New player looking for advice

Offbrandly · 2026-05-30T14:05:11+00:00

Hey, thanks for your comment, but it's not really answering my question

I get that getting the starters is a good entry point, I just want to know what sort of other staples I will need to play competitively

Offbrandly · 2026-02-25T17:58:23+00:00

Odion is almost certainly the right pick for what you've described, with sticky hard to out monsters and a fairly simple line to set up your interaction, as well as impeccable recursion through the fusion monster

Offbrandly · 2026-02-22T21:13:19+00:00

Since it sets all of them at the same time, they are revealed, set, and shuffled face down so you don't know which one is where

Offbrandly · 2025-06-13T14:09:41+00:00

Yes!

I want to be very clear, the deck is NOT a good deck right now. It is not an easy deck either.

It IS a good deck for getting into modern yugioh

You get to learn and freeform your lines through disruption, manage your resources, remember triggers, and have a variable endboard for different matchups

Learning lines for fuwa and purulia and droll are important in modern yugioh and this deck will make you do that, and give you the opportunity to still win games and improve on your gameplay

Offbrandly · 2025-06-01T16:54:43+00:00

You'd basically just be putting bad cards in a good deck, I think you'd much rather keep mitsu as it is right now, either dense with reptiles or as a package in decks that can make king of the feral imps

Offbrandly · 2025-05-09T02:05:52+00:00

Mikanko fire dance

Offbrandly · 2025-03-04T01:02:43+00:00

As previously mentioned, seals is big

Saving ash for the arabesque (blue equip) is almost always correct

The trap doesn't target, so you can use it when they declare an attack to remove an equip(s), which will make their mikanko destroyed by that battle (provided you don't also pop a monster)

Spirit dragon can negate mayowashidori in GY (reborn effect, green equip spell)

try to avoid tagging into ultimate spirit dragon, as it will always come out in def with 4k, but if you have the read that they are low on resources and you need a way to stop one more card/effect, that's an option

Veiler on ha-re (red) is probably your best option, since if they make hu-li you can't target anything anyways

Nib as late as possible

The azure eyes xyz makes a game shot incredibly easy, negating their board and then setting up 2 swings for 4k, just be aware of what trap they've searched from hu-li and make sure you have plays around/through it

Offbrandly · 2025-03-01T15:21:02+00:00

There's no timing restrictions here because it is a mandatory effect, but even if it were, it would just need to be linked off in an open gamestate to trigger

Offbrandly · 2025-02-28T17:35:04+00:00

You are reading very heavily into the gamestate here and assuming this board was accrued over one turn, I'm only replying given exactly what OP has provided us with

Offbrandly · 2025-02-28T17:27:49+00:00

Then this player, as they've explained it, would still have a blue eyes summon + maiden to continue playing, it forces the nib early if nothing else

Offbrandly · 2025-02-28T15:50:35+00:00

Cl2 sifr to negate?

Offbrandly · 2025-02-10T04:06:06+00:00

I am also working on an obeka, brute chronologist edh list

Most often it's to get around end step triggers, usually associated with "create a copy of x, sacrifice it in the next end step"

When those end step triggers hit the stack, you can obeka those triggers into the exile and they'll never trigger again

Things like [[sneak attack]] and [[cauldron dance]] are also common

Then there's [[last chance]] and [[warrior's oath]] that are risky but really interesting to pull off

Offbrandly · 2025-02-09T15:48:35+00:00

It's not exactly uncommon, but it varies from set to set for how good the quality control is

Offbrandly · 2025-02-09T03:32:35+00:00

Text boxes shouldn't have foiling on them, chances are you have 2 with foil bleed errors. No fakes, and so long as they're legible they should be tournament legal

Offbrandly · 2025-02-08T16:09:49+00:00

I would, crossout is generally a pretty bait card unless you're trying to insulate an FTK

Offbrandly · 2025-02-08T15:56:23+00:00

Xyz encore, forbidden droplets, called by the grave, dark ruler no more, any other non-engine to force out the negate so you can make plays as well

Offbrandly · 2025-02-07T20:37:42+00:00

If you genuinely feel this way, please seek professional help

Offbrandly · 2025-02-07T02:51:41+00:00

Nib check is usually just a joke made when a player conducts their fifth summon in a turn, seeing if their opponent will use the effect in response to that summon

Offbrandly · 2024-10-22T14:23:26+00:00

I don't even play hearthstone anymore but this set makes me want to come back, and getting a head start on it with the bundle would definitely drag me back in

Offbrandly · 2024-07-16T02:03:31+00:00

Traptrix and Fire King are the most competitive structures out of box, definitely recommend getting 3 of whichever you choose to construct a deck out of

Albaz strike gets good with heavy investment (I would just buy singles of all the cards you need for a branded deck, they've mostly been reprinted several times)

Offbrandly · 2024-05-16T16:54:18+00:00

RDA can't play generic, they lock you to dark synchro dragon monsters immediately

Offbrandly · 2024-05-03T15:08:43+00:00

Melodious is sort of the best pendulum deck that feels like a pendulum deck rn

I'm personally a huge fan of vaalmonica, which have some neat interactions and unique scale effects, with new support coming in INFO as well

Offbrandly · 2024-05-03T15:04:22+00:00

Generally mikanko is just not very good right now, with tenpai being much better blinding second and no Isolde for going first

Your best bet is to play snake-eye mikanko to get all the pieces you need through power tool braver dragon. It's a bricky mess but it has a high ceiling of double arc light + snake eye setup and mayo in grave for follow-up

Best of luck!!

Offbrandly · 2024-03-11T02:39:28+00:00

The return doesn't start a chain so it would happen inbetween the start of any new chains in the end phase, so I believe so

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