@Eklispe

You get a battle phase. Fyodor was first turn.

@SillyPhilly
Why are you saying my character is a girl or a ninja?

Your sign-up.

A trainee Iga ninja and duel disk technician from the Aichi prefecture out to complete her 100-man trial and be acknowledged by her clan. Since killing 100 people and getting away with it in modern Japan is quite difficult so modern shinobi have switched to duel monsters. As such Minoru is trained in the Iga clan's Ambush Duel style which hybridizes ninja techniques and action dueling. She has infiltrated Saotome Duel Institute to test her mettle against the students and complete her trial.

It says her sex is female.

@SillyPhilly
That's just what it says on my character sheet though?

@SillyPhilly Apparently his character is disguised as a guy right now, and doesn't seem to look anything like a ninja.

It's on the first sentence of his ic post.

I'd like to pose a hypothetical.

Let's say I wanted to make an archetype around this card, Crow Goblin:


So I submitted this card:

Crow Goblin, the Croblin Overlord
Level 7 WIND Winged-Beast effect monster
2500 ATK / 2000 DEF
Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned (from your hand) by Tributing 1 "Crow Goblin", and cannot be Special Summoned by other ways. When this card is Special Summoned: You can banish all monsters your opponent controls, also this card cannot attack this turn. Cannot be destroyed by battle or card effects, also unaffected by Spell/Trap effects. Once per turn: You can return as many of your opponent's banished cards as possible to the Graveyard, and if you do, the first battle or effect damage your opponent takes this turn becomes doubled.

Balanced or not balanced?

You mean something like this?

rip you found it.

Crow Goblin has the same stats as The Legendary Fisherman, but without an effect. It was meant to be an example of how subjective balance is in terms of "wow these cards are nuts, if I make custom cards to compete with them, they also need to be nuts!"

I'm kind of having a hard time deciding how to put things together, and it encapsulated my dilemma.

You've also forgotten that ledgey fisheyman is a WATER monster, and therefore has an inherent level-reducing ability through Umi 2: electric boogaloo. So the example you've given is objectively a worse card by being a WIND monster. The point i'm getting at is that trying to come up with mechanics and effects that perfectly demonstrate your character's interesting and effervescent personality just isn't feasible. Coming up with monster mishmashes is fun as hell, and can be fun to rp through, but it's not... what's the word i'm looking for here? Thematic? It's like putting the cart before the horse. If you want to play all these cool strategies at once and can't really decide on which one to pick, try playing a character that shows that off, like a Bastion Misawa type with a Fire Fist deck that never ever gets to it's end phase without running out the clock.

I'm aware. The Legendary Fisherman's effect itself is centered around Umi, and water support is generally better than wind support.

Regarding Fire Fists, I don't like just picking archetypes. To me, just picking up random archetypes you're unfamiliar with is like making a cookie cutter deck. Even if I get to learning the card effects and how they work together, the actual flavor doesn't really appeal to me.

I've been PMing KOgaming, and we've been discussing things to that effect. (Gameplay thematicism vs. Monster and flavor thematicism)

I've bought up a lot of decks that mainly focus on the first; manners of elegantly getting off certain gameplay goals and cards that help make that happen. Instead of saying "this character is whimsical, you can tell by how they use the monster Baobaboon." I can say "this character is whimsical, you can tell by how they seem to do something dumb or suicidal every turn only to reveal it's to their benefit."

Granted, this comes at the expense of the thematicism of their cards overall, which is a valid point, but saying I'm not going to find a gameplay style to match their personality but I'll find an archetype that stylistically matches them seems disingenuous, but that's just my opinion.

@Eklispe
Is there a reason why you're not taking damage?

@Eklispe
Is there a reason why you're not taking damage?

Rules of the battle royale. For all participants, intrusion does not incur a penalty.

On an off-hand note, now I've been looking at Dokurorider Heisei. It's been putting in work, certainly as an ace monster, but I also realize, that for its summoning condition, it's actually really underpowered.

@KOgaming
So people can still intrude even if it isn't authorized?

@SillyPhilly
Hey, are you sure you don't want to change it? Does this mean your man is blind?

Yep. And don't think about gathering a whole bunch of students, having them all play pot of desires with soul absorbtion out on the field so they can easily recoup the life points lost while putting more cards on the board for things like Gren Maju and Necroface then can ever legally be played in a normal duel, cause that trick is mine. I copyrighted that.

man my brain hurts after the Scar duel... that moment you get curious if someone can get out of a bad situation then start thinking really hard then when you find it (and not planning to pull it off), you end up feeling so proud for figuring out a solution you do it anyways

feel like a cheat about it too, did discuss this with the guy though because collab

@The book of bad juju
I don't really get it, but why would anyone do something super boring like that?

Intrusion can happen whenever.

Also, someone could totally walk in with an Empty Jar deck, or ghostricks, or Gimmick Puppet Leo. If they're /really/ crazy, they might even use Final Countdown.

concern... considering this a collab... do we assume this duel which took 16 turns is going to be at the same rate as the current duels or do we assume it ended right when matt joined? (the duel is done but we need to make minor modifications to make the characters be themselves and not some boring people to call what their doing)

Edit: still tempted to have Rumi join but what if the duel is over by the time the collab duel would be over (also spoilers Madolche won?)

Matt isn't activating his facedown

Ayami won't use hers, either. So you're free to go ahead with whatever you were planning, @Blight Bug.