What is the best way to target cards that are solely in Master Pack?

[Kotodama]

So I've come to notice that a lot, A LOT of cards (typically Supers and Ultra Rares) are held within the worst pack to spend your gems on the "Master Pack". The amount of pullable cards is so massive that you are almost guaranteed to not get what you are looking for. However, maybe there is something that I'm missing?

Lets just say for example I want to use some Albaz cards. Well 90% of them are only available in the Master Pack. Is my only option to craft them separately? I don't have nearly enough resources to do so.

So does that mean I spend gems on secret packs and then disassemble for resources? But Id I don't really have any secret packs that I want to really buy what do I spend it on? Are there secret packs that have very particular staple cards that may fit in most decks that I am unaware of that are good ways to farm resources?

I ask this as someone who is not capable of spending money constantly on gems. Maybe once every few months I might spend like $15 or something. But I'm not sure I want to drop $100's just to try different decks out.

Anyone has any tips in trying to get those cards locked behind the master pack?

[Elzeruth]

Most of the staple hand traps are in Master packs unfortunately.

Have a look at this link and see if some of them are from secret packs
https://game8.co/games/Yu-Gi-Oh-Master-Duel/archives/354390

note that not all staples are equal and you should prioritise Ash/MaxxC/Droplet/impermanence/called by/feather duster

Making a deck that has most of its cards in master packs is suicide. If you want to play Albaz you should wait for a possible structure deck to release maybe when Despia will become meta.

But honestly most if not all archetypes can be found in secret packs so you should start from there. Buy secret packs, disassemble what you don't need, craft cards from the master pack with the CP you got.

The game is very f2p but you do need to spend your gems intelligently and do your missions regularly.

[Unforgiven]

Originally posted by Elzeruth:

Most of the staple hand traps are in Master packs unfortunately.

Have a look at this link and see if some of them are from secret packs
https://game8.co/games/Yu-Gi-Oh-Master-Duel/archives/354390

note that not all staples are equal and you should prioritise Ash/MaxxC/Droplet/impermanence/called by/feather duster

Making a deck that has most of its cards in master packs is suicide. If you want to play Albaz you should wait for a possible structure deck to release maybe when Despia will become meta.

But honestly most if not all archetypes can be found in secret packs so you should start from there. Buy secret packs, disassemble what you don't need, craft cards from the master pack with the CP you got.

The game is very f2p but you do need to spend your gems intelligently and do your missions regularly.

Or just....craft them? You can't expect to pull every single UR you need even out of the selection packs, I've spent like 25k gems on the swordsoul one without ever seeing mo-ye or heavenly prison, this system is not made for you to pull every UR you need but to destroy ones you don't need and craft ones you need

Telling someone to wait for a possible structure deck that might never come lol.

[jashinsamael]

Newer card usually appeared on special packs for about two months, then after that duration, they will be available only on master pack, or sometimes will be included in existing secret pack.

if you missed that or you need certain staples that dont belong to any archetype, the best way to get them is by crafting them.

the game is pretty generous with resources, you can literally make solid deck just by using starting resources, and you can get enough resources to make at least one new deck from latest special pack per month. However, being f2p game, obviously it wont give you resources to get all of the cards right away, so you will need to be careful to choose what you gonna build.

Or alternatively, the game wont stop you for making multiple IDs, so you can just build different deck as much as you want.

[✦𝒱𝒶𝓅𝑜𝓇]

Konami, please make every single card I want super easy to get f2p without any time gating or effort, so that nobody spends money on gems and you make no money and cant develop the game.

Thank you.

Not saying to buy gems, just to realize a game usually needs some way for monetization to keep the lights on and servers up

and master pack good cards are a clear way to spend your crafting mats.. or whale out

The only master packs I'd get are the ones attached to any of those UR bundles that you want.

[Kotodama]

Originally posted by monkeu:

Konami, please make every single card I want super easy to get f2p without any time gating or effort, so that nobody spends money on gems and you make no money and cant develop the game.

Thank you.

Not saying to buy gems, just to realize a game usually needs some way for monetization to keep the lights on and servers up

and master pack good cards are a clear way to spend your crafting mats.. or whale out

The only master packs I'd get are the ones attached to any of those UR bundles that you want.

i dont think this is correct at all. Point being that if they were put in selection packs, people would still spend money on the packs because the selection packs still dont guarantee the cards, it just makes them easier to target.

Its just sucks to offer cards for a few months and then they disappear into a pack set that is pointless to purchase. why have it in the game then if people know its a terrible thing to buy? I've bought all the master pack bundles because those are actual value. But outside of that there is no reason to purchase master packs. so then why have the pack at all?

You spend your mats on the individual cards, not on the master packs.

[Kotodama]

Originally posted by jashinsamael:

Newer card usually appeared on special packs for about two months, then after that duration, they will be available only on master pack, or sometimes will be included in existing secret pack.

if you missed that or you need certain staples that dont belong to any archetype, the best way to get them is by crafting them.

the game is pretty generous with resources, you can literally make solid deck just by using starting resources, and you can get enough resources to make at least one new deck from latest special pack per month. However, being f2p game, obviously it wont give you resources to get all of the cards right away, so you will need to be careful to choose what you gonna build.

Or alternatively, the game wont stop you for making multiple IDs, so you can just build different deck as much as you want.

Thats unfortunate. I didnt actually know that they disappear after a few months. That's sucks for returning players that have to invest even more time or money into the game because they missed the window when the pack was available.

[✦𝒱𝒶𝓅𝑜𝓇]

Originally posted by Kotodama:

Originally posted by monkeu:

Konami, please make every single card I want super easy to get f2p without any time gating or effort, so that nobody spends money on gems and you make no money and cant develop the game.

Thank you.

Not saying to buy gems, just to realize a game usually needs some way for monetization to keep the lights on and servers up

and master pack good cards are a clear way to spend your crafting mats.. or whale out

The only master packs I'd get are the ones attached to any of those UR bundles that you want.

i dont think this is correct at all. Point being that if they were put in selection packs, people would still spend money on the packs because the selection packs still dont guarantee the cards, it just makes them easier to target.

Its just sucks to offer cards for a few months and then they disappear into a pack set that is pointless to purchase. why have it in the game then if people know its a terrible thing to buy? I've bought all the master pack bundles because those are actual value. But outside of that there is no reason to purchase master packs. so then why have the pack at all?

You spend your mats on the individual cards, not on the master packs.

Without going into an entire lecture about basic economics for you, it's all about balance.

The amount of free gems given is highly calculated for a reason.

The chances of each pack, Normal, Secret, and Master are each different but are also all individually highly calculated for a reason.

The real crux of your statement being an opinion based on your thoughts and not how konami makes money on a video game whose purpose is to make money is "i dont think this is correct at all." without really knowing, or using available data to back up an assumption.

The master pack does have a few obvious reasons. It adds to the card pool, it's also a whale money outlet once they have fulfilled their needed archetypes, they want something else to gamble on and have the money to spend. not every product is for every customer, but providing multiple products to fulfill the needs of multiple customer markets is the thinking.

Now I agree that it sucks. not only your point of making rotation packs only available for a certain amount of time, but also the way in which secret packs are only available for 24 hours, making a strong incentive to "binge" that pack to fill out a whole archetype at a time.

[Unforgiven]

Originally posted by Kotodama:

Originally posted by jashinsamael:

Newer card usually appeared on special packs for about two months, then after that duration, they will be available only on master pack, or sometimes will be included in existing secret pack.

if you missed that or you need certain staples that dont belong to any archetype, the best way to get them is by crafting them.

the game is pretty generous with resources, you can literally make solid deck just by using starting resources, and you can get enough resources to make at least one new deck from latest special pack per month. However, being f2p game, obviously it wont give you resources to get all of the cards right away, so you will need to be careful to choose what you gonna build.

Or alternatively, the game wont stop you for making multiple IDs, so you can just build different deck as much as you want.

Thats unfortunate. I didnt actually know that they disappear after a few months. That's sucks for returning players that have to invest even more time or money into the game because they missed the window when the pack was available.

as i mentioned before, even in those packs you have like 10-12 different URs and a lot of times you will get 1 or 0 URs in a 1k gem pull, the chance of getting one you actually need is minuscule, so returning players and new players have to invest roughly the same because they need to craft 90% of the URs they need anyways

[✦𝒱𝒶𝓅𝑜𝓇]

Originally posted by Unforgiven:

Originally posted by Kotodama:

Thats unfortunate. I didnt actually know that they disappear after a few months. That's sucks for returning players that have to invest even more time or money into the game because they missed the window when the pack was available.

as i mentioned before, even in those packs you have like 10-12 different URs and a lot of times you will get 1 or 0 URs in a 1k gem pull, the chance of getting one you actually need is minuscule, so returning players and new players have to invest roughly the same because they need to craft 90% of the URs they need anyways

yeah it's a bit deceptive.

Now that the frontloaded gem rewards have been burned through by a lot of players, the blinders are starting to come off that "master duel is way more f2p friendly than DL" is true in some ways, but very untrue in other ways especially if future archetypes are super UR heavy aligning with power creep etc