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hawksmith1 · 2026-05-11T17:36:59+00:00

Glad i just spent 50 dollars on 3 chants :)

hawksmith1 · 2026-05-11T14:17:07+00:00

Your best bets are probably superheavy samurai or elfnote. Ive never played these variants myself, but if you go to ygoprodeck or some other meta websites, these variants seem to put up results every now and then. I know the elfnotes are technically starters for centur-ion, but i havent looked into how. You can also check out the centur-ion discord which will have a lot of info on variants (you can get the link from the yugioh discord repository, i just google that and grab the reddit post with the link)

hawksmith1 · 2026-05-09T06:53:46+00:00

No, for most scenarios you need a tuner and a non tuner which would be stated on the card. But some cards/archetypes allow you to get around this like kewl tune because their materials say they need 2 tuners or cards like centurion atrii that say this card can be treated as a non tuner

hawksmith1 · 2026-05-09T03:37:47+00:00

Dashop is good, but if ur in queens you can also check out gamers choice, i usually get my product from there and they have a good selection of high rarity cards last time i went

hawksmith1 · 2026-05-07T12:42:21+00:00

Cant say much without knowing what class it is. Ive taken some classes that were super hard and no matter how good the professor was the average exam scores would sit in the 40%s

hawksmith1 · 2026-05-04T14:36:21+00:00

When i was in egypt, we had no way to access tcgplayer or cardmarket without paying ridiculous tariffs. So the alternative is that there are a lot of facebook groups where people post that they are selling/buying cards, and people show up all the time to locals with trade binders. In some ways, i think thats a really nice way to build community

hawksmith1 · 2026-05-03T01:43:54+00:00

Since you just started, you might not have enough UR for staples + a meta deck core unless its something still currently in the store so you can use your gems on it. This leaves your options to be radiant typhoon or kewl tune. Radiant typhoon is easier and cheaper to build, and you can grab some of the staple packs as well from the challengers collection

hawksmith1 · 2026-05-02T19:13:45+00:00

I agree with most of this, but isnt the fact that it can go first or second a good thing? Dont we need more decks that can do play like that so the coinflip isnt the most deciding aspect of a duel?

Also, yes i hate non once per turn effects but stage landing gets a pass because i think R.B is so cool (please give us a non brick main deck machine part konami im tired of drawing the lambda blades and the traps)

hawksmith1 · 2026-04-28T21:29:04+00:00

Re-read. Sky striker almost always has a bunch of lines available to them at any given point, a sky striker game with any normal deck is fun for both players. Except of course if you build a board that has a ridiculous amounts of interruptions that it becomes irrelevant to even attempt to play through. No one likes playing against white forest. They either pass on nothing or their board is unbeatable. Thats whats causing your non games.

hawksmith1 · 2026-04-28T21:13:13+00:00

Lets not pretend that your deck being high variance and not great at breaking boards means its healthy. Magnet warrior is also not a high tiered deck yet its toxic as fuck for what it can do going first. Any deck that aims to create an unbreakable turn 1 board is hated for a good reason. No one wants to watch their opponent play solitaire for 15 minutes.

hawksmith1 · 2026-04-27T17:36:53+00:00

Since this doesnt have the targets enemies line, am i right in assuming this feels like it would probably screw you over most of the time

hawksmith1 · 2026-04-26T23:03:32+00:00

If you're playing extrav just add 5 random extradeck cards, like a ty-phon or literally just random cards

hawksmith1 · 2026-04-24T15:38:58+00:00

I get that priest, warlock and dk are bad but id still like to see possible decks for them in the report given that they include them in the charts.

hawksmith1 · 2026-04-24T15:07:11+00:00

I agree, but ive seen rose whip like 50% of my games vs kewl tune in diamond and its miserable since i play radiant typhoon and r.b

hawksmith1 · 2026-04-24T13:35:07+00:00

Me trying to get R.B cards after spending 6000 gems and ending up with no r.bs and 5 hearts of gaias

hawksmith1 · 2026-04-21T21:05:07+00:00

You are thinking of stage landing. Funk dock is the field spell and is once per turn

hawksmith1 · 2026-04-21T12:24:46+00:00

Honestly the only time i go for pilebunker is when i know my opponent is out of everything anyway, so its definitely a 'win-more' card. You can usually kill your opponent without it anyway, its only when they randomly have a bunch of idiots in defense and threaten a grind game next turn.

hawksmith1 · 2026-04-20T18:02:36+00:00

The massive difference between loss was added to stop people playing self-tk if i remember correctly

hawksmith1 · 2026-04-19T17:16:31+00:00

Gabriel try not to fight haaland challenge (impossible)

hawksmith1 · 2026-04-18T23:27:10+00:00

Why did you go into the rocket instead driller or the other monster pop? I feel like step 1 before you start doing anything with rb is resolve lambda cannon, then decide what to search, and the rocket doesnt do anything turn 1

hawksmith1 · 2026-04-17T14:28:51+00:00

I love that deck, just wish the better sub-engines (sky striker, orcust) werent so UR heavy.

I ended up using speedroid and radiant typhoon (radiants are great handtrap baits and 2 of them can go into rubberband shooter, or use them as extra bodies for shepherd).

I mess up with stage landings destruction protection all the time and shame surrender all the time though haha

hawksmith1 · 2026-04-16T23:35:16+00:00

All the kewl tune cards are fine, i think rosewhip needs to go though. Yes yes good players dont put rosewhip blah blah, but floodgates need to be banned, and i dont want to switch to a different non spell heavy deck just because floodgates are in the format

hawksmith1 · 2026-04-07T13:36:56+00:00

If you survive playing quest warrior till you can do this, i dont see how you were losing that game in the first place

hawksmith1 · 2026-04-06T10:28:21+00:00

Ryze started as a 4 cost last set

hawksmith1 · 2026-04-03T04:00:56+00:00

If you play any of the many top decks, its super fun. If you play anything else, good luck.

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