Dealing with Gem Overflow?

[Vezera]

From my incredibly limited experience with the game, it seems like unless you buy gems, you can only hold up to 10,000 gems at a time. Any others you get will go into the Gift Box where they will have a timer on them where they'll disappear if you don't claim them in time(albeit a generous 30-day timer).

Since I'm at like 9600~ gems, I was tryin' to consider what to spend some gems on, when I realized I don't actually know what I want to spend them on. I only have my one self-made deck(Toons), and I doubt Vennominaga is something that works well nowadays or that I'd even be able to play it well. Looked at Harpies, but it kind of sort of seems like they need something else to help them because it didn't seem like they had the strength to beat over various other monsters.

Is there, like, a decent gem sink for when you don't actually have any set target, barring the generic pack which is apparently super-bloated?

[flutter]

Any preference on deck type (synchro, link, pendulum)? It'd help people with their suggestions.

[Vezera]

Originally posted by elkc:

Any preference on deck type (synchro, link, pendulum)? It'd help people with their suggestions.

Honestly no, last time I played YGO the Hero cards weren't even a thing yet, so I've got practically no preference to any of the non-Fusion/Ritual gimmicks. Relinquished has cards with those, that was kind of cool I guess.

[electricwizard]

I think it's smart to go for engines that work with multiple decks when you're not sure where to spend the gems

[Merilirem]

Think of your goals. Do you want the most powerful meta stuff or do you just like playing Yugioh? Do you like deck building or do you just want to play prebuilt decks? If you don't want to go into the selection packs which is where i have been blowing my gems(The blade one specifically) then look for cards you think are cool.

As an oldschool Chaos player coming into masterduel for me mean't grabbing my old chaos cards and anything else that supported this. My first Chaos supporting pick was Thunder Dragons and i am currently using them as part of my current chaos deck. My goal was Chaos so i went through a few things with light/dark monsters and found Lightsworn and Thunder Dragons to be the best so far.

My point is that what you go for has to do with what you like. So look for something you like the idea of and check around for cards that work with that idea. You will naturally find yourself wanting packs that help your deck if you do this. Its less about single archetypes and more about collecting a large number of cards which can work together. Your first pick being toons may have walled you in a bit and caused this lost feeling.


If you just want a decent archetype deck thats kinda fun on its own then i can definitely recommend Thunder Dragons. The bosses have destruction protections which means the meta DPE decks can't steamroll you and they have plenty of power to back it up. Just keep Colossus on the field and make sure to interrupt the enemy with Titan and your good.

[Vezera]

Originally posted by electricwizard:

I think it's smart to go for engines that work with multiple decks when you're not sure where to spend the gems

But that would be part of the problem, considering I don't know what those engines would actually be. I know things like Infinite Incontinence and Ash Blossom are cards you absolutely want in every single deck, but I didn't know if it was more worth it to just craft those individually or summon them.

Originally posted by Merilirem:

Think of your goals. Do you want the most powerful meta stuff or do you just like playing Yugioh? Do you like deck building or do you just want to play prebuilt decks? If you don't want to go into the selection packs which is where i have been blowing my gems(The blade one specifically) then look for cards you think are cool.

As an oldschool Chaos player coming into masterduel for me mean't grabbing my old chaos cards and anything else that supported this. My first Chaos supporting pick was Thunder Dragons and i am currently using them as part of my current chaos deck. My goal was Chaos so i went through a few things with light/dark monsters and found Lightsworn and Thunder Dragons to be the best so far.

My point is that what you go for has to do with what you like. So look for something you like the idea of and check around for cards that work with that idea. You will naturally find yourself wanting packs that help your deck if you do this. Its less about single archetypes and more about collecting a large number of cards which can work together. Your first pick being toons may have walled you in a bit and caused this lost feeling.


If you just want a decent archetype deck thats kinda fun on its own then i can definitely recommend Thunder Dragons. The bosses have destruction protections which means the meta DPE decks can't steamroll you and they have plenty of power to back it up. Just keep Colossus on the field and make sure to interrupt the enemy with Titan and your good.

I mean, I like playing Yugioh, but at the same time when I lose in Ranked I don't really get anything for it like the pity pulls you get for winning, and it probably takes much longer to go through the Battle Pass thingy.

I did look around for things that I thought I liked. Harpies, Vennominaga, Ruin/Demise, Vampire, the OG Trio and Archfiend are all things I looked at. However, I doubt any of that works in a bunch of other decks. I'm guessing a lot of what works in other decks consists of Extra Deck shenanigans where my knowledge is sorely lacking.

I can definitely take a look at Thunder Dragons, though. I think I fought one of those in Ranked so I'm actually familiar with a handful of those cards existing. Thanks for the advice.

[MancakeBR]

Can I suggest Rank 2 Beasts? you can run them with a small tri-brigade engine as well as Melffy engine.

[Just end trashbag.]

Play the solo. Maybe you will find something good.

[Lasagna]

just pulling whatever stuff for materials to dissemble to craft all the staples (called by the grave, maxx c, ash blossoms, accesscode talker, infinite imperm ect) is fine.

the new refined blade selection pack has swordsoul (a powerful meta deck), Destiny HERO - Destroyer Phoenix Enforcer (a part of a powerful engine that can be slapped into almost any deck), and lots of other good meta cards.

if you want to pull something for a specific deck a few pulls of the Tri-brigade secret pack is good, it's powerful support for any beast warrior, beast, or winged beast archetype and it can combo well with Harpies even if the two most popular combos are Zoodiacs and Lyriluscs. and if you want to play a super meta deck you can pretty cheaply swap out the harpies for zoodiacs.

[Angel]

give your problems to me and you won't have any more lol, and no there is no generic gem sink other than bloated master packs

[ominumi]

If you're set on just using one or two decks that fine. You will gain tons of gems without ever using them thanks to the events. I suggest you just buy random "Master Packs." The card pool is huge allowing you to get tons of cards without seeing any duplicates. You have to remember the collector side of yugioh. Grab 3 copies of every card.

[Harrow]

I'd say look over all of the archetypes and look up a few decks or game play to see how they go. Reading the cards and figuring out what they do helped me find my way to what I wanted. I've got a mix of stuff that's both finished and unfinished now. I've not played since the heros came out so learning all these wacky different archetypes are neat.

[Vezera]

Damn, so there isn't a super secret pack consisting only of the super-meta cards? What kind of a business model is that? :v

Originally posted by MotherXXXker:

Play the solo. Maybe you will find something good.

I've been playing through Solo, that's actually where I got a couple of the pre-mades I got(Gem-Knights and Ruin/Demise being two).

Originally posted by MancakeBR:

Can I suggest Rank 2 Beasts? you can run them with a small tri-brigade engine as well as Melffy engine.

Originally posted by βumble:

if you want to pull something for a specific deck a few pulls of the Tri-brigade secret pack is good, it's powerful support for any beast warrior, beast, or winged beast archetype and it can combo well with Harpies even if the two most popular combos are Zoodiacs and Lyriluscs. and if you want to play a super meta deck you can pretty cheaply swap out the harpies for zoodiacs.

Two mentions for 'Tri-Brigade', I think I've heard of them before. Don't they have like, a bird sniper card that's absolutely bonkers? If it pairs well with Harpies, I might actually give that a look. Thanks.

Edit: Ominumi says "grab 3 of every card". I know of the 3-card limit and the Restricted/Limited list and all of that, but do I really only need the 3 copies of a card, regardless of how many decks I wanna use said card in? Like, the game's smart enough to know I can only use one deck at a time and shuffles around accordingly?