r/yugioh 2d ago

Q&A and Ruling Megathread - July 20, 2026

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If you're asking for some information, put your question in the comments of this post. If you're discussing a topic, rather than asking for some information, you can make a separate post outside of this one.

Here are examples of questions which belong in the comments of this thread:

  • Questions about the rules of Yu-Gi-Oh!
  • "Is this card fake?"
  • "What are some good decks?"
  • "Has there been any news about X?"
  • "Where can I buy or sell cards?"

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r/yugioh Jun 05 '26

News Yugituber Alex Cimo has passed away, Rest in peace.

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r/yugioh 6h ago

Card Game Discussion The main reason I don't want to play Genesys is the lack of Pendulums.

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Removing Pendulums breaks the entire appeal of genesys for me. A lot of my favorite decks incorporate pendulums.

I have my own tinfoil hat theory that they originally planned to have pendulums but did not want to resort back to MR3, so they just cut out pendulums entirely.

As for my favoriate decks?

- D/D/D? I mean good luck trying to play D/D/D without any of the pendulum support, even if it is technically possible.

- Predaplants? Very feasible, but you are missing out on two very good utility cards in Bufo and Mantis, and you straight up can't play the deck's newest boss monster.

- Lunalight? Again, feasible but not recommended.

- Enneacraft? No.


r/yugioh 5h ago

Fan Art Magician of Black Chaos & Chaos Sorcerer

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118 Upvotes

It's just some fan art I work on commission for a proxy/orica.

I thought it would be interesting to share with you, Black Chaos fans, how I.


r/yugioh 36m ago

Custom Card As a kid, a Stardust Dragon / Blackwing combo monster was always my dream.

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Stardust Dragon and Blackwing Armor Master were my two favorite monsters around the 2010/2011 era. And I always imagined a combo of the two.

The card effect protection of Stardust Dragon plus the battle protection of Blackwing Armor Master, I didn't know it yet but I guess I gravitated towards Towers monsters before they were even a thing.

And with Miracle Synchro Fusion coming around towards the end of 5Ds, it would've been perfectly practical to make too.


r/yugioh 1h ago

Anime/Manga Discussion Which depiction of absolute evil did you like most in Yugioh? Zorc, Nightshroud, King of the Neatherworld, or Don Thousand?

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Personally gotta go with Zorc


r/yugioh 4h ago

Card Game Discussion Beyond The Brave confirms an early pattern of how built-in themes(10 Card themes) work similarly to Deck Build Pack themes having follow-up in the next set.

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Deck Type Chaos Origins Beyond The Brave
Anime Deck(Cover) Light and Darkness Ritual Dark Time Wizard
Anime Deck 2 Sacred Beasts Umbral Horror
New Theme Blitzclique Ashtra
Retrain of Old/Legacy Themes Aleister/Invoked Daedalus-Umi

in your opinion what do the BETB Decks need with the least amount of cards(1~3)?


r/yugioh 17h ago

Fan Art Serial Killer AU (Artist: @papaya0813)

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r/yugioh 11h ago

Card Game Discussion What are your predictions for the other two themes from Glorious Victors? (Raise Moon and Xenovader)

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We already have Sennet revealed, but what are your theories about the other two?

Raise Moon is described as: **"A theme that shines brighter and brighter the harder one yearns for the moon!"** My guess is that Raise Moon will be a control strategy focused on Link climbing. Or maybe the coins in the background hint at another coin-tossing archetype.

Xenovader is described as: **"Grotesque monsters from a xenoverse are now unleashed!"** This is the cosmic horror theme. Maybe it'll be an xyz strategy centered around banishing. The monster gives me Dark Rebellion vibes, only much creepier with all the tentacles. I could also see it being a midrange deck.

What are your theories?


r/yugioh 10h ago

Anime/Manga Discussion Alright, shark wins for most loved and morally grey person for the fandom. Now whose a horrible person and loved by the fandom in yugioh ZEXAL?

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79 Upvotes

OH MY GOD ITS TOO OBVIOUS LOL.

The amount of upvotes and comments will determine the result.

You can only choose ONE answer. No "or". And it has to be a zexal character. A ZEXAL character.


r/yugioh 7h ago

Card Game Discussion Testing New Doriado in Monarchs. Found out both The Monarchs Revolt and Demiurge Ema are instant set ups for her. Also Eidos the underworld Monarch can be used to change Doriados Attribute. By Dumping certain combo of attribute and using Eidos eff, your Doriado can summon almost any attr. from deck

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Use Monarchs Revolt to discard 1 attribute Monarch, then reveal the other 3 attributes monarch from your deck, you get one to add to your hand, you send the rest to the graveyard.

Now you have the 2 monarchs sent to the grave plus the one you discarded. You have 3 different attributes in grave and can special summon Doriado and use her effect to bring one back from the grave. Then by tribute summon a monarch you can get three monsters into your grave again to immediately use her effect to summon any attribute monster from deck different from the attributes among monsters you control and in your graveyard.

If you use Eidos the underworld Monarch in this combo you can change Doriados Attribute on the field, or anyone else if you really wanted to, and you can use that to unlock more potential attributes for Doriado to summon, like Light for example, you can make her something other than light that way you can summon a light monster off her effect, provided you didn't discard or send light monarchs to the grave during the combo.

If you do this combo with Demiurge Ema, you just activate EMA effect to send four different monarchs with four different attributes from your deck to the grave to summon it, and you can instantly have the set up needed to summon Doriado. By sending the right attribute combinations of monarchs with Demiurge EMA, you can set up your grave and field with the attribute combinations necessary to summon from the deck whatever attribute you wanted with Doriado.


r/yugioh 17h ago

Card Game Discussion World Championship Banlist 🚫

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What are your thoughts on the World Championships only Forbidden & Limited List that was recently revealed?
Taking into account cards that are banned limited or semi limited between the TCG/OCG formats is wild!


r/yugioh 11h ago

Fan Art Red-Eyes Black Dragon, the Black Ferocious Beast [Art by RedMobz on Twitter]

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r/yugioh 9h ago

Card Game Discussion What are the scariest decks you know ?

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I want to create the perfect profile. On Yu-Gi-Oh Neuron, when you have an opponent, you can see 3 achivements, like total Victory (Winning a local tournament), master of R.B.(winning 5 matches with a R.B. deck) and such...

If you face an unknown opponent, what are the 3 decks you're afraid to see on their profile ?

I'm thinking of Herald, Kashtira and Plants. I want to see decks that either are/were top meta tier Zero, or crazy PTSD inducing decks that could setup terrifying boards/degenerate strategies, like infernoble or Gimmick puppet.


r/yugioh 8h ago

Anime/Manga Discussion Happy Birthday to Nomura Kenji, seiyū of Demak (5D's) and Hōsaku Yasai (ZEXAL)!

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r/yugioh 8h ago

Anime/Manga Discussion Shunsuke Kazama

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can we just appreciate how absolutely phenomenal Shunsuke Kazama's voice work for Yami Yugi was in the Waking the Dragons arc? don't get me wrong, Dan Green is iconic and a legend in his own right, but you can just hear the sheer pain and heartbreak in Kazama's voice when Yugi loses his soul, as well as in the episodes afterwards. the way he just screams "aibou! AIBOUUU!!!", coupled with Shinkichi Mitsumune's outstanding, heartfelt score (particularly the track After Being Soulless) is a real tearjerker and hits so much harder emotionally than it does in the 4Kids dub.


r/yugioh 2h ago

Card Game Discussion How much faith do you guys have in konami "Fixing" the beyond the brave archetypes with their follow up support in the next core set immortal phoenix?

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So it's not a surprise but every new archetype in beyond the brave besides ars magna flopped hard competitively. The question is now do you expect konami will fix the problems in these archetypes with their follow up support? We know based on chaos origin follow ups in beyond the brave that each 10 card wave archetype will get at least 1 card, joey is probably getting 2.

How much faith do you have in konami fixing these archetypes to make them better, or do you not have any faith in them at all?


r/yugioh 2h ago

Card Game Discussion What do you think the strongest non legend card on rush duel

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Specifically, the OTK variant centered around Injection Fairy Lily in monarch deck.

Easy to summon and gains 3000 ATK until the end of this turn , all you have to do is pay 2000LP


r/yugioh 6h ago

Card Game Discussion Would anyone else want to see a C/C archetype irl? Personally I think a C/C archetype that used your opponent’s monster’s attributes/types against them could be really cool.

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You could have each XYZ, Synchro and Fusion monster have different effects based on it’s materials used to summon it. And different types, ranks and levels for different effects and so on.


r/yugioh 13h ago

Fan Art I made Seto Kaiba X Blue-Eyes Capsule monsters animation

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r/yugioh 13h ago

Anime/Manga Discussion Interesting to note how the Barian Emperors that wear masks in their Barian Forms have nothing to do with the others in their previous lives:

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Unlike the wielders of N101-N104 (Nasch, Durbe, Merag, and Vector), who don't wear masks, their other comrades, Alito, Girag, and Mizael do. This was most definitely intentional because it lines up with how not a single member of this trinity had anything to do with any other Barian Emperor in their past lives.

Nasch, Durbe, Merag, and Vector's lives were all intertwined with another while the other three had their own thing going on. Alito was simply being a gladiator and fought with his hands instead of needing to use weapons, and he was great friends with the prince of his land, but then got framed for somethung he didn't do. His friend was initially against his execution, but then the very same friend bascally said go ahead with the execution later on, so yeah, Alito was basically betrayed by his friend, even though it was beyond the king's control, since Don Thousand possessed the king.

And when Mizael was young, raiders destroyed his home and killed his parents, forcing him to wander the desert on the verge of death until Dragluon rescued him, forging a powerful, lifelong bond. Since then, Mizael basically became a mighty dragon tamer who protected his land. However, his life turned upside-down when a wandering shaman blamed the dragon for causing a flood, but Mizael did his best to defend his dragon from the rioting villagers and even offered his own life so the villagers would believe him. Howevee, they were killed anyway by a neighboring army, and it was later revealed that the wandering shaman was Don Thousand all along, he approached Mizael during his dying moments, and embedded Tachyon's card into Mizael's heart, later converting him into a Barian.

And then there was Girag, or Souhachi Kiraku as he was known in his past life. A great and benevolent warrior who befriended a tanuki named Ponta, who aided him in battles and won many conquests. Girag/Kiraku's vassals were displeased with his policy of distrubiting the wealth among the peasants (something he often did during his conquests), and rebelled against him. But then Girag, already knowing that he wouldn't be able to win this battle, forced himself to part way with Ponta, making the latter feel betrayed. And just like with Mizael, it was Don Thousand who brainwashed the vassals to turn against Girag.


r/yugioh 3h ago

Competitive Here's a really cool 1 card Umbral combo that plays around fuwalos while also letting you reset the field spell if it gets outed.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GkkaRZ7_yc

This is honestly such a sick idea and I'm very surprised nobody else has found this before. Youtube umbral combos have not been very interesting and neither has the discord combos. He's a brand new combo I found on youtube that allows you to establish c104, the counter trap plus a double seventh barian's field spell floodgate if it ends up getting popped. The idea is that you end on thousand umbral in your normal combo when you summon c104. This means that if your opponent outs your field spell, you can reset it on your opponents turn so they have to out it twice! They can't even try to run over the thousand in battle cause c104 pop effect will protect it. You also have an omni in the counter trap and that card guarantees you follow up on your next turn.

Credits to metricz for figuring out this combo line. This feels like an actual genuinely good fuwalos combo.


r/yugioh 2h ago

Card Game Discussion R.I.P Terminal World pack Series but Duel Terminal archetype support isn’t over yet…

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With the recent news that we are getting a Revolution Booster #2 pack. It was great news until us Terminal World fans realized that RB2 booster takes the pack slot of Terminal World 4 meaning it is outright replacing it. Sad cause I felt this may have happened since in Terminal World 3 they did go out with a big bang and release new support for the more meta and popular archetypes(back then) such as Dragunity, Shadoll, and and Stellarknight.

So ya the Terminal World pack series seems to be cancelled for good but what does this mean? I say us Duel terminal fans shouldn’t give up hope that quickly. Ya the pack series ended but that means they could go back to including Duel Terminal archetypes in main set boosters now like they did in the past(before the introduction of the terminal World Series). So the archetypes such as Mist Valley, Flamvells, Steelswarm, Worms, Ally of Justice, and Vylons can still get new support in main set boosters now or even get chosen to be in a future RevolutionBooster pack. Hopefully one day one of these archetypes get new support in some way.


r/yugioh 6h ago

Other Did you ever seen this before?

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I bought this card and when it arrived I thought it was some dirt but it has these dots like on the borders


r/yugioh 1d ago

Card Game Discussion Is it wrong to concede when you know you can't win? - Locals Story [Rant]

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I was playing at my Locals and my opponent is one of those "meta only" T1 sweat players, I just play rogue for fun, and we start dueling; He wins the die roll and goes first full combo with Kewl Tune and I don't have enough non-engine in hand to out the board so I just say "Let's go Game 2". I open a decent hand but it's all searcher cards so the moment I do a search he Droll's me turning off literally every card in my hand so I just offer him a handshake and concede. He looks at me offended that I surrendered and went "Really?" and I replied "Yeah, I mean I can't play?" He showed me his hand, and again, it was just full KT combo so obviously I was dead on his turn. Then he complains to me that he's only actually played like 7 minutes of yugioh today, guessing that his games are over by turn 2 (It was the second round of tourney). Like is it so wrong to not want to have to sit there and watch your opponent combo and kill you? Is it considered rude to want to surrender when you know it is an impossible win?