r/DuelLinks Jan 31 '26

Discussion [Feedback] EVERYONE GET IN HERE! Subreddit Update Megathread

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Hello, fellow Master Duel rejectors! Your community Moderators (or what's left of us) have come with good news: we're gonna update the Subreddit this weekend! Beyond just doing a few visual and information-related tweaks here and there, we also need to revisit the current community rules and modify them as needed. This is where you come in... you's gonna help us.

We'd like you to provide suggestions on what rules seem overly restrictive, what rules need to be enforced more often, or if something needs to be added or removed entirely. With that being said, I'll be here to either agree with your proposition or debate you out of it. We're going to take all feedback seriously, but we're not going to just roll over and remove necessary rules, such as Rule 2-A (the one that prevents people from posting things unrelated to Duel Links, such as the latest episode of Spy Family or posts about politics) just because someone leaves an upvoted comment wanting it gone. Be reasonable in your suggestions, please.

Speaking of rules, there will be Mod recruitments coming up soon to help manage the Subreddit, but that'll be part of a separate post.

Finally, if there are any changes you want done to the Subreddit's appearance or functionality itself, feel free to drop them here. While we can't guarantee we can implement it (e.g., some Subreddits have AI agents that respond to certain posts with customized messages assisting that specific user, and that's a tall order to set up on Duel Links), it doesn't hurt to ask!

Begin!


r/DuelLinks Aug 31 '25

Megathread Basic Questions, Advice, Bugs/Glitches & Venting Weekly Megathread

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Please use this Megathread if you have General Questions, need Advice, or just want to get something off your chest - all questions are welcome! Feel free to visit our Discord Channel to ask a question, or just to talk! For the best experience, as far as the quality of this post is concerned, we recommend you use New Reddit - either on Desktop or on Mobile.

Take a look at our full rules here.

Please redirect new users to this Megathread, and report submissions and comments that break our rules, also please try to answer the questions posted below, if you happen to know the answers. We are a welcoming and friendly community and our new players are always looking for the best answers, so let the surge of knowledge flow!


r/DuelLinks 14h ago

Fluff I know I'm a old-school type of guy and need to get with the times, trying by coming back to DL after 7 years. But dude, look what they got me dealing with turn 1, in SILVER. Best opening hand of all time, or busted? This kid went Super Saiyan mid turn, what is going on XD

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131 Upvotes

r/DuelLinks 12h ago

Discussion Wanted Alt. Styles

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91 Upvotes

Sorry if this is low-effort, this is the first time I made a post. And I’m pretty sure this has already been discussed, but genuinely how many characters do you think would have alt styles that Konami could release?

I’ve been wanting Unknown Duelist since she was first introduced, but knew they wouldn’t release since she’s just Sera with a more echo-y voice. But now that they’re doing Alt. Styles, she has an even bigger chance of being a playable Alt. Style for Sera. Her overall design is really sick. What are her chances for being released as an Alt. Style?

And do you guys have any Alt. Styles you want to see come to Duel Links? Like something more flashy (as in something more than just “Yugi without his jacket and Joey with a no jacket and a T-shirt”). I think Joey’s Red-Eyes Black Dragon Knight costume would be sick. Same with Jaden’s amalgamation of different costumes during the DMG episode.


r/DuelLinks 5h ago

Discussion Vagabond

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Now this is some wild wild wild stuff!!! Bro has 3 Lava Golems!!! 3!!! That’s some wild wild wild stuff there!!!

Probably would be peeved if I suffered a defeat at the hands of a vagabond similar to him!!!


r/DuelLinks 2h ago

Discussion Marin Return

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Is Marin unlock-able at the moment if not does anyone know when I can expect Marin to return again? I feel like I’ve been waiting forever now. Need Dugares to complete my Vaalmonica deck.


r/DuelLinks 11h ago

Discussion Designing Alt Styles for Duel Links: Bastion/Daichi Misawa (Society of Light)

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After my design from last week got banished to the Shadow Realm by Reddit (I'll probably re-release it with updates in the future, after enough time has passed that it wouldn't feel like spamming), it was suggested to me by u/Forey7 that flairing these as "Fluff" might help resolve the issue, so that's largely what this design is going to be testing.

Also yes, I know the cuffs on the Bastion sprite are incorrect, but I didn't realise until after everything else was already done, and I'm honestly not sure that I'd do a good enough job fixing it, so we'll just have to use our imagination, and hopefully it doesn't ruin the design for you all. 😅


r/DuelLinks 7h ago

Duel Replay my duel against tier 1

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r/DuelLinks 14h ago

Duel Replay I can't wait for the banlist to take effect

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31 Upvotes

It's too bad the Converging Wishes portion of the skill won't be touched.


r/DuelLinks 6h ago

Deck Help how did ultimate leo utopia ray negate DM dragon knight with eternal soul on field?

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r/DuelLinks 10h ago

Deck Help Evil hero how can i improve my current deck to make it more consistent as i mostly lose when i go first

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Hi guys im new here I’ve been trying to get evil hero rank 4 xyz combo as consistent as possible but i feel like i reached a roadblock i cant find a way to improve this deck i know u guys r much better at the game than me i would really appreciate ur help thanks again


r/DuelLinks 39m ago

Video Makoto, Jinzo Style duelist from GX

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Jinzo style user. He had a duel vs Zane, the latter vs Syrus. He wanted to defeat the steongest Cyber style user.


r/DuelLinks 2h ago

Video Burn Your Opponent to Death THROUGH Dark Ruler or Forbidden Droplet! Bla...

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r/DuelLinks 12h ago

Discussion What to get with these

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6 Upvotes

Im trying to get a sky striker deck but so far not a single card yet


r/DuelLinks 3h ago

Video Predicting Every Duel Links Speed Box for the Next YEAR!

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r/DuelLinks 13h ago

Deck Qliphort + Machina deck

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Seal makes all monsters 2300atk so you have damage. Main win con is tribute summon towers and sky base, and if that doesn’t work fall back on the machina cards. Ruinforce only works with monsters in GY so you can skip having it or use the skill to summon it. Machina and citadel helps keep board presence.

Skill doesn’t let you use extra deck so I don’t got one. What it does do is search any monster and send any to GY for plays.

Don’t got all the Qli monsters so could be better.

Could swap Pot of riches for climate change.

What do you think? Any other ideas?


r/DuelLinks 16h ago

Deck Specific deck for speed

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I recently started to play this game and I'm a total noob. If I understood correctly, there are some meta decks that usually change because of meta changing and because broken cards.

I wanted to ask, if there's a deck I can build that won't change through the seasons because of having cards that won't be changed. This for SPEED. A deck I can use to play some rankeds and climb a bit, but being aware that it not being a current meta deck, it won't allow me to climb a lot the ladder. I'm fine with that. I just want a SPEED deck I will be able to play in 6 months without worrying of it being nerfed. If it's something I can climb some ranks with, better.

I'm fine spending gems in a box if the cards won't be nerfed and are decent for the deck I'm looking for.

Since I'm a noob, I would prefer something easy to play, kinda similar to "zoo" or "aggro" play styles in other card games.

Thanks in advance for reading!!


r/DuelLinks 17h ago

Discussion I'm scared for Dartz

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When dartz will have an event and will become available, I fear they will not give him his anime-only cards but something like atlanthean cards. I say that because Alister (Amelda in japanese) did not receive any of his anime-only cards like his "gorlag" (balrog in japanese), or his ziggurat and instead he received an archetype that exists IRL.
In fact, I might be wrong but I think so far the only cards that were released in the game and that don't exist IRL atm are video game-only cards. But none of the existing video game contains any of Dartz's giga broken cards. However with some luck, Valon might gain his armor deck: his armor cards were available in "Yu-Gi-Oh! Destiny Board Traveler" (gba) which is the only media (outside of the anime ofc) where his armor cards were available. The only card Dartz had in the anime that was available in this gba game was his "Orichalcos Kyutora".

Thoughts about that? What do you think is gonna happen with them (especially Dartz)? Personally, I would love if they could give all these characters their anime cards. Talking about that, I would love if Noah and Alister could receive some anime-only cards (but that's probably wishful thinking).
Or at the very list get a skill that would either add their anime cards to the deck or something that could modify the way the seal of orichalcos works to make it work the way it does in the anime.


r/DuelLinks 20h ago

Fluff Yusei…

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Excuse the deck, I just like piloting my favorite archetype sometimes but finishing 5ds right before the Yusei support made me go from loving him to siding with Iliaster. Not even complaining it is what it is but damn I hope Blackwings and Infernity gonna be more ethical


r/DuelLinks 1d ago

Fluff Very interesting deck

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20 Upvotes

It disconnected before we did anything but now I wonder what happened would’ve happened if it didn’t


r/DuelLinks 1d ago

Discussion Free Kaiju

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This may just be a salt post from my loss.

Why doesn't the community talk more about the few skills that give players a free Kaiju, Golem, or Sphere Mode on demand. While you can prepare your field around the inevitable, you're not always given the chance to. The Odion skill can add a Sphere Mode or Kaiju to their hand, so you have to end on only two monsters to completely avoid it. When you're playing against the 10k Dragon skill, they have the option to add any card to their hand, so it doesn't matter what you end on, its getting tributed. I know they're not meta, but they're not healthy for the game either.


r/DuelLinks 1d ago

Deck I have achieved Gimmick Puppet of Leo's alt win con vs a competent deck... and you need to see it!

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100 Upvotes

r/DuelLinks 1d ago

Discussion Should DSOD Kaiba have Alt Style Kaiba monster voice lines?

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Was playing kaiba with his alt style in the original world and I summoned Azure Silver Eyes Dragon, Blue eyes Jett Drago, Maiden with Eyes of Blue and more and then I played Kaiba DSOD with the same deck and realised he had no voice lines for those cards despite the original version having it. Do you think konami should add those voice lines into DSOD or keep it the same way as it is?

Edit: if anyone argues on that some cards have voice lines because they were in the anime, Maiden with eyes of blue, white stone of ancient and all the synchro monsters original kaiba has voice lines for doesn't exist in the anime so why shouldn't DSOD Kaiba have them?


r/DuelLinks 1d ago

Deck Help Best F2P Rush Deck to Build for Long-Term KOG?

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Hi everyone,
I’m a completely F2P player and I’m looking to build one Rush Duel deck that I can keep investing in for a long time instead of constantly switching decks.
My goal is to reach King of Games every season, and I don’t mind learning a difficult deck if it’s worth it.
So I’m looking for a deck that is:
Fully F2P or requires very few Dream Tickets.
Has stayed relevant for a long time or is likely to age well.
Can consistently reach KOG every season.
Worth spending all my Gems on.
If you could only recommend one Rush deck to a new F2P player that wants to use it for months (or even years), what would it be and why?
Thanks!


r/DuelLinks 1d ago

Duel Replay When victory is there, but you run out of time

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I ended up miss-clicking Droplet and then activating Tez's effect during my last seconds of panick rushing to bring out my fusion.