@Birdboy

So the main issue with your application currently is the deck you have submitted. It is way above the bar I wanted to set for at minimum starting power levels. It also contains very little varience and only seems to focus on Gren Maju OTK, and as such I am denying it based on the deck itself, without bringing into question the rest of the sheet.

@Keyblade87

Indeed space still exists keyblade, but please do not vanish on the RP.

not a problem I don't foresee anything happening that would prevent my participation.

Also, I kinda preemptively made up a character so here he is. ^_^

@1Charak2 Roger that, I'll edit it up. Any suggestions for cards? Also, I'd like to know what I should edit on my character. Quicker I know the faster I can change it.

@Shiyonichi

Accepted.

@Birdboy

Your deck seems to lack a consistant theme now. I suggest to try and minimize mixing archetypes as much as possible.

@Keyblade87

Given your current deck Keyblade I suggest cutting all the non-lightsworn related ED monsters as a start.

There we go edited them out

There we go edited them out

@Keyblade87

Alright so the deck still feels like it lacks a coherency. Due to not fully commiting to a joint twili+lightsworn deck the random twilightsworn feels out of place. Your character sheet also seems a bit lackluster in content, So I would like it if you spiced up the sheets content a bit, and honed the deck a little more.

@Birdboy
The latest deck you have sent seems to be an awkward mashing of chess-fiends and generic archfiends, but done so in a way that makes it look poorly done. I would suggest that you overhaul the deck further and fully commit to one of the two archfiend varients.

As you can see, due to official GM mandate I was forced to change my deck. Honestly, I think this new one suits my character better anyway, so I hope you all agree with our decision!

I don’t have any twilightsworn.... I’ll look over it all and make some adjustments

I don’t have any twilightsworn.... I’ll look over it all and make some adjustments

Twilight Eraser and March of the Dark Brigade are both Twilightsworn cards.

@1Charak2 Can I start PMing you these? I feel like a fool in front of these superior duelists.

@1Charak2 Can I start PMing you these? I feel like a fool in front of these superior duelists.

Gonna be real with you here lad, I'm like 100% of the reason he even spots half the mistakes he does, and doesn't even mention most of the problems I also found with the deck. I also just got the greenlight to share my opinion, so here we go. I'm gonna go down 'em one by one:

-Your first deck was not only *very in-meta* right now, but it also ran a ton of x3 copies (bad) and the unique cards you tried to add actually don't even remotely help the deck's wincon in any way. Its got a one-track, one-mind playstyle that's incredibly boring and wouldn't make for any fun duels.

-Your second deck is a mess. You tried to shoehorn the first deck's gimmick with even more random stuff that didn't help it in any way. You were running 3 different themes throughout (Banish, Archfiend, Control) and that caused it to become aimless and do nothing well. It didn't banish enough nor have any recovery as a banish deck, it ran too little archfiends for an archfiend deck and its control cards (such as the viruses or necrofear) were just too little to appropriately manipulate the gamestate.

-Your third deck has a clear attempted theme, but its execution is not good. You're running several useless cards (can't summon Overmind Archfiend, the second copy of A Deal with Dark Ruler is useless as you only have one Berserk Dragon, and by removing Emissary of Pandemonium you lock yourself out of being able to summon Chaos King archfiend (A level 7 monster who requires both fiend tuner and non-tuner, which a tribute summoned emissary with a vilepawn was your only way to access, both of which ran at 1, making even the second chaos king in the previous draft of it unsummonable).

But the issues with the third deck don't stop; You're running several cards at x2 for no reason (as there's no reasonable way you'll ever use 2 in a duel), you have no upgrade possibilities (pretty much playing all of the most powerful archfiends already), you aren't committing to generic archfiends or chess (missing stuff like lancer, interceptor, summoned skull vs. half the deck being just chess archfiends, which is missing checkmate) and you're running so many redundant +0 cards (Allure, Terraforming) that don't help you as we can just choose what we draw anyway. Also, Red Dragon Archfiend, while having it in the name, has absolutely *nothing* to do with archfiends. It's very much just a random dragon who had "Daemon" in the name because it was cool. Not only that, but RDA has very much evolved into its own thing over the years, and is most associated with both the "Red" and "Resonator" series of cards.

What I suggest doing is really looking at what everyone else is doing (my current meme deck not withstanding but here's a link to the actual thing). I admit I'm a bit too insistent on running cards at only single copies, but that's because there are very few situations in which you want more than 1. Unless it's complete flavor (like the classic triple vanishing lanius opener like Shun) you want as many unique cards in your deck as possible to not only give you more options in freeform dueling, but to make your duels more interesting as well as you can use many more different strategies. Also really think about both your deck's goal and theme and try to be very careful in how you construct that. Both Cosmos and Shiyonichi took the easy way out with archetypes that have a lot of cards, but at least the latter goes for the Emergency Provisions memes. Try to run some obscure cards with "bad" effects too; it's something unique to me mainly, but playing a card like Half Unbreak is infinitely more fun than Waboku, for example. It lends itself better to drama.

TLDR; The more options you leave yourself, the better. Make a deck with a single defined goal, but a lot of ways to get to that goal. What I've been seeing is either aimless or too narrow. Try to avoid multiple copies of cards unless it's absolutely essential or for flavor reasons. Don't run +0 cards unless it has an attached cost you can utilize. Don't mix archetypes.

@Ammokkx Alright, I do see those flaws when you point it out. I think a lot of the problems I have been having are how my deck has slowly been transforming into a fiend deck. If you have something like YugiPro or duelbook, it'd love to have an in-depth talk at some point and work out some cards that fit while also being fun and interesting.

Before I go sit down and rework this, can you give me some suggestions for what I should and shouldn't use? You seem like someone a whole lot more knowledgeable about this stuff than me.

@Ammokkx Alright, I do see those flaws when you point it out. I think a lot of the problems I have been having are how my deck has slowly been transforming into a fiend deck. If you have something like YugiPro or duelbook, it'd love to have an in-depth talk at some point and work out some cards that fit while also being fun and interesting.

Before I go sit down and rework this, can you give me some suggestions for what I should and shouldn't use? You seem like someone a whole lot more knowledgeable about this stuff than me.

Shoot me a PM and we'll go from there. Tell me either what your intended deck idea is, or shoot me a DB download link draft so I can see your thought process as you go. I'm a lot better at giving feedback to an idea than I am just conjuring stuff up on the spot.

Won't get back to you 'till tomorrow tho, as I'm about to sleep.

hey I went ahead and did some editing, let me know if theres anything else I can work on.

Had some real talk with my boy @Ammokkx. Here's what we came up with:

hey I went ahead and did some editing, let me know if theres anything else I can work on.

Hey Keyblade, I noticed that your deck list only comes out to 39 cards; you'll need to add one more. Also, you're not supposed to include the custom card in your deck list as you'll be drawing it directly from your soul and not from the deck, so make that two cards.