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Skill Details

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.

How to Get

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Yami YugiLegendary Duelist/PvP Duel Reward
Seto KaibaLegendary Duelist/PvP Duel Reward
Mai ValentineLegendary Duelist/PvP Duel Reward
Mako TsunamiLvl 20
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CharacterHow to Get
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CharacterHow to Get
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Akiza IzinskiLvl 13
LunaLegendary Duelist/PvP Duel Reward
CharacterHow to Get
Kite Tenjo
Kite Tenjo		Legendary Duelist/PvP Duel Reward
CharacterHow to Get
Declan Akaba
Declan Akaba		Lvl 13
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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
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<< 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.
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<< 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.
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<< 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.
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<< 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.
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<< 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
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<< 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.
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<< 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
Me
Anonymous
Nice to see those fookies go second but cannot activate monster effect.
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Anonymous
goodbye don't come back
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Anonymous
Too broken creating infinite loops
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<< 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
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<< 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
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<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
:)

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