If you're looking to play this for the N/R festival, and you're not sure what to replace one Bethor and two Phul with, here are my suggestions: - Gishki Chain (adds rituals to hand) - Drytron Meteor Shower (Solemn Warning if you control a ritual) - Megalith Emergence (Brings back Phul and Bethor) - Sphere Kuriboh (battle protection + combos with feather to make lvl 4) - Earth Chant (can ritual summon Megaliths) You could also just add in format staples like Forbidden Chalice, Book of Moon, Paleozoic Dinomiscous, Torrential Tribute, etc.
This was honestly one of the most fun chapters in solo mode. I never looked deeply into Megalith, but was always curious, so having that: "Ah, that's how you play them!" moment felt really great. And as someone who loves playing niche and gimmick decks, I might just build them in the future. It's nice being able to build something, while saving up your rescources for other decks.
took me a bit ot put my 2 braincells together ot finally realize how they are structured the lvl 8's are the ritual "spells" the lvl 4's are your field extenders Phul and unformed are your gonig 1st cards so you cna ritual on their turn
I'd like to point out, you don't need to ritual summon for the cross-sheep effect. as long as it points to a ritual, you can special summon ANYTHING to a zone it points to
Suggestion for future budget builds; - I guess True Draco is *reasonably* budget, (certainly has a few more SR's than this deck though). - Duston's /w Goblin King... (Whilst it certainly benefits from Diamond Duston/One for One, I think it can be built without easily, plus all Fiends/Level 1's so plenty of support there too). - Timelords I could also see built on a budget definitely. - Battlin' Boxers (though likely needs 2 or 3 Yoke and 1 Nova Kaiser SR's). - Raidraptors but I kinda lack knowledge there... and along the same lines possibly Fur Hire? Also got Tenyi...? Monarchs? But again likely too many SR's. - I also think a *serious* contender for an all Common/Rare only deck is Krawlers. Everything in it is Common or Rare, with the only SR's being their link monsters. Plenty of disruption and recursion, not to mention they are all Insects and EARTH-types which also brings LOTS of support into the deck so there's a lot of ways you could go with the deck (e.g. Battlewasps), or hell Flip effect support too (like Book of Moon or Junk Sleep). - Finally one of my favourite cards in all of YGO, Sea Stealth Attack (either generic Water goodstuff/Fisherman, or Legendary Ocean/Magellanica/Lemuria etc)... Oh jeez now I need to build this! - Actually, speaking of Level 5 Water monsters, that's another good budget option, Dinomist maybe? - Heck since we're on a Water monster theme, I do have an entirely N/R rarity Phantasm Spiral/Paleozoic deck that has some teeth! Or Phantasm Spiral/Metalfoes (though that one has 1 SR). If I really had to bite the bullet and build only N/R, it would be Dustons/Goblin King or Krawlers. (Anyway! There's a ton of ideas, hope it helps!) *Edit:* I've actually been working on a few of these lists, let me know if you want to see any examples
So glad that you covered megaliths once again. WAD has shown me how fun this archetype can be, and it really is a cool ritual archetype that can do quite a lot with the right pilot. The fact that Megalith is quite budget friendly in Master Duel is really baffing, but I welcome it.
Finally, a deck that's fun that I can build with the crap-ton of normal and rare craft points I have! I think Megalith was one of the few loaner decks I actually had a lot of fun playing hehe. Thanks, Hardleg!!
Thanks bell for not letting me know a new vid was up >_< but yeah playing megalith along with most solo mode decks shows just how much potential is in each of them been playing danger monarchs and having fun seeing people trying to ash my dangers and not being able to play around majesty's fiend.
I'm back here to report that this deck at the NR festival is absolutely insane. After converting it to pure NR (which is almost trivial) I got a win ratio of about 95%. When going first it is so consistent. I think only 3 times I went first I was unable to do the full combo. Even going second it is good at breaking boards a playing through disruption. This deck is not very easy to manage on the grind game (having to keep track of the ritual monsters on the GY/hand/deck), but it has some very powerful interactions when properly managed. I had to come back here to say: many thanks HardLeg for this amazing list and combo breakdown.
I can't believe Phul is at 1 for the N/R festival and Metalfoes are untouched. There is no justice. I'm still playing this deck though; so good luck in the N/R festival everyone!
I really appreciate your budget videos. I feel like I can play more than just two decks now.❤ Finally getting back into Master Duel and feels good to play
Well, for some budget Ideas, Cubics have an entire engine that's R rarity. Although Durga is an SR, and yeah, that deck requires him to function. But Cubic Ascension is kinda nutty, as it can pull Cubic Seeds from the deck and even in Plat, people still try and run over the Cubic Seed with big number. I've been running 60 Card Reasoning/Grass Cubics mixed with Paleos, and the absolute pile is funny to play. A lot of the Lyriluc deck is actually pretty cheap. the only SR main deck bird is Wagtail, and their only SR Spell/Trap is Bird Call. While they're way less consistent without those, they still can pretty easily swarm the field for some budget link plays (as every good XYZ you can go into is way overpriced. Fraktal and Nerval are both R and N respectively, and they add a lot to the link spammy version, even without the good Tri Brigade extra deck monsters. So a link spammy budget Bird Up is possible with 3 warbler, 3 sparrow, 3 swallow, 3 Nervall, 3 Fraktal, 3 Wing Requital (its literally Bird Deck Pot of Greed, and it's only R rarity!) And some of the Simorgh little birds as well for free extra normal summon, alongside some of the Simorgh Spell/traps as Repulsion can bounce back backrow heavy boards before they become an issue, and Sacred Lands gives you that extra normal summon to make Wing Requital live. The extra deck would probably be Doom Eagle, Rugal, Cross Sheep, Daruma Doll for Nerval Targets, And Doublebyte Dragon for the surprise Towers made from your big link monsters (3300 unaffected by non-link monsters big dude if you use 2 Link 3s) The XYZ lineup would be whatever Rank 1 and 4s you can scrounge up.
Megalith was also a very good deck for the XYZ event, btw. I haven't seen too many people run it, but the build I ran could consistently put up Bethor for your opponent's turn and UDF. I don't think I lost a single game playing that deck. If you're willing to invest some SR and UR dust into this deck, Gallant Granite and Block Dragon are absolutely cracked. Aratron is also much better than you give it credit for. It's a way to get another quick effect ritual summon during your opponent's turn, which is relevant in case they have cards like Droplet, Kaiju etc, and it's another way to ritual summon during your turn as well. Chalislisme is also very good at setting up your ritual combos.
@@SuperMasterk1 Probably a senju and a couple of plumes. Chalislime is legit just any card in your deck anyway and Plume being level 3, I find that it's a bit awkward for ritual summons.
@@deadwitchflying only thing I find useful about plume is it can get you back megaliths from grave if you're in a tight spot and don't have portal active tbh
@@SuperMasterk1 Baring in mind that my build has a way higher ceiling that Joe's it's also worth considering that Impcantations on the field lock you out of your Extra Deck. I had this exact situation where I had Plume on the field but couldn't use it for a ritual summon, so I had to send it to GY with the GY eff of the impcantation ritual spell. If it were lvl 4 I wouldn't mind, but 3 means I can't use it for anything but Phul from hand which is not ideal. The GY recycling probably comes up, but when you have Block Dragon, there's usually no turn 4 lmao
budget non destruction removal is odd-eyes gravity dragon its a heavy storm that cant be responded too its a RARE. Demise is a free card you get from solo mode that board wipes and can be very useful since it does not target. Rituals have a ton of broken cards since they are awkward to summon but with this deck its the easiest thing you can do all day.
26:46 This is very funny, and i can confirm it happened to me a LOT. All kinds of players, from Eldrich to jank, will not see Phul as a threat, even if I already used its effect, so its their best shot at killing it.
Ritual is my favorite type of summon and when Megalith was announced I was so hyped. They're so fecking fun as well as hard. Thank you Mr Leg, this helped me a lot (Sorry for the poor english, I'm brazilian)
Genuinely amazing Yugioh content, 100% explains how to play a f2p archetype, and gives a list you can play immediately. On top of all that you then explain what other cards work well with Megaliths and how to make the deck your own.
For example: last episode was Crusadia. World Legacy Succession is a really good card for its strategy. And while it’s SR, you get 3 copies of it in solo mode for free.
Great content as always joe 👏 . Coincidently I saw megaliths for my duel replay of the day. I think it was based on yours but they added Maxx c, bagooska, and numeron dragon. It looked pretty nice.
I know this is a Master Duel list but the rarities still apply to IRL so I'm gonna build this as a decent budget deck for locals lol. Great profile, Megaliths look awesome.
Aratron's value doesn't come from its on field effect, it comes from being a quick ritual summon effect in your hand. An Araton in your hand lets you defer some of your combo until your opponent's turn to keep below 5 summons per turn and dodge Nibiru.
The only time I found a megalith deck was when I was trying a toons, so I basically won before seeing what they are capable of. After this video I think I will craft them...
Hardleg! I love this and will definitely be messing around with Megaliths afterwards, I feel like I have an idea where to start now. My favorite low rarity deck so far has been Yosenjus. Obviously things like Tenki help, but would love to see your take.
I found you randomly and I really love your videos on low cost decks plus it's refreshing to see someone go in depth with it and actually break it down love your content plus that narration top tier 👌keep it up your definitely getting a sub
I'm glad you broke down how the deck works. Megaliths are super cool, but my gf didnt understand them and I'm hoping she will check them out after this
I was surprised the Impcantations were all low rarity. Edit: using this deck but swapping in 3 of the ritual monster that lets you draw on summon (ban list restrictions) for the N/R event has been fun. So far I have had a decent win rate thanks for the deck Joe.
I really like megaliths. Such a fun archetype. Just a suggestion but at the end when you give your non budget options would it be possible for you to pull up a more competitive version so we can see it? Not always sure what to take out and replace. You dont need to own the cards, but you can still show them in the list. Would be helpful for more visual learners.
As much as I like giving people decks to play, I also want to push them to think for themselves and figure things out. The only way to get better at deck building is to build more decks and test them.
@@HardlegGaming you are right. I used to do a lot of deck building in Magic through out the 90s (things were more fun before regular internet use) and yugioh in the early 2000s. The brain just does not work like it did years ago. Chasing hyper children is exhausting. Honestly should use the brain a bit to get rid of the parenting fog.
Great video! I've been looking for a good budget build for the event that is going on right now and this looks amazing and cheap to put together! One thing I wanted to mention about "Emergence" is that it might seem obvious but the ritual monster needs to have been Ritual Summoned first before it can be retrieved from the GY. Found this out the hard way, even though I was just testing against the A.I. 😂 Very informative video, though!
Skimmed some comments but didn't really see it, but the option to disable summoning animations while spectating is a completely different option on a different page in the options menu.
16:00 you can actually skip the bulk of the animation by clicking on the screen, and it's skipped automatically if you speed up the replay. (This is the same way it works in Duel Links- which makes sense since they seem to be running on roughly the same engine)
Megaliths are fucking awesome. Btw, since MD has done a Xyz cup it wouldn't be out of the question for them to do a Synchro or a Fusion cup in the future (specially with the leaks pointing to that), i'd love it if you could find some budget options for those ED mechanics in future episodes good vid and good job as always
I had two decks because of you and all of them were very fun. The first one was crusadia, my first deck in master duel. Could easily sweep through the gold rank with this megalith deck unfortunately it's not that strong in platinum. However, after splicing it with drytron engine instead of impcantation it becomes way more reliable against hand traps and can build the board over and over again every turn reliably which is pretty good. Had to learn other decks to find it's choke point so I can activate my phul to pop them off, still learning this aspect. It's a blast nevertheless.
I really like the list I would suggest some of the drytron support cards for such a budget build, they got a solemn warning that spins to the deck and a quick play pop that are both low rarity and work with any ritual on board
Thanks for sharing the deck.. I love the way you explain the deck and it help me a lot for a new player like me. Keep up the good work mate! in addition I hope you include the sample of optimize version of the deck to help me build better deck. Thank you!
Btw ladies and gents Odd Eyes Gravity Dragon is a rare card in master duel a ritual monster that giant trunades your opponents board while also being unable to be responded to and as long as it's face up on the field your opponent just pay 500 life points to activate card effects! This is on a lvl 7 , 2800 attack monster that can be easily search with your normal summons and Impcantation engine.
Aratron was the only thing that saved me, when the opp when first and, turn 1, dropped starblast + vanity's ruler on me. I had veiler in hand, and eventually drew into Aratron. So during the opp main phase I veiler'ed his ruler and then used Aratron, into phaul, into bethor to pop his entire field
Something important that I don’t see other people mentioning here in the comments is the fact that Aratron, the level 8 counterpart to Och that you mentioned in passing at the beginning, has the same Quick Effect summon as Och. It’s very strong, not quite as good as Phul, obviously, but one of the better upgrades for the deck alongside things like block dragon and gallant granite. Definitely the sort of thing that helps the deck in ranked duels.
What are the flex spots in this deck if I wanted to enhance it? I switched out lost wind for 3 copies of infinite impermanence. But I have no idea what else to take out without ruining the deck
Basically, if it wasn't used for the main combo, it's a flex spot. Stuff like Manju, Senju, and the Impcantations help with consistency, so you probably don't want to remove them first, but they aren't required. Lost Wind, Compulse, and MST are entirely just generic tech cards that you can replace with anything.
You can try to run something like 1-2 copies of True king disaster for banish 3 different name in the extra deck if you summon it with 2 earth monster since most ppl probably run 1 copy of omni negate cards to stop your plays or non targeting monster that the deck struggle to beat You also can try to use either lightning storm for 2nd turn plays,harpy feather duster if you against something like edlich and maybe 3 copies of Maxx C because it's very good against combo deck and it's a alternative ways to summon disaster if the opponent using control deck I haven't play the deck yet so i sure where i should replace them
@@t0pdoc not sure,ritual deck really hates their ritual monster banish on hand nor gy especially this deck where they only can use themselves to ritual summon(on hand,only their spell card and Phul on the field can ritual summon them on deck) unless you bring Magnet Reverse but that took about 2-4 slot and making the deck even brickier than it already is so it's not worth it
Aside from a couple high rarity impcantations, block dragon, and generic ritual goodstuff this deck is basically playable at rare and lower and that's really cool. I'd really love to see a master duel budget tourney with each deck maybe having only six supers and one ultra
I don't know how viable Shiranui is with what you get from the solo mode, but I'd love to see a budget Shiranui profile that uses their cards from the structure deck! I remember playing them in Duel Links a lot, and it seems like only one of their synchros is a UR which makes me want to try it out, even if I have to spend UR gems on one Shiranui Sunsaga. Would love to see a profile on that
I did something to this deck to make it more "competitive" Add nekroz of unicorne and its N rarity ritual spell. You wont regret it. For 90 SR gems, you will force plays. Also its very easy to summon and impcantions will help you search it.
thanks for the deck list, its annoying having to stare at pictures and pick them from a list when other people don't do a deck list, was a sigh of relief!
In future budget builds, I'd love to see the higher rarity suggestions section at least touch on some UR staples that people have likely made for other decks/will use in a lot of decks. Are any of the 1ofs worth playing like foolish or terraforming, how much room for handtraps without high brick rates, that sort of stuff.
I thought it was obvious, but any tech cards (in this case generic spells or traps like Compulse, Lost Wind, and MST), can be replaced with any other cards you want, including hand traps or staples. Which hand traps or staples you should use mostly depends on the current meta more than the deck itself. Like, right now you want to play Ash over Ogre or Veiler because it stops Max C which most people are playing.
Very nice guide, again. I went and built a version of this with some of the bigger rarirty stuff I’ve got over time, and it proved a lot of fun. As for replacing stuff, I’m guessing that if I wanna use Pot of Prosperity, some of the Senju/Manju slots would be ok, since they’re both consistency options.
I thought about putting Djinn into the deck but they seem to make it a little clunky, and at least in Master Duel, can't seem to be used as Ritual fodder in the grave when using Megalith effects. Probably because they're set up to trigger with ritual spells rather than ritual like effects.
Thank you hardleg. Used your crusadia decklist previously and man it takes names if my hand is workable. It loses to nib all the time, but thats good enough to do dailies 👍👍👍
Between the solo mode rewards and its other low rarity options, Megalith is probably one of the most dirt cheap budget decks that can currently be made in Master Duel, and easily the cheapest Ritual deck to make work. Though the solo mode challenges are a bit tricky since some of the loaner deck choices there can make playing with them brickier than usual.
What to do to improve this deck: -Play handtraps instead of staple traps -Play 3 Hagith (Unformed is busted and you want to search it as often as possible) -Remove the Impcantations -Add 1-3 Block dragons and Granite -Add 1 of each Adamancipator Researcher, Seeker, and Plaguespreader Zombie -Add Halqifibrax, Borreload Savage Dragon, Formula Synchron, and Hot Red Dragon Archfiend King Calamity in place of the low rarity extra deck cards Now you can skip your opponent's turn if you go first (It's very consistent) You're welcome
@@Prateek_Dalal You search them with Block Dragon, special summon them, make Halq, SS Zombie, make Charge Warrior, then Savage Dragon, then SS Zombie back, SS Block Dragon back and set Unformed During next turn banish Halq summon Formula, then synchro using Formula, Zombie, and Savage Dragon into King Calamity. Your opponent's turn is then skipped, and every card they may set face down will be destroyed by Bethor This combo is absolutely broken and very consistent, I'm not sure why not many people know about it. I'll make a video about it soon
Just a thing to point out, Aratron is not as bad as it seens, because it is the only hand one to be a quick effect, so it is another way to bethor on your oponents turn (even working as handtrap if really necessary, before you even geting a turn). Not saing you need it or should use it, just pointing it is not as bad. Anyway, great video as allways!
As someone who plays megalith irl and in master dual, I've got to say this is a cool list but i personally play with three aratron due to the quick effect ritual and if you have a level 8 on field and phul then you can aratron for bethor then phul use bethor for phaleg
Pretty cool. I'm always lookin for different budget decks. I'm tired of using my Dinosaurs. I did briefly have an Eldlich deck but I deleted it 'cause I didn't want to be apart of the problem, lol. Anyway here are the decks I have so far; 'kinda meta Dinos', Aromage, basic Dinomist, Phantasm and basic Dracos. Also I'm about half way done making Toons too.
My only explanation for why the SR megalith is SR is that possibly they thought that it’s ritual summon effect was a quick effect was too OP? I really don’t know…
Thanks for including the options for this deck at the end. You're absolutely correct that Megaliths in the Master Duel story were terrible, I'm sure you saw the update that they dropped changing some of the story decks on Feb 25(?) 2022, because I remember Megaliths in Duel Links not being half bad, and I was wondering why they had so much strangely synergistic support IRL if the Megalith story deck was so jank and terrible.
The combo decks in the back half of the story weren't terrible ideas, they were just built really badly. Megaliths don't need non ritual Nekroz help to summon Nekroz rituals.
You only NEED one or two Aratron, sure, but I run three for the lolz. Nothing's funnier than going second but not giving a shit, because halfway through setting up their opening board, you dump Aratron and summon Bethor (either straight up or through Phul), and destroy two or three of their key combo pieces, wrecking their board BEFORE YOU TAKE YOUR FIRST TURN. I'm not just talking Master Duel here, either - I legit made a guy flip the table at my locals last week by eating his Galaxy-Eyes setup, making him pass Turn 1 to me with an empty board. Summoned Phaleg next and FTK'd him before he even knew what was happening. Rage ensued, Hulk Smash, et-cetera.
I've been enjoying playing Pendulum decks but I want a break from combo plays and I want to try a control deck. This will suffice as both a control deck and a ritual deck while I farm more gems... After they deal with hackers
ss2 pop 4 is extremely powerful (battle butler for example) Issue with pure megalith is that your play is extremely telegraphed and every single going2nd card immediately outs phul that being said constructed megalith (ada+block) is a solid tier 2 approaching tier1 deck although that deck does very different things than what hardlegs playing
My dude:D (Liked the explanation of not running block dragon, because explaining combos with it is pain xDD) Proven by showing missplay combo due to making vid in rush😅 after getting plat 1 last season.
Thank you for the great video, I finally have the basics down with megalith and I beat eldlich bc I kept looping him, I have the video if you want to see
If you don’t mind 6 super rares king of the skull servant is a good budget build. I don’t run any of the other zombie support like unizombie or mizuki (I think I spelled that right). The only supers the deck needs is king and wightbaking. The deck got me to gold 1 through mostly luck and some good piloting.
If you're looking to play this for the N/R festival, and you're not sure what to replace one Bethor and two Phul with, here are my suggestions:
- Gishki Chain (adds rituals to hand)
- Drytron Meteor Shower (Solemn Warning if you control a ritual)
- Megalith Emergence (Brings back Phul and Bethor)
- Sphere Kuriboh (battle protection + combos with feather to make lvl 4)
- Earth Chant (can ritual summon Megaliths)
You could also just add in format staples like Forbidden Chalice, Book of Moon, Paleozoic Dinomiscous, Torrential Tribute, etc.
Thank you Joe, the moment the n/r festival was revealed i thought of your deck!
Same
Dud, can i use chaos max dragon in megalith and using megalith och to summon?
just played a few games with this deck in the N/R festival 4-0 so far
Thank you
It just accured to me that Hardleg is playing an archetype that has a Leg monster in it.
So Hardleg is literally summoning a Leg to crush his enemies.
its also a rock monster, so it is literally a Hard Leg
actually, Phul is a Very Large Man appearing. Presumably God.
@@strangevol5264 Phaleg is the hard leg though
It’s particularly amazing g if you can summon two legs. Really balances the deck well.
This was honestly one of the most fun chapters in solo mode. I never looked deeply into Megalith, but was always curious, so having that: "Ah, that's how you play them!" moment felt really great. And as someone who loves playing niche and gimmick decks, I might just build them in the future. It's nice being able to build something, while saving up your rescources for other decks.
I agree that Megalith had the nicest duel gameplay in story mode, but World Legacy was definitely my favorite for the story.
Sitting on phul and getting value with the continuous revive trap every turn is great fun.
Is megalith inception in the game
took me a bit ot put my 2 braincells together ot finally realize how they are structured
the lvl 8's are the ritual "spells"
the lvl 4's are your field extenders
Phul and unformed are your gonig 1st cards so you cna ritual on their turn
Editing is once again on fire - what a fun intro!
I'd like to point out, you don't need to ritual summon for the cross-sheep effect. as long as it points to a ritual, you can special summon ANYTHING to a zone it points to
Oh shit thank you actually.
Suggestion for future budget builds;
- I guess True Draco is *reasonably* budget, (certainly has a few more SR's than this deck though).
- Duston's /w Goblin King... (Whilst it certainly benefits from Diamond Duston/One for One, I think it can be built without easily, plus all Fiends/Level 1's so plenty of support there too).
- Timelords I could also see built on a budget definitely.
- Battlin' Boxers (though likely needs 2 or 3 Yoke and 1 Nova Kaiser SR's).
- Raidraptors but I kinda lack knowledge there... and along the same lines possibly Fur Hire? Also got Tenyi...? Monarchs? But again likely too many SR's.
- I also think a *serious* contender for an all Common/Rare only deck is Krawlers. Everything in it is Common or Rare, with the only SR's being their link monsters. Plenty of disruption and recursion, not to mention they are all Insects and EARTH-types which also brings LOTS of support into the deck so there's a lot of ways you could go with the deck (e.g. Battlewasps), or hell Flip effect support too (like Book of Moon or Junk Sleep).
- Finally one of my favourite cards in all of YGO, Sea Stealth Attack (either generic Water goodstuff/Fisherman, or Legendary Ocean/Magellanica/Lemuria etc)... Oh jeez now I need to build this!
- Actually, speaking of Level 5 Water monsters, that's another good budget option, Dinomist maybe?
- Heck since we're on a Water monster theme, I do have an entirely N/R rarity Phantasm Spiral/Paleozoic deck that has some teeth! Or Phantasm Spiral/Metalfoes (though that one has 1 SR).
If I really had to bite the bullet and build only N/R, it would be Dustons/Goblin King or Krawlers. (Anyway! There's a ton of ideas, hope it helps!)
*Edit:* I've actually been working on a few of these lists, let me know if you want to see any examples
So glad that you covered megaliths once again. WAD has shown me how fun this archetype can be, and it really is a cool ritual archetype that can do quite a lot with the right pilot. The fact that Megalith is quite budget friendly in Master Duel is really baffing, but I welcome it.
Finally, a deck that's fun that I can build with the crap-ton of normal and rare craft points I have! I think Megalith was one of the few loaner decks I actually had a lot of fun playing hehe. Thanks, Hardleg!!
Happy to help :)
My favorite part of this video is when you go into the combo and explain it piece by piece. It really helps.
Perfect video to watch right before the festival. I mean even if you're not playing this you can figure out how to beat it.
I came in with the objective "maybe I can learn how megalith work"
But I will try this deck for sure looks super fun
Thanks bell for not letting me know a new vid was up >_< but yeah playing megalith along with most solo mode decks shows just how much potential is in each of them been playing danger monarchs and having fun seeing people trying to ash my dangers and not being able to play around majesty's fiend.
I'm back here to report that this deck at the NR festival is absolutely insane. After converting it to pure NR (which is almost trivial) I got a win ratio of about 95%. When going first it is so consistent. I think only 3 times I went first I was unable to do the full combo. Even going second it is good at breaking boards a playing through disruption. This deck is not very easy to manage on the grind game (having to keep track of the ritual monsters on the GY/hand/deck), but it has some very powerful interactions when properly managed. I had to come back here to say: many thanks HardLeg for this amazing list and combo breakdown.
I can't believe Phul is at 1 for the N/R festival and Metalfoes are untouched. There is no justice. I'm still playing this deck though; so good luck in the N/R festival everyone!
I really appreciate your budget videos. I feel like I can play more than just two decks now.❤ Finally getting back into Master Duel and feels good to play
This deck is actually incredible, I've been wanting to try megalith outside of story and luckily I also have gallant granite and block dragon
Been waiting on these budget builds
The wait is over!
This was really indepth and a fantastic video.
This is great, Megalith shined for a minute in Duel Links and now we get Phul as an R, can't wait to try this decklist out
Well, for some budget Ideas, Cubics have an entire engine that's R rarity. Although Durga is an SR, and yeah, that deck requires him to function. But Cubic Ascension is kinda nutty, as it can pull Cubic Seeds from the deck and even in Plat, people still try and run over the Cubic Seed with big number. I've been running 60 Card Reasoning/Grass Cubics mixed with Paleos, and the absolute pile is funny to play.
A lot of the Lyriluc deck is actually pretty cheap. the only SR main deck bird is Wagtail, and their only SR Spell/Trap is Bird Call. While they're way less consistent without those, they still can pretty easily swarm the field for some budget link plays (as every good XYZ you can go into is way overpriced. Fraktal and Nerval are both R and N respectively, and they add a lot to the link spammy version, even without the good Tri Brigade extra deck monsters. So a link spammy budget Bird Up is possible with 3 warbler, 3 sparrow, 3 swallow, 3 Nervall, 3 Fraktal, 3 Wing Requital (its literally Bird Deck Pot of Greed, and it's only R rarity!) And some of the Simorgh little birds as well for free extra normal summon, alongside some of the Simorgh Spell/traps as Repulsion can bounce back backrow heavy boards before they become an issue, and Sacred Lands gives you that extra normal summon to make Wing Requital live.
The extra deck would probably be Doom Eagle, Rugal, Cross Sheep, Daruma Doll for Nerval Targets, And Doublebyte Dragon for the surprise Towers made from your big link monsters (3300 unaffected by non-link monsters big dude if you use 2 Link 3s) The XYZ lineup would be whatever Rank 1 and 4s you can scrounge up.
we put Phaleg on your Hardleg so you can leg wille you leg
these budget build videos are really cool, some of my favorite tbh, i hope to see more :)
i intend to keep making them :)
Megalith was also a very good deck for the XYZ event, btw. I haven't seen too many people run it, but the build I ran could consistently put up Bethor for your opponent's turn and UDF. I don't think I lost a single game playing that deck.
If you're willing to invest some SR and UR dust into this deck, Gallant Granite and Block Dragon are absolutely cracked. Aratron is also much better than you give it credit for. It's a way to get another quick effect ritual summon during your opponent's turn, which is relevant in case they have cards like Droplet, Kaiju etc, and it's another way to ritual summon during your turn as well. Chalislisme is also very good at setting up your ritual combos.
What would I cut for aratron and Chalislime, out of curiosity? Because I do have 2 Ara 1 slime
@@SuperMasterk1 Probably a senju and a couple of plumes. Chalislime is legit just any card in your deck anyway and Plume being level 3, I find that it's a bit awkward for ritual summons.
@@deadwitchflying only thing I find useful about plume is it can get you back megaliths from grave if you're in a tight spot and don't have portal active tbh
@@SuperMasterk1 Baring in mind that my build has a way higher ceiling that Joe's it's also worth considering that Impcantations on the field lock you out of your Extra Deck. I had this exact situation where I had Plume on the field but couldn't use it for a ritual summon, so I had to send it to GY with the GY eff of the impcantation ritual spell. If it were lvl 4 I wouldn't mind, but 3 means I can't use it for anything but Phul from hand which is not ideal. The GY recycling probably comes up, but when you have Block Dragon, there's usually no turn 4 lmao
@@deadwitchflying fair, I'm not used to running block dragon combos which is where I think my misunderstanding came from lol
budget non destruction removal is odd-eyes gravity dragon its a heavy storm that cant be responded too its a RARE. Demise is a free card you get from solo mode that board wipes and can be very useful since it does not target. Rituals have a ton of broken cards since they are awkward to summon but with this deck its the easiest thing you can do all day.
26:46 This is very funny, and i can confirm it happened to me a LOT. All kinds of players, from Eldrich to jank, will not see Phul as a threat, even if I already used its effect, so its their best shot at killing it.
Ritual is my favorite type of summon and when Megalith was announced I was so hyped. They're so fecking fun as well as hard. Thank you Mr Leg, this helped me a lot
(Sorry for the poor english, I'm brazilian)
Genuinely amazing Yugioh content, 100% explains how to play a f2p archetype, and gives a list you can play immediately.
On top of all that you then explain what other cards work well with Megaliths and how to make the deck your own.
For future budget builds u can and should include cards that is obtainable from practice and solo mode such as raigeki and monster reborn.
For example: last episode was Crusadia. World Legacy Succession is a really good card for its strategy. And while it’s SR, you get 3 copies of it in solo mode for free.
@@enlongjones2394 yea dat wud be col if u could
Great content as always joe 👏 . Coincidently I saw megaliths for my duel replay of the day. I think it was based on yours but they added Maxx c, bagooska, and numeron dragon. It looked pretty nice.
This series is so amazing, keeps Master Duel more fresh, playing meta has become so stale there
Because of your yugipoops, I can’t look at Bethor without thinking of MegaBeth.
Thank you for that.
I know this is a Master Duel list but the rarities still apply to IRL so I'm gonna build this as a decent budget deck for locals lol. Great profile, Megaliths look awesome.
Aratron's value doesn't come from its on field effect, it comes from being a quick ritual summon effect in your hand. An Araton in your hand lets you defer some of your combo until your opponent's turn to keep below 5 summons per turn and dodge Nibiru.
The only time I found a megalith deck was when I was trying a toons, so I basically won before seeing what they are capable of. After this video I think I will craft them...
Okay building megalith now. Thanks for the vid hardleg
Hardleg! I love this and will definitely be messing around with Megaliths afterwards, I feel like I have an idea where to start now. My favorite low rarity deck so far has been Yosenjus. Obviously things like Tenki help, but would love to see your take.
I found you randomly and I really love your videos on low cost decks plus it's refreshing to see someone go in depth with it and actually break it down love your content plus that narration top tier 👌keep it up your definitely getting a sub
Thanks for the idea
Glad to help!
I'm glad you broke down how the deck works. Megaliths are super cool, but my gf didnt understand them and I'm hoping she will check them out after this
Happy to help! :D
I was surprised the Impcantations were all low rarity. Edit: using this deck but swapping in 3 of the ritual monster that lets you draw on summon (ban list restrictions) for the N/R event has been fun. So far I have had a decent win rate thanks for the deck Joe.
I really like megaliths. Such a fun archetype.
Just a suggestion but at the end when you give your non budget options would it be possible for you to pull up a more competitive version so we can see it? Not always sure what to take out and replace. You dont need to own the cards, but you can still show them in the list. Would be helpful for more visual learners.
As much as I like giving people decks to play, I also want to push them to think for themselves and figure things out. The only way to get better at deck building is to build more decks and test them.
@@HardlegGaming you are right. I used to do a lot of deck building in Magic through out the 90s (things were more fun before regular internet use) and yugioh in the early 2000s. The brain just does not work like it did years ago. Chasing hyper children is exhausting.
Honestly should use the brain a bit to get rid of the parenting fog.
Its just a youtube search away.
If you want a more competitive version, you should take a look at my videos :P
Great video! I've been looking for a good budget build for the event that is going on right now and this looks amazing and cheap to put together! One thing I wanted to mention about "Emergence" is that it might seem obvious but the ritual monster needs to have been Ritual Summoned first before it can be retrieved from the GY. Found this out the hard way, even though I was just testing against the A.I. 😂 Very informative video, though!
Skimmed some comments but didn't really see it, but the option to disable summoning animations while spectating is a completely different option on a different page in the options menu.
The link 3 nyphthys monster would be cool in this deck !
Indeed
16:00 you can actually skip the bulk of the animation by clicking on the screen, and it's skipped automatically if you speed up the replay. (This is the same way it works in Duel Links- which makes sense since they seem to be running on roughly the same engine)
I'll remember that in the future, thanks.
Note:
I recommend trying Book of Moon or Forbidden Chalice instead of Lost Wind, if you're having trouble going 2nd.
I really appreciate your budget master duel videos and I hope you keep making them
This is a blessing. I'm gonna practice this in EDO to get a proper groove of it, but hot dam does this look fun.
Megaliths are fucking awesome.
Btw, since MD has done a Xyz cup it wouldn't be out of the question for them to do a Synchro or a Fusion cup in the future (specially with the leaks pointing to that), i'd love it if you could find some budget options for those ED mechanics in future episodes
good vid and good job as always
I had two decks because of you and all of them were very fun. The first one was crusadia, my first deck in master duel. Could easily sweep through the gold rank with this megalith deck unfortunately it's not that strong in platinum. However, after splicing it with drytron engine instead of impcantation it becomes way more reliable against hand traps and can build the board over and over again every turn reliably which is pretty good. Had to learn other decks to find it's choke point so I can activate my phul to pop them off, still learning this aspect. It's a blast nevertheless.
Perfect for the upcoming N/R festival, thanks for the decklist.👍😁
Glad to help :)
Glad this deck is getting some love lol once I used this deck in solo I was like " huh this deck can be good if build right"
I don't leave youtube comments much but I wanted to come back and commend you and thank you, bc this is my favorite deck I've built
I really like the list I would suggest some of the drytron support cards for such a budget build, they got a solemn warning that spins to the deck and a quick play pop that are both low rarity and work with any ritual on board
Thanks for sharing the deck.. I love the way you explain the deck and it help me a lot for a new player like me. Keep up the good work mate!
in addition I hope you include the sample of optimize version of the deck to help me build better deck.
Thank you!
Btw ladies and gents Odd Eyes Gravity Dragon is a rare card in master duel a ritual monster that giant trunades your opponents board while also being unable to be responded to and as long as it's face up on the field your opponent just pay 500 life points to activate card effects! This is on a lvl 7 , 2800 attack monster that can be easily search with your normal summons and Impcantation engine.
Aratron is good because he's a quick-play ritual from the hand. Which gives you the possibility of dropping a Bethor Turn-0
Aratron was the only thing that saved me, when the opp when first and, turn 1, dropped starblast + vanity's ruler on me.
I had veiler in hand, and eventually drew into Aratron. So during the opp main phase I veiler'ed his ruler and then used Aratron, into phaul, into bethor to pop his entire field
Fun fact, Arc Rebellion cannot be popped by card effects. You actually made the perfect play there
:D
Loving this series so far
Something important that I don’t see other people mentioning here in the comments is the fact that Aratron, the level 8 counterpart to Och that you mentioned in passing at the beginning, has the same Quick Effect summon as Och. It’s very strong, not quite as good as Phul, obviously, but one of the better upgrades for the deck alongside things like block dragon and gallant granite. Definitely the sort of thing that helps the deck in ranked duels.
Watching this video inspired me to finally try to make a deck on my own, gonna try to see if I can make Fossil Megalith work decently
What are the flex spots in this deck if I wanted to enhance it? I switched out lost wind for 3 copies of infinite impermanence. But I have no idea what else to take out without ruining the deck
Basically, if it wasn't used for the main combo, it's a flex spot.
Stuff like Manju, Senju, and the Impcantations help with consistency, so you probably don't want to remove them first, but they aren't required. Lost Wind, Compulse, and MST are entirely just generic tech cards that you can replace with anything.
for sure run gallant granite and block dragon
You can try to run something like 1-2 copies of True king disaster for banish 3 different name in the extra deck if you summon it with 2 earth monster since most ppl probably run 1 copy of omni negate cards to stop your plays or non targeting monster that the deck struggle to beat
You also can try to use either lightning storm for 2nd turn plays,harpy feather duster if you against something like edlich and maybe 3 copies of Maxx C because it's very good against combo deck and it's a alternative ways to summon disaster if the opponent using control deck
I haven't play the deck yet so i sure where i should replace them
If I add block dragon to the is 1 or 3 the optimal choice for the deck?
@@t0pdoc not sure,ritual deck really hates their ritual monster banish on hand nor gy especially this deck where they only can use themselves to ritual summon(on hand,only their spell card and Phul on the field can ritual summon them on deck) unless you bring Magnet Reverse but that took about 2-4 slot and making the deck even brickier than it already is so it's not worth it
I like the budget idea..would like more of it
Aside from a couple high rarity impcantations, block dragon, and generic ritual goodstuff this deck is basically playable at rare and lower and that's really cool.
I'd really love to see a master duel budget tourney with each deck maybe having only six supers and one ultra
With the N/R rarity event coming this is such a blessing especially cuz I'm a sucker for rituals : 0
This deck carried me from floundering in Gold IV and V up to Gold I which is as far as I need so thanks for the good cheap deck
I don't know how viable Shiranui is with what you get from the solo mode, but I'd love to see a budget Shiranui profile that uses their cards from the structure deck! I remember playing them in Duel Links a lot, and it seems like only one of their synchros is a UR which makes me want to try it out, even if I have to spend UR gems on one Shiranui Sunsaga. Would love to see a profile on that
I'll look into it, but I'm pretty sure they require an extensive extra deck to function correctly.
WOOHOO, I love megalith. It was so good during the XYZ cup for me, tho it took me a while to learn it through solo mode.
I did something to this deck to make it more "competitive"
Add nekroz of unicorne and its N rarity ritual spell. You wont regret it. For 90 SR gems, you will force plays. Also its very easy to summon and impcantions will help you search it.
Good idea.
thanks for the deck list, its annoying having to stare at pictures and pick them from a list when other people don't do a deck list, was a sigh of relief!
i have always wanted to make megalith drytron deck just so i can call it the megatron
lol
In future budget builds, I'd love to see the higher rarity suggestions section at least touch on some UR staples that people have likely made for other decks/will use in a lot of decks. Are any of the 1ofs worth playing like foolish or terraforming, how much room for handtraps without high brick rates, that sort of stuff.
I thought it was obvious, but any tech cards (in this case generic spells or traps like Compulse, Lost Wind, and MST), can be replaced with any other cards you want, including hand traps or staples.
Which hand traps or staples you should use mostly depends on the current meta more than the deck itself. Like, right now you want to play Ash over Ogre or Veiler because it stops Max C which most people are playing.
Very nice guide, again. I went and built a version of this with some of the bigger rarirty stuff I’ve got over time, and it proved a lot of fun.
As for replacing stuff, I’m guessing that if I wanna use Pot of Prosperity, some of the Senju/Manju slots would be ok, since they’re both consistency options.
I thought about putting Djinn into the deck but they seem to make it a little clunky, and at least in Master Duel, can't seem to be used as Ritual fodder in the grave when using Megalith effects. Probably because they're set up to trigger with ritual spells rather than ritual like effects.
Thank you hardleg. Used your crusadia decklist previously and man it takes names if my hand is workable. It loses to nib all the time, but thats good enough to do dailies 👍👍👍
Add link spider ur welcome it doesn’t lose to nib now
Between the solo mode rewards and its other low rarity options, Megalith is probably one of the most dirt cheap budget decks that can currently be made in Master Duel, and easily the cheapest Ritual deck to make work. Though the solo mode challenges are a bit tricky since some of the loaner deck choices there can make playing with them brickier than usual.
I had no idea I had access nto such a good deck for so little.
one of
i hope to see more of this genre of videos keep going
I plan to make more.
What to do to improve this deck:
-Play handtraps instead of staple traps
-Play 3 Hagith (Unformed is busted and you want to search it as often as possible)
-Remove the Impcantations
-Add 1-3 Block dragons and Granite
-Add 1 of each Adamancipator Researcher, Seeker, and Plaguespreader Zombie
-Add Halqifibrax, Borreload Savage Dragon, Formula Synchron, and Hot Red Dragon Archfiend King Calamity in place of the low rarity extra deck cards
Now you can skip your opponent's turn if you go first (It's very consistent)
You're welcome
What do Adamancipator cards do in this deck?
@@Prateek_Dalal You search them with Block Dragon, special summon them, make Halq, SS Zombie, make Charge Warrior, then Savage Dragon, then SS Zombie back, SS Block Dragon back and set Unformed
During next turn banish Halq summon Formula, then synchro using Formula, Zombie, and Savage Dragon into King Calamity. Your opponent's turn is then skipped, and every card they may set face down will be destroyed by Bethor
This combo is absolutely broken and very consistent, I'm not sure why not many people know about it. I'll make a video about it soon
Can I have a full decklist please so i can see what to put in
@@HimothyHimsterr
Monsters:
3x Phul
3x Hagith
3x Ophiel
2x Phaleg
3x Bethor
1x Block Dragon
1x Adaman Researcher
1x Adaman Seeker
1x Plaguespreader Zombie
(Everything below this is optional)
3x Maxx C
3x Ash
3x Gadarla Kaiju
3x Manju
2x Senju
Spells:
3x Megalith Unformed
(Everything below this is optional)
1x Harpie Duster
2x Pot of Prosperity
2x Called by the grave
Extra deck:
1x Formula Synchron
1x Stardust Charge Warrior
1x Savage Dragon
1x Hot Red Dragon Archfiend King Calamity
1x Gallant Granite
1x Halqifibrax
1x Cross-Sheep
(Everything below this is optional)
1x Leo Keeper of the Sacred Tree
1x Knightmare Phoniex
1x I:P Masquerena
1x Union Carrier
1x Knightmare Unicorn
1x Avramax
1x Apollousa
1x Accesscode Talker
@@diamondv7261 thanks man ima try this out
Solid rocks, brother!
Just a thing to point out, Aratron is not as bad as it seens, because it is the only hand one to be a quick effect, so it is another way to bethor on your oponents turn (even working as handtrap if really necessary, before you even geting a turn).
Not saing you need it or should use it, just pointing it is not as bad.
Anyway, great video as allways!
Hell yeah more megalith!
20:10 what an evil laugh
;)
As someone who plays megalith irl and in master dual, I've got to say this is a cool list but i personally play with three aratron due to the quick effect ritual and if you have a level 8 on field and phul then you can aratron for bethor then phul use bethor for phaleg
Its not the same but I built one Megalith deck for the new event were there will be no SR or UR.I should try yours too.
Pretty cool. I'm always lookin for different budget decks. I'm tired of using my Dinosaurs. I did briefly have an Eldlich deck but I deleted it 'cause I didn't want to be apart of the problem, lol.
Anyway here are the decks I have so far; 'kinda meta Dinos', Aromage, basic Dinomist, Phantasm and basic Dracos. Also I'm about half way done making Toons too.
disgustingly good.
even when phul is limited and bethor semi-limited in NR festival, this deck got me to 10K medals with only 1 duel loss
My only explanation for why the SR megalith is SR is that possibly they thought that it’s ritual summon effect was a quick effect was too OP? I really don’t know…
Thanks for including the options for this deck at the end. You're absolutely correct that Megaliths in the Master Duel story were terrible, I'm sure you saw the update that they dropped changing some of the story decks on Feb 25(?) 2022, because I remember Megaliths in Duel Links not being half bad, and I was wondering why they had so much strangely synergistic support IRL if the Megalith story deck was so jank and terrible.
The combo decks in the back half of the story weren't terrible ideas, they were just built really badly. Megaliths don't need non ritual Nekroz help to summon Nekroz rituals.
You only NEED one or two Aratron, sure, but I run three for the lolz. Nothing's funnier than going second but not giving a shit, because halfway through setting up their opening board, you dump Aratron and summon Bethor (either straight up or through Phul), and destroy two or three of their key combo pieces, wrecking their board BEFORE YOU TAKE YOUR FIRST TURN. I'm not just talking Master Duel here, either - I legit made a guy flip the table at my locals last week by eating his Galaxy-Eyes setup, making him pass Turn 1 to me with an empty board. Summoned Phaleg next and FTK'd him before he even knew what was happening. Rage ensued, Hulk Smash, et-cetera.
I've been enjoying playing Pendulum decks but I want a break from combo plays and I want to try a control deck. This will suffice as both a control deck and a ritual deck while I farm more gems... After they deal with hackers
The most fun deck to play, especially against players who don't know how to read and usually panic-destroy Bethor instead of Phul
W video , really needed this
God, how is the game in a state where essentially having 4 Drident’s is considered a relatively low tier/at best rogue option
ss2 pop 4 is extremely powerful (battle butler for example)
Issue with pure megalith is that your play is extremely telegraphed and every single going2nd card immediately outs phul
that being said constructed megalith (ada+block) is a solid tier 2 approaching tier1 deck although that deck does very different things than what hardlegs playing
My dude:D
(Liked the explanation of not running block dragon, because explaining combos with it is pain xDD)
Proven by showing missplay combo due to making vid in rush😅 after getting plat 1 last season.
So the summary of Megaliths is, Ritual Summoning without Ritual Spells?
Amazing video! 👍😎👍
Thank you for the great video, I finally have the basics down with megalith and I beat eldlich bc I kept looping him, I have the video if you want to see
If you don’t mind 6 super rares king of the skull servant is a good budget build. I don’t run any of the other zombie support like unizombie or mizuki (I think I spelled that right). The only supers the deck needs is king and wightbaking. The deck got me to gold 1 through mostly luck and some good piloting.
You can do follow ups to these videos using EDO pro showing how to use the more broken builds like 3 block dragons
I could, but I don't like block dragon combos lol.
Well maybe some of the other cards you mentioned that were really good with this deck. I'd watch it. But i also watch everything else you put up lol
This may be a dumb question but what is the name of that program you are using to test the deck and is it available for download?