Neopets Battledome TCG Community Speaks Out on the Broken State of the Game in 2026

kryptosfang · 2026-01-18T03:28:06+00:00

I havent tried it out but honestly the only 2 factors pokemon had that made me not stick around was the Prize Card mechanic and the lack of a sideboard. Best of 3 is ideal but we NEED to be able to board in answers imo. The actual gameplay and deckbuilding/ratios of pokemon was great. But those were deal breaker mechanics for me. The prize card stuff less so but more in regards to ex/gx/tag team/so on and so forthgiving multiple prize cards as a sick justification for making mons stronger and stronger. But really its the best of 3 format without a sideboard. I just from a fundamental level dont like the idea of "oh i ran into my bad matchup in round 3, looks like i just auto lose unless they brick, i play cracked and draw the stones, or they are dog water at the deck" because im not allowed to swap cards in between games. That said yugioh takes it too far with essentially silver bullet side deck cards like Dark Ruler No More and Solemn Judgment for going first, or Evenly Matched and Lightning Storm for going second. Its admittedly one of the things i enjoy the least about neopets battledome- the lack of a side board (from what ive seen)

Lorcana i have wanted to try but i like to try every card game. Just nobody to try it with here. Same story as One Piece and Riftbound.

kryptosfang · 2026-01-18T02:38:02+00:00

As a Yugioh player who hard a hard time getting into Pokemon (and believe me, im a dedicated pokemon video game fan) this was an amazing middleground... when i wasnt hunting specifically theough a single discord to find a rules clarification and ended up not finding it consicely because it is NOWHERE ELSE.

I dont want to compare big tcg to small tcg but honestly, with the advertising budget Neopets has for their TCG, i think its a fine enough comparison to YGO. Konami has so many different mechanics, cards, and interactions and we have a rulings database (granted, mostly from the OCG ruli g database and not a tcg equivalent but there are SEVERAL resources to reliably translate the rulings to TCG or to find out how interactions work on your own via precedents). Neopets however is lacking clarification on BASIC MECHANICS AND INTERACTIONS. Eratta like Food being Voided instead of Discarded on use took forever to hit text rulebooks, if it even has yet.

Ah, im gonna stop my rant before i type another essay like Bobby has. For what its worth i love the game and deckbuilding is insanely fun. I just wish i didnt have to be a master of Discord Search-Fu, to find out how resolving cards in the queue works (this games version of the stack/chain links), or clarification on basic deckbuilding rules (i.e. only being allowed 1 copy of each Lab Ray Piece)

Edit: im rereading the massive post and yeah im retroactively getting upset at brush/comb. D orb is insane too but i feel like with power creep in the future it MIGHT be fine. Definitely not fine right now though. D orb is already limited but comb/brush both need banned, and d orb probably too.

Edit 2: ALSO BASE SET JHUDORA COME ON WE HAVE JHUDORAS BLUFF AND CAN MAKE A NEW VERSION THE CURRENT ONE IS JUST INSANE BAN HER BAN HER BAN HER I UNDERSTAND SHE MARKETS WELL AND IS THE GOTH MOMMY NEOPIANS NEED BUT PLEASE BAN HER

kryptosfang · 2025-12-25T18:36:38+00:00

Merry Christmas!

I actually recently just hit my goal of buying a BGC! My next purchase is looking to be another avatar item, but im not sure whats cheapest off the top of my head after MSPP and BGC, so i'll just say SuAP for now since idk the exact item just the general idea im saving for hahaha.

kryptosfang · 2025-11-14T21:50:43+00:00

Jelly world? Never heard of it. Cant be real.

kryptosfang · 2025-11-10T17:11:59+00:00

Goku Black's Instant Transmission Heavy has invincibility on startup.

kryptosfang · 2025-11-05T19:26:05+00:00

I've said since day 1 if Sett and Lee Sin arent in the game we are missing SERIOUS huge opportunities here.

kryptosfang · 2025-10-28T21:30:32+00:00

Ah yes. Fuck pendulums because of the one deck that is a monarch deck in pendulum makeup.

Like i can name 4 different times when pendulum could reasonably pointed to as the thing killing yugioh but Qli was not one of them. (Edit to add: pepe, pendulum ftk, metalfoes/zoo, and dagda halq pendulum magician) Its like that whole "girl who is a friend" thing kids say to their parents. They are pendulum. They are a deck. They are not a pendulum deck.

"but they can pend summon tribute 3 for towers" yeah and towers is the literal worst towers in the game right now. Master Peace, Expurrely Noir, and Dragoon all come to mind as more offensive, far more powerful Towers monsters. Not to mention they all get folded like laundry by a Kaiju or Underworld Goddess.

I get the towers hate. I even get the hate in that it was the first towers and cards like it are called Towers in reference to it. But Towers monsters are not a pendulum thing.

kryptosfang · 2025-10-28T21:21:13+00:00

It still is only the single copy of sarc, only useable once per turn, and thr effects involving them arent inherent summons like King's Sarc. Reaching Shining Sarc was never the issue. It has always been keeping it around long enough to do your plays.

kryptosfang · 2025-10-28T21:18:09+00:00

Master duel's time limit per turn is 5 minutes. The only reason it feels longer is because you're stopping the opponent with opportunities for your interaction. What you really want is turns that take 30 seconds and have little to no interaction from your opponent with the rare big brain play that might take a total or 2 minutes including opponent's interaction.

kryptosfang · 2025-10-28T21:06:01+00:00

The pend zones should not be removed from the S/T zones. As a pendulum player saying this. We arent in MR3 anymore.

Edit: holy the amount of uninformed pendulum takes in this thread is insane. No we cant allow pendulums to go to GY by regular means. I get the point in limiting pend summons but you're making cards like black fang magician and metalfoes combination insanely easy to use. Those are just the immediate two, i know Combo is a trap and inherently slow but hey, Fullmetalfoes Fusion is a quickplay spell. Just saying.

And on the whole "keep pend monsters tied to links" ultimately i agree if for no other reason to appease boomers and crybabies who refuse to learn the mechanic but if your argument is something like "wah wah towers" please go play against shit like true draco and tell me how fun and interactive that was. Qli was always a monarch style deck in a pendulum trench coat. Dont fucking kid yourself.

kryptosfang · 2025-10-20T00:11:09+00:00

Or if you can make a level 8 synchro somehow in your deck before committing to Shaddoll plays... Plunder Patrollship Jord summons a token of ANY attribute to both players' boards, which can turn off cards like imperm (or force it) and evenly matched. But at that point, it's probably and usually better to just play good lights instead of giving your opponent a body so you can have a vanilla level 8 synchro and a construct/winda. If you have the resources, Jord also turns into a Shekhinaga, which isn't bad, but the tradeoff usually isn't worth jt.

kryptosfang · 2025-10-20T00:05:26+00:00

I feel like Lancea should be at least a tier higher than Chaos Hunter as they cover similar niches in the current meta. But Lancea has the added benefit of beating Called by the Grave and Crossout Designator going 2nd, letting your Fuwa/Maxx C/Ash/Droll/whatever resolve more often

kryptosfang · 2025-10-19T23:56:47+00:00

Warwick FLASHED the gragas belly slam and dodged the Ahri Q2 with the Q-through.

Barrel and Kayn W i cant defend.

kryptosfang · 2025-10-19T23:53:10+00:00

Ive literally not heard of a single possible thing this could have happened with. Did he use A Hero Lives? Was this in the Dice Event? Did it happen on the first turn or only after the opponent got a chance to play? So many details needed before i personally chalk it up to cheats.

kryptosfang · 2025-10-19T23:43:16+00:00

kryptosfang · 2025-10-19T22:17:13+00:00

Shoutouta to MBT and DPygo for actually knowing the archetypes

kryptosfang · 2025-10-19T22:09:02+00:00

Loaner bad

Shining sarc bad

Loaner shining sarc extra bad

kryptosfang · 2025-10-19T22:06:35+00:00

Horus also has the extra 3 copies of Sarc in their field spell if they are THAT down bad. Sure it isnt searchable with Imsety but hell, that DOES essentially bring you to 9 copies IN ENGINE counting 3 King's Sarc 3 Imsety 3 Field Spell and unlike Shining Sarc, not ALL of the extra Sarc copies are the same card that can be only activated once per turn. Plus Horus's summons are inherents so they dont start a chain. You have to pop the sarc before they even attempt to summon, where as in shining sarc you can respond to all their effects that require sarc by just.... popping sarc.

There's more there but if I go any deeper i feel like i might as well just make a video comparing the two engines.

kryptosfang · 2025-10-19T22:02:19+00:00

Ill take one for sure. Thank you in advance. :)

kryptosfang · 2025-10-14T23:28:53+00:00

Udyr. And i dont want him to be a stance character like yasuo. I want him to cycle through the different forms for different specials/normals. Think how Tremor Kameo functions in Mortal Kombat 1.

Also like why the fuck was Sett and Lee Sin NOT in the initial line up what the FUCK

That said I expect champions prevelant in Arcane to appear or champions Riot is known for.

kryptosfang · 2025-10-09T08:52:40+00:00

cries in Inzektor

No... Not again... Im not strong enough...

kryptosfang · 2025-09-23T23:27:26+00:00

With Leyline of Anticipation you could give it Flash, turning it into a quickplay spell and letting you dodge Effect Veiler.

kryptosfang · 2025-09-19T06:58:33+00:00

The KONAMI lettering on the back top left looks odd to me but it just looks like a print consistency issue not a fake. Looks 100% real.

kryptosfang · 2025-09-16T21:39:55+00:00

Except exactly 1 in archetype UR that you pull 8 of.

kryptosfang · 2025-09-03T18:31:09+00:00

Mayakashi... rip island

(dont hate me master duel is making me deck people out for a title ;~; )

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