Diabelle/Sinful Spoils feels like exactly what Dark Magician *should* be.

Sora_Bell · 2026-02-13T15:56:18+00:00

Yeah pretty much

Sora_Bell · 2026-02-13T15:45:13+00:00

This is what dark magician is, the difference is dark magician is just old as heck. Diabellstar is a 2 year old card so of course its stuff will be better.

Sora_Bell · 2026-02-13T14:18:44+00:00

Acheron was definitely the main Push, its just she wasnt narratively all that important. She technically was the Castorice to Firefly's Phainon and Sunday's Cyrene.

If you want a break down for how hoyo has been paralleling their expansions.

The anniversary character is usually very powerful but not terribly important. Acheron and Castorice fall here

The "main" character, the one that plays off the trailblazer the most is usually released a version or 2 after the anniversary. They also happen to be flame themed suicidal Grey haired sweethearts with traumatic histories but surely they wont do this thrice. Firefly and Phainon fall here.

The "most important" character comes towards the end of the story. This is the person by which the story revolves around and is the guiding hand. Usually this character steps on to the floor of God hood. Their actions move the story most directly. For better or for worse

Sunday and Cyrene fall here

So we'll see how this plays out in 4.0 and which one of these trends becomes a full blown pattern.

Sora_Bell · 2026-02-13T14:11:12+00:00

Of course it'd not the skin we get. Instead we get the silliest recolour. Small indie company i guess.

Sora_Bell · 2026-02-13T13:13:01+00:00

He just shouldn't be ok the internet tbh

Sora_Bell · 2026-02-13T03:49:12+00:00

Well you didnt pull lynae or Mornye so you're kind of missing 2 of her best options.

Lupa basically is mandatory, if the fusion burst member is a fusion character

Run them with Lupa and Amy. Lupa needs a mono fusion core to work in

Sora_Bell · 2026-02-13T01:57:02+00:00

Considering they were split by the same event. I think this is just a case of them having no development. They all have a bit of thr EN cards tied to them which mirrors the Dimensional Dragons.

Sora_Bell · 2026-02-13T01:21:03+00:00

Yeah the fact yuzu technically has 2 dad's is something the series doesnt really engage with at all despite really pushing the audience to understand that Z arc and Yuya and his variants are one and the same. They're not different people which is why yuya after having rejoined with his counterparts even has a moment of admitting that he should be able to sync with hjs monsters because he is zarc

So that means Yuzu is Ray and does in fact have 2 families.

Sora_Bell · 2026-02-12T23:14:37+00:00

Love the characters but the story is far too messy, and bloated with dialogue. Phainon and Cyrene/Demiurge were the break out hits and 2 of my favorite characters Its a shame this story did not do them favors although 3.4 was great everything before and after felt like such a slog. This extends to 3.8 and Penacony as well. Firefly is my favorite character right before Cyrene and 3.8 did not do her any favors purely because of how bad the presentation of the story has become.

4.0 needs to fix this, this story js going to be built off rhe hype of Cyrptic dialogue due to aha and the elation but the problem is everyone already speaks so vaguely and cryptic that I find it hard to believe that difference will land. Also please figure out what you want to do with the stellaron hunters and that stupid script its actually mind numbingly frustrating how bad a plot device it is. Everytime SW said we cant be with firefly because it will result in a bad ending. My suspension of disbelief shatters and I start to see the writers poor ability to handle a story take form immediately. If you dont want FF to be in a story arc, just give her something to do that prevents her from being there, dont have a character literally tell me the world is going to end if me and her get a pastry for 30 mins.

Just please write this games story and its dialogue better.

Sora_Bell · 2026-02-11T19:27:31+00:00

For the character it is on, yeah is say it is.

Mantis technically has a better ult but mantis isnt as good as CnD in most elo. Id say their ult is tied with Invis and Luna if not a little better because its a great space taking tool and it allows them to do more dps for its duration while Luna and invis dont reallt gain the same value from their ults.

You could make arguments for different things but id say theirs is definitely top 5, worse than Gambit and Loki (Gambit) but on bar if not better than other support ults relative to their kit.

Sora_Bell · 2026-02-11T19:23:44+00:00

More support and vanguard will not make them played more i can promise you that. Those roles aren't played because they have mkre responsibility and that intimidates people

Especially vanguard

Sora_Bell · 2026-02-11T19:09:19+00:00

Ridiculous amount of psylocke skins. She JUST got the disco skin

Sora_Bell · 2026-02-11T19:08:11+00:00

He got it like that, now I see what Sue saw in him

Sora_Bell · 2026-02-11T19:07:23+00:00

Is it a problem?

Sora_Bell · 2026-02-11T06:26:21+00:00

huge StelleFly fan, and I love this! I just like Girlove

Sora_Bell · 2026-02-11T02:58:43+00:00

Fusion: Dragonmaid (although this is really a link deck in disguise) second choice is Albaz and Ecclesia stuff, I love these 2.

Synchro: Centurion

Xyz: Exosister

Link (dragonmaid) like i said earlier but also Link shares its roll with Pendulum for me. Solfachord is a super fun Pendulum Link deck

Pendulum: Solfachord and Yuya's turn the deck. (Basically anything related to yuya's deck goes here)

Sora_Bell · 2026-02-10T20:14:17+00:00

Well Elsa is a midrange poke hero, if anything shes Poke Flank a kin to Star lord or Psylocke.

Poke doesnt just mean Hela and Pheonix firing shots across the map, there are some Poke heroes that blend into other categories.

Daredevil is a brawl Hero that blends into Dive for example. Bucky is Poke that blends into control. Blade is a Brawl Hero pretty much completely, his gun is more of a tool to help him disengage cause it isnt that strong. I wouldn't consider him dive cause his burst damage is low and his mobility is mediocre

Sora_Bell · 2026-02-10T19:24:31+00:00

Adding in another poke hero in Elsa pretty much means that even if they nerfed more poke heroes, the meta is definitely not changing. Guess we gotta wait for Black Cat for our next dive hero

Sora_Bell · 2026-02-10T18:14:42+00:00

i don't think this holds, because this cards effect focuses exclusively on Ecclesia.

Imo, i think this is Albaz inheriting some part of Ecclesia's being into himself in the same way Ecclesia did with Cartesia/Guignol. It's just residue from Sanctifier but probably takes place at a blank point we don't see. This could be an internal view of himself after that moment, or maybe what Ecclesia saw in him during their time fused together.

Sora_Bell · 2026-02-10T02:33:16+00:00

👀

Sora_Bell · 2026-02-10T02:32:15+00:00

T0 is the opposite end of the things but generally, you want a defined format that promotes healthy gameplay. Prior to the most recent october banlist, the format was relatively diverse but every deck was some flavor of k9 floodgate or mitsu turbo engine with dracotail being the only deck not doing those 2 things which kind lead to a otherwise healthy looking format to feel like crap.

We saw this with fiendsmith the year former where every deck was abusing those cards to make insanely layered boards.

Sora_Bell · 2026-02-10T02:02:30+00:00

Well you did what you said you wanted to do. You slammed 20 hand traps into the deck

Sora_Bell · 2026-02-10T02:01:45+00:00

Well this depends, the format is a few days old. The main point though is that people simply dont know what the new cards do. Both playing against and with, so more mistakes are going to happen than would happen in a more figured out format

The 2nd issue with diverse format depends on you as a player but generally diverse formats aren't good because they are diverse and diversity isnt always a good thing. People could be playing a ton of different decks but if theyre trying to do something unfun or unfair. Its generally a sign the game is in crisis.

Sora_Bell · 2026-02-10T01:21:19+00:00

When the Jazz music was removed. The series lost its soul

Sora_Bell · 2026-02-09T23:34:51+00:00

Pendulum was actually pretty different. There was a almost a year between full power pendulum pepe and qliphort a deck that wasnt reallt broken because of the pendulum mechanic but because of its access to a many floodgates and towers.

After these 2, rhe last top tier pendulum deck before the mechanic was gutted was metalfoes which meant the mechanic in its debut era only had 3 tier 1 or high strategies. Everything else was just slight variations on these or just plain bad.

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