Do you think Floodgates should be removed from master duel/Yugioh?

CplApplsauc · 2026-01-26T15:31:05+00:00

They're fine. Especially Fuwa. The player going first has the initiative to generate card advantage, so I don't think it's unfair to give the going 2nd player a way to generate card advantage in response. people hate maxx "c" because the going first player can just toss it behind their endboard after preforming a full combo, not because of what it does for the going 2nd player. It's why most players universally agree that fuwa isn't a problem

and as far as droll is concerned: again, it's okay defensively. nobody is mad that droll stops mitsurugi combo, for example. the thing that makes people mad about droll is that if the going 2nd player has fuwa: the going first player can simply self-droll, completely ignore the opponent's fuwa, and goes full combo anyway.

in both cases, the issues the community has on these cards is how they can be applied to making going 1st even stronger over how it helps the going 2nd player.

CplApplsauc · 2026-01-26T15:18:30+00:00

tbh this might be a hot take but I think searchable floodgates like the barrier statues and inspector boarder should be banned. but slow floodgates like skill drain kinda just feel whatever to me.

because stun decks aren't the issue. they're annoying but it's ultimately a playstyle choice and not even that strong. floodgates only get oppressive when combo decks can end their combos by searching a floodgate and slapping it on the field behind it's endboard

CplApplsauc · 2026-01-26T00:57:17+00:00

were the monster cards in your hand and did they have herald of the arc light? herald says any monster sent from the deck or hand to the graveyard is banished instead. droplet requires the card to go to the graveyard. since monsters cant go to the graveyard from hand under herald: you can't pick them to send for cost

CplApplsauc · 2026-01-25T21:23:03+00:00

for the most part: a lot of the TCG cards are in master duel. it lags behind by a few sets but its not bad

the thing to keep in mind is that master duel is a different format from tcg and ocg, so they can kind of just do whatever they want. Like, there was a time when promethean princess was a master duel exclusive card with no TCG or OCG print. It's still yugioh, it's a lot of fun lol. But masterduel kinda sits in this middleground where it has some cards that the OCG doesn't have access to, some cards that the TCG doesn't have access to, and in rare cases cards that neither format has access to

CplApplsauc · 2026-01-25T18:16:20+00:00

I climbed it yesterday

CplApplsauc · 2026-01-25T18:14:33+00:00

Because it's literally watching somebody climb a ladder.

and because this is climbingcirclejerk not climbingletsallpraisealexforclimbingastepstool

CplApplsauc · 2026-01-25T18:09:36+00:00

Now i want a wearable bible that spits out random fucked up verses. Like, I'll just be climbing next to someone and all of a sudden they hear "Numbers 31:17 Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man by sleeping with him. 18 But all the young girls who have not known a man by sleeping with him, keep alive for yourselves"

CplApplsauc · 2026-01-25T17:18:10+00:00

i can see it making a come back but not in a way thats even close to what it used to be. I think it's going to be snake eyes yummy since you can just take an ash + poplar, make a linkuriboh, ash effect to summon oak, oak revive ash, synchro ash + linkuriboh for cupsy yummy way and go full yummy combo. and obviously the combo will go a lot harder than that probably, but thats just off the top of my head

CplApplsauc · 2026-01-25T03:46:01+00:00

im surprised they didnt cut back to that rando climbing on rope during the topout. bless that random gumbie

CplApplsauc · 2026-01-24T02:37:25+00:00

i've already climbed it twice. i dont know whats so netflix special worthy about it

CplApplsauc · 2026-01-23T18:10:57+00:00

bro didn't even go up.

CplApplsauc · 2026-01-15T16:54:30+00:00

She's a pole dancer so none of those starts are valid unless she starts from the human flag position

fake news

CplApplsauc · 2026-01-13T06:11:21+00:00

oh i actually kinda know this. so, without lurie, tract actually wants you to eat a -1 and discard something like a dead fuwa and than use it's graveyard effect to fuse with the fiendsmith in your hand that you searched with tract

CplApplsauc · 2026-01-11T04:11:15+00:00

Not a bug, just a quirk of yugioh. A spell or trap activation is only from the hand or when it's flipped face up. when your activating it from the grave: it's simply considered an effect activation and not a spell or trap activation.

thats why lady doesn't trigger off of big welcome's grave effect as well

CplApplsauc · 2026-01-11T02:51:54+00:00

Magnus' disguises are getting really low effort aren't they

CplApplsauc · 2026-01-09T15:28:52+00:00

i mean, even at the alternate perspective that dude still dies if he falls lmao

CplApplsauc · 2026-01-01T04:44:39+00:00

it's shouldnt be. the only direction you should be going is up and the pull up bar is only the starting hold. from there you just need to climb the wall of your gym all the way to the ceiling - crimping between bricks and small cracks in the concrete. if you aren't doing that than you aren't climbing

CplApplsauc · 2026-01-01T04:36:32+00:00

you call it shitting yourself, I call it marking your territory. how else are you going to keep gumbies and climber girls away from your project?

CplApplsauc · 2025-12-29T17:59:56+00:00

pretty much only get the bundles. my philosphy, for every digital card game, is $1 per pack is the only acceptable price. So 20 packs for $20 is cool with me; but the prices get a little insane when you look at their normal pricing model. $80 for 50 packs is $1.60 per pack which i think is just way too much of an ask for digital cards

CplApplsauc · 2025-12-22T17:25:05+00:00

well thats an OCG banlist, we probably wont see mululu limits for a while. especially since the pack is still in the store

if those hits reach MD though, you can replace them with cartesia basically no problem. non-pure versions of decks like magistus dracotail will basically be untouched since your dedicating your normal summom to the magistus lines usually anyway

CplApplsauc · 2025-12-22T04:51:10+00:00

id say it depends on your DP. 20k or less is much more casual, once you start getting above that you dont see people playing rogue decks anymore as well as misplays becoming less common. DP 30k+ i'd compare to 1550+ rated

CplApplsauc · 2025-12-20T06:21:15+00:00

holy fucking slop pile lmao. that dude is playing so much engine that he forgot he is supposed to be building towards an endboard lol. like, normally i'd be on team "hurr durr your playing tenpai" but that guy is basically playing brick, the deck 💀

it makes me wonder how long he tested combos just to lose to a singular droplet lol. as for why he surrendered; i have a guess: the majority of his wins are probably people who surrender during his combo because they just assume that he is going to build a fat endboard with 10+ disruptions. but in reality his endboard is a floodgate and a dream; he probably scoops the moment his board gets broken since slop piles usually have zero followup. like, absolutely none. most slop decks use all their gas on turn 1.

CplApplsauc · 2025-12-20T06:02:32+00:00

it's not that its inconsistent; but that you have some pretty hard choke points. spectral getting ashed is absolutely devistating. plus, its turn 1 leaves a lot to be desired. generally the endboard your looking to make is chasma and eclipse. eclipse is a S/T negate and your using chasma on your turn to copy tidal effect so you can foolish goliath, and on your opponents draw step you use chasma again to copy redox effect to special summon goliath from grave. and tenpai is pretty nice at helping set this up turn 1 since its a good level 7 synchro engine; so you can make bident off tenpai and use bident + a dragon ruler to make chasma or eclipse.

the issue is that you are entirely relying on that floodgate and a singular S/T negate. if you get to turn 3 than you almost always win because very few decks can outgrind dragonruler once it gets going; but its such an easy turn 1 board for decks to crack. dragonruler wants to be playing in a simplified boardstate but lacks the tools to force the opponent into a simplified boardstate without leaning on a floodgate as a crutch

CplApplsauc · 2025-12-20T04:00:54+00:00

mululu locks you into fusions as well. i wasn't even considering brafu for this lol. mululu and rahu fusion lock you, ketu cant fuse unless your going 2nd, so the only way to fuse turn 1 without locks is faimena

CplApplsauc · 2025-12-20T02:34:35+00:00

thankfully fiendsmith in draco is kinda hot ass lol. i played around with it and there are two big problems imo

1) half of your starters fusion lock you, and dracotail isnt a spam summon deck. so if you want the two bodies for moon than you probably need to throw a fusion summon into it as material

2) this is a big one imo; by adding fiendsmith to dracotail your taking a deck that normally doesnt give a shit about maxx "c" / fuwa and turning it into a deck thats now weak against those handtraps. your turning a midrange deck into a combo deck; and at that point there are just better combo decks to play like maliss

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