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.
If the Yu-Gi-Oh! DB website asks to login with Game Card ID just click "I don't have a game card ID" and fill some basic information to proceed
Export Guide
- Via the MDM extension (Recommended): Download on Firefox, or Chromium Browsers For Chromium browsers (Chrome/Edge/Opera/Brave...etc) just click "Add to chrome" on the store page and it'll work on most if not all chromium browsers. After using the extension, go to the Master Duel game => Main menu => Deck option => The Card database option at the top right corner => locate the deck you exported and copy it
Once the deck page loads click Edit then do one of the following based on the platform your device is running:
(PC Only): Press F12 to open the browser console => Paste the export code there => Hit Enter
OR (Other platforms/PC): In the address bar of the current tab remove the URL and type "javascript:" without the quotations then paste the export code and hit Enter
Save the deck
Go to the Master Duel game => Main menu => Deck option => The Card database option at the top right corner => locate the deck you exported and copy it
If the Yu-Gi-Oh! DB website asks to login with Game Card ID just click "I don't have a game card ID" and fill some basic information to proceed
Export Guide
- Via the MDM extension (Recommended): Download on Firefox, or Chromium Browsers For Chromium browsers (Chrome/Edge/Opera/Brave...etc) just click "Add to chrome" on the store page and it'll work on most if not all chromium browsers. After using the extension, go to the Master Duel game => Main menu => Deck option => The Card database option at the top right corner => locate the deck you exported and copy it
Once the deck page loads click Edit then do one of the following based on the platform your device is running:
(PC Only): Press F12 to open the browser console => Paste the export code there => Hit Enter
OR (Other platforms/PC): In the address bar of the current tab remove the URL and type "javascript:" without the quotations then paste the export code and hit Enter
Save the deck
Go to the Master Duel game => Main menu => Deck option => The Card database option at the top right corner => locate the deck you exported and copy it
If the Yu-Gi-Oh! DB website asks to login with Game Card ID just click "I don't have a game card ID" and fill some basic information to proceed
Export Guide
- Via the MDM extension (Recommended): Download on Firefox, or Chromium Browsers For Chromium browsers (Chrome/Edge/Opera/Brave...etc) just click "Add to chrome" on the store page and it'll work on most if not all chromium browsers. After using the extension, go to the Master Duel game => Main menu => Deck option => The Card database option at the top right corner => locate the deck you exported and copy it
Once the deck page loads click Edit then do one of the following based on the platform your device is running:
(PC Only): Press F12 to open the browser console => Paste the export code there => Hit Enter
OR (Other platforms/PC): In the address bar of the current tab remove the URL and type "javascript:" without the quotations then paste the export code and hit Enter
Save the deck
Go to the Master Duel game => Main menu => Deck option => The Card database option at the top right corner => locate the deck you exported and copy it
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!
Popular Banned Card Examples
Tell us your thoughts on the Theme Chronicle in the comments below!
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
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).
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
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.
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.
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 💪🤷♂️
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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).
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.
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.
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
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.