Thread 719717113

>Master Duel on a drought, mismanaged with unbanlists, worthless bundles and Konami thinks it's smart to buff one of the two strongest decks at the moment with new support
>TCG bastardizing archetypes with horrible localization and continuous censorship, with the newest pic related archetype translated from "Killer Tune" to "Kewl Tune" as to not scare christian mothers
>Worlds ended with a fart, with Maxx "C" deciding the outcome of the final duel
>card lore animations are not even 5 minutes long and each one takes a month to be released, people have lost interest
>the only videogame they have bothered to release was a rom collection with many games playing almost exactly the same

What is even going on with Yu-Gi-Oh at the moment?

I hope there are no Maliss hits, I stil haven't played this deck even though I built it like a month ago.

I also want to play Maliss with full power including the @Ignister stuff

>>719717113 (OP)
Censorship issues aside the TCG format is actually really fun right now. Dracotail, Yummy, and VS are all really fun and well designed decks. I actually don't even think Master Duel's format is that bad. A two-deck format maybe isn't ideal but both of those decks are straight forward enough to have obvious answers. I even like some aspects of Ryzeal's gameplay design but they should probably ban Bagooska while it's playable.

>>719720607
Sell me on K9 VS.
(I'm more interested in Yummy simply due to aesthetics)

>>719717113 (OP)
>tfw for once I enjoy both meta decks
Now Im going to play Heraldic Ryzeal.

mtg won

>>719720607
Thinking about it a bit more, I think more than anything the current issues with Master Duel reveal that the biggest issue with the game is less the individual archetypes and more the general banlist philosophy. In no world should Bagooska and Apollousa be legal at the same time as archetypes like Malice and Ryzeal. Both of those archetypes are very consistent combo decks that mostly rely on removal for their interaction but Bagooska/Apo give them access to floodgate/negate tactics that they would otherwise not really have. And the same could be said for a lot of archetypes that use those cards. I've had a lot of games against Vaalmonica that would've otherwise been fine but because I didn't have an out to Bagooska or wasn't on a Link deck I just auto-lost. Same goes for a lot of Apo decks and monster negates.

Master Duel could make a lot of it's formats a lot more tolerable by banning obnoxious MD/ED tools that lead to no-win gamestates but instead we'll get a banlist next month that puts White Rabbit and Star Ryzeal to 2 and they'll pretend anything has been meaningfully changed.

>>719721128
For me the biggest draw is that a lot of your "going second" tools are in-engine as opposed to being generic hand traps/board breakers. Holy Sue for instance can summon itself on either turn, grab another VS from deck OR act as a snatch steal on an opponent's monster. And of course if you grab a Razen/Mad Love/Caesar Valius those cards can use their own effects as disruption. The K9 package just re-inforces this, allowing you to go into Rank 5 XYZs on your opponent's turn with Izuna+Lupus or Lupus+Holy Sue. I slightly prefer pure VS for aesthetic reasons but there's no denying that the K9 version is a lot stronger.

But in general I much prefer the VS style of gameplay where you accrue incremental advantage over a longer, lower to the ground game. You have combos, and even explosive ones with the new support and K9 cards, but the attribute requirements means you're always approaching a hand differently. Plus the attribute requirements means you can really make the build your own by teching in whatever Earth/Fire/Dark cards you think would be best. IMO it's just a really smartly designed deck and the field spell finally gave the archetype the consistency it needed to compete.

>>719721250
Marvel faggotry isn't on arena so this isn't video games

>>719720607
>I actually don't even think Master Duel's format is that bad. A two-deck format maybe isn't ideal but both of those decks are straight forward enough to have obvious answers.

It wouldn't be so bad if said decks weren't hyperconsistent and required different kinds of outs to deal with them. And as you said, the issue is that they both still have access to some really strong ED cards, specifically Apollousa, but instead of dealing with those cards which should have been banned a long time ago, they instead give us yet another unbanlist where they do nothing but unlimit cards again. Meanwhile we're on a several days drought until the next pack arrives and the Duel Trials we're getting don't really do anything to improve the state of the game.

The only enjoyable Yugioh games are the single player ones.
Always has been.

>Ryzeal loses to 2 Dark Holes
heh

>>719722886
Just give them a turtle

>>719722626
Honestly if it wasn't for Starliege Photon Blast Dragon, a lot of board breakers would be worth running. Cards like Ultimate Slayer would finally have their moment, but for some reason Starliege offers both targeting and destruction protection so it's droplet or bust.

>>719722886
*3 Dark Holes
They search plug-in

Done with Stage A and the finals.
On to stage B.

>>719717113 (OP)
>"Kewl Tune"
>not even something less egregious like wicked tune or sick tune
I hate the tcg so fucking much.

>>719724672
But think of the manchildren!!

>>719724672
And you know damn well the whole archetype and especially Cue will be censored as hell.

>>719723701
No one would notice in the TCG

>Maxx "C"
>triple veiler

Guess who wins this one.
P.S. blue player is Jesse Kotton.

So are we getting more of these?

Where did Y'ALL NIGGAS go?

>>719720607
Oh man if you think justice hunter is peak yugioh just wait till you guys get phantom revenger it’s fucking kino

>new pack doesn't come until the 10th

Guess I'm spending on deck slots.

Are you getting?

>>719729423
What's in it?

Needs a new single player game like Digimon Time Strangers

>>719729862
>>719729975

>>719729862
I'll probably just buy the world premiere singles and maybe a few of the starlights if it's cheap enough and maybe wait for it to drop to $10.
It's a bad sealed product.
>>719731349
https://yugipedia.com/wiki/2025_Mega-Pack_Tin

>>719724672
The names are one thing but are the sexy navels censored?

>>719729862
Probably one or two to gamble. The set is too inflated and too skewed towards the secrets from what I can see, much like last year. The list itself is not bad though.

Argostards

My deranged loli dragon wife.

So... does your opponent get to see your coin?
I assume people would have noticed from the tryout by now.

>>719729862
>buying TCG

Couldn't be me.

Heard that Dracotail can be played in Branded.
Is Branded viable in paper?

>>719729862
I like the design of the tin a lot but I don't think I'll be getting it.
>>719732842
What about em?

>>719734282
Branded is a rouge deck with the Dracotail stuff.
Having Ido legal helps a lot.

>>719734858
Do the other locks (legal in MD) not work?
Like the D/D one or Kristya?

I could only imagine the "ACAB" memes once K9 drops.

Flop anime

>>719735676
The other ones (except puppet since it's banned) do work, but D/D is about to get a support wave that makes them at least rouge tier, so Vice Requiem is risky.
Kristya is suboptimal since it affects both players, and Dracotail (and certain Branded cards) need to be able to special summon in order to do anything on the opponent's turn.

>>719736035
You should either find a job or kill yourself

>>719731728
>POV: you're visiting your grandma

>>719729862
>Everyone gets their boss monster
>Except Yusei who gets junk synchron over warrior/stardust and Jack who gets fucking red familiar over literally anything else
Why does konami hate 5Ds so goddamn much?

>>719736035
If it flops it's because of Aussa.

>>719736635
It will succeed because of her, because she now has fangs.

>>719717113 (OP)
I'm excited to mess with regenesis next week and I've been having fun playing Evil Twin and Vanquish Soul the past couple weeks.

Alright, list all the dogshit archetype localizations, starting with

>Hecahands
>Kewl Tunes

>>719738520
Between those two and maliss it really feels like they're getting worse.

>>719738520
>Centur-Ion
>White Forest
>Maliss
M∀LICE being localized that badly is what pushed me into completely ignoring TCG and import OCG cards from Japan instead, this after not buying paper for 20 years, which I will once again do with Killer Tune.

Bonus Round:
>Witchcrafter Confusion Confession
>Diabellstar Vengeance
How in the everloving FUCK do they localize "The Sin Adjudicator" as just "Vengeance"? What a horrendously generic name.

>>719739175
>>White Forest
??????
I'm looking at Yugipedia, and it's the literal translation.
What am I missing?

>>719738629
What is the justification for Maliss is it literally just saving literal pennies for the type set

>>719739287
Personally, I think that White Woods was the better name.

>>719739175
>import OCG cards from Japan
What were the last cards you imported?
I found pic related and some harpie ladies from a local store recently.

>>719740127
A box of Crossover Breakers, sadly I couldn't get a single M∀LICE main deck monster because they were all SR, but at least I got two Parallel Common Red Ransom and White Binder. I now want to buy at least two boxes of Phantom Revengers to try for Killer Tune, but they're still not available in Play-Asia.

>>719739387
Yes.

>>719740727
Incredible midriff. Congrats on your sluts.
>Play-Asia
Is that the go-to place to buy OCG boxes? I kind of want to get Killer Tune packs also.

>>719741049
You can also try Mercari or ebay. I've bought two times from Play-Asia and I've had a good experience so far, but for singles I used ebay since there was a japanese seller with good rating from who I bought the missing SeR Dragonmaids cards I was missing from the Trinity Box.

>>719731449
Aside from all the old dogshit meant to be used in their shitty errata'd replacement for Time Wiz format it doesn't look too bad, the last tin literally had every single common as a reprint of cards already available as bulk commons but this one reprints some DBP stuff there instead.

>>719739449
It was just a YGOrg one they guessed at because the TCG is fond of alliteration. The name is White Forest because of the similarly named classic "Witch of the Black Forest" instead.
Also you missed the horrendous "Hecahands" localization of the Hecatoncheires. That whole DBP has been utterly shit on by localization, which is a shame since Justice Hunters wasn't, Dracotail was forced to be that way because of copyright trolls and Yummy and K9 are intact.

>>719717113 (OP)
Weird since even Nintendo games use the word "killer" in their E for everyone games

>>719743067
why she get turned to robutt?

>>719743416
There are cards in the fucking game that have kill or killer.

>>719743862
She died, and her brother built a robot body to house her soul while he set his plan in motion to actually revive her (it went wrong).

>>719743862
He brother made a sex doll copy replica cause he missed her so much

>>719744407
>They had to butcher the name because of these ancient vanilla cards
El Oh El. At least change it to some kind of slang like "Killah"

>>719744535
>Kira Needle
It would've been pretty funny.

>>719744535
I don't think you get his point.
That's not the issue; the archetype is called "Killer Tune", not just "Killer", so it has nothing to do with Killer Needle or other such cards.
He meant that it doesn't make sense to censor the word "killer" when there are already cards that use it in the localization.

>>719744407
>>719744764
Actually, Killer Needle is the only card in the game that has "killer" in its name, and if you look for the word "kill", you will instead get cards with variations of the word "skill". So yeah, a quarter century later and TCG keeps thinking that soccer moms will get angry at no no words.