Cognitive Grub 0 - Master Duel: Meta & Mechanics

🎄Happy holiday's to you all! 🎆

These 6 gamechanging habits that will CHANGE EVERYTHING about YuGiOh - https://youtu.be/T-UMU5Edork

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🎄Small channel update!🎄

For this Christmas, I wanted to give you guys something a little different. A project I’ve hesitated to make for a long time, despite having the idea for a while.

It is much more of a general guide to playing the game we all love: Yu-Gi-Oh! (and its digital variant, Master Duel). Since I’ve relied on a robot voice for so long, this video should feel different. Please bear with me as you listen to my true, monotone, and heavily-accented voice for the first time! I just hope it doesn’t take away from the message I want to convey.

In the end, gaming is about fun, and Yu-Gi-Oh! is no different. I’d like to present 6 HABITS that I’ve incorporated into my play over the past few years that have made the game so much more enjoyable for me. My hope is that when you adopt these same habits, you’ll get more out of the game too.

I really hope you enjoy the video; it has just enough Yu-Gi-Oh! logic and personal cringe to help you through the holidays! Check out the teaser thumbnail below; are you ready to become Stupidly Powerful?

Nevertheless, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all!


P.s. the video will be released somewhere on the 25th, depending on where you live of course. Just stay tuned!

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Master Duel's Duelist Cup has started, but which decks are the best decks (aside from Dracotail of course)?

Click here to find out: ➡️youtube.com/shorts/ykP37e2dahY ⬅️

And how annoying do you find the new meta? Or are you happy with it, let us know in the comments?

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Master Duel's newest selection pack - Aerial Superiority - arrived!

This pack has support for:
- Dracotail (heavy meta contender)
- Artmage (rogue, I think)
- Odion (meta/rogue)
- General fusion support

Whilst Artmage and Dracotail seems to receive the brunt of the UR's, Odion is surprisingly cheap.

Also, do not forget that today the new banlist goes into effect, so remember to dismantle your Archlord Krystia's and Maliss Red Ransom's for some additional dust!

Lastly, next Friday - December 12th - we will post another Meta Analysis update. So stay tuned for that, especially with the Duelist Cup that is about to start!

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📢📢New month, new selection pack announcement! - Aerial Superiority 📢📢

To which archetype/support are you looking forward to the most?

Yes, another new box so close to another and this will will be meta defining. So close to the next DC Cup too, so if you have the funds, it is likely a good investment. Either way, 12 December we'll release a new Meta Analysis, so you know what to expect on ladder and on the December DC Cup!

GL pulling!

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Konami just announced another mid-season selection pack for Master Duel - The End of Guilt!

What are you looking forward to the most?


It is expected to have support for:
- Snaky-Eyes
- Azamina (so maybe also White Forest)
- Eldlich
- Trap support
- and much more

This pack is similar in nature as Beat the Boss Rush, meaning that meta influence is usually somewhat limited, but perhaps this set includes a big one (we all remember Promethean Princess' introduction in such a pack 2 years ago).

This pack is scheduled to be released Tuesday November 25.

And if you haven't, this is the current state of the meta (November 2025) - youtube.com/shorts/JPGK8q91cCA

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We are a week after the release of Future Begins Zero, so we can take a look at how the meta evolved, click here: - youtube.com/shorts/JPGK8q91cCA

How did Sky Striker shake up the meta?

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Master Duel's Duel Triangle just started and there are a lot of Loaner decks set for you to try. For some of them you can use one of my guides to get familiar with the combo lines:

Ashened: https://youtu.be/YnbbpGQh1EY
Altergeist: https://youtu.be/XO-uQsxBcm8
Unchained: https://youtu.be/5PXiAApWRLQ (might be the least relevant due to being locked to Link monsters only, so no D/D/D XYZ's)
Branded: (pre-Quem) https://youtu.be/63LPcVIN6pM or (For locking) https://youtu.be/YS9TUsX3okI

Obviously you can get out some of my Ashened gameplay videos and especially the Branded one might be relevant as Branded received almost no hits: https://youtu.be/xNHNn763EwQ or mix Branded with the Chimeara archetype: https://youtu.be/HZNDkaxt5UA

My previous entry into the Duel Triangle - Scareclaw: https://youtu.be/I7Q6y54x3Vo

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1 month ago | [YT] | 7

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📣 Konami just announced the scheduled release of a new selection pack - FUTURE BEGINS ZERO 📣

Which archetypal support are you looking forward to the most?


This pack contains support for:
- Sky Striker
- Lunalight
- Onomat / Rank 4 (it has Eclipse Twins)
- Monarch
- And likely more

Onomat and the Rank 4 support will definitely be used by Ryzeal. I am unsure about the meta impact the other support will have. If you would like to see that state of the previous meta - check this short (when you haven't already) - youtube.com/shorts/k0Tx9E_cZfk


This pack is scheduled to be released on Friday November 7th, which means we'll do another meta analysis around mid-November. Stay tuned for that!

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A little later than I'd hoped - but we had another detailed look at the meta and these are the BEST decks for Master Duel right now!

youtube.com/shorts/k0Tx9E_cZfk


Next meta analysis will be done mid-November, roughly a week after the newest selection pack's release. So, if you want to know more about how to invest your precious gems without emptying anyone's credit card - watch these montly analysis!

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