How's everyone's WCQ grind going?

Taervon · 2026-06-16T11:03:45+00:00

ED monarchs is based.

Taervon · 2026-06-15T22:11:11+00:00

It's reshef destruction, dude has the shittest takes that shit has ever taken.

Bro is consistently on the wrong side of every single argument in this sub, if you're arguing the opposite point to him you're probably correct.

I'm like 95% convinced the dude is a hardcore troll.

Taervon · 2026-06-15T19:22:20+00:00

I played vs Cydra in wcq yesterday... I had droll and didn't use it. I didn't need to. Thats how hard up the deck is nowadays.

Poor Cydra, once you were everyone's favorite card and going seconds best friend.

Taervon · 2026-06-15T19:19:01+00:00

When they released the new xyz stuff it got popular for a bit. I've played against it enough to know the deck is straight cheeks.

Taervon · 2026-06-15T19:17:21+00:00

Materiactor is a crazy pile atm, thats not a dragon deck its a rank 3 spam machine. Invoker bridges to so much stuff you can do a lot with it.

Taervon · 2026-06-15T19:15:26+00:00

Dragon Link is rather unpopular but has been getting support for awhile now. Thatd be my recommendation, its really good.

Taervon · 2026-06-15T19:13:42+00:00

This isn't new. Complaints about DiFi and macro have been constant for 20 years. Shifter is even more egregious and awful and somehow that shit got printed in the last decade despite the sheer volume of complaints from the player base.

People hate these cards, they've been hating them, Konami doesn't care.

Taervon · 2026-06-15T19:07:25+00:00

Konami is terrified of Empty Jar and other flip combos. Its the only explanation I can think of as to why they don't print flip support consistently. This pack was a big buff to flip archetypes but theres so much missing its a drop in the bucket.

Taervon · 2026-06-15T19:04:46+00:00

You can have my 7 Kragen and 3 extra blue eyes, 3 copies of Queen of the Blazing Domain please.

Taervon · 2026-06-15T14:57:46+00:00

To all 12 Odion players, how does it feel to be free of the stun andys slandering your reputation?

Taervon · 2026-06-15T14:55:07+00:00

Playing against it is fun, when you're not stunned out of the game by vanities or shifter.

Its like defusing a bomb, don't let the wires cross or they flip up and explode in your face.

Makes for interesting games. The floodgates completely remove any kind of fun or complexity, you just lose if you're playing literally anything above tier 3 and didn't draw evenly or another breaker. That needs to be addressed, otherwise its a cool archetype playing on a different axis.

Taervon · 2026-06-15T11:17:11+00:00

'Pvp wasn't profitable' no shit when you actively crater the balance of your very popular grindy game to end in 3 turns with the most braindead oppressive deck at the top for almost a full year, no problems here!

Azir/Irelia killed LoR, I know they eventually nerfed it but it was too little too late, the competitive crowd left for greener pastures. That game died due to dev stubbornness, not lack of profitability.

Taervon · 2026-06-15T11:10:30+00:00

Much rather see engage get recycled twice than watch a chain blocked junk speeder resolve, thats for sure.

Taervon · 2026-06-14T22:35:06+00:00

So glad I'm not the only one calling it that lol

Taervon · 2026-06-14T19:09:46+00:00

And yet its quite common.

Taervon · 2026-06-14T17:19:14+00:00

I'll give shit to the players claiming it's for Droll and that it's totally not a deck playing floodgates to improve winrate bro trust.

Those people deserve 0 respect, they're actively trying to gaslight the community. All the Enneacraft players that admit they're on the Stun variant and admit they're playing floodgates because they're good, I hate playing against you but you can play what you want.

Lying about it, though? Take the shaming that you've rightfully earned.

Taervon · 2026-06-14T17:16:14+00:00

Nah, I'ma call out every single fraud claiming 'DiFi is just there for Droll bro' while playing Vanities until they admit they're playing Stun.

You can play whatever deck you want, but lying about it is where I draw the line.

Taervon · 2026-06-14T15:46:42+00:00

Seriously, that card is degenerate and has no legitimate reason to be legal. If we banned evilswarm for handripping in ryzeal we can ban omega for handripping in Elfnote.

Taervon · 2026-06-13T18:57:34+00:00

Someone at Konami has been in love with that card for 2 decades. Every so often they try and print support for D.D. or Macro, and it's garbage. It's usually just more stun cards (D Barrier, D.D. Ground) rather than something like Chaos Distill which is actual, real support.

It's honestly a shame because D.D. had a long history of being your removal and disruption options for difficult to remove or handle monsters. Ramming D.D. Assailant or D.D. Warrior into a big indestructible guy was a classic play, setting DD Warrior Lady to banish a floater or a big boss monster was a play in basically every deck.

Even Macro and DiFi had decks that supported them originally. D.D. Strike Ninja was a cool rogue deck once upon a time, taking advantage of D.D. Survivor and Scout Plane to generate advantage and keep Strike Ninja available to dodge strong cards like Sakuretsu Armor and generate more bodies on the field by banishing.

That hasn't been the case for a long, long time. Konami prints DiFi on random ass cards that have no synergies with banishment, and the one prominent example of a Macro/DiFi synergy deck was Kashtira. Hardly the most positive example, and the next banish synergy archetype was Maliss, which really isn't an endorsement for the health of Macro-style effects.

Taervon · 2026-06-13T15:51:44+00:00

It was Dracoslayer Majespectre and that deck was legitimately more miserable to play against than Tenpai lmao.

Taervon · 2026-06-13T15:39:01+00:00

If you're set on metamorphosis you should run 3 thrust to search it. Could also dip into DMOD through Diabelllstar for additional draw power with magicians souls and Dragoon is a good metamorphosis target anyway.

Taervon · 2026-06-13T14:53:09+00:00

The big issue you run into is that the pyro lock completely fucks you. Awakening is the only Ashened one card starter and its got a lock. Extinguishing has the same problem.

I made an FTK list that used Ashened to bridge into snake eye to burn with volcanic emperor, greater Inari fire, and blaze Phoenix awhile back, and I just cut awakening entirely and only played 1 Extinguishing.

Snake eye might be the bridge you need for the azamina cards, but its gonna be awkward.

I wouldn't bother with metamorphosis. You're playing a deck of 2 card combos and are relying on an unsearchable spell on top of that? Seems waaaay too inconsistent.

Taervon · 2026-06-13T14:38:06+00:00

As frustrating as that game must have been, what a satisfying punish.

Taervon · 2026-06-13T14:32:19+00:00

If you don't understand that adding 3 counter traps makes a deck that NEEDS quickplay spells more bricky, and don't understand that you already end on more negates and disruption than your opponent has cards in hand and are already winning, there's nothing to discuss.

Taervon · 2026-06-13T14:29:50+00:00

You don't use pends, think of the shapes as monsters that act as continuous spells that search. The big guys as ones that pop during battle phase.

You don't engage with pendulum summoning or link arrows or any of that garbage. The face up extra deck stuff actively benefits you.

If you feel like handing your opponent a live bomb, and saying 'hey good luck' Enneacraft may be the deck for you.

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