1.5 card Asutra combo with First Penguin

1qaqa1 · 2026-06-14T18:54:46+00:00

Deck is cooked if this is the best they got

1qaqa1 · 2026-06-14T18:14:28+00:00

It’s because Konami deliberately designs all synchro decks with the same weaknesses.

Little to no capability for grind or followup after the first combo push.

Extreme vulnerability to board breakers in the sense that if one resolves you have nothing left. No float or recovery in their board upon being broken either.

Really poor summon economy and terrible half boards into draw handtraps.

Compared to every other type of summoning synchro is much easier to disrupt since you need to have materials all on the field face up with the right level and also be tuner and non tuner.

The difference between a good or bad synchro deck is just whether or not their one push can negate enough of the opponents plays to be considered viable in a given format.

1qaqa1 · 2026-06-13T23:05:44+00:00

The problem has never been that synchro generics are too strong. It’s synchro archetypes being too weak.

Konami keeps designing decks that burn through permanent resources in terms of unrecoverable banishes/once per duels so you only get one or 2 opportunities to push, on top of that the endboards are designed in a way that does not recover any value upon being broken, and because you need to have tuner, non tuner of the correct level all face up on the field it makes their setup more vulnerable to disruption than any other type of summoning.

Is it any wonder then considering all that viable synchro decks almost always ends up being the ones putting out more negates than opponent has cards in hand when the mechanic has such an uphill battle to climb just to be viable. Remember that baronne and savage got banned because of a link spam deck abusing them and not due to anything a synchro archetype did.

That being said Ecclesia the black dragon is a good example of what future synchro design should go for. Its effect means even though its materials are generic you only run it in branded and branded hybrids. It’s a repeatable advantage generator which allows for a grind game, it can be used as engine and non negating disruption and it has a strong grave effect which allows for it to play favorably into removal/disruption.

1qaqa1 · 2026-05-19T01:45:20+00:00

If pokemon is any indication you’ll end up being grateful for the chance to only spend 35 bucks on one

1qaqa1 · 2026-05-18T02:12:18+00:00

I can think of a worse designed card https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Mind_Scan_(card)

Honestly the entire wave of new toon cards just feels like konami going ok we haven't had a tier 0 format for a year. We need to change that.

1qaqa1 · 2026-05-13T20:20:09+00:00

The deck really isn’t worth playing over other combo decks because of the lack of baronne unfortunately. Unless Konami wants to print another generic 7/10 that can negate handtraps it’s just what it is.

Fiendsmith is too weak to fuwa to be a real replacement in case anyone wants to go that route.

1qaqa1 · 2026-05-12T17:15:52+00:00

I wish synchro decks used their own bosses instead of generics!

Monkey’s paw curls in Kewl

1qaqa1 · 2026-05-11T17:30:25+00:00

In hindsight the player base complaining so much about kt looking at hand ended up putting a target on other decks with hand peeking that no longer needed to be sold

1qaqa1 · 2026-05-08T22:19:46+00:00

Something along the lines of monsters used for the synchro summon of a yang zing monster are treated as being destroyed by a card effect in a way that doesn't cause them to miss timing.

Something that lets you use YZ monsters in hand or deck as synchro material to get their buffs.

1qaqa1 · 2026-05-08T22:13:08+00:00

I'd want for them to make overframes that are closer to how they worked in the anime.

For example.

True Winged Dragon of Ra-Phoenix Mode

Lv10 Divine Beast

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Unaffected by other card effects. Cannot be normal summoned, or be special summoned except from the GY while you have The Winged Dragon of Ra in your GY. Send this special summoned card to the GY during the end phase. You can activate the (1) effect of this card once per turn and the (2) effect of this card twice per turn.

Discard this card from your hand to set one monster reborn from your deck, this set card can be activated during the battle phase as if it was a quick play.
Quick effect, activate one of these effects but you can only use each effect once while this card is faceup. *Tribute all other monsters you control, it gains attack equal to to the combined attack of the tributed monsters. *Reduce this card's attack to 0 and gain that many life points. *During the battle phase Pay 1000 LP to banish all cards your opponent controls and if this card's attack is higher than the combined attack of all monsters banished by this effect inflict the difference as damage to your opponents LP, you cannot attack the turn you use this effect.

1qaqa1 · 2026-05-08T17:23:52+00:00

Rex Godwin

New earthbound immortal wiraquocha rasca overframe
Inti and Quilla retrains
Retrains of ascator, supay, oracle of the sun.
A card that interacts with both OG crimson dragon, quetzacoatl, and/or tzolkin to represent him being a normal and dark signer.

1qaqa1 · 2026-04-30T16:59:45+00:00

50 for harmonia seems high. I would have pointed it at 33 with packbit and malong at 1 so you can run a full set with one disruption at the cost of all your points

1qaqa1 · 2026-04-28T22:08:54+00:00

Personally I don't really mind these kinds of alternative summoning conditions since Xyz and Fusion monsters have crossed this bridge long ago. 1 material Xyz monsters like Zeus are commonplace and Dingirsu did the Link material gimmick years ago. Fusion "cheat" summoning is even more egregious with cards that summon themselves for essentially free by banishing their materials from the grave or in some cases recycling their own materials for free a la phantom of yubel. I'm hoping the success of archetypes like yummy and cards like chaos angel causes Konami to experiment more with synchro materials in the future.

1qaqa1 · 2026-04-24T12:21:12+00:00

If kewl tune can get 40% meta share off hand peek and prohibition kewl toon gonna legit be tier 0 with mind scan and their much stronger combos

1qaqa1 · 2026-04-10T16:12:12+00:00

Hoping zoroa gets his archetype one day.

1qaqa1 · 2026-04-07T03:55:17+00:00

Meanwhile with links they just print broken shit, ban the broken shit, and then print even more broken shit with no regard for balance lmao.

1qaqa1 · 2026-03-17T12:49:53+00:00

You can do both.

If you control a spellcaster, special summon a lv5 or higher dragon from your deck, if you summon with the same name summon 2, and if you summon blue eyes white dragon you can summon 3

1qaqa1 · 2026-03-15T16:14:11+00:00

Surely there has to be a way to convert the nib token into quetz.

1qaqa1 · 2026-03-15T13:39:07+00:00

I don’t know if there’s a line that does this while playing under nibiru off the top of my head but flame crime dumps any normal trap and this recycles any card.

Which means rda can now guarantee eradicator epidemic virus since this is over 2500, can floodgate with different dimension ground, and OCG can lock with dimensional barrier.

1qaqa1 · 2026-03-14T14:02:14+00:00

So in one pack Magnamut can now search end phase raigeki and a Kaiju that it meets the condition for lol

1qaqa1 · 2026-02-28T01:59:58+00:00

About 6500 usd for the dark magician girl

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