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Anonymous10/19/25, 05:06No.723612085
>master troon on pace to drop below 10K monthly users before eoy
What went wrong?
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Anon10/19/25, 05:08No.723612184
Surprised it still has players. Dropped that shit years ago when they went past GX. Pass on anything post-GX.
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Anon10/19/25, 05:13No.723612387
Personally I can't play it because it's so slow.
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Anon10/19/25, 05:15No.723612508
>Duel Links ended up being the definitive way to enjoy YGO digitally
KEK!
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Anon10/19/25, 05:16No.723612527
Playing yu-gi-oh is watching some turbo artist mog the absolute shit out of you on his first turn and having no idea what the fuck just happened
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Anon10/19/25, 05:18No.723612635
>What went wrong?
Back to back to back to back dogshit ass cancer formats.
>snake eyes dominance for an entire year followed by fiendsmith followed by blue eyes followed by primite followed by mermails followed by maliss followed by ryzeal followed by @ignister maliss support followed by mitsurugi ryzeal support
>all while handling the banlist in the worst way possible up to a point where instead of running away from go first or lose games, now these are all you'll play outside some rare events
Fucking grim times ahead bros.
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Anon10/19/25, 05:19No.723612660
Modern yugioh already gets a bad rep for getting wall combo’d into the wall for 10 minutes, master duel’s atrocious banlist and release schedule, plus the fact the game is bo1 exclusively just incentives the most degenerate non-games ever. Even the fucking pros are sick of it it’s not just a “yugiboomer” take anymore that watching the opponent play with themselves for 10+ minutes with no input from yourself just isn’t fun.
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Anon10/19/25, 05:23No.723612809
maliss
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Anon10/19/25, 05:25No.723612893
maliss killed the game
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Anon10/19/25, 05:29No.723613097
Since Branded the game has been kind of ass. The constant retarded power tripping each new deck gets. If you don't have 10 negates in hand and combo off on the enemy's turn 1 you just don't have a chance. Thank god that floodgates have been all but raped from the game so we can enjoy [floodgates but from the extra deck]. Super fucking fun Konami.
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Anon10/19/25, 05:36No.723613396
I play Melodious and I feel like it's a good barometer deck to see just how fucked up this game has become. It's a deck that can pretty easily shit out a wall of monsters that are immune to destruction AND targeting, with a boss monster capable of multi-bouncing and a DD Crow on steroids as an endboard, and yet it's almost comedic how many meta strategies and generic outs can just get around that. I'm not saying that's necessarily a bad thing, it is a setup where you just scoop if you didn't draw the out so it's a problem, but there are so many problems worse than this problem that it's almost not even a problem anymore, and that's fucking insane to think about. The powercreep is unreal, and with cards like Ryzeal Cross being able to tell chain ruling to go fuck itself it's getting worse and worse very quickly.
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Anon10/19/25, 05:53No.723614221
Yugioh should just go full gas. Only a nuclear ban list can slow the game down and that is improbable. So instead just make the game even faster. Just make more archetypes that can play on turn 0, possibly even quick effect linking, overlaying, synchroing, and so on during the opponents turns. So instead of playing into an already established board, both players are establishing a board at the same time. Each chain can be the equivalent of a single turn in Goat/Reaper format. Also if you're going to make a bunch of quick effect cards that summon themselves, can summon extra deck monsters, and so on, have some sort of lock like you can only activate these card effects from the hand if no other cards not from the archetype have been used, and you're locked out from using non-archetype cards once you use your decks hand effects. Now non-engine hand traps can be a detriment to your decks game plan because now you can only use non-engine hand traps rather than performing what your deck wants to do.Hopefully that would make it so people can actually play their deck rather than a couple hand traps then scoop. Also it might change deck building if hand traps aren't as flexible as they once were, especially if non-engine hand traps go contrary to what your deck wants to accomplish and performing explosive plays. It would also allow both players to get two turns of actually playing their deck instead of one person playing two turns and the going second person only playing one turn.As of right now, Yugioh is miserable to play. You either have to burn through cards to try to onboard any of your cards, or you watch your board being broken by unrespondable cards. Neither being as fun when most decks can put up enough damage to OTK.
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Anon10/19/25, 06:03No.723614638
>What went wrong?
Only has 1 format and most people who have ever played Yugioh hate that format because it's too complex and too power crept.
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Anon10/19/25, 06:06No.723614771
Sex With Purrely!!!
SEEEEEEEEEEEEEX!!!
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Anon10/19/25, 06:15No.723615143
It’s all their own fault, I wrote them below points in their shitty survey and jackshit happened
> a separate legacy mode for the boomers or newcomers too … done ONCE in a 3 days event
> the game card pool is 6 - 8 months behind the TCG since launch. I wanted MD to be a testing ground before buying IRL TCG but the niggers never done anything because the pool STILL months behind
> no way to convert N and R shards into SR + UR. Not helping that many meme / fun decks are filled with Ultras for no fucking reason
> slow as fuck Structure deck releases
That’s not even mentioned the meta related concerns
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Anon10/19/25, 06:20No.723615419
Is this proper dueling attire?
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Anon10/19/25, 06:23No.723615507
>What went wrong?
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Anon10/19/25, 06:37No.723616167
Just limit special summons already, since most the issues come from that.
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Anon10/19/25, 06:42No.723616419
Designing the game around handtraps and board breakers
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Anon10/19/25, 06:48No.723616659
I feel Konami didnt experimented enough with MD: they had a carte blanche to experiment and change broken cards with erratas and try new formats. Some Events are very, very good but others shit the bed so badly you dont want to play them because it ends as regular ranked with slightly tiny difference.
I get the whole "lets players enjoy a format at full power" but most people at least want some hits to keep things fresh, Tear, SE and now Malice long streaks made things boring.
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Anon10/19/25, 06:54No.723616939
Fiendsmith slop into malice/ryzeal was the death blow.
Things that could have mitigated it beyond obviously pre-hitting decks that would be a gigantic pain in the ass would have been worthwhile events but we didn't get that either. Just frustrating -cups and junk like Under 5*
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Anon10/19/25, 07:11No.723617682
I wonder if it's just a time difference because year long snake eyes genuinely didn't feel anywhere near as bad as maliss to me.
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Anon10/19/25, 07:20No.723618034
It’s more long turns Blue Eyes meta was fine. Before that with Tenpai people used to play the worst possible turn 1 decks like White Forest going for Beatrice to send Anti-Spell. Maliss turns take way too long. Mitsurugi doubles the combo length of most decks since it has no restrictions. If you don’t open a lingering floodgate going second you lose the duel.
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Anon10/19/25, 07:24No.723618172
The only good card games are played with these
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Anon10/19/25, 07:29No.723618392
Purrely Horny Memory
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Anon10/19/25, 07:31No.723618484
I just don't get why don't they try crazy shit with events and playtest them to see what sticks and what people enjoy. With the tcg of course is super hard but fuck, a digital card game has so many advantages they're really not using.
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Anon10/19/25, 07:33No.723618547
Maliss not getting nerfed for months really dropped numbers. Otherwise I still do enjoy MD as a game and that you can have fun varied decks and matchups in events.
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Anon10/19/25, 07:34No.723618575
Turns take way too long
You sit there for 10+ minutes watching someone burn through half their deck just to end on a nearly full generic board that negates everything with a couple spells/traps in the back and somehow they still have plenty of hand traps waiting for you if you manage to play though all that
Hand traps are almost useless now since they'll get played through like nothing happened
Events really only exist to shill whatever new shit is in the shop and the rerun events that promote lower powered decks got worse since they allowed the new support those weaker decks got destabilizing everything
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Anon10/19/25, 08:31No.723620778
>Back to back awful formats
>limited features
>a lot of shitty events
>extremely conservative banlists that consistently leave problem cards in the game for far too long (seriously how is appo still not fucking banned?)
Thats the major stuff.
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Anon10/19/25, 08:36No.723620976
I Play Purrely in Attack Position! Then Have Sex With It And End My Turn!
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Anon10/19/25, 08:39No.723621065
>What went wrong?
MD having a dogshit banlist that just exists to promote the latest archtype, thus killing almost all petdecks and most rogue decks
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Anon10/19/25, 08:40No.723621104
gaylord
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Anon10/19/25, 08:51No.723621492
>What went wrong?
DL having all the cool stuff while MD is just a shitty online TCG, they have actual events that change how you can play the game, like Duelist Kingdom's event that gives an ATK boost and extra cards depending on which environment you're playing, or Grand Prix which let's you have actual riding duels, they even have more customization than MD with the new card foils they added a while ago (see picrel), konami should stop treating MD like just online TCG and do something unique with it like time wizard events or something that attracts people
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Anon10/19/25, 08:59No.723621771
Havent played in some months
>Mitsurui are reptiles
Is it worth rolling to do reptile memes? I had a deck that ended up little by little just being Aliens and Ragnaraika+ some Reptiliane
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Anon10/19/25, 09:26No.723622753
BO1 in a card game designed to be played as a match
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Anon10/19/25, 09:48No.723623562
I wanted to pick it back up and play some sky striker games but everyone's reaction to this game really deters me
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Anon10/19/25, 10:05No.723624138
Mating Pressing Purrely
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Anon10/19/25, 10:14No.723624474
It's just comparing hands, the game is aids.
No one wants to play this shit where you combo for 10 minutes on your turn and then combo again for another 10 minutes on your opponents turn.
Hopefully that new format comes to MD, it might make the game playable.