Top 10 Most Successful Decks and Archetypes of 2023

Another year has gone by and we've had a bunch of new decks as well as some previous contenders from last year make a huge impact on the game in 2023. Today we'll be going over the 10 best decks of the year based on how well they did in major events, focusing on big tournaments like the Yugioh Championship Series, or YCS for short, as well as the National and Continental World Championship Qualifiers, WCQ for shor. And even the first World Championship we've had since 2019.

Script by Two Tone Shoes
Edited by Iason Autica

├ The List
Intro: (0:00)
10: Purrely: (0:26)
9: Floowandereeze: (3:52)
8: Rikka Sunavalon: (6:27)
7: Runick : (8:59)
6: Rescue-ACE: (11:40)
5: Dragon Link: (14:44)
4: Unchained: (17:33)
3: Spright: (20:46)
2: Tearlaments: (23:40)
1: Kashtira: (26:45)

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[siftheadsdude]

You should do a vid on the top 10 cards that have NEVER been restricted in ANY way, but that most people in the community thought would be hit

[professortrickroom]

I got back into Yu-Gi-Oh during Kashtira's reign of terror, and it was just as warm as you could think of for a welcome back. Because of this, I have a personal grudge against Kashitra, and it's the reason why I refuse to run Unicorn in Speedroids.

[milto]

This idea was one of your best vids last year. Hopefully we also get the top 10 weird tech options of 2023 as well. Quality work either way

[PyraXadon]

How fitting that the red visas starfrost who in lore kidnapped and absorbed the blue visas starfrost thanks to multiple card arts depicting those scenarios happening also beat the deck irl.

[RedMageBT]

11:43 "this is a FIRE-based archetype" something we'll be hearing a lot in next year's video...

[centurion]

I never really thought about Dlink as being a theseus's ship but it does completely make sense.
The deck "feel" never fully changed with the rokkets for synchros and link climbing, but all the dragons around them changed, with the ED we got des pater very recently that is just an amazing custom card for Dlink and also the bystials as an alternative (or addition) for the baby dragons.

[EastCoastMikeP]

I would like to suggest a list idea: Top Ten Engine Cards.

What I mean by "engine" is a single card that not only makes the deck work, but turns it into an efficient machine and makes it run at full speed. I would say as an example Gateway of the Six is an engine, because that single card makes the Legendary Six Samurai archetype go from zero to sixty in an instant. I think it would be interesting to see what you consider to be the all-time best engine cards in the game.

Apologies if you've done this idea already.

[jeremyblack]

That was a fantastic video. I would love to see something like this for the past years since the beginning of Yu-Gi-Oh competitive scene.

[YGFU]

Rikka winning so much last year was wild... its widely considered just shy enough of being good but the few people that manage to Pilot it just smashed Tier 1 Decks left and right.

Tearlaments sticking around even after some brutal Banlist hits says alot about how ridicilous that set of Cards is. Especially in the OCG where it got hit even harder then in the TCG for a long time.

[buchiklop]

And over in Duel Links, the top Decks were Odd-Eyes, Orcust, Tenyi, Lunalight, Black Luster Soldier, and Yubel.

[bryant.]

Man, I liked Purrely even when it first got first nerf in MD banlist. But they literally nerfed it even more in MD to it's TCG and OCG counterpart.

[WilliamReginaldLucas]

Purrely was super fun to play, before the ban list hit when Delicious was at three copies it rivalled Kashtira

[ivanbluecool]

Top 10 funny effects or rulings in duels

[Aluranae]

Ah yes, 2023. The year of 'Is Visas Starfrost lore done yet'

[baraakatsheh]

No branded or Labrynth is kinda surprising.
Kashtira is such a busted archtype.
Nasty banish effects, very splashable in other decks and they play like a meta deck with a lot of special summoning while being anti-meta (no need for GY and locking it away with Arise). They can go up against any deck in history because of this ability

[xerael]

I dunno if there was a video like this already made but it would be interesting to see the worst "poster children" in Yugioh history (cards that were presented on boxes, structure decks etc. but outshined by some other card or even being bad despite the exposure).

[thegameplayer]

you know kashtira and tearlaments will be in the top 2 when you see yugioh channels cover them more than the other 8 mentioned decks/archtypes combined

[indraestopee]

Rikka became my main deck, and will probably be in a long time (but I'm also experimenting with old decks, tweaking some here and there). This deck somehow made me hold on to this monstrosity of a game a little bit longer.

[ButFirstHeLitItOnFire]

Ideas for new archetypes or expansions of existing archetypes:
⚪️Animal HERO (A series of animal themed HERO monsters that are typed after the animals they play off of, like Beast, Beast-Warrior, Winged Beast, Fish, Etc… like an “Animal HERO Ratman” for example).
⚪️Sidekick HERO (Level 1 Tuner HERO monsters that are paired with a Senior HERO monster. They’d play off of each other, and have a Synchro monster for each paring that can be summoned from the main and sidekick HERO’s (Like a “Sidekick HERO Bath Boy” for “Elemental HERO Bubbleman”, and their synchro counterpart would be “HERO Duo Bubblebath”)
⚪️”Cyberse” versions of existing “Cyber” monsters (like a “Cyberse Dragon” or “Cyberse Harpie Lady”
⚪️Amazon versions of famous Waifu cards (“Amazoness Harpie Lady”, “Amazoness Dark Magician Girl” etc…)
⚪️Inversion (where you take cards from the past and make “Inverted” retrains of them that reverse their established qualities and effects, like a “Relinquished Inversion” Union monster that attaches itself to other monsters, and confers its classical absorption effect to said equipped monster).
⚪️FIRE/WATER and EARTH/WIND equivalents of “Light and Darkness Dragon”.
⚪️ *_UNBOUND!_* (Non-Pendulum boss monsters with a Pendulum Style second effect box, that are meant to be stronger versions of exiting Boss monsters, by dividing up the original card’s effects between the top and bottom boxes, and then improving them thanks to all the extra space (Take Obelisk… The top box would have the “Requires 3 Tributes to Normal Summon (cannot be Normal Set). This card's Normal Summon cannot be negated. When Normal Summoned, cards and effects cannot be activated. Neither player can target this card with card effects. Once per turn, during the End Phase, if this card was Special Summoned: Send it to the GY.” part, while the bottom would have the “You can Tribute 2 monsters; destroy all monsters your opponent controls. This card cannot declare an attack the turn this effect is activated.” bit, and both would be modified to make an “Obelisk” retrain that’s as powerful in the game as it was in the show.)

[thrillking]

Considering purrely is an archetype of cats, I think it's supposed to be pronounced pur-rely as in purring, the things cats do.