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

[Zephyr]

It was mostly sweats using Horus, Kashtira, Galaxy Eyes, and occasionally Lab, so same ♥♥♥♥ as always.

[e-dood]

Had fun playing with my dancing girls.

[¿¡Kloey!?²]

Publicado originalmente por TormentedSalad:

Publicado originalmente por ¿¡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

Honestly I'd believe this more than if someone told me they were actually putting worthwhile alternative modes of play in this game.

[khermerker]

well bad d 13 and well at last decide if see the you win d lvl if win i just resign in theory that gives the win so good for them I hope

[TormentedSalad]

Publicado originalmente por ¿¡Kloey!?²:

Publicado originalmente por TormentedSalad:

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

Honestly I'd believe this more than if someone told me they were actually putting worthwhile alternative modes of play in this game.

games still the lightsworn waiting room until they give me something interesting to do

[Prokaizer]

Funny how every new event is considered worst than the previous one by the players.

[Drago]

It could have gone better, at least I got the challenges though. I was surprised a few times by a field spell that pumped dragon defense by 500 and made it so non-link monsters couldn't attack (and restricted lower level links from being summoned if they were lower than one already on the field), shut my XYZ deck down something fierce. Other than that, I did see a bunch of Labrynth, Horus, Kashtira (often Horus mixed with the other two), and Purrelly. I did see some more creative examples and there was a good amount of Galaxy Proton as well as some Shark variants.

[khermerker]

update: well at end was good I mean I got enough motivation for give up on this game congratz konami this event and the lack of get to d lvl 15 make me think that hell is not so bad place if this exist...

[Terminal Desolation]

Made it to ~18k with Purrely in a day to close out every mission I hadn't done yet. Pretty easy climb, I think top 100 would've been feasible if I had started on the first day and actually like... cared about the event. I realized once I got all the gems I really wasn't having fun, which is weird because I love Purrely so normally an event where I get to play it is usually one I enjoy.

Overall conclusion, event was fine but nothing special. I don't think it was the worst event we've had by far, but it wasn't far off from the "average" which is "bland and not really worth talking about"

[Ryuji Dread]

I played literally against Kashtira, Horus, Lab, SE/Fire, Purrely and Galaxy Eyes the entire time. Might have seen one or two rouge decks and one random OTK but it was just stale. Lost incentive after hitting DL. 18 to keep pushing it.

Honestly, I only played because of the free gems otherwise would have skipped it entirely.

[Knud den Store 🧙‍♂]

Terrible, I am taking a break from the game.
I won using decks that I liked, then I moved onto actual Xyz decks and even got some new URs for them only to face Labrynth and Stun at LV19, then changed to Vanquish Soul until I ultimately decided for Snake Eye Fire King and that is when I realized that making the grind for the Xyz Frame was not only unlikely due to time constrains since it is awarded to the top 100 players but I did not care enough because the event sucked but perhaps I had make it to Bronze...on an event that sucked.

The best decks in the Xyz event did not Xyz summon at all.
Similarly I do not care for any of the new decks I built.
Centur-Ion and Yubel are just so boring to play.
I simply do not enjoy any deck whose win condition is "Go First, Make Board then wait for the opponent to scoop".

I like breaking boards and actually playing the game, there is no a single good deck for that until Tenpai and nothing I want to play until Gold Pride Support and Mimighoul arrive. I feel I am in a good position to take a break and return later since Centur-ion gets more support later but I just don't feel like staying for Fiendsmith meta.

I miss Tearlament and its capability to break boards going second.
Right now, the game devolves into hand trap warfare and I just don't care for it .
Don't get me wrong the game IS getting better but I feel I have seen it all.

[Zelwy]

eh didnt like it that much, I am not a fan or xyz summoning, also most decks were just Horus/kashtira + something, but whatever, free gems are free gems.

[Speedy☆☺]

Pretty bad it was locked down by Kashtira mostly, XYZ can take a while to get out could get past 15 because it was Kashtira over and over. I had it six times back to back 4 of which was they had first turn and two of which I had stale hands.

[Sho]

I came back to Master Duel this friday after... a long time, really. Am a very active player IRL but ditched MD a while ago. Decided to drop by because why not ahaha.

Saw the Xyz festival, had some Zoodiacs lying around and decided to go for it, crafting whatever cards I needed on the way. (Last time I played had Drident and Zeus to 1 with Barrage and Rat forbidden, imagine how long ago was that.)

Long story short, it seems that no matter how much time passes, no one ever reads Utopic Draco Future and tries to destroy it with Spells, and no one is really prepared for several instances of 6-material Zeus. Made it to... DLv17 before maintenance I think?

But anyway, it seems they never did really fix the problem with events in MD: They don't really give you enough incentives to play them (it's kinda too much effort to DLv20 for the amount of gems you get tbh), nor reward you for playing them as intended.

I do understand not everyone likes playing the same things, but if you're gonna let people play Labrynth/Eldlich/Stun/Burn/True Draco/whatever Deck that ignores the event's theme, at least give more rewards to players that actually play by the special rules.

But eh. At least MD is still nice to take a breather from regular YGO TCG. I'll have fun reading thru' all new solo modes later.

[Speedy☆☺]

Publicado originalmente por Sho:

I came back to Master Duel this friday after... a long time, really. Am a very active player IRL but ditched MD a while ago. Decided to drop by because why not ahaha.

Saw the Xyz festival, had some Zoodiacs lying around and decided to go for it, crafting whatever cards I needed on the way. (Last time I played had Drident and Zeus to 1 with Barrage and Rat forbidden, imagine how long ago was that.)

Long story short, it seems that no matter how much time passes, no one ever reads Utopic Draco Future and tries to destroy it with Spells, and no one is really prepared for several instances of 6-material Zeus. Made it to... DLv17 before maintenance I think?

But anyway, it seems they never did really fix the problem with events in MD: They don't really give you enough incentives to play them (it's kinda too much effort to DLv20 for the amount of gems you get tbh), nor reward you for playing them as intended.

I do understand not everyone likes playing the same things, but if you're gonna let people play Labrynth/Eldlich/Stun/Burn/True Draco/whatever Deck that ignores the event's theme, at least give more rewards to players that actually play by the special rules.

But eh. At least MD is still nice to take a breather from regular YGO TCG. I'll have fun reading thru' all new solo modes later.

Also kind of annoying after some people get LV20 just still play try hard not letting other players get to LV20. Whats the point when everyone can get LV20 but then gate box rewards because someone plays a deck you can't get around. It isn't about getting gud either. Not everyone wants to play the same meta.