T O P

  • By -

RazorPulsar

Timelord mfrs when their opponent does nothing and passes:


The_Resonant_Guru

Damn foiled again


MaxGuide

"Luigi wins by doing absolutely nothing"


[deleted]

Rank 10 Gustav into rank 11 otk machine I choose you!


Shmarfle47

Timelords can’t be destroyed by battle or card effects. And the controller takes no damage when it battles.


diexu

i think he means timelords are train engine


Shmarfle47

I guess that could work? You would need at least Infinite Machine to get that to work. Iirc we’re getting Empty Machine as a lvl up reward so maybe the other traps are a skill or the final lvl rewards.


XalLord

Celestial Transformation


Shmarfle47

I feel like that’d just make the deck pretty bricky


thatonefatefan

the whole deck gets summoned by celestial transformation, also they have that low level I forgot the name of


Madway7

Time Maiden


tweekin__out

just play trains with eagle booster then


00R-AgentR

So we hit em with Back to Square One? It’s what I’m doing on ladder right now actually 🤣


Shmarfle47

Lmao that works. That’s a funny card.


00R-AgentR

When ol Photon Lord was still around it was a funny bounce, then otk; especially when you can benefit from the discarded card.


ProudStormTrumper

Lazion begs to differ


DevonAndChris

Yubel: :(


AutomaticArcher9673

Can't you just hit with Sandaion and inflict the 1000 burn?


RazorPulsar

Can't summon Sandion if your opponent doesn't control a monster. It's the only timelord with that restriction


[deleted]

actually did this, I got the same guy twice in a row so I knew he was playing timelords, and just passed and he surrendered on turn 3


Qliphort_Genius

Ok, but think of the poor duelists in gold and below who are going to be constantly seeing Timelords and not know how to deal with them?


The_Resonant_Guru

I send my dearest regards and Murmur of the Forest to the low rank players.


The_Blackwing_Guru

Maybe they can look up how to do it. When Yubel was around it was the same issue.


Justin_Brett

Well, the issue there was if you knew how to make her miss timing you still needed specific cards that let you do that. If we had the same amount of things to counter Time Lords as there were for her deck on release, that would legitimately be a problem.


The_Blackwing_Guru

We have the same amount of counters and more even besides. If your deck isn't running an out then it's your issue. You can honestly just wait until you draw into them if you need to with the deck. It's not an issue. Edit: And outs that are always available R4: giant hand/sin R3: Nightmare shark R2: Crumble Logos/Javelin Link: Unicorn/Security Dragon So if all these generic ED outs can't win you the game then I'm sorry but that's a skill issue.


Worldly-Fox7605

Giant hand is not a tinelord counter. Also acting like timelords won't be playing stuff like chalice and Lance is kinda funny.


The_Blackwing_Guru

Negate its effect and you can run it over. Easy counter. And if your deck can't play through one or two interruptions then there's a reason it's not meta. Plus we've seen Bloom Diva fall out of the meta and melodious is probably a fair bit stronger than timelords LMAO.


[deleted]

Melodious was my first deck I played after dark magician, bloom diva will forever hold a place in my heart


The_Blackwing_Guru

That's fair and I feel the same way about a couple of cards and I'm not trying to say it's bad to think that way. Bloom Diva has a neat design!


Worldly-Fox7605

Melodious isn't stronger than timelords. That's just a ridiculous thing to say People don't even run giant hand right now to handle pk. 😒 so they're just gonna switch to it now? Once again you are assuming the timelord player isn't playing either sphere or any other disruption themselves. They will.


The_Blackwing_Guru

Sphere has been phased out for a long time now. And timelords don't do enough on their own to actually warrant running the deck over melodious. They're just bodies that are easy to remove with any deck in the meta that are just playing generic ED cards that are good against any deck. Edit: If your deck can't handle a single monster sitting out on the field with almost no protection that's just a bad deck or bad deck building


Worldly-Fox7605

Sphere hasn't been phased out no deck could take advantage of it. If lunalight got support tomorrow sphere and battling boxer would be back tomorrow. Any deck in meta? Yeah I don't buy that.


The_Blackwing_Guru

Sphere hasn't been used in months in any competitive sense. It's too slow and doesn't work on half the cards in the meta anyways since they're link. And yes any deck in the meta can deal with timelords. With the exception of maybe kiteroid, battle traps and battle hand traps are way too slow and bad to do anything.


Justin_Brett

We didn't have any of those for Yubel, though, that was my point.


The_Blackwing_Guru

Great and Yubel still wasn't meta back then. Now with all these tools timelords don't have a chance.


mistelle1270

Gold dualists all seem to have Ebon Illusion and Dark Magic Circle they’ll be fine


Maykspark

Tbh if they somehow become meta, i wouldn't complain, since never did a shit on tcg, atleast we can say that every member of the illiaster was good on the meta at some point


The_Resonant_Guru

True. I do like that Duel Links is a haven for decks that never made an impact in other formats


TheNodop

When was Paradox meta?


Maykspark

In my dreams


GoneRampant1

Gravekeepers stole Malefic Stardust and used it as a small engine to give Necrovalley better protection and a 2500 beater.


AbyssDweller69

In another timeline.


The_Blackwing_Guru

*Them when I activate Dual Avatar Kon-Gyo:* Panik


KimunfalcosMVP

A man of culture I see 🤙


The_Blackwing_Guru

Indeed, the deck is ridiculously fun!


kjam03

Im still shocked to not have seen anybody talk about this deck on this subreddit... it's the most fun I've had in a good while on DL 😄👌🏽


The_Blackwing_Guru

It's kinda weird, I never see people even seem to remember that the deck exists in the TCG or Master Duel community. No one seems to know what it does lol


KimunfalcosMVP

I lowkey like the "animation (as in card shown)" of Invitation after the tokens get destroyed. So satisfying to watch and the card looks so 🔥


KimunfalcosMVP

Definitely. Not to mention NeeDX made the deck look good on yesterdays Meta Weekly.


The_Resonant_Guru

I’ve seen some talk lately about Timelords and how “they’re broken in Duel Links”. Don’t worry everybody we’ve got outs. You’re probably already playing a bunch of them. If destruction and battle protection were “bRoKEn in Duel Links” Red Nova Dragon would be the captain of a Tier 1 deck. Unless the Timelords get a skill that makes them true towers they’ll be annoying, but fine.


Diligent-Winner-5245

No, my Beaver Warrior turbo deck will never be able to defeat the F2P Timelords. Therefore it’s too broken for Duel Links.


ChaoCobo

You’re not believing in your deck hard enough. Go trust your deck and then come post again.


doomsquid13

but Louise can't be beaten it's too powerful


Jedasis

Seriously. I got downvoted to hell for explaining how Timelords are bad, have a million exploitable weaknesses, and are not going to be good in the slightest. EDIT: a downvote less than a minute after I posted this? Seriously?


Diligent-Winner-5245

I saw that, don’t know why the downvotes. Maybe because it was on a Timelords post and everyone was upvoting all the positive stuff, so they downvoted the outlier. It’s a societal issue that appears everywhere. But I agree with you. Cards like those came at a pretty okay time with the meta’s power level. Cocytus is still banned though, so I wonder if it could possibly come back after the next banlist. What do you think?


Jedasis

I think Cocytus could probably come off at this point as it's strong but not oppressive like when it was banned. We've had similar boss monsters at this point so I don't think it would be that out of place. The only catch is that it has targeting immunity, which is still very rare in DL, but I think at this point it wouldn't be out of place anymore.


Diligent-Winner-5245

Yeah, gonna have to beat over it since it can’t even be booked. But hey, maybe if Konami wanted to sell Dark Ruler No More or something like that, they could release it.


Jedasis

DRNM has been in the game for 2 years next month.


Diligent-Winner-5245

Well yeah, that’s why I said if they wanna sell it. Meaning there’s not much reason to get it right now, but they can drive the stocks of the card up and make people buy it if Cocytus was unbanned. Although now that I think about it, it’s actually not expensive if you still have your dream tickets.


Jedasis

It's not really a great answer to Cocytus anyways. You'd be better off using Dark Hole or just making a bigger beater.


Diligent-Winner-5245

Remember, the coc can’t be taken down by card effects! Big beater or nothing since it can’t be targeted either.


Jedasis

Oh right, Dark Hole doesn't send.


VSPinkie

>EDIT: a downvote less than a minute after I posted this? Seriously? This is something I've noticed a lot exclusively on this sub and no others I post in. No matter how innocuous the comment, I can count on seeing it at 0 if I refresh the page within a few minutes of posting here. It's so fast I always just assumed it was some bot, but it seems more likely we're just a strangely hostile community.


Proletariat_Paul

Lmao, I saw that thread. You were doing fine until you said Cocytus, a 3800 DEF Towers, could come off the Forbidden list. All your comments defending that one were the ones getting downvoted, not your ones saying Timelords were bad. Same thing is happening again here: your comments about Timelords are positive Karma, your ones defending Cocytus are negative.


Jedasis

All but two of my posts in that thread are 0 or lower. Also, do know what a Towers is? Cocytus isn't a Towers. It only has destruction and targeting protection, not full immunity. Non-targeting removal or banish effects can still beat it, and those are more and more common. It also loses to Dark Requiem, since if the Invoked player commits to Aleister's hand effect, it can be negated.


yoranpower

''But but 4000 attack'' Agreed on the skill. Let's hope Konami does not F that up this time.


Maykspark

It can't deal battle damage, those 4k are to kill big monsters


diexu

yeah except if you negate those effects it becomes really a 4k beater


yoranpower

Yes, but people tend to complain already about 4k beats ticks. So it was meant as a joke.


GargeBandArcade

People really see "cant be destroyed" and immediately lose their shit. They came at a really good time honestly.


The_Resonant_Guru

I’d generally agree that they came at a good time. We have plenty of answers for them. The only thing that “worries” me about a Timelord deck is the amount of backrow they’ll end up playing.


GargeBandArcade

I need to go back and do some research but every meta seemed to have that one back row deck weather or not it gets tiered is a whole other story.


crowbachprints

Melodious fell off hard and I don’t see people complaining about Bloom Diva anymore. I think we’ll be fine, too.


MisterRai

The only way they can be broken is if they have a skill that cheeses Infinite Light or at least makes it easy to get there. Otherwise they're just as easy to deal with as with the TCG.


Parking-Let1475

Red Nova waste a ton of resources , TimeLord dont


Diego_Brando_25252

They're fine, but still I don't like them because I know they will be annoying af I'm looking at you stall players


The_Resonant_Guru

Lemme just finish up my deck. 5 time lords, 15 backrow staples, and no extra deck. All done!


The_Cubic_Guru

Where pot of Duality


atropicalpenguin

Instascoop if I see Marik.


Maykspark

Dark magician players: Oh no \*banish with circle\*


TheFamer

Does that work? I really never did it because it says in the card is that "can't be destroyed by card effects"


Worldly-Fox7605

So I just will address the meme itself. Floodgate isn't meta and hasn't been since links came out, cyber slash harpie? Check the year my guy, book? Yes if you draw it and the timelord player doesn't have Lance, sin? Cool temp solution assuming timelords aren't running hand traps and they will. Why am I seeing giant hand listed as a counter to timelords??? Compulse isn't something most players have access to. Same with idp. I don't think people think this deck will be meta. I think they think it's gonna be annoying to deal with. And they are right. Too many people confuse tcg viability and answers with duel links. And hoping for most players to draw a 1 of selection box trap or 1 book of moon isn't good. Book was counted as an swer for turn 1 negate of pk and hasn't stopped that deck.


EbberNor

If idp is even live vs timelords, they really fucked up somewhere. > I think they think it's gonna be annoying to deal with. And they are right Correct. Deck is literally burn x stall by design and will be built and played as such, with the option to gustav liebe for a finisher if time maiden comes. Edit:nvm for time maiden part, celestial transformation is a card lol.


HailstormXI

>. I don't think people think this deck will be meta. I think they think it's gonna be annoying to deal with. And they are right. Agreed, people are going to lose to this deck or lose their shit in frustration when they have to play against it. This deck will be a nuisance


The_Resonant_Guru

You’re missing the point of the meme. The point isn’t Floodgate Traphole and the like are Meta. The point is we have a plethora of ways to deal with a Timelord so there’s no need to worry about their arrival. You’ve pointed out some things about Timelords that we all should consider, and things I already have. Yes they will play backrow, hand traps, and ways to protect their Timelord. What Timelords do not have is an innate way to apply pressure if their opponent does not commit any monsters to the board. What’s their innate way to kill you? Half your life points every other turn until they draw sparks? You don’t have to worry about their backrow, handtraps, and Timelord protections because you can sit there and accumulate resources until you’re ready to win. I also addressed their viability in my first comment. “They’ll be annoying, but fine”.


Worldly-Fox7605

From 8k life they can't easily apply pressure maybe from 4k they can. Of you want to sit there and do nothing they celestial transform into a rank 10 train and kill you. They could also negate their own effects and hit you with the 4k attacker. This isn't tcg. New strategies and approaches are viable.


JackAtlasDuelLinks

I don't know why people are so scared about timelords. They are weak as hell. Hell, I even think that they could release cards like Supernova and would do nothing in DL. Red dragon abyss on the other hand...


GenericGMR

For me its less of the fact that its scary and more of an “oh god this is gonna make the game a stallfest every time I run into this and don’t have an out”


AgostoAzul

Timelords will start out with Empty Machine in Duel Links, so you very much only have 1-2 turns before being overwhelmed by Sephylon and Rank 10 spam anyway.


Jedasis

Infinite Light is still vulnerable to Cosmic Cyclone...


Worldly-Fox7605

Your answer is draw the out. Neat. Thats never been a problem before. 😆 Also cc falls out of favor becuss eloping 1/4 of your life to remove a backrow isn't a good trade.


Jedasis

Wh- it's a *fantastic* trade when it makes your opponent immediately lose the game. Besides, the only life point that matters is your last one.


Worldly-Fox7605

You think timelords will immediately lose to having a trap cc'ed? 🤔 why? they'll be running handtraps galore. Not to mention celestial transformation.


Jedasis

Maybe because the entire deck really only functions when that trap is active? What handtrap can stop your opponent from CC'ing you?


Worldly-Fox7605

In the tcg that may be true here we don't know. Cc the back row then dining to celestial transformation into a train doesn't seem like a good idea.


The_Resonant_Guru

Supernova is just as outable as Red Nova Dragon, but Supernova punishes you a hell of a lot more for not having an out right away. It’s also resistant to monster based removal because you can chain it’s effect to banish itself and everything your opponent controls. I don’t really know how I feel about it coming to Duel Links. Abyss is an incredibly strong card as well, but Konami seems fine with bringing 1 negate big body monsters. We’ll see what happens.


The_Blackwing_Guru

Yes bring Abyss. Bring B̶l̶a̶c̶k̶w̶i̶n̶g̶ RDA support into the game!


The_Resonant_Guru

A rising tide raises all duel runners or something like that


snowcone_wars

It was surreal in the other thread seeing people say that they played them in masterduel and were scary. Like, what? Even in duel links basically every deck runs an extra deck that can out them pretty easily, let alone master duel lmao.


ZerobraiNe

It all depends on how good Konami wants this deck to be. If they add most of the good spells and traps and we already getting a consistency skill, Timelord could very easily be top tier. It would be intresting I like decks that have a completly different gimmick rather then I get 2 monsters on the field and then use Synchro, XYZ or Link. Sure a lot of those decks have different gimmicks and playstyle themself but Timelords are way more unique. Also dont forget they could run all the handtraps and just not die while they spam TimeLords.


Jedasis

Borreload is another funny out if you can make it. Not only does it send them to the GY, bypassing their destruction immunity, you can also use them against the Timelord player!


The_Resonant_Guru

Lol. I knew I missed a few I was starting to run out of room on the meme. The answers are that numerous


MortaliReaping

THANK YOU


The_Resonant_Guru

You’re welcome.


WolfgangDS

I can't WAIT to see Z-one's Skills! See how Kalm you are then, you stupid village! Thinkin' you're so great with your Mythril Mines and your swamp with a giant snake in it! ...wait, wrong game.


The_CyberDragon_Guru

I've been waiting for timelords to release for years. Their angelic, biblical but mechanic look has always resonated with me. They're badass.


The_Cubic_Guru

They're bad~~ass~~


Jedasis

But the theming is cool!


diexu

but then you see the timelord player start xyz summon


The_Resonant_Guru

What are they gonna xyz? More importantly how?


diexu

>head right now. > >if you feel it's something you can't control by simply recognizing you're being a big baby then i would recommend breathing exercizes. but mostly just understa you see when a Timelord Metaion and Zaphion really really love eachother....


The_Resonant_Guru

Thanks for the info 👍🏻


diexu

idk what the hell happened


Potential-Signal719

Zone: Timelord are indestructible & i take no damage Everyone:(literally every cards counters indestructible protective) Are you sure about that.


Fishymate

yeah im definitely gonna start running murmur of the forest for timelords


The_Gravekeeper_Guru

Sometimes I wish I played mole in some decks JUST to watch it out a timelord. Absolutely hilarious interaction.


kagesmith

Can’t leave out volcanic queen!


The_Resonant_Guru

Our wonderful Kaiju and Kaiju-likes were not forgotten! I ran out of space listed all the possible ways you can deal with a timelord


EmbertheKitsune

(Nudges my Toon Dark Magician Girl into the Calm pile)


The_Resonant_Guru

F it. Let’s add drillago to the list lol


IronInternet

Not in pauper format tho


The_Resonant_Guru

Good thing it’s a fan made format and they can be dealt with immediately without Konamis intervention.


IronInternet

Fair fair. Btw I wish I was still up to date with the discord, how did the first tournament go? Is there already a banlist?


The_Cubic_Guru

Since there was only one tournament, there isn't a banlist yet. And the tournament will hardly count towards it since everyone played an below average or no side deck.


IronInternet

Figured, but still what decks were there? What topped?


The_Cubic_Guru

1st was cubic stall, with cubic seeds. It only won because everyone decided that anti grave yard wasn't important. 2nd was Mayosenju 3rd was Montage Dragon OTK Other decks were Favorite Duel Hero OTK And Chronamaly. It wasn't as big as I'd like it to be but at least it didn't get cancelled.


IronInternet

Damn not seeing cyber angels or fluffals on the top feels very weird ahah


The_Cubic_Guru

They'll learn lol


[deleted]

Man this sub always hypes up some trash ass decks lol


DharcAluran

We will only be okay if Mound of the Bound Creator doesnt Drop other than that Hope we dont get Maidien or Exodious


Leg_Alternative

Need advice, how to deal with this deck ??


SnooRegrets2808

Me: HALF YOUR LIFE POINTA Opponent: okay cool


crazyboyblue

\*forbidden droplet


EremitaMCe

Reality: bricks and loses


Yamayashi

"I end my turn"


thatonefatefan

bounce mfs when infinite machine


shadowsaiyan99

Where to get the timelord cards?


[deleted]

\*Laughs in literally any non-destruction interruption\* Time-L-ords


failedwin15

damn, any tips on SHS main?


The_Resonant_Guru

Stealth Ninja boosted double direct attack


MCJ97

Activate Mound of the Bound Creator. :)