A few days ago, I posted a discussion on reddit, asking people to list ways in which yugioh could be improved. Within one day, this post blew up, receiving over 2.6k views and 95 comments. Clearly, a lot of people have some constructive criticisms concerning their favorite game.
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If you find your build’s consistency lacking, you may choose to implement a recruiter strategy instead of a collection of one-off tech cards.
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It has been a refreshing experience for me at the Yugioh Open Tournament Singapore 2017 two weeks ago. In one of the pinoeer formats with Link Monsters, I got to witness plenty of techs and admirable card choices.
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A certain Dinosaur FTK deck was making its way through YCS Toronto a few weeks ago and it took many people by surprise. As of this current format, this is not the only way an FTK is possible and I’m going to show how it can be done without Firewall Dragon. Showcasing you a deck that’ll hit your opponent harder than the extinction meteor: welcome to the first edition of Jurassic Journeys.
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Yu-Gi-Oh is not well-known for its healthy learning curve and enjoyable new-player experience. While many other card games do a reasonable job of integrating fresh-faced nerds hyped to play whatever awful garbage they just saw on the anime into their TCG, Yu-Gi-Oh’s introductory process involves meticulous reading of a 50-page document, mountains of research about the convoluted combos that lurk in meta strategies, and a tearful three hour grapple with a bottle of wine and the wiki article explaining the damage step.
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If you’re the type of player who likes to experiment, there are plenty of ways to incorporate our current Link Monsters into your decks for some interesting plays.
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At its heart, Yu-Gi-Oh is a game that is all about using little monsters to summon bigger, cooler monsters. The problem with this is that these types of summons are inherently negative in terms of card advantage. Combining two monsters into one is a -1, and so on.
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Card advantage calculation only considers the impact on both players’ field and hand, but the Graveyard can be a storehouse of massive potential advantage, depending on the cards placed there.
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Card advantage has long been a defining concept of Yu-Gi-Oh theory, and for good reason. Careful management of your card economy will decide the outcome of a duel more often than not, and decks that can reliably generate more advantage than other contenders will rise to the top of the metagame pile (Zoodiac, for a glaring example).
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Booster set breakdown of the Legendary (not to mention popular) Metal Raiders set.
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