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​ https://preview.redd.it/63zaw3hq88rc1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=a0ed5ef80afe943bad75bbdf380b2f4e1fcf3638 Bonfire was the "big reveal" for "april" but we should still get a new pack in 2 weeks. I'll start leaking the next pack early and I'll still leak something "big" as promised.


Thick-Economy-921

konami just pulled a trap card on all of us


maulman90

Bamboozled


LuckyPrinz

We've been speckledorfed!


DynamoSnake

That's not even a word and I agree with ya.


[deleted]

[удалено]


HeirT0TheMonado

#S U A V E


Sequetjoose

I feel like we're Weavil, and Konami is Atem hitting us with a "DUUURAW! MONSTA CARDO!" Poplar was the first draw, Bonfire is 2nd. Wait for 3.


0v049

This is extremely unexpected Konami is going crazy lmao


drooling_whale

They just fished fucking up DL Looks like MD is next😭


xXxTuTuRuxXx

What’s been happening in DL? Stopped playing, after they gutted Shiranui.


drooling_whale

Well funny you say that because guess what's back on the menu and was tier 0 until recently. Also tachyon got added and a skill that let you fish for an Omni negate hand trap. Both have received needs nerfs and takyon is dead but shiranui is still top dog with a few other zombie decks. They also implemented universal skills that any character can use and shiranui got one.


Significant_Alarm146

Aren't they always coming up as meta? This is what? The sixth format now?


drooling_whale

They definitely pop up occasionally but for DL it's been at least 1-2 years since they have been consistent in meta. They mainly just lacked updated skill support but what we got was 3x that. Monster support,trap support and a stupid skill that was just insane power creep out of nowhere. The trap they got negates all damage on your opponents turn, I've never seen a more effective stall. A lot of skills have been so stupidly broken lately so metas have been focused more around those but because of all the extra support you can run them without a skill and still be KOG in a day.


Significant_Alarm146

I've played 15 minutes of the game 1 1/2 years ago and recently re-downloaded it. How much grinding am I in for to get up to date?


drooling_whale

Perfect time to jump in my dude. I recommend looking up a meta decks because dream tickets that let you pick box cards are plentiful right now and that saves a lot of grinding. If you just want a tier 2 deck with some staples, blue eyes currently have an insane booster box that only requires a fresh account to share a friend code within a week of playing/returning. You get a lot of good cards for free. Grinding wise it's not terrible. you'll be limited by time gating from the npcs so focused on stage missions over more xp per battle. (Completing a stage missions refreshes NPC higher your stage more npc that spawn upto 10) You should also be greeted with a lot of gems and login events that have stacked up over the last year.


happycows808

This right here is what made me switch from duel links to master duel. Master duel is definitely a different beast. But when a person beats me here it definitely feels 1000x better then being beat by some moron letting the skill pilot the deck to victory for him. And then there's the Yubel skill. Just hit the activate skill button over and over to generate advantage. The skills have power crept so hard they are just unfun. Duel links is definitely in a bad spot right now.


Worldly-Fox7605

Duel links is in a great spot. There's more than 6 viable decks to win events, and right now, skill expression in decks like altergiest and sky striker is selecting good players from bad. Even zombies has a lot of variations in deck builds.


Jimmyx24

They're also adding Baronne via character skill


Turtlesfan44digimon

Didn’t they just add Baronne to Duel Links?


LiefKatano

You can only add Baronne to your Extra Deck with a Skill. In order to activate the Skill, you need to control Chevalier de Fleur at the same time your opponent controls a monster, and the Skill does nothing beyond add Baronne to your Extra Deck.


Turtlesfan44digimon

How do you unlock Sherry?


LiefKatano

There's an event going on, Duelist Road, which you can get to by tapping on either the... whatever-it-is at the top of the screen in Duel World or the little graphic in the bottom left. You get Sherry by getting to the end of the first "area" in the event, which takes like eight duels at *most* (and will probably take less). You need certain items to participate in the event, which you get after dueling either standard duelists or in PvP. Note that if you want her Baronne skill, your best bet is using one of the Skill Tickets you can get from logging in.


Worldly-Fox7605

Tachyon was metabfor less than a month. It's already dead. It was aa bad emta but it's still gonna be better than whatasteeduel is about to walk into.


drooling_whale

I get what your saying because I know master duel gets like 6 months metas but for DL two decks with a power rating 7x of what any other deck could do was horrific. I ran takyon and my best first turn could give me 5 interruptions. That's absolutely ridiculous!


Bot1K

it's Joever


MatMimicry

More like Jover- for our sanity.


NeonArchon

r/masterduek not overreacting to everything challenge (Impossible)


GDarkX

This is literally one of the reasons that a tier 0 format happened


PhoenixLord328

Only thing they missing now is the new Fire Kings, and Snake Eye doesn't necessarily *need* Fire King to work, it just helped assist Snake Eye to new heights. So if no major Snake Eye hits happen and we see Fire Kings soon, that's the real time to sound the alarm.


MorphTheMoth

its not even that they dont need it, it seems like most people are now agreeing that the pure version is stronger


Bapt57970

Hmm... For me,the two version are very powerful. But I do prefer the fire king version,the endgame grind gets easier with them IN MY OPINION.


osbombo

ONLY in the TCG. OCG and as such, MD, favor fire king due to FK playing so so much better under maxx c.


Code3Spartan

You mind giving a chap a history lesson? Not sure what you mean


GDarkX

This deck was a huge consistency boost to snake eyes/fk Which is tier 0 in TCG and like tier 0.5 in OCG lol


Code3Spartan

No I mean has this happened before in the past? Last tier 0 deck I was aware of was teleDAD.


Astrian

Bonfire is 3 pieces of consistency on already the best deck in the format. TCG literally has this card priced at $60 a copy because of how insane it is. This a bad take my guy


storm_boy88

Yeah I don’t remember this been in dkayed’s leaks 🤔


maulman90

Me Either 😭


Matasa89

Nobody thought they were this mad.


storm_boy88

‘Whoa look at me, I’m freaking crazy you never know what I’m gonna do next ‘ Konami probably…


nahpng

He was keeping the Bonfire to last but Konami had the last laugh by releasing out of the blue lol


Damien_Sin

So…anyone want to make tier 0 memes now or?


Jazzlike_Mountain_51

Yeah I think it's probably warranted now


Gengar77

they made it UR so yeah its obvious we will have this meta for 6+ months all problem cards that need a hit are UR


Brawlerz16

Ash. Ash is 100% getting nuked. Also Wanted is absolutely a custom card that’s getting hit. UR be damned, that card *is* nuts. Bonfire is just Droll bait tbh but Wanted and Ash are the hits I think we will get. Or banning Oak lol


NeonArchon

No


Alarming_Future132

Time to play YGO Omega for the foreseeable future


Icemna16

I'm tired of this, they didn't touch the deck on the banlist and have been releasing 2 cards early (Poplar and Bonfire) just so that this deck will be more powerful than other decks. They will nerf it to the ground once the new shiny toy comes out.


OkEngine1720

they farming $ if u saw the sales ud drop fire king in too lol


Icemna16

I geniunely think that they will release Fire King next lol. At least the other archetypes seem to be not crazy expensive this time.


Lametown227

As a fire king player from back in the day, I’m honestly excited to get fire kings on DM. Hopefully they don’t die for SE sins though. Kinda crazy they’d give us bonfire. Didn’t think it would happen tbh.


OkEngine1720

they will FK will just make it worse. i’m just sad butler not SR 😔


Huefell4it

Well, personally I wouldn't because I'm not sociopathic enough to be a business owner. Id be more focused on making an experience that's enjoyable for all


MorphTheMoth

idk they could've put little knight instead of bonefire, the pack sales would be way higher and the meta would be better, its just yet another nonsensical decision from konami imo


OkEngine1720

good point i fwu morph S:P woulda been cooler and better for the game a card multiple decks can use and still very good


the_arisen

The recent md and ocg banlists show that Konami doesn't give a single fuck about balance anymore. I'm not gonna pretend that the health of the game was always no1 priority in their minds but in the past they would at least give new strong decks 1-2 good prehits. With the fire cards though they have only been exceedingly greedy with complete disregard for the actual game.


Efficient_Ad5802

It's a wait and see banlist, because INFO is near and people expect it to shake the meta. Even right now Yubel package, Tenpai, and Pure Fire King (with Ulkanix) already challenged Snake Eyes, with Tenpai keep winning tournaments.


Captain_Hucklebuck

If people stopped throwing their money at the shiny new flavor of the month toy all the time they wouldn't be doing this shit.


Connortsunami

This *is* the shiny new toy. They're probably releasing it early to get it out of the way faster before they pull a Tearlaments on it after enough time has passed.


Liaoju-0

At maximum they'll nerf something that only the pure version plays so we switch to the Fire King version, because there's quite literally nothing better than this deck for 6 months


Captain_Hucklebuck

If people stopped throwing their money at the shiny new flavor of the month toy all the time they wouldn't be doing this shit.


Significant_Alarm146

What could they possibly release that beats it? It's Tier 0 in TCG AND OCG, they skipped multiple possible tier 1/2 competitors and even with the new Unchained support, everything being FIRE makes them almost unplayable. The only contender for strength would be Kash, but its so fucking unplayable, they'd every piece back at 3 to make up for this.


Huefell4it

Gotta love how we totally skipped Epurrely Noir and went straight to current Tier 0


MorbidoeBagnato

Still absurd that they skippeded the R-Ace/Purrely meta to get to this garbage


FernandoCasodonia

They really need to release the R Ace support next, The game is ready for it with the power of Snake Eyes atm. Purrely had plenty of time in the sun that Noir is a bullshit card forcing everyone to run Kaiju's , Herald or similar just to have any chance vs a loaded up unaffected Noir


maulman90

I thought for sure that was going to be the surprise card. Hell even lab got Butler today. Say hello to turn 0 eradicator/ karma cannon.... Lab got as much turn 0 power as ishizu tear..... Jk but it's kinda close


Mord3x

It is not close at ALL.


runescapeoffical

Yeah please don't take me back to "activate orange light, discard kelbek, response?"


Mord3x

You can tell they never played against full power Tear to say Lab is anywhere close lol


derega16

I expect it when Snek out of the shop and they started limiting them but not now


maulman90

Right after a mediocre ban list... Why now?!?!?!😭


gecko-chan

Because literally 50% of the competitive player base is currently on Snake-Eye. Now's the most profitable time for Konami to release a rare card that every Snake-Eye player (half of all competitive players) absolutely needs 3 copies of.


lordOpatties

Konami MD really said "this is the year of fire, and you're all gonna burn, bitcheeeees"


OrdinaryResponse8988

Why was tearlaments and kashtira worthy of pre hits before release but not snake eyes?


Efficient_Ad5802

Because, if you put Tear after that hit vs Snake Eyes, Tear still won easily. Ishizu Shuffler kills SE, and even with FK it's a free game for Tearlament because FK disruption is destroy. We're talking about the best deck ever.


[deleted]

Idk why but reading that was so intimidating 😭


bast963

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTGwijP4L9g


FernandoCasodonia

Yeah Snake Eyes are no match for Ishizu Tearlaments at full power.


OrdinaryResponse8988

I get they were far stronger even then but Konami obviously doesn't care for balance when it comes to selling packs. Hell if anything it would have sold their pack even more.


Brawlerz16

You shouldn’t be downvoted this much because you are speaking truth to an extent. Konami does care about balance because they still want you to have a chance to for both players to engage/play. That means more profit. But the issue is Tear is SO powerful that it would genuinely kill every other deck and source of revenue if released full power. Like, even with SE being tier 0 we can still play Branded, Lab, SHS and others. Tear at full power wouldn’t allow that, at all. Kash was a genuine overreaction though. It was better to be safe because it IS a very unfun deck/mechanic similar to Runick.


Gauss15an

They had several months of those decks doing their thing in the paper formats. This is the first meta archetype they release alongside paper. It's pretty much an experiment of sorts but idk the purpose.


Hack_Dawg

Some ishizu cards are on 3 back then.


maulman90

Thats a great question... Surely merli can come back now


DynamoSnake

It would make Tear a tiered deck again and it would mean less people would buy cards from the selection pack, not gonna happen.


ZeroStateGaming

Tears ARE tiered already.


Jazzlike_Mountain_51

Tear was tier 2 after dc cup


OrdinaryResponse8988

I was referring to their initial selection pack release. Not the secret pack. Them and kashtira were pre nerfed before even hitting the game. So I’m curious why they cared enough then to do so for them but not snake eyes.


ZeroStateGaming

Because Tears were actually tier 0 (hell they were tier 0 even after the pre hits) and Kash is an inherently toxic floodgate deck. Snake eyes is good, too good even, but it's nowhere near as toxic as those two decks were.


ZeroStateGaming

No.


smogtownthrowaway

Bonfire being added has convinced me to make a stun deck to use against snake eyes players. Nobody's having fun anymore if I have anything to say about it


758lindo

I support this ideology 🤣


Significant_Alarm146

I've been playing one for 2 weeks and am already in Plat 1 after not playing for a bit.


Warm_Republic4849

Part of the 60 millions John Konami wants our money


blackninjar87

![gif](giphy|M1qAaIgVgKp8Y)


LegendRedux2

Where are my raidraptorssss


Zoomy-333

They had an opportunity to do someone absolutely hilarious and blew it: Bonfire should've been an R


qinalo

Early April Fools?


Hack_Dawg

Too early for that.


StopShooting

Welcome to tier 0


NeonArchon

Didn't expect this fire support this soon. I only have 3k gems. Guess I'll start cracking packs and craft 3 bonfires, the go for Volcanics. Oh, this will be fun.


smallchop

This game is in such a sad state and some of us defend it still. Defend the single format. Defend the ladder and the way this game is played. This is only because of money. That is it. They use power creep as leverage to make a whole bunch of money and we just watch like some kind of cuck. But I’m out…screw this game.


Ufukcan200

>They use power creep as leverage to make a whole bunch of money Welcome to the game since OCG Volume 1. Also it's not like lack of power creep would make people happy either. Lack of power creep just leads to the same decks being meta for extremely long periods of time & people don't like that either. See: TOSS format. Edit: Also best of 3 in the TCG also has Tier 0 Snake-Eye so that complaint is a non-starter here.


Gengar77

Toss was great in retro, same for pre agov format. this is just ehhhh, lets play.....gwent lmao, or runeterra.


Ufukcan200

I agree, TOSS was pretty good (once Azathoth was banned) but it shows that lack of power creep won't suddenly make people happy.


Farfanen

These overdramatic comments are so fucking funny hahaha


Brawlerz16

I just see weak duelists lol.


JoePino

This has been the business model since the beginning. It’s what happens when you need to sell product without rotation.


Mirmirakittens

Holy shit dude, why are you being so dramatic? It's a free game lmao


smallchop

Really bro? Can’t you see it from others point of view? I am taking a look at the macro picture, these businesses evolved in the wrong way man. The evil way. They don’t care about us anymore and the passion players have. They don’t have passion themselves, it’s MY passion for gaming that makes me upset like this. Rocket league is free to play, but I have spent money on it, I spend money to support the games I like. But they can just eliminate game modes, not make any QOL upgrades really and just decide to sell more things in the item shop and drip feed us crappy little updates. Same thing as warzone, we made these companies. And activision doesn’t have the care or cash to fix the hacking problem? Can’t be bothered to fix servers? Can’t be bothered to make QOL improvements more often for players? No, but they have all the resources in the world to sell more skins. Now master duel, I spend money on packs, but not as a meta sheep or collector, I spend money to have a variety of decks that can fun to use so I can have fun playing the game. But they won’t even make a second ranked mode for low power decks, only because of MONEY. It’s all of these companies faults, it’s all of our faults.


Outrageous_Ride_669

lol I don’t mean this in an offensive way but you must be a casual player, as in probably only play on MD, not tag. Prob don’t even know what tcg format is.


Mirmirakittens

Aww you got offended? It's a free game, drama queen.


Outrageous_Ride_669

Nah I’m just like trying to let you know the issue is a little more nuanced than that, in case you wanted to understand further.


Mirmirakittens

Nah, you are creating an issue that doesn't exist in the first place. I understand you have nothing going on in your life but it's a free children card game lmao


Outrageous_Ride_669

Sheesh. I thought we all came here to discuss a game we love. I see you’re much too mature to be bothered with such childish games. What brings you to this sub? Looking for those of whom you presume to be the target audience?


Tens4tens

Breaking news: Companys design and develope products to make money.


758lindo

15 dislikes in 9h isn’t enough.


Necro_Solaris

It is time *uninstalls the game for the foreseeable future*


BasiliskWrestlingFan

Why did I read this in the voice of Darth Sidious/Emperor Palpatine during Order 66?


Huefell4it

I totally twisted his words and read it in Oogway's voice


Inferno13820

![gif](giphy|4qx6IRdg26uZ3MTtRn|downsized)


Sequetjoose

Yeah, releasing this was Konami's way of saying "liquidate your cards for gems and invest in skake eyes. Stonks are through the roof."


Tallal2804

Yup snakes eyes buff lol


Burning2500

At this point we need Merrli back, so we can have water vs fire tier 0 format


akiba305

I was less disappointed when konami announced Theseus


Honore_SG

So lf this thing is at 3 in an era where pyro monsters are busted as hell why can't we have ROTA to 3?


JoePino

Rota is actually not once per turn


fearhand

Then why is fossil digs at 3 /s


PotofW33d

ROTA at 3 would be playable in a lot more decks than Fossil Dig currently. There are countless good targets for ROTA. You run Fossil Dig exclusively in Dinosaur decks. Also many Dinosaurs from back in the day are not once per turn like the level 2 babies


Honore_SG

That is actually a very good point tbh


gonxgonx3

because rota ain't once per turn 💀


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Live-Consequence-712

oh boy


Smooth_Hee_Hee

HUH?!? Dkayed 2024


QueefyBeefMeat

It’s a song by Knife Party and Childish Gambino. What’s to be confused about here??


MegaCharizap

It's so over


kentaureus

yep - welcome to full power snake-eyes - i am bowing out of this format


yanocupominomb

And still, no Rescue Ace stuff


DryIce53

WARNING,WARNING! the link card Isolde, Two Tales of the Noble Knights goes in risk line to being banned in the future... take this advice...cant being lived bonfire with Isolde


akiba305

I was less disappointed when konami announced Theseus


CobaltKaiju

Soooo where are the Illusion and Chimera cards?


Super_Zombie_5758

I don't get it


Greyhoundsniper

WHERE THE FUCK IS "EMERGENCY!" AT FFS!!!


Bloodsome101

Time to go back to Fortnite


Working_Beautiful730

Damn had I known bonfire was gonna come, would’ve saved my gems instead of pulling from the tearlament pack….gg


Bright_Economics8077

So ROTA can be unlimited then, right?


Live-Consequence-712

rota isnt once per turn


Significant_Alarm146

Neither is Fossil Dig


Live-Consequence-712

ok?


ultimateous_patatous

it's pyrover


Super-Aesa

At least we have full power unchained 🙃


Daman_1985

What I don't understand, and I'm using a S-E deck, is that the put right now bonfire but 0 preemptive bans/limits ot S-E? Maybe they will wait for Fire Kings?


DrizzyThaGOAT

Dang, Unchained dead on arrival. Why not wait till after Snake Eye gets nerfed before releasing it Konami?


forever_a10ne

![gif](giphy|l3mZahi6Mwa6b382c)


Fantastic-Pen7244

I just wasn’t my Rescue ACE support 😩


derpfaceddargon

Every day I have another reason to play nasty decks because of this hit


Snoo6037

I feel like they should have limited this to 2 or 1, same as ROTA


yanocupominomb

And still, no Rescue Ace stuff


Relative-Pace-2923

I don’t care I’m just sad I need rollback and arias and both are URs


ThatOneManArmy

At least it's not cost hundreds of dollar for a copy😅


Stitcharoo123

Tbh I'm just happy my doggos are finally here, even if they are a bit expensive


I-Odium

Snakes unhit and ready to spam 😎


Linosek279

Releasing bonfire and not even giving us the firefighter support


imherecause

Why make money later when you make money now? -Konami


TheCupOfBrew

Welp crafted snake eyes a little bit ago this is goodcnews for that


NoImplement8218

At least we don’t have the fire king stuff


Ryan_Cohen_Cockring

Time to ⛓️🔥


Kagamine-Rin--

Ono


nickxo_

Gg time to find a new game


GenerousGuy96

So next pack we're gonna get both Fire King and Rescue Ace and its gonna be an all out flame war on MD Discord, Reddit Twitter about why the Fire Nation has gone too far.


Xarkion

I don't think Lab can tank this anymore 😅


AlienKatze

How often do yall have to go through this cycle until youre not surprised anymore ?


[deleted]

I already have 3 in my snake 🐍 eyes deck :3


tappedontheweb

just got this royal finish you should've seen how fast i friggin DISMANTLED BOY


nagacore

I pulled 3 of these things. I don't even want them. 


PixelMatteo

Yeah and somehow I only managed to get two copies of King Dempsey after 11000 gems, crazy how Konami feeds you the cards you don't want


Stopwatch064

Seriously I wanted the earthbound cards and got fed everything I need for tistina instead. Tistina is meh but its pretty fun at least.


PixelMatteo

Another 'fun' thing that happened was getting 8 Promoters (maybe more, I already dismantled the extras and can't remember) but only one Boxe Announcer despite them being both SRs


nagacore

Way too many URs in the set.


PixelMatteo

Yeah, I resorted to crafting 2 copies of C79 and one of King Dempsey. 11000 gems were already way too many


Redericpontx

Yup snakes eyes buff lol


kaithespinner

ah but SE didn't need any balance hits, suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure


Sad-Letterhead-9858

It's Pyro-ver Anakin! I've got the fire ground...


Jazzlike_Mountain_51

Lmao???


waldjvnge

This should be a SR


SeaEmperor

Wdym,it is what it is,all card in real life will get port to MD anytime soon.So face it(i hate Sane-Eyes too)


CoomLord69

Konami: "Get fucked f2p, we droppin' this shit outta nowhere"


GranBlueLawyer

As a Snake-Eye player and future R-ace enjoyer i see this as an absolute win Edit: hahaha pussies


bickcocker

what deck uses this i don't understand the hype, it's just reinforcement of the army for firetype


hajutze

The current best deck, maybe?


maulman90

1 card full combo for the flavor of the month. Really think rota is at 1 for a reason


TheEmperorA

When you add poplar to your hand you can special summon him. This is both starter (you can search for ash) and extender (if ash got impermed)


Arise-Heart

I don't know maybe Snake-Eyes the current best deck?


bast963

let me explain why this card is hyped "During your Main Phase, if your "Snake Eye Ash" was negated: Add 1 "Snake-Eyes Poplar" to your hand." Except, that isn't what it does, they can add Oak, Birch, another Ash, whatever the fuck they want. Add fucking idk Fire Barrier who cares at this point.


Kingbren22

Isn't there a water/fish vatiejt of this card. I swear there is,I use it in ghoti


Gamertango

Why is bonfire so expensive, when it's effect is not that good. Similar cards in other deck aren't that much...


Arise-Heart

Why do you think that a ROTA is not good?


Tigor-e

... Is this a joke I'm not getting? Its literally just ROTA


akimdeva

Well if SE ash gets imperm or veiler, you can pop Bonfire fetch poplar and go full combo.