I've only heard the legends about the days of yugioh past, but I've never been a part of it, I mostly steer away from competitive but I did read up on past formats and they sounded so fun i regret missing out on that. Honestly compared to how the game was then and now, it's not even the same game anymore, it just happens to have the same rules, that kinda started when synchros came out bu that's not to say it's not fun anymore it's just ridiculous. Infernity's are another archetype I haven't touched because it was during my hiatus but I would love to try out new archetypes just to see how they work, I need to learn!
I'm not a huge fan of pendulums myself and i think the nerf was definitely necessary I mean c'mon give someone else a chance to play. Now, my newest favourite archetype is dark magician, especially with all the new support coming out soon for it, it's so fun to use, I have quite a few replays and screenshots to show off for that.
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#FreeMacro
I hat that it's limited to one because I made a banishment deck that is just ridiculous on the first turn I can mill 10 cards from my opponent and gain up to 15000 life points and I din't need macro for that but it helps turn that into something more ridiculous.
I like you, I really like magician's valkyria, I recently ordered 3 of them and I want to make a tradtional dark magician deck for fun and I'm throwing them in for BLS shennanigans