Best competetive deck for new players?

[erkuza]

I have 10k gems, could anyone suggest the best deck to build?

[¿¡Kloey!?²]

https://www.masterduelmeta.com here's a website that has a tier list with other top decks that you may find interesting and topped with guides to help start you off.

[Papa Shekels]

Right now is a bit of an iffy time. The deck I would want to recommend is kashtira - it's strong, simple to play, and has good synergy against most of the other top decks. However, they don't have a secret pack yet, so as a new player you would have to craft all the cards yourself (which I think adds up to 10 in-archetype URs, before even considering any non-engine or generic staples).

The other best choice would be horus. It's in the current selection pack, so you can just buy from there, although keep in mind the pack is pretty big so it may take a while to actually pull the cards you want. Horus is a very flexible engine that can honestly be slapped into almost any deck, and is playable pure. You should be able to get a decent bit of mileage out of them, and it's again a very simple engine to play. The complexity in it would come purely from figuring out how to slot it in into a different deck and how to use the king's sarcophagus discards

[erkuza]

Originally posted by Papa Shekels:

Right now is a bit of an iffy time. The deck I would want to recommend is kashtira - it's strong, simple to play, and has good synergy against most of the other top decks. However, they don't have a secret pack yet, so as a new player you would have to craft all the cards yourself (which I think adds up to 10 in-archetype URs, before even considering any non-engine or generic staples).

The other best choice would be horus. It's in the current selection pack, so you can just buy from there, although keep in mind the pack is pretty big so it may take a while to actually pull the cards you want. Horus is a very flexible engine that can honestly be slapped into almost any deck, and is playable pure. You should be able to get a decent bit of mileage out of them, and it's again a very simple engine to play. The complexity in it would come purely from figuring out how to slot it in into a different deck and how to use the king's sarcophagus discards

Thanks, I see a lot of people recommending swordsoul. Is that deck still viable?

[Papa Shekels]

Originally posted by erkuza:

Thanks, I see a lot of people recommending swordsoul. Is that deck still viable?

ISorry I completely forgot about this one lmao - you can get it very cheap because using the codes everybody keeps spamming will give you a majority of the deck for free. I think you only have to craft a few extra hand traps (which you will anyway), a few potential options like protos, and most of the extra deck. In terms of power, it's a little dated, but it is still a very competent deck and should be able to get you to at least diamond once you learn how to play it optimally. It will struggle a bit against the best decks of the format but can definitely still get wins off them

[Silyon]

Originally posted by erkuza:

Thanks, I see a lot of people recommending swordsoul. Is that deck still viable?

Swordsoul is recommended because of the campaign code reward that gives you a prebuilt swordsoul deck straight up. So basically zero investment and everyone gets it, meaning it's the bare minimum of what should be considered "playable". If whatever deck you want to build cannot handle a Swordsoul deck's basic plays, it's in need of revision and improvement.

[BadPidgeons]

I recommend getting the swordsoul deck nad "upgrading" it with cards like swordsoul abyss dragon and sinister sovereign quixing longyuan