Yu-Gi-Oh! General 26: Nibiboo the Primal Being

I killed myself with Ancient Warriors - Deception and Betrayal special summon effect, lmao.

https://www.reddit.com/r/yugioh/comments/1o8zwkk/bpro_ocg_times_new_gradius_bes_related_cards/

Imagine an archetype so dogshit that Konami can print a new support card that basically says "Foolish Burial 5 cards for cost " and the deck is still dogshit.

Yeah the event wise, you have to be using a competent deck. I just know my PUNK/Gob or Magikeys enough to basically adapt to most event format. Without them, I've had some pretty dogshit event decks b4 that struggled to break even lol. Winning is more fun than losing for sure

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VSp3Ctb1U0I

Aaah, Revolver-sama

There is a card on my field so I have no choice but normal summon Terrortop.

I should start incorporating back my Psychic Wheels on my Materiactior Goblin, but I'm already at 40.

Hilariously I had my biggest loss streak with PUNK Gob this event in... yep, the 1/2 LP one. I also didn't read how Marshmellon works once, but I would've lost that anyways cuz I didn't have the atk decreasing gob biker spell in the gy like I thought I did.

Tennousu posted...

5k gems spent.

UR maindeck Dragon Ruler count:
Blaster - 1
Tidal - 0
Redox - 0
Tempest - 3 (I had one already)

Got some off pack UR. Horrible, but I don't have UR dust to play with.

+1k gems (total 6k)

UR maindeck Dragon Ruler count:
Blaster - 2
Tidal - 0
Redox - 0
Tempest - 4 (I had one already)

Tempest, why.

Drag Rulers being unreasonably expensive for no reason

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TwT6xTPkgw

Can't believe we have a gooning to gay sex FTK in Master Duel now. Zapperslapper continues to astound me with his creativity.

I hate Nibiru with all of my being.

No. I detest, I abhor Nibiru.

Tennousu posted...

+1k gems (total 6k)

UR maindeck Dragon Ruler count:
Blaster - 2
Tidal - 0
Redox - 0
Tempest - 4 (I had one already)

Tempest, why.

+1k gems (7k total)

UR maindeck Dragon Ruler count:
Blaster - 3
Tidal - 0
Redox - 0
Tempest - 4 (I had one already)

Blaster, WHY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWDmvhOoGgI

TMS E6

In reality, Gage is just 1 great deck away from a potential episode win.

Pulls: Ok... if they realize Ankh is just auto win, surely there's something they can do there. I get confused by the status of the wheel. I swear some episodes they show the wheel and some they don't. A strong Magistus pull might be op but their actual intended use has a ton of URs. I actually don't think it's possible cuz it's like a very specific set of URs. poggers moveman. However it feels like Gage is just gonna play random good stuff slop again. I just hope they risk it into the Ankh turbo. Ok now I see the problem. I think they don't have the pieces of Exodia to actually use it. That's so cringe

Decks: MBT 8 Farfa 8 Gage 7 Doug 8
I actually think Farfa's current deck is weaker than the one he used last week. The problem is that Vice Madame is an auto win but he has 5 poly and you need 2 mats including a Witchcrafter, so it's a 2-3 card combo deck. Oh... is this the first deck Farfa actually built? God finally. It actually made me mad that Farfa just left the deck building entirely to MBT. Otherwise at least all 4 of them have a real deck. The problem is Krawlers can just randomly do nothing or it can be literally unoutable. I've played it b4 and it kinda has a terrible grind game sometimes because it can struggle to close out games. Let's hope Gage doesn't out his own Deus X

Duels:

Lmfao one of the comments: "Master Saga is a vibes based format" which is a slight on Cimo's rather slanderous portrayal of the Genesys format to an MTG representing CGB, who was actually kinda interested and then was turned off entirely by Cimo literally lying about why at least 4 of the cards had the points that it did and then dismissing it as a vibes based format. However, Master Saga IS a vibes based format.

Welp, Farfa literal perfect top deck, and Halal won 3 coin flips + 2 of those hands are god hands.

Ok so Gage is just a genius. I didn't realize he would bait out the Haine effect with Red Mekk. Nvm immediately zoned too hard into Haine and misplayed. That misplay cost them the game and Farfa also god drew. Ok Gage countered with the god draw and MBT was right about a better play but it's kinda hard to see coming, also Gage can just flip it up so probably not the right answer. Also Gage would've drew Ecclesia anyways and ran over both.

Ok Halal won 4 coin flip and also drew utter god hand and also Doug immediately misplayed. That play also made no sense especially cuz Doug had a way to revive Whale lol.

I just want Doug to think like a little more than 2 frames per prompt. It's a simple ask

Really funny duel that I navigated like crazy. Was up against a Blue Eyes that drew well and went first and also Veiler Droll'd me the next turn

Droll in particular was really bad, but I did the pro PEP play where I battle phase, didn't attack to keep my LP low, and passed. That was enough to evoke him to make Draglubion into Numeron, which successfully outed my PEP but gave me one more turn

The problem with that for him was that now one of his Blue Eyes was a material. I purposely didn't detach his 2nd Blue Eyes as long as humanely possible, and I knew that he wouldn't realize what happened, thinking he had 2 Blue Eyes to show for the trap card pop.

So he ended up popping only 1 card, which let me do a really big combo after. He shame scooped

Tennousu posted...

+1k gems (7k total)

UR maindeck Dragon Ruler count:
Blaster - 3
Tidal - 0
Redox - 0
Tempest - 4 (I had one already)

Blaster, WHY

+2k gems (9k total)

UR maindeck Dragon Ruler count:
Blaster - 3
Tidal - 0
Redox - 0
Tempest - 5 (I had one already)

TEMPEST, WHY

https://www.reddit.com/r/yugioh/comments/1of1q22/emergency_banlist/
https://www.yugioh-card.com/eu/play/forbidden-and-limited-list/

Master Duel would NEVER

I'd take toxic meta that is MD if I can play for free tbh.

Tennousu posted...

I'd take toxic meta that is MD if I can play for free tbh.

I thought that for years, but MD finally reached the point where the meta was so unfun and toxic that I just couldn't deal with it anymore. If only they handled MD's banlist like the TCG's, but it seems like that'll never happen.

Calwings posted...

I thought that for years, but MD finally reached the point where the meta was so unfun and toxic that I just couldn't deal with it anymore.

Still for me, beats not being able to enjoy Yu-Gi-Oh.
There is no such thing as paper play where I live.

Calwings posted...

If only they handled MD's banlist like the TCG's, but it seems like that'll never happen.

And suffer without changes for far longer period? No, I don't think I will.
Monthly banlists are fine.
What and how many to ban still needs some work, that I agree.

edit: oh, it is something as a result of Mitsurugi, a very JP-themed theme given birth in the same land that did this emergency banlist.

Tennousu posted...

Still for me, beats not being able to enjoy Yu-Gi-Oh.
There is no such thing as paper play where I live.

I also have no option for paper play near me (my nearest local is an hour away) but I still have a limit for how much unfun toxicity I could tolerate from MD before I quit. If I really feel like getting the itch to play Yu-Gi-Oh, I'd rather reinstall Legacy of the Duelist and play the AI's in that game than deal with MD's current format. I have other games I can play anyways.

Tennousu posted...

edit: oh, it is something as a result of Mitsurugi, a very JP-themed theme given birth in the same land that did this emergency banlist.

Ironically, despite being so heavily Japanese-themed, Mitsurugi actually started as a TCG-exclusive archetype. The OCG only just got the cards last month, 8 months after it premiered in the TCG and 4 months after the 2nd wave of support with Habakiri made it really good.

MD is just never gonna do anything too drastic cuz overall player count matters less than the whale population. It's still very F2P friendly tbf but my Mitsu gacha luck has been pretty bad. 30 Packs 1 Mitsu

But the TCG e banlist is kinda funny in that these cards showed up a ton in a single YCS. They were problems but the next YCS and the one b4 had very few of these cards outside Ouroboros in every Ryzeal

Just realized that I can make use of Dragoon of Red-Eyes in Materiactor if I can ensure I have a way to get Lv 3 Tuner.

Needs 3 cards, though.

They need to introduce some type of "catch-up" mechanic if they do these dice events again, I've rolled like 4 1's in a row. Of the last 8 spaces I've moved in like 40 minutes, I've revealed 6 out of 8 spaces.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/7b0248d5.jpg
Damn this shit is utter ass honestly. I am pretty much constantly wondering to myself how do I even to x or y. The conclusion is that... I think Armored Xyz is actually a pretty good direction as a sub archetype for Argh oh Stars.

Ok so there are like 50 different problems, and it reminds me of bashing my head against Magikeys. They're always those shitty archetypes that just have like a bunch of conditionals for like no goddamn reason.

I really want to make the Rank 4 Argostars work. Now let me list all the ways it REFUSES to work

Use her once per turn 1 Argostar into this thing eff: you now only have 1 mat and cannot use the effect that requires exactly 2 materials to do anything. Basically you used it as a spell searcher because you can't stack a 2nd Argostar on top of her on the same turn.

But now you've potentially used 2 Argostars traps you retrieved using Adra to make the rank 4 you say? Congrats, that 2 materials effect is... inactive. This is like the Lightsworn Lumina rulings where even if paying the cost pretty much fulfills the effect resolution, you cannot activate it. You need an Argostars trap already in grave for this STANDBY PHASE ONLY effect.

Anyways, in all of my testing, the one Armored Lancer basically did most of the work from the OTK to the board control to the final contingency plan to... well just everything

So searching the card Armored Xyz gives you a discard fodder for Lightning Tydeu, amongst other crazy synergies. Armored Xyz, Silhouhatte, and just trap control has to be the way to go with this deck

Hieratic Seal in Materiactor seems good until I realize that I need an actual good dragon monsters to complement it, and definitely cannot be applied in Goblin Rider - Materiactor mashup deck because the only dragons are Materiactors themselves.

edit:

Man, why the fuck Mitsurugi has no lock whatsoever.
Even freaking Drytron has them (although it's just 'must be special summoned monster') but it's still there.

Genesys points update, and it's a big one:

https://yugiohblog.konami.com/2025/genesys/october-27-2025-genesys-points-update/

I knew they'd give a 1 point cost to some random Generaider card to put a stop to VFD and a 1 point cost to some random Dinomorphia card to put a stop to Stevie Blunder and his fucking Last Turn shenanigans.

Yeah interesting points shift, but they still seem intent on keeping those carpet banish cards at damn near free cost

Oh hey, the Skull Servant support dropped, that's cool! And they're both Rares, even better!

Wow, you guys want to know the darnedest things about the Argostars field spell

So first off, it only adds from gy or banish. Do not fucking add anything from banish unless you're about the banish them immediately again or you have extras in there because a lot of Argostars rely on some Argo being in banish (like Etto's bounce). Second, basically it doesn't do anything on its own lmao, especially when the Xyz is a Standby eff so you can't detach at will (this is so much worse than you can know)

Third is the most important. That goddamn last eff where if you activate a monster zone trap monster's effect, you can "Once per chain" just negate a card on the field. This is SO much worse than you can actually know as well, why? This actually doesn't activate immediately. If you trigger a MZ trap, you have to wait for its resolution, and then AFTER that you have the option of activating the field. Except the way YGO works is that you have priority first, so you have to relent your priority and hope the opp activates some effect, and then you can activate the field to negate a card on the field. It's so clunky for no reason, when they could've just made this an immediate response effect.

This deck sucks so much.

Sure it's like oh Etto can be crazy cuz it's a non-targeting bounce, and that makes her extremely versatile, but she is only for an opp effect activation response, meaning it has a dead combo potential if you're going first, and it's horrendous going 2nd.

I think the problem is that it starts to make every aspect of playing YGO as hard as possible, meanwhile you'll just see other decks do better things easier. Imagine having an overall option to play Drillbeam, and you're staring at your one negate being the Argo field spell.

Dueled someone who hard opened, in their opening hand, all three of the Tachyon Transmigration in their deck.

Since they had Tachyon Dragon on field, it became a hand trap.

Some people are just built different, I guess.

TMS E7

I uhh watched it, wrote my impressions, and then my computer had to restart and I didn't press post I guess.

Lots of stuff happens and Farfa keeps drawing completely bonkers. Still, at least it's competitive, even if they're like 6 duels down

legendarylemur posted...

TMS E7

I uhh watched it, wrote my impressions, and then my computer had to restart and I didn't press post I guess.

Lots of stuff happens and Farfa keeps drawing completely bonkers. Still, at least it's competitive, even if they're like 6 duels down

At least no games we thrown this episode. Kind of sad we didn't get to see the Altergeist pulls though.

Oh yeah that was a really rare episode where there was no throw, holy shit. There haven't been one for so long.

It drove me nuts when Doug was actually considering keeping Whale, and it's like no man... I think he would've quit the series if he got punished for that exact move for a second time

https://www.reddit.com/r/masterduel/comments/1oklx0i/new_banlist_effective_november_7/

GU...GUH

This is massive...

This one doesn't show it but Droll to 2 and Furnitures to 3 and

NO MAXX C FUCK OFF SERIOUSLY JUST BAN IT PLEASE PLEEEEASE

Well now I'm annoyed I never got an alt art Appo, I could have a second alt art Evil Twin Lil-la.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/fad3281c.jpg

I'll be damned, they finally pulled the trigger and banned Apollousa. Format's still shit overall (Maxx C still lives) and this still isn't good enough to get me to start playing again, but it's something . Also...

https://www.reddit.com/r/masterduel/comments/1okm0fj/master_duel_plan_of_alt_art_that_got_banned/

For the people who have the alt art Apollousa, DO NOT DUST IT FOR CRAFTING POINTS! In a future update, they're adding a exchange where you can trade in your alt art Apollousa for any other alt art in the game. The new one will also be glossy/royal if the traded in Apollousa was glossy/royal.

Honestly, I thought they'd never ban Apo after she dodged the banlist after the Halqdon and even the brief Pend magician era, so I'm fairly sure I've decrafted basic Apos b4. It's a small loss of URs, but maybe it's not so bad

My pack luck has been abysmal. I might as well just craft the rest of Mitsurugi and play Mitsurugi Orcust. Technically they're stronger in MD cuz we have Mermaid, but Mermaid is actually pretty bad in pure Orcust. It's like a plan E or something, cuz doing it weakens your combos to literally everything from Nib to Maxx C Fuwa to Imperm. They're great in Mitsu Orcust specifically due to Mitsu able to pump out 2 mats on board without necessarily using a normal.

I'm stoked to see Droll gone even if it's only one. Next should be gone completely and along with it, Nibiru.

As much as I play many decks specifically weak to Nib, I honestly think Nib is pretty good for the game. I think it heavily rewards people who can map out 4 summon boards but also rewards baiting end phases. So the state of the game that Nib's presence can cause is pretty interesting

Eh, to each their own, I guess. I disliked Nibiru's gatekeeping mindset as much as I hate blowout cards (apart from LS and its peers).

Dragonmaid can play through it now thanks to Lady but that's just one deck out of many. Can't even play 80% pure PUNK in peace.