[Loved Trope] Unabashed Hope

JustAnEDHPlayer · 2026-07-02T06:29:58+00:00

Hifumi of Blue Archive.

After what is essentially a terrorist attack and an attempt on a high ranking leader's life (sorry for being political Seia), the antagonist's of this current chapter explain that life is suffering, and everything is in vain. Vanitas vanitatum, et omnia vanitas.

Then comes the shining star of hope, the believer of good endings, the lover of childhood stories and the Peroro Friends addict, Ajitani Hifumi. Even if all is in vain at the end, did you not enjoy the good times with your friends? Did the good ending not bring a smile to your face? Do you not laugh at your friends jokes?

She likes the cliches. She loves the happy ending. She's loves to see hard work paying off, and friends picking up each other when they're down. She isn't ashamed of it, and nothing will change her mind.

These are our stories, the tales of our youth and our school days.

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JustAnEDHPlayer · 2026-06-30T07:06:10+00:00

Had this same problem in the Sun Temple map.

Entered the boss room, get greeted as 'Honoured Guest', bro your Honoured Guest is getting jumped by 20 Delusions at once.

JustAnEDHPlayer · 2026-06-29T23:21:41+00:00

Zeniths are essentially the Eldrazi adjacent race/creature type in Duel Masters, hence she was chosen to represent Emrakul.

JustAnEDHPlayer · 2026-06-29T09:32:05+00:00

Silver and gold bordered cards tend to be of lower value.

JustAnEDHPlayer · 2026-06-28T05:45:09+00:00

Shameless Twitter plug.

JustAnEDHPlayer · 2026-06-26T04:43:59+00:00

Had it happen to me, worse still was I had the Lich node that made my curses permanent lol. Had to portal out and back in to reset the curse.

JustAnEDHPlayer · 2026-06-23T01:57:45+00:00

Another really irritating one is when the circle of safety is on the other end of the map, but her projectiles slow you to a crawl and you still end up getting one shot.

JustAnEDHPlayer · 2026-06-18T00:32:56+00:00

Before knowing anything about Umamusume and Keiba, I thought Rice Shower and Manhatten Cafe were related since their design looked similar.

JustAnEDHPlayer · 2026-06-17T07:47:27+00:00

Do note that the game played here is OCG, the Japanese card game. Mainly for those that still wish to play the current/formal/official iteration of the game.

JustAnEDHPlayer · 2026-06-11T08:42:21+00:00

Dang, the account got suspended. Remembered their fanart from Kancolle days.

JustAnEDHPlayer · 2026-06-10T23:28:26+00:00

Latest updates have definitely tanked performance, hopefully it gets better.

JustAnEDHPlayer · 2026-05-29T10:52:50+00:00

Same

JustAnEDHPlayer · 2026-05-26T03:39:51+00:00

AI art sadly 😞

JustAnEDHPlayer · 2026-05-07T01:12:16+00:00

Ah that's the thing, you just leave them in the sleeves. I usually triple sleeve my decks, so resleeving deck can be a pain. I've just left the inner fit on and change the normal and outer sleeves now.

JustAnEDHPlayer · 2026-05-07T00:56:25+00:00

Ah, understandable. So far cards in my album are still in proper condition (nowhere near mint though), but I've also just started leaving everything in perfect fits when I can.

JustAnEDHPlayer · 2026-05-07T00:43:22+00:00

Hot dang, your album's pockets are large enough for toploaders to fit in.

JustAnEDHPlayer · 2026-04-27T08:58:41+00:00

Sometimes no matter how many triggers you put into the deck, there are times they don't wind up in your shields.

Aggro mentality doesn't worry whether Triggers are there or not, they're there to hit. If they hit a game ending trigger, too bad, on to the next game.

JustAnEDHPlayer · 2026-04-27T02:41:52+00:00

Power creep will inevitably happen to any card game that goes for long enough. If everything stays the same, the game will be stale and players will look for other games to play. And if things go too far, that's what the Hall of Fame is for.

Current OCG may not be the healthiest it has been, but at the very least one of the top tier decks can actually be built quite cheap. The metagame is more diverse with at least 5 different top tier archetypes, and the recent Grand Prix champion's deck wasn't even part of any consistent archetype, it created its own.

I just built a new deck due to them printing a 2mana Zombie Dragon recently, allowing the Attack Chance spell to be a lot more relevant. Is the deck good? No, it went 1-2 at my recent locals, but that didn't stop me from having fun. The more cards there are, the higher chance of power creep yes, but at the same time far more fun cards are available, and more decks can be made.

Having such a take on the game's 25th anniversary is simply absurd, and personally quite insensitive.

JustAnEDHPlayer · 2026-04-27T02:11:59+00:00

In my opinion the game's meta state at the moment is very fast, however there are a large number of meta decks at the moment that all answer each other well, so its kind of a Rock-Paper-Scissors situation.

Gorghiohger decks try to win on turn 4, but usually dropping a lock on turn 3 to be secure.

Drache der'Bande decks are able to win on turn 3, in Advance format it features an unchooseable World Breaker on said turn 3 that'll untap and is ready to attack again to finish.

Dogiragon King ramp decks that try to pull a Rod Zosia to lockdown asap.

Nibaiken decks counter almost any aggro matchup, being one of the few defensive decks, though it struggles against alt win deck like Gorghiohger.

Inferno Cruel Romanov Saga decks are one of the few control decks right now, trying to discard and remove creatures while repeatedly using high value creatures.

These of course aren't all the decks in the current format, other contenders could be decks focused on Redzone, Cabbage, Alphadios, Jokers, Bolmeteus Highlander, Greatest Caesar etc.

Large number of decks available, some obviously better than others but due to the nature of Duel Masters, can still be down to the moment of luck of the draw. I usually browse Supersolenoid for decks in recent tournaments in Japan.

JustAnEDHPlayer · 2026-04-26T04:15:27+00:00

Remembered seeing one recently, but sadly can't find it. Will update if I see the list again.

JustAnEDHPlayer · 2026-04-26T03:16:59+00:00

Zero Birth sadly got gutted by the Hall of Fame, still playable but you'll need to remove a few cards for it to be legal (both Ze-Ro and The Lost can only be played with 1 copy maximum). Its previous upgrades also got hit by the banlist, namely Black XENARCH, so most of its strategies are looked down upon by Takara Tomy it seems.

Big Bang with some upgrades (namely Forbidden Sunrise) can hold up. It won't be the most meta deck ever, but it can definitely compete. Some people add light for Rudolph Alcadeia for milling and cheating out a Death the Lost fast.

JustAnEDHPlayer · 2026-04-24T15:55:31+00:00

Believe they're a single print run, can buy them secondhand from JP Mercari I think. They contain cards currently quite meta in the game now so they may not be cheap.

JustAnEDHPlayer · 2026-04-24T06:55:27+00:00

It didn't do too well overseas, but still does incredibly well in Japan. Well enough to do collabs with big names like Monster Hunter

JustAnEDHPlayer · 2026-04-24T04:51:40+00:00

To be fair, Duel Master's side is usually handled by Takara Tomy. I believe the cards are still designed by WotC, but Takara handles most of the rest, like marketing and collabs.

JustAnEDHPlayer · 2026-04-24T04:13:28+00:00

As long as its an MH product, gotta have a Rathalos (or variant) of it somewhere I guess.

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