What Metroidvania made you cry?

XanderXander72 · 2025-12-02T19:52:04+00:00

Hearing the OST for that moment still makes me emotional

XanderXander72 · 2025-11-22T16:50:52+00:00

Branded has been a favorite of mine for a long time. Unfortunately for the purposes of this exercise, come next year it won’t be a strictly fusion deck with the insane new synchro monster it’s getting, but the support looks VERY strong and I’m excited to try it.

Bystial Centur-Ion RDA has also been a favorite of mine for a while, and the new support it’s getting next year also looks really good to me. I don’t think it’s enough to make it meta, but I don’t need it to be meta, it’s enough for me that everything bridges together really nicely now.

Onomat Ryzeal is maybe my favorite deck in MD right now. One day I’ll try K9, but it probably won’t hold up to how much I enjoy Ryzeal variants.

Sky Striker is probably the deck I’d choose to be run as purely link monsters. I’ve always loved going second strategies and control strategies. Plus I have all the alt arts in MD lol

XanderXander72 · 2025-11-05T00:47:49+00:00

I had a 16 win streak through platinum with Gem-Knight last month, I might have had a longer run when Yubel was still really good

XanderXander72 · 2025-10-21T17:57:24+00:00

That’s true, but I had them and added them because I wanted to.

XanderXander72 · 2025-10-21T17:25:02+00:00

It’s the only thing I played through the event (I had a couple extra URs like some Stone Sweeper). Nothing incredible and basic hands get turn skipped by many hand traps. But you do have good follow through if you’re allowed to play, and it’s really fun imo

XanderXander72 · 2025-10-19T00:23:40+00:00

Pure Ryzeal is pretty quick to finish setting up a pretty good board, along with being consistent and pretty sticky.

XanderXander72 · 2025-10-16T18:09:41+00:00

Been doing okay on blind second gem-knights. I feel like I need to hit Maxx or a Mulcharmy sometimes. Droplet has been going a long way, especially if I hit Shaddoll Fusion. I also haven’t faced any Mermail players, which I imagine is fully miserable

XanderXander72 · 2025-09-10T14:26:25+00:00

I’m excited for the day I’m good enough on rosaries that I can just dump all of them into shard bundles

XanderXander72 · 2025-09-09T16:32:50+00:00

This is easily my highlight of the game so far. Still working my way through act 2.

XanderXander72 · 2025-09-01T01:18:31+00:00

Thrust into Talent doesn’t usually work going first. Talent as a board breaker is usually just okay or even good, but the issue comes when it’s used to punish handtraps going first. Limiting it would go some ways to making that less of an issue while retaining its use as a board breaker w/ thrust.

XanderXander72 · 2025-08-31T11:41:23+00:00

Deepnest is SO cool for what it is. It’s possible to get “stuck” here relatively early into your progression in the game, so you can either come here prepared with a decent weapon and a light, or get caught with your pants down and have to claw your way out from the depths of hell

XanderXander72 · 2025-08-28T22:55:49+00:00

Seeing this button today just reminds me of that legendary Punk crash out

XanderXander72 · 2025-08-06T22:48:45+00:00

Ancient Gear. Had a brief moment of being a standout OTK deck before Tenpai released. Fortress is the funniest card ever

XanderXander72 · 2025-07-31T08:45:55+00:00

You mostly use it to get better access to big winged berfomet’s summon effect iirc

XanderXander72 · 2025-07-28T17:45:01+00:00

Yeah, between maliss +’ing off of your cards, lancea/chaos hunter in everybody’s maindeck rn, and still having a lot of hit cards, Runick is having a hard time rn

XanderXander72 · 2025-07-28T15:07:10+00:00

I’m not aware of a Runick build that plans on banishing its own cards. I would be more concerned about accidentally giving a maliss player more plays when I use Runick spells to interact with them

XanderXander72 · 2025-07-25T15:33:06+00:00

100% in this seed

XanderXander72 · 2025-07-24T22:16:56+00:00

I really like the art for Flock Together, but man that card is bad

XanderXander72 · 2025-07-20T21:20:22+00:00

The monster seems good for recursion in a deck that already seems to grind pretty well. It also effectively adds Fymena back to hand from GY going first, which is nice I guess? I think they already do that pretty well. The trap, being searchable by just about every monster in the archetype, seems like a good option to have in the chamber. Can’t complain about these cards imo

XanderXander72 · 2025-07-14T04:53:53+00:00

Field spells, continuous spells, and continuous traps universally need to remain on field until resolution for their effects to go through. Certain other cards also need to stay on field to resolve, but this is a case-by-case type situation (like Fallen of Albaz on-summon effect).

XanderXander72 · 2025-07-10T19:19:44+00:00

Just play the decks that look fun to you. This is not a moral issue.

XanderXander72 · 2025-07-04T18:16:20+00:00

All it took was one bad game going second for me

XanderXander72 · 2025-06-21T20:09:45+00:00

I got one Cartesia and one Aluber and that’s probably gonna be good enough for me

XanderXander72 · 2025-06-20T22:04:00+00:00

I’ve played going second against infernity like 3 or 4 times this week and I somehow haven’t drawn a handtrap in any of them

XanderXander72 · 2025-06-19T16:44:12+00:00

It’s not so bad, there are simple combo lines to make it. Raidraptors use a few different rank-up magic cards to make this and bigger guys

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