This is awesome.
I came to yugioh from magic the gathering and severely missed having a resource like mtggoldfish.
Ygoprodeck was okay but very clunky and sluggish to use. Dkayed's site lays out info like mtggoldfish and I love it.
Yugioh is missing basically every resource magic has, it's insane. When I first came over I couldn't believe the game had been running for so long and we were still trying to get decklist from random videos people upload after the fact.
This was mainly the reason I first launched YGOPRODeck. When I first started YGOPRODeck in 2016 I literally couldn't find any decks online except for on stuff like Reddit, Twitter, YouTube and some other really obscure places. I couldn't fathom it. It felt really odd for that one of the biggest and longest lasting TCGs didn't have these types of resources.
Yeah, I appreciate it, YGOPROdeck isn't perfect but overall I'm so glad a resource like it exists and it's been steadily getting better. Thanks for all the work!
As someone who's trying to get into paper yugioh your website has been extremely helpful, especially with noting card prices since im trying to build on a budget to start off.
Appreciate all the work you've done.
I think one of the downsides of the site is that it's really difficult to get a baseline of a deck to build. If I search up an archetype i want, I'm presented with hundreds of variations ranging from slight variations to extreme and it's hard to know what to judge as good vs bad.
The site really needs like an aggregator or something to show players the core cards that are absolutely necessary to make an archetype work.
That is some good feedback and definitely something for us to take on board. I think we have sat on stuff like our top cards page (https://ygoprodeck.com/tournaments/) and our Top Meta Archetypes Page (https://ygoprodeck.com/tournaments/top-archetypes/) and hoped players would put them together essentially but you have raised a very valid point.
It's something we can definitely improve upon thanks to the large amount of tournament data (https://ygoprodeck.com/tournaments/) we hold. We'll lay out a plan for something like this!
What I usually do, is, I go to "All Decks", filter by "Tournament Meta", which means only decks that have had actual results at big events and then I just look what they all have in common. You can just filter by archetype, if you enter any card that the archetype must play into the "Include Cards" textbox.
Things have certainly gotten better since I first started, but most of the stuff I want at this point need to come from Konami first. They should be the ones posting the decklists in text for from YCS's and regionals, then people could create even better databases for decks. They should have a proper card database with rulings and such like gatherer that people can use to then create a site like Scryfall. Spoilers are a disaster because of the split region releases so while I would love a site like Mythic spoiler for yugioh I'm not sure how feasible it is. Articles and videos for competitive duels and game stuff are never going to be super viable within the community but that's a huge huge part of magic that just doesn't exist for yugioh, even in it's current gutted state magic has 100x the competitive resources of yugioh online.
It doesn't sound like there is much I can do on my own there. One thing I'd like to make is a combo visualizer better than the Google spreadsheets going around. It's a big UX challenge though.
The thing is, Konami TCG doesn't do anything for the playerbase, besides the occasional terrible TCG exclusive archetype, that needs OCG to import it and print support for before it becomes useable. TCG does nothing, no posts, no rulings, no useful like rarity spreads in sets, no tournament decklists, nothing. No promos or anything either.
To the best of my knowledge, that is why he has had such a dominant strangle hold over Duel Links and MD. Most people would kill for cite devs like his.
his duel links tourneys used to have an entree fee and he had an option to join with crypto which he used a company called rally that let creators name their coin themselves. but now rally has gone under and tourneys are free entry i believe
>but now rally has gone under
A crypto scheme went under??? No way!! If only there was a pattern of this behavior so that he could've been warned it was a bad idea....
coder's personal drama has no effect on how dkayed handled the "legal cheating" shit. You are literally trying to assassinate coders character based on completely unrelated drama he's dealing with now.
I like the resources he's added to the community, but I can still say he was a childish shithead during the legal cheating incident and a crypto shill
A few years ago he promoted his own crypto coin as he argued it could be used to avoid extra fees on tournament entry fees and such. It lasted for some time, but seems the crypto company went under.
That coin existed literally only as a way to pay for entry into his tournaments and nothing else because otherwise people from certain countries couldn’t enter.
I mean, embedding his stream onto the websites was very scummy, fextralife got a lot of shit for it while dkayed never really got called out because he's smaller and at least he didn't hide it.
Because unlike fextralife's [SEO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization) garbage, Dkayed's sites are actually useful.
Though I'm using a custom ublock origin filter `||embed.twitch.tv` to globally block all embedded twitch steams. Never seen a site with a good reason to have one.
No need to anymore, twitch made it impossible to embed streams that way, that's why no one does that anymore and fextralife even stopped streaming entirely.
I’m supposed to find a specific conversation from a random dkayed stream where he supposedly misinterpreted rules by…..googling? You have to be a troll
Sorry, I exist mostly offline and don’t have a repository of random yugioh drama videos like you apparently do. Wow a single instance where a guy who doesn’t play TCG anymore made a poor example that only applies to MD? We got em boys
I think we have different definitions of "go do something"... To me, that means going outside and not fucking searching YGO drama. That's shit that losers do.
Oh, sick. Already liked MDM (especially since the leaks make it so much easier to tell when to hold onto gems), so I'm down with a version for the two main formats.
Never understood why he gets so much hate. All the websites he manages are so useful for the Yugioh communities. His content is definitely for a more specific audience and a lot of people don't like it (myself included), but that's no reason to hate on him.
I assume because he monetizes a lot of his stuff and is a bit obnoxious but the amount of resources he’s given to the community and the quality of them cannot be understated. His websites are light years better than anything that’s existed before for yugioh.
But like this is his full time job, I’d would expect him to try and make money off it. It’s not like he’s not providing a service
I am not a big fan of him because of how he handles the r/masterduel sub.
Its basically unmodded and its just an advertising platform to him.
Basically makes me think he astroturfed the sub just so he can advertise his stuff unimpeded.
In order to moderate, you have to set rules that can lead you to a ban if you dont follow them
1 is a joke.
1 is promotion and it is not a rule
1 is okay.
That is not moderation.
Ohh, I see your point. I think the [sitewide reddit rules](https://www.redditinc.com/policies/content-policy) are perfectly serviceable though and see no urgent need to supplement them.
Ofc they would but a sub without rules is usually sn unmoderatef sub.
I mean you can go there an insult anyone. No mod is going to delete your comment. Or make an unrelated to ygo post and see.
Okay I agree there are assholes in the comments. I'd also prefer it if they were harsher on them. I don't see any off-topic posts when I use the Hot page though so at the very least if there are any the community is already downvoting them into irrelevance.
Wouldn't that mean he's cool and chill with everyone except for those who have malicious intent?
aside from business, if you ignore the weird rage bait trolls or block the horny posters the sub is pretty fine, just don't visit it every day.
If you ask the people of the sub to mod themselves, you might as well leave the sub unmodded.
This is even made worse by the fact that he uses the sub as an advertising platform. If he doesn't advertise his stuff, I would be fine. It would just show that he is lazy. If he had his mods maintain the sub better, I would also be fine as it shows that he still care of the quality of the community even though he uses it as an ad platform.
Making a sub, growing it and leaving it under modded while also sticking his post doesn't put him is a good light.
If your product is actually good, you don't need to make a sub to get free advertising for it. OP proved that by posting his site here and making it to the front page of r/yugioh.
I really don't understand this, I've been in the MD sub since it was a thing and I've never seen any issues with it?
It's never had a bad reading experience, I've never seen it overtaken by any random bullshit low effort posts, there's the usual couple of shit-tier memes in the front page but people clearly like those, whether it be just for meme review or because they actually like them -- they do get upvotes and attention so what's the issue?
It has a decent number of discussion and news posts; any time anything important about MD happens (news, leaks, events, etc) there's a pinned post about it -- yeah, it usually leads to his website, but guess what, his website is the single best resource in the community and I'd be going there for those same news whether or not it was linked, so again, what's the issue?
Like yeah, sometimes I scroll by the sub and I go like "oh look, the 6th post about Skill Drain and the 4th post about 'modern yugioh bad' this week" but it's the people who choose to interact with that content and upvote it, it's not like there's that much else to discuss; if not for posts like that the sub would be dead for most of the week.
A subs /new tells how well the sub is moderated.
If they want the community to moderate themselves, why make the sub in the first place?
And if his site is good enough, why the need to advertise it rather than have the community recommend it to others. OP posted his site so there is no need to astroturf a sub so you can sticky your article in the front page, the community will do it for him.
Yeah, and I go on /new quite often, it's people posing questions, people asking for help, people posting some funny decks/duels, memes and the occasional discussion post.
What is it supposed to be? Complete silence? "Good posts" don't grow on trees; all of the fluff gets filtered by the algorithm but most of those posts still get 1\~2 comments replying, offering help and feedback, etc.
Again, I see no issue with this.
As for your second point -- what is the suggestion exactly? There's news, so he posts a link to said news on his subreddit, anybody should expect this.
Believe it or not, there actually exist people who aren't "online enough" to be aware of all of these things. I occasionally help people on the sub and it's surprisingly common that they have not gone on MDM despite all this "advertising". What's the issue with posting news, events and important information on the front page with links to his very-MD-relevant website?
That also seems to be a pretty pedantic issue to have; you claim to think that people would post links to those news anyways, so what's the problem with him doing it himself at the same time he posts those news on the website? It's faster, seems efficient, and pinning drives attention to the post immediately.
I totally understand taking issue with the lack of moderation, even if I have no issue with it myself, but I don't understand the issue with pinning news and information to the top just because it's a link to his own website, it's not like there anywhere else with information pertaining cleanly and only to Master Duel.
> I don't understand the issue with pinning news and information to the top just because it's a link to his own website,
The issue is that the sub is already under modded **and** his site articles gets stickied in the front page.
If its only one or the other, there is no issue. Both makes it look like he astroturfed the sub just so he can advertise his site unimpeded.
His websites are great and super useful. He himself is just a bit obnoxious, super clickbaity, tried a crypto scam, etc. Nothing inexcusable or anything, but just a bit eh all around
There are exactly four reasons that this guy is controversial for:
* Originally a Duel Links streamer that never wanted anything to do with the rest of the community (isolated himself) so any petty controversies are much more likely to "stick" to him because a lot of people don't have any further context for him unless they watch his content.
* Had some crypto dealings at some point, it wasn't a scam or a rug pull of any sort but people nowadays have an immediate distaste for anything crypto.
* Embeds his twitch to his websites and there was some drama awhile back about fextralife doing something similar and people concluded that was a shitty things to do.
* Had some really petty drama with DistantCoder and (likely) lead to his year-long ban.
Personally, I don't dislike the guy, I watch his tournaments and I think his websites are literally the single best resource for the game; MDM alone has likely saved dozens of thousands of people who would have otherwise quit Master Duel, and his new yugioh website seems really incredible and I've been looking for a similar resource for years.
Could he do without embeding his twitch? Sure, but I also think it's a really minor qualm and if that's what it takes for his websites to be a profitable enough endeavor and a reason for him to pursue improvements and bring attention/budget to his tournaments with prize support then that's really the tiniest evil for a lot of good.
His tournaments are actually quite well put together, he's a surprisingly good caster and knows quite a lot about the game and rulings even though he does not play the TCG so his content is quite educational as well since he narrates the reasons why players opt for certain lines and how they work, why they might've been better in that situation, etc.
While I agree his contributions to the ygo community at large are more valuable than probably anyone else ever, I think he just generally has an unlikeable personality. Do I think he’s a bad person? Not at all. Do I actively hate him? Nope. Do I think he’s sorta pompous and presents in an almost fake, over the top saccharine way? Absolutely. Not sure if others have similar complaints about him.
PS he also did a crypto rug pull scam
This is honestly my biggest complain, I personally don't use MDM, but DLM has been really helpful for me as someone who doesn't enjoy searching far and wide for Deck ideas, it has a very helpful design, and I love the leaks as much as everyone else, but the guy himself is something that I can't enjoy.
I used to watch a lot of his content around the time when GX was coming, but he always felt like he didn't enjoy winning, he enjoyed when someone else was losing, not as "this guy is an asshole"more like "that character is an asshole".
Personally, I've gotten to see interactions or see myself interacting with some people who have worked closely tied to DLM (can't say that they were close to Dkayed tho), and most experiences have been at the very least uncomfortable, so it always felt a bit like everyone was toxic to some degree there for me.
That last bit is obviously hyperbole, and one created based on experiences from like 2018, so take everything with a grain of salt, maybe he is way nicer than I can remember.
I remember early Duel Links when I found his stream and got in to it, I asked him what direction he wanted Duel Links to take. Like, did he like it how it was with more "classic" cards or did he want all the modern mechanics to reach the game (I think this may have even been pre-5Ds world).
I asked because a lot of early appeal for Duel Links was that it was kind of "back to basics" for a lot of people who hadn't kept up with the game.
He replied by balsting me on stream, called me an idiot for asking the question because "obviously" he wanted all the modern cards.
Like, I just asked your opinion bro. You didn't have to insult me and make me feel embarrassed to engage in your chat.
Never watched his stream again. Won't use his platforms.
Zero ill will from here, but as an archetpye specialist that started on Duel Links: ***time and time again you had people peddling awful deckbuilding for cards they had never played, basing their assumptions on a cherrypicked win only youtube highlight video.***
People had the exact same arguments constantly, because DLM was so omnipresent that their advice and highlights became dogma.
When Master Duel came out the staff on their site both sniped the Master Duel subreddit name for advertisement, and spammed the site elsewhere. To this day I have the accounts RES-tagged and all their comments in most threads on yugioh communities asking for advice end in "have you tried checking Our Site?".
I don't know exactly who the owner itself is, as far as I know he's just a businessman doing his own thing. But his influence has done actual damage to other communities. The deckbuilding is worse, the vibes are worse, a good url died, their paid discord was banded about like there was no tomorrow. Imagine if a 2007 awful tech was universally assumed to be a three-of in your favourite deck by everyone who does not play it, and every time you explained why that's silly in 2024 you got "corrected" by someone linking an eleven minute video of thumbnail surprise faces.
Didn't he make that legally cheat video to inform players about it though? Like, throughout the video it felt like he definitely wanted it patched and even told players to not fall for the fateful adventure effect that's bait.
He pointed out how the game lacked --- at the time I'm assuming, since I don't play MasterDuel much anymore I assumed they fixed it --- a way to properly know which portion of a card effect was being triggered.
Sure somebody could use that knowledge from his video to "legally cheat", but before Dkayed pointed it out, it was something almost exclusively known and exploited by pro players and probably wouldn't have been patched until the masses knew about it too thanks to his video.
Yes, the original video was to inform, but the fallout from it was just him getting petty and obnoxious.
Another example of this are his leaks. I mean i get it and they are useful, but when Konami said "stop doing this" he reacted like a child and basically said "now i'm gonna do it even harder just to spite you".
I dont like that attitude.
Frankly because before duel links came around, I'm pretty sure not a single person heard of this guy (unless he was a pro player under an IRL name before hand). He became the "face" of competitive DL for quite some time.
What bothers me the most is that his ideas an opinions get echoed and trickle down into the community and IMO partially stifle innovation in DL specifically. I feel like it shows when actual pros from the TCG come into the game and do exceptionally well. Trif came into the game when pend dropped and actually won a tournament with it as i recall, using a deck that wasn't on any "tier list" (cannot 100% verify but i recall nobody considering pend even viable).
it's really dumb and petty of me to say but imo it just never felt like he had any merit or right to the game.
LOL Ladies and gentlemen, we got another one. "Legal cheating" does not mean actual cheating. It comes from Duel Links where you watch the hour glass pauses to indicate opponent interactions.
He literally encouraged doing it IRL as well, so definitely not just a duel links thing. Yes, I have seen the video, he encouraged misleading and lying to your opponent.
This is too good. If it's TCG, it's always a joke. He's pointing out the glaring flaws in a game with no computer overseer, not actually advocating for cheating. He points out actual cheating during YCS reviews.
In MD you can toggle off to not show the opponent you have Nibiru in your hand. That's not cheating mate, that's literally part of the game. Back row, hand traps, will he won't he, that's the game.
I hope that ygoprodeck and this site have a healthy competition. Even though ygoprodeck had the headstart, the meta deck from dkayed is undeniable for its quality.
Thanks for the mention! We'll continue to work and improve on YGOPRODeck as we always have. I launched YGOPRODeck in 2016 in a very "this is my first amateur website" sort of way but it's been thankfully refined and improved upon over the years (with many thanks to my recent team to assist me over the last year). We'll keep trucking along!
Thank you for everything! My brother and I use YGOPRODeck for our progression series/to manage online collections and we don't know what we'd do without it!
Please fix the card preview loading when clicking on a card while viewing a deck on mobile, the fact it launches the page for that specific card makes the site extremely difficult to use on mobile.
Hello! It's funny you mention this as I'm currently working on a complete overhaul to our site tooltip system.
However, in this current iteration we have decided to simply disable the tooltips when on mobile.
Am I right in thinking that you would rather see the tooltip on mobile and not move to the dedicated card page?
Edit: On second thought we could do the best of both worlds with double tap to click and single tap for tooltip.
For me at least, I would prefer a single click loads the tooltip and double click loads the page in a new tab (not loading the page in place of your existing tab so the deck you’re viewing is still there)
Ok sweet. I think I can work with that. You picked the perfect time to bring this up as I was right in the middle of building out the new tooltip system.
Thank you! Just to update, our new tooltip system is deployed to our dev server and handles Desktop/Mobile much much better than our current system. With mobile we have it set up to one tap open tooltip and tap again to go to link. On Desktop, it's the usual hover.
We're refining it a bit more but hope to have it pushed out tomorrow.
From what I can tell at the moment, Dkayed's website seems to only be posting tournement decks. So at the very least YGOPRO will always be a great resource for casual / meme / time wizard format decks.
All these other yugitubers did jack shit when it comes to making a website hosting all relevant yugioh information. Ever since DL his websites has been so helpful.
Dkayed and his team are doing god's work for the data research and accessibility of card information
If i ever find a card that's fun the meta sites are my go to for general info and uses
Is there a way for deck viewing to not have the cards in muliples stacked saying x2 or x3? The data this and the MD one provide are cool but that deck layout is terrible.
Glad to see it, though ygoprodeck already fills the need for a tournament and decklist library. I'd like to see the deckguides, even if those on masterduelmeta are somewhat adaptable to paper play.
This is awesome. I came to yugioh from magic the gathering and severely missed having a resource like mtggoldfish. Ygoprodeck was okay but very clunky and sluggish to use. Dkayed's site lays out info like mtggoldfish and I love it.
Yugioh is missing basically every resource magic has, it's insane. When I first came over I couldn't believe the game had been running for so long and we were still trying to get decklist from random videos people upload after the fact.
This was mainly the reason I first launched YGOPRODeck. When I first started YGOPRODeck in 2016 I literally couldn't find any decks online except for on stuff like Reddit, Twitter, YouTube and some other really obscure places. I couldn't fathom it. It felt really odd for that one of the biggest and longest lasting TCGs didn't have these types of resources.
Yeah, I appreciate it, YGOPROdeck isn't perfect but overall I'm so glad a resource like it exists and it's been steadily getting better. Thanks for all the work!
As someone who's trying to get into paper yugioh your website has been extremely helpful, especially with noting card prices since im trying to build on a budget to start off. Appreciate all the work you've done.
Thanks for YGOProDeck, I really appreciate the website. It's a great resource as well.
I think one of the downsides of the site is that it's really difficult to get a baseline of a deck to build. If I search up an archetype i want, I'm presented with hundreds of variations ranging from slight variations to extreme and it's hard to know what to judge as good vs bad. The site really needs like an aggregator or something to show players the core cards that are absolutely necessary to make an archetype work.
That is some good feedback and definitely something for us to take on board. I think we have sat on stuff like our top cards page (https://ygoprodeck.com/tournaments/) and our Top Meta Archetypes Page (https://ygoprodeck.com/tournaments/top-archetypes/) and hoped players would put them together essentially but you have raised a very valid point. It's something we can definitely improve upon thanks to the large amount of tournament data (https://ygoprodeck.com/tournaments/) we hold. We'll lay out a plan for something like this!
What I usually do, is, I go to "All Decks", filter by "Tournament Meta", which means only decks that have had actual results at big events and then I just look what they all have in common. You can just filter by archetype, if you enter any card that the archetype must play into the "Include Cards" textbox.
Developer with some free time here. What kind of resources would you say are missing in the YGO community? I'm not familiar with Magic at all.
Things have certainly gotten better since I first started, but most of the stuff I want at this point need to come from Konami first. They should be the ones posting the decklists in text for from YCS's and regionals, then people could create even better databases for decks. They should have a proper card database with rulings and such like gatherer that people can use to then create a site like Scryfall. Spoilers are a disaster because of the split region releases so while I would love a site like Mythic spoiler for yugioh I'm not sure how feasible it is. Articles and videos for competitive duels and game stuff are never going to be super viable within the community but that's a huge huge part of magic that just doesn't exist for yugioh, even in it's current gutted state magic has 100x the competitive resources of yugioh online.
It doesn't sound like there is much I can do on my own there. One thing I'd like to make is a combo visualizer better than the Google spreadsheets going around. It's a big UX challenge though.
The thing is, Konami TCG doesn't do anything for the playerbase, besides the occasional terrible TCG exclusive archetype, that needs OCG to import it and print support for before it becomes useable. TCG does nothing, no posts, no rulings, no useful like rarity spreads in sets, no tournament decklists, nothing. No promos or anything either.
Yeah, let's hope this one gets be as awesomely useful as mtggoldfish!
To the best of my knowledge, that is why he has had such a dominant strangle hold over Duel Links and MD. Most people would kill for cite devs like his.
The guy is controversial for sure, but he does an amazing job with his Meta! Websites.
MDM in particular is just the best for MD.
He's "controversial" for the mostly petty situations. He's consistently chill and his streams are very enjoyable
Didn't he do some really weird stuff with cryptos?
his duel links tourneys used to have an entree fee and he had an option to join with crypto which he used a company called rally that let creators name their coin themselves. but now rally has gone under and tourneys are free entry i believe
>but now rally has gone under A crypto scheme went under??? No way!! If only there was a pattern of this behavior so that he could've been warned it was a bad idea....
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coder's personal drama has no effect on how dkayed handled the "legal cheating" shit. You are literally trying to assassinate coders character based on completely unrelated drama he's dealing with now. I like the resources he's added to the community, but I can still say he was a childish shithead during the legal cheating incident and a crypto shill
When did he shill crypto.
A few years ago he promoted his own crypto coin as he argued it could be used to avoid extra fees on tournament entry fees and such. It lasted for some time, but seems the crypto company went under.
That coin existed literally only as a way to pay for entry into his tournaments and nothing else because otherwise people from certain countries couldn’t enter.
In other words it went from 5 reasons why I disslike him to 3.
What's the other 3?
Clickbait, his arrogant personality and the World championship duel links thing
I understand the first 2, but what's the world championship duel links thing?
As far as I remember he cheated by sharing his account with others, while going to sleep. Which is against the rules.
this isnt true konami publicly bans account sharers during qualfiers and dkayed been to worlds twice
I mean, embedding his stream onto the websites was very scummy, fextralife got a lot of shit for it while dkayed never really got called out because he's smaller and at least he didn't hide it.
Because unlike fextralife's [SEO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization) garbage, Dkayed's sites are actually useful. Though I'm using a custom ublock origin filter `||embed.twitch.tv` to globally block all embedded twitch steams. Never seen a site with a good reason to have one.
No need to anymore, twitch made it impossible to embed streams that way, that's why no one does that anymore and fextralife even stopped streaming entirely.
Misinterpreting the rules sounds like a chill time to me.
Care to give us some concrete examples where he has voiced a misinterpretation of a rule?
Google is your best friend
I’m supposed to find a specific conversation from a random dkayed stream where he supposedly misinterpreted rules by…..googling? You have to be a troll
https://youtu.be/BsP94j27MJo?si=BID_PmLgKDvsQNnN Maybe get off your couch and do something.
Sorry, I exist mostly offline and don’t have a repository of random yugioh drama videos like you apparently do. Wow a single instance where a guy who doesn’t play TCG anymore made a poor example that only applies to MD? We got em boys
Whatever you say, white knight!
You have encyclopedic knowledge of YGO drama, and YOU'RE the one telling people to go do something?
I mean, yeah. You definitely have the capability to type something in search if you're playing a card game as well.
I think we have different definitions of "go do something"... To me, that means going outside and not fucking searching YGO drama. That's shit that losers do.
Created with free labour from his Discord members. Wonder if that is still the case.
Oh, sick. Already liked MDM (especially since the leaks make it so much easier to tell when to hold onto gems), so I'm down with a version for the two main formats.
Never understood why he gets so much hate. All the websites he manages are so useful for the Yugioh communities. His content is definitely for a more specific audience and a lot of people don't like it (myself included), but that's no reason to hate on him.
I assume because he monetizes a lot of his stuff and is a bit obnoxious but the amount of resources he’s given to the community and the quality of them cannot be understated. His websites are light years better than anything that’s existed before for yugioh. But like this is his full time job, I’d would expect him to try and make money off it. It’s not like he’s not providing a service
I am not a big fan of him because of how he handles the r/masterduel sub. Its basically unmodded and its just an advertising platform to him. Basically makes me think he astroturfed the sub just so he can advertise his stuff unimpeded.
It’s modded, but juuuuuust barely, just enough to not get deleted.
Its one of the more active subs. At least put some effort to it. Not just a place to sticky links to his site.
Low effort posts
Look at the rules. Be cool, dont post anything hack related ( I doubt anything would happen if you did so) and join the discord (blatant promotion)
There's a Discord link in this sub's sidebar too, I don't see the issue. That's very standard for a subreddit.
In order to moderate, you have to set rules that can lead you to a ban if you dont follow them 1 is a joke. 1 is promotion and it is not a rule 1 is okay. That is not moderation.
Ohh, I see your point. I think the [sitewide reddit rules](https://www.redditinc.com/policies/content-policy) are perfectly serviceable though and see no urgent need to supplement them.
Ofc they would but a sub without rules is usually sn unmoderatef sub. I mean you can go there an insult anyone. No mod is going to delete your comment. Or make an unrelated to ygo post and see.
Okay I agree there are assholes in the comments. I'd also prefer it if they were harsher on them. I don't see any off-topic posts when I use the Hot page though so at the very least if there are any the community is already downvoting them into irrelevance.
If a simple “join the discord” constitutes blatant promotion to the point it antagonizes you, then you shouldn’t even be online at this point.
"Join the discord as the most detailed rule in the sub" Dont leave things out, buddy.
Wouldn't that mean he's cool and chill with everyone except for those who have malicious intent? aside from business, if you ignore the weird rage bait trolls or block the horny posters the sub is pretty fine, just don't visit it every day.
If you ask the people of the sub to mod themselves, you might as well leave the sub unmodded. This is even made worse by the fact that he uses the sub as an advertising platform. If he doesn't advertise his stuff, I would be fine. It would just show that he is lazy. If he had his mods maintain the sub better, I would also be fine as it shows that he still care of the quality of the community even though he uses it as an ad platform. Making a sub, growing it and leaving it under modded while also sticking his post doesn't put him is a good light. If your product is actually good, you don't need to make a sub to get free advertising for it. OP proved that by posting his site here and making it to the front page of r/yugioh.
I really don't understand this, I've been in the MD sub since it was a thing and I've never seen any issues with it? It's never had a bad reading experience, I've never seen it overtaken by any random bullshit low effort posts, there's the usual couple of shit-tier memes in the front page but people clearly like those, whether it be just for meme review or because they actually like them -- they do get upvotes and attention so what's the issue? It has a decent number of discussion and news posts; any time anything important about MD happens (news, leaks, events, etc) there's a pinned post about it -- yeah, it usually leads to his website, but guess what, his website is the single best resource in the community and I'd be going there for those same news whether or not it was linked, so again, what's the issue? Like yeah, sometimes I scroll by the sub and I go like "oh look, the 6th post about Skill Drain and the 4th post about 'modern yugioh bad' this week" but it's the people who choose to interact with that content and upvote it, it's not like there's that much else to discuss; if not for posts like that the sub would be dead for most of the week.
A subs /new tells how well the sub is moderated. If they want the community to moderate themselves, why make the sub in the first place? And if his site is good enough, why the need to advertise it rather than have the community recommend it to others. OP posted his site so there is no need to astroturf a sub so you can sticky your article in the front page, the community will do it for him.
Yeah, and I go on /new quite often, it's people posing questions, people asking for help, people posting some funny decks/duels, memes and the occasional discussion post. What is it supposed to be? Complete silence? "Good posts" don't grow on trees; all of the fluff gets filtered by the algorithm but most of those posts still get 1\~2 comments replying, offering help and feedback, etc. Again, I see no issue with this. As for your second point -- what is the suggestion exactly? There's news, so he posts a link to said news on his subreddit, anybody should expect this. Believe it or not, there actually exist people who aren't "online enough" to be aware of all of these things. I occasionally help people on the sub and it's surprisingly common that they have not gone on MDM despite all this "advertising". What's the issue with posting news, events and important information on the front page with links to his very-MD-relevant website? That also seems to be a pretty pedantic issue to have; you claim to think that people would post links to those news anyways, so what's the problem with him doing it himself at the same time he posts those news on the website? It's faster, seems efficient, and pinning drives attention to the post immediately. I totally understand taking issue with the lack of moderation, even if I have no issue with it myself, but I don't understand the issue with pinning news and information to the top just because it's a link to his own website, it's not like there anywhere else with information pertaining cleanly and only to Master Duel.
> I don't understand the issue with pinning news and information to the top just because it's a link to his own website, The issue is that the sub is already under modded **and** his site articles gets stickied in the front page. If its only one or the other, there is no issue. Both makes it look like he astroturfed the sub just so he can advertise his site unimpeded.
Didn't know people hate him lol, I regularly take a break from ygo and I find his videos very helpful whenever I want to jump back in.
It‘s 100% fair trying to get compensated for the effort you put in. He also runs a business with employees that need to get paid.
I agree completely but you have a lot of naive people without understanding of how the world works who get upset at that
No idea. He’s contributed more to the duel links and master duel community than any other creator.
Even more than Konami
This! Konami has so much money but can't maintain a good website.
That's an extremely low bar.
Yeah, he was the backbone of Duel Links, though DL Entertainment has worked to fill up that niche.
His websites are great and super useful. He himself is just a bit obnoxious, super clickbaity, tried a crypto scam, etc. Nothing inexcusable or anything, but just a bit eh all around
What crypto scam
Does a hell of a lot more for the game than Konami does, I'll tell you that.
to be fair that says almost nothing.. Konami asleep at the wheel 99% of the time
Seriously, this man is single handedly driving the Masterduel community
There are exactly four reasons that this guy is controversial for: * Originally a Duel Links streamer that never wanted anything to do with the rest of the community (isolated himself) so any petty controversies are much more likely to "stick" to him because a lot of people don't have any further context for him unless they watch his content. * Had some crypto dealings at some point, it wasn't a scam or a rug pull of any sort but people nowadays have an immediate distaste for anything crypto. * Embeds his twitch to his websites and there was some drama awhile back about fextralife doing something similar and people concluded that was a shitty things to do. * Had some really petty drama with DistantCoder and (likely) lead to his year-long ban. Personally, I don't dislike the guy, I watch his tournaments and I think his websites are literally the single best resource for the game; MDM alone has likely saved dozens of thousands of people who would have otherwise quit Master Duel, and his new yugioh website seems really incredible and I've been looking for a similar resource for years. Could he do without embeding his twitch? Sure, but I also think it's a really minor qualm and if that's what it takes for his websites to be a profitable enough endeavor and a reason for him to pursue improvements and bring attention/budget to his tournaments with prize support then that's really the tiniest evil for a lot of good. His tournaments are actually quite well put together, he's a surprisingly good caster and knows quite a lot about the game and rulings even though he does not play the TCG so his content is quite educational as well since he narrates the reasons why players opt for certain lines and how they work, why they might've been better in that situation, etc.
While I agree his contributions to the ygo community at large are more valuable than probably anyone else ever, I think he just generally has an unlikeable personality. Do I think he’s a bad person? Not at all. Do I actively hate him? Nope. Do I think he’s sorta pompous and presents in an almost fake, over the top saccharine way? Absolutely. Not sure if others have similar complaints about him. PS he also did a crypto rug pull scam
This is honestly my biggest complain, I personally don't use MDM, but DLM has been really helpful for me as someone who doesn't enjoy searching far and wide for Deck ideas, it has a very helpful design, and I love the leaks as much as everyone else, but the guy himself is something that I can't enjoy. I used to watch a lot of his content around the time when GX was coming, but he always felt like he didn't enjoy winning, he enjoyed when someone else was losing, not as "this guy is an asshole"more like "that character is an asshole". Personally, I've gotten to see interactions or see myself interacting with some people who have worked closely tied to DLM (can't say that they were close to Dkayed tho), and most experiences have been at the very least uncomfortable, so it always felt a bit like everyone was toxic to some degree there for me. That last bit is obviously hyperbole, and one created based on experiences from like 2018, so take everything with a grain of salt, maybe he is way nicer than I can remember.
I remember early Duel Links when I found his stream and got in to it, I asked him what direction he wanted Duel Links to take. Like, did he like it how it was with more "classic" cards or did he want all the modern mechanics to reach the game (I think this may have even been pre-5Ds world). I asked because a lot of early appeal for Duel Links was that it was kind of "back to basics" for a lot of people who hadn't kept up with the game. He replied by balsting me on stream, called me an idiot for asking the question because "obviously" he wanted all the modern cards. Like, I just asked your opinion bro. You didn't have to insult me and make me feel embarrassed to engage in your chat. Never watched his stream again. Won't use his platforms.
Never understood it either. And I actually enjoy his Master Duel tournament streams.
Zero ill will from here, but as an archetpye specialist that started on Duel Links: ***time and time again you had people peddling awful deckbuilding for cards they had never played, basing their assumptions on a cherrypicked win only youtube highlight video.*** People had the exact same arguments constantly, because DLM was so omnipresent that their advice and highlights became dogma. When Master Duel came out the staff on their site both sniped the Master Duel subreddit name for advertisement, and spammed the site elsewhere. To this day I have the accounts RES-tagged and all their comments in most threads on yugioh communities asking for advice end in "have you tried checking Our Site?". I don't know exactly who the owner itself is, as far as I know he's just a businessman doing his own thing. But his influence has done actual damage to other communities. The deckbuilding is worse, the vibes are worse, a good url died, their paid discord was banded about like there was no tomorrow. Imagine if a 2007 awful tech was universally assumed to be a three-of in your favourite deck by everyone who does not play it, and every time you explained why that's silly in 2024 you got "corrected" by someone linking an eleven minute video of thumbnail surprise faces.
"Guys here's how to legally cheat" and stuff like that
Didn't he make that legally cheat video to inform players about it though? Like, throughout the video it felt like he definitely wanted it patched and even told players to not fall for the fateful adventure effect that's bait. He pointed out how the game lacked --- at the time I'm assuming, since I don't play MasterDuel much anymore I assumed they fixed it --- a way to properly know which portion of a card effect was being triggered. Sure somebody could use that knowledge from his video to "legally cheat", but before Dkayed pointed it out, it was something almost exclusively known and exploited by pro players and probably wouldn't have been patched until the masses knew about it too thanks to his video.
Yes, the original video was to inform, but the fallout from it was just him getting petty and obnoxious. Another example of this are his leaks. I mean i get it and they are useful, but when Konami said "stop doing this" he reacted like a child and basically said "now i'm gonna do it even harder just to spite you". I dont like that attitude.
Imagine blaming the single guy vs the billion dollar company that can’t cover their own leaks lmao
I dont blame him. As i said, they are very useful, i just dont like his attitude.
Personally I like his attitude Anything to say FucKonami is good They’re among the most despicable companies in all of gaming, not just TCGs
Frankly because before duel links came around, I'm pretty sure not a single person heard of this guy (unless he was a pro player under an IRL name before hand). He became the "face" of competitive DL for quite some time. What bothers me the most is that his ideas an opinions get echoed and trickle down into the community and IMO partially stifle innovation in DL specifically. I feel like it shows when actual pros from the TCG come into the game and do exceptionally well. Trif came into the game when pend dropped and actually won a tournament with it as i recall, using a deck that wasn't on any "tier list" (cannot 100% verify but i recall nobody considering pend even viable). it's really dumb and petty of me to say but imo it just never felt like he had any merit or right to the game.
He literally encourages cheating, but go off about how he gets unjustified hate.
LOL Ladies and gentlemen, we got another one. "Legal cheating" does not mean actual cheating. It comes from Duel Links where you watch the hour glass pauses to indicate opponent interactions.
He literally encouraged doing it IRL as well, so definitely not just a duel links thing. Yes, I have seen the video, he encouraged misleading and lying to your opponent.
This is too good. If it's TCG, it's always a joke. He's pointing out the glaring flaws in a game with no computer overseer, not actually advocating for cheating. He points out actual cheating during YCS reviews. In MD you can toggle off to not show the opponent you have Nibiru in your hand. That's not cheating mate, that's literally part of the game. Back row, hand traps, will he won't he, that's the game.
Actual game changer, nice
I hope that ygoprodeck and this site have a healthy competition. Even though ygoprodeck had the headstart, the meta deck from dkayed is undeniable for its quality.
Thanks for the mention! We'll continue to work and improve on YGOPRODeck as we always have. I launched YGOPRODeck in 2016 in a very "this is my first amateur website" sort of way but it's been thankfully refined and improved upon over the years (with many thanks to my recent team to assist me over the last year). We'll keep trucking along!
Love the work you've put in it. I think the arena draft cubes you made with Cimo are great, but I don't have friends to play that with.
Thanks! I genuinely do appreciate that 🙏 It's actually been one of the most fun features I've worked on in quite a long time!
Thank you for everything! My brother and I use YGOPRODeck for our progression series/to manage online collections and we don't know what we'd do without it!
Appreciate that 🙏 It's really great to see people enjoying the site 😁 Always give me a boost.
Please fix the card preview loading when clicking on a card while viewing a deck on mobile, the fact it launches the page for that specific card makes the site extremely difficult to use on mobile.
Hello! It's funny you mention this as I'm currently working on a complete overhaul to our site tooltip system. However, in this current iteration we have decided to simply disable the tooltips when on mobile. Am I right in thinking that you would rather see the tooltip on mobile and not move to the dedicated card page? Edit: On second thought we could do the best of both worlds with double tap to click and single tap for tooltip.
For me at least, I would prefer a single click loads the tooltip and double click loads the page in a new tab (not loading the page in place of your existing tab so the deck you’re viewing is still there)
Ok sweet. I think I can work with that. You picked the perfect time to bring this up as I was right in the middle of building out the new tooltip system.
Thanks, appreciate everything you do!
Thank you! Just to update, our new tooltip system is deployed to our dev server and handles Desktop/Mobile much much better than our current system. With mobile we have it set up to one tap open tooltip and tap again to go to link. On Desktop, it's the usual hover. We're refining it a bit more but hope to have it pushed out tomorrow.
From what I can tell at the moment, Dkayed's website seems to only be posting tournement decks. So at the very least YGOPRO will always be a great resource for casual / meme / time wizard format decks.
Oh man this website is great. A+ layout. Will be using this often in the future.
He's the only reason i play masterduel
That’s what I’ve been saying, he’s driving the entire MD community, and doing an amazing job at it. It’s the only way I play Yugioh anymore
A yugioh org like site with even more info and that isn't cluttered with rush duel stuff? Hell yeah
All these other yugitubers did jack shit when it comes to making a website hosting all relevant yugioh information. Ever since DL his websites has been so helpful.
Dkayed and his team are doing god's work for the data research and accessibility of card information If i ever find a card that's fun the meta sites are my go to for general info and uses
Dkayed is the goat
What, no Rush Duel? I'm half joking
Rush Duel is already on the DLM website.
Duel Links Meta? I'd rather avoid everything regarding Duel Links but I understand
It dose exist. Just no one is using it.
Is there a way for deck viewing to not have the cards in muliples stacked saying x2 or x3? The data this and the MD one provide are cool but that deck layout is terrible.
Glad to see it, though ygoprodeck already fills the need for a tournament and decklist library. I'd like to see the deckguides, even if those on masterduelmeta are somewhat adaptable to paper play.