Balance (Skill)

update 04/10/2022

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Your starting hand will reflect the card balance of your deck. This Skill will not activate unless you have at least 6 of each type of card (Monster, Spell, and Trap) in your Deck. You cannot Special Summon or activate monster effects until the end of the Main Phase of your first turn.

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Updated History

Description (Since 2018 Jun 26)

Your starting hand will reflect the card balance of your deck. This Skill will not activate unless you have at least 6 of each type of card (Monster, Spell, and Trap) in your Deck.

Description (Until 2018 Jun 25)

Your starting hand will reflect the card balance of your deck.

Description (Until 2021 Mar 24)

Your starting hand will reflect the card balance of your deck. This Skill will not activate unless you have at least 6 of each type of card (Monster, Spell, and Trap) in your Deck.

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Anonymous

Konami plz un nerf this skill.
This is technically the only not anime deck consistency skill, and you can't even choose your starting hand TBH. It just... random

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

No! guaranteed 1 monster, 1 spell & 1 trap is already broken in any card game. For any TCG player, this is consider cheating.

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

This isn't TCG.
Bring your TCG player somewhere else like pojo.
Why would you play DL if it was exactly the same with TCG?

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Well, having a character skill is already cheating in any card game.

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

So what are you gonna do about it? Report all the accounts of people using skills to Konami and think they're gonna ban them or something? lolz

Unnerf Dark Magician

You still can use this skill with DM, just use Magician's Robe in place of Rod, discarding a spell/trap to summon a DM from deck and banish with circle.

<< Anonymous(Unnerf Dark Magician)

Anonymous Reply

Replace rod with dwarf the star planeteer dragon and your are ready.
Robe is a really slow card to be honest...

Anonymous

This skill still works perfectly fine in my Superheavy Samurai deck. My main deck consists of 100% monsters and my starting hand is always reflecting this. And I can even special summon in the first turn.

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

XD good one

Anonymous

"You cannot Special Summon or activate monster effects until the end of the Main Phase of your first turn."

Konami didn't implement this when they nerfed Duel Standby, so that people abuse Amano Iwato.
Very clever.

See all 6 comments..

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

"Still cant get how triamids still activate their effects in main phase 1 although they uss balance."

Did you mean Triamid Hunter? Its extra normal summon is continuous, not an activated effect.
On the other hand, with balance skill, Triamid Dancer cannot activate its effect during 1st turn.

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

same goes with aromages.
Extra normal summon from Jasmine is still possible, while the other aromages can't activate their effects.

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Imagine those restrictions also applied on onomat and resonator

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

and gaia, and TG, and shooting star dragon, and ultimate dragons.

Anonymous

Now nobody is willing to play this skill anymore. 🔥ing humans just refuse to stop using broken effects on first turn.

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Someone can probably still use it. My bet would be on Triamids if they can wait a turn, and maybe Gladiator Beasts. Cloudians just flat out will not care other than not using Zeradias, so they could work as well.

Anonymous

Hahahahahahaha

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Hello. How are you, satan?
Nice day for fishing ain't it?

Narukami Safacki

Imagine intelligent people asking Konami to nerf this skill.

See all 20 comments..

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

🔥 off just ban balance and time to.seee those 🔥ers ragequit soon

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

You have been raging about it more than anyone else. They're probably just going to find another skill and not think much of it. You on the other hand need to take a chill pill.

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Balance nerfed. Who's the stupid idiot now?

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Anonymous

Nice to see those fookies go second but cannot activate monster effect.

Anonymous

goodbye don't come back

Anonymous

Too broken creating infinite loops

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

This skill deserved another heavy nerf or even an outright ban.

Anonymous

doesn't deserves changes tbh, only one top tier deck uses this skill

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Well, they still nerve cyber dragon skill knowing its only working for cyber dragon.
Not sure why you bring out that matter

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

If not mistaken a few BEWD deck also uses balance.

Also, although not tiered, most (if not all) Triamid deck uses balance too. And they performed exceptionally good in the last KC despite being quite old.

<< Anonymous

Rock dude Reply

Triamid is a deck that get the most consistency from balance, even NK still brick with balance sometimes.

Anonymous

goodbye 🔥ing broken skill, you will die in 1 week

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

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Balance (Skill)

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Description (Until 2018 Jun 25)

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