Ammokkx

Yugioh - Verdant Dreams

Big oof and sorry if I caused you to want to not make this.

@Birdboy

Nah. Not on you.

Ammokkx is a bad RPer and you shouldn't RP with him.

^_.

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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

@King Cosmos

Cosmos, it works like a Shining draw. You're most certainly still drawing it from the deck (or burning it into your extra ala yusei) and afterwards it's a physical card.

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@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.

@Birdboy

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.

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

@Birdboy

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.

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

@Keyblade87

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

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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!

Anyone else horribly burnt out?

I get incredibly burnt out when I'm the only one posting, so I'm pretty burnt out 24/7.

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Vincent Trueman

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Name
Vincent Trueman

Age
23

Personality
Vincent is a very calm and cautious individual, who takes things at his own pace. He's friendly and polite, but not open. The man likes to keep his thoughts to himself, but is nevertheless extremely curious about the world around him. He's extremely passionate and devoted to his field of study. Vincent's motivations are the pure pursuit of knowledge, for better or worse.

History
Vincent hails from the United Kingdom, studying the development and technology behind Duel Monsters at his university, with a minor in mysterious phenomena. His bachelor thesis, "Ener-D's Risk of Reverse Momentum: Cause and Effect" was well-received among both peers and professors. The success of that particular study made it so his next one, "Study of the Soul Draw: What makes one occur?" was greenlit, despite the distance between Vincent and Hyacinth. With the McCalister group's keen interest in researching this subject, Vincent's university reached out to the governing body there for the necessary funds to arrange travel.

Once more, due to the quality of Vincent's last study, the McCalister approved of the young student's ambition. They arranged a workspace for Vincent within Hyacinth, outfitted with the necessary terminals and equipment to run duel data through. The young man was also supplied with a Research Duel Disk, outfitted with recording equipment to take log of duel data gathered in his own practical experiments. Thus, Vincent's goal is to search out both duelists who have and have not yet met the conditions for a Soul Draw, dueling and analyzing those duels to report his findings. Vincent built a deck designed to push the opponents into any situation he desired in order to test out various situations that could lead to them either summoning, or drawing, their Soul Monster.

Research: Commence

Monsters: 15
Dark Artist x 1
Shapesnatch x 3
Morinphen x 1
Hungry Burger x 1
Mystic Tomato x 3
Lonefire Blossom x 1
Cardcar D x 1
Right Arm of the Forbidden One x 1
Left Arm of the Forbidden One x 1
Right Leg of the Forbidden One x 1
Left Leg of the Forbidden One x 1

Spells: 23
Pot of Dichotomy x 1
Inferno Reckless Summon x 1
Foolish Burial x 1
Limiter Removal x 1
Silent Doom x 1
Mage Power x 1
The Cheerful Coffin x 1
Ancient Rules x 1
Symbol of Heritage x 1
United We Stand x 1
Delta Attacker x 1
Swing of Memories x 1
Gold Sarcophagus x 1
Monster Reborn x 1
Monster Reincarnation x 1
Dark Factory of Mass Production x 1
Dust Barrier x 1
Heart of the Underdog x 1
Order to Charge x 1
Summoner's Art x 1
Symbols of Duty x 1
Advanced Ritual Art x 1
Pot of Generosity x 1

Traps: 2
Magical Hats x 1
Half Unbreak x 1

Sum up your week in roleplaying in just 3 words

Everything on fire