is our best starter, unfortunately it is limited due to abuse in 3 axis style decks and is now completely free in Master Duel and semi-limited in the TCG
I last touched on it three Halloweens ago when I reviewed the Worms , which are awesome, but barely a drop in the bucket of how many weird and wacky creatures sort of populate Yu-Gi-Oh's world
You draw 5 cards and take 5 resources, lay down a half-dozen Locations, ploop your investigator at the entrance to one of the locations, and are offered 3 actions per round, with which to perform one of 8 different actions: play a card, activate an effect on a played card draw a card, draw a resource, move from location to location, investigate a location to maybe find Clues, (which are generally required to win the game) fight a monster evade a monster then, you take a resource, you draw a card, all of the enemies in the game get to attack you, you add a doom token to the you lose track, and each investigator draws a fresh Very Bad Problem from the Bad Times deck, which summons monsters and negative story events pretty much willy-nilly
The baseline of destroying artifacts and enchantments for cheap is playable in its own right
Japan Championship 2026 Tri-Brigade Toon Runner-Up (5000 players) 1 week ago piloted by Yu-Gi-Oh
