How was your XYZ Cup?

[Gauche]

Share your experience, good or bad

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Had a lot of fun going second with Tistina. Made it to 20 again with them. Railed many for lethal

This time around I was made to go first a number of times. Numeron/Galaxy-Eye players looking to OTK. I feel players were much more sheepish when given first turn in result

Deck variety was extremely low. It really was just a sea of Kashtira, Horus, Lab, SE/Fire King past 15. Never got a mirror. Never saw Zoodiac, Boxers, Armored or any of the Rank Up spell cards. XYZ truly is in a bad spot. Got pretty lucky though, only saw one Purrely and they didn't even go into Noir with the Ghostrick tech. Didn't see Stun outside of one Umi control

Prevented a lvl 50 profile from ranking up to DLv 20

Learned, I think, that Returnia can't resolve if the Exo player controls a face-down monster. They had no response window and surrendered a few actions later

Got another Lab in the last few matches resolving Virus. Surrendered the first moment priority shifted. Tilted I figure

[JCHamels]

Made it to 20 with a janky deck that consisted of a Horus Engine, Royal Decree, Jinzo, Village field spell for the random Purrly or spell dependent decks. It was weirdly fun seeing Lab scoop so much. Even won a handful of matches going second against Lab.

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Still got 10 games to go for the missions at LV 17 but somehow it was a lot better than I expected ... then again, my expectations were pretty low and I thought it'd be as bad as the DC. Also expected that there would be tons of Kashtira/Horus/Purrely, and there kinda were of the first two but my drawluck against Kashtira made it pretty bearable (had Nib or Kurikara in opening hand in like 9/10 games lol).

The thing that saved the event for me was being able to play SE instead of having to go Numeron as I assumed. I just really like the "put their stuff into spell zone" gimmick of the deck and could enjoy it without feeling like some meta bully, since I played without using stuff from ED.

Things I didn't enjoy, aside of watching people combo for hours? The damn Exo sisters. Probably just like Kashtira, very drawluck related but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, every hand I had vs them was crap while they had perfect ones.

Weirdest game was SE mirror when I messed up and took their Flamberge instead of mine but the dude somehow overlooked it and didn't crash their own monster into it to bring back their little ones back.

[Papa Shekels]

Horus, horus, and more horus. Felt like almost every deck above 15 was playing horus. Horus kash, horus galaxy, horus lab, horus numeron, horus fire king, horus stun. I started main decking hate specifically designed towards horus. It's a shame because I like the concept behind the deck, but it's so boring to just see it in every game doing the exact same thing. And the funny thing is that most of the time, I would have had a harder time just outing a bunch of horus monsters than the zombie vampire or photon lord they made with them. I don't even feel accomplished for reaching dlvl max because it feels like I wasted my time getting frustrated for something that wasn't worth it.

It also allowed branded to take a back seat over lab as the deck that I want to see get gutted into unplayability, I am beyond sick of seeing it in every event for the past year, ignoring the theme of the actual event and stalling games to a crawl. Easily one of the worst designs in yugioh history, and playing against it over and over and over just hits the point home

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They honestly should have just let Fossil Dyna in to let it be a perfect festival.

[TormentedSalad]

Hit 16 and stopped have so little desire to play xyz fest 3 I will continue to expect the worst hopefully they don't manage to top this

[wattsons feet]

Originally posted by Papa Shekels:

Horus, horus, and more horus. Felt like almost every deck above 15 was playing horus. Horus kash, horus galaxy, horus lab, horus numeron, horus fire king, horus stun. I started main decking hate specifically designed towards horus. It's a shame because I like the concept behind the deck, but it's so boring to just see it in every game doing the exact same thing. And the funny thing is that most of the time, I would have had a harder time just outing a bunch of horus monsters than the zombie vampire or photon lord they made with them. I don't even feel accomplished for reaching dlvl max because it feels like I wasted my time getting frustrated for something that wasn't worth it.

It also allowed branded to take a back seat over lab as the deck that I want to see get gutted into unplayability, I am beyond sick of seeing it in every event for the past year, ignoring the theme of the actual event and stalling games to a crawl. Easily one of the worst designs in yugioh history, and playing against it over and over and over just hits the point home

Damn so there were no burn or dark magician players past 15 ?

[RED-Life]

Made it to 20, worse event by far. I actually prefer the trial events that give only 1 pack than this. On the upside I got 5 UR crafts out of it.

[Fatality]

Boring. Used Zoo Kash and got DLV 20 quite easily, but I hate events that use the DC ranking system. It's just a huge waste of time. Locking gems behind cups is miserable. They can simply create competitive events for people that want to tryhard and give them extra rewards. Let the rest of us play casually. Ranked/Rating is more than enough.

[¿¡Kloey!?²]

I barely even touched it, with juggling work, FF14, Zenless Zone and trying to study a new TTRPG I plan to run and not having many XYZ decks I enjoy playing I was stuck using my Purrely deck for a short bit that I don't even really like playing before I grew disinterested and focused on other things than Master Duel entirely unfortunately.

I stand by that this was an event released far too soon that no one wanted or even asked for. Still waiting for a reappearance of the N/R Festival KONAMI.

[Soji]

managed to get to most of the gem rewards with umi control. Wasn't that fun since I dont really have a proper xyz deck, but games that kairyushin steals are always pretty funny to me

[Merilirem]

I got my gems without feeling like I was forcing myself to play. I just enjoyed my XYZ decks. Played Chaos Dragons and Horus variants mostly.

I just wish there weren't so many people playing stun and Lab. Decks that aren't planning to use XYZ cards aren't any fun and above 15-17 you can't surrender as readily if you want to grab the gems. They aren't even strong choices. People are just too lazy to play themed decks or they have somehow avoided purchasing ANY XYZ cards despite having obscure lab variants.

You can make some fun XYZ decks with N/R materials. So its not like its a resource issue below the top ranks.

[TormentedSalad]

Originally posted by ¿¡Kloey!?²:

I barely even touched it, with juggling work, FF14, Zenless Zone and trying to study a new TTRPG I plan to run and not having many XYZ decks I enjoy playing I was stuck using my Purrely deck for a short bit that I don't even really like playing before I grew disinterested and focused on other things than Master Duel entirely unfortunately.

I stand by that this was an event released far too soon that no one wanted or even asked for. Still waiting for a reappearance of the N/R Festival KONAMI.

That will be after xyz fest 15 and even when we get it it will be a half event with xyz fest 16

[TormentedSalad]

Originally posted by Merilirem:

I got my gems without feeling like I was forcing myself to play. I just enjoyed my XYZ decks. Played Chaos Dragons and Horus variants mostly.

I just wish there weren't so many people playing stun and Lab. Decks that aren't planning to use XYZ cards aren't any fun and above 15-17 you can't surrender as readily if you want to grab the gems. They aren't even strong choices. People are just too lazy to play themed decks or they have somehow avoided purchasing ANY XYZ cards despite having obscure lab variants.

You can make some fun XYZ decks with N/R materials. So its not like its a resource issue below the top ranks.

Honestly I can't blame them I played lab I could of absolutely played generaider dino some VW stuff maybe but I was not interested enough to care. I only made it miserable till I hit 16 then I totally tuned out I'm not so desperate for gems to give it any more mind

[Naruto0408]

worst event ever

[Mistic-Gohan]

With this s*** banlist ? Got all the missions and gems I wanted... then made my leave.