#card game meta

[digi-lov]

Hey! Just wanted to ask about your thoughts on the rapidmon and megagargomon coming out in the advanced deck next month

For everyone, these are the cards in question (translation under the cut)

MegaGargomon Ace is kind of insane. With the golden Rapidmon being a Lv.4, and MegaGargomon Ace evolving from the name Rapidmon, regardless of Level, you can just skip the Lv. 5 entirely. If you play Calumon from EX2 as well, you can get from baby to Lv.6 for a total cost of 6 memory.

Also with MegaGargomon's end of attack effect letting it unsuspend, it can just easily attack twice, and thanks to reboot it will still unsuspend in the enemy's turn and be able to block!

Here's some more insight from my brother, who knows more about card games:

MegaGargomon Ace is currently the best Ace Digimon for both Green or Black decks and can be used without the Terriermon line entirely.

It's not as bustet as Apocalymon or the new BT17-077 Return to Origin Option card, but it's too generic for such a good effect, still being usable outside of its intended archetype.

For example, the upcoming TyrantKabuterimon is also very good, but useless outside of Insectoid decks.

Usually the way around Ace Digimon is to only attack when the opponent doesn't have a Digimon on the field that can Blast Evolve. But with MegeGargomon evoling from "Rapidmon" in the name, it can evolve from Levels 4, 5 and 6! (Rapidmon Armor, Rapidmon, Rapidmon X [BT16] respectively)

So your only chance to attack is basically only if the field is empty.

I would like to point out, though, that there are still many other decks being played right now, and it hasn't completely taken over the meta, at least in Asia. Not sure if this will hold true in the West too, but here's hoping.

Rapidmon (X Antibody) BT16-101

Mega | Vaccine | Holy Warrior/X Antibody [Digivolve] [Rapidmon]: Cost 4 ＜Armor Purge＞ (When this Digimon would be deleted, you may trash the top card of this Digimon to prevent that deletion). [When Digivolving] Suspend all of your opponent's Digimon. Then, this Digimon may attack. [All Turns] While [Rapidmon]/[X Antibody] is in this Digimon's digivolution cards, all of your opponent's suspended Digimon get -4000 DP. [All Turns] [Once Per Turn] When an opponent's Digimon is deleted in battle or by having 0 DP, gain 2 memory.

#digimon #digimon tcg #digimon card game #digisafe #digica #デジカ #lov asks #card game meta

[cyberdragoninfinity]

I'm sorry but WHAT is happening in Duel Links??

*CRACKS KNUCKLES* ALRIGHT im certain other people could explain this better than I could (bark at me if any of this is wrong,) but, an attempt at a quick rough tl;dr of it:

so like. an important thing to note with DL is that like..... the in-universe explanation for Duel Links is that it's one of Seto Kaiba's new VR Next Evolution of Dueling Ego Projects, which like, ok sure, he Makes Those, but what's a little alarming with this one is that technically (almost) none of the characters In The Game are actually Those Characters Specifically, they're AI recreations of them with their original self's memories (that's already a lot, right out the gate.) (I say "almost" everyone because I think it's implied DSOD Kaiba and maybe Mokuba actually Are them because it's Their Game and they're always product testing it, there might be others though)

anyway another thing with this situation is that, uh, Most Characters in Duel Links Do Not Know They're AI. They just assume they're the original guy, that's just them! Hanging out in this cool new Duel VR! But then sometimes you DO get characters who actively are aware that they're just code in a video game (Yami Bakura and Bruno 5D's both comment on it), so you have this really interesting ecosystem of duelists who Are aware they don't really exist, and duelists who are None the Wiser. absolutely batshit.

and sure this is all well and fine with like, DM and maybe GX characters, ok sure it makes sense Kaiba would be recreating notable duelists of that era, but i cannot stress enough He Is Also Making AI Recreations of Dead People. DL very much takes place post-manga, post-DSOD. But Yami Yugi is There. Yami Bakura and Yami Marik are Very There. Manga Pegasus is there. Seto "I Will Never Learn to Come to Terms With Grief" Kaiba is actively raising the dead in his little VR card game simulator so they can live forever and there's a 50/50 chance they'll be FULLY AWARE that they died. JESUS.

There's also the hulking elephant in the room of Duel Links Has Been Including Characters From Series Kaiba Has Nothing to Do With For Quite Some Time Now--and a lot of those characters are like HEY. WHERE THE FUCK ARE WE. like I SWEAR someone from either Zexal or Arv-V was actively like "hi what the hell is KaibaCorp" so like...Kaiba's branding is ALL OVER THE VR WORLD EVEN IN THE WORLDS HE DIDNT EXIST IN. It's painting this absolute off the rails picture of Seto Kaiba trying to create this virtual multiverse of The Best Duelists From Every Timeline Living or Dead, and half the guys he's pulling in at this point are like *spawns into a perfect recreation of their hometown with no real idea of who did this* "what in the goddamn."

like guys from zexal/arc-v are actively IN GAME like trying to figure out why this VR world exists and who created it. It's absolutely wild and fascinating to watch. excited to see what happens when they add VRAINS world next month?!?!? idk anything about VRAINS really but it's probably going to make the DL lore even more bananas.

ANYWAY. ALL OF THAT SAID. NOW WE HAVE MAXIMILLION PEGASUS DROPPING IN-GAME OMINOUS SENTIMENTS it's kind of a culmination of all of the aforementioned shit. Duel Links Pegasus (an AI recreation of manga!Pegasus, who is fully aware A.) that's he's dead and B.) that there's multiple worlds and timelines crammed into this Virtual Reality) has a conversation with Paradox (an AI recreation of Paradox the Bonds Beyond Time Yugioh Movie Bad Guy, who, for all intents and purposes, fully believes he's the real dude and he wants to kill-die-explode-murder Pegasus SO BAD) breaking down that "hey, this place unites different histories, and if you kill me duel monsters won't cease to exist. Anyway, I'm not real! Ohoho! This world holds threads of tragedy, Paradox-boy!" <-- (not verbatim. but i wish it was.) Meanwhile Paradox is having a sputtering breakdown right next to him. This is a video game to play yugioh the trading card game.

like. it's just absolutely wild. konami could have just said "hey heres yugioh characters from every series. whatever" but no instead they threw in a bunch of mild psychological horror and inter-series friction and existentialism and it's a freemium video game that i have 600+ hours on on steam. yugioh duel links !

#ygo posting #wow! that was not quick or a tl;dr at all! SORRY DFGHDGF #i guess the real tl;dr is ''seto kaiba is mentally unwell and now he's making it Every Yugioh Character's Problem." lmao #honey-bunnysaurus #asks #anyway i wish someone would make a DL lore video essay so bad...really the only DL video content out there right now #is strictly about the meta of the card game (which dont get me wrong is also fascinating in its own right) #but i wanna see someone talk about the absolute insane lore that is happened directly outside of the actual card game!!! #i wanna be vindicated that im not the only person noticing this!!!! #duel links

[boombox5]

Acrylic Paintings I made of King Knight, The Batter, Phantom Metaknight, A Short Hike, Luigi with the Thunderhand, and my one of my own characters, Earl Shades

#kirby #mario #mario and luigi #luigi #meta knight #a short hike #king knight #king of cards #shovel knight #off the batter #off mortis ghost #off game

[amarriageoftrueminds]

steve probably spent a lot of time bedridden or in hospital, and playing cards have always been cheap. i bet he knows how to count cards, got invited to play cards with the other candidates at camp lehigh on their first night, sharked the game, and never got asked to play again.

Also offers up the possibility of Steve and Bucky playing as a team, during the war, with Bucky card-counting and secretly signalling, while Steve (the guy with the USO money) pulls the big dumb blonde act, ('oh look fellas, my bet came through! what're the odds!') with his big blue eyes all innocent, every time he strikes it rich.

Takes the Howlies ages to catch on (and they can still never work out how exactly Sarge is signalling!)

Steve's photographic memory would probably come in super useful for this too...

Also: imagine Bucky trying to keep bedridden Steve entertained by learning...😬...magic card tricks. Only half works because he's so appallingly bad at it that Steve ends up laughing himself into a coughing fit.

#toAyourQ #dat's me #hey nonny #pre-serum steve ask #mcu meta #meta #stucky #steve meta #bucky meta #stucky meta #steve rogers #bucky barnes #historically accurate stucky tag #omg magician bucky the theater-nerd!sebstan vibes he's such a nerd he totally would #other possibility: steve knowing how to card-count but being bad at it.... before serum #him and bucky only finding out by accident when steve cleans up in a card game during the war... #and that's when they start up their card sharking team #and another reason it takes everybody so long to notice... #(other than how subtlely steve and buck can communicate with each o ther) #is because no one pays attention to bucky when THE captain america is around #yet each man queues the thing he loves

[stupidgalaxybrain]

Kirby's Adventure! I've actually now played it for myself thanks to the switch port, but that entire experience was a nightmare (pun intended but omg this is why I don't play older video games.) I still liked the joke from the original, but I decided to make it a comic instead. Really space out Dedede's crisis. Comics are really fun too because you can add so many little details, like the newspaper or the cards, which are just pngs stolen from google because I'm not a masochist.

Original for comparison:

#kirby #mykirbyart #redraw #king dedede #meta knight #the meta-knights #or at least #javelin knight #mace knight #kirby's adventure #I do miss using the color palette from the original game #because the colors are absolutely gorgeous #but it was easier to just use the base colors I do now #Do you like the Meta-Knights' card table? Because I do

[avelera]

Ok but has anyone considered that Hob Gadling was there when playing cards were invented, was clearly crazy about them as the new cool thing at the time, and has essentially had 500 years to get very good at playing?

All I'm saying is: card shark Hob Gadling. If someone doesn't put it in a fic I will.

#hob gadling #the sandman #sandman meta #I think this extends to tricks and to gambling skill btw also hustling #being able to hustle at cards has got to be a handy way to rebuild some cash in a hurry #frankly for Hob it would be a simple survival skill not just a fun game #anyway I just think supernaturally competent Hob is hot so sue me #Dream tags along to Vegas with Hob and watches the man demolish a room of players #mostly because he wanted the extra cash to take Dream on a nice date and it's something he can basically do at will by now

[null-hydrangea]

inscryption spoilers

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THE LOCATION OF HITLER'S WHAT

#inscryption #WHAT THE FUCK???????? #WHY IN GOD'S NAME WOULD THAT BE A RELEVANT PLOT POINT #WHAT DOES A META FANTASY CARD GAME HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE FUCKING LOCATION OF HITLER'S ROTTING CORPSE #WHAT IS THIS GAME EVEN ABOUT???? #shut up hyd

[broodygaming]

So I’ve been watching Neverafter and enjoying the fuck out of it and.... It reminds me of this book that gave me the biggest existential crisis of my young life as a teenager reading it in the library of my high school. 

So there’s this book called The Messenger by Markus Zusack? I think? Zusak. I had to look it up. I just remember he was on the last shelf of the fiction section cuz his name had a Z. Anyways he’s more known for The Book Thief. ANYWAYS. 

The Messenger is about a lot of things. But namely it’s kinda about a young man learning to stick his neck out and do things that are scary just to help people. Also it’s about a young man who has to give in to the chaos of life and accept he has no real control. Also it’s about a young man who learns that everyone is in their own story. Every single person is a whole story. Also it’s about a young man who is in a story. But he’s real! But it’s a book. In your hands. It’s about a young man who has a chat with an old man who lies to him and tells him he’s real. But he is! You know.... in this book. 

And you, the reader are sitting there holding these pages echoing in your heart “He’s real! .... ? He’s... real? He’s not real.... I’m real. I’m... real?” 

And you just gotta sit with that. 

#neverafter #dropout #it's really hard to say what it's about haha he like has these game cards and helps random people #and like goes on missions and is sent on missions by this dude #who I personally took to be like a metaphor for the author speaking to him #being like your life has meaning because it has meaning not because i gave you these cards #and sent you on these missions #just like every one of those ppl existed before you discovered what made them interesting #and kept existing after you helped them and left #BUT ITS STILL ALL JUST A BOOK #which is just meta on a level my 15 yr old brain could barely handle. hahhaha #something about them all RPing and sittting at this table as these fictional characters #contemplating their fictional meta reality #reminded me of it

[theminecraftbee]

also i'm still more a ygo nerd than a magic one, but i HAVE been playing more magic lately than ygo and also i see a bunch of people who are new to card games being introduced to things like "why do these people enjoy the game differently than me" so i do think maybe you should be introduced to timmy, johnny, and spike,

#hctcg #for the record if you don't want to read it: it's a mark rosewater essay on the three types of card game players mtg rnd uses to design #timmy likes big impressive numbers and stats - things that hit hard and fast and feel bombastic #johnny likes combos and weird self-expression - things that have unique interactions and feel fun to make work correctly #spike likes winning and being on top of the meta - trying to find what is 'best' and using that is how spike enjoys the game #all three of them will pretty much always exist in any card game (and in... basically any competitive game tbh) #and all three of them are important to how the game works and is designed #and if you're grating against certain kinds of players try splitting out and playing against more guys that are your type! #anyway i WISH i could easily get essays from pkmn or ygo on game design but mtg are the only ones who talk about it online all the time #so if you WANT resources on 'how a tcg is designed' mtg designers are often the place to go #i am continuing to be SUCH a nerd tbh #do you want my 'banlists and how you should use them' opinions because OH BOY I HAVE THOSE #also i am more of a johnny than anything here but i also like winning a lot so i'm probably that johnny/spike corner

[the-bonereaders-library]

I'm gonna start making posts related to card games too, and open this blog up to more of my other hobby stuff. I'll be tagging stuff extensively like my other stuff, so you can cater your experience or go through my back log by searching the appropriate tags

here's a teaser for the card stuff tho

#meta #blog related #card games #one piece tcg #one piece trading card game #optcg #trafalgar law #law

[zeravmeta]

diabellestar working best in rescue ace decks of all things is so funny. seinen protagonist suddenly isekai'd into a toku series

#yugioh #the rare yugioh the card game but its the actual game and meta decks post

[lingeringscars]

i just think there is something about how nat could never forgive herself for javi sacrificing himself for her. she was worse than all of them because she let this kid, her somewhat boyfriend's brother, her own family, her friend, die in her place. it was supposed to be her, she heard the cries from javi and watched him die nonetheless.

but now she didn't watch. she didn't watch at all when it came to lisa. she stole the fish. she intervened with her family. she died in her place. nat healed a part of her when sacrificing herself for lisa. it wasn't right. it wasn't her time. she didn't want to go, but she got to finally pay forward javi's sacrifice in a way that she's never been able to do and always been punishing herself for. she got to heal her inner child by saving lisa. ( the irony is that it may not have happened had she not gone to try and save lisa to begin with. not tipped her off to something happening. these are the consequences of the girls actions. they wanted a hunt through the woods, they got one. they went after shauna and called off services, nat pays the price. misty tries to solve the problem the way she has been but she's not a perfect serial killer and she missed. they covered up the wrong guy at the end of last season. they killed the wrong person at the end of this one. ).

travis didn't break the pact, but neither did she. she did better. (btw travis was on the plane <3)

#yj spoilers #yellowjackets spoilers #i will be honest and say that i did not want it to be nat despite the nagging feeling that it would be #for all the reasons people have pointed out about her arc #but... i actually didn't hate it for all the reasons in this post about the completion of her arc #it IS tragic. it IS fucked up. it SHOULDN'T have happened. #but they called to the wilderness and they went on a hunt through the woods and misty jumped the gun #and nat died to save someone else. nat paid the sacrifice forward. nat drew the queen card and let someone else die in her place and now #now so has shauna but it would have been lisa. it would have been someone nat saw herself in #it would have been someone nat has tried to help all season and did. she could have watched it happen again #but she didn't because she has come too far and they are NOT in the wilderness anymore #they brought it back with them. travis died because of it. because of her. but lisa didn't have to. it could end with her #(it won't. but maybe things will change now. maybe #idk i just actually have feelings about this and i don't blame people for the gut reaction but i think it was a really great conclusion #ofc i wanted her to live ofc i wanted her to have a full life where she heals and is happy. and ofc she won't because they keep #playing a game that no one can win. because they are all traumatized and they're all responsible #meta: nat scatorccio #muse: nat scatorccio #season 2 belonged to you baby

[petalseas]

meta. Cana is much known as a turbo duelist over a regular duelist. ; with a deck that is all green & grown, spells ready to chow down opponent's synchro(s). It's no wonder that she is a terror, on the streets.

#* card games on motorcycles! | cana #// her deck crying going unused #* meta | tiny cracks in tales

[rubiatinctorum]

well this aged really fucking well

#rubia speaks #yugioh #meta verse #yu gi oh #children’s card game

[dragonomatopoeia]

i do have to wonder if my childhood fixation on batman (1966) led to me imprinting on seto kaiba like a baby duck in middle school or if that in turn laid the groundwork for my more recent batmanposting

#bruce should have turned wayne enterprises into a card game manufacturer actually #i read a ygo meta post about how kaiba is failing miserably at parenting and yet it is not for lack of trying #and it sparked a connection in my brain #air's comics tag

[khaenriahkhaenriah]

Posted this when the banner was announced.

In over 250 pulls using freemogems and birthday money I got:

a) yoimiya (the one I actually wanted)

b) aquila favonia (yay for kaeya)

c) tighnari c1 (love him)

d) raiden c1 (first five star she deserves it)

e) two kiraras (somehow)

f) mika (phys kaeya being realised)

g) countless bennetts and saras

Wanna know who I didn't get?

FUCKING CHEVREUSE

#its honestly amusing at this point i guess im cursed to never have her #but im thrilled with all my pulls though got really lucky outside of that #technically ive now spent money on the gacha system but not sure it counts when it was a gift card you got four years ago #that has $20 left on it and will expire next month. like wtf else was i going to do with it #anyway. chevreuse i am so mad but at least i have a firework girl and a beefier raiden #also i get why cons make meta players do so much more damage. i activated the con and raiden just instantly started hitting like 15k more #honestly i think ill go for her c2 next time it comes around and make her my most invested five star #funny how i really dont like how she was written and shes basically a different character in my mind #but shes one of my favourites anyway. i remember seeing the trailer live on the stream and just being in shock #like cmon. her charged attack? gorgeous? and its the only time theyve made a female playable do anything halfway bad #so if you ignore the worst written sq in the game shes really interesting #anyway how did this turn into a raiden thread when i did 250 PULLS AND NO CHEVREUSE