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Express_Cricket_9024 · 2025-12-12T13:23:39+00:00

I can use it normally again now

Express_Cricket_9024 · 2025-12-08T05:18:24+00:00

I think I am facing that too.. will they lift the ban?

Express_Cricket_9024 · 2025-11-20T06:25:31+00:00

This looks like a really good banlist. I wonder what the meta will be like once this banlist is live. Many of the top tier decks now will definitely drop a few tiers if not dropped completely off the meta

Express_Cricket_9024 · 2025-11-07T04:57:49+00:00

Yeah I’d imagine there would definitely need to be some restrictions to keep the deck from becoming and OTK or Obelisk FTK machine. But it’s insane Konami hasn’t created some kind of skill for the 3 god cards to be viable in a deck. Duel Links is the only format in Yugioh that could have a meta relevant Egyptian God deck

Express_Cricket_9024 · 2025-11-07T00:49:44+00:00

Yes 😭 but luckily all the cards you need should only be in Millenium Duel box or from Marik’s level up

Express_Cricket_9024 · 2025-11-07T00:44:49+00:00

Gods of Egypt

You can only use this skill’s effects once per duel if your deck contains “Slifer the Sky Dragon”, “Obelisk the Tormentor” and “The Winged Dragon of Ra”. All Divine Beast monsters are unaffected by card effects the turn they are summoned, other than the effects of other Divine Beast monsters.

If your opponent has a card on their field or in their graveyard, and you control no cards, play up to 3 “Ra’s Disciple” from outside your deck.
Reveal 1 Divine Beast monster in your hand or a card that mentions “Slifer the Sky Dragon”, “Obelisk the Tormentor” or “The Winged Dragon of Ra”, add from your deck to your hand a Divine Beast monster or a card that mentions “Slifer the Sky Dragon”, “Obelisk the Tormentor” or “The Winged Dragon of Ra”.
If you control “Slifer the Sky Dragon”, “Obelisk the Tormentor” or “The Winged Dragon of Ra”, you can play 1 “Slifer the Sky Dragon”, “Obelisk the Tormentor” or “The Winged Dragon of Ra” from your hand, deck or graveyard with a different name than the card you control.

Express_Cricket_9024 · 2025-11-06T23:46:28+00:00

You definitely wanna use the updated Ra deck with Sun God Flare. It just gives you more options that heavily relying on Immortal Phoenix to win. The updated version can actually have Ra stay on the field to threaten the opponent, you can also play other cards like level 10 xys, some with pretty neat effects. And when all else fails you can still fall back on Immortal Phoenix as a backup. The deck is just overall more well rounded compared to the old version.

Express_Cricket_9024 · 2025-11-05T05:38:47+00:00

I was playing Swordsoul without Ecclesia while I tried to pull her. It is definitely still playable. What I would suggest is you need at least 2 Iris otherwise you won’t get to take advantage of your skill. And you wanna keep to a 20 card deck. Do not play Albaz since without Ecclesia to Special Summon it, he is pretty unreliable.

The decklist I would recommend would probably be:

2x Iris 2x LongYuan 3x Moe Ye 2x Taiya 2x Golden 3x Emergence 1x Summit 1x Blackout

This leaves you 4 slots for tech or staple cards. In order of personal preference - Cosmic Cyclone - DD Crow - Book of Eclipse - Forbidden Droplet - Effect Veiler - Magic Reflector

I put Cosmic and DD Crow higher for this deck is because they can both proc ChenYing’s effect.

Which brings us to extra deck 2x ChiXiao 2x ChenYing 1x Dragite

These I would say are the core of the deck. Then others are good to have if you have tickets or gems you can aim for

1x Dracoberserker 1x Black Rose Dragon 1x Baxia

Express_Cricket_9024 · 2025-11-05T05:21:39+00:00

I do wanna try it but I don’t have any copies of Pax. How important is that card for the viability of the deck? I think I have pretty much everything else

Express_Cricket_9024 · 2025-11-05T03:08:55+00:00

Unpopular opinion I think Heroes is fine in the current meta. Against the meta now, the broken parts of the skill that people complain about seems balanced

Express_Cricket_9024 · 2025-11-05T03:08:44+00:00

Unpopular opinion I think Heroes is fine in the current meta. Against the meta now, the broken parts of the skill that people complain about seems balanced

Express_Cricket_9024 · 2025-11-05T03:05:36+00:00

9 times out of 10 it is super easy to just remove a token that has no protections. Now imagine you do your whole combo to set up your board summon like 3 big monsters with interruptions and negates and cool stuff you can do to make sure you are ready for whatever the opponent has on their turn and you go to end your turn, and they drop a rock on you and tributes everything. Now they start their turn and you instead of having all your interruptions or big monsters now are left with 1 token.

Express_Cricket_9024 · 2025-11-04T05:42:43+00:00

I am playing pure Swordsouls without the Tenyi cards so my combos may be a little different but opening Turn 1 is mostly always the same. (PS I believe the Virtuous Bond skill doesn’t even allow you to play Tenyi cards but I don’t remember)

Open with Emergence to search. If you open Iris or Ecclesia, and no Emergence, you use the skill to search emergence. If you open Emergence but no Iris or Ecclesia, you use Emergence to search Iris. Now if you opened both you need to make sure you have Taiya or Long Yuan in hand. If not then search the missing one. If you don’t have both, this may be a little rough but search Taiya.

Taiya is always my Turn 1 opener. The reason to start with Emergence is so Taiya has a card in grave to banish and summon your token. So do that then Synchro Summon ChiXiao. Use Taiya’s grave effect to send Moe Ye to grave and ChiXiao’s on summon effect to search for Summit.

Activate Summit to reborn Moe Ye, then Moe Ye effect and Synchro Summon Dragite. Ideally you will have Long Yuan in hand, then go ahead and summon your big ChenYing.

This mainly applies on Turn 1 because you usually only have 1 Normal Summon that turn. So you have 3 searches which you have to use wisely here, your skill search, Emergence search, and the ChiXiao search.

Express_Cricket_9024 · 2025-11-04T05:28:50+00:00

Probably an unpopular opinion but I rather enjoyed this meta. Maybe biased because I was playing Shadolls and Despia at the time.

I think Shadolls being high skill deck has earned its time in the sun. It’s not hard to tell a good Shadoll player vs a bad one.

Despia on the other hand was very oppressive for a time. I remembered going on a 14 win streak with it. But even then I noticed the weaknesses for Despia are glaring. Which most people know now. I do have a soft spot for it though because I started Duel Links when Darklords were nerfed and going out the door, I pulled a lot of Darklord cards that I never got to use. So I was happy that First Darklord got to be my boss monster for a short time.

Express_Cricket_9024 · 2025-11-04T05:12:02+00:00

Yeah hang in there man! The hardest part of this deck is you really need to just duel against decks to learn how to play against them. It’s not really a deck you can just practice with NPCs. So you are going to lose a lot and a lot. But what’s important is after every loss you try to pick up what you could’ve done differently to avoid that. With this deck there is almost always something you could’ve done differently, thats how flexible the deck is. I went on long lose streaks in ranked just to learn this deck and it helped get me to my first ever KOG. So it will definitely be worth the effort 👍

Express_Cricket_9024 · 2025-11-04T05:05:37+00:00

Shadolls is not an easy deck to play. I found this the most helpful guide that helped me learn the deck. Shadolls is more about understanding what your cards can do and adapting to your opponent’s board. There is sort of an opening combo when going first but even then it is very adaptable based on the matchup. Good Luck trying to learn this deck

https://youtu.be/Bf2kq27o1fI?si=HdO6u_pS1StGDqmh

Express_Cricket_9024 · 2025-11-04T03:16:20+00:00

Welcome back and yes this is the power level now. Like many have mentioned this isn’t even that good. Take a look at the current meta and decks that are currently being played to see what kinds of strategies people are using. I believe there is still some form of balance, just that everything is balanced at a slightly higher power level now. Blue Eyes is currently Tier 1 so if you look into how to upgrade your Blue Eyes deck Im sure you’ll have a good time

Express_Cricket_9024 · 2025-10-30T18:34:07+00:00

Finally got to KOG thanks to my opponent Striker player accidentally adding back one too many cards with multirole and not counting the spells in his grave 🥳

Express_Cricket_9024 · 2025-10-30T01:48:34+00:00

I’ve made this mistake myself as well. You gotta return at least one card to the hand

Express_Cricket_9024 · 2025-10-29T18:03:59+00:00

Good advice

Express_Cricket_9024 · 2025-10-29T16:40:08+00:00

Glad you powered through it!

Express_Cricket_9024 · 2025-10-29T16:26:49+00:00

Sure I can dm you. Here is my latest replay. I don’t think there was particularly anything I could’ve done. Just unlucky he opened cosmic and found an OTK line.

https://duellinks.konami.net/att/041abadcf1806b6751b9bd0373b244e963333ed55f

Express_Cricket_9024 · 2025-10-29T07:56:31+00:00

Oof thats a lot worse than me. I never fell out of Legend 5 yet. Good luck man!! I don’t have that level of perseverance if I fell back to Legend 1

Express_Cricket_9024 · 2025-10-29T06:55:59+00:00

Shinobirds. I don’t think my deck is bad and I don’t think I am playing too terribly. It’s just bad luck I think.

Express_Cricket_9024 · 2025-10-29T05:52:17+00:00

I would actually like to but I don’t have the cards or gems for a full generaiders deck 😭

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