ABC in 2019: A New Start
The most recent banlist update largely revolved around the banning of Firewall Dragon, but a little 1900 ATK Machine slipped through the cracks amidst the smoke to add an interesting edge to this upcoming format.
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Trinity Format – December 2018 Top Deck Profiles
The Top 4 Decks from the December 2018 Trinity Cup.
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Archetype Poll: Favorite Yu-Gi-Oh! Decks of all Time
Over 1,200 replies later… the results are out! I honestly didn’t expect to get more than a couple hundred replies at most, but you guys really enjoyed talking about the decks you like, huh? This article is a summary and analysis of the results from this r/yugioh Archetype Poll!
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The Problem with Overly Diverse Formats
A common opinion I see among the Yugioh community is that when a format is diverse, that usually means the format is healthy. Conversely, when the format is healthy, the format is typically diverse. I’d like to critique that claim and talk about instances where we saw healthy diverse formats and where we saw unhealthy diverse formats. Spoiler alert: I would argue that the format we are currently in is an unhealthy diverse format. It’s good that Firewall Dragon got banned, but that doesn’t automatically mean the game is fixed.
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4 Tips to Avoid Deck Penalties
As both a player and a judge, deck error penalties are a pain to deal with. Split sleeves, a decklist error, or warped cards can result from a warning to a game loss, which ruins both a player’s record and experience.
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Trinity: A Guide to Playing (and Slaying) Orcust Bardiche
Orcust is a deck of wild, fantastic monsters with some of the best lore and in-game flavor of any archetype released in the past half-decade. Their playstyle is unique, intriguing, flexible, and powerful. The archetypal link monsters facilitate board setups which allow you to combo off no matter whose turn it is. Each individual archetype piece allows for recursion from almost any game zone, making them almost impossible to kill.
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Trinity Format – November 2018 Top Deck Profiles
The Top 4 Decks from the November 2018 Trinity Cup.
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Trinity Deckbuilding: Evaluating Cards in Trinity Format
The trinity alternative format has different rules both for how the game is played and how decks are built. In this article we are going to be examining some of the ways that these changes affect the way we have to look at cards.
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Not Just a Prank, Bro: A Beginner’s Guide to Prank-Kids
In a society where colossal dragons, a woman in a mech suit, and solitaire dominate the meta landscape, it is worthwhile to appreciate an archetype on the rogue/casual scene. With the recent release of Hidden Summoners, a new archetype arrived: Prank-Kids. And they’re stirring up trouble.
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Interview with TCG Marketing Specialist Robert Boyajian
Since beginning in the 1990s, the Yu-Gi-Oh! card game has gone through a multitude of changes. New cards types are introduced regularly, and a card’s viability can vary from month to month as game-redefining sets are introduced and ban lists are updated. Robert Boyajian has experienced many of those changes firsthand– both as a professional Yu-Gi-Oh! player with multiple tournament wins under his belt and more recently, as Konami’s TCG Marketing Specialist. He takes us through his favorite things about the TCG and how his relationship with the popular card game has changed since joining Konami’s staff.
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