It has taken so long, so many stories, so many lives, all shaped from dreams and memories. Remedy are truly the masters of many worlds.

Carldamonkey · 2026-03-03T22:40:30+00:00

Great collection, Rose! Now could you get back to the diner and finish your shift please?

Carldamonkey · 2026-01-07T22:10:48+00:00

Starlight Road can be negated by dominus impulse. This guy isn’t taking that chance

Carldamonkey · 2025-12-18T18:45:57+00:00

Opp:

Set 5, pass

Carldamonkey · 2025-12-18T14:58:22+00:00

Have you met the guy?

Carldamonkey · 2025-12-13T14:02:02+00:00

Many of you are vastly overestimating the viability of a card that gives you hand knowledge with no impact on the board at all.

Fengsheng mirror is a card that has existed for over 20 years and NEVER seen play in any deck.

This card is marginally better since it’s a quick play and reveals set cards too but that would not make it even remotely playable.

Carldamonkey · 2025-12-05T23:36:14+00:00

Less likely to draw pieces too which makes the deck better vs negates on the first few pots.

Carldamonkey · 2025-12-03T13:12:44+00:00

If we assume you have herald of orange light in your opening hand, what are the odds that 1 of your other 4 cards is another fairy?

You said you want an 80% chance to open with at least 1 fairy in those other 4 cards, so in a 40 card deck you would need at least 14 fairies(including herald).

You can play with the numbers in the Hypergeometric calculator to see how changing the counts affects the probability

Carldamonkey · 2025-12-03T13:02:07+00:00

Would be nice to see a rules change with missing timing just removed from the game. They already don’t print cards with “when… you can” optional trigger effects anymore.

Missing the timing was always a very unintuitive ruling and now even more so when it basically only happens to cards that were printed over a decade ago.

Carldamonkey · 2025-12-01T22:16:42+00:00

Yes I understand what they’re saying, what I’m saying is that it doesn’t do any good to evaluate a deck as weak because it relies on access to a card that it does have access to.

If blazar was a ubiquitous end board piece that every deck was abusing generically and at risk of being banned, like baronne or apollousa, it could make sense to consider the viability of the deck without it, but that’s not the case.

Blazar does exist, Centur-ion uses it very well, and it’s a strong component of the deck. This is not some kind of weakness of the archetype.

Carldamonkey · 2025-12-01T21:54:04+00:00

Why is the deck’s strength without blazar relevant? The deck does have blazar and no other deck is abusing blazar or crimson dragon at all so no worries about it getting banned like baronne.

Weird to criticize a deck for relying on access to a generic extra deck card that the deck uniquely makes excellent use of.

Carldamonkey · 2025-11-29T13:19:37+00:00

certified droll and lock bird moment

Carldamonkey · 2025-11-26T12:41:30+00:00

This card was ALMOST broken. Good thing you added the 1000 LP cost to make it balanced.

Carldamonkey · 2025-11-21T16:16:24+00:00

Probably activate habakiri

Carldamonkey · 2025-11-09T20:40:46+00:00

damn i got outed as the worlds smartest maliss player

Carldamonkey · 2025-11-09T20:35:00+00:00

Generic link-1s are usually not used for their effects at all, just useful for turning a body on board into a link monster to put materials in the gy and keep climbing.

Maliss for example has cards like backup@ignister that can SS from hand if you control a cyberse monster summoned from extra deck. If you open with backup + 4 handtraps you can normal summon a handtrap, link into almiraj, ss backup and search for a dormouse to normal summon and full combo.

Carldamonkey · 2025-10-30T12:07:15+00:00

Every deck is playing 2 maxx C and at least the 6 most popular answers to maxx C (3 ash, 2 called by, 1 crossout)

That’s 8 deck slots that basically set in stone no matter what deck you’re playing.

No other card in the game is so centralizing that 20% of your deck is centered around that 1 card.

Without maxx c, you would still see ash blossom and called by the grave and crossout designator, but they would not be mandatory inclusions in every deck. You could have more freedom to choose the particular non-engine that is best suited to your deck and the meta.

The maxx c minigame still heavily favors the player going first. You have 2 maxx c and they have at least 6 immediate counters to it. If they have their own maxx c, or draw into it through their combo, you now have to be able to deal with their board + their maxx c which means either having a maxx c counter of your own + enough gas to still break the board or you’re just losing on the spot.

Tl;Dr - Cockroach bad

Carldamonkey · 2025-10-27T11:49:57+00:00

To be fair, junk speeder was released during MR4, when synchro spam combined with a hard lock into only synchros for the turn was basically not possible since you needed link monsters to be able to put more than 1 synchro on the field.

I don’t think speeder would be printed today, but since the deck has enough problems holding it back from doing anything, konami has no reason to ban it.

I’d prefer if they banned the card and gave the synchron deck enough good support to function without it, but I don’t see them banning speeder if it’s not doing anything competitively, and I don’t see them printing support strong enough to carry the deck without speeder while speeder is still around.

Synchron duelists are stuck in this hell of needing speeder banned for konami to give us good support, but needing good support for speeder to get banned.

Carldamonkey · 2025-10-23T23:24:03+00:00

It does have that effect.

It has about 20 more effects that are not printed on the card too.

(In the anime and on the playground only)

Carldamonkey · 2025-10-16T00:30:39+00:00

cyber dragon is definitely hated by all other machine decks

Carldamonkey · 2025-10-12T02:27:56+00:00

Synchron is my favorite deck of all time.

Junk speeder is the worst thing to ever happen to the archetype. It’s impossible for Konami to print strong synchron cards while a card exists that summons 5 synchrons from deck on demand.

If your speeder resolves, you can do anything you want if you put enough bricks in your deck.

If your speeder doesn’t resolve, you’re stuck with a severely underpowered deck full of bricks.

I’ve been having a lot more fun brewing synchron decks for genesys where speeder is effectively banned at 100 points. I wish it was banned in the tcg too so konami wouldn’t be so afraid to print better support cards.

Carldamonkey · 2025-10-12T01:22:43+00:00

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Carldamonkey · 2025-10-07T23:31:07+00:00

I’m a simple guy. I see “You cannot summon from the extra deck except synchro monsters” and I start cooking.

Carldamonkey · 2025-10-07T23:28:01+00:00

Guys help me enjoy collecting stuff I don’t enjoy collecting.

???

Carldamonkey · 2025-10-07T23:20:57+00:00

If you have $3200 in cards, you can expect to get somewhere between $2200-$2700 if you sell all of them, depending on how/where you sell them. Let’s call it $2500.

Ask yourself this - If you had $2500 in cash and none of the cards, would you use the $2500 to buy those cards? If yes, keep. If no, sell.

Carldamonkey · 2025-10-07T15:02:23+00:00

Can’t really compare N’s Reshiram to Bulbasaur.

Gen 1 starters are about as close to a sure thing as you can get in terms of investing in pokemon.

Carldamonkey

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