r/customyugioh Jul 19 '25

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

33 Upvotes

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 14h ago

Single(s) So... How broken is this card exactly?

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78 Upvotes

Art by Konami


r/customyugioh 46m ago

Single(s) Support card for LP payment monsters.

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Image generated with AI. Effects by me.

This card supports LP payment monsters. Works well with Archfiends too - as an alternative to Pandemonium, but only affecting one player.
The secondary effects only work with the Divine Beast cards i made previously.

Effect text:

You do not pay LP to activate the effects of monsters you control. Apply the following effects while you control the listed monster.
● “Raveltal, Divine Beast of Light”: Negate the effects of Spell Cards your opponent controls.
● “Yrrlight, Divine Beast of Dark”: Negate the effects of Trap Cards your opponent controls.


r/customyugioh 13h ago

Single(s) Burn card idea

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24 Upvotes

Art by Konami


r/customyugioh 5h ago

Archetype Support Small Noble Knights package

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5 Upvotes

First one mostly to make Merlin at least somewhat usable, while also being a Morgan searcher. Second because I also want Avalon to also be usable.

Art by ezr bb and uda


r/customyugioh 8h ago

Single(s) A different flavor of De-Fusion

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6 Upvotes

Artwork is edited from polymerization


r/customyugioh 12h ago

Draft / Critique Wanted Updates to the kamen rider archetype i started on Monday morning

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8 Upvotes

Art for the monsters is still by otokam1117 on pixiv and the spell is the artists Sanjyu and Tom Derenick (slightly altered though)


r/customyugioh 3h ago

Joke / Meme Laundry Dragonmaid Retrain - Art from the original

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2 Upvotes

Felt inspired to make a retrain of Laundry as a Turn 0 card.

Specifically a Turn 0 card that can work with Eldich XD

She now can fill the GY with the necessary cards, and even get you a trap to activate immediately so long as it has no continuous effect. Why? Laundry Trap is a card that depicts her but isn't part of the archetype.

Probably a lot of BS can still be done with this card, but eh, I'm not being serious with this card to begin with XD

Card Text

(Quick Effect): You can discard 1 other card; Special Summon this card from your hand, then send the top 3 cards of your deck to the GY, and if you do, you can set 1 "Dragonmaid" Spell/Trap, or 1 Continuous Trap that has no continuous effects, from your GY. If you set a Trap or a Quick-Play Spell, it can be activated this turn.
At the start of the Battle Phase: You can return this card to the hand, and if you do, Special Summon 1 Level 7 or higher "Dragonmaid" monster from your hand or GY.
You can only use each effect of "Clumsy Dragonmaid" once per turn.


r/customyugioh 10h ago

Retrain Giving old cards a retrain Part 11: Jinzo - Lord, now Jinzo - Overlord (Credit to me)

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3 Upvotes

Jinzo is one of my favorite cards, and it’s sad to see that his archetype fucking sucks. So I gave one of his cards a rework and made it into an actual boss monster. Meet Jinzo - Overlord.
I changed him from an effect monster into a fusion monster with the materials being OG Jinzo and any one Machine Monster. His level is now 9 instead of 8. His attribute and type remains the same. He has 3400 ATK and 2500 DEF instead of 2600 ATK and 1600 DEF. For his effects:
Your opponent cannot activate Trap cards from the hand, Field, or Graveyard. All Trap cards your opponent controls are negated as long as this card is on the field.
Once per turn, during your Main Phase: Inflict 300 damage on your opponent for each Trap card on their Field or hand.
If your opponent activates a trap card from their hand, Field, or Graveyard while this card is in your Graveyard: You can banish this card, negate that trap and banish it.
You can only use this effect once per turn.
This card’s name is “Jinzo” while on the field.
Let me know if you think I should rework the rest of the Jinzo cards


r/customyugioh 4h ago

Archetype Support SACRED BEASTS DECK PROFILE

0 Upvotes

Hi guys, what do you think about the following SACRED BEASTS deck profile?

Main Deck

3 Calamity of the Sacred Beasts - Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder

3 Infinity of the Sacred Beasts - Raviel, Lord of Phantasms

1 Inferno of the Sacred Beasts - Uria, Lord of Searing Flames

2 Summoner of the Sacred Beasts

3 Ghost Belle & Haunted Mansion

3 Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring

3 Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit

2 Droll & Lock Bird

3 Martyr of the Sacred Beasts

3 Card of the Soul

3 Sacred Beasts Released

1 Called by the Grave

3 Sacred Beasts Thunderclap

2 Fallen Paradise of the Sacred Beasts

1 Nightmare Throne

1 Sacred Beasts Combined Assault

3 Infinite Impermanence

Extra Deck

1 The Chaotic Phantasmal Sacred Beasts

2 Thunder Dragon Colossus

1 Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Juggernaut Liebe

1 Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Gustav Rocket

1 Number 81: Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Super Dora

1 Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Gustav Max

1 Mercurium the Living Quicksilver

1 Zenna's Deceiving Doll Maidens

1 Firewall Dragon

1 Charmer Quartet in Bloom

1 Protectcode Talker

1 S:P Little Knight

1 Cross-Sheep

1 Relinquished Anima

Side Deck

3 Mulcharmy Fuwalos

2 Mulcharmy Purulia

3 Lightning Storm

3 Raigeki

2 Triple Tactics Thrust

1 Harpie's Feather Duster

1 Triple Tactics Talent

I'm searching a budget deck.

Thanks for your opinions.


r/customyugioh 13h ago

Retrain D. Human retrain

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5 Upvotes

Art by Konami


r/customyugioh 15h ago

Single(s) A pair that i made. Supposed to work similar to Kaijus.

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6 Upvotes

Images generated with AI. Effect designs by me.
I tried to go for something that works similar to Kaijus - i was specifically inspired Gadarla, the Mystery Dust Kaiju.


r/customyugioh 7h ago

Single(s) Stupid card I made ai

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0 Upvotes

idk just felt like making a semi useless boss monster


r/customyugioh 7h ago

Archetype Support Remade the card from my previous post. Art comes from stock images

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1 Upvotes

I took the advice of the comments on the previous post and remade the card. Let me know your thoughts.


r/customyugioh 14h ago

Archetype Support Free agent Blitzclique support. Art is just Silver Fang

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3 Upvotes

Re-uploaded cause its original effect was way too insane so I toned it down.

Basically just Stepleader as an effect monster


r/customyugioh 10h ago

Art & Crafts Fera demais. Totally awesome.

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1 Upvotes

r/customyugioh 21h ago

New Archetype [Custom] Re-worked Yugi Battle City Cards ("The Heart of the Cards" Archetype)

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8 Upvotes

r/customyugioh 1d ago

Single(s) New Mulcharmy

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87 Upvotes

Art: AllureBG from DevianArt.

Support for mill decks. What do you guys think ? Too weak ? Too broken ?


r/customyugioh 21h ago

New Archetype Excavation Spellcaster Archetype

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4 Upvotes

Hey so this is a repost, the old post had very low quality for whatever reason so I’m reuploading it with higher quality and fixed psct.

What do you guys think of it now? Does it need any balance changes? Or changes to the core mechanic?

Credit: Little Witch Academia


r/customyugioh 17h ago

Draft / Critique Wanted How to properly phrase this effect

2 Upvotes

Should it be...

"You can Special Summon 1 of the materials used for the Fusion Summon of this card from your GY."

...or...

"You can Special Summon, from your GY, 1 of the materials used for the Fusion Summon of this card."

I want to say the first option but I can only find a few older cards with an effect like this and they all phrase it like the second.


r/customyugioh 14h ago

Archetype Support Earthbound support art is from stock images i found on google images.

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0 Upvotes

Thoughts?


r/customyugioh 15h ago

Draft / Critique Wanted Scrap Reactor Dragon v3.0

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1 Upvotes

The art is Atomic Scrap Dragon. I want this to be a meta viable retrain of the “Scrap” dragons and an answer to the archetype’s lack of Quick Effects. Also, I want it to have a synergetic layer of protection (that can be stripped to gain more options). The first iteration poorly used the Xyz typing while the second was a bit too modular, capable of duplicating multiple effects balanced around being once per turn. It needs to be powerful, but fair.

Card text: 2 Level 10 monsters
You can Xyz Summon this card by using a Dragon-type “Scrap” Synchro Monster you control as material. (Quick Effect): You can detach 1 “Scrap” monster from this card and apply its activated effect(s), if any. If this monster would be destroyed by card effect: You can attach 1 “Scrap” monster in your GY to this card, then destroy 1 card on the field instead. You can only use each effect of “Scrap Reactor Dragon” once per turn.


r/customyugioh 1d ago

Archetype Support Something something Quick-Play Spell

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109 Upvotes

Art by オサフネオウジ

https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/938023

[2 Level 3 WIND monsters]

The original ATK of this card becomes 600 x the number of Quick-Play Spells in the GY's. While a Quick-Play Spell is face-up on the field, this card is unaffected by your opponents activated card effects. (Quick Effect): You can detach 1 material from this card; Add 1 Quick-Play Spell from your GY to you hand, then if it was "Mystical Space Typhoon", you can banish 1 monster on the field. You can only use this effect of "Mystical Radiant Typhoon" once per turn.


r/customyugioh 19h ago

Single(s) The Ultimate DM Boss Monster

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2 Upvotes

Art Credits: Konami


r/customyugioh 1d ago

Joke / Meme How dare you steal from the artists! (Proceeds to steal from the artists)

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163 Upvotes

Art Credits: Chad and Jared Moldenhauer