Really fascinating one - lets you tribute a synchro or fusion monster to special summon a monster with the same level from deck. Anything funny that can be done with this? Off the top of my head: Ready Fusion plus this gets any Lvl 6 or lower monster out of the deck.

Long time no post! Just wanted to mention that I've been trying out Rush Duels in Duel Links. The basic concept is really fun . . . but since I have no idea what is or isn't good, I'm hoarding my gems rather than buy the pack/structure deck. Can anyone with some Rush Duels experience give me a sense of whether any of the current cards are worth picking up?

Bye Ariseheart! RIP bozo, you will not be missed (by me at least)

I think this one is worth keeping an eye on. The Lvl 7 is quite powerful - it's an omni on a body - and is searchable with the continuous spell the Lvl 1 gets. Saffira also can search ANY light Warrior or Dragon ritual on discard, and I bet there's something good to get with that.

Whoops! Totally missed this getting announced.

Looks pretty cool! You can detach a material to pop one of your opponent's cards and one of the cards on your field or in your hand. There's got to be a deck that put out two Lvl 7s and wants to destroy things in hand, right?

The second effect lets you banish 2 Fire or Dragon monsters from grave or hand to SS the XYZ from the grave. If it leaves the field, it goes back to the extra.

With Rush Duel coming to Duel Links, was thinking of redownloading the app to check out the new way of playing. Good idea or no? Is Rush Duel any fun?

Team Better Have It would eventually go on to win the whole thing. So cool to see Unchained be a viable deck.

I personally think so. We have too many tools to synch on an opponent's turn now, and Calamity's effect is just too oppressive.

Is anyone else just not vibing with the flavor of the upcoming Centurion archetype? The mechanical stuff it does is really cool - I love that we're getting another deck that does stuff by treating monsters as continuous spell/traps. But every time I look at the card art my eyes just kind of glaze over. It's like someone put Strikers and Dva from Overwatch in a blender to make the blandest smoothie possible.

Then again, maybe I'm just whining for no reason (wouldn't be first time). Anyone else have thoughts on this?

NADIR'S TO THREE HELL YEAH

This got announced as a promo a few days back. I was going to wait for the effect reveal before posting about it, but since the Rulers are such famous cards, I think it would be fun to guess what this new Ruler will do.

My crystal ball says this will require the fire Ruler to make, and will have some kind of burn effect.

Not always a big fan of Yugitubers^tm, but this clip was funny. Please do not support anyone trying to turn yugioh cards into dumb internet apes.

I imagine some of us are Master Duel enjoyers - what are we playing at the moment? I'm having lots of fun with a Dinomist deck that splashes a small Symphonic engine to search off Electrumite. As long as you pretend zone locks don't exist, you can almost imagine it's a good deck!

This deck is, like, actively not good. There are so many better things you could be doing with the new Unchained support. But I read Manadium Abscission and turned into one of those pointing soyface dudes, so I had to try and brew some jank with Visas and Unchained.

This is a going second deck since Unchained can play through a decent amount of interruption, so we get to run Illegal Knight as another Fiend body/a bit of interaction. Possibly the funniest play in the deck is a two-card combo with Visas and any of the little Unchained dudes. Summon the Unchained, pop with Visas to special summon itself, then use the popped Unchained's effect to go into Sharvara. Send Visas and Sharvara to make Ultimaya Tzolkin; and since Sharvara sets a trap when it goes to grave, it instantly triggers Tzolkin, letting you summon out Crystal Wing. I'm sure there's much stronger things you could do with two 6s (Beatrice?) but I love Tzolkin.

Continuing the trend of pairing cool mech designs with goofy anime girls, Centurion is like Sky Striker thematics combined with Crystal Beast mechanics. Also a generic 12 star synchro - not too many of those running around.

Extremely funny that two notorious banned cards - Samsara Lotus and Grinder Golem - are getting retrains as Yubel support. I never watched the GX show; were they a part of Yubel's deck originally?

The new quickplay spell looks particularly good - pop your dudes, get their effects, and destroy your opponent's cards. Really happy about all the Fire attribute love lately.

Here, at least according to YGOProdeck, is Paulie Aronson's tournament-winning DLink deck. I don't know the first thing about DLink; is 45 cards standard? Is it normal to run 2 Seals in the extra?

Clearly it worked for Paulie!

Paul Aronson of America wins the championship with DLink! The deck truly will not die. Seals pass is an OTK.

Again, I don't have his exact decklist (i.e. YGOPro hasn't posted them yet). I'll look to do a master post with a list of the Top 8 decklists once they're released.

Josh, Quantal, and Emre take home the first ever Master Duel World Championship. I was really hoping to see Jesse Cotton go all the way, but there's no denying that Team Euro are a force to be reckoned with.

To see the archetypes that they were playing, check out https://www.masterduelmeta.com/articles/news/august-05-2023/world-championship-rundown. Note that this doesn't include the actual decklists, which I imagine we'll get pretty soon here now that the tournament is over.