The addition of tenpai was great for this series because now you have opponents who will actually stick around and wait for your full combo to be done. Also, magnet Warriors next please? It's a very competent rock deck :)
I love this deck. I’ve built a pure variant that does well at ending on a Baronne + Crystal Wing, but have seen people combine it with SuperHeavy, Pend Mag, Speedroid, or WindWitch to end on some pretty impressive boards.
Symphonics!! Love these and all music related archetypes! I loved spamming weird synchros out of archetype to make end boards. Symphonics and Solfachord are the only Pend decks I care to operate, but I love the both!
Pend is the single most underrcooked mechanic Konami ever made. Almost every Pend is generic (as far as scales are concerned) so you wind up not caring about like 95% of them. Combine that with the fact that something like a third of all pends are stuck in the Perfom/Odd Eyes horde and Pend Soup just winds up being the best verion of Pend at almost all times, with a proper archeytpe beating it out very rarely. Then you look at how Konami refuses to actually fully utilize all the interesting things Pends are capable of (Having two different Scales on the same card is an easy one) and youve got the weird mess they exist in
Being wind machines these bad boys also play really nice with Speedroid(an episode about speedroid could be fun btw), used to run the guitaar/miccs engine in that deck quite alot.
For Pendulums my favourite is the “Empowered Warriors” I run an Empowered Warriors Vanquish Soul deck. They are (mostly) fire earth and can make Dempsey for me :) Also that one sneaky direct attacker on top of all the burns has a tiny bit of utility. I also like Symphonic Warriors and Igknights. Because they are generic kinda
cool idea to look at this archetype! I think this is the essence of yugioh, archetypes. Archfiend next?! Summoned skull deck or his brother cards would be sick!
I'll never understand all the hate the pendulum mechanic gets in yugioh. You know, the game where people insist on infinite loops with decks like 6 samurai, doing FTK/OTK combos or having 20 minute combos that lock others out of the game, while at the same time complaining about how (insert card here) needs to be banned or something goofy like that.
I don't think those who dislike pendulums like FTKs and 20 minute combos. In fact, one of the reasons I dislike pendulums is because it's good at facilitating those things.
Pendulums are overcomplicated for no reason. Before and after all summoning mechanics were very simple, grab two things make one thing. Pendulums have so many extra rules that they feel like they're playing a different game. I do like the aspect of them being continuous spells as well as monster, but again that's just one aspect of the many pendulums have.
Bro what. Those are the exact reasons people hate pend. 20 minute combos? That's essentially the only thing any pend deck ever does. FTKs? One of the best FTK decks in history was a pend deck.
In terms of Pendulum I think it is a unique idea that has a lot of potential to be great, but that up until recently, Konami was scared to make good pendulum strategies, I’m glad that’s changed with decks like Melodias and Valmonica, but none of them will top Abyss Actor
i think the mechanic is so complicated and generic they future proof pendulum archetypes by making pend archetypes a little bit shit, so things dont get out of control.
Sometimes I think I’m getting pretty good at YGO, then I see Jesse break a (scuffed but still fairly menacing) Yubel board using little more than a bunch of rogue-level engine cards and apologise for how much of an embarrassing mess his performance was.
With fiendsmith ryzeal (which looks insanely fun btw, pure gas), not pend. Im curious with some support if Pend is going to start actually topping YCSs again
@@seijiren5115 Given the most recent released Pen Deck is Vaalmonica, I'm not really surprised. It's not bad, it's just Pen decks don't really Pen summon anymore.
If Jesse can play symphonic warrior then i need to see him play earth machine! Machina, infinitrack, sky striker, vernusyplh, any variant you desire, i want to see Jesse being forklift certified
I like a lot of the decks that came from the Arc V era, Phantom Knights in particular is so cool, and I hope that it gets new support eventually, but even as it it, there are 1-2 card combos that can either lead to 3 monster negates in 1 card, or a going second OTK with Arc rebellions
Symphonic Warriors are really cool! Really happy to see you do this. I for one would be interested in seeing you take on decks that HAVE Pendulums, but aren't really "Pendulum decks" in the traditional sense- decks like Melodious or Vaalmonica. Also once again begging for making Harpie Ladies meta!
Im kinda interested to see if you can do anything neat with mayakashi. Most mayakashi builds are basically just bone tower mill or ghost meets girl pass, which are both really boring.
so whats wrong with endymion? I get that the endboard of seven negates is a very bullshit thing to play against but purely from a gamedesing perspective I really like servant, abductor, mighty master and the like. their effects are unique, interesting and powerful while requiring enough setup to make a deck playing 30 draw cards inconsistent.
this is a very nice build! i always thought of Symphonic Warriors as more of a support engine than a pure deck. Tenpai spine works well. I'd really recommend adding Supreme King Gate Magician as a Darkwurm search target, you can play Clear Wing as a ZArc ingredient to maybe synchro summon, and the Magician will add Pendulum Evolution to give you a 2nd pend summon (and possible 2nd search with a 2nd Beyond, her first effect is not once per turn!) when you synchro summon Rockks!
A while back I was really into the idea of a matchmech/symphonic deck. I didnt think they'd mesh well, I only wanted to be able to name the deck Math Rock
1:37 to be fair, the scale effect on Astro is useless *nowadays* because he's limited. if you opened 2 astros that scale effect would let you instantly get 2 free bodies on board and your 3rd astro into your hand which got you a really easy setup for odd-eyes absolute post pend summon, which let would you cheat out odd-eyes vortex for basically free. and running stargazer for that was 1110% worth it
I recently watched Hardleg's video about getting Volcanics to master and Volcanic Emperor looks like so much fun to play. I'm wondering what you think of the future prospects of volcanics as an archetype? Will it get support, will we get more pyro cards in the future in general? Did people like or dislike the deck when it was more relevant? Will it ever hold a candle to Snake-Eye if they get unlimited in the future?
If you want an archetype where the pends have use as bith monsters and spells, you should try making Vaalmonica meta after the Fiendsmith cards drop in MD. That's the pend deck I fell in love with and The LEDE support really patched it up
im a returning player to Yugioh and love the videos and deck techs. my only problem is i dont know the cards and there are cards i cant read in the deck, i dont know the names of the cards by heart because its been so long and alot of this is new to me again. is there a way yo get a list of these cards?
I played this at the last YCS Niagara lol and this deck can do a ftk where everything in the main deck is in-archetype other than the ending combo pieces which is searched by things from the ED
Pendulum breaks yugioh... in a good way. The real issue is that Komoney kept to the same powercreep philosophy they always had when designing and nerfing the mechanic and cards. They just get all the good stuff every other deck gets on naturally recurring bodies as opposed to making more mechanically unique decks that the pendulun mechanic can facilitate.its just more of the same with mechanically more economic cards, which leaves a bad taste in people's mouths
I can't remember exactly when but like me maybe a year-ish ago these 2 buddies showed up to one of our OTS case tournaments and both played a symphonic warrior FTK deck and they ended up in 1st n 2nd it was just their day both are good players but acknowledged that it was a kinda one trick pony I want to say it might have been Kash format because it was super hand trap lite meta.
Please do super quantal!! I’ve loved power rangers as a kid and seeing these cards in the game was the reason I came back after so long. It would be cool to see you climb ladder with that deck
You don’t kill that turn it you ancient fairy to special because you can’t conduct your battle phase during the turn you activate ancient fairy’s effect to special summon, still a good board wipe with the field spell.
A mechanic i’ve been messing with is the new Continuous Trap support, it enables you to search out floodgates which is absolute insanity, good limiters like you’re finished really help
The only pend deck I find fun to play is qliphorts. It is one of the extremely few pend focused deck that doesn't require a phd in dueling to understand. Heck, you could say it focuses more on tribute summons than pend summons.
Konami's lack of imagination regarding both pend and links is a travesty for the game. Colinking is such a cool idea, that they just don't design around. Pend is so unique but ends up just being monster spam.
Hey I'm still kind of curious if something can ever build a deck with millennium shield Total defense Shogun and elemental hero wild heart and make it work
True Draco is a really budget engine. good tech cards that are low rarity: Forbidden Chalice, Mystical Space Typhoon, My Body As a Shield, Swords of Concealing Light, Book of Moon, Mad Hacker, Hop Ear Squadron (turn Phatazmay/Chaos Hunter into Shenshen or huge Accel Synchro Stardust plays off Psyframe Driver and Bystials)
Please please mr Kotton, can you do a video on resonators please. I know this deck has potential. I want to know the best possible ways to utilise the archetype
Just to let you know any deck you make is probably good enough for me also I'm not really into pendulums but these do kinda seem interesting and would be willing to try them
Nerf Pendulums + Link Monsters made using Pendulum Summons soooooo cool to me Xp It's so enjoyable to me now! Though I'd say bring back the Pendulum Zones lol
Is there any good pendulum decks like this in tcg? I’ve always liked the mechanic but not having appo/barron/savage feels rough for current tcg format. Any ideas?
The addition of tenpai was great for this series because now you have opponents who will actually stick around and wait for your full combo to be done.
Also, magnet Warriors next please? It's a very competent rock deck :)
I love this deck. I’ve built a pure variant that does well at ending on a Baronne + Crystal Wing, but have seen people combine it with SuperHeavy, Pend Mag, Speedroid, or WindWitch to end on some pretty impressive boards.
Symphonics!! Love these and all music related archetypes! I loved spamming weird synchros out of archetype to make end boards. Symphonics and Solfachord are the only Pend decks I care to operate, but I love the both!
🎵And the Band Played On🎶
Pend is the single most underrcooked mechanic Konami ever made.
Almost every Pend is generic (as far as scales are concerned) so you wind up not caring about like 95% of them. Combine that with the fact that something like a third of all pends are stuck in the Perfom/Odd Eyes horde and Pend Soup just winds up being the best verion of Pend at almost all times, with a proper archeytpe beating it out very rarely.
Then you look at how Konami refuses to actually fully utilize all the interesting things Pends are capable of (Having two different Scales on the same card is an easy one) and youve got the weird mess they exist in
Being wind machines these bad boys also play really nice with Speedroid(an episode about speedroid could be fun btw), used to run the guitaar/miccs engine in that deck quite alot.
For Pendulums my favourite is the
“Empowered Warriors”
I run an Empowered Warriors Vanquish Soul deck.
They are (mostly) fire earth and can make Dempsey for me :)
Also that one sneaky direct attacker on top of all the burns has a tiny bit of utility.
I also like Symphonic Warriors and Igknights. Because they are generic kinda
cool idea to look at this archetype! I think this is the essence of yugioh, archetypes. Archfiend next?! Summoned skull deck or his brother cards would be sick!
I'll never understand all the hate the pendulum mechanic gets in yugioh. You know, the game where people insist on infinite loops with decks like 6 samurai, doing FTK/OTK combos or having 20 minute combos that lock others out of the game, while at the same time complaining about how (insert card here) needs to be banned or something goofy like that.
I don't think those who dislike pendulums like FTKs and 20 minute combos. In fact, one of the reasons I dislike pendulums is because it's good at facilitating those things.
Pendulums are overcomplicated for no reason. Before and after all summoning mechanics were very simple, grab two things make one thing. Pendulums have so many extra rules that they feel like they're playing a different game. I do like the aspect of them being continuous spells as well as monster, but again that's just one aspect of the many pendulums have.
Ikr. People complain about everything in this game. And their solution is always “ban the cards I don’t like.”
Bro what. Those are the exact reasons people hate pend. 20 minute combos? That's essentially the only thing any pend deck ever does. FTKs? One of the best FTK decks in history was a pend deck.
People get mad at every new mechanic, if you go back to when they where first announced a TON of people absolutely hated syncros
see pend deck: like
see introduction to pend deck: like
see decklist: nevermind
In terms of Pendulum I think it is a unique idea that has a lot of potential to be great, but that up until recently, Konami was scared to make good pendulum strategies, I’m glad that’s changed with decks like Melodias and Valmonica, but none of them will top Abyss Actor
i think the mechanic is so complicated and generic they future proof pendulum archetypes by making pend archetypes a little bit shit, so things dont get out of control.
in honor of steven trifunoski
How?
@@megajoe721he just won a YCS
@@megajoe721 he won ycs Anaheim
I used to hate pendulum cards, then I tried one out (Endymion) and it was a lot of fun to play.
Sometimes I think I’m getting pretty good at YGO, then I see Jesse break a (scuffed but still fairly menacing) Yubel board using little more than a bunch of rogue-level engine cards and apologise for how much of an embarrassing mess his performance was.
I mean, he did thrash talked the Yubel board even before it was finished, so maybe you could've done so as well
Krawlers Krawlers Krawlers! 👾
And make them spicy! Lol curious to see how you can make it Meta with the new support like Sunset Beat & Conbirdable!
All I have to say is... PEND BEST DECK
also didn't Trif just win a YCS that's insane.
With fiendsmith ryzeal (which looks insanely fun btw, pure gas), not pend.
Im curious with some support if Pend is going to start actually topping YCSs again
not with pend is kind of sad though
No electrumite is a huge problem for most tcg pend decks @@seijiren5115
@@seijiren5115 Given the most recent released Pen Deck is Vaalmonica, I'm not really surprised. It's not bad, it's just Pen decks don't really Pen summon anymore.
The symphonic warriors is the only Pendulum deck I like as well, more for the art that anything, its not meta at all but I love the band!
If Jesse can play symphonic warrior then i need to see him play earth machine! Machina, infinitrack, sky striker, vernusyplh, any variant you desire, i want to see Jesse being forklift certified
bro out here calling rock band "classical music"
I didn't even realize lmao
I like a lot of the decks that came from the Arc V era, Phantom Knights in particular is so cool, and I hope that it gets new support eventually, but even as it it, there are 1-2 card combos that can either lead to 3 monster negates in 1 card, or a going second OTK with Arc rebellions
Symphonic Warriors are really cool! Really happy to see you do this. I for one would be interested in seeing you take on decks that HAVE Pendulums, but aren't really "Pendulum decks" in the traditional sense- decks like Melodious or Vaalmonica.
Also once again begging for making Harpie Ladies meta!
Not really an archetype but i really like the 2 doodle beast cards and it would be really cool to see them in a deck
Im kinda interested to see if you can do anything neat with mayakashi. Most mayakashi builds are basically just bone tower mill or ghost meets girl pass, which are both really boring.
Gonna make my pitch for Ancient Warriors! It's a super fun going-second archetype of board breakers that *can* go first if made to do so.
so whats wrong with endymion? I get that the endboard of seven negates is a very bullshit thing to play against but purely from a gamedesing perspective I really like servant, abductor, mighty master and the like. their effects are unique, interesting and powerful while requiring enough setup to make a deck playing 30 draw cards inconsistent.
"Now it is time to play the music." C'mon man, "Make our opponents face the music" was RIGHT THERE
this is a very nice build! i always thought of Symphonic Warriors as more of a support engine than a pure deck. Tenpai spine works well. I'd really recommend adding Supreme King Gate Magician as a Darkwurm search target, you can play Clear Wing as a ZArc ingredient to maybe synchro summon, and the Magician will add Pendulum Evolution to give you a 2nd pend summon (and possible 2nd search with a 2nd Beyond, her first effect is not once per turn!) when you synchro summon Rockks!
Day I don't remember of :asking for Dogmatika
Daymn im impressed this cooks really hard
Please can you cook with Vendread? I came back to the game thanks to the deck so I love it very dearly.
I ran Symphonics in the Wind and Water festival a while back. I used Full Armor(of course) and Adventure Tokens to boost it's strength.
i think the best and new player friendly deck for pendulum is Dinomist. very fun, easy to learn, has control aspect, and it can hit pretty hard.
A while back I was really into the idea of a matchmech/symphonic deck. I didnt think they'd mesh well, I only wanted to be able to name the deck Math Rock
1:37 to be fair, the scale effect on Astro is useless *nowadays* because he's limited. if you opened 2 astros that scale effect would let you instantly get 2 free bodies on board and your 3rd astro into your hand which got you a really easy setup for odd-eyes absolute post pend summon, which let would you cheat out odd-eyes vortex for basically free. and running stargazer for that was 1110% worth it
Thank you for giving this deck a try, I really really love it's design effect and artwork wise
Show some love to the world chalice engine!!!
I recently watched Hardleg's video about getting Volcanics to master and Volcanic Emperor looks like so much fun to play. I'm wondering what you think of the future prospects of volcanics as an archetype? Will it get support, will we get more pyro cards in the future in general? Did people like or dislike the deck when it was more relevant? Will it ever hold a candle to Snake-Eye if they get unlimited in the future?
Re the last game: As the great Luke Tyler says, "Time isn't real, it is just a concept"
If you want an archetype where the pends have use as bith monsters and spells, you should try making Vaalmonica meta after the Fiendsmith cards drop in MD.
That's the pend deck I fell in love with and The LEDE support really patched it up
I love vaalmonica too. So fun to play, i can't wait until the support comes to MD..
Hey Jesse, would love to see you play Red Dragon Archfiend as its my current irl deck.
One of the best decks, don't forget your Void Apocalypse's
micc and guitar where used in cyber dragons too
im a returning player to Yugioh and love the videos and deck techs. my only problem is i dont know the cards and there are cards i cant read in the deck, i dont know the names of the cards by heart because its been so long and alot of this is new to me again. is there a way yo get a list of these cards?
I played this at the last YCS Niagara lol and this deck can do a ftk where everything in the main deck is in-archetype other than the ending combo pieces which is searched by things from the ED
Pendulum breaks yugioh... in a good way. The real issue is that Komoney kept to the same powercreep philosophy they always had when designing and nerfing the mechanic and cards. They just get all the good stuff every other deck gets on naturally recurring bodies as opposed to making more mechanically unique decks that the pendulun mechanic can facilitate.its just more of the same with mechanically more economic cards, which leaves a bad taste in people's mouths
That last duel was insane lmao
Shoutout to the editor for the title cards. Cool stuff
The thing is these decks exist and people know they exist but majority despise pendulum and never give it the time of day 💀
I can't remember exactly when but like me maybe a year-ish ago these 2 buddies showed up to one of our OTS case tournaments and both played a symphonic warrior FTK deck and they ended up in 1st n 2nd it was just their day both are good players but acknowledged that it was a kinda one trick pony I want to say it might have been Kash format because it was super hand trap lite meta.
22:49 you said Xuanzang there?
Please do super quantal!!
I’ve loved power rangers as a kid and seeing these cards in the game was the reason I came back after so long. It would be cool to see you climb ladder with that deck
You don’t kill that turn it you ancient fairy to special because you can’t conduct your battle phase during the turn you activate ancient fairy’s effect to special summon, still a good board wipe with the field spell.
Seeing Jesse make a video over one of my favorite archetypes was not on my 2024 bingo card! Do my absolute favorite next, Altergeists!
A mechanic i’ve been messing with is the new Continuous Trap support, it enables you to search out floodgates which is absolute insanity, good limiters like you’re finished really help
A _real_ challenge would be to create a Galaxy-Eyes Photon deck that will give the _Meta_ decks a run for their money...
Is it even possible to make War Rocks good? I would love to see that.
Amazoness would be cool to check out! I think they got some pendulum monsters. Awesome build!
This deck is secretly (this is a lie) heinous and terrifying.
The only pend deck I find fun to play is qliphorts. It is one of the extremely few pend focused deck that doesn't require a phd in dueling to understand. Heck, you could say it focuses more on tribute summons than pend summons.
With the unband of Knightmare Goblin i think Infernity should be worth a try.
Evil twin we need this jesse
Konami's lack of imagination regarding both pend and links is a travesty for the game. Colinking is such a cool idea, that they just don't design around. Pend is so unique but ends up just being monster spam.
Hey There Jesse, I would really like to see your take on the "Ancient Warrior" arch type.
Dinomist probably has no redeeming qualities but it’s the only Pendulum archetype I find interesting
Ancient Warriors made meta.
Lair of darkness with two monsters called, luminous soldier and vampire hunter. Would love to see how you make it meta
This is a joke, right?
is it possible to do a modern orcust? haha id love to play them but dont really know how and started playing way later
Another video of me asking Jesse to do the Nephthys
Do a lunalight deck next
Why did you choose to use the default field
We‘re not disrespecting Abyss Actor, they’re actually well designed and balanced 🗣️
If I was to build this in the tcg, how would I replace the tenpai cards and snow for the shooting riser send? Is there a good lv4 target?
Hey I'm still kind of curious if something can ever build a deck with millennium shield Total defense Shogun and elemental hero wild heart and make it work
I think it would be cool if you did budget master duel deck n, r, sr and then staple hand traps that most people would have it would be cool to see
True Draco is a really budget engine.
good tech cards that are low rarity: Forbidden Chalice, Mystical Space Typhoon, My Body As a Shield, Swords of Concealing Light, Book of Moon, Mad Hacker, Hop Ear Squadron (turn Phatazmay/Chaos Hunter into Shenshen or huge Accel Synchro Stardust plays off Psyframe Driver and Bystials)
plus Master Peace is back so if you really want you can cheese some wins with that
Please please mr Kotton, can you do a video on resonators please. I know this deck has potential. I want to know the best possible ways to utilise the archetype
how about the one pendulum deck thats actually really good? can you play Endimyon
Symphonic warriors go crazy :)
Just to let you know any deck you make is probably good enough for me also I'm not really into pendulums but these do kinda seem interesting and would be willing to try them
You should cover Red dragon archfiend or Ice barrier
Nerf Pendulums + Link Monsters made using Pendulum Summons soooooo cool to me Xp It's so enjoyable to me now! Though I'd say bring back the Pendulum Zones lol
I’ve seen enough sub replay friday to know that these cards can do practically anything
Make Dragunity playable PLEASE!!!! That deck has so much potential as a Dragon Synchro deck
I want to see your take on Infernobles once Azamina comes live to master duel! >:D
YOOOO my favorite summoning method finally coming home!!! Let's goo
Why symphonic warriors and not solfachord?
Still asking for mekk knights! Especially with the new stuff coming up
Is there any good pendulum decks like this in tcg? I’ve always liked the mechanic but not having appo/barron/savage feels rough for current tcg format. Any ideas?
It’s pendulum it’s easy to spiecal summon any monster with no restrictions
not to be nitpicky but symphonic warriors are a rock or jazz band the classical music deck is melodious
I dead set thought you were gunna say melodious 😩
a jesse fluffal deck would be so awesome
I would love to see a Weevil insect deck.
Please do a Giant Goki Pole deck, I am dying to see vanilla Insects OBLITERATE the meta
I would live to see fortune lady/Fortune Fairy in modern and be good
Bro … 3rd day of me asking Jesse Morton to make weather painters META
I play a version with superheavys that makes 8 negates on turn 1
where is rayn yt channel
I'm not sure if he knows symphonic rock is a genre distinct from classical.
I Want To See Monarchs Jesse
I will say Baronne, Savage, and Bow Goddess are all banned in TCG, so if your planning on doing a similar build IRL you may be disappointed.
i would like to see red eyes archfiend deck >:)