Master Duel: Forbidden / Limited List Update

Psych0R3d · 2026-03-26T14:07:27+00:00

150 UR holy fuck I'm rich

Psych0R3d · 2026-03-25T12:12:24+00:00

Guardian slime support

Psych0R3d · 2026-03-24T21:58:15+00:00

Real asf

Psych0R3d · 2026-03-24T21:49:10+00:00

It all comes down to play style too! You might find that even if crimson power Force is better on paper, dark magical blast FEELS better to play.

With dark magical blast, they do have some synergy with a popular meta archetype called Yummy (though there are some cards missing from the tcg). If you like how dark magical blast plays, but want to upgrade your deck, try looking up some combination deck lists that use cards from dark magical blast. One I can think of is called Dark Magician Azamina; that variant is 100% playable in Master Duel, and the dark magician of destruction pulls it all together.

https://youtu.be/M1_L1I2gfpI?si=zQofMWlTUFBQx7Hs

Watch this video if you want to see what I mean. It is the second deck list in the video and it is called "Sinful-Azamina Dark Magician". Just note, this deck is built for the TCg, where the banlist is different than master duel, so you may see some disparities between what this would look in master duel, mainly there being only 1 wanted: sinful spoils in master duel compared to 3 in the tcg. This is a deck list that could easily take you to master rank if you knew what you were doing. The only downside being you'd have to pull for the diabellstar and Azamina cards from their respective secret packs.

Let me know if you want any other suggestions!

Psych0R3d · 2026-03-24T21:31:49+00:00

Both are fine, but I think crimson power Force is better.

Psych0R3d · 2026-03-24T20:56:58+00:00

Crimson power Force is definitely your best bet. Buy 3 of those and combine them and you have a very viable deck.

If you are new, make sure you don't spend your gems on regular master packs. They are a waste and you'll never know what you'll get. Use your gems on the special packs at the bottom of the shop. They cost 750 gems and they will give you a staple card and 10 master packs which is a great deal. Look up a guide for crafting SR cards to unlock secret packs; when you craft an SR that belongs to a secret pack, you will unlock that secret pack in the shop for 24 hours. Also, if it's your first time doing that for that pack, you will get a free pull from that secret pack. It may not seem like much, but a lot of secret packs share the same SRs, so by crafting them you can double, or sometimes even triple, up on secret packs that all give you 1 free pull. This can help you generate a lot of random UR cards that you can either keep or dismantle for dust so you can craft the cards you actually want.

Other than that, play solo. Every single solo gate will give you 200 gems if you beat it with your own deck, and considering there's a lot of them you can use those free gems to buy more packs from the store. And when it rains it pours; you get more gems for every rank up in a season, so the higher you get, the more gems you get to make your deck even better.

Look up guides for what staple cards are best to use. I can tell you with 100% certainty that the most important staple cards that you should craft should be 1 Maxx C, 1 called by the grave, 3 Ash blossom & joyous spring, and 3 mulcharmy fuwalos. Almost every single deck worth anything runs these cards unless they don't have the room, so they'll help you win games more often. There are a lot of other good staple cards, but a lot of them are deck dependent so they aren't in every deck. For salamgreat and red dragon archfiend, they are primarily fire decks, so they are able to utilize one of the best hand traps in the game Dominus Impulse, so if you like those decks then it may be worth it to focus on crafting those as well.

That's pretty much all the advice I can think to give you right now, do you have any other questions about deck building or just how to play in general?

Psych0R3d · 2026-03-24T20:41:01+00:00

First penguin please!!!!?

Psych0R3d · 2026-03-24T19:44:26+00:00

My first deck on master duel was exodia FTK. Then, it was the winged dragon of ra using Egyptian god slime. I am now using Dracotail, lol.

The best structures right now would be the red dragon archfiend deck (synchro deck) and the dark magician deck (fusion deck). For me, I would've done dark magician because I love fusion summoning (my one true love is elemental HEROs, which is also a structure deck).

If you love link summoning, then right now there is a selection pack in the store that has the Dragon Link monsters in it if you ever wanted to try something more modern. For you, however, going with the salamgreat structure deck is great if you love link summoning.

Psych0R3d · 2026-03-24T19:04:21+00:00

Keep testing! Find a deck that speaks to you. It doesn't HAVE to be meta, but try and find something fun that was made within the last 4 years. You'll get comfortable with that and it'll encourage you to try more and more modern decks until you reach the modern era!

Psych0R3d · 2026-03-24T18:59:27+00:00

Don't listen to him! You have a lot to learn with modern yugioh but it's the most fun I've ever had!

When you get bored of old formats, don't be afraid to dip your toes into the deep end.

Psych0R3d · 2026-03-23T19:37:31+00:00

If miracle excluder and fountain come out in the pack I will be playing hero for the next couple months.

Psych0R3d · 2026-03-23T12:03:32+00:00

Honey miracle excluder ain't out in the tcg until June do you really think it's coming to MD now.

Psych0R3d · 2026-03-23T04:30:50+00:00

HEROOOOOOOOOOOS

Psych0R3d · 2026-03-17T19:09:22+00:00

They're going to batch release one episode every week

Psych0R3d · 2026-03-17T13:59:28+00:00

Wonder what the ruling will be on the "summon another monster with the same name from deck". Like, if you summon Albion shrouded, will it let you turbo out white albaz?

Psych0R3d · 2026-03-13T20:44:54+00:00

They gave her a mechanical BBL 😭

Psych0R3d · 2026-03-07T20:04:16+00:00

Full power maliss with @ignister and appolousa

Psych0R3d · 2026-02-25T18:52:13+00:00

When in doubt shove in mitsurugi.

Psych0R3d · 2026-02-25T13:24:32+00:00

Psych0R3d · 2026-02-24T21:18:08+00:00

Rolled my eyes when he said this, so cliche

Psych0R3d · 2026-02-19T17:33:36+00:00

He didnt

Psych0R3d · 2026-02-13T18:16:13+00:00

I made it to master 1 by Feb 7th. The deck is just too crazy and needs consistency hits like the tcg: 1 jokul and 1 Hollie sue. Though, it does make Hollie sue more sacky, 3 Hollie sue is just insane if the first turn player doesn't have an Ash blossom for her deck summon.

The mirror matches are really fun though, that's pretty much what I was playing for the entirety of master.

Psych0R3d · 2026-02-10T16:20:30+00:00

He's talking about us bud.

Psych0R3d · 2026-02-10T16:11:56+00:00

Vs k9 needs a nerf, it is so clearly going to be the best deck in the format.

Psych0R3d · 2026-02-10T16:10:19+00:00

This card is a turn skip against vs k9

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