FREE MY SON!! HIS BROTHER MISSES HIM
colapserpent very useless without him
Not entirely useless he's basically rota for dragons if you manipulate monster levels on your field properly also seyfert can recover lubellion from grave if you foolished him with saronir.
I have not even dismantle my copies, hoping he comes back to me.
Yeah I got 2 royals of my boy that I kept
I dismantled mines for the chance of getting a glossy one if it ever comes back
Nor have I, they’ll band him but let Kash unlimited birth….SMH.
No, buy fire deck. Thank you for playing Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel
Bro did nothing wrong. They just killed chaos for no reason. Remove every chaos card except chaos ruler and it will be fine.
Seriously. As a chaos Synchro enjoyer, I’ve suffered so much for Dragon Links sins
The sin of putting up (checks notes) 4-5 interruptions on a high roll board.
Dlink can and should come back. I have a variant that I break out sometimes and it still catches people off guard.
4-5 interruptions is not an insignificant amount and Dlink always had the potential to come back. The existence of so many good dragons that throwing them into one deck can make a cohesive strategy inherently limits the acceptable design space for dragons moving forward, so they’ve got to keep them in check one way or another
Yea. All it takes is the eventual new dragon support lol
Yea. All it takes is the eventual new dragon support lol
you are severely underplaying what 4-5 consistent interruption feel like lmfao
3-4 consistently, 5 is more high roll. Borreload, borrelend, dis pater, possibly ip to sp or spheres into bystial.
are you listening to yourself
deck list..?
Could probably stand to trim the fat some but the kaiju negate line is too funny not to include.
If I was gonna cut that line you could remove destrudo, the kaiju, waterfront, ancient fairy dragon and saryuja.
Yeah they really over hit chaos piles, a lot of there hits could be undone at this point and it would be ok
The only problem card was chaos ruler. Everything else is fine.
Which obviously was the only real problem tbh. Yeah magnamut should have been limited and chaos ruler banned before despater but chaos space can probably come off the list or at least brought to 2 and white dragon can be at least limited
I don't get the hate Dragon Link gets honestly... There are far worse decks that are running free without bans and etc.
Because it stayed consistently good with very little need for new support, plus it was fairly budget anyways (atleast that's my theory)
this is the real reason lol. anyone who thinks it was because of cruler is delusional. they cant have a deck thats that old still being top tier(which it still would be t3/2 im sure rn) when they are trying to sell cards. only when its been powercrept into oblivion will this card maybe get unhit
At least by the time the elves finish releasing even a little off the banlist there will be more dragon support so the deck isn’t dead forever. For formats and formats every year that passed dlink received more tools
Real and true, and I liked D-link lol
Real and true, and I liked D-link lol
Y’all kill me with these dumbass conspiracy theories lol. I legitimately want to know what it’s like to believe in something so stupid as intentionally nerfing decks because they’re cheap.
It can never be Dragonlink for its time was an actual issue. It can never be Dragons are a problematic archetype with how much support they have. It’s gotta be money lol
If you think it's a conspiracy you're literally coping. Look at floo for example, would still be very playable today if it wasn't so overly hit. Guess what? Old deck with 3 urs(unless you play snowl)
Floo was an extremely strong meta deck dude. I genuinely can’t believe you think Floo was just some cheap anti meta deck that didn’t do anything wrong. That deck was extremely strong and definitely needed a hit at the time.
I really am gonna need people to start attaching elos to opinions because this is getting insane lol
It was also cheap and past it's prime. It's insane someone could be braindead enough to not see the money motivation from komoney. That or you're just trolling
It wasn’t past its prime when hit. It’s still good even now since it’s a Shifter deck.
But only ass people believe Floo was hit for being cheap. It was a problematic deck that deserved to be hit. Not sure why you think otherwise other than you’re not good enough to understand how potent Floo was. Which I forgive your ignorance
Only thing i hate on dragonlink for is taking 9 years to summon 2 negates
I genuinely do not get hating on the endboard of D-Link. Sure, it takes time to get there.
But it’s newer the craziest thing. You’ve got borrelend and savage and dis pater, maybe beast/regained and a bystial in hand on average. 3 negates. 2 other interactions. Really high roll hands can end on more (seals, RARELY baronne).
What made D-Link strong was its grindgame and its ability to play through disruptions. I agree, that at the time, those should’ve been hit. (I.e. ban chaos ruler, limit the small dragons) but so much hate is misdirected. DLink never put up unbreakable boards (after the Guarddragon agarpain and elpy bans of course)
D-Link can highroll into stupid unbreakable boards sometimes (Arkbrave and Goliath, Summon Breaker turbo, DMZ Buster lock, Rose Dragon Adventure setups), but they're... well, highroll, shockingly obscure these days save for from the D-Link enthusiasts, and frankly have bannable cards on their own right independent of D-Link's core gameplan anyway (every Amorphage should've been banned years ago, Summon Breaker should not coexist with Field Spell searchers like AFD/Majesty Pegasus/Cattycorn, Buster Whelp was a mistake)
“Combo deck bad”
Combo deck that's top tier that takes 10 minutes to do their combo is bad because it's boring as hell to sit there and watch.
The reason Tear is fun to play for example is because the turn doesn't take THAT long and what happens every game isn't going to be the same. It's a good deck that changes from game to game.
D-Link is the same LONG ass combo over & over to basically end on Borreload & Borrelend. Plus some other stuff depending on your hand.
you can make the argument that there’s still decks like that which also tend to be stronger. Branded is similarly in like year 3 of relevance and snake eyes / r ace play for a long ass time too to make boards of varying oppressiveness
Neither of those decks take as long as d link to set up boards and people of course want snake eyes to get hit.
Nah, Snake Eyes & R-Ace combos don't take long. In fact, R-Ace combos are far too guaranteed against hand-traps is the problem with that deck. If they have a good hand, they will get up their OP board no matter what cards you have.
The only thing that can really disrupt a R-Ace board is a Feather Duster or Evenly Matched, one is limited and the other takes up the Battle Phase. Both are cards that are useless on turn 1 as well.
Maybe I’m just jaded after seeing it so much regardless of the consistency hits
You see Snake Eyes a lot with Fire King sure, but pure isn't really that strong anymore. Also, the semi-limit to Air Lifter is nothing. They need to actually limit Emergency if they want to actually take R-Ace down a peg.
The limit to Ash hurt pure SE plenty. It just didn't hurt the Fire King variant because you only play 1. R-Ace doesn't count as a Snake Eyes deck either, it only plays Poplar for access to Sinful Spoils.
DLink famously one of the most non-linear combo decks to have existed and you're saying it's the same combo over and over? bruh
Not really. Despite what you think non-linear means, you did essentially the same thing every time in D-Link to end on the same board.
You could have a really good hand to end on extra cards or really good mills from Chaos Ruler, but it still really came down to the two Borrel Dragons.
D-Link was WAY too easy and WAY too simple to be considered non-linear.
You must not be a very good D-Link player then lmao
There's a lot of nuance to the combos including the way you sequence things. I'll agree that at a very low skill level the deck could be seen as pretty linear but once you start to really understand the deck then optimizing lines can get very complex.
For example going into seals to insulate yourself from nib is a thing you usually learn early on but is something I never saw people doing when it was popular in MD. Just the fact that you said "it really came down to the two borrel dragons" just tells me that you never really understood the deck because borrelend + Savage is honestly not a great end board for Dragonlink even without ruler and will usually end up being a line that's insanely easy to punish.
Going for late tracer activations so you can make seals, pisty lines, late popping striker add recharger activate recharger for extension, dispater bringing back a banished striker or link 3 to gain more value from it. And that's without going into how you navigate the grind game with dragonlink. Breaking boards is also an entirely different story and really starts to stress your knowledge of the deck.
The fact is that with dragonlink, even when it was meta in MD, you really need to learn more than just 1-3 combo lines and the way you learn to combo with dragonlink isn't really by learning cookie cutter lines.
The reason you don't go into Seals in MD is because it reduces the power of the end board AND Nibiru is not run nearly as much in MD. Going into Seals is something that needed to be done in the TCG where Nibiru is highly prevalent.
When D-Link was still good, Chaos Ruler was still legal. You didn't need to go into Seals to still beat Nibiru anyways. If your opponent's field lit up and you thought they had Nibiru, you could just go into Borreload early to force their hand.
Then you generally have plenty of ways to continue to make plays because they have to use their Nibiru early. Nibiru is simply not that great of a card in MD. Not only can you generally tell if your opponent has it, but it takes up space in your deck that already has plenty of space taken up for the Maxx C mini-game.
Nibiru is prominent in the TCG because you don't need to play 3 Maxx C, 2 Called By, & a Cross Out. Most decks play 3 Ash still, but that is 6 cards that decks don't really run in the TCG that take up spots in MD & the OCG. Nibiru takes up space AND is even worse in MD being a Bo1 which makes it a brick on turn 1.
a whole lot of words just to say something that's filled with mistakes and misunderstandings lol
Tear is fun to play for the person playing the deck but not the person watching you play and depending on what you mill the turns can take even longer than a D-Link turn.
I think people just found it boring to play against. I don’t think it was a toxic deck or anything personally, but that’s what I remember people complaining about the most.
I don't hate the deck, I got a royal Borrelend so I build it. I hate the double standard people have with pile decks.
If you are playing a pendulum deck like Magicians that are supposed to work with Odd Eyes and Performapal you get hate because "Muh pendulum"
But if you play the dragon pile then you are playing a respectable deck that has committed no offense.
It was too strong for too long. But "far worse decks" means nothing when those could just get properly hit too
If a deck is reasonably fair and isn't dominating the meta game, it can be good til the end of time for all I care.
But Konami is a small, poor company that needs to make a living so they see things differently unfortunately. I wish they would do a massive unbanning of all the shit that doesn't need to be hit anymore but it'll likely never happen.
if you don't beat dragonlink in turn 2 you lose in turn 3 100% of the time, and their boards are already sticky filled with omni negates and mosnters that recurr themselves
Just like with Ishizu tearlament and to an extent Snake Eye. Dragon link took 5 years to do their first turn and the multiple negates they can get without much effort is infuriating. Dragon link boards were so hard to break and it made for a very boring game that eventually just wasn’t worth my time. Dragon link needed to be nerfed. It’s just the truth. What decks are much worse and running free besides Snake Eyes?
A lot of people don’t like combo decks that end on 3+ negates…
I like D link but it’s not a healthy deck at all, but there’s tons like it legal…
Name them
SHS, Mannadium, Infernoble, soon Yubel and Voiceless Voice, spright, Plants, Synchrons. I can list even more from the top of my head. Some are/were top metagame contenders. Some are terrible. Nonetheless, they all put up significantly stronger boards.
That's crazy, all the decks you listed either are just worse, Hit on the bankist or brand new decks they want to sell.
I can't imagine a reason why they would want to prevent a deck from being meta playable for years over the new stuff.
Mannadium is literally better than DLink currently. Same for Plants. And both unhit. What are you even on about?
SHS was also hit without being murdered. No one is complaining that DLink got hit. People are complaining that they murdered it.
For example, SHS is playable and hit.
Mannadium is literally better than DLink currently
Also, a deck that came out last year with much less competitive success, not 5 years ago with the most broken tools known in the game's history.
Also you can really argue against that as well. Making better boards doesn't make the deck better.
Same for Plants.
Not true at all. They are just worse in every way. Again Just making a better board doesn't make the deck better
No one is complaining that DLink got hit.
I don't get the hate Dragon Link gets honestly... There are far worse decks that are running free without bans and etc.
The comment I replied to did. Only decks right now that are fully legal and unhit are either worse or new.
For example, SHS is playable and hit.
So is Dragon link, both aren't meta with the hits, both are rogue and playable, Shs being better isn't a reason to unhit a previous Very strong Meta deck that could still see play today unhit. There is a reason it is nerfed across all 3 formats.
LMAO even with wyvernbuster DLink wouldn’t be tiered right now. Not even close.
Mannadium is Unhit, puts up better boards, and currently is more resilient to interruptions and in general just more consistent.
Plants literally are a tiered strategy post Aroma support. They have all the advantages: a better endboard, being more consistent and playing through interruptions better. Plants also have incredibly powerful interactions compared to D-Link.
The original comment was referring to the hate dragon link for being unjustified. That isn’t because the deck shouldn’t have been hated, but because it gets hated overproportionally to what it really did. A limit to wyverbuster would’ve been more than enough in addition to the ban chaos ruler had to get at some point anyway.
DLink is also hit much less in other formats.
Ruler was the real problem card with its mill and easy recursion. With that hit now they could definitely soften the other hits on dlink so it could do something
LMAO even with wyvernbuster DLink wouldn’t be tiered right now. Not even close.
Nah, I can't agree with that. It would probably be tier 3 by this meta's standards but it would be playable. Mannadium puts up better boards but their board isn't as layered and they aren't as good going second. Plus while not amazing under Maxx C, seals + Branded beast is a decent back up plan under Maxx C. Mannadium has no good plays in a few summons.
The cutoff for currently tiered decks (according to MDM) are lab, branded and pure snake eyes. All of these decks are vastly in their current capacity to dragon link with wyverbuster and no chaos ruler.
Of course MDM isn’t a great source, but it is the best we’ve got.
Additionally, I’m not denying that having Wyverbuster back wouldn’t make a difference. It absolutely would.
However, his effect on the entire meta would be negligible.
Even at its peak D-Link's presence was fairly negligible due to the difficulty in piloting it.
BRING BACK THIGH DRAGON
Bro be like: “He served his time”
My brother in Ra, he has only been on the list for half a year.
Half a year to long.
Facts
Six months too long tbh
Them banning Chaos Ruler was enough imo but killing the entire chaos engine in the deck pretty much slaughtered it
Exactly why i cant stand to look at my chaos deck anymore :(
He didn't deserve the hit in the first place. His ban was about the same time sanctifire came out...I feel like someone at Konami said to ban the white dragon and someone misunderstood.
Deck good for too long. Me hate good deck being good for too long. Me want good deck dead
Really, he’s not that bad, he could be at 1 like in the TCG
Exactly. Longyuan as example stayed hit a year for no real reason, sure White Dragon was banned but the point still stands, is too soon.
The dragons will rise again… we’ll have patience
I am praying for the day our boy gets out
I feel like a good time to free him from a business standpoint would be when the new Lightsworn support is released. That being said, I’d like him back ASAP
Served time? Bro was framed for a crime and was unfairly arrested
Konami better let this guy go *and* throw a fucking party for em
Even without Chaos Ruler this would bring Dlink back
Can someone explain why to me this card killed the deck? Deck has so many good cards in it as is.
Sure.
I am an avid D-Link player. The deck is not dead, just reduced in power. Banning White Dragon had the following effects on the deck:
- Obviously makes black dragon useless.
- Syfert is nearly useless.
- Chaos Space also becomes significantly less usable.
Thanks, makes sense. Was shocked to see how it essentially disappeared over night in ranked.
Tbf it's still playable at a tier 3 to rogue level.
However, Seyfert now becomes a two card combo while the chaos line being unavailable means that you're not generating card advantage for followup anymore.
With all the top decks having good grind games and the meta being hand trap heavy, it just doesn't have the resiliency to compete against them as a result.
Aah, may chaos take the world championship!
MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD!
It’s crazy how much this one ban destroyed the deck
100% or maybe even a trade like 1 chaos space, 1 wyverburster. Also why is druiswurm limited? Magna makes sense, saronir because branded but druiswurm did nothing wrong.
Not happening my dragon chuds, deck is too cheap for konami standards.
this same reason in tcg, cant have a 150-200€ deck stomp 1000€ deck
Never dismantled in hopes of it coming back.
I just came back to the game after over a year off and boy was I upset to see my dragon link AND lightsworn deck lose the best extenders. I hope this isn’t forever lol
And my thunder dragons too
Forgot to even mention them, I have a thunder dragon deck too :(
Wyvernbuster did nothing wrong. It was all Chaos Ruler's fault. Free the boy pleasee
Free dragon link
Free him !!!! Fuck chaos dragon, I want my Boi free
No.
I missed my Chaos deck.
Milling this guy and Collapserpent with Lightsworn and then putting Chaos Zone and Eclipse Wyvern for some crazy hand advantage.
I tried Future Visions but its really rare to find a "Normal Summoning" deck now. I only seem to succed againts deck that has monsters that "normal summon to special summon a monster from hand" effects, Like Constellar and Sattelarknitght.
Can you use fiendsmith in dlink? I haven’t played it since they banned wyverburst and limited chaos space. I know there is heaps of access to lvl 6 with bystials but with feindsmith you could probably make a laggia or caeser aswell
You would use it for beatrice like in every other deck.
I miss my boy first and only time I’ve hit masters was with Dlink. The joy I feel was amazing :(
Maybe will be back with tenpai
Wyvern too while we're at it, let's bring the family back together!
Wyverbuster was enough of a dlink kill, my zombies crave the ruler
Still waiting for the bystials to leave their cage.... chaos bros never get a break
Looooooooooooooooooooooooooool Get a fire deck
“Konami! Unban White Dragon Wyverburster and my life is yours!”
As I've said multiple times before, just unban every dragon link card. Show people how it could actually be. Let me combo for half an hour.
One of the most consistent and recursive decks ever lmao glad it got hot
Hit*
Free him or chaos ruler pls
No?
Nah free Chaos Ruler instead
nah, rip bozo, free body that gets you another free body in a deck that already has a lot of starters and extenders, not forgetting its really searchable
You just described like over half of modern achetyped cards.
Seriously, they over hit chaos and branded only to release a bunch of other stuff that's just as if not more consistent.
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3d
Hard once per turn special summon that requires a dark monster in the gy.
The others had two special summon tokens that can be easily used for link climbing, which is why those cards were banned.
naa
It's like people just casually forget the mindset of the playerbase when these things happen. DLink was one of the most complained about decks due to how utterly resilient it was. There was, until this hit, no really effective way to lower the power level of the deck without straight up banning generic boss monsters that are used in more decks than just Chaos.
This card was the first major hit to the deck that actually seemed to do lasting damage to not only a deck that could constantly reach its end board no matter what you threw at it, but would take 10 minutes to get there regardless of interruption. I'm sorry for Chaos, truly, but DLink deserved the wound, and the only way this card is coming back is if Konami finds a better way to hit DLink or DLink becomes so irrelevant that it doesn't matter anymore.
Served his time? He's been gone for like a few months. Maybe a year?
He'll have served his time in 2028.
I’m a firm enjoyer of D-Link being dead
Nah, he’s not there long enough, at least wait for Sekka’s light finally getting unlimited
D-link is alright. Not insane but doesn't need more.
They take 9 minutes to make a few interruptions.
Same exact lines, prefer to not see them often again.
GO AWAY
I WOULD SOONER SEE KASH AND FLOO ENTIRELY UNLIMITED
RESPONSE EDIT: No, this thread is the worst take ever. YGO players will constantly complain about million-year solitaire cringe, but then when one of them actually gets buried like it deserves, they start caterwauling that Dragon Link was a sweet boy that didn't deserve it. Bugger off!
This has got to be the worst take ever
Nah keep him in for a couple thousand years
...nah, better ban Collapserpent too just in case
No
Nah, if they gonna continue with the nonsense hits like Purrely then this gets to stay banned
nah dragon link should stay dead
One less monster spam deck is heaven for me 😮💨😮💨
konami has no grasp of esports
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Seyfert legit useless without him