What will happen to me if I start playing Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel?

What will happen to me if I start playing Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel?

this

you'll get handtrapped on the first turn and get OTK'd by some dumb combo on the second turn

And how do I stop that from happening?

MOOOORE!!!

Get free Reverse Trap on my dice board

Matched against someone using the Ra loaner

He actually fucking gets a 3K Ra out and pumps it to 11900

Reverse Trap for game

God I hate that there's no match history for this mode

you handtrap them first

It's a best of 1 format, you can't
Best you can try is to play a deck that doesn't fold to one handtrap and learn your best ways to interrupt other common decks

Sex With Purrely!!!
SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEX!!!

somebody is fuming and falseflagging at /mdg/

true kek

I've been mostly playing ABC unions in the event, it's actually pretty fun. Starting with extra link material on field helps do knightmare gryphon setups whenever I remember how to do those. I never realized how much better ptolemaeus is for making infinity than the galaxy solfiers. Can't use afd to get to regulus but I still play him just as a fun-of
Shame that the deck dies against one well placed interruption, we don't have much in terms of extenders

You grow hair on the bottom of your feet and your dick shrinks 5 inches, the fuck do you think happens it's a stupid ass card game.

Blue-eyes players do the same thing with the link 1 when you summon Thunder Dragon Colos on them.

reduce opponent's life to 0 by playing exactly 1 card

Nice event Konami

Thanks. Why didn't they just say this in the explanation man
How am I supposed to know the timings for hidden information zone effects are different from public information zone effects

It’s in the top right.

opponent normal summons a Magical Mustyniggeer and passes

Raigeki

scoops

You won't be activating any of your traps on MY turn, nigger.

FOR FUCK'S SAKE PUT ME ON THE SQUARE THAT INCREASES RARITIES INSTEAD OF PUTTING ME 1 SQUARE SHORT OF IT

ZAMN!!!

The URs you get fucking suck though and rarity bump loses you the chance for the coin flip bat

Dark hole dimomorphia, set ash pass

He sets everything up from scratch because kentrigina float a small guy

2nd dark hole

Scoop

Jej some people are hell bent on maximize their handtraps and then shitpost about floodgate deck. I admit that made my deck worse but it is a good fun for the event.

Mating Pressing Purrely

gooddo jobbo

Never do this.

Even if I have Iris Swordsoul in hand?

Stun

You go for one of your other three one card combos.

I played a Tear player in the Duel Triangle event with the Zoo loaner and after I cleared his board and he realized he lost, he sat through the entire timer hoping I would DC.

And that helps going second how?

play 1 card

win

Who said anything about going second

your reading skills might decay

You will end up wanting to replay older YGO games so you can actually see the turn counter reach double digits and you don't get to use the GY as a second deck.

GY

The graveyard has been second deck for 20 years bro. I understand your sentiment though.

Well yeah, old YGO was 20 years ago.

opponent does 0 damage to me in 12 turns

accidentally deal 8400 damage to myself

it was completely avoidable and I had game

Would it be feasible to limit every single major combo starter to 1 to increase inconsistency? Maybe also make that apply to the most important extenders.
Thinking about it that would definitely be absolutely ridiculous and never happen. But I wonder how the game would play? A single interruption could brick even more decks.

1-card combos and chokepoints should not exist in the first place.

I wonder how the game would play?

masterduelmeta.com/articles/events/may-2024/limite-one-festival-top-decks

Nothing would change.

Is this Loss?

1 main monster zone left

he doesn't get it

I thought fiendsmith was good but the endboard is only a simple fucking fusion negate wtf?

There's more to it now with the new 4 cards (Lacrima, Agnumday, Rextremende, and the trap which I forget its name).

Anon, there’s a reason I used that scene from that movie in particular.

Keep it to yourself.

You go for a deck that's build out of traps for the better half of the deck to make sure opponent doesn't get his 1 turn combo in.

You still get a chinese hacker in there who auto wins the game somehow by quitting you out of the game. (Happened.)

You still get a chinese hacker who makes their deck have the win condition combo every time on turn 1. (Happens a lot.)

You will get a scrub who quits on turn 1 because their hand didn't happen.

Poor zoom zoom, I’m sorry it went over your head.

We had Dumb & Dumber on VHS and I watched the headlights scene over and over, and my oldest brother wanted to show it to my cousin and was surprised the VHS was already at that scene (no one knew it was me).

Shut the fuck up, retard.

Yet you still missed the joke, fucking shameful.

You’ll start taking oestrogen

560 Los vs 1 Dyson Sphere. Who wins this one?

Purrely Coitus Memory

oh nice free removal

You play a better designed card game. If you’re desperate to play this trash in a less braindead manner play on a simulator that does best of 3 matches. Enjoy your nigger and sea monkey card game.

double digits

Literally never happened unless you’re running nothing but battle phase skippers. Even goat and earlier formats are decided by turn 3. Yugioh is a sack fest.

Just play YGO but old.
There is tag force series on PSP and world championship series on GBA/DS

Eeh, reaching turn 10+ is easy enough with the sheer amount of spells and traps that will block/destroy monsters and prevent attacks.

Playing Fissure in 2025 felt good.

If there's anything to take from this event is that starting the game with a live card would be a pretty interesting format assuming you ban the obvious OP ones.

I run RDA cards and I can't even summon Supernova.
I could summon Calamity and OG Red Nova

How do you decide between ending on Caesar or Desirae?

Each player is given a ban and a limit before the game starts

Deck selection happens after

3 duel cool down so you can’t just choose the same cards every duel

Would this be better or worse than things already are?

I don't know what the fuck this means.

Desirae is safer because it floats while recycling itself. I always felt like Caesar was a meme outside of Unchained.

You each get to choose 1 card to ban and limit.

Who is "each"?
Why are you using LESS words to explain what you are even talking about?

In the last survey I recommended an event where you could run 1 banned card

tears get merrli

punk gets chaos ruler

everyone else gets graceful charity

What if I'm playing the Paradise trapcard as discard fodder/Lacrima send? being able to send the 1 off Desirae with it works as an interruption assuming I don't summon it.

Who is "each"?

Now you’re just being a fag, but I’ll try again anyways.

Each PLAYER is allowed to ban and limit 1 card

Deck selection takes place after the bans/limits

You can’t ban or limit the same cards you did the last time for a period of 3 duels afterwards.

Better?

You moron, no shit it's players. You think I'm arguing grammar or something?

How many players? Are you talking about ladder where 2 players go against each other? Are you talking about a tournament with many players? Are you talking about a special event?
You just started shitting out words with no context. We're not inside your head and don't know what you're even talking about.

And you're telling me you want people to make a whole new deck for a custom banlist they've never seen every 3 duels?
And why wouldn't you be able to choose the same cards?

Use some fucking words you retard.

Also these sentences are contradictory:

Each player is given a ban and a limit before the game starts

Each PLAYER is allowed to ban and limit 1 card

Are they GIVEN the banlist or are they MAKING it?
Are they using one universal banlist, or does each player get a different banlist?

For fuck's sake.

Eeh, reaching turn 10+ is easy enough with the sheer amount of spells and traps that will block/destroy monsters and prevent attacks.

Yugioh is a proactive game. Playing reactive will always set you behind, not to mention battle traps have been bad since forever. Nobody will let you get more than 1 for 1. I know Anon Babble is full of Indians who can’t grasp competitive concepts

How many players? Are you talking about ladder

Ofc I’m talking about ladder you fucking troglodyte. What else would I be talking about, fucking casual?

And you're telling me you want people to make a whole new deck for a custom banlist they've never seen every 3 duels?

No, you would have multiple decks built like you already should.

And why wouldn't you be able to choose the same cards?

So you couldn’t ban the most effective thing vs your deck every game/never play against top tier.

Just the ones in hand. I hated starting with a monster in center zone because that royally fucks up my deck's line. I was tenacious enough of a shit to play around it but it was sometimes an auto-lose against the more powerful decks that showed up.

Anon that post was about 20 yo YGO.
You were very limited in how much you can do in one turn, so you had to use several spells and cards to make sure the oppo doesn't gain an advantage before you do.

There’s no way you’re this fucking stupid.

Does anyone really think that this game is that bad?

Mechanics-wise, it's great. Card design-wise, it's powercrept beyond redemption and only getting worse every few months.

What it had me realize is that the fuckup with Links and tokens leading to most links requiring Effect Monsters, just made Normal Monsters so bad Konami figured it had to make OP bullshit like Primite

start 5 games with ghost beef because I can't wini

turns off impem, lightning storm, can't use as Synchro material, too high level for XYZ, Masq useless since no SP

Feels like Ojama token pre-Synchro

Here's how you make Mirror Force good, but not broken.

Ofc I’m talking about ladder

Your ambiguous words could be interpreted as players (in a tournament) are each banning a card and limiting a card, so the banlist that they all use is their collective choices.
If someone interprets your words like this, why would they think it's ladder? That would be 4 fucking cards in the entire banlist, that makes no sense, and why they would think you're talking about a tournament and not ladder.

THAT'S WHY I'M TELLING YOU TO USE MORE WORDS.
You're a fucking retard who thinks we're inside his head and already know the context you're thinking of.

Read YOUR OWN first post again and pretend you're seeing these sentences for the first time. Get out of your own head.

And at what stage is this banlist happening? Before matchmaking (so you're blind to what your opponent could be playing, and this banlist carries to other later opponents)? After matchmaking (so you could infer what they're playing from their cosmetics, or even bluff what you're playing, and the banlist is on a per-oppnent basis)?

For fuck's sake, why do I have to drag the details out of you when they should've been in your first post?

You could probably change

If you control no cards

To

If you control no monsters

Still probably wouldn’t be broken.

The game seems go be heading into a decent direction for once.

AAAAAGH JUST GIVE MALISS ALREADY IM SICK OF ALL THIS SHIT

I’m gonna stop throwing ad hominem because you’re actually trying to have a conversation.

could be interpreted as players (in a tournament) are each banning a card and limiting a card, so the banlist that they all use is their collective choices.

If someone interprets your words like this, why would they think it's ladder?

Because tbf when do we ever speak of master duel or making it better in the context of tournaments? It’s always about ladder and how to make it more bearable. I agree the first post wasn’t as concise as it could have been but come on anon.

And at what stage is this banlist happening? Before matchmaking (so you're blind to what your opponent could be playing,

I said earlier that it was before the game starts, so after queuing.

and this banlist carries to other later opponents)

Anon, I’ve said multiple times now that you can’t choose the same cards to ban for up to 3 games after choosing them, I’ve even given you the reason why, that only infers one thing.

That would be 4 fucking cards in the entire banlist, that makes no sense,

That’s enough to cripple most decks if you’re calling out the right stuff. It effectively would make it where you can just ban a deck you don’t want to play against for a game.

I can't believe how power crept Spright is. The deck needs the opponent to both brick AND to run a stupidly huge engine with little in the way of nonengine support cards. There's also no recursion whatsoever.

Slopped together chimera and branded but it's fucked without verte and only 1 albaz
So I slopped chimera azamina fiendsmith with that new slut and holy fucking kino
The big chimera boss slamming into your stupid teartranny card 3 times for game is incredible
Temped to throw in primite bricks so I can run the OG chimera cards
I'm gonna end up emptying my ur and gems to get branded chimera working on the ladder at this rate fuck
Big nigga chimera searching chfusion and KITT which will then special after the fusion and search branded kino is too good, some of the best synergy I've seen in a slop pile ever

Card design-wise, it's powercrept beyond redemption

On the other hand, at least in Master Duel, both towers and monster floodgate strategies are gimmicky or basically don't work at all anymore. Trap floodgates are inconsistent and sacky.
The game still has a problem with omni negates, but on the whole it's not as bad as in some formats like Adventure Prank-Kids DPE.

I’m gonna stop throwing ad hominem

Alright, I'll do the same.

when do we ever speak of master duel or making it better in the context of tournaments?

Not necessarily Master Duel, could be tournaments in general (paper), because in these threads we basically talk about everything yugioh, and not just specifically Master Duel.
Yes, the term "cool down" is more associated with video games, which would hint that you're talking about Master Duel, but it's still possible that you could've been borrowing that term.

I’ve said multiple times now that you can’t choose the same cards to ban for up to 3 games after choosing them

I kept going back to your original post because that's where you outline everything.
Reading "Each player is given a ban and a limit before the game starts" made me think you meant that the players are given a ban/limit against them (whether from MD or from tournament organizers, so players wouldn't be choosing what is banned, but a third party), so you would make a deck on the spot based on them, so when you said "3 duel cool down so you can’t just choose the same cards every duel", I thought you meant "choose the cards for your deck", not "choose cards for the ban/limit list you will give your opponent", because that wasn't in my mind to begin with.
Going back and forth over different points explained over multiple posts is confusing and tedious to piece together.

I'm not being pedantic to be a Redditor, I was trying to understand what is it that you were talking about because there are many contexts and interpretations to what you said. That's why I kept telling you to expand more on what you meant.
I've seen so many discussions get muddied because what was initially said was ambiguous.

cont.

I was trying to get ahead of that so that your intentions are not misunderstood (by others and myself).

You'll realize the game was better 20 years ago.

Game would be fine if they reset everything like 5 years ago and didnt replicate any of the mistakes. The powercreep is way too insane. They really should just focus on adding new cards to already existing archetypes and making them fun rather than everything being combo slop negate spam. I like Yugioh because conceptually and I think the original idea was that there can be a bunch of decks that can be viable since theres no rotating format but the reality is that Yugioh probably has a worse case of cards rotating out than Magic or Pokemon.

TY-PHON outing Colossus despite being a cope card is fucking hilarious.

I say this everytime it's posted but nowadays you can tunnel out 2 to 3 colossus a turn usually without issue since it's at 3. So alone none of those are remotely threats anymore.

Also you're retarded for not listing Imperm which is the true murderer of the single Colos

It's not so much omni negates in my opinion, as it is the going second problem. If every deck has good t0 interaction then games are more dynamic and the going first player will end on omnislop less frequently.
Unironically some of the best duels I've had lasted a single really fucking long turn because both players played almot the same amount of cards.

I'm not being pedantic to be a Redditor, I was trying to understand what is it that you were talking about because there are many contexts and interpretations to what you said. That's why I kept telling you to expand more on what you meant.

I've seen so many discussions get muddied because what was initially said was ambiguous.
I could’ve done better at articulating it for sure, you’re were also correct about me assuming everyone knew what I was talking about, I’ve just had these discussions so many times that I sometimes forget not everyone has.

It has its moments, but it's genuinely unpleasant and barely resembles what it used to be, even if you ignore optimal strategies/meta and just want to have fun.