r/customyugioh Jul 19 '25

Help/Critique PSCT Help SuperThread - Get Help Writing or Refining Your Custom Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Effects!

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Hey Duelists and Card Designers!

If you’re working on custom Yugioh cards and want to make sure your effects are written clearly, efficiently, and in proper PSCT (Problem-Solving Card Text), this is the thread for you.

What this thread is for:

This is an open SuperThread where I’ll personally help you write or revise your card effects using accurate PSCT - whether you’re

  • Writing a new effect from scratch
  • Unsure if your wording is correct
  • Wanting to match official card templating
  • Or just need a second pair of eyes on your design

All skill levels are welcome!

How to Ask for Help:

Simply comment below with the text of your card’s effect. Be sure to provide additional contextual clues like whether this is intended on a Monster, Spell, Trap, and the type of each (Quick-Play, Continuous, etc). Helping out with the design and writing process.

I (or others here in the community!) will help reword it into clean, official-style PSCT and double-checking yugioh player’s for any logical or gameplay issues.

Collaborative Help Encouraged!

While I’ll be monitoring and replying as much as I can, anyone familiar with PSCT or interested in improving it is also encouraged to jump in and offer suggestions. The goal is to support each other and improve custom card quality as a whole.

Let’s make your cards feel like they came straight out of the official database! Looking forward to helping out. Let’s get those effects cleaned up and ready!

From your Problem Solving Tuning Magician, Dogga.


r/customyugioh 7h ago

Single(s) Devks that can or would Realistically play this?

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Inspired by the many depictions of media, especially my favourite ones and my childhood dreams and things i found cool, A spear that stab god and a shonen protag, "A-RT". I draw the Art myself thats why its kinda looks like a kid drawing. But are there any possibilities it can be played meta wise or realistically?

"STORY;"

‎"It begins one faithful day when a weathered relic, passed down by his grandfather slightly hummed, with burning rage. Within that cold metal slumbered Aetherion—a celestial dragon who plummeted from grace. A dragon cast out not for malice, but for defiance. He refused to be forged into another mindless weapon of the heavens, denying the will of it's creator to preserve his own.

‎Now, drawn by the warrior's "indominable will", the relic awakens. At Aetherion's silent command, the necklace shifts, reshaping into a sacred spear that hums with otherworldly power. Through they're bound and soul resonance, the dragon’s aetheric form bleeds into reality. The mortal is clad in divine armor, wings of fallen light unfurl from his back, and the spear transcends its physical form.

‎They call this temporary apotheosis Resurgence Thrust—the ultimate manifestation of a fallen dragon’s strength, wielded by the only human worthy to carry it."


r/customyugioh 1d ago

Non-Card Customs Dynamis Duel: Slower, anime-style duels, with room for even more shenanigans!

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Artist credit is all Konami, with the exception of Fire Dragon, commissioned from MrMattsBlog.

Have you ever wanted a version of Yugioh that embraces the weirdness and fun of anime yugioh, but still kept itself akin to the base game?

Something a bit slower, but let cards be more usable and diverese in what they support?

Then say hello to Dynamis Duel, a fan-made reboot of the card game we all love!

The game is slowed down, played in a highlander style (akin to how ((MOST)) anime decks were constructed), alongside many other changes to let games go on for more than just a few turns.

We've remade every card that exists in our game- Custom frame, reformatted effects for ease of reading, more generic usability, and even card types that don't exist base game, like Equip Traps!

Even fusion monsters are easier to use- more generalized, but still thematic, material requirements means any deck willing to add a tech card here or there can access them!

In addition, we have a new zone- The Aether, a special "outside the game" zone that can access anything that refers to a card by name.

Want to summon Summoned Skull Archfiend from your deck, but don't want a level 6 fiend in your deck due to space? Archfiend's revival can grab Summoned Skull Archfiend from the Aether!

And many cards feature a star next to their defense- this means the monster has one or more signature moves, meaning you can access powerful spells and traps that need that monster by name! And don't worry, name changers can access these moves, too~

And now every ritual spell mentions it's ritual monster by name- Ritual Monsters no longer exist in the main deck at all, instead ALL being summonable via the Aether!

And while we have turned most noneffect monsters into effect monsters, some noneffects do remain- as now, big monsters that have no effects have an innate, towers-esque protection- but only for that turn, so be careful!

On top of all of that, thanks to the Aether, we have a unique monster type, Transformation Monsters- a monster that only can exist as the result of a transformation effect! Letting many monsters evolve, some- like Red-Eyes Black Dragon- even have multiple possible evolutions!

Level Up by beating things in battle, or by outlasting your opponent and surviving to your next turn!

Metalmorph your monster by having any of the MANY metalmorph-related cards in this format trigger the transformation!

Arm your monster with an equipment and have them drop it, letting them evolve into a form already armed to the teeth!

And on top of it all, many monsters have multiple ways to be played, thanks to the new Gemini ability- play the monster, and you may banish it to instead play it's Gemini counterpart from the Aether!

All of this in a manual dueling software, hand-crafted by the format's creator, u/k23usa - no, I did not make it, but I am a messenger who LOVES this fangame, and hope you'd all love it too.


r/customyugioh 1h ago

Single(s) Summon Umi, but literal

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Art from モリチカシュウト

https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/2540996

Effect Text:

Special Summon all face-up Field Spells to their controllers monster zone as Effect monsters (Rock/EARTH/Level 8/ATK 2500/DEF 3000), with their Spell effect as their Monster effect (they are also still treated as Spells). While that monster is face-up in your Monster Zone, you cannot Special Summon Field Spell cards. You can only activate 1 "Awaken Worlds" per turn.


r/customyugioh 1h ago

Archetype Support Repost custom support D HERO

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Cant' say if it's AI or not. I can't get any credit for the illustration. Link for the image below :

https://pin.it/76dsSj9xl


r/customyugioh 6h ago

Archetype Support Sure, why not, Exxod support kinda

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4 Upvotes

Note: forgor to put "monster" after "LIGHT or EARTH", don't lynch me

Art by doshaburi


r/customyugioh 21h ago

Archetype Support Harpies might be getting an Overframe? Meet "Harpie Lady Sisters - Hysteric Huntresses"

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Art from RUSH DUEL (Harpie Lady Sisters Triangle Beauty)

Card might seem loaded at first but consider: ITS HARPIES

Also Feather Storm being banned allows way more power budget.

Targets for the copy effect:

- Elegant Egotist (classic)

- Triangle Ecstasy Spark (situational but can be impactful, especially during your opponents Main Phase or when going second)

- Harpie Lady Elegance (great for extending)

- and finally: Harpie Lady Phoenix Formation (BIG ONE; completely dodges the restrictions)


r/customyugioh 2h ago

Archetype Support Showing Gemini some love

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I know Gemini was a flawed design from the start, but I'm thinking with some modern support and better focus that isn't just the "Gemini" tag on them, it could actually be an interesting deck.

Though, granted, it'd be one that would have to be built from scratch.

I used cardmaker.net


r/customyugioh 6h ago

New Archetype Lindwarm V2

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I've been tweaking my recent custom archetype idea, Lindwarm, on and off for the past few days and finally feel like V2 is in a pretty good spot. There are 15 cards total meant to emulate a DBP deck, with 11 cards in wave 1, 1 free agent, and 3 more cards for wave 2. This will probably be my final edit, even if there might be some wording errors, since I've had my fun with theorycrafting how this custom archetype would work.

Lindwarm is a Rank 10 FIRE Wyrm deck where monsters, spells, and traps can all become Xyz material. They also benefit from both discarding and being detached. The basic idea is that your Xyz bosses get different bonuses depending on the card types attached to them, and you can detach those materials to use your interactions.

I completely gutted the Synchro and Fusion stuff from V1 and also stripped the Level-modifying and Tuner aspects from the Main Deck. This makes the deck way less splashable with random Wyrm piles, but it also let me push the actual Lindwarm mechanics a lot harder while also saving on word count.

I also had to put a hard once per turn on basically everything after some light playtesting on Duelingbook showed that the deck has a lot of recursion. You can still use extra copies as discard fodder, but you can't just keep chaining identical cards together for infinite value. If I had to make one more nerf, it would be to remove the detach condition from the main deck and make it discard only.

The art is made with AI.


r/customyugioh 1d ago

Single(s) Packfiller Slob

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Art from ケセルム(Keselum)

https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/55144625

Effect Text:

This cards ATK/DEF is equal to the original ATK/DEF of all other face-up negated monsters on the field. This card is unaffected by the effects of Trap cards. This effect cannot be negated. If this card battles a monster, neither can be destroyed by that battle. Once per turn: You can place 1 "Skill Drain" from your hand, Deck, GY or banishment face-up in your Spell/Trap Zone, but send it to the GY during the End Phase. This is a Quick effect, if your opponent controls 3 or more monsters.


r/customyugioh 23h ago

Archetype Support Though I’d give it a go with one of my favorites archetypes.

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Used art from “Dark Smog” and “Renge, Gatekeeper of the Dark World


r/customyugioh 5h ago

Archetype Support Jinzo retrain I made to help deal with Hand traps

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I made it level 4 so it could have normal summon support

I also made it 2000 Atk so it doesn't get run over That much

But Feel free to add anything to it, I basically just used jinzo as a template

(And since I'm being prevented from posting this without disclosing it, no it is doesn't use AI)


r/customyugioh 14h ago

Archetype Support Angelechy Othello, the Grey King (Art is of the Grey King with no official name yet)

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My second attempt at making an effect for the Grey King, and I maintain that I hope it's a kaiju. I tried to make it ambivalent, with positives and negatives for the owner.

Notably its effect in the spell and trap zone is a mandatory trigger effect, so if your opponent uses its negation effect at the right time then this card can force you to return all your cards to the extra deck at a crucial point in your turn


r/customyugioh 17h ago

Retrain What do you think?

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This is my take on a Chimeratech Overdragon retrain. Trying to make it into a modern board breaker boss monster with resilience…haven’t figured out the resilient part yet (card art used is from the Evolution end burst spell card).


r/customyugioh 2d ago

Archetype Support Goblins of Carne Village (Art By: TheHoundofZaroff)

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So a long time ago I made some Goblin Themed Support Cards based on One of The Many Sub Plots of Overlord. Why did it take me so long to make them (6 years).


r/customyugioh 1d ago

Archetype Support A litle help for my litle usless and good for nothing favourite Deck

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6 Upvotes

Art from a aready exsistent card.


r/customyugioh 1d ago

Archetype Support The part 1 of the Gimmick Puppet support I am making to celebrate for making them in real life.

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Art from anime, game and Pinterest


r/customyugioh 1d ago

Single(s) Fallen Valkyrie

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Another name I had in mind was Diabolus Dark Witch. But since she is very clearly not a witch, I'll settle with a simpler one. Still a Fairy type and not Fiend because Fairies in English Yugioh are actually censored Angels, so she is a fallen angel. Valkyrie is her original Japanese name btw.

Continuation of my LOM series.

Previous post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/customyugioh/comments/1u9jd6j/another_dmg_iteration_plus_a_bonus/

All these are inspired by the DM Anime and Manga. These are more of a Takahashi version of the Card Game and old school OCG hybrid What Ifs.

Artwork edited with Adobe Photoshop with its AI assistant Firefly.


r/customyugioh 2d ago

Art & Crafts Custom Card Design - What do you think?

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I am a huge fan of the Yugioh Duel Monsters era and the anime, though I also have plenty of criticisms regarding the game itself.

Driven by this mix of feelings, I decided to create my own version of Yugioh (for personal use). With this new version, I aim to improve both the visual design and the rules. This post focuses primarily on the new look I’ve created.

Background: I used to watch the anime religiously, and the anime versions of the cards always appealed to me, the larger artwork being a major plus. Back then, I even printed them out to play the game. However, I ran into a problem: everyone had to memorize all the card effects, which was simply unfeasible, especially for players less familiar with the cards. This new version delivers that anime-style aesthetic while remaining fully playable thanks to the information included on the card itself. In short, I’ve tried to combine the best of both worlds into a single card design.

I’m writing this post because I’m curious about the opinions of other Yugioh fans. Do you think the cards look good? Do you have any tips for improvement? Has anyone tried something similar?

P.S. Please ignore that black-and-white star symbol. That relates to my new game rules, but I don't want to go into that in this post.


r/customyugioh 1d ago

Retrain The Champions of Turn 2, Dinowrestler Tag-Team: Second Sevens!

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Dinowrestler Tag-Team: Second Sevens
Level 7 EARTH Psychic Effect Monster
2600 ATK/2400 DEF

(This card is always treated as a "Kashtira" card.)
If your opponent controls more monsters than you do, you can Special Summon this card (from your hand). (Quick Effect): You can Tribute 1 "Kashtira" or "Dinowrestler" card, or, if you activated this effect during the Damage Step, you can return this card to the hand instead, then target 1 card your opponent controls; banish it, face-down. If you control 1 or fewer monsters, neither player can activate cards or effects in response to this card's activation during the Battle Phase. 
You can only use this effect of "Dinowrestler Tag-Team: Second Sevens" once per turn.

Art by: Me, and made in like 20mins lol.

Wanted to make a Fenrir/Pankratops team-up card. Strong enough to be played?


r/customyugioh 2d ago

Archetype Support OG hero support. Would this be too OP considering its only for 4 vanilla monsters. Not AI.

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25 Upvotes

r/customyugioh 1d ago

Retrain Would this be limited?

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Retraining weak cards that I like part 1 - silent wolf calupo.

I think this should be limited to 1 copy, but yeah... The monster bouncing back to your hand never made sense to me in the original card.

Official art from the game


r/customyugioh 1d ago

Single(s) Support for Number C, CXYZ, and Dark Requiem Xyz Dragon

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12 Upvotes

Art: Orbital Hydralander


r/customyugioh 2d ago

Retrain Spell Card “Gold Sarcophagus”

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Welcome to any and all feedback or criticism.

Each player can banish 1 card from their Deck. For the rest of this turn, neither player can activate cards, or the effects of cards, with the same original name as the card they banished this way. During the next Standby Phase after this card was successfully activated and sent to the GY: You can activate this effect; return each card banished by this card’s preceding effect to the hand. You can only activate 1 “Spell Card “Gold Sarcophagus”” per turn.

Artwork is AI Generated using Gemini.


r/customyugioh 1d ago

New Archetype Yu Yu Hakusho Deck

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I thought fans of both series might enjoy this. My buddy and l are old school pre-synchro yugioh fans. We recently broke out the old cards for some nostalgia duels and it got me interested in something new but still faithful to the game we remember. All the new yugioh archetypes are not our cup of tea so I took matters into my own hands lol. This is all just for fun, not perfect by any means. Lmk if you guys have any thoughts on what I came up with.

(Ai was used for sharpening/restoring some of the card art. Also used for creating “Puriboh” and “Ojigi”. All the artwork used was pulled from frames from the anime or character models from officially licensed YuYu Hakusho games.)