I kinda made this post because I want to see how many cards seemed good at a glance but end up being terrible, in general or because of an interaction you didn't see coming until actually trying the card (or lack thereof in my case lol). Let me start with a story of me trying to look for melodious tech:

I have a melodious deck I built in master duel. I'm fairly certain the deck doesn't make it to even rogue tier in any current formats, but I play it because it's fun.

Regardless, I was messing around in the deckbuilder looking for any sort of tech melodious can use to improve the endboard. I cane across the trap you see here illusion. I thought to myself, hold on this could actually be goated, why does no one run this? It's searchable by couplet and depending on the hand I could get by without concerto, it seems worth it because that way they will have even fewer outs to my lock!

I put it in the deck and tried it out in a solo mode.

Did my combo. Made the trap with etoile and aria. Bot casts raigeki. I don't even get the option to activate the trap. I was baffled, I thought there was some lock I missed or forgot about. Until I read the trap again.

**Target**. A trap that targets. For the deck known for making a nontargetting lock.

This game is just unfair to old archetypes sometimes.

Honourable mention: shiranui spectralsword would have made shiranui squire a great starter for the deck but for some reason konami decided that you can't use the trigger effects in the grave same turn you dump it. Funny

How on earth did they expect us to take Zarc seriously when he looks like a teenage Gargoyle with clown goggles.

And yes, I’m fully aware of the production problems Arc-V had, the fact that the animators didn’t even know what they were supposed to be drawing was crazy as hell lmao.

But regardless, it’s still crazy that the version we got actually got approved lmfaooooo, especially when we already had a great design from the 126 flashbacks and all they needed to do was basically draw a face at that point

Look we've all heard about the story about the 2,222 cards deck. Nicknamed "Mischen: Impossible" ("Mission: Impossible), it showed up in the 2007 German Nationals and caught the eye of everyone in the room, whether they wanted to or not.

But looking at the decklist, it was mostly consisting of 3 of every semi-playable card that had been released up to this point. Yu-Gi-Oh had around 3000 cards printed back then, and we're well over 15,000 cards in the TCG now. In theory, this means a muuuuch bigger pool to draw inspiration from.

So the question is: how do you build a 2,222 cards deck that respects the current banlist and is still (somewhat) playable? I think the best way to do so is probably to take a glance at Warrior-centric strats given all the archetypes and tools available to them, but I'm open to other ideas.

(Extra Deck stays at 15 for comedic reasons)

I been playing a lot of Clown Crew Slifer the sky dragon deck and I gotta say it’s an absolute blast, so when I found out I could get this deck IRL for only like $45? I jumped on it!! So that brings me to my question what other current strategies for rogue that feel fresh and fun and are cheap for you?

Mine are Fire Princess for the artwork and Blaze Fenix for the Effect, honourable mention Volcanic Hammerer a card that is really close to my hearth.

During the final fight yugi summoned back all 3 Egyptian gods and they hit this crazy stance …and basically I’m just wondering if they made it into a card or not bc I haven’t seen anything like it on cardboard yet.

Dark Magician Of Chaos + Buster Balder.

I’m between 1 and 2

Watercolor.

My favorite dragon.

Obviously this is a moot point because protagonists tend to get archetypes made specifically for them, but just for funsies.

Bonus points if it's not a warrior, dragon or Spellcaster. Personally I feel like R.B would be a good fit. They've got a similar underdog vibe to junk and their gimmick of attaching limbs to their big link for different effects would lend itself well to the traditional 'pull a new card out from nowhere to win the duel you were previously losing' episode structure.

This colored sketch brought to you by Master Duel’s Time Travel 2006 event! I have a soft spot for both Ritual monsters and unlikely team-ups, so Demise OTK has always been a favorite deck of mine. I love the idea of Doom Dozer and Demise being friends, lol.

Recently I bought some of the Speed Duel Gx boxes and I had a blast with friends. The quick set-up and play with lower powered anime decks was incredibly fun.

I keep thinking in ways to create new decks, and how to tailor the existing ones with a few new cards (for example adding Chaos Distill to Amnael's).

If anyone misses old style yugioh and would like to convince friends to play, this is an excellent way to do so!

The new unchained support is comeing out in about 3 weeks, what are your thoughts on it?, i personally think its good (especially combined with fiendsmith) but idk if it'll even be meta, cus it does die to nibiru, but i do think its going to be a decent deck now that it has a normal summon and more starters/extenders, and its grind game is gonna be much better, I just dont think its gonna be meta though sadly depending on how things go, but what are your thoughts?

Im personally planning to play it, I know ill lose alot since my locals plays nothing but meta, but I at least want to enjoy the deck, it looks fun and I like the playstyle, as long as I can have fun with it then im gonna try it out

Let's be clear: when Konami TCG designed this archetype, they thought it was a good idea to base it around continuous burn damage and floodgates, even though those are some of the things the community hates the most.

They couldn't include some of the archetype's cards on the recent Forbidden & Limited List because it's still a new product. At the end of the day, no matter how much people criticize them, they're a business. They need to make money or there is no card game. However, just because they didn't touch the deck now doesn't mean they won't do so in the future.

Yes, Angelechy can be countered, and there are plenty of cards that deal with it when you're going second. The issue, however, is that sometimes it isn't a deck's power level that makes people hate it, but rather the kind of gameplay experience it creates.

Just remember Tenpai, Runick, and Kashtira:

A) Tenpai is frustrating because its Field Spell is essentially a floodgate that says, "You can't do anything to my Dragons."

B) Runick relied on numerous floodgates that protected Hugin while continuously recovering resources thanks to its Field Spell.

The icing on the cake was its banish-based deck depletion strategy, permanently removing a large portion of your resources.

C) The third deck boils down to face-down banishing and regular banishing enforced through floodgates.

Let's add another point here, one that serves as a warning sign that Angelechy may be hit severely: following the decline in tournament attendance, Konami appears eager to step forward and show that they are willing to address problems within the game, including floodgates.

Therefore, a deck built around precisely the mechanics described above, one that is unpopular and has already completed its sales cycle, does not seem to have a bright future ahead of it. This stands in contrast to Mitsurugi, whose survival lasted quite a long time by the standards of a competitive deck that could be splashed into nearly any existing archetype.

Fusion DMChaos + Buster Blader