While duelists in the other worlds were discussing Tearlaments, a mix of bitter, complex, baffled, and excited emotions swirled through the ARC-V World's Standard Dimension.
Yuya Sakaki let out a sharp breath. He once thought his Pendulum Odd-Eyes was the pinnacle of skill. But after seeing that JeffreyL's Ignister combo... he was starting to have doubts. Do I really understand Pendulum?
Declan Akaba was also experiencing self-doubt. He considered himself a master of Pendulum Summoning! But after watching the synergy between Exodia and Pendulum, Declan couldn't help but ask himself: What the hell... is Pendulum?
"Hah, that was satisfying to watch!" Gong Strong exhaled, his thoughts different from the others. "Truly satisfying! Those plays were so slick! I wonder if my Superheavy Samurai can pull off something like that!" What he saw was a feast of explosive combos from a single deck, and a victory achieved by repeatedly cycling through resources to assemble Exodia.
The ARC-V world was like this, to say nothing of the VRAINS world, which specialized in Link summoning. After watching this deck's mastery of the Link system, Yusaku Fujiki took a deep breath. He felt as though his own dueling strategies had been expanded. Whether it was the synergy with the Link-2 Isolde, Two Tales of the Noble Knights, or the repeated cycling of the Link-3 Selene, Queen of the Master Magicians to generate counters and revive searchers from the Graveyard, these were all fundamental concepts in Yu-Gi-Oh!: generating resources and utilizing them effectively.
They didn't see the full power of Tearlaments in that duel, but Yusaku saw that the dueling strategies and mindset in the higher world had far surpassed their own.
"Hey! The way he repeatedly cycles Selene, Queen of the Master Magicians is a bit similar to my Salamangreats," Soulburner noted with narrowed eyes. "As expected, watching these duels lets you learn things you couldn't otherwise." In their Link era, every beginner knew you had to cycle through Links and repeatedly use existing resources to build the board you wanted. Salamangreats followed this exact principle.
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Main World
The final part of the short video was still playing.
Exodia's Binding Play: "Alright, after watching this duel, our goal has been achieved. I trust you all now understand the operational strategy of this deck. As for the match result, JeffreyL took the victory with a score of 2-1. For those who still don't understand the Tearlaments deck, don't worry. You can find related videos to learn more. And with that, my explanation of the Exodia deck is over. Thanks to all my friends for watching, I wish you a happy life and a soaring card game luck to make a fortune!"
"......"
Yusei Hoshi had finished watching the entire short video. The strength of the Tearlaments deck indeed hadn't been showcased in that duel. As a result, in the DM, GX, and 5DS worlds, a flood of comments were asking about the power of the Tearlaments deck. Yusei had originally wanted to take this opportunity to show them the rise of Tearlaments. But exposing them to such a powerful deck so early was a bit too much. He had to do it step by step.
Thus, Yusei recalled the deck guide videos he had watched before and soon locked his next target onto Tenyi Swordsoul.
"I spent a lot of time learning Tenyi Swordsoul back then. Showing them this deck seems like a good idea. After all, among Synchro decks that can make it in the meta, Tenyi Swordsoul is one of them, right? Yes, let's do that!"
After deciding on the next deck, Yusei quickly found his target video. The title appeared before the eyes of the duelists of the six worlds!
"Tenyi Swordsoul! Master of the Flying Wyrms, Multiple Strategies Guaranteed to Teach!"
Tenyi Swordsoul? With the appearance of the new video, the duelists of the six worlds quickly shifted their thoughts from Exodia the Forbidden One and focused on this new deck! Just the name alone made many duelists look on with anticipation. And the explanation followed!
MD Dragon Fist Bro: "Hello, fellow duelists, good afternoon! Today, I'm bringing you a deck that is very suitable for beginners to get into, the Tenyi Swordsoul deck! The deck is mainly Synchro-based, with a smooth in-archetype engine, and is a mid-range beatdown deck. It's not one of those explosive combo decks that's invincible after setting up its board. Its end board is basically just Chixiao plus Baronne! Then you set whatever backrow you have, and if not, you rely on hand traps for disruption! Let's take a look at the deck build first!"
"......"
As soon as his voice fell, the decklist in the short video appeared before every duelist's eyes. What was completely different from the other deck builds was that this one's Extra Deck was filled with a large number of Synchro monsters! This meant that this deck was indeed focused on Synchro Summoning! And not some flashy mix of Fusion, Link, Synchro, and Xyz!
The first to take notice was naturally the 5DS World. As a world centered around Synchro, seeing another Synchro archetype appear, Yusei Fudo, Jack Atlas, Crow Hogan, and the others all had gleaming eyes!
"Here it comes! Stardust Dragon and Red Dragon Archfiend were already shocking enough!" Leo's eyes blinked, his first reaction being that this build must be no less powerful than Stardust and Red Dragon Archfiend!
"But listening to what that person in the video said," Luna noted, "it seems this deck isn't very strong?" She had noticed that the deck's characteristic was mid-range beatdown. That meant the deck's power level still needed to be observed!
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In the short video, the card-by-card explanation by MD Dragon Fist Bro began immediately!
MD Dragon Fist Bro: "The video content is divided into a card-by-card explanation of the build and a combo explanation. If you're already very familiar with Tenyi Swordsoul, you can jump directly to the combo explanation. For beginner players, or new MD players, I still recommend watching it from beginning to end. I believe Tenyi Swordsoul will bring you a surprise. First, the deck build is mainly divided into two types. The Swordsoul engine and the Tenyi engine. If you want to increase the power level, you can also add a Bystial engine. Let's look at the Swordsoul engine first! The Swordsoul monsters all have a common effect: reveal a Swordsoul card or a Wyrm monster to trigger their effect and summon a Level 4 Tuner Token! The in-archetype has the following key cards!"
Card 1! Swordsoul of Mo Ye! WATER Wyrm! Level 4, 1700/1800 ATK/DEF!
MD Dragon Fist Bro: "An in-archetype starter. On summon or special summon, after revealing, it can special summon a token. After Synchro Summoning, you draw 1 card!"
Card 2! Swordsoul Strategist - Longyuan! FIRE Wyrm! Level 6, 1200/2300 ATK/DEF!
MD Dragon Fist Bro: "Discarding a Swordsoul or Wyrm card can special summon a token. Also a starter, and after being sent to the graveyard for a Synchro Summon, it burns the opponent for 1200 damage!"
Card 3! Swordsoul of Taia! WIND Wyrm! Level 4, 1800/1500 ATK/DEF!
MD Dragon Fist Bro: "Banish a Swordsoul or Wyrm from the Graveyard to special summon a token. Since it's not a proactive starter, run 2-3 copies. When sent to the graveyard, it searches from the deck. In relation to this, you can also run Ecclesia, the Virtuous in White! It has a built-in special summon going second, and can tribute itself to bring out other Swordsouls, so it's a pretty good card. It's just a pity it's not a Swordsoul and not a Wyrm. Recommended 2-3 copies. The above are the cards of the Swordsoul engine. Just remember that they are the starters. Combined with the combos and actual battles later, you can more clearly understand the strength of Swordsoul."
After listening to the explanation of the Swordsoul engine, every duel world had its own understanding and opinion of this engine. But the one thing they all understood was that these cards, except for Ecclesia which was a support starter, all involved tokens! They all had to meet conditions to summon a token! And the token was a Tuner, and it was Level 4! So the situation was very clear! One card to make a Level 8 Synchro!!!
Thinking of this, all the duelists showed grave expressions! No wonder the Synchro Extra Deck was so full! It was because of this archetype! Synchro Summoning was so damn easy! Other people's Tuner monsters had to find a way to be special summoned to the field. Swordsoul's tokens were just printed out! This was the difference!
MD Dragon Fist Bro: "After looking at the Swordsoul engine, let's look at the Tenyi engine. If the Swordsoul engine is for combo starting, then the Tenyi engine is the in-archetype special summon support! Because the four Tenyi cards all have the first effect: if you control no Effect Monsters, you can Special Summon this card from your hand. And the second effect, if you control a non-Effect Monster, you can banish it from your hand or Graveyard to trigger its effect! Let's take a look at the specific information."
Card 1! Tenyi Spirit - Ashuna! EARTH Wyrm! Level 7, 1600/2600 ATK/DEF! (Note: Text has errors, correcting to Ashuna's info)
MD Dragon Fist Bro: "This one is important. Its second effect, by banishing, can special summon another Tenyi from the deck! The in-archetype Tenyi engine starter, can be considered the essence of Tenyi Swordsoul, recommended 2-3 copies!"
Card 2! Tenyi Spirit - Vishuda! DARK Wyrm! Level 7, 1500/2500 ATK/DEF!
MD Dragon Fist Bro: "A high-quality special summon, and also a bait for negates! Because its second effect, by banishing, can target and bounce a card! Recommended 2-3 copies!"
Card 3! Tenyi Spirit - Adhara! EARTH Wyrm! Level 1 Tuner, 0/0 ATK/DEF!
MD Dragon Fist Bro: "As a Level 1 Tuner, it can sometimes help us summon other Synchro monsters! Its second effect, by banishing, adds a banished Wyrm monster back to the hand. Run 0-1 copies!"
Card 4! Tenyi Spirit - Shthana! WATER Wyrm! Level 4, 400/2000 ATK/DEF!
MD Dragon Fist Bro: "As a Level 4 special summon, it can sometimes be used to make a Level 8 Synchro! The second effect is not used much, after all, it protects non-Effect Monsters, mainly for Synchro plays. Run 0-1 copies. With these four cards, the explanation of the Tenyi engine is over!"
With the explanation of the Tenyi engine finished, the understanding of this build deepened a few more notches! The Tenyi engine for support, the Swordsoul engine for starting combos! The two engines combined into one, which constituted the so-called Tenyi Swordsoul! But! These were clearly not the key points of Tenyi Swordsoul! The most important were the ace monsters in this build's Extra Deck!
MD Dragon Fist Bro: "After looking at the low-level monster build, setting aside the standard three Ashes, three G's, Infinite Impermanence, and Effect Veiler, let's look at the in-archetype cards! First is the one you'll summon often, Swordsoul Grandmaster - Chixiao!"
[Card Name: Swordsoul Grandmaster - Chixiao (Level 8)]
[Attribute: LIGHT]
[Type: Wyrm]
[ATK/DEF: 2800/1000]
"It has two effects. The first is a simple search for an in-archetype card or banish! The second is a Quick Effect that banishes an in-archetype card to negate an opponent's monster effect until the end of the turn. Then there's Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying!"
[Card Name: Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying (Level 10)]
[Attribute: WATER]
[Type: Wyrm]
[ATK/DEF: 3000/3000]
"As an in-archetype powerhouse card! Its first effect: this card's ATK/DEF increases by 100 for each banished card, and your opponent's monsters' ATK/DEF decreases by 100 for each banished card. As a boss monster with protection! Its second effect: if this card would be destroyed by a card effect, you can banish one card from your Graveyard instead. As a Graveyard-clearing and board-breaking king! Its third effect: if a card is banished, you can banish one card from your opponent's field and one from their Graveyard. An absolutely powerful Swordsoul Synchro boss!"
Indeed! Just from reading the effects, the duelists of the six worlds already felt that this card was a bit terrifying! Going first, you have Chixiao on the field! If you can also summon Baronne, that's a two-negate board! Add some hand traps and set Spells/Traps, the first-turn board is already not weak! And going second, you can summon this Chengying. It has its own powerful offense, protection, and board clearing! And it's non-targeting board clearing! With cards like these comboing together, Tenyi Swordsoul would be a dimension-crushing presence in any of their worlds!
MD Dragon Fist Bro: "Besides the two Swordsoul Synchro aces, there's also Swordsoul Sinister Sovereign - Qixing Longyuan! Level 10, FIRE Wyrm, 2900/2300 ATK/DEF. Its first effect, if you Synchro Summon another Wyrm monster, you can draw 1 card! Its second effect, if your opponent Special Summons, you can banish and burn for 1200! Its third effect, if your opponent activates a Spell/Trap, you can also banish and burn for 1200! It's an important card in the archetype for disruption and burn! Two banishes can be quite fatal for many decks! Then there are the other related Synchro monsters! Like Yazi, Evil of the Yang Zing, Baxia, Brightness of the Yang Zing, Chaofeng, Phantom of the Yang Zing, and so on are all important inclusions in the archetype. Yazi has targeting immunity, effect destruction, and a final word effect to summon a Wyrm monster. Baxia has a bounce effect to clear the board and a Graveyard revival effect. Chaofeng has a lockdown effect, a final word effect to search for a Tuner, and resource generation. These are all cards that can increase the power of the Tenyi Swordsoul deck!"
One after another, the Tenyi Swordsoul Extra Deck cards were explained in a flash! Just these were enough to leave the duelists of the six worlds stunned! And what was being explained now was just a corner of the deck build! Things like the Tenyi Swordsoul combo strategy, the Tenyi Swordsoul OTK strategy, and the detailed combos of Tenyi Swordsoul were the most important parts!
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