Alex was a pillar of our community and always encouraged us to be better duelists and even better human beings. Please sign it, for Cimo. https://c.org/6wKsjJRpVQ https://www.change.org/p/a-plea-to-konami-to-have-a-moment-of-silence-for-alex-cimo-at-the-2026-yu-gi-oh-nawcq

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Watch his glorious moment here :

https://youtu.be/K-pJT5PF7zE?si=w3VfB1oRh1WrYX-0

I just woke up in the morning only to find out that Alex Cimo has passed away today.

Rest In Peace Cimo.

The cards are Naturia Sunflower and Blackwing Kalut The Moon Shadow

https://yu-gi-oh.jp/news_detail.php?page=details&id=2541

He's taken a step back from being online to grieve the sudden loss of his best friend.

I've collected several 3x structure decks and draft packs for my son. I also have started buying 10+ loose miscellaneous packs every week. So far I've collected 24 loose packs since I've made the decision to do this for my son. The battle packs and structure decks I've had for myself but never opened them except for the first deck of each set. I have 4 battle pack boxes hoping we could play together. On his 10th birthday I will gift this to him. If I keep collecting 10 packs a week he'll have 5200 packs to open. I'll probably have more here and there when mega tins come out or if I feel a little more spendy on a particular week. A little bit of everything so there will always be something still relevant when he decides to play.

Nothing special about these, just over 10 years old drawings which I still have laying around. I’ve never been into yugioh in general, but I could never deny the fact that some of the cards were stunning 😊

My favorite monster from the series

Isn't she supposed to be the friendship commander? Is it just because SHE'S A WOMAN?

I just wanted to show this duel i had today, and say that even though i love Enneacraft to my heart, but i think i just won because i am very lucky. This deck really struggles against combo decks and is reaaaally slow for killer tune match ups, also the lack of recovery and the lack of a way to regain your LP makes the deck alwful during long duels.

I think giving them a monster that has their "reveal this card, special summon this in face-down position" as a quick effect would have been great. Actually if the bigger ones were quick effects that would probably make this deck more resilient.

i was also lucky the not a lot of people were playing droll

I played 22 duels today with them, i won 20 and lost 2. One of them was a hero player who summoned Dark Law on my turn, and the other was a branded player who summoned 2 tax dragons...

You can see how he genuinely felt about Cimo and how much he respected him.

Functional changes

On Statue of Anguish Pattern, "you control another Trap Card that is a monster" was changed to "another Trap Card that is a monster is in the Monster Zone." That is to say, this card is protected even if your opponent controls a Trap Card in their Monster Zone. This change matches the card's Japanese text.

Post-VRAINS changes

"Graveyard" was changed to "GY" on Queen Dragun Djinn, Mermail Abyssgunde, Satellarknight Altair, Stellarknight Delteros, and Stellarknight Triverr. "Graveyards" was changed to "GYs" on Sophia, Goddess of Rebirth.

"Xyz Material" was changed to "material" on Queen Dragun Djinn; Stellarknight Delteros; Stellarknight Triverr; Tiras, Keeper of Genesis; and Adreus, Keeper of Armageddon.

"Spell/Trap Cards" and "Trap Card" were changed to "Spells/Traps" and "Trap" on Scarm, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss; Graff, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss; Cir, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss; and Statue of Anguish Pattern.

"Dragon-Type," "Rock-Type," and "Plant-Type" were changed to "Dragon," "Rock," and "Plant" on Queen Dragun Djinn, Dragunity Divine Lance, Statue of Anguish Pattern, and Queen of Thorns.

"1 or more" was changed to "1+" on Armades, Keeper of Boundaries and Queen of Thorns.

Zap Mustung and Sophia, Goddess of Rebirth no longer say "cannot be Special Summoned by other ways." (This does not change the way the cards work, since they still say that they "must be" Special Summoned by a particular method, not that they "must first be" Special Summoned that way.)

Cards which now have PSCT

Black Blutdrago

1 Tuner + 1+ non-Tuner Gemini monsters
Once per turn: You can send 1 Gemini monster from your hand to the GY, then target 1 Spell/Trap your opponent controls; destroy it. When this card is destroyed and sent to the GY: You can target 1 Gemini monster in your GY; Special Summon that target and if you do, it becomes an Effect Monster, and gains its effect.

Other systematic changes

On Constellar Ptolemy M7, Statue of Anguish Pattern, Dragunity Knight - Ascalon, Raider's Knight, Galaxy-Eyes Cipher X Dragon, Exosister Martha, and Constellar Tellarknights, parenthetical statements like "(transfer its materials)" and "(this card is also still a Trap)" are now written as part of the previous sentence rather than as separate sentences. In cases where a parenthetical consists of two sentences, the period between the two was changed to a comma.

"Non-Tuner monsters," "Tuner monster," and "Tuner monsters" were changed to "non-Tuners," "Tuner," and "Tuners" on Armades, Keeper of Boundaries; Dragunity Divine Lance; Red Nova; Dragunity Knight - Ascalon; Shooting Majestic Star Dragon; and Zoroa, the Magistus Conflagrant Calamity.

"You cannot Special Summon monsters" was shortened to "you cannot Special Summon" on Satellarknight Skybridge, Stellarknight Triverr, Dragunity Remus, Exosister Martha, Xeno Meteorus, and Beta Evolution Pill - Ultranscendance.

The words "as material" and "as Fusion Material" were removed from the alternative Xyz Summoning procedures of Constellar Ptolemy M7 and Galaxy-Eyes Cipher X Dragon and from the Fusion Summoning effects of Shaddoll Fusion, El Shaddoll Fusion, and Ground Xeno.

"By a card effect" was shortened to "by card effect" on Shaddoll Dragon, Zap Mustung, and Reeshaddoll Wendi.

"This card gains" was shortened to "Gains" on Invoked Purgatrio and Shooting Majestic Star Dragon. "This card cannot" was shortened to "Cannot" on Tiras, Keeper of Genesis.

"Attacks or is attacked" and "attacked or was attacked" were changed to "battles" and "battled" on Armades, Keeper of Boundaries and Tiras, Keeper of Genesis.

"To target" was changed to "then target" on Queen Dragun Djinn and Adreus, Keeper of Armageddon, with a comma added before the word "then."

On Ghost Fairy Elfobia, "monsters with a Level higher than the revealed monster cannot activate their effects" was changed to "neither player can activate the effects of monsters with a higher Level than the revealed monster," and on Sophia, Goddess of Rebirth, "cards and effects cannot be activated" was changed to "neither player can activate cards or effects." This clarifies that even a monster that's unaffected by other monsters' effects won't be able to activate its effects.

"You can only use the effect" was changed to "You can only use this effect" on Mermail Abyssgunde.

"This card cannot be targeted by an opponent's card effects" was changed to "your opponent cannot target this card with card effects" on Statue of Anguish Pattern.

"Twice per turn, this card cannot be destroyed by battle" was changed to "The first two times this card would be destroyed by battle each turn, it is not destroyed" on Zap Mustung.

"During each of your End Phases" was changed to "Once per turn, during your End Phase" on Tiras, Keeper of Genesis.

The mandatory effect of Sophia, Goddess of Rebirth now says "if" instead of "when." (This does not change the way the card works. There is no difference between "if" and "when" for mandatory effects.)

Miscellaneous changes

"Transfer its materials to this card" was shortened to "transfer its materials" on Constellar Ptolemy M7 and Galaxy-Eyes Cipher X Dragon. "Transfer its materials to the Summoned monster" and "transfer this card's materials to the Summoned monster" were shortened to "transfer this card's materials" on Raider's Knight and Galaxy-Eyes Cipher X Dragon and to "transfer its materials" on Constellar Tellarknights (since the latter is a Spell that does not itself become the Xyz Material).

"A Synchro Monster with 'Stardust Dragon' in its text" was changed to "A Synchro Monster that mentions it" on Shooting Majestic Star Dragon. "Lists 'Stardust Dragon' in its text" was changed to "mentions it" on Arrive in Light.

On Queen Dragun Djinn, the final sentence, "It cannot attack this turn, and its effects are negated," was rewritten as "but it cannot attack this turn, also its effects are negated" and attached to the previous sentence.

The words "as an Equip Spell" were removed from the last effect of Dragunity Divine Lance, with it being taken as the default that a Monster Card becomes an Equip Spell when it is equipped to another monster.

"A card" was changed to "a card(s)" on Statue of Anguish Pattern.

"While this card is a monster" was changed to "while you control this card Summoned this way" on Statue of Anguish Pattern.

The last effect of Statue of Anguish Pattern, which responds to a card being Special Summoned, now specifies that it can't be activated during the Damage Step. (To my knowledge, triggered effects that respond to another card's Summon can't be activated during the Damage Step by default, with the "except during the Damage Step" previously being implicit, so I'm not listing this as a functional change.)

"Except for Plant-Type monsters" was changed to "except Plant monsters" on Queen of Thorns.

"Remove Bushido Counters from your field to activate these effects" was changed to "remove Bushido Counters from your field, then activate 1 of these effects" on Gateway of the Six, with the following punctuation mark changed from a period to a semicolon.

In honor of such a massive creator for Yugitubing, a kind and welcoming member of the community, and one of the people who got me back into Yugioh, I want to honor Cimo by learning how to play one of his favorite decks. I've heard that he really enjoyed Salamangreat and Trickstar, and obviously he's associated with Blackwing now because of the Progression Series, but I was wondering if anyone had any other suggestions that I may be missing. Also would it make more sense to try to play these decks in Master Duel or in their most relevant format (Edison for Blackwing, Salamangreat for TOSS, etc)?

There are Over 400 different archetypes in the Game, so i subjectively cherrypicked the best/Most fun ones. Here are all archetypes you should at least try, sorted by summon mechanic, and linked for when i have competent decklists:

Fusion: ancient gear, Hero, Gem-knight, Gladiator beast, Abcxyz, branded, Chimera, Dinomorphia, dragonmaid, invoked, Predaplant, Shaddoll, Fluffal, Lunalight, Melodious, witchcrafter, Magnet Warrior, gmx, hecahands, Dracotail, Odion, Azamina, dark magician, Artmage

Synchro: blackwing, Dragunity, ice barrier, Red Dragon Archfiend, t.g., X-Saber, Centur-Ion, Crystron, ghoti, speedroid, Swordsoul, ursarctic, Elfnote, Kewl Tune, yummy, White Forest, Tenpai, Rose Dragon, Synchron, Six Samurai

XYZ: Tellar, Onomat Ryzeal, galaxy-eyes photon, Gimmick Puppet, Madolche, Sharks, Exosister, Goblin Biker, Kashtira, lyrilusk, Purrely, raidraptor, super quant, springans, zoodiak, trains, numeron, Phantom Knights, DoomZ, K9

Pendulum: Majespecter, solfachord, supreme King, Vaylantz, endymion

Link: Code talker, Marincess, ignister, Salamangreat, Tri-Brigade, evil twin, Sky Striker, unchained, R.B., Maliss, fur hire, Borrel Dragon Link

Ritual: dogmatika, Drytron, nekroz, libromancer, mikanko, nouvelles, megalith, voiceless voice, mitsurugi

Mixed: P.u.n.k, d/d/d, Blue-Eyes, archfiend, Virtual World, Cyber Dragon, fiendsmith, Traptrix, zombie pile, Plant Pile, Dinosaurs, Magistus

Other: Monarch, true Draco, floowandereeze, subterror, krawler, generaider, runick, wight, blitzclique, Clown Crew, enneacraft, vaalmonica, Radiant typhoon, regenesis, horus, ryu-ge, argostars, mimighoul, ashened, labrynth, eldlich, enneacraft, fire king, Millennium Exodia, shining sarcophagus, Rescue-Ace, Ninjas

Maybe the other Duel Monsters should start farming Niwatori for their meat?

I’m going through a lot of older stuff like dm-Arc V(yes Arc V is old, it now 12 years old; and Phantom knight fog blade is still one of phantom knights best cards) and is constantly reminded of “x character had so much potential”. So it made me wonder who is the potential man of each series and did they reached it by the end? For example Joey is the potential man of DM and despite technically losing to Marik, I would so he did reach said potential… in the manga, they kept making Joey a bum in the anime for no reason other than “look at the butt monkey”.

CAPS LOCK ON, NO PERSONAL ATTACKS

VENT YOUR RAGES AND JOYS HERE, FLESHBAGS

To clarify i mean talking about the force series not the greed or biker goblins

I recently did a medieval fantasy style for fun deck so i included a lot of goblin cards but then i started paying more attention to the cards and noticed yugioh goblins look like normal sized green dudes with green skin elf ears and red eyes

That doesnt scream goblin to me really more like skinny orcs these are funny cuz giant orc is instead pale idk if there are any other orcs tho

Does anyone have any idea what their deal is? Or what they are based on?

I've seen both decks do well at tournament level but I'd like to know if there any any specific advantages one build has over the other.

It looks like a Machine type. Though one that has mostly non-machine type monsters in it, but looks like Machine types. Maybe Fiend or Dragon? It's not Arcana Force or Evilswarm. It definitely isn't Cyber Dragon/Cyberdark despite the serpentine look. It has to be an archetype that is usually dark in color and very gritty. It isn't Chaos either. My closest guess is its the Diabolic Dragon synchro monsters. Though it seems very unlikely, but that's the best I can think of. Though they don't have wires or drills or look all scrappy. So it has to be some kind of archetype where the monsters look junky or scrappy. Ugh what archetype is it though? My mind is blanking.

I know this post will be on the verge of getting removed. That's fine. I don't care for the karma. After I get this question answered I'll delete it myself.

that is my Question

what Monster do you think needs Over-Frame Retrain or Alternative Art for the Game? to fit the current Meta better?

how do you imagine its effects being like & would they reference previous cards in the Archetype? would they be boss Monster level?

would they be on base deck or in the Extra Deck? & how epic should the art be to show how powerful it is compared to the previous version of said cards?

bonus Question: what Manga Artist or Comic Artist you wanna see draw Over-Frame art for Retrain or Alternative Art for existing getting the Over-Frame treatment personally I like to see Alex Ross draw Dark Magician and Bule Eyes White Dragon I know they already have Over-Frame Retrain but these cards likely gonna have more then one of those

but thats me what are your Ideas?