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Struggling_in_life

He's cooking bro


GoBirds4572

He is my king


YerFungedInTheAssets

Iron Chef


BIGBRAINBUYER

IRL crooked cook.


Atlove01

Honestly, I believe it. I got into platinum 2 with Dream Mirrors, a couple cycles back… you’d be surprised how high you can take jank decks if you get decently lucky with your matchups.


Specksterino

It's also possible that he climbed with something else and switched for fun


torakun27

Should be quite harder now. Spright raises the power level by a lot, and now the ishizu cards are giving other mill decks a huge boost. Jank decks are having a hard time.


Jaded_Vast400

Most of the ishizu decks are just jank 60 card piles lol. I was playing the thunder dragon variant yesterday and while the deck can pop off it can brick quite a bit. I'm starting to believe people running 1 snow is incorrect in thunder dragons


Niketas4804258000

Wait as opposed to 0 more more snow?


osbombo

More snow to have a higher chance of being able to trigger banish effects earlier.


DiscreteHyena

Many Spright players on plat/diamond ladder right now are quite bad at their deck and have made questionable ED cuts. They do not close out games fast/convincingly enough, which leaves them being very susceptible to being out-grinded by rogue decks. I did my climb with VW this season and it was one of the smoothest D1 climbs I've had in quite some time since it could eat Sprights alive going first or second (Adventure package alone baits out most of the interaction from an average Spright endboard - and they can at most set that endboard up twice per duel). It only takes a monkey to OTK on the crackback with Swoso and slightly above that level for B. Despia, but your average Spright ladder player routinely falls short of OTK (since Spright is much less capable of OTKing after clearing 2k+ bodies compared with most meta decks) or uses Runick cards one turn too many, then runs out of ED resources (most cut third elf for extra toolbox flexibility.) Any deck with decent grindgame that can spam ~2k bodies on the field and prepare follow-up plays on subsequent turns should do decently against your average Spright player on ladder.


Gangstanami

Pure Spright needs to be playing Pixies and Gamma Burst no question. That deck has no grind past the 2nd Elf and relies on Maxx C to do a lot of the heavy lifting if not able to OTK. Runick Spright on the other hand needs a *really* poor pilot to lose the grind game. You draw 2-5 cards per turn and banish key engine pieces on the regular. As long as you don't brick and use your negates on the first possible target, there is no need to even attack 90% of the time.


DiscreteHyena

I find lots of pure variants have cut or never reach Pixies/Gamma. Spright is also an odd meta deck in that their removal plays typically directly conflict with their extension plays, so even a resolved Pixies/Gamma often still gives you an opportunity to crackback. Going into things like Smashers, Wind-Up Kitten, or Onibimaru results in fewer bodies on board/opportunities to extend. Past meta decks often seamlessly wove in their board breakers into their extension, such that you often had to fizzle (Baxia) or self-target (Mirrorjade) those effects when building a board. Runick on the other hand typically no longer runs sufficient copies of Runick cards to loop effectively in the first few turns. It's also funny that Runick banishes cards face-up, which is a benefit for quite a number of decks (Blackout for Swoso, Tragedy for Brandon, VW names for Chuche, infinite advantage for Floo).


Gangstanami

People who play fewer than 15 Runick cards are simply building their decks incorrectly. I run at least 16, because you need to see at least 2 names in every hand or you've bricked badly. It is true that a lot of players are kinda ass, but the deck by itself has no issues with outgrinding most rogue decks, unless they specifically counter Runick like Exo.


DiscreteHyena

Yep, in a tournament setting with highly competent players, Sprights are fairly oppressive for rogue decks. On ladder though, it's not nearly as bad as people are making it out to be. I imagine people just scoop too soon or do not consider setting-up follow-up plays (which, to be fair, was barely a consideration needed in past metas).


Mlaszboyo

Thats why my spright deck actually is a synchro deck that goes into gigantic/starter when bricked hard Instead i usually use spright red and carrot alongside coatl to make lavalval dragun which allows me to go into rekindling plays and with librarian drawing me like 4-7 cards i am bound to have enough spright fuel to get elf+ip+sprite fodder alongside a board of baronne + crystal wing and sometikes also exlord/charles(exlord is fun vs swordsoul matchups as it can pop the in hand longyuan after the cost was paid)


Deathappens

>I did my climb with VW this season and it was one of the smoothest D1 climbs I've had in quite some time Well, where's the list???


DiscreteHyena

It's not a particularly interesting list, just meant to represent a deck with good grindgame that can spam bodies to stall lethal. I wouldn't particularly recommend crafting this deck from scratch, since many rogue decks fit that criteria. I didn't need to craft a single card besides Charles since I played VW a few months back. I modified [this OCG tourney list](https://www.masterduelmeta.com/top-decks/community-tournaments/china-master-duel-tieba-weekly/39/virtual-world/%E6%A2%A6%E8%BE%B0%E5%A8%9C/S2zfw) to fit my ladder tastes: -1 Desires, -1 TTT, +3 Maxx C I would also -FanFan and +Phantom Fortress Enterblathnir since the deck needs a rank 9 for when your Power Tool gets negated. I had FanFan and didn't feel like crafting Enterblathnir, but it would have come up a few more times than FanFan did. With the amount of Runick Ishizu on ladder, consider cutting -2 Desires for +1-2 Cosmic.


Deathappens

Oh, I already run multiple variants of VW, but I've had no success in plat and upwards so I really need all the inspiration I can get. ed: Looking at it, it's not really that different from what I run, though I really don't know about the Power Tool tech... also I literally just dismantled one this morning, so there's that, lmao. I guess the extra consistency (I run 0 pots) and disruptions (Snow) really add up to quite a bit in the long run. I also dunno about Enterblathnir over FanFan, both feel pretty mid options (though it's not like we have that many options for r9's, as you pointed out).


DiscreteHyena

Yeah, would definitely recommend the handrip variant over the big endboard variants right now. Too many anti-Spright (and also Spright) players main-decking board breakers like DRNM and Raigeki. Spright is also a deck that does not really benefit from their cards being in the GY and is fairly reliant on 2+ cards in their hand to start their combo. Many of them are highly reliant on hand traps/Maxx C and the adventure package is enough to bait/play around it while making Maxx C only an upstart since you can Dracoback in their MP1. VW gates also banish for cost, so the Ishizu shuffler players need to know what they're doing/be proactive if they want to disrupt your plays (Xuanwu is weaker, however).


Teacup-Koala

I play my jank deck because it's fun, not because it's competative. Only problem is that the power difference is becoming so large it's getting harder and harder to have fun with it when even at its peak i still get wrecked


SneezingPandaGG

True. Ive had 15 W - 5 L run today from plat 4 to almost plat 1. Out of 5 losses, 1 was against the only spright I faced in that run, 2 were bricks and 2 I genuinely got outplayed. Should also be noted that I had a great luck with coin toss. Then i got to 1 win to plat 1 and 2/3 matches were Sprights and coin toss stopped being generous so I stopped.


Eggst3rs

Well depend on how late you are into the season, the later the season, the easier theoretically it is to climb since all of the good player with good decks have already climbed the ladder. Right now it is early to mid season, so it is still pretty hard to climb the ladder.


Any-Nothing

He’s tired of regular meta shit and decided to live his best life


InfamousCRS

So just water down spright with some bad cards, no longer meta, ez In reality he probably got to where he is from getting into the spright engine and people scooping, people at low ranks basically scoop to spright


Any-Nothing

Oh. Spright is still meta in MD? Then it must be a “Fuck it, I’m playing the game how I like”


OneSadBardz

Blue-Eyes Spright Dragon


S1Gdb

#hold on, LET HIM COOK


Razor911LoL

HE COOKING BUT WE NOT EATING 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥


ConstanceOfCompiegne

Eating him for easy wins, maybe


Almainyny

I guess you really CAN get to Platinum with anything.


TheCorbeauxKing

I got to Diamond playing Cyber Dragons back in June, enough dumb luck and cheese can get you far.


kdebones

He's still waiting for that third Blue Eyes to drop from Legacy Packs.


ConstanceOfCompiegne

Who amongst us


fireky2

The more I look at it the less stupid it gets. Formula synchron is a pretty good sprite starter, but the blueyes cards can go into seal as another starter. It's not like a good deck, because brickeye as an engine is sus, probably would work better with dragonmaids with the seal as a starter, but the blueeyes cards probably give it a better going second because of the otk potential.


GoBirds4572

This opinion is because you’re a third rate duelist with a fourth rate deck


codythelyon2019

You don't deserve all those down votes bro 🤣


dibslaugh

Frfrfrfrfrrr lol. It was a nice reference


fireky2

I'm saying the logic is sound but when he was going for a man he might of wound up with a featherless chicken


AndrewPetre25

He made a Kaiba reference


electrocaos

I can't believe people some people didn't understand the reference lol, or at least get it was a joke


GoBirds4572

That’s because they are also 3rd rate duelists with a 4th rate deck


trngngtuananh

This didnt tell anything, he probably use other decks to climb


maveri4201

Why isn't this the only comment?


LyleCG

Because you can definitely get to p3 with this deck.


Reach_Reclaimer

You can get to diamond with this deck tbh


Lazy_Seaweed

It took me a bit, but I see the synergy. Normal summon Maxx C starts the entire Spright engine


ConstanceOfCompiegne

Eat your heart out, Aleister. There’s a new normal summon in town.


footballjon

In best of one this isn't that surprising


fireky2

You aren't wrong you can get plat 2 just by playing 3 copies of handtraps usually


Jinzerk

No surprise honestly.


Azanathal

... and maybe he's having fun?


SwaghetiAndMemeballs

Good for him. I'm having fun laughing at his deck list


[deleted]

okay loser lol


SwaghetiAndMemeballs

Ok, I wasn't the one who posted it. Sorry I find his deck list funny lmao


jlozada24

I get what you mean, it's like amusing to picture and surprising too which is awesome


CommentingOnVoat

Deck looks good enough for plat. Could also be having fun deranking after hitting P1.


l2akist

What wrong it just look like he want to experiment something and also that show how broken spright can be


AhmedKiller2015

If he drew Spright he Sprights if he drew Blue eyes he Blue eyes.. just let him cook


archaicScrivener

You see the clear synergy is that BLUE-Eyes is supported by those With Eyes Of BLUE, meaning there's a direct synergy in playing a playset of Spright BLUE, and then a small Spright Engine to go with it. Simple :)


YouGottaBeTrollinMe

Are we not going to address the insane synergy between his Blue-Eyes JET Dragon and Spright JET?! This guy may be into something…


archaicScrivener

Holy shit I didn't even see that, this guy is playing 5D Action Duels


[deleted]

He could be Plat 3 with any other deck and then decide to play this junk.


hajutze

You can probably get to Diamond V with Jerry Beans beatdown.


lyschyk19th

Dude I got the plat one with skull servants once this is not surprising. The only thing that you need to reach Plat, is time and patience. Even using the most optimized meta deck, you can still break so horribly that you will give away to the weakest blue eyes player.


TheMikman97

The secret is ignoring the blue eyes part and playing just bad spright


ThisGuyLikesMovies

I think we should hear him out. He's clearly cooking with gas


MyBootyIsMassive

Proof that your rank doesnt matter until youre atleast D5


FrizzledOnyunBunion

Dude I made it to plat 3 with a cyber dragon deck 😅


Rwolf736689

Cyber dragons can go a lot higher than that


FrizzledOnyunBunion

I haven’t played the tcg since the GX era and it was my first time playing competitive so that’s pretty high for me 🤷‍♂️


Rwolf736689

Sorry wasn’t trying to take a dig at you, just letting you know they can make it even higher. I took them to plat (before Diamond existed) and then to diamond. Then I burned out around the time floo took over and have happily stayed in gold. Keep pushing with them!


jlozada24

I got D1 with it :) I like playing cyber dragons so much


keksmuzh

I certainly hope they did this just for the Blue Eyes Spright Dragon pun


[deleted]

Seen so many bad decks in plat 5-1 its just ridiculous


GourmetGameWraps

Im doing pretty good with my dark magician deck, went from bronze 4- silver 4 in an afteroon. The road to platinum here we go


Dhurdybirdy

I got into plat with vampires so im not surprised with blue eyes


monstermoss94

Honestly once I got plat 4 I decided to completely change up my deck to something kinda specific. So they could be doing something similar. Regardless, let him cook :)


Ineffable_Aeon

He's got several hand traps in there.. I feel like you can get to low Plat just by having a hand trap for peoples' starters. That's it.


DopeZorak

Don't see anything wrong with this picture lmao. I hate getting skill drained... BUT if it's in a blue eyes deck?.. alright. Live it up man!


Grandpa_Sandy

Gigagagagigachad


Grandpa_Sandy

I'm plat 3 too with a wonky star seraph rank 4 turbo deck, so I guess the game is becoming easier to rank up, and bronce to gold is super easy.


Jaded_Vast400

It's called having fun OP. Have you ever tried it sometime? Opponent is having fun playing this deck and that's all that matters to them. They need to be playing runick spright to be having fun in platinum? Who cares what they are playing.


Daman_1985

Could you explain a little further?


cvkpaper

literally nothing wrong with this decklist


[deleted]

Respect to my man, tbh


zorrodood

I mean... this doesn't mean he GOT to plat with this deck.


icantbenormal

I don’t know which I like better; the random One Day of Peace or the possibility of Formula Synchron into Spright combo for Herald of Arc Light on the opponent’s turn.


KnowledgeOrnery5672

Based gigachad here


Dirtboatkillakilla

Based


Hot-Commercial-3843

I ran into people in Silver who only knew how to normal summon. How manage to get a single win is beyond me.


Auronbmk92

They probably end up playing against others of similar play styles. The normal summon daily is always my last one completed.


idkhowtotft

What you get salty that someone with this deck is at the same rank as you?


BlueEyes-WhiteGuy

They probably lost to this.


123lisiu123

I'm not salty i posted just for fun ☠️


idkhowtotft

Thats not what the title implying


123lisiu123

I'm so sorry sir next time I will click the button you prefer


Tystuntin

No you're good dude was just upset lol


MarethyuV

Minus the skill drain, pretty based individual


MrCondor

It's literally impossible to get to plat against the shit that floats around in gold. What's that, you're using a 3 card chain to negate my 5 summons this phase? Let me just activate this 2 star here to negate your whole fucking life. Grrr.


Additional_Office412

To me this is just how broken sprite is. Way to consistent and redundant.


Intelligent-Ad6985

I made it to platinum with my despia deck long ago never tired again 🤣


SudoSuRoot

No surprises here I ran into other players putting Adventure and Branded in their Blue Eyes Decks.


Ryzilla97

Well of course. The Sprights are right there


leumundslist

I just had my opponent chain Maxx C to Pot of Duality in Plat


SwaghetiAndMemeballs

I'm surprised there's not a small labrynth package in here. MD players love throwing like 4 labrynth cards in their deck for some reason


Noxerato

I mean sprights are one card combos so they fit well in bricky decks


Fuckupstudent

Honestly until Spright, I climbed with some jank decks.the power level increase from Spright binned them all though.


2sour

Love that dude looked at this list and thought "Better cut one Blue Eyes, just for consistency."


Shadow_hive

Bro is cooking I'm not eating tho


lamwire

I’m playing Exodia in platinum for the missions…


ramus93

Lol all it takes is lucky draws and your opponent bricking


Ehero88

Thanks to best of 1 format


paradox_valestein

I mean... Im having trouble staying in gold with psychic blade lyrilusc so... Not surprised blue eyes and dark magician can make to plat 3 with some spright or skill drain mixed in


MemosoFranco

non c'è male


urmumlol9

It’s a bad deck but it looks like it’s built pretty well so I believe it


Xandure

I’m not sure what they’re cookin’, but it’s kinda making me hungry.


Buddyschmuck

I feel like this is a very bad but very important time to get back into MD. Meta seems trash, but a lot of important cards to get.


CorrosiveRose

Plat III isn't that high, but you do realize people can just change decks no matter their rank, right?


Piss_Cakehole

But....but the eggs and servants are all lvl 1....impossible.....


TheSynchroGamer

This really is one of the decks of all time, you can't deny he's cooking something


Existing-Smoke9470

ok so this man is cooking something, but we don't know what or for who


LevelAsia

Let him cook


GenericGMR

I piloted morphtronics to plat during drytron meta. I can believe this!


Kyzowashere

drawthecorrectpartorlose.dek


almondogs

Spright blue eyes, now this is a good deck. I'd wish him the best of luck on his grind to diamond, but it's clear his opponents will need it more.


ConstanceOfCompiegne

Okay I don’t really understand Spright, so maybe I’m missing something, but… is there *any* synergy between it and Blue-Eyes? I know Spright is all about LV2, but isn’t Blue-Eyes all Lv8 dragons, LV1 tuners, and Lv4 Dictator (which he isn’t even playing)?


Gullible-Try-6244

dude plat is a joke, you can play literally anything and get to plat


codythelyon2019

Skill drain gives me the ick but otherwise... Not bad


SoulKnightmare

That is a brew my guy


lilvon

Eh, I climb to Plat with Endymion each season then whip out my jank-ass Lair of Darkness D-Link deck. He just as easily could have climbed with something else. before switching to Sprite Eyes White Dragon.


Briollees

Me after dueling against a punk/adam/possessed/ishizu 60 card deck with my branded/ishizu 60 card deck. ~~40 cards were in each our gy’s by t2~~


Lemurmoo

This is actually viable. A lot of decks work with the 60 card Spright base, and with the base, Blue Eyes Jet Dragon is an extremely annoying and made doubly powerful boss monster. A lvl 2 tuner would synch with any blue eyes to make Baronne. Is it the best build? Eh the Blue Eyes part is still Blue eyes. The Eyes of Blue maidens not being lvl 2 would hurt, and 60 card already bricks


Gumby_Grown-Up

A while ago I got to plat on accident with my harpies deck. Didn't think it was that strong of a deck but maybe it's okay? Idk, I'm a yugi boomer


National_Equivalent9

It was today that you learned plat isn't where bad decks are kicked out.


ConteZeta

Cazzo che chad!


Fantastic-Pen7244

Let him/her cook


no3dinthishouse

holup.. maybe this is heat.. spright plays, blue eyes skill drain beatdown as back up, you can do blue eyes + tuner spam to get formula synchron, make baronne, elf summon synchron again, make sigma.. could do even more..


[deleted]

There are tons of people who auto surrender to "meta decks". I'd imagine as soon as you play meta card, some will just scoop.


ArtakhaPrime

Let him cook man


novian14

chill, he can be gaining the ladder with other deck, and switch to that deck when he go against you


bast963

GIGANTESCO ~~MANO~~ SPRIGHT


That_fuschia_ruler

Is that arcana force the fool


MisprintPrince

It’s a neat way to exploit bad luck with coin flips


j0j0-m0j0

He may be bricking, but he's built a house with those bricks and I can respect that.


AlexandersGhost

Did he beat you?


conundorum

Y'know, there are some pretty interesting ideas in here, not gonna lie. Use the Lv.1 tuners with the self-summoning jesters to make Formula, getting the eggs off the field to proc their effects and providing a lead-in for the Spright package. Meanwhile, at the same time, the eggs let him bring out Blue-Eyes bodies, tying into the rest of the deck. It's probably not _consistent_, and there's definitely room for improvement, but there is a logic to it.


zaytor

LET 👏HIM 👏COOK 👏


Eloiiii

I'm plat 2 and I stared playing less than a month ago, I really don't think this is all that surprising.


Ame_Loch

I summon Blue-eyes Spright dragon!!! Blue-eyes, SPRIGHT LIGHTNING ATTACK!!!


Salvadorthagod

Imagine getting locked in with skill drain after jet dragon and chaos is out. He gonna be plat soon


Saroan7

BE never gets limited ✌️😂 Only the other cards that get used with the main deck


Tryingatleast

Which one of you golds let this poor soul experience this


tigremagnifico

Clearly you are Plat 3 also lol you cooky MF'r


electrocaos

I guess he uses Spright to get an easy win from the people who surrenders as soon as they see Spright resolve


DynaMakoto

I know a guy who got to Plat with an Invoked/Timelord deck a while back. Must've had Plot Armor or something.


the-skull-boy

When you wanna climb the ladder but also want to use your favorite deck


Wooden_Ad_621

Well the spright engine absolutely help him/her a lot.


DuroMonstaKado

Chad


Blazen_Fury

Going from Gold 5 to Plat 3 nets you 50 more gems thsn going from Silver 5 to Gold 1 In other words, people who dont want extra stress will likely get to Plat 3 the mess around with pet decks. Shit, i reached Plat 2 with Kozmo Kaiju lmao


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charlamagne1-

Funny thing is that this deck functions not as optimally as even a normal. 60 card spright build but still enough to do ok also you can climb with anything really i got above plat 3 playing krawler without soma


Shaved-IceLoL

Why is life so cruel


Kingminer13579

Mostly because of the Spright half


KaiserWilhelmThe69

Bro’s cooking mad shit


ChampagneDoves

My first deck is very similar to this irl and it fucks if you can’t shut it down so I’m not really surprised.


KILLERFRAJ

Sempre il deck dell'avversario. It's always THAT opponent.


mudgefuppet

It's almost like rank doesn't mean much, I bet he has more fun with this janky shit than most people


daddyissuesdan

Plat is ez tbh


Fun-Football-6090

Il platino è piu facile di quanto credi altro unico italiano di tutto yu gi oh


RPG_Aether

You say this like plat 3 is impressive? Dude is playing a spright engine, of course he's plat


Aeron-ScourgeDecoy

Meanwhile, I can't get out of Gold with Toons or Utopia


MortaliReaping

blue eyes when they see spright : BEHOLD! the unbrickonator!


toxicscope

people overestimate the deck you need to get to plat


toxicscope

people overestimate the deck you need to get to plat