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[quiet tiger]

arent your salads playable in it though

since they're an anime deck

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Gazelle is at 1

[faint wraith]

The exodia deck is the best loaner. Meanwhile Lyrilusc is an anime deck so I've just been sticking to my strengths.

[safe magnet]

Stallio was also not there I think

And Princess is banned

[quiet tiger]

what about... gimmick puppet

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Fire Kings are gone too

[quiet tiger]

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Also not playable

[faint wraith]

The new support is probably banned

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Exodia is the best deck for the event

[quiet tiger]

millennium?

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Ye

[faint wraith]

I have yet to lose a game to exodia with Lyrilusc when I didn't brick

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The FTK is also fully legal for some reason

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In the event? Your cards aren't hit? Lucky you

[faint wraith]

Yeah we're an anime deck

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Oh yeah, Cyberse is also just left nearly untouched

[faint wraith]

From arc v

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Salads are a VRAINS deck, but we're hit

[faint wraith]

Even one of our typical endboard pieces of UDF is only limited

[safe magnet]

We have Gazelle at 1 and some other hits, shit hits hard

[faint wraith]

And without handtraps I can easily make a monster negate + a 3-5 special summon bounce thay can't be targeted + follow up

[faint wraith]

Maybe cause they knew how strong salads are

[safe magnet]

They are strong, but without Princess it's a meh

Code of Soul is also gone too I think

[faint wraith]

I'll be honest I think they just forgot about Lyrilusc

[safe magnet]

Likely

[faint wraith]

Melodious is unhit I think though

Actually no ostinato and first movement are limited

It's kinda crazy how some of Lyrilusc's best cards are the ones that just don't get used in the anime (recital starling, ensemblue robin, celestine wagtail, and beryl canary never show up)

Oh and Promade Thrush but I tend to forget she exists honestly-

[safe magnet]

I mean, Soulburner didn't have Balelynx which is honestly crazy to imagine

[faint wraith]

The link 1 that searches the field spell?

[safe magnet]

Ye

The best Link 1

El gato

[faint wraith]

Ah. I forgot if there are any handtraps in particular that impact salads (aside from the obvious shifter). Lyrilusc definitely has a couple standouts though.

[safe magnet]

Imperm is in the game mode for some reason

[faint wraith]

Yeah someone impermed my warbler and I freaked out for a sec, but luckily I had bird call and cobalt in my hand so I just kept playing like nothing happened.

Thankfully, droll is banned as Lyrilusc just has to end their turn or if they can just do nightningale pass to stall for a turn.

[faint wraith]

Exodia players activating exodia's effect when I swing at them with recital starling never gets old

[faint wraith]

What was he cooking?

[raven fable]

whats your definition of maining

[faint wraith]

Your favorite deck that you just won't drop no matrer how powercrept it gets (or like the one you play the most)

[raven fable]

i have quite a few of those

[faint wraith]

Do any of them work in the event?

[raven fable]

i dont think so, havent touched md in a bit

was mellfy in anime?

i am pretty sure ojama was at one point

[faint wraith]

If it's a deck that appeared in the anime it's viable for the event (though certain decks do get hits)

[faint wraith]

Ojama definitely was

[faint wraith]

I dunno about melfy

But even decks who's screentime was very limited (such as Lyrilusc that had two duels and one of them only had lyrilusc for like two turns before swapping over to fusion parasite stuff) are valid

[raven fable]

hungry burge sure wasnt

i doubt yonsenju and nemlaria was in anime

but yosenju could be one

[faint wraith]

Not nemlaria, but Yosenju was

Sylvio used it in arc v for a couple duels

[raven fable]

nice

should try pure yosenju

[faint wraith]

Arc V had a LOT of absolutely banger decks that were used. But people forget about them because Exodia is the first thing they see and a lot of people didn't actually watch the show

Melodious, Fluffals, Speedroids, Phantom Knights, Predaplants, Lyrilusc, Flower Cardians, Yosenjus, Abyss Actors, the list goes on and on

[raven fable]

theres lot of niche decks that either seen or never seen the light of being even rogue

[faint wraith]

Superheavy Samurai and Ancient Gear are in arc v too

[raven fable]

most of those seen some competetive play

[faint wraith]

Like I said. Absolutely banger archetypes and decks

I don't think it originated in arc v but gladiator beasts had a duel in arc v as well

Sylvio used monarchs for a single duel as well (Sylvio went through a few decks)

[raven fable]

theres lot of cool decks i wanna try but id have to spend UR

like abyss actors

[faint wraith]

Lyrilusc is very cheap. For the archetype itself there's only 2 ur cards, with one of them being a 2-3 of and the other being a 1-2 of. Then there's the honorary mention of UDF but other than that all other urs are tech cards (like Linkuriboh and Zeus)

[raven fable]

also world chalice looks like good play

but its a old deck

so any good decklist within 3 years is hard

[faint wraith]

Cobalt Sparrow: Searches any lvl 1 winged beast on special summon and if used as material the wind xyz monster that uses it gains protection from targetting (even if cobalt is detached). This card is N rarity.

Saphire Swallow can summon itself and another lvl 1 winged beast from the hand if you control any winged beast, helping to trigger the other bird's effects. If you use it as xyz material, you can attach an extra lyrilusc monster from your gy to the monster you summoned. This card is N rarity.

Turquoise Warbler can summon itself if you control no monsters, and if it's special summoned from the hand in any way you can ss a lyrilusc monster from your hand OR gy. This card is N rarity.

Beryl Canary can target a lyrilusc monster in your gy and summon itself and that monster. If used as material, the monster gains 200 attack and control can't switch (making it immune to stuff like talents and change of heart). This card is R rarity.

Celestine Wagtail searches any lyrilusc spell when special summoned, and if it's in your gy you can target a lyrilusc xyz monster to attach it to that monster as material. This card is SR rarity.

Lyrilusc - Bird Call searches or send to the gy any lyrilusc monster from your deck and then allows you to special summon a lyrilusc monster from your hand with a different name than the added or sent monster. This card is SR rarity.

Those are the main deck cards that are used in every lyrilusc deck. There are a couple spells and a trap but they're almost never used. Now for the extra deck monsters

[raven fable]

birb

you dont have to do this

[faint wraith]

Recital Starling is probably the star of the deck. It takes 2+ level ones to make (not just lyrilusc or winged beast monsters, just level 1s), and it can detach a material to search any level 1 winged beast monster and is a soft opt. Meaning you can summon multiple to use it's effect a bunch. And it's search allows you to search D.D. crow so that's pretty neat.

Assembled Nightningale is either an otk tool or a zeus pilot. Like recital, it just needs 2+ level 1s to make. It gains 200 attack for each material it has, and can attack a number of times per battle phase up to the number of mats it has. Also, it can just attack directly. Another fun little effect it has is to detach a material at quick effect speed and make it so for the turn, lyrilusc monsters you control can't be destroyed and you take no battle damage. That's right, no battle damage in general. You are guaranteed to live a turn if you resolve this. This card is sr rarity.

[faint wraith]

I want to do it

You must know the power of the birds

[raven fable]

i respect it

[faint wraith]

Promade Thrush is probably the weakest of the extra deck monsters, but it's by no means bad. It has a soft opt effect to detach a material to target and shuffle a backrow into the deck. It's second effect is that during the damage step, when another monster you control battles, you can detach any number of mats and the monster battling gains 300 attack per mat. This works best with assembled nightningale as that leads to an exponential amount of extra damage. This card is sr rarity.

I also forgot to note in recital's paragraph that both you and your opponent take damage from battles involving it. But if you use Assembled's effect, only your opponent takes damage. This makes recital otks incredibly consistent.

Finally, Ensemblue Robin. Your go-to interaction for a going first endboard. She gains 500 attack for each material she has, and whenever your opponent special summons a monster, you can detach a mat to target one of them and bounce it to the hand. This is NOT once per turn, and if you have cobalt sparrow and beryl canary as mats for her, she becomes untargetable and can't be stolen with like talents. And if she leaves the field from an opponent's card, you get to add a lyrilusc monster from your gy to your hand. You want to stack as many mats on her as possible to essentially forbid your opponent from special summoning. This card is UR rarity.

Honorable mention to Utopic Draco Future! The normal combo line usually has us make two recital starlings that don't have anything to do, so you overlay them into utopic future, and then that into draco future for a monster negate!

The typical Lyrilusc end board through maybe a couple hand traps is UDF plus a 3-5 mat robin (for 3-5 special summon bounces) plus follow up searched from recital starling.

Or if you already had stuff for follow up you can be silly and search d.d. crow

[raven fable]

okay thats cool

what does it loose to?

[faint wraith]

Droll and lock bird

And shifter.

And nibiru depending on if we've used beryl canary or not

I hate that stupid rock

Anyway for droll and shifter you just gotta hope you have the mats for assembled nightningale pass so that you stall for a turn

The deck is pretty good at playing through disruption so as long as they don't make like an insane board you're good to otk them next turn

Going second variants play like lava golem and kaijus to help with the otks.

Cause the deck doesn't need the ns

[raven fable]

cool

oh yeah was both live twin and unchained in anime?

[faint wraith]

Live twin was not but I don't know about unchained

[raven fable]

damn

yknow SPYRAL is legal

[faint wraith]

It is?

[raven fable]

yes

the whole archetype just legal

not a card limited or semi limited

[faint wraith]

Who the heck played Spyral in the anime-

[grizzled coral]

Heard predaplants kinda cooks in the event

[raven fable]

THEY WAIFUD ROTA?

[faint wraith]

Yep. Sky striker rota

[grand cave]

One sec

[raven fable]

it has been 10 minutes

thats like 600 seconds

[faint wraith]

When the exodia player attacks recital starling with 10k attack and he explodes

[raven fable]

cant wait for argostarts to hit md

[faint wraith]

Who?

[cold grotto]

the useless archetype that got released in suda

[quiet tiger]

@safe magnet

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https://tenor.com/view/angry-bird-злая-птица-gif-11035121084204696939

[raven fable]

its a bad archetype BUT the whole thing of this archetype its cards is named after japanese WW2 fighter aircraft

they waifud figther aircraft

we know theyre getting another support

dont remember in which pack though

[grizzled coral]

ALIN prob

[safe magnet]

yeah, and it's a good generic warrior searcher

[faint wraith]

Watching swap frog go from 1 to 3:

[raven fable]

why was swap frog limited again?

[faint wraith]

Spright stuff I think with Toadally Awesome

[north robin]

Im happy Swap is back.
He’ll be a great asset for my Ice Barriers

[faint wraith]

Yo guys we found a way to make Tenpai kinda skillful

[grizzled coral]

striker

[faint wraith]

Using the striker cards makes me feel so smart because it turns enemy endboards into a puzzle to solve

[grizzled coral]

ye its fun

i love striker and always been a fan of going 2nd decks

but then tenpai comes out and i never wnat to play one again

[faint wraith]

It's much more fun than the wombo combo go first make a giant board of negates cause you're not just doing the same combo over and over with slight variations depending on getting handtrapped.

Tenpai was originally boring for me cause it was the same thing over and over but adding striker makes it much more fun cause you feel like you earned the otk

Striker tenpai isn't "easy wins" cause unless you open a bunch of blowout cards plus chundra or something you have to think about how to use your disruptions (like in the video my plan was to have Kagari eat the baronne negate, then chain the spell to make her unaffected. It's just that imperm kinda fucked that play over.)

[cold grotto]

"Earned the otk"

Me when I spam a bunch of worthless cards to bait out interactions then normal summon paidra

Wow you really just played insane

You might be the best player in the world I think

You played really well to out the board with... 1 negate

[faint wraith]

Yeah I know I'm proud of it

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https://tenor.com/view/master-duel-yugioh-ancient-gear-ancient-gear-best-deck-gif-5708276575575246727

The actual going second deck that requires skill

[cold grotto]

Its the same shit as tenpai

At least statue is coming next set

[grizzled coral]

Nah 💀

I would say ancient gears is less skillful

Tenpai atleast requires knowledge of the battle phase and damage step

[faint wraith]

The skillful part of striker tenpai is using the striker cards to break the board. Then you normal summon Genroku and the brain shuts off

[safe magnet]

It sadly doesn't run 20 non engine while being able to splash Fiendsmith and Bystials in itself while also having the advantage of being a dragon and having an extra deck board wipe. Tenpai also just takes way less skill because a single searchable card makes them completely immune to everything. You actually have to think about how you'd want to approach an already established board and not just spam 3 Dark Holes paired with other handtraps. Not to mention that it has way more bricks too while also not being able to produce as much damage as Tenpai. Playing Ancient Gear requires way more knowledge about what the opponent's playing and also it requires you to think about how you'd want to trade cards in order to remove any interruptions. Fortress is a great card, but it doesn't always win you the game. Nibiru is an issue, Shifter could be problematic and also many times you're forced to approach the game only with engine. Tenpai throws 4 handtraps at you and normal summons Paidra

[safe magnet]

Oh yeah, making a level 10 in Main 1 totally requires that knowledge... You literally just have to activate Chundra and you win. Ancient Gear only shuts down monster effects, not the opponent entirely

Ancient Gear also has a worse Turn 1 board compared to Tenpai too so that's another disadvantage

Can't run stuff like Raigeki and Dark Hole cuz it requires the opponent to have monsters for a ton of their effects

[faint wraith]

Tenpai throws 4 handtraps at you and normal summons Paidra

That's why I run board breakers, and I lean a lot more into striker cards. The only blowout cards in my deck are duster and one raigeki. The rest are targetted interuption that you need to think about how to use well.

I have a replay against white forest that does a better job of forcing out and playing through disruption.

[safe magnet]

Also Tenpai has 4 monsters 3 of which are full combo. Ancient Gear has like 7 that are played and only 2 are full combo, the others are 2 card combos

Saying that Ancient Gear is the same as Tenpai or doesn't require more skill than it is simply incorrect

[safe magnet]

Yeah, Sky Striker takes skill, but when you go into the Tenpai part it just becomes linear and brainless

And that's entirely because Ancient Gear, Striker and Watt (if you wanna count that) are simply way more restrictive than Tenpai

[safe magnet]

And way less consistent

[faint wraith]

I was toggled off so the opponent didn't know I had ghost belle. And they probably didn't use called by on it cause they thought they had enough disruption.

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Lmao the immediate surrender after Chundra hit the field

[faint wraith]

It's always funny when you do everything with striker and then a single tenpai card hits the field and they scoop

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I wonder why

[faint wraith]

Makes it so I don't have to do the boring part of this deck (actually playing tenpaj)

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True

[faint wraith]

Here's my list. Only a couple handtraps and very few blowout cards.

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Smashing Ground?

MST?!

[faint wraith]

Budget :3

Can't afford goblin

So I'm using more one for one board breakers

[safe magnet]

I see

You should try Dark Hole

It's an SR

Good Three of to have

Or Cosmic Cyclone, also an SR

[faint wraith]

Maybe cosmic cyclone.

I don't want to use a ton of big blowout cards. As you said, spamming 3 dark holes isn't fun.

Part of what I do with mst is without upstart it can be a bit harder to get spells in the grave if the opp has no backrow, so I use a spell of mine and then chain mst to pop my own spell

Then both mst and my spell are in the gy

[raven fable]

i got reminded that the crooked cook beats tenpai

only if i knew when it was at its peak

[grizzled coral]

if beating it means living 1 turn u may aswell play waboku

[raven fable]

its about dominance, waboku might annoy them but crooked cook will destroy them mentally

[grizzled coral]

[cold grotto]

This is insane levels of cope for a turn 2 ignore the game and otk deck

[safe magnet]

If you're so confident that it's so easy why don't you try playing it and seeing for yourself

Considering how uninformed you are you're quite ignorant

[grizzled coral]

it is easy man 😭

idk

like its still just tenpai

[safe magnet]

.... How is it Tenpai??? The only things the two decks have in common is that they're OTK decks and multiple attacks?? Literally nothing else about the deck is remotely close to Tenpai

[grizzled coral]

the tenpai cards in the deck

pure striker is hard sure

but not striker tenpai

striker tenpai is just interaction bait into tenpai otk

[safe magnet]

Oh are you talking about Striker Tenpai.. yeah it's like Tenpai

I thought that you were talking about Ancient Gear

[grizzled coral]

oh im dumb

i still think ancient gear is easy tho

just because a deck is bad

doesnt mean its hard

[safe magnet]

It's not as easy as Tenpai for sure, also a single wrong action and you can't OTK, you have multiple lines and are still susceptible to non targeting removal, you actually have to think when going into a board. Its engine also isn't that bad, but like, Fortress doesn't win you the game

Unlike Tenpai you still die to: Nibiru, Droll, stuff like Mirrorjade, Superpoly, Spheres. You can't really interrupt the opponent much on their turn so you gotta wait for them to build their board, then you have to crack it to even start playing

The restrictions of the deck also make you think about sequencing and resource management

[grizzled coral]

dying to more stuff doesnt make a deck hard

^^

the knowledge required to play tenpai at a high level is much more than ancient gear imo

[safe magnet]

... It does when the whole idea of the deck is to go through those stuff..

[safe magnet]

... Have you not watched YCS show matches where Tenpai players would constantly make the dumbest mistakes and still win?

Against Tenpai you simply can't interact with them in any way in Main or in the Battle Phase, you can still interact with Ancient Gear, Fortress isn't the end of the game

[grizzled coral]

People win YCS's making dumb mistakes on every deck

^^

[safe magnet]

... True, but also compare Tenpai to Ancient Gear in terms of their combo:

- Tenpai: Always does the same and every card in their engine but a one of leads to the same. They barely have to think about anything as they're protected from nearly everything, have removal options, barely restrict themselves in any way shape or form and have enough space to run 20 non engine with Fiendsmith and Bystials

- Ancient Gear: You have multiple lines of both one card and two card combos that all lead to different end board all of which require you to think and play around interruptions having to consider how many cards your opponent has in hand and other factors, runs only a few breakers due to its lack of non engine space and has more restrictions

The difficulty of a deck is not only determined by the length and difficulty of their combos (which if I were to ask you you wouldn't manage to do after reading the Ancient Gear cards for the first time like you'd be able to with Tenpai), but from the format, their ability to set up something going first and how well they can play in different things + the things they have to account for

Explain to me how Tenpai: a deck literally made for people getting into Yu-Gi-Oh as a budget meta option, would be harder than a 10+ year old deck that has gotten several waves of support with a combo 3 times as long as that of Tenpai that has more restrictions and more weaknesses

[grizzled coral]

Combo length doesn't mean anything when it comes to difficulty, tenpai is a toolbox deck with hundreds of different lines, the idea that it always does the same otk is kinda just stupid also it doesnt see the field spell in like 90% of games so the idea that its uninteractable isnt really true. A deck being meta relevant means more options are explored and strategies. A deck being old and having 3 waves of support doesnt make it hard. If that were true blue eyes and DM would be the "hardest" decks in the game.

Having non engine slots doesnt make a deck "easy", using ur non engine properly and sequencing is what modern yugioh is about

[safe magnet]

First of all, with the field spell at 1 you still have 8 copies of it in the deck considering that it'd be what you search off of Paidra. Second of all, no, the deck isn't hard, using the generic engines this game has to offer is not hard. Third of all, yes it does the same every time. When have you not been OTKed by Tenpai making a Trident Dragion and attacking you three times for over 18K damage. Fourth of all combo lengths does play a part in the difficulty of a deck because you have to remember more things, sequence better and also you've got more choke points and ways to fuck up. Fifth of all, not having access to non engine makes the deck weaker, using a weaker deck against a better deck puts you at a disadvantage, winning with that deck becomes harder = the deck's difficulty rises. Sixth of all, I can tell you a few different lines of Tenpai, sure it has lines, normal Chundra, normal Paidra, normal Genroku, activate Summoning, activate Kaimen, those are its lines, which is not difficult to do. Seventh of all, no, the meta is not being explored at all, there is no exploration, there is a definitive way to play the current meta deck in the most optimal way and that is what people play, if anything exploration is only driven by people wanting more budget options of meta decks.

[grizzled coral]

trident barely gets summoned gang

like i just dont think u know much about the deck if u think trident dragion is getting summoned on the regular

[safe magnet]

... I literally have played the deck..

[grizzled coral]

ok 😭

[safe magnet]

How do you not manage to summon Trident..

Like it's so easy to get to?

[grizzled coral]

its not about not being able to

[safe magnet]

Well I mean I guess that what you said is true with all the surrenders the moment you start killing them, but yeah

You never get to go to the point where you'd summon it

[cold grotto]

I played it for the whole event a while back

Its a single linear combo

You legit either get your fusion with three attacks off and win

Or you lose

Its just walmart tenpai

Youre allowed to enjoy the deck

But thats what the deck is

[faint wraith]

[safe magnet]

... That's... literally the worse option...

Chaos Giant is your go to

You've literally played the deck wrong, especially considering that you've played it for some event with limited hand traps too and limited decks

[cold grotto]

It was the same deck with more bricks and less non engine

Into less meta decks

And shit still struggled

I think the deck is kinda fun but its objectively just a worse tenpai lool

[faint wraith]

Yo dragonmaids in duel links is pretty fun

[raven fable]

i dont think ancient gear is D/D/D

[safe magnet]

It plays way differently from it and is one of the first going second decks in Yu-Gi-Oh, but sure, call it that. It is still harder to play than Tenpai and actually takes some skill and knowledge to play

[safe magnet]

It's not D/D/D, but it's still a fairly complicated deck to play properly and consistently win with. Especially compared to Tenpai

[raven fable]

you are making it sound like its D/D/D though

[safe magnet]

I'm just saying that it's not as easy as they say it is

[raven fable]

every deck is easy lol

it just comes down to the deck knowledge

[safe magnet]

https://tenor.com/view/kronk-point-debate-argument-angel-gif-17274775

I mean yeah every deck gets easy when you learn it

[grizzled coral]

is the deck expensive

in md

[safe magnet]

Uhh. Yeah, it kinda is I'd say, probably a bit cheaper than Tenpai, but still has a buncha URs

Mostly the Extra Deck guys are expensive

[safe magnet]

Just checked how much exactly it is: 9 In engine URs and you need to craft breakers that are also URs

3 Statue 2 Dark Golem 2 Chaos Giant 1 Megaton 1 Ultimate are your URs

Then you've got 2 Storm 1 Harpie's 3 Droplet 2 Maxx C Charmies and the Tactics Cards as your other URs with rations that you can play around with

[raven fable]

yeah, so ancient gear can be as easy as tenpai

[safe magnet]

Once you learn it, but due to the time it takes to learn it compared to Tenpai it is harder

[faint wraith]

[plush star]

It's actually rather nice when Rush events are active in Duel Links. It means I have no qualms about not playing and taking a break from it.

[faint wraith]

Rush right now is just the gaia structure. Meanwhile speed has more diversity, but a lot of it are glue eaters (heroes)

[plush star]

At least in speed you can still safely play pet/rogue decks, and see success. I refuse to even touch Heroes.

[raven fable]

heroes is the type of the deck that will NEVER die, and so is blue eyes

they will always get support

[faint wraith]

Yeah. Even at low rank I got rocked by cyber dragons when they went first. They got 2 negates and I didn't really have a hand to play through interruption

[faint wraith]

Random thought about circular. Part of what makes it's first effect so good is that the targets it has can summon themselves from the gy. If they couldn't then circular wouldn't be a one card combo, and while it's still busted as it's a free special summon and also searches a spell, it wouldn't be as good without the targets it has.

[safe magnet]

I love this silly statue

[faint wraith]

Fliodgate spotted. Future opinions invalidated.

[safe magnet]

Damn

[faint wraith]

Minor spelling mistake. My own opinion invalidated.

[raven fable]

https://tenor.com/view/minor-spelling-mistake-spelling-mistake-gif-4898195786185830013

[faint wraith]

Dueled against the stupidest hero player of all time in bronze. Still proud of it cause my deck has no way to out swords of revealing light

[north robin]

Nice

[faint wraith]

Farfa sacrificed Beatrice to get Block Dragon back

[faint wraith]

ALL MY HOMIES HATE UMI STUN RAAAAAAH

[faint wraith]

Fair and balanced card. Shake my hand

[faint wraith]

There's a vaalmonica player in here, right?

[grizzled coral]

yeah

me

[grizzled coral]

[faint wraith]

Hallo. I'd like tips. I've been trying out Vaalmonica fiendsmith and it's really fun even without using fiendsmith stuff (more often than not I use the fiendsmith stuff to eat up handtraps)

[grizzled coral]

I've never really played with the fiendsmith stuff becaues i havent played MD in a while but i hit m1 on pure vaal with thrust build + sharv/yama package. mostly play it in tcg where i cant afford the fiends :(

[faint wraith]

What does the Sharvara/yama package do? I've seen it in decklists but I can't quite see what it brings to the table.

[grizzled coral]

lets u play around nib super easily

• because zebufera isnt a hard once per turn u can trigger her twice

by popping and reviving

[faint wraith]

First, how?

Second, on your second point are you using Yama as material for Zeb and then using an unchained trap to pop and then yama revive?

[grizzled coral]

• u can either draw with dugares or have bagooska in grave to revive on opponents turn which plays around imperm gooska

[faint wraith]

Oh right Baboska is a fiend so unchained can summon it

I like calling it Baboska

Also the low rank climb with Vaalmonica really has shown me that most low ranked players have never seen a tapir in their life

[grizzled coral]

so on the standard combo u have angello + selle + dimonno
normally u would either link into zeb + make SP to play around nib or just zeb + bagooska and pray they dont nib u.

With unchained u can make dugares and draw 2 or bagooska for grave setup (make the rank 4 with selle + angello) then dimonno + fiend rank 4 goes into yama search sharvara. yama link to zebufera. if they nib u on attempt to go end phase u sharvara pop zeb and then new chain revive zeb. if they nib u before u make zeb u can just go link spider -> make zeb. gives the deck some more layered interaction and plays around topdeck imperm zeb/gooska and nib

[faint wraith]

I see I see. I will try to remember that.

[grizzled coral]

[faint wraith]

Thank you for the tips. I will try to get the unchained package

[grizzled coral]

(idk if its still played post fiendsmith)

but i think its the best way to play pure

[faint wraith]

I saw people running both. And while you probably know this fiendsmith is extra good in vaalmonica becayse Demono is a light fiend, but an issue is that since Demono goes to the ed instead of the gy the best you can do with just demono is caeser which is still pretty good. We have Necroquip in md now so Demono or Lurie is a 1 card caeser (not quite enough for desirae or Apo but Caeser is still good)

[grizzled coral]

yeah i think most ppl use exciton or any rank 4 rly to link them off because xyz material still goes to gy

• exciton light fiend

[faint wraith]

I didn't think about that god damn

New my body is a machine meme

[grizzled coral]

my body is a machine that turns light fiend into nibiru the primal being

[faint wraith]

My body is a machine that turns two monsters into a token

[faint wraith]

Peak turn one Vaalsmith end board

[grizzled coral]

🔥

[faint wraith]

We love shitting on Floo

[grand cave]

Floo>snake eye fiendsmith tho

[faint wraith]

True. I can play into a Floo board (thank you bagooska) but I can't play into SEFS

[faint wraith]

Quote from an experienced Vaalmonica player in the md discord

"Angelo is trash, Dimonno is Caeser."

[faint wraith]

After an extremely close game against Kashtira (I was on 300 lp), I've managed to bring Vaalmonica from rookie to Diamond in 3 days.

[faint wraith]

Damn why is blue eyes kinda good now

[faint wraith]

Sera :D

[grizzled coral]

Sera :D

need to get qcrs

gz on the fuwas

[safe magnet]

That's a really good box. Phoenix Ulti goes hard

[cold grotto]

Yeah the qcrs + fuwas made back well over the cost of the box

Depending on how much they drop

[raven fable]

i need this, right now

[faint wraith]

I need it for Lyrilusc as level 1 support

[safe magnet]

They look really fun when paired with Mimighoul

[faint wraith]

She's possible to summon. I love my tower.

[quiet tiger]

Wait how did you have 2 normal summons

[safe magnet]

The first one was a Special Summon.. you can't normal in defense..

[plush star]

Turquoise Warbler special summons itself from hand when you have no monsters.

[quiet tiger]

Genuinely didnt even notice that

[faint wraith]

Yup. I just didn't activate it's effect so that I'd have it to use with Saphire Swallow.

And I played into Havnis for aura (I forgor)

[faint wraith]

No handtraps? Be afraid

[faint wraith]

We love Vaalmonica

[stable lodge]

yoooo peak deck

[faint wraith]

[safe magnet]

So true

[faint wraith]

Also I've been playing punk.

Paying lp makes me feel alive

[raven fable]

lp is useless if you dont get hit

[faint wraith]

True! And it lets you hit them really hard with PEP

Also I've been playing duel links with Invoked Shaddoll and the deck feels really fun

[faint wraith]

I heckin love floodgate (Winda, and then maaaaybr Caligula but I don't like summoning it because only being able to attack once annoys me)

[grizzled coral]

dead chat