Hey Trent, Cimo hosted a Masochist dueloff. Hope you will be there next time. It was a pitty that you could not participate. You would demolish everybody. I hope you still have fun with your run, as long as it is going, I am here to enjoy it
Yo Vanquish Soul Pantera is an incredible pull for your rank 4 deck. She's like a way better ascended sage. Free special on an empty board, normal summonable otherwise, good stats, AND two possible on field effects that are both strong. Really sick pick up.
Traptrix Atypus is quite good as a standalone, Since it only requires at least 1 Insect/Plant as its materials you can just use Reprodocus to summon it
at 1:29:18. It would have been a much better play to make the Number 70 with the Raider's Wing instead of Time Thief since Time Thief inherently leaves the field with it's own effect and loses that protection when it comes back. You also should have made Time Thief first so you could detach from Time Thief to summon the Raiders' Wing since having 2 monsters on Time Thief is redundant anyway. Don't think it would have changed the results of the game but might have given you at least one more turn.
Spell strider can be normal summoned and it can be used to banish an opponents field spell easy way i see you doing this is the magistus endymion equip then instead of using to draw you use to ss spell strider by banishing the equip and the foes field/continous/equip spell
I have a conspiracy theory that may explain how the opponent always draws what they need, even when they only run one copy. Konami want people to buy the REAL LIFE cards, so they gave people who run the modern META the best starting hands to make the decks seem even more powerful. People will do nowhere near as good in real life because analogue games dont have an algorithm that favours certain cards. I know the algorithm favours certain cards because whenever I play a NEW card (a card i've never played before) the game has a high chance of putting that card in my starting hand. It has happened to you a few times in this series. You play Curse Of Dragon (to my memory) and the game just puts it in all of your starting hands. When Kashtira was top of the Meta (I was playing the Gaia starter deck), my opponent would always get lucky draws... the game gives me a hand of backrow, the opponent opens with Harpies Feather Duster... I open with a hand of searchers, my opponent draws every handtrap in existence..... I set up a strong Board, my opponent gets evenly matched.... after the fiftieth time it stops being a coincidence. The number of times I played against meta and my deck just COINCIDENTALLY bricked. I get it, all decks brick. But it is a little suspicious that I only bricked against the current Meta, meanwhile, my opponent never bricks with the modern meta (even when they only run one copy of their starter). If I play a non meta deck and I start winning, the game seems to identify the cards I use to win and either puts all of them at the bottom of my deck or gives my opponent every card they need to counter them. I know they were all on the bottom because I drew several battle traps that stalled out the game long enough for me to draw HALF MY DECK! The first time I encountered Dark Magician players they had the exact same opening hand (Eternal Soul, Dark Magician, Timaeus The United Dragon and Dark Magic Circle). I had several dark magician games in a row where my opponents drew those exact same opening hands. They even played the hands in the exact same way (Playing Circle first, Dropping Timaeus to play Dark Magician the Dragon Knight, then setting Eternal Soul). (I defeated them easily by using the Gaia Field Spell then fusing into 2 different Gaia Fusion Monsters, which meant that I would be able to survive Circle once, then I took them down with the other one (3 DIFFERENT GAMES THAT ALL PLAYED THE EXACT SAME WAY!!!). Because Dark Magician is not a Meta deck, I imagine that the algorithm just lined those players up for a loss because they'd been winning too much. I know that Konami do this in their games because I've played their older titles. Yugioh Duel Generation as an example. In that game I have had a battery failure when duelling certain opponents, then I charge my I pad, run the game again, and not only does my AI opponent have the exact same hand, but so do I... we play the exact same game... (obviously with a bit of hindsight on my part)... the most interesting part is that when I successfully make a play that the AI doesn't expect, the game crashes because It was programmed to BEAT ME but I BEAT IT... So Conspiracy theory time. 1) They give better hands to Meta Players 2) The Coin Toss System is rigged in favour of more expensive decks. 3) they do this to incentivise them to buy the REAL LIFE cards 4) the players will realise too late that the IRL cards aren't as good as they are in master duel. 5) By the time people realise that they've wasted their money, then next generation of cards are out, so people have to buy the NEW META
As much as I like Vijam, I think until you can make a deck around it, the card is too bricky and should probably be replaced along with the trap cards.
Lightning storm isn't good with your strategy. For one, you like to go first, so it's dead then, and for two, you play a lot of continuous cards that interfere with it
Idk if I’m in the minority, but I’m not a fan of the royal rule. Doesn’t come up too often, but when it does it has the potential to suddenly boost your deck by a lot just off of a lucky pull. But you’ve been going with it for a while now so I don’t expect you to change it now.
I like the concept but I wish the game would stop steering him towards decks like branded lol. If other people don't like the Royal rule though I wouldn't mind if it was revised to just being a bonus master pack
