Attention Duelists! This is the Yu-Gi-Oh TCG/OCG Thread!

First weekend of testing out infernoids lair of darkness with a single decatron, only two superpolys, no rekindling and only two void vanishement because the locals were still using the world banlist/some cards were too expensive at the moment.

8 wins 2 losses over the whole weekend, with 2-1, 2-1 and 4-0 as the overall results. got eigth place on a 24 person locals, 7th on a 14-persons, and first out of a six persons one, admittedly lower-level than the other two.

God damn even far from their full power those guys kicks ass. Feels great to play another deck than mild turkey turbo for once.

Had a really fun back and forth with a zombie world balderoch player where he superpoly'ed the mosnters I summoned with boid feast, almost otk'd me, and then lost to me topdecking void imagination and coming back thanks to tierra and devyaty before going for the otk.

Also got a borreload excharge out of it. Not exactly the greatest thing but still pretty cool.

Edited by Yumil on Aug 18th 2019 at 5:25:07 PM

Wanna buy some Ash?

They're really merchandising the shit out of the little Hand Trap.

Rata joins the D Club. Uh, I mean reviews the Singer Dragons.

Stardust and Red Dragon Archfiend got all the good stuff, Black Rose was awesome but 1 of it effect kinda overshadowed the other. Aicent fairy finally got it time to shire only to be put in jail. Powertool was okay in it deck while Blackwing Dragon was out of no where and barely synergy with it own archetype minus some burn effect that Blackwing monsters have just to become a mediocre burner and beater.

Power Tool Dragon only became notable recently due to being a cog in the machine that is Dark Warrior Link Spam.

They always go and get D.D.R. with it.

Can combo decks just die already? I want to play the game, not lose turn 1 because I didn't draw a specific out.

Seeing as that would invalidate the playstyle of several summons (links, synchros, xyz, and to a lesser extent pendulums), no.

Remember when links were made to try to slow the game down and now its back to the good old oppressive nature of before?

I was specifically thinking of Orcust and Guardragon type crap. Or both.

One of the new things I've seen is Guardragon Orcust Sky Scourge Norleras.

You don't even get an opening hand.

how consistent is it? because if its anything like Gumblar.dek...

If you can get to Elpy and spam the board you can do it. It takes three Beat Cops and Lee the World Chalice Fairy, and Brotaur can grab Norleras. You want to Link away your 3 Cops, get Lee in the yard and then go into Norleras.

Edited by NickTheSwing on Aug 28th 2019 at 3:56:27 AM

Rata's been uploading a slew of videos lately. Yes, most of them are streams, but it's still notable.

I keep misreading that as Rota...

You know, my solution to being bothered by a Spell Mining Cave deck is to just run the clock on simulators.

Slowplay against them. Find a good book and just make your turn take an eternity every time.

Teaches them how it feels.

Rising Rampage Special Edition Cards.

I'm rewatching episode 2 of the original series.

How did Pegasus do a Shadow Game by video tape? That doesn't match any power seen elsewhere in the series, as far as I know. Honestly, with a standard like that, "dark energy disks" shouldn't have been seen as such a stretch of the imagination.

Also, there's a surprising amount of foreshadowing (for a series of this "seriousness") of the Duelist Kingdom finals in this episode. Black Luster Soldier vs Harpie's Pet Dragon, Thousand Eyes Restrict being destroyed by Magician of Black Chaos...

And we already see Little Yugi plan out Yami's power most clearly stated in the final Ceremonial Duel, the ability to force whatever card he needs to appear from his deck.

Edited by wanderlustwarrior on Sep 2nd 2019 at 2:26:14 PM

They're magical games. The duel is actually taking place among their minds.

It'd still kind of ridiculous, but magic is vastly unexplained in the series to begin with, which is more or less as best of a reason you'll get. One thought is that he could channel his magic into any object to create a proper shadow game. His "shadow powers" are treated as extremely strong at that point.

I agree with you, though. The other shadow duels felt more logical in comparison. Even the Shadow Disc stuff you mentioned above feels a lot easier to understand.

In the manga it's even weirder because Yugi doesn't get zapped into the Shadow Realm to meet Pegasus face to face, the tape just knows what plays he's going to make somehow, as though the Millennium Eye can predict the future - a power it never demonstrates again and is in fact the purvey of the Necklace.

Yeah, the anime honestly makes a lot more sense. Shadow game magic is at least easier to explain than a tape somehow knowing the future. Makes me wonder if they changed it in the anime to make sure the Necklace feels more unique.

The Eye does partially work that way to know what cards are in people's hands and all, but that is more him seeing into their mind. It doesn't translate well via a video tape if it doesn't at least have the Shadow Game factor, which makes it far more easy to accept as an idea.

Edited by Irene on Sep 2nd 2019 at 5:15:38 AM

New Time Thief Xyz.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

...Well I mean, gotta wait for it to come over here BUT HEY I'LL TAKE IT.

You know, I'm a bit annoyed that the Yugioh wikia doesn't want to list the Black Dinosaurs as a Series, even though they fit the definition. Or at least someone was blocking it a couple years ago.

They are 5 Dinosaur monsters with similar names. All of them except Ptera are Earth type, which means they're all associated with the biome they're most familiar with. The members are:

• Black Tyrano
• Black Veloci
• Black Stego
• Black Ptera
• Black Brachios

The definition states that A series is:

• a group of three or more cards - there's five of them so far, more than some smaller series.
• that share an appearance in artwork, - all except Black Stego are feral purple dinosaurs with yellow claws, fangs, and extraneous spikes. Black Stego just lacks the coloration but still has the feral nature and extraneous spikes (in addition to the plates on its back).
• name, - The naming scheme is identical, with all their names beginning with "暗黒" in Japanese, translated the same in all other languages. All of their names then state the common names of the dinosaur they are, with "saur(us)" cut off, or "raptor" in the case of Veloci.
• or effect similarity, - Tyranno, Stego, and Brachios revolve around battle advantages involving defense position monsters. Veloci revolves around battling (and would benefit from being in defense position if attacked), and Ptera is intentional tribute fodder.
• but are not genuine archetypes due to lacking any support cards. - They aren't claimed to be archetypes, but they do meet the (loose) criteria for a series. And given the definition includes "or", the fact that they meet all the points when they don't have to is an extra plus.

Edited by wanderlustwarrior on Sep 8th 2019 at 8:34:17 AM

Yeah, that is weird. They even have the same Japanese names(Burakku).

The first set of 2020 will be called Eternity Code. It's still a VRAINS set, and probably the last one.

Linguriboh's effect.

English names for the next Legendary Duelists set.

Farfa got to interview Matthew Bell, a Production Designer for Konami Europe.

Edited by Karxrida on Sep 12th 2019 at 8:05:33 AM