It breaks my heart that Dark Magician gets left out of the competing realm. It's one of the monsters/archetypes that popularized that anime. Konami needs to show DM some love and give us a strategy where the cards tag-team and support each other like Kashtira, Branded, Centrion, Labyrinth, or even Blue Eyes.
@@Chimeratech_O.D. that's the thing. it's not about nostalgia cards. It's actually, functional, tournament and meta worthy additions. It's crazy how someone's simple wish for a competitive deck under their favorite character pisses off someone else so easily. Chill the hell out. It ain't that deep
@@Aaron_Smith_OMas a dark magician player, I agree. We get so many reprints of the same cards or cards that have nothing to do with the archetype. Like eye of timaeus isn't even searchable. We need actual support not anime nonsense that only atem can summon.
I've been playing millennium exodia for some months since it first topped, and honestly it fun but can be frustrating since exodia can be outed pretty easily and there's also the fact that the deck doesn't have many interactions on the opponents turn.
On the topic of Flame Swordsman, I saw a list someone used to top locals recently. Not exactly YCS I know, but it looked really interesting! Rather than go with the Infernoble Knight route, they went pure Flame Swordsman and made it into a trap heavy stun deck.
The dark magician disrespect is wild. Considering it has dragoon which is the best boss monster of all time. In addition to being able to play all the primite cards. It even works with bystials (like red eyes) and works well well with nadir and diabellstar.
Happy New Year all, but Cali, now that we know that there is going to be an anime of Fallen of Albaz and of Sky Striker, wouldn't be consider those decks anime decks aswell?
I honestly think that DM deck just doesn’t have enough players behind it in the ocg . Ppl gave up along time ago with dm but in MD is a different story . There is a decent amount of players playing dm (not just dragoon, actually dm players making dm competitive)
So kali I just wanted to say I wish you a happy new year and your channel is on of my top 3 favorites you are awesome but can I ask if gouki and dinowrestler were to get support where would you put them
The primites cards are cool and all but I wish Konami would release some actual support for Red-Eyes. The deck has no direction and the last direct support we had was Meteor black dragon. Sure the new Full metal red-eyes it's another form of negate but it suffer the same issue as Dragoon: it doesn't solve any of the existing problems that Red-Eyes has.
Thank you for saying this. Fullmetal buffs a Black Metal Engine but ironically Red-Eyes uses its own engine poorly because it's one of the few cards in Red-Eyes that does ANYTHING. Tired of ppl treating Dragon Link as Red-Eyes just cuz of Black Metal... HOW DO WE HAVE A LONEFIRE THATS NOT WORTH PLAYING just Red-Eyes things BUT BLACK METAL IS GOOD so Red-Eyes is just 3 Black Metal, 1 REDMD, and 1 REFMD. 5 cards... the whole deck...
Toons, Harpies and The Winged Dragon of Ra should have mentions also for the OG Yugioh series. While (sadly) Toons are definitely in a very rough spot, I think Ra could be decent(?) IDK too much about Harpies nowadays though.
I've seen some Cyber Style duelists go first and manage to summon CDI, Neardawn, and Cyberdarkness with possible Regulus. The deck has some pretty solid plays now.
Yeah the deck now can go first, actually the deck is maybe better first than second now,we got some good cards going second but are ONLY good going second,while wurm for example now can be good either way,I think the deck could have been out a tier above but who cares anyway
Haven't watched yet, but there is literally no way Marincess isn't on here. Edit: 16:00 WE ARE SO BACK Also, happy New Year to you! The only way I can hurt myself is by reading cards, cause I don't drink or drive.
@@gabrielhoelzle8476 Exactly why I was asking. As the Dragon Ocean Lord Kairyu Shin profile pic shows, I'm a big Umi Control fan. I know the latest support was relatively recent, but noticed it was not in the listing. That being said, I really hope more of Mako Tsunami's cards eventually get retrains. I'm particularly fond of Amphibian Beast (L6 2400/2000) from OG Yugioh.
@@gabrielhoelzle8476 Thanks! I know people hate that it's a Floodgate Deck, but I'm just a big Mako Tsunami fan since Day One, and I tend to not use the generic floodgates that others tend to play in the deck (e.g. TCBOO, Gozen, etc.). Granted, I've been taking a long break from playing due to other priorities, but I'm amused by the fact that I haven't had to change ANYTHING about my Umi Control Deck in the last couple of years. Being a Going 1st Deck, the Side Deck is basically all about breaking the opponent's board when going 2nd, to facilitate setting up my board.
Making support around episode scenarios feels surprisingly cool. I guess it also helps they can finally tap into the anime in a good way instead of making them bum archetypes
I feel like you're selling cyberdragons a bit short when it comes to going first, especially now that they're getting clockwork knight to extend their combos
Im still waiting on my retrains for queens kings & jack knight, would enjoy for black skull dragon to get the flame swordsman treatment, & a god card archetype for the god cards would be cool I can go on for days of anime decks & cards I want decks & archtypes for aka rocket warrior archetype or thousand dragon also getting the flame swordsman treatment
*places the dual-weild pitchforks down for a minute and puts hands crossed in front of my mouth and deeply sighs* Cali I love your channel. But oh dear lord, do you know how to friggin ruin the rest of my day for the disrespect you doin to Galaxy-Eyes😂😂😂 HOWEVER😂😂😂 I will give you minor props for not letting it fall to the bottom of the list.💪
I really wish Synchrons/Stardust would get a field spell or continuous spell that doesn't let your opponent active card effects in response to monster summons, as long as you control a Junk/Warrior/Stardust Synchro monster. I like that many of its Summon combos are balanced by the fact that most aren't 1-card = full boards, but just getting the cards onto the field is the difficult part. Also I want Valon's Armor cards! One of the coolest anime decks and Konami refuses to touch the damn thing like its contagious or something! 😫
Your wrong about the cyber dragon going 1st bored and Cyberdark wurm just makes it even better, but without it you could set up a bored with 2 negates off cyber dragon infinity and Cyberdarkness dragon , making plays with with disablaster to lock you opponents link zone and end with s:p little knight easy so that’s 3 interruptions 💯 I do it all the time
This video is gettikg a thumbs down for the following reason: The prophecy being left out is a crime calieffect. Same with frogs, monarchs, abyss actors, yosenju, constellar, gem knights, lunalights, x-saber, black wing, red dragon... the list goes on
Heroes bro end of story! 😂 Going into the GX Era and saying they're Really Good and not Top Contender I'm about to hate on you so hard bro im gonna cancel you!! Lmao jk
It breaks my heart that Dark Magician gets left out of the competing realm. It's one of the monsters/archetypes that popularized that anime. Konami needs to show DM some love and give us a strategy where the cards tag-team and support each other like Kashtira, Branded, Centrion, Labyrinth, or even Blue Eyes.
For the love of Christ, we do not need Dark Magician nostalgia cards. We have had enough for the decade.
@@Chimeratech_O.D. that's the thing. it's not about nostalgia cards. It's actually, functional, tournament and meta worthy additions. It's crazy how someone's simple wish for a competitive deck under their favorite character pisses off someone else so easily. Chill the hell out. It ain't that deep
I was kinda hoping for a DM structure to go with the BW one, but maybe another time
Dark magician support should come out in respect to blue eyes. Be nice to make more decks on the competitive level and different strategies
@@Aaron_Smith_OMas a dark magician player, I agree. We get so many reprints of the same cards or cards that have nothing to do with the archetype. Like eye of timaeus isn't even searchable. We need actual support not anime nonsense that only atem can summon.
I've been playing millennium exodia for some months since it first topped, and honestly it fun but can be frustrating since exodia can be outed pretty easily and there's also the fact that the deck doesn't have many interactions on the opponents turn.
Basically run and draw a bunch of hand traps or bust. 😂
On the topic of Flame Swordsman, I saw a list someone used to top locals recently. Not exactly YCS I know, but it looked really interesting! Rather than go with the Infernoble Knight route, they went pure Flame Swordsman and made it into a trap heavy stun deck.
floodgate go brrr very original LMAO
Ayyyyyyyy, Joey would be proud!
@@med3694 Does it matter if the player had fun? :)
If you make an Anime deck tier list, you should have also talk about decks like OddEyes/SupremeKing, Superheavy Samurai, D/D/D, Abyss Actor,…
Best idea to make as future series, fully support this video 🎉 This could be its own Legendary Duelist format
The dark magician disrespect is wild. Considering it has dragoon which is the best boss monster of all time. In addition to being able to play all the primite cards. It even works with bystials (like red eyes) and works well well with nadir and diabellstar.
@@BlackSpartan923 the only disrespect is Konami not making good archetype support for it.
The decks shit. Get over it’s not disrespect to point that out lol. Shits bad.
except in current meta drak dragoon is easy to out
My brother. Crystal beast get support in SUDA. Snake Eye Damned Dragon can be summoned by them, which helps with extension.
They can also use Flamberge, Snake-Eye ripped off Crystal Beast and now Crystal Beast is their future. 😹
Happy New Year all, but Cali, now that we know that there is going to be an anime of Fallen of Albaz and of Sky Striker, wouldn't be consider those decks anime decks aswell?
Happy Holidays Cali! Stay blessed my guy.
I honestly think that DM deck just doesn’t have enough players behind it in the ocg . Ppl gave up along time ago with dm but in MD is a different story . There is a decent amount of players playing dm (not just dragoon, actually dm players making dm competitive)
One of the decks I run is so dm support heavy that it’s literally impossible unless you can stop all summons
So kali I just wanted to say I wish you a happy new year and your channel is on of my top 3 favorites you are awesome but can I ask if gouki and dinowrestler were to get support where would you put them
By far the most wholesome yugituber I’ve seen for the past 2 years,, fire vid btw
Love your content dude, my go to for yugioh. Can’t wait to see more of it next year 🖤
on god i dont know why this guy has 197k subs like i watch this guy all of the time bro should have 7mil subs!!
@@theghost12-t3m it's just because Yu-Gi-Oh is Niche but he's at the top of it
@@kingkaisplanet2189 ah i see
Relinquished so good it had to be hidden away for everyone's sake
If Cubics aren’t here I’m gonna be highly upset😂
Dude, I love your UA-cam profile picture. I love Scareclaw!!!
Bro its time to those old cards in the bin its nearing 2025
@madmikey1314 Same was said about Blue-Eyes and Yubel, and lookey where we are now.
Happy new years Cali, can’t wait for the new blue eyes support.
love the list homie! Also Ancient Gear Statue comes out in Maze of the Masters in March!
The primites cards are cool and all but I wish Konami would release some actual support for Red-Eyes. The deck has no direction and the last direct support we had was Meteor black dragon. Sure the new Full metal red-eyes it's another form of negate but it suffer the same issue as Dragoon: it doesn't solve any of the existing problems that Red-Eyes has.
Thank you for saying this. Fullmetal buffs a Black Metal Engine but ironically Red-Eyes uses its own engine poorly because it's one of the few cards in Red-Eyes that does ANYTHING. Tired of ppl treating Dragon Link as Red-Eyes just cuz of Black Metal... HOW DO WE HAVE A LONEFIRE THATS NOT WORTH PLAYING just Red-Eyes things BUT BLACK METAL IS GOOD so Red-Eyes is just 3 Black Metal, 1 REDMD, and 1 REFMD. 5 cards... the whole deck...
Toons, Harpies and The Winged Dragon of Ra should have mentions also for the OG Yugioh series. While (sadly) Toons are definitely in a very rough spot, I think Ra could be decent(?) IDK too much about Harpies nowadays though.
I still run a ra deck with moderate success. There is a high likelihood of getting bricked though
Did my boy cali finally show us galaxy-eyes players a little love?... What???!!! Lol
I've seen some Cyber Style duelists go first and manage to summon CDI, Neardawn, and Cyberdarkness with possible Regulus. The deck has some pretty solid plays now.
Yeah the deck now can go first, actually the deck is maybe better first than second now,we got some good cards going second but are ONLY good going second,while wurm for example now can be good either way,I think the deck could have been out a tier above but who cares anyway
I'm hoping the gate guardian becomes more powerful. It's one of my fav anime deck that appears in both DM and GX
I strictly only play OG / DM era cards, still win and have fun. It’s all about how you build your deck
the new ancient gear card is coming out in maze of master, its on the pack cover
love your intros
What about the Odd-eyes archetype? (this includes performapal, pendulum magicians, supreme king, and dimensional dragons)
Haven't watched yet, but there is literally no way Marincess isn't on here. Edit: 16:00 WE ARE SO BACK
Also, happy New Year to you! The only way I can hurt myself is by reading cards, cause I don't drink or drive.
So how would Umi Control do as a DM Era deck, considering their last support was a couple years ago?
Most relevant cards of these legacy decks came out fairly recently compared to their anime 😂
@@gabrielhoelzle8476 Exactly why I was asking. As the Dragon Ocean Lord Kairyu Shin profile pic shows, I'm a big Umi Control fan.
I know the latest support was relatively recent, but noticed it was not in the listing.
That being said, I really hope more of Mako Tsunami's cards eventually get retrains. I'm particularly fond of Amphibian Beast (L6 2400/2000) from OG Yugioh.
@nemo0036 sounds awesome, gotta love a cool control deck
@@gabrielhoelzle8476 Thanks! I know people hate that it's a Floodgate Deck, but I'm just a big Mako Tsunami fan since Day One, and I tend to not use the generic floodgates that others tend to play in the deck (e.g. TCBOO, Gozen, etc.).
Granted, I've been taking a long break from playing due to other priorities, but I'm amused by the fact that I haven't had to change ANYTHING about my Umi Control Deck in the last couple of years.
Being a Going 1st Deck, the Side Deck is basically all about breaking the opponent's board when going 2nd, to facilitate setting up my board.
Wasn’t buster blader in the anime? Why hasn’t that deck had any new support recently?
Was also dm, just like harpie, and shining sarcophagus, BLS, Gaia/CoD, and the egyptian gods
Making support around episode scenarios feels surprisingly cool. I guess it also helps they can finally tap into the anime in a good way instead of making them bum archetypes
I feel like you're selling cyberdragons a bit short when it comes to going first, especially now that they're getting clockwork knight to extend their combos
Im still waiting on my retrains for queens kings & jack knight, would enjoy for black skull dragon to get the flame swordsman treatment, & a god card archetype for the god cards would be cool I can go on for days of anime decks & cards I want decks & archtypes for aka rocket warrior archetype or thousand dragon also getting the flame swordsman treatment
Where is Shining Sarcophagus? 😭
He FINALLY talked about Ancient Gear let's GO!
New year already ruined stepped on a plug when I woke up - lots of love everyone here's to an even bigger year in 2025
Yo you forgot @Ignister. It's actually going to be the most interesting Link deck come ALIN.
6:52 best is debatable, but I know what the worst was: the start of Vrains. 2018 was the year of FTKwall Dragon.
Good vibes ☀️
What about altergeist? I'm wondering if they'll ever get support like a Link-1.
Wish they wouldd update the archfiend archetype... It works just like unchained and yubel.
Technically, Branded and Sky Striker are anime decks as they're getting anime in a few months. Where would you put them in the list?
We're talking about the original anime,not the lore one
@zerdoyt2057 Anime is anime bro.
Best era GX
I was kind of hoping to see D/D/D here.
Fresh cut mate 😅
*places the dual-weild pitchforks down for a minute and puts hands crossed in front of my mouth and deeply sighs* Cali I love your channel. But oh dear lord, do you know how to friggin ruin the rest of my day for the disrespect you doin to Galaxy-Eyes😂😂😂 HOWEVER😂😂😂 I will give you minor props for not letting it fall to the bottom of the list.💪
You forgot the egyptian gods ik they don't really matter but talking about them would have been nice
Mix flame swordsman with fire kings and you are cooking up something really spicy 🌶️
Can Make a list for T c g exclusives ?
Phantom knights is goated
Some dude kicked my ass playing flame swordsman infernoble deck while I was playing Ryzeal😂🤣
GX got the longest segment
Salads still alive man. It doesn't die, it just reincarnates 🔥
What about zarc and odd eyes
So no trains for Zexal?
I am gonna attend my first locals this year and I will use Galaxy Eyes 😊 not there to win, if I can snatch 1 match I'll be a happy kite
Still waiting for any new Toon support
On this tier list also why is there no gimmicks did you forget it was an anime deck or do you hate them 🤔
Sorry if my comment was a little to much I sincerely apologize if it hurt your feelings 😔
Lunalight out there not getting any recognition. In my opinion its the best Arc V deck and still competitive
I really wish Synchrons/Stardust would get a field spell or continuous spell that doesn't let your opponent active card effects in response to monster summons, as long as you control a Junk/Warrior/Stardust Synchro monster.
I like that many of its Summon combos are balanced by the fact that most aren't 1-card = full boards, but just getting the cards onto the field is the difficult part.
Also I want Valon's Armor cards! One of the coolest anime decks and Konami refuses to touch the damn thing like its contagious or something! 😫
Your wrong about the cyber dragon going 1st bored and Cyberdark wurm just makes it even better, but without it you could set up a bored with 2 negates off cyber dragon infinity and Cyberdarkness dragon , making plays with with disablaster to lock you opponents link zone and end with s:p little knight easy so that’s 3 interruptions 💯 I do it all the time
My friend you forget Illusiion monster from DM era.
And if i remember Gladiator Beast from Arc-V not GX.
Gladiator Beasts debuts during the GX era but made their Anime debut in Arc-V.
@jonathanchen4987 he said BEST ANIME DECK so we consider when the archetype get anime
I need a branded bystial with dark magician engine help me out please
Love you lil bro, but you out here forgetting anime decks
HERO lifestyle
No gimmick puppets?
Hurts my soul to not see Infernity on this list….
And gimmy puppet ? 👀🤔
Im rocking toons in 2025
Where is pk?
Monarchs in this video?
Sooooo, no Altergeist?
So many missing decks, you might as well make a brand new video and include them.
Where are my Gimmick Puppets
This video is gettikg a thumbs down for the following reason:
The prophecy being left out is a crime calieffect.
Same with frogs, monarchs, abyss actors, yosenju, constellar, gem knights, lunalights, x-saber, black wing, red dragon... the list goes on
Pretty sure you left off lunalight s. Hurtn
I'm only halfway through the video but I don't see shining sarc!
No power tool dragon mention? lol 😆
Red-eyes is top tier anime deck? Wtf!
Mad 5d's disrespect by konami ngl
Where is my boy z-arc?
Where PK
I am just as curious as well.
he doesnt belive in ghosts I guess... miss them too
Just want to play my Ojamas smh
Ddd where
I mean technically Ninjas ARE an anime deck SO them and RDA are best decks.
(KONAMI PLEASE GIVE US SUPPORT)
Shining sarc so bad it didnt even get a mention
no DDD love at all
Oh no. DDD’s have been ignored 😂
Konami hate harpie
Hero.
Altergeist?😢
No gimmick puppet
@ignisters am i a joke to you
*sigh* Another year where harpies, altergeist, cyber angel,and lunalights get no love from YugiTubers or Konami themselves. Oh well, bring on 2026..
Dzeeff loves Altergeists
Heroes bro end of story! 😂
Going into the GX Era and saying they're Really Good and not Top Contender I'm about to hate on you so hard bro im gonna cancel you!! Lmao jk
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