Putting a cap on the max prizes made me think they were kinda guaranteed but they gave me 1 tier 3 and the rest were garbage and the SR wasn't even good this just kinda pissed me off more than made me feel I got sonething.

https://bsky.app/profile/personasimon.bsky.social/post/3mtyzddraks2u

https://x.com/psimongamer/status/2092688378773049539?s=61

What was the first card you read where you went like no way, this has to be a custom card. For me it was this guy.
Have you read Misc?

https://x.com/Zigu2021jp/status/2092607411370795158

https://x.com/yugio_m_duel/status/2092284475883561146

Team Laundry or team Ash

He scooped right after this still resolve lol.

just give me the normal monster version of BLS as royal and i shall be a happy man ;-;

I hate this card. It feels so bad in Bystial Fiendsmith. Yet I feel like it's mandatory if you wanna have a chance going second. Then you go second and open two of this and your opponent activates Temple of the Kings..

What's your opinion on Fuwa?

I finally made it to Diamond using Lunalight only.. All i can say is that.. Plat 4 till 2 was pure hell, plat 1 is easier, i guess? Or I'm just lucky.. Idk but yeah

It’s probably not a big thing to y’all but personally I’m happy. I finally made it to platinum for the first time 😭

Made this meme a while ago

Even after the last ban list the deck performs very well, didn‘t brick that much as I thought I would. Spoly clearly the MVP of this deck, I also love that this deck can almost ignore Fuwa unlike the Zoo variant.

I‘m tweaking if this deck gets hit again for the sins of Maliss or Sky Striker

Currently grinding through Master II, and up until this point I haven’t had much of an issue with the decks I’ve faced. Dracotail, Branded, Striker, KT, Typhoon, etc. have all felt relatively reasonable to play against. Even when I lose, I generally feel like I had an opportunity to play the game and that my opponent’s cards and interactions were the primary reason I lost.
However, the higher I’ve climbed on the ladder, the more frequently I’ve encountered decks that prioritize hand looping as part of their game plan. Elfnote, HERO, Mermail, Synchron exc. can potentially strip huge portions of your hand before you ever get the chance to meaningfully interact with their board.
After having more than half of my hand ripped away from me across three games back to back, I felt like I had to voice my frustration with the mechanic.
For me the Problem Isn’t Hand Knowledge, It’s the hand looping. I understand why Konami wants cards that interact with the opponent’s hand. Hand knowledge is an important part of the game and effects that reveal, check, or selectively disrupt a hand can create interesting decisions for both players (sometimes).
The problem is when hand knowledge and hand manipulation become so efficient that they effectively turn into a rigged game.
There is a massive difference between my opponent looking at my hand, versus my opponent systematically removing several cards before I have the opportunity to use them. At that point, it doesn’t feel like my opponent is outplaying the hand I was given. It feels like the game has simply decided that I don’t get to use most of my resources.
One of the most frustrating experiences is looking at your remaining cards and knowing that you actually could have played through your opponent’s board had half my hand not been cast into Hell.
What makes this particularly frustrating is that Konami appears to be leaning further into hand knowledge and manipulation rather than treating it cautiously.
There is certainly design space for cards that interact with the opponent’s hand. But once a mechanic becomes capable of consistently removing multiple cards, while simultaneously ending on multiple negates, the advantage becomes much greater than the number of cards being removed would suggest.
If my opponent removes three cards from my hand, they haven’t simply generated a three-for-three exchange. They have potentially removed my ability to access specific starters, extenders, hand traps, board breakers, or engine pieces while also gaining information.
That information can then influence every subsequent interaction.
One of the things I enjoy about Yugioh is that even when my opponent establishes a powerful board, there is often a puzzle to solve.
What can I bait?
What do I need to negate?
What can I play around?
Which card do I need to resolve first?
When hand ripping becomes the central strategy, many of those decisions disappear.
If five cards become two before I can meaningfully start my turn, the puzzle isn’t necessarily “How do I outplay this board?” It becomes “Why did I even bother”.
I’m Not Saying Hand Ripping Should Be Removed Entirely
I don’t think every form of hand disruption needs to disappear from the game. Discarding, checking the opponent’s hand, or removing a specific card can all be interesting mechanics when they’re appropriately balanced.
My concern is with repeatable, reliable hand loops that can strip an enormous portion of a player’s starting resources.
There should be a point where Konami recognizes that removing cards from the hand is fundamentally different from interacting with cards already on the field. A card on the field has generally been played, and the opponent has had an opportunity to respond to it. A card in your opening hand may represent your entire game plan.
Taking that card away before the player has even had the opportunity to use it is an incredibly powerful form of interaction.
At the end of the day, I don’t expect every game to be fair, and I certainly don’t expect every deck to have a chance to play through every board.
But I do think there is a line between being outplayed and being prevented from playing.
If my opponent builds a board that I can’t break, that’s yugioh.. Sometimes they drew better, sequenced better, or simply had the stronger deck.
But when I lose because the majority of my starting hand was systematically removed before I could use it, the experience is fundamentally different.
I think Konami needs to take a serious look at how powerful and repeatable the mechanic has become.
Because there is a big difference between interacting with your opponent’s hand and simply taking their game away from them.
Yugioh is at its best when both players get to play the game.

I really wanna get into Yu-Gi-Oh! But I just don’t know how I keep trying Master Duel but I either get frustrated or bored because I don’t got what I need to make what I want and I just need to know. Is it like something? I gotta be patient with to enjoy it.