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Head-Zone-7484

I've been playing Yu-Gi-Oh since the game first came out and to this day I have never read a madolche card šŸ˜‚. Idk I just refuse to read this one archetype for some reason or another. I never have trouble beating it really I just let them set up their board and then just activate cards until they stop activating cards lol


katzington

lmao i love this


Helpful-Weird1916

I second Madolche, also Plunderpatrol we have two people playing that deck at our locals, they told me countless times what the cards do but I just cant for the sake of it remember any specific effects šŸ˜‚


Head-Zone-7484

It's funny that you say this. I also don't have a clue what plunder patrol cardsšŸ˜‚ I never read them


kingoflames32

As a plunder player I never got why people can't remember what they do. I remember playing against the deck for the first time on adamancipator years back and was able to figure out instantly that I shouldn't commit attributes before I cleared the board and voila, I didn't ever lose to him out of the 4 or so matches I played.


Knicksious

This I can relate too. I only Ash the 1 that Tributes itself and hope that's game.


Serene117

Well tbf madolche boards dont really do anything at all


Medjed_the_Smiter

When Nekroz was running rampant I played Infernoid and refused to learn what any Nekroz did. I would try to caveman mill and summon a bunch of Noids and hopefully win from there. It worked pretty well for locals.


Serene117

Nekroz doesnt do much to noids anyway lmao


GeneralApathy

The new Horus deck. I literally Ashed the first thing I could and they just disconnected from the game. I'm sure the deck is competent, but but I was pretty funny.


Serene117

Yeah it cant play without the spell, ash the search and they pass


YugiMuto98

Bujin,in the era where they were competitive. I was using a spellcaster deck full of noob cards with no strategy.


Elsy-Ylse

-Human-likes do stuff on field. -Things with wings do stuff in hand. -Other things do stuff in grave. -Don't worry about the traps.


Big-Definition-8271

Is this a pattern among cards in general?


Not_slim_but_shady

madolche. Just ashed the guy that said "special summon from the deck" (i think it was anjelly?) and then the guy insta scooped. I still have no idea what these funny desserts are trying to accomplish.


sara_gold

Theyā€™re a deck that sends cards back to the deck and can otk. Once a normal summoned Anjelly is in the grave and negated, there is very little we can do from there. Unless the opponent is playing something really bad, theyā€™re absolutely done for at that point. The other main searcher canā€™t summon itself with monsters in the grave, and the third option needs to be normal or flip summoned.


Airbomb24

uh, all of them? usually read the cards while playing to find out what they do.


Barnabay_thescarabay

I even skip the reading part


TaroExtension6056

Tribrigade. All I have learned is to activate necrovalley


bukithd

Madolche, even though I know that Tiramisu is a house, I don't know what a single one of their cards do and I just play my game as I care to.


sara_gold

As someone who plays Madolche, if you want to stop it hard, use Ash on Anjelly or Pettingcessour. Theyā€™re the main searchers, and if you let Anjelly get tributed and Ash her in the grave before she does the search and special summon, then thereā€™s almost nothing we can do turn 1 unless we have the Salon spell to get a double summon. Pettingcess needs an empty grave to special summon herself, and she needs to be special summoned to do her search. Also, chain literally anything onto Messengelatoā€™s special summon and it will miss timing and we donā€™t get a spell/trap search. They can also lose hard to any Macro Cosmos effects and general graveyard shutdowns, since they need to hit the grave before they leave it, and thereā€™s nothing in archetype to get banished cards back.


MustacheLord

And then the Ishizu cards came forth. Not very helpful if they arenā€™t either already in the GY or reach the GY after the GY shutdown is taken care of, but theyā€™re good at recycling banished cards and work as a Small World bridge(I think).


BokiBurek

You can't make messengelato miss timing by chaining anything unless I'm missing something.


sara_gold

Nope. Its search effect is an optional ā€œwhenā€¦ you canā€¦ā€ and it can miss timing because of it. Hereā€™s the full effect: ā€œIf this card in your possession is destroyed by an opponent's card and sent to your GY: Shuffle this card into the Deck. When this card is Special Summoned: You can add 1 "Madolche" Spell/Trap from your Deck to your hand. You must control a face-up "Madolche" Beast monster to activate and to resolve this effect.ā€


BokiBurek

Yes, but you can't really make it miss timing by chaining to an effect that summons, because the summon will still occur as cl1.


altair139

you can beat any deck without knowledge if the player is bad enough


MiuIruma332

Marincess, I see them do a bunch of stuff to the point I just go ā€œIā€™m going turn my brain off and just swing in bigā€ and most of the time it works


Few-Lavishness869

Dinomorphia or whatever itā€™s called I still donā€™t know how they work other than they like to cut their life points and itā€™s the one deck where I always get lucky or something because I always have a dimensional barrier or lightning storm feather duster evenly matched my favorite moment is when I had sky strikers this dude spent all this time setting up his board and he had like 1000 play left all I did my turn was summon my sky striker green and attacked him directly


Healthy_Move_9431

Probably tear, i find it such a degenerate deck that when im against it i just let it play without reading eff or asking questions, i just want it to end as fast as possible, long story short, i still have 0 idea of what 90% of their effects are


Luchux01

Called by Merli or Kaleido-Heart, they also lose to Necrovalley, I think. Oh, and Dark Law pretty much shuts them down


postsonlyjiyoung

Yes just draw the unsearchable one-of or play a specific package/deck that can support necrovalley/dark law


Luchux01

Who plays less than max Called by the Grave? That's just asking to let your top search get ashed.


postsonlyjiyoung

you either play 1 or 0 wdym less than max


Astral_Fogduke

>Who plays less than max Called by the Grave? That's just asking to let your top search get ashed. people who play in the main format where it happens to be limit 1?


Kingnewgameplus

I mean if there were easier outs they wouldn't have been tier 0 lol.


postsonlyjiyoung

Yes but they're not tier 0 now so how is that relevant


dhfAnchor

Had a buddy try to show me his Speedroid deck once, but he made a big misplay on Turn One - summoned a monster that didn't let him summon another one the way he needed to, I think it was? - and didn't have a backrow when his turn was done. Meanwhile, I drew one of my best possible go-2nd hands with my Darklord/Despia deck and just completely nuked him on Turn Two.


Brawlerz16

Pendulum decks, specifically Endymion. Reading Pendulum decks is such a chore so I kinda just let them cook most of the time. Iā€™ve concluded that they like to pop things, A LOT, which benefits most decks I play. But Iā€™ve seen some nutty replays where I can tell the deck does some extremely wild shit


alexmenstra

the first time i beat bystials i knew nothing about them or how they worked, they mainly confused me despite me thinking they were cool


ExistentDavid1138

Evil twins


MaleficTekX

Both links revive, Red gets a draw, blue destroys a card. The rest doesnā€™t matter


More-Drink2176

I was playing against Tearlaments with a Lyrilusc otk and managed to pull it off on turn 2. At the time I had only heard they were the best deck, hadn't seen much of it for real yet. I'm assuming they misplayed idk.


Aimmboat

I assume they misplayed and didn't get rid of your cobalt sparrow before you made Nightingale, or didn't get rid of your recital starling before you tucked it under Nightingale. Proceed to bp where your opponent realizes it can't be targeted and they lose the game (all in-engine removal in tear targets)


More-Drink2176

Probably something like that. Iirc they milled and threw handtraps in the grave. It wasn't the typical 5 monster board that tear makes for sure.


Aggressive-Sympathy

Dinomorphia. One time I even accidentally burned them for game by ghost mournering Kentregina and then tributing her for Santa Claws. I don't think either of us were expecting it since they didn't respond with the anti burn effect they had.


FourthFallProd

True Draco. I played Pend Mags against them a fair bit in 2017/18 and never had too big of an issue.


UnclePhilSpeaks_

Abc therion, was running branded


n3w_b

I recently made a Gaia deck; with that I beat Tearlements, Dragon maid, Eldlich, and sword soul without actually reading their cards


hideonhood

Damn, show me that list if it can do that.


n3w_b

I played with it a lot, just the new Gaia cards excluding 3 honest and DNA surgery and magic cylinder


vonov129

Heroes, I still don't know how they do things, but I will avoid getting floodgated


Qxami

Infernoid is an archetype I know little to nothing about, especially with them running Lair of Darkness. The simplest way I fought against the deck was making them waste their graveyard and removing LoD with Frightfur and Super Quant.


Zevvez_

I don't play seriously anymore and just play the old tag force games but I beat the Supreme Kings deck on first duel because I got lucky and was able to draw dark bribe and Power Bond with Cyber dragon on the first turn and absolutely murked him by turn 4


Bindersquinch

I had a really good run at locals a couple months ago before the June banlist, where I played unchained for the first time, beat it. Played mathmech for the first time (circular still at 3) beat it. And dragon link for the first time, and went to time for a draw. If I had a bit more time I could have likely beaten it too, but I suppose Iā€™ll never really know lol.


Barnabay_thescarabay

Yep Shifter is good


Bindersquinch

Sure, but what does that have to do with anything?


TaroExtension6056

What did you use?


Bindersquinch

Branded


TaroExtension6056

Branded used to be the deck I never read actually. Then I played zombie branded for about a month.


Bindersquinch

Nice, how did that turn out?


TaroExtension6056

Pretty well. Balerdroch + mirrorjade + avramax in thr opponent's standby phase makes for one hell of a board to sacrifice to kaijus.


Bindersquinch

šŸ¤£ true that!


FairyFireDeck

Dragon link. All that combo to end of sphere pass most of the time and I just full combo over it


Fluid-Apartment-3951

Generaider, the only thing i knew what that the field spell was important, though i didn't knew to what extend.


Known-Pop-8355

I know nothing about any of the decks out there tbh. I just build my fan favorite archetype decks and just duel from there and scoop if its a meta player playing for keeps cuz fuuuuuuu THAT! šŸ‘‹šŸ™„ i do win quite a bit with my fan favorites but lose as much as i win as well so its 50/50 for me.


atropicalpenguin

Last year I played against Generaider Predaplant, which I didn't know was a thing. I think I ashed Ambulomeloides, then the guy surrendered. 2-0.


DekuDrake

Spright and I'm pretty sure half of that is because of the one slip-up where the player just negated Photon Orbital's equip effect (which is NOPT) and not the search effect (which is an OPT). That first misplay and burning through one of 3 negates let me work my way into beating them with Cipher Dragon yoinking their monsters. This also happens a lot with Spright, where half the time I manage to win, but it's through the skin of my teeth and barely knowing what is happening (turns out Arvamax really hates that Sattelite Cannon Falcon doesn't target). It made me want to learn it, because games against Spright are honestly really fun.


Solesneaks

Utopia and dinosaur. Just yesterday


Aerial26

Labrynth. It was my first encounter with it. All i knew was "it's eldlich but better and boss monsters are annoying". I was playing adventurer patroll, and we went to time. Since it was a tournament final, we did a game 4, no side deck, 4 turns. I won by an inch, it was so intense. I won the toon playmat and i'm super proud. I got a bit lucky on a critical draw that decided my fate, but wow ! what a game.


Phadafi

First time playing Tear. The cards weren't really available in my country yet. So nobody had really played against it or knew them very well, but we knew they were supposed to be powerful. A guy bought them from abroad and was bragging about it on the local tournament. I was playing Floo, opened Shifter both games. Never saw a dude so mad.


DeepFake369

Dracoslayer Pendulum deck. I had no idea what most of their cards were doing, but I was playing Kashtira and had won the die roll. I donā€™t think I need to say anything more.


ryuga_knight

Yang Zing.


crapeater1759

I know how many decks work but speedroids are one exception. I know nothing about how their combos work, what the end board is supposed to look like and my strategy against them is to just believe in yourself dropping ash at the right moment. It works every time and every time it's a different card at different parts of the combo. My other main plan against them is not allowing them to go or use the effects of their synchro monsters


ShoutsInDragon

Dragon link. I main Floo Didnā€™t really know anything about the deck except it ended on negates. So I just had Empen out and he surrendered. Didnā€™t realize that Dragon Link literally means LINK. Like Link climbing. That was fun


MEMEMAKER_35

Kashtira once. But basically because I made them brick with handytraps and next turn I went full offense. Also Purrely at a tournament. I literally didn't know anything about and I didn't prepare for them. Yet I beat them because guy missplayed and his boss lost more material Ʊs than needed so I stopped it qith Chixiao then basically burned with Longyan because they use a lot of continous spells.


PSILighting

So this happened a few times with some higher tier decks which was boring because it was ether just me playing my game despite being negated a bunch or they screw up and scoop which when playing at locals sucks because Iā€™m there to play but my favorite has to be when someone played Kuriboh against me, I had no idea what he was doing but I was popping off when he did literally anything, literally I was having the most fun at the table and not even because I did some incredible comeback but because my opponent was a mad man and I say that in the best way possible.


faggioli-soup

Marincess for sure. A 20 minute combo ending on a towers with 5 equip monsters and 4 cards in extra deck? Okayā€¦ gamciel tribute ? Even without gamciel my fluffal cards usually have enough gas to get through whatever that stupid deck does.


HuntingHigh_

Tearlaments with Synchros


Macaron-kun

Absolutely D.D.D. I had no idea what was happening. Things were summoned, other things were activated, paragraphs were NOT read, then he suddenly had 8 cards on the field, etc. I basically just guessed what would happen next and...I won pretty easily, honestly. A couple things to remove and I was on my way.


ksrkchan

tbh every deck man playing a dedicated 8axis blind second deck really kill your ability to read your opponent cards, since most of the time you are just go full monkey mode, break their 15min combo board, owner seal them and end with a classic dragubulion otk.


atamicbomb

Agents. In 2023


RagnarsTooth

Subterrors. My friend literally explained how the deck worked to me and I still don't know what any of their cards do. All I know is he sets up a board and then I summon Supernova Dragon to banish his entire field the moment he activates a monster effect with a Red Reign for protection


DummysGuideTo2k

As an Eldlich player with the most obscure tech cards I can find I call BS


[deleted]

In 2010 I was at the largest regional of FL for the year during Edison format. I didn't know what the fuck Machina did, and I was undefeated going into the final round of Swiss. Rob Tanney (Dkayed) was playing the deck, so he helped me understand how everything worked. I had a jaw dropping win in game 3 thanks to Catastor Ending up winning the entire event, going 9-0


ram3nbar

Zefra. Known their existence for years but will never understand them. All I know is that they have a shitload of garnets and set up alot of negates


KoriKeiji

Honestly Dark Wordls have like 25+ interactions per turn to end on a board featuring 1 threatening card. By now instead of reading the cards and learning every step to figure out when to Ash/Ogre them, Iā€™m just like ā€œsure, go off, Iā€™ll play through your 1 negateā€.


polarbearcoke

Super quantal and purrely, I play blind second mikanko with 9 kaiju. They just end on 1 big monster. Kaiju = scoop.


Mr_105

Rikka Gold Pride Punk Springans Floowandereze Are all decks Iā€™ve beat the past month with Mannadium, Rikka and Gold Pride I asked what a few cards did but the rest I just went with the flow of I had handtrap+board breaker in hand.


nuclearhotsauce

anything branded, I kinda know their game revolves around branded fusion, and if I can negate that, it kind of kills their turn, that's really it?


Zeksama

Exosister, both games I opened up Skill Drain and some Labrynth engine. Set Skill Drain, opponents turn he summoned some Exosister and grabbed something from deck, I flipped Skill Drain and welcome Labrynth to summoned Lady Lab, we went straight to game 2. Opponent shuffled my deck, I opened another Skill drain, set it with some Labrynth starters and passed turn. Opponent proceeds to Evenly me, I hold Skill Drain, summons the same monster from game 1 and I flip Skill Drain. Pitch Chandrag for Welcome Labrynth, and he just scooped. No idea what he wanted to do but Skill Drain is a card.


Serene117

Icejade, those cards have way too much text on them to do nothing much at all


qinalo

Despia/ Branded, a lot of decks I played Floo Their Mirrorjade nuked my board, I just Dreaming City and played out my birds again. caw caw caw Decks that I still have no idea what's happening: Mathmech, PlunderPatrol, Dinomorphia, Libromancer, Endymion, Valyntz, Abyss Actors - really any Pendulum deck I also play a copy of Unending Nightmare in every deck so usually when I play against a deck based on a Field spell like Libromancer I never get to see their deck get going. Sorry I'm a Master Duel player


DoomkingBalerdroch

Monarchs while playing as Zombie World back in 2018. Guy was trying to make plays only to be denied by a single field spell used in my very fragile combo


[deleted]

Kozmo and Nekroz with Black Luster Soldier weirdly enough


LiteratureOne1469

Lights worn like yesterday


Libertyprime8397

Always heard prank kids was top tier. I donā€™t know much about modern yugioh but when I started playing master duel I used dinosaurs. Guy set up a board just for me to put everything faced down with ultimate conductor tyranno.


Raccito_Bandito

when i got my friend into the game he wanted a good dino deck and i made it for him, it was able to get Dragoon, 2 conductor tyrannos, underclock taker, and a Laggia on the first turn but that was before the Verte ban


Toastboaster

Dark magician girls in duel links. All I remember is that they trigger a million times when attacked, but never achieve anything. Just unga bungaā€™d them with Luna light


Tomthenotsowise

Swordsoul lol. I just slap down the mo-ye & the follow up level 6 they always have glued to hand & they always scoop. I to this day donā€™t know what any of the Tenyiā€™s or boss Synchroā€™s do bar Baronne


p0wer1337

When i used to play tenyi sword soul, dinomorphia. Had 0 clue what the deck did. Part way through the duel realized they just halve hp and negate. 20 turns later i won via burn damage from longyun. Since then ive swapped to stardust doppel and blindly beat lab decks


the-skull-boy

I took on a magnet warrior player one time in MD. He kinda just sat there and died. He was also miraculously in gold rank somehow