Yu-Gi-Oh! General #575

End of an Era Edition

Previous thread: >>96014403

Most Yu-Gi-Oh! discussion encouraged. Post OC, write dumb fanfics with bad CaC in them, duel each other, have fun, etc.

>Yu-Gi-Oh! Online Play
Automated Sims:
●EDOPro website: https://projectignis.github.io/download.html
●EDOPro: https://discord.gg/ygopro-percy
●YGO Omega: https://discord.gg/duelistsunite
●Dueling Nexus: https://duelingnexus.com/
●Master Duel: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1449850/YuGiOh_Master_Duel/
Manual Sims:
●https://www.duelingbook.com/

>TCG Event Streaming
NA: https://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialYuGiOhTCG
EU: https://www.youtube.com/YuGiOhCardEU

>Alternative Formats
Official: https://www.yugioh-card.com/en/play/alternate_format_tournaments/
Time Wizard Formats Reference: https://www.formatlibrary.com/

>Useful Links
Current Official Rulebook: https://img.yugioh-card.com/en/downloads/rulebook/SD_RuleBook_EN_10.pdf
Wiki: https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Yugipedia
Hypergeometric Probability Calculator: https://yugioh.party/
Stock Market: https://yugiohprices.com/
Database: https://www.db.yugioh-card.com/
For boomers: https://www.pojo.biz/board/forumdisplay.php?f=10

>Decklists
OCG: https://roadoftheking.com
TCG: https://yugiohtopdecks.com/decklists
ALT: https://ygoprodeck.com/

>News Sites
OCG: https://yugioh-starlight.com/
TCG: https://ygorganization.com/

>Upcoming Releases
OCG:
●Doom of Dimensions (July 26)
●Deck-Build Pack: Phantom Revengers (August 23)
●Structure Deck: Power of Fellows (September 6)
●World Premiere Pack 2025 (September 27)
●Burst Protocol (October 25)
●THE CHRONICLES DECK: The Fallen & The Virtuous (All-Foil Edition) (October 25)

TCG:
●Justice Hunters (July 31)
●2025 Mega-Pack Tin (September 4)
●Doom of Dimensions (September 25)
●THE CHRONICLES DECK: The Fallen & The Virtuous (All-Foil Edition) (October 23)
●Legendary 5D's Decks (November 6)

>TQ: What deck are you playing in the upcoming format?
>TCaC: Give roids literally anything.

>>96108038 (OP)
>TCaC
Instructions unclear; Making whatever these are.

Steerroid Hotshot
>[Level 4/WIND/Machine]
>[ATK 1800/DEF 1200]
You can discard this card; Until the end of your next turn, all "roid" monsters in your possession are treated as WIND monsters, also, they gain 1000 ATK. (Quick Effect): You can banish this card from your field or GY; Activate one of the following effects.
● Fusion Summon 1 "roid" monster, using cards from your hand or field as material. If your opponent controls a card, you can also use monsters from your deck as material.
● Immediately after this effect resolves, Synchro Summon 1 "roid" monster, using cards you control as material
You can only use each effect of "Steerroid Hotshot" once per turn

Weatherroid Ballonenstein
>[Level 3/WIND/Machine/Tuner]
>[ATK 0/DEF 0]
When you Fusion Summon a "roid" monster, this card can be used to substitute all monsters specifically listed as material on that card. (Quick Effect): You can discard this card, then target 1 monster on the field, then declare 1 "roid" Monster Card's name; For the rest of this turn, that monster is treated as the declared monster's name, also, when you Fusion Summon a "roid" monster, you can use that monster as material for its Fusion Summon (even if you do not control it).

How would you improve Yu-Gi-Oh's collectability? That seems to be one of the problems for why stores don't buy boxes

>>96109433
The problem is not collectability. Stores don't buy boxes because of how quickly one set invalidates the ones that precede them since by default we play in one format, causing the older boxes to collect dust. And heaven forbid you have an outright stinker like Duels from the Deep (this at least had good Shark support) or a directionless stinker like Blazing Vortex (this had 0 good cards in it). You're never getting rid of that shit. A lot of store owners have been pretty candid on this topic since ultimately they're the ones getting burned if they can't move their product.

There's a number of potential solutions. The TCG organizers in particular could start giving a shit and start curating alternate formats that aren't just Time Wizard variants. The TCG organizers could either import Tactical Try and its OCG format, or alternatively give a shit about Rivalry. They could reign in the power creep with sets moving forward a little bit so that one set isn't instantly invalidated by the next. As long as they stop printing sets that are a combination of bad, useless, and undesirable, everything will work out in the end.

>>96108038 (OP)
>TQ: What deck are you playing in the upcoming format?
Gonna keep playing the same one I have been, a custom combination of Centur-Ion, White Forest, and Blue-Eyes. Thus far, it's felt less like I lost due to my opponents having a far stronger deck than me and moreso that I'm dogshit at piloting it.

>>96109433
Currently, the cards of interest are incredibly top-heavy with only a small handful of interest which gets tripled down on thanks to the OCG having a 6 month lead that causes people to know what works and zero in on it.

You would want a two part shift in what is currently being done:
>Catch up with the OCG for simultaneous releases. This can be achieved by taking a page from the early days of the game and combining multiple OCG sets into singular TCG sets.
>Simultaneously take advantage of the larger card pools in these bigger packs to design the packs so that the sets are more playable in draft.
In order to sustain things past the catchup point, we take some inspiration from Quarter Century Bonanza, and have each pack loosely structured as:
>4 Commons from a "Draft" Pool composed of old cards, engines, etc that have previously seen tournament success
>4 Commons from the Main Pool of the pack
>1 Higher Rarity Card from the Main Pool of the pack

no one wants fucking draft. jesus fucking christ every fucking time someone has to bring up fucking draft. 99% of the fucking playerbase doest not a fuck about draft.

>>96109657
Okay, but given how Konami has burned collectors by reprinting rarities they said they wouldn't and a limited ability to leverage nostalgia, and the tight coupling of archetypes - what incentive is there to crack packs for TCG players? The problem is that if nobody is cracking packs, card shops aren't buying, which creates a feedback loop that makes YGO even less popular.

>>96109657
Yugioh is one of the worst draft games in the world. Of course people don't want to do it with this game.
>aw sweet! regenesis dragon, tensei ryu-ge anva, cyber jormungardr, livetwin lil-la sweet, wizard @ignister, prima materiactor, filia regis, juraishin, and steamed sabersaurus! I can absolutely build a playable deck based on these cards!
Maybe if you set up a Cube, but not fucking Draft.

>>96109850
Not all games need to be draftable.

>>96109713
Fuck collectors.

>>96109873
>Fuck collectors.
It's far better to have people scalping extra shiny collectable cards instead of staples.

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/132773235

>>96109657
The current state of affairs has it so that Draft can't really be played with Yu-Gi-Oh packs. Making it better could help significantly.

Though more importantly is that older rogue engines and archetypes get a good amount of reprints so you don't have random decks that cost $300 because they were printed in only one deck build pack, situations like the Trident Dragion shortage, get reprints of old banned cards without it feeling like shit, get the OCG exclusives that are never imported printed, get cards that never had PSCT prints actually updated, and the like. If actual draft works out, so much the better.


>>96109873
>Not all games need to be draftable.
This proposal's replacing 4 commons drawing from the main set with a subset of ~200. You'll still be getting 4 commons from the primary ~70 card set with the higher rarity stuff being completely untouched. Even with this cutdown, you are still basically guaranteed to get every single common of the main set from the box and dupes of several cards on top of that.

>>96109873
>Not all games need to be draftable.
I don't disagree. It's just that this is the worst Draft game in the scene and it shouldn't be a surprise that people don't want to do it.

Maybe the other anon was talking about doing cubes, or a progression draft series. Those can be nice if you're in it for the long haul but otherwise this game is just not for drafting.

>local card shop
>message them online a purchase list
>the list is Aromage Jasmine, Aromaseraphy Jasmine, DoSolfachord Cutia, Garden Rose Maiden, Marincess Blue Slug, Pilica, Descendant of Gusto, Primula the Rikka Fairy, Ritual Beast Ulti-Pettlephin, Speaker for the Ice Barriers, Susurrus of the Sinful Spoils, Sylvan Princessprout
>"sure, it'll be ready today"
>walk into the store "hey I'm here to pick up my cards"
>check out at register, clerk asks "so do you like collecting or do you just like the art?"
>answer I'm building a deck for my niece with cards she picked out
>"oh ok that's cool"
I feel bad. Not because I was embarrassed or anything. I didn't stutter or be awkward or anything. Hell, I would have been completely fine with answering "yes I really love cute monsters a lot" but it felt like the "wrong" answer, as if I shouldn't have been truthful.

Yu-Gi-Oh! is hard.

Those were only the ones I couldn't get in a single cart at tcgplayer by the way. I have a fuckton more cute cards coming in the mail.

>playing some friendlies at locals
>VS vaalmonica fiendsmith
>after the duel is over (i won), he asks if i want to see his trade binder
>yeah sure
>actually has a lot of good shit, at good prices too
>i have exactly 20 dollars in my wallet
>buy a QCR rafflesia for my long forgotten traptrix deck, and a esper girl because she's one of my favorite cards (genuinely didn't even know she got a QCR)
>as soon as i get home, i pass out in the couch
>wake up, remember i bought new cards so i take them out of the deck box to store in a binder until i find a use for them
>when i go back to the couch to watch some TV before i go to sleep again, esper girl is right fucking there, just sitting still
>even though it's obviously a dream, it doesn't register immediately
>ask her what she's doing there
>"i live here"
>ask if she's hungry
>"yes"
>tell her to go take a bath first, then i'll whip up something for her
>she agrees and goes upstairs
>go upstairs as well and ask if she needs help undressing
>she takes off her boots, shorts and shirt on her own, then asks me for help with the thermal underwear (?) she's wearing underneath
>reaches out to me for some reason, like she wants me to lift her
>i kneel down instead, immediately bury my head in her crotch and take a deep whiff
>before the scent and warmth hits my brain, i wake up for real
Ok, what the FUCK does this mean? This is the first time i dream of anything yugioh related and it's a fucking wet dream of sorts that doesn't even make sense. Why esper girl? Why wasn't it rafflesia instead?

>>96110265
>Why esper girl?
Because Esper Girl is CUTE. CUTE!!!

And you might also be a lolicon.

Why can't we get good Lost Art?

>>96109873
Collectors subsidize the cost of actually playing the game, it's why pokemon is extremely cheap. Collectors spend big money on special rare versions of cards which lets everything else be cheaper.

>>96109433
>bad card stock quality
>loss of trust in konami because of shit like the starlight qcr fiasco
>nobody gives a fuck about anything beyond DM anime nostalgia
>yugioh has no real eternal format, so everything you buy outside of generic staples is guaranteed to become unplayable in a few years once it gets powercrept or hit by the ban list

>>96110495
It just really seems like the TCG is in a pickle

>>96110284
I love synchro psychics. They're my favorite "archetype"

>>96110495
>>yugioh has no real eternal format, so everything you buy outside of generic staples is guaranteed to become unplayable in a few years once it gets powercrept or hit by the ban list
Sky Striker shit still remains relevant 7 years after their debut through Yummy and Maliss, but keep telling yourself that I guess

>>96110446
Pokemon is extremely cheap in the west for the same reason that Yugioh is extremely cheap in Japan, being that the higher rarities are purely optional and everything has a reasonable rarity spread that makes it feasible for people to get what they need purely from opening packs. Case in point, most Dragonmaid and Vanquish Soul cards are common to rare in the OCG, while almost all of their cards are ultras in the TCG, and there's no practical reason for them to have been imported that way.

>>96111822
>and there's no practical reason for them to have been imported that way
The practical reason is that Konami in the west has to make all their money from players because there is almost no collector interest in their products. In Japan it's much more balanced so they can afford to drop rarities on playable cards - they know they'll make their money back on collector-focused cards and items (like the complete file series).
When you're relying entirely on your playerbase to make profits it drives you to make predatory decisions like rarity bumps and banlist shenanigans because otherwise you'd make no money.

>>96111975
>The practical reason is that Konami in the west has to make all their money from players because there is almost no collector interest in their products
Are you serious? The franchise where people gladly paid $400 for a $50 briefcase and $10 worth of cards doesn't have enough collector interest? The franchise where people paid $1000 for a 99% silver copy of Blue-Eyes White Dragon (as in the real-life metal, Silver) doesn't have enough collector interest? You believe THAT'S why the game is so expensive?

Here's a little bit of homework for you. Google "Kevin Tewart Job" and then "Kevin Tewart Clown Gas" and you'll understand why the secondary market is so over-inflated. I'll even help you with your homework a little bit and tell you that he absolutely hates the secondary market and does everything in his power to make shit expensive on the secondary market. Then, google Konami Internal Trading That Grass Looks Greener and you'll get a broader perspective on why the secondary market for this game in particular is so bumfucked.

>>96110495
>yugioh has no real eternal format
Its actually sad. I'm trying to sell my stuff and separated it into 2002-2016 cards to keep and the 2017 links-current stuff which Im going to sell. I came across Kashtira, King Regulus, Snake eyes, etc and started thinking about how I only got a year or so out of them. Meanwhile, the old box has Lightsworn, Blackwings, Six Sams, Synchros, Agents, Glad beast and so on that I can put together for around 7~ years worth of time wizard formats. Im definitely going to keep the legacy support for these decks, but it's kind of miserable looking back and seeing my money/hobby go from lasting so long on a local level to only lasting 6 months to around a year. I also dont see anyone wanting to play Tear, Snake Eyes, or Adamancipator format anytime soon for Time Wizard so I dont worry that I wont be able to re-buy these decks in the next 5 years if I want to pick the modern game up again.
Granted, yes, theres some outliers like Spright being a decent small engine up to around last year and Snake Eyes getting a good run, but what you said is true. Buying a card for $50-$70 only for it to get banned or phased out in a year, or even less sometimes, sucks and is part of the reason Im moving on for the time being.

>>96112005
>That Grass Looks Greener
>Kevin Tewart Clown Gas
It's happened more often than you think. I've been in for 20 years and used to know the older guys who were the Jesse Kottons back in 2008-17~ and they always knew what was getting unbanned a week to two weeks prior to the banlists dropping. Last time I talked to any of them was 2017 and I still have a playset of Ghost rare Solemn Judgments from one of them letting me know it was going to 1.

Tewart's mingling with people on Pojo back in the day probably was part of the reason the info got out so easy. People forget that Jerome Mchale was a big player back in the day and part of the reason he got the job was old school forum posting and insights on the game we get from Youtubers nowadays. Tewart's time on Pojo was nothing short of being a lolcow who was out of touch with players even back then.

>>96112147
You could probably drum up interest for Tear format pretty easily, actually. It's one of those divisive formats where people either love it to death for the mirror (or functional mirror), or hate it because their decks didn't benefit from it.

And for what it's worth, I still get longevity (though not competitive success) out of a lot of my old cards. Sky Striker, Virtual World, Dogmatika, a few Kashtira cards here and there, a good chunk of my Branded core, lots of timeless cards that fare better than others going into the future. Kinda sucks how dirty they did Snake-Eye, but they wouldn't have been done that dirty if they didn't print a card like Original Sinful Spoils in the first place.

>>96112005
That doesn't help big box stores or card shops sell cards. And if they don't sell, they don't stock. And if they don't stock, nobody plays especially without an anime to drum up interest. Fundamentally, gambling on the value of singles as play pieces in a set is betting against the house. So you need to make cracking packs fun in some way.

It certainly does not help the TCG that in a lot of ways the fucking f2p whale-subsidized game Master Duel is a superior and less predatory experience to paper.

>>96112216
I guess what I'm saying is that the longevity issue is compounded by the loss of casual players to Time Wizard and the legacy support often being worthless alongside the way the game rotates stuff out. You are right that a lot of this stuff does have the ability to stand up still in the meta, but it shows it's age way faster in the current game.
I remember getting top 4 at a 30 person locals with Blackwings in the middle of Towers turbo format by Icarus attacking scales with Pinaki. Thats one of the last times I remember a deck being able to win off a simple +1 strategy. Now, we do have situations where stuff like the Ice Barrier and Mermail legacy support takes off, but then you also have the situation we're in where stuff like voiceless and tenpai got left in the dust even on a local level because the competitive players, who are the only ones left, switch over as soon as possible. This probably makes it seem worse, because the main people left at my 3 locals I go to, all within an hour drive, are the people who drop $200 each other format to switch engines.

>>96112271
The reason that those old boxes don't sell is either because they fucking stink (Duels from the Deep and Blazing Vortex immediately come to mind) or get power-crept immediately in the next sets (Darkwing Blast boxes have been piling up at my store). They have nothing to do with collectability but you're trying to make it a matter of collectability. Putting it simply, you're drawing a false equivalence while not having all of the necessary information to make an informed opinion.

>>96112271
>So you need to make cracking packs fun in some way.
You know how you can do that? By firing the person that actively sucks the fun out of opening packs by rarity bumping all of the playable cards to the fucking moon.

>>96112280
Them banning Bahamut Shark instead of Toad was a mistake on their part because Bahamut is one of the only rank 4 water monsters that make Sharks and most of the cards in Duels from the deep playable in terms of water combos. The other was Abyss Dweller.

>>96112280
All you are proving is that YGO chase cards aren't interesting to collectors, and that buying packs to gamble their singles value as a result of competitive viability is a money-losing proposition, especially in a game that has its banlist and powecreep as the primary mechanism to entice people to buy new product.

>>96112280
>The reason that those old boxes don't sell is either because they fucking stink
And why do they stink anon? What makes those old sets such bad buys?
>>96112280
>They have nothing to do with collectability
Why is it that boxes of 5-year old pokemon sets are selling for hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars while yugioh sets from that era are dirt cheap?

>>96112308
>Collectors don't care about chase cards
Sure they don't. So anyway, here's all of the QCSR cards that collectors care about.

>and that buying packs to gamble their singles value as a result of competitive viability is a money-losing proposition
Yes, and the articulable reason for that is Kevin Tewart rarity bumping everything so that people need to buy more packs to sell cards on the secondary market. If you did your homework then you might actually understand what you're talking about. They do not have this issue in OCG territories. They still have secondary markets, but they are spending $20-30 at most whereas $45-90 is a generous starting offer for a lot of the same cards in the west.

>>96112351
>>96112323
QCSR's are the answer to Konami trying to follow in Pokemon's footsteps. Half the reason Pokemon boxes keep value is because they can easily print your favorite Pokemon in a new art or rarity and you will will buy it. Yugioh started doing this with Starlight rares and then QCSR's by reprinting things like Effect Veiler but as a $200 rarity for people looking to max out their decks. I have actively upgraded my decks with high rarity prints or more expensive alt arts for the sole reason of collecting. Outside of that, I do agree there's zero reason for our rarity bumps and Im happy to see that the community still vehemently hates Tewart.
Not arguing, just pointing something out.

>>96112323
>And why do they stink anon?
Are you asking me why Blazing Vortex sucks as a set? It had 0 good cards in it, in both the competitive and casual senses. War Rock not only didn't turn out to be the competitive powerhouse that people imagined it would be, but additionally sucked in casual duels where they couldn't even out-perform the worst meta decks in the format. And that was basically all the set had going for it. It had no chase cards, the randomly sprinkled-in support for better archetypes wasn't good enough, and the archetype that the set wanted to sell itself on was disastrously bad.

Are you asking me why Duels from the Deep sucked? It was a strong support set but not for anything that was meta-relevant. The Shark support was good and the prospect of pulling Forbidden Droplet during a time when it was a scarce card were nice, but none of the archetypes that it supported were impactful enough that the singular chase card in the set made it worth buying (having exactly 1 chase card didn't help its case either).

We can keep going with other sets like the flavor-of-the-month deckbuilder sets like Amazing Defenders, or cases like Wild Survivors where all of the good cards (which are currently meta relevant btw) were printed in unpullable rarities.

>Why is it that boxes of 5-year old pokemon sets are selling for hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars while yugioh sets from that era are dirt cheap?
Because Pokemon is an investor game where a bunch of grown men buy up all the cards with the hope that they get the next Charizard. The singular good thing about Yugioh in the TCG is that we have a strong annual reprint policy that prevents high-value cards from staying locked behind individual sets forever. It deters the investerino behavior that plagues a game like Pokemon.

>>96112351
Clearly, that's not enough for card shops to stock YGO.

>muh rarity bumping
The reduced rarity makes them less valuable in the OCG. You are still betting against the house and losing in the OCG if you are trying to make money buying sets and cracking packs. One thing the OCG does better is have smaller sets with less waste for the landfill.

I dislike rarity bumping too, but I don think it would make make stocking YGO more viable for card shops if they used the OCG rarity structure. They would just lose even more on the singles values of their set.

>>96112372
>QCSR's are the answer to Konami trying to follow in Pokemon's footsteps.
I'm not even going to acknowledge the rest of your post because it's probably some retarded bullshit that only analyzes the western state of the game. Specialty rarities are closer to how they do it in the OCG, where again high-rarity cards are mostly optional upgrades to your sets.

You can believe whatever you want to, but you should not speak as though you're informed on the things you're pretending to be knowledgeable about.

>>96112388
"Reduced rarity?" Motherfucker, they are the original rarities. And do you know *why* they are less valuable on the OCG's secondary market? Because unlike in the TCG, you can actually pull them from packs. They actually turn a profit without relying on underhanded tactics like waiting 6 months to see what does well and manhandling the product in response to that.

>>96112378
>Because Pokemon is an investor game where a bunch of grown men buy up all the cards with the hope that they get the next Charizard. The singular good thing about Yugioh in the TCG is that we have a strong annual reprint policy that prevents high-value cards from staying locked behind individual sets forever. It deters the investerino behavior that plagues a game like Pokemon.
You are so wrong it is not even funny. Pokemon reprints its competitive cards into the dirt.

Scalpers are buying on the collectability of chase cards, not the competitive viability of singles - which is why Pokemon is the cheapest game to play competitively of the Big 3.

>>96112391
You can't argue that it's not alt rarities designed to be chased in the same way Pokemon has alt rarities designed to be chased.

>>96112378
>The singular good thing about Yugioh in the TCG is that we have a strong annual reprint policy that prevents high-value cards from staying locked behind individual sets forever
Can you name a single currently playable pokemon card that's locked behind a single high-value printing?

>>96112412
Yes I can, because you're insisting that Pokemon's TCG invented that concept as though it's the only game in the world that does that. You're also ignoring the fact that Yugioh has been doing this for years with other rarities-- namely Collector's Rares, Ghost Rares, Ultimate Rares, Gold/Premium Gold Rares, so on and so forth. MtG did it before both of them too. You are again, drawing a false equivalence for something that is ultimately a standard practice amongst TCGs.

>>96112435
Did I mention Pokemon? Stupid investor RAT. Reading is hard so I'm going to reduce it to meme carrot format just for your simple mind.
>why are yugioh sets from 5 years ago dirt cheap?
>Because we have a good reprint policy
>All of the cards from those sets 5 years ago were reprinted at least 4 years ago

>>96112351
Ah yes, the noted collector's chase card, Dominus Impulse. Many is the night I've laid awake fantasizing about adding it to my collection.

>>96112460
Are you retarded or did you just not bother to check the post I was replying to?

>>96112396
Go look at the OCG singles market, retard. You don't make money on the singles values of a set most of the time. The only thing adopting the OCG model would accomplish would be to cause card shops (which already have a marginal business model) to lose more money on TCG sets.

The problem is that people don't buy packs. Why don't people buy packs? Because draft is basically unplayable unless you get most of the archetype pieces (lol). Because the chase cards aren't worth it for investorinos. Because the regular foils interesting enough for casual collectors. Because you would lose money cracking them for the strong competitive cards.

The question ultimately becomes: how do you make cracking packs worthwhile? I don't have a good answer. At least in Master Duel you can convert the pack filler into material for competitively viable cards.

>>96112471
It is a meta-relevant chase card that's played as a 3of in Maliss, yes. If you actually played the game then you might understand what our chase cards are.

Dumb fucking non-playing investerino.

>>96112489
>You don't make money on the singles values of a set most of the time.
Yes, slimey investor. That's because Konami makes money on their own product in the OCG because they don't molest the rarities in the OCG. The secondary market is weaker because the primary market is stronger.

>>96112444
A standard practice we didn't see in YGO's main sets for years after they got rid of Ultimate rares in 2016. Starlights and later QCR's were their answer to bringing it back when they realized the mistake. All the prints you said kept going in reprint packs while Starlights and similar were put into main sets to be chase cards for collectors. I also was replying to yours and the pokemon post above you which is why I brought them up. I'm not saying that Pokemons the only one that did it, nor am I the anon you think you are replying to.
You're sperging out so hard you don't realize I'm agreeing with you on most of your posts.

>>96112471
Hey, it was good for all of 2 weeks back in January...

>>96112499
Well, YGO draft is a joke. The chase cards aren't valuable enough to justify sets.

What other metric is there for card shops to use to determine whether or not to stock YGO than the competitive viability of singles on the secondary market? It's not like people are cracking packs for fun like they used to.

>>96112528
>Back in January
You mean 6 days ago
>18 out of 64 Maliss tops at NA WCQ 2025, 5 in top 16, and runner-up to an Orcust deck
>Every one maxing on Impulse

>>96112494
>It is a meta-relevant chase card that's played as a 3of in Maliss, yes
And what part of that makes it interesting to collectors anon? Or what about the mulcharmies? Do you think collectors are the ones chasing those cards?
>>Dumb fucking non-playing investerino
Again, did you just not bother reading the post I was replying to? The discussion was about collectability, not who playable the card was.

>>96112570
>The discussion was about collectability
Then what exactly is your metric for "collectability?" Please articulate, because cards that are relevant to players that are printed in collector's rarities are something that I would say a collector is interested in. Would you say a Collector's Rare Transaction Rollback doesn't have any value to collectors? Why or why not? What about a Premium Gold Accesscode Talker?

Impulse has high collector value because it has a sexy blue skinned dragon lady on it

>>96112822
True. How could I have missed that.

>>96112351
If I ever dropped $100+ on a single it'd be that Elzette.
I love cute little witches so much.

>>96112897
God, Saffira is so hot.

>>96112444
Those gold cards look so ugly.

>>96112947
Some of them have their appeal

Speaking of rarities and collectors, can any of you experts offer your informed predictions on the price of this Ohime alt once she releases in the west?
She's currently being sold for ~$100 in Japanese markets.

>>96112947
It's weird, I quite like the gold embossing in other card games (like pic related). It just looks off in yugioh cards.

>>96112966
Nice.

>>96112984
If I had to wager a guess I'd say it's because the gold doesn't mesh well with the brown of the rest of the card.
Maybe if the brown fill was gold too.

>>96112971
>TTP
I'm going to be a little pessimistic if you're looking for a high price and say that since it's in a Tactical Try pack, it's probably not going to come to the west for a long while wherein it's imported in a random set long after Mikanko has any potential for being playable (whereas since it's under the Tactical Try umbrella in the OCG, Mikanko should be playable for a good while since they have a dedicated format for that). That being said; Unless it's imported in a freakishly high rarity, I predict that it'll debut as a $60 in the west and normalize to something around half or a third of that if it ISN'T in a freakishly high rarity.

If you're looking for a low price, then I guess that pessimism can be viewed as optimism instead.

>>96113059
One alternate possibility: They start importing Tactical Try decks as Structure Decks and they come with the alt arts

>>96112947
completely true except for gold xyz imo, the gold borders look really cool with the black background

>>96113059
As long as she comes out worldwide at all then I can wait. Thanks, $20-$30 is a lot more digestible than $100.
>If you're looking for a low price
I am, probably should have specified. It's nice art so I I'd like to have her. Only way I'd pull the trigger on buying the OCG version now is if Konami censors her for some inexplicable reason.
I had to buy Solitaire Magician JP (ソリテア・マジカル) of all things because bare chibi hips are much too spicy apparently.

>>96113163
That does sound a lot better. Got a favorite?

>>96113184
NTA but I'm partial to Numerounius and Numerounius Numerounia. The gold borders and the general composition of their card artwork make for a good combination. Same with Cyber Dragon Infinity's gold variant.

>>96113223
And here's CyDra Infinity. It kind of feels like the rarity was tailor-made for this card.

>>96113223
>>96113230
Yeah those look great it's definitely the brown making the whole picture unpleasant for regular cards. Not like they can do much to change it.
Maybe all gold and call them millennium cards or something instead.

>>96113184
gold utopia the lightning looks pretty sweet, someone showed up to my locals a couple weeks back with a page full of them and i've thought about picking one up for myself because they're cheap

now i want a gold rare dracossack
why have they never made one

>>96113266
I'd definitely say that it's weakest on regular Effect Monsters. Here's a handful of golds from my collection (not all of them, just a few that I had on-hand). If I were to rate it based on these then I'd rank it as
>Xyz
>Link and Synchro tied for 2nd
>Trap
>Spell
>Effect Monster

One of the issues with these cards was chipping btw. My copy of Torrential Tribute came looking like that unfortunately.

>>96113488
It looks really, really good on Charge Warrior. It also has that thing going on with its effect box that the Ghost Sister I posted earlier in the thread has.

If Konami really wanted to appeal to "collectors" they'd need to start putting in full art, extremely hard to pull Dark Magician/anime cards in every set.

>>96113488
I'd rank them more or less the same as you except trap on the same tier as Synchro. Synchro is pure sex and trap card purple + gold is pure royalty. Link looks ok. Not bad not great.

But what the fuck were they thinking with spell cards? Looking like that, I honestly hope the gold version is worth less than the non-gold.

>>96113503
That's a cool idea. If Pokemon and MTG do it why not Yu-Gi-Oh! too? More alternate art would be nice as well.
Bring in some guest artists for them and I've just spent hundreds on cardboard.

Every customer wants to be Kaiba, so give them Secret Lairs containing limited print run exclusive overpowered cards that can never get banned. Basically bring back the SJC prize card situation, but sell them directly instead and never reprint any of it. If customers cry about it being unfair that they can’t play with the cards, you just point them to your digital client where they can buy premium tickets to use the digital versions in limited time buy-in events.

>>96113638
>More alternate art would be nice as well.
It would just be for popular anime cards, mostly DM shit. Game original cards wouldn't get anything because normie collectors don't care about those.

>>96113684
>It would just be for popular anime cards
The two-sided blade of having a popular show to back your card game. Brings people in but they end up only caring about references to it.
Guess alt art only works for other TCG because the playerbase is way different.

>>96113610
Spells look like, okay in this rarity I think. I included the shot in the topleft at that freaky angle because I think that the lighting for it was kind of neat. I also think it's something where the card artwork will make or break the overall look.

>>96113684
>Game original cards wouldn't get anything because normie collectors don't care about those.
They do not care about where the cards come from. The only thing that matters to a collector is that a card is recognizable, or at the very least that they themselves recognize it.

Ash Blossom. Fallen of Albaz. Sky Striker Ace - Raye. These are three such cards that you could make full arts for that everyone would love to have. None of them are anime originals but they are some of the most recognizable cards in the game.

As a retro format boomer I would pay out the ass for a set of full art Monarchs.

>>96113798
How about full art Monarchs with 300 more ATK and a sent to GY trigger attached to the original effects? Only 50 USD per box.

>>96113763
>Raye
Never understood the appeal of this one.

What would be your ideal Time Wizard format? I would kill for just 2002 and 2003. Chaos stuff is too dominant in Goat

>>96113934
>Strike Witches-inspired sword princess with cool exosuits
What's not to get?

>>96113934
She’s vanilla ice cream and her deck is/was strong, that’s all you need.

>>96113990
The one where we slowly add newer cards until we realize that we are playing the modern game again.

>>96114015
Dude I wanna go BACK not forwards

>>96114024
But Yugioh isn’t fun unless I’m using new cards to curb stomp old cards.

>>96113990
>2004 so I can play fiends again or any format with Witch legal
>2014 HAT
>2015 right after the Djinn got banned

What sucks about Time Wizard is every single format is around 5 cards away from being really good. Like Brain Control in Goat or Soul Charge being at 3 in Hat. Then, looking back at MR3, there's around 8 years of the game when cards like Bestiari or Stratos could have come back with little impact other than adding another playable deck to the format.
My ideal would be around mid 2015 with a legitimate banlist that combined a little bit of all the formats together.

>>96113839
You're probably referencing some later Monarch support that I don't know about but I literally just want to rub 3x full art Mobius and Thestalos all over myself.

Maiden of the Aqua has to have the biggest tits in all of Yugioh right?
Her beaming smile would make sense then.

>>96114418
It’s just a shitpost, the real nu-Monarch cards are actually way more loaded with effects and stats than that.

>>96114150
>not using old cards to curb stomp new cards
The joy of just dropping Lava Golems and super polying end boards dumbass kids spent their entire allowance on is what keeps me going.

>>96114460
She's still the best, but many have tried to step up to challenge her.

>huge tits
Disgusting, this is a flatty thread.

>reprint a bunch of old cards for retro formats
>kill off retro formats right afterwards
wow i wonder why nobody wants to buy yugioh products anymore??? why wouldn't you trust konami to ensure that all of the cardboard you bought doesn't suddenly become worthless the week after you buy it?

>>96115333
To be honest the mental cuckery it takes to pay for cardboard you could legit print and sleeve at home is insane the model wasnt going to last.
Its okay when a good deck costs 80 quid, but dropping hundreds on thin ass cardboard you can just print is insane.
Id like to buy a printer and just print and sleeve a massive goat era cube.

>>96115333
>TCG once again does something retarded and out-of-touch
>Somehow that's a problem with Konami as a whole and not the boobs that need to be fired from our side
Friendly reminder but calamitous fuck-ups like this just do not happen with the OCG. They don't predicate everything they do outside of releasing new sets on appealing to the oldest common denominator.

>Speed Duel comes out
>Erm... sorry. Oldheads aren't making us enough money, so we're going to sunset the product line.
>Time Wizard starts getting popular and they start printing retro sets
>Erm... sorry. Oldheads aren't making us enough money, so we're using Master Duel's Time Travel rules and removing Time Wizard from our events after we rugpulled you!
>How do you do, fellow kids(34y/os)! We heard you like Dark Magician, so here's some merchandise that we hope that you'll buy!

Meanwhile, in the OCG:
>Here's a new product line: TACTICAL TRY. To make things easier for new players, we are making pre-constructed decks with this series themed around fan-favorite archetypes that are designed with low-level competitive play in mind
>Don't worry about wasting your money. We're making a side format specifically tailored around these sets that allow you to do light amounts of deckbuilding, just enough that there's some variance while keeping the themed decks at the forefront.
>Also, here's 2 more deck themes and some sets that give them new support.

I know it's the most cliche suggestion ever but set rotation solves pretty much every problem endangering this game.
>lets game designers rein in power and complexity creep without mass bans or errata
>reduces the number of cards new players need to learn
>reduces the number of cards retro boomers need to learn to jump to modern, enticing them to buy new products
>attracts collectors by letting them show off old prints of returning cards and collect new artwork on classics
>gives investors confidence by stabilizing the economy with set rotation dates and fewer surprise bans
>makes stores less hesitant to stock product because every single set adds to the playable card pool

Not saying there are 0 downsides because there are obviously a lot, but I really think it's about time they just sucked it up and did it.

>>96115761
>>lets game designers rein in power and complexity creep without mass bans or errata
Stop and think about what you're writing there. Konami has demonstratively destroyed every single low-power format they've made for the hell of it. Duel Links got completely bumfucked by skills and the last thing that was added to Speed Duel was a skill that literally let you put any card you wanted into your hand. What makes you believe they're going to use set rotation as an excuse to reign in the power when it just means they don't have to worry about anything that came in the previous rotation?

>>96115786
Yeah Konami sucks, but imo complexity creep is the bigger problem than power creep, and set rotation conveniently lets them address both whenever they want. Pokemon has set rotation and the game's still been powercrept to hell number-wise, but the cards still have pretty easy to follow effects. The devs don't have to come up with extremely complicated interactions and/or conditions gating those interactions to make every new card feel unique from every other playable card. So yeah, power creep will still exist, but it still gives the devs the option to reduce it while also allowing them to make interactions feel unique without adding complexity that scares away new players.

>>96113934
One (technically two) monsters and the rest of your deck spells, she can tag out into different suits that all do different things. With the last wave of support she got, she can OTK on a empty field, something she struggled to do before linkage. She has a bit of synergy with tenpai, who can also OTK with a single card, but unlike sky striker it can put output tens of thousands of damage. And with the support she got in DUAD, she got some genuinely incredible tools that let her be a meta contender again (she's hovering in tier 3 with lunalight and crystron).

Looks wise, she's a pretty blonde girl in a vaguely militaristic school uniform, i'd call you gay for not seeing the appeal of it, but even fags and women love the deck.

>>96116042
mock play a perfect hand

>>96116063
nyo

>>96116063
NTA but I don't really think there is a perfect Sky Striker opening hand. There's a lot of variance in the opening plays that basically just boil down to "Get 3 Spells in the GY so that your archetypal Pot of Greed is online" since there's no OPT restriction (in exchange for a zoning restriction) on their spells. It's a pretty non-linear deck.

>Vector Blast milling 2 cards
If those 2 cards were Spells, Engage(Archetypal Pot of Greed) is online and you get to do whatever you want.
>Upstart Goblin x3
Engage is now online and you get to do whatever you want
>ROTA + Hornet Drones + Linkage
This is a 3-card combo but at least one of those two can be put in your hand with Engage. What that does is get you into Ace=Zero searching an additional copy of Engage and giving you the ability to link her off into Kagari (by the effect of Linkage) to recover Engage and continue searching tech. If you can conduct your BP then you can instead summon Hayate and dump a card, which puts Engage online.

>I have Multirole in my starting hand
This enables you to do two things, being to give yourself absolute priority (ie your opponent can't ash your cards) and letting you recover a bunch of the spells you activate during the EP. You can also use it to put a going-second Sky Striker spell into the GY in the event that you go first and draw into something like Shark Cannon or Afterburners.

>>96116265
Also,
>Vector Blast
It's not peoples' first option, but I like to run it since it can be a pretty good counter to some nasty monsters in this format. In addition to its Mill 2 effect, it also bounces monsters from the EMZ if there's 3 spells in the GY.

Speaking of which, all Sky Striker spells have additional effects if you have 3 or more spells in your GY. Widow Anchor steals, Afterburners is non-targeting backrow removal, Jamming Waves is the inverse, Shark Cannon can be weaponized Monster Reborn, so on and so forth.

>>96116293
One play I've been enjoying recently in my Runick Sky Striker deck
>CL1 Linkage
>CL2 Widow Anchor (3 spells in GY)
>Chain resolves; Steal a monster, link it off with Linkage into Kagari or Kaina (depending on the gamestate)
>More Engage shenanigans if I still have Sky Striker cards in my deck, otherwise start recovering the spells for more interruption
I felt my third eye opening when this became standard in my plays.

The upcoming Yummy archetype also likes to run Sky Striker as a mini-package since Hornet Drones and Kagari equals one of their Synchro Monsters, since they treat Link-1s as Level 1s. So you can Hornet Drones into Kagari recovering Hornet Drones summoning a second token (Level 1) to go into Cupsie searching 2 Yummy monsters. If you're a freak then you can also summon Raye for 3 linkchro materials instead of 2, but it also enables you to summon the monsters you search off of Cupsie for mostly-free.

>>96116380
>raye goes on an arcade date and eats sweets
that's pretty cute bruh ngl

Learned the nearest comic store does Edison, any suggestions on a deck that fulfills some combo of
>Fun
>Won’t break the bank
>won’t piss off the other guys playing

>>96117669
>wanting to be another edison combo tranny (or god forbid, a vayutroon) instead of a chad norleras turbo enthusiast

>>96117669
pretty much every deck has a chance of pissing someone off somehow, i was going to suggest lightsworn because most cards have been reprinted at low rarity and/or as part of a structure deck but milling 2-3 wulfs can make people ragequit. i think machina is cheap too but i don't play it.

>>96117669
>deck that wont make someone else angry
impossible, the salt will always flow

>>96117867
>Jinzo OTK
Color me intrigued; at a glance it seems like good old fashioned Future Fusion abuse I'm guessing?

>>96113638
They are, if you count Rush Duels.

We still have zero idea why its not been imported yet. They are literally dubbing the second anime featuring that right now, if I recall right.

>>96115761
>>96115786
The weird thing about YGO is that there's a lot of evidence of series based rotation in the design of certain cards.
>Early XYZ era Cards like Gagaga magician cannot be used for Synchro summons
>Early link era cards being different levels with no tuners so no XYZ or Synchro plays
>Early Synchro era cards like The Tricky and Big Piece Golem being easy to summon level 5s in place of Cyber Dragon. Or Sonic chick and other level 2's having protection and being designed to be played with Junk Synchron.
There's a lot of design choices where, if the game had rotation base on series or years, each Anime series would have a corresponding format akin to 2005 Goat format in terms of speed. Even moreso, you have cards that inherently were put in to kind of force new mechanics early on like Gagaga magician. On top of this, if it did have rotation like other games, the starter decks would have ensured that cards like MST, Heavy, and so on were never out of rotation and would have given the designers easier control over older cards being in the meta as opposed to the banlist having 15+ year card bans.
The design, replacements, and ability is there and could have been done similar to OPT's, Xenolocks, and so on. But they just choose never to do it and just continue kill off any semblance of balance yearly.

Would it still be useless?

>>96120960
>Would a Vanilla monster that requires a total of 9 monsters bring out be useless?
Yes you fucking moron. It is still a vanilla monster that has worse effects than all three of the monsters you're tributing. That's why the new Gate Guardian support lets you use any instances of the cards on the field and lets you put them in your backrow.

>>96121059
Read the effect

>>96121062
>durr, i win the duel if i put this on the field!
After you either burn through 9 monsters to put it on the field or use better cards to cheat it out. Better cards that you can just kill your opponent with, at that.

>>96120960
This is funny because I just made a dumb card just like this. It sucks really bad, but it makes for some good dumb fun.

>>96121186
lol share

>>96121215
It’s pretty much the same as that Gate Guardian, but its summoning restriction is that you have to use another monster’s effect to get it out. It has piercing, because of course it would, but it has to attack directly to instantly win the duel.

>>96120960
Sanga / Kazejin / Suijin are level 7s, make it a Rank 7 Xyz that requires 3 different attribute material so it can be summoned with the newly-unbanned Dragon Rulers. Give it some powerful effect like switching cards in your graveyard with removed from play cards (whoa dude it's *guarding* the *gate* between dimensions!!!) that also synergizes with the rulers, or give it some attribute-related effect to reference its summoning condition (Gozen Match for your opponent but with a big monster attached). It's a classic fan-favorite monster that nostalgiafags love, make it stupidly strong.

>>96120960
>Would the card that FTKs off a 3x skull dread combo be useless?
We already have simpler FTKs that also go through 3x skull dread, making this one just another in the list of FTKs it can preform. So yes it's useless in a way.
It also does nothing to actually help the gate guardian archetype so it's useless in that sense too.

Darkest Before the Blue Dawn (Normal Spell)
Tribute 1 DARK Normal Monster with 1000 or less original ATK; Add 1 "Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon" from your deck or GY then Special Summon 1 "Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon" from your Extra Deck but its ATK and DEF become 0 and Return it to the Extra Deck when it leaves the field. While this card is in your GY or Banished Faceup: your opponent cannot negate the Special Summon of "Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon" and "Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon" you control are unaffected by your opponent's Monster effects.

>>96113990
edison or goat with a custom ban list without chaos shit

Who has the best banlist between TCG, OCG, and MD?

>>96122398
>The illusion of free choice

>>96122398
Answer (D) fan sims, because I can make it myself.

>>96122398
obviously not tcg because it's dying
>NOOOO BUT MY FAVORITE YUGITUPER SAID MAXX C BAD

>>96122611
The Maxx C situation really feels like "Moooooom, it's not fair my opponent might draw a hand trap as I do 5 million link summons. I want to make my uninteractable end board NOW!"

>>96122611
TCG isn't even dying it's dead lol

>>96122611
Every yugituber is a fucking retard and so is their audience. They will front line defend the worst designs, policies, and formats so they can get free product for a game they fucking hate playing.

>>96122693
Except, Maxx "C" doesn't boost going second more than it boosts going first, because it can be used after establishing a board with negates to protect it's effect on top of the counters likely already being expended by the Going Second on various combo pieces.
I feel like Mulcharmy Fuwalos should have been split into two cards with one from Deck and one from Extra Deck, but all Mulcharmy cards are infinitely healthier for the Going Second boost than Maxx "C".

>>96123170
The TCG-oid longs for Maxx C, given the prices on those Mulcharmies. His region is also fucking dying.

The issue with Maxx "C" is that its a problem card that they seemingly decided to design around for an entire decade.
>Pend was slow then turned into PePe
>Links were slow then turned into Scapegoat in EP to Borrelsword for game and Saryuja solitaire
>Post Links came out fast and only got faster and faster
Meanwhile, older formats around the time it came out had it in the side deck. Even 2014-15 had situations where it was dead or only going to draw you 1 like Monarch and Kozmo format. But instead of keeping this pace they made it worse, turned Maxx C into a bigger problem, and then made the Mulcharmies. I know its been said before but it is kind of amazing how Konami manages to fuck everything up.

What are some movies Takahashi definitely watched and fucking adored?

so magic has Next-Level Magic and articles like Who's the Beatdown, are there high-level strategy/deckbuilding articles or books for Yu-Gi-Oh?

>>96122398
People can pretend that it isn't the TCG, but it is
>bu-b-but muh maxx "C"!
Consider the following

>Banned Baronne and Savage Dragon when Snake-Eye demonstrated how easily it's brought out with their kit.
Bans people were calling for for a while, yes, but ultimately Snake-Eye was the straw that broke the camel's back.
>Banned OSS (a penny common) instead of hitting WANTED and Diabellstar ($30+ secrets at the time)
Less money stolen, Snake-Eye reigned in instantly, and the rest of the Sinful Spoils lore cards (which while strong are not game-breaking) were allowed to flourish
>Banned Apollousa before the OCG
This was proven to be the correct call over time. The bitch is dead in the OCG, too.
>More upfront about Tearlaments hits, so it's actually better off in the OCG than the TCG
As a reminder, Perlereino and Reinoheart are at 3 in the TCG, while in the OCG absolutely everything got hit since they wanted Agido and Kelbek to stay around for as long as possible. In real life the hits were done around the same time, but the OCG let them live for a lot longer and didn't act until after the TCG took the Ishizu engine out back.
>Ariseheart banned instead of crippling Kashtira's main deck monsters
One could debate whether or not this was a better call since this kills Kashtira as a standalone deck, but our iteration of the deck is in a much better state as an engine (where they perform at their best in the first place). All it's missing is some better Rank 7 payoffs so that the standalone deck can stand on its own a little better, alongside the inexplicably large number of Level 7 monsters that cheat themselves out that have dropped since Kashtira's debut.

What can you say is wrong about the TCG's current banlist without citing historical examples like them keeping Halq and Mystic Mine around for way longer than they should have? Maybe a couple of cards here and there that could easily come off of the list, but that's about it.

>>96123704
roadoftheking, ygorg, and I think sometimes TCGplayer write articles on the topic.

>>96124542
>so it's actually better off in the OCG than the TCG
Got that backwards. It's in a more playable state in the TCG.

Maxx "C" is shit because it forces decks to run all the possible counters just to have a chance of stopping it. Look at OCG decklists. The majority of decks run 2 Maxx "C", 3 Ash Blossom, 2 CBTG and 1 Crossout. This is one of the reasons engines starting to get smaller and compact. Your deck was forced to run 9 cards (before Maxx "C" was semi-limited), unless it wasn't a combo deck. Look at why Dragoon was first banned in the OCG. Decks would be able to get it out while giving their opponent as little as 3 draws under Maxx "C". OCG hated decks that played well into Maxx "C". OCG card design is based around Maxx "C" existing.

>>96123704
Patrick Hoban's The Road of the King.

>>96124617
I think this might be the best argument. Engines have to be less creative and have more powerful 1ccs because of how much of the deck is warped around counter Maxx C.

Do you think Mulcharmies are as deckbuilding distorting as Maxx C?

> Desert bandit archetype that are based around recycling and getting bonus effects from Kunai with Chain and Fissure. Except they have lightning shoes just so that they aren't another Warrrior archetype
> 0 ATK/0 DEF psychic monsters that are based on Pokémon trainers that special summon main deck monsters that can't be Tributed or used as Material. Completely immune when the creatures are in play. Creatures get bonus effects from specific masters. Masters also have upgraded synchro forms accessed via an archetypal normal spell.
> triple material Rank 2 deck based on hot air balloons users whose main deck monsters go into the xyz on normal summon using themselves and two other ones in hand as material. Have bonus effects when detached
Be mean or nice as you feel like

>>96124617
What in the world are you talking about? Decks were trending towards 1-card engines for years, with it beginning to get blatant around Branded format with shit like Robin and Branded Fusion. The shrinking of engines and removal of their restrictions can frankly be attributed more closely to interruption like Ash Blossom and generic negation from boss monsters that come from the Extra Deck, since too many decks died to one or two interrupts and someone at Konami clearly took note of the fact. You could completely remove Maxx "C" from the equation and it would still be happening, because the existence of a draw card and the development of engines that have gas for days are two completely unrelated matters.

>>96125047
Shut up, retard.

>>96124617
Maxx C is a symptom of a problem, not the problem itself.

>>96122398
TCG, because I have more issues with the other two than it.
OCG is close behind but the general philosophy of them trying to make things inconsistent rather than just killing problem decks. FROM A COMPETITIVE STANDPOINT it feels awful to prep for a metagame only to have the opp draw into a play that should otherwise be banned. This problem is highlighted by the fact that you have maxx c and co. around, letting players dig through their deck to have/sculpt perfect hands that end up containing those limited cards anyway making the limitations to those cards feel pointless.
MD has a similar issue to the above but the banlist fucking blows. With all the generic end board assholes still legal and seemingly random cards being moved around I honestly don't know how people could say that's their prefered banlist.

How do we feel about getting rid of Time Wizards? I don't like the rugpull, but from a TO and judging perspective, having to use the old rulings seems to make them harder to run.

>>96126379
>kill off a format because you don't feel like getting judges that know how it works
there is no possible way to justify this without making konami look terrible

>>96126412
They're making it in-line with their officially supported version of the format. There's absolutely nothing wrong with the move outside of them just taking it behind the shed instead of letting people know that they're no longer supporting Time Wizard after a given event.

>>96126549
Do you actually play edison? Nobody is even playing the new format.

>>96126412
Honestly, as someone who started from other games, I thought it was crazy they were using old MR and errata.

>>96126567
The new format has only been around for what, a week at this point?

>>96126609
Yes, and every edison community has unanimously told konami to fuck off while holding their own tournaments that pull bigger numbers than UTW.

>>96126567
Yes I do, but I'm not so scorned by the modern game that I'm unwilling to adapt. I play Edison because of the inherently simpler card pool, not because of the retarded shit that Brionac can do. Outside of a few minor mechanical differences and different erratas, it's the same damn game.

>>96127058
ok have fun trying to find other people to play it with

>>96127080
Nigga, it's been two weeks. Let's see how important tournament packs and current errata are to players.

>BRIONAC RETURNED A CARD TO MY HAND THEREFORE EVERYONE MUST USE AN EARTH TUNER TO SUMMON GOYO GUARDIAN OR I WON'T HAVE FUN

>>96127218
2 more weeks until everyone drops edison and moves to time traveler. trust the plan duelists are in control

>>96127080
If I can't find them irl then I can find them online. And as the case would be, a lot of newer players don't really give a shit about any of the nuances of Edison that older players are mad about. The inherently simpler card pool is all that really matters when you get down to brass tacks.

>>96127294
>I can find them online
Where? The retro format communities online that already exist have rejected the format. Where is this time traveler community gonna come from?

>>96127334
>My friends
>Master Duel where they'll hopefully adopt it as a proper alternate gamemode and not an occasional event
>The online communities that will start appearing when the unofficial sims accommodate for Time Travel format
Like, you're saying all of this as though it's impossible to just ask people if they wanna play X with Y cardpool.

>>96127421
>there's a bunch of people who really want to play this format
>they're currently not playing it yet because they're waiting for some vague thing to happen before they decide to play it even though there's nothing stopping them from playing it right now

>>96127334
We'll see how what that actually amounts to when card shops transition to giving prize packs for Time Travel, and stop benefiting in the system from supporting Time Wizard.

>>96127493
Are you blind? I can just ask my friends if I want to play, just like any of us should be doing. Love of the game is more important than love of a very specific iteration of the game, which is something that's lost on people that staunchly defend or oppose the modern format.

Have you never like, asked your friends to play the game? Modern budget duels, Edison or GOAT, themed shitdecks? Do you only play the game one way or something? Because for me, all those things are just a regular saturday with my asshole friends.

>>96127506
people were playing edison and goat before they were officially recognized by konami. ots packs are irrelevant, who the fuck goes to locals because they want ots packs?

>>96127529
why aren't you already playing this format then?

>>96117814
>>96117867
Think I’ll give lightsworns a shot, cheers

>>96127549
>why aren't you already playing this format then?
What an excellent question, peepaw. Let me get my spectacles and see if I can't get to the bottom of this...
>Because for me, all those things are just a regular saturday with my asshole friends.

What spells and traps can I add to this list?
https://files.catbox.moe/o00d0l.txt

>>96127601
It's just a general waifufag list? There's a pretty distinct lack of Witchcrafter cards there. You could also throw in Magician's Restage for the sake of it.

>>96127628
>It's just a general waifufag list?
The title is at the top. I'm trying to trim it down to small and cute girls mostly. Loli monsters, in other words.

>Magician's Restage
Thanks for the suggestion, but, while she is cute, she wouldn't fit in because of her big bust.

>>96127563
have fun anon, one of the all time great archetypes imo. plus they splash into a few other edison decks if you end up liking the format.

>>96127601
>>96127656
You won't get a usable deck out of a mishmash or random loli cards, there IS however a loli deck already, it's called Traptrix. It's ran 90% pure because it genuinely has no synergy with anything else (ragnaraika is cope, fiendsneed doesn't count because you can shove it anywhere), and theme wise it's meant to be played by fertilephiles, their whole gimmick is tricking people who want to fuck them into following them into the woods, where they kill and eat them.

You're in luck because it's a structure deck. It might be a little hard to find nowadays, but that's only a issue if you want your 3 complete boxes, otherwise buying singles is the way to go.

>>96127656
Restage's bust isn't really that much bigger than Cartesia's, and Ecclesia is on the list (both are technically the same character). It's your stuff though so that's your call at the end of the day.

It could still stand to have more Witchcrafter spells on it though. Maybe consider a pass on Lyrilusc, Marincess, and Lunalight. Those probably have a couple of the kinds of cards you're looking for sprinkled in there.
>Hypnosister present
>No Unending Nightmare
>No Saambell

>>96127714
I think they're just collecting.

>>96127714
mishmash of*

>>96126379
This might sound counterintuitive but I kind of prefer it being something konami isn't tied to.
Edison was a player/community driven format that didn't concern itself with konami a whole lot before time wizard became a thing and stapled prizing to it. After that I noticed an uptick in how comp the format's scene was and it became a lot less casual and comfy feeling. Konami prizing basically chummed the water for it to become hyper-comp, when I saw it as a bit of a retreat from the TCG's hyper-comp feeling.

>>96127724
Upon further review, Saambell is indeed on that list. My apologies good sir, I did not recognize your game.

No Unending Nightmare though.

>>96127714
>playing
Anon, I...

Just kidding, I mess with random meme decks on Master Duel, Exodia being my favorite.

These are purely for collection purposes. I can't rationalize spending money on something digital if there are real physical cards I'd like to own.
Putting them all in pic related, too.

>>96127724
>No Saambell
Saambell the Summoner and Saambell the Star Bonder are both there! Wouldn't miss them for the world.
I would miss monsters being in random spells and traps though, so thanks for Unending Nightmare.

>>96127753
Also, the goal is to fill out all 180 sleeves with nothing but lolis.

>>96127753
I see...

You have varar in your list but not selettrice, they're the same girl, and she's not a loli. Serene psychic girl is explicitly a teenage esper girl. If jasmine counts as a loli, then so do angelica and rosalina. None of the charmers are lolis. And you missed ash blossom, she's the one loli everyone runs, and will run in their deck until the game stops existing.

>>96127753
There are actually 2 sleeping child archetypes.

>>96127753
Unending Nightmare was the part of their small story where Hypnosister steals Saambell's brother. It was also the scourge of Pendulum format and a really funny card to lose to in modern.

Runick stuff could also go on the list. Hugin's bust is mostly just cloth if you're going off of the card arts for other entries in their series like Destruction and Freezing Curses.
>Speaker of the Ice Barrier, but no Alt Art Medallion
>Icejades nowhere to be found

>>96127824
The obvious ones are super obvious and then there are the ones I just have to believe in, like old Fire Sorcerer.
That's what I'm categorizing those gray-zone girls as like the charmers. Especially because of their Familiar-Possessed versions. The Blazing, etc ones I'm not going to include though. Esper Girl's evolution is an exception because Esper Girl is fucking adorable.

As for Varar, I just think she's hot. You're right about her not being a loli at all.
>then so do angelica and rosalina
I'd say so, thanks! They're like Garden Rose Maiden who is drop dead gorgeous.

I realize there's a lot of wiggle room but that's just how loli is in the first place.

>>96127847
>>96127864
Amazing. Much appreciated.
>Hugin's bust is mostly just cloth
This is the kind of stuff that makes me thankful for fanart. Not the best idea to get an idea of how big these monsters are but if there's a lot of art I can sort of gain a better understanding for the cards with ambiguous art.

Links were a mistake.

I also think small fairies fit.

>>96127933
What the fuck.
I swear I'm not Spanish.

>>96127824
Oh yeah and I'm saving Ash Blossom for the very last.
She will complete the book once I know I have everyone.

>>96127753
>Saambell the Star Bonder
The insight comes unbidden

Need help with Incredible Ecclesia, the Virtuous.
She looks very flat here but I'm not sure.

I SUMMON A JELLYFISH

>>96128314
What's the optimal Jellyfish Turbo build in 2025?

>>96128314
>>96128323
It's a real deck you know? Unfortunately it's stun shit.

>Handtrap Delinquent Duo
Hilarious, but also incredibly cursed.

>buy a few Hidden Arsenal boxes at Walmart because they're cheap and I'm bored
>most cards have some degree of edge wear
>centering is terrible
>duel terminal rares look ugly
I can see why this shit didn't sell well

>>96133141
It's not just the quality but the fact that most of the cards in the set just weren't very good. Skill Drain was the closest thing to a chase card you'd get from those sets. There's a reason that the line only had one (maybe two?) installments.

I was playing forbidden memories the last memories mod which changes the style adds effect monsters and adds a tonne of newer cards in.

I was enjoying it until I realised something. I had cocoon of evolution, petit moth etc. and I was creating perfectly ultimate in a big combo which felt nice until I realised that having card specific fusions goes against the entire ethos of forbidden memories.
Yes it's sick to fuse zoa with metalmorph to get metal zoa, but in forbidden memories the whole skill of the game was memorising generic combos that got you to a big monster.

The best were when fusions made sense. A great monster is twin headed thunder dragon. 2800 attack. You need to fuse a dragon with a thunder that have 1600+ attack.
So whilst that is quite broad, it's not always doable so you could fuse cards together to make a high enough ATK combo piece to create twin headed thunder dragon.
Wacky fusions that make no sense are not as cool but add to the weird and psychotic vibe especially since most monsters back then were a bit weird looking.

FM was a very generic focused game and that is really cool, in LM having such specific combo lines feels to lame, its like when everything became archetypal instead of being generic but with intended synergies.
We have elemental typing on top of monster types on top of atk and def and all sorts of things to work with.

>>96133990
For my mod, I did Type-based and hard ATK caps for Fusion recipes with some band-aid specific material Fusions to strengthen some enemy themes.

>>96134060
do you have a link for your MOD? I am a big FM fan but only started playing mods for it last week. I think FM is a really solid system I love it really. If it had a few effect monsters as boss monsters it would be perfect really.

I can see why you added a few specific ones for certain enemies, I suppose that could be why great moth works the way it does.
I am not sure, but maybe instead of really specific material you can specific critirea for material that basically means you end up using the right monster or similar ones.

So for great moth it could be
>2 bugs that add to 1800-2200 def points
to make cocoon
then a bug with under 500/500atk/def to create Moth then as its a 2600 beater say you need to fuse specifically moth with an insect with over 1000 attack and you end with perfectly ultimate, which is a tricky but doable combo if the deck is made for it.
Just spitballing there, it gets really tough if you try to add archetype monsters

>>96134119
I do not, as it was just a fun personal project, but I might be able to dig it up for you, if you’re interested in a basic difficulty mod with some spells/traps that don’t work as intended.

in magic, storm decks have various counters and dice to keep track of spells cast that turn, etc.

what's the best way I can do this for yugioh for stuff like normal summons, once per turns, stuff like that? there are a lot of effects that have no visual indication they've been used this turn

>>96134306
At locals you can use dice, but using one to keep track of summons just tells your opponent that he's getting the rock dropped on them. Using one for spell counters is fine though. At YCS and official events you need to rely entirely on your notebook for that, but again, keeping track of summons is a bad idea.

>>96134306
Pen and paper. That's the intended way as it is both players' responsibilities to maintain a legal game state. Notetaking policy allows you to take notes on anything that is conductive to maintaining a legal gamestate, IE stuff like whether you've conducted your normal summon, OPT restrictions, multi-turn counters like One Day of Peace or Final Countdown, so on and so forth. While your locals would probably be more lax about it, what you can NOT do is write down reminders to perform optional actions.

For instance,
>This turn, I banished Shif, Fairy of the Ghoti. I will write down a reminder that I can summon it during the next Standby phase
This is not allowed as it is not conductive to maintaining a legal game state, as Shif's effect to summon itself is an optional effect.
>I activated F.A. Dawn Dragster's effect to negate. Its current level is 5.
This is allowed as it is conductive to maintaining a legal game state.
>I activated Bystial Magnamhut's effect this turn, which performs a search on a Dragon monster during the End Phase. I will make a note of it so I do not forget to perform the search.
This is allowed because while the effect's activation when it is summoned is optional, the subsequent effect to perform a search is not.
>I conducted my Normal Summon this turn. I will make a note of it
This is allowed of course, because it is conductive to maintaining a legal game state.
>My opponent is a big fat ugly faggot with a face that looks like a butt. It says so here in my notes where I drew a picture of him with a butt face and an arrow pointing at him that reads "big fat ugly faggot"
At best you might be penalized for this and at worst you might be banned from the store. Don't do this.

>>96134512
Also, the notes don't need to be verbose or anything. They can be as simple as
>NS aluber
>Mirrorjade cooldown --> turn x to y
>(rudimentary sketch of the columns with one scribbled out for imperm)
Like you're not writing a college thesis or anything, just jotting down notes.

>>96126379
I'm mostly wondering how the meta of the new format plays out. I know there's been a ton of talk that there are a bunch of different changes and shakeups, but its also been difficult to get any specifics on what the results of those changes are.

I don't like that Konami did this, but I kinda want to see actual data on how much the format got shaken up as a result. Not just a list of the causes the changes are, or just theories of "X is the best deck now".

>>96134670
I think the modern priority rules fuck up a few combos.

What do you who play irl use for your mat?

>TQ: What deck are you playing in the upcoming format?
3 things on the radar I'm slowly building up

>punk fs(mostly because people at my local got alot of monster mayhem and i found myself with a punk core after an hour)
>blind second gem-knight(blind second is neat and seeing it actually work is cool)
>lunalight(me want liger snusnu, simple as)

>>96135935
the paper mat that came with my 1st edition blaze of destruction starter deck (just kidding my m*m threw it out over a decade ago)

>>96135935
God I wish I had a possessive hermaphroditic demon living in my head

My favorite 5 Star. Can't begin to tell you what this girl's done for me.

>>96136062
What sorta decks is she good in? She's clearly a free special summon with a fairly strongly costed foolish in a continuous spell/trap deck, but I'm not quite sure which decks can take full advantage of those.

>>96136199
I've used her alongside Centur-Ions mostly. Great for clearing the back row if you need the room while also being a solid beatstick. Good for running with pendulums, too.

>>96136230
Huh. I suppose I could theoretically see it with a build that includes more Link summoning. I've leaned moreso into builds with White Forest that are more tuned towards Synchro Summoning, so the level 5 of Adularia felt a bit jank under that setup.

Though thinking about it, that level would give it synergy with adding a K9 package as the handtraps for Centur-Ion. I'd be more of a side-by-side thing rather than them cohesively working together, but there are some minor synergies like the Centur-Ions in backrow allowing for Adulara's summon for a Rank 5, Case of K9 being a continuous spell for Adulara's send effect or Primera Primus's pop (which can also trigger Case's secondary effect).

What if Konami just said "Fuck it we're releasing a whole set just supporting 5 old archetypes every year and you vote for which ones by giving us money"

>>96139909
Then we’ll say, “yeah but most of the support you make is shit! Remember the Inzektor bike?”

Im considering switching Wizard for this card in my Maliss @ignister package, what do you think?

She doesnt give the extra body yes but the pros over Wizard are that she is less disruptable than Wizard, is a non chain starting special summon, doesnt cyberse lock you right away and can even be a little distruption depending on how you set up your line

>>96139909
I mean, that's why we got structure decks for Spirit Charmers, Fire Kings, Traptrix, and Cyber Dragon. They literally did a poll for it.

>>96140006
But it would be a money poll

>>96139943
I mean on the flip side...the recent Dragonmaid support, the Genex Link-1, Yubel, and the coming Vanquish Soul stuff are able to do a lot.

>>96140005
Shit meme, the whole point of the ignister package is being able to keep playing after several handtraps, you NEED the extra body wizard offers.

Just had the weirdest experience on Master Duel.
Opponent was running stall and burn. Got me down to, like, 600LP on 20+ turns. I ended up winning because he forgot to activate his Emissary from the House of Wax. I switched his Marshmallon to attack mode and chipped him to death.
Can't decide whether to laugh or cry. Either way, I'm completely retarded.

>>96140005
cute butt

How do you deckbuild to be more creative than "linkslop your way to an unbreakable board of [current best archetype]"?

>>96134306
Late reply but the reason that we can't use dice in this game is because of retarded faggot cheaters that will change the face of the die to cheat. That's the reason you need to have something that physically represents a counter for each counter on a card, which can get a little excessive if you're on something like Endymion (but thankfully, not many people are). You probably can at your locals if it isn't an OTS store, but don't be surprised if some snotty little prick calls a judge if you do.

>>96142454
I mean for starters, you could pick a deck that doesn't require link summoning. There's like 3 in the current meta alone. Try reading some decklists or something, fuckin

>>96142454
Add suboptimal or unplayable cards to meta decks, i'm not sure if you can shit up maliss, but ryzeal can absolutely be ran with just about any other deck that uses level 4's, like traptrix or nekroz. JUHU format will be all [random deck] + K9 engine.

>>96142454
Building shitdecks is a check on your knowledge of the game as a whole. If your only solution for deckbuilding is to copy whatever the meta is currently doing, then you do not know enough.

>>96142812
Crystron K9 hype

>Konami yakuza break down your door
>ask you to attract (and retain) a record number of new players in 2026
>if you refuse, fail, or bankrupt the company they'll shoot you with invisible guns
How do you respond?

>>96143165

>>96143165
In case of emergency, break glass on Chaos Dragons-R.

>>96143165
I design and print more cute girl monsters.
I safely live through 2026.

Really, why does Japan still only get the good stuff?

>>96143165
>attract and retain a record number of new players
If the answer is just to appeal to the casual audience then it's pretty simple. Adopt the Tactical Try series along with its format and import the first 3 decks (Eldlich, Cydra, Live Twin) as a Speed Duel-esque box set. Tout it as an entry point for new players and (in addition to the decks) include a revised copy of the manual that isn't as hare-brained as the one we currently have, a few essentials like generic tokens and spell counters (that can double as coins), a pair of dice, a labeled duel field like you'd get with old starter decks, and a couple of boosters with cards that generically support the archetypes in the box.

Target price would be $40 since it would be a beginner's set, but more realistically with everything included it would be a $50 set. Future Tactical Try decks would be sold in pairs without all the bells and whistles (duel fields would be included), but with the additional booster with cards that support the decks. Sell those for $24 so that they're still relatively cheap.

Finally, if I couldn't have Kevin Tewart fired, I would do everything in my power to spite him through this set. Charmies in the boosters, high-value chase cards replacing some of the cards gated behind the OCG's banlist, the works.

how the fuck does Invoked Augoedies work? am i reading this wrong? it doesn't seem to do anything

>>96147062
>If this card is Special Summoned, or a monster(s) is Special Summoned to your opponent's field: You can target 1 monster your opponent controls; destroy it. You can only use this effect of "Invoked Augoeides" once per turn.
>Once per turn: You can banish 1 Fusion Monster from your GY; this card gains ATK equal to that banished monster's ATK, until the end of your opponent's turn.
What exactly are you missing here? Are you perhaps playing on a sim and can't fulfil the 1st effect? Do they have a card that makes your opponent's monsters unable to be targeted, such as the case of Voiceless Voice?

>>96147173
Also, just to be sure, you don't also have Invoked Caliga on the field at the same time? Who only allows you to use 1 monster effect per turn?

>>96147062
On summon it pops a monster, if it couldn't pop a monster that way, but your opponent summons something right after, you can pop it. The ATK boost is a ignition effect.

>>96143165
>release Tactical Try Decks in TCG
>release the Complete Files collections in TCG
>make more Legendary Decks and similar fixed products
>stop making shit sets with only 1 useful high rarity card
at least the players will be happy and if I end up getting shot I'll be a martyr

>>96143165
Each pack has a change to get a ticket that gives you Enako for 1 entire day, wearing whatever Yugioh cosplay you choose for her.

What's the most valuable card you own?

>>96147449
Probably AA-ZEUS, i don't play meta shit.

>>96147449
Ulti Dark law

>>96147467
>$100
Glad I asked because I'm debating on dropping $15 or not. That price doesn't seem so bad now.

>>96147498
This wasn't $100 even prerelease, you need to stop frequenting jewish run lgs' my man.

>>96147449
Purulias from MZTM I guess. Got them in presale under €20 each, now they go for like 45

>>96147513
Ulti Dark Law is listed around $115 on tcgplayer.
If you were talking about the goth lady then she's $15 in-store and on tcgplayer.

My only card shop does 25 cent minimum a card which is annoying but it still comes out cheaper than online shipping if I only want 2-4 commons.

>>96147498
I pulled it when it was "Dank Lawl" and people put copies online up for 420.69.
I have played with it it but its nowhere near moderately played and never leaves its double sleeve.
I would definitely wait for the price to drop if I were you.

>>96143165
just release tactical try decks into the tcg

>>96147173
does first effect only work on your turn or can it trigger if opponent special summons on their turn?

>>96147607
If it doesn't specify a turn then you will be able to activate it during either player's turn when the condition is triggered. So unless there's something that would prevent you from activating the effect (Caligula for instance) or targeting the monsters they summon, you should legally be able to activate the effect.

>>96147577
>common playsets of ash blossom, impermanence, called by, crossout and whichever other handtrap the deck can run (fuwalos, shifter, ogre etc) plus a full deck in a $20 product
Stop being anti semitic and think of the heckin' resellers, they DESERVE your shekels.

>>96142454
Familiarize yourself with card design other than just the meta and what it's playing. The game has so much more to offer than it. You could argue about the playability but that's not the question at hand. A lot of it comes down to knowledge about the general card pool of the game.
The Kuribandits on youtube has a series called "Everything You Need To Know About [set]" and it goes over everything in sets in a more worthwhile by keeping it realistic while also being lighthearted. Their content is very Rata/Rank10YGO-like so if you enjoyed their videos back then you should enjoy the presentation of it. This will help you get more familiar with the current card pool of the game and maybe you'll find something that resonates with you.
As a small heads up the videos are created alongside the set releases so some of the content might seem incorrect or lacking if you're applying knowledge retroactively towards some of what they have to say. It's probably best to watch them chronologically. I don't mean this personally, but if you really don't know that much about the game then you probably don't have any knowledge to apply retroactively and you just watch some chunk of them in chronological order.

>>96142454
>Runick and Sky Striker? Why yes, they're both Spell-heavy control-based archetypes that like to dig through the deck. One makes it easier to put Engage online, the other gives you non-OPT interruption and contingencies in case you get interrupted.
>Virtual World and Tenpai? Indeed, these share some levels and have cards in their respective opposites that can either unbrick (Sangen Summoning to discard Qinglong/Nyannyan) or set up (Qinglong or Xuanwu to put a dragon in the GY for Fadra to revive)
>Gate Guardian? Oh brother, these cards STINK! ...but what if, I splashed the pieces into a Skull Servant/Lightsworn build to get the big guy out more easily...?

Sometimes it really is just as simple as seeing the connections and putting them in motion. Builds like a combination of Runick/Spright/Fur Hire didn't just manifest themselves out of thin air.

Format competency is also pretty important. I built shitdecks with Ecole de Zone during Branded/Floo since it just flat-out killed a lot of existing Link decks at the time, and brought it back for a short while when Kashtira was kosher since it blew up their level 7 monsters and replaced them with a steaming pile of crap token (this typically would just flat-out kill their plays unless they got Birth in their hands for the normal summon)

>>96143165
The easy solution is to inject commanderification into the game, conceptually but not exclusive to an actual commander equivalent like Domain format. I think cross duel was an attempt at that but it was tied to a poorly programed game and gacha(? iirc). It has the bones of something interesting going on but failed the execution of it because it was way too simplistic card design IMO.
4 player pods bringing a ton of people into the game and the players then try to retain them as playgroups. The game/format is playable with 2 people but there's an intrinsic psychological pull to get more people in because card design in MTG is trying to lead you in that direction where things get more value with the more players you have, like smothering tithe getting much better in larger player counts or battlebond lands being fantastic as long as you have at least a third person sitting down with you. And then psychologically it manipulates you into seeing that fourth unfilled seat and the desire to fill it, so you bring in another person. Congrats, you've sucked 1 or 2 people into the game and they're building rapport that the norm should be 3+ people. Eventually somebody might be out and so you might bring along a friend to fill that 4th seat that might not be into the game yet and you sell the game to another person.
So rather than you as the company needing to try and attract players, the players are the advertisers for other players. Sure it's a bit of psychological manipulation but you're a soulless company that just wants to see a number go up and is basically industry standard. WOTC has identified this and there's a reason why it's the main format they push for now.

>>96142454
Take a table 500 deck and slap jank cards in it until it works. Lesser """men""" just add fiendsneed (soon it'll be that one archetype with a bunch of furfag cops) to every fucking deck ever and call it a day, but real duelists enjoy taking unplayable/slow garbage and tweaking it until it becomes a coherent mishmash of seemingly random cards. There's actually a really good example of this that saw meta play for a while.
>shaddoll gets powercrept, no one cares anymore
>over the years it gets its cards back from jail
>suddenly it gets a structure deck... that doesn't do a whole lot
>ENTER invoked
>it now has plays beyond hoping you draw the poly and 2 mats
>no mats for mechaba though
>people start running the dennis clowns because they're free bodies and one of them searches the other
>falls out of favor after almiraj comes out
>almiraj gets powercrept by artemis
>schism comes out and it fixes a lot of things wrong with shaddoll
>the deck is now a 50 card abomination with DPE in it
>ENTER ligmatika
>because apkallone searches when dumped, you can toss her with nadir to get 2 searches, more materials in grave for your fusions, a negate (maximus toss titaniklad, add fleur) and board breaking capabilities (n'tss is a non targeted pop)
>deck completely dies out only after another fusion deck (branded fusion is literally a shaddoll fusion that works turn 1) finally gets all its missing pieces, but that doesn't mean the deck stopped reinventing itself over the years (it turned into a combo deck for a while, nowadays a lot of people went back to the tried and true pile with DPE and super poly in it)
And last week some based retard took the new gem knight cards, slapped a handful of shaddoll pieces on it, picked go second every time and made it to top 4.

>>96147449
In the past It was a pot of prosp starlight rare used to be like $500 each but I ended up selling it because why wouldn't I? Got a playset of secret rares with the money after.
Today nothing I own is worth much really. I'm still holding my GH crystal wing synchro dragon that used to run at about $150 but is down to about $60. But my UTR Herald of orange light has almost eternally been about $70. I still have a bunch of other misc high rarity things worth some value but most of it falls shot of even $50.
I've been very aware of the fact that everything loses value over time so anything above or near the 100s I'm never holding onto.
An old pic from 2022 but this gives me an excuse to post it since I dont want to hunt for this collection binder. I did finish my "max rarity" herald page since this photo then though which is neat.

But if we want to go outside the realm of YGO and into MTG then it would be the Snapcaster Miku (sealed in wrapper, non foil) at about $1000.

>>96149649
based nunny enjoyer
>snapcaster miku
i don't really keep up with mtg shit, but isn't that the one miku that doesn't have shit art?

>>96149674
Yeah that's the one. The actual name is Encore Electromancer. Snapcaster Miku is just a portmanteau name between Snapcaster Mage (the card it's a reskin of) and Miku. There's a few good arts but that one is miles ahead of the good ones though. It kind of has Black rock shooter vibes.
It was basically shortprinted as one of the two possible bonus hidden cards you could get in the first miku secret lair making even more difficult to get in a product that was already nearly impossible to get ahold of due to WOTC being a bunch of dickheads.

inb4 >buying secret lairs
Stay mad, I'm the one hold a $1000 card. In fact I might even unwrap it and play it because I'm building a deck that uses flashback and I don't care about money. It's a card made to be played after all.

>>96149831
Forgot pic for proof.

>>96149649
>Snapcaster Miku
If you pulled that I both hate your guts and also wish you the best in life because holy FUCK I'm jealous.

>>96149902
>>96149967
>you did pull it
I thought you killed a guy for it that would have made me feel better.
Good fucking shit anon, congrats. Did you get the drop when it released? I just bought mine this past weekend. I'm happy with the Mystic Elf because I play Green combinations but I don't care for the art or effect on the other extra card.
Bought the Divine Diva by itself because that particular drop had no appealing cards aside from it.
Will get Digital Sensation when I can find it. It's also the only drop where every card looks nice.

My Yu-Gi-Oh collection is near worthless and not worth mentioning but I have a lightly played Dark Gengar from Pokemon which is around $700 for some reason.

>>96149831
>kind of has Black rock shooter vibes
>not electrosaturator vibes
come on now

Post yfw Yu-Gi-Oh dies for real

>>96149967
>>96150103
Yeah I pulled it. I'll be honest, I didn't even know it was something special when I opened it and only once I went to an LGS a few days later and mentioned it did I find out about the whole deal around it. I just like vocaloid.
I bought them all on release. With that first one I got in pretty early too with a sub 1 hour wait IIRC. I'm just lucky I guess. No bots, trackers, or whatever.
>not electro saturator vibes
Oh yeah the name is certainly close to it and the likely intended reference there. I was referring to the art exclusively in the post and it possibly being a one step removed reference because of the arm cannon, edgy themes, boobs showing, color choices, and intertwined history. I don't give it too much weight and maybe I'm inferring a bit too much but it's fun to think about.

>>96150429
>I'm just lucky I guess
That you are. It's gorgeous art.
I got my drops like a year after they released because I wasn't into MTG then and only recently got into it again. Was kind of an impulse buy because they were sitting there on my LGS shelf.

>boobs showing
Are they? The shape is discernible but there's no skin.
And yeah it's cool trying to catch what references there might be. The arm syringe reminds me of Love Ward. And also Injector Fairy Lily, to keep this somewhat on topic.
The neon blue flames are definitely BRS, yeah. The smile not so much.
>intertwined history
That's cool, I had no idea they were connected. Did Raita work with huke before or something?

Can everyone drop Goat and switch to Vampire? The only deck anyone ever plays is chaos
https://www.goatformat.com/home/goat-format-world-championship-2024-top-8-deck-lists

>>96150524
One thing Im thankful for is that YGO is really good about ripping the art from cards and giving us good quality images to make sense of.
She definitely doesn't show as much skin but her boobs are clearly visible if you get a better look at the art as well as a little bit of thigh.
The cannon is similar to snapcaster's blue tube thing, it's more a conceptual reference as both BRS and snapcaster have arm cannons.
The smile is most certainly an exception but Miku is a seperate character though.
>Did Raita work with huke before or something?
I couldn't say. I've never looked into it. It wouldn't surprise me if there's some sort of through line though.

>>96150698
miku booby
When I see someone say boob is showing I automatically assume bare boob. Shows how much of a degenerate I am. I'm only now realizing how skewed of a thought process that is.
>BRS arm cannons.
Oh yeah! I remember that huge thing in the PSP game.
The through line might be a shared doujin circle. Huke's is called Team Fullmecha so I totally see him meeting Raita there, being the artist of Xenoblade and all.

Encore Electromancer's art is so good that even the non-foil looks foil.

I remembered Miku is in Yugioh so Miku is on topic.

>>96143165
Alt Formats Support Push
>Replace their existing bad rules on Deck Master format with Domain format
>Create a banlist exclusive for Common Charity to revive that format and turn people's attention to Common cards in sets
>Allow both Time Wizard and Time Travel to be ran rather than one or other
>Social Media push advertising these alongside main events

Prizing
>1st-4th at Regional Events and everyone in Top 16 at Nationals Events get 1x copy of every card in the next-to-be-released set, in addition to the exclusive rarity cards already being made.
>Worlds Top 8 gets exclusive Alt Art of a meta staple. Winner additionally gets an exclusive Alt Art playset of a different exclusive.

Packs
>Merge 2 packs into 1 until we get release schedule parity with OCG
>Change setup from 8 Commons + 1 Higher Rarity into a different setup of 4 "Draft Pool" Commons + 4 Main Set Commons + 1 Higher Rarity.
>Draft Pool is akin to the Quarter Century Bonanza's "Nostalgia Pool" and is filled with generic staples and engine (but not endboard) cards from 4+ years ago, alongside some releases for Common Charity. This is intended to make Prereleases come back as something stores will run again.

External Stuff
>Make a Big Book of Rulings for the Modern + Time Travel + Common Charity + Domain Format for sale
>Make a run of the Big Book of Rulings for Edison, Goat, and HAT formats.
>Import the Valuable Book EX series.
>Get the anime team more money so they can produce episodes weekly.
>Make a Duelist TTRPG that can handle character stats for out-of-duel actions and a Deck Cost mechanic for assembling decks, and a Speed Duel-esque Skill System.
>Make a Card Lore TTRPG using a DOTR-style grid movement system where PCs are essentially build your own card - make sure to include a section on how to translate cards so encounters can be run with the actual cards.

Why does nobody play Sales Ban?
I keep winning against Ryzeal by just declare Deadnamer going second, or declare traps like Majesty, Steeds or Favorite Contact
Going first I just declare Nib because my deck is Nib weak.
It's functionally a mix between Crossout and Prohibition, you only get fucked using it in front of a target negate like Drillbeam or Desirae.

>>96151726
>Domain Format
>Common Charity

Does this game have ANY alt format where you can play a deck normally and not get blown out by a handtrap like Droll? I'm not saying my petdecks deserve to be playable, Im saying I really don't want to play "Not Yugioh" and just want a slower format where I can go 3-5 turns with interaction on board instead of in hand.

>>96153854
It's kinda hard to since we've had ones like D.D. Crow since 2007, Honest since 2008, and both Tragoedia and Effect Veiler since 2010. And that's just the meta relevant ones, there's earlier ones like Kuriboh. Design space has been part of the game in a meta relevant way longer than it hasn't by far, so you are going to have an extremely hard time trying to make any alt format without them.

At least in Domain, Droll can only be played in decks with a Spellcaster or WIND attribute deck master, and the Highlander nature of the format means that ypu only get 1 copy of it even if you are able to include it. Similar thing is true with a lot of handtraps, such as Ash only being available to Zombie or FIRE deck masters.

Even with the deck masters that allow a really wide pool like the Doriados or Invoked Elysium, the singleton nature of the format makes it kinda hard to have you get completely blown out.

>>96153825
But it literally is on many people's side deck, go check some YCS deck lists.

I would rather have Deckmaster strongly suggest the use of normal monsters than something like Domain where it restricts you based on a bunch of arbitrary traits that can be cheated through cards like Invoked Elysium or 5-Headed Dragon.

>>96154071
I'm okay with Crow, Honest, and Veiler because most things Crow hits in lower power formats are obvious like when it's played in HAT for Soul Charge plays.
Common Charity has Droll, Ash, and Pank and Domain just doesn't feel like Yugioh to me. I get what it's trying to do, but you have to understand me when I say I don't want to play in a format where Branded gets to 1 off their entire archtype while I'm stuck scrounging for enough cards to make 60.
Again, I love the idea for Domain but decks like HERO and Branded basically play that format like they would the regular game.
We really don't have a decent casual format that puts everyone on a somewhat level playing field while giving an alternative playstyle to the modern game. Outside of Time Wizard, that is.

>>96154202
Two things that could be added onto this ruleset
>Deckbuilding restriction: Mandatory 5 Normal Monsters per deck.
>Deckbuilding restriction: Semi-limits as the standard so that you can't just shove 3 copies of key cards into your deck every game. Forbidden/Limited List includes a 3of section for cards that functionally need to be at 3 copies, like Blue-Eyes and Cyber Dragon.

Maybe just one of these two things

One thing I'd also change is making it so that the Deckmaster grants the effects and stat boost from the field or DMZ, just to make it a little more clear about how they function and that there is a quantifiable penalty for when it's destroyed/banished. It would also be a little more familiar since they'd more closely resemble a Skill from Speed Duel/Duel Links. Given that the Deckmaster Effects are to be applied generically to monsters, you could maybe make special sleeves with the effects printed on them.

For instance, with a WATER Deckmaster

Apply the following effects while this card is face-up on the field or in the Deckmaster Zone.
● Gains 300 ATK/DEF for each matching Type and Attribute among the monsters you control.
● Other WATER monsters gain 300 ATK/DEF.
● If a WATER monster you control would be targeted for an attack or by a card effect (Quick Effect): You can target 1 face-up monster you control; Change the target of that attack or card effect to the monster you targeted with this effect, also, flip the original target face-down. If you do not control "Umi", you can only use this Deckmaster Effect once per turn.

The original Deckmaster Effects are a little rough. They were designed to put the deckmaster effects on the normal monsters to simulate deckmaster effects, but this way would be a little more practical.

>>96154202
>>96154969
Why add all these rules? Why can't I just have a simple main deck monster thats always available to be summoned? Like a 1 card extra deck. I don't need more rules to remember, I just want to be able to make a theme deck and play Yugioh.

>>96155009
Because "simple main deck monster that is always available to be summoned" is the reason that Konami's official Deckmaster rules are complete and total donkeyshit. If you're not just using a monster like Last Warrior from Another Planet, you're using something like Krystia. If you're not using something like Krystia, you're using something like Plasma. If you're not using something like Plasma, you're using something like the Vanities. If you're not using something like the Vanities, you're using something like Protos.

This is the problem that Konami's official format has. If needs (but does not have) an extensive banlist of shit that you cannot use as your Deckmaster, except it also includes Extra Deck monsters like Shenshen and Darklaw (heaven forbid you play it in the OCG and have to deal with Ariseheart deckmasters).

The only rules listed there are deckbuilding rules and stuff that the Deckmasters do. Though like I mentioned in the second post, you could compartmentalize Deckmaster rules into the cards and effectively turn them into Skills On Legs to simplify them.

Just give me a Duelists of the Roses style casual gamemode where I can move my cards around a board with modern mechanics.

>>96155091
why is imperm the only playable card that cares about zone placement, what the fuck is konami thinking

>>96155100
dinomorbius uses that one counter trap that negates and destroys whatever cards were in its column when activated

>>96155048
Just a few more examples I pulled simply from searching the phrase "Your opponent cannot"
>Emperor Maju Garzett (Your opponent cannot activate cards/effects during the Battle Phase)
>Dark Simorgh (Your opponent cannot Set cards)
>Altergeist Fifinellag (Your opponent cannot target "Altergeist" monsters for attacks or with card effects, except "Altergeist Fifinellag")
>Most Ice Barrier main deck monsters (they are floodgates on legs and as per official rules the Deckmaster's continuous effects are always online)
>Tenmataitei (Your Normal Summoned monsters gain absolute priority for their effects at all times)
>Lady of D (Your opponent cannot target Dragons you control for attacks)
>Heiracosphinx (Your opponent cannot target face-down monsters for attacks)
>Kiwi Magician Girl (Your opponent cannot target or destroy Spellcasters by card effect)
>Madolche Chouxvalier (Your opponent cannot target "Madolche" monsters for attacks)
>Mechanical Hound (Your opponent cannot activate Spells while your hand is empty)
>Chaos Daedalus (Your opponent cannot target your LIGHT/DARK monsters with card effects while a Field Spell exists)
>Artmage Finmel (Your opponent cannot target Level 6 or lower "Artmage" monsters with card effects)
>Gravekeeper's Shaman (Your opponent cannot activate or destroy Field Spells while "Necrovalley" is on the field)

I'm leaving out a lot of monsters with Marauding Captain-like effects, like Victoria (your opponent can't target Fairies for attacks) and Witchcrafter Haine (your opponent can't target Spellcasters with effects) or D.D. Esper Star Sparrow (Your opponent cannot target other monsters you control with effects or attacks). Reason being that these ones say "other monsters you control" which implicitly means you control the Deckmaster that's applying the effects... but as per Konami's official rules, the Deckmaster's continuous effects always apply, and there's no ruling on this particular interaction.

>>96155259
Also,
>Your opponent cannot attack <X>
This might not seem like a big deal with a conventional card effect, especially if it's archetypal, but it's very different when it's on a Deckmaster ability since those are in a location that the other player cannot deal with. This kind of effect basically removes the primary win condition from your opponent as an option since they can't beat you to death while they're in effect.

You could say "why not just make it so the Deckmaster's ability doesn't apply while it's in the Deckmaster Zone", but that defeats the purpose of Deckmaster format since that's one of the things that they do.

>>96154202
Master Duel already did something like this with their Dice Rally event. You randomly started the duel with some monster depending on the dice roll. It was literally FHD in some cases, in other cases it was something more obnoxious like Mirror Force Dragon.
In Dice Rally's case, it was a cool and not broken mechanic because the monster was not immune to effects like the Deck Master. If the monster wasn't useful you could always Link it off. In some cases it turned off decks like Kashtira and also cards like Imperm.
IMO, you could implement this similar to Dice Rally.
Also, if it was a main deck monster that wasn't special summoned only, it was treated as a normal summoned monster (but not tribute summoned). It was only treated as a special if it couldn't be summoned any other way.

If these came out as tournament legal cards in like 2003 I'm not convinced they'd have had any impact

>>96110284
>>96110860
How are you guys liking the new support? I'm trying to build the deck because it's cheap and it seems fun enough for locals, but i can't seem to decide on the ratios of the punk cards, or if parallel teleport is worth running at all.
>ze amin isn't a good normal summon, but it's a garnet if you have to start the combo through foxy tune and you don't have a normal summon/e-tele, so 2 copies is (probably) a safe bet
>is rising scale also safe at 1 since it's mainly a combo piece and WATER ie not susceptible to bystials?
>deer note is no longer a garnet thanks to rising scale, and it's not a bad card to draw if you run foxy tune at 3 (scale summons from GY as well), so 1 copy is enough
>since you do want foxy tune in hand (both to get the deck running and bait handtraps), is ogre dance (the searcher) worth running at 2-3 as well?
>psy-frame or kashtira engine?
The psychic ratios seem easy to figure out (3 serene, procedure, blaster and e-tele, 1 minister, 1 fusion, 1 axon, 1 mk-II, 1 archfiend, 1 magician, just a copy of the punk synchro and xyz, ultimus as a target for axon kicker, that new level 11 that blows up face up monsters/spells, good ole PEP), but what about the rest? Is this deck consistent enough for 20 non engine?

>>96157792
I could see obelisk being used in playground yugioh because kids wouldn't know the specific rulings around the word "target" and would just assume that obelisk is immune to everything. Or maybe gods becoming a rogue deck that you needed to side for.

>>96157792
They would, though. If you're talking about GOAT format, Obelisk has few natural outs and an early Slifer summon off of Scapegoat can completely remove your opponent's momentum. The cards would not be invincible, but insisting that they wouldn't see play is a bit of a stretch.

The only one that would probably not see play is Ra, but Ra can still effectively be a GOAT-era Accesscode Talker for a late-game turnaround victory by means of its non-OPT card destruction effect.

>>96157792
I played against someone who had the Japanese promo versions, using Upper Deck’s “official God card” rules, which actually gives them all targeting protection. Smashing Ground, D.D. monsters,Jars, all ended up being super simple ways of completely dumpstering them.

>>96150147
It's not like people weren't warning about the direction of the game for a decade now but compshitters have to grift and then blame the casuals for not getting scammed

>>96157911
Scapegoat's entire gimmick is that you can't use them as tributes, which is why people instead used them with metamorphosis.

>>96157792
>>96157911
In the age of the list only being limits instead of bans existing they would get btfo by all of the broken generic cards like change of heart and raigeki. By the time cards start getting banned, monsters are already powercrept enough to deal with them.

>>96157943
You're right and I have made a fool out of myself. However I'm standing by the fact that summoning them early would just kill a lot of decks.

>>96157949
There's no way to summon them early, even gadgets would struggle to keep their pieces on board to do so, and the deck is famous for generating advantage. Slifer only destroys monsters under a certain statline. Obelisk needs to tribute to do his thing. Ra's worthless. All three can't do a fucking thing against CED and non targeted destruction.

Why does no one play Vampire format?
It doesn't have chaos shitting it up

>>96154202
i find domain format kind of forced like they're trying hard to recreate the casual success of mtg goonmander
They're just adding more mechanics on top of an already bloated game
No one would be using normal monsters anyway or 98% of the card pool, just the new stuff

>>96109657
I draft the DM reprint sets with my friends, it's pretty fun.

>>96157988
You have to wait for our favorite Internet personalities to promote it to cultural phenomenon status.

>>96157988
>GOAT without some of the cards that made it iconic
You should work for konami, maybe you can shit up some other older format or even the advanced one lol.

>>96157988
>scientist and fiber jar
no, fuck that. there is no good format, even edison is currently getting ruined by vayu and ddv.

>>96157967
You could do it by means of Ultimate Offering pretty easily, as long as you're abusing the still-legal draw/search cards of the era. It's especially easy if they were released in like, 2003 like the other anon said since Graceful Charity was at 2 until August of that year, and cards like Ultimate Offering and Last Will were still legal at 3 copies. Premature Burial Trunade Loops are also an option, though that's an extremely sacky setup.

>All three can't do a fucking thing against CED and non targeted destruction.
Hey man, I never said they'd overtake the meta. Just that they would still have some impact.

>>96158069
>would
Sorry, *could

>>96109657
but the youtubers say people want draft and an anime and this is how its going to save the game????! how dare you

Draft is fun you should try it

>>96158006
>No one would be using normal monsters anyway or 98% of the card pool, just the new stuff
Yeah that's why I suggested in another post that you'd maybe wanna apply deckbuilding restrictions so that they HAVE to run a small number of Normal Monsters. No more than 5 so that it's not too intrusive, but so that you still need to play them when you get them.

It at least has more potential to act as a good casual format than Konami's official floodgate turbo gamemode, and that's all that matters to me (part of the mission statement for that format is making a nice casual experience)

I dont give a shit about drafting
i just want to make a fun deck and play yugioh without the modern cancer where i am forced to strategize instead of ejaculating all over the table so my opponent does get to play

>>96158101
This just sounding like Duel Links and early Rush at this point.

>>96158105
>strategizing...?!?!! AAAAAIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEE SAVE ME GOAT FORMAT (they also had to strategize in this format)

>>96158119
If it's an alt format, I don't really see a problem with that.

Forsake modern game
Return to tradition, man

I drafted light of destruction last week and decked myself almost every game with lightsworns. Should have picked arcana force cards instead.

>>96109657
Draft doesn't even work in yugioh, lets take the latest set, you all pay for a box and you decide to pick the onomat cards because it's the only playable thing in it. By your 5th booster you notice that the onomat cards dried up because everyone else wised up and took them, you don't have a complete core and every other card in the booster is worthless to your strategy, yet you have to make a deck with 40 of these. And the moment a valuable card is pulled, the guy who was lucky enough to take it will intentionally drop out, unless the lgs owner is jewish enough to flat out establish a rule that states every single ultra, secret and starlight/QCSR is his property, even though he didn't pay a fucking dime for any of it.
The winner is whoever consistently managed to shit out a board with a schizophrenic deck.

The solution that these retards propose is curating the boosters, which literally goes against draft's entire point.

>>96158144
you gotta live by the mill and die by the mill bro, it's how you play lightsworn right

If the game wasn't archetype goonery but rather generic cards that did one thing like in the old days you could draft

>>96158236
>xhe doesn't even have the balls to reply
fatherless behavior

>>96158215
The DM boosters work pretty good for draft honestly

>give me the (you)!
>interact with me!

>>96158236
>dude i haven't played the game in like uhh... i dunno 6 or 7 years and don't want to spend 5 minutes doing a quick google search but I bet Konami still hasn't added a bunch of fully generic bullshit that completely breaks the balance of the game!!!!

>>96158243
you probably chopped off your thingie already, my bad

>dude like... jellyfish lmao that's why OLD generic card design bad because new ones break the game
this is why you don't deserve (you)s

niggas really comparing Drillroid, Chaos Sorcerer, Vampire Lord, Sangan, magician of faith and Cyber Dragon to modern handtraps

drafting doesn't work because without archetypes the game just turns into goodstuff.dek. every draft would just be choosing the card that's objectively the best with no real strategy beyond that

So, when you imagine your ideal Yugioh draft, what does your ideal draft pile look like?

sorry i am waiting for the youtuber to tell me what my opinion should be so i can pretend i'm good at ygo

>>96158283
>insisting on draft
KONMAI literally already came up with a new format for people that don't wanna face tier 1 shit: tactical try format.

>>96158282
It does work ok with DM/GX packs. There is generic stuff and archetype shit in those.
>>96158283
I drafted 2 invasion of chaos and a labyrinth of nightmare once and got a big gren maju by using skull lair to banish my stuff was kinda cool

>>96158295
I was hoping I'd get replies going into what-if decks and themes people would try to go for, instead of whatever you're on about.

>grr.. i... Must.... DRAFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>Cube? Pshaw, I'd never waste my time constructing my own fun. Konami must make the packs for me so that I may draft!

ok here is a simple coomander flavored format for you fags
>singleton, 59 card deck
>deck can only have monsters as the same type and attribute of deckmaster
>cards that mention type and attributes your deckmaster doesn't have are not allowed in the deck
>only 1 extra deck summon per turn
>only cards banned are fiber jar, magical scientist, exchange of spirit and other type of combos that either reset the game or allow for easy non games.

>>96158328
This but unironically

>>96158328
Take your meds.

>Reeze, Whirlwind of Gusto
Censored!
>Ghostrick Socuteboss
Censored!
>Crowned by the World Chalice
Censored!
>Aqua Spirit
Censored!
>Archfiend Heiress
Censored!
>Tremendous Fire
Censored!

I'm so upset! If only there was a place here in America to buy uncensored, unmodified OCG cards at a reasonable price!

>implying you can actually see the artwork on yugioh cards

>>96158398
I don't understand yugioh players having an autistic aversion to full/extended art cards.

>>96158398
I can. Quite easily in fact.

>>96158452
Are we talking yugioh or lush dueru?

How come Mexicans look Asian?

mig purisu
>>96158616

>>96158629
we're nowhere near image limit tho

>>96158632
thread's sinking albeit

>>96158635
we're nowhere near page 10 tho you newfag

>>96158659
we're gonna need a new thread eventually
>newfag
I've been here since thread #1 and i've been making them since what, thread #500 or so?

Never watched 5D's before. Is it worth it in 2025?
For reference I liked what I remember of the original seasons and loved GX even though I never saw its final season.

>>96158672
Yes, it's great up until the end of the dark signers arc, then it goes to shit but picks up in the very last arc.
Aki Izayoi owes me unprotected vaginal sex.

>>96158711
Carly is better

>>96158711
Does she really? That's impressive.

>>96158711
Thanks. Japanese or English?

>>96158746
They censor her cleavage in the eng dub

>>96158739
Yes, i've been playing her deck since fucking forever despite how shitty it is, and i have a ghost rare black rose dragon, it's the least she could do. Ideally she'd bear me at least one child.
>>96158746
>dubbed anime
lol
But really, yusei's voice is incredible in japanese, go listen to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIj3q7jQIp4, when he performs limit over accel synchro he fucking roars, the english VA doesn't do that shit.

>>96158763
>>96158755
Thanks. Where do I find the Japanese version? It's not on youtube or nico.

>>96158711
https://kemono.su/fanbox/user/1263210/post/9986716
Aki sex

>>96158792
hianime if you're a normalfag on a monthly data cap, nyaa otherwise
>>96158800
link's not working

>>96158746
watch the sub so you don't have to switch over after 4kids stopped dubbing. i agree with the other anon that post dark signers it falls off (and imo it never recovers, ark cradle is completely off the rails and kind of funny because of it) but it's still worth a watch.

Woah hey.
Hold on I think I might have to watch Sevens.

>>96158830
>nyaa otherwise
Downloading is such a pain on limited space.

Woah hey.
Hold on I think I might have to watch Sevens.

>>96158830
>nyaa otherwise
Downloading is such a pain on limited space.

>>96158830
>link's not working
Works on my machine, so idk

>>96158855
>>96158864
romin also owes me unprotected vaginal sex
yes, i do know she's 11

>100GB
>80GB
>70GB
Yeah I'm sorry that's simply not happening.

>>96158876
Is Sevens good? She's mighty fine and her series is a manageable 60 GB.

>>96158830
>hidive
Oh you don't need to sign up or do anything obnoxious for this you can just watch.
Alright 5D's it is.

Thanks guys.

>>96158886
i only saw up until chapter 50 i think? right after yuga beat what's-his-name maximum summon dude with his own self made maximum monster, the anime got too kiddy for me after that

i've heard it picks up just a few episodes later though, and it introduces a cute (autistic) little brown girl so it might be worth watching just for that

>>96158792
You should be able to watch it subbed on Crunchyroll if you have an account there. If nothing else that's where I watched the fourth season, which is only available subbed.

Has anyone ordered singles from Japan before? How much was shipping? I'm talking only like 20 cards.

Just returned home from locals. I've said this multiple times and I guess I'm going to have to keep saying it.

NOT ALL GAMES NEED TO BE DRAFTABLE.

Why is it so hard to understand? Current main sets are shit, but taking 4 of the new cards and replacing them with reprints is retarded. Very few people want to draft Yugioh. Battle Packs were made for draft/sealed and those went no where. People didn't care for them and they stopped after 3 sets. Konami knows that the majority of players don't want to draft.
A new anime wouldn't do shit. Yugioh anime in the west died after 5D's. Not a lot of people watched ZeXal and even less watched Arc-V or VRAINS. A new anime wouldn't do anything unless it was a DM reboot and was simuldubbed on Netflix and Crunchyroll.

Fucking retards please understand that draft or a new anime won't do shit for the game.

>>96159620
t. soulless metashitter

>>96159944
You don't need to be a metashitter to know the cards in those battle packs were cheeks. Konami has released a metric goddamn shitton of generic cards that can be used for cubes that don't require you run archetype-specific cards, but people that don't play the game like to pretend that things like Kashtira, Regenesis, Diabellstar, Tearlaments, the entirety of Runick, Ishizu if you're working with banned cards, Bystials, Sky Striker, everything that goes into Gren Maju OTK piles-- the list goes on.

Said simply? Just build a cube if you want to draft. It isn't hard if you actually give half a fart about the game.