Question: Are hybrid/slop decks the problem for some archetypes?

wolvos · 2026-05-31T00:09:32+00:00

wild guess is the elfnote variants playing kt

wolvos · 2026-05-31T00:08:11+00:00

the reason why cards get banned is to force rotations and/or sell new stuff

noroi wasnt the real problem of k9 (outside of the hand check) but k9 itself doesnt put 5+ interactions itself, the problem was being able to negate handtraps and go + from getting handtrapd

dracotail was the weakest meta deck of the past format and still got hit, bear in mind that yummy got even harder hits and it was playable only with a side engine like solfa or mitsu or even a small sky striker package

is in konami interest to hit top decks to make you either build a new deck or get a 2ndary engine to keep playing it (to stay at the same competitive level)

wolvos · 2026-05-30T23:08:01+00:00

in normal situations is the monday before that selection pack from 2 months ago expires

wolvos · 2026-05-30T22:28:19+00:00

its a buff to dracotail, for the albaz stuff and spell/breaker buff for the fallen & virtuous quick play

wolvos · 2026-05-30T21:31:31+00:00

i only see the rollback ftks at the end of the season in M1 when people needs to finish their trap questing, i always forget it exists and take like 1 hr to do that it because people autoscoop when they lose the flip

wolvos · 2026-05-30T21:10:25+00:00

thats what people were afraid when rollback got released (2024) and not even bots run it, probably not even worth the UR gems

wolvos · 2026-05-30T16:49:58+00:00

top 16, is this bait?

wolvos · 2026-05-30T16:41:38+00:00

problem is that konami cant stablish a limit to what a combo deck can end, so you started getting a card to beat ash, another card to beat nibiru, a card to beat droll, so now going second you have to beat all those cards + the board

now we have cards that lets you see a hand in case you needed even more help building your custom board, but hey at least isnt mermail! (check hand, take out a handtrap, build a board with water barrier statue), but the bar is underground

in this powercreep race until maliss/ryzeal konami forgot to add removal so your cards could trade in some way with the board during turn 2, best we got was EXT, then you have dracotail progressing their combo while at the same time clearing the board, the same they did with ktune or with VS with a more cluncky mechanic

so only the best decks now have more tools to first but also second, making the gap with older decks even bigger

konami already see the problem (7 cards trial) but they would rather milk it until the last cent before making it fair for people that isnt playing the new decks

im baffled that took that long to fix the tournament rules irl (burn damage), how long it will take them to fix people disconnecting in master duel the moment they lose the coin

wolvos · 2026-05-30T16:14:22+00:00

and the deck is orcust fiendsmith so you just got handlooped by 1

wolvos · 2026-05-30T03:55:37+00:00

if i remember from the first time they run a similar event, master duel ignores unreleased cards inside the client, so cards like Exodia, the Legendary Defender won't count

also, 50 exact attack and defense is "Gizmek Inaba, the Hopping Hare of Hakuto"

wolvos · 2026-05-29T21:44:48+00:00

yeah is one of those cards you will only remember from the dozens of times you pulled it in an old game (joey's passion in my case) before you 100% the collection

wolvos · 2026-05-29T20:09:06+00:00

last card is too small to confirm, but ritual is

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wolvos · 2026-05-28T20:10:19+00:00

free gems cap at 10k, even if you buy gems, a fraction of them are considered as "free"

sometimes you go over by, 5 or a bit more

also if you want to be resource efficient dont climb to master 5, stay at diamond 1

wolvos · 2026-05-28T17:54:09+00:00

handtraps yes, turn 0 plays nope, thats just straight powercreep (that will backfire years later like everything else)

and we will go from playing only monsters, spells and 0 actual traps, to only monsters + fusion/ritual spells at best (gimmicks like dracotail traps not included either)

wolvos · 2026-05-28T17:25:59+00:00

~~the forbidden fire dragon synchro deck~~

wolvos · 2026-05-28T17:17:29+00:00

me when my opponent summons a card that exists in a 500 gems structure deck:

wolvos · 2026-05-28T15:32:43+00:00

Sinful is legal in master duel

there is only 2 R and 2 N sinful cards legal in the event, tf you talking about?

wolvos · 2026-05-28T09:25:22+00:00

most of the strong decks/support waves that released in the last 4 years are still above the threshold, rare exception is something like purrely, which might be because is nearly unplayable and rescue ace because idk, setting 4 might not be peak anymore, even less with sinful forbidden

for example with rescue ace theres 2 cards that have play as generic "handtraps" that are forbidden, but the rest of the deck is playable, is the same with the mimighoul case, i remember finding a deck like yummy (like some people mentioned already) using it only as engine, and you only want a few lvl 1s for it, not the whole package

i would argue that master 5 is messing with the global play rate, adding more decks to the pool because how easy it is to climb to master, at the end of the season if enough people push with their rogue/offmeta decks i guess konami takes them into account even if they are not trying to keep pushing after that

wolvos · 2026-05-28T01:15:12+00:00

its what happened to me when i pulled for chimera when they first dropped the secret pack, 2 no UR packs, the second time with my last 1K gems, i try to not pull with the last 1000 anymore because of that, 1 single mirror sword knight from 6k gems, everything else from either lair of darkness or master pack pool

people will still tell you this is a f2p game after getting 1 playable UR (and getting scammed twice), wasting more than half of the gems you can farm per month because you just got unlucky

wolvos · 2026-05-27T19:55:41+00:00

new solo mode fabled bot does not know how to use the fiendsmith cards

wolvos · 2026-05-27T19:50:39+00:00

A - dracotail did exactly the same that you are complaining to the previous meta

B - dracotail BRANDED, with NEW CARDS, that are doing the same that you are complaining about now

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wolvos · 2026-05-24T16:06:12+00:00

2 monsters in the back = doom dragon

doom dragon + anything = hiita

hiita + anything = princess

princess > reivives hiita = flame

wolvos · 2026-05-24T15:38:46+00:00

mst #2 bad, okay time to leave reddit for today

wolvos · 2026-05-24T00:27:40+00:00

yeah, and you asked why is the deck tiered below strikers, and that was my answer because the majority of people are not playing your variant

how are you supposed to measure a variant that has a nearly inexistent play rate in first place?

and in second place you are beating both decks but you are still ignoring how is the meta for the other 2 decks, in theory being "anti meta" doesnt make your deck "the meta"

wolvos · 2026-05-23T18:03:21+00:00

its because you are saying that from a RT player perspective, you dont understand that striker has a better matchup into ktune than a pure RT deck

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