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>>97906562
>Is Heroes expensive to make?
Yes, and it'll always be because they keep printing support for it and they know HOMO tards will buy it even if its terrible.
>Does it do semi okay in the new meta?
No, it can't play under fuwalos because your first endboard piece comes out after 6 or so summons. Its chokepoints are a lot more obvious now, since miracle ejector traded a bunch of bricks for just 1, so denying them access to polymerization with handtraps is all you have to do to completely turnskip them.
>Miracle Ejector feels kinda meh to me imo.
It's literally their best card now.

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what do you think of my ragnaraika mitsurugi deck? I want to buy it but I need the good ratio of cards before

I'm trying to remember a card but can't find it. It basically allowed you to donate a monster to an opponent, and stopped monsters you own but don't control from damaging you. I think it was a spell, but I'm not 100% on that.

are the following products the best products konami printed?
>salamangreat structure deck
>modern legendary deck
>duel devastator

>>97909264
dark law comes out in 1. i saw decklist seem around like $150ish that's not too bad.

>>97909739
Hell no. DUDE was effectively the equivalent of paying 40 bucks (more after secondary markup) for handtraps. It doesn't matter that Konami's product pool wasn't flooded with Ash Blossoms yet, the card was only in the $15 range in 2019 since the Salamangreat structure deck was recent.

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>>97909290
Talismandra can be summoned off of jasmine/lonefire and it searches habakiri. It doesn't let you summon from the extra deck as long as it's face up on the field, but the ragnaraika links let you shuffle it back into the deck to summon themselves from grave, so that's not an issue.
It's a garnet like mirror, but it's absolutely worth it considering you're playing a "fun" deck anyway.

Lonefire is a very strong normal summon much like aramasa, and it doesn't interfere with skeletal soldier's lock in the slightest, so maxing it out was a very wise choice. Like i've said before, aramasa as a normal summon shines more in decks that don't have xenophobic locks, but i would still run at least 1 copy of it, since you won't always draw your ragnaraika starters, and it can be tossed to summon seed if you draw both.

Ritual can be cut to 1, it's not as crucial in this deck since the main goal is summoning evil seed and then bridging to ragnaraika through jasmine or pre-preparation.

I see the idea behind lonefire, evil seed, wicked butterfly and bloom at 3, but you only really need 1 butterfly (to banish off of seed, so you can get 2-3 draws in the end phase) and 2-3 bloom. 2 of each is also an acceptable ratio.
Samurai monk can be resummoned with bloom, so you don't need more than 1 copy.
Armored lizard is not needed at all, both of your engines provide plenty of bodies already, but even if i was hurting for a extender, i would rather run rikka princess since it's plants what this deck lacks.
I don't like wisteria at all, but if you think it has a use in the deck, feel free to run it.

I don't see the need for lilly and cross, you already have 2 negates and neither requires you to keep lilly on the field.

I'm not sure what loci and healer are doing there.

>>97909923
>I'm not sure what loci and healer are doing there.
aromage link -> tribute a plant -> summon normal monster plant -> link to healer -> healer's effect -> triggers aromage's effect -> add therion plant -> summon therion plant -> search cross

>>97910052
If you want lilly and cross that bad, you can summon mardel instead and search lilly, you then equip something to summon herself and search the trap.

>>97910087
yeah? the path is shorter right?

>>97910096
Not really, but you free up a extra deck slot i guess.

>>97910099
hmm yeah the extradeck. I don't know what to add in the extradeck. I watched some videos and I just dropped what they habe in my extradeck but don't really know what to put there

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just buyed this chat

Probably not really /tg/ related but any other cool yugioh merch I can get? I was thinking of getting Slifer or Obelisk or Blue Eyes plastic models.

this hobby is too expensive and not enough people play where i live

>>97910127
You're only really missing benghalancer as far as RIP endboard pieces go, but he wouldn't really work in your build. He technically doesn't work in mine either, but i run 3 skeletal soldier to convert leftover bodies into plants, and then i keep link climbing with it because he can banish the two skeletal soldiers and/or jasmine to summon itself from grave.

Photon lord, dugares, s:p, i:p and dyna mondo are standard mitsurugi toolbox cards, so maybe you could add one of each.

I don't know how popular lunalight is at your locals, but i see it often at mine and thus i run gorgon to deal with it. She's a $20 card though, but luckily mitsurugi can just run wousu to tribute it.

Also why are you running a branded fusion?

>>97911930
like I said, I saw some videos about ragna mitsu and one added alba-lenatus, so I added it too lol

>>97910235
>korean
you should selled it

https://exhentai.org/g/3896382/814f6f6e1d/
https://exhentai.org/g/3896383/b109c25bcb/
Traptrix sex

How do you guys sell cards you don't need anymore?

>>97914373
i go to a store and sell them

>>97909739
Legendary Modern Decks 2026 is the best product for new or returning players with some returns for long term players, Duel Devastator was a solid product for its era for new players but was too weak for longer term players, and the Salamangreat Structure was alright for new players but good for the long term players.

I'd say Legendary and Salamangreat are compreting for 1st, with Duel Devastator being solid but in third.

>>97909575
Not sure which but go nuts with this. 30 cards so it should be a quick look through.
https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Gives_control_of_your_monster

>>97913771
Thanks for the free sex.

post some witch sex next time. thanks

some witch sex next time. thanks

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>>97915235

>>97909090
Can someone explain why Reasoning's mill effect is good?
I can understand the free summon part, but unless the monster is sent to the graveyard too all the cards you milled will be spells traps, which isn't as good as filling up the GY with monsters.

>>97915497
Because it's free GY setup and potentially free body on a non-OPT effect.

Put the card in Runick and you mill your entire deck in one rip.
Put the card in Sky Striker and you're able to dig any spell/trap out of your GY with Kagari, then put them back in your deck with Lemnisgate.
Put it in Paleo and you crap out pretty much every card in your deck, to be duped with Transaction Rollback.
Any of the Ishizu Shufflers are valid targets for its summon, and regardless of where they end up when the card resolves, they put card back in your deck.

Suppose you're on a Synchro-heavy deck. Obviously you would be going for it for the body rather than the mills. Statistically speaking, there should be a good chance that you get a successful summon as long as all your monsters aren't the same level.

Suppose it's an Xyz-heavy deck. It's a strong opener if your opponent doesn't know what you're running, or if it's a deck like Sharks where they have level 5 monsters that can be treated as level 4 material.

Now, suppose it's legal at 3 copies.

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>>97915497
Consider the following

Maliss never won a world championship because konami sabotaged them everytime

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>>97915497
You just play decks that benefit from having spell traps in grave anon

Like >>97916349 mentioned, there's rollback as general mill support, but there's also specific archetypes that are able to benefit off of having spell traps in grave

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Labrynth bikini

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https://www.yugioh-card.com/eu/product/legendary-arc-v-decks/

Comes with new support for lunalight, odd-eyes and speedroid. The lunalight monster sounds kind of mediocre, but odd-eyes got electrumite while speedroid got circular.
3 full decks + staples like the previous product in this line, and they might reprint the dominus cards here because those only being reprinted in collector's and up in RA05 was suspicious. Also if we don't get a banlist in june/july for some reason, and the lunalight deck comes out WITHOUT bagooska, then it's guaranteed he'll be banned.

>>97918319
damn I don't want bagooska banned. it is too good for bad deck when they got handtraped

>>97918322
TCG doesn't like "crutch" cards, the baronne and borreload savage ban was motivated by the fact that after the RA reprints they were now freely available to everyone, and thus people could pivot to them or bagooska when handtrapped. The card didn't get banned last year only because ryzeal was using it.

>>97918370
bad decks must pay the price of meta decks. (I was thinking of bahamut shark in shark xyz deck). it is what it is. OCG banned bagooska so I'm ready for TCG :'(

How do you even get decks? A booster box isn't even enough to build anything, one ofs are annoying to get, like why doesn't TCG have more structure decks but with more playable ratios?

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Clown clan, at least the first wave, will be low rarity in this side of the world. The face of the deck is either super or common, i'm leaning more towards super, they wouldn't have advertised it otherwise.

>>97918438
Playtest them digitally on something like EDOpro until I like my build and then buy the singles off of TCGplayer.
I almost never buy sealed because the pull rates are terrible.
>Assume an archetype needs 3x of it's starter, which is an SE. Or in the case of deckbuild sets, URs.
>Core set boxes contain 2 SEs and DBP/DBS contain 3 UR per box.
Meaning it's impossible or extremely unlikely to pull the cards you want if you were to attempt to build via sealed. And keep in mind that's just one of the playsets, if you have a 2nd high rarity card you need then you're double SOL.
>why doesn't the TCG have more structure decks but with more playable ratios?
The obvious first thing is because KoA is running the show for the TCG products and kevin jewrat said fuck you eat shit. The man is single handedly responsible for just about every shitty thing in the TCG.
Besides that, SDs lists are made in such a way that you're intended to buy 3 of them as they're mostly singleton and the tradeoff is that they're very cheap. So the cost of 3 is similar to other games' in the end.
The recent legenday modern decks are an improvement on this specific point and we'll see if they can keep it up with the second one.

>>97919141
This doesn't actually mean it'll be low rarity, since whiteface is a 2-of post CORI, so they could fuck us over by making rehearsal a ultra and flair a secret.

>>97918438
>like why doesn't TCG have more structure decks but with more playable ratios?
For starters, they already started doing that in recent structure decks and the Legendary Modern Decks.
Second, you still have the exact same problem in that you need to get more singles to make it a decent deck.

Danger!? Otokonoko?

Going to create a Heroes deck, any recommendation for art sleeves? (I'll be double sleeving with a clear outer so don't worry.)

I'm surprised Dragonshield doesn't have much art sleeves..

>>97924930
use pink and white sleeves you fucking HOMO
there's official miracle fusion sleeves

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Proxy misprint. Anyone know what card the effect is from? feel like a guardian equip.

>>97922236
Clearly it is Moon Child

>>97919141
That clown zombie having high atk for Pharoh card revival target is funny

>>97925218
It's not a real card effect. A surprisingly(?) small number of effects in the game grant the ability to attack exactly 3 times in a turn, and none of them are on equip spells, traps, or union-like monsters.

>>97926158
I was guessing red eyes sword or Abyss Actor. they got bonker effects but locked

>>97926318
I peg it as a Mikanko CaC, personally. It sounds like something a card in their kit would want to do.

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>>97926158
And any card that gives extra attack in the battle phase makes sure to specify "each" battle phase, in case you can take two battle phases that turn because of Weather Report.

>>97918283
made for spanks...

>>97925011
not my fault i got a overframe wake up what else am i suppose to do, meh that's kinda ugly. Kinda want something kewler. not a lot of art sleeves around huh...wonder if the aliexpress sleeves are any good

>>97928435
If you don't like it, just send it to me.

>>97928525
i wanna play heroes at locals tho

>>97924930
I'd say the OCG fusion sleeves but it sounds like you don't want stuff like that.
I feel like art sleeves are extremely subjective and if you want them you'll have to do your own work here. Nobody knows what your tastes are and there's very few people that want art sleeves outside some of the official ones. Mostly because unofficial ones are trying way too hard and are big boobie coomerbait or way too specific.

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>>97927940
What the fuck is this

I kinda, maybe wanna get back into ygo. Last played Eldlich before all the trap bans and tried to do dragonlink.

> DDD any good with the recent support? what about price?
> What about RDA?
> What about Labyrinth?

What are your thoughts on TCG right now anyways. We're sorta heading in the right direction with LMD. Still not a big fan of the booster box stuff and RC05 was sorta a miss but this has to be the first time where playing Yu-Gi-Oh doesn't cost an arm and a leg and getting staples is actually viable (there's SOME retarded shit that's still expensive as fuck)
What are some better improvements they can make? Do you think with the extended art set that yugioh will go through a reconnaissance or are we still doomed? (I'll be honest, all my locals scrubbed YGO for One Piece and Gundam because of lack of popularity....)

>>97929962
It's just more of I'm just looking for a collection of good quality sleeves and I'll just sift through. Are there any brands I'm specifically looking for?

I like the Despia deck fight me

>lower ratios for full-arts
>less full-arts than the ocg
>no serialized cards
>BLOAT upon BLOAT with the worded cards

What the fuck is KoA doing?

>>97931222
I'm not defending KoA, but you're retarded if you can't actually articulate what's wrong. Also there's nothing wrong with the stamped cards ratio, it's a guaranteed one per pack.
I hope this post is just bait rathar than being this retarded.

>>97931343
>nothing wrong with the stamped cards
>It's all shitty low effort reprints bloating an already bloated set.

Also, all the full arts are the PROMOS ocg was getting for free, meanwhile we have to pray to god we get one in a case, and that's for the URs, the Secrets are a fucking legend even rarer than the ocg serialized cards. You're actually missing a brain if you think rarity V is a good set in any way and is not just pushing the physical game into the abyss even faster than it was already going.

>>97931367
>bloating an already bloated set
The single slot per pack has an entirely seperate pool that does not interact with pulling the cards from the main pool.
>one per case
Stopped reading there. You don't know how the product is structured. The the average is 4 per case.
I'm not defending the set, I'm saying your info is wrong. Don't talk about shit you don't know anything about.

That said, the full art quantity still sucks especially with the lack of the bonus pack but how about you post about that rather than make a retarded first post and have the info actually be correct.

>>97931438
> The the average is 4 per case.
They're not doing the average retard-o.

>>97931444
>They're not doing the average
What does that even mean?
That's the community discovered number compared to the number of one per case you pulled out of your ass.

>>97931466
My guy you're the one pulling numbers out of your ass. Where did you even hear the 4percase when even Europe was complaining it was at most 2percase (And again, that was for the ultrarares).

>>97931438
Even if the ratios are 4 per case, the OCG had them at 1 PER BOX. How is 4 any better? Wow, they're not fucking us in the ass with a 2 foot pole, it's a 1 foot pole what a relief!!

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>>97931494
How about people opening an entire case at my locals and we pulled 4 in total (one of which I opened), several videos online of people opening cases that support that average, or other posts on something like r*ddit that you can find from taking 10 seconds to google "rarity collection 5 overframe pull rates per case" saying 4 to 6 average.
Not touching the UR/STAR ratios because the OCG GMR stuff is a completely seperate ballpark to compare and the bonus pack is a fixed rarity. Being STARs though, 1 per every other case was the old ratio before so nothing new to say there. There could be more I guess but I don't concern myself with it to have an opinion on STAR ratios.
>EU
Then this is an EU problem then of them fucking up the product. The average here in the US has been about 4.
>>97931519
Read the last part of my post again. I said I'm not happy with how low the overframe quantities are either, 4 per case avg is not great. Without a doubt I would much rather see 1 per box.
My point is that they're throwing around garbage info that's wrong or at least incomplete.

>>97931754
>we're getting swindled but what makes me mad is that people are posting the incorrect amount of swindled-ness.
Your priorities are either weirdly misplaced or you're a konami shill running the
>Yeah I hate konami too, but you know what I hate more? Those pesky misinformers!

Send me any cards you don't want.

>>97931781
NTA but you shouldn't mad because retards are saying retarded shit. If you don't want people getting mad at you for saying retarded shit, fact-check what you're saying and stop saying retarded shit. It's not hard.

>>97931806
Case in point, you should also proofread what you write every now and again.
>NTA but you shouldn't mad because retards are saying retarded shit
I meant that you shouldn't be mad because people are calling out retards for saying retarded shit.

>>97931781
I'll say it again. I DO have problems with the product. But it certainly isn't with stamped cards.
>Dude just ignore me being wrong about a bunch of shit, [relative privation fallacy]
>uh... YOU'RE A SHILL!
My issue with the product and my issue with (you) are seperate. But one of those parties are ITT and can be addressed right now.

>>97931034
I'm surprised that the three Hecates and The Gorgon never were transplanted to Konami's card game as they seem to be kinda sorta memorable.

>>97930829
>ignored
is it because I doomposted? I wasn't being literal. ;_;

>>97930829
the future of Yu-Gi-Oh! and TCGs is digitalize game. no more papersheet in 2050

>>97930829
Been buying OCG lately, paper quality is much better than TCG for sure.
>but what if you want to play
Never cared about tournaments desu.

>>97930813
d/d/d is okay, underwhelming tho.
rda is getting support in the next core set.
lab is beyond ass, completely powercrept.

Are these yugioh introduction streams always this boring?

>>97930829
>What are some better improvements they can make?
Copy OCG products 1:1
>>97933991
FUCKING BASED

>>97933991
>>97934606
Perhaps one day Asian English OCG will replace TCG entirely, LAH.

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>>97935996
A man can dream

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>>97930829
>What are some better improvements they can make?
OCG's rarity system, i'm gonna use fydraulis harmonia as an example. It came out in three different rarities, with the lowest one being secret, so it was a fairly expensive card by OCG's standards. It sat at $15 for a while, but finally settled on $20 after elfnote got regina and people figured out that you could use the card even in decks that had nothing to do with synchros, like K9. They complained about the card being prohibitively expensive for many, because $60 for a playset of a staple hadn't been a thing since ash blossom, do you know how laughable that sounded to a TCG cuck like me? By the time ash blossom had been reprinted for like the tenth time in the traptrix structure, it was still worth nearly 10 fucking dollars, even though this was her third common print.

By using OCG's system, you actually IMPROVE the market somewhat, because the people that just want to play some fucking yugioh will go for the lowest rarity possible (which won't be as cheap as OCG, but still), generating a lot of sales for everyone, while the whales/show-offs will always rarity max, which mostly benefits third party sellers, but KONMAI still gets to fill its pockets from all the boxes they're selling due to rarity chasing.

There's literally no reason to not give this system a try for at least a couple sets besides jewart and jewrome flat out not wanting to show the goyim the slightest bit of mercy.

>>97936277
People keep blaming Tewart or Jerome when its the OCG that decides the rarity spreads for the TCG. They know that the TCG isn't nearly as profitable as the OCG. They have to make product that appeals to vendors. A lot of modern sets are considered worthless because they don't contain high rarity chase cards. Locals have to make money, so when the newest set comes out and no one is buying because nothing is worth it, they end up losing money and eventually drop the game.

>>97936309
>>They have to make products that appeal to vendors
If that were even half-true then the pull rates wouldn't be half as bad as they are and our reprint policy would be significantly worse so that sets hold value for longer. The problem that VENDORS have with this game is that they, themselves, are gambling on the sets, since it's either the case that they get dogshit like Blazing Vortex where they have to spend hundreds on paperweights if they don't want to get cut off (as they are obligated to purchase every single set if they're OTS stores), or whatever hot new set they're toting become paperweights as soon as the first banlist or reprint wave comes out to completely invalidate everything within that set.

Kevin Tewart is the head of R&D and he is directly responsible for fucking up the rarities in the west, which helps nobody. You cannot call him blameless. Players do not have faith in the idea of opening boosters to get what they need, Vendors sell fewer boosters and lose out on money, Konami makes less money because the vendors are selling fewer boosters, and ultimately the shops just stop selling yugioh shit because interest dries up. It's a vicious cycle and one that people see unfolding in real time.

>>97936309
True, I agree. if konami want to sale their products, they better make at least one good card in their sets

>>97909090
I was dreaming about card combos again.

The problem too is vendors are not hosting yugioh anymore because no cash prizes (i mean it is what it is, not saying it's a bad thing and it's quite honorable for them to keep up a dead man's word. you'd think they would pachinko it desu lol), thuggery scene back in 2000-2010s didn't help, yugioh too complicated for the normie mind to take (honestly, it's not even that bad - the biggest problem is that yugioh is very easy to make illegal plays all the time and it's more about knowing when your opponent does some bullshit which you won't if you're new, but since this is an autistic hobby, most people will try to cheat as much as they can), no fun chase cards, no fun products, censorship out the wahoo (who are you even catering to? normies aren't going to buy DMG)

>>97909090
Heard about Time Wizard format and sounds cool. Do they still make any boosters reprinting old cards for certain formats or is this just a go find it among the piles in your local card shop project. I miss opening packs like a gambling addict.

I'm new to the game and I was thinking of getting Heroes. I was looking at the deck list and I can probably get this for around $200-250 CDN but I can't tell if that's a bad investment. Is it at least decent for locals or will I get smashed with the new TCG meta?
https://www.yugiohmeta.com/top-decks/adelaide-march-2026-regional/heros/sam-white/p-tfX

Thank fuck Rotary is only an ultra, shouldnt cost an arm and a leg for a playset

The real wallet rape will come from Harmonia

Secret (10/10):
- The Crimson King
- Shade the Obscure
- Fydraulis Harmonia
- Dominus Spark
- Solemn Accusation
- Exceptional Schedule
- Teller of Fairy Tails
- Elfnote Regina
- Power Vice Dragon
- Princess Dracaena, the Thirsting Tree

Ultra (14/14):
- Kewl Tune Crackle
- Kewl Tune Rotary
- Charmer Quartet in Bloom
- Nervedo the Shadebeast Power Patron
- Junoldo the Shadespirit Power Patron
- GMX Partner Selandea
- GMX 55th Experiment Report
- GMX - Comprex
- Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Flying Launcher
- Fata Dragna
- Crimson Blade Dragon
- Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Gustav Rocket
- DoomZ XIII Over - Graflareio
- Fairy Tail Matchgiru

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do I use piri reis map in my ragnaraika mitsu deck?

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>>97939152
>Elfnote card in SE
>KT is URs at most
Loling and lmaoing at the Elfnotefag who was saying the KT stuff was going to be SE.
Harmonia being SE was expected and I'm gonna guess it will settle at around $80. Might go less assuming people rip open a bunch of the set because it does have a lot of big things in it. Also the wealthy furries chasing fairy tails.

Gonna get my invite in June then go to the WCQ in July. See you fa/tg/uys there.
(even if I don't get my invite, still gonna go for the side events but I'm 90% sure I'll be able to do it again since there's plenty of events not too far to try at)

《《《《《SEMI RELATED NOTE》》》》》
I WILL BE DOING ANOTHER FREEBIE GIVEAWAY AT THE WCQ.
Last year's was TG hyper librarian, should I just do him again or should I do something more thematic to this WCQ season? Open to other suggestions too if people would rather see something else.

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>>97939049
Oh god it's going to cost $300+ (incl tax). I don't even have the side deck in this...

>>97937694
There are some old set reprints and reprints of old cards in new sets

>>97939550
Lonefire and aramasa are the better normal summons in this deck, so no.

Why is this guy talking like we know him when he's a nobody?

>>97940162
If you're talking about >>97939714, it's because he did announce he would be giving away some handmade merch at YCS last year, but no one had the balls to show up (or just didn't qualify lmao), so he wants to do it again and hopefully this time he'll be able to meet another fa/tg/uy.

No one knows him, yes, but he literally just wants to make friends.

>>97940162
Kinda rude AF ngl.

>>97940162
I assume you're refering to me here >>97939714. I know I'm a nobody, nor am I trying to be somebody beyond "I'm a guy that is going to be at nats and will give you free shit".
I'd be a name/tripfag and would instead use /dng/ if I really wanted to be obnoxious. Though I will likely namefag at nats solely for the sake of communication.
If you mean me talking about the elfnote guy, I'm just calling them that because they were hyping elfnote over KT. They're not actually a known person or whatever. It's not that serious.

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>>97939714
Oh yeah, I should probably post the freebie from last year. A simple keytag.
I feel like I rushed it a little bit and want to do something better this year. Maybe something like a token or deckbox divider.

>>97939152
>fairy tail got a ultra and a secret
>RDA got taxed to shit
>plant circular is secret
well fug :DDD
>not a single klown klan card in the UR/ScR pool
not that happy about it, we could still get taxed on the pendulum and the link we're missing, not to mention that this deck also wants harmonia, a card i'm not gonna buy until it gets reprinted as a common, and it's very likely it'll get limited way before that happens

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Is this a good card? Honestly I was wow overframe, but did not realize it‘s an starlight rare. I am just collecting these cards btw.

>>97942772
>Is this a good card?
In what sense?

It's a Dominus card so it is good on that merit, but it is not as good as Dominus Impulse since Purge hits DARK and FIRE monsters (the former being one of the most common attributes in the game and the latter being Ash Blossom's attribute). Impulse has a different activation condition, but it also hits slightly-less-common LIGHT monsters and no other important attributes in most decks. So from a gameplay standpoint, Impulse is slightly better than Pulse which has a harder time being slotted into decks on a generic basis.

If you're talking about it money-wise, that card is worth about 50 burgerbucks, which gets you 9 big macs in burgerland. In Germany, this would only get you about 5 big macs. No sides or drink for either.

>>97942772
play blue eyes now.

>>97942772
It's a good card effect but the homes for it are limited because of the written restriction. Let me put it this way, if your deck is unaffected by the restriction then it's among the top cards you could consider for your non-engine slots. If your deck does not mesh with the restriction then it's "bad" because locking yourself out of a bunch of your effects is obviously bad. Ash Blossom being one of the best cards in the game also conflicts with this card.
In terms of price the card is worth a decent amount too.

between xyz, synchro, fusion, ritual, pendulum and link, which one dominates the others?

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Alright Gents, I need to open a Pharoahs Servant and one of the original 3 packs to add to my deck. Which would you recommend for my deck? I'm 4-3 at work

>>97936277
>>97936309
OCG Rarity system won't matter unless we finally clean up the stupid 6 month delay and get things releasing at the same time. That delay means people barely think about the just released sets vs the upcoming sets unless something really crazy is happening.

>>97943072
Really depends what you mean by that. But if we're going off of something like the number of banned cards for the longest time it was XYZ but Link has overtaken it in recent years.
It makes some sense because konami made a bunch of overtuned XYZs because they've always been deemed "harder" to make (though we always find a way to easily make them) and for some reason thry have a bunch of turnskip-like effects like S0, VFD, kali, azathot, etc.
Links overtook them because they were far simpler to decks and thus easier for decks to make. Just find something else that bridges the gap in materials and you can include it into your endboard. IE Closed moon leading to fiendsmith lines, halq-selene-accesscode/apo, halq in general, etc. Just generally a lot of card advantage as well.

If we're talking """vibes""" then likely synchro. It's always kind of around in formats no matter what else is going on.

>>97945045
Aim for more magician of faith. The value you'll get from recycling spells is massive.

>>97945045
2nding Metal Raider. It's maybe the best thing you can open.

>>97939152
>Princess Dracaena, the Thirsting Tree
It's always the cute ones who are useless.

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>>97933991
Same. What have you picked up recently? I'm thinking of getting this cutie since TCG only has 2 (TWO) total alt arts for some reason.

Also bought my first 20th Anniversary Rare recently. Ms. Ghost Reaper.

>>97945045
Unless you pull a toon world, I'd say no on more spell ruler

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Fuck

>>97942829
>>97942974
>>97943031
Thanks, yeah I am not eager to play it, but I saw this thing in starlight rare going for 200€ so I guess I will just sell that.

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>>97945191
I see, thanks. here's a banlist of extra deck cards. I think you're right

>>97946704
The sheer numbers tell you that, but the majority of the banned Xyz Monsters are cards that directly prevent your opponent from playing the game (Utopic ZEXAL, Shockmaster, Abyss Dweller, Rhongo, VFD, Pair-a-Dice Smasher, etc).

On the other hand, a good chunk of those link monsters could come off the list today, and it would have a relatively low impact on the game after things normalized. Knightmare Goblin could've come off as early as 2020, Mermaid doesn't do anything that most decks these days don't already do, and you have cases like SHS Scarecrow and Prank Kids Meow-Meow Mu that got put on the list for seemingly no reason. Electrumite and Isolde could also come off, and Curious was only hit because of Tearlaments (about a quarter of a year? after their builds phased it out). Auroradon was also pretty much just on the list because of Halq.

Common factor with the link monsters btw? All of the ones I listed are legal at 3 copies in the OCG, with the sole exception of Knightmare Mermaid who is also Forbidden. None of the decks for the others are doing jack, though.

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/144024399
Various Duel Monsters sex

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>>97945858
>>97945785
>>97945960
Thanks think I'll go metal raiders then. We're gonna do a retro pack in a little bit so maybe I'll go spell ruler next time if I grab a toon world

>>97947328
That's a lot of good sex.

>>97942772
i'd sell it and buy 3 ultras for $40-ish (if you actually need them), not sure how let's say "diverse" your locals is, but 2 starlight overframe mirrorjades got stolen this week, one was finessed inside the store and the other was culturally enriched in the parking lot by a melanated astronaut

>>97946810
Ibageee with you. I'm also upset of scarectow being banned when SHS isn't meta anymore because they banned scythe and calamity already. >:(

>>97947328
>witch sex
>elfnote sex
based

>checking locals in my area
>6pm on a tuesday.

>>97948221
? whats the problem?

>>97948249
Some people have jobs. Shocker, I know.

>>97948221
That's normal

>>97948258
you don't work at 6pm

>>97948260
>>97948258
>>97948249
>>97948268
sorry I should've said "ONLY 6pm on tuesdays", no weekends :(
gawd damn bros wish it was at least like 5:30 or something, I'm gonna miss the train home....

>>97948274
Ah gotcha

>>97948274
huuuh do you live in italy?

>>97946810
Thanks for repeating basically what I said, however I don't think that excuses/disqualifies the cards to the topic.
>XYZs
Even if you cut 8 of the 19 XYZs for being turnskips/floodgates that still about double to synchro and more so if you exclude synchros of the same category. Also I think the cards specifically in that category meets what OP asked originally. I think it's fair to say that the most dominant way to play is to not let your opponent and play at all.
>Links
>The OCG
You're correct that some of these are legal in OCG and technically could come off in TCG but there's more at play here and why they shouldn't.
Something you might not realize the effect of is that a lot of the cards off the OCG banlist are dictating what designs are being made and then in the TCG you perceive them as not a problem. Like they aren't making warrior archetypes for isolde to abuse because they're, intentionally or not, designing around isolde. But if they were to make something like a low level warrior starter for a decent deck what do you think will happen? You kind of have to look a layer deeper.
IMO these cards are limiting card design by not being banned and would be better off banned. They're cards on the edge of being broken if konami makes a mistake or intentionally makes one that interacts with it.
>SHS scarecrow
The OCG has 2 SHS hits in other places to make up for it. I think it might be able to come back but I'll be honest I don't think I want to spend a format finding out especially with Harmonia entering the format and the synchro piles that could lead to.
>Curious
This card is extremely unassuming even outside Tear. If you think Beatrice and Chaos ruler is rightfully banned then this is just another suspect. The materials are not a problem if you really want it.

The rest I can give you, they likely won't upset too much. Though you're somewhat incorrect about electramite, and that card is rightfully at 1 due to the OPT issues.

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This is me.

Is there going to be a Magistus Chronicles deck?

>>97948513
Unlikely given that they've already show us cards for main/side sets. They would have shown them off for those decks if they were intending to make them into a SD. It might change for the TCG but I wouldn't bet on it.

>>97948574
Aww I was really hoping for one. The Charmer structure deck event was the first (and only) time I had fun competing in a tournament.

>>97948221
SoCal?

>>97948614
Are you by chance the canadian anon that's SOL when it comes to buying cards and making your own deck?
If so, I truly and honestly think your experience will improve once you have your own deck and spend some time practicing with it. I'm willing to help you get a real deck as in purchase all the cards and send you it.

>>97949642
That's probably me but it's kewlie-yo, I ended up with a sick Branded Deck and Heroes deck incoming once I checked the stores around me. Thinking about building GMX Dinos next. I'll pass the offer to that magistus though. Magistus is a based deck.

>>97949642
>purchase all the cards and send you it
Damn I wish I was that Canadian guy right now.

Metamorphosis is unbanned now? What the fucking fuck.

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https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/144045134
Lingerie of the Labrynth (Blue)

>>97948411
Canada. There's some other locals here but I heard the competition....is rough. I mean nothing against playing the best of the best but dang bro I just want to get into the game not feel like I'm fighting for every inch of my life with every draw.

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>TCaC
>Give Red Blossoms a proper archetype.
this was actually really difficult, and im not sure i really got the playstyle exactly where i would like it but i had two main goals with this set of customs:
>somehow let you use the traps when going second
>make Red Blossoms' GY tagout effect a proactive gameplan
and in that respect i think these turned out decent, but it really is a glacially slow control strat that absolutely dumpsters banish strategies in particular.
(1/7)

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>>97952849
(2/7)

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>>97952857
(3/7)

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>>97952863
(4/7)

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>>97952876
(5/7)

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>>97952885
(6/7)

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>>97952895
(7/7)
and that's it, any and all feedback would be appreciated!

>>97952895
you should make z xyz monster can be summoned by using one rroot card as material

>>97953339
i thought about that but i wanted the extra deck guys to only be able to be summoned opt from extra but you could revive them as much as you wanted with Red Blossoms, the compromise i settled on was giving them "Must First" built-in summons that are hard opt. putting the card as a material under the xyz one specifically seemed like a break in flavor, as well as potentially getting your continuous trap stuck under it if it got booked on summon.

>>97953368
well let it has it is

Other than Facebook Marketplace and Ebay are there any other places to get cool sleeves? I'm thinking of paying top dollar for manamoons but they're a bit too....girly and I'm definitely not cool enough to play that ironically.

>>97953896
https://www.yourplaymat.com/products/custom-card-sleeves
Dragonshield also makes custom sleeves, but they're more expensive, they'll always have a white border and they're probably picky about what they'll put on a sleeve.
There's also custom sleeves on Amazon, but the last time I got some, for a irl shitpost, they quality was shit.

>>97953944
thanks! I'm not artistic enough for customs but yeah I know DS has heavy like no copyright material or whatever. I saw some cool chinese ones online but fuck paying $30+ for stuff you know takes like $0.05 to make feels bad.

>>97953954
Yourplaymat is a bit too expensive, but they do give you more options on what you can get on the sleeve. I have some that I got like maybe 5 years ago and the quality was good at the time. Don't know if anything has changed since then.

Is GMX looking rogue or not really? I'm looking at it but there doesn't seem anything cohesive here...

>>97954084
I'm told it pairs well with Fur Hire, creating a competitor to K-9/Fur Hire

>>97954084
its more of a supplemental engine for any deck that has a dino starter, as long as the deck itself doesnt play any dino garnets. so basically only in fur hire.

>>97954239
>>97954131
you have a sample deck I can look at?

it has zero results so your best bet is to look on ygoprodeck or cardcluster.

>>97953896
>but they're a bit too....girly and I'm definitely not cool enough to play that ironically
None of the """pros""" besides trif (and only because he's literally the only one that isn't a 2/10 obese/lanky autist) are cool enough to use tranamoon sleeves, and yet a lot of them did (it's illegal at big events nowadays).

Not sure what you mean by girly however, but i've seen 30+ year old black men at my locals rock titty sleeves and mats unironically and no one cares.

>>97955309
>it's illegal at big events nowadays
At European events.

>>97955309
Who cares what the "pros" use? Think and be your own person especially when it comes to gear and accessories.

>>97955456
My point was that if an absolute loser doesn't mind using custom shit, you shouldn't either.

I want scrap support T_T

>>97955309
i mean it's a little too mahou shojo if you know what i mean lol

>>97957097
do you have a pic of the sleeves by any chance?

In the US, where do you buy singles from that offers shipment tracking even if you have to pay extra for it? I've had 3 out of the last 14 orders from TCGPlayer never arrive after a month and never even showed up in my USPS Informed Delivery so I'm done buying shit that doesn't have tracking on it, and as far as I can tell even if a seller offers "expedited" shipping there's no guarantee that it has tracking.

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Joining my first local this weekend, any advice? Not going to lie I think I way overinvested into this hobby without trying it out first. I have a lot of expensive cards/sleeves so I'm a little worried about getting cucked and someone jacks my shit. Area is a little sus but it's also the biggest local in my area. I'm probably going to do a lot of illegal plays and misplays lol

>>97957159
it was the live twins one but I'll probably just buy some other ones since I don't think I can pull this off at all.

>>97957245
ok thanks
>first local
go on a empty table, prepare your playmat and your cards and wait someone to come up, then tell him it's your first time and you don't know all the rules and tell him if he can tell you when you misplay. what deck are you playing?
>the sleeves
they're meh, find another one

>>97957301
I like the right more than the left, is there any other independent artists that do drops like whoever does the Manamoon stuff? I don't mind supporting. If only Konami dropped the fucking COOL SHIT here like the sky strikers shit.

I was going to either bring Branded or Sky Strikers maybe both. Kinda wanna hide my power level a little bit until I get used to paper. I was thinking of starting out with Sky Strikers but it's definitely going to look sus if I say I'm new and I bring out the full Branded shit with White Dragon and Black Ecclasia.

>>97957323
fuck and I also paid for overframe mirrorjade, I'm going to look like an easy target to get jacked....

>>97957323
for the sleeves, I just go on internet and type 'sleeve ygo' and watch if some are good or not, but I don't have a website where I go. I wish I knew a place where to find more ssleevs but I don't. I also want to buy custom sleeves from japan but I think it's expendive to import them from japan to overseas
>branded or sky striker
well play with the one you'll not be sad if stolen

>>97957365
it's crazy how in japan it's $5 then you buy them online and it's $50-75, it's like what the fuck lmfao
>play with the one you'll not be sad if stolen
probably SS since it's dirt cheap but man I admit I do want to flex with the branded.... fuck it if I get robbed at gunpoint i'll take my chances with the gun to protect my shit. im not afraid to die but i'm afraid of my mirrorjade in someone else's hands REEEE

>>97957433
double or even triple sleeve your extradeck and your mirrorjade, lmo

>>97957454
already doubled. honestly the white dragon was more expensive lol. I wouldn't have even played branded if I wasn't lucky with my Burst Protocol draws

>>97957465
mind posting a pic of white dragon and mirrorjade, want to them?

>>97957468
want to them? o_O

>>97957487
forgot a word, lmo (I want to SEE them)

>>97957490
oh my mirrorjade baby is still in the mail but white dragon and black ecclasia are here. let me grab a pic
>inb4 anon is going to come and mug me for my white dragon like kaiba did.

>>97957506
don't worry I won't steal your card,

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>>97957519

>>97957548
nice, enjoy using them

>>97957585
I love the lore of Branded it's cute as heck

Branded is for faggots. I will never add them to my Dracotail deck.

>>97957692
:(

>>97957692
>playing a soulless meta deck
>but thinks he's too good for the best sub engine for that deck

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>>97957706
donnt worry anon, I'm with you, go and win at your local!

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I used to play when I was (a lot) younger and now I have had a ton of cards sitting in storage.
What is the best way to sell them and do they have any value?
I was looking them up on TCGPlayer and ebay but none of them seem to be worth much....
That stack in the top left is probably 60-70 rare cards (silver letter names).

FB marketplace seems flooded with cards also.

>>97959439
the only old cards that are worth any money are promos and foils from packs you would get from tournaments.

>>97957245
It's not? But funnily enough, using the official live twin wallpaper, replica or not, is considered psychological warfare at my locals because people can't stop staring at it.

>>97957336
if your locals is full of thieving niggers why go there at all? i know you mentioned it being the biggest store in town, but it's absolutely not worth getting robbed over it, just find a more friendly one by asking around on faceberg

either you get jacked at gunpoint right after leaving the store, they pocket your cards by asking to read them and then swiping them while you're distracting doing something else, they pressure you into lending them (i've seen this one happen a LOT, it's always a fat fucking mexican asking the whitest, most meek guy for his QCSR fuwalos and waddling out of the store as soon as he looks away) or someone "accidentally" drops your deck box and takes your expensive shit while you pick it up, there's also always that one opportunistic nigger whose job is spotting first timers so he can duel them with ante rules (your ecclesia of the black dragon vs a $0.01 card of his), which mind you is strictly illegal in this game

>>97960769
It's less that the local is full of thieving guys, it's just the area itself is sorta sus. The actual store seems pretty chill. I'll probably bring Sky Strikers for my first time and see how it is.

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>>97911603
My take is that the hobby would be bigger if decades of metafagging hadn't destroyed the illusion of choice people remember from childhood.

If you ask anyone interested in getting into the hobby to think of an archetype of cards based on visual design or some shit alone (Things that a new player is probably likely to care about unless they are migrating from another TCG) chances are whatever they want to play is completely unusable garbage. So that leaves the only people in the hobby as either just pure cardboard collectors or meta chasers who only care about text on the cards and nothing else.
Like "Hey you can play this deck full of monsters that look like toys out of a 5 year old's McDonalds Happy meal OR you can play this deck with a bunch of generic Tokusatsu faggots and maybe some mecha dragons"
those are your options most of the time
Oh or my favorite
>Your archetype exists to combo into into extra deck shit that winds up being mcdonalds toys and mecha dragon shit anyway regardless

>>97961374
I guess basically tl;dr
Trading card games are basically the shittiest genre possible to actually have any degree of freedom or self expression even though it seems like you would be permitted a lot of it by virtue of how many cards and archetypes exist. That disconnect automatically turns people off of them before they even start because there is no actual illusion of choice.

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>>97953896
mercari for all the unique official Japanese stuff.
Booth has doujin sleeves made by random people.

>>97959439
None of those are worth anything. Go into a local store and get maybe 5 bucks for the Pokemon ones.

>>97960769
don't forget those whites people who steal your shit

>>97957660
I like swordsoul and despia in the albaz lore

>>97961374
I mean all in all, this shit is literally a fighting game lol. No wonder it's niche. You can't just hop right in and start playing right away like you can do with Pokemon. Different crowd though, they can remove the bloat but with that they just remove a lot of the depth. I don't know if going back to Edison is the right move (and honestly I'm so tired of stun + hoping to topdeck HFD or Mystical Space Typhoon or something only for them to flip Imperial Iron Order) and the back and forth slow gameplay of "I DREW MY FUCK YOU CARD" WELL I DRAW MY FUCK YOU CARD every turn doesn't really feel that good. Speed Duel? Rush Duel? Maybe but I can't see much depth in either.

>>97963386
The worst character in most modern fighting games would still be """good""" enough to be considered borderline rogue by the metric of YGO that's the difference.
YGO is like those fighting games from 20+ years ago where the worst character is actually so bad you have to ask yourself if the developer put them in the game as a joke and the top end is like some Marvel vs Capcom 2 infinites shit

>>97963469
I mean let's be honest, you gotta think of each meta in yugioh "sequels" lol. Sure this game has like 150+ characters but only 20 are like viable with 5 being disgusting and I think that's relatively fine. We could have rotation like Pokemon (which is really the same thing where you just play 20 characters) but build variety and depth drops. I just wish this game was more affordable which they're starting to do with only alt art and higher rarities being the chase cards. They're starting to do that but sometimes they backtrack on it and it's like what the fuck man. LMD was HUGE. They need to do more stuff like that.

>>97957336
Stealing shit can happen but that issue was more of a thing back in the late 2000s. I would blame it mostly on the lack of access to cards rather than just people wanting money. Once digital stores like TCGplayer entered the scene theft dropped a lot.
Though it should be said that you should keep your stuff pretty close at hand in a similar manner to keeping an eye on your bags in any other public setting. Like take your stuff with you to the bathroom, don't leave it behind.

This post >>97960769 is gassing you up. This is not likely happening and I literally go to locals boadering Detroit and have done regionals in Detroit.
But I do agree about card loaning and various other "let me handle your cards" ploys. While I haven't seen anyone try that shit in a long time, this was a scam. Golden rule: if you don't know them don't give them your cards. If someone wants to see a particular card just *jokingly* say "Better not run off with it, haha" and don't let them out of your sight.

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Final 2 Witchcrafter cards were announced

Witchcrafter Marka
Level 6 DARK Spellcaster Effect Monster
2500 ATK / 0 DEF

You can only use the (1) and (2) effect of cards with this card's name once per turn.
(1) You can Tribute this card from your hand or field; add 1 "Witchcrafter" Field/Continuous Spell from your Deck to your hand.
(2) If a face-up "Witchcrafter" monster you control leaves the field by your opponent's card effect while this card is in your GY: You can Special Summon this card (but banish it when it leaves the field), and if you do, Tribute 1 monster your opponent controls.

Witchcrafter Pupils
Level 8 FIRE Spellcaster Fusion Effect Monster
1800 ATK / 2100 DEF
Materials: 1 "Witchcrafter" monster + 1 Spellcaster monster

You can only use the (1) and (2) effect of cards with this card's name once per turn.
(1) During the Main or Battle Phase (Quick Effect): You can activate 1 of these effects;
Add 1 "Witchcrafter" Spell from your Deck to your hand.
Reveal 1 "Witchcrafter" Normal/Quick-Play Spell in your hand; apply that card's effect when that card is activated.
(2) During your End Phase: You can return 1 of your banished "Witchcrafter" cards to the GY.

>>97963632
tl;dr
>Redundancy options (Good!)
>Marka searches the field spell and is also an archetypal kaiju
>Pupils' primary value comes out of duping spell cards, but also puts cards in your hand

I think that Pupils would be a much better card for their kit if Walpurgis wasn't printed, but it's still pretty decent. Being able to quick effect resolve normal spell cards during your opponent's turn is fun, and also adds a layer of flexibility with their gameplan that you'd normally have to plot out your plays to get (namely putting Celebration or Draping from your GY into your hand so you could spring them on your opponent's turn, vs just duping it with Pupils' effect). I'd need to see everything in motion to see how it plays out, but I think Pupils might actually be the most tame card amongst their support wave.

Marka is crazy. Don't gotta say much about it.

>>97963632
Marka looks like the most negatable card ever but I feel like this card is going to come down later rather than sooner in combos. If it does come down sooner, it seems like a big choke point.
Pupils is interesting but I think the effect is more cute than practical. Maybe seems like a stepping stone to any of the other fusions?

>>97963544
>you gotta think of each meta in yugioh "sequels" lol
The problem is that this mindset is only easy to grasp for people who are already in the hobby.
For someone outside the hobby being told that a majority of cards that are legal to play and a majority of the cards that they are probably familiar with from (Shit from outside the game) are actively shit it's an immediate turn off to compare expectation to reality.
That's why the hobby is either slowly dying or just incapable of growing depending on your view.

>>97963819
I get it but that's the thing, you introduce rotation so ONLY 20 decks are legal at a time-ish giving no doubt what decks are playable and you only really have to learn 20 matchups but then that just gets rid of the build variety and most of the fun of yugioh (deck building). You can introduce a new format: Rush / Speed but then it's marketing to a whole different crowd and splitting the market which gets fucked. Normies will never like yu-gi-oh because they're unironically low IQ and too stupid to have fun with creativity and complexity.

Honestly, I don't even know what direction is best for YGO atm but whatever KoA is doing, they're going half the right direction (LMD) and then just putting out a few misses after that (RC05 / changing rarities again in BLZD). Fuck what would you suggest?

>>97963799
Marka's either ash bait so that Maid Verre can search Walpurgis, or the backup plan in case Maid Verre gets negated. Either way, it adds a good amount of flexibility to their opening setup since the general power level of the deck nosedives if you don't get Walpurgis so that you can do your setup.

>>97963882
(And alternatively, if Maid Verre DOESN'T get negated, that's another 2 Vice-Madame effect activations to put Bystreet in your hand, then activate it)

Is Regulus going to be used in witchcrafter because I find that kino as fuck.

>>97963856
>Normies will never like yu-gi-oh because they're unironically low IQ and too stupid to have fun with creativity and complexity.
Yugioh was literally normieshit along with Pokemon in the 90s and early 2000s
Also modern card games aren't about creativity. The best shit is basically discovered instantly whenever new sets come out.

>>97963913
No. Or, likely no, because the card itself does nothing for their kit and the only support cards centered around Regulus don't do anything for their kit. It can't even search Maid Verre because he only searches spells that mention the card by name.

>>97964029
Should've said nugioh, mb.
>The best shit is basically discovered instantly whenever new sets come out.
yeah? why aren't you theorycrafting too as soon as you see the new cards too? Also a lot of stuff goes under the radar until some asshole makes it popular. Fuck it's even more fun when you mash older cards that you wouldn't think synergize and get big funky wombo combos. shit's unironically like jazz.

>>97964032
but regulus can summon verre. get his continuous spell, get verre. extra material for a link 2 or protection or whatever you can think of.

>>97964032
Endymion Empire can search Maid Verre. Don't think Regulus is worth running because you're going to have too much consistency while sacrficing space for non-engine.

>>97964050
Why would you do all of that when you could just activate Creation to search and summon Verre?

I hope the support wave for unchained makes them meta again

>>97964086
eh extra starter

>>97963632
Diabellestarr's long lost sister I see

>>97964108
They're not really aching for it with their new support, or even with their previous support wave. Maid Verre and Maid Genni can self-summon (both of whom can act as 1ccs) and Lacrima of Light can be duped. Nothing in their kit locks you unless you need a Terracottan panic button or summon Rilliona to swarm the field. Maybe 2022 Witchcrafter would want Regulus, not 2026 Witchcrafter.

To put it into perspective, they can come out with full boards through Nibiru now.

What are even playable right now anyways? This is what I got from a random tournament off RotK and that's already some good variety.
Kewl Tune
Branded
Elfnote
Mitsurugi
DoomZ
Sky Striker
Fairy Tail
Yummy
Maliss
Power Patron
Artmage
White Forest
Fallen Rishid
Fiendsmith Magical Musket
Gimmick Puppet
Lunalight
Radiant Typhoon
Rokket
Shining Sarcophagus Orcust
Synchron

Additional (not sure)
Centurion
Cyber Dragon K9
VSK9
Heroes
Exosister
FS Evil Twins
Labs
Dinomorphia
GMX
Dinosaur
Fairy Tale Spellcaster
Invoked (future)
Magistus (future)
Witchcrafter (future)
Mikanko (do they even have a turn one play?)
Rescue Ace
Blitzclique
D/D/D
I don't really follow pendelum decks but you could probably include some here.

>>97964138
yeah but you know what, I'm putting 3 regulus + endymion anyways because Link and his surrogate lolibaba mom and her posse is KINO as heck.

>>97964043
>why aren't you theorycrafting too as soon as you see the new cards too?
Because the archetypes I would care to play based on actually liking them for whatever reason whether it's design or concept are so bad that no amount of theorycrafting would make them usable
So if I'm only playing to be a metaslave and get Ws I'll just leave that up to others.

>>97964181
this is a ok environment

>>97964181
>>>>>>Dinomorphia
ok let's be real if we're counting that as playable then half of this list is probably a meme

>>97961374
I disagree. Konami has absolutely mismanaged the property, but Yugioh also has consistently felt like it has two ghosts crippling it:
>The early mass appeal caused people to build an idea of what Yugioh "should be" according to how it was when they first played it as kids/teens
>Yugioh's first steps of properly evolving the game past the dominance of Invasion of Chaos in late GX to early 5Ds...was also at the point in time that teenage/high school cringe for what they were doing in the previous level of schooling kicks in.
Yugioh went international in late 2001/early 2002 and a hell of a lot of people claim to have dropped off due to Synchros which were late 2008/early 2009. This is an ~7 year gap. Now remember thar UDE and 4Kids leaned hard towards marketing this to kids lowering the OCG target demo of 13+ to 7+. This would put a huge cohort of people that started in the 6-11 demographic at 13-18 when Synchros released, and you cannot underestimate enough how much hate teenagers get for what they were doing as kids. One that often takes 10 or more years to grow past.
...one tgat is directly aligned with a 10 year period that were the most consequential for Yugioh to evolve into its modern form.

>>97964419
>The early mass appeal caused people to build an idea of what Yugioh "should be" according to how it was when they first played it as kids/teens
This has nothing to do with the game failing to onboard people in the current era. The people that the game would hypothetically be targeting these days were not even alive when the original anime aired. At most maybe they saw some fucking meme videos of Kaiba due to abridged shit on youtube shorts.
>Yugioh's first steps of properly evolving the game past the dominance of Invasion of Chaos in late GX to early 5Ds...was also at the point in time that teenage/high school cringe for what they were doing in the previous level of schooling kicks in.
Again not seeing the correlation here. If the idea is that people turned away from YGO for long enough for it to evolve into something unrecognizable to them then that still doesn't explain why they are unable to re-onboard if the product was still appealing.
Additionally other IPs like MTG don't have this problem even though they similar do not really resemble the game they were back in the 90s.

Also Konami is not helping themselves considering they routinely drop product that is literally designed to cater to the original anime era card shit that without fail end up being express dog anal gland unplayable shit. They actively work against themselves by tying themselves to nostalgia but not actually making the cards worth the cardboard they're printed on.
It's why I always laugh when some retards are like
>Konami just needs to make a new anime that will fix everything
Yeah an entire new generation of anime archetype cards that will be fucking useless just like every other archetype adapted from the anime. That will fix everything. There's no (Official/accepted) format for playing anything other than Tier 0/1 decks, that's the entire problem with YGO specifically. So you either hop on that meta cock or you don't play, which leaves only the competitive players.

Let's put it this way.
What can KoA / KoJ do today to evolve yugioh or bring it back to relevance? because for fuck sakes my locals (yes I posted this multiple times) are dropping yugioh for FUCKING ONE PIECE AND GUNDAM

>>97964525
>What can KoA / KoJ do today to evolve yugioh or bring it back to relevance?
Nothing because they are stuck in the same spot that Namco-Bandai is with Tekken where the game is clearly unable to grow/replenish lost players anymore in its current state but any attempt to change what the game currently is to allow for growth will be rejected by the fans who are still playing the game.
So they are stuck.

Let's put it this way: Do you expect YGO to still be alive in another 20 years? Because I do.

>>97964525
i think a new, full length, well marketed anime with plenty of DM/GX/5DS callbacks and nostalgia bait would do wonders, but they need to tie it into the cards very closely. lots of zoomers watched 5DS in particular. the game is too much of an investment to learn so you need the media franchise behind the game to be attractive enough to keep people driven to continue learning to play.

>>97964525
To be honest as someone who isn't currently actively playing Yugioh I would probably sooner pick up Gundam than try and get back into Yugioh
At least in that card game I'm guaranteed to be able to actually use some characters/cards I give a fuck about for reasons other than their text

>>97964602
The OCG maybe
The TCG? Definitely not something I'd bet my life on

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name a more skillful card

>>97964608
Shut up, retard.

>>97964525
They went in half-cocked with the "anime" which was a huge mistake. The releases are too slow and the combat in most of them isn't very interesting when it happens. The card lore anime would be doing a lot more legwork if they would spend a little bit of time letting it bake so that they could release them, seasonally, and in bursts-- not "binge" bursts, but just some stuff that can air once a week to get people interested in the trading card side of the franchise.

>my locals (yes I posted this multiple times) are dropping yugioh for FUCKING ONE PIECE AND GUNDAM
I don't know what Gundam is doing right now, but One Piece has the biggest-anime-of-all-time buff going for it combined with investerino autism. That's in addition to (>>97936741) everything I said here, where you have this problem of yugioh sets holding no value over time because our rarities are fucked and reprints tank the fucked rarities' value. Vendors drop yugioh because it isn't profitable, and it isn't profitable because our fucked-off rarities and reprint policy destroys any value that those sets hold.

>b-but what about the gameplay?
Keeping things financially tenable comes first and foremost. Shops dropping the game because the sets are financial black holes is the forefront issue, which can be solved by just not fucking with the rarities. If you wanna fix the gameplay side for your locals, just push for Heart of the Underdog events.

I mean am I the only anon here that actually LIKES modern yugioh? It's gotten pretty sacky before but now we're starting to get back into some really good back and forths without it being I TOP DECK MYSTICAL SPACE TYPHOON GO FUCK YOUR STUN CARD. WELL I PLAY SOLEMNM JUDGEMENT YOU GO FUCK YOURSELF GOD DAMN IT THEN I PLAY GEMINI SPARK NOW YOU GO FUCK YOURSELF AGAIN oh great now we're out of cards now it's time to DRAW oh no I don't have a playable card DRAW fuck I drew gorz can't do anything with this DRAW YES I DREW A 1900 ATK BEATER DIE.

>>97964602
OCG? Yeah.
TCG? ........Maybe. I wonder if they'll just start copying OCG since they can't afford to make changes or go peak retard.
>>97964638
>pick up Gundam
yeah bandai namco has stock issues so you're overpaying for a shit ton of stuff LOL
GL even getting some of the cards.

>>97964680
TTT

>>97964602
>another 20 years
yes

>>97964602
better be alive for a long time because I need my pet decks to have support before this game die, so watch out konami

>>97964741
>Shops dropping the game because the sets are financial black holes is the forefront issue
>Vendors drop yugioh because it isn't profitable,
Considering that YGO has no casual audience/playerbase all this does is make it so that you shrink the competitive playerbase even further which is the literal only group keeping the hobby alive in the first place.

Pokemon, Magic, One Piece - All of these have both competitive and casual people buying product. That means even if hyper autismo competitive dude doesn't want to buy some backs or a box or some shit there probably is someone who will still buy it. For YGO this is not the case, so it becomes an inherent risk to even carry the product because if that pack doesn't have a bunch of required meta shit in it your chances of moving it are non-existent.

Is there any good site to import japan stuff? I don't mind paying ass ton but I want that sky striker set dang.

>>97964777
>I need my pet decks to have support before this game die
Pet deck support in YGO is like spraying febreeze on sun baked feces. It nominally might be better but it's still shit.

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>>97964783
It doesn't have a casual audience because of the massive fucking investment that western players need to make just to play the same decks that OCG players run for a fraction of the price.

Consider the booster boxes
>25% higher cost per box for 20% fewer cards
>fucked-off rarities because the sneaky rat Tewart gets 6 months in advance to see what's performing well
>no bonus pack

Do you know why a single copy of Fiendsmith's Engraver in the TCG cost as much as 4 copies of the same card in the OCG? It's because our rarities are completely fucked out the ass. Casual players don't wanna get into the game when there's a $400+ price tag on the decks they want to run.

Something to consider; 14 year olds in Japan learn to play the game better than a lot of adults in TCG territories. And they're happy to do it because getting cards is a realistic prospect for them, because they don't have a slimey rat like Tewart actively attempting to fuck them over.

>>97964793
What Sky Striker set?

>>97964819
https://www.yugioh-card.com/asia/product/deluxe-duel-set-sky-striker-ace/

>>97964815
But if we follow anon's grievance (Not sure if that was also you) prices for meta staples would go up even more due to reprints featuring the same high level rarities. So you would have even less of a casual audience because now that $400 deck (With reprints fucking value) is going to cost $1200

>>97964833
oh fuck I can't even order it anymore... ;_;

>>97964854
The cost of meta staples would fundamentally be lower in the first place. You'd have fewer Supers but you'd have more Ultras, on top of the rarity spread not giving us shit like Vanquish Soul being nothing but Secret Rares. Again, a single Engraver in the TCG was $90, when it was a quarter of the cost in the OCG. For the same cost as a single American copy of Engraver, a Japanese person could get a full set of Engravers, plus an extra one to pick food out of their teeth or some shit, and still have 10 bucks left over to buy a copy of Tract.

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>>97964855
>>97964855
Oh that's nice. You'll be able to find it second hand, and since you don't care about money that won't be a problem.

As for Japanese sites to buy shit from:
forwarders like buyee, neokyo, from Japan, etc, all have real stores integrated into their websites in English. You'll have to pay a small handling fee if you go that route.
Cardrush, yuyutei, and torecolo are the go-to Yu-Gi-Oh specific shops. Hope you know Japanese. They're all supported by forwarders. Cardrush is a personal recommendation.
Use Mercari or yahoo auctions Japan if for some reason you can't find what you want in those three shops. Although those two are very very nice for finding Yugioh merchandise. I bought this acrylic stand of my beautiful little wife on Mercari the other day.

If you don't want to bother with a forwarder then surugaya and mandarake both ship internationally. They aren't exclusively card stores so be wary their stock might not be as large.

There's also ebay lol

I wrote this like 50 times it would be cool if an OCG shopping guide was in the OP.

>>97964883
You're comparing TCG to OCG values though, which is never going to happen. Your options are reprinting TCG at a lower rarity and scuttling their previous value or reprinting them at their same jacked up value a second time.

>>97964907
>Your options are to print the cards at high value and then proceed to de-value them with reprints to the point that it's practically sabotage, or just to print them in their intended rarities so there's a lower barrier for entry and so the reprints don't obliterate the prices
One of these things will incentivize stores to pick up the sets and casual players to get into the game. I will give you a hint; It's not the first option.

>>97964905
well I hope it's not 1k because holy fuck im saying no to that. I'm paying maybe like $250 MAX

>>97964741
>I don't know what Gundam is doing right now,
It is doing the "Bandai card game in its first 2 years" thing. It was only a 2025 release, so we need to wait til around 2029 to know whether it maintains a lastsing audience after that usual massive spike or not.

>>97964964
Konami is not treating the TCG like a long term property to be maintained and grown and I don't see that changing even if it comes at the expense of shops refusing to stock it

>>97964970
You should be able to find it for less than $250.
Good luck.

>>97964783
>>97964815
Yugioh does have a casual audience. But said casual audience is also one that doesn't buy cards from shops but instead takes advantage of all the sims that got made which are completely free or can be free to play'd decently consistently. Or do stuff like watch people play the game or combos go off instead of playing it.

They aren't going to come over to irl stuff until both the rarity situation and the six month delays are fixed. Fixing the former makes it cheaper for them to try, but doesn't address them being able to play with new cards months or more before international release, which is huge for the nostalgia support that sustains them.

>>97965045
If they aren't monetarily participating in the product it's the same as not having the audience at all bro

does /ygo/ have or had some namefag like /dng/?

>>97965098
nah

>>97965128
/ygo/ is where the "Play Mitsurugi Fiendsmith" meme came from.

>>97965130
From the corporate perspective, yah

>>97965151
I don't see fiendsmith mentioned all that much here, i know it's THE engine in master duel, but TCG restricted moon so getting at it through any 2 bodies is impossible. Mitsurugi can put two level 4's just fine for exciton, but mitsurugi seldom got mentioned here until it got reprinted in LMD, and when it did people started recommending the pure version of the deck since you could buy it on the cheap, AFAIK lacrima alone costs more than a entire box of LMD.

DO play mitsurugi now that you can build the deck for $50-ish though, prayers has a huge target painted on its back and while the deck isn't unplayable with just 1 prayers and habakiri, you absolutely will need end of the world ruler, dominus spark, and that one new reverse pre-prep they just printed, and 2 of those are guaranteed to be expensive (iirc sparks is going for $90 and will settle on $60-ish just like purge).

>>97965128
No, there's no real community in this thread and no one who hosts games so there's no need for thread personalities and no avenue for them to spring up naturally.

>>97965272
Do say that to fuckers when I'm trying to make a shining sarc deck to only be told to mitsurugi fiendsmith instead by a fucking retard.

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>>97964741
>Shut up, retard.
>proceeds to reiterate the main point of my post.

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if only it was lvl 8 so you can trigger red nova's effect

>>97962248
at my locals it's only been non-whites
>>97963577
i'm just warning him of all the stuff that has happened at my locals because he sounds like an easy target for these fuckers, pretty sure i also mentioned in another post how two starlight overframe mirrorjades got stolen the very week they came out, one got pocketed when the dude had his backpack knocked to the ground, and the other man got robbed at gunpoint in the parking lot
both times it was a nigger, and both times the police refused to do anything about it (my locals does have cameras), better be safe than sorry

>>97965373
>uhh uhh let's continue milking nostalgia!
No, shut up retard.

>>97965541
what about main point flew past your smooth brain? an actually well made, mainstream anime that closely ties into the cards that are currently being produced is what yugioh needs to attract new players. there's no draw from the collector's perspective because the cards have a reputation of being worthless due to reprints, even if that changes in the future the impression of the game not retaining any value after 6 months wont just go away, no matter what the reality is. you cant unburn bridges. same story with casual players. the game is too much of a time investment to learn, and too skill based for an enjoyable learning experience. new players need some incentive to stay with the franchise, and a multi-media environment is the only way yugioh can offer any incentive.

>>97965154
nah

>>97965870
They don't get any money from this imaginary non-pay participating audience you're describing, they have no way to tap into it. It's the same as them not existing unless they do
No different than people who dont actually watch sports games and just watch highlights on twitter

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>>97964761
>Am I the only one
No, it's just how the internet operates. It's easier to be negative than it is to be positive. And if you enjoy anything you're called retarded/a shill/etc.

>>97966543
I've just literally never seen anyone say they like nu-gi-oh. It's just constantly yugiboomers or kids just whining this game is too hard. I have the same struggle with literally any fighting game too. I swear to god any competitive genre has tards bitching about not getting good and I usually hate that argument but this time it's true.

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>>97963632

>>97963632
Potterie cute.

>>97966665
The first thing is like I said before. Most of what people post and see is hate because that's just how things work. People are just wired that way and there's literally nothing you can do about it. People that are enjoying something have little reason to say it publicly because they're engaging with it in other positive ways such as going to an archetype discord group to discuss things or they just get bothered by assholes.
Case in point the Arc V decks product. People who enjoy Lunalights were expressing joy about it but it's met with a bunch of others telling them to KYS and that their deck shouldn't be getting that support. So why bother trying to talk positively about it other than to satisfy an invisible observer like you? (no offense intended here)

The second is that the matter stems from the fact that the generation that picked up hobbies in the 2000s is now getting old and because of external factors of life they don't have the time to learn. Combine that with the general global mentality getting dumber and more instant-gratification. Resulting in a clash of ideals for the general younger (roughly ages 10-35) audience.

TLDR Hate is easier potitivity to see and be posted, there is no reason to post positivity, people are getting old, and people are losing the ability/will to learn.

>>97965788
>make one point
>pollute it with a bunch of retarded bullshit
>uhh, durrrr..... why this mans calling me retardsed?

>>97967313
do you have anything of substance to say or are you just in need of some attention?

>>97967429
I already established that you are a fucking retard, and why you are a fucking retard. You're welcome to stop responding to me at any point because nothing in the world will change that.
>uhh yeah I know what will get new players into the game... pandering to all of the geezers that already play the game!
Fucking idiotic.

>>97966665
>I've just literally never seen anyone say they like nu-gi-oh
That's because we spend our time either playing the game or making fun of the boomers instead of blatantly glazing the game. I enjoy posting the unc memes and making fun of the unc schizos in this thread when I'm not playing.

How much is a reasonable amount to spend on staples?

Familiar-Possessed - Hiita is the most erotic card I've ever seen and want to use her more. Anyone have any decks that would feature her more prominently than a generic spirit charmers deck?