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[falazaria]

shoutout to Dueling Nexus for making their solo-mode bot this

[luna-the-duel-chronologist]

It’s Format Friday!

Good Morning, Duelists! It’s me, Luna, the Duel Reporter and it’s Friday, March 31, 2023! Today, I’d like to bring attention a way to play Yu-Gi-Oh that you might not have tried. As I’ve stated more than a few times in this blog, I think Yu-Gi-Oh is a fantastic game, and there’s a near infinite amount of ways to play it.

Well, today, I’d like to start with one of my favorites, it’s a Time Wizard format that is a bit under the radar. Allow me to introduce you to HAT Format.

What is HAT Format?

HAT Format is a Yu-Gi-Oh format based on the cards legal in early July, 2014, also meaning it’s Master Rule 2, meaning there are no Extra Monster Zones, the player going first gets to draw a card, their can only be one Field Spell at a time, and the latest product releases were Primal Origin and the Lightsworn Structure Deck.

The name HAT comes from one of the best decks in the format, Hand Artifact Traptrix, a powerful control deck that revolved around a completely reactionary control base, using Traptrix monsters to Xyz Summon and set Trap Holes, Fire Hand and Ice Hand to pop monsters and spell/traps respectively, and Artifacts, which can react on being destroyed to do a myriad of things, but, primarily stun a turn to summon monsters and destroy cards without targeting, which was a huge deal back in 2014.

That being said, HAT wasn’t the only good deck in HAT Format, as the format has a myriad of powerful decks in it! Infernity returns to the format as a strong DARK Xyz deck, Madolche and Evilswarm are powerful Rank 4 decks, Hieratic, Sylvan, and Mermail provide an easy way to climb into high level and high rank plays!

HAT Format mostly uses the April 2014 banlist, which can be found here: https://www.db.yugioh-card.com/yugiohdb/forbidden_limited.action?forbiddenLimitedDate=2014-04-01

Here are my personal decks, if you want to get a good starting place for HAT!

Hieratic Rulers

Here’s Hieratic Rulers, it’s a powerful combo deck that has a strong going first or second game that can build huge boards and occasionally OTK, depending on your build. I personally play mine as a toolbox of Dragon Ranks, but, I’ve played against a few people who play more into the Synchros, the Rank 6’s and the Rank 7’s.

Hieratic Dragons tribute each other to swarm and activate effects, and when they do get tributed, they summon a Normal Dragon from hand/deck/GY, making Synchro, Xyz and Dragon Ruler set ups easy!

Here’s the link to my deck on Dueling Nexus!

https://duelingnexus.com/editor/adb9eb06a0851be9d340bd4092a89372

Evilswarm

Evilswarm is a really fun, really strong control deck that revolves around using the Rank 4 toolbox as a control tool to limit and restrict your opponent’s resources as much as possible before swinging for the kill.

Here’s the link to my decklist on Dueling Nexus!

https://duelingnexus.com/editor/ffe142b8ddbb5657a8ad4d52753629be

I hope that this article has inspired some Duelists to check out HAT Format!

[thebladeblaster]

When my opponent surrenders in Yugioh or Vanguard ZERO

Me:

[mellowfilmmaker]

Ok so Dueling Nexus is pretty awesome. I’m having a lot of fun playing online. I have so far made a six samurai and a blue eyes deck. Does anybody have any other deck types to recommend me? 

[dumpster-of-the-lost-souls]

So I've made 4 decks on dueling nexus for Fan made Yu-gi-oh characters each from different eras in the Yugioh series. I've never really played Yugioh at all until recently so I'm not really good at this I used the yugioh wiki as a guideline to build these decks.

I mostly deal with fan-fiction and stuff like that and building these decks is just to see if these decks would be feasible since there are some amazing fan fictions out there with fan made cards and stuff but I wanted to keep these characters using cards and archetypes that already exist.

Ahmed is from the Duel Monster's era and is imagined to be like a cousin of sorts of Marik and Ishizu Ishtar and uses a Gravekeeper deck. His role is that the tomb keepers decided to keep an eye on the millennium puzzle and sent Ahmed and his family to Japan as spies/guardians.

Gang Jin is from the 5ds era, his story is that his parents were Korean tourists being involved in a big event shortly before the zero reverse happened with them being killed and him ending up in satellite. He was once part of the enforcers but is not a signer or dark signer having retired from dueling to help Martha out. He runs a scrap/ancient gear deck.

Fuku is from the Arc V era and was inspired by the bracelet girls after the war ended to become an entertainment duelist and runs a deck with Lunalight, Lyrilusc, Windwitch, and Melodious cards. She ha no relevance to the plot of arc v since she only became a duelist after the plot wrapped up.

Chika is from the Vrains era and also doesn't have any plot relevance working as a programmer and ethical hacker. She mostly duels as a hobby using a fire-fist deck.

The decks are available for anyone to use and I'd like to know what I could do to improve these decks. There are some cards that are on some banlists. so do with that information what you will.

[bunnyfemmeprincess]

So, aaamm... I made it to both Grandmaster rank AND Top 100 in Dueling Nexus..... damn, didn't think this deck would get me this far.

[thebladeblaster]

Dueling Nexus Noble Arms issue

There’s something wrong with the Noble Arms cards. Usually after they are destroyed you can equip them to a Noble Knight monster on the field using their ability but it isn’t working. I checked to see if the cards got errataed but I haven’t found any erratas. I tested this with Noble Knight Borz and Medraut. It seemed like the effect activated and I could select the monster but the card just went to the graveyard.

Here’s a video of it:

I’ve done this very same combo of many times and this has never happened.

The combo:

-Summon Medraut

-Equip a Noble Arms

-Special summon Borz with Medraut effect

-Destroy the Noble Arms used and use its effect to equip itself to Borz

-Search another Noble Arms with Borz

-Equip the Noble Arms spell to Medraut and because of both their effects they’re level 5

-XYZ summon rank 5

It works the way I described in official duel emulators like Legacy of the Duelist too. Does someone know what’s going on? I’m extremely confused.

[jussage]

Ursartic Deck

Anyways here's the deck I was cooking with (last post), very, very fun and very stupid, especially when it works. Just draw any of the bears and a deep sea diva, its so EZ.