Yu-Gi-Oh! Meta Analysis Week 7

By Froylan Carreno

The week has been a bit hot about Yu-Gi-Oh, more so than usual so I have a couple of things to talk about today. A couple of decks that aren't Dragon Rulers (for once) have been topping several tournaments, such as Madolches and Constellars, decks that are really only average on the grand scale. Whenever a deck like that tops, it makes it gain attention world wide, and (usually) some unique tech in cards could skyrocket in price, but usually also fall back down in price eventually. Cards like those are usually meta-dependent, meaning their usefulness varies depending on what decks are good. For example, "Imperial Iron Wall" is a 5$ common, and commons very rarely excel more than 3$. This card in particular is devastating to Dragon Rulers, as it essentially shuts the whole deck down, and can mean a guaranteed loss if it is not removed from the field. Another card, "Gozen Match" also devastates the deck, as it basically only allows Dragon Ruler players to control one monster. Overall, I like any card that hurts Dragon Ruler decks, but because of how they resourceful they are, they can also get rid of any card that threatens them with "Blaster", the strongest dragon in the deck, and has the ability to destroy any card on the field.

There have also been an extra amount of Yu-Gi-Oh memes going about the internet, particularly ones about the card "Mystical Space Typhoon" being able to negate the effects of cards. MST only destroys the activated card, but does not actually the effect of the card, so MST'ing anything that was just activated is 90% of the time incredibly pointless. It's better to just let MST sit in your backrow until your opponent sets a card, and then during the End Phase you activate your MST so your opponent cannot chain it (It is impossible to activate a face-down Spell Speed 2 card the turn it was set.) Spell Speeds are just a fancy term for saying which cards take "priority" in a chain, or what cards can be activated at certain times. Usually, only quick-monster effects and Spell Speed 3 can negate a Spell Speed 2 effect, like that of Dark Hole. "Solemn Judgment" was a great example of this negating power, before it was unfortunately banned in September. I think I've said just about all I wanted to get off my chest, so I'll call it a day until next week, or maybe earlier. Not sure what I'll be discussing. But yeah lates.