#dzeef

[uncrownedjules]

Whenever they have a feature match at the Yugioh Championship Series they mic up the players. And I would not trade being able to hear these players for the world

[dustin-redfin]

Originally drawn: 29 August 2024

inspired by dzeef's tweet

[professor-doc-emeritus]

if you want something EXTREMELY long form, yugioh personalities MBT and Cimoooo did a series called "the history of yugioh" that attempts to give a format-by-format overview of how the game was played historically and the ways it was forced to evolve. It's not so much focused on different rulings, but through the course of it you get a breakdown of the major turning points of the game and plenty of weird ones come up. you can see the playlist here, but fair warning it was a 3 year effort that produced 168 videos on total, most being a minimum 30 minutes.

if you want something meaty but more focused on how the rules of the game have evolved, and something more easily completed in one sitting, here is Dzeef's history of yugioh's "master rules", the major editions of yugiohs core rules that dictate how the game is played.

and if you JUST want a few short, bite sized looks at corner cases and wacky yugioh history, check out these classic mbt twitter threads about weird rulings, impenetrable card designs, and just some crazy moments in yugioh's long history

If someone (me) doesn’t actually want to play Yu-Gi-Oh but is fascinated by the evolution of stupidly complicated quasi-legal systems, is there some kind of, like, explainer out there that she (I) could read?

(With reference to this post here.)

I'm not aware of one that would be accessible to non TCG players off the top of my head, but if one exists I'm sure someone who follows this blog will be able to point you to it.

[rainydayscore]

master saga sucks because farfa isnt that good but just draws the one of board clear in every opening hand and then you get to see him flail around trying to find lethal against an already harmless dzeef

[red-dragon-archfiend]

yuya-the-entertainer replied to your post “Recently I discovered that some people think Yugioh shouldn’t have a...”

Pot of greed at 3, graceful charity at 3, all exodia parts at 3

Oh, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Painful Choice at 3. Sixth Sense at 3. Every Dragon Ruler at 3. Firewall Dragon at 3. Every card that actually made the game the way that ex-players think it is (based on no evidence whatsoever), or WOULD enable all this rapid, unbalanced gameplay, is on the forbidden/limited list, if it’s been a problem for long enough. No banlist doesn’t mean every deck is going to be good and the game would be balanced and fair for everyone, it means every deck that’s meta now will be infinitely faster and more consistent. That is, if anybody bothers with those outside of casual settings, since those changes apply to FTK decks as well, and they would take over the metagame. It may as well be a coin flipping tournament.

[cwtwheely]

Duel Links Banlist

Does anyone play Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links? Meh, I'm gonna talk about it anyway 😜.

So the latest ban list will be coming into effect on March 25th. And the main target is the Koa'ki Meiru deck. As someone who uses that deck, mostly because it's one of the most powerful decks you can build without spending money on the game (even if it's a grind), I can understand why, in the same way I can understand why they targeted Fur Hires when they broke the meta (and were far more consistent than Koa'ki Meirus before the ban hammer came down).

From the 25th, Maximus will be limited to 1 and Iron Core will be set to 2. The latter confused me a bit when I saw the announcement in game. But then I saw a video from dzeef that pointed out that a lot of KM decks were running two Hey Trunades, so it made a bit more sense. Then I faced a couple of those decks, and it made even more sense.

A bit of context: while the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG banlist has a 2 copy limit as well, you can run 2 copies of any card that's limited to two. In Duel Links, you can only run one card at two copies. If you want to have another card within the two copy bracket, you have to run one copy of each or just remove one of the affected cards entirely.

So using KMs as an example, if you still wanted to use Hey Trunade, you'd either have to run one copy with one Iron Core, which would heavily damage the deck, or you'd have to cut Iron Core entirely to run two Trunades, which would make the deck... pretty much unusable. Especially since you need to banish an Iron Core to summon Maximus, or discard one to keep Valafar on the board. Both of which, by the way, have 3000 ATK.

Basically, the way Duel Links handles semi-limiting makes you think smarter with your deck building, especially compared to the TCG, which is something I really like. And while I never used Iron Core and Hey Trunade together, it made sense to limit the former since it was vital for the deck while the latter was an annoyance. So the developers have made it so players are forced to choose between a standard KM deck or continue with the troll one, but making it less consistent.

But.

As someone who uses KMs, I don't think it goes far enough. While I can understand Maximus being limited to 1 (having three beat sticks that can each destroy a card, before the Battle Phase - with the only drawback coming down to how many Iron Cores you have in hand as well, can be really annoying to play against. It only takes having two Iron Cores and two Maximus to end a Duel on your turn), I don't think the banlist goes far enough to drop the KM strategy down the meta tier ladder.

When Fur Hires were hit, Dyna, Donpa and Wiz (the three biggest problems) were the targets. And while Beat could search them all out, it was an incredibly slow process. Hitting the Fur Hire strategy the way they did pretty much killed it.

Koa'ki Meirus, however... well, they're barely even harmed by comparison. Sure, knocking Maximus down to 1 isn't ideal and having Iron Core at 2 removes the threat of Hey Trunade... but they've not considered just how much support the KM deck has. Namely (in my experience) Diamond Core and Core Compression. And, to a lesser extent, Koa'ki Meiru Boulder.

Diamond Core allows you to search your deck for a Koa'ki Meiru card (and it can be banished to protect your front row from destruction).

If you have an Iron Core in hand, Core Compression allows you to discard a KM monster to draw two. It balances itself out in card economy (you're getting rid of two to get two), but having two less cards in the deck makes it easier to find the cards you want. Granted, using CC is risky as you don't know what you'll draw. But activate three in a row, the odds you'll get the cards you want are decreased significantly.

Boulder is a weak monster that allows you to search for either a level 4 or below KM monster or an Iron Core. Its major drawback is that it's much slower than Diamond Core.

The problem is that all of these aren't aren't limited. So you can have three of each in a deck, meaning the limiting of the two other cards they've targeted is almost irrelevant.

And that's not even mentioning the fact that Urnight can special summon a KM from the deck if you have an Iron Core in hand, so you can make up for the lack of Maximus by just flooding your board using a card that's easier to summon. And there's the fact that Sandman and Wall can deal with back row while Maximus tears the front apart.

Honestly, I don't think there is a way to deal with Koa'ki Meiru decks in Duel Links. The only major issue is that it relies heavily on Iron Core. If you don't draw one, or a support card that can add one to the hand, then you're going to struggle. But with Duel Links only having 20-30 card decks, you don't have that problem too often. And since players only have 4000 LP, it's easy to decimate an opponent in seconds.

What I'm saying is the only way to deal with Koa'ki Meirus in the banlist is to, possibly, ban the whole deck. I'd be disappointed if they did since it's one of the few decks I've actually been competitive with. But if a fan who uses the deck can see its problems, well... that says everything.

[baddyzarc]

@thewizardmus

Yeah I did!

I actually drew it bc I was super stressed with art commissions at the time and needed something simple and “fun” to work on. Redrawing Wonky Quartet with Dzeef, Fartfa, MBT, and Gage felt like a nice way to unwind a bit ^-^

Didn’t realize that this little artwork would have as much as an impact as it did, but I’m super happy that the name took off XD

Relaxing with a Doug Zeef after-yugioh fallguys stream and got jumpscared by mention of my art NAGHHH ☠️☠️

Can’t believe my silly fanart is the main reason these four call themselves the Wonky Quartet when they collab now

[joey-wheeler-official]

man when is youtube gonna stop recommending me dzeef videos

[dustin-redfin]

Originally drawn: 22 Oct 2022

Commission for WithoutWolt on twitter. Lil-la as Dzeef

[rainydayscore]

stop keeping track of which episodes dzeef has won or lost and see how many episodes does dzeef go colossal fighter pass on turn 1

[rainydayscore]

being a dzeef stan is harder than going to war