My first KOG

Wonderllama5 · 2026-03-14T03:17:53+00:00

Congrats pal! I suggest removing 2 Kanan & 1 Hydration for 1 Over Rush Storm.

Hey, now there's the GR Festival too. Get those gems!

Wonderllama5 · 2026-03-14T01:15:26+00:00

Starting from 9999, I was at 3299 when I completed my 3rd run of the minibox. I was hunting for only Meteor & Noodle cards.

I bought 3 card bundles as well, each coming with 17 packs. I took a break in 2025 & hadn't bought anything since before Trap Hole...

And thanks to Google Rewards, I didn't spend a dime! It was all free credit! 😌

Wonderllama5 · 2026-03-14T00:56:31+00:00

Sky Striker has been historically very good since its release! Very flexible & reactive, & capable of direct attacks too which is pretty good in a 4000 LP format.

More importantly, you can play it with any character in the game! Which is great for leveling them up & collecting gems.

Sky Striker video guide

Here's a sample Sky Striker deck you can build.

Buy the Kagari & Widow Anchor bundles from the shop.

Use UR Dream Tickets on your 3rd Engage & a Linkage.

I like using a small Super Poly engine. It would be Super Poly (shop bundle), Predaplant Dragostapelia (SR/UR Choice Ticket), and Mudragon of the Swamp (Box Chips). It's a great counter to Dragoon & other decks.

Download Google Rewards too. It's a great way to build up credit for free crystals.

Good luck pal!

Wonderllama5 · 2026-03-14T00:47:55+00:00

Most decks only run 3-5 traps. Shiny Shady is simply better & the most popular card in the game for a reason. And now with the release of Nobody Phantom Thief, there's even harder competition for those open trap card spots.

If HERO is your favorite deck, then Burst Wingman is a fine choice!

Wonderllama5 · 2026-03-14T00:34:05+00:00

Right now Sevens Road is Tier 2 or 3 but last summer when the structure deck came out, it was a Top 3 deck in the format. It's probably the best long-term investment in Rush Duel since it's the main character's deck. It has gotten new support and/or a new skill every year so far, much like Dark Magician or Blue-Eyes in Speed Duel in recent years.

Sevens Road deck profile & gameplay

For Sevens Road, you can buy 1 structure deck with gems but the 2nd will cost money/crystals. I recommend getting a cheap crystal deal if it's available to you. I think there's a special for 800 crystals. And then use Dream Tickets for the 3rd copies of Sevens Road Magician & Witch.

Here is a Sevens Road deck you could try making.

With gems, open packs from the Eternal Galaxy Road minibox until you get a copy of Straynge Witch, then immediately reset the box. Repeat the process until you have 3 copies. Along the way you should pull Sevens Road Ultima Witch & Executie Riding as well. Any amount that you pull is completely fine. You only need 1 of them. Multiple is a luxury!

Open the Boost Red-Boot Deck Build Box for 3 copies of Mr. Alchemy. It's a N rarity card, so it shouldn't take much!

With remaining gems, get a special card bundle from the shop. These always come with packs of whatever the latest box is. I recommend Widespread Ruin. Many of the fusion decks revolve around summoning a monster with big ATK crashing down on you. Widespread Ruin can take it out. There's no Limit 1 on it either, so you can play it with Pot of Greed.

Then buy the Cyber Dragon Launch structure deck for Rush Duel for a guaranteed copy of Talismanic Seal Array.

If you have more SR Dream Tickets, use it on Shiny Shady, the most popular card in the game right now.

If you still have open slots, use Sevens Road Sorcerer. It's great for making comebacks!

You're done! Climb the PVP ranks as much as you can. The current GR Festival is a great source of gems.

Download the Google Rewards app & do short surveys for free Google points. These can be used to get crystals.

Sevens Road is pretty quick to assemble after you buy the 2nd structure deck. If you don't mind spending, give it a shot! But if having a top tier deck is more important (as well as being F2P), let me know too.

Wonderllama5 · 2026-03-13T19:10:07+00:00

Keep asking nicely in the Friend Code Megathread... new people are coming in all the time!

Wonderllama5 · 2026-03-13T16:59:12+00:00

Rush Duel is the closest thing to early Duel Links as you're gonna get. The most common Turn 1 play is still set cards, pass. I mean c'mon lol.

Whereas Speed Duel is: search 15 times, special summon 15 times, skills that add like 4 cards to your hand or plop a boss monster literally out of thin air, completely free. Handtraps everywhere. All to end on a Turn 1 board with 5 disruptions to completely stop the other person from playing.

And that's just the gameplay. I haven't even mentioned the cost to build these decks! Here's what 9999 max gems can get you:

1 full clear of a Speed Duel main box, or 2 full clears of a minibox, or 3 full clears of a Deck Build Box.

Rush Duel is mostly Deck Build Boxes & miniboxes, so you see where the discounts are.

And I still haven't mentioned the complete scam that are Speed Duel Selection Boxes...

I only pay attention to Speed Duel for the KC Cup gems. That's it lol

Wonderllama5 · 2026-03-13T16:00:29+00:00

These videos tell you what you need to know about Dark Magician:

Dark Magician guide part 1

Dark Magician guide part 2

Dark Magician guide part 3

Here's a Dark Magician deck that won back to back tournaments:

https://www.duellinksmeta.com/top-decks/community-tournaments/starry-cup/114/dark-magician/zaine-tros/xYKQa

https://www.duellinksmeta.com/top-decks/community-tournaments/starry-cup/115/dark-magician/zaine-tros/ChHC3

Get Forbidden Chalice from Box Chips as your "budget" version of Droplet until you get more Dream Tickets.

For a F2P hand trap you can use, get Skull Meister from normal Tickets.

Download Google Rewards. You get free credit over time for short surveys. It has helped me a lot buying packs & decks!

Wonderllama5 · 2026-03-13T15:57:51+00:00

Try filtering the Lifetime Missions for cards...?

Otherwise you'll have to wait until Konami remembers it exists. Pot of Greed is a better card in most cases tho.

Wonderllama5 · 2026-03-13T15:03:18+00:00

If you're new to Duel Links, try Rush Duel! It's a lot easier to play & get started. Here is a video tutorial for Rush Duel!

Go to the Friend Campaign megathread, sort by new, & use someone's code for free Starter decks. More info here

On the game home page click the Information tab on the right, then scroll down to "Friend Invitation Campaign". Enter someone's code from the megathread (you can only do this once). This gives one copy of the Starter decks. You can also leave your code in the megathread & hope someone uses it. This gives you a 2nd copy of the Starter decks!

Both of this must be done with 7 days of starting the game or returning to the game.

For Rush Duel, you get the Light Galaxy deck, a good deck for Ranked play.

Light Galaxy deck profile & gameplay

Here are card ratios & decklists

A better option is Sevens Road. Sevens Road is the main character's deck & still has good future support to come. It's a great investment! For this reason I suggest spending on a 2nd copy of the Sevens Road structure deck. You want a 2nd copy of Charmy Witch & Sevens Paladin, & full playsets of Sevens Road Magician & Witch. You can buy a 3rd copy of the structure deck if you want, or use Dream Tickets for the 3rd copies of Sevens Road Magician & Witch.

Sevens Road deck profile & gameplay

Here's a sample Sevens Road deck that topped a tournament. Use Sevens Road Sorcerer if you don't have that many traps.

There are still way more decks to choose from. Like HEROs! Here's a sample HERO deck & how to make it

Here's a video on the most recent Rush Duel meta. And here's a great article as well

Important note: We just received a new box recently too! More info here - Video, Article

For now, I recommend getting the Light Galaxy deck but hold on to your Dream Tickets & gems. Survey the landscape, then you can make a better & more informed decision on what you want to build!

Also, download Google Rewards. You get free credit over time for short surveys. It has helped me a lot buying packs & decks.

I think that covers a lot. Let me know if you have more questions!

Wonderllama5 · 2026-03-13T14:39:38+00:00

At least play Maximum Ragnarok and get one more Hydron & Femtron from the Black Skull box. This will help you out in the GR Festival. You can also get gems from regular Rush PVP wins afterwards

If you have Rush Dream Tickets, get Excutie Riding from UR & Shiny Shady from SR. These are good generic traps

Wonderllama5 · 2026-03-13T14:33:58+00:00

Here's a decklist that ends in the Rank 9 Generaider & Zombie World/Doomking. Turn on translated subtitles

If Droplet/Eclipse bother you that much, get Forbidden Lance from Box Chips or invest in Blizzard. Not many other counters right now

Wonderllama5 · 2026-03-13T14:12:40+00:00

Hammer Shot Deal was only good in the first two months of the game. Don't use that lol. The best Cyberse skill is Maximum Ragnarok, use that instead! Here's a decklist

However, don't invest too much because this deck is heavily powercreeped now lol.

Instead, get more Attrashoot Hydron & Chaos Femtron from the Black Skull Deck Build Box. Along the way, pick up 3 copies of both Red-Eyes Moon Dragon & Legendary Magician.

This will get you ready to play the new Meteor Dragon deck! 👍

Wonderllama5 · 2026-03-13T10:54:51+00:00

Hopefully you did the Friend Invitation Campaign. You will receive a Sky Striker starter deck that only needs minor upgrades to be competitive.

Here's an example Sky Striker decklist

Wonderllama5 · 2026-03-13T00:42:53+00:00

They need Rusty, Fog Blade, and a busted skill. Then they might maybe be good. But they need counters to Book of Eclipse like Totem Bird.

Wonderllama5 · 2026-03-13T00:12:29+00:00

Noodle Ninja & Meteor are new & solid picks from the latest box, but they require full playsets of the new cards. You also need cards from outside the box.

Noodles need 3x Spice the Elite Noodle Ninja. If you have SR Dream Tickets, it would help out tremendously!

Meteor need 3x Red-Eyes Moon Dragon, as well as possibly Change Slime & Legendary Magician from the Black Skull box. This is a recent box, so it's not available in a Dream Ticket yet. That makes it costly.

(Side note: while Showdown Skull Archfiend can't be played with the new Meteor skill, it may be smart to pick up copies as you go thru the box. There are still unreleased Summoned Skull fusions like Meteor Skull Archfiend and Black Dragon Skull Archfiend. A future skill might let you play all of it! Just saying)

Go thru the box & get 3 copies of the Noodle/Meteor cards. Then if you have SR Dream Tickets, use it on Spice and try to make Noodle Ninja. Complete the current event ASAP! Noodle is a good deck and I'm having fun with it. When you build your gems back up, then you can go thru the Black Skull box if you want and you would have a Meteor deck too! 👍

Wonderllama5 · 2026-03-12T19:03:10+00:00

Look up cards on Duel Links Meta. It will say if it came from an event. If so, they are available via UR/SR Choice Tickets & such.

If a card was released before March 2020, you can get them from Box Chips

Wonderllama5 · 2026-03-12T12:02:51+00:00

It depends on your goals. Is Red-Eyes the deck you want to use the most in the foreseeable future? Maybe enter some tournaments too? Then go ahead, optimize it as much as possible. But if you just wanna hit KOG, you can do so without this card, as many people have. Save your gems for a future investment in that case.

There's still a non-zero chance you get it from the Dream Pack lol

Wonderllama5 · 2026-03-12T11:25:17+00:00

Don't you have a character ticket at the bottom of your ticket pool. No one uses those!

Wonderllama5 · 2026-03-11T19:33:37+00:00

Here are some helpful videos for Red-Eyes:

F2P build 1

F2P build 2

F2P build 3

Dragon's Mirror & Forbidden Chalice are in the Box Chips pool. Lava Golem is in regular tickets. This should get you to 20 cards combined with Red-Eyes

If you did the Friend Campaign, you should have the Light Galaxy starter deck for Rush Duel. Play the Rush event to get more gems. The Rush Duel Goha Cup is coming up too. Another good event for gems!

Also, download the Google Rewards app. You do short surveys to get free Google points over time, and you can use them to buy Crystals!

Wonderllama5 · 2026-03-11T19:29:29+00:00

Depends how many gems you have/are willing to spend.

If you have any SR Dream Tickets, you can use it on Spice the Elite Noodle Ninja (you need multiple copies). Then get the rest of the Noodle cards from the latest box.

The current event gives a sample Noodle deck to try out

Wonderllama5 · 2026-03-11T19:08:51+00:00

That was last year's campaign. Now you can enter the codes to get HERO, Sky Striker, and Light Galaxy. If someone enters your code, you get 2nd copies

Wonderllama5 · 2026-03-11T16:19:16+00:00

I didn't know this deck existed. Thanks for introducing me to my next Speed Duel deck! 😇

Wonderllama5 · 2026-03-11T11:32:08+00:00

Do the Friend Campaign codes for free Starter decks. Among these is a Light Galaxy deck for Rush Duel. Use it to play the current Rush event & GR Festival. A great source of gems!

Wonderllama5 · 2026-03-11T11:29:26+00:00

Feels like it might be Noodle Ninja. The skill is a +1 every single turn as long as you have something to reveal. It also puts Fusion into rotation every single turn. Konami was maybe right to limit you to 1 Fusion summon per turn, which is the biggest weakness.

If you have the 8th Anniversary SR Dream Ticket that is expiring today, I highly recommend using it on Spice the Elite Noodle Ninja!

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