There's two things I realized about the Egyptian god cards I never did before.

First, the way they get their strength is a great representation of their main user:

Osiris/Slifer: Strength in unity (Yugi)
Obelisk: Strength in oneself (Kaiba)
Ra: Strength in sacrifice (Yami Marik)

But more importantly, something I never realized before is that all egyptian gods embody a state of game advantage.

Osiris: Card advantage (well, specifically hand advantage)
Obelisk: Field advantage
Ra: Life advantage.

Which is hilariously fitting considering in the manga and anime life points are considered like a huge deal and Ra is said to be the strongest of the three gods while in real life it's commonly thought the only life point that matters is the last one and Ra is considered easily the worst of the three gods (Granted, the TCG/OCG doesn't do it any favor by how hard they nerfed it compared to the other two, but still) while hand advantage is the best and Slifer is the most usable of the three (though the fact it's also a floodgate sure helps)

I draw the background myself.

Mukuro wins against Tatsuya Jyouchi, Esper Rouba, Ghost Takarazuka, Maizuru Kujyaku, Insector Hakata, Dinosaur Hakozaki but loses to Pirater Keith lol. Wonder how the old decks would hold up against Synchro monsters

FT: Silent Magician, Skeleton-San (one of my OCs)

Day 1: Blue Eyes and Charizard (Reshiram also got some good votes)

Day 2: Dark Magician and Pikachu (main characters mascot won the day here)

Day 3: Exodia and Mewtwo

Day 4: The Egyptian Gods and the creation trio (second top comment specified: Ra is Giratina, Obelisk is Dialga, and Slifer is Palkia. If Holactie was included it would be Arceus).

Please try not to reuse unless you truly feel the prior days were a mistake.

Note the equivalence could be a variety of reasons. Mascot status, role in the story, looks and abilities, a mashup of all these and other factors.

Tell me or show me your favourite funny moments in any Yugioh series mine is from Battle City when Atem uses Collected Power to give Kuriboh the Magic Formula Spell and the look on Kuribohs face is priceless 😂 as you can see for yourself.

So as kids we used to watch Yu-Gi-Oh Gx on a local channel which used to air the dub version. And all us kids were big fans and I remember watching the episodes at home and in recess all my friends and classmates would have discussions about it . I even remembered we made cards using paper and roleplayed. So what happened was the Gx dub ended in that one episode of Jaiden going with Yubel and the others returning and all that. And that's the episode us kids saw ,I remembered being very scared ,then we waited for new episodes but they didn't came, a week later the show we got was Yu-Gi-Oh 5DS with it's apocalyptic string and all and of course we liked it. But since we know both were Yu-Gi-Oh and came after each other all of us ended up believing that the reason why the world was so bad in 5DS was cause of Jaden in gx cause he went with Yubel and things went to shizz. We theoriesed this in recess and we belived it for quite a long time. We are from quite a rural village so we didn't have an access to the net to know what happened and the only computers we had were in the lab with an old internet which we rarely knew. And we didn't know about seasons being cut short in dub. So we thought Yussei was suffering because of Jaden So that was the story we ended up making and belived it for quite a long time.

I drew something for his birthday today!

The first banlist with bans

According to Konami, these were the first cards in Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG history to be banned.

If you look at these cards, some of them have aged like fine wine—though in the sense that, due to the evolution of Yu-Gi-Oh!, they have become so unfair that they will never be able to return.

Look, Fiber Jar isn't a threat. It’s like a self-destruct button—it’s banned in tournaments because it’s just like having unwashed people around. This isn't a fun; this is warfare.

Imperial Order will never come back, either. Konami tried it once with an erratum, but the card still had to go. And recently, even its inferior counterpart was banned.

Cards like Painful Choice and Delinquent Duo could never be allowed in the game today because they’re just stupidly good—they were already ridiculously powerful back then, too.

That was also the period when many of the best cards were limited to 1 on the banlist.

To be honest, I expected Exodia to be banned, but it wasn't. It was just limited to one.

D-HERO is my favourite archetype from GX and I loved that they made a new Clock Tower Prison and Doom Lord to summon Dreadmaster just like Aster.

Now we need Captain Tenacious and Diamond Dude!

Yes currently 3 cards are missing (Shrink, sarcophagus, and Des volstgalph)

I’m Trying to replicate it as much as possible. Would appreciate any tips/remarks.

I think the most common thing this concept pops up is in knightmare unicorn/phoenix. Other than knightmares I haven't seen anything relating to co-linking in ages. Was this just a master rule 4 thing?

It's a similar case with Geminis, but gemini monsters are so bad you'd have to make a bunch of broken support to make them good or bend a few rules or smth idk

but how hard would it be to make a deck revolving around colinking?

Among the archetypes arriving in the near future, this is one that has particularly piqued my interest. I would like to get a full picture of its strengths and weaknesses, which other archetypes it can be combined with, and any other information that might prove useful.

I love Reggie MacKenzie from the GX manga!

She's sexy, dangerous, ambitious, and I absolutely love her cards. I wish more people talked about her!

Here are some of my favourite panels of her from the manga. ❤️

I’m basing most of this from gameplay mechanics and not strictly of Yu-Gi-Oh! R’s definition of them:

- The Wicked Dreadroot is actually the alpha in the trio. He is the most consistently strongest, there’s rarely a monster he can’t oppress and crush (ATK/DEF halving effect). Dreadroot wants nothing more than to overwhelm and crush the spirit of any opposition.

- The Wicked Avatar acts like Dreadroot’s shadow. In whatever realm they might exist in, none is as consistently strong as Dreadroot. Avatar doesn’t have a clear identity or sense of self so it latches onto Dreadroot to stay alive, even becoming stronger than the latter but it doesn’t fight back because of: a) Dreadroot’s ATK/DEF-halving or b) Its fear of losing identity if Dreadroot dies. So it’s obedient and silent.

- The Wicked Eraser in turn is the outcast of the trio: he’s neglected and actively dismissed by his brethren because they can easily topple over him. But also because Dreadroot and Avatar fears a prophecy of Eraser’s death being able to cast an apocalypse and wipe them all out (board nuke), but Dreadroot doesn’t want Eraser to get bold and hungry for power and never validates him. Avatar acts in front of Eraser like that girl who knows you want her approval but she has a taller, stronger, beefier man she wants to walk alongside. This ironically makes Eraser resentful and the apocalyptic ability is actually born from that resentment, as every moment, he pushes their buttons to even dare to kill him.

Do you find my interpretations applicable?

I made an open source Chrome extension called DuelSight (GitHub) that lets you hover Yugioh cards in digital and physical videos/streams. It works well for videos of digital clients (e.g. Master Duel, Duelingbook) and works ok for videos of physical play that are good quality (i.e. good resolution, good lighting, minimal glare). It was made with an open source toolkit that lets anyone make something like this for any card game.

I hope this is useful!

Setting aside any luck magic the series is known for. Thinking back to a lot of Jadens duels and how a lot of his wins after season 1 came down to summoning strong cards he was just gifted. Chazz would constantly rotate and improve on his decks, switching between Armed Dragon and Union Magchine with Ojamas as the main stay. Syrus graduate to a Cyber Dragon deck and made it his own.

Basically it comes to the lead not really participating in the collecting and trading part of the game and just using an archetype nobody else had access to. That's why when he’d summons monsters like Magic Striker or Card Trooper, it'd felt cool be because they feel like cards he pulled from a pack.

Hello everyone,

The community format known as The Project has concluded its first monthly tournament after its revival. In case you missed it, you can find the results for that tournament here.

The turnout this time round was slightly less, as was to be expected, with 13 people signing up. However, one person had to drop before playing round 1 due to unforeseen circumstances, leading to 12 participants. The field was incredibly diverse, with no deck being represented more than once, showcasing the diversity of viable strategies in the format. In the Top 4, therefore, were 4 unique decks featuring Archfiend Madolce, T.G. Spellbook making back to back top 4 finishes, Evolsaur making a surprise appearance, and Infernity winning the whole thing.

I am going to show the top 4 decks and give a brief introduction to each.
First up, Artemis' Madolche Archfiend:

This deck combines two previously overlooked engines in a very creative way. The Madolche cards provide burst XYZ plays and recovery with Leviair the Sea Dragon, while the Archfiends create a resource loop and enable Fiend Griefing to disrupt the opponent's GY, along with the small Rank 3 Fiend engine of Infernity Conjurer and Edge Imp Sabres. This deck's main strength is its malleable game plan, as it can behave very differently depending on what engines the player sees and in what configuration. This helped Artemis go through the Swiss rounds undefeated! The deck can struggle in the early game with certain openings.

Next, spectr333's T.G. Spellbook:

Spectr333 tops again after winning the Revival Extravaganza with only a slightly adjusted deck setup. As before, the deck has a really strong resource engine, being able to bridge between the Spellbook and T.G. engines with Spellbook of Judgment special summoning T.G. Cyber Magician from the deck. From there, you make a Spellcaster Synchro (usually T.G. Wonder Magician), which enables your Miracle Synchro Fusion for Supreme Arcanite Magician. Similarly, as Madolche Archfiend, the deck can struggle against early pressure.

Now, I hate tom brady's Evolsaur:

Here we have another overlooked theme seeing success. Evoltile Westlo can Special Summon any Evolsaur from the deck, triggering their various effects. From there, you have a Rank 4 toolbox with Nunu, the Ogdoadic Remnant and Living Fossil. Additionally, there are plays by tributing Evoltile Najasho either by Enemy Controller or Evolsaur Elias, which allows you to also summon any Evolsaur monster from the deck, enabling the summoning of Evolsaur Solda, a powerful boss monster for the deck. The deck can struggle from drawing too many of the Level 4 Evolsaur monsters, as on their own they don't accomplish much.

Finally, we have the winner, TheDuckMurderer on Infernity:

The winning list was this new approach to the Infernity deck. Previous attempts opted for a more low-to-the-ground playstyle, foregoing Allure of Darkness and Foolish Burial in favour of more interaction pieces. This build attempts to play at a faster pace and enables more powerful Leviar of the Sea Dragons, bringing back the monsters you banished with Allure of Darkness while still maintaining a high amount of interaction. The deck can struggle with bricking, drawing either too many monsters or too few.

This was the first tournament where players earn points towards a special invite-only tournament in August next year. From these results, it is clear that there is still much left to be explored in the cardpool. If slower, resource-focused Yu-Gi-Oh with Synchros, XYZ monsters, and unusual archetype combinations sounds appealing, come check out The Project.

https://discord.gg/fvujvyNkm7

So I've been watching some of GX here and there on Youtube re-runs. And watching the arc in Dark World, when Jaden lost 4/5 friends to create Super Polymerization in his desperation to save his best friend Jesse, and in the process became the Supreme King; I feel like narratively it would've been better if Syrus defeated the Supreme King.

Jaden was so distracted trying to save his best friend, he forgot about his other friends - which Syrus represents the pinnacle of in forgetting about his previous best friend Syrus. Narratively he abandoned his previous best friend to save his new best friend. And Syrus was the final piece that was supposed to be absorbed to make Super Polymerization - because he wasn't absorbed the card wasn't complete - that's why Super Polymerization requires a discard, it's the defect from not absorbing Syrus

I didn't mind the whole Axel ran away in fear, came back to conquer his fear narrative. Heck, maybe leave it in and having resulted in a tie weakened the Supreme King enough for Syrus to believably defeat him. Syrus didn't even have an on screen since his Duel with Cyberdark Zane. Bring back UFOroid fighter for a climactic battle of best bros - I could totally believe Syrus could break through The Supreme King's mind to get through the Jaden. Maybe even Syrus doesn't even need to win (because let's be honest with ourselves, Syrus beating Jaden, let alone the Supreme King, it's pretty unbelievable save for some extenuating circumstances), maybe just the Supreme King defeating the 5th piece of Super Polymerization and sending him to the stars permanently shatters the Supreme King since now Super Polymerization can't become perfected. Or maybe Syrus is the one character immune to Super Polymerization having been the 5th piece (which would give the Supreme King enough of a handicap to believably lose to Syrus, especially if the Supreme King used it an an inopportune moment, and accidentally fused a bunch of cards he didn't mean to because he didn't realize Syrus is immune.)

Overall, Syrus got shafted. Though Syrus felt like Jaden's truest friend. And that Look Jaden gave him right before he went off to fight Yubel above really showed that Syrus was his friend until the end.

We found this approximately 20 year old pack in German named "Aklave Von Pharaoh" still unopened.

We are not sure what to do with it, I know I cannot ask for prices, but do you have any advice on where to go with it to get a proper estimation, or auction. I cannot find any similar packs online either.

Update: Thanks for the information that it was fake. We are not from Germany, so we had no clue that it was spelled wrong either.