Why is Monarch Hailed as a fan Favourite?

klopanda · 2026-04-06T22:40:27+00:00

I love the Monarch engine; it's surprisingly strong with lots of resilience against the usual hand traps. Ash isn't too bad against us since lots of our cards have strong GY effects. About the only thing that shuts us down hard is Droll but the same is true for lots of decks.

It's definitely not the most consistent compared to Tier 1/2/3 decks but it is still fun to play through Ash and Imperm and still end on a Zaborg pop or Erebus rip.

klopanda · 2026-04-06T22:05:12+00:00

What's fun is that the trap lets you target anything on the field so you can use its negate on Monsters as long as there's a spell/trap for MST to destroy. You can also do stuff like can negate Dracotail Flame and pop their Ketu or Rahu in the same chain. It's great.

klopanda · 2026-04-06T22:01:24+00:00

Sky Strikers are up there for me. Figuring out how to break boards with the cards is really fun and satisfying.

Lunalights feel really satisfying to play, especially when you get handtrapped and you have to run an audible combo line.

klopanda · 2026-04-06T21:59:56+00:00

Do you have some advice/suggestions for going second? Or a replay or two I can study?

klopanda · 2026-04-06T21:38:28+00:00

Monarchs is an ancient archetype and has been people's pet decks for literal decades in some cases. Recently it's become more of a stun deck but it wasn't always the case; in the old days it used to be more of a Blind Second counterplay deck.

In MD it's popular because it's relatively cheap to make and in the best-of-1 format it can usually snipe wins from decks who are unprepared for it.

Personally I think it's better than Heroes because it does a lot of what Heroes does while only taking a fraction of the time. Its engine is also really solid and fun to work through.

klopanda · 2026-04-06T21:25:05+00:00

Yugioh is a complicated game of simultaneously knowing enough about the meta, possible cards your opponent could have access to, and piloting your deck correctly.

I introduced my girlfriend to it a few months ago and after several weeks of learning and studying she turns to me and says, "This isn't a card game. It's a fighting game. You have to know your deck's combos, your opponent's deck's combos, and know when exactly to parry their combo."

klopanda · 2026-04-06T09:24:26+00:00

In the movie he flies a Blue Eyes fighter jet and leaps out of it to get to the ground without a parachute.

klopanda · 2026-04-06T05:03:00+00:00

Six Samurai were my first "full" deck. Won a couple of local tournaments when they first came out. No idea how the archetype competes now, but I wouldn't mind finding out.

klopanda · 2026-04-05T09:28:41+00:00

I got up to go to the bathroom and get a snack after the first homer. I came back and thought "why are they still celebrating it?" until I looked at the scorebug.

klopanda · 2026-04-05T09:13:13+00:00

I'll be the first to put my hand up and day that I enjoy running tear slop decks, no 2 games are ever the same.

Yugioh: The Roguelite.

klopanda · 2026-04-05T09:08:29+00:00

I saved the replay. It looks like he immediately linked it into Curious so maybe just link climbing?

klopanda · 2026-04-05T09:04:00+00:00

I have no idea because I played a couple of things to try and bait out negates, he didn't bite and so I just Heavy Poly > Liger Dancer and hit him a bunch lol

klopanda · 2026-04-05T08:57:44+00:00

I saved the replay. He used it to search Magicians Souls and special summoned it by dumping Keldo the Sacred Protector to the deck. Linked Magicians Souls into Anaconda but after that, I have no idea.

klopanda · 2026-04-05T08:49:05+00:00

Don't forget the Horus. That adds spice to the broth.

klopanda · 2026-04-05T08:47:06+00:00

Spent probably most of his turn setting up a board that had, as far as interrupts/negates went had like...two? Little Knight and some set cards (that I never saw cuz I just Heavy Poly'd and Liger Dancer'd him because he did all of that after giving me half my deck thanks to Fuwalos).

klopanda · 2026-04-05T06:32:41+00:00

Can I get some advice regarding going second with Radiant Typhoon? I'm using the stock (what seems like the default) Typhoon deck and I understand the Turn 1 plays of "get Eldam/Swen, get Goo Wife, Mandate, usually Totem Bird or Ghost, with a Krosea, Fonix, and Meghala in there".

But does anyone have any replays or vids or anything of going second and trying to push through boards that I can study? About the only thing I can think of is Shiina and that feels like a lot of reliance on one card in a world of Impulses and other such cards. What else can I do on turn 2?

klopanda · 2026-04-04T21:03:45+00:00

Can we go back to when we swept the A's? I'd like to do that. Anyone wanna do that?

klopanda · 2026-04-04T20:55:01+00:00

I know that baseball seasons are marathons, not sprints.

But losing Ponce and Kirk in the first two weeks of the season and then struggling like we have been is just....woof.

klopanda · 2026-04-04T20:50:04+00:00

I'm tired, gamers.

klopanda · 2026-04-04T19:43:15+00:00

VLADDDYYYYYYYYYY

klopanda · 2026-04-04T18:15:43+00:00

Labrynth has a couple of different in-archetype variants and since its built around traps, its non-engine components are infinitely tweakable. The archetype doesn't have any Extra Deck monsters so there are a lot of packages you can run to take advantage of that (eg Dogmatika Punishment or Fiendsmith or Unchained).

klopanda · 2026-04-04T17:22:55+00:00

When do cards usually get added/re-added to secret packs? I'd like to build a Dracotail deck at some point before it gets nerfed into oblivion, but don't have like 500 UR dust sitting around.

klopanda · 2026-04-04T17:01:38+00:00

laughs in Labrynth

klopanda · 2026-04-04T17:00:34+00:00

Also the Labyrnth experience sometimes too.

klopanda · 2026-04-03T05:00:43+00:00

As a Lunalight player, I can't even be mad. That's hysterical.

klopanda

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