This Week on Video (11/2023)

Every week Cardmarket's YouTube channel publishes a lot of exciting Yu-Gi-Oh! content that you don't want to miss—discussing new cards and long-awaited reprints, the latest tech and the best decks, falling and rising prices … Collecting everything in one place, here's your TV program for the week of March 13.

New videos typically go live between 17:00 and 18:00 CET. You can then find them embedded below, alongside lists of featured cards/decks and additional information.



Tuesday

Over time people began to realize that just saying no to anything your opponent played was actually a pretty good mechanic, and it started seeing its rightful amount of play.

Here are two decks that run :

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P.A.C.M.A.N, Goat Format
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Wednesday

On Banhammer we discuss banned cards with the Cardmarket Yu-Gi-Oh! team and debate whether they should stay banned or roam free in people's decks again! Crystron Halqifibrax took years to be imported to the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG, and when it did, boy, did it make an impact. So much of an impact it recently got banned. Did it deserve to be banned, and can it ever come back?

halqifibrax
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Thursday

Turns out Exodia lived a pretty interesting life before he got sucked into a children's card game and subsequently thrown off a boat by Bug Boy.



Friday

The meta is extremely varied at the moment, and with Yu-Gi-Oh!'s 250th YCS on the way, what should you be playing in your decks? Hand traps for utility or breakers for an opponent's board already established? Adam breaks down the pros and cons of both and gives you his opinions before YCS London.

Hand traps:

  • hits Branded Despia, Kashtira, Naturia Runick, Labrynth, Spright, Traptrix.
  • hits Branded mostly.
  • hits Branded Despia, Kashtira, Traptrix—but not Traptrix Sera.
  • hits Kashtira, Adventure Spright.

Board breakers:

  • , , , are good against decks that set up one, two, or even three problem monsters that can be hard to remove, like with .

  • hits pretty much every deck that goes wide: Kashtira, Labrynth, Traptrix, …

  • really does well against back-row decks such as Labrynth and Traptrix, while having some use against monster strategies, although opponents can play around it.