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Special Duel Event [July 6 - July 12]

update 16/04/2019

Event Details

Period July 6 - July 12

How to Play

1. Duel in a completely new way!

What is Special Duel?

Special Duel are Ranked Duels with certain conditions and restrictions to the Skills and Decks that you can use. Your rank placement is registered differently from your regular Ranked Duels placement, although the rankings and number of wins required to be promoted, remain the same. For example, you still need to acquire 4 wins to rank up from Platinum 5 to Legendary 1, and 5 consecutive wins to rank up from Legendary 3 to King of Games. Example scenario, if you are King of Games currently in regular Ranked Duels, you can still collect rank placement rewards from Special Duels since you will be starting the climb from Rookie rank.

2. Build a Legend Deck!

Legendary Decks

Legendary Decks are Decks specifically tailored to a particular Legendary Duelist, using Required and Optional Core Cards, and unique Legendary Duelist’s skills, as part of the Deck. The fact that it is mandatory to include these cards into your Legendary Deck (should you choose to play as that particular Legendary Duelist) makes certain Legendary Decks more advantageous than the others, because the Required or Optional Core Cards present more meta value and higher synergy with the latest tech / monster cards used prominently. For example, Masked Heroes have received wide players’ acceptance and usage currently, and it goes along well with Aster’s Legendary Deck, even when Destiny HERO - Plasma and Destiny HERO - Diamond Dude are the Required and Optional Core Cards to be included. This makes Aster’s Legendary Deck very advantageous over other Legendary Decks. Another example is Weevil’s Legendary Deck which requires you to include Insect Queen in the Legendary Deck, along with either Cocoon of Evolution or the Moth monster series as optional Core Cards. These cards must be included in Weevil’s Legendary Deck, and since all these cards are not competitive at all in the current meta, this makes Weevil’s Legendary Deck very unpopular and disadvatageous over other Legendary Decks. The key factors into customizing your Legendary Deck, are to take into consideration the Required Cards, and Optional Cards you need to have in that Deck, and analyse the synergy with the current popular monster effects/Spells/Traps, the possible combos which you can dish out, the relative strengths and weakness against other meta Decks, before you bring your customized Legendary Deck into Special Duels.

3. Duel in Special Duels at the PvP Arena!

4. Aim for King of Games!

Rank Up Rewards

LevelsRewards
Rookie Rank 2Golds x2500
Rookie Rank 3R Jewel x50
Bronze Rank 1SR Jewel x1
Bronze Rank 2Golds x2500
Bronze Rank 3R Jewel x50
Silver Rank 1Gems x50
Silver Rank 2Golds x5000
Silver Rank 3R Jewel x100
Gold Rank 1Gems x50
Gold Rank 2SR Jewel x2
Gold Rank 3UR Jewel x1
King of GamesGems x100

Regarding Legendary Decks

Skill Allowed

Skills Allowed are unique skills that are only accessible via a particular Legendary Duelist. Skills play an important role and synergy to go along with your customized Legendary Deck. Some examples of popular Skills used are Beatdown, The Tie that Binds, Silent Duelist, Psychic Onslaught, Transcendent Crystals. You will not be able to use regular Skills such as Restart, Balanced, Draw Sense series skills.

Core Cards

Core Cards are divided into Required and Optional Core Cards. Required cards are cards that you must include at least 1 copy in your Legendary Deck. Optional Core cards are a pool of card options that you can choose from, and must be included into your Legendary Deck according to the number of copies written. For example, Yami Yugi’s Legendary Deck has Optional Cards (2) whereby you can choose any 2 copies of: Slifer the Sky Dragon, Dark Magic Curtain, Dark Magic Attack, Thousand Knives, Illusion Magic, to include in your Legendary Deck. If the Required Cards listed are also listed in Optional Cards list, then you can just include at least 1 copy of that card and have another choice from Optional Cards pool in your Legendary Deck. If there are multiple Required Cards listed in the Legendary Deck for that particular Legendary Duelist, you must include at least 1 copy of each Required Cards in your Legendary Deck.

Required Cards - Alternative Art are counted as well excluding Yugi / Arkana Dark Magician

Regulation Details

Yami Yugi

Dark Magician Set

Required Cards
Dark Magician
Dark Magician

Black Luster Soldier Set

Seto Kaiba

Blue-Eyes Set

Joey Wheeler

Red-Eyes Set

Required Cards
Red-Eyes B. Dragon
Red-Eyes B. Dragon

Mai Valentine

Harpie Lady Sisters Set

Tea Gardner

Dark Magician Girl Set

Required Cards
Dark Magician Girl
Dark Magician Girl

Yugi Muto

Silent Magician Set

Weevil Underwood

Insect Set

Required Cards
Insect Queen
Insect Queen

Rex Raptor

Red-Eyes Black Dragon Set

Comments

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Anonymous
Try hards will be playing meta and most deck I faced are meta with the required cards so watch out for espa he will most likely be playing furries
A true duelest
Yall r noobz i use dark magician with yugi and pwned my way to gold 2.
Anonymous
Everything about Duel Links is perfect! Stop complaining, uninstall, and play another game :O
<< Anonymous
Konami is the best Reply
Yes! Duel link is fun!

If you don't like it play metal gear survive. It's another top ranking game from konami ^^
Anonymous
Konami failed on trying to force players to not use meta decks, how could they not predict this?
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Konami does this on purpose to try to convert non-meta players into buying meta decks. It's sneaky business practice of theirs.
OldtimerOCG
Is the skill drop rate as high as the carnaval event, or? Haven't played a match yet, and if the answer is no, I won't bother with it.
Anonymous
Ahhhhh feels good beating fur hires and spebooks using an ojama deck.

The deck has ties of the brethern and ojama delta hurricane, which helps to get three ojamas on field and destroy everything the opponent has.
Anonymous
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<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
The fat kid is exactly the guy who write half of the comment in this site.
Anonymous
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<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
hahaha perfect meme
Anonymous
I think the rewards aren't very good because Konami wants to encourage players to use non meta deck and just have fun with this event. So it's mostly for players who want to face other players who use their characters' legendary deck. It's roleplaying duels, if you will. But of course some people have no chill and use fur hire deck. I mean if you want to use meta you still can use masked heroes, SSA, amazoness with their respective characters...
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
You are so far from the truth. Have you not played Ranked Duels? lol
<< Anonymous
b0bby Reply
Konami is nerfing gem income, you idiot.
Anonymous
https://www.duellinksmeta.com/news/july-2018/special-duels/

Go here for a more competitive and better site!!!
Non-Meta Decks
So I got stuck at Plat 1 cause I am using a non-meta deck but it really feels so great when you beat a brainless fur hire and amazons with your real legendary deck.

I really hate those meta abusers adding ONLY 2 cards into their meta deck. Come on the best you could get is only 200 gems? Save the meta for Ranked please will you? I guess they are just dumb and can't live without using those OP decks. I literally met players who was using Tea and added Sage's Stone and Dark Magician Girl to their Amazons deck without Dark Magician so basically Sage's Stone is a dead card.

Also special thanks to GameA promoting those "LEGENDARY" Odin, Spellbook and fur hire decks. Anyone with half a brain could figure that out. Honestly I would be happier if the suggested decks are really based on the theme signature cards.
<< Anonymous(Non-Meta Decks)
Xenon Reply
What did you expect? If they(konamy) would have let you choose between their premade loaner decks(according to your used LD+skill) then it would be really fun. I told you, that it will be meta + the BS needed card in it to still play meta. I'm not better, but yeah it's for the 200 gems. o.o
<< Anonymous(Non-Meta Decks)
Anonymous Reply
There is a name for them.. meta slaves. Every pvp they do, they had to use meta, because they are afraid to lose.
<< Anonymous(Non-Meta Decks)
Anonymous Reply
If they want to use amazoness why not use Mai ffs ? ; _ ;
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Git gud, noob! Got KoG using Beaver Warrior Anti Meta.
pghirn
Please someone can make a good ANTI Fur Hire Deck to push that noobs
<< Anonymous(pghirn)
Anonymous Reply
If you just wanna counter those fur hire then, my friend, use hazy flame + effect negater like divine wrath or forbidden chalice. Other than that is floodgate them and the use of monster that can make direct attacks like submarineroid and etc
<< Anonymous(pghirn)
Anonymous Reply
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