I'm amazed you found so many normal decks in the 2025 event, my experience was people FTKing with 3 effect damage spells unless you deck to counter that. Your first game against spright/twin had your opponent playing weird. The general idea is just spam the field with level/link 2 monsters. Spright Elf can resummon and gives some protection to the ones it points to, and when Link Summoned with IP Masquerena it gets protection from destruction by card effects. And then just keep sacrificing monsters to negate the opponent's cards. Their main win condition is using that one spell to buff everyone for lethal damage on turn 2-3. The spright part of the deck gets beat over really easily by normal summon something big enough to beat over Elf in battle. So their offensive half is the twin side. At least you got to see them use that one Link5 to steal your monster, I've been trying to use that in pure live twin but the very specific requirement of needing 4 effect monsters is hard to do under pressure. It is even less viable in the Ojama side of things.
Me too! I expected way more FTKs, but I was surprised to find fairly normal duels. I knew going in it would probably be an arduous process, but it went by surprisingly quick. To be fair to myself, I put this deck down over 2 (?) months ago and just picked it back up for this event, so I probably made some misplays in there. Obviously, this video was recorded a few weeks ago (my bad!) and it was my first time playing against a Spright deck. I'd heard about it, but never really played against it in-depth, so it was interesting to see a different way of playing using the Live Twin cards. I will say, I've played against a few other Spright decks since this video came out, and this one was by far the most unique duel involving those cards. That Underworld Goddess took me by surprise, I'd never encountered it before. It's definitely something I may try to use in the future. Everyone I've played since just uses Gigantic Spright as their beat stick
I've been playing an Ojama deck a lot recently, so I decided to change it up a bit. I think it's still a decent structure deck, even by today's standards. I'd say it still needs a bit more padding on the negation side since you have to rely so heavily on getting fusion monsters out
I tried Cyber Dragon deck and its not bad if the duels are more then 2-3 turns but I usually find a full Cyberdark deck to be more superior, even though you have less options.
You definitely have a point. I think you could separate either one (Cyber Dragon or Cyberdark) and put them into other machine decks and they'd work pretty well. One combo that I really like is the Cyber End Dragon + Armored Cybern + Limiter Removal combo. It's a crazy, potentially OTK, combo for this deck. I've also done it before with the Cyber Twin Dragon, and that's even more damage if you can get both attacks off successfully
I know this is a bit late, but it was a cool video, and I didn't want to scrap it. So here it is! I'll have some more up-to-date content soon!
I'm amazed you found so many normal decks in the 2025 event, my experience was people FTKing with 3 effect damage spells unless you deck to counter that.
Your first game against spright/twin had your opponent playing weird.
The general idea is just spam the field with level/link 2 monsters. Spright Elf can resummon and gives some protection to the ones it points to, and when Link Summoned with IP Masquerena it gets protection from destruction by card effects.
And then just keep sacrificing monsters to negate the opponent's cards.
Their main win condition is using that one spell to buff everyone for lethal damage on turn 2-3. The spright part of the deck gets beat over really easily by normal summon something big enough to beat over Elf in battle. So their offensive half is the twin side.
At least you got to see them use that one Link5 to steal your monster, I've been trying to use that in pure live twin but the very specific requirement of needing 4 effect monsters is hard to do under pressure. It is even less viable in the Ojama side of things.
Me too! I expected way more FTKs, but I was surprised to find fairly normal duels. I knew going in it would probably be an arduous process, but it went by surprisingly quick. To be fair to myself, I put this deck down over 2 (?) months ago and just picked it back up for this event, so I probably made some misplays in there. Obviously, this video was recorded a few weeks ago (my bad!) and it was my first time playing against a Spright deck. I'd heard about it, but never really played against it in-depth, so it was interesting to see a different way of playing using the Live Twin cards. I will say, I've played against a few other Spright decks since this video came out, and this one was by far the most unique duel involving those cards. That Underworld Goddess took me by surprise, I'd never encountered it before. It's definitely something I may try to use in the future. Everyone I've played since just uses Gigantic Spright as their beat stick
Haha not even an optimzed list, just straight up structure. Nice.
I've been playing an Ojama deck a lot recently, so I decided to change it up a bit. I think it's still a decent structure deck, even by today's standards. I'd say it still needs a bit more padding on the negation side since you have to rely so heavily on getting fusion monsters out
I tried Cyber Dragon deck and its not bad if the duels are more then 2-3 turns but I usually find a full Cyberdark deck to be more superior, even though you have less options.
You definitely have a point. I think you could separate either one (Cyber Dragon or Cyberdark) and put them into other machine decks and they'd work pretty well. One combo that I really like is the Cyber End Dragon + Armored Cybern + Limiter Removal combo. It's a crazy, potentially OTK, combo for this deck. I've also done it before with the Cyber Twin Dragon, and that's even more damage if you can get both attacks off successfully
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