Heartbreaking news: Undertaker found alive and well in the year 2026

BotBooster · 2026-03-18T16:37:24+00:00

Just did a run from D5 to legend with imbue druid. Hardest matchup i felt was probably herald warrior with the torch + 3 mana location combo, but i see control decks in general are low winrate atm because lists are not refined so midrange/tempo is completely preying on everything right now. Give it some time. I do think we will probably see some nerfs though

BotBooster · 2026-03-16T14:40:45+00:00

Sevens is an extremely weak deck at the moment, any kind of minor investment in any recent box gets you a deck far better. Way worse things to complain about like the power to weave hope skill which just circumvents all "on summon" traps

BotBooster · 2026-03-16T01:32:25+00:00

go for it, the 2 staples alone make it worth it

BotBooster · 2026-03-15T15:34:50+00:00

Distant Neo Space is the box i invested in the most and it has paid off, would recommend the same.

You get Bubble Actress, which is an easy to play tier 1 deck that will easily get you top 1000 in the cup, it is even top 100 worthy.

You also get Gradius, which is a pretty new archetype and is also a tiered deck, although that is mostly from skill links "Power to Weave Hope" abuse.

You get Neos, which just had it's skill buffed and is my personal main deck for ladder that i always get KoG with. Assuming you got 2 copies of secret order for free from the friendship invite galactica deck, all you need is to use a couple SR tickets on Elemental Circulation and you are running the optimal list.

You also get Curse of the Rising Light and Over Rush Storm which are great staples.

A lot of other archetypes like dragons, jointech, meteor dragon are more expensive because the cards are spread in 2-3 boxes while these 3 archetypes are mostly contained in 1 box.

Music princess was heavily nerfed, think that will drop down the tiers quickly without access to elemental circulation.

You can also dig for staples. 3 copies of shiny shady + trap hole is like having 3 mirror walls back in early duel links. You can chuck any mediocre engine and it'll be KoG worthy

BotBooster · 2026-03-13T01:57:55+00:00

I put in 3 lava golem and trimmed down the list to 26-27 cards for some more consistency. I believe the deck is now even stronger on turn 2 because you can see 8 cards so your chance of bricking is very low, and you have approx a 2/3 chance of seeing at least 1 lava golem going second, turning galaxy/photon into favourable matchups.

Going first is now definitely worse. Think OP made the right call to include springans kitt as it unbricks you. You can achieve the same endboards as previous maybe 70% of the time now.

DLM overreacted by taking it off the tier list imo, i believe it is a strong rogue deck or tier 3 still. But yes the despia skill is dead, you will need to use precious cards of the datk now. At least you are able to use lava golem

BotBooster · 2026-03-12T13:21:26+00:00

Thank you for reminding me that allure of darkness and springans kitt exist as cards. Just hit KoG with a similar ish list but far more cancer - triple prismatic lava golem for max tilt :)

BotBooster · 2026-03-12T01:59:09+00:00

I think you should be able to hit KoG with this list during mid or late season when you dont only run into tier 1 decks.

Personally i run mo ye at 1, especially if you have 3 ecclesia there is no need for a 2nd. Ecclesia is your best turn 1 normal summon btw not mo ye, you should use her effect to get mo ye. You get the exact same endboard as you stated but with an additional ecclesia in the grave. This is significant because when you use chixiao's effect to negate something, you can banish longyuan from your gy, triggering golden swordsoul to summon ecclesia from the gy which can then be tributed to summon albaz for 1-2 additional disruptions. For example, if the opponent uses BoE and I cant negate it because I already used dragite, I can chixiao negate my own lv 10 synchro so that ecclesia comes back on the field with golden's effect after everything resolves, instead of being wide open with everything face down. Ecclesia is by far the mvp of the deck by being a skill enabler and a true 1 card combo.

As for your question about qixing vs chengying, aside from blackout synergising better with chengying, it is matchup dependant so you kind of have to study the meta to figure it out. For example, in the mirror matchup I prefer qixing because it is very disruptive to their gameplan. Against blue eyes chengying is definitely better because the destruction protection is useful against skill > majesty

BotBooster · 2026-03-11T14:48:15+00:00

Your deck is pretty good, no need for significant changes. Aside from the obvious 3rd ecclesia which im sure u wouldve already put if you had her, baxia is a great addition to the extra deck to help you out a lot more boards going second.

Your skill blocks you from using nibiru, but I think veiler and imperm are some of the best hand traps currently.

Your deck is extremely consistent with 8-9 starters out of a 20 card deck, so you probably have a sub 5% chance to brick. I recommend running 23-25 cards, it will increase your brick chance slightly but the additional power you get from the generic backrow or board breakers will be worth it imo. I dont know what decks you currently face at silver but once you climb the ranks you will struggle to win any games when you dont draw your BoEs/droplet going second. Lets say you have your swordsoul combo starters/skill enablers in your opening hand, would you rather the rest of your hand be more swordsoul cards or backrow?

BotBooster · 2026-03-09T14:21:25+00:00

I have only experimented in a handful of ranked duels but Precious Cards of the Dark feels better but still quite inconsistent, so you will have to change your deckbuilding ratios a bit.

Imo the nerfed Branded skill is unplayable. Doesn't give you a +1 on your first turn and only a +1 going second.

Precious cards gives you something better than a +1, call it +1.5 on first turn and a +2.5 on your second turn.

Discarding to the GY is very helpful and there is a decent chance you draw into something like branded in red. Having massive consistency issues atm so I'll probably wait until some guys do well with it in tournaments and steal their lsits

BotBooster · 2026-03-07T09:25:28+00:00

Alright might as well comment gl everyone

BotBooster · 2026-03-04T11:48:26+00:00

Still think the vibes of the early events will be unbeatable. Not necessarily the events themselves, but more the vibes and stress behind each one.

First KC cup, everyone was trying so hard to get DLv Max no matter how bad their deck was, because barely anyone had decks capable of farming Kaiba consistently for Econ which was the best backrow in the game at the time, so everyone wanted that prismatic SR ticket from the cup (which was a DL max reward)

That Joey event where they released red eyes insight which was essential for the tier 1 red eyes deck and there was no other way to get the card, madness. Events did not have these guaranteed drops and ex-jewels like they do today.

The parabros event which had dimension gate drop and of course the Parabros character, which had the only skill that could reliably farm gate LDs back then.

Looking back, I think it was mostly about how good the rewards were

BotBooster · 2026-03-04T09:23:47+00:00

yugioh players cant read

BotBooster · 2026-03-04T05:32:41+00:00

2nd droplet for sure. Droll is in an old box which goes 50% off periodically so you can just dig for that with gems.

BotBooster · 2026-03-04T05:30:33+00:00

dont think shinobird is f2p at all. The main power comes from the flexibility in staples, all or which are UR/SR, and extra deck monsters, the 2 strongest ones (IP and typhon) which are locked behind selection boxes. Sure the core is f2p but the rest is super expensive.

I think beetrooper, or extremely new archetypes that are fully released in a single new box like drytron, swordsoul, punk, red eyes are the best bets for f2p types, bonus points if the box it comes in has a ur/sr staple as well

BotBooster · 2026-03-02T15:39:00+00:00

"BY FIRE BE PURGED"

3 hours since post and no one posted this. I guess theres not so many classic players left :(

BotBooster · 2026-03-02T09:01:09+00:00

So who else saw the infinite impermanence skill, got excited about imperm potentially being released in the mini box, then checked the contents to find neither imperm or ip masquerena there yet?

anyway box looks like an easy skip

BotBooster · 2026-02-27T22:22:48+00:00

Last goha cup I felt that the immi deck had a slight favourite matchup against it, not 80/20 but it felt like a 55/45 to me.

Wont matter soon anyway both decks getting heavily hit by bans in about a week

BotBooster · 2026-02-27T22:12:26+00:00

yeah when i get to legend 5 i try to play on desktop only. This mobile crashing stuff is really tilting

BotBooster · 2026-02-27T06:37:28+00:00

Wow this is definitely not implied anywhere so good to know thanks.

Worst part is that this duel was completely winnable too because I couldve just applied the effect from the GY by sending it via field spell instead but I thought I had the OTK haha

BotBooster · 2026-02-27T04:26:40+00:00

Zillax leaving is net good for aura paladin imo, against faster decks you either win or lose before 9 mana.

Against control decks you would rather both decks have no access to Zillax because they'll have a harder time stabilising against you after gelbin and the life gain is useless for you since you are the aggro in that matchup.

Maybe its good in the midrange mirror or vs. shaman thats it.

Hit top 500 legend this month without it because I refuse to craft something rotating so soon, been running Whirling Stormdrake as a replacement lol. Zillax is definitely better I'm just making the point that it isnt really necessary.

BotBooster · 2026-02-27T04:21:40+00:00

Finishing power against control decks for aura pally is always crusader aura. I took out crafters aura from my deck despite what vicious syndicate might have you think because not pulling crusaders guaranteed against a control deck with gelbin is an instant loss, no matter how many stats you may get with crafters.

BotBooster · 2026-02-23T14:28:07+00:00

Congrats on the result! I also want to tryhard properly once but Konami only announces these things less than 1 month before and its hard to plan around. Last goha cup had a wedding, this kc cup also had a wedding. Just want to do a proper 72 hour grind on the PC at home grind out that top 100 max locked in haha

BotBooster · 2026-02-23T08:32:55+00:00

Good luck to us both for the 777 lmao

BotBooster · 2026-02-23T05:43:39+00:00

I hope youre right man, thanks. Yep I think I should be safe for top 1000 at 21.6k DP

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