Deciding on a Yu-Gi-Oh! The Master Duel Starter Pack is the first major choice you make in the free card battle game.
This is a game all about deck building, so you need to constantly iterate and improve the decks you use in duels if you want to be successful.
When you start Master Duel, you’re faced with three deck options: Power of the Dragon, Synchro of Unity, or Link Generation, and while choosing one may seem like a far-reaching and irreversible decision, fortunately it’s not.
Still, we’ve compiled how you should decide which deck to choose and what to do once you’ve chosen it.
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Power of the Dragon, Synchro of Unity or Link Generation: how important is the choice of the starting deck in Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel?
After completing the game’s basic tutorials, you will be asked to choose between three decks.
Each deck has 40 cards in the main deck and five in the extra deck. About half of the cards will be monsters, and the rest will be split between spell and trap cards. These are the decks you can choose from:
- dragon power
- Unit Synchronization
- Link generation
Something useful to know is that regardless of which starting deck you choose, the other two decks can be unlocked relatively easily. You only need to participate in ten ranked duels and complete ten gates solo (small single-player duels that you play with pre-made decks or your own).
As you solo these gates, you’ll also unlock more structure decks, cards, and gems to purchase card packs, the last of which you’ll need later.
It’s less about the cards you’re given in each starting deck and more about how you choose to build from them. To do this, you’ll first want to go through the “Dish” option on the menu screen and look at a specific dish.
Next, highlight a card in your deck and press the left trigger, you’ll see an option called “related cards.” If you can open that option, you’ll see all of the game’s monsters, spells, and trap cards directly linked to them on the right side of the screen.
These cards directly influence the one you highlighted, and finding good cards here is the best way to make some changes to a starting deck and really make it shine.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel, the best starting deck for beginners
For Yu-Gi-Oh! complete Newbies to Master Duel, Power of the Dragon is the best starting deck for beginners.
This deck doesn’t use any of the extra card mechanics, making it by far the easiest to understand. You can focus on familiarizing yourself with the basic rules and basics of each type of card while using it. Widely effective spell and trap cards are combined with some solid starting monsters for a good foundation that doesn’t focus on obtuse card combinations.
What this deck is missing, however, are cards set up, with abilities that intertwine to give you really effective options at the start of a duel, but as I mentioned above, this is where exploring the ‘related cards’ comes in handy.
Since Power of the Dragon gives you two Blue-Eyes White Dragon cards, you should look at their related cards. You may have some of them and some you don’t (you can switch between owned and non-owned cards at any time by clicking the left stick).
For cards you don’t have, you can open its menu and create them using points. These points correspond to the rarity of the card (N, R, SR and UR), and if you run out, other cards you have of the same rarity can be disassembled to recover points.
You can also get many of these related cards in a secret pack. If you create The White Stone of the Ancients from the related card menu for Blue-Eyes White Dragon, you will unlock a secret pack called The Azure in the Ivory.
This pack is dedicated to cards related to the Blue-Eyes White Dragon and is perfect for unlocking ways to support and transform your Dragon Power deck.
While you use your gems (you can get a lot by fully completing the solo duel strategy mode) to unlock power-ups from this secret pack, here are some basic cards to look for:
- The White Stone of Legend: When you send it to the graveyard, you can add a Blue Eyes to your hand.
- The White Stone of the Ancestors: On the turn this card is sent to the Graveyard, you can summon a Blue Eyes from your deck.
- Kaibaman: Tribute this card to summon Blue Eyes
- Blue-Eyed Maiden: When you are targeted by an effect, you can summon a blue eye from your hand, deck, or graveyard.
- Burst Stream of Destruction: If you control a Blue Eyes, destroy all of your opponent’s monsters on the field.
There are many, many more to pay attention to and use, but these are just a few of the most important ones. Use Azure in the Ivory to transform the Power of the Dragon deck into something much, much better over time.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel, the best starting deck for experienced players
If you want a deck that’s harder to manage but better in the long run, Link Generation is the best starting deck for advanced players.
As this deck focuses on Link mechanics, where summoned Link monsters use arrows on the card and their location on the field to dictate play, having a good understanding of how the base game works is a big help.
Thanks to the Link mechanic, you will have to think about the future quite often. Sometimes you can make multiple decisions about your hand, field, and extra deck at the same time. So deciding what to do and in what order can make or break your grief.
Link Generation is full of Cyberse type cards. Many of the deck’s Cyberse monsters, spells, and traps interact very well, making the synchronized nature of this deck a big selling point.
The Soldiers from the Storm secret pack focuses on supporting Cyberse cards and you can unlock it by crafting the Cynet Mining spell card. To search for this card, simply press the left stick and then Y when in the Link Generation deck editor and search for ‘Cynet Mining’.
Once you purchase Soldiers of the Storm packs and have Cyberse cards, return to the Link Generation deck editor. Press X and go to the “type” set of selections, select Cyberse and then press OK. You will now have all your Cyberse cards on the right side of the screen, easy to navigate.
I would also highlight ‘link’ and play with the cards you put in your extra deck.
Since the Link Generation deck is based on a broad theme, it is recommended that you open the Soldiers from the Storm secret packs and experiment with integrating your Cyberse cards into the starter deck, as it already has some great cards to help newcomers.
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