This is the only Snake-Eyes variant, I ever find success with man. I play Fired King Snake-Eyes the first half of the season ans could not get pass diamond. I find Fired King Snake-Eyes alway lose to Tenpai, as soon as they place a **** Sangan Summoning. With this variant I could put up to two negates to counter that, or just Little Knight with IP. I sometime leave fenrir on the field just to banish the summoning (if they let me go first).

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pretty standard snake eyes pile people are running, i like the second flamberge to set with the field spell, the missing x3 cards is because i don't have the cards clownemoji

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Got to master V with this deck as well, but struggling to get a single win afterwards. So I decide to play Yubel got to Master III, and Fireking Snake-Eyes to Master II. No joke while grinding in Master II with Fireking Snake-Eyes, Going \nThree Time and All these three game are a ranks up game as well. All of them got evently match, and full combos and so on. So that why i decided to come back to this deck as i know **** well that I would have a way to negate the evently match.

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Got to Master V with this deck after floundering around with FKSE and getting absolutely handtrapped to death by Tenpai. Turns out consistency and the power of Wakaushi is enough to push me past Diamond I.

Hot take: SHS SE is still the best "Pure" variant of Snake-Eye before we get Fiendsmith. 3 Ostinato in Melodious SE is not good enough compared to 8 SHS starters.

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This month I decided to play Snake-Eyes with the new Diabellstar for my monthly climb.

All in all I have to say even with all the hits, this deck is still pretty strong and it's still a lot of fun.

The deck is pretty standard with all the limits and I run the Kashtira package since it's honestly just so good and helps with going 2nd and playing through handtraps.

A couple of things of note though:

Since we only have 1 Poplar i decided to run 1 Small World alongside Droll as a Bridge. This helps regain a little bit of consistency and is definetly nice to have (Droll can bridge to Snake-Eye Ash by lvl 1, to Diabellstar by Spellcaster and even to Kash Unicorn by Wind)
Anti-Spell is really good against Tenpai. I usually hate loading up on on cards that are exclusively good going 1st but with Tenpai around this card just feels so nice. If they have Doplet they are forced to activate it early, stopping our Flamberge from summoning I:P, but with the field spell we can then summon it after we are protected from other spells.

Other than that our main combo has changed a little with the new Diabellstar, so we now end on a 3-Mat Apollousa, Flamberge with I:P and Princess in GY (for 6 disruptions off a single Ash)

If we however open Diabellstar and Ash we do the Synchro line, ending on even more.

For an explanation of the standard combo I will have a replay on my profile, for the extended combo with the synchros I refer to a video from "Moha - Master Duel" on YouTube, since I haven't performed that combo a single time during my climb with all the Handtraps running around. Make sure you watch Moha's video though, it's called "UPDATED | SNAKE EYES - EASY GUIDE & DECKLIST!". It's without the new Diabellstar though, so only the extended combo is still fully relevant.

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Replay 1: vs. YUBEL (with the asian name) just shows the new combo off 1 Snake-Eye Ash\nReplay 2: vs. Gold-Pride P.U.N.K. shows the deck playing through a fully established board. Really goes to show how much gas this deck is able to put up.

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Finally got to Master 1 with one of my favorite decks of all time: SHS Snake-Eye, a far more based version of the deck than FKSE.

It surprisingly has a great Tenpai matchup (went 13-2), since they always let you go first and your two engines eats handtraps alive (except Maxx "C" which you have Bagooska anyways) while your full endboard can eat boardbreakers like Lightning Storm or goads them into dumping most of their hand with Forbidden Droplet, only to lose to handtraps or S:P Little Knight / Promethean Princess.

If they fail to OTK you, you either already have starters to OTK them back or can draw them to close out the game quickly.

What's with the non-engine?

The non-engine is tech'ed to counter Tenpai (and some other decks as a byproduct) with Ogre, D.D. Crow, and Talents to make their experience as miserable as possible. I feel a bit sad that I don't have Bystials or Nibiru, but either of them are terrible against Tenpai.

How did the Poplar hit affect SHS Snake-Eye?

As I said before, the Poplar hit isn't as bad for SHS Snake-Eye as the SHS engine is already doing the heavy lifting for the Snake-Eyes deck (it's still more consistent than FKSE) and the deck was never trying to play for the long term grind anyways.

SHS Snake tries to win fast (though with smart resource management, it can at least try to reconstruct its board for Turn 3), though the loss of 2nd Poplar means the Snake-Eyes engine is more fragile than ever.

What's next with SHS Snake?

I think SHS Snake-Eye has finally been optimized and there's very little changes that can be made to the deck besides non-engine options and the possibility of new inclusions like more SHS cards or Snake-Eyes Diabellstar.

As for the future, I believer SHS Snake-Eye will be superseded by Fiendsmith Snake-Eye if Moon and Beatrice are legal by the time the engine is legal in Master Duel. This is because Fiendsmith Snake-Eye plays in a similar way but with a more compact and less bricky engine.

Still, I truly believe in the SHS Engine's worth as a consistency engine, being able to complement the Azamina and/or Fiendsmith cards in making the deck more resilient to handtraps while increasing the ceiling to absurd levels.

Wakaushi's time as Snake-Eye Ash might be waning, but he can easily don the mantle again, because he's the GOAT.

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The last SHS Snake deck before the Tenpai meta and the Poplar limit.

Luckily the Poplar limit doesn't affect this deck in terms of consistency (deck is already 90%+ consistent in opening a starter) but it does severely cut the paltry grind game this deck already has, which is a disadvantage compared to FKSE.

To compensate, it's very likely you'd add a 2nd Wagon and/or bolster the SHS engine with Scales to further push through handtraps or interruption.

As for the Tenpai meta, the non-engine will change drastically to compensate for what's to come. Can't wait to figure out what it takes to compete with the new menace.

TL;DR: Wakaushi is the new Snake-Eye Ash.

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