Sep 28, 2021
oh okay good we aren't completely fucked out of having seperate pendulum zones. good job konami, this is great
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oh okay good we aren't completely fucked out of having seperate pendulum zones. good job konami, this is great
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Tips for Master Duel Season 4 (April-22)
Put your hands together and pray that every Drytron-Herald and Zoodiac player suffers eternal damnation
Run two copies of Droll & Lock Bird (so you don't brick your hand if you go 1st)
Consider adding Artifact Scythe combo into your deck (halq, dagda, scythe, tg wonder magician). It's toxic but unfortunately letting most meta decks have a turn at all gives them a decent chance to OTK you (especially Adamancipator and Drytron who will play solitaire for like 10 min).
If you run into a lot of backrow players, use Evenly Matched to banish their board by passing your battle phase turn 2. Even if it gets negated, blocking it could be worthwhile as opposed to getting floodgated (Skill Drain, Anti Spell Fragrance, Kaiser Collo etc) + Torrential Tribute
Craft hand traps: Maxx C, Ash Blossom, Called by the Grave cards like that. Ghost Belle is seeing more play in high rank as well, so there's also that.
successfully convinced my friend to play pendulum magicians and all i can say is... PEND BEST DECK BABY LET'S GO!!!!
Pendulum Magician FTK (Gellenduo Engine)
New TCG Banlist going into effect 5/21/18
‘Astrograph Sorcerer’ needed to be banned to cripple “Pendulum Magicians” this makes ‘Odd-Eyes Vortex Dragon’ almost unsummonable and makes ‘Heavymetalfose Electrumite’ a plus-1 instead of a plus-3
Master Peace was banned to stop Floodgate.dek aka “Trure Draco”s from dominating another format.
Amaryllis banned stops the plant ftk that happened in the OCG and means that we’ll be getting the plant link monster in a set in the near future
Supreme King Dragon Starving Venom being banned stops the Pendulum Magician ftk and also makes ‘Number 38: Hope Harbringer Titanic Galaxy’ unsummonable agasin crippling “Pendulum Magicians”
Ancient Fairy Dragon being banned makes me sad as a “SPYRAL” and “F.A.” player because it was a major combo starter, but it’s been a problem card ever since the “Vylon” ftk years ago and deserves to be banned.
Argent Chaos Force makes S0: Hope Zexal incredibly difficult to make in decks not dedicated to making it and means that there won’t be an incredibly oppressive deck running around.
That Grass Looks Greener should never have been printed. Milling 20 cards is an auto-win button and it deserves to be banned.
Dinomight Knight coming back is very worrying because that means that “True Draco” isn’t really dead and can still play every floodgate in the game while sitting on big monsters and that’s something I don’t want to deal with for another format.
Master Diamond to 1 stops the “Gem-Knight” ftk which should have been addressed months ago, but it’s good that it’s finally gone.
Chain Strike to 1 didn’t make sense until today when Konami announced a change to how going into time works and cards that burn your opponent got a sizeable buff in how viable they are in tournament play. It’s still an odd hit and the change in tournament structure is something I’ll talk about later.
Towers is back to 2 even though you only ever played 1 Towers in Towers Turbo the deck and ‘Qliphort Scout’ is still limited so the deck is still garbage.
Ring of Destruction is back to 2 after over a decade of being limited and it’ll still do nothing in game.
Dragoons coming back to 3 is big because it opens up a whole new set of combos for “Atlantean” “Mermail”s that need 3 Dragoons. This also makes ‘Moulinglacia, the Elemental Lord’ much easier to search.
Grandsoil got the errata it needed years ago and can now come back without any more loops.
Ignis Heat coming straight form 1 to 3 is shocking as this makes “True Draco” still a meta contender that can run any floodgate in the game and still be oppressive for another format. Dammit.
Mathematician will do nothing.
Grand Mole was limited before it was even released in Strike of Neos in 2007. It’s been almost 11 years and Grand Mole is finally free.
Compulse joins Torrential and Bottomless as traps that were once broken, but now have been powercrept. ‘Book of Moon’ is still at 1 which confuses me, but that’ll probable by fixed down the line.
This banist fixes all the problems that absolutely needed to be fixed, but did nothing to help balance the next format. “Gouki” “Knightmare” was not hit preemptively at all, neither was “Sky Striker”s and “True Draco” will still be meta going into Nationals season. This banlist was a bandaid for a much larger wound.
Took 3rd place at my first local tournament with a rogue Blue-Eyes deck!
It was torn to shreds by a Pendulum Macigican deck in the second round, but what else in new?
Had a wonderful time and met some cool people. Hopefully there'll be another tournament soon!
Not sure how many of my followers play Yugioh, but something crazy happened last week.
An acquaintance of mine that goes to my local card shop went to Atlanta, Georgia, and won a HUGE tournament there! A lot of other buddies that goes to the locals also went too. But he came 1st out of around 1200 people. That’s pretty crazy!
So congrats to him for bringing home a win!
(In case you are wondering, he played Pendulum Magicians.)
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