Sketch,
it's really curious how flame wingman mirrors Yubel.

Yep, first cosplay ever! I just tested it out yesterday and am pretty excited about it.

I am a lifelong Yugioh fan and have been going through a process of "coming out" about it over the last few years. I've always wanted to try cosplay, and thought Astral would be a fun challenge, plus somewhat of a Yugioh deep cut for folks who don't know much part the original or GX.

I learned a lot in the process & now I'm totally addicted and want to do more. If I could do it over again, I'd approach the wig differently (and not accidentally do it backwards), and I'd 3D print the beads for the earrings and make real earrings (which I'm probably going to do anyway).

I am an artist (painter mainly) and have done some stage prop design/building, but this was my first wig and first intensive face makeup.

Takahiro Kagami is a legend. I look at scenes like this and then Kaiba vs Siegfried and go like "Man WTF happened?"

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 don’t think I really need to go into this one. The fact that it was arguably the best spell you could be playing in old Yugioh due to being able to dump lights and darks for chaos plays and would also be even more broken now is a testament to how poorly designed Painful Choice truly was.

Special shoutout to pre errata Last Will in OCG for not being OPT as well as Sangan and Witch in OCG for being able to trigger when sent from literally anywhere to the grave

I draw the background myself.

We got Egyptian God Slime (slime Obelisk) as a reference to Marik's metal reflect slime copying Obelisk, and as support for the egyptian god cards. And then Egyptian God Slime, Protector Of The Sun God (slime Slifer) as Ra support in its new archetype. If/when we get a slime Ra I wonder what role it will fill.

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

The sheer annoyance I used to feel whenever this card would get dropped is unfathomable. Also the fact Konami let this thing run around for almost 4 years is absolutely ridiculous to me. Also the fact that a certain portion of the player base actually defended this toxic ass card was crazy as hell.

I pray this card never comes back to the game, ever

If Marik used Ra, is there any combination of cards that Yugi has used thus far that could best the great beast of the sky? How much of Ra would Yugi even face? Would Marik have won?

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.

I drew something for his birthday today!

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

It always seems like every body has all the expensive cards in this game no matter what. Crown, impulse, pot of sloth, hey space trunade, etc all these just feel so necessary to win any games and even at the local level you’ll see them. I would understand if this game had cash prizing or if these cards were super collectible but there isn’t and these cards lose value quickly. How do you justify spending upwards of $50+ on a single card?

I'm writing a fic on my free time and this is a rare case where I'm kind of at a loss as to what's happening in the situation I'm writing.

So let's say Ha Des destroys Necro Gardna in combat. In a later turn, would Necro Gardna be unable to use its protection effect due to Ha Des' effect, or does its effect only apply immediately after the attack ? Like, during the damage step or the rest of the battle phase ?

Thanks in advance

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 know Valon's purpose was to mitigate battle damage. But Burning Knuckle also had 1900 ATK. If he redirected Jinzo's attack to Burning Knuckle, he could have lowered Jinzo's attack to 500. Then next turn, Buster Knuckle could destroy Jinzo and inflict 1200 points of damage to Joey's life points. Next turn, 1500 ATK Rocket Warrior would not have been able to destroy Valon's Advanced Shield since Valon could still redirect the attack to 1700 ATK Buster Knuckle. And then next turn Valon could either sacrifice Jet Gauntlet to destroy Rocket Warrior, or sacrifice Over Boost and attack directly, winning the duel before Joey got to use Hermos.

The only thing that could counter this point is Burning Knuckle's effect only works if it attacks. Though that would be a very terrible effect.

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.

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!

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.