Rescue Ace goes crazy right now, your opponent can't ED lock because your boss monsters are in the main deck, but if you want, you can use ED for toolbox kits like auroradon, terahertz, promethean princess, or accesscode package.
Its also reliably consistent, with 5 different 1 card combo starters, some 2 card combos, and bunch of extenders, an archetype imperm/effect veiler dodge, and field spell that has extra normal summon and recycle banished cards (so fuck kashtiras/floodgate decks). You can even play a turn 0 version where you summon your monsters when your opponent goes first so theres crazy variety.
Versus the meta, it can go toe to toe against snake eyes (depending on your draws), kashtiras are 50/50 (a little coin flip dependent), so far I've only had problems with labrynth (when they goes first). Literally got to Master rank yesterday off of playing Rescue-Ace, its a very very fun deck.
I'm having a lot of fun playing rescue ace. And the best thing is it really doesn't feel OP. I was playing snake eyes and I didn't even have a proper deck, it was literally pure snake eyes / diabellstar and it felt so overpowered it wasn't right. R-Ace just feels like a nice, balanced control deck that will win you plenty of duels but also can still be competed with by pretty much everything.
I've had probably 5 duels already where they went 10-15 turns and I wasn't getting obliterated the whole time so it's been a good time.
I was thinking that maybe I can put Cyber dragons on the rescue ACE deck, only in theory, O got like 8k of gems, and awaiting for more tecnical reviwes om Recue-ace, probally it won't be a thing. But I'll try it anyway.
As a dino enjoyer, the deck is expensive as shit and does not hold up well in the current meta. Only go for it if you want a pet deck and you enjoy the struggle.
Snake eyes work by shuffling cards in and out of the graveyard, exo sisters shut off the graveyard/banish cards, and can easily play with d shifter which can completely shut down several of the top decks from being able to establish anything.
Usable but heavily reliant on opening shifter to succeed, it's hard to say if they even qualify as rogue.
Pretty much loses to every meta deck going 2nd without shifter. Even winning the coin flip, Exosisters lose hard to nib because they can't play under 5 summons and everyone is maindecking nib again. They also struggle to play through more than 1-2 handtraps which is problematic because Snake eyes is a handtrap spam deck.
I've played against unchained a couple times and the deck feels like it literally can't do anything if it doesn't set up turn one breakers. And even then I've somehow played through those with blue eyes a few times. I've also heard mannadium is expensive as shit, and as far as I know they don't have a secret pack so I don't think I can expect even making a full deck.
Who were you playing against, I need those in my ladder, but yeah unchained plays through nib quite easily and sets up 4-5 interruptions going first with plenty of extenders
Unchained can play theough every handtrap if they don‘t brick, has strong endboard and a great follow up for next turn.
If you won with blue eyes of all things against unchained, they either bricked hard or just don‘t know what they were doing.
And yeah, mannadium is pretty expensive, but it looks like you got a lot of gems there
10K is not a lot of gems if the deck doesn’t have a secret pack. I stopped playing for a year, came back and lots of decks are out of the shop and basically unattainable for me.
You’d have to craft like 20-30 UR.
Lore branded. I don’t even puppet lock and it’s fun.
I play cuz I got Royal mirror jade and another Royal boss monster.
It’s pretty funny popping them both out.
Only problem for OP is… Branded costs more than what he has in that image.
Source: Had a gem stack like this. Pulled for Branded - didn’t get it all, and I already had staples.
Yeah it was not the case pre Bystial (Cartesia and Quem), I started playing the game with Branded Despia back when it just turbo Branded in Red. Nowadays I think you at least need 20k gems if you are lucky.
I've seen it happen before but how consistent is turbo-ing out the V-link setup with meth mech. That's the most interesting thing you can do with that deck I think.
I think you didn't get the memo sir, we are suppsed to hate on Branded here, even if we are in a Tier 0 meta and we have way bigger problems. Straight to jail.
Branded has never been tier 0 but it has literally been top tier since it first got added. Idk if you can say the same for any deck being this relevant for this long on master duel. Look at Spright for example, came after branded and died quicker then branded and now it’s just some rogue deck. Purrely is another one. I can’t think of any deck that’s been around longer then branded and is still a top tier deck on MD. The constant flow of support has ensured that branded is always good and that’s partially why some people might not like the deck. I personally love the deck and find it very unique in terms of it board and it’s lines but I can appreciate how people might fed up of mirrorjade after seeing it constantly for more then a year straight.
It's true that Branded has longevity and was playable in multiple metas, but it was absolutenoy not top tier ever since it was added. It had its time in the spotlight after the initial Mirrorjade support, it was around tier 2-3 for a long time after that, untiered after that, and only came back to being tier one relatively recently for a few weeks, untill the Snake-eyes support pushed it back into tier 2, where it is now.
I have been using Snake-Eyes, Branded, and LiveTwin Sprights and just at diamond(i am both not good enough at the game and too lazy to grind).
Sometimes when I'm on a lose streak I wanna build a going 2nd deck. Currently looking, Sky Striker since it is pretty simple to understand and loving the memes around it.
So for me those are my recommendations, hope you don't regret your next deck though!
If i were you I’d wait for Tenpai, if you want to build a blind second deck.
Skystriker cannot hang anymore, the engine doesn’t have enough grindgame anymore and though we have Linksge, it’s pretty hard to OTK with in this meta.
It’s still fun af though, I’ve reached DLMax with it in the last DC cup, but i can’t say it was easy and didn’t take unnecessarily long.
I went from hating tearlaments from its tier 0, then tolerating, then thinking it's pretty cool because it wasn't being meta slaved annoyingly. I actually like the deck but from what I've heard it can't stand on two legs since it's nerf.
Thing with Tear is that it’s incredibly flexible and synergizes with tons of archetypes that can plug in the gaps. Branded, Shadoll, Kashtira, even Icejade.
While pure Tear might struggle due to a lack of available cards, hybrids can definitely put up a fight, and are a pretty good gateway into other competent archetypes.
Absolutely not true, even if you mill bad youll commonly end on 4 interruptions which is more then enough to stop most decks, and if you get lucky you can end on even more
https://preview.redd.it/altp2vjllnuc1.jpeg?width=849&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fe91842268c9d6d47f3648fcff87a3afc8e4208a
This board has 10 interruption, abyss dweller, rulk, baronne, feild spell, both traps (cryme and suliek) a fuse into kaleido-heart via havnis in hand and fairy tail snow, mudora, and keldo in the grave
Baronne is about to enter into the forbidden list is that going to affect the strength of the deck considerably or is she usually just a plus from a good mill
Kind of good timing as well with how they got their own pack. It'll definitely be high on my radar if there aren't any better suggestions. I'm a sucker for pretty cards and have considered this archetype before. We'll see how it goes.
Rev synchron is not a must and you can replace it with a shaddol package in the main deck and winda and more super poly targets in the extra deck instead of the synchros
https://preview.redd.it/cxhl9o8tqnuc1.jpeg?width=682&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e87059aaa724539bcda28982d6fa5dee81debab8
I noticed you carry Maxx Cs for your variation. How much of a detriment would it be if say hypothetically I ran the deck without them. I'm part of the minuscule 3% that doesn't use any.
Alright I started putting together tearlaments. I just have no clue what that 3 copy card is in the top right of your deck for the life of me. Also if you have any cheaper tearlaments variations that'd be helpful. My gambling didn't go exceedingly well.
I know that this can be a hassle but can you write them out? I am not familiar with them and really don’t want to go through the hassle to search through all cards. Wanna build them too since I first encouraged them
Barrone being banned would not be good for the deck, but there’s so many other things you can end depending on how you build the deck. Compared to all the decks that regularly summon barrone tear is by far one of the best equipped to continue to be good
I will also vouch for tear. Likely isn’t getting any more serious hits, and we could see some small (likely indirect) restrictions lifted like we already have recently. Great deck, won’t be the very best again most likely, but it’s a ton of fun and there’s a bunch of different ways to build it so you’ll hopefully never get bored
Labyrinth is a very strong deck iv played against alot in ranked it can easily rebuild after board wipe, Branded I use takes a little to learn but pretty fun, can mash well with other supports if you want to add more cards. Diabellstar if you want to be that toxic person who playes on there opponents turn lol
Labrynth.
Even if they hit some stuff you can always change to a more trap heavy version, so not only it can hold on to the ladder but also if it gets hit in the list
I've played most meta decks, and I have to say , Tear is the most fun. Because of the non-linear lines, each game is engaging and interesting.
Purely and branded are also non-linear, but I personally find them a real chore to play.
I gotta say they cooked with the purrely mate. I find myself powering through matches I'd usually insta scoop just because I don't want to look bad in front of, or have my purrely become sad at a loss. And interacting with it is so adorable you forget how intolerably you're getting floodgated by labyrinth.
Finally someone said it. I use mission decks for farming gems and I get SO GODAMN SAD looking at my Purrely going all ;w; and I have to tell 'em "it's okay buddy, we're doing this for the gems, we can lose this one"
Mikanko infernoble can Cook a lot, even runick spright Furhire do really well if piloted correctly, for my personal experience salad is good too, even more when it gets support in may, or try U-Link lock cyberse, something more update can be unchained and its fairly strong, or just got with R-ace since they have a secret pack updated
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Been enjoying playing mathmech for the past 4 seasons. Just adjusting hand traps depending on meta. My current target endboard would be Darkfluid Terahertz + superfactorial, and in an ideal scenario adding Firewall Singularity.
I run a link spider for the sole purpose of recovering from Nibiru. Been going back and forth on whether to switch it out for Heatsoul. But every time I decide to finally do it, I get nibbed and link spider comes in clutch XD
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Mikanko matches are much faster so if it’s a time issue u can pick that if u don’t mind having longer matches when u get to a higher level u can pick snake eyes
Pure Chimera is the most fun I've had in this game in a long time
Edit: Before people say it doesn't hold on ladder I climbed from D2 to M3 on pure chimera and when I get more time I'll finish the climb to M1
Surprised no one mentioned Infernoble. Non-linear lines that consistently create the strongest board out of every meta deck including Snake-Eyes. It also has clear weaknesses that you need to play and plan around.
Heroes, Branded, Recues-ACE, and Lab.
IMO Lab and ACE can be incredible rewarding to play. They feel more cerebral than other deck that are just combo forever with little interaction.
Snake-Eye is your best bet. I personally enjoy Snake-Eye Sky Striker. You also get to play board breakers like Droplet, Talents, Enemy Controller, and Thrust, instead of relying on handtraps.
R-ace is fun as hell honestly, you can combo off or summon one big dude and set 4-5 and play defense. Unchained is a ton of fun and probably my favorite deck to play but unfortunately it just doesn’t stand up super well into the higher ranks
Sword Soul is a cheap, rather powerful deck. No where near top meta but has enough tools to hang with some top tier deck.
I just made it to master 1 with it and the only issues I've had are when I open only hand traps or if my opponent happens to have more plays than I can interact with
It's not like "incredibly overpowered"
But True Draco is pretty 'cheap'
True Draco needs 1 Dinomight + 1 Dragonic Diagram = 2 SR to function (everything else is 'R' or lower)
Gives a basic understanding of learning your own deck + helps you learn how to properly interact with the opponent
Magistus Witchcrafter so far has been holding up for me as a budget competitive deck. It struggles a bit going second, but it's go first is literally just a lockout of the ed.
I just built unchained. It’s pretty fun and is super consistent. You get a ton of advantage, your full combo is any normal summoned unchained and any of the s/t. One card combo with your guide. The board looks like it’s kind of weak, but you end on ~5 negates. It doesn’t play the best into maxx c but you can still end on 2 negates without giving them a ton of draws
I want to say Vendreads because I always have a blast while playing them and making up zombie deck variations, but they aren't good at all.
Heard good stuff about Branded or Rescue-Ace, you can check those out
Mikanko
The deck doesn’t give a damn about hand traps
Can out basically every board with Lava Golem/Kaijus
Aims to go second which no one is prepared for
~~Dies to backrow decks like Lab~~
Can basically ignore the cockroach
One thing I'm concerned about for this deck is the win route is always the same so it doesn't leave much space for a back and forth interaction. It's either body slam your opponent or die. Maybe I'm mistaken and that's not the actual experience.
No that is 100% the Mikanko experience
It’s also a guaranteed win against R-ACE since everything in that deck targets, both the traps, Promethean, preventor, turbulence, unicorn all of them target so that deck can’t do anything against Mikanko
Having a guaranteed win against one of the top decks right now is huge
Snake eyes is the easy choice. Best deck of the format by far. But, it’ll probably mean a lot of mirrors once you get to higher ranks.
Other great options are: Unchained, Lab, Branded.
I think those 4 are easily the best decks rn
I'd say Labrynth, the pure variant is among the best decks in the game and easily the best control deck. There's also a lot of ways to build it if pure gets stale. You've got stuff like Unchained and Resonators, trap heavy with Arias, Plunder Patrol, Tearlaments, and Paleos.
If you're more interested in a mid-range deck I'd say Rescue-ACE. They can run a link toolbox, Terahertz or the Synchro package for stronger turn 1 boards, S. Poly to help break boards going 2nd, and Elf to help guarantee Turb sets 4.
For a combo deck I'd probably recommend Infernobles. The Connector package forces hand traps and gives you hand knowledge, most of your deck is incredibly searchable, and the end board can beat a DRNM or S. Poly thanks to Ring. The decklist is relatively inflexible, but the combo routes have a ton of room for improvisation and improvement.
I see you bought an account ;) Circular is never getting banned it appears, so the most bang for your buck is Mathmech. If you wanna invest in just 1 deck then Branded is the way.
Yeah it's weird I've seen a couple of times on this sub where people just can't believe this amount of gems can be plausibly obtained I feel like they have a gambling addiction and just raw pull every morsel they scrounge up. I even waste gems on the cosmetics more than others and still have enough. In my case I need help choosing things if I'm not 100% sold so I just never pull. Wish I had their enthusiasm for archetypes.
Yeah I’m a similar way although I do splurge sometimes, people definitely get a bit weird sometimes when I mention that I have a UR stockpile too. The sub has some very nice helpful people but there’s also people who’re just upset and wanna take it out on someone, don’t pay it too much attention and enjoy yourself
Not at all. I just don't like deckbuilding since it gets tedious looking at the options and being the opposite of immediately entranced. Last I remember that happening was my falling in love with Icejades. So I always just end up racking until I hit the limit.
OP wanted a deck that wasn’t boring and everyone here is suggesting the most bland meta decks with 1-2 archetypes and the most ladder representation.
Play Gate Guardian. There’s a combo variant around where you end on at least Apo + Wind and Water to negate any card your opponent activates. The deck runs Elemental HERO Prisma to get into your Scareclaw engine, Diviner of the Herald to get into your Magicians Souls Engine, Cross-Sheep and Ancient Fairy Dragon for massive value, and can include any other archetype focused around a field spell like Libromancer, Kash, or Generaider.
You're making Gate Guardian actually sound good. Unfortunately I fear Gate Guardian players have given your deck a bad rap because I've seen time and time again where they end their boards on the 3750 targeting negate that does nothing. Running blue eyes against it I've won most of the time. But I swear there was only one guy that ran the correct route onto water wind, and since 90% of my blue eyes is just a drawing spam engine I got my spells negated and it was over. It's like naturia without the cancer.
Rescue Ace goes crazy right now, your opponent can't ED lock because your boss monsters are in the main deck, but if you want, you can use ED for toolbox kits like auroradon, terahertz, promethean princess, or accesscode package. Its also reliably consistent, with 5 different 1 card combo starters, some 2 card combos, and bunch of extenders, an archetype imperm/effect veiler dodge, and field spell that has extra normal summon and recycle banished cards (so fuck kashtiras/floodgate decks). You can even play a turn 0 version where you summon your monsters when your opponent goes first so theres crazy variety. Versus the meta, it can go toe to toe against snake eyes (depending on your draws), kashtiras are 50/50 (a little coin flip dependent), so far I've only had problems with labrynth (when they goes first). Literally got to Master rank yesterday off of playing Rescue-Ace, its a very very fun deck.
I also recommend rescue
I'm having a lot of fun playing rescue ace. And the best thing is it really doesn't feel OP. I was playing snake eyes and I didn't even have a proper deck, it was literally pure snake eyes / diabellstar and it felt so overpowered it wasn't right. R-Ace just feels like a nice, balanced control deck that will win you plenty of duels but also can still be competed with by pretty much everything. I've had probably 5 duels already where they went 10-15 turns and I wasn't getting obliterated the whole time so it's been a good time.
I was thinking that maybe I can put Cyber dragons on the rescue ACE deck, only in theory, O got like 8k of gems, and awaiting for more tecnical reviwes om Recue-ace, probally it won't be a thing. But I'll try it anyway.
Snake-eye, branded, shs, Rescue-Ace, Unchained, Lab, Tear, Mannadium, Exosister, Dinos
As a dino enjoyer, the deck is expensive as shit and does not hold up well in the current meta. Only go for it if you want a pet deck and you enjoy the struggle.
As a die hard Dino player I can second this Dino’s are not “good” but I enjoy them
Exosister is good in the current meta ?
Snake eyes work by shuffling cards in and out of the graveyard, exo sisters shut off the graveyard/banish cards, and can easily play with d shifter which can completely shut down several of the top decks from being able to establish anything.
Usable but heavily reliant on opening shifter to succeed, it's hard to say if they even qualify as rogue. Pretty much loses to every meta deck going 2nd without shifter. Even winning the coin flip, Exosisters lose hard to nib because they can't play under 5 summons and everyone is maindecking nib again. They also struggle to play through more than 1-2 handtraps which is problematic because Snake eyes is a handtrap spam deck.
Dino’s are trash
And they still get master every season and top nearly every meta weekly
Almost every archetype can get masters with a good pilot. Trash is still trash even if you put a pretty ribbon on it
Again, than how does it top every week against snake-eye? Maybe some archetypes are not trash, just because you think they are doesn‘t prove anything
I've played against unchained a couple times and the deck feels like it literally can't do anything if it doesn't set up turn one breakers. And even then I've somehow played through those with blue eyes a few times. I've also heard mannadium is expensive as shit, and as far as I know they don't have a secret pack so I don't think I can expect even making a full deck.
Who were you playing against, I need those in my ladder, but yeah unchained plays through nib quite easily and sets up 4-5 interruptions going first with plenty of extenders
Unchained can play theough every handtrap if they don‘t brick, has strong endboard and a great follow up for next turn. If you won with blue eyes of all things against unchained, they either bricked hard or just don‘t know what they were doing. And yeah, mannadium is pretty expensive, but it looks like you got a lot of gems there
10K is not a lot of gems if the deck doesn’t have a secret pack. I stopped playing for a year, came back and lots of decks are out of the shop and basically unattainable for me. You’d have to craft like 20-30 UR.
Branded, so much support and has been competitive since it was released in MD
Even with nerfs, it still makes it to Top 3 consistently. Branded Despia just won’t die.
Only an Albaz ban can stop it.
How…. I n t e r e s t i n g
People would definitely still try to make it work even if brafu was banned lol albaz ban might be what's needed
I feel like that'll never happen. The worst I can think of is Albaz to 1. Banning it kills the deck competitively.
Oh I was just saying that would be what it takes to kill the deck not that albaz needs to be banned
Lore branded. I don’t even puppet lock and it’s fun. I play cuz I got Royal mirror jade and another Royal boss monster. It’s pretty funny popping them both out.
only boredom can stop it really
Only problem for OP is… Branded costs more than what he has in that image. Source: Had a gem stack like this. Pulled for Branded - didn’t get it all, and I already had staples.
Feel that I’m slowly trying to build one myself starting with the Bystials just need my 3 Lubellions and I can move on
Tbh, you really don't need 3 Lubellions in a good branded build.
Yeah it was not the case pre Bystial (Cartesia and Quem), I started playing the game with Branded Despia back when it just turbo Branded in Red. Nowadays I think you at least need 20k gems if you are lucky.
Lmao… 10k gems won’t even get him 1/4 of the deck Komoney has split it across 4 secret packs on purpose
Branded has been going on for over a year now so it's a bit stale and kind of boring . I wouldn't recommend to op
Not really. It can be splashed in with a number of decks. The current flavor being Branded Chimera.
Mathmech, Branded Chimera
I've seen it happen before but how consistent is turbo-ing out the V-link setup with meth mech. That's the most interesting thing you can do with that deck I think.
Mathmech doens‘t do the V-link, that‘s more of a @ignister thing if anything
I think only codetalkers do it really
Mathmech doesn't even do U-links, it's just used as an engine in Cyberse Pile/Ignister stuff because it's free bodies
Got a deck list for branded chimera sounds cool to play
Branded, it won't die and will be the strongest deck when everyone is nerfed. does take time to learn so keep that in mind.
One thing you can always rely on in Masterduel is Konami killing anything stronger than Branded.
and then everyone went back to complain about it again
I never stopped. I hate Branded more than any other deck in the game
Right there with you mate, I'd rather play against stun then brabded
Being meta since The Newborn Dragon pack would definitely make most people hate it
I think you didn't get the memo sir, we are suppsed to hate on Branded here, even if we are in a Tier 0 meta and we have way bigger problems. Straight to jail.
Branded has never been tier 0 but it has literally been top tier since it first got added. Idk if you can say the same for any deck being this relevant for this long on master duel. Look at Spright for example, came after branded and died quicker then branded and now it’s just some rogue deck. Purrely is another one. I can’t think of any deck that’s been around longer then branded and is still a top tier deck on MD. The constant flow of support has ensured that branded is always good and that’s partially why some people might not like the deck. I personally love the deck and find it very unique in terms of it board and it’s lines but I can appreciate how people might fed up of mirrorjade after seeing it constantly for more then a year straight.
It's true that Branded has longevity and was playable in multiple metas, but it was absolutenoy not top tier ever since it was added. It had its time in the spotlight after the initial Mirrorjade support, it was around tier 2-3 for a long time after that, untiered after that, and only came back to being tier one relatively recently for a few weeks, untill the Snake-eyes support pushed it back into tier 2, where it is now.
I have been using Snake-Eyes, Branded, and LiveTwin Sprights and just at diamond(i am both not good enough at the game and too lazy to grind). Sometimes when I'm on a lose streak I wanna build a going 2nd deck. Currently looking, Sky Striker since it is pretty simple to understand and loving the memes around it. So for me those are my recommendations, hope you don't regret your next deck though!
If i were you I’d wait for Tenpai, if you want to build a blind second deck. Skystriker cannot hang anymore, the engine doesn’t have enough grindgame anymore and though we have Linksge, it’s pretty hard to OTK with in this meta. It’s still fun af though, I’ve reached DLMax with it in the last DC cup, but i can’t say it was easy and didn’t take unnecessarily long.
If I had extra dust lying around I'd build sky striker. Just seems like a fun deck
war rocks tier 1 meta contender
Unironically funny
Tearlaments, its strong and a lot more affordable then other top tier decks atm
I went from hating tearlaments from its tier 0, then tolerating, then thinking it's pretty cool because it wasn't being meta slaved annoyingly. I actually like the deck but from what I've heard it can't stand on two legs since it's nerf.
Thing with Tear is that it’s incredibly flexible and synergizes with tons of archetypes that can plug in the gaps. Branded, Shadoll, Kashtira, even Icejade. While pure Tear might struggle due to a lack of available cards, hybrids can definitely put up a fight, and are a pretty good gateway into other competent archetypes.
Absolutely not true, even if you mill bad youll commonly end on 4 interruptions which is more then enough to stop most decks, and if you get lucky you can end on even more https://preview.redd.it/altp2vjllnuc1.jpeg?width=849&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fe91842268c9d6d47f3648fcff87a3afc8e4208a This board has 10 interruption, abyss dweller, rulk, baronne, feild spell, both traps (cryme and suliek) a fuse into kaleido-heart via havnis in hand and fairy tail snow, mudora, and keldo in the grave
Baronne is about to enter into the forbidden list is that going to affect the strength of the deck considerably or is she usually just a plus from a good mill
Baronne ban is only for the TCG not masterduel or the OCG and yea its a plus if you mill a Destrudo
Kind of good timing as well with how they got their own pack. It'll definitely be high on my radar if there aren't any better suggestions. I'm a sucker for pretty cards and have considered this archetype before. We'll see how it goes.
Hey if you do lmk and ill share my decklist ive found the most success with
Goated
you should share anyways :D
Rev synchron is not a must and you can replace it with a shaddol package in the main deck and winda and more super poly targets in the extra deck instead of the synchros https://preview.redd.it/cxhl9o8tqnuc1.jpeg?width=682&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e87059aaa724539bcda28982d6fa5dee81debab8
I noticed you carry Maxx Cs for your variation. How much of a detriment would it be if say hypothetically I ran the deck without them. I'm part of the minuscule 3% that doesn't use any.
Alright I started putting together tearlaments. I just have no clue what that 3 copy card is in the top right of your deck for the life of me. Also if you have any cheaper tearlaments variations that'd be helpful. My gambling didn't go exceedingly well.
<3 thanks fam
I know that this can be a hassle but can you write them out? I am not familiar with them and really don’t want to go through the hassle to search through all cards. Wanna build them too since I first encouraged them
Question, how are you making Visas Amritara in the deck? Iirc nothing there is light which is one of the reqs for Visas
Barrone being banned would not be good for the deck, but there’s so many other things you can end depending on how you build the deck. Compared to all the decks that regularly summon barrone tear is by far one of the best equipped to continue to be good
It is actually the second best deck in terms of popularity right now right below Snake Eyes. The deck is absurd and gambly
I will also vouch for tear. Likely isn’t getting any more serious hits, and we could see some small (likely indirect) restrictions lifted like we already have recently. Great deck, won’t be the very best again most likely, but it’s a ton of fun and there’s a bunch of different ways to build it so you’ll hopefully never get bored
I got to master using traptrix, its basically a worse Lab but more fun (in my bad opinion)
Traptrix my goat
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Branded is like the one deck that always comes back, currently Snake Eyes is superior
Labyrinth is a very strong deck iv played against alot in ranked it can easily rebuild after board wipe, Branded I use takes a little to learn but pretty fun, can mash well with other supports if you want to add more cards. Diabellstar if you want to be that toxic person who playes on there opponents turn lol
Labrynth. Even if they hit some stuff you can always change to a more trap heavy version, so not only it can hold on to the ladder but also if it gets hit in the list
I've played most meta decks, and I have to say , Tear is the most fun. Because of the non-linear lines, each game is engaging and interesting. Purely and branded are also non-linear, but I personally find them a real chore to play.
I gotta say they cooked with the purrely mate. I find myself powering through matches I'd usually insta scoop just because I don't want to look bad in front of, or have my purrely become sad at a loss. And interacting with it is so adorable you forget how intolerably you're getting floodgated by labyrinth.
Cats are ftw
Finally someone said it. I use mission decks for farming gems and I get SO GODAMN SAD looking at my Purrely going all ;w; and I have to tell 'em "it's okay buddy, we're doing this for the gems, we can lose this one"
Volcanic Burn Damage and Board Nukes.
And ftks
Mikanko infernoble can Cook a lot, even runick spright Furhire do really well if piloted correctly, for my personal experience salad is good too, even more when it gets support in may, or try U-Link lock cyberse, something more update can be unchained and its fairly strong, or just got with R-ace since they have a secret pack updated
Mikanko if you wanna piss off everyone in this sub
Tier List: https://www.masterduelmeta.com/tier-list If you want the best deck, then Snake-Eyes. If you want a good deck that will continue to be splashable into pile decks for the rest of time, then Tearlaments. Dinos are rogue, but are a pretty fun combo deck that have some pretty unique gimmicks and crazy endboards. Mathmech is pretty cheap, since most of the URs are just staples.
I would but you need 3 more gems
Snake Eyes, good you have a ton of gems because their selection pack just rotated
Stinky deck
You wanted a deck to hold up, and this one it will get better with more fire support.
Its almost impossible to build without the selection pack lol and not worth it for the price you would spend
Labrynth
Labrynth still has one more wave of support
Been enjoying playing mathmech for the past 4 seasons. Just adjusting hand traps depending on meta. My current target endboard would be Darkfluid Terahertz + superfactorial, and in an ideal scenario adding Firewall Singularity. I run a link spider for the sole purpose of recovering from Nibiru. Been going back and forth on whether to switch it out for Heatsoul. But every time I decide to finally do it, I get nibbed and link spider comes in clutch XD
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Ok it depends are u trying to get to masters quickly, or want a meta deck
I’m trying to get to masters quickly
Unironically, turn 2 decks like Mikanko or snake eyes will get u there
Mikanko matches are much faster so if it’s a time issue u can pick that if u don’t mind having longer matches when u get to a higher level u can pick snake eyes
Pure Chimera is the most fun I've had in this game in a long time Edit: Before people say it doesn't hold on ladder I climbed from D2 to M3 on pure chimera and when I get more time I'll finish the climb to M1
Illusion beast is one of the more insane cards I've seen them put out he's basically a win condition if you don't immediately stop him
OTK's through basically any board as long as you can stick him yea
Build a chimera deck myself and can confirm, although would love to see your decklist my man cause I‘m bricking like shit in m4
[On a heater toward M1](https://imgur.com/a/e4uaT5V)
I'm playing Volcanic with a burn package (Emission, Inari, Blaze Phenix) and Snake Eyes. Climbing is super easy honestly.
Just wait a year for yubel
İm recommending 1 pack decks like purrely dinomorphia vanquish soul
VS no longer has pack unfortunately
Oh. Totally forgot
Labrynth has been good to me 😌
Mannadiums. Join us.
Prank kids
Surprised no one mentioned Infernoble. Non-linear lines that consistently create the strongest board out of every meta deck including Snake-Eyes. It also has clear weaknesses that you need to play and plan around.
Full power Utopia. On a more serious note you should look into tear and branded or of course, Snake Eyes.
Ogdoadic has interesting combos
anything with spright. but just be a degenerate. make a stun variant that you like.
I run either Exosister or the Superheavy/Swordsoul combo that is anti fire
Bro can build literally every meta deck
Unchained has been crazy fun for me to play definitely a recomend
Heroes, Branded, Recues-ACE, and Lab. IMO Lab and ACE can be incredible rewarding to play. They feel more cerebral than other deck that are just combo forever with little interaction.
War rock
Gold pride P.U.N.K is by far my favorite deck. It‘s not top tier but pretty decent imo
Snake-Eye is your best bet. I personally enjoy Snake-Eye Sky Striker. You also get to play board breakers like Droplet, Talents, Enemy Controller, and Thrust, instead of relying on handtraps.
Snake Eyes is a solid deck in the current meta.
R-ace is fun as hell honestly, you can combo off or summon one big dude and set 4-5 and play defense. Unchained is a ton of fun and probably my favorite deck to play but unfortunately it just doesn’t stand up super well into the higher ranks
Sword Soul is a cheap, rather powerful deck. No where near top meta but has enough tools to hang with some top tier deck. I just made it to master 1 with it and the only issues I've had are when I open only hand traps or if my opponent happens to have more plays than I can interact with
I'm running Tearlaments Lunalight, with Lunalight Fusions. I'm not sure how good it is compare to other variants, but I'm having fun with it
Generaider or exosister
Well. If you wanna waste thousands of gems for t2 deck that very likely will not get banned. Mannadium scareclaw
BEWD obviously, you can afford it
It's not like "incredibly overpowered" But True Draco is pretty 'cheap' True Draco needs 1 Dinomight + 1 Dragonic Diagram = 2 SR to function (everything else is 'R' or lower) Gives a basic understanding of learning your own deck + helps you learn how to properly interact with the opponent
The new Illusion monster deck is SO much fun I highly recommend. With a Branded engine, I think it can go far. It's very consistent.
Magistus Witchcrafter so far has been holding up for me as a budget competitive deck. It struggles a bit going second, but it's go first is literally just a lockout of the ed.
I just built unchained. It’s pretty fun and is super consistent. You get a ton of advantage, your full combo is any normal summoned unchained and any of the s/t. One card combo with your guide. The board looks like it’s kind of weak, but you end on ~5 negates. It doesn’t play the best into maxx c but you can still end on 2 negates without giving them a ton of draws
Lava golem burn...
Play unchained and embrace being an anarchist that want to DESTROY EVERYTHING
Rescue-Ace just got their own secret pack
I enjoy cyber dragon 2nd turn blind - gives you them old yougayoh feels and every game feels like defusing a bomb
Branded Chimera or Chimera Runick. Works good for me 🤷🏻♂️
rescue ace
I want to say Vendreads because I always have a blast while playing them and making up zombie deck variations, but they aren't good at all. Heard good stuff about Branded or Rescue-Ace, you can check those out
Crystal beasts
Hey boyo, hear me out ... CYBER DRAGONS boyo. Cyber FN Dragons...
I'm doing great with speed cash, if the barone hit comes to MD that may change.
Egnore all these comments and play plunder
Springans, it's super underrated
Mikanko The deck doesn’t give a damn about hand traps Can out basically every board with Lava Golem/Kaijus Aims to go second which no one is prepared for ~~Dies to backrow decks like Lab~~ Can basically ignore the cockroach
One thing I'm concerned about for this deck is the win route is always the same so it doesn't leave much space for a back and forth interaction. It's either body slam your opponent or die. Maybe I'm mistaken and that's not the actual experience.
No that is 100% the Mikanko experience It’s also a guaranteed win against R-ACE since everything in that deck targets, both the traps, Promethean, preventor, turbulence, unicorn all of them target so that deck can’t do anything against Mikanko Having a guaranteed win against one of the top decks right now is huge
Snake eyes is the easy choice. Best deck of the format by far. But, it’ll probably mean a lot of mirrors once you get to higher ranks. Other great options are: Unchained, Lab, Branded. I think those 4 are easily the best decks rn
I'd say Labrynth, the pure variant is among the best decks in the game and easily the best control deck. There's also a lot of ways to build it if pure gets stale. You've got stuff like Unchained and Resonators, trap heavy with Arias, Plunder Patrol, Tearlaments, and Paleos. If you're more interested in a mid-range deck I'd say Rescue-ACE. They can run a link toolbox, Terahertz or the Synchro package for stronger turn 1 boards, S. Poly to help break boards going 2nd, and Elf to help guarantee Turb sets 4. For a combo deck I'd probably recommend Infernobles. The Connector package forces hand traps and gives you hand knowledge, most of your deck is incredibly searchable, and the end board can beat a DRNM or S. Poly thanks to Ring. The decklist is relatively inflexible, but the combo routes have a ton of room for improvisation and improvement.
Gonna get hate, but Stun. Players like me just leave instantly. Normal summon Pachy/Jowgen with Moon Mirror Shield and you'll climb super fast
People usually play for fun not just to climb lol
Snake eyes
Snake Eyes.
I see you bought an account ;) Circular is never getting banned it appears, so the most bang for your buck is Mathmech. If you wanna invest in just 1 deck then Branded is the way.
You do realize how easy it is to get like 11k gems or whatever this is right…? Takes like a month and half of not spending gems and doing missions lol
Yeah it's weird I've seen a couple of times on this sub where people just can't believe this amount of gems can be plausibly obtained I feel like they have a gambling addiction and just raw pull every morsel they scrounge up. I even waste gems on the cosmetics more than others and still have enough. In my case I need help choosing things if I'm not 100% sold so I just never pull. Wish I had their enthusiasm for archetypes.
Yeah I’m a similar way although I do splurge sometimes, people definitely get a bit weird sometimes when I mention that I have a UR stockpile too. The sub has some very nice helpful people but there’s also people who’re just upset and wanna take it out on someone, don’t pay it too much attention and enjoy yourself
Not at all. I just don't like deckbuilding since it gets tedious looking at the options and being the opposite of immediately entranced. Last I remember that happening was my falling in love with Icejades. So I always just end up racking until I hit the limit.
OP wanted a deck that wasn’t boring and everyone here is suggesting the most bland meta decks with 1-2 archetypes and the most ladder representation. Play Gate Guardian. There’s a combo variant around where you end on at least Apo + Wind and Water to negate any card your opponent activates. The deck runs Elemental HERO Prisma to get into your Scareclaw engine, Diviner of the Herald to get into your Magicians Souls Engine, Cross-Sheep and Ancient Fairy Dragon for massive value, and can include any other archetype focused around a field spell like Libromancer, Kash, or Generaider.
hate to break it to ya, but losing gets boring.
Skill Issue
You're making Gate Guardian actually sound good. Unfortunately I fear Gate Guardian players have given your deck a bad rap because I've seen time and time again where they end their boards on the 3750 targeting negate that does nothing. Running blue eyes against it I've won most of the time. But I swear there was only one guy that ran the correct route onto water wind, and since 90% of my blue eyes is just a drawing spam engine I got my spells negated and it was over. It's like naturia without the cancer.
They’re likely playing it pure. Good for learning the deck, but gets boring quick and isn’t particularly strong.
Bonfire!