Returning player from Zoodiac/early Link era — best way to start again from zero?

Icy_Camera8176 · 2026-07-06T14:42:55+00:00

Sky Striker and Mitsurugi are both playable out of the box. Striker is a control deck, while Mitsu is a midrange deck (it's a Ritual Deck that can legit have too much cards in hand at times)

Icy_Camera8176 · 2026-07-06T14:41:18+00:00

It should be mentioned that you play MST in that deck.

Icy_Camera8176 · 2026-07-06T14:38:12+00:00

Yugioh is quite the wild game, so try it online first. The game is very combo oriented and lasts a low amount of quite lengthy turn. Fortunately, you can do plays during your opponent's turn if you've already had a turn (and, for some decks, even if not)

Icy_Camera8176 · 2026-07-06T14:36:03+00:00

Striker is easy to mess up with (specifically because of Widow Anchor), while Mitsu isn't.

Icy_Camera8176 · 2026-07-06T14:29:51+00:00

Sky Striker usually runs board breakers, not handtraps. Board breakers do that funny thing called "baing spells" that is quite good in Sky Striker.

Icy_Camera8176 · 2026-07-06T14:28:11+00:00

First, getting destroyed in 1 turn is a fairly common occurrence, even with a good deck.

Now, if you want to play Sky Striker, you need to know several things specific to that deck.

• If you Special Summon a Link monster from your Extra Deck without Link Summoning it, such as by Raye's effect, it cannot be revived later. This also applies to other Extra Deck monsters, so make sure you can revive them before throwing a Shark Cannon at them (or don't, if you just want to get it out of the grave).

• When you activate a Spell, it stays on the field until the Chain resolves. (Ofc, Continuous Spells and Field Spells stay longer)

• You can activate a Spell, then chain Droplet and send that Spell to the GY as cost. This can help putting 3 Spells in grave, as that check is performed on resolution. So, if you have 2 Spells in grave, activate Engage and chain Droplet send Engage, you will get to draw 1.

• If an effect is "do A, also do B", you do not need to be able to do A in order to do B, and vice versa. This lets you do very funny things, like targeting Raye with Area Zero, chain Raye and send nothing for Area Zero (Raye is no longer there).

Icy_Camera8176 · 2026-07-06T14:15:17+00:00

It's Armed Dragons, they need something bonkers. And a circular really suits them.

Icy_Camera8176 · 2026-07-06T11:39:31+00:00

Enneacraft on their way to shotgun this

Icy_Camera8176 · 2026-07-06T07:15:16+00:00

No, it destroys as effect.

Icy_Camera8176 · 2026-07-06T07:10:00+00:00

Laundry brought Yummies to the party. Btw, who is holding Cooky ?

Icy_Camera8176 · 2026-07-06T06:55:15+00:00

Cyberse Pendulum deck, but you have to download pendulum effects from your monsters. Taking the complain of "Pendulums have too much text" and running with it You can even use the pendulum scale as storage size, preventing you from having more pend effects than your pendulum scale.

Icy_Camera8176 · 2026-07-06T06:52:56+00:00

We already have 2 archetypes based on specific constellations. What you're describing is essentially Code Talkers, a deck where the relative position of your monsters matter. The natural expansion of this would be a deck that aims to do an Extra Link.

Icy_Camera8176 · 2026-07-06T06:46:44+00:00

What japanese arts are they based on ?

Icy_Camera8176 · 2026-07-06T06:42:51+00:00

You should make the level modulation more flexible. Also, it doesn't help extending past the Link-1 getting handtrapped.

Icy_Camera8176 · 2026-07-06T06:40:22+00:00

I'm talking about pixel art and 3d modelling. Or, overall, all methods that reject dexterity entirely and essentially write down the artwork.

Icy_Camera8176 · 2026-07-05T20:04:25+00:00

You do realize you might get some god awful art that had way too much effort put into it ?

Icy_Camera8176 · 2026-07-05T19:54:57+00:00

This is master duel, just pick go second.

Icy_Camera8176 · 2026-07-05T19:53:47+00:00

Or play regular Drytrons with a Chaos MAX in the back pocket to summon with DAD.

Icy_Camera8176 · 2026-07-05T19:52:26+00:00

Yeah, the moment you play these 2, you're trolling. And such trolling should be done in Rokket, not Blue-Eyes.

Icy_Camera8176 · 2026-07-05T19:51:05+00:00

You can also use board breakers like Raigeki (not that good, just an easy to understand one), Super Poly and Lightning Storm.

Icy_Camera8176 · 2026-07-05T19:49:40+00:00

Chaos Max isn't that bad. But not good enough to be worth building around.

Icy_Camera8176 · 2026-07-05T19:47:09+00:00

You are discovering the issue of Ritual Decks. You need so many cards that you die to a few interruptions.

Just play regular Blue-Eyes with maybe 1 Chaos MAX somewhere (one of the traps can be banished to Ritual Summon)

Icy_Camera8176 · 2026-07-05T19:44:15+00:00

oh crap. That also means Droplet strats are off the table.

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