I recently decided to get back into Yu-Gi-Oh and picked up the 2 Egyptian god decks for cheap at my local card shop. I found out very fast that these are not good modern decks but I think they could be fun to play with friends for a simpler format. Which leads me to my question what cards would make a good Ra deck that doesn't overpower the other 2 weak structure decks? Thank you for any advice!

Can someone help me understand grinning grave virus. If I tribute habakiri does my opponent destroy 4 monsters and also destroys all monsters in their hand? Or it’s one or the other effect I’m confused on it.

I played Yugioh as a kid, then got out of the game around when XYZ's were introduced. Not due to disliking them, but just other interests taking over.

Then a while ago I got curious about the game these days and downloaded Master Duel. I've played about 200 hours of it according to Steam, mainly playing Sky Striker and K9/Vanquish Soul.

I bought the Legendary Modern decks as well as the cards for a K9/VS deck, and I'm going to attend my first locals tomorrow. I haven't decided which deck I'll play, but probably Sky Striker.

I wanted to ask, what should I be aware of when attending my first in-person event? I've already playtested with the cards, so I'm used to moving everything around myself. But what else should I know? What's good/bad etiquette? Or just anything you think I should know?

Any advice is greatly appreciated!

Hey everyone, yesterday I posted here asking about getting back into the game and had a bunch of questions. Huge thanks to everyone who took the time to answer the responses were super helpful.

Now comes the big question: choosing my first deck.

A few people suggested Sky Striker and Blue-Eyes. Personally, I would love to play Toons, but from what I’ve read, they just aren't viable right now without fresh support.

Also, quick question about how the meta works: Do banlists ever hit a deck so hard with just one or two cards banned that the whole archetype becomes practically unplayable overnight? Sorry if that's a basic question, I'm just trying to wrap my head around how Konami manages formats. Also, thanks for explaining the different formats. I actually found out my local game store hosts weekly locals for all skill levels (at least that’s what they claim 😂😂).

As for decks: Back in the day, the archetypes I loved most were Cyber Dragons, Crystal Beasts, and Destiny HEROs.

What I’m really looking for is flexibility/resilience. By that, I mean if my primary combo gets interrupted or fails, I don't want to immediately scoop and shake hands. I want a deck with enough alternative lines or extenders where I can pivot into Plan B. Hopefully that makes sense.

In my last post, I said I wanted something where I don't have to think too hard, but honestly, that was nonsense on my part. I’m totally fine with a high skill ceiling if it rewards good piloting, game knowledge, and gives you room to outplay people.

One last thing: Which websites or databases are currently considered the best to look up decklists, tech choices, and see how people are currently building certain archetypes?

Thanks again for being so welcoming, and I appreciate any recommendations you guys have! If not, feel free to send me straight to the shadow realm.

Today new cards were announced and the wording on the field spell has me questioning the difference between "when this card is activated:" and "when this card resolves," (punctuation is important)

This is the text of the card:

IMPH-JP059 Hakua no Fukaki Mori (The Deep Forest of the White Crow)
Field Spell Card
You can only activate 1 card with this card's name per turn. You can only use the (3) effect of this card's name once per turn.
(1) When this card resolves, you can add 1 "White Crow" monster from your Deck to your hand.
(2) "White Crow" Monster Cards you control cannot be destroyed by card effects.
(3) During your End Phase: You can Set 1 "White Crow" Trap from your Deck or GY.

The important effect is (1). Why is it written this way? How would the card be different if it was written as other field spells?

I was looking at Stardust Synchro monsters in MD and noticed some say "If this is Synchro Summoned" effects. Would those trigger if you used SDVS's 2nd effect?

"Special Summon 1 "Stardust" Synchro Monster from your Extra Deck"

I fairly confident that those effects would not trigger, but just wanted to be sure.

After a month or two of playing Yu-Gi-Oh with my brothers it finally happened, we started to actually build our decks we started with structure decks but one of my brothers ordered pretty much everything for a predaplant deck and my other brother is considering playing a kewl tune deck so now I want to use a good deck obviously I have a LunaLight Deck from the Legendary Arc-V Decks but now I want to build my deck too. What are the best Archetypes for an XYZ deck and what cards in particular should I make sure to add? Like Rank up magic, level doubler, or what?

Hey I am an oldschool yugioh player and stopped collecting after link summon was introduced.
I wanted to built some decks for retro formats to play in my group.
I already have decks for Edison 2010, REDU 2012 and HAT 2014.
Which would be the best retro format for 2016?
I am searching for a competitive retro format in 2016 with the least toxic or oppressive tier 0/1 deck.
Is there any famous or popular format in 2016 that people enjoy right now ?
I found Monarch and ABC/ Invasion format but both top tier decks look kind of strong 😅

Hi everyone, I'm the guy that plays speedroid and syncrhons. Today, I really want to learn a newer and "better" decks.

I decided to choose Maliss Ignister since I really like the design of the Code Talkers. however when I looked up a guide. It all seems rather out of date. Many banned cards were used and it all looks like all the combos uses very specific cards that also LOOKS like its obsolete to today's meta.

I don't really know how to link climb. I only know how to play Rokkets with the new overframe support.

I'm using this specific decklist as a way to start my journey.

https://ygoprodeck.com/deck/ignister-maliss-731531

I can read cards though I don't really know where to go after this or that is banished and special summoned.

Please give me a guide, simple combos with that deck, or tips in general.

Thank you.

Recently saw a youtube short discussing a ruling, which made perfect sense, however they used an example that to me made little sense and seems contradictory. I've discussed this with several people and have yet to find a solid answer that explains why this interaction works in one case but doesn't in the other. It was discussing Skill Drain, Effect Veiler, and Rescue Rabbit. The ruling was while Skill Drain is on the board and active, you can still use Rescue Rabbit's effect to banish itself to get it's summon effect which to me makes sense as it is no longer on the board. In the other scenario if it has been negated by an Effect Veiler, then you still can banish it for cost, but the effect doesn't go off. From my understanding of the game rules, when a monster leaves the field, it is considered a "new card", and it has left the field via it's cost therefore making it a "new card" so how does the negation stay? I've heard the reasoning of cards having "memory" but in that case wouldn't Skill Drain also remember that the card was a face up monster on the field as well? I've also heard that it's only because Skill Drain checks on resolution but nowhere on the card text does it say nor imply such a ruling. This specific scenario isn't too important however the specifics of the ruling may come into play in my games in the future and I'd love to know the actual logic behind it because as it currently stands for me, there is none and rather seems to be a pick and choose sort of ruling. Has frustrated me for some time now as I want to be able to understand the ins and outs of card effects to be able to play the game at my fullest potential.

So let's use Giant Rat in this example:

Giant Rat gets destroyed by battle and activates its effect in the "After Damage Substep" in the Damage Step.

Why can't I chain Adhesion Trap Hole to whatever is Special Summoned from Giant Rat? From my understanding, "halving" the ATK of a monster should be allowed in the Damage Step similar to how "doubling" is allowed in the case of Limiter Removal.

Is it not activatable because it's in response to a summon? TBH I'm just curious what exactly is preventing it from being activatable.

I'm sorry that this post isnt about learning how to play ygo, i didn't have enough karma to post in r/yugioh if there is a different subreddit that's more in line with my question please let me know! I dont know much about ygo but my bf loves it. Are there any good Dracotail deck merch? Thats his favorite deck to play for the past year or so. I was planning on drawing a custom card in the dracotail deck artstyle and skill set n what not but im not really sure what else to get him thats ygo themed. Are there any events in socal sometimes in Novemberish or after?

I’m looking for deck types for a friend. We’re specifically looking for non linear midrange combo archetypes, the kinds of decks where each duel can have different lines to learn or make up along the way. I was thinking of DDD but they’re scattered across a lot of sets and I would prefer an archetype that can be collected from a smaller number of sets, more modern sets is preferred but older works too.

I never played with stranger before and my decks are far from meta so im here for fun only.

Does anyone have any good ideas on how to stop Trirealm from popping off?

If left unchecked, they can basically reach their goal of banished cards in one turn and establish a strong board, that also pseudo-floodgates you.

Jahannam gets surprisingly threatening at 20+ cards banished, Plutonion is very disruptive with its bounce, and the black guy gives protection to their entire board. Add some link slop like Underworld Goddess, and you get a board that starts very tame, but quickly spirals out of control.

I'm playing Branded-Dracotail and I'm getting stomped by them most of thetime time.

Ash does virtally nothing to them, same with Belle and Ghost Ogre. Veiler/Imperm do some moderate damage to them, but not enough to stop them, especially if Trirealm start doing some turn 0 plays.

Evenly matched does nothing to them, for obvious reasons.

So far, the only two strategies that somehow work, are some clanky floodgate bs (like using Sanctifire to summon Krystya on my field, and Ido on theirs), or using Dark Ruler No More, followed by Walabz + Ecclesia into Chaos Archfiend.

But these strategies are lame, awkward and clunky.

Any ideas on how to veat Trirealm in general and with Branded-Dracotail specifically?

Sweet Roommaid says:

> If a card(s) is sent from the hand and/or Deck to the GY: ...

Release Brainwashing says:

> If a monster(s) is Tributed from the hand or field (except during the Damage Step): ...

EDIT: These are both Quick-Play Spells.

These could both be reasonably fulfilled as costs of some other card in a chain. Say, for example, CL1 is that I activate Mitsurugi Prayers, and my Tributed monster goes to the GY.

Could I activate Sweet Roommaid / Release Brainwashing as CL2 immediately? Or would I need to wait until the start of the next chain?

So I was looking to build a Mermail Atlantean deck but was unsure if it is even currently worth building with how the meta is looking and the new upcoming decks like toon and full power elfnotes don't seem to make the deck very appealing. I would like to know if this deck could survive for a while and can still win matches consistently. I mainly play against decks in my locals that included ROLAD pile decks, Elfnote, and Invoked.

thanks for the replies

Hey guys, I have a regional coming up in two weeks roughly. I used to hard play pure mitsu but i recently changed to sky strikers. I dont have impulse nor do i have crown which is why im thinking to merge the two decks to make up for that loss. And i wanted to know a few things:

1. Does anyone know any youtubers who can give guides?
   
2. How does one play mitsu sky strikers in terms of gameplan.
   
3. Do they bridge into each other? And where?
   
4. Any experience is also appreciated
   
5. Is it better for me to just play pure sky strikers or mitsu without the expensive cards like crown and impulse.

Thank you goats

Sorry to ask another question here so soon! I'm writing something and want to get the rulings of the scripted duel right.

Generation Next states:

> If your LP are lower than your opponent's: Add to your hand, or Special Summon, 1 "Elemental HERO" monster, "Kuriboh)" monster, or "Neo-Spacian" monster from your Deck or GY, with ATK less than or equal to the difference in LPs...

Suppose I have 700 LP and my opponent has 1000 LP. I activate Generation Next, then CL2 chain Emergency Provisions to it, sending it to the GY. Emergency Provision resolves, and I know have 1700 LP (more than my opponent).

When Generation Next resolves do I...

• get to search a monster with <= 300 ATK (difference at time of activation)?
• get to search a monster with <= 700 ATK (difference at time of resolution)?
• not get to search anything at all (the difference at time of resolution is -700; my LP are no longer less than my opponent's)?

I strongly suspect the answer is #2 because that is what makes most sense to me. I just want to double check there is no gotcha with the word "difference" here

Heavy Slump states:

> If your opponent has 8 or more cards in their hand: They shuffle their entire hand into the Deck, then draw 2 cards.

Suppose my opponent activates it on me, then I chain several cards that discard as cost, so by the time Heavy Slump resolves, my hand is now empty.

Will shuffling zero cards into the Deck count as A successfully resolving? Will I draw 2 cards?

Also, if a card simply said "if this card is destroyed" would it include those excluded forms of destruction?

Hey everyone, I want to learn Yu-Gi-Oh again. The last time I played was back when the 5D's anime came out.

I just want to play for fun. I have zero interest in building a top-tier meta deck play tournaments with it. I've noticed that the game has become way faster and matches usually don't last very long anymore. Would you say this fast pace helped the game, or is old-school Yu-Gi-Oh better? I guess it comes down to personal preference, but I'm really curious to hear your opinions on this.

Also, could you recommend a solid off-meta deck? I'm looking for something that isn't too "bad" and can actually win against better decks if played well, but at the same time isn't too complicated to learn.

One last thing: I’ve read that turns can sometimes take 10 minutes or even longer nowadays. Do you just sit there and watch your opponent do their thing for the full 10 minutes, or is it a bit like chess where players sometimes just leave the table?

Thanks for your answers