Controversial Yu-Gi-Oh! Opinions That Would Get Duelists CANCELLED

[@theearloftea2942]

Modern decks are just Pre-Goat decks, half is must-plays and then you choose what else you could find under the kitchen sink.

[@filipghiglione3750]

I've been saying this for a long time, thanks for making me feel less alone

[@patchworkgolem]

Yeah, archetypes got us out of that hell by limiting the most powerful cards to their specific decks, but now the generic stuff is too powerful again

[@tenkovito]

that's why I pivoted to playing 60 card piles! Currently rocking a infernoble mikanko deck and I love it

[@FrostReave]

Goat and pre goat are notorious for being the least diverse format ever. Some might not know this because they never peaked at the early competitive scene but basically every deck had the same 32-45 cards far less then half. I do forget what the typical deck size was as there wasn’t a max limit but it wasn’t over 50 I don’t think. Yeah you have some formats where nearly everything is the same archetype now but not one with the exact same card lists

[@patchworkgolem]

@@FrostReave That's the issue right now, especially with masterduel. Every deck has to run a ton of the exact same cards. The only difference is that in goat, the extra deck didn't matter. Now they play the same handtraps and non engine as each other, and the extra decks are almost always half identical at least, and are often even more identical.

[@definitelynotmany4972]

Sekka’s Light and Grass should be permanently at three because they promote varied deckbuilding.

[@edymiguel4247]

Hear hear

[@TheRoseReaper]

If by varied you mean "graveyard piles"

[@rafi...___]

​@@TheRoseReaperi mean, lets be honest, is it any different then toolbox decks?

[@phenomgaming3245]

@@definitelynotmany4972 it would just promote tear or horus or bystial piles, which isnt really varied deckbuilding, it would be the same degen combos over and over

[@TheRoseReaper]

@@rafi...___ Admittedly no, but I don't believe that you should be able to activate chain link 18 after resolving one card.

[@zeromaniac5210]

the MD team have now consistently shown that they know the problem cards and are always banning them during their events. So it is not an issue of competency, but intended game design.

[@ram_apologist]

Events are not made to be the standard game experience. A suite of cards that are typically banned in them does not make them problem cards because they irritate you. Banning all the ones you don't like isn't going to magically make the format better overnight, it's just going to make it TurdCG

[@rajkanishu]

​@@ram_apologist that is not what they said tho

[@CC-kp7ge]

​@@ram_apologistnothing you say should ever be taken seriously lol

[@tim5210]

Nice numbers man I like them

[@haruhirogrimgar6047]

​@@ram_apologist Are you saying the game is better when there are a set of cards players universally find irritating? If a card is so irritating that to make events more fun they ban it, that card is a problem.

[@Burn2themall]

my controversial take is archetypal cards should have a huge power boost but always have a lock to either archetypal or specific attributes or something i also think archetypes should have their own in engine hand traps (havnis, fluffals, spirit of yubel, galactikuriboh) cause it feels better to have cards like that that are also in theme for the archetype using them rather than the non engine you usually see (however this would kinda make the non engine we been collecting for so long become useless)

[@stefanokic406]

Really good take and i always have this example. Why do the evil twins lock but snake eyes dont

[@purifire]

Wouldn't even be mad if they spent the next year exclusively printing hand traps for each and every archetype.

[@HawaiianForgeStudios]

@@stefanokic406 I like playing against evil twin and had alot of good back and forth in games with them but then get hit with the reality of the usual meta decks and then get sad again.

[@Burn2themall]

@@stefanokic406 or even things like raidraptors

[@Burn2themall]

@@purifire honestly yeah especially if theyre in the same art style or are like really good monsters too to give more decks a chance to shine

[@definitelynotmany4972]

Pendulum nerf should be reverted; they are too engine-heavy to be played in the current meta.

[@TheRoseReaper]

Absolutely! There is not a single pendulum archetype that'll benefit that crazily from it in the first place to take over Azamina.

[@Zoomy]

Also unban Electrumite

[@Rain593]

​@@Zoomy That needs to stay gone... Electrumite, Halq and Verte are all problems.

[@TheRoseReaper]

@@definitelynotmany4972 like the only way it could be nearly as powerful as if it was Tearlament level excavating and shifting every excavated pendulum monster to the ED Face Up and set themselves as an activated quick effect

[@ShinerCCC]

​@@Rain593 we need Electrumite back to fix Flamberge Dragon clogging our corner S/T zone

[@MegaAwesomeman23]

Master Duel is lot of things, a bad sim is not one of them. Id go so far as to say its one of, if not the best out there. Its clean, barely ever bugs in PvP, and is insanely ftp friendly for a konami game.

[@easyygo3008]

Is a terrible sim. No face to face interactions which are important, no side decking which is key, fake format, etc. Is a decent game, which is different.

[@realbadhunter6165]

​@@easyygo30081) face to face isn't required 2) Fake format? 3)Side decking is a fair point

[@adammorin2955]

Side decking isn’t needed for bo1. If its like a bo3 though i wish there was a chat box. Bo1 is not a fake format though, just a less competitive one. I wish people could understand that bo1 is made for people who don’t have time and just want to play a game before they have to leave. But i agree Md is not the best simulator out there. As bland and uninspiring the ptcg(pokemon trading game) looks its client is spotless.

[@eavyeavy2864]

​@@easyygo3008get a life😂

[@Meeegl]

Controversial opinion: pop the baby (please laugh I am unwell)

[@Err_Sauce]

🤣🤣🤣

[@asc114]

NOW

[@RyuuseiBoy]

😂 HE SAID POP 😂 AND THEN THE BABY 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@pietrobrattico9272]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH

[@Clayvillain17]

HES ACTIVATING BABY CERASAURUS BY DESTROYING IT😂😂😂😂

[@tweekin7out]

alright the duel links take is just objectively incorrect. the speed of power creep in that game is astronomical. in a span of around a year we went from cards like fiendish chain and canadia being popular playable cards to IDP, crackdown, and compulse being the only playable traps. 2 years ago, rose dragon was tier 1 for consistently setting up 3 interruptions going first. now phantoms knights can set up 4+ interruptions and it's not even tiered. when links got introduced, the only playable generic link monster was brute enforcer. 3 months later, we got the knightmares. the power level of the game increases like clockwork almost every single month. there have literally been cases where new decks go from being tiered to being unplayable when the next box comes out (solfachords, chronomaly). as in, you invest like 10k gems into a deck and literally 4 weeks later it's obsolete. duel links is genuinely one of the *worst* examples of how to handle power creep in *any* game i've ever played.

[@GaussianEntity]

Yeah anyone saying Duel Links power creep was balanced wasn't there when the game exploded lol

[@angelswarz8995]

Not to mention the less talked about Skill powercreep that tends to dictate the meta. Pretty much the Main reason decks like Fleur and Star Seraph dominated.

[@dannyfenton9335]

Yup, it's why I got sick of it. It essentially became my full time job, that I also had to pay into to stay relevant. I think my steam page alone, *so not including my mobile play time* I ended up with like 2300 hours 😂

[@SicilianAmericanDreams]

I miss duel links when it was in its first couple years. Before xyz synchro and link were in the game it was more fun.

[@eavyeavy2864]

I always hate pk setting up more negate than casual can handle. How is it allowed in dl?

[@ROCKBLUE5]

A testing mode would be a welcome addition, where you can pick which cards you open with to practice specific combos, and have the choice to give the CPU hts or cards in general to test interactions and match ups.

[@blankazure217]

Not so hot take: MD needs a conversion for rarities. Like 50 SR = 10 UR.

[@rampart5631]

I think it would need to be like 100 SR since you get too many SRs

[@MysticKenji2]

Even terrible rate of 50 SR to 1 UR would still be worth it lol

[@adammorin2955]

Doubt we ever will. No tcg simulators like mtg, ptcg etc have them and i doubt they will because they’re making more money this way

[@yuricahere]

converting everybody's 99k N into UR is a pretty lukewarm take, yeah

[@adammorin2955]

If anything master duel should do what Pokémon and mtg do. After opening a pack you get some type of compassionation like mtg they give you a point to the highest rarity rate or mythic then open 8 packs and you get that. Also in packs you randomly can open a wildcard whereas pokemon does what master duel does but they reward dust with each pull.

[@internetvirus64]

Ratpier to 3, Drident to 3, Barrage to 3, errata Broadbull to add a zoo

[@yairsharon7197]

I think bro likes zoo

[@CSCH69]

well that would fix zoo.

[@cuttlefish6839]

Yeah

[@adammorin2955]

Zoo would be tier 0 going in every deck again. Unban double hexlis and quick fix to 3

[@Jackinthebox1719]

@@adammorin2955besides broadbull everything is legal in MD. It does nothing, absolutely nothing. I play zoo and it really sucks. Pop one ore the option for Zeus turbo which needs 6 extra deck slots? That’s not good.

[@braindeadborgerboi8736]

The fact that Yu-Gi-Oh cards are a different size compared to other TCGs is unbelievably frustrating. Why do I have to buy a separate set of sleeves for just my Yu-Gi-Oh cards? Also frustrating that due to text bloat on cards, you need a magnifying glass just to read what a card does. God forbid that card is a QCR or something; good luck reading a card that looks like it fell into a bucket of glitter.

[@falscher2]

fun fact: MtG cards have more text space and less text

[@adammorin2955]

@@falscher2 fun fact: you have not seen the recent sets and the cards in it then

[@tcoren1]

10:15 The blue eyes structure has made them meta in the OCG. Not the top of the top, but hovering about 6th best deck in tier lists

[@Borchert97]

Master Duel should not be its own format, it should literally be Worlds banlist which means OCG banlist + TCG banlist combined.

[@adammorin2955]

I think master duel should just become the official client of the tcg/ocg and have one banlist and have sn actually worlds in japan with western players or the western with Japanese players so its outsourced world wide

[@adammorin2955]

And have a way to regulate worlds with rulings and cheating

[@Timeater]

Nintendo and Konami should trade their respectives card games, so Yu-Gi-Oh can have cheap and high quality cards, and Pokemon TCG can design a complex gameplay.

[@FrostReave]

Yugioh gameplay is way more complex then Pokémon. But Pokémon is more balanced by far. At that point just give card design to the Yugioh TCG. Look at every TCG exclusive there weren’t any that were problematic for their time. Unless you count the accidental Danger FTK

[@Timeater]

@@FrostReave , that's what I've implied with my comment... Yu-Gi-Oh gets the printing manufacture from Pokemon, and Pokemon gets the gameplay design from Yu-Gi-Oh.

[@adammorin2955]

@@Timeater but pokemon being the fairest tcg there is honestly the biggest thing about Pokemon i appreciate

[@adammorin2955]

Also wotc pushed yugioh or yugioh pushed mtg to have power creep through the roof

[@Timeater]

@@adammorin2955 I agree.

[@ICaesarR]

ban all 1 card auto lingering effect floodgates

[@FrostReave]

Ban all generic floodgates tbh

[@adammorin2955]

@@FrostReave unban all floodgates and ban hand traps

[@sebastianl4135]

An actual fun line I found playing against stun: Gravekeeper’s Trap and Time Thief Redoer. Bro had every floodgate continuous trap under the sun plus Necrovalley against me and between Redoer spinning his cards back and then calling them with Gravekeeper’s Trap and yoinking one of his cards every standby phase with Redoder, I was able to dismantle his stupid toxic stun board by essentially stunning his draw phase. This was only possible because his deck was packed with traps. Legitimately one of the more fun games of Yu-Gi-Oh! I played, but I still hate stun. Don’t play stun.

[@TMDOJOA]

I would say you found a loophole

[@sallas09]

9:55 I disagree with Farfa's response completely. Ignoring glaring issues with the game and refusing to implement changes that can fix them simply because(to paraphrase) "it's always been like this so why change it?" is how games like YuGiOh stagnate and fall behind newer games with better ideas. While I don't agree with the Duel Links system for a game with larger decks like the main YGO game has, I have to point out that other games have figured out more elegant and forgiving ways to use a ban list to not only balance the game, but also prevent unwanted collateral damage that one-and-done blanket bans can cause. I am a huge fan of the Banned Pairs/Groups system that both Digimon TCG and Cardfight Vanguard use, where in some cases they may, instead of outright banning a card, specifically prevent certain cards from being used in conjunction with other cards that create unintended, broken synergies. Like, imagine if instead of outright banning Beatrice, they put her in a Banned Group so she could not be used in the same deck as Transaction Rollback/Fiendsmith Engraver? That way you cleanly eliminate the 2 biggest problems that Beatrice caused this year, while also not completely kneecapping Burning Abyss decks by letting them keep their boss monster. I also love how Elestrals is handling their banned list; if a card gets banned, they quickly announce a rebalanced retrain of that card that keeps the spirit of the original while also being significantly harder to break. And by printing a brand new card, they don't destroy their game's history by errating the old card. And this goes beyond ban lists. There are so many other defining features of YGO that have stood by us for years, despite the fact that they're outdated, and changing them would be an objective net positive. Card layout is a huge one; cards should have their effects numbered/bullet-pointed, or at least separated from each other. And why do we still have to stop and count out the number of stars a monster has to represent its level? Why can't a Level 4 monster just have a big (*)4 in the corner? Why can't we finally find a way to short-hand hard once per turn card text when 99% of relevant cards have it? Be okay with breaking precedents if it creates a better product.

[@TheLilytron]

I fully agree with the take that MD does a really bad job of teaching you the game, the tutorials teach you normal summoning and the Battle Phase and then you play the game vs handtraps and Runick, which are completely overwhelming. When sitting down with someone they can actually introduce you to a deck, explain what is happening and work through some test games with you, it's true that Yu-Gi-Oh is extremely complicated, but it is also true that the tutorials and the solo modes could do a much better job of explaining the main mechanics to you. There isn't even a tutorial on handtraps, one of the most important aspects of the game nowadays. Like when I got back into the game I got out of the tutorial, crafted Dragon Maids, and got queued vs Runick game 1, quit for a couple months and then really got back in, most people won't do that.

[@FrostReave]

They should just import the *Legacy of the Duelist* single player into MD. It would probably take 1 day. It’s as simple as translating the UI, AI, and the redirect to game.

[@richardstamm2144]

Alright how about some potentially controversial rule changes: 1. Add a turn 0 where both players may simultaneously set spells and traps from the opening hand of 5 but not activate any of them until the first standby phase 2. All draw phases is excavate 2, add one to hand and the other to the bottom of the deck. Then ban all pot cards. 3. Ace deck of 5 with the following rules - any main deck card can be in it, but can not be in your main deck if it is an Ace, once per your turn treat one ace card like its in your hand 4. Add all staple hand traps to a limit pool - 6 (up to 10?). Meaning you can only have up to 6 (10?) of cards on this list in your deck My goals are to add interactivity without needing to play a turbo interactable, all in hand, all in one modern archetypes by letting traps be that generic going second interaction. Then I want consistency for older decks that relied on pot cards. I believe that this will help the inconsistent decks more than it helps the already crazy consistent decks. The Ace deck is to solve archetypes that live and die on getting one specific card in hand just to play. Potentially forbid anything on the limit-6 from being in the Ace deck. Last change is to complement the 2nd and 3rd changes, where removing consistency cards doesn't mean you can load up a shotgun of 20 hand traps. I look forward to hearing why I'm wrong and dumb in colorful detail

[@liri7184]

For the type of game that modern yugioh is, I feel like those changes would be fire.

[@adammorin2955]

Honestly yugioh is the only tcg that doesn’t interact on someones turn

[@FrostReave]

1 and 2 make perfect sense to me. 3 is just complicating the game for no reason. The game already confuses players enough. Besides the excavate rule already balanced the luck side of things more then enough

[@f687sNFM]

If you are so desperate to win that you spend thousands of dollars on cards and then lose that value, you absolutely deserve it

[@aquaenjoyer1612]

what?? how is that deserved? and what do u mean desperate to win?? i get that the point of playing yugioh is having fun, but guess what is not fun at all... losing, so can u really blame people for trying to win?

[@TMDOJOA]

Must be a whale lol​@@aquaenjoyer1612

[@An_Entire_Lime]

You heard it here first folks! Wanting to win is now evil! How dare you not enter a competition with the intention of losing!

[@peterpanther23]

See, this one doesn't make sense... who do you think is beating those people??

[@TMDOJOA]

@@aquaenjoyer1612 I won't say it is deserved but their is a cycle when it comes to Yu-Gi-Oh and if you get upset about that then it's your own fault

[@OMG_YGO]

Stun decks give you the illusion of a fair duel, combo decks don't.

[@edymiguel4247]

Yugioh duels irl are awful to watch Replays on Master Duel, Dueling Book and such? Good. A broadcast on an event? Good. But 'john doe' recording of a duel in a locals or regionals? Absolute garbage, unwatchable

[@rushxanthemtcg5607]

Thats every card game though.

[@Veryfreshveryflourish24]

My worst opinion is that every zoodiac besides ratpier can come to 3. Even broadbull(i like searching more fire fists).

[@baguetteannihilator6566]

rat to 2 is ok :)

[@edymiguel4247]

I always believed broadbull was the issue, not drident

[@TheRoseReaper]

I'd argue that full power Zoo can come back.

[@strangevol5264]

Nah all of them at 3, a one card UDF isn’t too big an issue

[@zakariaelhimer1325]

​@@TheRoseReaper yea the powercreep now is just crazy

[@ClawCyber]

Nothing kills my yugiboner more than seeing a Hero deck play verte, or some interesting achetype end on apo and baron.

[@GaussianEntity]

You hate seeing the fusion deck go into a fusion support card?

[@JonBc14]

THANK YOU! I am so happy that appo and Baron are gone! Heck, Baron should of been locked into the Fleur deck it was meant for!

[@angelswarz8995]

Tbf, verte is a combo ender or plan Z.@@GaussianEntity

[@GaussianEntity]

@@angelswarz8995 Why is that a problem for the fusion deck that was getting there anyway? Verte improves consistency for a lot of these decks. If Dragoon or DPE is such a problem (X to doubt), then ban their respective fusion spells.

[@ClawCyber]

@@GaussianEntity verte is a predaplant card. Thats like calling beatrice a fiendsmith support card, when shes a BA card

[@Dz73zxxx]

Abyss Actor is one of the best designed and relevant decks. It has: 1. Enough lines to breakthrough interuptions 2. Enough endboard to OTK 3. Enough disruption and "semi-negates" 4. Versatility in offense and defense 5. Good xenolock to prevent OP generic boss monsters

[@hunvan4070]

It's funny how every time someone says Yugioh is dying or will be killed soon, the most YCS entrants of all time. We are all a group with Stockholm syndrome and instead of losing cult members, we somehow gain them.

[@Earthbound524]

Unpopular opinion when it comes to Tenpai: They should ban Fadra since its what enables them to attack into opponents monsters for free without any problems of your monsters being destroyed by battle. That way they'll have to use more resources into either board wipes or damage step cards in order to survive battle.

[@fatherofrose4027]

Shut up PLEASE

[@dustinvance243]

Or Paidra. Being able to avoid battle damage from one card is one thing, but giving it to the entire deck is absurd. Tenpai should just auto lose to Yubel because yubel counters everything they do. but this card along with the 20+ staples they're able to run let them stomp a deck that they have no business stomping in the first place.

[@fatherofrose4027]

@@Earthbound524 u need to shut up

[@adammorin2955]

Need to ban zeus.

[@JuanRodriguez-lf5ki]

The strongest card in Yu-Gi-Oh shouldn't be a credit card

[@adammorin2955]

Toughen up! Tcg ocg yugioh, mtg, Pokemon no matter tcg your playing will cost you money. How the digital platforms handle it yes i understand

[@shinyarceus997]

My controversial take: I think the current Master Duel format is better than it's ever been and I don't even play Tenpai, I've been having way more fun playing against Tenpai than any of the previous meta super powers like Snake eye or Yubel, because I can actually play Yugioh. Rather than watch either of those previous decks combo off for 10 minutes setup a 10 disruption board and auto lose because I didn't have enough handtraps. I've been beating Tenpai with Centurion, Salamangreat and even Galaxy Photon (it's great when they try to raigeki and lightning storm an untargetable and indestructible board). I actually got a 5 game winstreak against Tenpai using Salamangreat until I got red rebooted, but that's moreso losing to non-engine than Tenpai itself. In fact I'd say Ritual Beasts is an infinitely more toxic deck because they're essentially just floodgate turbo and now some of them are even blind calling fire which kills salamangreat.

[@homecomin]

2:03 is actually sacrilegious. It should be there. It should always be played. This is not debatable

[@cjcayer2232]

11:20 As much as I broadly agree with this take, those are *not* the floodgates you want to highlight to prove it lol You want to see floodgates that don't ever just stop a deck from playing, but instead change how it interacts with the rest of the board/gamestate, and ideally help out their own parent deck more than every other deck Skill Drain and Summon Limit kill freaking Kuriboh, those are way too broad Think more like Convulsions Of Nature, or Sennet Switch. Ideally you see cards that give you *new* avenues of playing the game. Or, floodgates that *only* affect yourself, like if there was a macro cosmos for Thunder Dragon but that only affected your thunder dragons

[@yagizozkan8074]

just unban maxx c and every single floodgate so these players who want to use more than 5 cards in a turn suffers more

[@adammorin2955]

@@yagizozkan8074 ban zeus. Unban every floodgate ban every hand trap

[@lilboke4645]

A duel links type ban list I believe would help yugioh as a whole and there should be multiple different formats on master duel and official events would grant players a massively increased in variety of decks and cards to play at a competitive level.

[@fatcat2015]

Also that guy complaining about the runick banish mechanic is 100% right. They can functionally banish 1/4th of your deck every turn while playing stun. Kash’s banish face down and macro cosmos is similarly egregious.

[@adammorin2955]

That’s what their deck does? Get over it

[@alisethera9349]

It’s mill. It’s been a play style in every card game ever. It’s just that in Yugioh, it needs to be banish or else it probably helps the opponent instead.

[@memeem99]

i think there should be something similar to a standard format akin to mtg and hearthstone or atleast some way of set rotation to see more different stuff and more creativity

[@valonyaver600]

Nerd factor is right. 2 years later and master duel STILL doesnt have any permanent alternate format other than ranked. Most event festivals that arent tryout duels are just "X extra deck" event. And the dc cup is just ranked 2 idk how people enjoy that one. As a sim, the duels themselves are clean and look good, but as a game it is still very barebones and does the bare minimum to have usable features.

[@Varudras]

5:02 Good take 👍 And I‘m not bias…

[@pietrobrattico9272]

Knightmere goblin can come back and no one would play it

[@drek5680]

honestly my biggest issue with master duel is how it deals with responses, like i hate having to minmax click speed and holding left click at the right time to avoid revealing exactly what i have. i know theres not a real way to fix this it just bothers me

[@adammorin2955]

it still doesn’t even register every phase of the combat step

[@goldenONX]

I think the reason people didn' t play dragoon when it was legal next to DPE was simply because dpe had it's own fusion spell which you could resolve in any build, while for dragoon you either had to play red-eyes fusion (alongside 2 bricks) and that would be your only card on field or you needed to go out of your way to make it. Like in Branded Predaplants dragoon was actually better as it allowed to dodge ash.

[@Animegami]

“I’ve downgraded my collection” ahhh, the life of a father. Must make sacrifices

[@CrimsoniteSP]

Maxx C is starting to lose it's power. With more people playing control and decks that play on the opponent's turn, more often than not, Maxx C is starting to just turn into an Upstart Goblin. I personally still think it needs a ban because seriously, anything reaching an above 60% play rate really should be looked at, and it's at 90% in MD.

[@Rain593]

Cold take: bring back the banlist having a set date like back in the day. We always had one early March, then again in early Sept, with emergency lists sprinkled in when needed. Hot take: The Mulcharmies are fine and not anywhere close to Maxx C in power.

[@sanzyboy3952]

The point about banning hand traps and making decks less about one or two card combos is actually a great take, how about we start with maxx c for example?

[@HawaiianForgeStudios]

Also make it so you get locked into say you can do your combo lines with Snake Eye's but can only summon those archetype monsters for the rest of the turn. I really want to see "engine" playstyles go away because nothing needs to be an "engine" it needs to be its own unique thing and if it can't then it was badly designed.

[@adammorin2955]

Ban ash blossom if you ban maxc c. Oh wait then no reason for called by then

[@FrostReave]

Personally Maxx C, Malchummy’s, Shifter, and maybe Droll are the only handtraps I want gone. Because they aren’t handtraps they are floodgate handtraps. 1 for 1 handtraps are fine with me personally

[@adammorin2955]

@@FrostReave LOL say that to ghost ogre

[@FrostReave]

@@adammorin2955 Ghost ogre has literally done nothing wrong. It only recently gotten used because it’s good against current threats/problems.

[@f5673-t1h]

I played Lair of Darkness for a long time and playing under the opponent's floodgates was fun, which was the complete opposite of playing against combo.

[@flapskeygo]

Nadir calling himself barfa, my brother what do you mean😂

[@LadyTsunade777]

My take that I don't know the temperature of: All of the following, without exception, should be banned and/or errata'd to be removed from the game, and never be used on any new card ever again: Missing the timing, "unaffected by", "ignoring the summoning conditions", things that can't be responded to (Super Poly, Droplet, etc), lingering effects (VFD, Droll, etc), Link 1s that search, floodgates (TCBOO, Gozen, Rivalry, Skill Drain (including in-archetype ones like Rexterm), Anti-Spell, Mystic Mine, Kaiser Colosseum, Secret Village, etc) Also: Free Pends from MR4, none of the decks are doing anything anyway. Errata as many generic ED monsters as possible to have archetypal restrictions on them; either require archetypal materials, have them apply an archetype lock, have their effects only apply to in-archetype cards, etc. (Ex. Baronne now requires a Fleur tuner, Halq requires a Crystron as material and can only summon a Crystron from deck, activating Verte now Predap locks you for the turn including while resolving its own effect, Auroradon now requires exactly "2+ Mecha Phantom Beast monsters", Accesscode Talker requires at least one Code Talker material and can only target/banish Code Talkers to activate either of its effects, Borreload Savage can only equip a Borrel link and can only negate while it has that equip still attached, etc) Stop designing one card combo archetypes and decks. Full stop. All new archetypes and decks are all 2 card starters, at bare minimum. Never 1.5, and NEVER one card starter.

[@frig7014]

ignoring summoning conditions is a thing stapled to cards to fix previous half-baked design ideas that make a theme totally unplayable. For example neos fusion says because for some reason they forgot to make all the neos fusion able to be summoned normally like any other fusion.

[@theinsanegamer1024]

Toon decks would be almost broken if not for the fact that the majority can't attack the turn they're summoned. Hand rip, draw 1's, some of the best in-archetype searchers (one of which acts as a destruction negate), easy access to battle and card destruction protection, banishment, ability to attack directly... it'd probably not be tier 1, but it'd definitely be a *far* more common rogue pick.

[@adammorin2955]

Nope. You can easily kill toon kingdom with literally anything and they fold. Cosmic cyclone ehich banish’s makes toon’s ultimaty fold because you don’t get the destroyed effects

[@adammorin2955]

Toons relay on toon kingdom and that’s the biggest thing

[@yoxhi5044]

Buff normal traps, add a climax phase from Weiss/Vanguard. Banish the top cards from your deck depending on the attack [3000=>banish 3 cards, hit a normal trap after damage step.] Also life points to 12000-16000. Idk kinda wanna recapture the ol' days of flipping mirror force/magic cylinder.

[@calamelli209]

My hot take: Sky Striker is the most well-designed archetype of the past decade. Its play style is totally unique compared to almost everything else out there (primarily a going 2nd deck but usually doesn't OTK and relies on a grind game), it's incredibly versatile and toolbox-y but has a lower overall power ceiling (which is the opposite of most combo decks that have a high ceiling but aren't very flexible), the deck is mostly xenophobic and generally doesn't mix well with monsters from other archetypes or summoning types, and even in its prime years when it was the best deck it was never overwhelmingly better than everything else. The only time Sky Striker ever caused problems was when people realized it worked well with Mystic Mine and Kaiser Colosseum, but that's an issue with the floodgates and not the deck.

[@cuttlefish6839]

I love TOSS

[@adammorin2955]

Sky striker is the most annoying deck and i rather go against runick. Sky strikers style of deck is amazing i love it but the fact you play with floodgates and stall mechanics like stun is just bad

[@nytecrow6452]

Konami should use Master Duel as a method of testing Errata Texts on Cards to balance broken decks. Cards like Verte or Halq getting Erratas to require Archetype Materials like a Predaplant Monster or Crystron Monster to see if that helps balance many Generic Monsters abused. It also lets them play with Banned Cards to try and fix problem interactions and cards.

[@Metaknight145]

A big part about Verte/DPE not being impactful is the Celestial ban. Destiny Hero Celestial is banned in MD.

[@Kylora2112]

Generic extra deck *end board* monsters (like Baronne and Borrelload Savage Dragon) are bad as they make decks feel like "Here's the best way to make this monster." Archetype, type, and attribute support should be better, and generic stuff should be far less powerful. More good xenolock stuff so decks feel more distinct.

[@valonyaver600]

A good take but it is also so cold it belongs to the north pole.

[@HotRed00]

Copy and paste opinion

[@winter9348]

My opinion about yugioh speed is one and is always the same OUR turn and turn 30 duels are WAAAYY more fun than the current yugioh where you just compare hands and handtraps

[@chickensofried]

Dude dropped the best possible video you could drop after breaking up with Konami 😂

[@espicelmecanicodecombustio1632]

VERTE IS FINE THE LITERAL TWO AND A HALF TIMES IT'S BEEN RELEVANT IT'S BECAUSE OF A FUSION SPELL THAT ALLOWED USE OF MATERIALS FROM DECK

[@alfiobonanno5100]

Special summoning from the extra in the opponent's turn should just never be allowed, it make for a huge chunk of completely bullshit play states.

[@mulldrifterz6469]

No Farfa, Masterduel IS bad at teaching. One of the exam questions I got was asking about 'Rodenut' like really? This is suppose to teach people how to play?

[@JaguarSimp]

My Wish - They should make an actual Gorz archetype that focuses on summoning tokens in response to certain effects

[@darkflmmstr]

the reason master duel is its own thing is bc master duel is BO1 rather than BO3 where you get a side deck, so them kinda being their own thing just makes sense

[@Odinsurteil]

Unionize all Banlists in TCG, OCG and Games like MD. Ban all generic Floodgates and Handtraps. Limit all Archetype specific Floodgates and Handtraps to 1. Limit negating to only Counter Traps and implement an Hard-once-per Turn for every Card Effect.

[@ryanconnaghan1480]

Hottest take ever: I find yugioh fun 😮

[@ivanmaterazzo2631]

2:04 literally every Vayu list plays Gale,wtf? Free special, broken effect, a goddamned tuner on top of it.

[@jake64royal]

1:20 Nerd Factor once again is 100% correct on everything.

[@ivancalvo7153]

Less generic hand traps and more archetype based 🫣

[@kim9166]

Isn’t DPE not being played because of things like Bystials, it just gets hard countered.

[@Alan-id9si]

No one plays Bystials anymore because they don’t do anything against Fire.dek. Latest Light and Dark decks are also designed with Bystials in mind, so they barely use the GY like Centurion, or they do not target cards in the GY and allow them to retrieve from banish as well like Yubel. I’ve rarely seen people used in Bystials in MD, and no one is going Verte -> DPE.

[@nm2358]

My pitchfork has never been sharper

[@andreobarros]

5:29 I am a common enjoyer 8:25 Yeah but imagine a world where every dark mageckian silver/gold player turn one play is dragoon pass. What a miserable fate.

[@frig7014]

They should add a new mechanic like extra-link but it lets you just wrap your combo around to your opponents board. I just wanna build the fabled donut-link.

[@TNobody0214]

The opinion about decks feeling like reskins is one I feel alot. It's why I personally liked rikka alot cause it was pretty unique I how it played with alot of unique interaction points like princess.

[@adammorin2955]

Dig deep and rikka is literally like any other deck eventually

[@davidecojan585]

⁠@@adammorin2955 if you dig deep enough any deck is like all others, since they are all done for the same game

[@TemporalDelusion]

Maybe not commons, but I really like the silver letter rares. Always did. I think we used to get one every pack or so. Card curling is a real issue in the EU, especially with randoms on cardmarket storing their "NM" cards with their British 120% humidity in shoeboxes unsleeved. There isn't even a real way to uncurl the cards permanently, especially the badly bent ones. (Tried quite literally every method and brute force counter-curl is the only one that works somewhat...)

[@Sad-Lesbian]

Mystic Mine is fine :) The real problem is that the game has strayed so far away from spells and traps that remove spells and traps are just bad in most matchups.

[@codhimself5442]

the game becomes more fun if all handtraps are banned, not inherently better

[@_Rj-]

11:35 Literally cooked farfa with this card in MD yesterday😂😂

[@Nightmare_52]

dragoon would be more played if it had a better fusion spell that doesnt totally lock you out of more summoning, the fact dpe and in the same vein albaz can just fuse from deck without issue is the kicker

[@hightidekraken]

These are Antarctic cold level takes

[@four-en-tee]

Do I even need to say it? I already lived through this shit a year ago and learned my lesson. I'm definitely a better person for having been wrong for once, lol.

[@resphantom]

my unpopular opinion: negates and ftk burn/deckout was a mistake.

[@fitduckyyt]

Albion take is diabolical. Nobody is summoning gimmick puppet nightmare to your opponents field without Albion 😭😭 and they didn’t even ban any floodgates for it either!

[@sunstrid3r44]

as a kind of new player i agree with the take that every deck looks samey... the fact the game have generic shells/engines (kash, horus, etc) and extra deck monsters (barone, codetalker, apollousa, s:p, i:p, etc) doenst help

[@nailduan9260]

Having 3 monster and spell/trap zones instead of 5 zones is better. Also more cards needs to be designed without immunities to destruction or targeting, but is given effects in the grave or banishement.

[@adammorin2955]

No that be more busted to a format thats broken

[@felixdaniels37]

3:53 What on earth is this dude smoking, Duel Links has had DIRE power creep in the past few years. We literally went through multiple tier 0 formats in a row, and the current metagame is borderline unplayable.

[@Bob12649]

They just got every true Draco

[@jenkohr]

Yugioh should add more lesbians

[@pyrotempestwing]

More than every female archetype in the last few years?

[@jenkohr]

@@pyrotempestwing a lot more

[@NotReal-187]

We need at least 1 lesbian archetype every set

[@calamelli209]

Agreed, but we could also use a couple more gay guys too. There's like... Libromancer, some possible Visas selfcest, some loose "shonen rival" sexual tension between Albaz and Aluber in the Branded lore (and even then Albaz gets with Ecclesia in the end), and that's about it.

[@An_Entire_Lime]

​@@pyrotempestwing Yes, next question

[@frig7014]

Chaos ruler should be unbanned because it is mechanically fun to resolve effects like that and both players have fun when going to the casino is a core mechanic of your deck.

[@kollinpoindexter8859]

Hot take: there should be a turn 0 where player 2 is allowed to set backrow.

[@francysvarona3567]

Fiber Jar should be unbanned look at Cyber Jar that card does nothing!

[@yuricahere]

fiber jar's power level is fine to exist. the problem is there will be dumb LVK-replay decks that will loop you and reset the game forever. people will cook.

[@Brettendo64]

Gale is easily in at least 95% of Vayu Turbo decklists, pretty much a staple auto-include, but okay Farfa LOL

[@TnPGmbH]

i used strg+f to search for a vayu comment like this lol

[@Zerphy08]

"Game breaking, sweeping changes every 4 months"... Yeah 4 months, sure buddy.

[@WispsOfLight]

I don't understand the Albion take. Why would having Albion unbanned result in more floodgates being banned?

[@Bob12649]

Albion is used to summon floodgates to your opponents field

[@yuricahere]

as shown in MD, albion has gotten puppet banned, jowgen banned, Ido banned, etc.

[@PirateMaster45]

I miss playing Duel Links honestly. I stopped playing it because I couldn't keep up with new main/mini boxes that we got EVERY month. Plus all the events that they did. All the events got repetitive. I do like how Duel Links made non-meta decks like Cyber Angels & Darklords meta in game. They're weren't meta here in the TCG. Also, the power creep in Duel Links is fast af

[@xandermouser2216]

Master duel should add older formats that allow people to actually be able to use the favorite arcatypes competively

[@Brutaltronics]

I can't believe duel links already has fiendsmith, truly a card pool of all time

[@Bob12649]

It’s gonna get every true Draco except masterpiece in the next set edit it’s out

[@wall6587]

I agree with the maxx c Inversion take, this way OCG players can realize how much better the game is without it and TCG players that are delusional can get to taste the pain they've wished for

[@grantplunkett8410]

And we are back. For another twitter thread

[@OneArmedMadman]

Maxx C to Max 3 my reasoning is that it's funny, that is all.

[@adammorin2955]

Maxx c at 3 in tcg would be funny seeing the player base furious

[@JoeyWheeler-m3s]

Card of Demise should be at 3 since Mine is gone. Stun decks with 3 demise still suck.

[@phenomgaming3245]

My controversial opinion is that runick destruction doesnt need to be limited and there is no need to semi-limit runick freezing curses and runick slumber. Why are so many runick cards hit? Also unleash the floo birds and unlimit the floo field spell and make empen semi-limit atleast

[@Yugiohdeckmaster41]

your 100 percent right just ban fountain and let all the other cards stay at 3 i agree with you

[@superprogamer_0518]

I was about to say ok josh until I saw that last part. Still agree with the whole take tho

[@strangevol5264]

@@Yugiohdeckmaster41So then how would you like. Do anything with the deck. How would you get cards.

[@adammorin2955]

Just ban every runick card

[@williamgonzalez2846]

Gale is an absolute staple in Vayu turbo.

[@Groucho87]

They need more archetypes that focus on normal summoning so people will stop pissing themselves at the roach

[@frig7014]

90% of my hate towards floo is because they are birds. they could have just been waifus or something instead and I'd be fine with it. This is also why I believe tear should come back at full power and is not at all a insane person take.