This is a really helpful video on the Fire King Snake-Eyes deck that's going to be widely played against this format. Really like the concise and informative insight against the deck.
One of the best yugioh guide I have seen in many and many years playing ygo, concise, undersatandable, you showed visuals that made everything easier to understand, nice job! new subscriber!
For any fiend decks you can play dark world puppetry, which can banish 3 cards in any gy as a quick play then discard a fiend. It also recycles banished fiends to your hand the turn after it’s sent to the gy.
I appreciate this video for someone who is isolated I rarely get the chance to duel with others mainly DM so to stay somewhat sharp I look for content like this
I like Belle in centur-ion because it both helps against the fire decks, but it also protects your main combo from dd crow like effects during the end phase
Wanted to add that the line that plays around nib ends on even more disruption. It’s like 8-10 not including handtraps off of a single snake-eye ash. Also no snake-eye fire deck plays Barong since you can play around nib without it. Also super poly isn’t that good, it’s just ok. It doesn’t do nearly enough because they just get their resources back from flameberge, if you make Mudragon they will trigger Kirin to pop it early and then you still have to deal with amblowhale in grave, possibly arvata, sanctuary and princess + handtraps. It’s more of a neg 2. There’s also boards that just straight up play around it like the one that plays around nib since you can’t poly apo + amblowhale. In terms of decks with best match ups, yea, kash is good. Branded, it’s not a really good match up I’ve seen a lot of videos where people show combos against them through ash and stuff and basically all the time the snakes-eye fk player makes major miss plays. Branded inherently feels bad against a deck that has a lot of handtraps because a player who knows the match up will always know when to time cards at the best possible moment. Mirrojade is not scary enough since the deck can just extend, ash still hurts, cards like quem + dusk dragon can be played around easily. Really branded only has a good match up when undisputed, but so does any deck. Branded also doesn’t have much non-engine room so players will automatically know they can play a little risk without getting punished. Also branded going 2nd into a snake-eye fire king board isn’t going to happen.
If you are good in playing branded u have a very good match up against snake eyes/fire king. U just need to know the „hidden plays“. The OCG also shows that it’s the second best deck (tops and representation)
@@denizsyed7699 branded literally is only good in ocg because Maxx C and grass being at 2. It’s not because it’s good into the format if you look at major tournament results branded isn’t’ even doing remotely well. Look, I played branded for a while, and every format people say it’ll be good, like at the start of last year with Kash, me included, and then it’s like tier 2. Also explain how your board breaks a full fire king end board with apo for 2 negates + amblowhale + handtraps, princess, arvata, Kirin in grave, possibly an I:P to bring back for S:P. (This all off of just snake-eye ash). Then, going 2nd, explain how you play through an imperm or ash blossom into the engine of snake-eye fire king if we have any starter + island and like some random fire cards otherwise they were handtraps that would stop you from ending on anything. Also, if branded becomes popular people will just side 3 d barrier and then you die unless you go first.
Build your deck right. Ashe them if they try to normal summon diviner or Lo. Skill drain destroys this deck, and it doesn’t have answers for back row clear.
Not to generic but what do you think of shaddoll Fusion? You can send Ariel and Dragon to summon apkalone. And then you have a one card permanent card negation, a banish for three cards and a backrow destruction. Alternatively you can also send the earth shaddoll which gives you a monster negate.
hey very nice video thanks a lot just one question isnt super poly into mudragon nad then mud effect change itself to fire also very insane agianst this deck?
Phantazmay is insane. You can use itn hen they summon a link monster on there turn yes, but when they summon back princess from grave kn your own turn you can use phantazmay and draw 3 cards fix your hand. Have protection from sp and whale. And I'd your lucky enough you can resolve it on there and your own turnm
Hit the ponix in the GY using d.d. crow when they activate high kirins effect so it can't revive from the gy making options to be limited by summoning one from hand instead
The thing that sucks is that I am a Kashtira video and they banned Ariseheart and I feel he is needed against this deck. Then again I have them mixed with the snake eye engine (specifically the diabellstar variant) and dimension shifter is a MUST. That or bring us back true king of all calamities or red eyes dark dragoon
i play kashtira with shifter, hosnetly aloof of match are easy or they surrunder, but i still miss arie-heart, the heroe we dont know we need, maybe some day they unbanned or a errata
Legit question, if I set The Black Goat Laughs going first against a fire king player, what is the best name to call and do I activate it in DP or wait for them to activate a chain?
This is actually a perfect comment because i'm posting a branded deck profile tomorrow. its not going to be a budget option, but i will have alternatives for every expensive card :)
Dark World Puppetry is great against the Graveyard. Discard 1 banish 3. Silent Graveyard works as well. Also, I think Floo is going to be strong against this deck. Abyss Dweller will kill the Graveyard as well. I run 3 of Vanitys fiend and Dark Lair field spell.
Snake-eyes dont need fire kings, so you hit kirin and all you do is upset fire king players while not actually addressing the issue which is the snake-eyes.
not many decks with good matchups but id look at decks that can play a lot of handtraps (usually including shifter) have a compact engine, can play super poly. Purrely and Vanquish Soul are solid options IMO but are weaker than branded + Kash
The fact that we are genuinely considering an old card like soul release as a valid tech choice, I freaking love Yugioh lmao. Whats next? Fiend comedian? 😂
I can't play TCG atm because I'm broke, but I've been enjoying Snake-eye on Master Duel! I'm using rekindling and using a ton of 200 def monsters and support. Pretty good without the Fire King cards!
I mean with hts being reprinted and fire king structures being cheap just play dogmatika variant and save until you want to buy the wanted engine. Is snake eyes engine good? Yes it is but I’m playing without it tbh you can play other builds at do pretty good. Obviously not as good as snake eye but still pretty strong.
how can they play around it? the combo can have 2 possible mandatory effects which turn it on. They also activate flamberge in the DP or SP to play around talents. Even if they use 1 of their interruptions, like princess or IP or a handtrap, you get rid of almost all if not all their GY resources
@@MattOsheaYGO Once you search the soul release I mean. It's only good if you have an empty board otherwise they can activate some stuff like Kirin, Garunix/Amblo, Flamberge summon back in advance seeing that you have Soul release. All it really trades for after that is like WANTEDs draw and maybe 1-2 follow up pieces which isn't enough value when you die to their existing board anyway.
@@Boristien405 if they have garunix, they can pop amblow and bring back princess, but then they dont have it in GY. if they summon back garunix to destroy a card in deck, at best case its a revive from arvarta or kirin, if they link with IP into SP, they dont get the initial banish on you. If they do all of that, their board before you use Soul Release is SP, 2 Lv1s, Garunix, Kirin, Princess. Only 1 of those do something on field, SP (unless they have sanctuary which in that case they get rid of everything they have) Then you can soul release and banish other level 1s, flamberge, amblowhale, IP or other FK cards. Having the 1 soul release get rid of the vast majority of their interruption is incredible. The truth is, there is no perfect answer, but soul release is clearly the best one we have
the fact that you can play shifter is already a huge advantage, but unless you open shifter or like, martha and four handtraps, you probably aren’t gonna be able to go second against fk snake eyes
@@rockmanbeastifyAs an Exosister player, we also lose quite easily to handtraps in general due to the lack of consistent follow up. That said, Exosister is literally 2 or so cards away from Labrynth level of power, so hopefully they do get said support.
Htraps: Droll is good. Crow/Belle the Lo in gy eff. Hold Ash for pre-prep if you can or Prosperity. Dont play your Imperm into their ns. Hold it for your turn to turn off Dyna Mondo/Sauravis. Boardbreakers: DRNM/Superpoly/Kaiju. Anything that deals with a towers negate works against the deck.
@@brillodiggz8746 Jowgen the spiritualist prevent special summoning kycoo the ghost destroyer banishes monsters and prevent cards from being banished from the graveyard chosai the ghost blocker prevents spell/trap cards to activate from the graveyard ranshin the anarchist banished a monster from the graveyard, chowlen the prophet let’s me see a set spell and trap card and if I call it right they can’t activate it and gendo the acetic prevent monster effects from activating
@@MattOsheaYGO Fair enough. Sometimes, if I'm feeling adventurous, I introduce them to my friend Neko Mane King. Perhaps I even bring out Ido, or maybe I just resort to some good old-fashioned rank spamming. Although, considering Droll is running rampant this format, I guess it becomes a 50/50 chance of those things happening.
@@kashtiranaxxheartI agree nobody likes to fight through the dregs of net deckers just to make it to top cut only to be faced with the same filth you just ran through to get there
This is a really helpful video on the Fire King Snake-Eyes deck that's going to be widely played against this format. Really like the concise and informative insight against the deck.
Thank you! Im happy you enjoyed!
One of the best yugioh guide I have seen in many and many years playing ygo, concise, undersatandable, you showed visuals that made everything easier to understand, nice job! new subscriber!
Nadir servant branded gimmick puppet combo is in my opinion the best stopper to any combo deck including fire king snake eyes
For any fiend decks you can play dark world puppetry, which can banish 3 cards in any gy as a quick play then discard a fiend. It also recycles banished fiends to your hand the turn after it’s sent to the gy.
amazing option for fiend decks!
that's a good side deck option for labrynth
Unchained are also fiend right? Would that card work with that deck?
I appreciate this video for someone who is isolated I rarely get the chance to duel with others mainly DM so to stay somewhat sharp I look for content like this
im happy you enjoyed it! and i hope you get the chance to duel others more often!
I like Belle in centur-ion because it both helps against the fire decks, but it also protects your main combo from dd crow like effects during the end phase
Wanted to add that the line that plays around nib ends on even more disruption. It’s like 8-10 not including handtraps off of a single snake-eye ash. Also no snake-eye fire deck plays Barong since you can play around nib without it.
Also super poly isn’t that good, it’s just ok. It doesn’t do nearly enough because they just get their resources back from flameberge, if you make Mudragon they will trigger Kirin to pop it early and then you still have to deal with amblowhale in grave, possibly arvata, sanctuary and princess + handtraps. It’s more of a neg 2. There’s also boards that just straight up play around it like the one that plays around nib since you can’t poly apo + amblowhale.
In terms of decks with best match ups, yea, kash is good. Branded, it’s not a really good match up I’ve seen a lot of videos where people show combos against them through ash and stuff and basically all the time the snakes-eye fk player makes major miss plays.
Branded inherently feels bad against a deck that has a lot of handtraps because a player who knows the match up will always know when to time cards at the best possible moment. Mirrojade is not scary enough since the deck can just extend, ash still hurts, cards like quem + dusk dragon can be played around easily. Really branded only has a good match up when undisputed, but so does any deck. Branded also doesn’t have much non-engine room so players will automatically know they can play a little risk without getting punished. Also branded going 2nd into a snake-eye fire king board isn’t going to happen.
If you are good in playing branded u have a very good match up against snake eyes/fire king. U just need to know the „hidden plays“. The OCG also shows that it’s the second best deck (tops and representation)
@@denizsyed7699 branded literally is only good in ocg because Maxx C and grass being at 2. It’s not because it’s good into the format if you look at major tournament results branded isn’t’ even doing remotely well. Look, I played branded for a while, and every format people say it’ll be good, like at the start of last year with Kash, me included, and then it’s like tier 2. Also explain how your board breaks a full fire king end board with apo for 2 negates + amblowhale + handtraps, princess, arvata, Kirin in grave, possibly an I:P to bring back for S:P. (This all off of just snake-eye ash). Then, going 2nd, explain how you play through an imperm or ash blossom into the engine of snake-eye fire king if we have any starter + island and like some random fire cards otherwise they were handtraps that would stop you from ending on anything. Also, if branded becomes popular people will just side 3 d barrier and then you die unless you go first.
Great video Matt!
thank you!
Thank you! High tier content right here.
Happy you enjoyed it! 😁
Really insightful, please do one for voiceless voice as well pls
I will! Next week i have my introduction to VV, and then the how to beat guide too! (and if all goes well a deck profile)
Build your deck right. Ashe them if they try to normal summon diviner or Lo. Skill drain destroys this deck, and it doesn’t have answers for back row clear.
Great video. Many thanks!
Happy you enjoyed :)
Not to generic but what do you think of shaddoll Fusion? You can send Ariel and Dragon to summon apkalone. And then you have a one card permanent card negation, a banish for three cards and a backrow destruction. Alternatively you can also send the earth shaddoll which gives you a monster negate.
i like it but only going 2nd. Going first you add in too many bricks that do nothing on their own
Man this is what I call some good fucking content. Cheers from Mx!
thank you! happy you enjoyed it!
Very well done! Sub 100% earned!! Really enjoy your Branded content as well.
Cheers!😁
Thank you! I'm happy you enjoyed!
Runick also is kinda good vs fire king cuz of the banishing from deck thing.
Needed this.
hey very nice video thanks a lot just one question isnt super poly into mudragon nad then mud effect change itself to fire also very insane agianst this deck?
It is incredibly strong against the deck!
Not exactly since fire king can Non target destroy your cards
Basically what I got from this video is play floo or kashtira
Phantazmay is insane. You can use itn hen they summon a link monster on there turn yes, but when they summon back princess from grave kn your own turn you can use phantazmay and draw 3 cards fix your hand.
Have protection from sp and whale.
And I'd your lucky enough you can resolve it on there and your own turnm
Hit the ponix in the GY using d.d. crow when they activate high kirins effect so it can't revive from the gy making options to be limited by summoning one from hand instead
So...just floodgates......nice......😩
That's what I hate about fire decks. Most times, the only way to actually stop them is the most anti-fun way to do it. Shit sucks.
Hey Matt. It might be hard to do but have you thought about adding engines to the how to beat series? Like the adventure or horus engine.
What about Silent Graveyard? Can you give your insight on how impactful it is against them going first and going second?
Your videos are excellent perfect
Appreciate that! Thank you!
The thing that sucks is that I am a Kashtira video and they banned Ariseheart and I feel he is needed against this deck. Then again I have them mixed with the snake eye engine (specifically the diabellstar variant) and dimension shifter is a MUST. That or bring us back true king of all calamities or red eyes dark dragoon
i play kashtira with shifter, hosnetly aloof of match are easy or they surrunder, but i still miss arie-heart, the heroe we dont know we need, maybe some day they unbanned or a errata
God forbid arise coming back, Kash shouldn't even have Shifter to begin with
@@angel-memeroftheislesLol. It’s never been hit because it’d make Floo die for good.
ohhh floo i love that deck i need to buy one@@kashtiranaxxheart
Believe it or not, I had some pretty good games using Galaxy Photon , but what they did which stopped me cold was side in the Fire Barrier Statue lol
Is Dimensional Fissure and necrovalley good in this match up going 1rst? I play exosisters
Fissure is better imo
Legit question, if I set The Black Goat Laughs going first against a fire king player, what is the best name to call and do I activate it in DP or wait for them to activate a chain?
I like the idea of Branded; do you know if there's a budget option to use this format? (Quem alone brings the price of the deck by ~ $50)
This is actually a perfect comment because i'm posting a branded deck profile tomorrow.
its not going to be a budget option, but i will have alternatives for every expensive card :)
@@MattOsheaYGO awesome!
Dark World Puppetry is great against the Graveyard. Discard 1 banish 3. Silent Graveyard works as well. Also, I think Floo is going to be strong against this deck. Abyss Dweller will kill the Graveyard as well. I run 3 of Vanitys fiend and Dark Lair field spell.
I sincerely hope they limit Kirin, having this many combo cards while having Kirin to dodge targeting is just insane, also for my sanity
Sounds dumb
Kirin prob the most tame card in the entire deck
@@Chackothewacko true, but I’m not expecting them to hit the deck hard, so I’m hoping for small hits like this at least for now
Original sinful spoil
Just play yubel and see them cry
Snake-eyes dont need fire kings, so you hit kirin and all you do is upset fire king players while not actually addressing the issue which is the snake-eyes.
still going to play Gren Maju tomorrow xD
This is a surprise tool I’ll be using later
Any other suggestions for decks other than Kash or Branded that have a great Snake-Eyes FK matchup?
not many decks with good matchups but id look at decks that can play a lot of handtraps (usually including shifter) have a compact engine, can play super poly.
Purrely and Vanquish Soul are solid options IMO but are weaker than branded + Kash
@@MattOsheaYGO you telling me birds ain’t a good enough Shifter deck against fire? 😭
The fact that we are genuinely considering an old card like soul release as a valid tech choice, I freaking love Yugioh lmao. Whats next? Fiend comedian? 😂
is it really. first maxxed out version I faced got taken out in under 10 minutes. 1 soul crossing and he totally shut down.
one word, Necrovalley
Materialization is a cool tech card and xxclusion
Xxclusion negates the activation then they getting choose what to discard so they could literally just activate it again?
I can't play TCG atm because I'm broke, but I've been enjoying Snake-eye on Master Duel! I'm using rekindling and using a ton of 200 def monsters and support. Pretty good without the Fire King cards!
I mean with hts being reprinted and fire king structures being cheap just play dogmatika variant and save until you want to buy the wanted engine. Is snake eyes engine good? Yes it is but I’m playing without it tbh you can play other builds at do pretty good. Obviously not as good as snake eye but still pretty strong.
You take a hiatus and pray there is a strong enough hit on the next banlists
16:00 Isn't Thrust into soul release pretty useless? I feel like they can easily play around it
how can they play around it? the combo can have 2 possible mandatory effects which turn it on. They also activate flamberge in the DP or SP to play around talents. Even if they use 1 of their interruptions, like princess or IP or a handtrap, you get rid of almost all if not all their GY resources
@@MattOsheaYGO Once you search the soul release I mean. It's only good if you have an empty board otherwise they can activate some stuff like Kirin, Garunix/Amblo, Flamberge summon back in advance seeing that you have Soul release. All it really trades for after that is like WANTEDs draw and maybe 1-2 follow up pieces which isn't enough value when you die to their existing board anyway.
@@Boristien405 if they have garunix, they can pop amblow and bring back princess, but then they dont have it in GY.
if they summon back garunix to destroy a card in deck, at best case its a revive from arvarta or kirin, if they link with IP into SP, they dont get the initial banish on you. If they do all of that, their board before you use Soul Release is SP, 2 Lv1s, Garunix, Kirin, Princess. Only 1 of those do something on field, SP (unless they have sanctuary which in that case they get rid of everything they have)
Then you can soul release and banish other level 1s, flamberge, amblowhale, IP or other FK cards.
Having the 1 soul release get rid of the vast majority of their interruption is incredible.
The truth is, there is no perfect answer, but soul release is clearly the best one we have
How good do you think Book of Eclipse is?
i think its below average this format, id prefer book of moon
Good video.
Thanks!
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If I'm making a generic rank 4 going first, I'm wondering if Bagooska or Dweller 🤔
Dweller 100%, that plus another negate for IP would be good
@MattOsheaYGO would Herald of the abyss work?
Branded is the perfect hard counter to this deck and it is much cheaper to build so many players are sleeping on sanctifire and quem
Personally going back to branded as an anti fire king deck myself
How is Exosister going to be against this deck?
the fact that you can play shifter is already a huge advantage, but unless you open shifter or like, martha and four handtraps, you probably aren’t gonna be able to go second against fk snake eyes
@@rockmanbeastifyAs an Exosister player, we also lose quite easily to handtraps in general due to the lack of consistent follow up.
That said, Exosister is literally 2 or so cards away from Labrynth level of power, so hopefully they do get said support.
@@cbgg1585 i literally did not ask
You forgot flunder it hard negs first king snake eye.
Play goblin bikers and steal all the snake eye shit, GG 👌🏻
Come play Kashtira! We can play Lava Golem/Sphere Mode because we don't need our normal summon. We also run Shifter and Fenrir (Duh).
Someone needs to donate the planets and theosis and I can play 😭
If you are willing to wait until Rarity Collection 2, you can atleast get the planets. @@MattOsheaYGO
Ghoti looking at Snopios, Zep, and a third Fish in their hand going second "Oh it's big brain time"
Time to teach fish how to synchro!
Would super poly be a good board breaker?
I went in depth on super poly in the video :)
Watch the video!
How to beat Voiceless please
Htraps: Droll is good. Crow/Belle the Lo in gy eff. Hold Ash for pre-prep if you can or Prosperity. Dont play your Imperm into their ns. Hold it for your turn to turn off Dyna Mondo/Sauravis. Boardbreakers: DRNM/Superpoly/Kaiju. Anything that deals with a towers negate works against the deck.
Will be out either Tuesday or Thursday next week!
fire king budget challenge episode 5 ?
just took a small break for PHNI release, itll be coming back next week or week after at the latest
Exosister.
More like where to ash and nib. People don't know
What bout voiceless voice that deck is crazy
It is! I'll be bringing that next week!
d fissure is also a good card against this deck.
I still like your voice
Yubel super poly gg
Yubel looks fun!
My anti meta Buddhist monk deck actually beats fire king snake eyes
What's that deck look like
@@brillodiggz8746 Jowgen the spiritualist prevent special summoning kycoo the ghost destroyer banishes monsters and prevent cards from being banished from the graveyard chosai the ghost blocker prevents spell/trap cards to activate from the graveyard ranshin the anarchist banished a monster from the graveyard, chowlen the prophet let’s me see a set spell and trap card and if I call it right they can’t activate it and gendo the acetic prevent monster effects from activating
Bro just play grave keeper lmaooo that how I play it
I just Sillva loop then pass. 😊
You're so evil 🙈
@@MattOsheaYGO Fair enough. Sometimes, if I'm feeling adventurous, I introduce them to my friend Neko Mane King. Perhaps I even bring out Ido, or maybe I just resort to some good old-fashioned rank spamming. Although, considering Droll is running rampant this format, I guess it becomes a 50/50 chance of those things happening.
Voiceless voice guide senpai???
Tuesday or Thursday 👀
@@MattOsheaYGO the actual goat
If you play Snake Eyes or sword soul its saying that you suck at Yu-Gi-Oh
What whoa 3rd degree on sword soul😂
Can we have a how to beat voiceless soon? My regional next weekend 🙏
it will be out next week :)
@@MattOsheaYGO what would you prefer in the side this format (lab is a tougher matchup for me) denko OR deck lockdown..running kash stun
Most hand traps are useless, then? Fucking hate this game, man...
i don't like this. nobody says how to beat the fire kings. unless i say so. long live the fire kings.
Fire King is so boring. It’s nothing without Horus, Diabelle.
@@kashtiranaxxheart good thing i have i have horus the black flame dragon. having one out of two isn't bad.
@@kashtiranaxxheartI agree nobody likes to fight through the dregs of net deckers just to make it to top cut only to be faced with the same filth you just ran through to get there
🤣
Abyss dweller, silent graveyard, an lancea for the sp 🥸 Ggs 👌🏽
gottem!
Bro Im just getting back to yugioh and this is very informative- thank you! 🫶
Thanks! I'm happy you enjoyed!