*WRITTEN REPORT* Feel free to check out my written report with pictures on Twitter (link video description). Round 1: *Rescue-Ace* (2-0) Round 2: *Chimera Branded* (Round 2 feature match, link in the video description) (2-0) Round 3: *Floowandereeze* (that other tribute deck... LOOL) (2-1) - G1: He starts and combo. - G2: I start and he has no answer for Majesty's Fiend. - G3: He bricks and has no answer for Majesty's Fiend. =D Round 4: *Purrely* (2-1) - G1: I go 2nd, and he draws 6 (!!!) with FULLY loaded Ex-Noir. Stormforth in Vanity's Fiend locks this up, even though he's like +10 over me..! =D - G2: He combo's, but I brick. - G3: I control with Fiends and Domain, he can't answer Domain lock because Book of Eclipse doesn't out it..! =D Round 5: *Unchained* (2-1) | 5-0 overall!!! Round 6: *SHS FTK* (0-2) - G1: I lose another diceroll... He FTK's - G2: I misplay and lose. Got myself some food and drinks, that gave me a boost (mentally...) Round 7: *Branded Chimera* (2-0) Round 8: *Unchained* (2-0) Round 9: *Branded Chimera* (he ended up 1st after swiss) (0-2) - G1: I open good, but I lost diceroll (LOOOOL...) He bodies me with Dragoon and more fusions. - G2: I brick... He opened 2 Imperm and Duster later tho... Round 10: *Dragon Link* (1-2) - G1: Domain Lock - G2: Borrelend and Savage, which I can easily out, BUT he Drolls... - G3: I open OK, but he had ASH on tenacity... I didn't open any Fenrir/Anchamoufrite/Vassals, so I wasn't able to put up Domain Lock. He OTK's because we were close to time. Very happy with the result overall. I 'only' won 3 dicerolls (lost 7), BUT this format (until AGOV) feels really fair and that gives DOMAIN MONARCHS a fair chance if going 2nd (Stormforth bodies so many bossmonsters..!) I got Impermed, Ash'd, Drolled, Booked etc. so many times, but decks in this format can hardly out Fiend + Domain lock, or even 1 fiend..! THANK YOU ALL FOR THE MASSIVE SUPPORT. I WAS OVERWHELMED..! Thank you to everyone who came up for a pic etc. Always appreciated! =D
Be careful piloting this deck! Lithium is VERY knowledgeable on other decks. If you’re going to play a rogue deck like this you have to know what most decks do
I've built a Alien control deck for awhile now and I want to go to a YCS and see how well I do with it. You doing so well is giving me inspiration and confidence good job :)
So proud of you lithium!! Peoples champ indeed. I know how you're feeling though, got 10th place with six Sams at a regionals I went to. Didn't expect to get so far but was profoundly proud that a deck that meant so much to me did so well.
damn man it would have been legendary if you topped with monarchs in 2023 you could put your monarch list in the next cross-banlist if you managed to top
Well done Lithium doing so well with Monarchs is something to be really proud of. Monarch was the first deck I ever picked up when I started playing Yu-Gi-Oh and has a soft spot in my hart seeing you always take it too big events is awesome and seeing you do so well with it at Dortmund was definitely the highlight of the weekend. Also just wanted to take a moment to say thank you for all the amazing content you make. I always look forward to your vidoes,
I always respect and appreciate players with enter bigger events with decks that you don't typically see. The fact you that almost topped with Monarchs is incredible. 7-3 is nothing to sneeze at. Good job!
@@DelicashilousThe only way the deck ever wins is with floodgates. They would have to release cards that drastically change the playstyle to change that. Not that i don’t think monarchs are a cool idea, but the floodgates kinda ruin it.
@@bobbyf9307 how about an omni negate that gives you an instant free tribute summon even in the Enemies turn once per turn? That would give them some edge. That and more protection & special summon cards that count as tribute summon for monarchs. But for all this big buffs they should Limit or ban the floodgate cards.
I can’t believe you Day 2 with Monarchs, I am Absolutely impressed after seeing your Report you did absolutely incredible, I Hope I see more of Monarchs
Hi there! Huge congrats! Was your opponent on the live stream during Round 2 and other than the fact that I was super stressed because it was my first time on stream and had little to no exp playing against Monarchs it was still nice to meet you and play the game with you! I was rooting for you to top tbh! Great profile!
It was a pleasure watching the match against Branded Chimera! It requires to have balls of steel going to a 2023 championship with a 2016 meta deck, good job man, and thumbs up for Monarchs still rockin' !!! 💪🏻
It was really nice meeting you. Looks like the full force of fiends is the way to go. Still can't believe what you get out of the monarch deck. Hopefully the new shadow thestalos is a sign that we get a couple new monarch cards in the future
Congrats from France 😉 Doing 7-3 with Monarchs is a really good perform, because lot of side decks are running boardbreakers, so It's can be difficult to keep Vanity/Majesty on field sometimes... But you do it, thus gg 👍
I stopped playing in 2016. I wanted to come back, but so many Decks came out since than. your list feels like i can play something from the get go. Ty.
Hey Lithium, thanks for sharing this awesome list! At 5:23 you talk about how Stormforth was used to break boards, namely against Purrely. If your opponent drew 6 cards during the Standby Phase , that means they Purreleaped probably into Expurrely Noir. How did you remove the Expurrely Noir before locking down with Vanity's Fiend and Domain? Was it just below 5 materials and Stormforth could finally tribute it away for Vanity's Fiend? Thanks again!
It may be stun, but at least it's something different that can now be played because Ariseheart isn't a card that needs to be worried about. Great run!
Se da soporte a Monarca en Duel Links y antes de un mes tenemos este resultado en el YCS, coincidencia? No lo creo. Felicitaciones al campeón del pueblo.
I havnt played physical ygo in a while, after 14 years of playing. Had a 3 year break and started one piece. This deck brings back a lot of good memories, i might build it and play a couple of locals for fun.
Great deck! I now want to test it and I am very happy for your result. Just one precisation: the floowandereeze continuous spell, as it's written, can't tribute immune monsters like monarch storm does
first thing.....congratulations for the top. If I may I would like to ask you some questions (I also play monarch and I'm curious XD). - why don't you play side dark ruler no more? -why haven't you played Mithra the Thunder Vassal? - why don't you play Time-Tearing Morganite?
Time-Tearing morganite (while good can also be a terrible card) you have to wait a full turn to draw sometimes it is sadly too slow and drawing more than 1 is a death sentence. (squire was most likely choosen over mithra cause it can return monarch/spells and traps and domain is main win con). Dark ruler may not have been sided cause you main deck majesty's fiend meaning most of the time you drop a kash then summon majesty to stop all monster effects and hopefully drop a domain of the true monarchs and stomp over anything bigger than 2400. (Dark ruler can do nothing by itself unless you can out the board with attacks or other removal.) If you want to play time-tearing you would have to justify running two or three triple tactics thruster and 1 morganite.
This is the type of deck that always catches you off guard at a big tournament. You really can come up against anything 😂 To play true rogue decks like this you have to know the format. Monarchs have the advantage of not needing an extra deck so that helps too as they lock out the opponents extra.
Have you ever tested pot of extravagance with an extra deck (sole purpose being banished to the pot) in the place of your pendulum card? Just an idea that i have had in my head for a bit... just getting back into yugioh recently so i havent had a chance to test it myself. Thanks and congratulations on the nice finish!
Lithium, great decklist as always, but i wanted to ask you a thing. Why didn't you run Mithra instead of Edea and Eidos? Could it be because of their additional effects to recover and reborn?
Honestly, with all board breaker : evently, lighting storm…. Book of moon…. Monarch just need a new tribute that play around ash or veiler/imperm and they looking good.
Very interesting very similar to the version I've been playing at regionals except i havent bothered to splash for the fenrirs. Very old school build of monarchs but i agree they have a weirdly good meta match up atm with most decks making boards without negates and only a very big monsters stormforth is suddenly very good. Whats the opinion on time tearing morganite ? It turns off the hand traps and ehther importantly but does help you play through hand traps on the squires and the extra draws help in reduced game states or allow you to finish before they can draw outs to a fiend. I've been playing around with both and unsure which is better.
Lithium I know you said the eidos/eria normal summons were necessary evils for the deck, but did you ever consider just 3 planet and 1 riseheart or 1 planet, one riseheart, 2 unicorn in the maindeck instead of them? Planet just adds consistency to Fenrir and riseheart is another searchable free special summon as tribute fodder if needed. Feel like that could be more relevant than the small boys
Regarding Edea and Eidos, why not run 3 Magician's Souls and 1 Illusion. It gets you your tribute fodder for the Fiends, gives you a discard outlet for Prime, and does better at playing around Imperm without wasting your normal summon?
@@nickpayne22098 from watching the feature and according to his explanations, getting the Fiends on board is his main priority. I don't know how often an Edea recycle would come up for him, but I'd assume consistently getting his win conditions on board and dodging hand traps is more important than getting Pantheism back a turn later.
im 6 days late so idk if youll see this but one of the kashtiras are 2800/1000 so it works with tenacity and its searchable, also you can cut the babys for it. great card, also searches the trap.
*WRITTEN REPORT*
Feel free to check out my written report with pictures on Twitter (link video description).
Round 1: *Rescue-Ace* (2-0)
Round 2: *Chimera Branded* (Round 2 feature match, link in the video description) (2-0)
Round 3: *Floowandereeze* (that other tribute deck... LOOL) (2-1)
- G1: He starts and combo.
- G2: I start and he has no answer for Majesty's Fiend.
- G3: He bricks and has no answer for Majesty's Fiend. =D
Round 4: *Purrely* (2-1)
- G1: I go 2nd, and he draws 6 (!!!) with FULLY loaded Ex-Noir. Stormforth in Vanity's Fiend locks this up, even though he's like +10 over me..! =D
- G2: He combo's, but I brick.
- G3: I control with Fiends and Domain, he can't answer Domain lock because Book of Eclipse doesn't out it..! =D
Round 5: *Unchained* (2-1) | 5-0 overall!!!
Round 6: *SHS FTK* (0-2)
- G1: I lose another diceroll... He FTK's
- G2: I misplay and lose. Got myself some food and drinks, that gave me a boost (mentally...)
Round 7: *Branded Chimera* (2-0)
Round 8: *Unchained* (2-0)
Round 9: *Branded Chimera* (he ended up 1st after swiss) (0-2)
- G1: I open good, but I lost diceroll (LOOOOL...) He bodies me with Dragoon and more fusions.
- G2: I brick... He opened 2 Imperm and Duster later tho...
Round 10: *Dragon Link* (1-2)
- G1: Domain Lock
- G2: Borrelend and Savage, which I can easily out, BUT he Drolls...
- G3: I open OK, but he had ASH on tenacity... I didn't open any Fenrir/Anchamoufrite/Vassals, so I wasn't able to put up Domain Lock. He OTK's because we were close to time.
Very happy with the result overall. I 'only' won 3 dicerolls (lost 7), BUT this format (until AGOV) feels really fair and that gives DOMAIN MONARCHS a fair chance if going 2nd (Stormforth bodies so many bossmonsters..!)
I got Impermed, Ash'd, Drolled, Booked etc. so many times, but decks in this format can hardly out Fiend + Domain lock, or even 1 fiend..!
THANK YOU ALL FOR THE MASSIVE SUPPORT. I WAS OVERWHELMED..!
Thank you to everyone who came up for a pic etc. Always appreciated! =D
The fact you almost topped a ycs with Monarch is insane in itself! Good job!
Yep!
You doing so well meant a lot for a lot of people.
So true
Konami should release a new Monarch card called "Lithium the Giga Monarch"
Well played!
Indeed a tribute to a huge fan of the deck
Granmarg the Lithium Monarch
Support is on the way this year
Legend
Be careful piloting this deck! Lithium is VERY knowledgeable on other decks. If you’re going to play a rogue deck like this you have to know what most decks do
I've built a Alien control deck for awhile now and I want to go to a YCS and see how well I do with it. You doing so well is giving me inspiration and confidence good job :)
Alien's have that insane rebirth card.
So proud of you lithium!! Peoples champ indeed. I know how you're feeling though, got 10th place with six Sams at a regionals I went to. Didn't expect to get so far but was profoundly proud that a deck that meant so much to me did so well.
damn man it would have been legendary if you topped with monarchs in 2023 you could put your monarch list in the next cross-banlist if you managed to top
Bro, so proud of you. You absolutely smashed it!
Well done Lithium doing so well with Monarchs is something to be really proud of. Monarch was the first deck I ever picked up when I started playing Yu-Gi-Oh and has a soft spot in my hart seeing you always take it too big events is awesome and seeing you do so well with it at Dortmund was definitely the highlight of the weekend. Also just wanted to take a moment to say thank you for all the amazing content you make. I always look forward to your vidoes,
Could also be: I almost made Pak shave his head
😂
Good job! I'm proud, really shows knowing the meta and you deck can yield great results. :D
I always respect and appreciate players with enter bigger events with decks that you don't typically see. The fact you that almost topped with Monarchs is incredible. 7-3 is nothing to sneeze at. Good job!
Monarchs deserve new competitive archytpe support.
We have enough floodgates in the game
No your wants wrong with this game
Who said more "floodgates monarch support"? I personally like more protection, and more Tribute summon support for them.
@@DelicashilousThe only way the deck ever wins is with floodgates. They would have to release cards that drastically change the playstyle to change that. Not that i don’t think monarchs are a cool idea, but the floodgates kinda ruin it.
@@bobbyf9307 how about an omni negate that gives you an instant free tribute summon even in the Enemies turn once per turn? That would give them some edge. That and more protection & special summon cards that count as tribute summon for monarchs. But for all this big buffs they should Limit or ban the floodgate cards.
I can’t believe you Day 2 with Monarchs, I am Absolutely impressed after seeing your Report you did absolutely incredible, I Hope I see more of Monarchs
Well done, we love to see the committment !!
Hi there! Huge congrats! Was your opponent on the live stream during Round 2 and other than the fact that I was super stressed because it was my first time on stream and had little to no exp playing against Monarchs it was still nice to meet you and play the game with you! I was rooting for you to top tbh! Great profile!
Hey Lithium love your content I met you at the ycs near the entry I was really nervous but it was nice meeting you 😁
I wish you topped but that record is insane. Awesome job representing the Monarchs again.
Kudos for doing so well. Would’ve been glorious to see this featured in the top 64!
It was great being part of the notifications over the twitter thread, huge tourney men !!!
It was a pleasure watching the match against Branded Chimera! It requires to have balls of steel going to a 2023 championship with a 2016 meta deck, good job man, and thumbs up for Monarchs still rockin' !!! 💪🏻
I really appreciate to see people still playing monarchs.
It was really nice meeting you. Looks like the full force of fiends is the way to go. Still can't believe what you get out of the monarch deck. Hopefully the new shadow thestalos is a sign that we get a couple new monarch cards in the future
Congrats from France 😉
Doing 7-3 with Monarchs is a really good perform, because lot of side decks are running boardbreakers, so It's can be difficult to keep Vanity/Majesty on field sometimes...
But you do it, thus gg 👍
I stopped playing in 2016. I wanted to come back, but so many Decks came out since than. your list feels like i can play something from the get go.
Ty.
This video kind of makes me want to get back into modern, loved your videos when I played back in 2013 ❤
I hope you are proud!! You did amazing!!!
insane respect to him for this. Amazing performance
Love monarchs and this is incentive enough to bring them back out.
Youre an absolute killer, didnt see thst coming!
Looking forward for my third maxx c next time :)
GG, 7-3 with Monarch is really epic
You are my absolute hero! Congrats to this great result. 👍
Thank you bro fr I been playing monarch for a long time thank you
FINALLY LITHIUM IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA !!!💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
So happy for you Lith! Hope the next one is a top
always good to see you on the other side of the table in a profile
Actually made day 2. Crazy amazing XD
Humble legend. You have to love this man.
Hey Lithium, thanks for sharing this awesome list! At 5:23 you talk about how Stormforth was used to break boards, namely against Purrely. If your opponent drew 6 cards during the Standby Phase , that means they Purreleaped probably into Expurrely Noir. How did you remove the Expurrely Noir before locking down with Vanity's Fiend and Domain? Was it just below 5 materials and Stormforth could finally tribute it away for Vanity's Fiend? Thanks again!
Stormforth can be used on a +5 material ExNoir (same ruling against dino when they Misc, you can still tribute their dinosaurs)
Oh okay, thank you, that's awesome to know, I assumed differently!@@Lithium2300
Built and took this to locals over the weekend. Haven’t had that much fun playing a deck in a long while. Great anti-meta choice! Nice call. Cheers!
It may be stun, but at least it's something different that can now be played because Ariseheart isn't a card that needs to be worried about. Great run!
I like how you started the video mocking Lithium “Yo, what’s up guys.”😂😂😂😂
as fellow monarch user from philippines i gained another idea watching this vid tnx tnx
Thanks for the decklist, I also play Monarcas with vanity and they called me crazy, I'll try to do the same with mine, greetings
All hail the king!👑
wow man congratulations bro, I am also a monarch player, I will play it again, for you I have hope to continue playing that deck
Lmao the constant roast against the "pop a card deck" I can't get over with it.
Monarch man!!!!! Time to dust off my old cards :) WE LOVE YOU
KING
I personally despise monarch but great job man. Amazing record with a deck like this and great meta calls.
That's a very solid result with monarchs.
Awesome deck dude and Congrats! Hope next time I could see the Monarch get a small slice from the pie chart!
Monarchs are the Captain falcon of this game
Congrats again! ❤
We bow to our King!
the monarch king lost, Long Live the Monarch King Lithium
Let’s fucking go! ❤️
You're our Champion!
Se da soporte a Monarca en Duel Links y antes de un mes tenemos este resultado en el YCS, coincidencia? No lo creo.
Felicitaciones al campeón del pueblo.
the fact that monarch is still playable is proof of the Yugioh Dream...if only they would bring master peace back
Yes monarchs let's good❤❤
The monarch master back at it again
I havnt played physical ygo in a while, after 14 years of playing. Had a 3 year break and started one piece. This deck brings back a lot of good memories, i might build it and play a couple of locals for fun.
God of Monarchs, you will do it one day. Let’s hope for new support besides thestalos soon
My man keeping the dream alive
Absoluut giga chat. Proud to be 🇧🇪
It's weird hearing Maxime's voice in this. I'm not used to a VG player interacting with YGO players
:^)
Congratulations!! 😊
You are amazing!
Gigachad
When the History og Junk come to October 2023, I hope MBT pilot this deck
Love to see it
You’re my hero ❤
You're the coolest bloke I swear.
🔥🔥
Great deck! I now want to test it and I am very happy for your result.
Just one precisation: the floowandereeze continuous spell, as it's written, can't tribute immune monsters like monarch storm does
Incredible the dedication of this guy. Always at every EU event, the best to ever do it
Congrats, to all our heart you won!
3/10 die roll wins and still almost topped with monarchs.. legend
Bro bout to have monarchs get extra support after this 😂
first thing.....congratulations for the top.
If I may I would like to ask you some questions (I also play monarch and I'm curious XD).
- why don't you play side dark ruler no more?
-why haven't you played Mithra the Thunder Vassal?
- why don't you play Time-Tearing Morganite?
Time-Tearing morganite (while good can also be a terrible card) you have to wait a full turn to draw sometimes it is sadly too slow and drawing more than 1 is a death sentence. (squire was most likely choosen over mithra cause it can return monarch/spells and traps and domain is main win con). Dark ruler may not have been sided cause you main deck majesty's fiend meaning most of the time you drop a kash then summon majesty to stop all monster effects and hopefully drop a domain of the true monarchs and stomp over anything bigger than 2400. (Dark ruler can do nothing by itself unless you can out the board with attacks or other removal.) If you want to play time-tearing you would have to justify running two or three triple tactics thruster and 1 morganite.
This is the type of deck that always catches you off guard at a big tournament. You really can come up against anything 😂 To play true rogue decks like this you have to know the format. Monarchs have the advantage of not needing an extra deck so that helps too as they lock out the opponents extra.
Very well done!
Have you ever tested pot of extravagance with an extra deck (sole purpose being banished to the pot) in the place of your pendulum card? Just an idea that i have had in my head for a bit... just getting back into yugioh recently so i havent had a chance to test it myself. Thanks and congratulations on the nice finish!
That’s so cool man!
Some people want to win ycs, some other ones want to become a legend
Lithium, great decklist as always, but i wanted to ask you a thing. Why didn't you run Mithra instead of Edea and Eidos? Could it be because of their additional effects to recover and reborn?
Honestly, with all board breaker : evently, lighting storm…. Book of moon…. Monarch just need a new tribute that play around ash or veiler/imperm and they looking good.
i was cheering for our sibling in tribute summons monarchs - a floowandereeze gamer
Proud you Lithium!
Very interesting very similar to the version I've been playing at regionals except i havent bothered to splash for the fenrirs. Very old school build of monarchs but i agree they have a weirdly good meta match up atm with most decks making boards without negates and only a very big monsters stormforth is suddenly very good.
Whats the opinion on time tearing morganite ? It turns off the hand traps and ehther importantly but does help you play through hand traps on the squires and the extra draws help in reduced game states or allow you to finish before they can draw outs to a fiend. I've been playing around with both and unsure which is better.
I think morganite is a bit to slow.
Litteral biggest legend on earth 😍😍❤️❤️
Hey, congrats on the performance 1st of all!
What do you think of monarchs erupt in side as an out to potential blowouts like evenly?
Erupt does nothing against evenly tho?
Its not needed.
Lithium I know you said the eidos/eria normal summons were necessary evils for the deck, but did you ever consider just 3 planet and 1 riseheart or 1 planet, one riseheart, 2 unicorn in the maindeck instead of them? Planet just adds consistency to Fenrir and riseheart is another searchable free special summon as tribute fodder if needed. Feel like that could be more relevant than the small boys
Then is also adding dinowrestler tanktops , I honestly don't like eberus at all cause there is no escaltion of the monarchs in here.
Regarding Edea and Eidos, why not run 3 Magician's Souls and 1 Illusion. It gets you your tribute fodder for the Fiends, gives you a discard outlet for Prime, and does better at playing around Imperm without wasting your normal summon?
Edea is important to recycle a Pantheism back. I see his point with the Eidos. Which is why I only run 1 and 1 when I play Monarch
@@nickpayne22098 from watching the feature and according to his explanations, getting the Fiends on board is his main priority. I don't know how often an Edea recycle would come up for him, but I'd assume consistently getting his win conditions on board and dodging hand traps is more important than getting Pantheism back a turn later.
Do you recommend the same build for MasterDuel as well or only the TCG format?
Love Monarch but sometimes I just giga brick :(
MD is different because the end boards there from decks a MUCH bigger than our current tcg format… I wouldn’t change that much tho
Glad this wasn't a top deck. Man's said "I'm just here to not let you play"
im 6 days late so idk if youll see this but one of the kashtiras are 2800/1000 so it works with tenacity and its searchable, also you can cut the babys for it. great card, also searches the trap.
Correct, but they are bricks tho
What card can I replace Kashtira fenrir ?(expect one Unicorn)
Because I’m playing the OCG format Fenrir is banned and Unicorn is limited to 1
True legendary monarch player
Can I change the 3 Kashtira Fenrir for something else if I don't have them?