I played the hell out of Duelists of the Roses, and I love watching the FM speedruns
And the Rikka player ended up winning the whole thing! Kash is still the best deck by the numbers, though. Interesting to see so much representation from DLink.
Bruh hot damn, that looks amazing
Same. Logged out when Spez started being shitty, but would use RIF to browse. RIF is still working for me.
Welcome! I've trying to get more into Edison lately, so I've been learning Quickdraw Dandy. Wish there was a place near me to play paper!
Hey! Thanks for commenting. Lately I have been playing (in MD) a goofy Dinomist/Symphonic Warrior pend deck that tries to turbo out Electrumite and Beyond the Pendulum. Electrumite is really funny - being able to add the guitar Symphonic guy to hand for a free SS is fun
RIF is still working for me, at least for now. Dreading the moment when it stops. RIF has legit been a part of my life for like 3 years.
Nitter's not working for me, either. Just returns no results when I run a search.
I'm trying to use Nitter and it doesn't seem to be working. Is there any other way to view tweets without making an account? I refuse to be on twitter, but like to see what people are talking about.
Another community tournament was held yesterday with results that roughly align with the first community tournament. Salad won the whole tournament, and Subterror appears to have had the best conversion rate into Top 8. Nothing much to add about either of those decks save that they remain strong options. Here are the breakdowns for deck entries overall and Top 8:
Still, despite ending in an expected manner, there were a few surprises. A normal pend deck - largely considered one of the worst decks in the core set - managed to sneak its way into Top 8. Props to the pilot for taking the deck that far. The list is below. I'm particularly interested in the inclusion of Lose One Turn, which is an impactful sort-of-floodgate but can only be activated if you don't control any special summoned monsters. The pilot must have found the card strong enough and easy enough to play around to make it worth including despite the pend summon game plan.
Last and not least we have the second place deck: Blue-Eyes. My (completely biased) opinion is that Blue-Eyes is the most interesting deck in the format because it has not been solved to the same degree as other options. Things like ratios (how many polys and/or Abyss do you run?), generic inclusions (does Gizmek belong in this deck?), and even complete engines (since there are so many tuners, is it worth running a Junk Converter package?) vary widely between builds. And as far as I can tell, there is not a single definitive list as of yet.
The second place pilot's deck is below. It's a straightforward list with no gimmicks, but there are still a few choices to talk about. The pilot chose to include two Abyss and two poly, demonstrating how important access to Tyrant is and perhaps showing confidence that the deck is consistent enough to get to two Abyss over the course of a game (and can survive seeing one in the opening hand). Two White Stone of Legend gives you more chances to add vanilla Blue-Eyes to your hand immediately - again, a possible sign that access to Tyrant is a main priority. Finally, there is only 1 Veiler in the main. Blue-Eyes is essentially the only deck that can potentially run this small amount of Veiler because Sage with Eyes of Blue searches any lvl 1 Light Tuner. Interestingly, the pilot mentioned on the Rotation Format discord that Veiler was not good, and might be cut in a future list.
That's all for now! I'm really loving doing these personal breakdowns. They don't have anything that isn't already in the discord, but it makes me study tournament results more closely and hopefully will improve my format knowledge.
50k active users is still pretty damn good growth. Weren't we at like 40k just a week or so ago?
Damn. That's a pretty impressive bump.
I also am not 100 percent pilled that Salad is an unbeatable dominant force. It's strong, but give players some more time and I think we might find its success rate drop a bit. My copium take is that there's an optimized going second blue eyes list that doesn't exist yet that will take the format by storm (copecopecope)
This is like a whole thing with people looking for more environmentally friendly ways to ship stuff - tho rn it looks more like a hobby for rich people hauling their bougie wine and chocolate or whatever. I for one think that having sailing ships come back with modern features would be cool!
https://designedconscious.com/plastics-in-the-ocean/sustainability-news-stories/sailing-ships-hauling-cargo-in-2021/amp/