Salamangreat Control: Strong Rogue Contender
Salamangreats in January 2021? It’s a new year. The Pandemic still hasn’t ended. There are no in-person events. And lastly,
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Virtual World: Datascaping into the Meta Game
Virtual World has taken competitive Yu-Gi-Oh! by storm. It immediately bagged the trophy from Luxury Gaming’s LCS IX, held last December 12 – 13, 2020. The strategy proved to be incredibly difficult to deal with for most decks. Having VFD (True King of All Calamities) was, and still is its main win condition.
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Rule-of-Thumb: Cards that Change the Way we Play
Cards with peculiar conditions can introduce strange new “rules” for duelists to follow. These rules-of-thumb stick with players long after their connected card is lost to time.
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Level (and Rank) 11 Monsters in Yugioh – Part 2
This is Part 2 of our brief look at all of the Level (and Rank) 11 Monsters in Yugioh. In Part 1, we looked at good cards like ‘Nibiru’ and the new ‘Trishula’ Synchro, as well as worse cards like a lackluster ‘Subterror’. Please read Part 1 first before continuing our journey into the world of 11 stars.
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Level (and Rank) 11 Monsters in Yugioh – Part 1
Level (and Rank) 11 may be the least supported Level in Yugioh, with less than 30 Monsters to its name. Meanwhile, Level 9 is the new Level 8, with a huge resurgence of it in recent years, basically doubling its Monster count and putting it at well over one-hundred cards.
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What Happened to Pendulums in 2020?
As a fan of pendulums and their playstyle for years, I noticed a drop in pendulum players during recent formats. The current best variant, Mythical Beast Endymion, sees little to no play. While it is okay for Pendulums to not be a part of every format, it is interesting to see how and why Pendulums have been unable to adapt to the recent metagame. Pendulums are decent, but there are factors contributing to its lack of play. This article will cover the major factors of Pendulum incompetency.
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Black Sheep of the Family Part 1
Konami has released many archetypes each with unique playing style or gimmick, or similar playstyle but with a unique spin to it (e.g. Nepythys, True King and Fire King Avatar). Archetypes enable Konami to create supports aimed for a particular playstyle. However, not all cards in the archetype actually facilitate the playstyle of their archetype. In fact, some of them downright conflicts with their archetype’s playstyle or doesn’t support it at all. They’re the “black sheep” of the family. This article will look at monsters in an archetype that doesn’t really mesh well within their archetype.
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Pot Picking: What’s the Right one for you?
Yugioh has certainly made plenty of strong generic draw power spell cards referred to as Pots over the years. As successors to the likes of Pot of Greed, these cards offer a lot of consistency or draw power with some caveats to consider. How about we take a look at them and see which one fits which types of decks best?
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Chemicritter: Making the Best with what Gemini has to Offer
Last time, we talked about Ally of Justice, an archetype that suffers from lackluster cards all around. However, that is not the only reason why an archetype can be cast aside. Sometimes cards cannot live up to the hype they received post release or cards in the archetype got banned which caused the strategy as a whole to take a blow. Or, you simply use the slowest method to summon monsters currently existing in Yu-Gi-Oh!, like with Chemicritter.
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Secret Rares that Flopped! Rarity Research 01
Secret Rares are usually the talk of the town for a majority of players. This is either from collectors due to their value or players for their meta relevance. Today we’ll be looking at cards that flopped in most levels of play and are generally undesirable. There are some exceptions to the rule of course, as a few of these cards are still expensive. This is the first edition of Renren’s Rarity Research, let’s dive right in!
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