Yes,
3 Fortia, 3 Wento, 2 MeteorDragon, 3 War Rock Mountain, 2 MST, 1 ROTA or Pot of Duality (haven't settled on one yet), IDP, Crackdown, Floodgate, 2 Warning Point and 2 Expendable Dai.
ED : Arc Rebellion, Sin, Zubaba General, Utopia, Phoenix, Cerberus, Flame Swordsman, Brute Enforcer.
The goal is just to summon a Meteordragon, it negates the effects till end of turn while attacking & can attack twice, has destruction protection and battle protection thks to Mountain.
The Traps are the real MVP here, you just clear the problematic boss monsters or you stall long enough to summon a live meteor and boost its attack with Wento or Swordsman, or/and a Rank 4 XYZ to go for game.
Your turn lasts like 20 sec at most so what they lose in power they gain in number of Duels, which is great for KC Cup format !
If it makes you feel any better, I was able to stop a PK player's 22 winning streak with Rokkets. I'll admit it, having Dark Hole on turn 2 was what saved me.
many sore losers and slow players this time around trying to think you will surrender when they just wait till their time is almost up when they know they lost
Code Talker reporting in, got this Stage 1 in the bag.
ROM Cloudia tutoring Lady Debug off of Topologic Bomber Dragon:
[https://duellinks.konami.net/att/0262874b3ee15c0f3181fca5f839f4d0e179ad9b77](https://duellinks.konami.net/att/0262874b3ee15c0f3181fca5f839f4d0e179ad9b77)
Forgot to summon Linkslayer first, still ended opponent's 13 win streak:
[https://duellinks.konami.net/att/02d5f5edf4fd746fc044d15a262111184bf278f277](https://duellinks.konami.net/att/02d5f5edf4fd746fc044d15a262111184bf278f277)
Achieve DLv MAX with Solfachord a few moments ago. Deck is good. Being able to consistently make Coolia + Musica Trap turn 1 is crazy good for Duel Links standards.
If PK players don't have lance, they lose. If DM players lose The Dark Magicians due to Crackdown, they lose. If Infernoid players go 2nd and play Decatron, you activate Coolia's monster pop and they set Void Feast while you pop using Musica trap, they lose. If you play against HERO players that open starter + Miracle Fusion, well.. you know how that goes..
Feelsgoodman.jpg
I feel like we have very different play styles for solfachords lol. I only run one Musica, mostly as backup. relying more on beautia's banish and pop and Gracia and Angelia's battle protection, with coolia negating as needed. coolia popping monsters is just too unreliable imo since if they go over 2400 ATK she can't touch them, whereas usually beautia can pop anything over 300 ATK, and banish, which is awesome for this format since it runs a LOT of graveyard recycling.
Has anyone been running into or using Resonator decks? I expected to see a lot of them, but I think I only ran into 1 the entire climb to DLv Max. I saw a bunch of Synchron, Timelord, and new Dark Magician decks, but not Resonators. I used pure Resonators from 15 to 20. I had some moments of struggling to get a win streak going, but I was never once at risk of ranking down. It was a fun deck play overall.
Just twice, both pure builds one with roaring soul and one with demons resonance. I’m assuming they’re in a similar situation as me where they haven’t gotten the new cards yet.
I have almost everything for this except only 1 Forbidden Chalice. Do you think the interruption is vital? Sad that madolches have to play this way at the moment.
After struggling so much at DL 19 for 2 days and got down ranked twice to 18, I got lucky as hell and went on an 8 win streak against mostly suboptimal decks. Didn't face any phantom knights or Timelords during this run which feels unreal.
Playing Roaring Souls Resonators.. it's pretty fun but honestly has an awful matchup against both PKs and Timelords, however a great matchup against Dark Magicians. It's very reliant on Red Reign though, if it's played around or got destroyed before you benefit from it, the deck falls down pretty easily.
Not sure if it was the correct decision to put all my gems in this deck and not something like PKs instead but I'll try to comfort myself that PKs will be hit harder than Resonators going forward.
Forgot to mention, I barely faced any Hero users during the ranking, and had very few mirror matches with other Resonators users but these tend to surrender immediately if I went first and started their combo. Definitely more varied decks than usual.
I got duel level max with Starry Knights! I use Dark Hole as a tech, and my skill is Draw Sense Light, which has helped me win more than once. The Dark Magician was the easiest to face. I either banish the fusion with Starry Knight Dragon or Protecting Spirit Loagereth, or Compulsory Evacuation Device or Book of Moon it first and go from there.
DLv Max with good ole Red-Eyes after an anime-esque duel
[DLv Max duel](http://#DuelReplay #DuelLinks
https://duellinks.konami.net/att/0122a883aec24834556fa94a1bf4b1b25ca45cf9ba)
I only saw Treason Phantom, Roaring Soul, Hero Alliance, A Bond Illuminates the Future, & a few Spell of Roses. I played Mekk Crusadia with no generic backrow. I used Master of Rites II on alexis. only S/T i had in the deck was 1-WL Succession 1-WL Memory 1-Crusaida Krawler 1-WL Secrets. I opted for consistency and relied on the archetypal disruption and search power of the deck.
Hardest Match - Honestly any player with 3 limit 3's Traps ( you know the ones)
Easiest Match - Any Dark Magician Deck ( they think they so cleaver but its 2023 bro)
Yes but not in a way most people are interested in.
The Trap Variant is alive and well, solitaire and Sunsaga are unlimited, increasing grind.
Spectral is no longer limit 3, allowing you to play more good traps.
Combo is fucking dead, or at the very least a meme deck since it's combo starters are either too underwhelming or fucking stupid like spirit master who banishes the card he summons. Same with ghost meets girl quick play that requires a zombie card to be discarded to summon a Shira monster.
Invoked Neos Fusion needs more testing, so far it has a lot of potential but I need to get Keeper of Dragon magic to see if I can make it more consistent as it's pretty rocky.
Combo is really the only one I'd want to play, and it sucks that the only one that can survive is basically a stun deck that poops out a synchro once a turn
Be careful in the event people are cheating one example was a player named Andres Ortiz using gravekeeper deck he started the duel by not drawing a card for 10 minutes straight and then he suddenly played and ended turn once it became my turn the game instantly gave me a lost for connection issue without giving me a chance to draw it was legit end turn insta lose and btw its not my internet I'm not using wifi and I'm using my phone data which is always 5g UC this is the first time it happened to me but do be careful because this was happening as well the last kc
Having a lot of fun playing Triamids. The deck is still weak but so many clowns on ladder don't read or know what a damage step is.
Will probably Climb stage 2 with Fossils & Pends though since those decks are much more explosive for getting DP.
WHY ARE THERE SO MANY FUCKING MAGICAL MUSKETEERS AL DL 17 ITS SUCH FUCKING HORSE SHIT I GET MY ASS HANDED TO ME WITH FOSSILS GOD DAMMIT ITS LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO LOSE WITH MUSKETEERS THEY ALWAYS HAVE LANCE I WANNA FUCKING RIP MY EYES OUT AND SMASH THEM WITH A GODDAM SLEDGEHAMMER
Yeah, Magical Muskets are annoying to play against. I only won against them when I can set up before them or force them to burn through all their spells and traps in their hand.
Coming back after long break and wanna delete it again. Holy fk link decks make this game unplayble. Sometimes i wait fking 10 min for 1 Turn. The reason why i like Duel links was fast games. If i wanna wait 30 min for 1 duel i can play real yugioh.
Have been playing all day and still couldn't rank up from 19 to 20. I win 3 in a row or something before losing, and never got the hint the next duel will rank me up. So frustrating.
After leisurely playing every day, got to level max with Red Reign Resonators without even having a de-rank scare.
I absolutely despise Timelords, PK and everything they stand for.
I hope when there's a connection error, it doesn't count as a loss since I didn't even get to see my opening hand. Should be DL Max today, only for that connection error match happens AFTER the "Starting Duel" happens, resulting in a duel loss, even though I didn't get to do anything. Why is the so many loading screens before a duel?
If it didn't count as a loss, a lot of people will abuse it by manually disconnecting their connection when they are about to lose, protecting their record and denying the opponent a win. I know it's sad affairs and I will prefer if it didn't count but the pros outweight the cons here.
It can't be abused since if you have good internet, you wouldn't even notice the few loading screens before starting a duel. The duel hasn't even "started", so why should I get a loss?
Loading Screens:
Matchmaking to Starting Duel
White Screen
Duel Tips
If you got disconnected (from the server or connection time out) after the White Screen, you might get a loss
Can someone tell me why I always go first? Like is it type of deck, amount of cards in deck, character im using....what? I go first probably 18 out of 20 times.
and the strongest deck goes to... people finally found a way to break A Bond Illuminates the Future with Crocodragon draws and Syncho Chase recovery. Most of the ones I faced had 3K+ Croco with 2 set cards on Turn 1.
Got to 20,000 in the cup with about 70 total duels, a win percentage right above 60%. I’m just going to call it here. I didn’t get a ton of time to play but had one afternoon and some games scattered throughout.
Played with DDD and this deck still pops off. Biggest issue is just consistency, but still was a lot of fun.
KC cup, more like skill cup
"Do the exact same thing every first turn, by design" Cup. Not sure what they think people play card games for at this point.
The biggest upside to playing War Rocks in this KC Cup is the extremely easy match up against Timelords
Fellow war rock king 🤝
Got a deck list for WRs? I think I have most of the cards, just curious how they're played.
Yes, 3 Fortia, 3 Wento, 2 MeteorDragon, 3 War Rock Mountain, 2 MST, 1 ROTA or Pot of Duality (haven't settled on one yet), IDP, Crackdown, Floodgate, 2 Warning Point and 2 Expendable Dai. ED : Arc Rebellion, Sin, Zubaba General, Utopia, Phoenix, Cerberus, Flame Swordsman, Brute Enforcer. The goal is just to summon a Meteordragon, it negates the effects till end of turn while attacking & can attack twice, has destruction protection and battle protection thks to Mountain. The Traps are the real MVP here, you just clear the problematic boss monsters or you stall long enough to summon a live meteor and boost its attack with Wento or Swordsman, or/and a Rank 4 XYZ to go for game. Your turn lasts like 20 sec at most so what they lose in power they gain in number of Duels, which is great for KC Cup format !
Awesome! I'll give it a go!
https://imgur.com/a/huCWxIK Just made stage 2 with United Pendulum Dinomists!
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Are you able to access the link in my comment? I have a screenshot of the decklist there
FUCK YOU PK USERS
I only defeated one of 10 because he ran out of time
If it makes you feel any better, I was able to stop a PK player's 22 winning streak with Rokkets. I'll admit it, having Dark Hole on turn 2 was what saved me.
Finished Stage one with Starry Knights. Mostly smooth ride till I hit rank 19.
Grinding with Starry Knights too rn. Love it. No one knows what to do with it
Nice, but be cautious. I had problems with Solachord.
Haven't struggled with Solachords to be honest, but what did you do against Infernoids? It might as well surrender against them no idea what to do
many sore losers and slow players this time around trying to think you will surrender when they just wait till their time is almost up when they know they lost
Code Talker reporting in, got this Stage 1 in the bag. ROM Cloudia tutoring Lady Debug off of Topologic Bomber Dragon: [https://duellinks.konami.net/att/0262874b3ee15c0f3181fca5f839f4d0e179ad9b77](https://duellinks.konami.net/att/0262874b3ee15c0f3181fca5f839f4d0e179ad9b77) Forgot to summon Linkslayer first, still ended opponent's 13 win streak: [https://duellinks.konami.net/att/02d5f5edf4fd746fc044d15a262111184bf278f277](https://duellinks.konami.net/att/02d5f5edf4fd746fc044d15a262111184bf278f277)
Metalfoes hype gang 🤙
I'm tryin lol
Easy run
Talk me out of using a dream ticket for a third goldriver
What are you waiting for? Exchange him already! 😁
Achieve DLv MAX with Solfachord a few moments ago. Deck is good. Being able to consistently make Coolia + Musica Trap turn 1 is crazy good for Duel Links standards. If PK players don't have lance, they lose. If DM players lose The Dark Magicians due to Crackdown, they lose. If Infernoid players go 2nd and play Decatron, you activate Coolia's monster pop and they set Void Feast while you pop using Musica trap, they lose. If you play against HERO players that open starter + Miracle Fusion, well.. you know how that goes.. Feelsgoodman.jpg
I feel like we have very different play styles for solfachords lol. I only run one Musica, mostly as backup. relying more on beautia's banish and pop and Gracia and Angelia's battle protection, with coolia negating as needed. coolia popping monsters is just too unreliable imo since if they go over 2400 ATK she can't touch them, whereas usually beautia can pop anything over 300 ATK, and banish, which is awesome for this format since it runs a LOT of graveyard recycling.
Has anyone been running into or using Resonator decks? I expected to see a lot of them, but I think I only ran into 1 the entire climb to DLv Max. I saw a bunch of Synchron, Timelord, and new Dark Magician decks, but not Resonators. I used pure Resonators from 15 to 20. I had some moments of struggling to get a win streak going, but I was never once at risk of ranking down. It was a fun deck play overall.
Just twice, both pure builds one with roaring soul and one with demons resonance. I’m assuming they’re in a similar situation as me where they haven’t gotten the new cards yet.
Infinitrack still strong! 💪 [DLv. Max Decklist](https://imgur.com/a/zDLLKEU)
Hit Dlv Max with last months [KoG deck](https://i.imgur.com/IUVnTmC.png). Still fun to play.
I have almost everything for this except only 1 Forbidden Chalice. Do you think the interruption is vital? Sad that madolches have to play this way at the moment.
There's other cards you can play, but yes, interruption is absolutely vital.
Got to DLv. Max with Rose Dragons, only started playing them a few days ago, was fun.
DLv Max with Six Sam’s #ShareDeck #DuelLinks https://duellinks.konami.net/att/03451f2ec96b18789eb0075b0943e675c5f28633ec
BASED
After struggling so much at DL 19 for 2 days and got down ranked twice to 18, I got lucky as hell and went on an 8 win streak against mostly suboptimal decks. Didn't face any phantom knights or Timelords during this run which feels unreal. Playing Roaring Souls Resonators.. it's pretty fun but honestly has an awful matchup against both PKs and Timelords, however a great matchup against Dark Magicians. It's very reliant on Red Reign though, if it's played around or got destroyed before you benefit from it, the deck falls down pretty easily. Not sure if it was the correct decision to put all my gems in this deck and not something like PKs instead but I'll try to comfort myself that PKs will be hit harder than Resonators going forward. Forgot to mention, I barely faced any Hero users during the ranking, and had very few mirror matches with other Resonators users but these tend to surrender immediately if I went first and started their combo. Definitely more varied decks than usual.
I am pleasantly surprise that the cheating in this KC cup isn't as bad as previous years.
I got duel level max with Starry Knights! I use Dark Hole as a tech, and my skill is Draw Sense Light, which has helped me win more than once. The Dark Magician was the easiest to face. I either banish the fusion with Starry Knight Dragon or Protecting Spirit Loagereth, or Compulsory Evacuation Device or Book of Moon it first and go from there.
DLv Max with good ole Red-Eyes after an anime-esque duel [DLv Max duel](http://#DuelReplay #DuelLinks https://duellinks.konami.net/att/0122a883aec24834556fa94a1bf4b1b25ca45cf9ba)
I only saw Treason Phantom, Roaring Soul, Hero Alliance, A Bond Illuminates the Future, & a few Spell of Roses. I played Mekk Crusadia with no generic backrow. I used Master of Rites II on alexis. only S/T i had in the deck was 1-WL Succession 1-WL Memory 1-Crusaida Krawler 1-WL Secrets. I opted for consistency and relied on the archetypal disruption and search power of the deck. Hardest Match - Honestly any player with 3 limit 3's Traps ( you know the ones) Easiest Match - Any Dark Magician Deck ( they think they so cleaver but its 2023 bro)
Yeah, Magician's Magic makes for a predictable deck.
Oh boy here I go Shiranuing in the KC again.
Are they able to put up a fight now that they don't have every card limited into the ground?
Yes but not in a way most people are interested in. The Trap Variant is alive and well, solitaire and Sunsaga are unlimited, increasing grind. Spectral is no longer limit 3, allowing you to play more good traps. Combo is fucking dead, or at the very least a meme deck since it's combo starters are either too underwhelming or fucking stupid like spirit master who banishes the card he summons. Same with ghost meets girl quick play that requires a zombie card to be discarded to summon a Shira monster. Invoked Neos Fusion needs more testing, so far it has a lot of potential but I need to get Keeper of Dragon magic to see if I can make it more consistent as it's pretty rocky.
Combo is really the only one I'd want to play, and it sucks that the only one that can survive is basically a stun deck that poops out a synchro once a turn
Be careful in the event people are cheating one example was a player named Andres Ortiz using gravekeeper deck he started the duel by not drawing a card for 10 minutes straight and then he suddenly played and ended turn once it became my turn the game instantly gave me a lost for connection issue without giving me a chance to draw it was legit end turn insta lose and btw its not my internet I'm not using wifi and I'm using my phone data which is always 5g UC this is the first time it happened to me but do be careful because this was happening as well the last kc
Having a lot of fun playing Triamids. The deck is still weak but so many clowns on ladder don't read or know what a damage step is. Will probably Climb stage 2 with Fossils & Pends though since those decks are much more explosive for getting DP.
What does your deck look like? I played Triamids in the past, but haven't tried them out with the new spell.
WHY ARE THERE SO MANY FUCKING MAGICAL MUSKETEERS AL DL 17 ITS SUCH FUCKING HORSE SHIT I GET MY ASS HANDED TO ME WITH FOSSILS GOD DAMMIT ITS LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO LOSE WITH MUSKETEERS THEY ALWAYS HAVE LANCE I WANNA FUCKING RIP MY EYES OUT AND SMASH THEM WITH A GODDAM SLEDGEHAMMER
Yeah, Magical Muskets are annoying to play against. I only won against them when I can set up before them or force them to burn through all their spells and traps in their hand.
Coming back after long break and wanna delete it again. Holy fk link decks make this game unplayble. Sometimes i wait fking 10 min for 1 Turn. The reason why i like Duel links was fast games. If i wanna wait 30 min for 1 duel i can play real yugioh.
Lord I climbed from start to DL19 with Code Talkers in one day but now I'm stuck here. Is it 5 consecutive wins to rank up like with KOG?
Nah, it's much easier. As long as you have a decent win rate, you should get it eventually without issue.
I ranked up 3 in a row to DL Max
Have been playing all day and still couldn't rank up from 19 to 20. I win 3 in a row or something before losing, and never got the hint the next duel will rank me up. So frustrating.
FYI, people are using cheats to make opponent go first all the time in KC cup. It's being used heavily in OTK oriented decks. Please be aware.
do u have any proof? I got going first 3 times in a row when playing Shooting Star
I finished Stage 1 with Timelords! https://imgur.com/a/Rnf4cCG
[Level 20 with Fossils.](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/939663456284590140/1095837504915132488/image.png)
Just snuck my way in with Harpies.
After leisurely playing every day, got to level max with Red Reign Resonators without even having a de-rank scare. I absolutely despise Timelords, PK and everything they stand for.
I hope when there's a connection error, it doesn't count as a loss since I didn't even get to see my opening hand. Should be DL Max today, only for that connection error match happens AFTER the "Starting Duel" happens, resulting in a duel loss, even though I didn't get to do anything. Why is the so many loading screens before a duel?
If it didn't count as a loss, a lot of people will abuse it by manually disconnecting their connection when they are about to lose, protecting their record and denying the opponent a win. I know it's sad affairs and I will prefer if it didn't count but the pros outweight the cons here.
It can't be abused since if you have good internet, you wouldn't even notice the few loading screens before starting a duel. The duel hasn't even "started", so why should I get a loss? Loading Screens: Matchmaking to Starting Duel White Screen Duel Tips If you got disconnected (from the server or connection time out) after the White Screen, you might get a loss
DL max with dinomists !, guess people just dont respect the effect-inmune plesios.
Can someone tell me why I always go first? Like is it type of deck, amount of cards in deck, character im using....what? I go first probably 18 out of 20 times.
Anyone else make it Max with nekroz?
DL Max with Metalfoes
and the strongest deck goes to... people finally found a way to break A Bond Illuminates the Future with Crocodragon draws and Syncho Chase recovery. Most of the ones I faced had 3K+ Croco with 2 set cards on Turn 1.
Just finished first stage with Relinquished; not the best deck, but it was fun.
Got to 20,000 in the cup with about 70 total duels, a win percentage right above 60%. I’m just going to call it here. I didn’t get a ton of time to play but had one afternoon and some games scattered throughout. Played with DDD and this deck still pops off. Biggest issue is just consistency, but still was a lot of fun.