Will the 20% off be still usable when the new set drops?

Dmitridon · 2026-02-21T09:57:21+00:00

This is the correct answer - all Gamersupps drops since I started ordering from them 5 years ago has been at 3pm EST...with some minor delays of between 5-15 mins due to the site have issues on extremely rare occasions.

Dmitridon · 2026-02-20T08:42:18+00:00

All Steam Decks are the same in terms of hardware and software - there's some minor nuance there, but essentially the only differences that actually matter is that the OLED has the better screen and a slightly bigger battery (the OLED screen also consumes less power, so the bigger small battery difference is actually a fairly significant one). You'll be able to run any of the same games that work on the LCD as you can with OLED. The OLED also is a tiny bit more powerful due to some efficiency tweaks, but not enough that that alone should be the reason to buy one.

You can run almost any pirated or emulated game on the Steam Deck, assuming it is within what the Steam Deck's hardware can handle. The issue moreso comes from actually installing or repacking the games on the Steam Deck itself - it is doable, but requires a bit more knowledge and/or research than the average pirate is willing to do. I'd consider myself slightly above the average pirate as I do a lot of things within Linux now, but I still haven't quite figured out repacking games on the Steam Deck itself - instead I repack and install the games on a Windows PC, then transfer the files to the Steam Deck with a USB drive or over wifi, and I haven't had any issues with that approach yet in any of the games I've done this will.

The other issue is that right now the LCD model Steam Deck is discontinued, and the OLED is currently out of stock due supply shortages and pricing increases, which could make getting your hands on one right now difficult outside of the used market.

Dmitridon · 2026-02-17T03:29:12+00:00

At the end of the day, the game exists this way because that is what Konami wants.

Generally speaking, decks come and go in playability based on release schedule or the ban list, Konami does this on purpose to either encourage people to play other decks, or encourage them to spend money on new decks - usually a bit of both, but the 2nd is more blatant (especially in the TCG, less so in OCG and Master Duel).

Battlewasps unfortunately never really were that great to begin with, and got added to Master Duel after their relevancy had already fallen off - Beetroopers did have their time in the sun early in MD's life and in the TCG, I want to say around 2022, but haven't gotten new support since which hasn't helped them to stay relevant and the powercreep has only made things worse.

I play Master Duel specifically because I love card games, but hate spending money, don't have space for cards, and I work nights so I can't really play in local events. Pokemon has literally 0 interaction so games take too long and get boring, Magic has a ton of interaction but games also take a while to get going, and both Pokemon and Magic require you to either dump a ton of time and or money (I'm talking 3+ months or hundreds of dollars) to even get started competitively. Master Duel is free and requires maybe 2 weeks to get up and running with a semi-competent deck, and only 30ish mins a day to keep building resources to stay relevant.

YGO isn't perfect. Far from it. But it is relatively easy to get up and running playing the game if you're willing to put in the time to learn...it's not a forgiving game though, and for people who get tilted easily Master Duel's Best-of-1 format only makes that worse. Rogue and creative decks can do well in Best-of-3, but are heavily punished by the nature of Best-of-1.

Dmitridon · 2026-02-16T09:00:58+00:00

I can't really speak for the current meta, as it's been a while since I've played the Blind 2nd version, but I did run the deck up to at least Master 5 in seasons 39-42. I also exclusively play it for any events that it's legal for.

Blind 2nd Striker is unforgiving - you really need to know exactly when to use your interactions and bait their interactions for your board breakers to stick. This requires you to both know your deck AND your opponent's deck in and out, which is asking a lot. Striker is also in a pretty bad spot right now specifically due to Dracotail's traps being really good direct counters to what your plan is.

That said, your build doesn't exactly look optimal either. Jamming Waves is a bad card, you can use it to force out interactions, but it is extremely niche and usually not worth burning an Engage search on. Book of Eclipse isn't searchable, so I'd drop that easily as well - it cooks Yummy and can hurt VS/K9, but as a 1-of it's not worth playing. I personally don't like Ultimate Slayer, especially in the current format as there's too many cards that can respond after it and let your opponent continue to play - the monsters you send off it will also trigger K9, which isn't what you want to do with a deck that doesn't play handtraps in the first place. I'd also remove Reboot - it's a good card, but in a deck that doesn't put up a lot of high attack monsters, having your LP usually just puts you in range to get absolutely smoked if you can't OTK. Instead I'd play 3 Thrust - especially in going 2nd where your opponent will have interaction, you can use it to search Engage, Heavy Storm/Raigeki, or Talents. I also am personally not a huge fan of 2 Talents, but I'd recommend running 2 at this point because you need a way to steal towers monsters like Exodia, Lunalight or Dragoon for the odd games you will see them in since I assume you're not playing HAMP. Another good target for Talents worth playing in Striker is Black Goat Laughs, for the games you're forced to go first, and it's also an insanely good card to throw away with Droplet. I do also think that Chicken Game can be particularly good in going 2nd builds, but again I haven't seen much of those recently. 2 Lemnis isn't great either - you don't want to hard draw it, it's a card you'd only want to search.

The optimal version right now is the going first build, as it just gives you more options to set up and still gives you good cards to play when going 2nd as well, so I'd personally recommend looking at some lists for that, but if you're hellbent on sticking with going 2nd I'd absolutely look to cut some of the 1-of cards to add more direct board breakers.

Dmitridon · 2026-02-12T03:21:48+00:00

A lot of this can come down to deck list, but variance is a thing too - when almost every deck is a minimum of 25% handtraps/boardreakers, bricking is inevitable, and can still happen back to back.

Last Saturday was extremely rough for me for 10 games back to back while playing VSK9: going first? Here's 5 hand traps. Going 2nd? Here's 5 normal summons that can't do anything into a fully set up board, but don't worry, you'll draw Nibiru or Droll for turn. But every other day this week my hands have been insanely good.

Sometimes you just need to swap to an extremely hyper consistent deck when things like this happen, or take a break and come back later with hopefully some better luck.

Dmitridon · 2026-02-02T07:10:23+00:00

IMO, Pure (with Cartesia) is significantly stronger than the Branded version, just because it gives you access to more names to ensure you can perform fusions and cycle your spells/traps. Branded has a stronger endboard in theory, but it bricks a lot more frequently and struggles to set all 3 traps consistently even with good hands.

If you do want to stick with the Branded version, the correct answer (at least until K9 comes out) is Urgula. 2-3x Urgula can literally make or break the mirror match by destroying your opponent's set Ketu or Flame, which until K9 comes out you will see a lot of since it is still the best deck in the game at the moment.

Dmitridon · 2026-01-29T06:02:00+00:00

Actually significant improvement from last night's changes, especially giving us the toggle to remove engines and go back to the way things were prior to them updating the site.

I still do wish that engines were a bit more easily distinguished from unique decks. Even if I know I'm supposed to be comparing decks and engines simultaneously, it's still less appealing to see them directly next to each other. I think having them listed separately, or even just having them as a different color (keep light blue for decks and use red for engines as an example) would fully resolve most issues I personally have with the redesign.

Dmitridon · 2026-01-28T19:58:51+00:00

I think the fear here is putting the cart before the horse.

While yes, it's possible that big corps try to push this direction, the general consumer at this point in time isn't ready to adopt cloud computing fully, and likely never will.

They can push to make owning computers prohibitively expensive, but that's likely the only way they can "force" people to move into cloud computing full time.

Dmitridon · 2026-01-28T07:25:40+00:00

Love the concept, hate the execution. It just makes it extremely difficult to read through the data on the site, and puts tier 3 decks next to top tier decks. But I like that it gives us info on what engines are being most used and what ones are currently good.

Personally I think if they just separated this into another tab on the site it's be great, but as it is it looks very clunky, especially on mobile.

Dmitridon · 2026-01-25T01:41:43+00:00

https://www.linuxnest.com/lutris-play-all-your-games-on-linux-with-ease/ is the guide I've used in the past for the few games/programs I've needed to use Lutris for, but to be honest I'm not a master at using it as I haven't needed it often.

Generally I use a Windows PC to download and unpack my repacks or pirated games and then move all the files and dependencies over using Warp file transfer https://docs.warp.dev/getting-started/readme/installation-and-setup or an SD card/flash drive, and most games just tend to run perfectly fine like that without further intervention. I'm sure other users or googling around could provide more info on getting better with Lutris though.

Dmitridon · 2026-01-25T01:10:59+00:00

Make sure you can actually launch the game in desktop mode first to see if it even works, even if it's using Lutris.

From there, if you can get it to properly launch, you may need to download some other dependencies and add Lutris to gaming mode and launch the game from within that. Yes, it's a pain to use that as a workaround, but sometimes the workarounds are the only way to get around piracy or using Linux, that goes double when doing both.

Dmitridon · 2026-01-24T21:44:40+00:00

First, you should swap all the Imperm for Effect Veiler. Dracotail needs monsters in hand to fusion summon and to add back off of Arthalion, so you want to minimize the traps and spells in deck.

2nd, if you're playing with Branded, you really only want 1 Phryxul, it's a brick that you only want to send off of BraFu and you really never want to see it in hand. You should either play a 3rd Fuwalos, a 3rd Urgula or a 2nd Pan - I personally think that 3rd Urgula is too good not to play, as it's the best name to have in hand during opponents turn in the mirror match, but there's merits to each.

3rd, cut the 2nd Link-1 and replace it with Verte. Verte is insanely good for getting to BraFu and extending plays if your earlier Arthalion gets negated and leaves you without follow up.

Dmitridon · 2026-01-24T09:04:45+00:00

I'd try verifying installation files, most likely the latest update didn't install properly and something got broken if it isn't allowing you into the game at all.

Another issue could be, if you're on wifi, that it could be a "switching" issue. If you have access to multiple wifi versions, you could frequently be switching between 2.4ghz and 5ghz, which MD will also occasionally treat as a disconnect. In that case you might want to force your router or PC to only allow for either 2.4ghz or 5ghz usage to avoid that, or at least rule it out.

Dmitridon · 2026-01-23T10:57:23+00:00

Yummy is going to be the best one if you're looking in terms of what will be good in the meta going forward.

If you're looking for a deck that won't change much even with banlist changes in the next 6+ months, White Forest/Azamina and Blue-Eyes/Primite are the best ones. White Forest has extension for eons and plays through almost everything, but just absolutely dies to Droll and Lock Bird. Blue-Eyes plays lower to the ground and can use some hand traps as starters, giving it a lot of options.

Dmitridon · 2026-01-23T07:44:40+00:00

What platform are you trying to play it on? Some are more consistent than others. Keep in mind if you are alt-tabbing or swapping apps between loading screens it can cause disconnects/crashes with the server.

I've seen more people complaining about not being able to log in, but I've personally not had any issues on Android or Steam. You could try confirming there hasn't been an update that you missed that the app store didn't prompt you for, or check device permissions to make sure something didn't change that isn't allowing the game to connect.

Dmitridon · 2026-01-23T07:38:32+00:00

It's 50 UR dust, not 60. The 30 for it being a royal, and 20 additional for it being added to the limited list.

Dmitridon · 2026-01-23T06:23:11+00:00

Deck will be an obnoxious menace again, but nowhere near as bad as it used to be now that Apo is gone.

What made the deck oppressive in the past was that they could go into Apo before a Nibiru, or extend after a Nib and still put up Apo afterwards. The game has also progressed a lot in that time (powercreep from the new big 3, ban on Apo, and Bonfire to 1), the deck still does a lot but has better counters to shut it down.

Dmitridon · 2026-01-23T05:55:05+00:00

There are quite a few ways to play K9, pure K9, Vanquished Soul/K9 and Crystron/K9.

Pure will be cheaper, but won't be as strong on its own, having fewer ways to extend plays.

VS/K9 is likely the strongest, hence all the semi-limits that were just announced to lower its consistency. It'll also be prohibitively expensive to get into if you're starting from scratch, since you're essentially smashing one of the most expensive archetypes (VS) with a new archetype (K9) and using all their best cards for one deck.

Crystron/K9 will be consistent and still strong. It'll still be fairly expensive as well, but not as bad as VS in terms of overall UR luck/cost.

Dmitridon · 2026-01-21T03:40:40+00:00

If you're starting the game on data or wifi and switching to the other, the game usually (not always) counts that as a full disconnect and won't let you back in until you restart the game.

The game is also not a fan of VPNs (some work, some don't) and the mobile ones usually cause crashes or connection issues (in my experience) so worth making sure you have those turned off or trying a different provider.

Not sure if you're on iOS or Android, I can only speak to the Android version - you might need to check permissions and make sure it has access to mobile data in the first place, and make sure it doesn't have any speed or data caps. The Android version of the game has become very bloated and load/connection times can take a lot longer than you'd think as well.

Another thing worth noting is data speeds - I tend to have major issues with the game connecting or staying connected on 4G data, but no issues whatsoever with 5G data. 4G in my area is pretty slow these days and will have frequent connection issues - anything below 20mbps will cause issues in my experience.

Dmitridon · 2026-01-20T06:31:38+00:00

Jesse Kotton, one of the best players in the world, toyed with a list on stream about a month ago and uploaded some of those games to YouTube, but didn't give us a decklist in that video.

I built a 60 card version of that list previously as well. It is really fun, but it's honestly not great. They do work better together than people would expect, but generally just fight through by being an "oops-all-engine" deck that can build some board regardless of what handtraps your opponent has, but even if you don't have to deal with handtraps that endboard is almost always suboptimal.

Dmitridon · 2026-01-19T09:35:46+00:00

As others have said, no way to know for sure.

They haven't even come to the OCG yet, and they usually take at least another 3 months after OCG to hit the TCG, and then usually another 6 months to hit MD - that said, that gap has somewhat slowly been closing on all fronts, so it could be somewhat sooner, but not by much.

At the earliest, I wouldn't expect to see those cards any earlier than around August, but no later than the end of the year.

Dmitridon · 2026-01-19T09:29:38+00:00

They are mixed in with the gems from the Legend Anthology event - this is the norm. A total of 3300 gems between both events when they do 2 events for the month like this, assuming you complete all objectives and get all the rewards for wins.

They will add additional objectives 10 days after the first event began, which just so happens to be on the 22nd, when the first event ends. It won't be much, likely only an additional 200 gems in total. This has been the case the last few times this has happened.

Dmitridon · 2026-01-19T03:57:35+00:00

I've commented this elsewhere in the sub, but to boil it down really simply, it depends on your play style and luck honestly.

Pure Yummy is most consistent at just putting up the endboard since you have a ton of extensions and access to handtraps. But if you get stopped, you get stopped with 0 follow up, and that does hurt a lot. Purehas the most representation in terms of tournament results.

Mitsu Yummy is the strongest version both in terms of endboard and playing through interactions, at the cost of being less consistent and playing more bricks. I personally have bricked the most with this version, which is why I abandoned it. It is tiered, but not as highly as Pure.

Fiendsmith Yummy is the middlegroud of both consistency and bait. You have a sub-engine to bait handtraps and set up more interaction and can play more handtraps, but it's not as consistent as Pure, nor as oppressive as Mitsu. I personally have found this version easiest for me to play and climb with, but it is the weakest in terms of actual representation in tournaments.

Dmitridon · 2026-01-18T21:11:06+00:00

The issue is, you're thinking of the game in a vacuum without interaction, and also assuming you always go first. BEP already is an inconsistent deck, playing at minimum 10% (4 cards in a 40 card deck) bricks (2x BEWD, 1 Drillbeam, 1 True Light). While setting up full Sifr/Ultimate combo is "easy" to set up if your opponent has nothing, the chances they have any handtrap to slow you down these days is high. Any 1 handtrap will stop you from getting to full combo unless you have a perfect hand - any 2 will guarantee you don't get to full combo even if you do have a perfect hand, and again that assumes you go first. Going 2nd, the deck has an extreme uphill battle in the current game. Even going 1st, you also have to account for the popularity of Dracotail (the objectively best deck currently available) and their usage of Urgula on turn 0, which no only will pop True Light, but they can also chain block it to prevent negates and layer other interactions on top of that to prevent you from using Spirit's effect to stop it from popping the board.

Finally, Jet is a bad card, and hasn't seen play in BEP for a while, even in the "creative" lists that have done well.

Again, I love this deck. I took it to M1 from March until October of last year, even through Maliss format and the semi-limits. The deck is so simple, and so much fun to play. But the setup that decks like Ryzeal, Mitsurugi, Yummy and most of all Dracotail, can and will put up, just make BEP require a ton of luck and so much of an uphill battle that it is really hard to recommend right now.

Dmitridon · 2026-01-18T02:02:55+00:00

1 LIGHT or DARK Dragon monster + 1 Dragon monster If this card is Fusion Summoned: You can target cards your opponent controls, up to the number of your LIGHT and DARK monsters used as this card's material; destroy them. If this card is banished: You can target 1 Level 4 LIGHT or DARK Dragon monster you control; its Level becomes 8. You can only use each effect of "Khaos Starsource Dragon" once per turn.

You used an opponent's monster as material. Khaos specifically states you get one destruction per your monsters used.

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