duel_links

[young viper]

Is there some way to use the JP voices in Duel Links rather than the EN voices?

[sleek garnet]

yes

[young viper]

Oooh

I figured it was region exclusive

[sleek garnet]

general settings

[young viper]

I just get a kick out of hearing Kaiba just shout out "Burst Stream of Destruction"

Man just screams it

[white stirrup]

Even better when he does it to the Kid NPCs lol

It's a Card Game Bro
Chill a bit

[dapper grotto]

I remember during Tag Duels, Syrus said he demoted to Ra for "practice".

Which is uh...an interesting angle to explain this.

[sleek garnet]

Huh

A bit out of character but sure ig

Also means he got himself demoted, and then got promoted again entirely off screen, lmao

[white stirrup]

We really need a Skill for the Light Union things

[dapper grotto]

I wish they could've just given us skins for outfits. If they act too different like Jaden and Supreme King, then make them another character.

[young viper]

Yeah!

Like, just small stuff to personalize legendary duelists

Like say, Joey's green jacket from Season 1, the famous poncho that Yusei wore in a few episodes of 5D's, Obelisk Blue uniforms for Syrus or Chazz... among other things

[white stirrup]

Give Joey the Lord of Red Armor

[young viper]

Yes

Even better

Dog Costume

[white stirrup]

Tritian Robot Monke

Btw I k ow he is a Joke Characzer but would it have killed them to give him atleast smth interesting?
Like a Skill involving the Roboyaro Fusions or a actual good skill for Cyber Commander

[young viper]

At least he certainly gets it better than other joke duelists

Bastion's a literal "who"!

[white stirrup]

Smth like
"You can return 1 Warrior or Machine monster from your hand to the Deck, Summon 1 Cybercommander from outside of your Deck."
Just dumb stuff like that

[young viper]

Yeaah

[white stirrup]

Mr. I get all the Vanilla Field Spells

[young viper]

Well, a joke as in, his character

[white stirrup]

Does he even have anything for his Chemical Dinos?

[young viper]

He's pretty great at dueling compared to Tristan

[robust void]

you know what would be cool

give Alexis skills for the ice counter shit

[young viper]

It's still very cool how duelists have lines for their manga-exclusive cards too

[sleek garnet]

Still waiting for a masked hero skill

[midnight fable]

masked hero skill, but it's a legacy skill

[pastel lotus]

then we get kudaragi (scud) who wasn't even a duelist

[pastel lotus]

konami never acknowledges anything from non-dm mangas

some gx manga cards like light and darkness dragon and kasha may never see the light of the day

[midnight fable]

I finally got a second copy of giftarist, still got more in the box to go

[timber river]

https://www.duellinksmeta.com/articles/quick-news/december-2023/wave-duel-scramble

Wave Duels are returning December 11th, you can obtain [Spiritual Entanglement] in Speed Duel and [Flame Cerberus] in Rush Duel

[vivid wave]

Spiritual Entanglement

Effect

Target 1 face-up monster your opponent controls; banish it until the End Phase. You can only activate 1 "Spiritual Entanglement" per turn.

F/L Status: Unlimited (TCG/OCG)

Flame Cerebrus

Level: 6
[ Pyro / Normal ]

ATK 2100 / DEF 1800

Effect

Known to many as the "Burning Executioner", this monster is capable of burning enemies to cinders.

F/L Status: Unlimited (TCG/OCG)

[dapper grotto]

Flame Cerberus's 2100atk is definitely a step up from Flame Champion's 1900atk.

Gonna look great on my Noodle Ninja deck. 😏

Spiritual Entanglement seems okay for f2p players. Decent removal for the turn.

[robust void]

it sucks kings reward is so overbalanced. it removes strategy from combos with heavy metal. the only way it really matters is if your opponent has three face up monsters and you wouldn't direct attack anyway. which is a shockingly rare scenario

[dapper grotto]

Noodle Alien girl dressing up for Goha Cup?

[timber river]

||If memory serves that's not the same one, there are multiple||

[quick axle]

||There are multiple ones that blatantly deny being related to each other... despite all of them sharing the same voice actress in japanese.||

[pastel lotus]

so the reward is costless dark core

[dark core]

[vivid wave]

Dark Core

Effect

Discard 1 card, then target 1 face-up monster on the field; banish that target.

F/L Status: Unlimited (TCG/OCG)

[robust void]

sux the rush card isn't anything interesting but it's better than fuckin lamoon

or whatever it was called

[young viper]

Y'know, these old cards being rewards likely has intrigued some kinda completionist out there

...Oh, wait, Flame Cerberus in Rush Duels

Yeah that's a lot better-sounding

I wonder if Flame Cerberus being a thing has a lot of Noodle Ninja people going crazy over it

Being a big Pyro-type beatstick and all that

[dapper grotto]

It definitely should be a mild excitement lol

Becoming a 2.6k beater with one tribute is definitely a boon.

Oh, sorry, I mean 2.5k.

So you'd at least kamikaze into most major big boys.

[timber river]

It replaces Flame Champion

[sleek garnet]

r/duellinks literally making kys posts now

How does it keep getting worse every week

[white stirrup]

Actual posts or Comments under them?

[small fern]

why does Wingtortoise have to be a When , you can

woulda made a decent shark supplement otherwise

[dapper grotto]

I don't see any of those posts or comments on the subreddit at all from what I've seen yet.

[dapper grotto]

A shame Wingtortoise is Wind, what kind of Skill would you be using with it?

[small fern]

A shame Skull Kraken has to be Dark and Kaiser Sea Snake be Level 8
i uhh.. don't make good use of skills 😅

Kaiser Sea Snake is also one of my only options for shark drake turbo without a skill

(and i don't know which skill actually helps shark drake turbo)

[dapper grotto]

Skills are sadly the bread and butter of Speed Duels, so you gotta have it in some shape or form.

Maybe look up some shark drake turbo vids on YT

[small fern]

i can simply not run shark drake in my smol 8 cards extra deck? 😅
could find a gud skill tho

[dapper grotto]

So it's just a regular shark deck then?

If it is, then I guess Territory of the Sharks is the best call, but you gotta have everything be water attributes.

[small fern]

prolly so

[sleek garnet]

Actual posts

[white stirrup]

Damn

[robust void]

what's causing that

[dapper grotto]

You got a link or what.

Or just DM it lol.

[sleek garnet]

"People play timelords"

The post itself seems to have already been deleted though

[pastel lotus]

timelord can't punch through destiny hero decisionguy

that kaiju monster might also make decisionguy stall possible

timelord needs to be able to attack to change the field state at all

[robust void]

lol I had almost a 100% win rate in the GC with RR and when I got the last roa skill I switched to aqua lights with Mimi and my win percent dropped like a goddamn stone

it's really unfortunate disco fever is balanced entirely around none of the aqua lights having good effects. or any. well besides seahorse but thats generic

I wish they gave them jewelry trap hole

[hasty delta]

think there might be a new box for speed duels after this update?

[dapper grotto]

Let's pray for it and it's not just a crappy structure deck.

[white stirrup]

"Be ready for 'Inzecticied of the Hero'
A brand new structure Deck revolving around Inzectors and a few Digital Bugs."

[timber river]

Wow, yoyu shouldnt have

[white stirrup]

"Throwing 2 Cents at my local Hobo" feel

[quick axle]

No, really, you shouldn't have to, game.

[sleek garnet]

It's interesting how skill design has moved away from lp requirements in favor of discaring / returning cards to your hand, or in some more recent examples, nothing at all and letting the skill plus you for free

[sleek garnet]

I was thinking about this for a while now

I don't get bothered by how often konami panders to dm era decks, i'm bothered by how half assed they do it

[quick axle]

It's like if they didn't know how to do it well. And the weird part is that they pander more to Yugi than to Kaiba.

The latest skill he got is kinda pointless and doesn't make his game plan most efficient. Only big numbers without too many disruptions.

[dapper grotto]

Yeah, OTK machine. That's Kaiba's plan now.

His turn 1 being the same as always, just a big boy and a Spirit Dragon ideally.

[sleek garnet]

A dm era deck has not been tier 1 since blue eyes in april 2021 because it had a decent darklord matchup with was bordering on t0 at the time

[dapper grotto]

Along with backrow.

[sleek garnet]

Bls last month if you want to count it

[dapper grotto]

Wait...wasn't DM meta when its structure deck came out?

[sleek garnet]

It wasn't

But yea like

[quick axle]

No. It was when Dark Magical Circle released.

[dapper grotto]

RIP, it was only high potential at the time.

[quick axle]

They already had Magician Navigation, but they were lacking that sort of interruption.

[sleek garnet]

DM skills are so "overbalanced" compared to skills like the arc v ones and what hero gets every 3 months

[quick axle]

Also, it seems like Lunalight is mostly a nothingburger in the eyes of DLM.

[sleek garnet]

Blue eyes loses chaos max access if the activate the skill turn 1, need to discard a blue eyes, get locked out of half of their extra deck, and need 9 blue eyes cards

[quick axle]

Despite Lunalight getting their coveted consistence pieces (no Perfume, though).

[sleek garnet]

Dm does not run their own skill because it locks them out of eternal soul and magician's navigation

[dapper grotto]

Yeah, I'm surprised LunaLight hasn't gotten into the list at all. Are their Turn 1 boards that easily dismantlable?

[sleek garnet]

I honestly think that konami making bls that good was unintentional on their part, given the deck's first hit was getting 4 cards limited

[quick axle]

They didn't hit the skill, they hit the cards that were making BLS that obnoxious.

And making sure that BLS cannot run the Magistus engine at all.

[dapper grotto]

Now they are truly pure otk machine lol.

No good turn 1 anymore.

[quick axle]

Oh, and also cutting them from the Limited 3 cards.

[sleek garnet]

But yea, i do genuinely feel they should make more dm stuff on the bls level

[dapper grotto]

Better skills, you mean.

[quick axle]

I jutt wonder if the game will still last longer?

[sleek garnet]

Yes

[sleek garnet]

Probably not, they'll run out of worlds eventually

[dapper grotto]

You keep saying that, but it seems to be doing okay atm.

[quick axle]

It all depends on how much the whales are willing to invest in DL.

[dapper grotto]

You're like the Negative Hype Beast lmao.

[quick axle]

Probably doing alright, and I was mostly asking due to the state of the skills and all that.

If the game lasts longer, that's good.

Don't take it like I'm being negative, probably a bit skeptical or unsure of how the game is performing, Dally.

[dapper grotto]

I mean, yeah. We can be worried for it all day, but without proper data from the mobile servers, I don't know if we'll ever be sure if it's going in the concerning red.

We have the steam data, but this is a mostly mobile game.

[quick axle]

Yeah, we only have data for the Steam version, which doesn't help matters.

[sleek garnet]

My only concern is what they'll do once they run out of animes to adapt every year

[dapper grotto]

They won't if they keep making Rush Duel anime.

Well...anime in general.

[quick axle]

And I think they're going to be on their 7th anniversary in January.

[sleek garnet]

Sales should tank a bit but i think we'll be fine with a world every 3 years

[dapper grotto]

True, we're never gonna run out of characters for each month.

[quick axle]

Seriously... I feel old as heck.

[sleek garnet]

Speaking of anniversary

[dapper grotto]

Yeah, amazing how this game has been here for almost 7 years.

[sleek garnet]

Ain't it kinda weird how there's not a single skill related to mirror force?

[quick axle]

If anything, the one that should have the skill is Varis.

[sleek garnet]

(Not counting creator)

Like

[quick axle]

Also, it seems like Creator is kinda outdated?

[sleek garnet]

They did a whole campaign around weevil getting MF'd

[quick axle]

In terms of the cards given by the skill.

[sleek garnet]

Considering that the magistus engine existed, breaker the magical warrior aint that bad

[dapper grotto]

I'm embarrassed that Breaker of all things is in that skill.

[quick axle]

And we already have Breaker, and it doesn't do a thing.,

[dapper grotto]

Oh well, I guess they have to include a dud in that roulette.

[quick axle]

Even upon release, I think it only did two things: Jack and S---.

[sleek garnet]

Current pool should be like, hfd, raigeki, change of heart, and idk, sangan

[quick axle]

I think that the cards should be:

HFD, Raigeki, CoH, Pot of Greed and The Forceful Sentry.

[sleek garnet]

Yea that works

[dapper grotto]

Damn, cheating on Carly ain't cool, Jack.

[sleek garnet]

Man

I wish the relinquished skill wasnt so restrictive

And that we had a skill that combined both toons and the "eyes restrict" stuff

If they want us to roleplay they could go all the way in

[dapper grotto]

If we had a Toon Relinquished card, they'd have the perfect excuse to do so, but we sadly don't. 😦

[sleek garnet]

Speaking of

I really wish they just updated old skills instead of making new ones every wave of support

Like, stuff like neos/yubel and hero alliance being different skills i can understand, they play differently

But why do we have a shooting quasar skill and a shooting star dragon skill?

Also

Apparently ancient gear got a skill recently?

[dapper grotto]

It's only "Battle! Ancient Gear" skill they got...which is like over a year ago.

[sleek garnet]

Oh

[midnight fable]

RIP flame champion

[white stirrup]

If you mean with DM Era Decks
DM, BE and RE then yes lol

They have only given out Garbage for most of the others
Or over balanced ones

[sleek garnet]

yea

i wish we had gotten a dm skill for arkana tbh

that plays differently from yugi's dm style

[quick axle]

Arkana had that skill, which got nerfed.

A Trick Upon the Sleeve, I think it was?

[sleek garnet]

yea

funnily enough it's the most used skill for dm because magician's magic locks out of summoning dm in the opponent's turn

[quick axle]

Magician's Magic would have been great without the summoning restriction on the opponent's turn.

That was just overbalancing.

[robust void]

first thought: making mirror force dragon a functional deck would be cool
second thought: fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck that

[sleek garnet]

idk like

summoned skull skill that also sets mirror force because it can

During this duel you can normal summon "Summoned Skull" without tribute, also, you can summon "Archfiend" monsters from your Extra Deck by using "Summoned Skull" as the entire requirement. You can only use each of the following effects once per Turn.

You can reveal an "Archfiend" Ritual monster in your hand, add 1 "Advanced Ritual Art" from outside of your Deck to your hand.

If you control an "Archfiend" Fusion, Ritual, Synchro, or Xyz monster, set 1 "Mirror Force" from your deck or 1 "Makiu, the Magical Mist" from outside of your Deck.

During your Main Phase, you can return 1 card from your hand to your Deck, Special Summon up to 2 "Archfiend" Fusion, Ritual, Synchro or Xyz monsters with different original names from your GY.

there we go

give it to like, yami yugi and grandpa muto

[robust void]

damn it the game is down

I didn't get to play all day it's not FAIR

sure I missed my window on the GC too

wanted to recover my score

[sleek garnet]

i got a 100% winrate on my phase 2 of the GC

(i only played 6 games)

[robust void]

yea I was around there too but I tanked it trying to get Mimi skills

RR is fun to play defensively btw

wait for them to slip up and end up with a level 7 and one other monster

[sleek garnet]

what skill are you using btw?

[robust void]

if I wasn't playing pure it'd be red eyes but

pure I think I would use the card exchange skill if it wasn't the last fucking one I got lmao

[sleek garnet]

waiting for the wave duel event so i can kog with noodles

[robust void]

the mill one being basically worthless if you go first is so shit

[sleek garnet]

the deck seems nice post roastery

[robust void]

going first is the disadvantage right now konami...

yeah I've been wanting to try them too

[sleek garnet]

oh yea btw

in the gc i faced a guy on RR playing 12 s/ts

i shit you not

[robust void]

yesterday I did too and they were on fucking dragons???

they kept passing on set 3 and I was too afraid to attack and get into otk range

bc they fucking always draw lethal

[sleek garnet]

yea ngl

draconic pressure is so fucking scary

you would think you're safe at 4k lp

[robust void]

I swear they are so much better in this format than the first

which is saying a fucking lot

[sleek garnet]

slayer has backrow to pop now

so lmao

[robust void]

I conceded that dragoncasters were better in the first format but now I don't think pure has competition honestly

yeah slayer is disgusting

say goodbye to your counters for the t0 deck

and thanks for adding ghost cyclone at the same time

[sleek garnet]

simple open 3 backrow 4 head

surely they will not summon dragias and clean your board anyway

[robust void]

I did but they're all removal

[sleek garnet]

btw

currently at 3.5k gems

i am so fucking hyped for the yggrago box

[robust void]

it's gonna be so fuckin sad when every deck is on 3 apocalypse world and they're just being popped by the ancient arise dragon guy

I caved and bought some shit for s force and lunalight

figuring it'll be another month until next box

I feel like yggdrago will be box 4 but who knows

[sleek garnet]

if ygg is in a mini box i'm popping open a bottle of champagne

[robust void]

well so far so good lol

[sleek garnet]

btw

[robust void]

I want music princess...

[sleek garnet]

what do you think we'll get in the sevens level cap increase?

[robust void]

how far off do you think that is btw

[sleek garnet]

uhhhh

[robust void]

I'm praying for a pity romanpick still

[sleek garnet]

i want to say around may

[robust void]

they might be dicks and put psychic divergence

can't help but be worried it'll be either good cards and notcenoufh copies or just rubbish

[sleek garnet]

imagine if yuga's level 25 reward is fucking dark revelation lmao

[robust void]

you know what would make perfect sense for a Gavin reward

the self bounce fairy

[sleek garnet]

we powercrept dragoncaster anyway

[sleek garnet]

yea that would be cool

i wonder what we're getting next year character wise

assuming no new character this month, i want to say

Jan: Rin
Feb: Neil
Mar: Mizael
Apr: Lmao april unlock
May: Lulu
Jun: Atticus
Jul: Akira

[robust void]

it would break precedent but

I cannot believe beast gear wouldn't get their character put in

since they were a meta deck

idk why they would make yosh AI only

[sleek garnet]

bro as soon as the mimi event added good yosh got added to the standard ai pool

[robust void]

yeah I know

[sleek garnet]

i was so fucking pissed when i woke up and saw that

[robust void]

but it's just

so ridic

[sleek garnet]

ikr

[robust void]

oh yeah do you think we will get the music princess character or will it just be in a box

[sleek garnet]

Princess G?

[robust void]

I just finished the yggdrago appearance so I haven't seen her yet

yeah

[sleek garnet]

i think we're skipping that one

she shows up during like

the second to last arc

duels once

loses

[robust void]

oh really

that's cool lmao

didn't wanna wait

[sleek garnet]

yea she's basically there to cap off romin's character arc

[robust void]

man yggdrago could get so much out of skills and a 30 card deck it's not even funny

[sleek garnet]

TRUE

[robust void]

yet it's also inevitably gonna fall off so it should come sooner than later

[sleek garnet]

i mean hey

[robust void]

I'm hoping it becomes a true solitaire deck lol

cardians for RD

[sleek garnet]

widespread ruin immunity

[robust void]

that is true...

wtf would you even do. I'm sure though they would add some kind of counter at the same time even if it's mild

[sleek garnet]

uhh

spellcaster and psychics beat over it

ancient arise can pop it

[robust void]

it might also be fine for it to just be a wincon if it's just hard enough to pull off

[sleek garnet]

so can royal rebels

[robust void]

ah really

that's not so bad then

[sleek garnet]

draconic resonance just

[robust void]

RR is level 8 and lower only though right

oh there's Cerberus

[sleek garnet]

hope they draw the nuke spell

[robust void]

they will

[sleek garnet]

yea growl decrease atk

[robust void]

just run whatever because you only need 1 monster to make a board!!!

[sleek garnet]

P U N C H

[robust void]

fuck I hate them

I'm banning every dragon dude

well red eyes can stay he's earned it

[sleek garnet]

nooooooooo, my beetle deck needs draco the tiny

[robust void]

ok that too

it's really funny how DL consistently makes red eyes relevant

while the irl game is like

lol

[sleek garnet]

yea

[robust void]

they have really good timing for most of its cards in DL

[sleek garnet]

funnily enough red eyes was THE BEST deck in duel links for a month

[robust void]

yeah I saw that

I cried

wish I was there

[sleek garnet]

i joined the game there!

[robust void]

was the SD the same time

[sleek garnet]

yes

funnily enough i didnt even join because of red eyes

i just wanted to play a mobile card game

and hearthstone is hearthstone

but yea

coping that the level increase will be from 20 to 30 instead of 20 to 25

btw

what do you think we're getting for the anniversary rewards?

[robust void]

uhhh well what was last year

if they give us blue eyes in RD will be annoyed

I just got into DL because I got sick of link evo's cardpool and MD wasn't out

it was cool to play with newer archetypes like dream mirror for the first time

speaking of why are we still waiting on more dream mirror

they really hate that deck

[sleek garnet]

mirror force

[sleek garnet]

i think they just forgot about it

same boat as weather painters and evil eye

[robust void]

those could maybe do something in the meta so I sort of get the trepidation

but dream mirror....

maybe we will get trap hole

or pog but prob not

some legends are much safer to release now that one of that type is out

I just want it to be something interesting since BE is just a beatstick

shield and sword is an iconic DM card and it should've been added already so maybe that

[sleek garnet]

i kinda want to see magician's valkyria

[robust void]

I am often thinking this

[timber river]

https://www.duellinksmeta.com/articles/sets/explosion-of-meteor

so fun fact, if you go to the Duel Trials and do the Duelist Challenges with a Rush Duel deck, you automatically pass the challenge Emergency Maintenance

[white stirrup]

Lmao

They really just named it after 1 single Red Eyes Card in the whole Box?

Could have called it "Amazing Warriors" or whatever

[timber river]

aaaaaand the game's down

oh btw new Fire Formation skill

[white stirrup]

They really push the Beast Warrior Stuff right now

Also just Spells? Not the Traps too?

Hm

[pastel lotus]

does gaia deck counts as dm deck?

it clearly used cards that didn't exist in any dm source material

i think any deck that uses the magical knight of dragons needs to be known as a faux-dm deck

[jaunty radish]

I remember it was Tier deck when if first come out

[pastel lotus]

cause it had a skill

also doubling attack after a successful kill was pretty tough to out for the time

yugi always gets skills for any monsters he's played, only exceptions are magnet warriors (no skill) and silent magician/swordsman (old skills)

[sleek garnet]

Omni negate time

[quick axle]

OK. What decks can summon Herald at this point in time?

That doesn't have their Limited 1 slot occupied by some other card?

[quick axle]

BTW, question: What's the outlook on Ancient Warriors and the Amazement archetypes?

And honestly, about Bujin, they seem to be really "cope", even with their Link Monster on toe.

And I doubt Witchcrafter will do anything with Haine, Creation, Scroll and Potterie, since Haine has came way too late for her to be useful.

And they still don't have Aruru

[white stirrup]

They all seem fine to me
Not the best Decks but pretty allright

[sleek garnet]

Yea

Box is alright if you like the decks in it, you can skip it if you don't

[quick axle]

But probably a skip for the competitive folks

[white stirrup]

I skip it too
Though I do want that Red Eye

Better to wait on a Ticket

[midnight fable]

free gems from minibox today

[dapper grotto]

We got Pankratops at home, I suppose.

I suppose we can at least dig for that rare.

[mighty bramble]

Would Ancient Warriors be worth it to build? Like are they giving enough of the good stuff?

[sleek garnet]

Yes

[dapper grotto]

Box is out.

I'm digging for at least the Guan Yun Rare

I didn't get the Guan Yun rare, but not bad pulls.

[sleek garnet]

Got my playset of budget pank

Also, we getting red eyes meteor means that black metal dragon has a good target

We are one step away from dragon link domination

[quick axle]

Is it going to help Red-Eyes? Probably not, just a fun deck to use.

[sleek garnet]

Nah meteor is pretty insane in red eyes

Extender that's also follow up

Pretty cool card

[midnight fable]

day 1 of the event, only one flame cerberus

but got through all the current waves

[robust void]

and for once the power gap is low enough that pure red eyes with meteor won't just feel like shitty dlink

[dapper grotto]

I got 0 Flame Cerberus. God damn, RNG feels horrid.

[sleek garnet]

i got 3 of cerb first try lol

still not a copy of the ur spell tho 😔

[timber river]

👀

[sleek garnet]

Also

They implemented some QoL changes

Effect text is now highlighted when activating a card with multiple effects

You can check in the deckbuilding screen if your deck fulfills a skill's conditions

[white stirrup]

Neat

No more trying it out only to realize there is 1 thing missing lol

[sleek garnet]

Also the gods have new attack animations

[white stirrup]

That means probably we get Support for them then
Maybe the next Box after the Red Eyes one

[sleek garnet]

Also, aside from the skills already posted here, the following decks also got one

Swords of revealing light
Lswarm
Constellar
Mayakashi
Winged dragon of ra

[white stirrup]

Whoa Evilswarm and Constellars?

Mayakashie too hm?
Probbaly smth to put banished Zombies back in the GY

[sleek garnet]

"Send 4 synchros from the extra deck to the graveyard"

The constellar skill is just double foolish burial

Lswarm skill is foolish + rota by discarding a lswarm

[white stirrup]

Aaaah

Sounds kinda neat

[quick axle]

The Tenki skill is an Archive skill, right?

[white stirrup]

Hm
I guess that's allright
Though I dunno if that's all that usefull considering you wouldn't be able to get them out of the GY with their effects
I think atleast

[sleek garnet]

Yes

[sleek garnet]

You probably can

The utopia and code talker skills already ignore that rule

[quick axle]

Also, it kinda sucks that you have to play Fire Formation Spells / Traps other than Tenki in order for the skill to work, since it limits the usefulness of some cards going first. Gyokkou is useless except when going Second, and I dunno how much helpful Tensu is.

[white stirrup]

Oh wow

I didn't know that

[sleek garnet]

Ngl

It's kinda funny how the mayakashi skill is just "ok we know that the loop is too long, you can use this skill to skip the process"

[quick axle]

The Dakki loop, right?

Dakki that goes into 3, 5, 7 and 9.

[sleek garnet]

Yea

[quick axle]

Still no Gashadokuro or Link monsters.

[sleek garnet]

Since the skill can be used if you control a mayakashi link monster you can just summon the link 4, bin all of the synchros, and still have more than 8 seconds on the timer

[white stirrup]

Fr

[sleek garnet]

Funnily enough, speed duels are getting more card releases now that rush exists

Wont stop people from complaining that rush is taking box slots tho

[white stirrup]

I guess now it's
"They could have released more Speed Cards instead of Rush Reeee"

[sleek garnet]

Also

The recent non anime skills kinda reminds me of this

[white stirrup]

LMAO

[half sphinx]

We're probably getting at least some of them in the next box

I guess they'd do another Deck Build Box to give Speed something for the anniversary

Since the anniversary box is probably for Rush

Which would explain all those skills, since regular box archetypes don't get that much care most of the time

[robust void]

can we start doing the opposite. speed is taking boxes from rush

we need em more you guys got a jillion archetypes to mess with ok

[robust void]

rush duel skill rebalancing

dragonic resonance untouched

fucking joke lol

shining superstar draw is awful still idk why they even bothered

[mighty bramble]

Who uses them in the anime

[quick axle]

Nobody.

This is an archetype related with Terminal World stuff.

Since the Shaddolls are related to archetypes like Ritual Beast, Gishki, Gusto, Infernoid, Qliphort, between others.

It's a long story, @mighty bramble

[mighty bramble]

Ah so it’s one of the universal skills I forget the actual name for

[quick axle]

It's possibly going to be one of those, yeah.

[midnight fable]

archive skills yeah

[mighty bramble]

Well Shaddolls are an archetype that I’ve been interested due to their aesthetic so I’m excited for them

[quick axle]

So Rush Duels got their first banlist changes (barring preemptive changes):

Limited 2

• Seahorse Carrier

Limited 3

• Piercing Dragon Bunker Strike
• Sportsdragon Pitcher
• Clear Ice Dragon

And the Speed Duel format got another change in the banlist:

Limited 2

• Personal Spoofing

[robust void]

good hits though it's still cringe they didn't nerf the skill

[quick axle]

This hit Dragonic Ascendant decks quite a bit, but not the skill. They're probably wanting people to play Arise Dragons instead.

[timber river]

Reminder Dragias is at Limited 3 too, so space in Dragon decks is tight now

[robust void]

the problem is they just pivot back to dragoncasters or just run more backrow to grind better

the ultimate issue of them having more tools than every other deck remains the same

[quick axle]

You know what they say: The more things change, the more they tend to stay the same.

[dapper grotto]

Oh damn, does this mean I can use One for One with my Altergeists now?

[midnight fable]

Good thing I wasnt hard investing on resonance and arise

[dapper grotto]

RIP my lucky pulls of 2 Arise dragons then.

I wasn't really playing Dragias anyways, but the Seahorse to 2 hurts.

[robust void]

nothing is made unviable by the hits tbh

no bad pulls

[sleek garnet]

Man

Seeing people discuss about yubel is so weird

The problem that a lot of people point to is that they don't brick enough?

[dapper grotto]

Nah, it's the latest brainless deck a ton of people complain about.

[sleek garnet]

Which y'know, is kinda weird too

None of the current decks in the meta are hard to play

[dapper grotto]

Also doesn't bode well with the fact that Yubel is cheap too.

So there's a ton of representation on the ladder, I'll bet...not that I've seen too many right now.

I've seen more Tenyi than Yubel.

[sleek garnet]

Same here

Weirdly enough i keep facing altergeist

[dapper grotto]

Tenyi is alot more brainless than Yubel tbh.

I've been facing a variety today. I even faced U.A. of all things...when I bricked.

[sleek garnet]

Fr

Every time i brick my opponent is on the weirdest deck ever

Last time was vampire

[dapper grotto]

[sleek garnet]

But yea

It really feels like people hate on the deck because it's popular rather than the deck's power

You would think having dingirsu would make people use bouncing as removal more often

[dapper grotto]

There's surprisingly still some Orcusts around, but not nearly as strong as before thankfully.

Managed to interrupt them to death before things got worse lol

[sleek garnet]

Yea

Also, funnily enough

Most people i've seen malding about yubel play either dm, re, and/or be

Guess people can't stand having bad matchups

[robust void]

i really do not find yubel decks to be that threatening

its like

ok

lol

its very limited

[sleek garnet]

yea

it has one play

and if it fails the deck dies

[pastel lotus]

all modern gen archetypal cards: it does something but i don't want to read what it is

still won

[lime pewter]

Guys it does work dont ask how but it does. The only Thing is ive got to many spells and i offen dump then and Not my Monsters should i remove sum spells

Btw i jst throw sum shit together and tried it so any Tipp would be Kind

[white stirrup]

Love how manny Decks there are that fall appart without Skills
Makes the Vagabond really easy

[robust void]

yeah actually that's why yubel decks own

they just brick instantly

[lime pewter]

True but this Deck has literally No Skill that would fit so i jst Chose the tie that binds Cuz of this atk boost yk

[muted zenith]

Do you think Vector should come to Yugioh Duel Links?

[quick axle]

It should be expected.

But when? We don't know.

[muted zenith]

I also feel that Don Thousnad should come to Yugioh Duel Links.

[quick axle]

All in due time.

[white stirrup]

Umbrall Horrors would need the Skill of the Year to be worth playing instead of any other Deck that can shit out 3 level 4s

[robust void]

I'd like to see it

the name umbral horror being wasted on something so shitty sux

[white stirrup]

The Art is neat too

I tried them out once with Malevource

Biggest mistake lol

[muted zenith]

Do you think Vector could be friends with Yuma again in Yugioh Duel Links?

[sleek garnet]

@robust void yo kid, give me a deck to splash the mr beast engine into

Been hanging in gold for way too long

[robust void]

the what now

[sleek garnet]

Yea it's like

Gazelle, all seeing tiger, pachupaku, and silver wolf

[robust void]

go all in on bendorbreak

[sleek garnet]

not that one tho, i only opened heavy metal screen once

[robust void]

well that does limit options lmao

a lot even

do pyros let you use any normal monsters

if so that

[sleek garnet]

Hmmmm

Maybe i can just splash in dragias and call it a day

[dapper grotto]

Bruh, I was dueling in Ranked and I suddenly lost connection. I can't get back in at all even though I have Mobile Data.

Everything else works for me but here.

[pastel lotus]

gold 7 rn need 3 more duels to rise

always so fricking tedious

i will stop at plat 1 as always

[sleek garnet]

2 new pick up boxes were announced

Anniversary stuff

Swords of revealing light skill will be available for all 3 yugis

Also, new rush duel structure deck announced

Focused on machines

[white stirrup]

Huh

Kinda neat

It's like a even smaller Mini Box with more preciced Cards to make a whole Deck

I do need more Abyssactors

[sleek garnet]

I just wanted to save gems for yggdrago

My wallet is in fucking shambles rn

[timber river]

We're getting a RUSH Duel Structure Deck focused around LIGHT Machines

I wouldn't be surprised if ACE Breaker was Limit 3'd

[white stirrup]

Flag Mech seems like smth that will probably be limited I guess

Looking at the effects they are pretty cool

I like the Artwork

[sleek garnet]

Reminder that they have a skill that shuffles 1 card in hand to add aim eagle to your hand

[white stirrup]

Oh wow

[sleek garnet]

Deck is cool, but i feel like it empties the hand too fast

Like, you have a 5 card in hand, tribute 2 for ace breaker, discard another 2

And now you have nothing else but the breaker

[white stirrup]

On one hand you use up a lott for the effects but on the other hand you allways draw until you have 5
I guess that is a good balance overall esspecially if Unicorn will not be limited so it can allways shuffle stuff back with a Copie of itself

[sleek garnet]

Yea

The deck won't be bad but i'm not sure if it can compete with stuff like arise dragons

[sleek garnet]

It's always funny how people complain that decks in duel links require you to "draw the out"

My brother in christ 12 of the 20 cards in your deck are outs

[sleek garnet]

Ra skill got updated

We are BALLIN'

[white stirrup]

[robust void]

I know im beating a dead horse but nothing is pushing dragons out of relevance without bans until like half a year from now. everything will be playing catch-up with the tools they have. but I will buy the flag SD it has some badass looking cards

[sleek garnet]

Man, unironically

Modern skills have reduced player's ability to think

"No this archetype wont be good because you have to draw playstarters in a game where you need to be handed cards for free"

Tenyi is still the best deck in the game btw, how do people come up with this shit

[sleek garnet]

Anyway

if vanilla marik doesnt get added next month the dream is over

[white stirrup]

Could he come with a Gravekeeper Skill maybe?

[robust void]

drawing a starter in a 20 card deck? impossible

[sleek garnet]

oh wait

pick up boxes have 30 packs, thought it was 40

so if i'm very unlucky, the max price for everything would be 9k gems

hmmmm

doable i think

[robust void]

pick up boxes are a really cool idea

also more fuel to the argument that DL isn't necessarily more expensive than MD

[sleek garnet]

if someone ever makes that argument you can just show a kash decklist

or VS

crafting doesnt help much if all cards in an archetype are UR anyway

[dapper grotto]

Shame the pick-up boxes are time-limited.

But we do have Deck Build packs, so it's at least somewhat better on reprints when they truly want to.

[sleek garnet]

yea

the main difference is that deck build packs bring new cards in

so i guess they cant really timelock those

i just hope they bring the bls pick up box as well tomorrow

else it is essentially confirming that they exist only for a month and never show up again

[dapper grotto]

I could definitely see that happening tbh, but we'll see.

Since BLS got nerfed to the ground and all...but Alito rerun is coming back, so this is a good excuse to bring back the old Pick Up Box.

[sleek garnet]

oh yea right that's a thing

could be, could be

also

a lot of people are speculating arc v is getting a level cap increase because of the boxes and the duelist road

but that would mean arc v would have a cap higher than zexal

but we are getting the alito rerun

so it would make sense to also increase the zexal cap as well

one can hope, at least

[robust void]

yeah I also feel like people underestimate 20 card decks influence

it means you're much less worse off for having 1 or 2 ofs

and you don't need as many staples because you don't have as much room to fill out

plus boxes being limited quantity can suck at first but in the long term it rewards patience with a lot of decks

with giving you a lot of decks I mean

[sleek garnet]

From my experience, master duel "feels" cheaper to build decks with

But it's honestly around the same with dl

[robust void]

I could admit to it being largely a wash overall yeah

though with my horrible pull luck I really prefer DL's pack system

I get pity URs constantly then it's something I can't even use

there is no guarantee my grinding effort will pay off

it is guaranteed in DL

[dapper grotto]

It's "guaranteed" in crafting, but it's always about hoping to pull enough URs to dismantle for them.

It's the one aspect DL at least gives you- you will eventually get those cards if you continue pulling a certain amount.

But the grind sucks.

[robust void]

yeah exactly

I always prefer that to trusting my luck personally

[hazy crow]

How unlucky am I?

[dapper grotto]

At least it's not 100 packs you went through for that, I suppose.

[sleek garnet]

Or 180

[sleek garnet]

https://youtu.be/8ZFPBhSDzkQ?si=N7mY7Jf0PQ0Ym8tR

Neat

[placid rampart]

I can't find Alito to fight him

Found the answer

[small fern]

[bird of paradise lost] would be such a good dark tuner if dark tuner skill existed

[vivid wave]

Bird of Paradise Lost

Level: 8
[ Wyrm / Tuner / Effect ]

ATK 2700 / DEF 1500

Effect

This card gains 100 ATK and DEF for each Tuner monster in your Graveyard. Once per turn: You can send 1 Tuner monster from your hand to the Graveyard, then target 1 monster your opponent controls; take control of it until the End Phase.

F/L Status: Unlimited (TCG/OCG)

[mighty bramble]

Look who I found in PvP

[fresh pier]

What changes can I make in this deck? I’m in platinum 1 and winning any duels is a nightmare w limited cards (I have ultimate dragon deck but not working on meta)

[sleek garnet]

Can i see your extra deck?

[placid rampart]

Why can't I see Alito?

It's saying that I have to beat him level 10 but I can't find him and he's not at the gate

[fresh pier]

Just a min

[sleek garnet]

Have you checked zexal world?

[sleek garnet]

Ok so

How commited are you about optimizing the deck?

Synchrons are a bit expensive

https://www.duellinksmeta.com/top-decks/king-of-games/december-2023/synchrons/noa/L3-a9

This is an average pure build, focusing on using jet synchron + doppel warrior to make crocodragon while drawing 4 cards

[fresh pier]

Not too committed cuz I just spend a lot of gems on timelord packs 😅 really broke but I can spend money on stricter decks

[sleek garnet]

https://www.duellinksmeta.com/top-decks/community-tournaments/kuma-bear-weekly/27/synchrons/silva/OHPTn

This is a mekk knight variant, focused on using the high level mekks as synchro material, skill fodder, and just negating effects with the trap card in general

https://www.duellinksmeta.com/top-decks/king-of-games/december-2023/ursarctic/此去不留/WXlfY

[fresh pier]

Ohh, is there anything I can do w my current cards and structure decks that I can buy?

Btw thanks for your help!

[sleek garnet]

This is a ursarctic variant, focused on using the level 1 synchrons as stepping stones for the ursarctics, as well as refilling the hand

[fresh pier]

Ohh, which one acc to you is easier to build?

I was using my blue eyes deck to reach plat 1 but now I need a meta deck

[sleek garnet]

Probably ursarctics

[fresh pier]

I can go w any deck that can stand w meta right now

[sleek garnet]

They're all in one box

[fresh pier]

Ohh

[sleek garnet]

Ruddy rose is a structure deck card

Berserker of the tenyi is in a bundle

[fresh pier]

Do you think I should go w synchro? Or change? Those cards are old purchases

[sleek garnet]

Probably switch up decks

[fresh pier]

Oh I have that deck but my activation are cancelled

[fresh pier]

With?

[sleek garnet]

It's a kinda big investment for a deck that's not that powerful

[fresh pier]

Berserker and rose?

[sleek garnet]

https://www.duellinksmeta.com/tier-list

[fresh pier]

That’s true, and traps are too good 😞

[sleek garnet]

Pick whatever you like from here

[fresh pier]

OHHH

OKAY OKAY

THANKS!!

[sleek garnet]

You cant really go wrong with any of these

Tenyi is the cheapest one, btw

[fresh pier]

I’ll try to cop tenyi and berserker than

🙏🤭

[placid rampart]

Just Yuma and Astal

Stage 1

All I can do is collect boxing gloves

[sleek garnet]

What stage of the world are you in?

Huh

That's odd

[placid rampart]

Stage 20

[sleek garnet]

Have you checked the area near the gate?

[sleek garnet]

In zexal world

I mean

[placid rampart]

Ohhhh

Wow

Ok

[fresh pier]

Do i go for ultimate timelord?

[placid rampart]

I think I got it

Thank you so much

They did not explain that at all

[sleek garnet]

Do you want to play timelords?

[fresh pier]

I do have alot of timelord so- maybe yeah

And they are annoying as hell

[sleek garnet]

Go for it then

[fresh pier]

Okay okay thankss

[robust void]

wait a raidacross SD instead of flag breaker? i missed that being a thing

[sleek garnet]

The flag breaker sd will be next month

It was already announced beforehand

[placid rampart]

Look who just got into GOLD!

I'll be signing Autographs after the venue

[dapper grotto]

Are you gonna submit that deck and replay of your Rank-Up?

[placid rampart]

No lol

Do people even watch those?

[dapper grotto]

For the Daily 5 gems? Yes.

Sometimes, I find a nifty little deck to copy and try out once in a blue moon

[placid rampart]

Does duel links pvp ranking system demote you if you lose too much? Or is it just progress as you win more

?

[quick axle]

You won't be demoted until Legend.

[placid rampart]

That's a very relaxed system then for beginners, like me lol

I played StarCraft and Chess basically is all I've played.

[quick axle]

But you'll be demoted 7 ranks after the end of season.

So let's say you're on Platinum 7. By the end of season, you would be demoted to Gold 7.

[placid rampart]

Sorry to keep bothering you with probably easy to find answers, but when does this season end?

[quick axle]

Last day of the month, 8:00 PM EDT..

[placid rampart]

I appreciate you answering my questions. Thanks. 🙇‍♂️

[sleek garnet]

Ngl i hope we get shade brigadine as yuto's new lvl up reward

[mighty bramble]

Are Amazements good in general

[sleek garnet]

Yes

[dapper grotto]

Especially with Live Twin apparently.

I really really don't want to pull from that mini box too...

[mighty bramble]

VTuber carnival is a funny idea

I might do it depending on what’s needed

[timber river]

Anyone tried the new Raidacross deck?

[fresh pier]

Can someone send me a kaiba ultimate dragons deck? 😅
Cant find any online

Sm like this but modified maybe

I’m in plat 1 and this isn’t working

[sleek garnet]

Switch to blue eyes dimension

[fresh pier]

So just change the skill ?

[sleek garnet]

This is what i would play, personally

[fresh pier]

Okayyy tysm

[robust void]

@sleek garnet any raidacross cards to go in yamiruler? I'm leaning towards no

[sleek garnet]

I dont think so either

[robust void]

there's some good effects in there but none worth replacing the 30 card limit sadly

[mighty bramble]

Not a bad multi methinks

[pliant latch]

Started a new account for lols what to build between bujins , BA and Metalfoes

[sleek garnet]

We're getting anchamoufrite

Congrats to all 4 monarch players

[sleek garnet]

The konami server crashed LMAOOOOOOOOOO

[timber river]

Couldn't handle tier 0 monarchs

[fresh pier]

Guys any good pay to win thing I should buy in duel links? I have 4-5 dollar budget

@sleek garnet ?

[sleek garnet]

Why did you ping me?

[fresh pier]

Oh I thought you’re the one who I should ask about this

Sry for the ping

[quick axle]

I doubt Anchamoufrite will do anything to improve Monarch's situation.

But probably a cute card.

[sleek garnet]

In any case

You can buy one structure deck with 4$

They're all kinda bad atm so just grab whichever one you like

[fresh pier]

Any structure deck suggestions? I was thinking abt blazing or d/d/ d or tellar?

[sleek garnet]

Odd eyes challengers is the best one

[fresh pier]

Ohh okayokay gotcha

[sleek garnet]

Code talkers should get better by september due to their second structure deck

So if you want a second micro coder you can get that as well

D/D/D is fine as well but not having a 3rd slime hurts

[fresh pier]

🙏

My current deck, anything I should remove or add

[sleek garnet]

How many jet synchrons do you have?

What about tuning?

And overtake?

[white stirrup]

They get a second one?

Eh
I guess they deserve it
I see them never being used

[fresh pier]

0 🥲

[sleek garnet]

It has been the trend since the 5ds campaign in 2020

Shooting star dragon, leo utopia ray, odd eyes raging dragon

Would make sense for up to get a darkfluid sd this year

Anyway

I spent 400 gems on a copy of dark contract with the swamp i did not need

And the 7k gems i saved for yggdrago are fucking gone

Big gacha got me again

[quick axle]

Woof...

[sleek garnet]

It's fine the zexal cap increase is 5.4k by itself

Considering that arc v is also getting one

And the anniversary is next month

And i have zero interest in shaddolls

And the kc cup is coming soon

I'll be fine

[quick axle]

Zero? Zilch? Nada?

[sleek garnet]

Yea i hated dolls in the duea era

[robust void]

they're fun bro embrace the degen

[sleek garnet]

Bro i was playing qlis in mr3

They aint got nothing on pay 800 sit on a towers flip skill drain

[midnight fable]

duel links still down 😦

[sleek garnet]

Only on steam

Mobile went back up minutes after the fact

[sleek garnet]

I swear to fucking god

If i lose one more game because i didnt drew engine seven turns in a row

I'm putting a fork in konami's microwave

[placid rampart]

This is getting not fun the decks I'm facing. I go first, set a card face down defense mode. All I can do. My opponent goes. Takes 10 minutes. All my cards are gone and he gets a 4500 attack monster and beats me one move. OR they get 3 monsters and an XYZ monster.
I even put 3 summon breakers in my deck. I pray to go first and pray that i draw that card so I can set it before they summon for 20 minutes. But then they still destroy my field spell and keep summoning for 10min and then I'm dead.

Seriously, I'm a new player only playing for about 4 weeks just learning it all and find this to be such a turn off I'm thinking about quitting. Any suggestions about this?

[sleek garnet]

That's just how the game is

I'd suggest looking up videos online to see if you like the gameplay

[pastel lotus]

currently grinding kotori to earn cxyz dark fairy cheer girl

love how they are drip-feeding cxyz monsters now

[sleek garnet]

Ok so

New box

https://www.duellinksmeta.com/articles/news/december-2023/datamined-leaks-26

Holy shit this is a good one

Shaddol is extremely f2p friendly, idp import, support for a bunch of old decks

[quick axle]

No Shaddoll Fusion, though,

I wonder if that's going to be on another bundle or what.

And I wouldn't be surprised if El Shaddoll Construct is preemptively limited to 3.

Unsurprisingly, no El Shaddoll Winda. Good, less floodgates to worry about.

[sleek garnet]

Probably not, the bundle this time is emergency teleport

[sleek garnet]

Sooooo

At the beginning of a Duel, add 1 El Shaddoll Winda to your Extra Deck. Also add 3 Shaddoll Fusion and 1 Shaddoll Schism to your Deck. You can only Special Summon "Shaddoll" monsters during this Duel (excluding Special Summons from your Extra Deck).
This can only be used once during a Duel. Return 1 "Shaddoll" monster in your Graveyard or among your banished cards to your Deck or Extra Deck.```

[quick axle]

Welp... me and my big mouth.

[hasty delta]

shaddoll f2p friendly you say..

[sleek garnet]

Pure, at least

[robust void]

holy shit they're adding musketeer max

also I successfully called beast gear

[quick axle]

Probably won't do anything to help Magical Musketeer, since they're a cope archetype.

[robust void]

muskets aren't bad wdym

[sleek garnet]

This doesnt look terrible

[robust void]

theyre so comically bad at making sleeves

[sleek garnet]

Jet and hex sealed fusion are kinda cope

But i like them

[robust void]

I might build pure if the bundles pan out

sad there's no apkallone tho

[sleek garnet]

I knew the aleisters i got last year would pay off eventually

[robust void]

reminder that Wendi is an e-tele target btw

[sleek garnet]

Yea but i think super poly is better

[robust void]

yeah no shot it's not limited 1

[sleek garnet]

Also, should probably replace phoenix with gravity controller

Shame there's 0 generically good fire monsters in the game

Kurikara sucks so bad

Hmmm

Am i running too little shaddoll names?

[quick axle]

Why do I always forget we already have Kurikara?

I was almost going to ask about Kurikara.

I think the problem is that Kurikara doesn't have a good niche in DL if there's not a whole bunch of quick effects on the field?

[sleek garnet]

Also

Hollow is in the box

I'll just play that instead

[white stirrup]

Oh damn the Chicken is getting his Support?

Really nice

Was planing on Leveling Marik anyway

[quick axle]

Hollow?

[vivid wave]

Helshaddoll Hollow

Level: 9
[ Fiend / Flip / Effect ]

ATK 2900 / DEF 2900

Effect

FLIP: You can target 1 face-up monster your opponent controls; send 1 "Shaddoll" monster with its same Attribute from your Extra Deck to the GY, and if you do, banish that monster. If this card is sent to the GY by card effect: You can send cards from the top of your Deck to the GY, equal to the number of different original Attributes among the monsters on the field. You can only use 1 "Helshaddoll Hollow" effect per turn, and only once that turn.

F/L Status: Unlimited (TCG/OCG)

[quick axle]

Do you guys think that Magical Musket is still cope, even with Max?

[sleek garnet]

Yes

[quick axle]

What about Mayakashi?

[sleek garnet]

Still dies to 1 disruption

[white stirrup]

Fitting for a Zombie Deck

[quick axle]

D.D.Crow or a BoM on Dakki.

[white stirrup]

They would also die on getting their first Synchro destroyed right?

[robust void]

mayakashi is low key one of the most poorly thought out archetype gimmicks in ygo tbh

there is literally nowhere to go with it

they had one chance to make the synchro effects good so it becomes a tower deck and they blew it

[sleek garnet]

I'm not even sure they synchro climb now

Since the skill just dumps all 5 synchros if you control a link

[robust void]

wait theres a fucking mayakashi skill?

[white stirrup]

I think they were supposed to go together with the Shiranuis
They got some effects that benefit from eachother

[robust void]

its just a lore connection. they brick even harder when ran together

mayakashi in particular just drags shiranui down

[white stirrup]

I remember playing a Deck with them both and the other Japanese Zombies that worked allright

Oh yeah Mayas have just effwcts for themself now that I thing about it again

[sleek garnet]

Yes

[half sphinx]

The Stirring MayakashiIf you have at least 12 "Mayakashi" cards in your Deck at the start of a Duel, then add 3 types of "Mayakashi" monsters to your Extra Deck. You can only Special Summon "Mayakashi" and Zombie-Type FIRE monsters during this Duel (excluding Special Summons from your Extra Deck). You can also use the below effects once during the Duel. If you have "Mayakashi" Synchro or Link Monsters on your field, then pick up to 5 "Mayakashi" Synchro Monsters of a different Level from your Extra Deck and send them to the Graveyard (monsters sent to the Graveyard can be Special Summoned).

[quick axle]

And what's the purpose of sending the Mayakashi Synchro monsters to the GY if you cannot Special Summon them properly there?

[dapper grotto]

That last sentence seems to indicate you can.

[quick axle]

Hmm... alright, that seems fair.

Probably the skill sends them to the GY and makes them seem like they were properly summoned.

[dapper grotto]

Whatever the case, I'm definitely going to go in for IDP and Shaddolls. Earth Machine may be a bit better with the new Machina support coming in too.

I am pretty glad Archive Skills make it so that you don't have to just pray that your favorite deck is from the anime to get skill support.

[robust void]

what a world when mayakashi of all things is one of the first archetypes to get an archive skill

solfa will be the last

[quick axle]

The World Legacy timeline kinda got one that brings Avramax.

[dapper grotto]

And Charmers, but we don't need to be reminded of them.

[white stirrup]

Firefist got ome too

[sleek garnet]

Rush is getting rage of the wild beasts

Pretty good card, specially if we get beast gears

[pastel lotus]

no plant boy this year

they want super fusion to remain a hero tech

[sleek garnet]

@robust void i've gotten yamiruler'd turn 1 three times on my rank up game now

I want to throw myself off a cliff

[quick axle]

Woof...

[robust void]

that's brutal

does it actually feel more common than spellcasters and dragons?

[mighty bramble]

Did the Archive Skill for lswarms make them decent

[sleek garnet]

Honestly, yea

The most common deck atm i feel like is royal rebel

Then Pile.dek

Then warrior

[quick axle]

Condemned Witch wasn't the card I was expecting to be preemptively at Limited 3 from the URs.

Also, Kozmotown and Machina Citadel to Limited 3 as well.

Kozmo still seems like cope. Dunno about Machina / Trains.

[dapper grotto]

Damn.

I guess 1 Citadel is fine.

[quick axle]

@dapper grotto Is there something I'm missing?

Just a bit of context would be very appreciated.

[dapper grotto]

Usually Earth Machines use one Citadel, right?

[quick axle]

I mean, what conflicts with Citadel from the Limits?

[dapper grotto]

I'm not really sure in a Speed duel sense though.

[quick axle]

No Machina Metalcruncher yet, though.

Oh, I get it, Citadel would conflict with Scrap Recycler.

[dapper grotto]

Oh wait! You can normal summon Citadel with Anna's Unstoppable Train skill.

Yeah, that makes sense

[quick axle]

You cannot. Citadel says "Cannot be Normal Summoned / Set. Must be Special Summoned by..."

[dapper grotto]

Then I'm at a loss. I don't know why they did this.

I guess to have less of the good backrow...?

[quick axle]

The only thing I can see is the interaction with Scrap Recycler.

Which can send Citadel to the GY.

[dapper grotto]

Or with Orcust.

Machina Deployment letting you discard a card means Orcust could also potentially be meshed with it. But now Citadel clashes with Harp Horror and Knightmare.

[quick axle]

Yep.

They didn't want to have any of that Orcust nonsense.

[dapper grotto]

Now it makes more sense.

[quick axle]

Does it, though?

[dapper grotto]

They just didn't want more Machina Orcust popping up.

Machina Fortress also lets them discard as well.

Didn't want to add more fuel to the Orcust fire.

[sleek garnet]

Hmm

I have 4 bundles i didnt buy yet

If i buy those along with the box chip deal

I would get 78 packs

For 4.8k gems

Hmmmmmmmmm

Considering that the feb box will be speed duels again because of mizael

Neil's box will be on march

I can save gems until then, for sure

Surely

[dapper grotto]

Yeah, they're loading up hard on bundles lately.

Might spend on the Herald of ArcLight bundle for the new pack on the 31st.

[mighty bramble]

The fact that we’re casually getting the Ra retrains in the next set of cards is so funny to me

[dapper grotto]

Yeah, I guess new years hits different for the 25th anniversary.

[mighty bramble]

I guess I just expected them to be from an event or preemptively limited but nah they thought Kozmotown deserved it

Was it even necessary for Kozmo in the TCG

[sleek garnet]

Yes

[quick axle]

Kozmo Dark Destroyer was Limited in the heydays.

When Kozmo was meta.

[robust void]

I wonder when they'll add icejade

[quick axle]

When they start adding Abyss lore.

[white stirrup]

What exactly am I supposed to do with the Evilswarm Skill?
Is it just to set up for Ophion and other Rank 4s?
Also I feel like they should have let us Normal Summon the Level 5s and higher with 1 less Tribute after using the Skill

[sleek garnet]

There we go

[mighty bramble]

What character is a good user for Ancient Warriors

[sleek garnet]

Any

Their best skill is an archive one

[mighty bramble]

And that is?

[dapper grotto]

You're a trooper. Rush has been too much of a dice roll for me in terms of wins.

Couldn't even get through Silver because I kept taking loss streaks.

All because I didn't draw into my ace.

[midnight fable]

the tenki one

[sleek garnet]

I shit you not, i got widespread ruin'd all 5 of my last games

And yamiruler'd turn 1 twice

Both times it was their only copy in the deck

[midnight fable]

why doesnt spell swap tenki say different?

[sleek garnet]

Wydm?

[midnight fable]

"return 1 fire formation continuous spell"

tenki is a fire formation continuous spell

[sleek garnet]

They do let you switch tenki for tenki

Now why would you do that i dont know

[dapper grotto]

Yeah, it almost makes me feel blessed to have searchers and consistency in speed duels instead of having this RNG nonsense in Rush..

[midnight fable]

yes, thats why I ask. That's so good

[sleek garnet]

I guess it punishes players for activating the skill without looking at their hand first

[indigo grail]

lööps

[midnight fable]

?????????? how

[sleek garnet]

Like

If you click the skill bur your only formation is tenki

You spent your search for the duel

[midnight fable]

yes, and???

[sleek garnet]

I'm not sure what you're objectioning to

[midnight fable]

why wouldnt you want the search