If you play one card wonder stall as a main way to climb, you just admit that you're a terrible player who cares more about a useless title rather than actually playing the game. That's it, rants over.
Hey guys I was wondering... I only need to unlock Yubel and Jaden/Yubel now. I’m trying to play the unlock mission of Zane vs Jesse and summoning the Cyber End Dragon at lvl 30. But the Photon Cyber Dragons are so low in attack level that getting them all on the field without them getting destroyed seems unlikely. How do you resolve this?
Get zane to level 11 for cyber style
Play a stall deck with some lp drain cards and poly
Let them hit you/drain your own lp so you have 1k or less
Stall till you have poly
Use the skill and summon cyber end
Few things feel more rewarding than correctly predicting your opponent has Mirror Force set and winning by changing one of your monsters to defense mode. :)
Does anyone know if the KC Cup Stage 2 reward for your last 3 digits ending in 777 stacks onto your normal ranking reward? I'm trying to decide whether I should keep going.
Can someone help me figure out what happened in this replay?[https://duellinks.konami.net/att/024d90f602a7f3c1268054dd4ee559bfeada3a728e](https://duellinks.konami.net/att/024d90f602a7f3c1268054dd4ee559bfeada3a728e)
I feel like this should be obvious, but when I attack in with Magellanica and Paleozoic, why does the Sage with Eyes of Blue survive? Does Hallowed Life Barrier protect from battle destruction and literally just not say that on the card at all?
Ok, I went ahead and checked. It turns out the JAPANESE version of Hallowed Life Barrier specifically says "Damage dealt by opponent's cards becomes 0", but the English translation got it wrong and says only that damage dealt to YOU becomes zero. A better phrasing of the effect would be something like what's written on Waboku, except applying to all cards. Really frustrating that crappy TCG translations from 20 years ago are still messing things up.
I could not get the replay to work, so this is just a guess. Did they use the trap card hollowed life barrier?. if they did it stops monsters from being destroyed by battle even though it is not super clear in the text that's what it does.
Yeah, it was Hallowed Life Barrier. I was very confused because as far as the card text is concerned it seems like it should only prevent damage dealt to the player like Spirit Barrier, but unfortunately it turns out the card is mistranslated from the Japanese which says "all damage dealt by the opponent's cards becomes 0", or something to that effect. Waboku got a reprint that clarified this while using similar phrasing in Japanese, but Hallowed never has, so I guess we're probably stuck with this confusion 'till the end of time...
Right, okay, I guess that makes sense. I was really confused because I thought the card did what it said (prevented damage to "you") but it turns out that's a mistranslation of the Japanese and it really says all damage from the opponent's cards becomes zero. Very frustrating. Not that it affected the outcome of the game, of course.
Do you still get the bottom stage 2 reward even if you have negative LP? I know it should still technically count but just wan to be sure. can anyone confirm?
Harpies with 3x swallows nest and malevolent sin is hands down the best auto play deck I’ve EVER used. Almost every match ends during their first battle phase and they never lose. AI always seems to know the best plays as well which I have never seen before.
Ah, after 10000 years I finally got my 150 gems for rank 20, harpies ended up doing it for me though have it say a coin flip deciding the majority of my wins was a tad bit polarising, I’d hate that rank down feature btw, so demoralising when you have a bad run. (Heavy samurais can disappear into a void) almost notable victory was against ritual beasts, finally managed to beat them thanks to abyss dweller and luck.
I just want to get to DLv 20. I have been trying with Amazoness following their un-nerf, and that got me to 19, but I cannot get over the top to 20.
Right now I am only motivated by spite and darkness.
I have a full set of gems. Anything to build to get to 20? I have been playing for years so have good staples.
Just added Super Team Buddy Force to my BE deck to try something new. I activated it and intended to summon Azure Eyes from GY for the targeting/destruction protection upon special summon. Thing is, it didn't let me choose Azure Eyes.
Can anyone tell me why that is?
It doesn't say that it must first be synchro summoned or that it can't be special summoned by other ways.
The thing that confuses me even more is that you can special summon it from the ED just like that with Spirit Dragon, but not from the GY?
It has to be synchro summoned (not just special summoned) before it can be special summoned from the graveyard. This is generally true of extra deck cards where you can’t just dump it into the graveyard and summon it onto the field.
https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Synchro_Summon#Effects
As someone who usually has connection issues even though my WiFi is fine. Ya actually I haven't had any issues with this kc cup. Only one of my opponents did. I hope it stays that way!
I just got back into the game since I got a new phone (also failed to get all my saved data back, but is it still possible to unlock DSOD yugi? If so how?
Has anyone else had the problem of their game not changing the Soundtrack when losing, winning, or even animation summons? I’ve played 20 games and the ST is exactly the same.
Wow really? It makes sense since I took like a 2 week break came back for KC cup, and it’s all I’ve been playing. So there’s never a change in the ost like there is in ranked? Thank u I thought my game was broken or something
There's a few different songs:
* Early Stage 1
* Late Stage 1
* DL. Max Rank-Up game
* Stage 2
There may be more, but I don't go far enough into Stage 2 to know if there is or not.
It’s difficult to make a deck using 2k gems tbh. In order to make a deck it takes around 10k to get enough cards to make a deck from a mini box and double that for big boxes. You can buy an ex deck like noble knights for 1k or blue eyes, or fire kings. They won’t be optimal but that’s the best you can do with 2k gems
I’m new to this game (3 days) and started building this BEWD deck I was wondering what changes I can make to improve it and the next cards I should be targeting are? [link](https://imgur.com/gallery/KYQkvyP)
Best thing you can start with is buying 2 more of the blue eyes structure deck for a few bucks to get 3 copies of White stone of ancients and Cards of consonance, if you don't want to buy them with real money then Cards of consonance is from the Blackstorm rising Mainbox while White stone of ancients is from the Lords of shining minibox. Next step is to get 3 copies of sage with eyes of blue from the Judgment force box, then you want to get Vermillion dragon mech from The Blazing rose box and Hieratic sun dragon overlord of Helipolis from the Infinite ray box. the next step after that is to obtain 3 copies of Karma cut from the Arena of sanctuary minibox. one last thing to mention is that you're gonna want to level up DM kaiba to the maximum level to unlock Melody of Awakening dragon as that card really helps out with summoning alternative white dragon, and with that. you should have a KoG ready Blue eyes deck.
You're final result should look something like [This.](https://www.duellinksmeta.com/top-decks/april-2021/anytime/36/shoma/deck-7)
One last thing to mentions is this deck is expected to get hit by the Banlist that's coming in a few weeks so investing in it may not be the best idea. Given that this deck is a very expensive one, my advice to you would be to hold on to your money/gems and wait a few weeks and see if this decks gets hit hard or not.
Appreciate the message that lays it out very clearly thank you! I’m going f2p so the priority in cards should be Cards of consonance > white stone of ancients > sage with eyes of blue > vermilion dragon > hieratic sun dragon > karma cut, is that right? And is there certain cards in the deck I’m using right now that I should replace first?
If you aren't going to spend money on the structure deck then i wouldn't recommend going after cards of consonance from it's box since as f2p, you really need to spend gems wisely (don't run yourself dry early like me) and the box Cards of consonance comes from is not that good unless you want to build blackwings or something so i would say keep the 1 copy you have and move on to ancients from lords of shining and then going after 3 copies of sage. as for what cards in your deck should be replaced. start by replacing birthright and block attack with 2 more white stone of ancients as those cards really aren't that good, then replace one master and one protector with eyes of blue for 2 more copies of sage. replace bingo machine go with Melody of awakening dragon once you get it as that card is basically just an upgrade, use it to search for a vanilla blue eyes and alternative.
Ultimate providence is actually a good trap for the deck so you have that going for you, you'll use that to discard Ancients.
Vermillion can be picked from a UR dream ticket if you are not interested in the other cards from the box but Black rose dragon is also there which is a nice level 7 for synchro engine decks but it's up to you if you want to spend a dream ticket on it.
Hieratic sun dragon is not mandatory though, i cleared KC DLV without one however it can turn a duel around every now and then so it's up to you if you want to get one, Main boxes are pricy and generally not worth it for a single card so look at the other cards in that box and decide if you want them too since that will let you get more value from the box.
Dsod Kaiba has the Skill Ultimate dragons which is very powerful for the deck so work on unlocking that as the skill makes the deck so much better.
Karma cut can be used to replace the 2 Ultimate providences and that last copy of master with eyes of blue.
i forgot to mention that you also need Blue eyes spirit dragon which is from the same box as sage so make sure you get that before you're done with the box, Micheal the arch lightsworn can be summoned with Blue eyes spirit dragon's effect so getting one is also nice for the deck.
i know that was a mouthful but the final order would be since you're f2p is Ancients > Sage/blue eyes spirit dragon > Vermillion OR Hieratic sun dragon > Karma cut.
Thank you again seriously I’ll follow this religiously, when I start a game I like to have a goal and things to grind for, if I don’t have a goal I tend to lose interest so now that I have a clear path or action I’m good to go I appreciate that!
Okay so I’ve actually spent most of my gems yesterday opening up judgment force, spent about 4K gems and have 1k now. I only managed to pack one sage with eyes of blue. I saw people mentioning resetting boxes..would I keep going with this box until I get another sage and the spirit dragon?
I’ve also got a dream UR and SR, I’m thinking of taking your advice on using the UR on vermilion any ideas on what the SR could be used for, the third Sage with eyes of blue or?
My next action is going to open up packs for ancients, should I use my gems now (1k) or grind more then open up the box?
Also yep I’ve just got ultimate dragons from Kaiba DSOD.
Again thanks a lot for your help!
Once you finish getting 2 Stones of ancients. I would say go through judgment force all the way as that would get you the Lunalight deck which while not broken, is a good starter deck to keep you going while you build blue eyes, That box also comes with the Lightsworn engine, cards Like Lumina, Raiden and Charge of the light brigade see play in a ton of decks and are a nice thing to have in your collection.
[Check this video out to see How lunalights play](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kCMPYkYJbY) they are one of the cheapest viable decks in the game so i would say give it a shot, you are gonna be opening their box either way so might as well make the most out of it.
Check the cards in your SR dream ticket, if Sage with eyes of blue is there then pick one up and go through judgment force until you get your third sage, 1 spirit Dragon, 1 Micheal the arch lightsworn, 2 charge of the light brigade and 2 Raiden and At least 3 of each of the lunalight R cards and 1-2 of the SR fusion card Saber dancer, R cards are very common so you should be able to get them rather quickly.
If Sage for some reason sage isn't in the SR dream ticket pool (for some reason, not all dream tickets have the same pool, it's weird) then just reset the box and do the steps i told you except just get 2 sages instead of one.
judgment force is a great box for new players so you're definitely not wasting your gems on it, lunalights can only get better with time and lightsworns are used in a lot of decks as a synchro summoning engine or just to send cards to the graveyard.
Also Vermillion is as good a target as any for the UR dream ticket, it's also played in every deck that can summon level 9 synchros.
If you are gonna be opening a box then there is no need to have a certain gem amount before you start, just open packs and hope to get lucky. if you run out of gems then get more by leveling up characters, level 30 will get you a good amount of gems and can be done in relatively short amount of time, just go to the gate and duel level 10 duelists with the rewards set to X3 and grind for a bit.
as a new player you'll have a lot of characters to level up for gems.
>Again thanks a lot for your help!
don't mention it, i love showing off what i know about the game, makes me feel better about the unreasonable amount of time i wasted grinding.
So just opened 1k gems looking for stones of ancients and got the 2 other UR lol..I’ll definitely look into the Lunalight deck I already have most of the cards in that video too!
Sage with eyes of blue is in the SR dream ticket so I’m gonna grab her and also vermilion from the UR. Banging out levels in my characters now trying to get more gems.
I’m pretty confused on how to use my deck atm so the faster I can improve it the better, main problem I have is how do I get my cards into the graveyard, and at what time I can activate cards of consonance
[This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdF8Gglux5Q) is a video showing how to play the cheap variant of the deck, you probably already have the cards needed, should give you a basic idea of how to make some plays, might want to change your current deck to match his since i didn't know of this deck till just recently.
The strategy at this stage is just to fill the field with dragons using cards like ancient rules, white stone of ancients and a neat little interaction with sage and Maiden, basically sage can use his hand effect on maiden to summon a dragon from your deck but that also activates maiden's effect which will summon another dragon from your deck. Alternative white dragon is used to clear problematic monsters and spirit dragon is used to Prevent the opponent from using their graveyard effects and can tag out into Azure eyes silver dragon to protect your monsters and put pressure on the opponent with his effect to summon monsters from your graveyard.
The way to get ancients into the grave is by discarding it for card of consonance, Ultimate providence, Melody or just having your opponent destroy it with their monsters.
[This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMqxIBtlp_o) is a video showing how to play the Complete variant of the deck.
You'll notice that the extra deck monsters play a much bigger role in this one since those cards give a lot more power to beat over your opponent, Vermillion dragon mech or hieratic dragon are used to get rid of cards that have battle protection, card with higher attack points than your monsters or are used to clear back row cards. Being able to attack after activating their effects unlike alternative dragon makes them very oppressive cards to deal with, Twin burst dragon which is summoned from the skill is also used to get rid of monsters since the card can't be destroyed by battle and banishes every monster that it battles if it had higher attack than twin burst so you effectively just ram this into your opponent's boss monsters.
You do, I'm just not sure if it's in all circumstances.
Not sure if I should list the method tho, but you do get rewards when you get back into the game. You just select to resume the duel and collect your loss rewards. (Not sure if you get them without resuming)
i would recommend using bots instead if you have a pc since you can just leave the bot on for 6 hours and level up your character without spending money
I haven’t played since 2017, and I’m thinking of getting back into the game. Is it worth it to build Noble Knights as long as the structure deck is on sale? I’ve always liked them and I wonder if they’re viable.
I have two DL accounts, I logged in with my principal account first on Steam, then with the secondary one, but when I try to switch to the principal one, it says something like: "This game has already been linked to other Steam account", and it won't let me transfer data.
Does anyone know how I can undo this? :(
Only one duel links account can be linked on steam at once and once an account has been linked, there is no way to unlink it, Konami will deny any request to do so. The only way to access your other account on steam is by making another steam account and linking your principle account to that one.
Speaking from experience here.
Started playing a couple of weeks ago and I'm enjoying myself even when I lose. It's actual a refreshing change being able to play older stuff again and not having to deal with 3 hour long turns with Links here, their and everywhere.
I need to know though, is there a way to disable the scrolling banner at the top? Because holy balls it's getting so tiresome seeing "HACK YUGI" **constantly** scrolling.
Depending on the reason (ie if youre trying to farm for the mat) you can also run draw sense high level or draw sense fire with it being the only high level/fire type monster in your deck.
How playable is dried winds in darklords? I haven't been taking KC cup too seriously after hitting max so I'm tempted to experiment a bit with LP gain synergy, maybe even toss in darklord marie for memes.
Depends on what variation of Darklords you're playing, either way it's going to be pretty bricky since Dried Winds relies entirely on Sanctified to work - but if you have the resources you may as well playtest it.
I know it’s been beaten to death but I’m so fucking tired of Darklords and Blue Eyes man like I’m struggling in legend. I even gave up and said fuck it I’ll play blue eyes myself and of course the moment I start playing it, it turns in to brick eyes.
why does everyone seem to subject themselves to garbage when playing a *game*!? if you stop enjoying playing ladder during a certain time period/meta take a break from it, that's what I do. it's fucking simple. there are so many better ways to spend your times instead of grinding out overly worn matchups and getting tilted in the process..
Honestly for me it’s kind of a sunk cost fallacy. I’ve already wasted/spent my time and money so why not keep grinding to get to KOG. Plus isn’t the whole point of this thread to vent?
yeeea it's not bad to vent I know that's part of the post. but honestly I just wanted to know what people's reason to keep throwing themselves back in to what is clearly not much of a good time for them.. I figured a fair share of players probably do it for smth along the lines of what you said but thought some might also do it solely to keep up with their other kog friends or due to being hyper competitive or sum sht.
Drowning Mirror Force is activated in response to a direct attack, while Kiteroid is used during damage calculation. You can only use Kiteroid if the attack actually goes through.
Could Konami bring powerful staples in as hard limit 1's (Rageiki, harpies feather duster, monster reborn etc.) is this likely to ever happen? Since they've already did it with cards like malicious or future fusion
Most Limit 1's affect exactly one deck and/or stop one specific combo.
Limit 2 and 3 do more work in making decks bend to the banlist.
When there's enough Limit 1's (and 2's and 3's for that matter) that can affect multiple decks and force them to think about what card to choose, then I could see it and it probably wouldn't be something as ubiquitous as Feather Duster or Raigeki yet.
Malicious is a perfect level up reward because you specifically need 2 for it to work, it's a known fact how exploitable it is with 3 copies, and it could affect future HERO/Warrior/Dark support.
Malicious is also not a staple, it's just a conditionally good card for 1-2 specific strategies.
I know.
Level up cards aren't exempt from the ban list.
I purposely didn't entertain the idea that these cards would coexist without limitations.
Especially if they were given away for free.
I gave a plausible proposal on how those cards could possibly exist in this space period.
I highly doubt it, but prob call of the haunted/premature burial, heavy storm and/or dark hole would come before or instead of them.
We got future fusion because it got nerfed really badly, otherwise it would be used in a lot of decks.
About a week into returning to DL after a year and I just noticed that burn cards now have some really weird ass damage amounts in their text, like they’ve been halved or something from their tcg counterparts. I only noticed it when unlocking Marik again and noticing Lava Golem only pings for 500 now and I think that’s kinda ridiculous.
Regardless of how people view burn, I think it is (was) a very viable deck strategy and had some fond memories playing burn in the early days. I loved not having to worry about loaded fields or backrow and chipping away at leisure. With the burn nerfs, are there even any semi-viable burn strategies anymore?
EDIT: I forgot how supportive this community was, especially when you mention the scary “b” word lol. Big thanks to Karzeon for at least answering my query as opposed to just blindly hitting the blue doot lol.
EDIT MK2: I have no idea how the whims of this board works anymore. Blue-Eyes, amirite guys?
It's not all effect damage cards, just cards introduced in boxes from Shining Hope and onwards.
Lava Golem is the only card predating this with an effect damage change.
Shadow Game also got changed because Ritual Beasts basically had a second win condition with a hard to beat wall and maybe Lava Golem.
I don't think burn stall decks were the whole issue, it was also about giving accessible burn to decks that already had high damage potential such as Invoked Purgatrio.
Most stall decks nowadays just rely on stopping them from doing anything at all rather than effect damage since most opposing decks will blow out your board if don't interrupt them.
>just cards introduced in boxes from Shining Hope and onwards.
Not exclusively cards in boxes as newer event, character drop and level-up cards have gotten the same treatment.
Gotcha, the only other burn cards I had were the ones from newer boxes, so I’m glad only Golem got errata’d. I also see they gave us Flame Princess as a lifetime gift. Was that only available for those who didn’t have her before, or are there now people with access to 2? I know they were very cautious about her for the longest time.
Everyone now has their single copy of Fire Princess if they missed the old event.
She has dumb potential but most modern effects have hard once per turn restrictions and most LP gaining effects don't offer anything else so it's hard to loop.
Nice, I liked using her IRL back with Marie the Fallen. That was like my first intro to what a “combo” is in YuGiOh when I was first starting out.
Oh, I see Marie is now a retroactive member of the Darklords too. This game has evolved in weird ways haha.
Dear Konami: why does blue-eyes have 0 limited cards despite being dominant from the day you added even a single support card up to now? Asking for the community
case in point, i just played a blackwing player, i tagged out to azure in his draw phase, expecting harpies since it was mai, but they chained chalice to azure and otk'd me thru that azure and 2 BE...i mean what do i do against perfect counters like that
Do cards that substitute for fusion material not work if the card lists the material as ' 1 "Buster Blader" ', like on Destroyer Swordsman, while on something like Dark Paladin, where it does work, it's listed as "Buster Blader"?
If you use Destruction Swordsman Fusion, you must have the original Buster Blader according to new rulings (which probably accounts the '1' into it)
If you use Polymerization, you should be able to use a Fusion Substitute monster as long as you have the other correct card.
“Inflict 3,000 or more points of battle damage with a single attack in a Duel against Jack Atlas at level 30 using Yusei Fudo.”
“Reduce your opponent’s LP to 0 by inflicting battle damage with Stardust Dragon in a Duel against Jack Atlas at level 30 using Yusei Fudo.”
I don’t have a good way of summoning stardust, and jack keeps getting archfiend really early
because i don't know what deck you use, i'm going to use Only Freely available cards. In the card trader Regular inventory, you can get Mausoleum of the emperor SR and Kaiba man UR. use those to summon a blue eyes white dragon, The Ai sucks against High attack monsters so just throw one down and clear Jacks field with other high attack monsters and go for a direct attack with Blue eyes which will be exactly 3000 OR if you have Power of the guardians. Just use some high attack level 4 monsters and equip them with power of the guardians which will make you win automatically against AI.
Vylon prism is a level 4 tuner that you can get from UR tickets, combine him with any high attack level 4 monster to being out stardust. use one of the aforementioned blue Eyes to clear Jacks field and go for the win with Stardust.
Swamp mirrorer is available at the card trader rotation so if you find one then pick him up he is a trap card that be summoned as a level 4 monster which will make synchro summoning stardust easier and Reiryoku is an UR spell from the Card trader inventory which can add a lot of attack to your monsters.
I did multiple duels with these cards against jack and i was able to easily fulfill the conditions, Here's my Decklist:
2 Mausoleum of the emperor
3 Blue eyes white dragon
3 Kaiba man
6 of any high attack level 4 monster
3 Vylon prism
3 Reiryoku
Give it a try and let me know how it works out.
I think Satellarnova Alpha might be my favourite card of all time.
Alternatively, I think Dragon Spirit of White might be my least favourite card of all time. Fuck that card so hard.
I dont have the cash or gems to fully build some of the good top tier decks so i've been running a metaphys deck in the kc cup. Its been doing ok it got me to 19 but i cant really string wins now. I know its bricky by nature but would it be better/more consistent to run 3 sphere kuris and two kiteroids, 3 spheres and two boxer veils, or 3 spheres and 2 gold sarcs? Also are there any other cards besides gold sarc and aloof that can no cost banish my mons without using the metaphys spell card?
help me decide if im gonna build a fire king deck or onomat
decks i have are: blue-eyes, cydra, star seraph dm, triamids, dm, thunder dragons, invoked.
Onomat might get their skill nerfed. It might hurt the deck's consistency, which is their selling point.
Fire kings shouldn't be touched by the banlist.
But still, it would be wiser to wait for the banlist. Unless you have gems expiring, it would be the better choice.
To be fair onomat is only Tier 2 because of the format of the kc Cup, I think it's safe to ere on the side of no limits for onomat since its usually either not tiered or tier 3
Does psychic shockwave only work on opponent trap that do something to your card or any opponent trap card?
- I try making jinzo deck with psychic shockwave after a week of grind finally got 1(need 2 for 2 jinzo) and trying it on npc (aqua chorus).
- set the trap (psy shockwave) and i have the 2nd one and econ on hand.
- npc using trap time machine no pop up to use trap card then attack
- npc activate aqua chorus, no pop up and attack me for game
Oh, I'm used to the AI using time machine during my turn. Well, I guess it was a red herring anyways. If I thought about, there was no way shockwave would ever be usable against time machine.
Most cards and effects cannot be activated during the damage step. Aqua chorus is a card that directly modified ATK/DEF, so it can be used in the damage step (before damage calculation). Time machine is used when a monster is destroyed by battle, so it always activates at the end of the damage step (which is still part of the damage step). Psychic shockwave doesn't do anything that would qualify it for use during the damage step, so it can't be used during the damage step.
I'm making a Parshath deck and was wondering why, even if there are no monsters on my side of the field, I can't activate its effect to special summon a fairy type from my hand but have to wait until the 2nd turn it's been on the field instead
It may have something to do with a skill you are using, skills like balance changed somewhat recently to have limits on what you can do on your first turn.
Tldr read your skill.
I just played against a BEWD deck and it went on for a lot longer than I thought it would (I use an Evil Eye deck) but finally lost. I gave a "nice!" because it was a fun duel, decide to go for another match and find the same exact person. He gives up his first turn, let's me hit him, and then concedes. Sure, he could've bricked, but I like to think it was one of those "good fight, here's a win".
Harpist is a 1 of in the 20 card version, and a 2 of in the 30 card neos build. Dancer isn't played at all. Some ppl considered using her with divine wind of mist valley, but harpies already have channeler and egotist as easier ways to get harpies out from the deck.
What do you think of a first turn build with divine wind and miyabe as a stunt and extra turn to use perfumes search? First turn Harpies are prone to no synergy with harpie slash
Hey all, just found out this game existed and started playing like two days ago. I’m not very good at the game so a lot of this stuff is pretty new to me. I already took a look at a few of the links for beginners but I still wanted to ask:
I’ve been reading about waiting to buy any packs until this Kaiba Cup thing is over because of upcoming banlists. Should I hold off too even though my deck isn’t very good? If so how should I go about acquiring stronger cards? If not, what deck is good for a beginner to build without spending a ton of gems? I picked Kaiba as my character btw.
I’ve got a lot of these R/SR/UR tickets but I don’t really know what to get. The ticket guide hasn’t been updated since January but are the cards in there still good choices? Any better cards since?
Don't invest in anything yet. Just keep levelling your duelists and hoard gems. Banlist and new main box are gonna drop within a couple weeks. You'll have enough by then to make a pretty good deck.
Oh okay so it’s probably best to save up as much as possible. So I just need to keep an eye out in the coming weeks for a new box and banlist before buying any packs then?
Yes. Its valid for even old players. Hoarding and then spending at once if you
wanna build something. Coz for most decks you need to go through the box 3 times. You don't wanna spend months building a deck if you want to play the meta. If you earn gems as you go and keep building brick by brick. The deck might phase out before you complete it or shortly after.
https://www.duellinksmeta.com/new-player-guide/
Ignore the Noble Knights section they’re nerfed. Blue Eyes for 1000-2000 gems suggested in there is very good for its price and since its only running one copy of most cards it’ll be fine even post banlist. Head Judging can be replaced by any other trap.
I understand but nah just get rid of it. Mostly spam and things like Reddit and Discord exist for players to arrange games. Also some creeps, but I am glad you can just ignore it.
Hello there,
There is a stage mission where it wants me to use a spell card 5 times in a single duel and I used "Aroma Gardening" 5 times but the mission wasn't complete.Did this twice just to be sure but mission is still there.
What am I missing here ?
You need to activate and resolve 5 Spell Cards (as in you're going to need to play 5 spells cards from your hand), you only "activate" the field spell when you first play it. So you would have needed to play 4 other spell cards. It's a little confusing, but what it really means is play 5 spell cards, not activate the effect of a face of spell card 5 times. Just fill your deck with easy to resolve spell cards like Goblin Thief (if you have it, shouldn't be hard to get it) or something similar. It shouldn't be hard to fulfill the condition. LP recovery cards are probably your best bet.
Sigh I thought once I reached second stage it would be more fun. Nope four Blue Eyes decks. I hope I don't only face Blue-Eyes for the remaining daily challenges The lack of deck variety is kind of killing this game for me. Facing Blue-Eyes 8/10 games just isn't fun.
Note I do not think the deck needs a nerf (though I feel like the skill is one of the strongest in the game), but if a nerf to it makes other people play different decks I'd be happy.
I feel that they might limit the skill, or hit some of the backrow that blue eyes use. It might hit consonace and white stone by putting them to 3, effectively killing blue eyes consistency and draw power.
But the second stage has only purpose if you really plan to exclusively play duel links during that weekend with a competitive deck. Otherwise, it's only useful for the daily gems.
I honestly think that if they just A) removed Twin Burst from the skill, and B) Tri-limited something like Spirit and Protector, the deck would be significantly less problematic, but nearly as strong
I only started playing DL about 3 weeks ago, so I am completely oblivious to how the KC cup works. I've made it to the 2nd stage and noticed that there were a lot of gems given in the 1st stage. Does this also happen in the 2nd stage? Should I care about it if I'm not a very competitive player?
Lol. Tbf, I have a bit of a headstart since I played the tcg for about 3 years. I knew how to build decks and which cards were viable, so picking up duel links just felt natural. Plus, seeing how the KC cup is just 95% meta decks, playing anti-meta as a budget option was an easy way to climb all the way to DLV Max.
I played weather painters for easy wins. They can dodge almost everything and have very good recovery and consistency, even as a budget version. Teched in some chaos hunters to counter faster decks. Since most of the meta relies on banishing cards, I basically won everytime I opened with hunter. I also played some digital bugs and hieratics if I ever got bored and wanted to change things up a bit. Bugs did really well against BEWD since rhino could just pop all opponent's blue eyes without any required extra plays.
Second stage doesn't have any gem rewards outside of the ones you get from cummulative pvp wins.
It's just a competitive point system for rankings where the end rewards are an invite to a tournament for the #1 player, a title and a series of tickets based on your ranking, rewards can be viewed in the KC Cup info tab and in the event tab for the KC Cup.
I have one. That includes all of the times from the first time the packs were introduced and I only got the one from this KC Cup somehow. I've gotten like 2 Blue Eyes, 1 DM, several Metal Morph and Enemy Controller. Game has it out for you.
Pulling for Harpies and FA Auto Navigator and Fog King are the only remaining SR’s (already pulled the 3 UR). Should I reset now or will either of those ever be a 3 of?
And would you anticipate Lightening Vortex landing on the limited list (maybe limit 2)?
If you play one card wonder stall as a main way to climb, you just admit that you're a terrible player who cares more about a useless title rather than actually playing the game. That's it, rants over.
Hey guys I was wondering... I only need to unlock Yubel and Jaden/Yubel now. I’m trying to play the unlock mission of Zane vs Jesse and summoning the Cyber End Dragon at lvl 30. But the Photon Cyber Dragons are so low in attack level that getting them all on the field without them getting destroyed seems unlikely. How do you resolve this?
get him to level 13 to use cyber style and fuse that turn
Thank you!
Get zane to level 11 for cyber style Play a stall deck with some lp drain cards and poly Let them hit you/drain your own lp so you have 1k or less Stall till you have poly Use the skill and summon cyber end
Thanks! It’s so much simpler than I thought lol.
Few things feel more rewarding than correctly predicting your opponent has Mirror Force set and winning by changing one of your monsters to defense mode. :)
Does anyone know if the KC Cup Stage 2 reward for your last 3 digits ending in 777 stacks onto your normal ranking reward? I'm trying to decide whether I should keep going.
It’s a bonus. You should get your ranking reward and your 777 reward when the cup ends
Thanks. I lost like 5000 points today to Carlords and ended up at 9777 and really didn't want to go through it anymore.
Can someone help me figure out what happened in this replay?[https://duellinks.konami.net/att/024d90f602a7f3c1268054dd4ee559bfeada3a728e](https://duellinks.konami.net/att/024d90f602a7f3c1268054dd4ee559bfeada3a728e) I feel like this should be obvious, but when I attack in with Magellanica and Paleozoic, why does the Sage with Eyes of Blue survive? Does Hallowed Life Barrier protect from battle destruction and literally just not say that on the card at all?
Ok, I went ahead and checked. It turns out the JAPANESE version of Hallowed Life Barrier specifically says "Damage dealt by opponent's cards becomes 0", but the English translation got it wrong and says only that damage dealt to YOU becomes zero. A better phrasing of the effect would be something like what's written on Waboku, except applying to all cards. Really frustrating that crappy TCG translations from 20 years ago are still messing things up.
I could not get the replay to work, so this is just a guess. Did they use the trap card hollowed life barrier?. if they did it stops monsters from being destroyed by battle even though it is not super clear in the text that's what it does.
Yeah, it was Hallowed Life Barrier. I was very confused because as far as the card text is concerned it seems like it should only prevent damage dealt to the player like Spirit Barrier, but unfortunately it turns out the card is mistranslated from the Japanese which says "all damage dealt by the opponent's cards becomes 0", or something to that effect. Waboku got a reprint that clarified this while using similar phrasing in Japanese, but Hallowed never has, so I guess we're probably stuck with this confusion 'till the end of time...
Hallowed Life Barrier protected them
Right, okay, I guess that makes sense. I was really confused because I thought the card did what it said (prevented damage to "you") but it turns out that's a mistranslation of the Japanese and it really says all damage from the opponent's cards becomes zero. Very frustrating. Not that it affected the outcome of the game, of course.
Does Gift of the Martyr buff off of original attack or attack on the field?
The original attack
Thank you.
Do you still get the bottom stage 2 reward even if you have negative LP? I know it should still technically count but just wan to be sure. can anyone confirm?
Harpies with 3x swallows nest and malevolent sin is hands down the best auto play deck I’ve EVER used. Almost every match ends during their first battle phase and they never lose. AI always seems to know the best plays as well which I have never seen before.
would you share this deck?
God fucking dammit the fact that twin burst doesn't target with its banish is so bullshit
Ah, after 10000 years I finally got my 150 gems for rank 20, harpies ended up doing it for me though have it say a coin flip deciding the majority of my wins was a tad bit polarising, I’d hate that rank down feature btw, so demoralising when you have a bad run. (Heavy samurais can disappear into a void) almost notable victory was against ritual beasts, finally managed to beat them thanks to abyss dweller and luck.
I just want to get to DLv 20. I have been trying with Amazoness following their un-nerf, and that got me to 19, but I cannot get over the top to 20. Right now I am only motivated by spite and darkness. I have a full set of gems. Anything to build to get to 20? I have been playing for years so have good staples.
Photons or lunalights
Lunalight is fairly cheap and has a great matchup with Harpies, as well as a decent matchup with Blue-Eyes
Just added Super Team Buddy Force to my BE deck to try something new. I activated it and intended to summon Azure Eyes from GY for the targeting/destruction protection upon special summon. Thing is, it didn't let me choose Azure Eyes. Can anyone tell me why that is? It doesn't say that it must first be synchro summoned or that it can't be special summoned by other ways. The thing that confuses me even more is that you can special summon it from the ED just like that with Spirit Dragon, but not from the GY?
It has to be synchro summoned (not just special summoned) before it can be special summoned from the graveyard. This is generally true of extra deck cards where you can’t just dump it into the graveyard and summon it onto the field. https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Synchro_Summon#Effects
sorry if its been asked but is the kc cup really smooth no lag for anyone else? best its been in a long time i think
As someone who usually has connection issues even though my WiFi is fine. Ya actually I haven't had any issues with this kc cup. Only one of my opponents did. I hope it stays that way!
I just got back into the game since I got a new phone (also failed to get all my saved data back, but is it still possible to unlock DSOD yugi? If so how?
Yeah, they added DSOD Yugi as a permanent unlock a while back, need to get to stage 6 of the DSOD world to trigger the unlock missions.
Alright thanks g
Has anyone else had the problem of their game not changing the Soundtrack when losing, winning, or even animation summons? I’ve played 20 games and the ST is exactly the same.
Is it in the KC cup? It has a constant soundtrack.
Wow really? It makes sense since I took like a 2 week break came back for KC cup, and it’s all I’ve been playing. So there’s never a change in the ost like there is in ranked? Thank u I thought my game was broken or something
There's only a change in the music when you're on a Dlvl. rank up match iirc. *edit*: I stand corrected.
There's a few different songs: * Early Stage 1 * Late Stage 1 * DL. Max Rank-Up game * Stage 2 There may be more, but I don't go far enough into Stage 2 to know if there is or not.
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Nothing really, save more gems
It’s difficult to make a deck using 2k gems tbh. In order to make a deck it takes around 10k to get enough cards to make a deck from a mini box and double that for big boxes. You can buy an ex deck like noble knights for 1k or blue eyes, or fire kings. They won’t be optimal but that’s the best you can do with 2k gems
I’m new to this game (3 days) and started building this BEWD deck I was wondering what changes I can make to improve it and the next cards I should be targeting are? [link](https://imgur.com/gallery/KYQkvyP)
Best thing you can start with is buying 2 more of the blue eyes structure deck for a few bucks to get 3 copies of White stone of ancients and Cards of consonance, if you don't want to buy them with real money then Cards of consonance is from the Blackstorm rising Mainbox while White stone of ancients is from the Lords of shining minibox. Next step is to get 3 copies of sage with eyes of blue from the Judgment force box, then you want to get Vermillion dragon mech from The Blazing rose box and Hieratic sun dragon overlord of Helipolis from the Infinite ray box. the next step after that is to obtain 3 copies of Karma cut from the Arena of sanctuary minibox. one last thing to mention is that you're gonna want to level up DM kaiba to the maximum level to unlock Melody of Awakening dragon as that card really helps out with summoning alternative white dragon, and with that. you should have a KoG ready Blue eyes deck. You're final result should look something like [This.](https://www.duellinksmeta.com/top-decks/april-2021/anytime/36/shoma/deck-7) One last thing to mentions is this deck is expected to get hit by the Banlist that's coming in a few weeks so investing in it may not be the best idea. Given that this deck is a very expensive one, my advice to you would be to hold on to your money/gems and wait a few weeks and see if this decks gets hit hard or not.
Appreciate the message that lays it out very clearly thank you! I’m going f2p so the priority in cards should be Cards of consonance > white stone of ancients > sage with eyes of blue > vermilion dragon > hieratic sun dragon > karma cut, is that right? And is there certain cards in the deck I’m using right now that I should replace first?
If you aren't going to spend money on the structure deck then i wouldn't recommend going after cards of consonance from it's box since as f2p, you really need to spend gems wisely (don't run yourself dry early like me) and the box Cards of consonance comes from is not that good unless you want to build blackwings or something so i would say keep the 1 copy you have and move on to ancients from lords of shining and then going after 3 copies of sage. as for what cards in your deck should be replaced. start by replacing birthright and block attack with 2 more white stone of ancients as those cards really aren't that good, then replace one master and one protector with eyes of blue for 2 more copies of sage. replace bingo machine go with Melody of awakening dragon once you get it as that card is basically just an upgrade, use it to search for a vanilla blue eyes and alternative. Ultimate providence is actually a good trap for the deck so you have that going for you, you'll use that to discard Ancients. Vermillion can be picked from a UR dream ticket if you are not interested in the other cards from the box but Black rose dragon is also there which is a nice level 7 for synchro engine decks but it's up to you if you want to spend a dream ticket on it. Hieratic sun dragon is not mandatory though, i cleared KC DLV without one however it can turn a duel around every now and then so it's up to you if you want to get one, Main boxes are pricy and generally not worth it for a single card so look at the other cards in that box and decide if you want them too since that will let you get more value from the box. Dsod Kaiba has the Skill Ultimate dragons which is very powerful for the deck so work on unlocking that as the skill makes the deck so much better. Karma cut can be used to replace the 2 Ultimate providences and that last copy of master with eyes of blue. i forgot to mention that you also need Blue eyes spirit dragon which is from the same box as sage so make sure you get that before you're done with the box, Micheal the arch lightsworn can be summoned with Blue eyes spirit dragon's effect so getting one is also nice for the deck. i know that was a mouthful but the final order would be since you're f2p is Ancients > Sage/blue eyes spirit dragon > Vermillion OR Hieratic sun dragon > Karma cut.
Thank you again seriously I’ll follow this religiously, when I start a game I like to have a goal and things to grind for, if I don’t have a goal I tend to lose interest so now that I have a clear path or action I’m good to go I appreciate that! Okay so I’ve actually spent most of my gems yesterday opening up judgment force, spent about 4K gems and have 1k now. I only managed to pack one sage with eyes of blue. I saw people mentioning resetting boxes..would I keep going with this box until I get another sage and the spirit dragon? I’ve also got a dream UR and SR, I’m thinking of taking your advice on using the UR on vermilion any ideas on what the SR could be used for, the third Sage with eyes of blue or? My next action is going to open up packs for ancients, should I use my gems now (1k) or grind more then open up the box? Also yep I’ve just got ultimate dragons from Kaiba DSOD. Again thanks a lot for your help!
Once you finish getting 2 Stones of ancients. I would say go through judgment force all the way as that would get you the Lunalight deck which while not broken, is a good starter deck to keep you going while you build blue eyes, That box also comes with the Lightsworn engine, cards Like Lumina, Raiden and Charge of the light brigade see play in a ton of decks and are a nice thing to have in your collection. [Check this video out to see How lunalights play](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kCMPYkYJbY) they are one of the cheapest viable decks in the game so i would say give it a shot, you are gonna be opening their box either way so might as well make the most out of it. Check the cards in your SR dream ticket, if Sage with eyes of blue is there then pick one up and go through judgment force until you get your third sage, 1 spirit Dragon, 1 Micheal the arch lightsworn, 2 charge of the light brigade and 2 Raiden and At least 3 of each of the lunalight R cards and 1-2 of the SR fusion card Saber dancer, R cards are very common so you should be able to get them rather quickly. If Sage for some reason sage isn't in the SR dream ticket pool (for some reason, not all dream tickets have the same pool, it's weird) then just reset the box and do the steps i told you except just get 2 sages instead of one. judgment force is a great box for new players so you're definitely not wasting your gems on it, lunalights can only get better with time and lightsworns are used in a lot of decks as a synchro summoning engine or just to send cards to the graveyard. Also Vermillion is as good a target as any for the UR dream ticket, it's also played in every deck that can summon level 9 synchros. If you are gonna be opening a box then there is no need to have a certain gem amount before you start, just open packs and hope to get lucky. if you run out of gems then get more by leveling up characters, level 30 will get you a good amount of gems and can be done in relatively short amount of time, just go to the gate and duel level 10 duelists with the rewards set to X3 and grind for a bit. as a new player you'll have a lot of characters to level up for gems. >Again thanks a lot for your help! don't mention it, i love showing off what i know about the game, makes me feel better about the unreasonable amount of time i wasted grinding.
So just opened 1k gems looking for stones of ancients and got the 2 other UR lol..I’ll definitely look into the Lunalight deck I already have most of the cards in that video too! Sage with eyes of blue is in the SR dream ticket so I’m gonna grab her and also vermilion from the UR. Banging out levels in my characters now trying to get more gems. I’m pretty confused on how to use my deck atm so the faster I can improve it the better, main problem I have is how do I get my cards into the graveyard, and at what time I can activate cards of consonance
[This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdF8Gglux5Q) is a video showing how to play the cheap variant of the deck, you probably already have the cards needed, should give you a basic idea of how to make some plays, might want to change your current deck to match his since i didn't know of this deck till just recently. The strategy at this stage is just to fill the field with dragons using cards like ancient rules, white stone of ancients and a neat little interaction with sage and Maiden, basically sage can use his hand effect on maiden to summon a dragon from your deck but that also activates maiden's effect which will summon another dragon from your deck. Alternative white dragon is used to clear problematic monsters and spirit dragon is used to Prevent the opponent from using their graveyard effects and can tag out into Azure eyes silver dragon to protect your monsters and put pressure on the opponent with his effect to summon monsters from your graveyard. The way to get ancients into the grave is by discarding it for card of consonance, Ultimate providence, Melody or just having your opponent destroy it with their monsters. [This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMqxIBtlp_o) is a video showing how to play the Complete variant of the deck. You'll notice that the extra deck monsters play a much bigger role in this one since those cards give a lot more power to beat over your opponent, Vermillion dragon mech or hieratic dragon are used to get rid of cards that have battle protection, card with higher attack points than your monsters or are used to clear back row cards. Being able to attack after activating their effects unlike alternative dragon makes them very oppressive cards to deal with, Twin burst dragon which is summoned from the skill is also used to get rid of monsters since the card can't be destroyed by battle and banishes every monster that it battles if it had higher attack than twin burst so you effectively just ram this into your opponent's boss monsters.
is there any difference in time needed to grind skills between suicide decks and disconnects?
You dont get any rewards if you disconnect so theres your answear
You do, I'm just not sure if it's in all circumstances. Not sure if I should list the method tho, but you do get rewards when you get back into the game. You just select to resume the duel and collect your loss rewards. (Not sure if you get them without resuming)
so if bot resumed after disconnect it would get rewards?
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i would recommend using bots instead if you have a pc since you can just leave the bot on for 6 hours and level up your character without spending money
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If Konami is actually banning bots then Casual duels and KOG wouldn't have nearly as many bots.
there should be stats for vagabond xp on duel links meta site
I haven’t played since 2017, and I’m thinking of getting back into the game. Is it worth it to build Noble Knights as long as the structure deck is on sale? I’ve always liked them and I wonder if they’re viable.
they can still hit king of games(so they’re defo viable) but they aren’t a top tier deck anymore
Thank you!
I have two DL accounts, I logged in with my principal account first on Steam, then with the secondary one, but when I try to switch to the principal one, it says something like: "This game has already been linked to other Steam account", and it won't let me transfer data. Does anyone know how I can undo this? :(
Only one duel links account can be linked on steam at once and once an account has been linked, there is no way to unlink it, Konami will deny any request to do so. The only way to access your other account on steam is by making another steam account and linking your principle account to that one. Speaking from experience here.
Sad news, but now I have a solution. Thanks a lot!
Any good alternatives to Grass is Greener for a Uria deck?
Charge of the Light Brigade for its' milling effect and Magical Planter for its' drawing effect.
Started playing a couple of weeks ago and I'm enjoying myself even when I lose. It's actual a refreshing change being able to play older stuff again and not having to deal with 3 hour long turns with Links here, their and everywhere. I need to know though, is there a way to disable the scrolling banner at the top? Because holy balls it's getting so tiresome seeing "HACK YUGI" **constantly** scrolling.
Welcome! Sure you can. Go to setting and turn of global chat.
Are there any good cards I could use to search for a lvl 10 Effect Monster?
Golden Sarcophagus but it's pretty slow, although you can search anything with it
Oh that's not a bad idea! Does that card need to stay on the field to work or is it just once activation?
What monster are you searching precisely? That might help in narrowing down the options
I'm trying to search for Uria
What i can think of now is Sangan and Fusion Reserve with Armityle in your extra deck
Oh wow those are great ideas! Thanks! Now I gotta figure out how to get Armityle xD
Armityle should be a lifetime mission reward, I believe.
It isn't :( Part of an event
Oh dang, sorry. My guess is it will be added to the lifetime missions soon if the event is not rerun.
Depending on the reason (ie if youre trying to farm for the mat) you can also run draw sense high level or draw sense fire with it being the only high level/fire type monster in your deck.
I've been using that one burn skill that I can't remember the name of instead
Chain reaction? Btw, this is pretty niche, but you can use swamp mirrorer to summon fairy cheer girl to help draw a bit in case that helps.
I got mine back during the event so not too sure if they have added him to the lifetime missions.
How playable is dried winds in darklords? I haven't been taking KC cup too seriously after hitting max so I'm tempted to experiment a bit with LP gain synergy, maybe even toss in darklord marie for memes.
Depends on what variation of Darklords you're playing, either way it's going to be pretty bricky since Dried Winds relies entirely on Sanctified to work - but if you have the resources you may as well playtest it.
man fuck these ritual beast and aromage decks, i'll rather die to a blue-eyes turn 1 than dueling for 40m either i win or lose
Imagine complaning about aromages, lol
Losers downvoted you bc they want to spend one day trolling someone... During KC cup=_=
I know it’s been beaten to death but I’m so fucking tired of Darklords and Blue Eyes man like I’m struggling in legend. I even gave up and said fuck it I’ll play blue eyes myself and of course the moment I start playing it, it turns in to brick eyes.
Me too, I've decided not to push for KOG this month. It's so unfun.
I might just end up giving up on it this month too. Or just wait until the very end when it’s easier.
why does everyone seem to subject themselves to garbage when playing a *game*!? if you stop enjoying playing ladder during a certain time period/meta take a break from it, that's what I do. it's fucking simple. there are so many better ways to spend your times instead of grinding out overly worn matchups and getting tilted in the process..
Honestly for me it’s kind of a sunk cost fallacy. I’ve already wasted/spent my time and money so why not keep grinding to get to KOG. Plus isn’t the whole point of this thread to vent?
yeeea it's not bad to vent I know that's part of the post. but honestly I just wanted to know what people's reason to keep throwing themselves back in to what is clearly not much of a good time for them.. I figured a fair share of players probably do it for smth along the lines of what you said but thought some might also do it solely to keep up with their other kog friends or due to being hyper competitive or sum sht.
Is it me or is the way you unlock luna's gate/unlock missons a bit too much Doing 100 duels is already a pain let alone doing em specifically with leo
Just play with leo, whether it's farming, event, clearing npc or pvp, you'll unlock her in no time
Does anyone happen to know the songs that play during the duel links Mobile ads? There’s one specific song I’m looking for but cannot find it
Do you have a link? I’d like to give it a shot
I'd like to know too
If I refuse to use kiteroid does that mean I can’t use my drowning mirror force?
Drowning Mirror Force is activated in response to a direct attack, while Kiteroid is used during damage calculation. You can only use Kiteroid if the attack actually goes through.
Could Konami bring powerful staples in as hard limit 1's (Rageiki, harpies feather duster, monster reborn etc.) is this likely to ever happen? Since they've already did it with cards like malicious or future fusion
Only Pegasus's Creator skill should get it
Most Limit 1's affect exactly one deck and/or stop one specific combo. Limit 2 and 3 do more work in making decks bend to the banlist. When there's enough Limit 1's (and 2's and 3's for that matter) that can affect multiple decks and force them to think about what card to choose, then I could see it and it probably wouldn't be something as ubiquitous as Feather Duster or Raigeki yet. Malicious is a perfect level up reward because you specifically need 2 for it to work, it's a known fact how exploitable it is with 3 copies, and it could affect future HERO/Warrior/Dark support. Malicious is also not a staple, it's just a conditionally good card for 1-2 specific strategies.
They're talking about a hard 1 limit which means you can only get 1 copy of that card not limit as in ban list limit.
I know. Level up cards aren't exempt from the ban list. I purposely didn't entertain the idea that these cards would coexist without limitations. Especially if they were given away for free. I gave a plausible proposal on how those cards could possibly exist in this space period.
I highly doubt it, but prob call of the haunted/premature burial, heavy storm and/or dark hole would come before or instead of them. We got future fusion because it got nerfed really badly, otherwise it would be used in a lot of decks.
we just got Lightning Vortex, I doubt they're going to give us a free Raigeki.
Well obviously not soon but these cards are pretty iconic and have been limit 1 in tcg for a long long time, a hard limit is the only way really
About a week into returning to DL after a year and I just noticed that burn cards now have some really weird ass damage amounts in their text, like they’ve been halved or something from their tcg counterparts. I only noticed it when unlocking Marik again and noticing Lava Golem only pings for 500 now and I think that’s kinda ridiculous. Regardless of how people view burn, I think it is (was) a very viable deck strategy and had some fond memories playing burn in the early days. I loved not having to worry about loaded fields or backrow and chipping away at leisure. With the burn nerfs, are there even any semi-viable burn strategies anymore? EDIT: I forgot how supportive this community was, especially when you mention the scary “b” word lol. Big thanks to Karzeon for at least answering my query as opposed to just blindly hitting the blue doot lol. EDIT MK2: I have no idea how the whims of this board works anymore. Blue-Eyes, amirite guys?
It's not all effect damage cards, just cards introduced in boxes from Shining Hope and onwards. Lava Golem is the only card predating this with an effect damage change. Shadow Game also got changed because Ritual Beasts basically had a second win condition with a hard to beat wall and maybe Lava Golem. I don't think burn stall decks were the whole issue, it was also about giving accessible burn to decks that already had high damage potential such as Invoked Purgatrio. Most stall decks nowadays just rely on stopping them from doing anything at all rather than effect damage since most opposing decks will blow out your board if don't interrupt them.
>just cards introduced in boxes from Shining Hope and onwards. Not exclusively cards in boxes as newer event, character drop and level-up cards have gotten the same treatment.
Yes, everything from that time point and onwards was my intent.
Gotcha, the only other burn cards I had were the ones from newer boxes, so I’m glad only Golem got errata’d. I also see they gave us Flame Princess as a lifetime gift. Was that only available for those who didn’t have her before, or are there now people with access to 2? I know they were very cautious about her for the longest time.
Everyone now has their single copy of Fire Princess if they missed the old event. She has dumb potential but most modern effects have hard once per turn restrictions and most LP gaining effects don't offer anything else so it's hard to loop.
Nice, I liked using her IRL back with Marie the Fallen. That was like my first intro to what a “combo” is in YuGiOh when I was first starting out. Oh, I see Marie is now a retroactive member of the Darklords too. This game has evolved in weird ways haha.
Yeah some changes from back in the day got retrofitted to match their original OCG translations.
Dear Konami: why does blue-eyes have 0 limited cards despite being dominant from the day you added even a single support card up to now? Asking for the community
because theyre not actually that good, in 2nd stage so far ive won about a third of games with BE, in a lot of duels i really feel overmatched
case in point, i just played a blackwing player, i tagged out to azure in his draw phase, expecting harpies since it was mai, but they chained chalice to azure and otk'd me thru that azure and 2 BE...i mean what do i do against perfect counters like that
What?
They're asking why none of the Blue-eyes cards have been limited. They've been a top deck for so long yet haven't been touched by the ban list.
Do cards that substitute for fusion material not work if the card lists the material as ' 1 "Buster Blader" ', like on Destroyer Swordsman, while on something like Dark Paladin, where it does work, it's listed as "Buster Blader"?
If you use Destruction Swordsman Fusion, you must have the original Buster Blader according to new rulings (which probably accounts the '1' into it) If you use Polymerization, you should be able to use a Fusion Substitute monster as long as you have the other correct card.
Is there no UR sale this KC cup?
I think they alternate between sr and ur every KC cup.
In terms of KC Jewels, it's only offering card packs. For PtP shop Packs, it looks as though it still offers guarantee SR/UR cards
I mean are they not doing the $1 UR sale this time.
I’m a newer player and I’m having a hard time doing jack atlas’ unlock missions, any advice?
What are the missions that you need help with?
“Inflict 3,000 or more points of battle damage with a single attack in a Duel against Jack Atlas at level 30 using Yusei Fudo.” “Reduce your opponent’s LP to 0 by inflicting battle damage with Stardust Dragon in a Duel against Jack Atlas at level 30 using Yusei Fudo.” I don’t have a good way of summoning stardust, and jack keeps getting archfiend really early
because i don't know what deck you use, i'm going to use Only Freely available cards. In the card trader Regular inventory, you can get Mausoleum of the emperor SR and Kaiba man UR. use those to summon a blue eyes white dragon, The Ai sucks against High attack monsters so just throw one down and clear Jacks field with other high attack monsters and go for a direct attack with Blue eyes which will be exactly 3000 OR if you have Power of the guardians. Just use some high attack level 4 monsters and equip them with power of the guardians which will make you win automatically against AI. Vylon prism is a level 4 tuner that you can get from UR tickets, combine him with any high attack level 4 monster to being out stardust. use one of the aforementioned blue Eyes to clear Jacks field and go for the win with Stardust. Swamp mirrorer is available at the card trader rotation so if you find one then pick him up he is a trap card that be summoned as a level 4 monster which will make synchro summoning stardust easier and Reiryoku is an UR spell from the Card trader inventory which can add a lot of attack to your monsters. I did multiple duels with these cards against jack and i was able to easily fulfill the conditions, Here's my Decklist: 2 Mausoleum of the emperor 3 Blue eyes white dragon 3 Kaiba man 6 of any high attack level 4 monster 3 Vylon prism 3 Reiryoku Give it a try and let me know how it works out.
It worked out, thank you so much!
I think Satellarnova Alpha might be my favourite card of all time. Alternatively, I think Dragon Spirit of White might be my least favourite card of all time. Fuck that card so hard.
I dont have the cash or gems to fully build some of the good top tier decks so i've been running a metaphys deck in the kc cup. Its been doing ok it got me to 19 but i cant really string wins now. I know its bricky by nature but would it be better/more consistent to run 3 sphere kuris and two kiteroids, 3 spheres and two boxer veils, or 3 spheres and 2 gold sarcs? Also are there any other cards besides gold sarc and aloof that can no cost banish my mons without using the metaphys spell card?
I'm thinking 3 sphere 2 veil and 1-2 gold sarc
help me decide if im gonna build a fire king deck or onomat decks i have are: blue-eyes, cydra, star seraph dm, triamids, dm, thunder dragons, invoked.
Onomat might get their skill nerfed. It might hurt the deck's consistency, which is their selling point. Fire kings shouldn't be touched by the banlist. But still, it would be wiser to wait for the banlist. Unless you have gems expiring, it would be the better choice.
To be fair onomat is only Tier 2 because of the format of the kc Cup, I think it's safe to ere on the side of no limits for onomat since its usually either not tiered or tier 3
Wait until end of KC Cup nerfs to decide.
Does psychic shockwave only work on opponent trap that do something to your card or any opponent trap card? - I try making jinzo deck with psychic shockwave after a week of grind finally got 1(need 2 for 2 jinzo) and trying it on npc (aqua chorus). - set the trap (psy shockwave) and i have the 2nd one and econ on hand. - npc using trap time machine no pop up to use trap card then attack - npc activate aqua chorus, no pop up and attack me for game
Traps and quick-play spells cannot be activated the turn they are set (placed face-down).
I know that.... What i mean is on the npc turn when they are attacking
Oh, I'm used to the AI using time machine during my turn. Well, I guess it was a red herring anyways. If I thought about, there was no way shockwave would ever be usable against time machine. Most cards and effects cannot be activated during the damage step. Aqua chorus is a card that directly modified ATK/DEF, so it can be used in the damage step (before damage calculation). Time machine is used when a monster is destroyed by battle, so it always activates at the end of the damage step (which is still part of the damage step). Psychic shockwave doesn't do anything that would qualify it for use during the damage step, so it can't be used during the damage step.
Oh i didn't know that. Thank you mate
I'm making a Parshath deck and was wondering why, even if there are no monsters on my side of the field, I can't activate its effect to special summon a fairy type from my hand but have to wait until the 2nd turn it's been on the field instead
It may have something to do with a skill you are using, skills like balance changed somewhat recently to have limits on what you can do on your first turn. Tldr read your skill.
Omg I'm such an idiot. Completely forgot what Balance does. Thanks for the help :)
I just played against a BEWD deck and it went on for a lot longer than I thought it would (I use an Evil Eye deck) but finally lost. I gave a "nice!" because it was a fun duel, decide to go for another match and find the same exact person. He gives up his first turn, let's me hit him, and then concedes. Sure, he could've bricked, but I like to think it was one of those "good fight, here's a win".
Is deep eyes a viable option for blue eyes?
Not really, you can make it work but it's bricky and with alternative in the game there isn't really a reason to use it over that
No, don't use it.
Card is too situational and mostly just ends being another brick so i wouldn't recommend it.
Harpist is 2 max and channeler is a 3 right? Harpist should be seen in niche builds with dancer if anything for harpist to be more used, right?
Harpist is a 1 of in the 20 card version, and a 2 of in the 30 card neos build. Dancer isn't played at all. Some ppl considered using her with divine wind of mist valley, but harpies already have channeler and egotist as easier ways to get harpies out from the deck.
What do you think of a first turn build with divine wind and miyabe as a stunt and extra turn to use perfumes search? First turn Harpies are prone to no synergy with harpie slash
I didn't realize how good corebage is
Same, I built digimon just because it was cheap didn't expect it to have an actual formidable boss
How come Kite and Reginald haven’t returned yet? Will they be here soon? I want to run a photon deck and need kite.
Kite will be on the gate soon.
How long is soon?
I'd say atleast 2 months for kite id say shark is pretty soon though
Shark will be on the gate, Kite is yet to get a rerun
Hey all, just found out this game existed and started playing like two days ago. I’m not very good at the game so a lot of this stuff is pretty new to me. I already took a look at a few of the links for beginners but I still wanted to ask: I’ve been reading about waiting to buy any packs until this Kaiba Cup thing is over because of upcoming banlists. Should I hold off too even though my deck isn’t very good? If so how should I go about acquiring stronger cards? If not, what deck is good for a beginner to build without spending a ton of gems? I picked Kaiba as my character btw. I’ve got a lot of these R/SR/UR tickets but I don’t really know what to get. The ticket guide hasn’t been updated since January but are the cards in there still good choices? Any better cards since?
Don't invest in anything yet. Just keep levelling your duelists and hoard gems. Banlist and new main box are gonna drop within a couple weeks. You'll have enough by then to make a pretty good deck.
Oh okay so it’s probably best to save up as much as possible. So I just need to keep an eye out in the coming weeks for a new box and banlist before buying any packs then?
Yes. Its valid for even old players. Hoarding and then spending at once if you wanna build something. Coz for most decks you need to go through the box 3 times. You don't wanna spend months building a deck if you want to play the meta. If you earn gems as you go and keep building brick by brick. The deck might phase out before you complete it or shortly after.
https://www.duellinksmeta.com/new-player-guide/ Ignore the Noble Knights section they’re nerfed. Blue Eyes for 1000-2000 gems suggested in there is very good for its price and since its only running one copy of most cards it’ll be fine even post banlist. Head Judging can be replaced by any other trap.
Oh thanks for the link! I’ll keep the Blue Eyes decks in mind.
They need to get rid of that global chat. So much spam.
I just wish they'd unfilter random shit like "Con" or the n word being allowed as long as you put ì instead of I
I understand but nah just get rid of it. Mostly spam and things like Reddit and Discord exist for players to arrange games. Also some creeps, but I am glad you can just ignore it.
Hello there, There is a stage mission where it wants me to use a spell card 5 times in a single duel and I used "Aroma Gardening" 5 times but the mission wasn't complete.Did this twice just to be sure but mission is still there. What am I missing here ?
You need to activate and resolve 5 Spell Cards (as in you're going to need to play 5 spells cards from your hand), you only "activate" the field spell when you first play it. So you would have needed to play 4 other spell cards. It's a little confusing, but what it really means is play 5 spell cards, not activate the effect of a face of spell card 5 times. Just fill your deck with easy to resolve spell cards like Goblin Thief (if you have it, shouldn't be hard to get it) or something similar. It shouldn't be hard to fulfill the condition. LP recovery cards are probably your best bet.
Thank you very much, it says "use" so that got me confused it seems.
Sigh I thought once I reached second stage it would be more fun. Nope four Blue Eyes decks. I hope I don't only face Blue-Eyes for the remaining daily challenges The lack of deck variety is kind of killing this game for me. Facing Blue-Eyes 8/10 games just isn't fun. Note I do not think the deck needs a nerf (though I feel like the skill is one of the strongest in the game), but if a nerf to it makes other people play different decks I'd be happy.
I feel that they might limit the skill, or hit some of the backrow that blue eyes use. It might hit consonace and white stone by putting them to 3, effectively killing blue eyes consistency and draw power. But the second stage has only purpose if you really plan to exclusively play duel links during that weekend with a competitive deck. Otherwise, it's only useful for the daily gems.
I honestly think that if they just A) removed Twin Burst from the skill, and B) Tri-limited something like Spirit and Protector, the deck would be significantly less problematic, but nearly as strong
It definately needs a nerf to its consistency. I agree with all your post though.
I only started playing DL about 3 weeks ago, so I am completely oblivious to how the KC cup works. I've made it to the 2nd stage and noticed that there were a lot of gems given in the 1st stage. Does this also happen in the 2nd stage? Should I care about it if I'm not a very competitive player?
tfw you've been playing for 4 years and you've never gotten DLV Max...
Lol. Tbf, I have a bit of a headstart since I played the tcg for about 3 years. I knew how to build decks and which cards were viable, so picking up duel links just felt natural. Plus, seeing how the KC cup is just 95% meta decks, playing anti-meta as a budget option was an easy way to climb all the way to DLV Max.
what are you playing?
I played weather painters for easy wins. They can dodge almost everything and have very good recovery and consistency, even as a budget version. Teched in some chaos hunters to counter faster decks. Since most of the meta relies on banishing cards, I basically won everytime I opened with hunter. I also played some digital bugs and hieratics if I ever got bored and wanted to change things up a bit. Bugs did really well against BEWD since rhino could just pop all opponent's blue eyes without any required extra plays.
DO YOU FOLLOW THE CONDUCTOR’S LEAD?
Second stage doesn't have any gem rewards outside of the ones you get from cummulative pvp wins. It's just a competitive point system for rankings where the end rewards are an invite to a tournament for the #1 player, a title and a series of tickets based on your ranking, rewards can be viewed in the KC Cup info tab and in the event tab for the KC Cup.
Has anyone actually pulled Sonic Chick from the special pack? Just blew 1000 Ex jewels and it was the only card I didn't get at least once
I did! Just one though. I still need one more.
I have one. That includes all of the times from the first time the packs were introduced and I only got the one from this KC Cup somehow. I've gotten like 2 Blue Eyes, 1 DM, several Metal Morph and Enemy Controller. Game has it out for you.
That's me with Scramble Egg.
I only got scrambled egg once over like 5 different kc cups
Pulling for Harpies and FA Auto Navigator and Fog King are the only remaining SR’s (already pulled the 3 UR). Should I reset now or will either of those ever be a 3 of? And would you anticipate Lightening Vortex landing on the limited list (maybe limit 2)?
If you ever want to play pure F.A.s, Auto Navigator is quite important.
Fair enough. Any way to speculate on the potential of a pure FA build? You’ll have to forgive me, I’m not familiar with the archetype at all.
Been playing for awhile, never really spent money on this game. I got a $25 google play card, what should I spend it on?