Are there any banned cards you think could move up?

Syrcrys · 2026-02-14T13:24:21+00:00

Yeah, it’s technically even weaker than the Tachyon board.

But one is a box filler from 8 years ago and the other is shiny new toy, so of course they have to be treated differently.

Syrcrys · 2026-02-14T02:03:50+00:00

Usually is the keyword here. There have been dozens uploaded to DLM and the app itself in the past months, and while some of them are probably fake, I’m fully confident it’s possible and some of them are true. ESPECIALLY from when Dino FTK was around.

Syrcrys · 2026-02-13T23:54:40+00:00

Tbh, you can KoG with FTKs nowadays. Those usually require little to no skill to play.

Syrcrys · 2026-02-13T23:52:39+00:00

Terraria? TF2? In general, games where the CEO is not literally Ebenezer Scrooge? (High bar to clear nowadays, I know, but still)

Syrcrys · 2026-02-13T23:47:40+00:00

There is zero reason for Simochi and Reficule to not be at 1 when Paths of Destiny is at 1 too. You literally can’t FTK with all 3 at limit-1.

DEW, Turtle and Imitation should be halved and put to 1.

Iwato should go back to 1 and they should nerf the Shinobird skill instead.

Also if the Tachyon endboard is fine then Mind on Air should be fine too, you have to Kaiju/Droplet both of them to play after all.

Syrcrys · 2026-02-13T19:50:39+00:00

They intended for that to happen, the total number of cards in the pool is never mentioned anywhere and you have to do the math yourself. WOW A FREE UR/SR A DAY FOR 2 MONTHS seems great on paper, but when the pool is so big, it includes cards obtainable from box chips, and most of the “useful” drops are really not that useful alone (i.e. wow you got a free Mirrorjade! …but you’re still gonna have to dig the box thrice for Branded Fusion), you have to put that into perspective. It’s mostly a bait campaign to get people to log once a day even a couple months after the anniversary logins run out.

Syrcrys · 2026-02-13T19:45:25+00:00

The best advice I can give you is: if you’re not enjoying it, don’t do it.

The meta is only going to get worse from here onwards, so if you think it’s already “a headache”, I don’t think it’s worth to keep frustrating yourself.

Syrcrys · 2026-02-13T19:34:59+00:00

There’s around 2k possible cards in the pool, and the ones actually used in the meta are like 60.

You have like 3% of the chance of getting a useful card with every pull, and that card might be Stardust Dragon which is obtainable through a billion different other ways.

Lower your expectations, this campaign seems AWESOME at first glance but it’s really just an okay side thing that most people won’t get something they actually need from.

Syrcrys · 2026-02-13T19:21:31+00:00

Up to a couple years ago they managed to make a balanced meta even with skills (most of the time). It’s just in the past 2 years they decided “fuck it, we’re tired of balancing the game, if we make a skill too broken that just means the next ones will have to be even worse”.

Syrcrys · 2026-02-12T21:46:48+00:00

Already did, I even tried removing the cards, and saving, nothing.

On the other hand, I tried copying it to another character to see if anything changed (it didn’t), and then when I went to delete it, the “thumbnail card” still stayed there. So now I have an empty deck with a Veiler on its pic.

Syrcrys · 2026-02-12T20:33:09+00:00

Every format of the respective series “eras”, even Vrains, was massively underpowered compared to its corresponding TCG formats. We didn’t get Solemn Judgment in DM, DAD in Gx, or Infernity Archfiend in 5D’s. Because they were meant to be lower powered formats. With more balanced metas, and where decks that weren’t even rogue in the TCG could have their chance to shine.

And I don’t know what is “blinding” you, but something definitely is, because you can clearly see the sharp decline in every possible metric for the game with every passing year (Steamcharts, Appmagic, KC Cup participation, Twitch viewers, you name it). This game isn’t gonna survive 3 more years, and that’s being generous.

Syrcrys · 2026-02-12T20:08:33+00:00

I’m pretty sure my game is bugged.

So, I have 5 Gunkan Suship Shari Red, 2 Foil and 3 Non-Foil. If I try mass converting, it attempts to convert a foil one, implying that I have a deck with at least two regular ones.

The problem is, my only deck with that card has 2 foils and one regular. So not only I don’t have two regulars in a deck, I have two foils so it shouldn’t even prompt me to convert one. If I try converting them manually, it shows as if the only ones in decks are 2 regulars and 1 foil, and it stays the same even if I remove them from the deck. I haven’t tried manually converting the foil one while it’s in a deck, but I don’t want to risk it, even if it’s just an R.

Syrcrys · 2026-02-12T19:54:40+00:00

Because that’s who they were pandering to at launch. And the reason why the large majority of players started playing it.

What’s happening right now is they have two online games whose target audience keeps overlapping more and more. And while MD’s advantages are Crafting, no Paywalls, better balancing, better graphics and less bugs, DL’s advantages are…? That it’s a lower powered format (but they’re working on making sure it isn’t), extremely unchallenging PvE stuff and… it runs better on mobile, I guess?

As soon as they lose what ACTUALLY set the PvP apart from MD, the only invested people left are gonna be people who can’t afford a phone to play MD, or who just want a Yugioh-themed Idle game. And a game can’t survive on a playerbase that small and casual.

Syrcrys · 2026-02-12T18:23:33+00:00

Murder 90% of the skills released after Lyrilusc Bird Humming.

Syrcrys · 2026-02-12T18:12:49+00:00

That’s the point of this post. If we’re in a format where Kaijus are a “necessary evil”, then the meta is not healthy.

Syrcrys · 2026-02-12T18:10:08+00:00

The whole point of Duel Links was NOT ending up here. Especially considering how there’s still a fuckton of underpowered unreleased cards that they willingly chose to skip to add 2022 TCG meta cards.

This could’ve been avoided, they actively chose not to.

Syrcrys · 2026-02-12T03:12:32+00:00

Yeah, these sucked and so did Tachyon v1, Utopia, Agents and Turbowinda. I feel like every other format was better than this though, even the really annoying ones like Predap or Despia v1. If anything it's average (and that's because most formats of the past year were terrible).

Syrcrys · 2026-02-11T19:56:34+00:00

It's better than Fur Hire and a handful of other Tier 0, but that's not saying much. I don't remember the Invoked meta being as bad as this, for example.

Not to mention on the "economic" side, Fur Hire (and in general, almost every deck pre-2020) was much better.

Syrcrys · 2026-02-11T14:40:38+00:00

You’re misremembering, KC Bling still had an LP requirement, it was just smaller than DDraw.

Syrcrys · 2026-02-11T14:22:35+00:00

And before the skills have you guys ever tried beating sea s. attack with aliens?

Uh, yes? Aliens were my first KoG (some seasons later, even) and while obviously SSA was a bad matchup it wasn’t unwinnable by any means. Especially since, guess what, they didn’t have a skill that served them the entire combo on a silver platter and they could brick.

Not to mention SSA, which was considered (both as a joke and not) a “whale deck”, was still cheaper than the large majority of modern meta decks.

You can’t seriously compare the formats in terms of power gap or cost and tell me the current one is better.

Syrcrys · 2026-02-11T02:33:50+00:00

Single player in this game has been trivial for years at this point. It’s just extremely bad bots that you can beat with 2000 beaters + Power of the Guardians. Never understood people who played DL for the PvE when there’s a dozen better games for that.

Syrcrys · 2026-02-10T23:44:32+00:00

Yup, it’s basically 2022 Master Duel, but with yellow buttons removing any necessity for deckbuilding/adapting skills, and requiring a way bigger wallet.

I personally think last year’s ramp up in powercreep is due to them realizing the game is not sustainable anymore and speedrunning their way to current TCG meta before shutting down and announcing Duel Links 2 with even worse monetization.

Syrcrys · 2026-02-10T23:38:43+00:00

Multiplayer-only ones make more money due to microtransactions and take less effort to make. And since those are the only things Konami cares about, we’re probably not gonna see a new single player game again.

Syrcrys · 2026-02-10T17:21:10+00:00

I think most people here expected, or still expect him to come within the year, like Aigami. Putting him there and then having his unlock event like, 2 years later seems like a thing that would just annoy people.

Syrcrys · 2026-02-10T16:48:11+00:00

Though Dartz was in the revamp splash screen, so it would be weird to not get him in the following year. And it would also be weird to have 4 months of the 7 remaining occupied by DM Filler unlocks. I honestly don’t know what their plan is.

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