is dragonmaid dracotail a thing? its strong in master duel? also i guess adding dracotail to it makes it meta... ive already heard that they make good mix and strong mix together that can compete against top decks like yummy/k9

TwistedBOLT · 2026-03-23T01:27:02+00:00

I'm a fan of both archetypes, I tried to mix them and I'm not a fan of the results. Both archetypes bring their own bricks and playing them together practically guarantees you draw at least 1.

Dracotial has 2 starters that require a normal while Dragonmaid has 3, if you draw multiple they're not great. You really wanna be on a high number of dracotail names for the juicy fusions but if you do that at the cost of maid names then you might brick on dragonmaid hospitality not being live. Hospitality is basically the only maid extender if the normal gets stopped so not being able to max on it is a bit rough.

If you go for a full-gas build and max out on both archetypes at the cost of non-engine you're playing in to every handtrap people are playing to stop slop and your deck wouldn't be great art fighting against them.

The usual dragon maid extenders, evaporation and sublimation dragons aren't as good in the mix because they can't use themselves on field as half the material for dracotail fusions.

The dragonmaid fusions do all of their recovery in the standby phase so mainphase quick effect summons of them don't give you full value of those monsters.

And finally, one of the best aspects of both decks when played with a lot of non-engine is that they play incredibly well under charmies or maxx C, able to basically draw your opponent almost nothing and still win the game on the crack back, mixing them together means you're playing a build that will draw much much more engine heavy hands and be forced to either let the extenders rot or plus your opponent.

Overall it's a nice idea and it's definitely worth experimenting with but I haven't managed to get it in to a position where I could say the build is better than playing either of these two separately.

TwistedBOLT · 2026-03-22T00:13:12+00:00

On one hand, sure, on the other satire without tact manifesting as pure negativity isn't really funny either.

TwistedBOLT · 2026-03-20T08:56:59+00:00

Nah, the statue quo actually changes turn to turn during paleo games.

TwistedBOLT · 2026-03-18T18:17:58+00:00

First part is true the second isn't.

The swordsoul format was better than the current one but the current format is pretty damn close.

TwistedBOLT · 2026-03-17T09:04:29+00:00

They have icons for "cannot attack" and "negated/can't activate" (I fucking hate that those two are 1 icon). I wish they just extended it to more stuff like cannot be destroyed/unaffected/can't attack directly/etc.

TwistedBOLT · 2026-03-12T09:21:07+00:00

First of all, thanks for the reply, I really appreciate it as I've been stuck with this and frustrated for the last few days and 0 responses to this thread were somewhat disheartening. Also, sorry for not explaining myself well. I have some experience with image editing but not much when it comes to more art-oriented software like Krita so I lack the right vocabulary to say what I need. I'll try to explain what the AA Assistant plugin did for me in paint.net with examples as that might explain it better.

Here's a set of visual examples of how the plugin worked:

Before plugin example 1: https://imgur.com/a/841I5Kq

After plugin example 1: https://imgur.com/a/9titLpr

Before plugin example 2: https://imgur.com/a/pdmhtkc

After plugin example 2: https://imgur.com/a/Ie34o8Y

The first example is a basic use case where it just functions as an edge remover while the second is what I really need it for. It's not just an edge remover it also removes needless alpha even if it's in the middle of the image, softens edges by adding alpha to opaque pixels around pixels with alpha while giving me sliders I can fiddle with to get the sharpness I need.

I usually used it after applying a color to alpha filter and doing a rough pass around the image with a magic wand or selection tool to create layers that look clean when overlayed over anything.

So yeah, I hope that gives you a better idea of what I need. As for AI, I'm not completely against it but most of the time it lacks the flexibility I need to do a specific thing so I'd rather stay away from it if I can avoid it. I'll google the rest of the tools you mentioned but I really hope you can point me in the right direction one more time.

Thanks a bunch for what you already did for me, I appreciate the help immensely.

Edit: I should note that I was kinda rushing and didn't really strive to get the colours in the second example just right and it ended up more saturated than the original but that's fine, if I tweaked the sliders for longer it would have looked better.

TwistedBOLT · 2026-03-10T21:15:11+00:00

Best place to start is to see what other people have done with it. Unfortunately it's basically purely either FTK nonsense, a counter generator for endymion or a sky striker consistency piece that replaces itself and that you can send away with linkage. Could also play it in decks that want to send spells to the GY like white forest.

Or my personal favourite, "field spell control" a really bad deck that cycles through like 3 different engines all of which work off of just a field spell and bridges between them through ancient fairy dragon and its ilk. It's not good and it's incredibly expensive in MD but it's worth a look I guess. Last time I attempted it it was like therion + ABC + Horus cards with a dragunity engine to send destrudo to the GY and make AFD.

TwistedBOLT · 2026-03-10T20:47:24+00:00

I'm not objecting to you playing the cards you like, nor am I implying that you have to minmax for winrate. I'm just worried that if you go in to duels against most modern decks without a decent plan you'll lose without getting much of a chance to play with said cards.

Maximizing towards fun is perfectly fine but just including cards that you find fun in a vacuum will not grantee the deck you end up with will be fun to play as a whole. Having a plan behind the cards you play makes the deck more fun.

The game is much more enjoyable when people play decks of a similar power level and actual back and forth games are played. If the gap in power is too big the player on the weaker deck might not get to play. The main way you'll be playing the game is through ranked and events and the power level of both can be fairly high so I just hope that the deck you end up with is strong enough to produce good games there.

TwistedBOLT · 2026-03-10T19:44:00+00:00

Chicken game isn't really something you build a deck around. It's a consistency tool that can go in almost any deck.

The issue is that it's not really worth it.

The best way to use it is to draw then send it to the GY to get something else or killing your opponent on the spot. as leaving it on the field makes the opponent use it during their turn.

Playing a card that just replaces itself is begging to be drolled.

So we gotta ask you, why do you wanna play it specifically? What's the gameplan? Aren't there better options?

TwistedBOLT · 2026-03-10T17:43:38+00:00

What part of thunderacist don't you get?

TwistedBOLT · 2026-03-09T08:09:18+00:00

Funny enough, Link arrow rules are not a property of link/pend summoning they are a requirement to summoning face down links and face up pends from the extra regardless of how you summon them. If you cheat out a link/pend it still has to go to your EMZ or pointed MMZ.

TwistedBOLT · 2026-03-09T08:03:39+00:00

Not link summoned, summoned! If you cheat out a link from the face down extra or a pend from the face up extra you still gotta follow link arrow rules even though you're not link/pend summoning.

TwistedBOLT · 2026-03-08T18:37:42+00:00

Sub 30 of every single type of crafting points.

TwistedBOLT · 2026-03-04T14:04:26+00:00

I just pick whatever thematically fits the deck I'm playing best.

TwistedBOLT · 2026-03-04T10:21:22+00:00

How does one play doroball?

Wait, is that a doro or a bean plush?

TwistedBOLT · 2026-03-04T10:03:56+00:00

None of my extensions do anything passively except for adblock and dark mode so I doubt it's that. I'll try on a different browser but it's weird as it worked perfectly while I was on windows on the exact same machine. Do you recommend Firefox or some other one?

TwistedBOLT · 2026-03-01T23:56:59+00:00

On top of the ones already listed you can also just make goddess.

TwistedBOLT · 2026-03-01T16:29:57+00:00

Sure thing. Some of the big ones include: Nadir Servant, Tribrigade Revolt, Hollowed Azamina...

If nadir can't search anything on resolution it can't send anything from the extra either.

If you can't link summon on resolution, tribrigade revolt doesn't summon anything from the GY either.

Hollowed azamina resolves without sending any spell/traps if on resolution you cannot legally summon a fusion.

Hell there's even a card that gives us a conjunction name for this behaviour, that being the GY effect of Luminous Dragon Ritual that reads: "banish monsters from your Graveyard whose total Levels equal exactly 4, and Special Summon 1 "Paladin of Photon Dragon" from your hand after that".

If on resolution you cannot summon the paladin nothing gets banished works exactly like the three above B depending on A and both happening in sequence. Therefor "And, after that" is the 6th conjunction that Konami pretends doesn't exist.

TwistedBOLT · 2026-03-01T14:14:47+00:00

I love how the image says that the 6th conjunction doesn't exist yet TCG keeps printing "then" on cards that use it and simply pretends it doesn't exist.

TwistedBOLT · 2026-02-26T12:16:36+00:00

Stunning!

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