Overview

  • Konami has announced the Theme Chronicle, which will be taking place from Janury 17th to Janury 30th
  • A banlist has already been announced for the event.
  • During the event, you can Duel with the same ruleset in Duel Rooms!
  • This event uses the "Medal" System from previous Festival Events, earn Medals whether you win, lose or draw - but not if you surrender. The more Medals you earn, the more Rewards you can unlock!

Rules

This event will have exclusive rules that promote cards from the archetypes in the Solo Mode scenarios, such as Monarch, Elementsaber, and World Chalice.

There are some cards that cannot be used as they are not part of an archetype, or belong to an archetype that has not been featured in Solo Mode as of January 2023. In addition, some cards cannot be used for game balance reasons.

Please Check the Forbidden/Limited List to see the cards that cannot be used.


Loaner Decks

Beetrooper Sortie

cp-ur 420 + cp-sr 330
12 UR Craft Required
40 cards

Nightmare Machine

cp-ur 420 + cp-sr 390
7 UR Craft Required
40 cards

Voyage to Uncharted Lands

cp-ur 540 + cp-sr 330
7 UR Craft Required
40 cards

Rewards


Banlist

Note: Since this is a massive banlist, in lieu of posting all of the banned cards, we're going to give examples of popular cards that are banned. There are several non-Story Mode archetypes that have had several key cards hit, so if you want to check it out for yourself, check out the event banlist in-game by entering the Event Mode in the Deck Menu!


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2 years ago

This is the event I always wanted. A completely new meta, wiping out basically everything that is commonly played. Konami would make so much more money keeping this as a permanent mode & 2nd Ranked playlist for people wanting something different. People would absolutely craft new decks for it

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2 years ago

Let's wait until we find out if this meta is actually good or not first before wanting to make it a permanent addition.

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It won't be a "meta" because there are no drawbacks to losing thus no real reason to take this seriously.

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2 years ago

And that is a good event. You can play for fun until you have all the rewards.

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2 years ago

using the best deck means getting this **** done quicker so people will try to sweat.

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2 years ago

You say that but it will be just an Orcust parade and we will probably just go 2018 all over again.

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2 years ago

Orcust? nah its going to be crusadia otk

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2 years ago

Reminds me of GOAT format

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2 years ago

obligatory "the gems are going down!!!" post

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2 years ago

Actually it leaked to be 3100 gems idk why it only show 1900 maybe there more missions or something

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2 years ago

I'm guessing that includes the mission rewards

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2 years ago

Lol, the least amount of gems gainable per event were 3285 until now (1900 event rewards + 1385 misson rewards) and now they promote 3100 gainable gems in their anniversary event like it's a big thing... Edit: Correction: 3000 Gems was the lowest amount (1800 event rewards+1200 mission rewards).

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2 years ago

Wait I thought the lowest gem was 3k, being link reg, and anti spell event also gives us 3.1k, also what event gives you 3285 gems? all events aside from the first xyz event gives the total amount of gems that ends with 00

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2 years ago

You're right, the lowest thus far was Link Reg with 3000. Got the data from another site, i've just seen that masterduelmeta itself has gem guide articles.

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2 years ago

downvote for misinformation

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2 years ago

Smash Ultimate except everyone is banned.

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2 years ago

No just DLC ban hahaha

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2 years ago

Built The Weather, Myutant & Superheavy Samurai just in time lmao. Crusadia also seems like it could be a very cheap deck that will result in very quick matches, prolly will be most popular. I have 38 optimally built decks and that's all I have that's usable Lol they banned a ton this time around. Actually looking forward to it.

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2 years ago

Don't forget about Shiranui; most of the zombie support is still legal, so they're going to be a powerful option.

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2 years ago

it says 1900 gems now but with the missions i think it might be more than 3000 gems COPIUM

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2 years ago

It will, leaked image of this event had "get 3100 gems"

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2 years ago

Yugi Boomers wet dream for an event

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2 years ago

nah they gonna complain megalith special summon more than 5 time in a turn

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2 years ago

Pshhh the virgin Megaliths are not gonna break through the impenetrable shield of the Chad Big Shield Garda. They’ll be fine. If somehow that sturdy defense falls they have the power of friendship and the heart of the cards to rely on 💪🤷‍♂️

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2 years ago

what is already dry can no longer become wet

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2 years ago

What is up can no longer come down

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2 years ago

Im sorry to say that because Beetrooper is completely free in this event, they even can replace Accescode for Avramax to make juicy OTK and control the entire field. So... Megalith, World Chalice, Crusadia OTK and Beetrooper are good decks for this format.

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2 years ago

Can you please post an article of all the banned cards :)

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2 years ago

A list of the good cards available would be better I think

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2 years ago

megalith event

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2 years ago

Finally my Plunders will thrive. This event actually looks fun with all the more powerful decks and generic cards unplayable.

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2 years ago

It's time to play Crusadia full OTK.

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2 years ago

Danger! Dark World will be very playable, only important card missing is Access Code Talker.

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2 years ago

Excited for this event! Loaner lists look fun! I wish the reprints in the new Selection Pack: Recollection of the story were cheaper. If some of those URs were SRs, wouldve spent some gems just to maximize this event!

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2 years ago

DAM I wish I was a plunder patroll player right now.

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2 years ago

Danger plunder patroll seems fun to try

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2 years ago

I'm not do sure about the Orcust loaner but the other two seem playable

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2 years ago

Yes, Kozmo, Cubic, mekk -knight didn't get hit

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2 years ago

Harpie's deck is playble. lets see if it can keep up.

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2 years ago

Timelord and Numeron banned, but Blind Second OTK seems strong. Crusadia, Utopia Double, Lightning Storm, Kaiju, and nearly full hand traps survived.

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2 years ago

Slumbering's banned but everything else related to the Kaiju is unlimited.

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2 years ago

Yes non-top tier decks

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2 years ago

Trickstar let's ******* goooooooooo

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2 years ago

No anniversery Message or present. What a ****.

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2 years ago

I like the new bans for the event, but some choices have me confused. Why is Apollousa not banned? Weather Painters are fully unbanned (probably since they are a solo mode archetype), and Weather Painters is not a bad rogue deck. That's kinda scary. Cyberdark is banned for some reason. Not a big deal by itself as Cyberdark could be oppressive in a weakened format, but the previous unbanned examples are generally far better than Cyberdark.

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2 years ago

Weather painters need their floodgates to do anything and those are banned.

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2 years ago

as always, good job masterduelmeta! the best info is here

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2 years ago

No news about the 1 year anniversary?

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2 years ago

You mean I get to use my royal Iblee, Demiurgy, Galatea, Longirsu, and Dingirsu in the same loaner deck!?

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2 years ago

drytron exist in this format.

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2 years ago

They don't have the drytron ritual spell I think

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2 years ago

Their ritual spell, XYZ, and 2 ritual monsters are banned. Benten at 1 and the level 1 drytron monsters unlimited though

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2 years ago

Meteonis Drytron is banned along with Drytron Mu Beta Fafnir, so theyre at best going to be tech in some ritual decks to be more consistent or possibly do some link plays and nothing more

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2 years ago

For those only invest top meta deck, your may have a problem here. It have impact a lot of deck. Plunder patroll and beetroper will be top tier deck in this event most likely. Giant ball park deck will be a deck of choice for otk. It only ban the arctype but the generic staple card is not imoacted in the banlist, giant ball park it still possible.

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2 years ago

don't forget weather painter and mek knight orcust is untouch.

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2 years ago

weather painter without floodgates?

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2 years ago

Megalith and Crusadia are both very cheap and decently strong for this event

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2 years ago

Don't forget Shiranui. Zombie World is almost completely untouched minus Doomking. So between the free solo deck and Immortal Glory you really only need to make Sunsaga, and maybe the Skillsaga link. Have no UR? Skull Servant is completely untouched minus the Grass ban (but Reasoning isn't banned).

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2 years ago

1900 gem, aha probably there are missions that work at the same time. such as: summon 50 monsters. and there you get a bit gems too

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2 years ago

waiting for full banlist to see whether the regular orcust works or not

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2 years ago

You have everything that regular orcust does except grass and dpe

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2 years ago
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youre thinking of gems+missions getting to 2500+ 1900 is standard

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Honestly people have been calling the game dead for months and it still has been doing fine, with 9 million active players as of the last month. Obviously some of those are alts or bots but it seems to be doing ok. Far better than Duel Links actually, which is probably why they're using MD to advertise for it.

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2 years ago

9 millon active players? Steam charts barely report 20 k daily logins

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2 years ago

As I said, it's over the month, not a single day. Also I think you're reading the data wrong, given that I'm seeing 18k people online right now according to https://vginsights.com/game/1449850. I think you might be look at peak activity per day and thinking it's daily logins? Because the site has that as 27k for the day so it basically matches up. For what it's worth I did somehow get the number wrong, it's 7.9 million, not 9 million, I dunno if I misread it or the number suddenly shot down for some reason, so that's my bad, but that's still far from terrible. This is the site I'm using for the record. https://activeplayer.io/yu-gi-oh-master-duel/

To be clear, obviously it could be doing better, and it's far down compared to when it came out (though in fairness that's only to be expected) but the "dead game" rhetoric is really tired and just not accurate. It's doing fine.

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2 years ago

yes, on average 20k users are connected with steam at all times, the game is not dead, not like duel links at least, but 7 million monthly active user seems like bullshit, sorry for my bad english

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2 years ago

East asian players don't use steam afaik. Nor do the additional few that play on console or mobile.

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2 years ago

We do not have the privilege of playing TCG/OCG in our country 😅. There are no shops associated with YGO or any known Card games. But I myself am a dedicated YGO players (somewhat of a nerd about ruling interactions). Master Duel is the only place which is officially operated by Konami and I can call myself a YGO player because of it. Apart from horrible decks in the top of the ladder, the long and challenging non-meta decks at Gold and Platinum makes-up for me to enjoy the game. I hope Master Duel stays operational as it is now and also, add the selection pack cards to their respective archetypes secret packs or have the selection pack archetypes their own secret packs. See you all in the festival guys. Happy New Year. Good Luck. Have Fun.

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2 years ago

Gold to plat is where the game at bro. The gem reward are basically the same and you can play many rouge deck without having a 5+ lose streak.

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2 years ago

nothing really change... the fact people still can use Dinos/Orcust /Drytroon and many more floodgates first turn lock ruin the point of it... could be nice to have some slow meta event for change...

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2 years ago

only for 1900 gems lol komoney

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2 years ago

Every event is default 1900 gems. The rest come from the missions.

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This event will not be garbage

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And I thought I was pessimistic lol

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It literally takes 2 srs to get the optimal fast games deck lol

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I'm not going to say that the event will be revolutionary but it's a cool idea and I think it has a decent shot of being a breath of fresh air, I have no idea why you're so pessimistic other than the fact that people on this site are often doomers for literally no reason.

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2 years ago

Agreed. Every metagame, including this one, is going to have its own top tier decks that rise to the top. But it'll be nice to change things up and not have to face any of the top tier decks from the ranked section. That's what the monthly events should be.

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2 years ago

Well people always complaining. They want konami to make master duel free like edopro with better graphics and even if they do that, they will still complain.