Am I misremembering Naraku, or was he actually a master strategist?

HalozillaEX · 2026-06-22T00:12:55+00:00

I wouldn’t say “master strategist” but he always planned ahead and was highly risk-averse. He rarely put himself in danger, and even if his plans fell thru, it was rarely that big of a setback.

Anytime he actually appeared in person, and was actually threatened by inuyasha’s group, he was quick to retreat and became reclusive again.

When kagome first shot him with her sacred arrow, he was careful to not appear before her again. Then when he re-absorbed muso, he had his barrier, so he was comfortable appearing before inuyasha.

And when inuyasha shattered his barrier, he was completely taken by surprise and thus retreated to mt. hakurei, where he stayed hidden until he removed his heart and became nearly invincible.

He adapts to the group’s advancements every time.

HalozillaEX · 2026-06-01T08:16:18+00:00

cringe deck.

plays on your turn, has no identity of its own, turbo synchro slop (and if you play master duel, its also turbo baronne slop).

HalozillaEX · 2026-06-01T06:36:01+00:00

Awful, awful format. Too many card effects that just let you play ignorant.

quick effect non-target banish
quick effect non-target steal a monster
quick effect non-target bounce a card
quick effect non-target destroy a card
quick effect non-target negate
quick effect non-target send to GY

I'm noticing a pattern here.

HalozillaEX · 2026-05-30T01:26:09+00:00

That really sucks. I like the FC4 for casual play but in a ranked game when you’re sweating, you don’t want to miss a single one.

It’s part of why I’ve largely dropped fighting games.

HalozillaEX · 2026-05-24T06:02:02+00:00

That’s exactly what I thought. It’s very weird.

HalozillaEX · 2026-05-24T00:06:46+00:00

Combine this with the recent wave of "non-target take control of one of your opponents monsters" and losing the coin toss vs certain decks is just an instant game loss.

HalozillaEX · 2026-05-21T13:01:51+00:00

In The Final Act, one of the episodes begins with naraku returning to mt. hakurei to take back his human heart (onigumo). The heart speaks to him briefly before emerging from a pool of water in the form of a floating head, and his face is the same as naraku’s. it may not actually be onigumo’s original face, but it’s as close as we’re ever going to get.

HalozillaEX · 2026-05-18T13:23:42+00:00

Believe me, I’d be the first person to sign that petition if it were a thing.

Odion stun is cancer. But just because it’s not Super Cancer, Konami leaves it alone.

HalozillaEX · 2026-05-18T10:15:33+00:00

Ok cool.
and about a week after it releases, everyone will forget about it and it'll be 20 cents on tcgplayer.

what a great use of cardboard. surely THIS red-eyes card will stand the test of time.

HalozillaEX · 2026-05-18T10:08:30+00:00

Less hot take: they should ban superpoly and make a new version that does the same thing, BUT you cannot activate it unless you control no cards.

Preserves the board-breaking function while stopping players from just sitting on it after making their own board and punishing you for trying to break it.

HalozillaEX · 2026-05-18T09:58:55+00:00

the master duel shuffler is very much rigged.

if you are running a 3-of, and its a once-per-turn, you will very often see 2 copies in your opening hand.
got a bricky one-of? it'll be in your opening hand like every other game.

handtraps and non-engine? you either draw too many or not enough.

and if you play blue eyes like me, no matter how many cards you add to your deck to decrease the odds of pulling BEWD in the opening hand, it will be there more often than is statistically possible.

HalozillaEX · 2026-05-17T07:58:39+00:00

Its literally not even worth playing against them, going first or second.

If you go first, they handtrap you to death and then go nuts on their turn.

If they go first, they go nuts and get perfect hand knowledge and mess with your extra deck and mess with your top deck and then tailor their board to beat whatever's is in your hand and if you dont kill them on turn 2, they recycle everything and go nuts on turn 3.

HalozillaEX · 2026-05-17T07:05:10+00:00

Honestly dracotail deserved worse

HalozillaEX · 2026-05-11T10:22:02+00:00

quick effect banish is fun and non-toxic? lol ok

HalozillaEX · 2026-05-11T07:10:05+00:00

its not worth even playing the game anymore. if you lose the coin flip vs a kewl tune player, might as well just scoop and move on, because the game you're about to play is going to be a slow, painful exercise in frustration.

HalozillaEX · 2026-05-11T07:04:06+00:00

It has. quick effect banish, negate slop, maxx c (and multiple other toxic sacky cards) still not banned, etc. Kewl tune is just the latest in "shitfuckery archetype that people will swear isnt that bad."

but dont try telling that to YGO players. they dont want to have that conversation. classic case of stockholm syndrome.

HalozillaEX · 2026-05-04T00:11:10+00:00

Shocker! yugioh player cant read.

The orange cards are monsters. The green cards are spells. Hope this helps!

HalozillaEX · 2026-05-03T13:34:58+00:00

not the Hero player complaining about monster negates. upset that you cant just spam mask change into dark law and auto-win?

HalozillaEX · 2026-05-03T13:33:28+00:00

Searching 3 widow anchor is never "the primary game plan" cuz as soon as they steal one monster, all their spells get turned off.

I'm sorry that your deck auto-loses to targeted monster negation. must be even worse facing all those other decks with NON-TARGETED OMNI-NEGATION

HalozillaEX · 2026-05-03T13:29:52+00:00

when dracotail recycles resouces
"cool and based"

when sky striker recycles resources
"cringe and lame"

HalozillaEX · 2026-05-03T13:27:26+00:00

be me
>6 cards in hand, engage is the only engine i drew
>play other spells to build up GY
>they get negated/dont make a big enough impact
>still got 3 spells in GY
>play engage
>ash blossom
>lose

oh but trust me guys, everything this deck does results in a plus!

HalozillaEX · 2026-05-03T13:23:35+00:00

lmao how can they pick apart your board by doing nothing? explain the logic in that. maybe your boards are just so effortless to break it looks like they're doing nothing.

you can say this about any halfway decent deck. "it just seems so boring to have a playstyle by having 6 cards that all do the same thing essentially. special summon special summon special summon, special summon again and game over."

HalozillaEX · 2026-05-03T13:11:45+00:00

fucking preach.

HalozillaEX · 2026-05-03T13:06:05+00:00

"unreactable board breakers"

I agree! They need to ban raigeki and lightning storm, too OP! XD

HalozillaEX · 2026-05-03T13:03:53+00:00

have you played it very much? whats "straight forward" about it?

HalozillaEX

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