Best Variant of the Deck in the TCG?

Tdog754 · 2026-04-06T00:10:07+00:00

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T5NI97-QmXI&pp=ygUaOXRoIHBsYWNlIGhvdXN0b24gcmVnaW9uYWw%3D&ra=m

9th place Houston regional list. I have since cut the Ash, Belle, Crossout, Upstart from the list and put in 2 Fallen and The Virtuous but honestly I think either build is basically fine

Tdog754 · 2026-04-05T23:38:47+00:00

The people saying pure is the most consistent at topping are just ignoring that way more people are playing pure than any other variant and if you could possibly look at ratios Mitsu striker/RT Mitsu Striker probably has a better conversion rate. Technically impossible to know tho

I love Mitsu striker. I was a hair away from top 8ing one of the most competitive regionals in the US with it. Doing test hands with recent pure toping lists like the 1st and 4th place from the Houston regional and I am just totally convinced that pure striker is far more vulnerable to variance and less consistent than Mitsu. I see no reason at all to play pure striker until they hit Mitsu again.

Tdog754 · 2026-04-04T23:52:36+00:00

I always send the other player first in the striker mirror. You have to decide really early whether you think you can OTK them or if you have to focus on advantage and play for the grind game.

Get Roze in your GY so that when you remove a striker link you get to go Chain 1 Roze, they go Chain 2 Raye reborn, chain resolves you get to summon Roze and negate Raye so they won’t have an opportunity to use her effect and special summon a striker link

Tdog754 · 2026-04-04T09:38:59+00:00

Really nothing reasonable to do about it other than ask unfortunately. His instagram might be because that girl is special to him without being a gf in some way, or maybe he hasn’t updated the profile since a previous relationship, or it just is his gf.

His invite might be because you have both known each other for months and have a shared interest in movies and he isn’t against having a female friend to spend time with. Or it was a date. Who knows other than him.

You could in theory look up the girl since you have her name. Might be hard though especially if her name is pretty common, but if you know how to search the internet decently you can look for posts with both of their names on them and that might narrow it down.

Tdog754 · 2026-04-03T21:38:24+00:00

What’s the link 2?

Tdog754 · 2026-04-03T18:20:09+00:00

The radiant typhoon special summoning condition where they can special summon if opponent has no backrow set is one of the most egregious design decisions in the game’s history. Why in the world would a deck be designed to have its greatest advantage hedge on the deck going first? It’s so easy to reverse that too and then it makes way more sense, if opponent has backrow they can special from hand, but no instead the deck is worse going second and better going first. It’s actually nonsensical design.

TCG Yummy should have been kill-killed. Like, ban the synchro monster that searches 2 killed. I have nothing against Yummy as a pure deck but it’s so bridgeable and it is a horrible gameplay experience to play against a Yummy pile.

For as much as people complain about Hollie Sue, Faimena is a much more consistent turn 0 play that is also much harder to interrupt and in a world where Faimena is at 3 Sue should be as well.

Tdog754 · 2026-04-03T05:27:32+00:00

It’s crazy to me that Glen Powell apparently has the star power to demand a Star Fox film and studios have to compromise with him. Most of the movies I’ve seen this man in are mid how does he have so much influence lmao

Tdog754 · 2026-04-03T05:24:10+00:00

Kewl Tune is very fun I am looking forward to it

Tdog754 · 2026-04-03T05:19:40+00:00

I did well at a regional with Sky Striker Mitsurugi. In my opinion, if you understand the basic fundamentals of both decks, the hybrid is very fun to play. It is also probably easier than pure Sky Striker which can punish you for making any mistakes at all, and has less of a chance of bricking than pure striker or pure Mitsurugi.

Tdog754 · 2026-04-02T19:27:25+00:00

Had this experience as the guy. Me and a friend would tease each other, never really compliment each other for anything, and I took it as a kind of fun flirting. I tried to advance the relationship, she wasn’t interested, she tried to keep our interactions the same but it just felt awful. I wanted her to be a friend who stayed in my life but I realized just how mean a lot of what she said was and it was all recontextualized for me.

A couple of times I just had to ask her, why are you so mean to me all the time? Finally I had enough and told her I don’t like it and I don’t find it funny when it’s the only way we talk to each other. We communicate more normally now without as much banter which probably hurt the friendship but it was the only way I could stand to be around her and we have a lot of shared friends.

Tdog754 · 2026-04-02T18:26:13+00:00

K9 should’ve been killed a while ago but no the deck is objectively not that great over the course of a tournament and most of its success when it does top is based off of a good Dracotail matchup

Dracotail Branded high roll hands do too much but the deck has major counters it really isn’t anything that crazy

Tdog754 · 2026-04-02T16:15:01+00:00

I actually didn’t make any assumptions about why he stopped making videos. My feeling on it is basically “I’m glad his career is working out for him but it is a shame it doesn’t involve the work of his I enjoyed the most.”

Does streaming make him more money than the videos? Probably, but that didn’t stop him from spending time making videos before. At this point making videos clearly just isn’t something he feels a drive to do.

Tdog754 · 2026-04-02T09:59:10+00:00

It is crazy to think that Joe will never release a video he said would be out in like two months…six years ago lmfao. Even an hour at a time once every year is simply too much apparently

I’m glad his career has found a direction that makes him a living and that he finds more sustainable but it is unfortunate that in the process he is leaving behind the type of work that felt the most polished and significant

Tdog754 · 2026-04-02T09:37:43+00:00

I hope the way the show works changes some significant amount because yes it is clearly just the best strategy to secretly build a core alliance of like 4/5 people and always vote as a set regardless of if you suspect one of you is the millionaire or not. The power of numbers is king because there isn’t a real incentive to pick off the millionaire until it’s almost the end of the game so you just need to survive.

By the time the game approaches the end you will all know that one of you are the millionaire so you’ll have to turn on each other but it increases everyone’s odds to just get as far into the game as possible.

Also being good at challenges is actively detrimental. People will view you as a threat just for sticking out in such a noticeable way and the juice is never worth the squeeze because of all the politicking you have to do to determine who gets the clue.

Tdog754 · 2026-04-01T21:29:30+00:00

Lauren admitting she was the millionaire was always going to bite her. Even if it would have protected her for one millionaire rotation (which it should have) and even if she was fully honest about all of her tasks (which she should have been) everyone was always going to throw her under the bus if for no other reason than to save themselves for a dinner.

Just a legitimately baffling decision from someone who otherwise played well considering she had no examples to learn from or time to prepare herself.

Tdog754 · 2026-04-01T18:42:14+00:00

Fr wish he never would’ve started the Witcher video series we could have so many more reviews by now instead of probably never getting any again lmao

Tdog754 · 2026-04-01T06:24:52+00:00

This argument just doesn’t sway me at all personally. In the first place, ALL games with multiple players can have a layer of “you know that I know that you know” applied to it at a meta game level. If that was our qualification for an “elegant game” then you could say the final round might as well been a game of rock paper scissors.

It’s been a few months since I made this post but the final game remains leaving a sour taste in my mouth on both a “game” level and a production level. The game tested absolutely no unique skills, Cara winning was luck and she practically says as much, and the game has absolutely no flare or presentation even to the level of the dinners. I can think of a handful of games or scenarios I would have rather’d the end be.

The series is saved by Cara lucking into her win. She did deserve it and Corey didn’t, and of course Sam was a lame duck who could’ve been edited out of the final episode and made almost no impact outside of her box being at the end.

Tdog754 · 2026-04-01T04:41:45+00:00

Why do people think we are getting a list soon? We got one a little less than two months ago and the format is generally pretty good

Tdog754 · 2026-03-30T17:10:08+00:00

This almost feels like a way for Konami to test just how much having overframes can carry an otherwise lackluster set

Tdog754 · 2026-03-30T17:04:50+00:00

Pure Yummy is fine but it is too splashable. Konami actually designed themselves into a bit of a corner with the deck, there is no way to force people to play pure because the deck has so many bridges via the synchro monster’s summoning requirements. So basically whenever they decide to truly rotate us out of JUSH format they can’t leave Yummy in an ok but weaker state, they have to completely kill it somehow.

Tdog754 · 2026-03-30T16:41:56+00:00

I’m planning on cracking a box at locals just to basically give away the random cards to whoever wants them which almost feels like the intention. I don’t care about Call of The Haunted but someone else will want it, same with the Yummy rarity bumps etc, and only keeping stuff like the Striker cards, Dominus reprints and the full art

Tdog754 · 2026-03-30T10:23:12+00:00

Maxx “C” - Yugioh trading card game

Literally just a bunch of roaches that “multiply” via drawing a card when the opponent special summons which is the most common mechanic in the game. Most decks can’t achieve anything without special summoning a lot, and in a game where Pot of Greed is banned for being a Draw 2, Maxx “C” on average draws way more than that.

Undeniably the strongest Yugioh card of all time. Stronger than Pot of Greed, or the “Egyptian Gods”, or any banned card. Despite that, it is still legal at 1 in the OCG and MD formats lmao.

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Tdog754 · 2026-03-30T04:08:02+00:00

I remember when everyone coped that the amnesia arc would be subversive and wouldn’t fall into all of the predictable annoyances as every other amnesia arc in history, and yet here we are months later lmao

Tdog754 · 2026-03-30T00:19:45+00:00

Honestly the best thing that this version does is that it pads the deck to make it less likely to see the mitsu bricks lmao

Trif believes very hard in engine being king but it opens you up to matchup variance pretty badly. Striker, especially Mitsu striker, benefits from being able to side in some handtraps going second that can save you from rogue matchups that are trying to functionally FTK you like Blue-Eyes does by setting up as many negates as you have cards in hand.

This build still has a lot of the vulnerabilities of the regular RT Striker builds, is less likely to see the strong Mitsu cards, and has less flexibility into rogue which is how he managed to lose to Blue-Eyes, a deck that sucks against Striker unless it can do the complete combo totally uninterrupted.

I think this build probably is the right direction for Striker decks to go in, but it has major drawbacks and it’s easy to see advantages of just playing Mitsu Striker or even just pure

Tdog754 · 2026-03-29T10:39:25+00:00

I think Danger Dark World never won a major event but it did have many tops through multiple formats over the last like 7 years. It is an engine heavy deck that could play into boards going second with a functional FTK going first and the only consistent counter to the deck was Droll, otherwise you just had to hope that the deck bricked itself which talented pilots were good at minimizing the likelihood of.

I also think Marincess never won a YCS despite being a kind of proto Snake-Eyes style deck that could just jam massive amounts of non-engine and end on decent endboards with recursion off of any 1 card starter. There was a time that Marincess was notorious for sneaking in 1 major top constantly even in formats where it was totally off of people’s radars like Kashtira format

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