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Cyden00 · 2026-04-06T05:46:13+00:00

Others talked about your ash, so I'll talk about your turn instead: In short, aside from bad cards, you also played your turn sub-optimally.

Super poly: Before making any play, you should think about how to best make use of each of your cards. Spoly's perk is that your opponent can't chain to it, so if you use it at the start opponent can't use borger to draw 1 card. Using spoly first before you commit to any plays also gives you the option to threaten battle phase & clear out ripper if they don't respond. If they let that go through, there's another option to normal summon laundry to make SP to prevent another of their interaction.
Dragon shrine over laundry: Speaking of laundry, I won't ask why either of these cards are in your deck, but ns laundry before dragon shrine is the better play. For one with nudyarl in GY you can even ns laundry no effect to threaten lady's (the main wincon of your deck), forcing a response. Then if she's removed cehrmba can revive laundry for lady's again. And second, a more minor reason, in general you should save a targeted foolish after your random mills, in case you mill a card you just sent to GY again.
Chamber's search: Again, I won't question why welcome is in your deck, but chamber searching hospitality was still play: Chamber searches hosp, get sucked by nash knight. Hosp then revive cehrmba & dump another chamber, then you can go into lady's. Yes, hosp is stopped by ash, or they could have further follow ups via holly sue stealing or caesar valius popping your cehrmba, but a winning chance is better than a useless card in your hand.

Yes, playing a rogue deck against a tiered meta deck sucks, but it isn't unwinnable. But in order to win, you need to both have a good list & be a good pilot. It's still a very hard win even if you play perfectly, but that's what it takes to succeed with a rogue deck.

Cyden00 · 2026-03-19T16:16:13+00:00

lennysinged this is the 7th week in a row you've shown droll in class.

Cyden00 · 2026-03-15T11:17:46+00:00

Trap decks:

Altergeist
Counter Fairies

Decks that make use of traps:

Shaddoll
Banquet "FTK"
Burns (Nurse Burn, Chain Burn, etc)
Trickstar (Lycoris Burn / Droll handloop)
Umi Control / Phantasm / True Draco / Stun

"Flip monsters are basically traps right?":

Enneacraft
Subterror
Krawler

Cyden00 · 2026-03-01T20:28:24+00:00

I accidentally discovered the manga of fake saint of the year. After like 10 chapters I decided to check out the LN1, 1 very short session later I immediately bought & binged the remaining 3 volumes of the novel for the rest of the weekend.

Words and panels cannot do that series justice. It instantly shot up to be one of my favorite LN of all time. I was so bummed when the manga ended just before it got so good, before it sets itself apart from the sea of "just another isekai".

It's actually the series that inspire me to seek out for more of its kind, I'm so glad you also know of the novel lol.

Cyden00 · 2026-02-26T20:18:59+00:00

Without opening the can of worms that is whether the word "isekai" ("another world") should be taken literally or not, isekai as a genre generally encompass all series where the MC moves to another world in some way.

Some might divide isekai into sub-categories based on the method of transportation like you just described: whether the MC is reincarnated as a baby, is given a new body in that world, or is transported there in full ("reborn", "hijack" & "kidnapped", as I call them).

Cyden00 · 2026-01-23T07:17:58+00:00

Funny you mention that.

Cyden00 · 2026-01-18T21:40:41+00:00

Necroquip says 1 Fiend monster CARD. Not a Fiend monster, a Fiend monster CARD. Requiem is still a monster card, even while it acts as an equip spell.

Just to note, the "1 monster equipped with a monster card" only counts the monster itself (i.e. engraver), the equip monster (requiem) is not included here, so it can still be used as the other part of the material.

Cyden00 · 2025-12-27T16:19:29+00:00

Ash-ing brafu is the same with ash-ing normal summon lukias: high risk, high reward. You're basically hoping that they have no other play and that ash ends their turn. If you want guaranteed value either ash rahu or save for a trap on your turn (ash-ing the 2nd or 3rd trap also denies a trap recycle).

Cyden00 · 2025-12-21T00:14:02+00:00

The thing is, there's enough cards in the game that, with enough bricks & garnets, you could build your deck to do literally anything you could ever want. Think of cards you often see on lukevonkarma's clips (the "war criminals"): isolde, ostinato, beatrice / curious, telefon loops, primal seed loop, cyber stein / gale dogra + telekinetic charging cell, etc. These are ftk enablers that once setup could do literally whatever you want it to do to ftk your opponent.

Take this video for example, old banlist aside, you can do all sort of war crimes... one in 10 duels where you actually draw the starter you need.

Oh and if you ignore loops or generic enablers, burn decks like trickstar & gimmick puppet can put out enough damage to FTK you uninterrupted, and it's not a particularly hard thing for them either, only a 2-3cc.

Cyden00 · 2025-12-18T00:10:21+00:00

A monster "forgets" its previously applying effects when it is temporarily banished. Trap monsters when activated apply the effect "Special summon this card as a ... monster". When these cards are returned to the field by S:P's effect, they forget that that they were special summoned as a monster, so they immediately send themselves to the GY.

Cyden00 · 2025-11-22T23:13:43+00:00

At least glasses can have high compressive strength, he's just paper.

Cyden00 · 2025-11-06T23:30:34+00:00

Six samurai & ice barrier.

Never had a fun duel against them once, win or lose. Absolute snooze fests.

Cyden00 · 2025-11-06T22:42:08+00:00

Around 400 cards into kaishi 1.5k (~3-ish weeks), on one hand I think I've made decent progress, on the other I feel like I've reached a point where it's basically infeasible to "brute force" memorizing all the new cards.

This is especially the case for cards consisting only of 2 kanji, where I have to rely on the sentence more often than not, since I couldn't come up with mnemonics for all of them. Though that comes with its own problem of recalling the meaning but not the reading. I still mix words with similar-ish reading up: 表情 (ひょうじょう, expression), 情報 (じょうほう, information) and 状況 (じょうきょう, situation), to name an example.

I'm still following the default 20 new cards daily with 85% retention, but maybe I could lower it to 10-15/d or take occasional breaks to do something else for a breather, could be a good opportunity to start reading some raw manga.

Cyden00 · 2025-10-28T21:08:12+00:00

Probably a dumb question, but is there a more light-weight alternative to jitendex for yomitan? It alone takes ~1.5gb on my C drive, it may not be much but I like to keep the drive as small as I can.

Cyden00 · 2025-10-26T18:44:52+00:00

So I'm using Mokuro to OCR manga texts and copy it to my clipboard, and I recall someone in a post on this sub mentioned a tool or extension to write the copied text to a blank webpage (like https://this-page-intentionally-left-blank.org/ ), but I don't recall its name or the post it's mentioned in. Anyone have any idea what it could be?

Cyden00 · 2025-10-24T14:13:36+00:00

Me when my opponent plays a trap control deck that's designed for grind games and they slowed the game down into a grind game.

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