 I spent $1000 on a meta yugioh deck. Ugh. What's up guys, we're back with another epic video. Today I'm gonna be showing you guys a new deck that I've put together and it's pretty expensive. But before that, we have a giveaway. I'll be giving away this Berserk Dragon, Leviah Dragon Daedalus, and I forgot the other card, the Blue Eyes White Dragon from SDK. It's a little beat up, nostalgic condition. All you have to do to enter that giveaway is like this video, be subscribed. Let me know what you think about the deck. What do you think about investing in high rarity cards? Okay, we have done a couple of episodes of this series so far. We've bought a Blue Eyes deck, a Dark Magician deck, and now we have a new deck that is probably the most competitive deck that I've had yet. It's not based on a nostalgic old school monster, so it's probably a little better. It is, however, based on one of the most iconic monsters in dueling slash yugioh history. It is Alistar the Invoker. And yes, if you guys play a lot of yugioh, you have seen this played many times. It's been around for several years since it was first released. It is somewhat controversial. Some people like it and some people don't, but it's actually still really good several years after it came out. I think it came out in 2017. So first off, we have three Alistar the Invoker. This is not just an Invoked deck. It also has some other things. So I'll show you guys what it has. We also have two Ultimate Rare invocation, which is very, very cool. We'd love to see those. That's part of the expensive part. You guys saw these in the collection I bought. I actually got these out of there and just saved them for the deck. And of course, if you're playing Alistar, you have to have Magical Meltdown. This card can search out the Alistar. Once you summon Alistar, you get to add the invocation. So you have one of these. You have all three cards, basically. If it does not get negated or stopped, you can interrupt it in any way. Three secret rears of that. So you have the entire eight card package for Alistar in the main deck. Then I also have a Terraforming Ultimate Rare. This is from OTS5. And by the way, I buy all these high rarity cards where I get them from collections or whatever because I like the fact that they kind of hold their value pretty well. If you guys think, wow, why would you play this in your deck? That's probably a good idea. You know, you probably should not play these high rarity cards in your deck, but they do hold nice value. So it's cool. You can like flex on your opponent if you guys enjoy doing that. The smarter thing is probably just to play the common because there's a common Terraforming. So if you didn't have this, you could just search for magical meltdown, which you could then search for Alistar, which you could then search for invoked. So you basically have all those cards. The next package in the deck is, you guys probably guessed it. If these look familiar, these are all for the Destroy Phoenix Enforcer. So this deck plays both Alistar and Destroy Phoenix Enforcer. So you can get Mechaba out there and Destroy Phoenix Enforcer in the same turn. It's pretty good. So you have three of the Fusion Destiny, which we tried to pull the other day. The live stream exploded, but hopefully we will get to open the rest of those packs later. Then we have the two monsters that you send with Fusion Destiny, the Dasher and the Celestial. They both have an effect in the graveyard, which makes them better than Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl or Red Eyes or whatever you're using for your Dragon. We will get to the extra deck in a minute, but now we have some hand traps. So we have three Ultimate Rare Effect Valor. So these are from Duelist Revolution. These are first edition French print, I believe. Ultimate Rare. So those look really cool. Technically, if you were in a tournament, you would need like a translation or something. Obviously, everyone knows what Effect Valor does. If you don't, you have to activate it during your opponent's main phase and you can stop one of their cards effects from working. So it's pretty good. We have more hand traps. This deck plays a ton of them because it's so easy. Just you get a one-card starter for invoked or a one-card starter like Fusion Destiny for DPE. So it's very strong. We have three Ash Blossom. You guys remember we pulled these in a video. It was pretty fun. It was a live stream actually. It was insane. Then we also play a couple of Ghost Spell, which are very nice card. First edition from Flames of Destruction. We play the Driver Package where we have a sideframe driver and three sideframe gear gamma. This one is from Tune Chaos. So we have a four-card package there where basically you activate the gamma, you negate and effect, you special summon the driver, you also special summon the gamma. And that's not all. We have another mini engine. We have the Sky Strikers. We have Widow Anchor, Engage, and Hornet Drones all in here, as well as a couple of links in the extra deck for Sky Strikers. So it's even more random things. That's what I like about this deck. It's kind of like my Dark Magician deck where there was tons of different things you could play with. And here it's the same way. We also have the very common package to use with DPE. We have the Artifact Scythe, the Artifact Lancia and three Artifact Sanctum. You can bring these two cards out with Sanctum and then you can pop them with DPE and get the effects over and over and over. It's very annoying. It's very strong, I would say. So that's why we're running it. Then the last six cards in the main deck, we have three solemn strike. These are the Ulti we got from the collection, which are very, very nice. We got the infinite and permanent secret rares. And that is the last six of the main deck. But that's not all. If you guys know modern Yu-Gi-Oh! You gotta have that extra deck. So here is our extra deck. We've got a couple of Mecha Busts. We're on the gold version, unfortunately. I would like to have a better version. We have the gold version. A couple of those. Obviously you wanna get into this card with your Alistar, it takes a light and Alistar. And you can summon this guy. He is an Omni-negate, which means he can negate monster, spell, and trap effects, which is very, very good. So I have two of these in here right now. I do still need to get the Wind one and I will replace something with that. I don't have it right now, but I think a two Mechaba is just too good to not play. I'll maybe replace something else. So we have the Mechaba, which is very good. We got the Pergatrio. This is the Fire version. Not nearly as good as the Mechaba, but it can be pretty big. Sometimes you need to like, banish their fire from the graveyard or you don't have a Mechaba left, something like that. We got the Oguides. I don't know how to say this, but this is just any fusion monster, which could be DPE. This could be another invoked. And then Alistar, and you can make that guy. Then we have one Destroy Phoenix and Forza. This card is just insane. It's taken over you. You either love or you hate this card. A lot of people say that it's better than your current, and I think when I've played with both of them, I think this is better just because you can do everything else while using it. Instead of having to wait, you know, if you activate Red Assusion, they, you know, ash or something like that. And you're just sitting there like, all right, I end my turn. After that, we have the Sky Striker's Cagari. We have the Cana. So those are both two Link 1 options we can use with our Sky Striker package. We got the All Mirage. There's also supposed to be one other Link 1 here. There's also supposed to be one other Link 1, which is the Secure Guard. It gives you a fire and a light right away. All you have to do is summon Alistar. You make the All Mirage. Then you make the Secure Guard. Then you have a light and a fire in the graveyard right away. You can just activate your invocation. You just add it to your hand. You can make either Mechaba or Purgatory out. It's very cool. That's what the All Mirage is for. Then we have the Verte Anaconda. Obviously, you guys know what this does. This is to get into DPE. We have the Cross Sheep. Artifact Dag does just, you know, broken at this point with DPE, et cetera. And it can get all your artifacts out there. The Nightmare Unicorn is a Link 3. We've got a Selene because there's a few options like Alistar's Spellcaster, so pretty good. And then we finally have a Secret Rare Access coat talk. Or yeah, we finally got one from that collection. That's it for the main and the extra deck. If we were to play an event, which I will be at Pasadena, if any of you guys would be there, assuming it doesn't get canceled, but it might get canceled at this rate. Who knows? So I won't be playing this deck anyway, but if I was, then theoretically this would have been played. So we have a sideboard just for fun. So we've got three Nibiru. Obviously this card is just really good against a lot of different decks like Phantom Knights. Then we've got the Three Drill Unlock, which are very good. The Ultimate Rare is very cool. We've got the Harpy's Feather Duster because sometimes you need to get rid of a lot of back row of this deck. So we side it in just in case they are playing a lot. We got three Cosmic Cyclones, two Ulties. I only had two of those. And then a Secret Rare. Twin Twisters is just a bunch of back row hate too. Twin Twisters, and then we play three as the evenly matched. I mean, evenly matched is just crazy when you are going second. I mean, it's really good. All right, now that we have this really cool mat, this is one of the original mats that I got recently. It's like top eight from like the first tournament or something like that. I don't know the exact detail, but I know it's really old, it's really cool. So we're gonna use it a little bit. We're gonna do a quick test hand with the deck. So you gotta shuffle up the cards real quick, you know. Get them all nice and shuffled. Put them over on your deck zone over here. So we draw five like we are actually gonna play. So we get a, okay, this is terrible. I'm trying. This is about as bad as it can get. We drew, yeah, we drew two Ash, which you can only do once per turn and a driver without being able to gamma and get this special summon and then a scythe and a sanctum, sanctum with special summon side. So yeah, that's just a mulligan. So what you are really looking for, you're looking for either meltdown, Alistar, or of course the terraforming that can get you into that combo. You're also looking for the fusion destiny. So any of that stuff is pretty good. And then some hand traps are obviously needed in the meta. So there's a terraforming, so that would be good. There's a meltdown as well. So we're gonna get, we're gonna double up on that, unfortunately, we get all of this stuff. So it's all spells and traps, but that's really not too bad because then you could just terraforming, you could get your second meltdown because if you did actually, you know, got negated or something like that, you have a second copy. So you would obviously do that. You would meltdown. If you meltdown, that means you get to go get meltdown. We'll put it over here, even though the field zone's over here. Meltdown means you get to go get the Alistar, which is right there. So you do have a few options with the same. You can go with Hornedruns. You could bring out a skystriker link one. You also, of course, have the Alistar play and then a Fusion Destiny is gonna be, you know, what you wanna end up doing. So you could summon Alistar. This would allow you to search invocation. Once you do that, you can link off this Alistar. You could bring out the Salamangrade Almirage in the Extradex Zone, which we don't have one. Then you would link this off for Secure Gardener to have, that's a light attribute. So you have a light on the field because we don't have that card yet. So we're gonna have to pretend like we do. Then you would invocation. You would send the Secure Gardener. You would banish the Alistar to bring out Mechaba. You'd bring out your Mechaba and the extra, well, probably not in the extra monster zone actually. We would just put it in a regular zone. This would come back to your hand. This, of course, would go back to the deck. Then you still have the ability to Fusion Destiny at the end of the turn. So after all you did that, you could Fusion Destiny. Unlike what you're doing. If you did that, you couldn't Red-Eyes Fusion. You'd have to start with it. If it got negated, you just have nothing. So you would send your Dasher and your Celestial. That would be your Fusion card and you would bring out the legendary Destiny Hero, destroy Phoenix Enforcer. You might put it in defense. Something like that. And you got Mechaba and you got destroy Phoenix Enforcer. That leaves you with Alistar as a hand trap. You've got the Horned Runes to back you up later and the Widow Anchor to negate effects. So you would set that. You end up with a Mechaba that can pump to 35 with Alistar and the Damage Step, which is also really good. Then you can negate monster effects by discarding this or spell effects by discarding one of these. The Magical Meltdown could be a good fodder for that because you already have that on the field. Or you could push this and then use this again and get another Alistar to your hand. Also you have to destroy Phoenix Enforcer just to pop something every single turn. You have the Widow Anchor to negate an effect. So overall a pretty strong board just going for those five cards turned into this, which is pretty good. So we don't usually do this kind of stuff, but I figured I'd show you guys the deck that I've been working on and it's actually much better than the Dark Magician Bloods deck and it's actually pretty fun. Let me know what you guys think about this deck with DP and invoked in the same deck. Also, let me know what you think about investing in these high rarity cards into a deck. I'm kind of enjoying it because then I can always move these staples from different decks. Some of these I use in the Dark Magician deck, et cetera, et cetera. So you can use them in different decks and they're still holding really nice value for the price that I paid. Sometimes they even do go up like the effect fillers that I bought in Starlight. And since you guys know I am a Yu-Gi-Oh channel, obviously I like to have Yu-Gi-Oh cards as part of my portfolio. Really, it's just, I like to have an excuse to buy Yu-Gi-Oh cards. I don't know about you guys, but it's pretty fun. So if you guys enjoyed the video, make sure to subscribe for more Epic content because we will be doing maybe more like this in the future. Maybe we'll do more where we open the actual mail. If you guys enjoyed that part and you missed it in this video, let me know so we can open them up and see what condition they come in. Shout out to TCG, Trusted Cards, Tomefo Show, Tomato Juice, Noa J, Stanley, Mike, Nance, Mimee, Gag, Nodulous, Kim, Card, Spanky, BigFarland, and G-Radar. Thank you guys for supporting the channel and I'll see you guys next time. Peace.