This Happens to 99% of Pendulum Decks

can we please get Electrumite back
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[@otterfire4712]

Pendulums are probably the most "feast or famine" mechanic in the game. Requiring two cards with a certain set of numbers to access the mechanic first leaves it more vulnerable to being stopped than other mechanics.

[@pedrodarosamello64]

Ngl now they're jsut famine

[@otterfire4712]

@@pedrodarosamello64 for the most part, yeah. There are still those instances where they get a fresh combo.

[@rudytrujillo4197]

Konami should bring back electrumite

[@FurnaxIkki]

On the contrary: I give you Junk Speeder.

[@otterfire4712]

@@FurnaxIkki Junk Speeder is a part of a specific archetype. An archetype which is an exception, not the rule, for how Synchros function. Most Synchro decks can function even with an incomplete end board.

[@kimura2176]

when you win the 50/50 (bro prob had low scales in hand)

[@jakethereaper2060]

he know they had gate zero so the high scale was the only good target

[@ako_73]

Doremichord just need one more support bro trust

[@TaylorLeprechaun]

Yeah they need scales which aren't effectively vanillas lmao

[@LynnLyns]

just one more support, trust me :copium:

[@valonyaver600]

Once konami gives us the third playable main deck solfachord we will be so back trust me bto

[@raystrife234]

People out here asking for in-archetype sangen summoning

[@TritonComet]

Trust me bro, as long as there's no interruptions, Solfachords pop off.

[@valonyaver600]

Unironically true. Solfachords can make 2 negates and a pop minimum with the average hand, It's just that we die to any singular interruption lmao.

[@andruet8648]

Introducing: lightning storm + lava golem = gg I wasted too many points to make Solohachord

[@valonyaver600]

@@andruet8648 bruh every deck loses to that

[@Dekross]

​@@valonyaver600My Eldich stun doesn't

[@SkyFireYZ]

I am normal and can be trusted with plushfire

[@shwedoo-6035]

You see stuff like this and then people still think pendulum is the most toxic thing the game has ever seen. Can't even do shit without two specific cards, and then additional monsters to summon.

[@admontblanc]

Depends on the deck, but for the most part yes. Konami did design 2 archetypes that bypass this weakness somewhat, but neither has gotten any real support since 2020.

[@pickyphysicsstudent201]

I genuinely wish that Konami fixes Pendulums, in a way which isn't just trying to make PePe deck number 382. Fix the Pendulum Soup problem, get rid of all the floodgates like Anti-Spell and the generic go-to tools like Apollousa and print support which uses the uniqueness of Pendulum, first are foremost.

[@Groxworld1]

I feel like the Pend Soup problem hasn't even been a thing for ages now, like stuff like Melodious Magicians do exist, but that's a soup in the same way Branded Chimera is a soup deck or like Bystial Runick is just Chaos Synchro soup Ironically from what I'm seeing, Kashtira as an engine feels like the thing that's making Pend a soup considering it's just a free Level 7

[@Badbufon]

just don't play pendulums, EZ

[@dhanyl2725]

​@@Groxworld1 Bro new melodious stuffs is just konami relapsing the shs problem

[@otterfire4712]

I think the solution is to just bring back the separate zones, though the Vaylantz would make this change difficult to some degree I think there's still a reasonable work around (specifying that moving them to the nearest possible monster zone)

[@heinokunzelmann8967]

Did you know that pend monsters get banished under shifter? Konami should fix that

[@miotakamiya]

the funny thing is that if Konami wnats to supports Solfachords with their music-themed cards, there are so many things they can do, from alterations, keys, chords as combinations of them etc. Only one thing: please let them have pendulum effects instead of being vanillas. For majespecter is different since they are untargetable + indestructible

[@LS-qs9ju]

Konami: Creates another music themed pendulum archetype (Vaalmonica)

[@LynnLyns]

bro i swear to god, the amount of times i've got my high scale banished by cosmic cyclone is ridiculous, stop doing that, i'm just playing abyss actor, i'm not going to do a big ass 4 mats appo + baronne + savage + whatever pendsoup does this days, just let me do my theatre kid stuff

[@zekeryaoumar2356]

No.

[@shaser3684]

It's outrageous that a summon mechanic can be outed with just a spell destruction. Not even a negate a simple vanilla destruction. F you Konami

[@dhanyl2725]

If konami can't make pendulum without balancing around pendulum good stuff slop, at least make more pend decks that make use of pendulum monsters' properties as face-up spell cards

[@otterfire4712]

Endymion?

[@dhanyl2725]

@@otterfire4712 That, or valmonica

[@otterfire4712]

@@dhanyl2725 Kind of? Problem is, their gimmick doesn't go beyond gaining counters from changing your life points and their pay off isn't that impressive when in the presence of other archetypes and removal. If they had protection while they had counters on them, Valmonica could have more staying power to make use of the counters. Without this protection, TT or HFD demolishes any investment.

[@johnnywilson3071]

@@otterfire4712 Uh you know that the Vaalmonica Fiend Link-1 literally protects cards from being destroyed including their scales (it has to remove counters to do it but still).

[@otterfire4712]

@@johnnywilson3071 requires the Link monster to provide this protection, meaning you need well over three cards to achieve this, and this link monster requires 3 counters on your fiend pendulum. Not only do you need 3 effects to stack counters on your fiend pendulum, you need a third monster to summon to link it off, just to give your pendulums protection. At this point, you'll have demolished your hand just to get the counters needed to summon a very killable link monster.

[@mickjaegar2379]

forget electrumite, bring back plushfire. you popped my scale? cool, here's another one

[@valonyaver600]

Solfachords mentionedWOOOO Too bad this is how 90% of our matchups go :(

[@ceoofjeanneism6777]

Kashtiras destroying the pendulum scales:

[@adamsherwani3971]

Konami needs to make an archetype for the pendulum mechanic that becomes t0 again

[@Elystal]

well last time konami had an idea of a new pend deck that doesn't use Electrumite and Apollo and Astrograph and stuff, they came up with Vaalmonica and it sucks sooo bad

[@dhantefranklin336]

Or, you know, Unrestrict pendulum.

[@khalifeh22]

If they give us Endymion and mythical beast support, we're ballin.

[@johnnywilson3071]

@@Elystal Unless your referring to pre LEDE Vaalmonica then that is simply not true. The deck takes a lot of practice to fully understand though and the deck becomes proper good post INFO.

[@Elystal]

@@johnnywilson3071 bruhhh it’s kinda playable post INFO because of the fiendsmith engine, the new Link2 and trap does little to the archetype

[@shadowspector3611]

Endymions is the other 1%.

[@khalifeh22]

If they give us good Endymion and mythical beast support, we're ballin.

[@shadowspector3611]

@@khalifeh22: We already have it.

[@DarkeLourd]

Nah Endymion can get screwed by this too. I'll never forget the first time I went second against a competent Exosister player with Endymion. You'd think that would be a good matchup for Pends because you never use your GY, then next thing you know they banish your Servant after you get 3 spell counters on her because all their removal hits "cards," not "monsters."

[@shadowspector3611]

@@DarkeLourd: Yeah, Exosister is a terrible matchup because they get 4 banishes which is practically like handlooping you.

[@khalifeh22]

@@shadowspector3611 which one? Don't tell me it's that stupid rank 8 xyz fellow.

[@crunchyapples596]

Solfasisters, not like this...

[@DarknessDpa]

This is why I like Vaylantz since it's just a bit more flexible

[@Kaheiyattsu221]

*I play pendulums* *I chain mst* GG

[@halqthedarktemplar]

Oh nej, dying from 1 interaction

[@AbysmalRandomn3ss]

I scoop when I play against tear too

[@CrimsonRedVoid]

BRING HER BACK , NOW !!!!!

[@r3zaful]

Surprisingly that this is not the all gas pendulum solfachord variant I was hoping for sudden unicorn or fenrir drop and loagaeth.

[@alexandergeorgiev74]

Pend best deck lets go 😜

[@xerael4659]

D/D/D players: *pathetic*

[@maverickrx8]

Man, the more I think about it, the less I'm able to come up with a way to make Pendulums - outside of 2 or 3 archetypes - not utterly useless. The entire summoning method is just severely flawed and was doomed to fail on release. It's a prime example of a good on paper and that's all it's good for mechanic that should never have gotten the go ahead. Hell, it's probably why I didn't like ARC-V as well.

[@gyppygirl2021]

There are ways to fix it. It's just that Konami and the playerbase hate pendulums so much that they aren't bothering.