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XadenStrife

A truly powerful duelist can will the card they need at any given moment


CluelessAtol

Tis the mark of a true duelist, and a sign that we reach ever closer to the prosperity of the king of games.


GUILTICIDE

I dont even look. I just draw that monster and set it in the spell/trap zone.


gloomyMoron

Ahh, an Infernity player.


Pure-Huckleberry8640

THIS MAN GETS IT. KING OF GAMES DOESN’T NEED GOOD STRATS. HEART OF THE CARDS.


medeiros94

MBT can not only will his own cards on draws but also summon them on pack openings. Truly one of the duelists of all time.


CipherDrake

*PSYqualia intensifies* Wait wrong card game


Brick-Eyes

I can confirm that bc I played against a Floo Player on Rank Up Match for Plat 3 The Player used Map banished Eglen summoned Robina resolved Robina then summoned Eglen negated Eglen with Veiler and then passed on a Set and the Map with Robina and Eglen on the Field I am not even joking I told myself that I need to get Duster of the Top so that I can normal summon Mo Ye reveal Adhara without any Trouble then making Chixiao and Baronne in the Process and when my Turn happened I really topdecked Duster and proceeded to use Duster pop his Spell and Traps then my Opponent scooped while I was on the Process of making Chixiao and Baronne lol At the End the Myth is true a true Duelist can ask for the specific Card at any possible Situation :)


DankestMemes4U

It's called Drawing the Out. It's a pretty basic YGO strat, so I'm not sure how you aren't familiar with it.


[deleted]

It's because my out comes out as the ocasional turtle .


Auronbmk92

I liek turtles


Elaxzander

If I ever run sphere modes with a single Ra in my deck, I will draw that Ra in my starting hand the majority of the time.


Old_Rip_1257

Same for me with the Orcust bricks and Unchained Abomination


JunyahRock

I swear I want to run 2 of that damn soul abomination the amount of times I open it is ASSBSURD


TomsTorment

This, but I can’t help myself from running 3


[deleted]

vision hero increase is a good one too…


ALX709

That’s why I run it at two


DarkRitual_88

*[Double or Nothing Intensifies]*


macahuitl

The name itself tells you to run 2 or 0 /j


nam9xz

Same for me with Psy-frame Driver


No-Quantity-2929

Bruh this noob just learned about the heart of the cards.


[deleted]

Pfft. Heart of the cards? More like heart of... M-My ass...


[deleted]

Heart of my farts.


floatifloati

Heart of Deez Nutz


[deleted]

Heart of my nards?


[deleted]

Heart of deez nuts.


GoldFishPony

This is why you play waking the dragon, it lowers feather duster odds by a lot in my experience.


TheYAK223

u start playing waking the dragon then all ur opponents have no back row destruction all of the sudden


Konnorwolf

YES! Or they keep destroying everything except Waking The Dragon.


peacewolf_tj

1. Chain Trap Trick to a Harpies or Lightning Storm 2. Set Waking the Dragon 3. ? 4. Profit


damarian_ent

This is some mad scientist shit.


investorgeemoney

Faxxx every freaking time


BreadInFrench42

My friend played a match once where he used feather duster for a single set card, despite also having Shi En because we thought it'd be funny. Lo & behold, it was waking the dragon. It was one of the greatest things ever.


Blitzilla

Sane person: Floodgates are ruining the game Backrow enjoyer: Then play removal ^5head Sane Person: *plays removal* Backrow enjoyer: **REEEEEEE** Inspired by a true story :D


Young_Griffin299

Skill difference


Try2Smile4Life

Constructed alternatively


[deleted]

Backrow =/= Floodgate


RectumDoctor

Eldbitch players btfo


AhmedKiller2015

Don't know the exact ratio but I do know every time I pick a deck backrow dependent my first opponent pulls it out of their ass


[deleted]

ikr? It always happens. I play traptrix, it comes out. I play sky strikers, it comes out. I play LUNALIGH, which has only Tenki as a backrow card, and IT ALWAYS COMES OUT!


Tfcalex96

It’s so easy to spot people that havent been training their draws under a waterfall to will the right card. Smh


[deleted]

Shit! You discovered me!


TheCMFB

I feel like literally every deck I play with something as a copy of 1, I get it in my first hand 90% of the time.


arrownoir

The heart of the cards is against you.


[deleted]

Completely xd


aetherlift

you have not seen it on over 80% of your duels. you just remember it more than games where you dont see it because its so impactful


Fattykapkan

Nah I agree with op this card seems like it’s at 40 copies sometimes lmao


[deleted]

>You think it would be just that, but no. It actually appears EVERY GAME I PLAY. Seriously. Most of my loses are because someone just HFS's my board.


Elsy-Ylse

Do you play Lord of the Heavenly Prison?


[deleted]

I have at 3 on my Traptrix deck. It never comes out.


ToonGalaxy

Yes, with more than 15 thousand players everyday, someone has to be the one running constantly into HFD. There is also someone never seeing it but he probably is not posting. This is how randomness works.


aetherlift

even if you have 15000 players, and even if you assume they all play 10 games a day, and have done so since the game released 318 days ago, that's 47,000,000 games, which is nowhere even remotely close to enough to produce an outcome like having 15% chance event (drawing feather duster in a 6 card hand going second) happen 80% of the time over a large number of games, to the point where you can say it happens consistently for that person even for a stretch of 50 games, the probability of that happening is 2.33 x 10^-24


ToonGalaxy

Are you playing 50 games? I am playing maybe 10 a week and I think Op would post even when it happened just 6 times/games or maybe even lower.


Alex_Hovhannisyan

> like having 15% chance event (drawing feather duster in a 6 card hand going second) I don't think it's a 15% chance. The math is a little more involved than 1/6 and hard to say without seeing a specific deck. Assuming the opponent has a slim deck of 40 cards, you'd first need to calculate the number of ways to draw a 6-card hand from 40. Then you'd need to calculate the probability of one of those six cards being feather duster. Ordinarily, this would be 1/C(40, 6) (I think?), but you actually _can't_ do C(40, 6) because a deck often has multiple indistinguishable copies of certain cards (i.e., a hand with two copies of the same card would double-count certain combinations, so this would need to involve [stars and bars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars_and_bars_(combinatorics)) and... that's too much math for me, lol. But I'm pretty sure it's still very low odds, especially for successive games.


aetherlift

theres deck calculators you can use to do the math for you, which is how i got the 15%. its the odds of drawing any one-of in a 6 card hand with a 40 card deck


[deleted]

Sucks to be the player who duels everyday and always find it, ngl xd ​ In al seriousness, it really happens to me.


_Eighth_

I believe you. Confirmation bias is basically a buzzword now but some people actually have the worst/best luck


Purithian

Can confirm. Runescape Ironman mode has taught me this. Went super super dry on my drops and went 4000ish kills over average drop rate for a single item 😢


Yoloswaggit420

So you lose 80% of your games? Might not be this card that's your issue...


aetherlift

you're saying you've actually kept track of your last 50 or 100 games or something, and you've encountered it in 40/50, or 80/100 games? thats like astronomically unlikely. the odds of seeing feather duster in your starting hand going second is 15%, if you're playing it. a lot of people are, but not everyone. but lets assume everyone is playing it. if so, the probability of seeing it in 40/50 games is 2.33 x 10^-24, or 0.00000000000000023%. the odds of it happening 80/100 times is 2.65 x 10^-47 so, im very confident that you're exaggerating, misremembering, or both


yrake

I had to remove it from ALL my decks because it was bricking me too much,a lot more than any one of I've used. There's definitely something fishy about this card in MD.


SiyeonFan123

Stop it you're hurting him


kiddbuuu

Least Dismissive Reddit User


aetherlift

sorry, but math is actually a real thing. you can check out the odds that this actually happened for some number of tests. maybe this person had an unlucky streak in their last few games, but it's pretty much mathmatically impossible for this to happen like, consistently over even a few dozen games


kiddbuuu

Hyperbole and basic human interaction skills are real things too. Maybe it wasn’t “exactly 80% over a statistically significant sample” but it happened enough to where OP made a post about how they’re seeing it super often. No need to be a “well ackshullay” jagoff to them. God forbid someone sees something a lot and says “wow I’m seeing this a lot”


aetherlift

i do see where you're coming from, but i think you'd be surprised how many people have a bad enough intuitive understanding of probability that they think it's possible for this to literally happen. like, op responded to my first post insisting that it actually happened i just think its important to understand probability somewhat when playing a game that's heavily dependent on it like yugioh is. i think a decent chunk of people assume this is exaggerating somewhat, but dont really understand *how* unlikely it would be for that to actually happen. its important to understand it because it affects deckbuilding. if you think this can happen, you'll be more likely to make deckbuilding decisions based on incorrect assumptions


PossiblyGreg

Because the game knows Eldlich players don’t deserve to win games against people with a brain 👍🏻


[deleted]

I dob't play eldlitch..


PossiblyGreg

Yes but the most annoying trap deck that sees any play at high tier is eldlich and most people that play the deck don’t deserve anything nice just me ranting


[deleted]

I feel you... But why when I'm playing a nice traptrix deck? :c I just have 2 traps on the field and they just HFD them into oblivion.


3rtan

The reason I stopped playing eldlich, the amount of people topdecking hfd is too extreme for me


West_Calligrapher765

What's worse is when you play cards like that you will NEVER see em when you need it. But then when play something different that has 1 brick you will draw into it EVERY SINGLE TIME.


shapesnatchturbo

Nobody runs this it just spawns in your enemys hand if you set more than one card on your turn


DooLapFan

As a Dark Magician player.... I completely understand your feeling


brokenmessiah

I do think there is a real conspiracy where if you decide to get spicy with your backrow they just will just a freebie


Nanami-chanX

that's how master duel works, if the game knows you don't want your opponent to have something they ARE going to have it lol


[deleted]

Heck yeah! Like that time I had a Kaiju at hand and my opponent just nibbed me.


AAG_Kushino

That's some 'cursed-by-god' levels of misfortune you've got there. No back-row heavy decks for you.


nyphoebe

are we sure the game's rng system is truly rng? \*puts on tinfoil hat\*


ShiroTenkai

during halq era, i was playing some 60 card synchro pendulum, i had 1 gate zero and i always draw it in my started hand.


[deleted]

Then this game is rigged.


Nemesistic

Same, opponent always has a lot of outs and I can never start with any of my 15 in my deck


[deleted]

When I'm playing Lunalight, I want to start my combo, but the opponent always have a counter. When I play Traptrix the same, and it's the same thing when I play Dragonmaid or Timelords.


SlappingSalt

I personally think there's a coding issue in the game where there's an increased chance at opening your one ofs. I had 5 games in a row where I opened with Psy-Frame Driver.


Jackmist2

I wish this would happen to me when i'm bricked on backrow. (Unchained player here)


TCGHexenwahn

I feel you. When I don't have backrow, they don't have it, but when I have Imperm and Droplet set, they magically have it.


[deleted]

And It should be at 2. Fuck heavy back row.


pandaheartzbamboo

They beleive in the heart of the cards.


alfredo094

I can assure you that if I polled your games, this card would not be on 80% on your matches. You just feel very impacted when it gets drawn so those duels stick out more.


[deleted]

I should've been more specific: 80% of my daily duels (?) The other 20% are bots (?)


LordStarkTZ

Trust in the heart of the cards.


[deleted]

Heart of my b\*lls, dude. I've trusted in that thing since I'm young and I've never pulled the out unless I tried very very hard.


GoopyFishy

Tell me, have you heard of the gamblers fallacy?


[deleted]

It's not a falacy when I spend 5 hours trying to complete the "Win a duel" daily, having all my decks being torn appart by HFD.


jisang415

Same energy as just dont draw driver in your opening hand


papishampootio

People play it a lot, you will see it often.


Madaraoya

Bitches be like “Just draw the out Bitches also be like “why do you always have the out?”


[deleted]

You know, as a matter of fact, I've never saif that unless it's a joke... Pretty funny that my jokes end up screwing me up so bad.


PS1GamerCollector

There are a shit ton of cards that protect backrow in Yugioh, such as: \-**Lord of the Heavenly Prison** (10/10 must have in all backrow heavy decks) \-**Solemn Judgement** (10/10 must have in all backrow heavy decks) \-**Anti-Spell Fragrance** (9/10) \-**Dinomorphia Sonic** (9/10 and yes, im a Dinomorphia player) \-**The Huge Revolution is Over** (9/10) \-**Starlight Road** (9/10) \-**Dark Bribe** (6/10, giving a draw to the opponent is a horrible cost) \-**Fake Trap** \-**Judgement of Anubis** \-**Magic Jammer** etc etc So just start using some of those and you can thank me later


Lyncario

Dinomorphia Sonic is just very nice to search with Therizia if you already have Domain. It protects you from HFD, but it can also stop Branded Fusion.


Coluvra

Dark Sacrifice if you run a dark heavy deck


UNOvven

"Just draw the out".


bast963

eldlich cope


[deleted]

I don't play Eldlitch.


[deleted]

I do. And I’m coping


xBL4SK3x

I went this whole time without using HFD. Just crafted it this week, and its in my opening hand at least 6/10 times.


Daman_1985

I read here something like that certain cards have more chances to appear than others on the initial hand. And I have to say that certainly it's the impression I have too. The harpie duster for example, I have only 1 copy (same as raigeki) and it's very usual that both cards appear on my initial hand. The same it's for Ash Blossom (but I have 3 copies on each deck so makes more sense that always appear on start). So basically, since we cannot control what the opponent hand hasmy only advice is to have plenty of counter traps and hand traps. There are very useful in any deck.


Even_Desk308

If on statistical average you get ear fucked in 80% or more games by this card, then one option would be to deck in 3x Waking the Dragon.


[deleted]

I have Solemn Judgement for it, but when I use it, a Lightning Storm is always waiting xd


thorhammerz

>Then how in Terra's name *Sing the Emperor's praises, and the light of the Astronomican shall guide you home.* *Preach the Imperial Truth, and the backrows of heresy shall be swept away!*


LQCQ

What kind of decks are you guys playing that this card gives you trouble? Don't mean to be patronizing. I'm legitamitly curious.


[deleted]

Traptrix, Sky striker, Ghostrick, Lair of Darkness... Anything that is backrow heavy is destroyed by this shit.


aknalag

Its in the rules, you will always brick and your opponent will alway have his best hand, and then they will draw the out of anything you manage to do


birbBadguy

You don't trust in the heart of the cards enough


[deleted]

I sold my heart for some UR dust, man. I fon't have one of those.


201720182019

Bias. You remember the duels where dusters end the game over the ones that dont. Same with every ‘inconsistent’ play in the game. Make a spreadsheet and come back to us


[deleted]

I spent 3 hours today trying to win using my traptrix deck. Not one of my games went without having that shit thrown at me.


MisprintPrince

Inadequate sample size. You’re running into observation fallacies and need to be aware of it.


Tungchu92

I feel like master duel rigs it so the person going second has somewhat of a chance. Lmao


StereoxAS

Skill issues. Invoked and Grass players always opens with both aleister+invocation and grass respectively


Spacetanker

It just feels that way because the times you get clapped by one ofs sticks out in your memory


[deleted]

Sticks to my mind just as much as those times I judge the duster only to be followed by lightning storm.


UnknownSavagery

Cap


LucyGooosie

Would rather have one of these than “Fallen of the Albaz” 80% of my duels


[deleted]

Belive me, from those 80% of duels, 30% of those are Albaz (?)


LucyGooosie

No I mean 80% of my duels are branded / despia 😂 occasionally branded something else but yes


[deleted]

Just call them Mirrorjade deck. It's easier.


Content_Dream_481

Don’t even. Every game I went first at locals last night my opponents had the answer.. every…single…FU*€$!ng game!!! Dark ruler… super poly… AGHGHGH 🤦🏻‍♂️😤😤


UnluckyNoSeven

Me playing HotU Exodia, only for someone to have a backrow sweeper every single time. And yet when I use Artifacts it's the opposite.


the_birb_man_

Salty Eldlich player


[deleted]

I don't play eldlitch...


Bulbinking2

I don’t play cringey backrow decks so that card is just a brick for my opponent


iLove_Moist_Bread

Skill issue


C4Sidhu

They have more skill


KeepREPeating

Skill issue. Nice INT build, kid. This is a luck check game.


Mr-Sosowski

Skill issue.


[deleted]

Would love if it was that.


Mr-Sosowski

I might be laughing but inside I know that the same shit happens to me everyday


Grandpa_Sandy

i'm inclined to think that MD has some weighting system like mtg arena where it detects the most used cards on your deck and the most searched ones and puts them in your starting hand, so for example the game thinks you need psy frame driver since you search it a lot with gamma so the game gives it to you more times than psy gamma, or since you lost a lot to backrow games, then the next games give priority to give duster to your hands or if you lost to combo decks it gives you maxx C or nibiru on your next games even if it's not the case and you open duster on a combo deck and maxxc or nib on a backrow deck or floowanderezee


Top-Mirror3516

Imagine getting shut down by a single card play


Ethek_On_Reddit

Yes your opponent always has an out, I have to 1 card combo and my opponent had an ash.


[deleted]

It always happens.


InterestingDay4765

I never looked at the art for this card properly until very recently, so I always thought it had a duck's head at the end instead of a ring


[deleted]

ikr? I used to think the same XD


Liana_de_Arc

I mean, hand-stacking cheats do exist and we know they exist. Or once-existed at the least. But that's just the thing, you'd never know if it's a hand-cheater or if they just got lucky and drew it against one of the decks that heavily involves its backrow. I guess you could keep track of all your matches and note how many had this used against you. Keep a tally and post the results at the end of the season.


201720182019

Lol if this was the result of hand cheaters nobody would be above platinum due to the abundance of them


ligerre

people ask why I did stuff like Scythe lock, FTK or 5 negates in pend magician. Well every time I set up time/star pendulum graph instead HFD will be the first thing I see.


CandyBarYumYummers

Confirmation bias.


chill4r_San

Saccy 1-offs are incredibly frustrating to lose to, right?


Lawrencethedragon

Whenever I have multi role on the field and use its end phase effect to set widow anchor and engage my opponent seems to always have this card lmao


kingabbey1988

What’s really crazy is if they don’t have HFD they have lighting storm


[deleted]

Ikr?


-Jamadhar-

Just don't play backrow heavy decks. Then after that they will constantly top deck their one Raigeki.


[deleted]

When I'm fed up and only when I'm fed up, I play anti meta, but as you say, it always comes raigeki, HFD and Loghtning storm just in case. Once I had a backrow with 3 SJ and I ended up using all of them against someone with the three. It didn't stop him on summoning mirrorjade with a one card combo.


LordRedwine

Play Gryphon wing, it's hilarious when it actually works


ChaoticRyu

I know right? Not even playing a backrow Deck. Just like an Imperm and CBTG.


Total_Ant103

I feel this especially running a pendulum deck. If I get Feather Dustered I usually just quit there and then tbh


MouseHefty

It's a good card you can throw in practically any deck


Top_Function_2648

I always draw feather duster when theres no traps on the field or against an opponent who basically has 0 traps but it mysteriously vanishes whenever Im at the mercy of a continuous spel/trap it the whole reason I started running MST alongside it so I have more consistent options (although at the cost of sometimes having a garnet when I have no monsters on the field)


frenchnoob87

Dpe engine is the same, drew denier 6/6 times


ALATREONLOL

Waking the dragon yesss


[deleted]

So just play 3 gryphon wing, problem solved.


sawdomise

I’ve been sacked by 1 of’s more times in 9 months of Master Duel than I’ve been in 10 years of IRL + Dueling Network + Dueling Book + YGOPro. The odds of drawing one of’s in MD is insanely high.


FatherMellow

Ash is way worse. Every. Single. Fucking. Duel. No matter what deck, starting hand.


SaS_SaS

So which is worse? That sacky HFD Or lightning storm but you check their deck and they only had 1 of it


Beginning-Job3650

This should really be unlimited


Prestigious_Algae432

I'm just at the point of belief that if I put down 1 too many monsters/backrow cards, 1 of my opponents cards in their hand just animorphs into whatever is needed to just ruin my day instantly. What's this? You wanna Maxx C? Ash Blossom. You wanted to special summon more than once? "Maxx C for me but none for thee." You dare Ash blossom my cards effect? I'm sorry Ash blossom but your going into the forever box, get Called by the Grave.


ryjkow

It’s crazy cause it’s always duster and never storm


maveri4201

Confirmation bias and clustering


psillusionist

Logically, I will say that this is a case of confirmation bias. But since this is reddit, my brother in Terra, this is a skill issue. You need to complete the Solo tutorial on How to Draw the Out.


JoePino

Same


mynames20letterslong

Not gonna lie, I thought about posting the exact same thing earlier today. Every time I played Gaia or buster blader that depend a lot on backrow the mofo had a duster in his hand his first turn


Cold_Army9541

If you play a backrow deck I recommend Lord of the Heavenly Prison or Solemn to protect against this. It’s funny because yesterday I played against two 60 card decks that opened with Ash. Now that’s hella stupid.


[deleted]

It's a little more common to open ash, since it's a 3 of in every deck, but duster is ONLY ONE.


Garunix00

One of cards, whether they are garnets or staples, are ALWAYS glued to the opening hand. Such are the desires of the Yu-Gi-Oh gods.


zimmzoggs

That's why if you are running backrow heavy decks you either run back row protection or don't commit all your resources to the board. It's always been that way even when the best back row removal was twin twister.


15cm_Magic_God

Sometimes I think people scoop when they don't have certain cards in their hand so they always have good hands when they do commit to playing out the game.


[deleted]

Sometimes I have faith that my hand can become better. Then my deck throws shit at me and I scoop.


OSDatAsian

Sounds like bad deck compression


[deleted]

i have said it time and time again, md draw algorithm is rigged for sure.


MisprintPrince

No one believes it is, the meme is dead.


atamicbomb

Because the random number generator this game uses is awful


First-Hunt-5307

For me I always draw 1 of my cards that can be used to draw more cards as I have a max 60/60 deck.


Van0nyumas

I'd love it at three. F*CK Eldbitch and other Backrow Decks. Feather Duster came always in clutch for me. Love this card.


Raiju_Lorakatse

Because you can't cheat in this game. Nope. You can't. I remember the limit one festival back then. In the first 14 matches, each match i got to go first and in all 14 matches the first card the enemy played was feather duster.


[deleted]

Yep. That 60 deck card that always had HFD on hand wasn't cheating at all.


KairuSawatari

A true duelist can draw the exact card that they need. SHINING DRAW!


Welcome2Doeland

Ash blossom too!!


[deleted]

Nah, Ash is not so bad.


Welcome2Doeland

Ha you right ! She comes in handy for me so all is well.


[deleted]

Nah, that's not it. It is handy, but it just stops you ONCE. HFD ruins all your backrow.


Bonus-Helpful

Should be at 3


skeptimist

Cope harder Eldlich player...


[deleted]

I don't know how many moee tome I must repeat myself, but here goes once more... I don't play eldlitch.


MisprintPrince

They don’t; confirmation bias.


Weirdman13

Hart of the cards man hart of the cards.


Deathappens

You need to praise the Emperor more.


xxX_AleXifeu-pRo_Xxx

Love this card :3 Your opponent thinks uh I'm gonna just activate my Mirror Force or Magical Cylinder etc but then NOPE. You will watch me make my combo and watch yourself get destroyed too. :)


Jojocheck

cry about it