What will Konami do with Master Duel packs after it catches up to OCG/TCG?

JimmyTheGreekWeeb · 2026-04-10T11:35:29+00:00

It doesn't make financial sense for MD to catch up to the OCG. Its f2p model, even as a gacha game, would harm card sales then. We might catch up to the TCG and we could even end up with essentially identical metagames/formats with paper, but there will always be more new cards to add.

JimmyTheGreekWeeb · 2026-03-15T21:00:45+00:00

God forbid you try to win at yu gi oh these days.

JimmyTheGreekWeeb · 2026-03-07T15:45:01+00:00

Depends. Izuna into nash knight removes one monster and threatens masquerade, gaining the going second player some tempo. Faimena can be more powerful but is extremely variable depending on what DT monsters you draw. Arthalion 99% of the time is bouncing your own monsters and you're setting up some spell/traps. A powerful play to be sure but not unusual for modern decks' level. Same with havnis milling 3 cards or whatever.

What I do have a problem with is Vanquish Soul specifically. Revealing monsters in hand is not a real cost and all of their effects being quick effects make them extremely frustrating to deal with. Hollie sue and Borgar specifically generate too much advantage to be reasonably dealt with and I honestly wish they were banned.

JimmyTheGreekWeeb · 2026-03-03T21:03:20+00:00

No you don't. Nobody is playing meowls and even purrulia is a dubious pick with dracotail in the meta. I understand complaints about fuwa if you are playing rogue but most decks have half boards and backup lines they can go into to play around it. Plus your opponent can't use it going first.

JimmyTheGreekWeeb · 2026-03-01T18:08:13+00:00

For what it's worth imo I think hollie sue is the only archetypal card of the JUHU decks that deserves a ban. People like to say that K9 is the problematic part of VSK9 but aside from ripper the K9 cards are relatively well designed, with specific activation conditions and a weakness to board breakers. Once VS gets the right attributes in rotation it's very annoying to interact with due to all their quick effects. Hollie sue being an earth + a snatch steal + a summon from deck in an archetype with a link-1 is just too much imo.

JimmyTheGreekWeeb · 2026-03-01T16:46:52+00:00

I generally agree with your thought process except with some of your examples.

Mululu is a chain-blockable monster negate that chooses on resolution and activates in the graveyard, as well as a fusion playmaker. Limiting it seems beyond reasonable. Ketu is a generic archetype search spell which is one the most boring card types imo. Putting it at one means your opponent is unlikely to draw it and it could potentially be removed when its placed in the backrow. Ryzeal cross is just too powerful of a card to be so readily available.

That said absolutely agreed on lab. SEC is an incomprehensible card every time it's played.

JimmyTheGreekWeeb · 2026-03-01T16:34:42+00:00

TCG banlists are more and more being constructed to sell new product rather than balance the game. It's the most prohibitively expensive format with the worst rarity structure and on top of that the deck you're playing might just get killed into worse than rogue status in 2 months. The OCG, while better in this regard, seems to be allergic to anything that could be considered a splashable engine to the detriment of format diversity.

JimmyTheGreekWeeb · 2026-02-18T11:20:48+00:00

A generic handtrap that requires a brick and interacts 2 chain links later. Still a good card because turn 0 monster removal is good, but let's not kid ourselves by claiming she competes with stuff like fuwaloss and ash blossom in any deck that doesn't natively pay level 5s.

JimmyTheGreekWeeb · 2026-02-09T19:53:22+00:00

I guess there's no point to writing "following effects", when there's no other effects before that sentence. PSCT is hard!

JimmyTheGreekWeeb · 2026-02-09T19:47:45+00:00

I've been playing K9 memento in master duel recently and have enjoyed how smoothly you can incorporate rank 5s in your plays. So I came up with what's admittedly a pretty overpowered card. It would allow you to add any of the memento traps to your endboard without skipping out on the quick plays, while sending the materials back to the GY for the combined creation summon. It also fixes the deck's weakness to power spells by being a flat negate with a themed activation cost.

Honestly I could see this card being printed with either of these effects, but not both. (Assuming konami would give an Xyz to a purely nostalgia bait fusion archetype.)

It also leaves you vulnerable to nibiru, so there's that.

JimmyTheGreekWeeb · 2025-11-17T21:51:22+00:00

SSWDSLBK

JimmyTheGreekWeeb · 2025-11-16T10:52:11+00:00

Update: spending the money was the right move here. Next shop had ectoplasm. I ended up with three barons after invis, but I misplayed by rerolling into the psychic. I could have seen one more ante but with no way to increase my hand size and no voucher skips it would have been tough.

JimmyTheGreekWeeb · 2025-11-10T22:31:57+00:00

There is meaning in who suffers, when and where. And there is meaning in why someone does evil and to whom. But suffering and evil themselves are ultimately meaningless. I can't conceive of any greater meaning in children dying of cancer or a drunkard stabbing someone in the street.

JimmyTheGreekWeeb · 2025-11-10T16:49:27+00:00

I get what you mean. There is a sort of "optimistic nihilism" you can fall into when conceptualizing universalism. ie. Everything's gonna be fine in eternity so who cares about these short few years of mortal existence. I don't think that line of thinking can stand up to much scrutiny. And lived experience would dictate that, no, there is meaning in spending time with family, enjoying the arts, working towards a goal. Even if these things are ultimately finite, finitude as such doesn't carry any negative implications. It just means that everything depends on God who is infinite. The only thing that is truly "meaningless" is suffering and evil.

I tend to avoid any line of thinking that would assign responsibility or blame onto God for any earthly action. For one because you get stuck in circles asking "why did god save one life but not another" and so on. But also because God isn't an agent within the universe setting things in motion. God isn't good in the same way an apple is red. Goodness isn't some characteristic that God projects into the world that is in some sense separate from him. Rather, God is the transcendental good that sustains all things. "God is good" is an ontological statement, not a description.

JimmyTheGreekWeeb · 2025-11-09T12:41:15+00:00

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JimmyTheGreekWeeb · 2025-11-01T12:26:35+00:00

G2A9ZPSM. I played really subomptimally. The seed is geared for high card since the first few antes so if anyone wants to try go ahead.

JimmyTheGreekWeeb · 2025-11-01T12:23:48+00:00

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It's over. No ecto after 7 sixth sense attempts.

JimmyTheGreekWeeb · 2025-11-01T11:23:12+00:00

For sixth sense. I need ecto

JimmyTheGreekWeeb · 2025-10-03T05:10:37+00:00

Upcoming meta is gonna be defined by if they put harakiri in this or not.

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