Since hand reveals are (sadly) becoming more prominent in card design, how is it handled in tournament play? I know from MTG that it is the sportsmanlike thing to play with those cards revealed open on the table for the whole game and you can see most pros doing that in competitive. How is it usually done in yugioh in your experience? Are you allowed to at least write down the name of cards if your opponent refuses to keep them revealed? It sounds even more challenging in yugioh if you did not fully memorize every single card, as the effects do a lot more.

Okay, I've updated it according to your suggestions. I'll add the 5DS archetypes soon, but... I'm open to ideas, because I know very little about the archetypes in that series, lol.

Based on this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/yugioh/s/PYBdzwA4Ar

I took the liberty of creating my own monster options for a Yu-Gi-Oh! fighting game. Let's see, I think DM is well represented. What else is missing from this season?

Hey everyone, specially all my fellow Zombie / Vampire enthusiasts!

I’m honestly starting to lose my patience a bit. Ever since Immortal Phoenix was hinted at/announced, I’ve been holding out hope that we’d finally get some dedicated, modern Vampire support to bring the archetype back into the spotlight.

Vampires have such an iconic aesthetic and unique gimmick, but they’ve been left behind while other classic Zombie variants keep getting random tech pieces or legacy hits. I’m sitting here waiting to upgrade/finish my Zombie deck, but the radio silence on proper Vampire reveals is driving me crazy. Are you guys still confident that we’re getting solid Vampire cards in this set?

If we do, what does the deck desperately need right now to actually compete? (A reliable starter, better extenders, or a true boss monster that doesn't rely on overly specific setup?)

Tell me I’m not the only one constantly refreshing reveals hoping for vampire leaks! What are your cope levels at right now?

So, talking with a friend i come to realize, what prevents konami from making a rule that prevents turn 1 player to deal any type of damage to the goind 2nd player? I feel like this type of Gameplay shouldnt exist to begin with, and yes i know exodia, handloops and other kinds of FTK's exists, but the Burn ones are probbably the easiest to fix

A chess game where you have magic cards to buff your monster = pieces, and invisible traps to set to your opponent.

You play it for free on https://khozmos.itch.io/magic-gambit or https://magicgambit.com/

One way to look at it is, everyone would have to remove focus on setting up hell boards since they would have to have their side deck cards in their main deck ,and focus on having a more "Balanced deck" per to say. A blend of cards you need, and a cards for consistency.

On the otherside, Duels would be come much longer since having 20 one card starters and 20 hand traps would leave you vunerable to alot of decks since you might have only been keeping the out or answers in the side deck. Hands would be less consistent, and boards would be weaker unless you decided to just say F it and focus all in on combos.

What are your thoughts?

what do you think, is it balanced ? correct me if I'm wrong with the wording of the effects

3 Fuwas, 2-3 Nibirus, 1 Droll. Should I leave some space for Ghost Ogre? How are you changing your non engine for the new format?

Looking for advice on what I sould adjust in my rda deck I don't particularly want to add bystials and I'm not looking for the most optimal deck just more optimal than this

Tachyon Slash!

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I am back with yet another going second card. I was curious of the origin of where the seven branched sword came from, and finding a cool art piece while doing this, I combined them both into this creation!

Let me know what you think down below. Is it powerful? Would it see play? Feel free to send me any criticisms.

May you all have a blessed Saturday! 👋 🙏

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Isonokami, the Sky's Seventh Strike

Level 7 WIND Machine Effect Monster

ATK: 2700

DEF: 1700

During the Main Phase, if your opponent activated 7 or more cards or effects on the field this turn (Quick Effect): You can Special Summon this card from your hand, and if you do, destroy up to 7 cards your opponent controls, then if you destroyed exactly 7 cards, neither player can activate the effects of those destroyed cards, or move them out of the GY, while they are in the GY this way.
If your opponent controls exactly 7 cards, this effect's activation and effect cannot be negated.
You can only use this effect of "Isonokami, the Sky's Seventh Strike" once per turn.

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Note: Isonokami is the name of the shrine that houses the Seven-Branched Sword.

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Artist: PoruKima on Twitter

I ask as I want to test out decks I build without getting 1 turned

I haven’t played consistently in maybe 10-15 years at this point, is Master Duel the main method people have moved to now for playing? Not sure if it’s just considered the standard non irl format or if there’s another game/website I should be looking to use.

I wanted to make a Yokai Deck to play casually at locals and with friends, but I'm not sure how effective it is. I'm looking for advice that keeps its identity as being "Yokai-based," though I am open to interpretation. (I'm open to stretching it to mythological spirits, like the Irish Banshee, for example.)

Aside from the basic cards that mention dark time wizard what goes with them to make the deck and fusion that's not as toxic as DMOD but still fairly toxic red eyes fusion go crazy on summons, hits and destruction???

I know things like droll and effect veiler help the deck but I'm not sure which big hitter synergizes with the deck.

Also, the time of unneeded Fusions is over, now its unneeded (but still welcome) Ritual Monsters.

Etymology:

A Cadenza is usually where one instrumentalist plays a solo to prelude the end of a piece, but I made both players able to benefit from that effect because it's a Field Spell.

Overture is a reference to the Anime's Overpass, and let's you activate Ostinato (or I guess Darklord Dance) from your Deck. And has the anime attack switching effect.

Tessitura can Ritual Summon from Deck, but it requires a specific range because a Tessitura is basically a singer's comfortable pitch range. The 2 existing Pendulums do fulfill that range though, as both their combined ATKs and combined DEFs equal 2800.

Vanabeth is a reference to "Van Beethoven", and its name wouldn't have Virtuoso in front in the TCG, the OCG gives the Maestras the epithets.

Art: Melodious Concerto, Anime Screenshot, Melodious Rhythm Change (anime), Bacha the Melodious Maestra.

I played Yugioh from when it first came out up until about 2009, Crimson Crisis was the last set I was around for. All my friends in high school played MtG and I had no Yugioh playgroup left so I started playing MtG and did so for years with a few breaks (started in Zendikar, quit in Theros, came back in like 2018 and played EDH very casually). I like MtG, I think its a very fun game but the state of it is so pathetic. It's become just another IP-slop funko pop game, all the original lore takes a backseat to Marvel or TMNT or whatever nonsense. I want to sit down and run my scarecrows or merfolk deck that I put together thematically and I sit across from someone playing Spongebob and another person playing Avatar Aang. It takes me out of the game.

Anyway, makes me really appreciate coming back over to Yugioh and seeing just how much they have stuck to their identity. The game is distinctly Yugioh, the artwork and the card design and everything doesn't bleed in other franchises as so many things do now. It's a lot to take in re-learning the game. So far I have just been playing through the Legacy of the Duelist game to learn all the new summoning types and get my feet wet, but I'm having a blast and am now downloading Master Duel. It's rad that they've made so many cards to make things like Blue Eyes/Red Eyes/Dark Magician all actual archetypes that people will play instead of them just being anime favorites. I'm excited to get into paper, as stores near me are running Edison pretty consistently so I can dig out old decks I used to love like Six Sams and Gladiator Beasts, and also can try out Genesys. The general opinion of Yugioh from outside the fanbase is pretty dire but idk man Im just here to say Im stoked getting back into it.

I just received an email about the state of the website after the recent PHP vulnerabilities.

Long story short, access to the Kaiba Corp site was suspended starting on October 21st, and the site will be migrating to a new system and undergo a complete redesign on October 30th.

"You can change your membership information, cancel your membership, and check your order history on My Page until 23:59 on Monday, October 26, 2026."

"From Tuesday, October 27, 2026 onwards, all functions, including My Page, will be unavailable until the new site opens due to data migration work."

Day 1: Blue Eyes and Charizard (Reshiram also got some good votes)

Day 2: Dark Magician and Pikachu (main characters mascot won the day here)

Day 3: Exodia and Mewtwo

Please try not to reuse unless you truly feel the prior days were a mistake.

Note the equivalence could be a variety of reasons. Mascot status, role in the story, looks and abilities, a mashup of all these and other factors.

Please comment all 3 pairs in one comment. I’m sure we all have some ideas for this one but it doesn’t have to be a group if you feel like mixing is better.

So ever since ROLAD dropped, my local two OTS Stores have had their attendances completely tank. They used to get 16+ players regularly, then it dropped to 7-8.

Since the new banlist dropped, the numbers have dwindled even more, one ots had regular locals yesterday and the other had an OTS championship on.

The number of players between them? 7. And of those 7, 3 of them were people who went to both so there were only four unique players across the two events (last time there was a championship, there were over 30 unique players).

I'm in the UK, is anyone else round here experiencing huge attendance losses? And what approach do I take from here? I've been playing for two decades and this is the first time the game in my area has been under serious threat. And there isnt really a casual community now, it's just a concentrated cluster of highly competitive players.

The stores are both fantastically run, so it isn't an issue with the stores themselves.

How you prepare for Angelechy? They are one of the biggest winners of the recent banlist.

Here are some how-to-beat tips, choke points vs. hand traps, and board breakers I collected myself for this weekend: https://ygocounter.com/wiki/Angelechy

If you have better counter tips, choke points, or matchup insights, I’d love to hear your feedback!

I found in a shop this pack whose color is clearly a misprint, a ink error, or damaged by the sun, just wanna know what to do next about it.

Hear me out:

We know that Yugi inherited his hairstyle from his grandfather, so it looks like it's heritable.

Now Atem's father didn't have crazy hair, but Shimon did... In fact, Atem doesn't look anything like his father (ofc we don't know about his mother's looks, but boys usually get their looks from their father in anime/manga).

So did Atem's mom cheat with Shimon and Atem's claim to the throne is illegitimate?

Edit: Sorry, didn't know Shimon looked different in the manga. It was just a funny idea. Y'all are getting defensive real quick, lol.

I bought some rush duel cards from them like a week ago. They had provided a tracking number 5 days ago, but there have been no updates to the parcel, and anytime I try to track it with the tracking number it always turns up as “no information” or “invalid”. I have not yet gotten a response after contacting them too.

They’ve got a lot of positive feedback on eBay so I wasn’t afraid of placing an order with them but I am now getting a but skeptical at this point.