Yu-Gi-Oh! The Series Discussion Thread

[NeoDude-5000]

Aren't Rush Duels a totally different game anyway? Why would we expect the Extra Deck from the main Tcg to be important in Rush Duels?

Well it is nice to have the game expanding. I mean just having main deck monsters would be boring and having more advanced monsters with new mechanics would be more refreshing. When Synchro monsters were introduced they breathed new life into the TCG giving us new ways to play.

Also for once we actually had a great episode in SEVENS this time. Who knew that Yuga was a cheat.

 

[Trainer Yusuf]

http://duellinks.gamea.co/c/3v8fkq6e

There no major events for September in Duel Links, as we are finally getting the ZEXAL world instead. The later new character events will be for ZEXAL world initially for a while, obviously.

 

[British Soul]

Hopefully that new gimmick for Rush Duels is the Extra Deck. Starting with Fusions, then Synchros and finally Xyz Monsters. No Extra Monster Zone in Rush Duels pretty means Links won't be a thing.

I'm pretty sure the new gimmick is gonna be Fusions. We know from the Rush Duel field that there is an Extra Deck zone meaning that the Extra Deck was gonna be implemented at some point.

 

[TheWanderingMist]

Hopefully that new gimmick for Rush Duels is the Extra Deck. Starting with Fusions, then Synchros and finally Xyz Monsters. No Extra Monster Zone in Rush Duel's pretty means Link's won't be a thing.

Or they'll just let them be summoned to main monster zones in Rush Duels.

 

[jaden767]

Well it is nice to have the game expanding. I mean just having main deck monsters would be boring and having more advanced monsters with new mechanics would be more refreshing. When Synchro monsters were introduced they breathed new life into the TCG giving us new ways to play.

Also for once we actually had a great episode in SEVENS this time. Who knew that Yuga was a cheat.

I just think it's weird that they want to expand Rush Duels. I mean more likely than not Rush Duels won't be supported past the YGO Sevens era any ways.

I still think that Rush Duels shouldn't be a whole separate game from regular YGO. I can't believe I'm saying this but I miss having anime cards printed in regular sets.

 

[British Soul]

I still think that Rush Duels shouldn't be a whole separate game from regular YGO. I can't believe I'm saying this but I miss having anime cards printed in regular sets.

On the flipside, without the anime cards to worry about (outside of Battles of Legend), core set quality has increased, but we still have had the nostalgia in the last two sets with the Gaia and Raidraptor/DRXD support.

 

[Trainer Yusuf]

https://ygorganization.com/insertlyricsfromfreddiegibbsthugginmyfavoritesongofalltimehere/

The cover archetype for Blazing Vortex is now revealed, and shockingly it is NOT a 5D's representative, but instead a retrain of the entire Armed Dragon archetype, except Dark Armed Dragon and Catapult Cannon. There is even a reference for Metaphys Armed Dragon.

Edit: The new Armed Dragon retrains are also first LV monsters since GX era.
Edit 2:
*Armed Dragon Thunder LV10's effect references Chazz's Japaneze catchphrase, as listed by YGOrganization.
*Armed Dragon LV10 - White is not a direct reference to Metaphys Armed Dragon, but instead it refers to the time Chazz was a member of Society of Light, as he used Armed Dragon LV10 with White Veil. This means we might get his White Knights in a later Collection Pack.
*In this case, the "Blazing Vortex" refers to LIGHT Thunders and WIND Attribute monsters, not FIRE monsters or Red Dragon Archfiend as I thought. New Batteryman support or even a new Thunder archetype may happen here.

 

[NeoDude-5000]

Chazz it up! Chazz it up! Chazz up the Armed Dragons! These Armed Dragons look great. They were already powerful to begin with but... wow.

 

[Trainer Yusuf]

https://ygorganization.com/noparasitesthistimearound/
Our lesser legacy support is not for a ZEXAL representative, it is Windwitches!

Their new (and only) spell card's artwork references Call of the Windwitch, an animé-only card.

Edit: https://ygorganization.com/andyouwillleadmetotheleviathan/ Fabled are back, making this the first time a Duel Terminal archetype got direct support outside of Dragunities.

 

[NeoDude-5000]

Windwitches too? Even better! So now we've got cards that Rin could've used if she duelled again after wrecking Yugo (and his duel runner) and we can actually make proper Windwitch decks (no other wind monsters like Speedroids and Majespecters).

Also since these new boosters have cards used/based of 3 characters, excluding imports from Japan, (Yugi, Sora and Girag in Rise of the Duellist, Yuto, Shay and Kalin in Phantom Rage) who will be the third character for Blazing Vortex?

 

[Trainer Yusuf]

https://ygorganization.com/iceinmyveins/
New Ice Barrier SD features a Level 11 retrain of Trishula, a younger version of Gishki Noellia and an infant version of Exa, Enforcer of the Nekroz. Both Nekroz and Gishki are successor archetypes of Ice Barriers.

Windwitches too? Even better! So now we've got cards that Rin could've used if she duelled again after wrecking Yugo (and his duel runner) and we can actually make proper Windwitch decks (no other wind monsters like Speedroids and Majespecters).

Also since these new boosters have cards used/based of 3 characters, excluding imports from Japan, (Yugi, Sora and Girag in Rise of the Duellist, Yuto, Shay and Kalin in Phantom Rage) who will be the third character for Blazing Vortex?

All five-card legacy support slots are used, so we are likely going to get another one-off card like Thunder Hand or Arcana Reading. For what we don't know, but rest of the Tournament Pack Vol. 4 reprints should be revealed by the start of next month.

Given the set's emphasis on WIND and LIGHT monsters, this would be a neat opportunity to have a WIND Hand monster for Girag, or some sort of Star Seraph support (though that might still happen in Selection 10 in December instead).

Edit: http://duellinks.gamea.co/c/pvj0g10a
Duel Links' internal code reveals ARC-V and VRAINS will come to Duel Links after KaibaCorp Grand Prix filler arc.

Doma and Virtual World arcs are not listed, which suggests we will see a return of the classical OCG metagame in eighth series, or there will be a new DM era movie to fill in space.

Edit 2: Bunch of set news have been revealed.
*https://ygorganization.com/isthispowercreep/First, next Deck Modification Pack will still focus on Yuga and Luke, but this time emphasis is on Luke himself. Gakuto will wait for the next set I guess.
*https://ygorganization.com/ocg-lightning-overdrive/ Next main set after Blazing Vortex for January 16th is called Lightning Overdrive, which likely is going to focus on LIGHT monsters. (Set's name references Stardust Overdrive, but it is hard to say focus will be on 5D's, after Phantom Rage).
*https://ygorganization.com/itsnotagolditsagod/ There is going to be a new set called Prismatic God Box for December 19th. It will be continuation of Legendary Gold Box from last year, but as name suggests, emphasis will likely be on the God cards of respective series most likely. We might also see new Cubic support I guess?

Edit 3:
https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Set_Card_Lists:Character_Pack_-_Gakuto/Roa/Romin_(OCG-JP)
https://ygorganization.com/whydoeshehaveabreadroll/
https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Character_Pack_-_Gakuto/Roa/Romin
All cards for Character Pack - Gakuto/Roa/Romin has been revealed, final card is a retrain of Masaki with a visual gag (its crescent is replaced with a bread roll).

 

[NeoDude-5000]

Well it looks like the plot is moving along in SEVENS. Kaizo really got in a mess and now we're in a hunt for him. I wonder what that black shadow was? Also we finally had Lightning Bolcondor's debut it looks cool.

Anyway onto more interesting stuff. Booster pack number 4 of series 11 is going to be called Lightning Overdrive. I wonder who will be the star of pack? Summoned Skull? Thunder Dragon? Utopia? Trust me after guessing it would be Volcanic's for Blazing Vortex it could be anyone.

And we have a couple of cards from the next Rush Duel pack. All of them being Rook/Luke cards.

Lightning Overdrive: https://ygorganization.com/ocg-lightning-overdrive/
Rush Duel pack: https://ygorganization.com/isthispowercreep/

 

[jaden767]

I hope Lightning Overdrive will have legacy support for Agents and Volcanics because they could really use the boost.

 

[Trainer Yusuf]

https://ygorganization.com/sevens-who-is-saionji-nail/
We have a new plot-relevant character for SEVENS, who is going to debut the next episode.

I hope Lightning Overdrive will have legacy support for Agents and Volcanics because they could really use the boost.

Agents will likely have a Structure Deck R in the OCG next February (or March), since their's is the next in line to be remade after Dragunity Drive.

As for Volcanics, Axel is not coming to the Duel Links any time soon, as far as we can tell, so their best chance is Selection 10.

Edit: https://ygorganization.com/sevens017/
Apparently the new character Nail has a whole cast of midbosses.

Edit 2: http://duellinks.gamea.co/c/9o8ar8b8
ZEXAL World is getting a pre-release announcement for September 25th. First few are leaked to be Yuma, Tori (who is going to use tellarknights in addition to her VA's traditional Agent/Sanctuary in the Sky Deck) and Bronk (who is going to use Wind-Ups alongside his regular cards).

Edit 3: https://ygorganization.com/kattobingduelinksore/ The stream will apparently have news for OCG as well. New Yuma support, or Gearsrping hype?

Edit 4: ZEXAL stream has ended, though video can be seen here:

YGOrganization | [Duel Links] News About ZEXAL World

Straight from the Stream Duel Links will be starting ZEXAL World at the end of September Yuma, Shark and Tetsuo’s Voice Actors host the event. Tetsuo’s Japanese voice actor looks just like him.

ygorganization.com

ZEXAL World news are here, Shark is confirmed to be the first event character.
https://www.reddit.com/r/yugioh/comments/izhhf3 OCG is getting a full Numbers reprint set, which includes three Numeronius cards (2 Xyz and 1 Spell). YGOrganization article is not yet up, though.
With Numeronius cards being released, other remaining Numbers between 107-1000 will likely be in future Collection Packs, after the remaining Fake Numbers.
Edit 5: https://ygorganization.com/theultimatenumberhuntersprize/
YGOrganization article is here. Number 3: Cicada King is not part of the reprints.

 

[NeoDude-5000]

OCG is getting a full Numbers reprint set, which includes three Numeronius cards (2 Xyz and 1 Spell). YGOrganization article is not yet up, though.
With Numeronius cards being released, other remaining Numbers between 107-1000 will likely be in future Collection Packs, after the remaining Fake Numbers.
Edit 5: https://ygorganization.com/theultimatenumberhuntersprize/
YGOrganization article is here. Number 3: Cicada King is not part of the reprints.

Well that's Legendary Collection ZEXAL technically confirmed for 2021 for the TCG.

 

[Trainer Yusuf]

@jaden767 http://duellinks.gamea.co/c/q28znanb You can partially ignore my previous post, Axel is coming to Duel Links.

 

[jaden767]

Wow they're going to print Don Thousand's broken C1000 cards? Wish they'd release all of Nightshroud's/Darkness's unreleased cards too.

 

[Trainer Yusuf]

YGOrganization | [Rush Duel] Deck Modification Pack: Destined Power Destruction!!

The fourth main booster pack for Rush Duels has been announced! The latest “Rush Duel” product, “Deck Modification Pack: Destined Power Destruction!!” will be released on February 13th, 2020…

ygorganization.com

Next Rush Duel set for Japan is confirmed to be Deck Modification Pack: Destined Power Destruction!!, which will release on February 13th, 2020.

Hard to say if this will be the Gakuto set, since SEVENS plot is still stuck with Nail's midbosses. So it could focus on him instead.

Edit: http://duellinks.gamea.co/c/pvj0g10a
Duke Devlin was confirmed previously, but he is re-confirmed to be coming soon to Duel Links.

 

[NeoDude-5000]

Hey this is a surprise. Look who got snazzy new artwork for Maximum Gold: https://ygorganization.com/grippingfreedomwiththehandofjustice/

Also in case you didn't know Dark Magician, Blue-Eyes and Red-Eyes are in this set too.

UPDATE:

Gazelle is coming to Rush Duels: https://ygorganization.com/untilweneedphantombeasts/ (also did you know that Trap Hole is coming too as a legend card. No thanks.)
And some cards from Selection 10, including a new Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon monster which is basically Prime Photon Dragon but Rank 10: https://ygorganization.com/shekinagareturns/

 

[Trainer Yusuf]

YGOrganization | [OCG] Selection 10: Sunavalon

The son of trees has finally come for us all, in an unexpected twist Note: San is apparently Spanish/Italian for “Saint” or “Holy”. So it may be more technically “Holy Avalon”/”Holy Seed”/”Holy Bloom”/

ygorganization.com

Spectre's Sunavalons are confirmed for Selection 10. They were the second place during the Collection pack 2020 poll. (Spectre still has 9 unprinted cards, including 2 Links, which means more cards will come in the future sets).

Other previous updates not mentioned by NeoDude:
*Create-A-Card Project polls is won by Inzektors.
*Ice Barrier supports features a variation of X-Saber Wayne.
*Metalfoes have new support, including a new Link and a Fusion Pendulum Monster, as well as first Level 9 Pendulum in the game.
*TCG version of Blazing Vortex will feature 19 World Premiere (TCG-first) cards, following on Phantom Rage's 17 World Premieres.
* Other updates were Eldlich Fusion cards, Main Deck Ingunar, first Rank 9 Plant, Maha Vailo retrain, and Ojama Pink.

Edit:

YGOrganization | [PGB1] 3 ‘New’ Cards Plus OCG Reprints

Not new for TCG players. New for the OCG tho’. The box for PRISMATIC GOD BOX PGB1-JP008 受け継ぎし魂 Uketsugi Tamashii (OCG: Inherited Soul/TCG: Successor Soul) Quick-Play Spell Card You can only activate 1…

ygorganization.com

First contents of the Prismatic God Box has been revealed, and it includes the three new TCG-first cards that didn't make it to the World Premiere Pack 2020.

Edit 2: https://ygorganization.com/nowthisispodracing/
Third archetype for the Abyss stroyline is Sprigguns, a FIRE Machine Xyz focused archetype. There is new Dogmatika, Albaz and Tri-Brigade support as well.

Edit 3:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1317057707539599362

There is a stream for Blazing Vortex on October 23rd, JST: 10 pm, but it won't feature any previous VAs as far as I can tell.

Edit 4:

YGOrganization | [OCG] Official Card Game Times (October 23rd)

It would appear Time Thief and PSY-Frame are in a cinematic universe Dark Magician promo This Time’s Schedule They discuss Dogmatika Nekroz as a Deck They reiterate the new rules that came into effect…

ygorganization.com

Blazing Vortex stream is over, and it feature both Chazz's Japanese VA, and a new archetype, Security Force, which is related to PSY-Frame and Time Thieves. It also featured a new Live Twin monster for Halloween, and a new Link-5.
Previous updates are:
* https://ygorganization.com/what-does-the-y-in-myutant-stand-for/ New World Premiere Archetype for Phantom Rage is Myutants, which are Psychic-focused Fusion using monsters.
*https://ygorganization.com/tcg-phantom-rage-checklist/ Other World Premieres are more Myutant support, a Plant Synchro, a Dragon Tuner, and a Beast-Warrior. Three imports are Virtual World cards.
*https://ygorganization.com/confusinghealingwithtradinggofigure/ Kerykeion got a Constellar version, and https://ygorganization.com/azurune/there is a new Trap monster.
*https://ygorganization.com/dieaheroorwakeuptofindyourselfbecomethefeet/ Dual Avatars got another Fusion boss monster as well.
*

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1319376667127607296

Inzektors are getting a Spell/Trap support for Create-A-Card project, as voted by Twitter. More details will likely be voted on in future rounds.

Overall, it seems main set archetypes are now shrunk down to 9 cards per theme, as opposed to 10 in Phantom Rage, and 10 for every theme except Gaia in Rise of the Duelist. This is because it seems there will be 3 5-card Legacy themes in future sets, as opposed 2. Doesn't seem there is new Dragunity support to tie in the previous SD though, which means that might be the standard for Ice Barriers in next set.

Edit 5: Axel's roaming event apparently holds more info than I thought. He apparently has lines not just for Supreme King Jaden and Jim, but also for Trueman from Season 4. This means not only Jim is going to have a new Japanese VA (like Carly), but also Season 4 villains come to the Duel Links.