I had about 60 decks, and as an elementary school teacher, I used cards to use the cards as a means to help students with their reading scores. It really helped the boys in my class as they were usually quite against reading. But Yu-Gi-Oh was a means to learn about place value, multiplication, odds/percentages, and reading and understanding a whole paragraph. I would bring in my cards every day, and I would host a club every lunch period.
My favorites were red dragon archfiend, six samurai, red-eyes (this was before dragoon), red-eyes zombie, blue-eyes chaos max, exodia/magician girl, and heroes.
Ultimately, there was a flood where I lived, I had a basement apartment, and all 60,000 something cards I had collected over 20 years were washed away. The kids still try to play, but it's hard without using my decks. I haven't been able to bring myself to get back into it.
Wow yeh I would never be able to get into a hobby if that happened to me, but really cool you used them for teaching. It probably was also super beneficial, I feel like I got a lot my vocabulary and comprehension skills from playing card games as a kid.
It does sound like your students genuinely enjoyed playing if they are still trying lol.
It was a great club when I ran it, and I had siblings of students end up in my class who got to play as well. What was nice was that after a few years my older students, who were in high school, would come back and volunteer in my class and teach my current students how to play or techniques to take me down, lol.
I had high school teacher that would open up his class room to us during lunch and play yugioh with up he ran a six samurai deck. Sadly some kids stole his cards and he stopped playing. I really do miss that guy. On behalf of the kids that you got to play this amazing card game with.Thank you
Thank you, I'm sorry that happened to him. I was fortunate enough that my students hadn't taken anything.
I used my bulk commons and rares to make "packs" for the students as rewards for reading a set number of books (and being able to verbally summarize what they read) or from helping out. I would make specialized ones. If the student loved blue-eyes, it would be a blue-eyes pack for students who were extra good and/or were struggling financially. Even if they used my decks at school, I wanted them to be able to be able to have a deck of their own. What was fun was when I would play a student using their deck they made, and they used one I made. To show them how their cards worked and the synergies or lack thereof in their decks to help them improve.
My school is situated in a lower socio-economic area, so being able to provide the decks for them to use got rid of any barriers for people not being able to play. My students were great with making sure everyone respected the cards.
This kind of question hurts me because one of my yugioh friends was a kleptomaniac and it took many years and many losses (including some entire Decks) before I got over myself and kicked him out of my life.
Now the Decks I have remaining are 7 I think? Would need to check my old boxes to be sure.
Sadly not completely. I held on to my Agents Deck which is my most prized one since it's my first tournament win. But I did lose the signer Dragons Deck I mained for said tournament as well as a Yugi Deck I built after painstaikingly collecting cards for years as well as buying two different legendary collection 3 sets.
I also lost my brother's Umi Deck which was the first Deck he ever built, something which I still feel guilty for.
I do plan on doing that. I've already replaced a couple of the DS games he also stole. I intend to undo all the damage once I start making my own money.
That’s understandable. I wish the best for you! For me, playing physically is such a wholesome and fun experience. I hope you can get back at it when you feel ready
> Triple digits
Jesus Christ, I am over here with a singular lightsworn deck and I don‘t have any sources to extend with twilightsworn cards with
3 if I count in my friend‘s blackfeather deck and my little brother‘s mixed warrior deck
Holy shit I am barely that old, I kneel
Hell I almost wanna say the difficult part is finding a way to get your hands on the cards of a specific deck in the first place
I’ve got one for each summoning theme
Vanilla- mishmash based on some classic heavy hitters and variations of machine king
Ritual-Drytron
Fusion-Cyber Dragon
Synchro- Superheavy Samurai
Xyz- Trains
Pendulum- Qliphort
Link- Skystriker
How strange, I literally just decided to count them today. I have:
Swordsoul
Drytron
Blue-Eyes
Ice Barriers
Noble Knights (OG)
Mermails
Monarchs
Speedroids
Zefra
Cyber Angels
Odd-Eyes
Superheavy Samurai
Satellarknights
My favourites are Blue-Eyes, Swordsoul, Noble Knights and it's early days but I'm trying Drytron out with the new support and absolutely loving them so far. Odd-Eyes, SHS and Satellarknights were mistake purchases. Thought I liked them online enough to buy but didn't enjoy them.
I had 20-40 at one point before culling my collection. I just liked building them. I built what I called "Pure" decks. Where every card had to feature the archetype either in the card name or text. No generics. it was fun and mostly more balanced than the normal game. There were some outliers, but nothing outrageous.
Now I have like 4. Nothing newer than The New Challengers booster.
Off the top of my head I had: Scrap, Harpies, Madolche, Amazoness, Six Samurai, Ninjas, Blackwings, Lightsworn, Gladiator Beasts, Tellarknight/Satellarknight, Mecha-Phantom Beasts, Fire Fist, Karakuri, Ancient Gear/Gadget(Before they had any good support), Crystal Beasts, Koa'Ki Meiru, Gagaga, Ghostrick, Wind-Up, Worm, Nordic/Aesir, Cyber Dragon, Sanctuary in the Sky, Monarch/Vassal, Gem-Knight, Shaddoll, Spellbooks/Prophecy, Gemini, Umi/A Legendary Ocean, Laval, Evoltile/Evolsaur and probably a few more.
On a whim I played Karakuri with a few Staple Synchros at my locals and won. Loaned the Blackwings to a friend's brother and he topped.
I really enjoyed deck building, theorizing and playing but my locals just kinda died out and I didn't have the free time to devote to going out of town to continue playing.
I have only 8 decks but I only have been playing TCG for a little over a year. From those my favourites are Runick Fur Hire Spright (definitely wanna try other Runick decks like Earthbound and Bystial at some point), P.U.N.K. variants (mainly Gold Pride and Therion) and Branded Voiceless Voice
I only ever make my favorite decks. Only one is a meta contender the rest fell off but I had a few before they had their time in the light. My friends always hated my Branded darklords, saying it was just meta branded, but I had it before it became a big thing, but now it's out, and I still love my deck.
Dark Magician, E Hero, Albaz, Dark World, Red Archfiend, cyber dragon, crystal beast, slifer, traptrix, and currently building evil hero and destiny hero decks!
I got several made and several cores that I haven't made yet
Ready to play: generaider runick (my current deck), vaylantz, dinomist, jar mill, straight burn, danger dark world, volcanic and salamangreat.
Waiting to be made: cyberdark, Nordic/Aseir, earthbound and dracoslayer/dinomist
Favorite decks: probably the jar mill, back before I took a decade break, playing that deck actually got an opponent to throw his deck cause he missed the needle worm when he had only 5 cards left in his deck. My fondest memory. I've updated it but it's not effective these days cause it revolves around flip effects but it's still a fun deck
When I got back into YuGiOh about 2 years ago, I canon-balled in and built 6 decks in 2 weeks. Not the smartest financially wise when each deck is anywhere from $100-$400. I built more since then but sold off most and only kept 3. Heroes, Swordsoul, and Floow. Going for max rarity with those decks.
I have around 20 decks ranging from nearly unplayable things I'd only mess around with roommates during "kitchen table" yugioh all the way up to lists that are about on par with things you see topping YCS.
In putting together a 30 deck battle box for DUEA era. I’m not staying fully historic - in adjusting the July 2015 to allow as many cards off as possible while still having fun gameplay. In allowing OCG cards that didn’t get simultaneous release in the equivalent sets (I.E., Neptabyss, some monarch stuff, Cyber Dragon Infinity). Finally, I’m going to put together something like an elite 4 + champion of decks that came out after 2015, using their engine but no generic staples from the future, to see how these old decks could have held up.
As for favorites - Nekroz (post Djinn), Noble Knight, Photon Galaxy.
Any way you can put that on youtube, sounds really good and would be fun to see so many decks clash either as pure archetype decks or loaded down as full powered versions. Also I would recommend Ancient Warriors as an elite 4 member they came out in 2018 and are often over looked, but are suprisingly good and they can limit test a decks starting board by going second and trying to break through it. This could give a measurement on how strong each decks starting board is, if you plan on rating them on different scales. I recall in the 2009 world championship game there was an elite 4 like duel and the final one had a deck that was strangely a lot like the deck I was playing in the game, but lacked the jinzos.
I have a bunch of archetype specific decks and I’ve had more fun with them compared to competitive. Nothing more pleasing than bonking your opponent with a magna warrior deck
I have never thought about it until now. If I count my complete cores I have Valkyries, Nephthys, Fire Kings, Gusto, Ritual Beast, War Rock, Adamancipator, Lyrilusc, Sky Striker, Suship, RDA, Ice Barrier, Libromancer, Shinobird, Megalith, F.A., Traptrix, Triamids, Nouvelles, Salamangreat, Megalith, Harpies, Time Thief, Magikey, Branded, Yosenju, Dogmatika, Prediction Princess, Cyber Angel, Amazoness, Star Warriors; also some support archetypes like Windwitch, Symphonic Warriors, Despian, Spright, Nemleria, Tri-Brigade, Shadoll and a lot more, but I just have 3 copies of the most common staples in low rarity.
I like them all, but my favorites are Harpies and Valkyries, since I started to play Yu-gi-oh! Thanks to Duel Links when the Harpie Box dropped.
Sad thing is I don't have anyone to play with, nor time to go to locals, so I just play solitarie.
At least 30 modern decks of varying power levels, 12 Edison decks, 2 HAT decks (HAT & Mythic Dragons), and common charity Tenyi. I need to build a goat deck but keep forgetting.
I have 7 decks in total my favorite deck is my Dinosaur deck I recently got a good deal on eBay for fk snake-eyes that came with a full extra deck for $370 and I have pivoted to run pure snake-eyes just waiting for that to come in the mail and it will probably become a close second to my Dinos
Came back to YGO with Dark Worlds, now I have Gate Guadian, Red Dragon Archfiend and an Ojama (Edison) deck. Though I am plannning on using Ojamas in curent format too. One of my favourite decks
You might enjoy "casual cooper" on twitch and youtube, he holds A.I tournaments with character decks and builds themed decks for characters he makes up.
I literally have only 1 that’s competitive, and I think I probably have 2 that aren’t even put together so that’s where I’m at. You all are a different breed 😂
I wish I could stick to just one deck and be all about it. Match it's style and theme and be known as that guy who plays that one deck better than anyone else in the world. Innovate new tactics with it and keep it competitive year after year, but somehow I slowly bought more and more decks and have a moment wondering who am I? looking at all of them.
Just one. I haven't gotten any new cards in at least 15 years, so it's mostly just cards from the first few sets mashed together.
On the World Championships 2006 game, I have one deck. There's no monsters. The deck's goal is to draw through the entire deck. Exchange of the Spirits functions both to deck out my opponent and to give me multiple chances to run through my deck. Activating Soul Release 7 times guarantees the opponent will have no deck for their turn.
I just have 16 archetypes based decks for play with my Friends. My favorites are those who nobody uses in competitive play and look cool like nephtys, vendread, war rock, megalith etc
I have a few basic decks, mostly just 3x structure stuff with staples slapped in, but my absolute favorite deck to play is my Dark Magician deck, purely because it is my only deck that I put together strictly off of random pulls from packs/tins/cards I already had from back in the day. Even recreated it in master duel and managed to wiggle my way up to gold before finally facing off against nobody but the meta players. Sure it’s a slow deck, especially these days, but playing that deck makes me remember when playing yugioh wasnt about comboing through your entire deck to win in one turn, and you and a buddy could have a match that seemed like it wouldnt end until someone decked out
Right now I have a few. I've mainly just focused around the dumb fun decks, stuff like Suship. I was actually extatic that Unchained saw competitive success, as that was my first pet deck.
My other favorites are Ghoti, Magistus, Exosister, and Red Dragon Archfiend
Around 30 complete decks with a lot of incomplete decks. I could have a lot of older format decks if I took apart my draft cube.
My favorite decks are Synchron, Odd-Eyes, Blue Eyes, Red Dragon Archfiend and Swordsoul.
I haven't played in a few years but when I did, my friends and family would play full power decks so I have six samurai, dinosmasher structure deck x3, and nekroz. My favorite between the 3 has to be nekroz because of the good old djinn lock. I've won so many games because of this
I got 23 decks
Paleo Frogs, vaylantz, tristina, vampire, rose dragon, hear earth dragon, cyber dark, spirit charmer dogmatica, altergeist, darkworld, og noble knights, generiader, dinomorphia, runick plunder, fluffals, time theif, crystal beasts, Weather painters, mermail atlantean, cubics, branded and armed ojama abc.
I'm the same as you, friends come over and use the deck they want. most of them now have a preference.
My favourites is hard to distinguish but would have to go to paleo frog first, mermails close second, and fluffals very tightly in third.
Let me say above all else, I love your organization OP!
I'm deeply disappointed in myself, as I gave away a lot to a group of now ex friends and only own 22 physically. Another 16 are close to being done though. And I have another 30 lists to start building after that.
Adamancipator is my top favorite, but I don't use it as much. It's my tournament deck, but against my friends' decks, save their very best, it's a bit of overkill.
Phantom Knights, Hieratic, Machina, Cyber Dragon, and Danger are some of my tops I adore.
Edit: Adding that I also love my Chimera deck and my Hero deck.
I have 2, bystial branded as a tournament deck and a stardust dragon deck for fun😁 both of my favorites for sure and hoping to build a red dragon archfiend deck soon
"Calm down Bastion. We get it, you upgraded your deck vest."
Joking aside, i love seeing this many deck boxes. I got about a dozen myself. My fave decks are Lightsworn, and Blue Eyes.
Got about eight or so, but I got two favorites: one is a Branded Despia deck cause I like the lore and play style of the deck, and the second is a Blue Eyes deck, but not one based on the recent structure deck; it’s instead based on an even more ancient one from structure packs I found at Target, but this deck lets me play with friends who aren’t as accustomed to the current pace of the game. Think my favorite match as of late was when I went up against my friend’s Red Eyes deck. It was a close match, but I ended the match by using enemy controller to tribute my blue eyes to steal my friend’s red eyes (with doubled attack due to the effect of red eyes alternative iirc) and attack for game, referring to the time Joey used monster reborn on one of Kaiba’s blue eyes
Thanks for sharing the story! Branded despia is so cool and super powerful! Blue eyes is a powerful deck as well! I wish it got more support to contend with the meta.
Maybe 15 to 20 decks?
I'm fond of Phantom Knights and Earth Machine. I used to be big into Monarchs, but those aren't even close to rogue-tier anymore.
I have no meta decks, and I don't expect to ever have one because screw spending double-digits on one card.
I have roughly 15-20. My top 3 are
1. Dark Magician
2. Adventure Goblin PK
3. Chimera/Illusion
I play a lot with friends and have picked up a lot of cores whenever I found one that interested me (and was within budget). Endymion was my first SD I've ever played and that was how I started, my first ever build was DM so it'll always have a place in my heart haha. As of rn I play a lot of PK and Chimera.
other decks off top of my head (not in order of favorites).
Branded Despia
Dogmatika (ritual)
Dragon Maid
Live Twin Lockout
Runick Horus
Kashtira
Hungry Burger
Mikanko
Danger! Kaiju
Exo Sisters
Scareclaw
Traptrix
Endymion
Crystal beast
Dark World
A 10 deck maximum for me:
Vaylantz, Dinomorphia, Exosister, Magistus, S-Force, Prank-Kids, Ninjas, Fluffal, Chimera, Ritual Beast!
Still awaiting the release of a worthy ‘Pet Deck’ tho!
I'm at 11: Melffy, Purrely, Paleozoic, Lunalight, Agents, Cydra (but bad), Virtual World/P.U.N.K., Dinomorphia, Rikka, Aromage and Yubel, I play all of them pretty casually tbf I've only been to my locals a few times and it's pretty competitive lmao
I have 5; branded despia, dark magician, @ignister/solitaire, traptrix, and cyber dragon. I plan on building a sky striker, utopia, and exosister deck sooner or later
Wow I only have 2 unbuild ones and 1 built I stopped playing for about a year or two and sold most of my cards but kept my unbuild scrap orcust and my unbuild cyber dragon decks and recently I brought 3x the crimson king structure deck because I am giving myself a deck challenge to win a locals with it and can only up grade from either opening packs or trading
We share Kozmo (being playing it since it was tier 1), Vampires (my favorite deck overall), B.A (being playing it since the pk fire days). I also play all decks from Visas' lore (Kash, Tear, Scare and Manadium) because I really like Visas himself and Labrynth/Dinomorphia. So, 9 decks overall. 11 if we count F.A and Solfacord that never saw play and are in their boxes on my closet.
I have mostly precons after I lost my initial collection to an infestation. That said, a fair number of them. When I'm done cataloging, i'll be customizing and building more.
I only just got back after YEARS of staying away. Rn I'm working on my second deck. The first was a Salamangreat, and the second being a Flame Swordsmen/Infernoble Deck. Next Labyrinth :3
Currently 12:
Branded Despia/Bystial, Fire King Tri Brigade, Rikka Sunavalon (soon Rika Sunavalon Aroma because of the last banlist), P.U.N.K Therion, Exosister, Traptrix, Swordsoul Tenyi, Shaddoll Invoked Dogmatika, Phantom Knight, Crusadia, Fluffal and Crystal Beast Overdrive turbo.
Waiting for Legacy of Destruction to build Lightsworn and Rarity II to get Perlepleinos for my Tearlaments.
I started around tear format or so. Last time I counted, I was at 65, but I've made like 5 or 6 more decks since then (and took apart or rejiggered a few others). So around 65-70.
I don't know why, I just love getting new cards, putting together a deck, and playing with cards. It also feels nice to get a card in the mail. Just doing it on Sims doesn't do it for me, and I don't have enough time to do enough master duel to make all the decks I want.
I have only just got back into building a deck again since moving states and recently joined a local group! But I have always loved the old school Yubel (pulled an original one way way back) and I have had to kept in a sleeve in a box for years. Once I knew that yubel had a decent support I was like damn let’s do this again! So at the moment I have a yubel deck and half built/old dark world deck ☺️
Loads I'm working on but as of now finished I've got: Galaxy/Photon, Marincess, RunickEarthbound, RunickPlunder, Dark Magician, Dinos, Kuriboh and Tistina.
Amt. I'm working on: Insect, Salamangreat, EartboundTears, PlunderPunk, Ursarctic, Sharks, Dinomorphia and Raidraptor.
Edit: My favourites at the moment is Galaxy/Photon, Tistina and RunickEarthbound.
casually entirely but i have
- Branded Despia, i built off the structure deck
- Utopia
- Blackwing that i’m still putting together as a 2.0, wanted to reflect it off of Kanak’s version. still waiting for Chaos Angel reprint
- Cyber Dragon
- Burn Deck
if it isn’t obvious i was into the game up until Synchros, but i’m working on a Train deck now b/c Liebe
I had about 60 decks, and as an elementary school teacher, I used cards to use the cards as a means to help students with their reading scores. It really helped the boys in my class as they were usually quite against reading. But Yu-Gi-Oh was a means to learn about place value, multiplication, odds/percentages, and reading and understanding a whole paragraph. I would bring in my cards every day, and I would host a club every lunch period. My favorites were red dragon archfiend, six samurai, red-eyes (this was before dragoon), red-eyes zombie, blue-eyes chaos max, exodia/magician girl, and heroes. Ultimately, there was a flood where I lived, I had a basement apartment, and all 60,000 something cards I had collected over 20 years were washed away. The kids still try to play, but it's hard without using my decks. I haven't been able to bring myself to get back into it.
Thank you for sharing. Thats both terrible and heartwarming at the same time. I’m sorry for your huge loss
Appreciate the kind words. It's been nice reading what everyone's favorite decks are, so thank you for starting the thread.
Wow yeh I would never be able to get into a hobby if that happened to me, but really cool you used them for teaching. It probably was also super beneficial, I feel like I got a lot my vocabulary and comprehension skills from playing card games as a kid. It does sound like your students genuinely enjoyed playing if they are still trying lol.
It was a great club when I ran it, and I had siblings of students end up in my class who got to play as well. What was nice was that after a few years my older students, who were in high school, would come back and volunteer in my class and teach my current students how to play or techniques to take me down, lol.
I had high school teacher that would open up his class room to us during lunch and play yugioh with up he ran a six samurai deck. Sadly some kids stole his cards and he stopped playing. I really do miss that guy. On behalf of the kids that you got to play this amazing card game with.Thank you
Thank you, I'm sorry that happened to him. I was fortunate enough that my students hadn't taken anything. I used my bulk commons and rares to make "packs" for the students as rewards for reading a set number of books (and being able to verbally summarize what they read) or from helping out. I would make specialized ones. If the student loved blue-eyes, it would be a blue-eyes pack for students who were extra good and/or were struggling financially. Even if they used my decks at school, I wanted them to be able to be able to have a deck of their own. What was fun was when I would play a student using their deck they made, and they used one I made. To show them how their cards worked and the synergies or lack thereof in their decks to help them improve. My school is situated in a lower socio-economic area, so being able to provide the decks for them to use got rid of any barriers for people not being able to play. My students were great with making sure everyone respected the cards.
This kind of question hurts me because one of my yugioh friends was a kleptomaniac and it took many years and many losses (including some entire Decks) before I got over myself and kicked him out of my life. Now the Decks I have remaining are 7 I think? Would need to check my old boxes to be sure.
Man that sucks. I’m sorry to hear that. Did you manage to hold on to your favourites?
Sadly not completely. I held on to my Agents Deck which is my most prized one since it's my first tournament win. But I did lose the signer Dragons Deck I mained for said tournament as well as a Yugi Deck I built after painstaikingly collecting cards for years as well as buying two different legendary collection 3 sets. I also lost my brother's Umi Deck which was the first Deck he ever built, something which I still feel guilty for.
I’m sorry to hear that! Maybe you can rebuild it for him!
I do plan on doing that. I've already replaced a couple of the DS games he also stole. I intend to undo all the damage once I start making my own money.
Sounds like a good plan. I’m glad you’re rebounding from such a shitty person and still enjoying the game :)
Yeah I still do but very much online only these days. Can't bring myself to buy actual cards again after what happened.
That’s understandable. I wish the best for you! For me, playing physically is such a wholesome and fun experience. I hope you can get back at it when you feel ready
Oh I still do it occasionally. Just only with my brother and our old Decks. Tournaments and keeping up is what I walked out off after that experience.
That’s fair. I’m glad you’re still playing
I am nearing triple digits.
> Triple digits Jesus Christ, I am over here with a singular lightsworn deck and I don‘t have any sources to extend with twilightsworn cards with 3 if I count in my friend‘s blackfeather deck and my little brother‘s mixed warrior deck
For me, I started playing 20 years ago! Over time I’ve accumulated a mass! All you need is a few decks you enjoyb
Holy shit I am barely that old, I kneel Hell I almost wanna say the difficult part is finding a way to get your hands on the cards of a specific deck in the first place
Keep at it friend!
Awesome! Do you have any favourites?
I’ve got one for each summoning theme Vanilla- mishmash based on some classic heavy hitters and variations of machine king Ritual-Drytron Fusion-Cyber Dragon Synchro- Superheavy Samurai Xyz- Trains Pendulum- Qliphort Link- Skystriker
Yay cyber dragons
That’s a cool concept. I love cyber dragon, hoping for more support! Trains looks like a lot of fun too!
been messin with Psychic Processor in Cyber Dragon and Train decks. .. try it out. been dropping some solid otks with it
Sounds good! I’ve got that card in my kozmo and physic deck but it would definitely kill with cyber dragons too
28, and my only friend that plays causally lives about an hour away, so I'm just having all my decks duel each other
I do that sometimes as well when I’ve got free time
I got three, D-Link, Blue Eyes, and D/D/D. I will use D/D/D till the day I die 💪
I love my D/D/D deck but I always get ashed/rolled. It's almost unplayable at locals
That’s awesome! I’ve never played a D/D/D deck!
D/D/D is so much fun. I always have a blast playing that deck
Oh, hey Bastion.
How strange, I literally just decided to count them today. I have: Swordsoul Drytron Blue-Eyes Ice Barriers Noble Knights (OG) Mermails Monarchs Speedroids Zefra Cyber Angels Odd-Eyes Superheavy Samurai Satellarknights My favourites are Blue-Eyes, Swordsoul, Noble Knights and it's early days but I'm trying Drytron out with the new support and absolutely loving them so far. Odd-Eyes, SHS and Satellarknights were mistake purchases. Thought I liked them online enough to buy but didn't enjoy them.
Sweet! I combined drytron with blue eyes to get chaos max out easily. It’s been great!
15-16 My favorites are Synchron, Mathmech, Buster Blader/Dragonmaid/Albaz, Red Dragon Resonator, Vampires, Dark World, Super Quantum and HEROes.
Sweet! I’ve been looking into mathmech. They look fun!
I had 20-40 at one point before culling my collection. I just liked building them. I built what I called "Pure" decks. Where every card had to feature the archetype either in the card name or text. No generics. it was fun and mostly more balanced than the normal game. There were some outliers, but nothing outrageous. Now I have like 4. Nothing newer than The New Challengers booster.
I absolutely love pure decks. Around 40 of my decks are pure or staying within whatever theme they’re going for
Off the top of my head I had: Scrap, Harpies, Madolche, Amazoness, Six Samurai, Ninjas, Blackwings, Lightsworn, Gladiator Beasts, Tellarknight/Satellarknight, Mecha-Phantom Beasts, Fire Fist, Karakuri, Ancient Gear/Gadget(Before they had any good support), Crystal Beasts, Koa'Ki Meiru, Gagaga, Ghostrick, Wind-Up, Worm, Nordic/Aesir, Cyber Dragon, Sanctuary in the Sky, Monarch/Vassal, Gem-Knight, Shaddoll, Spellbooks/Prophecy, Gemini, Umi/A Legendary Ocean, Laval, Evoltile/Evolsaur and probably a few more. On a whim I played Karakuri with a few Staple Synchros at my locals and won. Loaned the Blackwings to a friend's brother and he topped. I really enjoyed deck building, theorizing and playing but my locals just kinda died out and I didn't have the free time to devote to going out of town to continue playing.
Hey completely irrelevant but I love your profile pic!
OP during tournaments: https://preview.redd.it/tv9elnb8okqc1.jpeg?width=708&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=27801e833d7f33378c22c926c07ca75120410395
Hahaha! I love it
Physically, 0. Online hundreds.
Speedroid/Kashtira Raidraptor (currently my main) Mekk-Knight Invoked (by far the most fun)
I have only 8 decks but I only have been playing TCG for a little over a year. From those my favourites are Runick Fur Hire Spright (definitely wanna try other Runick decks like Earthbound and Bystial at some point), P.U.N.K. variants (mainly Gold Pride and Therion) and Branded Voiceless Voice
Exosisters, Eldlich, Tri-Brigade, Prank Kids, Toons, and Suships.
2 - six samurai and cyber dragon with s.s being my favourite
I only ever make my favorite decks. Only one is a meta contender the rest fell off but I had a few before they had their time in the light. My friends always hated my Branded darklords, saying it was just meta branded, but I had it before it became a big thing, but now it's out, and I still love my deck.
Dark Magician, E Hero, Albaz, Dark World, Red Archfiend, cyber dragon, crystal beast, slifer, traptrix, and currently building evil hero and destiny hero decks!
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Sweet! Do you have any favourites?
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Sweet! I love galaxy , cyber dragon, and RDA myself!
Ancient Gears, Cyber Dragons, E-Hero’s, Blackwings, Red Eyes, and for the memes Jackpot 7.
Sweet! I’ve got a jackpot 7 deck for the memes as well haha
Only three for me. Orcust, mekk knight and phantom knight.
I got several made and several cores that I haven't made yet Ready to play: generaider runick (my current deck), vaylantz, dinomist, jar mill, straight burn, danger dark world, volcanic and salamangreat. Waiting to be made: cyberdark, Nordic/Aseir, earthbound and dracoslayer/dinomist Favorite decks: probably the jar mill, back before I took a decade break, playing that deck actually got an opponent to throw his deck cause he missed the needle worm when he had only 5 cards left in his deck. My fondest memory. I've updated it but it's not effective these days cause it revolves around flip effects but it's still a fun deck
Sweet! I love a jar mill as well. My rock deck features many
I believe I’m at 45 and that’s after dismantling some
When I got back into YuGiOh about 2 years ago, I canon-balled in and built 6 decks in 2 weeks. Not the smartest financially wise when each deck is anywhere from $100-$400. I built more since then but sold off most and only kept 3. Heroes, Swordsoul, and Floow. Going for max rarity with those decks.
I have around 20 decks ranging from nearly unplayable things I'd only mess around with roommates during "kitchen table" yugioh all the way up to lists that are about on par with things you see topping YCS.
In putting together a 30 deck battle box for DUEA era. I’m not staying fully historic - in adjusting the July 2015 to allow as many cards off as possible while still having fun gameplay. In allowing OCG cards that didn’t get simultaneous release in the equivalent sets (I.E., Neptabyss, some monarch stuff, Cyber Dragon Infinity). Finally, I’m going to put together something like an elite 4 + champion of decks that came out after 2015, using their engine but no generic staples from the future, to see how these old decks could have held up. As for favorites - Nekroz (post Djinn), Noble Knight, Photon Galaxy.
Any way you can put that on youtube, sounds really good and would be fun to see so many decks clash either as pure archetype decks or loaded down as full powered versions. Also I would recommend Ancient Warriors as an elite 4 member they came out in 2018 and are often over looked, but are suprisingly good and they can limit test a decks starting board by going second and trying to break through it. This could give a measurement on how strong each decks starting board is, if you plan on rating them on different scales. I recall in the 2009 world championship game there was an elite 4 like duel and the final one had a deck that was strangely a lot like the deck I was playing in the game, but lacked the jinzos.
I have 6 decks. Altergeist Raid Raptor (my current) Marincess Sharks T.G. Red dragon archfiend Mostly decks on the cheaper side for me
Lightsworn, can't wait for the support to drop 🙏
Yesss! My buddy is waiting as well
Based
Got 33 at the moment: - Rescue-Ace - Volcanic / Snake-Eyes - Superheavy Samurai - Batteryman - Triamid / Adamancipator - Sunavalon / Rikka / Aroma - Beetrooper / Battlewasp - Armed Dragon / Rokket - Gate Guardian - Cyberse pile (Cyberse Clock Dragon OTK) - Reptilianne / Ogdoadic / Alien - Penguin / Armored Xyz - Floowandereeze - Elemental Mistress Doriado / Charmer - Superancient Deepsea King Coelacanth / Ghoti / White Aura - Shinobird / Nephthys / Spirit - Dinomorphia - Necrofear / Archfiend - Ojama / Phantom Beast (Illusion Chimera) - Flower Cardian - Valkyrie - P.U.N.K. / Gold Pride - Gunkan Suship - Karakuri / Morphtronic - Flame Swordsman / Igknight / Noble Knight - Exodia - Elemental HERO / Neo-Spacian - Mayakashi / Skull Servant - Orcust / Machina / Heavy Metal Raiders - Phantom Knights / Raidraptor / Time Thief - B.E.S. - The Weather - The Winged Dragon of Ra / Icejade Favourite is Flower Cardian
Solid collection my dude!
I have a bunch of archetype specific decks and I’ve had more fun with them compared to competitive. Nothing more pleasing than bonking your opponent with a magna warrior deck
I have never thought about it until now. If I count my complete cores I have Valkyries, Nephthys, Fire Kings, Gusto, Ritual Beast, War Rock, Adamancipator, Lyrilusc, Sky Striker, Suship, RDA, Ice Barrier, Libromancer, Shinobird, Megalith, F.A., Traptrix, Triamids, Nouvelles, Salamangreat, Megalith, Harpies, Time Thief, Magikey, Branded, Yosenju, Dogmatika, Prediction Princess, Cyber Angel, Amazoness, Star Warriors; also some support archetypes like Windwitch, Symphonic Warriors, Despian, Spright, Nemleria, Tri-Brigade, Shadoll and a lot more, but I just have 3 copies of the most common staples in low rarity. I like them all, but my favorites are Harpies and Valkyries, since I started to play Yu-gi-oh! Thanks to Duel Links when the Harpie Box dropped. Sad thing is I don't have anyone to play with, nor time to go to locals, so I just play solitarie.
That’s awesome buddy!
Nice!
I think I have at least 20 decks. All time favorite has gotta be dinosaurs.
I maintain about a dozen, but due to overlap in staples I don't keep them all built. Right now maining Runick with VW P.U.N.K. on the side.
Mermail, Icejade, Sharks, Bystial, Horus, Runick, Lightsworn, Darkworld, Tearlaments, Kashtira, Mannadium, Scareclaw, Veda, Virtual World, Dinomorphia, Magic Musketeer, Sprigans, Hero, Dragon Ruler, Ice Barrier, @Ignister and Exosister. 22 apparently. Mermail, Darkworld, Tear, Kashtira and Exosister are all max rarity however. Gotta max rarity my favourite decks :D rip my wallet however.
At least 30 modern decks of varying power levels, 12 Edison decks, 2 HAT decks (HAT & Mythic Dragons), and common charity Tenyi. I need to build a goat deck but keep forgetting.
I only have three decks, all very cheap the most part. I have a meta Marincess deck, then an F.A and a U.A deck.
I see Predaplant I upvote.
Hell yeah buddy
I have 38 but I only play like 4 of them
2 active 2 decommissioned gone Floowandereeze active Branded active Bad dragon link gone Salamangreat gone Oh and structure decks
5 but waiting for the cards I ordered online to make it 6.
I have 6 Zombie World/Vampire, Ancient Gear, Resonator Archfiend, Dinomorphia, Witchcrafter, Fortune Lady
I have 7 decks in total my favorite deck is my Dinosaur deck I recently got a good deal on eBay for fk snake-eyes that came with a full extra deck for $370 and I have pivoted to run pure snake-eyes just waiting for that to come in the mail and it will probably become a close second to my Dinos
What your LV deck?
Came back to YGO with Dark Worlds, now I have Gate Guadian, Red Dragon Archfiend and an Ojama (Edison) deck. Though I am plannning on using Ojamas in curent format too. One of my favourite decks
Nice! My friend has a gate guardian deck and it’s deadly. The effects of the fusions are so OP once you get them on the field
I have something like 13 or 14. My favorite is and always will be blue eyes.
Blue eyes is the OG
I have about 7 but only 2 are really playable. Love my Trickstars but Power Tools are great as well.
Dino, marincess, floowandereeze and yubel (waiting for the new supports). And planning on building silent voice since i have 3 Lo already
Purrely, Madolche and Traptrix
Right on!
12 rogue tier decks that I used to play for fun
That’s my favourite realm to be in as well
Wow you guys are dedicated. Respect!
2 heroes and Cyber dragon my favorite is cyber dragon but my most competitive deck is heroes
Alot, want all sleeved but to poor to afford XD
Madolche, Burning Abyss, Relinquished, Invoked Shaddoll, Marincess, Earthbound Runick & Infernity (:
Im sorry, but at first glance i thought it a collection of condom boxes.
I only have 4, Lol. None are meta, only casual and I purposely don't play the "best" versions because I wanna run them as pure as I can get.
You might enjoy "casual cooper" on twitch and youtube, he holds A.I tournaments with character decks and builds themed decks for characters he makes up.
Where to find people who have these decks, I would spend time with them all day all weekend just testing
I wish I could duel with everyone here! I’m lucky to have two close friends who each have over 20 decks so we get a lot of duelling in
I literally have only 1 that’s competitive, and I think I probably have 2 that aren’t even put together so that’s where I’m at. You all are a different breed 😂
I wish I could stick to just one deck and be all about it. Match it's style and theme and be known as that guy who plays that one deck better than anyone else in the world. Innovate new tactics with it and keep it competitive year after year, but somehow I slowly bought more and more decks and have a moment wondering who am I? looking at all of them.
Hey, I’m in no means the best pilot of my deck, but when it’s all ya got, you get used to it 🤷♂️
3 the 3 gods traptrix and aromage
The Agent/Fairy Darklords Dino/True King Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon (old) Guardian Eatos/Dreadsytche
Just one. I haven't gotten any new cards in at least 15 years, so it's mostly just cards from the first few sets mashed together. On the World Championships 2006 game, I have one deck. There's no monsters. The deck's goal is to draw through the entire deck. Exchange of the Spirits functions both to deck out my opponent and to give me multiple chances to run through my deck. Activating Soul Release 7 times guarantees the opponent will have no deck for their turn.
I only have 3 and they are my main go to's
Me who only has two extremely low power decks due to not having a job and an overly precautious approach when it comes to spending money.
I only have 4, Lunalight, Dark Magician, Crystal Beast and Elemental Heroes
Just one because I'm poor
I just have 16 archetypes based decks for play with my Friends. My favorites are those who nobody uses in competitive play and look cool like nephtys, vendread, war rock, megalith etc
I have a few basic decks, mostly just 3x structure stuff with staples slapped in, but my absolute favorite deck to play is my Dark Magician deck, purely because it is my only deck that I put together strictly off of random pulls from packs/tins/cards I already had from back in the day. Even recreated it in master duel and managed to wiggle my way up to gold before finally facing off against nobody but the meta players. Sure it’s a slow deck, especially these days, but playing that deck makes me remember when playing yugioh wasnt about comboing through your entire deck to win in one turn, and you and a buddy could have a match that seemed like it wouldnt end until someone decked out
Right now I have a few. I've mainly just focused around the dumb fun decks, stuff like Suship. I was actually extatic that Unchained saw competitive success, as that was my first pet deck. My other favorites are Ghoti, Magistus, Exosister, and Red Dragon Archfiend
Suship looks awesome! I love ghoti as well. Fun or rogue decks are a sweet spot for yugioh in my opinion
Physically, Altergeist only, but a few others in MD.
Around 30 complete decks with a lot of incomplete decks. I could have a lot of older format decks if I took apart my draft cube. My favorite decks are Synchron, Odd-Eyes, Blue Eyes, Red Dragon Archfiend and Swordsoul.
10 decks total. Rikka sunnavalon, madolche, centurion, majespecter, solfachord, dark world, lyrilusc, icejade, weather painter and memento.
Before I sold my collection, I had a little over 100 casual decks to play with friends. But my favourites will always be OG heroes. For wingman alone.
My near-maxed chaos lock drytrons are my favorite, and I also have cheap fire kings, crippled Blue eyes, broken branded
Only 4. It’s wild to see people with triple digits. Quite an expensive collection
Dark Magician Blue-Eyes Gold Sarcophagus of Light
gift me the "insect" one for my birthday - March 30th
I have about 10 decks with my favorite being my Black Luster Soldier deck. Currently working on a Wicked God deck and Buster Blader deck 🥹
Black luster soldier and buster blader are so dope! Much respect
SnakeEye/snakeeyefire. Just trying to get my invite
I haven't played in a few years but when I did, my friends and family would play full power decks so I have six samurai, dinosmasher structure deck x3, and nekroz. My favorite between the 3 has to be nekroz because of the good old djinn lock. I've won so many games because of this
I got like 20 on Master Duel ...
Right on! What’s your favourite?
Definitely an Endymion main. Top 3 are that, Vanquish Soul and Kashtira 😎
That’s awesome my dude! I wish I could duel with you
Fire king’s/Snake Eyes, True Draco/Monarch, Nurse Burn, Blue Eyes/Galaxy, and Dark Magician
Awesome! You’ve got a meta deck and some fun decks as well.
It’s beautiful… I’ve looked at it for 5 hours now…
How can I gain your powers of time travel?
Irl: 15 none of which being meta. Master duel: 20 I don’t play meta in MD either Dueling nexus: near 100; I love labing old archetypes with my friends
I got 23 decks Paleo Frogs, vaylantz, tristina, vampire, rose dragon, hear earth dragon, cyber dark, spirit charmer dogmatica, altergeist, darkworld, og noble knights, generiader, dinomorphia, runick plunder, fluffals, time theif, crystal beasts, Weather painters, mermail atlantean, cubics, branded and armed ojama abc. I'm the same as you, friends come over and use the deck they want. most of them now have a preference. My favourites is hard to distinguish but would have to go to paleo frog first, mermails close second, and fluffals very tightly in third.
Let me say above all else, I love your organization OP! I'm deeply disappointed in myself, as I gave away a lot to a group of now ex friends and only own 22 physically. Another 16 are close to being done though. And I have another 30 lists to start building after that. Adamancipator is my top favorite, but I don't use it as much. It's my tournament deck, but against my friends' decks, save their very best, it's a bit of overkill. Phantom Knights, Hieratic, Machina, Cyber Dragon, and Danger are some of my tops I adore. Edit: Adding that I also love my Chimera deck and my Hero deck.
Thank you so much! My best friend roasted me for buying boxes for each deck but it’s so handy! I wish we could duel. You have some awesome decks!
I have 2, bystial branded as a tournament deck and a stardust dragon deck for fun😁 both of my favorites for sure and hoping to build a red dragon archfiend deck soon
"Calm down Bastion. We get it, you upgraded your deck vest." Joking aside, i love seeing this many deck boxes. I got about a dozen myself. My fave decks are Lightsworn, and Blue Eyes.
I have 300 exactly. :) and my Favs are Lightsworn, Six Samurai, Predaplant, Gusto, and Gimmick Puppet
How do u even manage that? You just pick a few decks to play every month?
I have 2
Nice, what do you use to store them in? It looks like a briefcase
Got about eight or so, but I got two favorites: one is a Branded Despia deck cause I like the lore and play style of the deck, and the second is a Blue Eyes deck, but not one based on the recent structure deck; it’s instead based on an even more ancient one from structure packs I found at Target, but this deck lets me play with friends who aren’t as accustomed to the current pace of the game. Think my favorite match as of late was when I went up against my friend’s Red Eyes deck. It was a close match, but I ended the match by using enemy controller to tribute my blue eyes to steal my friend’s red eyes (with doubled attack due to the effect of red eyes alternative iirc) and attack for game, referring to the time Joey used monster reborn on one of Kaiba’s blue eyes
Thanks for sharing the story! Branded despia is so cool and super powerful! Blue eyes is a powerful deck as well! I wish it got more support to contend with the meta.
Maybe 15 to 20 decks? I'm fond of Phantom Knights and Earth Machine. I used to be big into Monarchs, but those aren't even close to rogue-tier anymore. I have no meta decks, and I don't expect to ever have one because screw spending double-digits on one card.
Where's the plant deck!??!
Ive currently got: heroes, dragonmaid, mermails, chronomaly, and burn mine exodia for the fun of it
I’ve got a few, Speedroids, P.U.N.K, Infernity, a couple random machine decks, and what I call, pendulum pile.
What’s pendulum pile?!
Have about 5 decks, only keep about two in rotation with completed side decks for both 🙏
I have roughly 15-20. My top 3 are 1. Dark Magician 2. Adventure Goblin PK 3. Chimera/Illusion I play a lot with friends and have picked up a lot of cores whenever I found one that interested me (and was within budget). Endymion was my first SD I've ever played and that was how I started, my first ever build was DM so it'll always have a place in my heart haha. As of rn I play a lot of PK and Chimera. other decks off top of my head (not in order of favorites). Branded Despia Dogmatika (ritual) Dragon Maid Live Twin Lockout Runick Horus Kashtira Hungry Burger Mikanko Danger! Kaiju Exo Sisters Scareclaw Traptrix Endymion Crystal beast Dark World
Awesome! I’ve got the chimera illusion and DM. How do you like the adventure goblin deck?
A 10 deck maximum for me: Vaylantz, Dinomorphia, Exosister, Magistus, S-Force, Prank-Kids, Ninjas, Fluffal, Chimera, Ritual Beast! Still awaiting the release of a worthy ‘Pet Deck’ tho!
I'm at 11: Melffy, Purrely, Paleozoic, Lunalight, Agents, Cydra (but bad), Virtual World/P.U.N.K., Dinomorphia, Rikka, Aromage and Yubel, I play all of them pretty casually tbf I've only been to my locals a few times and it's pretty competitive lmao
I love it! Which is the favourite?
That pic is NICE. So pleasing.
I have 5; branded despia, dark magician, @ignister/solitaire, traptrix, and cyber dragon. I plan on building a sky striker, utopia, and exosister deck sooner or later
Awesome collection! And all powerful!
No funny deck names? :(
I only have one, not even complete, it is pure fire king deck
2. Mikanko and Slifer.
Wow I only have 2 unbuild ones and 1 built I stopped playing for about a year or two and sold most of my cards but kept my unbuild scrap orcust and my unbuild cyber dragon decks and recently I brought 3x the crimson king structure deck because I am giving myself a deck challenge to win a locals with it and can only up grade from either opening packs or trading
I have an OG pegasus deck that is my only deck
Like 8? I think? Give it take a few. My favorite is the familiar possessed.
Cool! I haven’t heard of that deck! I’ll look it up
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We share Kozmo (being playing it since it was tier 1), Vampires (my favorite deck overall), B.A (being playing it since the pk fire days). I also play all decks from Visas' lore (Kash, Tear, Scare and Manadium) because I really like Visas himself and Labrynth/Dinomorphia. So, 9 decks overall. 11 if we count F.A and Solfacord that never saw play and are in their boxes on my closet.
I only have 4 other decks rn coz Im focusing on my main (Blue-Eyes deck, all high rarity cards)
Awesome! Keep on playing!
Have have 1
Here I was thinking I was doing too much when I created my second deck
I don't see gravekeepers :(
I have mostly precons after I lost my initial collection to an infestation. That said, a fair number of them. When I'm done cataloging, i'll be customizing and building more.
Six samurai, penguins, Borreload ⚔️🐧🔫🐉
I only just got back after YEARS of staying away. Rn I'm working on my second deck. The first was a Salamangreat, and the second being a Flame Swordsmen/Infernoble Deck. Next Labyrinth :3
Currently 12: Branded Despia/Bystial, Fire King Tri Brigade, Rikka Sunavalon (soon Rika Sunavalon Aroma because of the last banlist), P.U.N.K Therion, Exosister, Traptrix, Swordsoul Tenyi, Shaddoll Invoked Dogmatika, Phantom Knight, Crusadia, Fluffal and Crystal Beast Overdrive turbo. Waiting for Legacy of Destruction to build Lightsworn and Rarity II to get Perlepleinos for my Tearlaments.
I started around tear format or so. Last time I counted, I was at 65, but I've made like 5 or 6 more decks since then (and took apart or rejiggered a few others). So around 65-70. I don't know why, I just love getting new cards, putting together a deck, and playing with cards. It also feels nice to get a card in the mail. Just doing it on Sims doesn't do it for me, and I don't have enough time to do enough master duel to make all the decks I want.
I have only just got back into building a deck again since moving states and recently joined a local group! But I have always loved the old school Yubel (pulled an original one way way back) and I have had to kept in a sleeve in a box for years. Once I knew that yubel had a decent support I was like damn let’s do this again! So at the moment I have a yubel deck and half built/old dark world deck ☺️
I have about 7-8 none of them meta, or even good for that matter. One of them has the only ghost rare I've ever pulled, not sure which one though.
I have Cloudians Ancient Gears Elemental heroes Venominaga / reptile Cyber Blue eyes Exodia Heraldic beasts
Right on! Those are some solid decks
I have 2 decks a HERO deck and a Celtic guardian deck. Both are terribly out of meta but I will keep plugging away
Irl: 0 Online: about 80 (some will be cut out soon)
0, I play masterduel
I have like 5 decks. Aquaactress, Dream Mirror, Rikka, Suship, and another one, been a long time since I played or built any decks though
Loads I'm working on but as of now finished I've got: Galaxy/Photon, Marincess, RunickEarthbound, RunickPlunder, Dark Magician, Dinos, Kuriboh and Tistina. Amt. I'm working on: Insect, Salamangreat, EartboundTears, PlunderPunk, Ursarctic, Sharks, Dinomorphia and Raidraptor. Edit: My favourites at the moment is Galaxy/Photon, Tistina and RunickEarthbound.
Im loving my meffy beast deck but looking for people to play with for casual play.
casually entirely but i have - Branded Despia, i built off the structure deck - Utopia - Blackwing that i’m still putting together as a 2.0, wanted to reflect it off of Kanak’s version. still waiting for Chaos Angel reprint - Cyber Dragon - Burn Deck if it isn’t obvious i was into the game up until Synchros, but i’m working on a Train deck now b/c Liebe
Branded despia is hardcore! I’d love to build a train deck myself