i wish there was a 1 special summon per turn mode

[Its Pixie!]

i honestly feel like this mode would be great for old school players who hate the modern "play your entire deck in one turn" playstyle.

[Zake]

I don't know, people would just play stuff that doesn't special summon more than once per turn.

Floo isn't hurt by this either, lol.

But alternative modes (and support for them) would be fun.

I'm sure it wouldn't be impossible to add a 'special summon' counter, like the one for normal summons, and let us toggle it on in custom rooms. But considering how many types of special summons there are, it might not be as easy as I think to get it working.

So I guess, for now, you could try finding people to play with, and enforce this rule yourselves. But that tends to be easier said than done.

[Its Pixie!]

yeah its not a perfect solution, but it would still stop most of the things that old school players hate or at the very least create an environment were people have to think about harder about their plays.

as for playing with friends......i got none lol

[Imperatordavius]

as much as i hate how much special summons happen, i wouldn't restrict them to this degree...

i played in old school yugioh days, deck sucked, and i played 'schoolyard yugioh', so it was... fun for its time is all i can say based on what little i can still remember.

But,after getting back into yugioh, finding a few decks i liked, like Starry Knights/Dragon, Dragonmaids, and now World Legacy - World Chalice/Mekk Knights/Crusadia etc, i just could never play them anymore if it were 1 special summon per turn.

a LOT of decks rely on special summoning, a lot of them use them, and many archetypes that don't heavily special summon but still do more than 3 or even 4 per turn would be devastated and rendered unplayable if that were the case.

Dragonmaids can have 4 maids, 5 if Sheou activates her effect, going into their dragon/maid forms, sometimes 2x in a row, 8 special summon minimum if all 4 maids are there.

Starry Knights whole archetype gimmick is constantly sending the Dragon to the hand to special summon it back to the field over and over multiple times to deal with many threats and clear the way for victory.

have you 'seen' how Links depend on materials and how often they special summon? My World Chalice Deck if i get a good hand can give me 3 links if i'm lucky and it takes about 8-9 special summons to accomplish.

Sure... i hate omninegates, i hate how often players go into Crystron Halq and then go into 4-5 generic omni-negate boss monsters, and sometimes they even play through my hand traps to get out all of those beat stick omni-negate boss monsters regardless of what i use... and i wish that i had a card like summon limit set to activate during the first turn of the duel when its the opponent who goes first...

but i would never limit 'everyone' special summoning just because i want to be able to play

[JKArtorias]

Originally posted by Its Pixie!:

yeah its not a perfect solution, but it would still stop most of the things that old school players hate or at the very least create an environment were people have to think about harder about their plays.

as for playing with friends......i got none lol

it wouldn't do that at all. It would create an environment where you just sit there doing nothing. Hope you like Floo cause that's all you'd see. Ya know the highest meta deck rn.

Special summons aren't a problem. I play ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Exosisters and Charmers do you think me Special Summoning a Ranryu should be the end of my plays? How boring.

I swear man, Konami not listening to the players is sometimes a huge blessing cause Yugiboomers are weird. Hell i am one myself, i played old Yugioh, i played GX, i played 5Ds, i played early Xyz which is where i stopped. Now i didn't play Competitive obviously. This is the most fun Yugioh has been.

Is the meta boring? Yeah, but are there so many more cards out there that are interesting to play? Yeah.

[Blank]

*Cries in Sylvans*

[Merilirem]

Originally posted by JKArtorias:

Originally posted by Its Pixie!:

yeah its not a perfect solution, but it would still stop most of the things that old school players hate or at the very least create an environment were people have to think about harder about their plays.

as for playing with friends......i got none lol

it wouldn't do that at all. It would create an environment where you just sit there doing nothing. Hope you like Floo cause that's all you'd see. Ya know the highest meta deck rn.

Special summons aren't a problem. I play ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Exosisters and Charmers do you think me Special Summoning a Ranryu should be the end of my plays? How boring.

I swear man, Konami not listening to the players is sometimes a huge blessing cause Yugiboomers are weird. Hell i am one myself, i played old Yugioh, i played GX, i played 5Ds, i played early Xyz which is where i stopped. Now i didn't play Competitive obviously. This is the most fun Yugioh has been.

Is the meta boring? Yeah, but are there so many more cards out there that are interesting to play? Yeah.

People are weird. No need to attach tags to them. Ignorance drives stupidity. There are people who just started the game who think they should put limits and energy on all the cards so it plays like every other game in existence.

[CrazyNumber4]

Originally posted by Its Pixie!:

i honestly feel like this mode would be great for old school players who hate the modern "play your entire deck in one turn" playstyle.

Even at old style you can special summon more than one monster
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[Merilirem]

Originally posted by CrazyNumber4:

Originally posted by Its Pixie!:

i honestly feel like this mode would be great for old school players who hate the modern "play your entire deck in one turn" playstyle.

Even at old style you can special summon more than one monster
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It would certainly require us to go further back than the Chaos days. Hell this would make Lord of D and his Flute of summoning Dragon weaker unless you wanna make exceptions.

If people want to have an oldschool mode they should just make a "only cards before X date" mode or something like it.

[Robin]

Originally posted by Its Pixie!:

i honestly feel like this mode would be great for old school players who hate the modern "play your entire deck in one turn" playstyle.

This entire rule would just be Flowandreeze mirror matches.

[CrazyNumber4]

Originally posted by Merilirem:

Originally posted by CrazyNumber4:

Even at old style you can special summon more than one monster
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It would certainly require us to go further back than the Chaos days. Hell this would make Lord of D and his Flute of summoning Dragon weaker unless you wanna make exceptions.

If people want to have an oldschool mode they should just make a "only cards before X date" mode or something like it.

If you want old school mode, there will be monsters from high level summoning without tribute! Like Blue Eyes without Tribute! That is the real Old School!

[Lazer]

Even that concept Konami has broken with Floowandereeze, a summon limit of 2 monster to be more specific with your demand now

[Lazer]

Originally posted by JKArtorias:

Originally posted by Its Pixie!:

yeah its not a perfect solution, but it would still stop most of the things that old school players hate or at the very least create an environment were people have to think about harder about their plays.

as for playing with friends......i got none lol

it wouldn't do that at all. It would create an environment where you just sit there doing nothing. Hope you like Floo cause that's all you'd see. Ya know the highest meta deck rn.

Special summons aren't a problem. I play ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Exosisters and Charmers do you think me Special Summoning a Ranryu should be the end of my plays? How boring.

I swear man, Konami not listening to the players is sometimes a huge blessing cause Yugiboomers are weird. Hell i am one myself, i played old Yugioh, i played GX, i played 5Ds, i played early Xyz which is where i stopped. Now i didn't play Competitive obviously. This is the most fun Yugioh has been.

Is the meta boring? Yeah, but are there so many more cards out there that are interesting to play? Yeah.

Yes they are a/main problem just because OP wasnt more specific and Konami breaking the rules with Floo doesnt mean the point isnt any valid. Yes you could just end on Ranryu and set a Solemn Strike, Ice Dragon Prison or Dogmatika Punishment if you could be more patient for a slower game which overall would be more fun than blewing up your 5 drawn cards dedicated just on a single board of monsters.

[Neptuna]

On one hand 1 special summon would greatly hinder Monkelich...
On the other only floo would be playable...

Let's try it with 3 specials and see what happens.

[Silyon]

Originally posted by CrazyNumber4:

If you want old school mode, there will be monsters from high level summoning without tribute! Like Blue Eyes without Tribute! That is the real Old School!

So Trains and Qliphorts? lol

But really, I could almost see the idea being viable IF summoning without tribute locked you out of the Extra deck. Most high-level monsters have means of special-summoning themselves to get around the tribute cost anyway, either inherently or within their archetypes.

[Papa Shekels]

Originally posted by Zake:

Floo isn't hurt by this either, lol.

This is the main reason why a blanket special summon ruling wouldn't be effective. A deck dominating even the current scene would be completely unaffected by it. Hell, they would have more room for tech cards because they wouldn't need to run the barrier statue anymore. Meanwhile, it would just hurt a bunch of sub-par decks like synchrons or utopia that rely on synchro/link/etc climbing.

I like the idea of slower gameplay and still go back to duel links or the DM era games sometimes for it, but with the complexity of the modern game, I don't see any kind of a blanket "no _" rule that would be of real help. By far the easiest option would be to just play with a friend using pre-established rules