Skill Drain and also Shifter. There is no real skill and interaction with them. Just draw the out is not fun, but it is able to win against the meta, which I wanted to see for myself. Slight plus for the Floos, I do like their art.

@@cognitivegrub0 dunno man, the only floodgate I ever liked was "hidden villiage of the spellcasters", and I only ever used it in my Dark magician deck. Alternatively, as Black Winged Assault Dragon burns for 700 on every monster effect activation, having 3 of them on my endboard with blackwings could potentially count as a floodgate to an extent I guess, as it limits what my opponent can do, but not by directly saying "you can't activate cards" just saying "you're gonna be taxed on that"

@@Wortigon2000 To each their own I guess, but I can see where you are coming from.

Glad you've enjoyed it! The Banshee package is useful for any deck that has some stray level 4's and banishes some cards (Ritual Beast - after the new cards, is a deck I can think off). Also, for some decks, you may even go into Archnemeses Protos using largely the same engine (Flag can search it).

I know the feeling... but even more obnoxious? What did you add to this already quite dirty list?

@@cognitivegrub0 the list was a somewhat reduced bird package (3 Robina, 2 eagle, 1 toccan, 1 empen, trap and 2 monarch, no other cards honestly due to space and, well, cost), 9 monster floodgates, cards like dimensional guardian to be even more annoying and after that just a bunch of go 2 cards like change of hearts, storm and stuff like that. The idea was to start with Robina, combo and after empen ns a floodgate and call it a day

@@filippogamberini4026 That is dirty indeed. Was it consistent in setting up the birds though? I often had to rely on search cards to get me to Robina to start the birds from flocking in. Even ran 3 Jack in the Hands for this very reason (still do not like that card).

@@cognitivegrub0 I play other consistency card like pots and small world which works really well both like barrier statues to find Robina. It's not the best tbh, but it happens honestly more than expected. The big issue is like committing to a NS. If Robina gets negated, you're screwed

@@filippogamberini4026 Makes sense using Small World. And yeah, Robina negated usually means the end of it.

Glad I could help!

Thanks for the kind words! And if you want more elaborate SPYRAL combos, check out TwoTone's KZfaq channel. He is a SPYRAL wizard! - www.youtube.com/@TwoToneShoes

Made the two guides, which popped off (for some reason), but as I then wanted to make other guides it always ended up in the back of my mind. Over the past year, I've played Branded only a handful of matches as there is always that 'other', newer deckthat people want to see. I am stepping away from that, as I cannot keep up though. Also, I feel that I am not the greatest Branded player around (such as yourself), so it made sense to not play it as often. Still think they are very fun and very powerful.

Daiko Duke can special summon from the GY or from the hand, so you can always summon with the Duke. Also, if you have nothing better, you can normal summon it with RBS. It isn't ideal though. Also, if you have Dice + Taketomborg, you can use the double Taketomborg-line as a blueprint. That is the best a Dice in hand can do I'm afraid.

@@cognitivegrub0 thank you!

@@SirThanksAlot9000 Anytime! Glad I could help!

Plunder Infernoble... that is a combo I haven't heard before. Spicy! Where does the immediate synergy lie? I can see them working alongside each other, but not directly with each other.

@@cognitivegrub0 Believe it or not I ran up to it in solos under “Knights and Pirates” It’s great to fodder your pirates for att boost and also Phoenix Gearfried can benefit off of it. It’s a lot of activations to keep your opponent off guard but would love to see u try it tho. I’m really starting to love Patrol at first they were intimidating but I wanted to give it a try👍💯

Where do I see the build or combo for it?

@@alzathsweich check his playlist it has steps in individual archetypes and then just mesh wat u know through the two vids that u watch…it’s not t that hard. Read wat the cards do. It’s self explanatory. Yugioh not that hard😭

Tyvm!

The core list has: 3x Formud Skipper 1x any Scareclaw monster 2x Mecha Phantom Beast Coltwing (2 since you really do not want to see them in your hand) 1x any Mathmech (Diameter is the best as it could provide a negate temporarily) 1x Mathmech Circular 3x Parallel Exceed (currently limited to 2 though) 1x Galaxy Queen's Light 2x Cynet Mining 1x Mathmech Equation 3x Piri Reis Map 1x Reichphobia (the Scareclaw field spell) ED: 1x Dark Strike Fighter 1x Mathmech Alembertian 1x Galaxy Photon Dragon 1x Drill Driver Vespanato 1x Scareclaw Light-Heart 1x Barricadeborg Blocker 1x Auroradon Add more Mathmech's (or other level 4's that can special summon) to make it more consistent. It is still a gimmick, so don't expect to to overperform. It will give you some wins.

Is not even reaching above 50% winrate (at around 1% playrate) on ladder, so statistically not performing too well.

Pretty funny that I had a similar comment earlier today, but Supreme Pendulum is best used in Pendulum Magicians and is creeping up the ladder. Currently residing around the 12th spot, but if it continues to rise it might make the cut next month (unless they add another meta deck). Due to them having so much text, it is hard to fully understand/play and there are not many people playing it, suppressing its performance. It not showing on the list doesn't say all about this deck's strength. Overall, it just isn't performing as well as the top 10.

PenMa is around spot 12 and just missed the mark. Similar stats as Kashtira atm, which also didn't make the cut. Seems to be rising the past few days, so if that rise persists, they might make the top 10 next month as it is certainly not a bad deck. Similar as some other decks, it does need some experience to pilot correctly.

Thanks and you are right, it is brick city. If it wouldn't brick or could survive hand traps it would be the top deck of Master Duel. Nevertheless, when pulled off, it is almost a guarenteed win.

Thanks! You are too kind!

So am I, but these are statistically the best performing decks since the release of Lord of Dimensions. Superheavy Sams do have a proper winrate, but are hardly played (similar as @ignister which has a slightly higher win and playrate). Unchained is slightly above average in winrate but playrate isn't that great either. Also, neither has tournament tops over the past week.

Exactly! That is also what makes them fun imo.

Ban this shit

Absolutely! I love Drytron, but I wanted to start with a 'pure' version (as far as you can call it pure with the Impcantations - which I am definitely not sold on). Next to Drytron, I also have my eye on Magikey, to keep it quite spicy.

​@@cognitivegrub0 magikey is amazing in drytron

@@Goku-zu3rk Absolutely!

@@cognitivegrub0 Did you try out a little meklord engine? It also works surprisingly well and has good synergies if you know which to put in.

Even more extension! Nice!