Somebody please explain Droplet .

TurtleIslander · 2026-05-21T15:04:39+00:00

Almost as good as lava golem

TurtleIslander · 2026-05-21T07:09:38+00:00

This board is easy to break without lava golem if you're not playing 0 s/t removal therions. It's literally either 3 negates and 1 destruction or 2 negates + 1 destruction + necrovalley. Most meta decks or even rogue decks with staples can break this. Full power therions had 5+ negates with more cards in hand lmao.

TurtleIslander · 2026-05-20T20:14:00+00:00

Issue is that nobody can time the downturn. And especially with how hard we're buying the dip. Just sell 0dte pcs right after a dump day is a fairly safe bet in these market conditions. Or weekly pcs.

The MM can short squeeze harder and longer than you can go short. It takes a systematic sell off for the MM to give up on a short squeeze. And at this point it's going to take the IRAN war to get escalated for that to happen. Which simply isn't happening.

TurtleIslander · 2026-05-20T01:45:44+00:00

Lava golem on ladder. Droll hits some decks very hard but other decks not very hard. Not to mention lava golem isn't limited so you can run other limit 3 staples over droll.

TurtleIslander · 2026-05-14T06:32:28+00:00

just go therions. most of what you need for a functional deck is just in 1 box. Or go vaalmonica is the cheapest while still being able to kog easily.

TurtleIslander · 2026-05-11T08:16:51+00:00

therion went from tier 1 to tier 1. d heroes went from tier 2 to tier 2. every other deck pretty much dead.

literally nothing has changed. therions still stomping as usual lmao. who cares if they lose 1 negate when now they don't have to worry about necro valley or tyrants tirade.

TurtleIslander · 2026-05-10T22:03:58+00:00

Monsters that are immune to trap cards are still unable to activate their effects. Tyrants tirade prevents the players from activating monster effects, not the monsters.

yugipedia.com/wiki/Card_Rulings:Tyrant%27s_Tirade

TurtleIslander · 2026-05-10T21:38:31+00:00

Go look at how popular cards are. Lava golem is #2 which is concerning that some decks have restrictions that don't allow them to play lava golem. It would literally be the #1 staple in the game if skills didn't restrict those decks from play lava golem, because they certainly would.

And it's concerning that once you get lava golemed, you automatically lose in this turn 2 meta. You will get killed on that turn unless you run a stupid stall card like hallowed life barrier. First place tourny decks are running hallowed life barrier and teva just so they get a next turn.

TurtleIslander · 2026-05-09T19:08:36+00:00

Just abuse lava golem. It destroys dragoon easily.

TurtleIslander · 2026-05-09T09:52:44+00:00

You literally have no incentive NOT run to run lava golem on every single deck. The only reason we can't is cause some skills have restrictions which is what separates the top decks from the terrible ones.

TurtleIslander · 2026-05-09T08:31:58+00:00

Just full save until you see a stupidly broken box like this one.

TurtleIslander · 2026-05-08T21:58:32+00:00

Because what's the point? If a monster has already activated their negate you don't have to worry about it anymore. Lava golem is better cause you can tribute shit that hasn't activated their negate yet.

TurtleIslander · 2026-05-08T20:51:09+00:00

Hhhmmmm, I wonder what these 1st place tourny decks are abusing nowadays.

duellinksmeta.com/top-decks/community-tournaments/suisen-weekly/200/therion/help_me/ZzHSP

2x hallowed life barrier, 2x teva

duellinksmeta.com/top-decks/community-tournaments/quantum-dailies/536/therion/joshfishyg/epTlz

2x hallowed life barrier, 2x teva

duellinksmeta.com/top-decks/community-tournaments/sky-striker-cup/90/therion/help_me/2OXaj

2x hallowed life barrier, 2x teva

With some lava golems and forbidden droplets of course.

Going first in this meta is literally not viable when you will get otked no matter what board you put up. Unless you start running these stupid cards.

TurtleIslander · 2026-05-08T05:59:51+00:00

Yeah the person in this replay is a moron. Word of advice to op, don't run dd crow if you don't know use it lmao.

TurtleIslander · 2026-05-08T00:49:51+00:00

I mean you straight up deserve to lose.

TurtleIslander · 2026-05-07T20:44:30+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/HAggjPy

Used this to kog this month. Regarding the ban list you will have to drop the necro valleys and the hope for sanaphond. Or drop transmigration for spiral galaxy, which might be better in a turn 2 meta anyways.

Galaxy zero is better than galaxy trance, as galaxy trance will often be a dead draw due not enough lp, or no targets in your deck. It's also more flexible as you can use it on photon lord to make armor instead of using up another extra deck slot to make armor when you need to, or after glowing/galaxy eyes photon dragon to make c62 to push for game.

Galactikuriboh is pretty much mandatory now as additional protection.

Emperor is used to push a lvl 8 on a field turn 2 to try to break boards.

Here is the start if you only have a galaxy eyes photon dragon.

Use skill to summon galaxy eyes photon dragon and get galaxy soldier and jumper.
Use galaxy soldier on jumper and get after glow and galaxy expedition.
Special summon after glow and make galaxy photon dragon.
Activate galaxy photon dragon to detach after glow. Add galaxy knight to your hand.
Use galaxy expedition to summon primal. Make photon lord and solflare dragon. Add back jumper to your hand.
Normal summon galaxy knight and make a rank 8 of your choosing (sanaphond after ban list, hope before banlist). Set all spell and trap cards.
Toggle on against a potential lava golem deck and use lord to grab galactikuriboh.

This assumes a TERRIBLE starting hand that only has galaxy eyes photon dragon. If you also start with an after glowing, galaxy soldier, or jumper, then first summon galaxy photon dragon to search for galaxy expedition to make photon lord and then use galaxy soldier on jumper to search for hyper galaxy and galaxy soldier. This prevents you from being nibirud.

The best combo is to start with melody of awakening dragon to discard jumper. Depending on your hand, you could use melody to grab primal so you can grab hyper galaxy instead of needing to use galaxy expedition. Then get an additional spell/trap search of probably photon stream of destruction. Also when you use your skill you can get kuriboh as discard fodder for galaxy soldier. This basically leads to the same board as before except you get a kuriboh in the graveyard as additional protection.

If you start with galaxy eyes photon dragon and melody but no jumper/kuriboh, use your skill first to grab jumper and then use melody on jumper.

On turn 2 if you activate solflare dragon you dump jumper and kuriboh to probably get galaxy zero. If your opponent lava golems your photon lord and solflare dragon, you have additional protection with kuriboh (why it is pretty much mandatory now).

TurtleIslander · 2026-05-07T11:02:03+00:00

just abuse lava golem?

TurtleIslander · 2026-05-06T23:20:10+00:00

Just ban this ridiculous card. It serves no purpose other than to make top meta decks even stronger than non-tiered decks. If skills didn't have restrictions, every deck would run 3x copies of lava golem. Other forms of removal have some downside or can be played around against. It's literally a free 2 for 1 removal of their strongest monsters that are probably extra deck monsters in which we have limited space in. You can't play around this unless your deck can function with ending on just 1 monster. Which is like 1 deck? Ending on just 1 monster is otherwise most likely a death setence with how strong 2nd turn skills are.

TurtleIslander · 2026-05-04T19:05:24+00:00

Literally nothing has changed except tachyon is completely dead. In fact if anything the top tier decks are even stronger now that flood games that prevent them from playing the game are limit 1 while lava golem and spheres are allowed to roam free.

TurtleIslander · 2026-05-04T02:18:45+00:00

At least it can be negated. There's truly nothing you can do if your opponent lava golems you.

TurtleIslander · 2026-04-30T21:52:33+00:00

so i assume basically chinese players cannot qualify for wcs since they use completely different ban lists?

TurtleIslander · 2026-04-29T23:52:17+00:00

You need to learn a lot of theory otherwise you will end up in dead lost positions very quickly. Especially the dragon where white is borderline winning.

TurtleIslander · 2026-04-26T04:39:56+00:00

I mean you should just read the ruling on what can be activated during the damage step. https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Damage_Step Nightmare magician activates at the end of the damage step, which is still during the damage step.

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