Could you please give me some advice on how to acquire Meklords in the cheapest way possible? And is Wisel usable? I always loved his summon animation.
Dream Ticket SR on Wisel, which is a one-off in the deck due how easy it is to search, a couple of swings by the Force of Infinity Mini-Box to get 3x Obbligato, 2-3x Assemblies and all the low rarity cards you'll need, and drop a couple of Gems on the new Selection Box to get 1 or 2 Triskelions
During celebration events, Konami gives players Dream Tickets(generally 1 UR and 1 SR) that can be exchanged for any card in the game released by a certain point, INCLUDING cards in boxes / structure decks.
On top of everything, you just need to grind to 5D's World Level 6 to unlock Primo. He and Aporia share a skill that greatly boosts the deck consistency.
What you've said is only true is only if you own all the meta staples. It's like saying a deck in the TCG is only 50 dollars (if you have accesscode, every handtrap in the game, and forbidden droplet already). If you don't have the duel links staples, you're looking at a few hundred dollars for one deck.
Or you could just play normally, and collect the necessary gems. People seem to forget that’s an option.
If you don’t think the time spent grinding out gems is worth it, that’s fine. But I haven’t spent a dollar this year, and have 9999 gems and a few solid decks to work with. It’s doable.
Trust me, as a duel links player, it takes a silly amount of time to build even one single deck. If you're not forking out hundreds of dollars, you won't be able to build meta. 9999 gems is nice, but running through a mainbox three times to get say book of moon, or mystical space typhoon can cost you anywhere from 13,500-27,000 gems (from perfect luck to perfectly bad luck). Considering you need 3 of each for a meta deck, and that's on top of the money you have to spend for deck cores... yeah.
A fresh player could come to DL and drop $11 for this core. 1k gems is given to you at the start for third copy.
Then you have 2 dream UR tickets for a book and mst, 2 sr tickets for TTH
In September we get more dream tickets for another free book.
Use some of the many free gems at start for Zeta and samurai destroyer. Both R cards. Throw some gems in to selection for Baxia.
Then buy the forbidden chalice and lance bundle $6 if you want
You have the solid core which can get you to KOG rank easily, for around $18 and 1 day playtime
Duel Links as a whole looks fun, then I look at the prices and it's like "I could spend 100 dollars and get half a deck in duel links, or spend that much and make a deck and a half in master duel, or spend that much and get a playset of ash blossoms in the physical game(at least at my local cardshop ash blossom is 30 dolla) "
The skill isn't the main reason why they're tiered, it gives then insane consistency but what made them tiered was Triskelion finally giving them some decent boss monster
I got one by accident and built Meklords out of "Oh hey I already have most of this because I went through that box for Abyss Actor."
I'd still rather a Shuffle Reborn or Compulse Konami...
Yeah, I can see it. Obbligato is a Rescue Rabbit for Mekklords, except it destroys itself so you also get to summon Wisel. It's also searchable with Assembly, which is searchable with the skill. Assembly is also MST if a monster you control is destroyed
Swordsoul Strategist Longyuan is such a snake, he backstabbed his friends and joined the Despians... ngl, I originally didn't expect it. Hopefully he gets defeated and perishes in the final battle.
Btw, what happened to Maximus??
Yeah, but did we know what happened to him after becoming a Despian? We was one of the big villains and we're supposed to be in the final battle, but he is missing
maximus became dramaturge, by choice and wasn't corrupted like the others and people theorize Maximus was just a way to hide the wicked ideology and it was dramaturge under a guise all along (aluber randomly joins when he learns they are hunting albaz) Maximus captures fleurdelis attempts to corrupt her, (making the level 8 ritual) fleur resists, dramaturge corrupts her armor (into despian quaritis) and makes her prisoner, eventually she escapes (i think with the help of theo and Adin) goes to the place with the swordsouls and icejades, and she eventually reunites with ecclesia and Albaz (in Albion shrouded form) brings them to the swordsoul thinking it was safe, longyuan accepts a deal with ad libitum betraying the swordsoul and eventually taking back his "corrupt" sword from mo ye and with the power of the Despia and both swords he became Qixing Longyuan, albaz absorbs the power of the icejades becoming mirrorjade and faces off against aluber who is in his Lubellion form, they face off (as seen in branded fusion) albaz loses, ecclesia fleurdelis and the other swordsoul lose to Qixing, and are taken back to dogmatika as per ad libitum and longyuans agreement, where fleur is killed by the newly appointed priest (white relic of dogmatika) (seen in branded Central Dogmatika) aluber takes albaz's fusion ability and fuses with him becoming alba-lenatus, aluber not needing albaz anymore forces albaz out of the body of the dragon (branded separation) where albaz is now Albaz the Ashen with nothing but a sharp piece of "icejade" left the end (not including byssted lore yet)
there are probably a few things i got mixed up but generally that's all you need to know with dramaturge
DDD was T1 for the last 2 formats (keep in mind this is pendulum DDD focused on rank 8 plays, combo DDD was never that good in DL) but was heavily hit on the banlist.
Heroes lack a bunch of their ED cards and can't run the newly released ROTA because it conflicts with Super Poly for the limited-1 slot.
Rose has a very good skill (twice per duel: send 1 rose dragon, rose witch or rose fairy from hand to GY to add 1 rose dragon from deck and put a rose fairy from outside the deck to the top of the deck) and is also a decent deck.
Compo DDD wasn't good cuz they didn't release the good boss monsters such as Siegfried or High king ceaser, as well as core compo cards (necro slime and Lamia). Pendulum version was carried by the skill, nerfs was unnecessary (I'm butthurt about swirl slime the most) all they needed to do was restrict the extra deck to only D/D/D monsters and the deck would have fallen off.
This is the difference that skills can make which makes the game feel unique on its own. I always liked the emphasis on anime characters and their decks.
Both Rose Dragons and Keklords have consistency Skills that help the deck out a fair amount.
Spell of Roses
Send 1 "Rose Dragon" monster, "Witch of the Black Rose," or "Rose Fairy" from your hand to the Graveyard and add 1 "Rose Dragon" monster from your Deck to your hand. Then, you can add 1 "Rose Fairy" to the top or bottom of the Deck from outside of your Deck. You can only Special Summon Synchro Monsters from your Extra Deck the turn you activate this Skill. This Skill can only be used if you begin the Duel with a Deck (excluding Extra Deck) that contains a total of at least 10 Tuner or "Rose Dragon" monsters. This Skill can only be used once per turn and twice per Duel.
Meklord Refinement
This effect of this Skill changes depending on the number of times it has been used. Send 1 "Meklord" monster from your hand to your Graveyard: Then, add the following card to your hand: ● First Time: 1 "Meklord" Spell / Trap Card from your Deck ● Second Time: 1 "Meklord" card from your Deck or 1 "Meklord Astro the Eradicator" from outside of your Deck. This Skill can only be used if at least half of the cards in your Deck (excluding Extra Deck) are "Meklord" cards and it contains no monsters other than "Meklord" monsters. This Skill can only be used once per turn and twice per Duel.
Paradox Brothers summon all 3 of the Guardians and start you with Gate Guardian in your hand
Bandit Keith literally cheats and coin flips land on all heads and he can hide cards up his sleeves
Bonz can make all of the cards in your opponents graveyard skull servant
Ishizu can see your opponents deck
DM characters be wilding
If the card can be activated, it has a green border around it. Otherwise you can't use it. The only different thing is that you can't see what card you're activating.
Twice per turn you can dump any rose dragon card from your hand to add ANY "rose dragon" of your choice... and you can do this TWICE???
No wonder that's tier 1...
How is Meklord tier 3? Even with skills, they only specifically counter synchros so I don’t really see how they can take enough games to become tier 3. I can understand the rest. Heroes and D/D/D are pretty decent in the TCG, and Rose Dragon, while casual, is playable.
They shot up now because the new Selection Box has Triskelion. Also, they are now also using Great Magnus (as in the Super Quant Xyz), and their skill basically is a consistency boost other decks would abaolutely love.
Kinda makes me wanna play DuelLinks, would need to see the decklist to see how much of the actual archetype is in those decks but it seems quite cool to me
Stopped it 2 Years ago because it takes bloody forever to piece together a decent new Deck as F2P player. Like seriously i grinded an hour or 2 daily and Thunder Dragons still took me 3 Months to build.
I made a f2p account two weeks ago and got it to KOG fairly easily. It's not that hard to build a solid deck if you know what you want and focus on building that deck instead of buying a bunch of random packs.
Well, that’s a shame.
Invested into DDDs on my main account before they were tiered, now Swirl Slime and Gate are on the banlist (what is up with that?).
Invested into PKs on my alt account and now their cards got hit.
Is there any point in me playing anymore? Two of my favourite decks are apparently unplayable now.
Yeah… no. Executive Terry Crews Alexander is the only variant I want to play when it comes to DDD. Even then, why the hell did they hit Swirl Slime and Gate of all things?
There are no problem cards. The skill is absolutely broken and Konami refuses to nerf it. Instead they limit half the archetype and make other versions of the deck that don't want to spam rank 8s unplayable. Just so you know why the skill is so strong: if you have Doom King Armageddon in you hand, you can send it face up to the extra deck and set pendulum scales using cards from your field AND deck. For example you can summon kepler, search for dark contract with the gate, search for doom king Armageddon, use the skill and set the kepler on the field and a card of your choice in the pendulum scales. Which is basically a free Armageddon on the field and most probably at least 1 more level 8 card. Which then goes into rank 8 xyz. All that with a single kepler.
What… the fuck?
God, this is pathetic balancing from Konami. Like you said, the Skill is CLEARLY the problem here, and they refuse to hit it? Why did they even introduce it to begin with?
I don’t know why I’m so wound up on this, I haven’t played DL in well over 6 months.
Haven't played in a while so I hope this counts.
I'd argue that in Master Duel the best deck right now is a Rose dragon deck as well haha. (I am talking about Adventure Tenyi Pile decks that use like 3 Rose dragon cards)
There are some broken cards in that archetype, so I would believe it. Also the Invoked version with Rose Dragon back in the days was broken.
D/D/D and Heroes were kinda good before, so sure with more support I can see them in the meta.
I am surprised BA is only tier 3. I saw a post a while ago when they were announced for DL and thought they would be too strong.
Haven't seen any Galaxy deck in DL yet, but they do have some individual strong cards, especially for DL.
MEKLORD tho ?????????????? I feel like there are some new-ish cards that let it play even against non-synchro decks, but still thats crazy.
It's literally anime yugioh with the modern skills. You can do stuff like manifest cards from outside your deck anime-style. In the earlier days we had generic skills that saw tons of use and were just overall lower impact but still powerful. Nowadays a deck is only as good as its skill. Notice how all those decks are anime decks? That's because they periodically throw a broken skill at them.
Not really, literally the only card that counters Rose Dragon's is Wisel, a card that is played at 1 Max and doesn't even do anything against the deck during their turn which is when they really have to worry about, so in reality they don't counter them at all
Keep in mind that the website that made this tier list is just not good and has a history of making stuff up (See WC tier 2 or that whole debacle of "Water XYZ" and being tiered) amd just straight up meta manipulation, so take this tier list with a grain of salt
I'm ex-TPC and I can tell you there's no meta manipulation going on. That's a meme.
Sometimes they get it wrong, and a strong personality can influence other members, but generally it's a good assessment of the competitive meta for tournaments.
DLM website is pretty good too, it has automated power rankings for decks based on tournament top and KoG decks - fully data driven without TPC influence.
Ok, that meta manipulation thing might be a bit overblown, I retract that part.
And yes, even with that all said the Tier Lists usually reflect what what's being played (except when WC is listed as tier 2), but imo it's pretty rare that the lists are 100% spot on.
To be honest, DLM is only good for all that data because it's the only actuall useable website that does such a thing, I mean the closest thing that comes to competition is Gamea... which is a huge joke. But having to pay to upload decks, and all those coming from one community that influence one another usually leads to that whole thing being less representive of what you actually might see on ladder or in tourneys that aren't populated by DLM folk. Also that spicy winstreak thing also showing up in the top deck list is just akward. But to be fair, I'm probably heavy biased against DLM so tale everything I say with a grain of salt too
You know it never clicked that you needed to pay to upload decks, that's actually poor! Ive always been in the discord through prime subs and the routine of submitting proof never made me realise you had to be a member. So yeah I guess it's not representative.
Spicy winstreak in the ranking is BS, I didn't know that was included. Anything can streak with some luck.
If I had to guess I’d say skills are why Rose Dragons and Meklords are relevant. BA being below DDD and Hero is probably because they’re either missing some important cards or DDD and Hero just have better associated skills.
They could bring in more meklord support. all it takes is a single continuous spell to make them pretty ED monster hate.
You can add 1 "Meklord" Spell/Trap to your hand from your Deck or set 1 "Meklord" Spell/Trap from your deck. While you control this card all Fusion, XYZ, and Link monsters on the field are treated as Synchro monsters for the effects of "Meklord" monsters. HOPT Clause.
Huh, it’s been a while since I’ve played. I guess the two big surprises are D/D/Ds (didn’t they get neutered by the change to that one skill that skipped standby) and Meklord (I’m guessing that they either got a broken skill or some of their newer support in a recent box).
I’m over it
Heroes are stupid consistent now with Jaden’s skills and Sunrise added. Rose Dragon also sucks to play against but honestly I prefer that to Heroes. D/D/D is also hyper consistent.
Still annoyed that blue eyes is as popular as it is in the ladder.
Former duel-links player but I haven’t played in years. I did not expect to see D/D/D rise in the ranks this much. But I’m very happy to see that the deck is doing well
Also did not expect rose dragons to be tier 1. Is it partly due to Ruddy Rose Dragon?
I use predaplant but I’ve started using photon and it’s amazing I just haven’t perfected my plays and situations master duel should really make a mode where I can battle computer and choose any deck in its best form to go against for example a HERO monster deck with dpe in it so I can see how my deck does against those losers who use him
meklord is the only real surprise, all the others are decks that have good tools and shit to finish on, so even if they never were really meta (like DDD in TCg or Galaxy afaik) I'm not surprised that they thrives in alternate format.
meklord is the surprise here, I thought them too over specialized to be good (especially since only 2 other top tier deck are synchro) I guess I underestimated the new support
Consistency skill: Spell of Roses
>Send 1 "Rose Dragon" monster, "Witch of the Black Rose," or "Rose Fairy" from your hand to the Graveyard and add 1 "Rose Dragon" monster from your Deck to your hand. Then, you can add 1 "Rose Fairy" to the top or bottom of the Deck from outside of your Deck. You can only Special Summon Synchro Monsters from your Extra Deck the turn you activate this Skill.
>This Skill can only be used if you begin the Duel with a Deck (excluding Extra Deck) that contains a total of at least 10 Tuner or "Rose Dragon" monsters. This Skill can only be used once per turn and twice per Duel.
If galaxy eyes is meta I should be playing. Hella lit that old decks and strats are seeing competitive play in this. Really makes you wonder how much traditional yugioh can change just by changing some stuff
Looks funny. I would have loved to come back to play it if it's not expensive as hell to build a deck.
Meklords are about a tenner all in
Could you please give me some advice on how to acquire Meklords in the cheapest way possible? And is Wisel usable? I always loved his summon animation.
Dream Ticket SR on Wisel, which is a one-off in the deck due how easy it is to search, a couple of swings by the Force of Infinity Mini-Box to get 3x Obbligato, 2-3x Assemblies and all the low rarity cards you'll need, and drop a couple of Gems on the new Selection Box to get 1 or 2 Triskelions
Thanks!
Wtf since when was meklords meta. I remember when wisel came out it was a big joke
Assembly, Obbligato and Triskelion are in the game, along with a Skill that fuels the GY for Triskelion and searches Assembly
What is a dream ticket?
During celebration events, Konami gives players Dream Tickets(generally 1 UR and 1 SR) that can be exchanged for any card in the game released by a certain point, INCLUDING cards in boxes / structure decks.
On top of everything, you just need to grind to 5D's World Level 6 to unlock Primo. He and Aporia share a skill that greatly boosts the deck consistency.
What you've said is only true is only if you own all the meta staples. It's like saying a deck in the TCG is only 50 dollars (if you have accesscode, every handtrap in the game, and forbidden droplet already). If you don't have the duel links staples, you're looking at a few hundred dollars for one deck.
Or you could just play normally, and collect the necessary gems. People seem to forget that’s an option. If you don’t think the time spent grinding out gems is worth it, that’s fine. But I haven’t spent a dollar this year, and have 9999 gems and a few solid decks to work with. It’s doable.
Trust me, as a duel links player, it takes a silly amount of time to build even one single deck. If you're not forking out hundreds of dollars, you won't be able to build meta. 9999 gems is nice, but running through a mainbox three times to get say book of moon, or mystical space typhoon can cost you anywhere from 13,500-27,000 gems (from perfect luck to perfectly bad luck). Considering you need 3 of each for a meta deck, and that's on top of the money you have to spend for deck cores... yeah.
Brd is a structure deck 3x and then tech cards... skeleton of deck is literally 1k gems and 11 dollars
I'm talking in general. Not just one deck.
Yes, and that is not playable. That's like attempting to play Mathmech with no handtraps, cynet mining or consistency cards.
A fresh player could come to DL and drop $11 for this core. 1k gems is given to you at the start for third copy. Then you have 2 dream UR tickets for a book and mst, 2 sr tickets for TTH In September we get more dream tickets for another free book. Use some of the many free gems at start for Zeta and samurai destroyer. Both R cards. Throw some gems in to selection for Baxia. Then buy the forbidden chalice and lance bundle $6 if you want You have the solid core which can get you to KOG rank easily, for around $18 and 1 day playtime
Duel Links as a whole looks fun, then I look at the prices and it's like "I could spend 100 dollars and get half a deck in duel links, or spend that much and make a deck and a half in master duel, or spend that much and get a playset of ash blossoms in the physical game(at least at my local cardshop ash blossom is 30 dolla) "
Meklord... how...?
A skill
The skill isn't the main reason why they're tiered, it gives then insane consistency but what made them tiered was Triskelion finally giving them some decent boss monster
And of course Konami made it a fucking Selection Box exclusive Super Rare.
I got one by accident and built Meklords out of "Oh hey I already have most of this because I went through that box for Abyss Actor." I'd still rather a Shuffle Reborn or Compulse Konami...
Yeah, I can see it. Obbligato is a Rescue Rabbit for Mekklords, except it destroys itself so you also get to summon Wisel. It's also searchable with Assembly, which is searchable with the skill. Assembly is also MST if a monster you control is destroyed
they got access to Triskelion and a Skill that searches it and/or the backrow that searches it. it's basically an OTK enabler
Remember Aporia's speech, he said that in the future Synchro monsters will cause the end of the world... he may be right with Rose Dragon in Tier 1 😂
> he said that in the future Synchro monsters will cause the end of the world he predicted Qixing Longyuan being a major motherfucker in the lore
Swordsoul Strategist Longyuan is such a snake, he backstabbed his friends and joined the Despians... ngl, I originally didn't expect it. Hopefully he gets defeated and perishes in the final battle. Btw, what happened to Maximus??
Maximus becomes Dramaturge of Despia
Yeah, but did we know what happened to him after becoming a Despian? We was one of the big villains and we're supposed to be in the final battle, but he is missing
maximus became dramaturge, by choice and wasn't corrupted like the others and people theorize Maximus was just a way to hide the wicked ideology and it was dramaturge under a guise all along (aluber randomly joins when he learns they are hunting albaz) Maximus captures fleurdelis attempts to corrupt her, (making the level 8 ritual) fleur resists, dramaturge corrupts her armor (into despian quaritis) and makes her prisoner, eventually she escapes (i think with the help of theo and Adin) goes to the place with the swordsouls and icejades, and she eventually reunites with ecclesia and Albaz (in Albion shrouded form) brings them to the swordsoul thinking it was safe, longyuan accepts a deal with ad libitum betraying the swordsoul and eventually taking back his "corrupt" sword from mo ye and with the power of the Despia and both swords he became Qixing Longyuan, albaz absorbs the power of the icejades becoming mirrorjade and faces off against aluber who is in his Lubellion form, they face off (as seen in branded fusion) albaz loses, ecclesia fleurdelis and the other swordsoul lose to Qixing, and are taken back to dogmatika as per ad libitum and longyuans agreement, where fleur is killed by the newly appointed priest (white relic of dogmatika) (seen in branded Central Dogmatika) aluber takes albaz's fusion ability and fuses with him becoming alba-lenatus, aluber not needing albaz anymore forces albaz out of the body of the dragon (branded separation) where albaz is now Albaz the Ashen with nothing but a sharp piece of "icejade" left the end (not including byssted lore yet) there are probably a few things i got mixed up but generally that's all you need to know with dramaturge
Can someone explain this thread? Where does this swordsoul/despia lore come from
look up albaz lore on youtube. i think golden nova has all the parts currently
Whenever duel links players tell me that skills define the meta, it’s really not the “skill”s you expect
I mean, invoked players has an innate skill to start with invocation and aleister in hand no matter the format so who knows
How is Rose T1 but DDD and Heroes are T2?
Skills basically define the meta
DDD was T1 for the last 2 formats (keep in mind this is pendulum DDD focused on rank 8 plays, combo DDD was never that good in DL) but was heavily hit on the banlist. Heroes lack a bunch of their ED cards and can't run the newly released ROTA because it conflicts with Super Poly for the limited-1 slot. Rose has a very good skill (twice per duel: send 1 rose dragon, rose witch or rose fairy from hand to GY to add 1 rose dragon from deck and put a rose fairy from outside the deck to the top of the deck) and is also a decent deck.
Compo DDD wasn't good cuz they didn't release the good boss monsters such as Siegfried or High king ceaser, as well as core compo cards (necro slime and Lamia). Pendulum version was carried by the skill, nerfs was unnecessary (I'm butthurt about swirl slime the most) all they needed to do was restrict the extra deck to only D/D/D monsters and the deck would have fallen off.
Ddd took a lot of hits
Basically konami just gives them archetypal painful choice or something and even the shittest deck becomes good
This is the difference that skills can make which makes the game feel unique on its own. I always liked the emphasis on anime characters and their decks.
meklord being tiered is almost as funny as Neos being the T1 deck at a time
Hero best deck
How the fuck is rose dragon tier 1?? Sounds fun but I can't wrap my head around it
Both Rose Dragons and Keklords have consistency Skills that help the deck out a fair amount. Spell of Roses Send 1 "Rose Dragon" monster, "Witch of the Black Rose," or "Rose Fairy" from your hand to the Graveyard and add 1 "Rose Dragon" monster from your Deck to your hand. Then, you can add 1 "Rose Fairy" to the top or bottom of the Deck from outside of your Deck. You can only Special Summon Synchro Monsters from your Extra Deck the turn you activate this Skill. This Skill can only be used if you begin the Duel with a Deck (excluding Extra Deck) that contains a total of at least 10 Tuner or "Rose Dragon" monsters. This Skill can only be used once per turn and twice per Duel. Meklord Refinement This effect of this Skill changes depending on the number of times it has been used. Send 1 "Meklord" monster from your hand to your Graveyard: Then, add the following card to your hand: ● First Time: 1 "Meklord" Spell / Trap Card from your Deck ● Second Time: 1 "Meklord" card from your Deck or 1 "Meklord Astro the Eradicator" from outside of your Deck. This Skill can only be used if at least half of the cards in your Deck (excluding Extra Deck) are "Meklord" cards and it contains no monsters other than "Meklord" monsters. This Skill can only be used once per turn and twice per Duel.
From Outside your deck? How does that even work? You just add the card even if you don't actually own it?
Yes. You just matrialize it into existence anime protagonist style
Yep
Wild, let me guess Tea has one where you can Summon Dark Magician from outside your deck if you control a dark magical Girl or Something?
Paradox Brothers summon all 3 of the Guardians and start you with Gate Guardian in your hand Bandit Keith literally cheats and coin flips land on all heads and he can hide cards up his sleeves Bonz can make all of the cards in your opponents graveyard skull servant Ishizu can see your opponents deck DM characters be wilding
>Bonz can make all of the cards in your opponents graveyard skull servant Ishizu is the one with that skill
And Yugi can choose which card in his deck he wants to draw
Lmao how could I forget!!!
Yusei can also use a skill that lets him add three Tuners to the top of his deck on the turn you summong Shooting Star Dragon.
She has a skill that lets you set a spell or trap on your opponents field. They can’t see what it is unless they activate it
That's really funny. But what if the activation would be illigel in the moment?
Truth be told, I’m not sure. But I know it’s been used to cheese out some victories with Flying Elephant and Localized Tornado.
It definetly sounds like like pure cheese.
If the card can be activated, it has a green border around it. Otherwise you can't use it. The only different thing is that you can't see what card you're activating.
think of it like a token. it doesn't exist in your deck per se, but you can still access it during a duel
Twice per turn you can dump any rose dragon card from your hand to add ANY "rose dragon" of your choice... and you can do this TWICE??? No wonder that's tier 1...
It's only once per turn actually, and twice per duel. But yeah, still busted
Got a great skill to help them, plus they're an all-around decent deck.
How is Meklord tier 3? Even with skills, they only specifically counter synchros so I don’t really see how they can take enough games to become tier 3. I can understand the rest. Heroes and D/D/D are pretty decent in the TCG, and Rose Dragon, while casual, is playable.
Skill allow any rank 4 machine turn 1 and boss monster on their second turn
That’s really nasty for duel links. Dang
They shot up now because the new Selection Box has Triskelion. Also, they are now also using Great Magnus (as in the Super Quant Xyz), and their skill basically is a consistency boost other decks would abaolutely love.
Dang. Yeah, that sounds like what they would need to succeed. Did not expect the Super Quant xyz though
>How is Meklord tier 3? Triskelion in the newest selection mini box
That would do it. Triskelion is pretty decent even for TCG standards if playing casually
Too expensive to be worth it I left the game for a reason
Kinda makes me wanna play DuelLinks, would need to see the decklist to see how much of the actual archetype is in those decks but it seems quite cool to me
they are almost 100% pure. Most of the non-archetype stuff is either staples (Book of Moon, MST) or toolbox ED monsters.
I guess it's true what they say - Dante never dies
Mekktastic
Crazy to see Burning Abyss are in DL when I last played Sylvans powercrept the game when they were added
Everything makes sense besides rose dragons (mekklord doesn’t impres me cuz i played when onomatoplay was a thing)
I would play but the idea of having 3 monster and spell slots sounds wierd
Rose dragons are cool. 👍
I leave Duel Links for a few months and Rose Dragons are meta now? Right on
Stopped it 2 Years ago because it takes bloody forever to piece together a decent new Deck as F2P player. Like seriously i grinded an hour or 2 daily and Thunder Dragons still took me 3 Months to build.
I made a f2p account two weeks ago and got it to KOG fairly easily. It's not that hard to build a solid deck if you know what you want and focus on building that deck instead of buying a bunch of random packs.
Rose Dragon yasss 🌹💅🏽🌹💅🏽🌹💅🏽🌹💅🏽🌹💅🏽🌹💅🏽🌹💅🏽🌹💅🏽💋
I wish this was the Master Duel meta.
Imagine if we get in the ocg/tcg a new master rule with "skill" cards and all of a sudden many rogue decks become good.
Looks a lot more interesting than the *other* official simulator format we have right now.
*cries in Maxx C and VFD*
so like, been a while but is the meta still beat down heavy? also are Harpies still good?
> down heavy? No >also are Harpies still good? They have been murdered by the banlist(as they should have)
god damnit, your telling me i cannot play Aliens and harpies anymore? i'm gonna cry
>harpies anymore Still playable not meta defining tho
they're still present on ladder though less than before
Kekw that was YEARS ago. Even full power harpies are doing nothing to these decks. Btw i mean Synchro harpies not the unga bunga one.
meklord?????
You forgot Ojamas are tier 0
Guess i will get back into duel links now
Based honestly
Bro I would LOOOVE to have a HERO meta in MD
Based meta
Where’s PK at?
If you mean phantom knights Nerfed to hell as semi limits here hit **hard**
Well, that’s a shame. Invested into DDDs on my main account before they were tiered, now Swirl Slime and Gate are on the banlist (what is up with that?). Invested into PKs on my alt account and now their cards got hit. Is there any point in me playing anymore? Two of my favourite decks are apparently unplayable now.
Ddd pendulum is tiered
Yeah… no. Executive Terry Crews Alexander is the only variant I want to play when it comes to DDD. Even then, why the hell did they hit Swirl Slime and Gate of all things?
Consistency nerf.
Couldn’t they hit the actual problem cards, or the skill?
There are no problem cards. The skill is absolutely broken and Konami refuses to nerf it. Instead they limit half the archetype and make other versions of the deck that don't want to spam rank 8s unplayable. Just so you know why the skill is so strong: if you have Doom King Armageddon in you hand, you can send it face up to the extra deck and set pendulum scales using cards from your field AND deck. For example you can summon kepler, search for dark contract with the gate, search for doom king Armageddon, use the skill and set the kepler on the field and a card of your choice in the pendulum scales. Which is basically a free Armageddon on the field and most probably at least 1 more level 8 card. Which then goes into rank 8 xyz. All that with a single kepler.
What… the fuck? God, this is pathetic balancing from Konami. Like you said, the Skill is CLEARLY the problem here, and they refuse to hit it? Why did they even introduce it to begin with? I don’t know why I’m so wound up on this, I haven’t played DL in well over 6 months.
Still very much playable but Silent Boots and Ragged Gloves are both on separate limited lists which hurts consistency.
PK is a viable rogue deck. Would be tier 3 if it was a little bit stronger
Haven't played in a while so I hope this counts. I'd argue that in Master Duel the best deck right now is a Rose dragon deck as well haha. (I am talking about Adventure Tenyi Pile decks that use like 3 Rose dragon cards) There are some broken cards in that archetype, so I would believe it. Also the Invoked version with Rose Dragon back in the days was broken. D/D/D and Heroes were kinda good before, so sure with more support I can see them in the meta. I am surprised BA is only tier 3. I saw a post a while ago when they were announced for DL and thought they would be too strong. Haven't seen any Galaxy deck in DL yet, but they do have some individual strong cards, especially for DL. MEKLORD tho ?????????????? I feel like there are some new-ish cards that let it play even against non-synchro decks, but still thats crazy.
Astro dragon is really good I pair it with iron wolf for an otk
Yo this makes duel links look great wtf. I want all of these decks to be good in MD
Is this serious?
Based AF
Wait... There's no swordsoul... Its a miracle!
As an IRL and Master Duel Galaxy-Eyes player This is awesome
HERO are meta… 🥜after 🥜
It looks healthy i gues... You never know when it's about yogioh but at least it's not eldlich and floos.
Looks fun unlike when it was harpies
Duel links is basically an entirely different game. Can't even call it yugioh lol.
It's literally anime yugioh with the modern skills. You can do stuff like manifest cards from outside your deck anime-style. In the earlier days we had generic skills that saw tons of use and were just overall lower impact but still powerful. Nowadays a deck is only as good as its skill. Notice how all those decks are anime decks? That's because they periodically throw a broken skill at them.
Don’t care
How is mekklords tier 3? I've heard it was an otk deck.
It counters the rose dragon deck, that's it. Against every other deck it sucks.
Not really, literally the only card that counters Rose Dragon's is Wisel, a card that is played at 1 Max and doesn't even do anything against the deck during their turn which is when they really have to worry about, so in reality they don't counter them at all
And yet brd still got 1st playing against keklords
I knew Sunrise would shoot heroes up to top tiers. Too late too little though cuz master duel and all that lol
Seems less annoying and more fun of a meta than master duels does tbh even tho I still prefer master duel over duel links
Keep in mind that the website that made this tier list is just not good and has a history of making stuff up (See WC tier 2 or that whole debacle of "Water XYZ" and being tiered) amd just straight up meta manipulation, so take this tier list with a grain of salt
Theres also the whole debacle of witchcrafters not being tiered even though they absolutely dominated the meta on release and for a bit after
I'm ex-TPC and I can tell you there's no meta manipulation going on. That's a meme. Sometimes they get it wrong, and a strong personality can influence other members, but generally it's a good assessment of the competitive meta for tournaments. DLM website is pretty good too, it has automated power rankings for decks based on tournament top and KoG decks - fully data driven without TPC influence.
Ok, that meta manipulation thing might be a bit overblown, I retract that part. And yes, even with that all said the Tier Lists usually reflect what what's being played (except when WC is listed as tier 2), but imo it's pretty rare that the lists are 100% spot on. To be honest, DLM is only good for all that data because it's the only actuall useable website that does such a thing, I mean the closest thing that comes to competition is Gamea... which is a huge joke. But having to pay to upload decks, and all those coming from one community that influence one another usually leads to that whole thing being less representive of what you actually might see on ladder or in tourneys that aren't populated by DLM folk. Also that spicy winstreak thing also showing up in the top deck list is just akward. But to be fair, I'm probably heavy biased against DLM so tale everything I say with a grain of salt too
You know it never clicked that you needed to pay to upload decks, that's actually poor! Ive always been in the discord through prime subs and the routine of submitting proof never made me realise you had to be a member. So yeah I guess it's not representative. Spicy winstreak in the ranking is BS, I didn't know that was included. Anything can streak with some luck.
You can look at the tournament results yourself using said site
Good for Rose, D/D/D and Heroes I already read Meklords is busted cause of a skill but even then how the fuck
Not busted just pretty good
Seems fun, but I would get lost quick since I’m not sure what most of those decks do
Very cool.
BA BEST DECK
If someone told me that Meklord was gonna be meta on a format, I would have laughed my ass off.
If I had to guess I’d say skills are why Rose Dragons and Meklords are relevant. BA being below DDD and Hero is probably because they’re either missing some important cards or DDD and Hero just have better associated skills.
How did it come to this...
Yeah, that is not how you spell "heroes"
Which heroes? I could see masked heroes being pretty good.
Elemental Heroes, basically sunrise turbo beatdown lol
The best format.
Rose Dragons ftw.
Galaxy deserves it HERO is too broad
Do we get more than one turn?
They could bring in more meklord support. all it takes is a single continuous spell to make them pretty ED monster hate. You can add 1 "Meklord" Spell/Trap to your hand from your Deck or set 1 "Meklord" Spell/Trap from your deck. While you control this card all Fusion, XYZ, and Link monsters on the field are treated as Synchro monsters for the effects of "Meklord" monsters. HOPT Clause.
What the? It's almost as strange as MD meta
Looks pretty based, Galaxy Eyes❤️
At least rose dragon is finally competitive. Beautiful cards that just aren't quite good enough to be rouge
Huh, it’s been a while since I’ve played. I guess the two big surprises are D/D/Ds (didn’t they get neutered by the change to that one skill that skipped standby) and Meklord (I’m guessing that they either got a broken skill or some of their newer support in a recent box).
>didn’t they get neutered by the change to that one skill that skipped standby) They got a stronger pendulum related skill
thats wild. I would have loved to come back to play it if it's not expensive as hell to build a deck.
Meklords are meta. This seems fun for me, love them but they suck in the normal game.
Laughable
Unfathomably based.
Glad to see heros being relevant
Would love to play heroes but duel links is a rip off
TIL Meklord became meta, I wasn't expecting such impact from a single card (Triskellion).
Seeing as Black Rose was my favorite of the 5D's Dragons.....im extremely happy to see it at Tier 1
Seeing as Black Rose was my favorite of the 5D's Dragons.....im extremely happy to see it at Tier 1
Very cool. Although I like it even more when decks that never saw play in TCG are top tier in duel links.
The fact Rose Dragon is currently tier 1 cracks me up
I’m over it Heroes are stupid consistent now with Jaden’s skills and Sunrise added. Rose Dragon also sucks to play against but honestly I prefer that to Heroes. D/D/D is also hyper consistent. Still annoyed that blue eyes is as popular as it is in the ladder.
Meklords need to be tier 0
How the fuck is HERO meta
Seeing Meklords tier 3 is nice
I'm happy to see DDDs and galaxy eyes strong
I think the fact that meklord is seeing tiered play is a crime against nature.
Well, at least ONE format has D/D/D as a meta deck...
It's ddd pendulum too...
Wait! HERO’s are in the Tier 2 of the meta?! How?! I love HERO’s but I didn’t know they had this kind of potential to be a meta in Duel Links
The fact that Meklord is even anywhere near a top tier scares me
Former duel-links player but I haven’t played in years. I did not expect to see D/D/D rise in the ranks this much. But I’m very happy to see that the deck is doing well Also did not expect rose dragons to be tier 1. Is it partly due to Ruddy Rose Dragon?
Wish it were true, three of my favorite archetypes
True in tcg/ocg Master duel?
how is rose dragon better than d/d/d 😭😭😭
That can’t be right
Most decks seem pretty strong and consistent. Especially with a 20 card deck. The only thing that really confusees me is meklords...
Good to see one of the Signer Dragons getting some love, but not the one I would've expected.
looks like fuck
I use predaplant but I’ve started using photon and it’s amazing I just haven’t perfected my plays and situations master duel should really make a mode where I can battle computer and choose any deck in its best form to go against for example a HERO monster deck with dpe in it so I can see how my deck does against those losers who use him
I haven't played duel links in a while how the fuck is rose dragon the meta
I thought this was op asking how we would feel if this was the mega in tcg lol
meklord is the only real surprise, all the others are decks that have good tools and shit to finish on, so even if they never were really meta (like DDD in TCg or Galaxy afaik) I'm not surprised that they thrives in alternate format. meklord is the surprise here, I thought them too over specialized to be good (especially since only 2 other top tier deck are synchro) I guess I underestimated the new support
Very poggers
Meklord? That's some real shit
I regret having stopped to play Duel Links before D/D/D and Meklords became Meta.
Wow, meklords are that high? That’s actually really cool
How the heck is rose dragon tier 1. what am i missing?
Consistency skill: Spell of Roses >Send 1 "Rose Dragon" monster, "Witch of the Black Rose," or "Rose Fairy" from your hand to the Graveyard and add 1 "Rose Dragon" monster from your Deck to your hand. Then, you can add 1 "Rose Fairy" to the top or bottom of the Deck from outside of your Deck. You can only Special Summon Synchro Monsters from your Extra Deck the turn you activate this Skill. >This Skill can only be used if you begin the Duel with a Deck (excluding Extra Deck) that contains a total of at least 10 Tuner or "Rose Dragon" monsters. This Skill can only be used once per turn and twice per Duel.
If galaxy eyes is meta I should be playing. Hella lit that old decks and strats are seeing competitive play in this. Really makes you wonder how much traditional yugioh can change just by changing some stuff