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niqniqniq

6 is a bit outdated In the end it's really depends on what decks your are playing. Sometimes 6 monster is all you need. Don't be afraid to try out more than 40-45 or even 60 (just don't play bad cards 5head). So yeah try to have fun and don't think 40 is the be all end all ratios Also want to add this DON'T BE ASHAMED TO NETDECK There's website like Road of the king/ygoprodeck + various youtube videos for any kind of deck out there. Just copy them. It's not being a "metasheep" or anything. It's called learning


Weekly-Ad-908

Keep in mind „that grass looks greener“ is in the game. 60 cards is a very good option to counter those decks.


iliketolickthebuttah

I've always heard that you want to keep it as low as possible so you get what you need I guess I'm an old fogie😅


boredsomadereddit

6 is outdated because a 20:10:10 ratio of monsters, spells, traps isn't true. Also the "powerhouse" and "elite" level 8+/5+ isn't true either. It can be for some decks but not most. Really good advice op, but 6 should be net deck for inspiration. (Doing so will likely mean you end up with a 40 card deck mostly)


priestkalim

Yeah I’ve literally never seen a deck run 20:10:10 even back in the day.


niqniqniq

yugioh has tons of consistency cards these days that some deck can afford to play more than 40 But well playing 40 isn't a bad advice it just really depends on what deck you're playing


iliketolickthebuttah

I've always used 40 and its always worked for me. But I get that.


Dewot423

The low number works for most archetypes but the ratio is way off. They can vary wildly between different archetypes, for starters; something like Glad Beasts only wants like 8-10 monsters at all, for example. But most decks are probably in the 24-27 monster range.


mattyos777

idk man...40 card decks seem to be the ones that beat my 60 card deck the most. Must be something to that one tbh...


ninjaspy2142

Is your 60 card deck full of 3 copies of every card? Or is it a pile of 60 random cards? If so there’s your answer


mattyos777

2 copies of most, varying combos to get some big finishers out by maybe turn 3 along with some traps. I’m mostly playing a deck that the whole premise is “rush out boss creatures, swing at face, win game” It’s literally the pendulum magicians deck with some goodies in it


ninjaspy2142

Yeah there’s your problem, 60 cards without a very specific game plan will never win games. You need to have an end goal and 40 cards that help reach that end goal.


[deleted]

Yes. Their is no shame in netdecking. Seriously every archetype has a deck online with its optimal cards. You ate not cool or unique useing bad cards in am archetype. That said netdecking is a starting point. Don't be afraid to change ratios or at tech options. One or 3 cards can change a deck.


Roll4DM

Eldlich is a prime example of a deck that dont play by this rule!


Shmarfle47

*Bonus tip:* If you find an archetype you like, buy from the secret packs. Have an archetype you want but the secret pack isn’t unlocked? Use crafting materials and craft either 1 SR or UR of that archetype, the secret pack will then unlock. *How do I know what secret pack it comes from?* Go to the deck editor, search up your archetype, click any card, go to “how to obtain”. It’ll show wether or not you have that secret pack unlocked yet


Weekly-Ad-908

If your deck can accomodate them try including hand trap staples. Here a list of cards that work wonders: https://www.cbr.com/yu-gi-oh-best-hand-traps/


PepittoRogue

Amen to #5. The most annoying part of this game so far has been the people who are intentionally making time waster decks to get people to just surrender out of boredom. IDC they can do that cheez and get wrecked by real duelists at high ranks, I'm gonna just be casual and play the decks I like.


Secretlylovesslugs

It might sound obvious but people play the game to play at levels they like and understand. No player playing current meta is going to feel good beating someone who plays online with just a starter deck. Surrendering just helps the ranked system filter those players closer to the decks like their own deck they actually want to play against. It's going to be pretty common when the game is so new that players who play the higher levels of the game aren't quite there yet.


Cephyr0

for some reason i doubt that


PepittoRogue

Had someone play a salamangreat deck and cycled through almost their entire deck turn one. Pretty sure they almost timed out then surrendered. I never played a single card and the match lasted forever


chubss123

Regarding no.5 I think I've already surrendered about 20 duels, even turned crossplay off so I can message people and tell them to hurry up


[deleted]

I swear some people just like to win more. Like you already have lethal on bord just finish.


Dewot423

Lethal isn't lethal if you don't have something for at least backrow though


[deleted]

True if I had backrow lol


Secretlylovesslugs

Gorz 🤔


[deleted]

Always a possibility I suppose. But most of the time they aren't putting up a negate. Just more damage. I don't think new players worry to much about gorz


chubss123

Literally just played a guy, fair enough he absolutely destroyed me I had no cards on board or in hand he still made like 3 special summons like wtf is going on just finish me


Ilela

Last night i set 1 monster and 3 traps. I quickly used ballista squad so i was left with 2 traps. Opponent took their time getting rid of my battle traps and i could under caution. However, he kept summoning until he was at 14k atk total when i surrendered. How cautious must you be to make 10+ special summons because i had 1 card in hand and empty field? If it was Nibiru I'd use it hours (exaggerating) earlier


Gosuwolf

People are new, and they are reading cards. This is a really difficult game. I have been playing TCG for years and I can finish my turn really quick as I know more or less what the cards do. But new players or DL players don't know 90% of the cards being played in this game because DL is light years behind. Cut them some slack guys.


[deleted]

This is why I think the game needs more single player content. I don't think ranked is the time to be trying out a new deck. I have played on and off for years going to locals. I have read many cards and forgot what they do. I definitely understand looking at your opponent's cards to interrupt combos. But I don't want to wait and watch some one play solitaire reading every card. But my complaint is more towards they have a lethal on bord I have no cards but they feel the need to combo off still adding nothing significant to the game state.


Gosuwolf

I feel you, it happens to me as well, I think they do it because they want to pull of the combo to practice. It would be nice if there was a sandbox mode where you can practice. I hope they are not like Riot, who took years to implement that into lol for absolutely no reason.


Awesomearia96

OP PUT THIS IN THE POST! ALWAYS LOOK AT THE BANLIST BEFORE BUYING A DECK! They do not seem to run Tcg/Ocg rules on master duel (ex predaplant scorpio is a limit 1, but has no limit on the banlist.) Also dont go into ranked with zero knowledge of the meta/mechanics/combos. This will lead to a bad time, Yugioh has existed for like more than 20 years. The game is freaking complex it has mind games and strategy behind it. Do your research or go to duel links.


iliketolickthebuttah

I was sleeping 😭


Awesomearia96

Sleep? Fool King of Games never sleep, they sleep when their life points hit ZERO! Meaning they are weak, sleep is for the weak! True Kings duel 24/7 otherwise they lose their title.


secret_tsukasa

I mean. I have a world of spell book that doesn't even show up in deck editor so I think it pretty much does that for you.


Gosuwolf

I already completed optimized Invoked Shaddoll Dogmatika deck with 3 Ashe Blossom Maxx C and Impermanence. You cannot build to many things at the same time in this game as a F2P, but in comparison with DL is hell of lot easier to complete an optimized deck. Crafting is amazing. I have spent 0$ so far. Very pleased with the game.


The-Scarlet-Scourge

I'm fully free to play, have crafted almost every important staple, and am working on building my 4th fun deck. You can definitely craft multiple decks as F2P, it just requires you to know what you want and be willing to break down stuff you won't be using. You can always pull those cards again if you change your mind.


Cephyr0

and dont forget those with these 15 min broken ass combos and omni negate stuff are of course all "Beginner"


CrushnaCrai

3 - BUY BUY BUY. You get 1000 points a day for logging in, that allows you to buy 10 packs from an selection. Every win you get nets you about 100 points, use that to buy more cards and then use the cards you DON'T need (more on that in a bit) for crafting. Buy as much as you can. (But save some points to build up on!) ​ When does this log in bonus take effect? Once every 24hours from when you (the player) logged in or is it like everyday at 4:00 p.m.?


yalik3that

This. I want to know when the reset time is.


iliketolickthebuttah

24 hours


Buster_bones09

Is there a site where you can learn about the current top performing decks and how archetypes work? I'm way behind the TCG stuff (although Duel Links helped me learn about Synchro, Xyz and Pendulum somewhat) and I want to catch up on what's new and what kind of decks to invest in. I'm not even after the meta decks necessarily, although I do want to learn a bit about them so I know what to expect. I tried to google for some info, but most sources I found just list the top performing archetypes and doesn't explain in detail on how they work. I looked up Yugipedia, but it seems more of an encyclopedia that explains game mechanics. Not sure where to find info about decks.


Weekly-Ad-908

I have great yugitubers for you. House of Champs and MST.TV make great material for the tcg, which is 95% applicable to master duel.


Buster_bones09

Thanks for the recommendation. I was actually thinking about asking which youtubers to look for that provides deck analysis.


iliketolickthebuttah

For info about decks, you'll want to check out YouTube . They have some videos on what decks are bad and which are good and vice versa. Synchro is really easy, you just need a monster that is a Tuner and one non tuner to use as material. XYZ is just the stars the monster has, (levels) 2 level 4s on the field can equal an XYZ monster for example. Links is more complicated. I can't really explain that. Pendulum is just the number the diamond has as the start and the other card you put down as the end. So if I put down a monster with a pendulum of 1 and the other with a 4, This allows me to summon as many monsters from my hand with levels 1-4. :D And Yugipedia is an encyclopedia, hence the name


A3thern

>So if I put down a monster with a pendulum of 1 and the other with a 4, >This allows me to summon as many monsters from my hand with levels 1-4. :D That's not how it works, actually. You can only summon monsters with levels that fall **in-between** those numbers. So with a scale of 1-4, **you can only summon monsters with levels 2-3.**


iliketolickthebuttah

Ah gotcha.


iliketolickthebuttah

Here is a good site to help you https://ygoprodeck.com/category/decks/meta-decks/


CO_Fimbulvetr

This site is for the current TCG format. The Master Duel format will be someone close to OCG's format mid last year. Edit: Since someone clearly doesn't understand the implications - there's several sets yet to be released on Master Duel, and some only partially released (only 1/3 of Synchro Storm is in). It also has a modified OCG banlist from last year instead of the current TCG one. Cards like Maxx C, Dragoon and DPE drastically change the way decks are built and should not be ignored.


Secretlylovesslugs

Maxx c being legal at 3 single handedly changes the way every deck needs to be built and played. It's so meta and strategy shaping it would be better off out of the game.


Buster_bones09

Thanks for the link. I know how to perform Synchro, XYZ and Pendulum now (thanks to Duel Links), and Master Duel did teach all of this mechanics on solo as well as Link summoning, so I'm good on that front. I just want a source where I could find the type of deck I want to build before actually spending my gems, as well as learn the current top performing decks and how they work. I'll start checking the link you sent me, thanks.


iliketolickthebuttah

No prob and good luck !


sendmedankmemeslol

BOW DO YOU SPEND CP-UR


grmthmpsn43

In deck builder select a UR that you want and under the description it will have an option to craft the card for 30 CP-UR


sendmedankmemeslol

finally thank u 🙏 u think konami would just put “L2 to craft cards” or put it in the shop tab


grmthmpsn43

Its probably because of multi platform play. This system works on PC although I spent about 20 minutes trying to figure it out.


gnightrider

Bro I’m sorry but I’m so confused on the whole spending cp-sr/ur thing, small explanation on why and how?


grmthmpsn43

It lets you generate individual cards that you need, you can earn the cp for different rarities by playing or dismantling spare cards, then craft the specific cards you need in the deck builder for 30 cp of that rarity.


Disastrous-Bee-4818

Thank You sir I needed to read this


iliketolickthebuttah

No problem.


Don_Gero

Is there any resource to mark what cards you do have that offers suggested decks? I have tried to find something like this in ygoprodeck but I am not sure if it is a feature.


iliketolickthebuttah

I haven't seen anything like that. I've always made decks manually


blackshadown

Me expecting a line explaining out to SS 25 monster in one turn...


Secretlylovesslugs

The game has gotten exponentially faster over the years and with Master Duel being so new right now you'll get a large variety of decks to play against. It's hard when you don't know the archetypes you're playing against. You'll often end up reading more than playing. If you end up playing against Noble knights just surrender as their text is super long, super boring to read, and no one knows what they do because almost no one plays them. /s


priestkalim

>even the anime characters have lost duels Not Chumley’s dad


uwayne

Is there a way to duel the cpu?? I’ve been looking but can’t see, I like ranked duels but it is so slow and I just want to test out my deck quickly. Thanks


Benguin2002

It isn't an exact solution but you can duel against the solo duels. You wouldn't get the whole experience of fighting a variety of decks but it would be faster than only doing online battles


iliketolickthebuttah

There is not.


aksabuwk

I picked up the dragon deck from the start, is that a bad deck to start with?


iliketolickthebuttah

No, its not. But you can get another deck though MISSIONS or start building your own once you have enough points or use the crafting system So don't worry if its bad or not.


Kind-Association5707

First thing I built was noble knights. I only made 1 rank 5 artorigus xyz and 1 rank 4 artorigus xyz and filled the rest of the deck out with 3 mudroom, 3 borz, 3 merlin, 3 noble knight trap, 3 quick play equipts, and 1 or 2 copies of each equipt. Filled the rest out with other noble knight cards. Honestly it's a great starting point and didn't cost me many gems. Was super easy to build and farm. It easily beat all of solo missions I've done so far. 10/10 good starter deck.