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JubJub

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(he/him) Certified Fighting Game Shill. Recent shmup enthusiast. normal summon Maliss <P> Dormouse, response?

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JubJub

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Weasel from the new support HAS to draw 1 as part of its summon effect! which is a problem they FIXED for Maliss w/ White Binder and Chessy Cat!! (a deck that could honestly have stood to have a problem into droll)

Droll and Lock Bird. Once your opponent adds a card from their Deck to their hand, you can discard this as a “handtrap” to stop both players from adding cards from their Deck to their hand for the rest of the turn. An oft-reviled card, as it entirely prevents some decks from executing their gameplan, while barely impacting other decks.

Maliss <P> Chessy Cat. Part of the Maliss deck, one of the greatest combo decks ever engineered, which gets rewarded for banishing its own cards. Her effect to banish a Maliss card from your hand allows you to draw 2 but doesn’t require you to, allowing it to function under Droll and Lock Bird’s turn-wide restriction.

September 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM

JubJub

@jubjub623d.bsky.social

in fighting game terms, it’s the low tier people can’t help but love because they do weird, cool things no one else does

but ofc it has zero game into Nibiru and Fuwalos because it dips into the Extra Deck like a cookie jar

the most fucked up thing is that it SHOULD have game into Droll, but…

Nibiru the Primal Being. One of Yugioh’s most played “handtraps”. If your opponent summons 5 or more monsters in a turn, you can obliterate both players’ monsters, then give them a giant monster with the total stats of all the obliterated monsters. Salamangreat summons a lot, especially from the Extra Deck, so they play into this constantly. Recently, competitive decks are increasingly able to play around this card by either negating it or preserving a followup play for after it resolves.

Mulcharmy Fuwalos. The strongest card in the last year of Yugioh. If you have an empty board, you get to draw a card every time your opponent Special Summons from the Deck or Extra Deck for the rest of the turn. Forces your opponent to compromise their plays to avoid giving you a hand full of cards. Salamangreat has no good compromise into this card.

September 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM

JubJub

@jubjub623d.bsky.social

and it’s not just ANY uber fair midrange deck, it’s also a deck with a lot of really unique interactions under the Miragestallio FIRE lock

stuff like Horse Prince summoning Ash Blossom that you then bounce to hand with Miragestallio GY eff, or Proxy F + Pitknight Earlie OTK in place of Accesscode

Salamangreat Miragestallio. Its powerful effect to summon a Salamangreat monster directly from the Deck comes with the downside of locking you out of using the effects of non-FIRE monsters for the rest of the turn. Additionally, it can return any on-field monster to the hand when sent to the grave for a Link Summon, enabling you to recur your resources or remove your opponent’s key monsters.

Ash Blossom and Joyous Spring. The most played Yugioh card of the past decade. A one-time use “handtrap” that stops your opponent from interacting with their Deck in most ways that matter. Since it’s a Level 3 Fire, it can be summoned from the Deck with Brotherhood of the Fire Fist - Horse Prince, then returned to the hand with Miragestallio.

September 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM

JubJub

@jubjub623d.bsky.social

long Yugioh ramble that I will try to contextualize for my FG followers, but modern Salamangreat is one of the great tragedies of deck design (said about a deck whose last support was 2 years ago)

it’s an uber fair midrange deck that happens to lose to almost every single anti-unfair-combo card

Salamangreat Gazelle. This card sends a Salamangreat card to the grave on summon and summons itself from the hand if a Salamangreat monster is send to the grave, making it a cornerstone of Salamangreat’s gameplay loop

Salamangreat Sunlight Wolf. By adding back a FIRE monster and a Salamangreat Spell or Trap from your grave each turn, this card is one of the main playmakers that lets Salamangreat outresouce its opponent.

September 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM

JubJub

@jubjub623d.bsky.social

as a Yugioh player, the primary appeal of Magic is resolving every broken blue card ever printed

so basically what i’m saying is, give me a goddamn format where Gush is at 4

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The card Gush from Magic the Gathering. (4)U. Instant. You may return two Islands you control to their owner’s hand instead of paying Gush’s mana cost. Draw 2 cards.

May 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM

JubJub

@jubjub623d.bsky.social

this is what it was all building up to… gonna be taking mitsurugi ryzeal to locals this format, very excited for the ALIN support

i got the rituals at 17.5 each and they jumped to 30 the day after, i’m just the GOAT like that 🐐

January 31, 2025 at 2:14 AM

JubJub

@jubjub623d.bsky.social

i love yugioh

January 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM

JubJub

@jubjub623d.bsky.social

it’s insane to me that mannadium just doesn’t have a boss monster

all the other visas archetypes get bosses that synergize with their strategy, so why does mannadium get an OTK enabler…
in a deck that spams enough bodies for OTK enablers to be worthless…
in the same deck as Vicious Astraloud?!