is this game friendly for new players?

[Sugar Show]

or must I keep playing duel links?

[Merilirem]

Messaggio originale di HeraldOfOpera:

Agreeing with others that this is basically just modern Yugioh which doubled down on the newbie-unfriendly parts of early Yugioh. I have no idea how the game and anime survived long enough to release Master Duel, but it has so it must be doing something right.

Messaggio originale di draconicepic:

Ignore the talks about which packs to open. Ultimately, whether you do Secret or Selection packs, it all comes down to luck. The ultimate problem with Master Duel is getting cards needed for higher ranks (Gold III+). Hand traps and board breakers become a staple at these ranks. Most are not available outside of Master Packs despite being URs and SRs; therefore, you'll probably need to craft them. Crafting the staple cards you need while also building decks can be quite the challenge even with all the free gems given. My best advice is to figure out what deck you want before you even start buying packs.

It's not even about crafting them, it's drawing them when they're needed. But yes, you need to know exactly what you want before you even start playing.

Not true. I had no understanding of Modern Yugioh when I started playing Master Duel. I just went into the cards I liked which were Chaos and stuff like Exodia/god cards. Everything else was picked up along the way. What you need is an open mind and patience.

[【𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙠】🧉]

Friendly with new players? Maybe. Friendly with boomers? No.

[Merilirem]

Messaggio originale di 【𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙠】🎄:

Friendly with new players? Maybe. Friendly with boomers? No.

Again with the boomer talk. "boomers" are fine, they just need to do the same as Duel Links players and new players and accept reality as it is. The ones on the forums complaining mostly just want to complain. The only difference between new players and old ones is that the old ones want to play Yugioh while the new ones will just give up on it if its not clicking with them.

[Papa Shekels]

Messaggio originale di Merilirem:

Again with the boomer talk. "boomers" are fine, they just need to do the same as Duel Links players and new players and accept reality as it is. The ones on the forums complaining mostly just want to complain. The only difference between new players and old ones is that the old ones want to play Yugioh while the new ones will just give up on it if its not clicking with them.

That's precisely what the term is used to refer to. Even the original "insult" of boomer wasn't really used specifically for an age group, more for anybody holding an outdated mindset and refusing to let go. If somebody either A) adjusts to the game and accepts what it is or B) realizes they don't enjoy it anymore and leave, there is no issue. Yugiboomer is specifically used for the people who refuse to learn and blame everything under the sun for the game being bad, i.e not what they want it to be. That's where you get all the classics such as:

(extra deck summoning method here) ruined yugioh
yugioh is just solitaire
everybody who plays more than 3 cards per turn is playing a meta deck but doesn't actually know the deck or have any skill, they just blindly copied it from a list online and are following a spreadsheet
yugioh needs to restrict summons/effects per turn
(popular deck here) needs an emergency ban list
we need mystic mine and maxx "C" to keep the meta sheep in check
my opponent takes 25 minutes to set up 40 negates using 100 cards
and of course, the community favorite, "this isn't real yugioh"

[DeathStr8Up]

Messaggio originale di Sugar Show:

or must I keep playing duel links?

No don't waste your time

[Cinnamoon_dragon]

Messaggio originale di Barbatos:

Buying secret packs are how you want to get most of ur cards, buying selection packs and dusting them for 1/3 the price of a card is just dumb when you can instead buy the secret pack and have an actual chance at getting the cards you want

Sorry, but who wants to dust Swordsoul, Floowandereeze or Branded Despia cards?
By investing in selection packs, you are guaranteed to get an up-to-date meta deck and any extra SR and UR copies that you receive on top of that is just a bonus.
And speaking of chances, only 4 of the 8 cards in the secret pack belong to the featured archetype. This means that half of what you draw will be completely random cards out of a total 7000-card pool. And, the chance of an Ultra Rare drop is listed as something like 2.5%. Now you see that you need really big luck so that even this small percentage does not hit the wrong 4 cards out of 8?
Also guys, I'll politely ask you not to write me some offtopic because I don't have time to answer and explain each silly thing. I'm here only to talk about the game, discuss the best decks and such.

[German Economy]

its beginner friendly in like you get a lot of gems at the start and can do pretty much any deck just from those free gems, but going by its competitive scene it isnt beginner friendly at all, you play mostly against super sweaty tier 1 decks, which are tier 1 for a reason and most basic decks cant compete with that unless you get lucky.

You can try looking at the tier decks on the internet and see if there is something you are curious to try, so you can use the free gems on a competitive deck first and then use that deck to do your mission, climb rank, etc, which are mostly your way of earning more gems, once in a blue moon you get a few gems as a gift, but dont count on that.

You should also look at the starter deck, for just 500 gems you get pretty neat decks with some UR (the legendarys), that you can use in multiple decks, they are really cheap given the stuff you get and you can build stronger decks out of this base.

There are also solo gates where you have to beat bots with a rented deck or your own, where you can look at some decks and see if something tickles you, the bots dont have the greatest AI tho

[Filipino Enjoyer]

Messaggio originale di Static-ghost:

Messaggio originale di Barbatos:

Sorry, but who wants to dust Swordsoul, Floowandereeze or Branded Despia cards?

literally noone said that but you lmao

Messaggio originale di Static-ghost:

Messaggio originale di Barbatos:

By investing in selection packs, you are guaranteed to get an up-to-date meta deck and any extra SR and UR copies that you receive on top of that is just a bonus.

and that's useless to people who want to build a deck that's not in the selection pack, dusting 3 selection pack cards just so you can craft 1 secret pack card is just dumb when you can instead roll for the cards

Messaggio originale di Static-ghost:

Messaggio originale di Barbatos:

And speaking of chances, only 4 of the 8 cards in the secret pack belong to the featured archetype. This means that half of what you draw will be completely random cards out of a total 7000-card pool. And, the chance of an Ultra Rare drop is listed as something like 2.5%. Now you see that you need really big luck so that even this small percentage does not hit the wrong 4 cards out of 8?
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And those are the cards you dust to make staples/ cards that you want to build your deck

if you're rolling the selection pack to build a deck that's in a secret pack it is both wrong and dumb af

Messaggio originale di Static-ghost:

Messaggio originale di Barbatos:

Also guys, I'll politely ask you not to write me some offtopic because I don't have time to answer and explain each silly thing. I'm here only to talk about the game, discuss the best decks and such.

ur the only person saying silly things and purposely telling people the most inefficient way to make decks

[Cinnamoon_dragon]

Messaggio originale di Barbatos:

Messaggio originale di Static-ghost:

Sorry, but who wants to dust Swordsoul, Floowandereeze or Branded Despia cards?

literally noone said that but you lmao
ur the only person saying silly things and purposely telling people the most inefficient way to make decks

?? But it is you just said to dismantle Ultra rare cards from selection packs to build decks that's in the secret packs, and now you're trying to pretend it's me suggesting it, right? Can you quote me where I suggested it? What I actually wanted to say is that the Selection packs are more free-to-play friendly and nothing more than that. If you want to spend a crazy amount of resources to build the Endymion or Dinosaur deck, this is your right and I do not argue with that.
Dude, you really upset me because I read your past posts on the forum and I thought that you were an adequate person with logical answers.

[【𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙠】🧉]

Messaggio originale di Static-ghost:

Messaggio originale di Barbatos:

literally noone said that but you lmao
ur the only person saying silly things and purposely telling people the most inefficient way to make decks

?? But it is you just said to dismantle Ultra rare cards from selection packs to build decks that's in the secret packs, and now you're trying to pretend it's me suggesting it, right? Can you quote me where I suggested it? What I actually wanted to say is that the Selection packs are more free-to-play friendly and nothing more than that. If you want to spend a crazy amount of resources to build the Endymion or Dinosaur deck, this is your right and I do not argue with that.
Dude, you really upset me because I read your past posts on the forum and I thought that you were an adequate person with logical answers.

You said you don't have time for answers

[Filipino Enjoyer]

Messaggio originale di Static-ghost:

Messaggio originale di Barbatos:

literally noone said that but you lmao
ur the only person saying silly things and purposely telling people the most inefficient way to make decks

?? But it is you just said to dismantle Ultra rare cards from selection packs to build decks that's in the secret packs,

either you can't read or you're purposely trying to put words in my mouth, because i said and i quote

"buying selection packs and dusting them for 1/3 the price of a card is just dumb"

i am literally saying not to do that, you dust the cards from packs that you don't need, for example if ur rolling for the new selection pack and rolled the weather cards and you never plan to play them than yes, dust them

telling new players to buy the selection pack when they might not even want the cards in it is literally factually wrong to do and im making sure players don't fall into the trap ur setting for them

Do you actually know anything about the economy of this game lmao?

Messaggio originale di Static-ghost:

Messaggio originale di Barbatos:

literally noone said that but you lmao
ur the only person saying silly things and purposely telling people the most inefficient way to make decks

Dude, you really upset me because I read your past posts on the forum and I thought that you were an adequate person with logical answers.

I literally do not care what some random spreading bad information on the internet thinks about me

[Cinnamoon_dragon]

Messaggio originale di Barbatos:

if ur rolling for the new selection pack and rolled the weather cards and you never plan to play them than yes, dust them

Yes, that's a bit dumb, because why do you insist so much that getting the weather card from selections is bad, but from secret pack is good? I remind you again that every secret pack you buy contains eight cards: four from the entire game's card pool, and four from the secret pack.
If you want to build Blue Eyes deck for the sake of nostalgia, yes, buy secret packs, but it will be incredibly expensive compared to If you just decided to stick with Swordsoul while their set was in the store.

Messaggio originale di Barbatos:

I literally do not care what some random spreading bad information on the internet thinks about me

It's not true, absolutely everyone is care and especially when they say otherwise. Also, I have absolutely not said a single bad thing to you, or about you, you have not a single reason to be so mad at me. People can read these posts and easily draw conclusions about which of us showed the worst behavior

[OBI Hörnchen]

No !! this game is dead ... no insperation and Fun !

[Filipino Enjoyer]

Messaggio originale di Static-ghost:

Messaggio originale di Barbatos:

if ur rolling for the new selection pack and rolled the weather cards and you never plan to play them than yes, dust them

Yes, that's a bit dumb, because why do you insist so much that getting the weather card from selections is bad, but from secret pack is good? I remind you again that every secret pack you buy contains eight cards: four from the entire game's card pool, and four from the secret pack.

What part of "rolling in the selection pack is bad if you want cards from a secret pack" is hard to understand honestly, rolling in selection is bad if cards you want are from a secret pack, dusting 3 selection pack cards is worse than rolling on the pack and getting the cards that you want, and as i've already said the cards pulled from outside the pack go towards cards you didn't pull from the secret pack or staples

omg learn to read and stop trolling pls lmao

maybe one day you'll be smart enough to learn about the economy of this game

oh and if you could stop spreading bad information that would be good too

[CDI Mario]

Messaggio originale di abkorman:

Just stay in Duel Links, MD isn't new player friendly. Many cards effects in MD is obnoxious & open to abusive by its player.

Compare how much money it takes to build a deck master duel to duel links. Master duel is more friendly in comparison. a top meta deck in duel links costs 40K gems at least. You cant craft cards reliably either. a top deck in master duel can be upwards of 80 dollars based around luck but comparing that to 40k gems which is give or take around 650 dollars. Its fairly friendly