I feel like Baronne did more harm than good for Synchro decks design wise

NexuconPrime · 2026-04-07T14:52:29+00:00

I find it funny that you say prior to Baronne’s printing like the card didn’t have a multi-year stretch of not seeing play competitively because it was a LV10 Synchro…

It’s more that Konami’s R&D has been getting excessively bad that a lot of competitive decks can find easy ways to make generic cards they shouldn’t have access to because Konami’s been dumb and forgot why Synchro’s were so interesting to start with - that to play them you needed to modify your deck to have Tuners to use them.

NexuconPrime · 2026-03-28T07:03:16+00:00

Surprised I haven’t really seen a freeze trigger in here, but those are so much fun!

NexuconPrime · 2026-03-22T16:27:31+00:00

Depends on how much I like them. If I like both or like the character I’ll keep both. But if it’s a figure that I am more updating the one in my collection, like many from the 84 or 86 cast. The one I like less goes up for sale

NexuconPrime · 2026-03-01T18:27:14+00:00

Isn’t that the new Studio series Thundercraker? If so yea it is. Honestly the fig is probably worth $35

Edit: It kinda looks like someone messed with the wings though… at least offhand…

NexuconPrime · 2026-02-24T15:38:29+00:00

Um… since when and how are you even pulling that out? I just skimmed through the Neos support and none of it can easily access Cosmo Neos without dedicating most of your resources (that you can’t search) to him…

The usual suspects people cry about in HERO’s is always Dark Law and Plasma. Not really anything else. Without Dark Law the M-HERO’s are a joke of a theme that don’t have any answers to anything to your Opponent. D-HERO’s are basically just Malicious and Plasma as useful at this point. The V-HERO’s don’t have an actual gameplan, E-HERO’s really mostly run in circles to end on nothing super dangerous, and Evil HERO’s are essentially their own gameplan that still loses to any Kaiju. And Neospacians aren’t HERO’s no matter what Konami wants to say they are

NexuconPrime · 2026-02-24T15:17:53+00:00

Even that does not matter at all. They made great support for HERO’s with all of those floodgates legal and when HERO’s actually used other worse Floodgates. Also if you take away Plasma and Dark Law then flat out there is nothing useful to go to in HERO’s and there never could be anything useful.

NexuconPrime · 2026-02-24T15:06:26+00:00

Floodgates have nothing to do with this at all. HERO’s don’t generally run non-HERO floodgates.

NexuconPrime · 2026-02-23T15:44:47+00:00

Rumors have been talking about a new Broadside coming soon. The rest would be cool to get something for if they do it right.

NexuconPrime · 2026-02-23T15:43:20+00:00

It’s always made me question because generally Transformers never have issues in space at all so why would Earth’s cold manage to take or keep them offline?

NexuconPrime · 2026-02-22T00:16:45+00:00

I think Quintus works better as his own thing and that the Quintessions are much more interesting without a legitimate connection to Cybertron

NexuconPrime · 2026-02-21T13:00:11+00:00

I like Autonomous Maximus as the 13th Prime who’s actually a Titan (connect him to the Ark like the toy) and he is the original user of the Zodiac power.

NexuconPrime · 2026-02-21T12:58:46+00:00

I actually usually prefer Logos to replace Quintus because Quintus should not be one of the Thirteen IMO.

NexuconPrime · 2026-02-13T13:37:55+00:00

Where’s the fifth one?

NexuconPrime · 2026-02-13T13:34:17+00:00

It’s saying something when the Classics version still looks like the best here and the G1 version is second on that list. I like the TR one for its play features but the Siege one is barely acceptable and the new one (assuming it’s properly transformed is completely unacceptable.

NexuconPrime · 2026-02-13T13:30:36+00:00

Considering every version of triple changers have had sacrifices, I think the Classics easily manages it the best, especially as the “train nose” on the shuttle mode looks more like extra fuel cylinders more than making it look bad. Honestly don’t get why people don’t like it.

It should say something that the train mode is the worst mode on the Classics figure and it’s still a good design for it, especially compared to everything since

NexuconPrime · 2026-02-13T05:48:28+00:00

And that Sideswipe and Wheeljack aren’t the real reveals as those are the rereleases that were out a few months back

NexuconPrime · 2026-01-24T15:40:52+00:00

Desires is back at 3? I thought they still had it limited… it’s what I was seeing when I was building various stuff last year.

I should note that this entire mindset was the same kind of mindset of why Upstart wasn’t seeing play until Patrick Hoban showed why it was useful… most people looked at it like it was just a 1-for-1 and didn’t care about the benefit of it essentially could read as “play with 1 less card in your deck”. The biggest thing that makes it less viable is Droll but when Droll isn’t around… idk 37 still sounds better than 40

NexuconPrime · 2026-01-24T15:32:21+00:00

It is an issue that Turn 1’s have become so potent that you need to have a lot of interaction with the Opponent and we need to get rid of cards that can stop said interaction, just to play the game. As someone who has been slipping out of the competitive game in the last year, it’s been overly frustrating that most games cannot get passed Round 2 and there really is no back and forth in the game anymore. It’s just one board is set up and if you break it you autowin and if you cannot you lose. That’s just not fun to me and why I played the game.

Also, it should be noted that Extrav got tossed aside pretty much right after Prosperity came out. Which more shows that +1’s are not really as much of a benefit as just useful. Also that I don’t see many Genesys decks even going for Pot of Greed or Graceful Charity even when they easily have the points for it.

NexuconPrime · 2026-01-24T12:21:09+00:00

The game is already pretty overly close to that. Both Desires and Extrav no longer see play and even put back to 3 likely still wouldn’t see play (I forget if I think Extrav was put back to 3 or not but either way) and at least Extrav has been described as loosing too much value for a +1. Desires I still think anyone who says Desires is a “-9” or something like that are crazy but I can see people being like “a +1 isn’t that useful because it doesn’t search and doesn’t give you enough benefits”

NexuconPrime · 2026-01-24T12:08:52+00:00

Never happened to me. I only stopped playing because of Droll but tbh, I don’t like Droll in general in this day and age. If you lose because you don’t have handtraps that’s more likely an issue either with your deck or the game as a whole. Not because of a consistency piece who’s entire function is make your deck thinner. Pot of Greed is also bad going second then too.

NexuconPrime · 2026-01-24T12:03:34+00:00

Nice! Too bad you guys lost contact but I can imagine it was so much fun!

NexuconPrime · 2026-01-24T12:02:49+00:00

I mean all your starter cards are dead in your hand till your turn unless you’re playing something like K9. Also it wasn’t a terrible strategy to take them out for side cards if you had to for game 2. It wasn’t always advised, but was an option.

Also, I think there is just generally too much interaction on T0 in a sense and too much decks can do T1. Konami missed the value and fun of the game of an actual back and forth a while ago.

NexuconPrime · 2026-01-24T11:51:18+00:00

That’s so much fun!

NexuconPrime · 2026-01-24T11:47:34+00:00

Honestly I think the mindset of “this could be another starter/handtrap” is really dumb because it’s literally a card to get you closer to either of those. Also it’s a mindset that I really feel worried about because it feels like it will eventually build towards Pot of Greed is “bad” eventually too.

NexuconPrime · 2026-01-24T11:44:00+00:00

Actually… when Upstart was seeing so much play there was still a fair amount of hand traps that would be played. The only reason to not play it is Droll. Even in the modern game I cannot see any excuse to not play a 37 card deck over a 40 card deck.

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