Episode 352 – The Super Agents

Borrelsword Slash UR/SR review, card bundle cards, card trader update, and more! #YGODuelLinks #YGOMasterDuel #duellinks #yugioh #podcast

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The Duel Assessment Episode #352

Your Podcast for Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

June 1, 2024

1. Intro

– “Danger Storm,” and “Ice Flow” by Kevin Macleod, used under Creative Commons license—thanks, Kevin!

Danger Storm by Kevin MacLeod

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Ice Flow by Kevin MacLeod

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– [0:01:38]: GreenRanger’s Week

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2. News

– [0:02:55]: This Week in Esports

Special shoutout to GrandHarrier (https://www.twitch.tv/grandharrier/) , who hosts Duel Links Grand Prix! 

– [0:08:45] Duel Links Meta Power Rankings

Speed

• Tier 1: Blue-Eyes (36.0) 
• Tier 2: Phantom Knights (20.5), Shiranui (18.0), Shaddoll (18.0), Agents (17.5)
• Tier 3: Performage (12.5), T.G. (10.0), Sunvalon (7.0) 
• Off List: Sky Striker, Raidraptor, Evil Eye

Rush

• Tier 1: 
• Tier 2:
• Tier 3: Light Machine, Cyberse Rush
• Off List: 

– [0:09:25] Borrelsword Slash

URs

• Cyberse Sage: A level 1 Ritual Tuner, which is summoned with Cynet Ritual. This card’s main ability is like King of the Swamp, letting you Fusion Summon from the Field and GY, by banishing materials. This has another ability when used as Synchro Material, letting you recycle a monster or Ritual Spell. This card fits right along with the Darkfluid Cyberse deck introduced in the last Structure Deck. This gives another Ritual Monster or the superior option over Paladin of Storm Dragon. Additionally, you can slot in Cyberse Fusions like Diplexer Chimera, and Cyber Synchros like Cyber Integrator.
• The Agent of Life – Neptune: Can Agents be competitive? This card is very powerful, letting you summon cards without tributes. You can even cheat out the Hyperion cards under the right conditions. 
• Traptrix Myrmeleo: A core Traptrix monster, you can tutor a Hole trap on normal summon, or special summon to pop enemy backrow. 
• Double Disruptor Dragon: This card would be pretty difficult to use without help of the Borreload Link skill, which allows you to normal Summon this card without tributes. The skill also lets you reveal this card for effect, and add this card from deck to hand. This card gets tributes to summon 2 Rokket monsters in the GY, allowing more effects to go off. Finally this gets banished to tutor Rapid Trigger or Heavy Interlock. Core card for the Borrel Link deck.
• Lonefire Blossom: This is a cheat card that lets you tribute this to summon any Plant monster out of the deck. While this has utility for Sunavalon, this could also have use for the big Plant monsters used with Rikka decks. 
• Heritage of the Chalice: All-purpose tutor spell for Noble Knight monsters or Noble Arms spells. This card can also be added back to the hand when a Noble Knight is defeated.
• Infernoble Knight – Renaud: Insanely powerful card, being able to special summon as a Tuner, and recycles a monster or equip spell that is banished or in the GY to back to the hand. The ability to get a banished card like this seems new. 
• Borrelsword Dragon: This is just a very powerful Link-4, which does not necessarily have to be used with Borrel or Rokket decks. This card has a quick effect to turn a monster to defense. It can also attack 2 times, and gains attack, while debuffing.
• Photon Sanctuary

SRs

• The Sacred Waters in the Sky: This card does it all, playing the field spell right from the deck, tutoring a monster, gaining LP, and provides protection out of the GY.
• Sunvine Sowing: This special summons a Sunseed monster straight from the deck, which should allow you to get some Link Summoning started. You are not necessarily restricted to Sunseed Genius Loci, and there are other options as well. This also provides GY protection.
• Traptrix Mantis: This tutors another monster on Normal Summon, and has a quick effect which lets you exchange your set back row with another in the hand.
• Majesty Hyperion: This card could be dangerous, as you can inflict damage taken back to the opponent. This also can control the GY with banish effects.
• Borreload Riot Dragon: A level 8 Ritual monster which acts as a board control device, negating the special summon of an opponent monster, allowing you to destroy other monsters as the cost. Of course with Rokkets, destroying them yields positive effects. 
• Sunavalon Dryatrentiay: The ultimate control monster! A Link-4 with 0 attack, cannot be destroyed by card effect and battle. This just leaves banish and “send to GY” as the ways to clear this card, or with a monster that tributes stuff. This will remain controlling the board, allowing you to pop cards your opponent controls, for the cost of Link monsters. 
• Infernoble Knight Emperor Charles: This is similar to Noble Knight Drystan, allowing you to pop a card when an equip card is used. This has a double equip effect at the end of the turn. 
• El Shaddoll Shekhinaga: This allows you to negate and destroy special summoned monster effects, which is quite good.
• Beghalancer the Resurgent: Here is a Plant Link-4 which can provide some offense. This can bounce enemy monsters in exchange for LP, which is a good ability. This card can also come back from the GY.
• Court of Cards
• Underclock Taker

– [0:29:50] Bundles

• Masterflare Hyperion

– [0:31:19] Ranked Duels Updated

• Condemned Maiden: This is an underrated effect, allowing you to play a Quick Play from your hand once during your opponents turn. A card like Forbidden Droplet probably has the most use in stopping your opponents turn. 

– [0:32:07] Card Trader Updated

• Stronghold Guardian: This is a handtrap which you discard to give your defense monster an extra 1500 def for a turn. A possible use for a card like this is a Canyon deck, which doubles defense repelled damage against the opponent. A better use is for Superheavy Samurai.
• Shaman Octopus: This lets you recycle a normal monster back to the deck to power up this card by the level x 100. Not the best card, but as potential in extending deck out, and being able to hit over fellow level 4 monsters. 

3. [0:–:–] 2.B.A. Master

4. [0:33:48] Upcoming News

• [Early June]
  • WCS 2024 Qualifiers RUSH
    • 1st Stage: June 3-9
    • Regional Qualifiers: June 6-9
  • Speed
    • 1st Stage: June 3-16
    • Regional Qualifiers: June 13-16
  • Tour Guide Bingo
• [Mid June]
  • Duelist Road: Hope for the Future: UR “Synchro Dilemma” and SR “Necro Synchron.” Unlock Sherry LeBlanc and new skill “Revolution des Fleurs.”
  • Mission Circuit
• [Late June]
  • Nail Saionji retired to the Gate
  • Obtain a new Legendary Duelist
  • Duel Capsule

Wrap up

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