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What's up, dude? The ceiling. You're not wrong. You're not wrong.
It is a fashionable statement. So we have a few things that we want to talk about today. We're going to hit you with some very, very, very quick play news. We do have an update on neuron coming.
And we say we have an update coming. We mean the OCG has an update coming. Yep, they're adding in rush-dole support for it. Which means nothing over here because we don't have rush-doles.
At least not yet. Not yet. I'm not ever sure they're going to go ahead and get this set up now. And the OCG, because then I can just pour it over to the TCG once we get rush-doles.
Yeah. I mean, we're going to have rush-doles through the mobile of a game come whenever it gets announced. I think it's early 22 is when the, was it the master duel update, whatever the gaming? Gencon.
No, no, no, no. They said that they were doing a big presentation they did. Digital next. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They announced our digital next that we were getting rush-doles. So at least we have that coming. We'll be getting the video game. And hopefully soon after that, we'll be getting the physical cards as well.
Right. Next set is the, is that we're getting some more actual news about master duel. In two weeks. Yeah, in like two weeks.
It's particularly August 25th during Gencon. So, okay. So a week from the air date. Yeah, exactly.
And this was announced by Konami UK, like the official Konami UK page. Or we don't have. Yeah. Yeah.
So yeah, so that's going to be good. We'll get a little bit more information about it. And the only information we have right now is that we will be getting more information. Yeah, as far as that's concerned.
We'll be getting more information about the magic of the gathering arena. Probably. Probably. Probably.
But we're hoping to get more information on the monetization model, the card, the structuring as far as how you get cards. What else are you open to see? Well, I mean, customization options would be nice. We already know you're going to be able to customize your field, your half of the field, and your sleeves.
So that's going to be really nice. And you also get like a little pet or a stool statue, which is also nice. It would be cool to be able to find out how exactly, I guess, monetization would be key, but it would also be cool to find out how exactly they plan on giving us the cards to play in the game. Yes, but also I want to learn how they plan on implementing the formats.
So, TCT versus OCG. That's a good point. I mean, if the whole thing is just on OCG Bandlist, it's like previous games have been, then it's useless. But it would be interesting to see how, you know, are they going to region lock it for different things and things of that sort?
Yeah. Or are they going to, I mean, other possibilities that they could do like, oh, I want to be set to this bandlist and then everyone who also gets set to that bandlist who you paired with maybe. Or another thing they could also do is, I wonder how they're going to roll out new cards. So, is the OCG going to have all of their cards early and then we won't be able to have access to those so we can't play no CG servers?
Yeah. Or are they just going to give us all the cards and then we hear the TCG have to sit here for a year before we finally get the physical cards? Right. Or maybe we'll just get to, if we're playing TCG matches, we get to play with only TCG legal cards and if we're playing in the OCG servers, maybe we can play with OCG cards too, you know?
Yeah. Then another thing that also brings up is what they're going to do about TCG and OCG exclusive cards. Here's another good one. What happens if you, so, okay, so if they release the cards in a set by set manner, what happens if you want to play some OCG games and you buy the cards in the OCG?
When the cards get released to the TCG, do you still get them? Oh. Because if you bought the whole set in OCG land, is it still, I mean, because we won't get the same set that way yet. That's a good point.
I'm full of good points. Full of good questions. These are all amazing questions that hopefully games can't answer. I am.
If there's one thing that I'm good at, it is asking questions and demanding answers to those questions. So, I want to know exactly what's going on here. Oh yeah. That's what we got for Quickly News.
We're going to take a very, very, very, very quick ad break, talk a little bit about anchor, and then after that, we'll go ahead and we'll get into some big stuff. We have a new archetype and we have a whole new release schedule for the TCG. So, all right, everybody. Thank you so much for bearing with us and sitting through that.
We understand. We know that everybody loves ads, but they keep us afloat, which helps. Oh, yeah. Big time.
So, let's go ahead and talk about the updated release dates first. Okay. No, it's a little bit less long form. So we can go ahead and give the people actual information.
Okay. So whatever the schedule is for, just ignore it. Ignore it because they change up everything. It's ridiculous.
Literally every release for the next six months has been changed. Let's see. I just had it open a second ago. So let's, let's just start with the 10 2021, 2021 10 of ancient battle.
So, um, that will be the next product that releases, which will release on October the 1st. So as a recording or do it say episode errors, August 13th, we're talking about, we still have to go another seven weeks before this product releases a solid month and a half, almost a month and three, four and three fourths. But the counterpoint is that when that product releases, it will be a huge reprint set. Oh, you know, no, the, the tens of always been just a gigantic reprint set.
Right. So this will allow us to like really, um, it'll really give us the chance to go in and get things that we don't have these, this is where you're going to get your triple type of status or access codes, your droplets. Um, you could potentially get the entire, uh, the entire, uh, trapper gate archetype. You could get the entire, you get the entire virtual world archive.
Yep. They already say that the entire, at industry, our, our types won't be in there, which is awesome. Okay. And that includes dark ends and I imagine a link five.
Um, yeah, probably the towers one at the six. Yeah. I think they have a link five and a link six. They might.
I don't know. That deck is one of my list of decks that I want to learn to play against. Yeah. Definitely.
Because I've got this whole list of decks that I want to learn what they do, learn how to play them, learn how to play against them. And that is really web of my list. It's like that salad virtual world. Um, I have ideas of how all those decks play, but I want to know the actual like choke points on each of those decks.
Yeah. Definitely. You know, so that way you can come across, you can. Right.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We'll talk about that at the end.
Yeah. Uh, let's see. The next up on October 15th is when we're getting the cyber strike structure deck. Yeah.
That didn't really change. Um, I think it got changed a little bit. I mean, keep in mind, the original release date for this set was July. Yeah.
Yeah. It is what it is. October 9th. October 29th is when we're actually getting synchrostorm.
Right. So originally this had been pushed back to January 21st and then January 14th. And now all, now all the way back to October 29th. Right.
Again, keep in mind, we were supposed to get this in June or July. Uh, then November 5th is when we're getting first of Destiny, which originally was supposed to be middle to early October. Um, let's say November 19th is when we're getting both maximum gold, El Dorado, and the IP Mask Arena accessories. So I believe maximum gold was originally supposed to be middle of October.
Yeah. But that's also when we're supposed to getting the IP Masked Gran accessories because all the IP Masked Gran stuff is the alt-art, which will be in maximum gold. Right. Exactly.
So they're kind of supposed to go hand in hand. Uh, December 3rd, we get brothers of legend. Okay. January 14th, we get the grand creators.
January 28th, we get Hidden Arsenal chapter one. So Hidden Arsenal chapter one was moved back two months. Green creators was moved back a month and a half. Um, brothers of legend was pushed back a month and a half.
Maximum gold was pushed back about a month. Um, burst of destiny was pushed back probably close to a month. Uh, synchrostorm has been pushed back at this point four months. It was pushed back six and then it moved up to.
So we're still back four. That being said, that was a wise decision with synchrostorm because synchrostorm, cause a lot of stuff in synchrostorm goes hand in hand. With stuff in both. With stuff in both.
Like for instance, it gives a flunder, well not just a flunder, we get B-Star type there, pod agreed. Yeah. Yeah. So the card, I don't remember what the name of it is, but it's got like a just a feather as the art.
Yeah. It's actually a secret crane feather. Okay. Yeah.
So it's, it's kind of feather as the art. So if you control two and a beast with different names, draw two cards and then take like 600 damage. Yeah, it's, it's literally insane. Oh, yeah.
That, that's kind of really, a really important card for just even, just want to reason general. Start with, um, you know, plus is all the stuff. Uh, yeah, the lira list deck. Yeah.
The lira list deck. All the stuff for the shaval. Yeah. That's where we're getting shaval.
They floor and all those. They floor. I thought that was the Baroness. Yeah.
That's why they floor will be a reprint. Yeah. Yeah. So we're getting a Baroness stuff for the lure.
The Baroness the floor is going to be there. Yeah. And it's super, super-duper-hitable in John Chang. Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah. Which is now, which we now know is called sword soul. Right. So this, it's super-hitable in sword soul and we know that, um, that'll be a, you basically, you're going to have to run that card in sword soul.
It always, for sure, for sure going to be a secret right here. Oh, yeah. I mean, I mean, I mean, sword soul by itself already amazing deck. Right.
It can hit Baroness the floor with no issue. It's not, it's not to love. Um, yeah, long story short, it was very important to a lot of players that we get some first storm before or around the same time as a person destiny. Which makes a ton of sense to me.
Yeah. Um, so that's about it for the good old, uh, you know, updates. Hopefully none of this changes anymore. Yeah, that's my biggest thing here is, you know, listen, I get it.
Things are difficult. Just once you figure out a schedule and release an entire schedule, stick to it. As best you can. Yeah.
I mean, we have our schedule here for the podcast. We're recording and sometimes it's not always easy, you know, sometimes I got off work late, sometimes it's, you know, we, you know, we're trying to work out timing with guests. It's not easy. But at the same time, we're also producing a podcast not trying to release.
Well, yeah, but the point is once you, once you have a schedule, you announce a schedule and you commit to it, stay committed to it. That's my, that's my biggest gripe here is I understand that, okay, cool. They're, they're the creators again. They can do whatever they want, but like be consistent, you know, please.
That's, that's my only takeaway from this is that it really, really, really obsess me that there's such a huge lack of consistency from Konami on this. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And there's one thing I've learned through my many years playing Dungeons and Dragons is the good DM isn't always correct.
But they're always consistent with, with, with, with where they are wrong. I mean, something like that. Yeah. Consistency.
It just, I don't know. It kills me. Okay. So that's about that for the, for that.
So next up, we now know the, with the full, with the full brave token theme is, okay. So this is coming out of green creators. Yep. And this was when they said, I think in the, that description said something about being the main character to your own story or something like that.
Yeah. Yeah. The main character, yeah. You're the main character of your own fantasy story.
Right. And kind of me reading through this. I, I realized it's, it's an isekai manga. Okay.
I don't know what that is. So the idea behind isekai for anyone else who doesn't know, I also probably saying that wrong. I apologize to people who are shouting at me for saying isekai wrong. The idea is your, your main character just some dude in modern times, something happens.
He gets, and then they get transported to a fantasy world and have to now live in the fantasy world. Sword Art Online. Kind of. It's that I think that's what popularized the idea.
Um, a better, a less popular, but my opinion, better written example would actually overlord because it doesn't take much to be better written in sword art. Okay. Okay. Now before, before everybody is mad, I liked Sword Art Online through the end of the first season.
And I felt like when they got past the end of the first season, they're like, oh, this is a perfect ending. Let's wrap it all up here. Cool. And they're like, oh, wait, what a bunch more money to make another season.
All right. We're making another season. All right. Let's do this.
Um, it bothers me so much. So that has a good ending doesn't stick to the good ending. Yeah. And for the cash grab.
Anyway, okay. So like the big, okay, so like you started the stand. Fair enough. Okay.
But like the biggest difference is the sword art technically doesn't count as an isekai. Well, you have to stick to isekai. You committed to that. Fair enough.
Isekai. Thank you. Anyway, the reason I start art technically doesn't count is due to the fact that they, after point they could leave. Okay.
Yeah. But then in the next season they jump right back into it. Yeah. Yeah.
But you get, yeah. The whole point is that you can't leave. That's why something like any washer isn't part of this. Anyway.
Okay. So I don't want you to ask you since I was a kid. I didn't realize that there's ever a point when she could leave the place. Yes.
Yeah. Yeah. Whereas you could leave feudal Japan and go back to modern. Yes.
She jumped back and forth a lot. Really? Yep. I'm not because you can bounce back and forth with an isekai.
You can't. Like I said, better example would be like overlord. That's how I got reincarnated as a slime. My fiance recently got really into so I've been reincarnated as a spider.
So do things where somebody already lives in said world but basically their entire world is shaking up count? No. So like Lord of the Rings. Like he lives in his own little world.
But he's basically taken out of his own little comfort zone and put into a different spot. No. Because he's not in an alternate world. Okay.
That's the big separation. For instance, for the main character of the time I was reincarnated as a slime was that he was a modern day world hanging out with some friends. It got hit by truck. And with his dying words, it was everything aligned to where he was reincarnated as a slime in this fantasy world.
Weird. Very much so. Anyway, the whole shit is that you're supposed to go to like a YCS or a regional or something and you know how they have those things where you can print a token with your face on it? Yeah.
Yeah. You're supposed to use that. Okay. You're supposed to use that.
So you are the main character in this fantasy journey. Okay. Nice one everybody know. Caleb is right on these cards and knows what they do and he read them all to me but I wasn't really listening.
This is basically my first time going through it too. Fair enough. Okay. So to start the actual theme is called Yusha token which would be hero but not hero as elemental hero.
Right. So they're calling it so you're going to say she's calling it a brave token to avoid the infinite questions about could this be used for vision here at a ration? It cannot. We'll get like an actual real name at some point.
At some point. First off we have the normal spell card which is the bread and butter to the entire archetype. Right of aramizia. It's a normal spell card.
You're going to make one card with this card's name per turn. You cannot activate monster effects on the field to turn you back to make this card except special summon monsters. So punish you for normal something. Oh, one if you control no brave tokens you get a brave token.
It's a very earth level four with 2000 tech and 2000 defense. Then if you do not control journey of destiny you can place one journey of destiny from your deck face up in your spell and trap card zone. Seems pretty good. Those two effects are disjointed so even if you do control a token you still get the spell card.
If you control spell card you still get your token. Right. That makes sense. Yeah.
That's huge. So the next up you have a new monster level four fire warrior called a Magisite warrior of the ruins level four with 2000 300 attack 1000 defense. Yo that's a big normal summon. He's not an almost on it.
Alright, never mind. While you control a brave token you can splash some of this card from your hand. Oh well I mean there you go. However it cannot attack while you control no brave tokens and at the end of the battle phase if your monster has specifically lists the token brave token and it's text battled.
You can set a track card that specifically lists the token brave token and it's text directly from your deck to your spell and check card zone. So that can be really good depending on what the traps are. Absolutely. So you can have the wandering Griffin rider level seven when we get beast 2000 attack 2800 defense.
It can only use this card first and second effects once per turn. During the main phase if you control the monsters or you control a brave token quick effect you can splash some of this card from your hand. There's a reason why it's a quick effect. We have a second to when a card or effect is activated comma if you control a brave token quick effect colon you can shuffle this card into the deck and if you do negate and destroy yo hey quick effect and get destroyed because you can spit out during your turn during your opponents turn because it's special on effect is in fact a quick effect.
I mean just if you control one of these tokens is good just as like so some guards have a stipulation like oh if you control you know exactly three monsters of two thousand attack like okay that's not really good or you know if you control exactly a level 10 synch or monster which for John Jenkins that is not very good but if you control a brave token which has an entire archetype which has an entire deck that summons brave tokens that's not the worst. We'll get into that in a minute actually. So then is that spell card that that first spoke are talking about journey of destiny it is a continuous spell card you can only use this card first and second effects once for turn one during your main face you can add to you can add to your hand one monster from your deck that specifically lists the token brave token in its text then send a card from your hand to the graveyard. Two if a monster is normal or special summon you can add to your hand or equip to one brave token you control and equip spell from your deck that specifically lists the token brave token in its text.
Three each turn at the first time you monster you you control be sure by battle while it is equipped with an equipped card it is not destroyed. Yo I just want to say the art for this card is kind of sick. Not no full on all the art for this is amazing we just sad and I'll get into why it's that in a minute. Well if you look at it the art for this card is diviner of the herald standing with the wondering griffin rider and the magusite warrior magusite warrior and it's like they're on a journey together.
Yep because like in the first card right of our knees you have is diviner of heralds like I think it's like like somebody you to this world and you're going on a venture with the magusite warrior and the wondering griffin rider. It sure looks like diviner anyway so that was journey of destiny. Yep and the next is so wait let's think about this for a second this their continuous spell it's once returns so the first effect is during the main phase only which kind of sucks and it also kind of sucks that it's continuous spell because it dies to twin twister and cosmic. You can add a monster reduction specifically list the token it's text then send a card from your degree right okay so that could be good if they have any gray rubber cycling effects if I'm because then it's a search and a discard even if you have nothing in hand.
If I'm but it has to be a monster so that's not as good. If I'm monsters more or special you can add to your hand or equipped to a break though can you join equipped to a perforated text or in deck okay so they're gonna have to have any quick spell they have three wow okay the third effect will be short about okay it's not short okay all right so let's go to the first equipped spell which is noble arms of light daniel which is a really interesting name is to give it a noble arms name because I think there are cards already that search a noble arms about trap oh there's a bunch yeah there's entire our type around searching out for noble arms right actually two of them but it's not infernible night doesn't just search everything does it they can search for noble arms and that's kind of what you're supposed to do it's not what they actually do I don't think no it's not actually I wonder if there's a I wonder if there's a world in which you can splash this archetype with the brave tokens with like the original noble nights or the or the infernibles I mean do either those decks have place where they don't rely on their normal summon effect to go off um not noble nights those rely very heavily on or summons yeah like infernible they have some lines where you don't really like need your normal summon per se but here's the thing this deck gives you a way to get warriors on field without a normal summon which is kind of the whole thing right well the only one that's a warrior is the magi site warrior the token is a fairy and the griffin riders only at least okay but like even yeah no because you basically to start the infernible lines you have to have two warriors because you have to go link off into be sold yeah so without a way to clearly link off into east old I don't know that it's possible probably not it's a special side effect of magi site or magi site once per turn let me go double check yes it is yeah okay so that's less good okay so here's what the noble arms of white daniel actually does of course it's a quips belt um equip only to a monster you control which is interesting you don't see that very often and the fact that it says that is uh means something means something he only uses third effect uh once per turn you can one you can only control one noble arms of white daniel fair uh to equip monster gains five out of attack for each monster with a different name you control that specifically lists the token brave token in its text so a maximum of one thousand because we only have two monsters correct so far yeah um three if this card is just a graveyard you can target a brave token you control equip that card this card to that monster you control it's okay it's all right uh next equipped spell um is starlight's papillon you can only use uh you can only equip onto permise exacting effect is the daniel um you can only control one starlight papillon monsters your opponent controls use five hundred attacks for each monster they different name that you control a specific list token brave token in its text again for maximum of thousand right now yeah um if this card is the great card same thing re-equipped third third eclipse bell triangle back to the dragon seed it's it's like a wyvern it's like a wyvern but if wyvern's where it's okay about yeah um same thing equipped only with two monster control you can only use the second and third effect of this card's name once per turn um you can only control one and drag go back to dragon seed uh while this card is equipped to a non-effect monster those are non-effect monsters you can target one card your opponent controls return to the hand interesting though that that is not a quick effect yes that that is that is something i was about to point out it's not a quick effect so not as good as compulse right um three at this car since the great card you can just immediately re-equip it it might be it might be it might be it's definitely usable in like a board breaking scenario um next up they have two field spells okay let's talk about the first one which is zara zorararhaum the dark temple it's field spell while you control a monster equipped with noble arms of light daniel your opponent cannot activate cards or effects during the battle phase at least much better if it wasn't during the battle phase i know i wish it just said during the mid during main phase one something like that once per turn when your brave token destroys and points on our battle you can inflict damage to your point equals that monster's original attack three once per turn if you activate this card second effect previously this turn you can add to your hand one field spell in your deck or graveyard that specifically lists the token brave token in its text except zorarhaum the dark temple now remember it says to recur from hand if you can just add it from your deck or graveyard to your hand so you can sit there and just recycle this guy with the other field spell uh the woods of lost flowers uh it should be noted that the origin originally the third effect of that card was incorrectly shown as having no limitations on how it sounds to be activated during turn but its text was updated in the news page and shown as uh and shown in an errata yeah same thing with same thing with the second smoker yeah you can only use their third effects once per turn hard once per turn uh anyway the woods of lost flowers field spell uh your monsters equipped with starlet papillot or unaffected by any card effect but activated by your opponent that's pretty good by itself actually uh once per turn when your brave token destroys an opponent's monster by battle draw card once per turn if you activated this card second effect previously this turn you can add to your hand one field spell in your deck or graveyard that's specifically list the token brave token in its text except the woods of lost flowers so ideally you would just like activate the uh the dark temple search for lost woods activate lost woods over top of the dark temple and just keeps switching back and forth to do with them ideally yeah and that's it for spells uh for traps we have thunder discharge what an aim looks cool um you can activate one card with this card's name per turn one if you can truly brave token so i got one of your monsters equipped with an equipped card that's specifically list the token brave token in text destroys many monsters your opponent controls with equal or lower attack is possible then you can equip an equipped spell from your hand or graveyard that lists the brave token in its text to an appropriate monster you control okay so possible board wipe of 2k of 2 to 3 of any monster between 2k and doing math 4k right yeah because uh because if you have the starlet papillot and the sword with both of them out that's a minus 1000 your opponent plus 1000 you so it lets them hit monsters with 4000 attack the bigger issue here is that the um the you can't actually so it says if you control a brave token colon target one of your monsters equipped with an equipped card that specifically list the token brave token in its text so that's the issue you can't actually you cannot actually target your token because it won't list a brave token in its text because it's a normal monster doesn't have text correct so that means you have to have your equip cards equipped to a non token which is kind of gross because if they're not equipped with the token they'd basically do almost um they can still require themselves but yeah they can still require themselves um well okay so with uh the uh noble arms of light and the starlet papillot their actual equip effects will work just fine the really the only ones whose equip effect wouldn't function is the dureko steed but that's because he very specific is dreko back because he very specifically requires he be equipped to a non-effect monster right and then the next trap is resurrection breath um you can only convey one card's name so once per turn if you enjoy a brave token especially on an up to monster with different names from your hand and our graveyard then ban it but banish them when they leave the field then you can equip an equip spell from your hand or graveyard the list token break token and its text to an appropriate monster you control so basically you get back out and add aside the warrior and the griffin rider back out on board and then you get a couple of your quipsels right given you either plus one thousand or give your opponent minus thousand yeah it's interesting yep um and then they also mention that the uh grand creators and the t and the ocg will have a hidden armory reprint so for those of you that don't know hidden armory says send the top card of your deck to the graveyard add one equip spell from your deck or graveyard to your hand you cannot normal someone or set the turn right through this card which is that card's never been an issue because guess what most people like normal summoning oh yeah this deck doesn't care yeah most warrior decks want to get at least one normal summoner yeah um now that was the entire archive as far as that we know that we have so far i'm going to ask you questions on you i want you to see if you can answer me how many tokens can you generate with this deck using one of each one copy of each card is the answer one the answer is one only one card generates a brave token and i'll do it once per turn and it can't recur itself wow this deck sucks i mean there's all kinds of cool interesting ways you could splash it i guess but like if you like there's like in like just the way that everything interacts with the token is so cool the problem is one token collector ruins your whole day yeah activate this card don't collect just reveal so collector you just kind of go you just kind of strungo scoot game too let's go game too let's go and it's a non-searchable spell card there's no way for you to search the spell card as someone's the token yeah because it's not it's not a field spell card so you don't have to reform um it's just it's not it's not an art type will spell card either it's not great token blah blah okay well hold on there are cards in the architect that say you can add any card that's play of token and its text which it does so that's really your only way of doing that i'm like this art type could have been so cool no work is so great too bad it all relies on a token that you can't protect oh no that card search is a monster that specifically let's brave token so no they don't they literally know where to search it never mind it's not it's a non-searchable spell card that you need in your opening hand to even play the deck yeah past that you're literally just on triple solemn strike tripleized during his prison just just stun yeah just not inside draw this card so i can play the game and then you guys this book or it's open collector looks like i'm stunning until i draw the second one right and then you're going to go even deeper with uh prosperity's and everything like that but yeah probably i mean at that point i'd say i'd say forget and just run prosperity and uh extravagan's because the stack does not care about his extra deck whatsoever now you cannot run both i know you can't resolve both fully in one game it's not possible i know i'm just saying though yeah um just for the odds of getting one or the other because the specs not care about extra deck yeah so you'd have to run prosperity and desires yeah not set no i'm not saying it's good it's terrible don't do that yeah don't do this but it's better just to not run the the archetype i mean you want to run it there might be an interesting way to tech the engine in somewhere but i don't see how yep because the deck also punishes because one of the cards actively punishes you for normal something right i think a couple of them do yeah definitely the continuous spell card just actively punishes you can activate its effects right so we're gonna take a quick little ad break and we're gonna talk about our 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aspirations in the game so i found myself recently being pretty upset about the results of the most recent locals that we went to i went to a two three one which was a six it was our return to organized play tournament which had the trophy and it got me thinking i thought i'm really not happy with those results and sure um a lot of those results can be attributed to uh oh you know i bricked and were against plunder and i bricked twice against uh paleo frog and you know i bricked here and i bricked there and it didn't help and then my opponent just had to call by and things like that and if you were my opponent just had the what was that one game sony uh all three of your infinite impermanises just one after the other after the other uh called by the grave uh yeah i did that's cale last night what else was in there like oh the headdress oh yeah i opened i opened infinite infinite impermanence ghost bell um imperial order solemn strike and a starter and then i proceeded to for now it was ash blossom it was okay so it was infinite impermanence it was ash blossom it was effect valer it was solemn strike and it was a desires and then my next two cards off the top were impermane impermane keep in mind i'm playing with ochay yeah impermanes are rough just what does any deck do with that ah not much not not much that that is a hand of hey i'm gonna play ukio but neither did you right that's all that matters so but i got to thinking about it i said okay if i take a step back let's think about everything that happened that weekend round one i got to win against prank kids and that was cool round two i lost a dry chon um my critic i had a fatal error where i made a misplay and it left me ending on a very sub-par board um the next thing is i ended up so i lost i lose round two dry chon he wins game when he after gave me a game two i end up i end up on i end on a sub-par board because of a misplay and he killed him which is my fault you know now if i make my proper board does he win that game i don't know because he also triple tactics talent game oh but the issue is it gives me a chance at that point we don't know what happens from there what we do know is potentially i could win that game potentially if we go game three but that's not going on there because my misplay ended that match earlier the next thing is round three i played against plunders i did not know the deck did and i bricked round four i played against um oh goodness gracious i'm losing it now dragon link that ended in a tie for reasons that i don't really want to talk about on the podcast um round five with sky striker which i did win that round and round six was um paleo frog which i lost because i prick now when you hear that you say okay well you brick twice against plunder and you prick twice against paleo frog you know bricks happen sometimes you get multiple times in a tournament it happens the issue is though i think it would be wrong of me for my takeaway there to be i brick that happens and change nothing the issue is deck building or the issue is improper play in different times sometimes sure you brick but maybe you still have a way to stop your opponent and then give yourself more terms um and i think that coming out of this experience with a mindset of oh well i broke there was nothing i could do does not benefit me at all and doesn't help me get better at the game so my goal moving forward is to learn from those experiences in different ways which i know now i've made some sweeping changes to my deck list i've put a lot more care and thought into what i'm doing deck list wise and so as a result i think my deck comes up better now there's also things in my play that need to be fixed so my solution there is to play test as much as possible and how do i do that i get on and i do remote tools in our server every night yes that is absolutely plug by the way for our disword server link in the description below we want everybody to join i do i committed to doing a minimum of two tools and i even if i get up work late and i have to stay up late i'm going to get two matches and i i i need to hone my skills i need to get better at the game because i don't just want to appear at these events and have everybody say oh hey there's something he's like table 23 i want people to i want to appear at these events and people say oh man they're sunny wow he's here he's good he'll be at table three or two all day so with that said i think the only way that i can truly improve myself is to grind harder than escape order the x-games to be yeah i know listen man you gotta be out here ready to go day listen i can take i cannot take credit that is a spin off of a jeff fox orgy joke man i've ever had him a long time nobody has so that said it i just it's something that i felt i had to say because like if you go look on the twitter page there was some post-door i was like down last saturday oh yeah so i kind of had to go in i had to read just my mindset i got some good words of wisdom from the don huan for those people that know the don huan is he is a wonderful wonderful individual any great player um so it's always it's one of those things where you're going through and you scroll through twitter and you're having a bad day and you see just the exact words that you need at the time it's just like all right i'm back let's do this exactly time for training arc let's go yeah that's literally where i'm at right now i i'm in my i'm like i'm in the middle of my time skip so that's my commitment i want to become a better duelist and i think that how that happens is by um grinding as much as possible what do you think oh yeah no no no then something else you also keep in mind is you have to grind up you have to grind again it's not only multiple people multiple decks yeah this is the format to do that yeah you know i mean because how many decks are it uh got top 16 how many different decks what was it like eight nine i don't know the exact number yeah but it was a lot i mean you're looking at it realistically the way i see it is the decks that we have that are competitive this format that can honestly go in and top a tournament you have tribergade you have dry-tron you have prank kids those are the three best decks of the format for sure then you have competitive you have virtual world you have sky striker you have salam and great um dragon links still doing its thing absolutely dragon link is absolutely still competitive deck granted it is weaker to hand traps now but they have to have the hand traps right and if they don't they'll just get overwhelmed with a combination of borlode savage chaos ruler right and i think realistically you also need to be cognizant and aware of obviously inflow chital dark magga it's still it's still a good deck it hasn't gotten hit by the banless any it's just still fair it's just kind of always in the back muttering to itself yeah yeah more or less alistair invocation argument let's go no one else sir come on ash bro ash me oh oh you gave a chance ash me okay but i think that you really have 10 to 12 decks that can top a tournament plus you have rogue yeah do not knock the rogue decks because you'll go oh it's just plunder patrol and then you're staring down a full negated board that you can't do anything for it guess what that plunder patrol player he got he went for to that day he didn't really well for himself that's nothing to stop at oh yeah and that's just punner patrol with medolce if you don't stop them they'll just remove your entire non-target remove your entire board yeah i mean look at giant skyhawk look at what he's been able to do with fluffle yeah exactly of all decks fluffle and then you know in the course you cannot knock the grid the green module because there's no level three normal summon with 10k attack is nothing to scoff at and a rank a toolbox and the rank a toolbox which includes Santa fond it's a it's a good deck i mean there's all these rogue options you have fan of knights fan of knights are good they got third place at this tournament oh yeah fan of knights uh burning abyss uh pk fire which is fan of knight's burning abyss right and then you have the trap ba then you have trap shadall i mean it's really you have pure shadall that can run they have combo variants of pure shadall i mean pure shadall has power place and one exactly i mean dude i ran one where if my combo went off no problem which was actually really easy depending upon when i was going first or second it all required wish it all fusion hand and that's it right i was going first i would need shell fusion a light access to a light monster and a shadall monster that's it right and i would end on a board of a defense position l-jaw construct avermax and then your my opponent's turn flips gives them and make window yeah i there's so many decks right now that are competitive and i think that the solution here is to keep as many of them as possible on your radar play as much as possible i mean even look even looking forward you have uh source all coming up yes swords all slenderies live twins are gonna be really competitive soon because they finally got the thing they needed a big boss monster cluster add a cluster add a nistors a playable deck yes adding a stir uh co-talkers yeah you know there's still a lot that's playable and so the more you can do all the more you can play the better your chances are if you look at i was in we were in our server the other day and my god shout out to mr ben yep i he whooped my butt and he was playing infernoid yeah he was playing infernoid and he destroyed me why well one he's outright a better player than i am it's just that symbol uh two he also has a better idea of the match of itself but that's just part of being a better player and he knew he knew everything my deck did and i knew nothing about his deck did the match before he was watching us play and he was providing commentary like hey you know just a thought you know why didn't you maybe do this player this play and it's so helpful to have that commentary and that insight mid-game to understand oh i can do this and it just those things literally just make you a better player so these are the things that these are the reasons that i'm i've committed myself to a basically a training regiment um and for those that want to take this training regiment with me come hang out in the server we are really i mean they're every single night getting games i mean they're uh calibs in there every single day every single night we're in there we're we have a cool little community built up we've got probably at this time it's still fairly small 40 to 50 people which i mean hey we're averaging about you know 150 to 200 plays per episode which is easily 10 times more than i was expecting at this point well i mean it's just crazy to me that if you look at it you have probably 40 to 50 percent or well okay i'm sorry 25 to 30 percent of our community of all the people listening here are already in the server so if we can get just like another 10 percent to join and then other 10 percent get four or five people that play remote duels i mean you could really be looking at you know us within no time having a full i mean we can be hosting tournaments and everything oh yeah it's so exciting to think about which would be a blast yeah and again i am willing to host free tournaments free entry and i'll do prize support out of my own personal binder and ship out to y'all so listen i'm really excited for the things that we have going i'm excited for you know the future of both us and the podcast so um with all that said i think that'll pretty much take us out right yep i i don't have anything else to add all right well everybody thank you so much we are logging out to today is friday august 13th be sure to come back next tuesday august probably the 17th come back tuesday august 17th for a new episode we are always uploading every tuesday every 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