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Dark Law: but I thought you liked your stuff banished

I can get that. Most of what makes swordsoul meta is more the fact that it is resilient as all hell-unless you stop the initial push, it probably has some tools after making board to recover pretty well after a board break if not otk'ed.

The max ceiling for it can be pretty high(had one that left VFD+Baronne) but the consistent ceiling for now (one hard omni by Baronne, one otp monster negate and a pseudo-Trishula beatstick) is smaller than other meta decks.

Honestly, swordsoul vs. kaiju would have me rooting for the latter, but that sounds like a wild ride.

Meanwhile, been slowly climbing up Plat with Madolches and it has been fun as hell.

Probably

That sounds hilariously fun

htaeD posted...

Honestly dont see a reason to go beyond gold anymore anyway.

The only reason for me is to be able to beat meta decks with my fun decks and not care about rank once I get to the top.

Sucks that they are too slow past gold, but messing with Madolches in Gold has been fun as hell.

Congrats!

Asura's Wrath is a good call, but I am going to say OneShot(the Steam Version, not the freeware one).

The internet in general was a mistake, but it exists nonetheless.

Reg posted...

I have no idea why Konomi is incentivizing normal summons in an event supposedly oriented around extra deck summoning, but they did it for xyz and synchro too so...)

To force you to play more duels, of course.

Got to plat 2, so I thought to play some madolches to change things up a bit. Game proceeds to give me horrible luck whenever I don't misplay and lost all my plat progress.

Guess the game doesn't like me to have fun, it seems.

Grats on the pull, man!
You going to be using it in a pend deck or is it just to flex with in your card binder?

>tfw change of heart is off the banlist

Really though, good riddance, Verte and Auradon.

Reg posted...

Is it just "Search Power Bond Turbo"?

Equip shenanigans and power bond turbo beatstick, yes.

And this is why I don't play DPE. Just feels...wrong and boring.

yea, DPE will be...interesting.

Reg posted...

I have 9500 gems and a new gut feeling that Darklord Despia may be a more fun fusion deck than Invoked Shaddoll

As one who runs both decks...I like both, but I prefer to keep invoked to Plat and above or if I am really salty since you can only ns Aleister so much before it gets a touch tiring.

As for Darklord Despia...yea, it is pretty fun. First Darklord is a pretty solid boss monster, gives targeting protection to all your fairies(and a nice field nuke if you fuse with Lucifer), plus you can summon Archlord Krysta from hand or grave for ss lockout, Superbia helps you swarm to kingdom come (though, do remember the when clause-needs to be the last effect in the chain or it misses timing), Lillith helps unbrick hands and helps make use of our great backrow in grave. Darklord link helps link climb, helps you not die to your LP costs, and helps unbrick hands as well(and actually makes Lucifer summonable)

As for Despia, while not at full power(give me Branded fusion plz)-the field spell makes it much easier to get out First Darklord(and all the main deck despias are dark fairies, so...), Branded opening keeps First Darklord from dying to a Raigeki, Aluber is a nice negate if one of your fusions leaves the field, and can fetch them back if it dies while field spell is up, dramaturge is a nice extra deck negate( and do note, it is on any extra deck summon, so you can use it if you extra deck summon as well), and quateritis is a nice annoyance for those that don't run fusions. Proskenion is only ok, but it makes for a decent super poly target and nabbing an opp's powerful extra deck monster from grave can be hilarious sometimes.

If you're going to use it for fusion event...it's solid, but losing access to the darklord link as well as link climbing hurts, but our backrow is pretty solid and First Darklord is still a beast. And we still have the Krysta lockout.

Boss monster: Avramax or Construct

Handtrap: Infinite Impermanence or Ghost Ogre

Summoning type: Fusion

Field Spell: Magical Meltdown, The Weather Forecast, or Heavy Metal Raiders

Nabbed this from Reddit, but:

Favorite

Boss monster:

Handtrap:

Summoning type:

Field Spell:

Also, some preliminary testing for the new banlist:

https://www.reddit.com/r/masterduel/comments/ubdz35/initial_results_after_3_hours_testing_drytron

Reg posted...

Don't actually know enough about Birds or Phantom Knights to comment on the impact those will have, but I think this will drive PK in particular to be even more of a Rhongo Turbo?

I at least play birds as one of my meta decks and this hit for them is lol
The bird that was hit made it so you can grab the bird tribrigade to drop with your XYZ search and grab another tribrigade, but losing one means nothing.

Yea, this smells of an OCG banlist(TCG usually goes for limits and bans; semi is more for getting off it. OCG usually uses the semi as a slight consistency hit and then kicks it up later if it still is a problem).

Also notable...no URs on this list.

Got to plat 1.

Had the most anime duel while using my Photon deck:
Opp played PK Rhongo, forced Gossip Shadow to negate a Nibiru, so Rhongo only had 4 materials.
Skip my turn, next turn, he makes Levair, hits me for 5900(Rhongo + boosted Bardiche).

Draw into Galaxy brave, summon Photon Thrasher and Vanisher(Opp uses Maxx C, which I let through-either I OTK or lose, so if didn't matter), get Cyber Dragon Infinity with my Galaxy Soldier in hand, dropping Brave and Nibiru. Fetch Galaxy-Eyes, summon Bujin Ahashima, summon Dragubion, summon Numeron Dragon.

Hits Rhongo with 22k(6 from Infinity, 3 from Levair, 8 from Dragubion, 1 from Numeron, 4 from Rhongo), overkilling by 19k.

Felt like Kite a bit there, lol.

Honestly, impressive play if pandemonium is all they need to lock with gozen match.

Meanwhile, I just made my Despia Darklord deck, and it has been fun.

Also, I don't think I posted my ID on here, but here ya go: 916-422-522

davidponte posted...

Maybe we'll at least see people playing the new cards, despite them not being all that great minus Baronne.

I have seen two duels with them, but my big Lunalight fusions are level 8+ and banishing Kaldeo Chick keeps them from the aluber revive so they have been pretty easy for me.

(Helps that I already play Despia on YGOPRO, so I know how the cards work.)

davidponte posted...

I did come across a single Dragon Maid player, and I'm not sure how much of that deck is available in N/R, but it was pretty sad to see them summon a single Dragon Maid and then have no follow up to my 1900 atk Blackwing that I just attacked with for the entire game.

What is available is enough if they can get enough of their big dragons out of their deck.
They also still have their bouncing trap which is a pain. No, I am totally not salty about getting wrecked by them.

Saw some of the dlc courses streamed. Holy crap, they made Yoshi Valley actually good.

Have fun with drytron all day >:)

Reg posted...

Shame, that.

How many OTKs *consistently* function without access to the extra deck though?

Probably only Gran maju since extra deck is mostly draw power and fodder for gizmek

Yea, but is not otk, though :(

But how can I UNGA bunga with no extra deck cards?

1. fusion
2. XYZ
3. Link
4. Synchro
5. Pendulum

So, I built a Photon Deck to get the >8000 secret damage mission out of the way, and while it is not meta in the slightest(thus why I am only playing with it after hitting Plat1), hitting for 11200 damage with Prime and Afterglow makes me happy soul. It makes all the UR tokens burned to get it almost worth it.

Finally free, and got to plat 1. Now I can actually have fun...

Currently have a witchcrafters and Photon deck built...but waiting until plat 1 to test them out. Almost there at plat 2, but my luck has been dodgy.

Six sams are swarm deck incarnate;long turns are not unexpected. Though they die to a twin twisters pretty easily to pop their counter containers.

find it kinda funny how the only secret pack i was missing was Evilswarm of all things. At least got me an Exciton Knight...too bad I don't have the space.

The problem is that making the Earth kaboom is bad for business-no Russian oligarchy would want to hurt their bottom line like that, no?

Also backed it, since the music hooked me hard.

Reg posted...

But I don't even know what the playstyle there is these days.

What do you wanna play? Control? Beatdown? Stall/burn?

After taking a loooooong break cleaning the salt from my veins, I got back up to Plat 3, and I think that is where I have to be at end of season. Sucks that I had to rely on my meta deck(Bird Up) to do so and that I don't have the time to go farther, but when in Rome, I suppose...

I am building a Zoo engine and Photon deck to make my meta and casual sides more varied respectively, though.

Why web development?

Grats on the good pack, man!

davidponte posted...

It's like muscle memory at this point

I mean, I did figure out the combo for the shaddoll discord when schism first came out, so I should know it mostly by heart XD

Typical game plan for Invoked Shaddoll Dogmatika is
Ns Aleister(fetch invocation)>Almiraj>Secure Gardna>mechaba(invocation fusing Aleister+Gardna)>Aleister in hand via Invocation gy effect.

After that, ss ecclesia to fetch Maximus, ss Maximus by banishing Almiraj, dump Shaddoll Apkallone and bastard dragon, Apkallone searches Schism and dumps a hand card(preferably a dark), set schism, end phase, bastard dragon searches Fleur. Next turn, activate Schism for Winda (Apk + dark).

End board is one omni-negate from mechaba, one monster negate from fleur, and winda locks opponent into one ss per turn.

And it did top recently...with DPE, but still.

Currently building that myself since it is my IRL deck and I want another deck to play with.

Almost lost to a deck-out deck due to a poor use of Maxx C , but his card destruction left me with one card left to draw, the poor man. Ez OTK.