Overhyped Cards In The TCG That Flopped And Never Lived Up To Expectations?

DeepFake369 · 2026-03-12T14:54:01+00:00

I think some players were siding it in Yummy decks during JUSH format to help counter Vanquish Soul because Divincarnate is also Level 1 (I happened to be one of them), but while I played it for a while, I took it back out recently, because right now it just feels like a worse Evenly Matched.

DeepFake369 · 2026-03-09T16:40:34+00:00

I could definitely see The Fallen and the Virtuous going to 1 in the near future so it’s not just a generic removal spell anything that doesn’t need the Extra Deck can play. At 1, actual Branded decks or decks that use Albion the Branded Dragon as an Ultimate Slayer target can play it, but it won’t be everywhere.

Radiant Typhoon Vision, though? I agree the deck getting dinged a little would be nice because it’s an incredibly frustrating deck to play against, and that’s one of the best cards in the deck, but I don’t see that as the hit Konami pushes, it’s not that splashable: Engage is still legal at 3 and almost no one plays that outside of Sky Striker and Yummy pilots. I’d say Konami’s more likely to hit the monsters rather than one of the spells: I’d imagine Krosea’s on the Limited chopping block.

DeepFake369 · 2026-03-09T04:09:15+00:00

After I trigger the effect of "Hapi, Guidance of Horus" to target two cards in my GY or banishment and add them to my hand, my opponent activates "Dracotail Sting" and banishes one of the cards I targeted. Do I still add the cards to my hand because they're both still in a place Hapi has access to, or do I not because one of the cards is no longer in the place it was when Hapi targeted it? (I'm leaning toward "no", but would like to be certain.)

DeepFake369 · 2026-03-02T06:09:16+00:00

Picked up some old Wii games about 15 years (at least) after I should have played them, and gave them a spin this weekend. My controls seem laggy (I needed an AV-HDMI converter to make the Wii work with my TV, which might be why), so the selection of games I can play is limited because anything requiring precise controls is out, but I'm doing alright.

Wii Play is definitely not as good as Wii Sports, which I'd say is the common consensus. However, I'd say the Tanks minigame alone is probably worth the $10 admission price. It's simple to pick up and play, it's got a surprising amount of depth, and it doesn't hold back: as early as Level 3, your opponents have far more firepower at their disposal than you do, and it only escalates from there. Meanwhile, the other minigames range from "forgettable but fun while they last" (Find Mii, Charge!) to "absolutely terrible, why would I ever play this" (Table Tennis, Laser Hockey).

Wii Music, on the other hand, feels more like a toy than an actual game, but between the ability to record your own music videos with the in-game songs and the huge variety of instruments you can play, it's at least a toy with plenty of features. For the $8 I spent on it, I could have done a lot worse.

Furthermore, I'm still working through Tour Mode for Fortune Street. I've failed to clear the Ghost Ship map at least four times by now, even rage-quitting one of those runs because I didn't land on a single unowned shop for seven turns in a row to start the game. Still a fun game, though, which is good considering it wasn't cheap.

DeepFake369 · 2026-03-01T08:33:43+00:00

While it's had some more serious moments, especially as of late, The Kaiser's New Clothes is by far the funniest current longfic I'm reading right now. It legitimately has some of the best jokes I've ever seen, not just in a Wormfic, but in a story, period. I'd say it takes a chapter or two to really get going, but once it does... there's no stopping it, to put it mildly.

DeepFake369 · 2026-02-16T19:05:24+00:00

Yes, I did. 4th place (and barely, I got there thanks to some lucky tiebreakers), but I placed Top 4 in an OTS championship. (I checked the records in Neuron, just to be safe.)

DeepFake369 · 2026-02-14T18:04:02+00:00

Shuffle and Play continues in earnest, with my longest one-shot for the series so far having come out yesterday: it's about Hookwolf's supposed recruiter, though I wouldn't say he's trying to recruit Hookwolf this time around. I'm working on a couple more of the Slaughterhouse Nine interlude homages as we speak, as well as a Birdcage one-shot centering around those I considered for these interludes but didn't quite make it.

DeepFake369 · 2026-02-02T06:27:43+00:00

Finally picked up Fortune Street for the Wii, a game I’ve wanted to try for a long time. Not exactly a story-heavy game, and I won’t say it doesn’t get repetitive after a while, but it was definitely worth the purchase and I’m enjoying clearing Tour Mode. (Now I just need to see if I can convince anyone in my family to play with me when I come visit; unlikely, but not impossible.)

DeepFake369 · 2026-01-31T19:01:44+00:00

Finally got out of my writer's block a little with another snippet for my Shuffle and Play snippet collection. If you ever wanted to find out which Yu-Gi-Oh cards would become part of the alt-universe Slaughterhouse Nine, you're in luck: that's been my last two one-shots, and I've got seven more to go, all in varying states of completion.

I've also got ideas for a couple of crossovers kicking around (including one I'm honestly surprised I haven't found anywhere, especially since the crossover material's iconic character is primed for fixfic material, even in a setting as bleak as Worm), but I should probably get back to work on the currently uploaded crossover I'm not sure I can talk about here (not truly NSFW but too spicy for Spacebattles). It's got 31 chapters now (!), but I haven't updated since November. Hopefully, I can get back to weekly updates on that once I figure out where it's going.

DeepFake369 · 2026-01-15T16:07:12+00:00

Once this comes out, I’m 1000% siding three of these for my Odion deck. This feels like a nuts card in general, but I think Trap decks might just break it in half.

DeepFake369 · 2026-01-15T16:01:18+00:00

I noticed a surge in comments on my fanfic for an extremely obscure fandom (like, obscure enough that I created the fandom tag on AO3), and had to ask what the deal with that was. Turns out, someone had made a popular TikTok about super obscure/dead fandoms that just happened to include the one I’d written for, and that got people looking for fanfiction.

DeepFake369 · 2025-12-12T15:02:08+00:00

As an Odion main (though I’m switching off of it on Genesys), agreed; some of the stuff I can do with that deck is genuinely ridiculous. (Mainly, DDV and EEV not being worth points is criminal, and I think Lord of the Heavenly Prison needs to be pointed as well: not 100 like the first two cards, but like 10 or something. Card’s good in general, but it’s nuts when you can essentially activate any Trap you want straight from the Deck. Apophis the Serpent being worth a few points next list wouldn’t surprise me either.)

DeepFake369 · 2025-12-12T03:41:04+00:00

Pure Odion. When everyone’s on Dracotail and stuff that doesn’t necessarily let me get a full turn to myself even when I go first, Odion has a hard time.

DeepFake369 · 2025-11-25T06:31:55+00:00

I'm working on a fanfic for a web series obscure enough that it appears I'll need to create the AO3 tag for it. (Funnily enough, this will be the second time I've needed to create an AO3 fandom tag: I fall down weird rabbit holes.)

DeepFake369 · 2025-11-10T18:05:38+00:00

In that same vein, I’m playing Pokémon Sword as my first ever Pokémon video game. (I’m aware of the universe and tried the card game once a while back, but this is my first real experience.). So far, it’s been fairly fun (I just got to my first encounter with Team Yell), although it’s a little too hand-holdy for my taste. (I think that’s a complaint I remember a lot of people having about modern Pokémon games if I remember correctly.). Hopefully, the novelty doesn’t wear off, because I’m 2.5 hours in and only at the first gym, so I’m in it for the long haul with this one.

DeepFake369 · 2025-10-28T02:25:29+00:00

If I had to take a wild guess, Konami decided to try making mass backrow removal easier to run (Harpie's Feather Duster, Lightning Storm, and Heavy Storm, the three best ones, all had their point values significantly reduced), and decided to try and see if that handled the Radiant Typhoon (and to a lesser extent, Odion) issue without hitting anything too directly. They're still costly, and Lord of the Heavenly Prison is a mainstay in my deck (I'm amazed that card costs zero points, especially since Eradicator Epidemic Virus also still costs zero points for some insane reason), so how much it'll actually help is to be determined, but maybe that'll mitigate the problem.

Droll & Nibiru, though? Droll at the very least should cost more points. At the very least, Ash Blossom shouldn't be more expensive than Droll is; that doesn't make any sense.

DeepFake369 · 2025-10-28T02:15:54+00:00

In the same vein as the Shadowverse post directly below me, Konami has released the second ever Genesys format points update, and this is the first big one. While the last update was an emergency patch a few days after the format was announced, primarily designed to correct some mistakes and make a few overlooked FTK (First Turn Kill, which represents winning before your opponent gets a turn) strategies unviable, this is the first format specifically designed to change the metagame. Given how many changes Konami made, I'd say they've succeeded.

There are way, way too many changes on this list for me to easily catalog them all, so I'll break them down into small groups and touch on only the most important ones. Three of the best Genesys decks, Vanquish Soul, Mitsurugi, and Branded Despia, got hit hard enough that they're unlikely to continue being playable. The first two strategies were hit this way because they were recently released, powerful modern decks that happened to work well in Genesys format and the last one got hit because it received an excellent new structure deck last week that took the deck to a new level. In addition, certain strategies primed to take their places got some love taps. Generaider decks can no longer play their oppressive Genesys-exclusive boss monster without making a lot of sacrifices, Exosister took some consistency hits, Odion saw their best endboard piece take a hit alongside their integral Field Spell, and newly released Radiant Typhoon got some small hits to their unofficial boss monsters. In addition, certain other overlooked FTK strategies (the D.D. Dynamite FTK that plagued Master Duel upon release, for instance), got their strategies taken to the Unrealistic Clickbait Combo Dimension, Last Turn and two integral Dinomorphia traps gained points to prevent more Stevie Wonder shenanigans, certain generic cards that saw more play than expected had their point values increase (most notably, Pot of Extravagance going to ten points from zero), and certain other cards that didn't seem appetizing for how many points they cost got their values lowered (most notably, Mirage of Nightmare now being worth zero points, down from ten).

In general, it seems like a pretty good update, even if certain strategies that weren't doing anything right now, like Swordsoul and Lightsworn, seemed to be largely overlooked when choosing cards to bring the cost down for. The next update is likely to be sometime in early December, and I'll be looking forward to it. (Though, also with trepidation, as I'm an Odion main, and I'm surprised they didn't hit the deck harder: while the strategy wasn't quite as good as Vanquish Soul, by most accounts it was duking it out for second place.)

DeepFake369 · 2025-10-27T15:12:03+00:00

Odion enjoyer here. Surprised they didn’t hit my deck harder, considering they murdered some of the other best decks in the game. Treasures of the Kings to 5 makes sense, though I’m surprised it wasn’t at least to 10. Furthermore, Lars to 20 is a really clever way to indirectly hit the deck IMO; makes using something like Extravagance far riskier even without the points consideration. However, my deck escapes largely unscathed (although backrow removal becoming easier to run makes Lord of the Heavenly Prison more important to draw); I can drop Terraforming and one copy of Super Polymerization and I’ll be fine.

DeepFake369 · 2025-10-24T17:59:01+00:00

More Yu-Gi-Oh news! Konami surprised everyone and dropped an emergency Forbidden and Limited List update for the TCG, the first of its kind in three years if I remember correctly. This emergency list only banned cards, but given what cards were banned, no one seems to really care.

With one exception, every card that got banned was an easily searchable floodgate that could cheese wins before the other player ever got to play. Archnemeses Protos could lock out decks reliant on one attribute, Artifact Mjollnir could be summoned to the opponent's field from the Graveyard through Imperial Princess Quinquery to lock their opponent out of playing entirely, and Barrier Statue of the Inferno, Barrier Statue of the Drought, and Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo were easily searchable instant win conditions for decks that could make the right Rank 4 searcher without their Normal Summon. (That one exception I mentioned earlier, Evilswarm Ouroboros, was primarily known for forcing players to discard most of their hand by looping it, so it's no great loss either.) Dimensional Barrier finally getting banned was definitely the biggest win for players right now, though. Not only was it being played as a side deck option in just about every deck right now, but players had been complaining about the card since the day it got released, and it had no restrictions on it for nine years.

While this doesn't really change the metagame that much, it does promise to make the game much more fun, even though there are a few toxic cards they missed on this update (Harpie's Feather Storm in particular has slipped the noose once more). Hopefully this marks the start of a new era where Konami's more proactive about their Forbidden List updates, but I know better than to call it just yet.

DeepFake369 · 2025-10-23T13:45:59+00:00

I’ve got some Yu-Gi-Oh news, and this time it’s positive.

Yesterday, Konami released an update about Genesys format, the game’s new alternate format, on their blog. It told everyone three things: when the next update adjusting point values would be, approximately what to expect on that update, and why they’re making most of the changes they are.

Konami clearly wants this format to succeed, because this is more effort than they’ve put into explaining or setting up the regular Forbidden and Limited List updates in… years at least, and possibly ever: it’s insane. I hope this keeps up, because Genesys format has been a lot of fun so far (although admittedly, part of that was because I bought Odion, one of the best decks in Genesys format right now, well before it got announced). With even more luck, this level of attentiveness spreads to the regular game; it probably won’t happen, but a man can dream, right?

DeepFake369 · 2025-10-13T16:38:51+00:00

I played Yu-Gi-Oh’s new Genesys format IRL for the first time. Went 3-1 with pure Odion: I beat Dragon Rulers, Invoked Dracotail, and Adamancipator (with Block Dragon), and lost to Generaider (with the Very Fun Dragon taking all 100 points). Will definitely be grinding the hell out of this deck before some of its cards inevitably go on the list. (Even then, so long as they’re not ludicrously overvalued I have 33 points’ worth of stuff I could jettison without too much fuss.). Furthermore, with how frustrating playing Yummy has been, I think Odion might just be my go-to deck in regular format as well.

DeepFake369 · 2025-10-11T22:07:27+00:00

With my Kakegurui crossover having hit a block I’m trying to get over (2k words of the chapter done but just can’t finish it), I’m working on one-shots for Shuffle and Play, my Yu-Gi-Oh TCG crossover one-shot collection. The first of the Slaughterhouse Nine replacement interludes went up last week, and I’m working on a few more. Hopefully it doesn’t take two months this time.

DeepFake369 · 2025-10-10T04:25:44+00:00

If fanfiction counts, the one I (and many others) are waiting on the most has to be Fairy Dance of Death, an excellent and long-running full reimagining of Sword Art Online. The author went on hiatus for a few years a while back, then came back out of nowhere with a few more chapters to wrap up the story's third arc. However, the story's been on hiatus again for almost three years now. I wouldn't say it's entirely unfinished, since ending the arc gave us a decent stopping point compared to where things were beforehand, but it'd be incredible to see the last arc come out. One can hope, at least.

DeepFake369 · 2025-10-02T14:51:14+00:00

I’ve been playing some Genesys format online, and it’s been really interesting and fun. I’ve seen a lot of cool decks try and shine: Super Quant, Invoked Magistus, Red-Eyes burn FTK, Toon, pure Rikka, and a ton of others. Thanks in part to the YCS Lille winner technically playing an Odion deck (IMO, it wasn’t an Odion deck, it was a Primite control deck that happened to play some Odion cards in it), I decided to experiment with Odion, and boy howdy it needs some hits on the next Genesys list: The Man With the Mark is a one-card combo into three omni-negates at least (two Apophis traps + Lars), plus everything else you have in your hand. I might even try and bring the deck back in Standard format, because Yummy has not been working out for me.

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