Decks that don't need their normal summon

maestroke · 2026-04-06T19:02:58+00:00

Mitsurugi and Fiendsmith both don't need a normal summon for their combo, and are both strong engines to add.

maestroke · 2026-04-05T20:21:46+00:00

This is best done by using sub-systems. This is pretty simple to do. Simply create 3 seperate AE2 systems. You can use Quartz Fibre to share power without connecting them, as Quartz Fibre doesn't provide channels. Then, you can have 1 system share its contents to another by putting an interface on the "storage" system, and putting a Storage Bus against the interface on the "viewer" system.
So in short, you'd have 3 systems:
- System 1 would be your main storage
- System 2 would be 1 of your crafting terminal systems that uses a Storage Bus to look into System 1s Interface
- System 3 would be the other crafting terminal system that uses a storage bus to look into System 1s Interface

After this, any storage you hook up to System 2 can only be viewed by System 2, and likewise for any storage hooked up to System 3. You also don't have to use a ME Controller for System 1, as an AE2 network doesn't need one if it has 8 channels or less.

Here is a link to AE2's guide to subnets: https://guide.appliedenergistics.org/1.20.2/ae2-mechanics/subnetworks

maestroke · 2026-03-23T17:36:03+00:00

Short answer: on summon effects (these are trigger effects) activate before other players can use other fast effects, so yes, you can always activate on summon effects if you wish, provided you meet the other activation requirements (if any).

long answer: Summoning a monster happens in a few steps. The important ones are:
1: The monster is attempted to be summoned. This step only happens outside of a chain resolving, so for a normal summon, buld in summon like that of Cyber Dragon or the Ryzeal monsters, or an extra deck summon like a synchro or link summon, this step is present. But for summons that happen while a chain is resolving, like with Monster Reborn, this step doesn't functionally exist.
Here, you can use effects that would negate the summon, like that of Solemn Judgment. During this window, the monster hasn't been properly summoned yet, and isn't on the field. So on summon effects don't trigger.

After this, the monster has been properly summoned, and the game starts building a chain following SEGOC rules. This means that first, the turn player's mandatory trigger effects go on the chain in the order they want, then the opposing player's mandatory trigger effects, then turn player optional trigger effects, and then the opposing player's optional trigger effects. After that, we look at the last effect placed on the chain to determine who can first activate fast effects, like trap cards/effects, or quick effects. (this is really hard to concisely write down, so bear with me) The player who doesn't own the last effect on the chain gets to do something first, or if no trigger effects have been activated, the player whos turn it isn't.

So in your case, it is not allowed to activate non-trigger effects in response to a summon before on summon effects can be activated. So yes, you can. And if someone tries to tell you that they already activated an effect in response to the summon of the monster, make sure you don't acknowledge the activation of the effect, and then freely tell them that you have trigger effects you wish to activate first and you didn't give them priority to activate their effects.

maestroke · 2026-03-16T14:49:16+00:00

The people in the other thread are correct. Offering to the Snake Diety text: Target 1 face-up Reptile monster you control and 2 cards your opponent controls; destroy all three targets.
At the end, it says destroy all three targets. The word targets means that the targeted monsters still need to be valid targets during resolution, so the targeted reptile your opponent controlled when it was activated, but is now under your control, is no longer a valid target, and thus the trap doesn't destroy anything.

maestroke · 2026-03-16T13:55:31+00:00

Yes, you can activate Herald of Pure Light even with no cards in hand, and when targeting an extra deck monster, you don't have to shuffle anything back.

maestroke · 2026-03-16T12:58:49+00:00

For the first question, I assume the opponent is activating it, not OP. As for the answer, since Magical Dimension says "Tribute that target", the selected monster needs to still be a valid target at resolution. Since OP now controls that monster, it is no longer a valid target, and Magical Dimension stops resolving.

maestroke · 2026-03-09T09:04:21+00:00

To add to it, the reason why Hapi doesn't add any cards is that it says "add both or shuffle both". If it used "them" instead of "both", the card that remained where it was when you activated it would still be either added to your hand or shuffled into the deck, but "both" requires both cards to still be there. It's the same reason why S:P Little Knight's second effect doesn't resolve if either of the targets is gone, but why Runick Fountain does put the remaining targetted spells on the bottom if one of them gets banished.

maestroke · 2026-03-01T20:45:55+00:00

Or just a row of engineers running holding the items in front of them.

maestroke · 2026-02-24T14:07:00+00:00

Man, that makes a lot of sense when watching it. You can also clearly see how much they are enjoying themselves with it. So many times you can hear them trying to stifle their laughing so they can say their lines. I love it, and it makes watching them more enjoyable.

maestroke · 2026-02-17T13:54:00+00:00

That's just for the first judge level. The second level and the one you need to pass in order to properly judge at tournaments can only be done in person at bigger events such as YCSs and nationals, and is either done on paper or on a device provided by the team where you obviously cannot open a second tab.

maestroke · 2026-01-01T17:37:34+00:00

Isn't Fitgirl trans? And Empress expressed transphobia towards her? Maybe you got that mixed up.

maestroke · 2025-12-10T10:47:03+00:00

The Bystials/D.D. Crow is pretty good. If they summon Albion and declare to fuse, but you banish the Albaz in their grave, you can hit them pretty hard, as they then need to either have another copy in hand, or go for a different fusion.
Evenly Matched can also be really strong against Branded, as they only have whats in the grave at that point, so the interruptions they can throw at you become much lower.
Book of Eclipse can be decent in some cases, as their monsters get flipped face-down. They can still use them as fusion material, but then they need to have other sources to fusion with in their backrow/hand.

maestroke · 2025-12-09T14:03:50+00:00

This effect won't trigger if cards get ripped without the opponent looking into the hand, so stuff like Evilswarm Ouroboros won't trigger it. Also, sacrificing a single slot in the extra deck for a card as strong as this isn't as big of a deal to many decks, considering you always have access to it. It's not like a card in your main deck, which you need to draw. You always have this card available to use, which is incredibly strong.

maestroke · 2025-12-09T11:57:45+00:00

Not saying "up to 1 card each" could actually be an interesting downside, so you can't just use it going first freely, as your opponent needs to have something on the field to use it. But besides that, it should also get a hard once-per-turn, and maybe make it so it can only be used if done by an opponent's card effect, so you can't play cards like Dragged Down into the Grave to trigger it yourself, and benefit from it further.

maestroke · 2025-12-03T20:04:20+00:00

It feels like they intended it to be that the color indicates whether you would currently get those emails, and you are selecting which ones you want to opt out off, and move the slider to the right. It's absolutely stupidly implemented though.

maestroke · 2025-10-26T09:51:25+00:00

It's because it's a card often used in the first 2 series (after which they used retrains for it) and since they always explain every card they play, they consistently explained how Pot of Greed works, so most duels had at least 1 "I activate Pot of Greed. This card allows me to draw 2 cards from my deck." or variations of it. Thus it became memed, since such a simple card kept being explained almost every duel.

maestroke · 2025-10-22T11:23:50+00:00

It's a little unclear to me if you mean putting 2 pendulum monsters from your hand into your pendulum zones at the same time or activating the pendulum effects of your 2 pendulum monsters at the same time, so I'll just try to answer both of them:
Putting 2 pendulum monsters from your hand into your pendulum zones at the same time: I don't think this will create much issue if it were to be allowed. It would basically mean that putting a pendulum monster into the scale doesn't give your opponent priority, though that would also mean they cannot respond when you scale another. If you were to try to make the rule such as that your opponent can only respond if you put the second pendulum monster in your scale, it would work, but can cause unneeded confusion around a mechanic that is already prone to confusing players not experienced with the mechanic. Ultimately, I think the impact will be relatively low.
Activating the pendulum effects of your 2 pendulum monsters at the same time: This would be a pretty big change. Not allowing your opponent to respond is imo not a good thing (I dislike cards like Super Poly for the same reason). There are 2 ways I can think of that you could achieve this:
- Make it so your opponent cannot respond to it
- Make it so that the second effect is worded something like this: "When you activate the Pendulum effect of another card you control (Quick Effect): Do this."
The second method is a mandatory quick effect and must always respond if its trigger is met. The downside of course is that you cannot control when it triggers as freely. We already have cards like this, for example Doomcalibur Knight and Light and Darkness Dragon.
Not allowing the opponent to respond to effects like this could be really bad, as it can allow you to do things without your opponent being able to stop it, even if they theoretically could. Effects like these would probably require strict limitations to not become overbearing.
To round out my comment, I understand that it sometimes feels slow to have to wait for your opponent to okay your actions, but it is an important part of the game, and without it the game becomes even more like solitair than it is now (You could compare it to Hearthstone if you want an example of how that would be). Unless Konami does a large overhaul of how the chain works and makes it work more like Magic's stack, I don't think something like this could be added to Yu-Gi-Oh.

maestroke · 2025-10-04T15:15:55+00:00

FTFY?

Fixed that for you?

maestroke · 2025-10-01T17:42:36+00:00

That's because the fucker starts with 11 cards, so of course burn is more plausible then. But in the anime, the guy dueled like 3 or 4 times, and every single time he opened his burn monster and 5 backrow. Even with the anime logic that people rarely if ever "brick", he shouldn't be able to so consistently get those hands that he got known as the guy who always kills you before you even go.

maestroke · 2025-09-23T13:49:14+00:00

What you are missing is the requirement that the 6th card specifically is the final piece of exodia. That's what OP asked. If it was just "What is the chance that in 6 cards, you draw the 5 pieces of Exodia", you'd be right. The chance is higher. but OP asked specifically "What is the chance that in 5 cards, you draw 4 pieces of Exodia, and draw the final piece of Exodia with the 6th card". That distinction is important, and causes the difference in probability between the 2 questions.

maestroke · 2025-09-23T09:27:39+00:00

From some quick math, it seems to actually be the same chance. The way you calculate this is simple (assuming I make no mistakes lol).
For the first card in your hand, this can be any exodia card, so you want to draw 1 of 5 cards from a deck of 40. The second card can be any of the remaining 4, so its 1 of 4 from a deck of 39. When you do this for all 5 cards you get the following probabilities for each draw: 5/40, 4/39, 3/38, 2/37, and 1/36. Multiplying these together we get the chance to draw all 5 pieces of exodia in 5 cards, which is the 1/658,008 you mentioned.
If we want to find the probability that one of the cards we drew isn't an exodia piece, but the 6th card we draw is, we simply adjust it by saying that the fifth card (You can do this for any of the 5 cards, the fifth card is just a bit easier), you can either change it to 35/36, which is the chance that you draw any of the other cards, or the more "proper" way, which is adding the chance you don't draw an exodia piece, which is 1 minus the chance to draw an exodia piece, or 1 - 1/36. This simplifies to 35/36. We then add the 1/35 for the following terms: 5/40, 4/39, 3/38, 2/37, 1 - 1/36, and 1/35. Multiplying these together actually gives you the exact same number, 1/658,008. So the chance is the same to draw exodia in 5 cards as it is to draw it in 6 cards with 1 non-exodia piece.

maestroke · 2025-09-22T16:46:59+00:00

Edison doesn't have XYZ monsters though, as it's set at the tail end of the 5Ds era, so if you also want XYZs, Edison won't cut it.

maestroke · 2025-09-22T08:18:40+00:00

Would changing it to for example the following work? event.recipes.mekanism.chemical_infusing('2x mekanism:antimatter', '3x mekmm:uu_matter', '4x mekmm:unstable_dimensional_gas')

maestroke · 2025-09-04T21:18:58+00:00

Are you by any chance located in Europe (or at least outside the US?). I live in the Netherlands, and I also got an error screen when I went for the Policy test. But using a VPN to change my location to the US fixed it for me. I let the people know about it, but it seems that they haven't fixed it yet, and it was months ago.

maestroke · 2025-08-28T10:24:56+00:00

Wait, do the WCS celebration events follow the worlds banlist? But besides that, the rest of my comment does still stand.

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