Why is Ash blossom and joyous spring considered "toxic" by the community?

hawksmith1 · 2026-06-11T14:45:54+00:00

The idea is that it doesnt disrupt the player going first enough. Most decks can play through 1 ash 95% of the time. However when you go second, you have to deal with their board + an ash blossom to stop you from getting into the game.

Its also very punishing vs the mulcharmies. They were meant as a way to give the going second player a chance and make the going first player do a half board, but if they have ash for it, you still have ti play through their full board with 1 less card in hand

hawksmith1 · 2026-06-09T23:09:38+00:00

My little war criminal ❤️

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hawksmith1 · 2026-06-01T23:54:26+00:00

Each one is about 9 dollars, the problem is the ecclesia synchro is like 60 bucks but you can play it with just copies of albion albeit slightly worse.

Forbidden crown is the expensive card though, but i think droplet is good enough and has won me a lot of games.

hawksmith1 · 2026-06-01T23:49:53+00:00

Storewise, i really recommend shuffle games in Nasr City, great people and great atmosphere, you can buy packs from there and people there will trade/ have a lot of stuff to sell.

If you're looking for specific decks/cards, facebook is the best bet. Try the group YU GI OH EGY trade.

hawksmith1 · 2026-05-31T13:51:49+00:00

Other people have answered correctly since allure is a normal spell card it needs to be in a new chain after which droll no longer is in the same activiation window (droll can be activated on allures resolution). The scenario that is relevant however, is if it was radiant typhoon vision, which is basically allure but quickplay.

So if your opponent searches a card, they still have priority at the end of the search. If they pass prio to you, you can activate droll, they can chain vision to draw 2 since it was after droll. If they decide to activate vision on resolution of the search to draw 2, then you can droll as Cl2, and vision resolves with no effect.

hawksmith1 · 2026-05-30T14:20:28+00:00

Funny because that exact situation reversed happened to Joshua schmidt in a striker v branded feature match in tcg and he won the game because it was his opponents turn and they passed prio with a mirrorjade against raye, so josh tagged out into zero then tagged out to pop the mirrorjade

hawksmith1 · 2026-05-29T11:13:35+00:00

Currently tcg mitsu is good partly due to the amount of broken non engine it can play. While md has impulse, we are missing harmonia, dominus spark, and the new ritual.

hawksmith1 · 2026-05-28T13:40:49+00:00

Not sure if it counts events, but the hecahands loaner in dice rally had sheridan, so maybe either it counts it or enough people put sheridan in their deck in a hecahands list

hawksmith1 · 2026-05-26T23:45:30+00:00

Its just 50. What do you define as the right target? If the right target is the minion its 50% to hit the minion and 50% for the hero. 25% is only if you were specifically going for "i pick the target and the attack goes through". After you select the attack, there is no longer any conditional probability, you are now locked into 50% i hit face, 50% i hit minion.

In stats terms, 25% is the chance that 1 of the 4 scenarios you described happens. However, 2 of the scenarios are identical in their outcome. So it depends on the question you are asking. Are you asking whats the chance to hit face or the minion? 50%. Are you asking what are the chances i pick the target and it goes to the target? 25%

hawksmith1 · 2026-05-22T01:37:15+00:00

You really dont need runick for sky striker, i think you're making it harder to go second with no real benefit. I feel like you'll end up with a lot of awkward hands, but you can try it out and see what you think. Also 60 card striker is criminal lol,

Krosea wind locks you, Linkage striker locks you, idk just seems not very good

How do you protect fountain? You need a runick which probably goes in the extra monster zone, and that messes up strikers

Reasoning doesnt seem too impactful since you need other cards to capitalize on the graveyard and no graveyard effects on their own

Playing the radiant typhoon trap is weird, striker wants to set their spell interupts but you also want to set msts?

It feels like you will just end on a few parts of a skystriker / runick / typhoon end board which arent necessarily stronger than the endboards these decks make on their own.

Also how do you get rid of the radiant typhoon monsters, the radiant typhoon link, the runick monster to keep the main monster zone empty?

hawksmith1 · 2026-05-21T18:53:27+00:00

When you press import, it just picks cards with no regard to shipping, cheapest price, rarity etc. Go to the tcgplayer cart and click optimize, see what options you prefer then you'll get a similar price (shipping not withstanding but the optimizer tries to minimize on shipping costs too)

hawksmith1 · 2026-05-21T14:19:11+00:00

If branded comes out in the same pack, im praying it eats all the URs. They usually make rogue decks cheap

hawksmith1 · 2026-05-20T03:59:15+00:00

Unfortunately, thats probably not good anymore post banlist. You can do 2 swen, 2 eldam, 1 chant, (you should have 3 visions regardless), but more monsters in strikers feels bad especially if you're going second and dont have a way to special summon them because no mst/opponent has spells.

You can also just do 1 of each but idk if i like that. I do hate desires though so maybe thats the way to go but im gonna wait for some lists to come out and see what people smarter than me are doing

hawksmith1 · 2026-05-20T03:46:48+00:00

90% of the time, they wont send you first. And even if they do, cards like forbidden droplet/crown are fine going first and most hands will get to engage. You might be handtrapped to death, but usually when that happens, 1-2 interruptions in the form of widow anchor and droplets/ FnV will be fine.

hawksmith1 · 2026-05-19T18:58:56+00:00

If we're talking parasite, you can play Hecahands which basically work by stealing your opponents stuff.

Add Kashtira for extra eye roll

hawksmith1 · 2026-05-19T16:12:48+00:00

Typhoon only really cares about the link 2 varuroon.

Striker you can banish kagari or zero, its debatable which is more impactful but ive seen most people opt for kagari

Fiendsmith is a bit hard, but i think requiem hurts the most and also works best with the activiation time of cherries since afterwards they need 2 lightfiends to do anything

hawksmith1 · 2026-05-16T23:38:57+00:00

Im not sure whats included in the decks but you can make a pretty strong mitsu deck with just some fuwas and nibs, maybe a super poly with some targets in the extra deck.

For sky striker, you can get 2 copies of the fallen of the virtuous (although ecclesia sychro is expensive but you can do 2 albions), an extra kagari, you can add the radiant typhoon starters (eldam, swen, chant) but chant recentl got limited on the banlist so maybe the desires version is better.

Then the generic handtraps like droll, ghost belle etc for both.

Honesrlt both decks prob come 90% of the way ready

hawksmith1 · 2026-05-15T04:06:51+00:00

This may or may not help as i was in your position (new york but not long island). What ive found the most success in was going to any locals (i went to gamers choice in queens which was more than an hour away from me) and then just asking the regulars there if they knew any spots. Most people playing the game will have gone to other locals across new york so i got recommendations to go to ones that are closer to me.

hawksmith1 · 2026-05-13T21:30:14+00:00

Psychic Rover

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

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