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I read cards like anchorbolt hedgehog and I still can't believe garbage this bad was printed in the modern age of yugioh. All it does is summon itself from the grave and it has the nerve to lock you into synchros. On the other hand junk meister is complete bonkers. Free special summon and is a rota for anything in it's own archetype.

I honestly can't tell if konami loves or hates yusei. They can give him cards like anchorbolt hedgehog, crossroad chick and one-way synchro but will then turn around and give him junk meister, junk armor and synchro emergency. It's so weird how big a gap in the card quality of the support he gets. The cards are either complete trash or the most broken cards ever. Feels like there really is no in between.

Clarification: I didn't watch the English dub and I watched the series in Japanese, so I don't know if the English adaptation omitted that level of respect he develops for Yugi's grandfather.

Getting back to the main topic:

Jonouchi comes from a dysfunctional background where it's implied that he suffered physical and psychological abuse at the hands of his father. The manga delves even deeper into this by revealing that his father figure has a gambling addiction, which further underscores the instability of his legal guardian.

This leads him to develop a violent and belligerent attitude as a way to escape his situation.

Let's see that, at his young age, he has to deal with a lack of motivation in life due to his father's addictions, attend a school where he feels he's not doing anything useful, and suffer the progressive decline of his sister's health, without even being able to keep her company because of his mother's whims, implying that Jonouchi's mother is no better than his father.

The series begins by showing that he's friends with Yugi from the start, without adapting the story arcs prior to Kaiba's duel against Yugi in Duel Monsters, compensating for the missing information through flashbacks.

After a while, although the series doesn't explicitly state it, it becomes clear that he sees some of his sister's best qualities in Yugi, creating a parallel between the past and present of their relationship: he dropped the Millennium Puzzle at the beginning of his relationship with Yugi, and later, as atonement, he tried to retrieve the pieces of Exodia.

As their relationship improves, Jonouchi, spending time with Yugi, meets his grandfather, initially being somewhat rude. However, his attitude changes when he learns about the Yu-Gi-Oh! tournaments that could provide the money for his sister's surgery.

Swallowing his pride (remember that he was quite rude to Yugi's grandfather at first for no apparent reason), he asks his friend's grandfather for help improving his dueling skills, and from that moment on, it becomes clear that he develops an almost paternal respect for him.

This makes sense considering that, before Yugi's grandfather, all the adults in his life had disappointed him at best and hurt him at worst. Yugi's grandfather is the only respectful adult figure he had encountered up to that point.

This serves as a narrative element that increases Jonouchi's pressure to win, as his sister's health and the life of the closest thing to a father he has ever known are at stake.

As I often joke with a friend: Jonouchi almost seems like the protagonist of Duelist Kingdom, given his level of evolution from the beginning to the end of the arc.

And it should be more than LIGHT/DARK related. I want to see more Water/Fire.. Earth/Wind combos too! (Perhaps Thunder&Plant as a reference to early video games that had Wood and Thunder as Attributes.. maybe even Illusion&Spellcaster too)

Limit over collection Hero: The Heroes

Guardian Slime: Immortal Phoenix (Upcoming Core Booster) Winged DragonRa Support

Ancient Chant:Immortal Phoenix (Upcoming Core Booster) Winged DragonRa Support

Soul Crossing: Immortal Phoenix (Upcoming Core Booster) Winged DragonRa Support

Slash Draw: Invincible Demise Lord from Limited GX Pack Ra Yellow

Gallant Granite: Adamancipator Support Beyond the Brave

Evil HERO Sinister Necrom: Possible Evil Hero Support in the near future?

Subterror Guru: Possible Subterror support in the near future?

Limit Over Collection: The rivals

Infernity Doomfiend and Infernity Necormancer: Possible Infernity Support in the near Future?

Primite Drill Beam, Primite Roar: upcoming normal monster support/archetype?

Number 104 and C104: Vector Support in Beyond the Brave

Seventh Tachyon: Also Vector Suppport beyond the Brave

Eclispe wyvern: Possible chaos support in the near future? (light pulsar/darkflare retrain maybe?)

I was reading the manga and the shift from evil atem to a more chill one was just so sudden he went from torturing people to well not. Was it because of the death-T games how it the penalty game didn't work for kaiba the first time? Also he just loses his memories as well? So he doesn't remember anything he did in "season 0"

Made this back when I was a kid as a "fun" challenge deck using anime/manga cards.

I think you can see a theme 😂

RIP Kazuki Takahashi. He died a hero.

Historically blind second decks seem like they're either unplayable in the meta or are too strong to the point of being unfun and hated. There are blind second decks that see petdeck play, like Cyber Dragon or Ancient Gears. But they're lucky to get a single match win at locals. Then there's Tenpai which is so consistent and uninteractive that it feels like you're getting blown out.

Maybe there's Sky Striker somewhere in the middle. But that deck has seen so many iterations with different game plans. Maybe that's considered a healthy blind second deck, but they even prefer to go first now, and it's still seen as a hated deck by some.

We all know that going second needs to be stronger in yugioh, but going second specific decks have a rough history. Should blind second decks exist? Or recently we've seen cards include bonus effects going second to bridge that advantage gap, is that better?

Let me know what you think.

First of all, it only has protection from destruction. Nowadays, cards can be banished, tributed for things like Kaijus, be equipped to the opponent's monsters, hell, there's even some cards who just "send" cards to the GY, so it's technically not destruction.

Also, use three of out the five pieces just for protection from Monster, Spell, and Trap effects? If this had been any more recent, just one of the pieces would have that effect, and it would just be a blanket "cannot be destroyed by card effects".

This card would not last a single turn nowadays. The singular piece that's protecting Exodia Necross in the given circumstance would be sniped out of the GY with D.D. Crow.

About a couple weeks ago some dude who I noticed was eyeing my binder and kept making comments about “that’s a nice card”. He clearly knew certain values about cards like ultimate Cyber Dragons, secret Dark Grephers, etc. He asked for trades and we both switched binders. From my POV he tried to do some dodgy thing where he was moving my binder not too far way but was kind of hidden from my view due to other players doing their thing. I told a buddy of mine to keep watch on him. After maybe 30 seconds I pretty much asked for the binder back because maybe he wasn’t trying to steal anything but I didn’t see any point in trading when I saw these Sphinx cards on the front page and almost nothing else. He still is around so maybe I was just being paranoid.

Just trying to get a decent build to start with. Got locals tomorrow, just wanted some advice on my build. I have a third black chaos ordered, I only got one pot of sloth or I'd run more. Extra deck is far from optimized. Working on getting magician of destruction and gaze of timaeus so I can run dragoon.

I know there's the option to run rda and fallen of the white dragon engines, but I don't have either of those at present, but I'm also not sure how much I actually like those in the first place.

I have been toying around with splashing angelechy into the deck, since the monster lineup is pretty slim, and the extra deck is pretty open ended too. But I wanted to nail this down first so I know what works and what doesn't.

Hey guys, it’s me again, back for the weekly post and happy Fourth of July for all my Americans out there. Just like usual the title is the question what is your favorite special summoning type in Yu-Gi-Oh!? you have ritual fusion synchro, XYZ, pendulum and Link. I know you could also technically call them extra deck types but then some people would be like oh rituals don’t count then and I don’t wanna say monster types because then people would argue if that was light or dark or whatever so I settled on special summoning type. Apologies for the confusion.

For me personally, it is XYZ. I know it is responsible for having the second highest amount of monster type bannings, but I enjoy the material system that it provides. Also, a lot of of my favorite decks are XYZ decks mostly by happenstance. Goblin bikers. Melffy suship, Mimighoul etc. so what about you guys?

Ps I’d like to thank you guys on the checking in messages. Some of you have been sending me. They’re very nice and I’m glad a lot of you like the discussion posts I do on the sub. With my new job and also some of the less than nice messages I think I’m going to only do one post a week instead of the 2 to 3 post I used to do just because of how much attention my New position demands and a few other things I don’t wanna talk about. But I think of those that enjoy these posts and enjoy the discussions you guys are the best