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*conversation with my best friend/testing partner* Oh man, I’ve got this Fens list, but I’m struggling on the Excenmille list, I can’t decide on the 50. Those are my two favourite cards from the set. But that Vaan, you know I’m a sucker for the pencil-style art. Maybe a Sky Pirates Crystal list. Hmm. *A few moments later* Steve D of the YYT. Hold my beer. I don’t think I’ve sleeved 50 cards faster in my life. Thanks for the video! ❤

Decklist link is broken I believe.

Sadly I feel like decks like this are dead because they can’t interact fast enough for either of the two combo decks

Could we get a Nalepa DTT next? I was very excited when it was spoiled and I was trying to cook something up with The Fiend as well.

I can't tell you how I had a wild ride for this video. As a redmage fan, I was surprised by witch of then fens. For the colors, you had the same idea I did last night. I did think there was an ice deck somewhere with astos 21 being a better khury 17 but ended up focusing on wind because of tidus. I guess I focused too much on tidus because I was running a return package with stuff like strago 15. Overall completely surprised and loving the idea. Can't wait to build it!

I've been playing this deck a lot and I love it.

Very interesting list! I'm still a lot bigger on mono-lightning for my scions - there's a weird thing in Scions where all of the best ones (except exactly Thancred) really only care about forward scions and most of the playable scion backups are in Water. So since the best forwards don't match the color of the backups... I'm just playing other stuff. Did you consider Earth/Wind y'shtola as the extra Y'shtolas at all? I was shocked when I realized that having access to Noctis and Cid Highwind and even Eiko in one deck ended up being extremely relevant, more so than the text on Y'shtola. Not that she's a bad card but she's strictly worse than the fire/lightning one, it's just the LB access that matters. The Noctis in particular made a huge difference for the deck. Great stuff as always.

I personally been really enjoying mono lightning scions, also oracle of light to revive my board an boosting my scions by 2k is pretty nice

Just noticed the german earth Pudding! Can I remove the new flan for ist own ability?

Thanks for another DTT Steve :) Always appreciate your videos. Could you try to create a competitive deck around the new Vicent legend? He's one of my all-time favourite FF chars

Scions hype!!!!

Would love to see next where you landed on Young Excenmille Ive been testing in different color combo's but can't seen to land on one yet

We are so back

Would love to the best way to use Vincent and also Cadets. Love your videos!

Hmm what do you think about a Type-0 deck? Probably still not enough good cards? I think the new Type-0 are the biggest let down of this set 🙄 I really did hope for much more.

Finally! I had the exact same feeling on this Flan! Great to see my feeling acknowledged. Have been playing Flans since Opus 4! So will be getting back to this deck again. One thing on the CP economy: Rather I would say that using Edward in a turn is a bit less then losing 1cp, more like half a cp and the value gain is more like 2,5cp, as you remove a card as well

Do you have any solid decks using the new Excenmille? would love to see that :D

Love seeing a deck with that many 3-ofs. Very neat concept.

Me and my friend are just getting into fftcg. I had started as a collector of ff memorabilia. We are scratching our heads about monsters and how often they are played and why. This is good to see, thanks!

Not the YYT admitting they used Cait Sith as clickbait 😂❤️

They came from your heart 😂

I also think Zenos looks really powerful, but may be better utilized in a standard ice/Lightning midrange list with kadaj and Irvine. I think a high ex burst I/L that boarders the aggro/midrange line is really helped by Zenos.

I enjoy the DTTs, thanks. I have some thoughts on mono ice without trying to sound argumentative, and as a player who used to love to play 'Flantotto'. I worry that all the flans will lead to 'flan-flooding' your turn draws when you don't want to see a flan. And while the new flan is a cool ability in the mid game when you have 6 or so flans in the BZ, it doesn't seem like it will help with early aggro that is so prevelant these days. Shantotto also just seems inefficient when you boardwipe for 7, but your opponent builds 3 forwards the next turn for cheaper (plus the especially relevant drawback of basically scooping to Chaos/ark when mono is a way to 'tech' against a top tier deck). I feel shinryu is still the best boardwipe for mono Ice, and the new Luso can work in tandem with the ramp plan, but also allows madeen to not be a dead draw anymore, covering ice's weakness to removal. I also think that Cait sith is an underrated legend though. It isn't hard with Luso and Emina now to get to 5 backups on turn 3. Cait sith is live during the early game against setup decks where it is most effective. Wind, 4 color, etc trying to have a clean backup curve on their turn 3 with 3 dull backups and 2 cards in hand feels like a great Cait sith play. Then the plan is to play good mid range ice cards like Rufus, Weiss, Y'shtola, etc before top decking a kurasame, Shiva, Anima, or even Ultimecia for a closer. I think mono Ice ramp doesn't need wholesale card slot changes, but Luso and Cait sith are actually quite positive for it's playstyle.

Needed this engine, thanks.

I had a lot of fun with Flan during our pre-release event. Would yah believe it that I pulled enough of them in sealed, and pulled off the break zone effect in a game! It didn’t hurt that witch of the fens made an appearance too.

Was the deck list updated on ffdecks? The forward line is very different, with Kurasame added and Physalis missing. Wondering if that is an old list.

thank you for these talks, can i request a revisit for crystal decks? we haven't had an update since opus 17 and I am pulling my cards together now wondering if opus 20-23 made any changes. really appreciate the work!

Hi Steve, thank you for the list. Couple questions that I have for fire Vanille: - Am I missing anything regarding 2 specials hitting for 12k, in my head it sounds like it should be 8k? - Also without Serah, would wiping Knights with Curilla out be feasible since the replacement effects' order would be chosen by the controller of forwards receiving the damage right?

Thanks for this! Friend introduced me to FFTCG and I was thinking of either making a FF13 or FFCC based deck so this really helped alot!

One more thing ive been experimenting with more is more copies of exoray. Makes shan and lark more powerful but mostly because just like the opener pre first mulligan, exoray allows you (always go 2nd in this deck if possible, but emet hyth and pray going 1st can work) but exoray playing it effectively stores 2 cards for next turn. The reason this is imporant is if you draw a haste outlet or emet etc you can crack exoray have 8 in hand and in one go you can go relm (if you see her too using goblin and coeurl) or a haste outlet in hand you can cast (lark reviving haste work too), together with hyth and emet and combo t2 whilst minimising risk to hand size and forward removal. Not to mention 2 cards off the loop early is nice. This means even with casting relm you can still use goblin to give cp to cast hyth then use coeurl to combo off t2 if you had to. Of course you can just save cracking it until your ready. But options for t2 crack if necessary is nice off exoray and emet and haste outlet

Really cool list. As much as you probably don't want to put out videos featuring lists that are still in the making, it would be really cool if we could see some of the testing games. I'd like to see how more experienced players tackle exploring a new Opus.

Mulligans, draws first card "Ahh, there is Hope". Kinda had to laugh at the unintended pun xD

decks interesting but it’s not good

I was teaching a new player just last night who is a big FF13 fan but didn't really vibe with the aggro gameplan of the fire/lightning 13 deck. This video/list dropped at the perfect time.

I love to actually play the game and set up for my evil and fun tricks, that i've been brainstorming over for hours when building my deck. But when my opponent plays this i'll be like: "okay gg" and scoop

Cool video. I would be super interested in a early Legend nad worth mentioning Hero tier list of this set. Idk. I have much more mixed feelings about most of them compared to Beyond destiny and Hidden Hope where the really good cards where pretty obvious pretty quickly.

I have a feeling this was not playtested. As for Serah, there is a Mono-Lightning build with her, Vayne, Edea and Sol to be discovered yet that will be absolutly smashing.

This is so neat! I love 13, and seeing something new is nice. Tho I kinda like aggro, so how does it change with the new set?

Very creative Deck

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So coming into a major tournament and you know this deck is everywhere What kind of deck counters this kind of madness? As you rightly said, a t1 totto doesn't really help either. Do we start sleeving 4cp L exdeath or something?

Will you be making an updated dated FF13 deck? Would love to see one with the support from this set.

The deck seems to be the strongest t1 in the game maybe even t2. But a bad hand would kill it. X-2 coule be enough to stop it top cutting. Gotta wait and see and if people prepare with extremely heavy EX decks amat salamanders etc this deck is in for a bad time

Love to see a Wind Hope 23 list. I’ve tried storm myself but not convinced. Maybe more midrange or control. Ice or fire feels like the best pairing with it.

cool vid, seems this deck is very suspectable to bad draws. once you mulligan and still have terrible hand, going to be difficult to come back one of the few true glass cannons would be curious to see how you would utilize LB deck with it - from both player perspectives

I like him in Mono Water to turbo out Lenna/Lev.

Super powerful deck. I understand that there were some unlucky draws in the goldfish, but it seems like it defeats itself as fast as it kills its opponent, sometimes without any prodding from them. A paper tiger that can give a mighty papercut if everything lines up. I’m worried about it, but I don’t think there will be any version in a Material Cup that can’t get its consistency up… or is played by a fan of YOLO and divine providence, I suppose. I’d bet this gets spreadsheeted with the aid of the ye ol’ hypergeometric calculato.

I love that you forgot to draw for the second goblin which shows how difficult the deck is to remember all the sequences. Reminds me of cloudpod

I need an advanced ruling confirmation. Yuna (1-176H) would make emet and hythlo removed from game instead of going to break zone. Would their effect still trigger if the conditions from the action cost are not fully met?