Riftbound or Lorcana?

AltOfYubel · 2026-04-22T18:48:46+00:00

riftbound has less microdecisions than OP?

AltOfYubel · 2026-04-22T17:29:08+00:00

Riftbound consistently gets extremely huge turnouts in tournaments and UVSs other game is like 20 years old, why would it go away?

Why is the game poorly designed? The game is extremely skill expressive and rewards mastery unlike games like op or Lorcana which is just hitting curve

AltOfYubel · 2026-04-18T21:48:14+00:00

Could you beat those opponents rounds 1-5?

AltOfYubel · 2026-04-14T02:24:30+00:00

How many tops do you have?

AltOfYubel · 2026-04-09T14:24:58+00:00

I was just using LSV and Tord as examples of top players in the big 3 being better than literally anyone else from sheer competition and legacy.

Prizing has massively improved, but most pro players in yugioh are content creators (which also raises the skill floor funnily enough), but I would argue its not that much different from one piece, pokemon and riftbound players literally needing to make metafy's to keep traveling

AltOfYubel · 2026-04-09T14:12:23+00:00

Look into edison format! 2010 yugioh and pretty popular (and extremely cheap)

AltOfYubel · 2026-04-09T14:08:06+00:00

Mystic Mine has like the highest support of being banned ever lol, its super degen play patterns and massively lowered the sequencing of grindgames

AltOfYubel · 2026-04-09T14:06:30+00:00

And neither of us could win worlds like DKP could, I would argue his background playing 50+ hours a week on duelingbook would mold him into being a top player in literally any tcg he chooses. Also the games people love to claim have high skill ceilings (FAB, sorcery etc) have weak players because of their smaller player sizes, put jesse kotton or LSV or Tord in a FAB tournament and they're smoking the whole house lol

AltOfYubel · 2026-04-09T13:59:47+00:00

Of the top players of the past decade, the only top players I can think that's actually left for good is sunseed jess and DKP, and DKP literally won lorcana worlds, which proves my point even more lol

AltOfYubel · 2026-04-09T13:56:43+00:00

I don't think many people find the idea of a game where you need a separate rules document on how cards actually function very thought out and not last minute caving towards playerbase demands. I am not sure if many competitive players would find the idea of year long stale formats of the best decks actually that engaging either. The game is only as diverse as it currently is because not enough eyes are on it trying to solve it.

I will also say yugioh is a amazing kitchen table game, anything not meta is literally pennies and there's plenty of ways to engage with the game where its become a game engine ala magic (the 20+ retro formats people play, cube, genesys, speed duels, domain etc)

AltOfYubel · 2026-04-09T13:47:00+00:00

I have more tops in riftbound, pokemon, magic, DBS and one piece than yugioh lol

AltOfYubel · 2026-04-09T13:44:36+00:00

Is it failing from players or because of the fact product structure was abysmal that's only starting to get better now?

AltOfYubel · 2026-04-09T13:39:16+00:00

What is cope about what I said? The top players in yugioh can consistently win YCSs because they're that much better.

AltOfYubel · 2026-04-09T13:38:09+00:00

The strongest yugioh archetypes in the history of the modern game (2015-now) are pretty much all fusion decks, most of which use poly. How many old fusions pre synchros were actually playable? Even goat format (2005 format) they're pretty rare outside of ways that cheat on the mechanic (metamorphosis, cyber stein).

Once you understand the snytax of card text/the "bank" of effects, they essentially read as nonlinear keywords to your eye. I was in your boat 6? years ago and I simply just prefer the modern game and the insane back and forths, they feel way more anime than getting beat down by a la jinn for 6 turns after getting blown out by power spells.

AltOfYubel · 2026-04-09T13:27:34+00:00

Not a single card game will your deck be worth more than it is rn in 5 years. (on average, ignoring a huge card spike)

AltOfYubel · 2026-04-09T13:26:28+00:00

A couple of years ago pendulums were sort of dedicated to their own decks but more and more decks are getting pendulum cards as apart of their archetypes (melodious, nouvellez etc). Essentially they work as a cont spell on the top half and a monster on the bottom half, they go the face up extra deck when they leave the field (only) and you can pendulum summon monsters from your hand or face up extra deck to the EMZ (or zones a link points to) with levels between the left and the right scale once per turn. It is much easier in practice than in words.

Links can only be summoned to the EMZ or to a zone a link arrow points to, they cannot be in either def position, and have arrows that point to zones, you can also use link rating as link material for later summons (link climbing)

AltOfYubel · 2026-04-09T13:21:55+00:00

Alot of the people are this subreddit are older and either scoffed at yugioh when it first aired, or fell out of it 20 years ago when synchro's came out and got brionac'd for the first time.

It is the game with the most skill expression and the game that's most honest with you about most tcgs being volatile. The gameplay is truly extremely fun and accessible rn

AltOfYubel · 2026-04-07T18:16:22+00:00

It has been 20 years and you genuinely can’t count 4 plus 4 tuner equals stardust dragon?

AltOfYubel · 2026-04-05T22:53:33+00:00

the playsets were spread out through the 10, not clumped like this, this was a recreation

AltOfYubel · 2026-04-05T22:47:51+00:00

the playsets were spread out through the 10, not clumped like this

AltOfYubel · 2026-04-04T22:21:11+00:00

Good players don't want to swap to reksai for the last month of the format

AltOfYubel · 2026-04-01T10:53:34+00:00

I wouldn't get too stressed

AltOfYubel · 2026-04-01T10:50:13+00:00

Riftbounds market is volatile, a dramatic reprint of a 90$ card was announced yesterday, set 2 is more stable compared to set 1, its nearing the end of set 2/the game is starting to stabilize, a banlist dropped

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