In Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links, the duel starts long before you meet your opponent and making the right choices before the match is even more important than playing well during it. The assembly of the deck is, without a doubt, the most decisive point in its success in Duel Links. It is no use being good if you just don't have the cards you need at the right time. Therefore, we have selected the 8 best tips for you to build the best deck possible in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links!
1. Keep as few letters as possible
To begin, the most basic tip and perhaps the most important. In Duel Links, decks can have 20 to 30 cards. It is crucial that you keep yours with 20 or little more. The reason is that in this game, the important thing is to have consistency in your card purchase. The fewer cards your deck has, the more chances you have of buying the card you need at the right time.2. Make a balanced deck
Your deck needs to have a balance between monsters, magic cards and traps. It is advisable that you maintain a ratio: 2: 1: 1 , that is, 2 monsters for each 1 spell and 1 trap. The structure is not mandatory but it is usually the most successful.3. Understand the victory conditions
In Duel Links there are three ways to win a match:- Reducing your opponent's Life Points to 0
- When your opponent can no longer draw cards
- Special victory conditions (Exodia)
- Reducing the opponent's Life Points through Battle Damage: attacking with monsters.
- Reducing an opponent's Life Points through Effective Damage: with cards like Hinotama .
- Exhausting the opponent's deck: with cards with the effect of destroying the deck ( mill effect ), such as Burning Worm .
- Mounting Exodia .
4. Give your deck identity
5. Increase consistency and avoid situational charts
Most of the time, if a card is good, you should have two or three copies of it in your deck. As I said before, in Duel Links the player with the most consistency in the purchase of cards wins, and this is achieved by increasing your chances of buying the right card at the right time. Obviously, you cannot fill your deck with repeated cards because you need to be prepared for several different situations. Just try to reduce the “luck” factor as much as possible. Another way to increase the consistency of your strategies is to decrease the use of situational cards, that is, those that require several different conditions to come into play. You can lose the match while waiting for the chance to execute your plan.6. Don't cling to bad cards
In Duel Links, it is strangely common for many players to keep bad cards in their deck without noticing that they are not contributing effectively, either because they want to be faithful to the design or from other games' experiences. Stop to review the deck regularly and try to identify weaknesses, as every deck has one. Returning to the Blue-Eyed White Dragon deck , for example, the weakness is being able to summon the monster, since it requires two tributes. In that case, remove cards that do not contribute to the strategy and insert cards that make invoking it easier.7. Adapt to the metagame and prepare to win the majority
8. Adopt wild cards
If your strategy is established and there are still spaces for cards, try to fill them with wild cards, that is, versatile cards that can be used in many situations. Some good examples of wild cards are Etaqua Typhoon , Enemy Controller , Mirror Wall and Kuriboh Sphere . See too: