r/DuelLinks Jan 31 '26

Discussion [Feedback] EVERYONE GET IN HERE! Subreddit Update Megathread

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Hello, fellow Master Duel rejectors! Your community Moderators (or what's left of us) have come with good news: we're gonna update the Subreddit this weekend! Beyond just doing a few visual and information-related tweaks here and there, we also need to revisit the current community rules and modify them as needed. This is where you come in... you's gonna help us.

We'd like you to provide suggestions on what rules seem overly restrictive, what rules need to be enforced more often, or if something needs to be added or removed entirely. With that being said, I'll be here to either agree with your proposition or debate you out of it. We're going to take all feedback seriously, but we're not going to just roll over and remove necessary rules, such as Rule 2-A (the one that prevents people from posting things unrelated to Duel Links, such as the latest episode of Spy Family or posts about politics) just because someone leaves an upvoted comment wanting it gone. Be reasonable in your suggestions, please.

Speaking of rules, there will be Mod recruitments coming up soon to help manage the Subreddit, but that'll be part of a separate post.

Finally, if there are any changes you want done to the Subreddit's appearance or functionality itself, feel free to drop them here. While we can't guarantee we can implement it (e.g., some Subreddits have AI agents that respond to certain posts with customized messages assisting that specific user, and that's a tall order to set up on Duel Links), it doesn't hurt to ask!

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r/DuelLinks Aug 31 '25

Megathread Basic Questions, Advice, Bugs/Glitches & Venting Weekly Megathread

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Please use this Megathread if you have General Questions, need Advice, or just want to get something off your chest - all questions are welcome! Feel free to visit our Discord Channel to ask a question, or just to talk! For the best experience, as far as the quality of this post is concerned, we recommend you use New Reddit - either on Desktop or on Mobile.

Take a look at our full rules here.

Please redirect new users to this Megathread, and report submissions and comments that break our rules, also please try to answer the questions posted below, if you happen to know the answers. We are a welcoming and friendly community and our new players are always looking for the best answers, so let the surge of knowledge flow!


r/DuelLinks 9h ago

Fluff Alister came out in MARCH.

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208 Upvotes

r/DuelLinks 8h ago

Discussion Will the DSOD world ever recieve an update?

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-Like,sure,it's a world based solely on the Movie yes...but with with how far we've gotten in Duel Links it's only fair that DSOD should recieve new stuff.

-First off:Aigami (or Diva),If you want to play a PURE cubic deck (which are the cards he used in the movie) you pretty much NEED the backbone of his deck, "Vijam The Cubic Seed",it's the only monster able to be normal summoned (Not counting Duza the Meteor Cubic Vessel),and pretty much EVERY Cubic card relies on having Vijams in the graveyard/field.

-Vijam is only obtainable ingame through Aigami's level up rewards,and even then it only grants ONE of them,The only way to have all 3 in your deck is by running the skill "Cubic Seeds" which automatically adds them from outside the deck...If you wanted to use any other skill but still try to play a pure Cubic deck you'd be forced to rely on Duza,but even THEN Vijam is the monster that the Cubic cards are designed to work with.

-And then there's Sera,She never dueled in the Movie but Konami still gave her voicelines with Every Cubic card,so what's the issue? If you want to play PURE Cubic with Sera- it's a LOSING battle,why? Only Aigami has the "Cubic Seeds" skill,Sera is pretty much handicapped by using a Cubic deck.

-In conclusion,I really want Konami to add a box/minibox that contains Cubic support, I really don't think it would break the meta- (Or at least it wouldn't be as broken as some other decks),Plus Maybe Konami could even add new Duelists or Alt Styles from the movie


r/DuelLinks 4h ago

Discussion Anyone else sick of overly cautious auto duel AI?

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I'm so sick of the Auto Duel summoning my tributes or what have you straight to defense. Usually, the NPC are never a threat, and it just drags the match on for a turn or 2 longer than it needs to be. Plus, it infuriates me the handful of times I've LOST a duel, notably against the Vagrant, cause my stupid auto duel summoned my special or tribute or whatever into defense and ended the turn only for the vagrant/opponent to summon next match, destroy it, take the advantage and even win.

I'd rather the auto duel take the RISK of summoning into attack and whatever card might insta ruin it, via Floodgate or something, than deal with how it is now.

They should give us a very simplified auto duel settings option in menu. Aggressive/Defensive/etc.


r/DuelLinks 5h ago

Discussion What cards have to be addressed in the post WCS banlist?

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14 Upvotes

As for me, Droll absolutely has to be at least limit 3. Being banned would ideal. Same for Dimensional Fissure.


r/DuelLinks 5h ago

Discussion Powerlevel wise, would this be acceptable?

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16 Upvotes

We lack every good floodgate that historically made the deck so annoying and Lava Golem and Goddess is everywhere, could this card safely be added?


r/DuelLinks 19h ago

Discussion Latest list of cards that can be animated

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After the special processing - Animated has been released for months, I only find these card that can be animated

  1. Dark Magician (Alternate art)
  2. Dark Magician Girl (Alternate art)
  3. Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon
  4. Red-Eyes Black Dragon (Alternate art)
  5. Blue-Eyes White Dragon (Alternate art)
  6. Crimson Dragon

r/DuelLinks 11h ago

Fluff Also "They have these cards now??? Since when did they stop playing Axe Raider Beatdown??"

41 Upvotes

r/DuelLinks 44m ago

News GAMEMAT MARINCESS

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Hello guys,

The way to obtain Marincess's gamemat is "Summon 100x ANY Ciberse Link 4 or higher".

Salamangreat has an easy loop for this.


r/DuelLinks 10h ago

Deck Help What decks are the best for me to use competitively

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28 Upvotes

I've been wanting to try to build more competitive decks since mostly want to use spellcaster, plant and fairy decks. I mostly link summon summon monsters though I do use some XYZ cards. I do mostly fusion summon older cards I guess. I mostly Synchro summon dragon monsters and other cards of specific archetype.

I really like using the Trickstar deck. I know I'm missing the new cards. I don't if they are out yet or not.

I been using these decks for Blue Angel mostly for experimenting. That and to flex the event card art.

The Spellcaster desks I use are usually a mish mash of different decks.

I've tried building Rikka and Aromage decks but not quite worked out well.

Traptrix is another deck I've been working on.

My Mokuba deck is the most effective in PVP so far.

I use similar deck for Kaiba.

I've tried to make pendulum summoning decks. I've never been a fan of it myself but wanted to give it a try.

As for Rush Duel I don't have much experience with it so no clue what decks are worth investing in. I mostly use the Seven Road Witch and Magician deck.

What decks should I use and invest in?


r/DuelLinks 46m ago

Fluff Custom Skill - "Ojamania"

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Had this as an intrusive thought literally right now, so, yeah, here it is.

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"Ojamania"

You can only use this Skill's second effect once per turn, and this Skill's third effect once per duel.

  1. You cannot Special Summon (excluding summons from the Extra Deck) any monsters, except LIGHT Beast Type monsters.

  2. You can reveal 1 "Ojama" card in your hand: add up to 2 "Ojama" cards and/or "Polymerization" from your Deck to your hand, place 1 "Ojama Country" from outside of your Deck face-down on the field, then; send 1 "Ojama" Normal monster from your Deck to the GY.

  3. If you control a face-up "Ojama" monster Special Summoned from the Extra Deck, or your opponent controls a monster: You can add 1 "Ojama Delta Hurricane!!" from outside of your Deck to your hand, then play up to 3 "Ojama" monsters with different names from your Deck in face-up Attack Position.

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Is it good? No. It could never be good, it's Ojamas. (Plus Forbidden Droplet is the most used card in the game and kills your first turn lock.) Is it annoying? Almost certainly, you go second and get to bomb everything. Is it funny?

Yeah.

(Also realized that Ojama Emperor isn't even in the damn game, but I'm leaving the third effect as is for future proofing.)


r/DuelLinks 15h ago

Discussion E se fosse questa l’Akiza che ci danno?

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44 Upvotes

r/DuelLinks 20h ago

Fluff [August 31st, 2026] Number of unique summoning animations for every character (no duplicate animations)

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90 Upvotes

r/DuelLinks 2h ago

Discussion World progression

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I've built my competitive decks for Speed and Rush and was wondering what to do now?

There seems to be a whole lot more to the game other than PVP so was wondering where exactly to start ?

Is there worlds I should focus on leveling up? Characters that are better to unlock for cards/skill?

I've leveled up Kaiba for my Blue eyes deck and Luke form my dragon deck.

I'm probably going to focus on a Stardust or Ra deck now (open to new deck advise)

Any advice would be appreciated!


r/DuelLinks 14h ago

Discussion My 0-Star Character Deck Duels Tier List: Season 2

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30 Upvotes

This is a follow up to the [first tier list](https://www.reddit.com/r/DuelLinks/s/i2olx46BG2) I made 4 months ago. This tier list keeps the data I made for the first month of CDD, removes data for Jack and Yuma, and adds more data for all other characters, including Crow and Kite.

Out of 647 games played, below are all the matchups with the left side of the slash being the number of wins for the first character and the right side of the slash being the number of wins for the second character.

53/60 Yugi vs Kaiba

17/15 Yugi vs Joey

22/16 Yugi vs Jaden

17/27 Yugi vs Zane

20/21 Yugi vs Yusei

5/8 Yugi vs Crow

7/13 Yugi vs Shark

2/11 Yugi vs Kite

18/3 Kaiba vs Joey

24/23 Kaiba vs Jaden

17/16 Kaiba vs Zane

19/14 Kaiba vs Yusei

11/5 Kaiba vs Crow

14/5 Kaiba vs Shark

10/10 Kaiba vs Kite

3/7 Joey vs Jaden

4/6 Joey vs Zane

6/7 Joey vs Yusei

0/4 Joey vs Crow

0/7 Joey vs Shark

5/11 Jaden vs Zane

5/9 Jaden vs Yusei

4/2 Jaden vs Crow

1/4 Jaden vs Shark

2/6 Jaden vs Kite

2/10 Zane vs Yusei

3/2 Zane vs Crow

3/5 Zane vs Shark

1/3 Zane vs Kite

3/3 Yusei vs Crow

2/1 Yusei vs Shark

3/2 Yusei vs Kite

2/0 Crow vs Shark

2/13 Crow vs Kite

3/1 Shark vs Kite

Based on their win-rates, I divided the characters into 4 tiers with Kite at the top (62%), Kaiba, Yusei, Zane, and Shark next (57%, 54%, 52%, and 52%), Yugi, Jaden, and Crow below them (46%, 44%, and 42%), and Joey in dead last (32%).

Overall, this rotation is much more balanced than the last. And each character seems to have improved his win-rate with Jack and Yuma removed. Zane has made the largest jump in my tier list, although I would say he's still the most difficult deck to pilot.

I'll update the list after the next rotation.


r/DuelLinks 7h ago

Deck Scareclaw Ogdoadic

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A bit of a niche deck, but if you play around the locks its pretty fun to pilot.

Note that I´m currently playing with The King of Fear and while having that extra Sclash is great, my RNG in opening Snake Rain or Enchantress/Aramesir is considerably lower.
That or I´m just biased in drawing what I need with The Power of All Creation..

Anyways..

So the gameplan here is to delete the field with Reichphobia and Dracoback so that Tri-Heart can OTK. The adventure engine is there for the recursive omni negate and to + out of Snake Rain/Zohah discards.

An optimal end board will look something like this,

If you´re on TKoF you can also land on the Sclash.

Any Scareclaw + Nunu/Snake Rain + Echantress/Aramesir will give you this.

Unicorn is a flex spot but I really want to run IP with it..

Echidna is great for the deck and allows you to reset an EMZ by linking of the Chain Coils for it. Just keep in mind that if you do this play Chain Coils locks you into RIPs. That said, its a way out of a wrongfully played Light-Heart.


r/DuelLinks 6h ago

Fluff Am I just the goat?

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I got the first purulia on the packs+box chips and second one from the free 5 packs. I love konami. Who doesn't? Right?


r/DuelLinks 6h ago

Fluff Pra mim isso é uma focus sash versão yugioh

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3 Upvotes

Sem discussão nem nada, só que pra mim e a mesma coisa.


r/DuelLinks 1d ago

Fluff TOO. MUCH. POWER!

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183 Upvotes

If you ever wondered what the attack and LP limit was... here you go.


r/DuelLinks 3h ago

Deck The Yusei Character Deck is NOT bad — you just need to know how to use its potential

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The Yusei Character Deck is NOT bad — you just need to know how to use its potential

I've seen quite a few people saying that the Yusei Character Deck is bad, so I wanted to share a few replays from some duels I've played with it.

I'm not saying it's a meta deck or that it's the strongest Character Deck, but I think it's much better than people give it credit for.

The deck has a lot of interesting plays and Synchro lines, and I think its potential becomes much more apparent once you understand how to properly use its cards and take advantage of the resources it can generate.

These replays are just meant to show what the deck is capable of when you play around its strengths instead of judging it only by the starter deck list.

I've been having a lot of fun learning the deck, and after getting more familiar with its cards, I started getting some surprisingly strong plays out of it.

Here are a few replays showing what I mean. 👇

Yusei VS Zane
https://duellinks.konami.net/att/06f36975375e2ccab831ee5b5802773beff8c66063

Yusei VS Joey
https://duellinks.konami.net/att/03a5c4d7bd341256687895e7501e31c47671c6debd

Yusei VS Kite
https://duellinks.konami.net/att/0568618d0e3f060aa1a0b4890363179e1ceff5d8e2


r/DuelLinks 7h ago

Deck Help Last 2 cards suggestions and some more alternatives

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4 Upvotes

I wonder some alternative cards except staples for main deck.


r/DuelLinks 10h ago

Deck Help Guide for building character duel decks

4 Upvotes

Im wanting to acquire stars and work on a character deck. Is there a guide for how to build the character decks as you get stars for them, and which one would be best to start with?


r/DuelLinks 1d ago

News September Ranked Rewards

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57 Upvotes

r/DuelLinks 1d ago

Discussion I alone am the honored one

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202 Upvotes

This is wat will happen to MD now last knight standing