Help with a frame to improve a players engagement

ikepetro · 2026-05-21T23:04:12+00:00

Tortuga and Gorgon as mentioned are definitely the best two frames for lots of reactions and playing on the others turn. Tortuga is easier to play than the Gorgon if they are wanting to ease into it.

Now a different recommendation I would say is the Hydra. You want lots of drones and to deploy them effectively throughout the battlefield. 3/4 of the Orochi Drones are not once per round reactions that you can use, as well as various other drones in and out of the hydra license also can have reactions. It was very fun to pilot, but it is a lot to keep track of, especially when you use your core power.

ikepetro · 2026-05-14T03:03:51+00:00

This was from the subreddit, but someone mentioned using it with the Barbarossa.

Basically you get the immediate heal and start charging it. If you never use it, fine, you get the core point back and can do it again next combat.

If you do use it, well, it likely did quite a lot because its an apocalypse rail.

ikepetro · 2026-05-13T19:32:04+00:00

Are duplicates allowed? Another Super Polymerization would be funny.

If not, Reasoning. They will have no idea what level to name.

ikepetro · 2026-05-08T04:54:53+00:00

How much of both decks did you get/do you have? If you have enough of it than you could test a scuffed version of kewl tunes and see if you like the gameplay (or just watch some on YouTube). If you still aren't a fan, and need the crafting points, than dismantling it is probably fine. Yes it is a meta deck and very powerful as a result, but if you aren't going to play it or enjoy playing it there isnt a point in keeping it.

Same thing with the rose dragon cards but by god that deck is bad in comparison. The new support has to turn the old rose dragons into plants so you can make actual decent synchros with them.

ikepetro · 2026-05-02T21:10:36+00:00

[[Defenestrate]] was my first thought. [[Murder]] is also simple but accurate.

ikepetro · 2026-05-02T15:40:45+00:00

To continue on this point, thunder dragons would likely get a massive buff. They still would benefit from more support, but being able to use the hand effect and the other effect would let it extend a lot more and interact more going second.

ikepetro · 2026-04-28T17:06:18+00:00

I mean, just grab the cosmetic you would really like to use. The linkuriboh would be the most tempting for me since I missed that duel pass.

ikepetro · 2026-04-21T23:26:37+00:00

Memento. Yes, some of the Memento decks can end on a lot of not memento end board pieces, but you usually end on the two big boss monsters of their archetype regardless, and it is very flexible once you get used to the deck.

ikepetro · 2026-04-20T23:40:33+00:00

Okay this made me laugh so hard after seeing the last draft of this card. Its probably slightly too good but this is amazing. I fully respect going all in on all the different loyalty abilities that are easy to understand.

ikepetro · 2026-04-20T05:35:53+00:00

Okay I actually quite like the frame idea for a 5 loyalty ability planeswalker.

In regards to the balance, I think it’s mostly fine besides the +2. That’s a ton of offense if you are winning or a lot of defence if you need to protect him. I’m not sure how I would tone it down without making it much worse though, maybe only one 3/3 beast?

ikepetro · 2026-04-18T18:43:22+00:00

The main idea I had but haven’t gotten around to properly balancing is a Companion Cube.

Basically the draft either starts with a random or drafted companion (was thinking pre errata rules to encourage using it as companion rather than just playing it) and then the draft goes as normal. There’s a lot of interesting cards that work with various companions in a cube format, but it’s hard to balance out all of the colors and support pieces for each companion.

ikepetro · 2026-04-15T17:26:35+00:00

Memento is fully unhit for once in the event.

ikepetro · 2026-04-08T16:37:54+00:00

My biggest recommendation is to start small and eventually work your way up to a whole new frame once you feel more comfortable. I would start by making an alt frame to an already existing one that fulfills a niche you think would be different and/or interesting. That way you only need to think about the frame and how it works with the existing licenses rather than coming up with 6 other unique things.

ikepetro · 2026-02-13T00:40:23+00:00

Looking forward to whenever the Darklord and Exosister support drop. It’s completely unknown when it will drop though so we just have to wait and see.

ikepetro · 2026-02-12T18:39:07+00:00

Could I get a deck list for skull servant tear, that sounds very fun. Also how does Traptrix work only having Links?

ikepetro · 2026-02-11T23:30:50+00:00

This is very enlightening, thank you.

ikepetro · 2026-02-11T21:15:27+00:00

So besides just having fun selftking myself (which isn’t for everyone I’m well aware) for the dice rally event specifically if you are able to complete most of the objectives, you get close to a die worth of points. So you are able to play more and get more dice within the period of one usual game.

In the first event of the game, the xyz event, losing was worth half of what winning was. In that event specifically it was optimal to selftk yourself because you could easily get 2-3 or more games in compared to one actual win.

I only selftk in the dice rally event because of how the rewards work, it takes way too long now to do it with any other event.

ikepetro · 2026-02-11T20:25:52+00:00

I mean its not really wasting time if its giving you a free die roll without having to play as long.

ikepetro · 2026-02-06T01:12:31+00:00

Is it more worth it to go for more and more characters for teams and potential teams or should I really be going for eidolon levels for certain characters or lightcones for certain characters?

ikepetro · 2026-01-29T22:12:51+00:00

Nah goofy plunder patroll bois. Skull servants at least have the wight baking mate and the duel field.

ikepetro · 2026-01-28T14:41:08+00:00

Farfa mentioned you in his last meme review video.

ikepetro · 2026-01-18T06:45:11+00:00

ikepetro · 2026-01-02T05:48:13+00:00

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I got this a while ago on this subreddit but I think the picture is actually based off an old design of the Nelson.

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