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Balance (Skill)

update 04/10/2022

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.

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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
Ban this.🔥 skill. it just manipulate starting hand and create all 🔥ing.disadvantage everywhere on earth
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
What do you mean that a lot of people don't use it? Balance is the No.1 skill in the popularity ranking. I am betting that a massive nerf will come on this month end after KC. Dec banlist they nerfed all the broken decks - Invoked, DM, Shiranui, Crystron, Karakuri.. I am happy that they are finally serious with the banlist.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Time to get rid of second batch after the next KC. NK will not escape for sure.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Thunder Dragons are annoying af and don't use balance either. The most used ranking doesn't always mean anything since it usually makes up a good chunk of lower rank play in ranked and KC. Noble Knights are overrated and had to have a bunch of decks nerfed to hell and back just to be good. If anything it will just get the "hey trunade hit".
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Thunder Dragon will lose Lightsworn engine for sure.
Anonymous
I've got beaten by someone who used this skill. That's why it should get nerfed.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
🔥ing human abusing this broken skill everywhere
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
^ So would it be okay if a giraffe used this skill?
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Giraffes don't play card games, silly. You must be thinking of monkeys.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
^ no, I'm pretty sure I'm not thinking about argentinians
Anonymous
Now even Blue Eyes is using this.
<< Anonymous
Yami Aster Reply
Not really that much. I only saw one tournament deck listed as using it. It's still almost all blue-eyes skills. Idk why anyone would use it with Balance since it's already consistent enough. To make the skill work with it, your deck has to be gigantic, too. So, it's actually worse imo. I prefer Master of Fusion for my blue-eyes.
Anonymous
This skill will be absolutely broken if it can be played in TCG.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Yes extremely broken.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
So why 0 tier decks use it atm? This skill atm only helps some rogue/kpg worthy decks to be, at least, competitive.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Hence why the OP says "in TCG", not in DL.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Equally broken.
Anonymous
Fkin abusers are everywhere and they are saying that this skill is perfectly fair.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
You can also use it to prevent yourself from getting a bad opening hand.

In any monster card game, consistency is key. Not trying to improve your consistency is a really dumb move.

It's not broken, you're just salty you lost to someone whose deck is more consistent while you refuse to make your deck more consistent.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Yea, in any real card game we try to make deck more consistent with actual deck building strategy (choosing cards, utilizing resources) not by 'fixing' the RNG with something called a 'skill'
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
That's still important here even with Balance.

You're not going to be able to use Balance unless you choose your cards/resources carefully so that your deck can activate Balance.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Nah, we just put our most expensive cards together and let computer do all the works
Anonymous
What a broken skill.
<< Anonymous(Yami Aster)
Yami Aster Reply
*skill
<< Anonymous(Yami Aster)
Anonymous Reply
They nerfed balance earlier but it is still the most used skill now. Every single user know that this is currently the most broken skill. Starting hand manipulation should not be allowed.
<< Anonymous
Yami Aster Reply
Well! Then I suppose we will just have to agree to disagree! That's all I have left to say on this matter. Happy New Year.
<< Anonymous(Yami Aster)
Anonymous Reply
No, no, no. I will not stand for peaceful resolutions on this here internet contraption.

You will call him a name and engage in a long winded circular argument immediately.
Anonymous
They absolutely destroyed this skill.
Deader than dead.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
It's still a very popular skill. I don't know what you're talking about.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
You don't know because you're too stupid.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
balance is still good in the right decks lol
<< Anonymous
Mah boi Reply
Yeah, Balance is still kickin'. Restart, however...
Anonymous
The skill you use when you don't know how to build a deck.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
No, this skill is indeed broken with a 6/6/6 ratio. Trust me you will see Shiranui using this after the next banlist.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
ofc that's a pattern we have seen since the beginning of DL; if your decks gets hit by the banlist or just sucks move to a "Balance" build.
Anonymous
This skill should be gone forever.
Anonymous
This skill must leave, it kills the whole purpose of deck building: finding ratios so you don't brick and let's not talk of the abuse of trap cards with this skill.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Perhaps
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Yes














I mean: NO
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
is that a maybe?
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
After field has 10 slots card, lol
Anonymous
dope event
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
?????
Anonymous
I have 50% monster, and 50% spell/trap in my deck. I have a better chance of drawing spell/traps without using this skill. WTF.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
See, you think that, and then the RNG decides "You know what he needs to draw? 4 completely useless cards (4 mons, for example)... three duels in a row." People use the skill to prevent the risk of a dead hand.

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