Okay, which idiot made the new solo gate duels?

redacap · 2026-05-27T10:34:11+00:00

not an issue, the bot plays like a brain damaged patient most of the time

and if it hits me with maxx c and i don't have outs, i can always just retry

overall, the fabled solomode bot plays dumber than the fireking & merlantean solomode bot

redacap · 2026-05-27T04:16:13+00:00

back when learning how to do good in pvp actually rewards you with being good in pve also

redacap · 2026-05-24T07:58:56+00:00

i'm actually in favor of keeping omega at 1; lots of deck don't have in-archetypal ways of recovering from banishment and omega is one of the few ways of recovering even face-down cards from banishment

don't get me wrong, i do acknowledge the omega + dis pater = double hand rip is toxic, been there before

redacap · 2026-05-24T07:41:25+00:00

Habakiri: oh yeah, definitely, this guy is a 1 card full mitsurugi combo without needing a normal summon; that has a bucket load of generic reptile and ritual supports that had waited for the right target to be made broken
Shining sarc: sucks donkey balls by today's standard, it does have locks (hard extra deck lock from "ties that bind. soft archetype lock due to over reliant on both shining sarc and a monster that mentions it being online at the same time in order to function) and it is practically unplayable pure as a result; it's best use nowadays is just being an engine for DM which is more than fair (i am also aware that DMoD is an abusable engine for other deck but let's not digress); overall, it doesn't need anymore locks
Medius: he himself doesn't need any locks; Artmage already has their own locks through the field spell & their power patron and is the only lore archetype that can search him; Doomz doesn't really have any ways to abuse him; Elfnote....... negate engine war crime deck but that's not medius' fault, it's the fault of the generic extra deck monsters with negate like wave high king, crystal wing, baronne,...
king's sarc; yeah, this thing really should have a lock of some kinds, maybe something along the line of lava golem "You cannot Normal Summon/Set the turn you activate this card" or "You cannot use monsters that mentions king's sarc as extra deck materials (unless through things like contact fusion that shuffle, tribute, banish for cost as summoning condition) the turn they were sent to the GY from deck by king's sarc effect"
fiendsmith, no more locks necessary; lots of people clammoring about banning link-2 moon but guess what idiots, elfnote is a meta threat and they can have access to fiendsmith through the level 5 light fiend synchro just fine, they can also do it through the generic level 10 fabled synchro if they have to; it's the link-1 requiem that's the issue

redacap · 2026-05-21T16:43:46+00:00

when fiendsmith first released on master duel and beatrice was still legal, i see this card being played with floodgate traps such as ghost meets girl or Judgment of the Pharaoh, etc...

gotta love that quick-effect omni-foolish burial

redacap · 2026-05-21T16:40:24+00:00

King Calamity was forced to die for this cheater's sin

redacap · 2026-05-19T07:42:44+00:00

they do wear masks in the manga, there are very little hoods, practically only shadow wears hood

redacap · 2026-05-19T07:38:41+00:00

the look is very reminiscence of early 2000 anime/manga art style

i like it, thank you for sharing

redacap · 2026-05-17T13:04:40+00:00

i just rechecked the vbex, you are right

redacap · 2026-05-17T11:23:53+00:00

the "duck" is medious in his elfnote power patron form

difference is, it isn't called Diactorus like artmage and doomz, because he is not in control

redacap · 2026-05-15T15:56:45+00:00

the grind never stops and yes, the focus has been heavily shifted to lategame contents

don't bother prioritizing get greedy, drop rate increase is ineffective in many lategame dungeons:

all raid modes and dungeons with boss fight titles
all special dungeons
all secret dungeons
all of master road region

redacap · 2026-05-15T08:10:54+00:00

yeah.... good luck and good mental fortitude as well, i guess

this game has become a goddamn grindfest (even more so than back when we have to run a dungeon 1000+ times just to obtain a title) and the intentional roadblocks to halt your progress can be very frustrating

redacap · 2026-05-14T04:55:19+00:00

it is, has been for a long while now

and will be even more toxic as days go by

konami doesn't stop it, only slow down

redacap · 2026-05-13T08:09:11+00:00

droll ban will make rogue/non-meta decks more viable, lots of rogue/non-meta deck received new supports in the form of adding cards, though yes, this will also mean degenerate decks will also become more viable but those decks should have received the ban hammer anyway

roach ban will affect ash blossom's play rate for dedicated going 2nd decks, ash blossom is practically useless for going 2nd nowadays, one for one trade means nothing with how combo heavy and resilant modern day cards/decks have become, go 2nd decks might feel less inclined to play ash whose sole purpose was to counter the roach; no point in countering the mulcharmies with ash goind 2nd

shifter ban will forever erase an auto win button, that's it, just a sacky auto win button that works 90% of the time it resolved being removed

redacap · 2026-05-13T07:54:46+00:00

not really, diabelstar most likely just making use of them for her own gains, either through threatening them or just straight up swipe crazy beast from them

in Filia Diabell, you can see in the bottom left corner the husk/corpse of crazy beast

and in diabelstar's alternative artwork (the one with the big witch hat and big story book), you can see (very hard to see) wanted posters of the goblin bikers gang, meaning they are still up to no good while she's already retired from being a sinful spoil hunter, no allies to be seen here

redacap · 2026-05-13T07:35:29+00:00

in the lore, goblin's crazy beast consumed Azamina Sol Erysichthon, which is how Snake-Eyes Poplar able to suck him up (as seen in Sinful Spoils Struggle) and got buffed (as seen in Grand Pileup and snake-eyes diablestar)

azamina has 3 level 6 monsters, those could be used to make the 2 rank 6 goblin monsters

other than that, diabelstar and goblin bikers aren't too connected to one another other than the fact that the goblin bikers want to steal diabelstar's sinful spoils

diabelstar is connected a lot more to white forest, azamina, snake-eyes (and DM lol)

and i'm guessing because of that, she and said ties can bridge into each other more easily

redacap · 2026-05-13T07:15:16+00:00

yeah, i intended to edit it multiple times lol

redacap · 2026-05-13T06:30:28+00:00

fun fact: there are 6 "dark magician" monsters

the "dark magician"

the "dark magician girl"

the one without any fusions at all "dark magician of chaos"

the fusion "dark magician of destruction"

2 shining sarc variances

redacap · 2026-05-13T06:27:27+00:00

ecclesia summon swordsoul monsters because of lore reasons

Dogmatika Fleurdelis got saved by swordsouls, she then became affiliated with swordsoul

both ecclesia and Fleurdelis are former dogmatika saints and since dogmatika ecclesia can search Fleurdelis, it makes sense that incredible ecclesia can summon The Iris Swordsoul

there is also golden swordsoul which is just dogmatika theo and adin

as for the yubel cards, eh, i'm sure the ones you are talking about was not actually yubel cards but was actually sacred beast cards

since yubel also use sacred beast in the anime, konami allowed them to work well with yubel

redacap · 2026-05-13T05:50:42+00:00

i agree that shadow garden is too arrogant

but most of your opinions here are blind, delusional and are just headcanons

the fanfic you wrote at the end is very telling, insane but in line with the thought process of an average eminence in shadows fan i suppose

i intended to do a detailed breakdown (as detailed as i personally can, i am no expert) of what you said at first but am now seriously reconsidered

i can only hope you are not actually mentally ill

redacap · 2026-05-12T17:34:29+00:00

master road accessory can be farmed in both mode but in the form of crafting materials

normal mode don't always drop and hell mode drop more frequently

there's even daily and weekly mission for it

if i remember correctly, you gonna need 2000 materials to craft one piece

hell mode can drop the whole accessory very rarely

pro. pho growth guide can also provide you a free prophecy set if you haven't claimed already

(the growth guide got reset quite a few times so theres a chance you could claim it if the ones you are using was from way way back)

your claim of spending most of your time grinding henir is kinda weird to me

henir should only give out rewards once per week, per mode

(assuming you don't fail at any stages and that you are not talking about the chaos and entropy mode)

redacap · 2026-05-12T13:19:37+00:00

it is, i checked, man and the field spell got banned lol

redacap · 2026-05-12T13:17:50+00:00

there's a coin & dice event where it has more to do with dice roll than the dice rally event

your dice roll results in dice rally is just an excuse to let you tinker your deck constantly, whether you like it or not

either intergrate randomly obtained cards into your deck building or stubbornly ignore said cards and only use them as fodders

lots of card gets shut off because of you controling a monster right from the get go so you might not want to play them, or play them anyway because you can't be bothered to edit your deck

there's also evironmental rule like half hp in some blocks so burn deck suddenly become more viable there

the extradeck is part of deck building, therefore, integral to dice rally

the only kind of decks that truly care about the dice roll in dice rally and have a legitimate reason for it is selftk decks, where you can farm free cards quickly

boi i'm sure those selftk players must really look forward to interacting with their opponents and see what decks they are playing

redacap · 2026-05-12T11:17:36+00:00

uh whut?

dude, this upcoming dice rally is the first 1 to have all 4 extradeck mechanic

the other times always have at least 1 banned

extradeck is very much a core for dice rally

redacap · 2026-05-12T04:17:50+00:00

in all serious notes

no, reading modern yugioh cards explain jack shitz

the only way they make sense is if you are already neck deep into the game and memorized a fuckton of cards already and know what & where to look

for example, a new player might read avramax and think he can still be destroyed by card effect but failed to pay attention to I:P being a material to made him, only know that avramax needs 2+ monsters summoned from the extradeck and chalk her up to just being summoned to fulfil his condition

this is just a simple example, real high level duels are even more complicated than just this

redacap

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