It was! As a competitive player, I really love the intricacies of the mirror!
I’m really glad to see some text-based, website-based coverage of the TCG from a site that’s not konami.blog.
This site is like Road of the King but for the TCG instead of the OCG.
Wow, that prizing seems INCREDIBLE! What’s the entry fee in this scenario?
I wish locals would advert their prizing, so I thought I’d make a thread about it. What’s good and bad prizing at your local shops?
With 18 people in attendance, I got $25 for first, and the distribution was pretty flat, with 5th-6th getting like $10 each. I thought it was pretty fair, though they offer no participation pack, which made me feel a little sorry for the younger players.
I feel like errata for cards, especially new or popular ones, make the game more complex, which is a proliferating problem in my opinion. The game is already very hard to teach.
Anyone got any predictions ahead of the ban list? I think it will be out in around two weeks, yeah?
Some people think Kashtira Arise-Heart will finally get banned since Kashtira has been strong for so long.
I’ll be interested to see if they touch Purrely at all.
For my own very selfish reasons, I hope Rikka Sunavalon remains completely untouched, but I acknowledge that the deck feels fairly consistent and very unfair to play against. As far as predictions go, I’m really not sure. If the two top decks got meaningful hits, it kinda seems like this one will too, otherwise it might be the only “tier zero” deck in the format… Though untouched Dragon Link might be able to compete?
I think (and hope!) Eradicator Epidemic Virus will finally get hit, and that Labrynth will remain otherwise untouched. Anti-Spell Fragrance and DBarrier seem likely to get banned. So many decks build “unbreakable” boards now, why also give the player who goes first an out-of-engine, out-of-archetype auto win floodgate? There already isn’t enough back-and-forth for many people’s liking, and this makes that even more dramatic.
I think so, yes. For as long as it exists, people will try to find ways to bring it out.
Yugioh rulings can seem quite complicated and confusing. But they don’t have to be.
I’m thinking I’ll build frogs/sharks/aquas or something.
Someone creased one of my cards last night, just kinda “pinched” it off the top of the deck while trying shuffle my deck like playing cards. Thankfully it was only a ~7 dollar card, but it was still frustrating.
Konami’s app, Neuron, works pretty well for mobile, and the card data is all downloaded, I just tested it. It works without internet.
Given how bad some of the newer rarities look to me, I’m curious: what’s everyone’s favorite rarity? Which rarities do you think are too loud or cluttered or whatever?
I thought Ghost Rare was amazing when it came out, but a Collector’s Rare (esp. when in a sleeve) just doesn’t look that good to me. It kinda looks “dirty.”
I think the image runs together a bit — I’d like it if there were harder outlines, or a broader variety of colors used.
There’s this consequence of manufacturing where when they put, like, 4 ultras and 2 secrets in a box, if the 12 packs on the right (assuming a 24 pack box) have a secret rare in spot 1, and an ultra rare in spots 4 and 9, then the left side will also have a secret rare in spot 1, an ultra rare in spot 4, and an ultra rare in spot 9. Apparently this is not true for all manufacturers, and it’s more prevalent in some regions than others.
But basically, if you buy one pack at a time, you could be buying from the “other half” of a box where someone took all the packs from the left side, then the most valuable packs from the right side, selling you something unlikely to hold a high rarity card (though I think you could still get a starlight or QC rare since they do not try to get them in a certain proportion per box).
When I was a kid, it was extremely common advice to not buy single packs (except from reputable sources) because some people would remove all of the packs with foils in them first, then sell the remainder.
Is this practice still common?
This is the decklist that got 2nd at the Kissimmee WCQ Regional on August 19th 2023, where there were supposedly (from what I can find) as many as 600 duelists in attendance!
List here: https://ygoprodeck.com/deck/branded-chimera-348868
Yeah, it’s very possible they’ve studied the situation and have insight we don’t.
Still, as a returning player, I find the game fiendishly complex, and I’m worried about getting new players to love the game and to want to keep playing (as was a recent Konami shareholder, who raised these concerns at a meeting earlier this year).
I like that idea — or provide them with protection, a quick play spell that prevents them from being destroyed that turn or something.
Basically everything has been power crept to heck.
Still really cool though! With Forbidden Droplet as a board breaker, of course.
It’s a shame though, this deck isn’t actually all that budget friendly — I’d love to see a < $100 deck top a regionals sometime. I think it would be healthy for the game. This deck is affordable for competitive Yugioh, but by no means cheap.
I think the Zexal Theme is my favorite here.
You absolutely started a trend! That post got a lot of engagement! I thought it might be cool to repeat it as the subreddit is growing to give new users a chance to be part of the conversation, and to share their favorite card.
Here’s another Floowandreeze deck, topped a regionals: https://yugiohtopdecks.com/deck/9732
I see no Dimension Shifter, and 2 Simorgh, Bird of Perfection. Still 3 copies of the field spell, but no Terraforming…
Still, the Hanko Chow version seems better going second perhaps, with the 3 Dark Ruler No More in main, as well as three Book of Moon. Hm. JT’s build has two Evenly Matched in main, which is also excellent for going second. The Dimension Shifters are good too, but highly matchup-dependent in my understanding.
What do you think a would be some interesting techs here? What would you instead run for a (cardboard)TCG tournament, say a YCS main event? I’m just learning the deck, and I’m especially ignorant about Masterduel.
I'm also curious, are there typically many public/side events on Day 2?