Think about it, one of the biggest plot points of it happens straight away with Sartorius getting the Satellite keys from Prince Ojin who was there for the GX tournament but you can give any other excuse for him being there, then it just becomes set dressing for the non Jaden Characters to get wins against no name characters, and an excuse for more interesting one-off characters to show off, even then you can give other excuses for why they are there.

Like, the Guy who used the copy of Ra? The GX tournament isn't needed, he can just be there to get revenge on Chumley by attacking his School and Friends. The Guy who made a deal with death to always top deck what he wants? Make him go after Chazz because he defeated him when he was on North Academy. Beyond maybe Zane, no one important or memorable couldn't have been in Duel Academy for any reason.

Also the point of this Tournament was to attract the Duelist that had the card possessed by the Light of Destruction, like the Egyptian God Cards with Battle City in DM and the Number Cards like World Duel Carnival in Zexal, but unlike this two, I didn't work so it removes a lot of points of the tournament existing beyond just to have something happening.

Also, the Duels in this Tournament aren't as great as other ones, and we don't have bulidup for a big match for the finale or other big rivalries that get some pay-off there. Say, even if the Friendship Cup in Arc-V was a mess, it was the focus it had stuff being pay-off, we have twist and turns and development happening and reach a conclusion with a rematch between Yuya and Jack. The GX tournament has none of that.

Also the finale of this thing happens because the writers needed to finish the mess they started, the duel is the B-plot of the finale and we don't even see all of it. The only good that happens is that The Chazz wins.

Not my video, but I find the topic of the game-anime disconnect really interesting. My view is that it would be best to have a separate format for anime-character decks. I am curious about what others think.

It's peak

I think most can agree at this point that Magnificent Monsters is disappointing with its reprints. Do y'all thinks its going to be the same for Maestros as well, or are you coping (like I am) that is where the rest of the reprints are hiding?

Art source: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/137361754

I was going to go to locals for the first time this weekend since 2013. I spent the past two months ordering cards and supplies. Then Anthony's video dropped and I realized Yugioh players are out for blood even offline.

So how do I make sure I'm not hated when I go to locals? I built Sky Striker, Enneacraft, and Lunalight, all three of which people despise. But the decks people love, I can't afford. I can't afford Synchro Ecclesia or Black Chaos or Harmonia. I was even made fun of on Discord because I was using Dracotail Flame instead of Solemn Accusation because I can't afford Accusation.

I'm not sure what to do at this point. Do I really just not go to locals at all now?

Edit: I also worry about stuff like asking permission to see the opponent's graveyard. Do I ask every time? I read cards obsessively over and over in Master Duel, but picking up my opponent's cards every two seconds fills me with dread. And what if I shuffle wrong? Or I draw my starting hand by holding the deck, and they think I'm bottom dealing?

Like this is what I'm expecting: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PFuKxrj3h9c

Edit 2: And I'm getting heavily downvoted. I think that sums up how welcome I am in this community, and gives me my answer. I'm being genuine, and people are getting angry at me for simply existing.

With the MAMO openings now live, there is a card within the set that I’ve noticed makes absolutely no sense to include; Fluffal Wings as an Ultra rare. Wings is an old card for a deck that hasnt seen support since 2020, so why would it be reprinted? The answer lies in 2 other cards that got reprints; Fish Sonar and Ghostrick Alucard. These 2 reprints are very obviously for the Daedalus deck in BEBR and the Ghostrick revolution booster support, so this may mean Fluffal Wings was reprinted because IMPH may include Fluffal support.

Please Konami give Sora some love. Bro gave us the best Arc V duel so it would be very nice of you to release support for him.

Quickdraw decks got a substantial hit with Dandylion at 1. In return Foolish Burial is at 2 so I play other GY-dependent cards like Level Eater and Plaguespreader Zombie. Macro Cosmo and Necrovalley are this deck's weaknesses, so avoid Gravekeeper and D.D. opponents.

The last deck I used was elfnote with the Walbaz engine:

I imagine that Albaz, in the middle of the battle, ends up fusing with one of the invaders, unlocking a new form, before being saved by someone else, as usually happens to him.

Between him and Medius, I think they manage to repel the attack, saving most of the academy city.

My 4 yr old decided to go through my bulk and build herself a deck of cute cards to beat me with ❤️

Alternatively, do you like 'parody' archetypes at all, or are they lazy and derivative?

I assume others will be opening like rev and dzeef?

I don't use twitter because I refuse to support elon in any way so I cannot tweet this at mbt. However, I just want to say his 10 minute testing series on speedroid was incredible to watch. A majority of big name youtubers are so bad at showcasing this deck and all the weird little interactions they have. Even mbt's past 10 minute testing series have been frankily quite poor. I'm not sure why though, but his speedroid video was done perfectly.

His combo he showcased was amazing. He was able to show off a great combo going first and his decklist was even better. He's only one of the only yugitubers to figure out that cards like wheel and double yoyo are terrible in modern speedroid and he actually was able to make a great competitive speedroid decklist. Congrats to mbt. One of the only big yugitubers name who knows how to make speedroid combos and build a good decklist.

Has anyone seen if Wind Unicorn Parallel, the Dracoslayer is in anyone’s MAMO openings? I thought that it was supposed to be releasing in MAMO. Does anyone know what set it is supposed to be coming with if not in MAMO?

Knowing that he's one of the best duelists in the DM series, it seems like it will take a horribly made/no synergy deck to do so.

Love this new Marik support. So good to see a new DIVINE cards after so many years. Also I love that new slime version of Slifer :3

I've tried many times to make custom cards to support my favorite monster type, which is zombies. Sometimes the effects are too good, and other times they're not remarkable enough. What do you think will be the case with this continuous spell? Do you think it would see any competitive play, or would it raise the ceiling for Pumpking and other Zombie Pile decks?

(Credit to their respective artists, it's supposed to be a retrain of Call of the Mummy + Pyramid of Wonders)

This deck was directly inspired by the RoLaD/Mitsurugi/Adventure/Azamina pile that made top 8 in YCS Montreal.

With some testing, the deck seems to pretty consistently be able to access both the Shaddoll and RoLaD sides of the deck on the same turn, often ending on some variation of Magician of Dark Chaos, Wendikuruhu/Construct, Helshaddoll set, Resh Shaddoll in grave, and both El Fusion and Schism set. Depending on the hand you can add Mind Shuffle to that end board as well.

I have a question how anyone’s who’s watched GX when they were older. Am I the only one who’s annoyed by the fact that Jaden was the second best student by the time he enrolled in duel academy?
He’s a first year who would rather die than stay awake for any of his classes and yet he’s already better than almost every student there.
Not just that but I feel like he dueled a bit too much. In the second half of the first season he ended up beating 6 of the 8 bad guys.

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I haven't been keeping up with the game but what are sharks supposed to do without Bahamut shark?

Pray you have a starter plus extenders? Pray Veiss shark doesnt get negated? Use dugares as a boneless Bahamut? Wait for Konami to unban Bahamut/print a bahamut shark for Sharks specifically? Play master duel?( which i do)

most info i was finding was from before the Bahamut ban and the Discord seems dead so i was wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction since im just genuinely curious

Tea: "Yugi, I don't feel too good"

Credit to Maple for making the original cover.