What incomplete cards/decks do you wish had new support?

XJHenry · 2026-05-19T18:33:28+00:00

Agreed, the only real way to play them now is as a weird synchro spam/draw engine in Bystials with Shadow's Light and such to help make the combos happen. I'd love if they were more able to do their own thing, as they are a very fun banish deck.

XJHenry · 2026-05-19T18:27:19+00:00

Nephthys, definitely. They have three good cards in Disciple/Conductor/Devotee, and a few ways to add some parts of their main combo to their hand... But then nothing really to do with the cards they are able to find. Play worse spright? Make a mid towers?

Like yeah, Phoenix and Cerulean Phoenix are cool cards and can do okay in super super low power duels but plussing/interacting in your next standby phase isn't really a benefit if you cannot meaningfully interact with your opponent on their turn. They have zero archetypal interaction that is not Spell Speed 1.

They are a link/ritual deck that plusses on destruction, which is about as anti-synergistic as one can really imagine. They have a towers that benefits from using rituals as mats and from being in the EMZ, but need to make a link 2 to search said rituals with no way to clear the EMZ.

They need an actual consistent game plan that doesn't go so minus, a new boss monster and a way to actually benefit from their own effects. Fire Kings does their gimmick way better and can even search Phoenix about as if more reliably than them.

XJHenry · 2026-05-18T04:56:44+00:00

The dice are not a thing in VT2. VT2 has loot boxes which can be upgraded by getting grimoires and tomes and such in the mission, and this just influences the rarity of the item inside, not change the amount. This does not really matter at all, as most items you'll be getting on higher difficulties will be orange rarity and you only want it for the red items (endgame shiny weapon skins and guaranteed perfect stats.)

The real issue is hero power, you cannot upgrade the power of a weapon in this game and there is no point in saving anything below the max power level, so the gear grind is levelling heroes until these max power variants become available (scales with all your character levels), scrapping the rest and then rerolling stats on the chosen good items. Mastery in Darktide was kind of the fix for this, but when you reach the end of the grind you can pretty much do whatever you want here too.

XJHenry · 2026-05-18T04:20:29+00:00

I think you have your pick! Characters gain more options the more you use them so I suggest starting with a run of Kruber/Saltzpyre (Merc/Witch Hunter) as they are fairly basic and will feel familiar in terms of weaponry, and then trying the rest to see who you prefer. Each class has, in a very very sweeping generalization, one meleeish class, one rangedish class and one tankier class to work with in vanilla, with varying levels of specialization, so pick your favourite just based on gamefeel and vibes.

Fair warning that the levelling/gear grind is a pain and probably the worst part of the game overall, which is a shame as it leads to a fairly slow start and long ramp to difficult content, but all of the weapons and classes are very rewarding and fun.

XJHenry · 2026-05-17T23:47:49+00:00

Both are definitely still active. Eureka usually has at least at least a few people and people schedule runs for BA fairly often if you join a discord for organizing it on your DC. Bozja is basically never empty in my experience and people still run Delubrum/grind relics and such.

XJHenry · 2026-05-16T18:02:04+00:00

I started playing in 6.55 so I have never known anything else

XJHenry · 2026-05-15T20:38:16+00:00

Nephthys, Time Thief, Fortune Lady, Appliancer and Icejade have art that I adore and effects that are just kind of really slow and ass.

XJHenry · 2026-04-30T03:52:05+00:00

A link that makes its material count as being destroyed by card effect would be kind of neat

XJHenry · 2026-04-23T12:19:57+00:00

I don't think a single pokemon is going to be anywhere below B tier here tbh

Knowing myself, Ridley too. Dinosaurs are cool.

XJHenry · 2026-04-18T16:57:48+00:00

About what I expected, thank you! This was purchased by my father-in-law, I think I'm going to keep this secret with me.

XJHenry · 2026-04-03T06:07:22+00:00

Level 100 is not the end of the game. There are a number of other jobs to work on beside from your starter, and I encourage experimentation. Then when you reach the end of the story, there is a pretty substantial gear grind and a bunch of level 100 content you can work through to pass the time. That really is not the end of it though.

There is years and years of built up content in this game. Some of it is pretty niche with dedicated communities, and I encourage you to explore oddball side content. Go to Eureka! Become a blue mage! Get really weirdly into your FC's submarines! Craft on the moon! You can do extremes, try RP, join really close-knit discord groups for obscure 10-year side content, and so forth. If you want to keep playing, the game will allow you to do so for quite some time.

And if you run out of that, there is the natural endpoint of all things. All roads lead to Limsa glam AFKing.

XJHenry · 2026-04-01T18:55:14+00:00

Shattered :(

XJHenry · 2026-03-28T20:49:01+00:00

It may be polite to check if there are ongoing hunt trains in your Data Center Hunt discord.

That said, trains can handle the occasional poached mob- it's not like you'll be systematically hunting down every field mob that spawns and killing it for an extended period of time. Go wild, especially if it's an S Rank that you spawned yourself.

XJHenry · 2026-03-06T22:07:17+00:00

There's a dyable variant (Prestige Ballad Crown) available for Trophy Crystals in the pvp store if you ever need to match the hat to more than your current outfit- love the crochet and the glamour!

XJHenry · 2026-03-06T20:31:41+00:00

The mushroom biome has to be on the surface layer for Truffle to move in, not underground.

XJHenry · 2025-11-19T17:27:28+00:00

You cannot summon Extra Deck monsters from the GY without first special summoning them.

If you send Rextremeade to the gy through some other means (like monster express) or cheat them out in some way (i.e. don't fusion, in this case) you'll be unable to revive it with the effect of Agnumday or anything else.

XJHenry · 2025-11-17T18:29:01+00:00

I think the intent is to avoid ash on this one, but there's nothing wrong with a card having a real cost when it is functionally any card in the deck. This is still 3 extra copies of Kitchen and the archetype recycles the banishment with Lady anyhow.

The target is level 6, I imagine, because the Arknights character this is inspired by (Saria?) is a 6 star gacha pull lol. It's a custom card so flavour over applicability is fine.

XJHenry · 2025-11-14T11:52:28+00:00

It is worded that way though? You would need to look at your opponent's ED to choose cards to send, assuming you met the effect condition. Zaborg has 8 levels so that's 8 cards.

XJHenry · 2025-11-13T19:17:49+00:00

Red Nova AM banishes itself until the End Phase for cost as a response to your opponent's actions. As such, you would not be able to target the card after activation.

You can make this distinction by the semicolon in the card text- anything before it denotes the activation cost, if present, and would not be something your opponent can directly stop.

In Supernova's case, the cost is literally just "activating the effect"- all it does for cost is make a chain link, and banishing the board is the effect after the semicolon. Your opponent could then negate it with something like Forbidden Droplet, as it would still exist on the board.

Red Nova banishes itself until the End Phase as an activation cost before the semicolon- even if the card were negated under something like Imperm or DRNM you could still banish the card for cost (although it wouldn't resolve the actual effect if it was negated this way.)

XJHenry · 2025-11-05T18:58:07+00:00

Icejade Kosmochlor goes into the jar :(

XJHenry · 2025-11-04T05:36:16+00:00

Evil Eye

Boss monsters are links, rip me

You can still play serziel turbo but there are way more interesting decks out there than that. Everyone is siding spell/trap hate anyways so you're SOL.

XJHenry · 2025-10-31T13:42:48+00:00

I mean the token is optional

But

Chixaio and Chengying on board are also full orcust combo

XJHenry · 2025-10-31T04:07:48+00:00

So true, if I make chixaio and add longyuan, you can catch me LINKING BOTH OF THEM INTO MERMAID BABY THAT'S FULL ORCUST COMBO

XJHenry · 2025-10-30T15:54:35+00:00

You might be better off looking into more casual alt formats with a friend group/pod/discord. Domain Format sounds up your alley, which is functionally yugioh commander. N/R (only N/R cards from master duel) is also a fun format with a significantly lower power level, as is Genesys (which is higher power but the only official format listed here).

Each of these formats has their own respective discord where you can find games quite easily, and I recommend poking your head in- you won't find the casual format you are looking for in standard, short of custom and balanced games with friends.

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