Special Duel (Mar 13 - Mar 21, 2017)

update 08/03/2017

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Event details

Event Period	Special Rule
2017/3/13 ~ 2017/3/21	Your skill becomes "Grandpa's Cards"! The skill automatically activates at the beginning of the duel, sealing the five pieces of Exodia in your deck.

*Note: Skill set by the player will not activate and cannot be used.

Rewards by rank

Rank	Reward Gem QTY
Rookie 2, 3	15
Bronze 1	50
Bronze 2, 3, 4, 5	15
Silver 1	50
Gold 1	50
Platinum 1	50
King of Games	50

Note: You will receive those rewards reaching each rank for the first time only.

Exodia cards

Exodia the Forbidden One
Right Arm of the Forbidden One	Left Arm of the Forbidden One
Right Leg of the Forbidden One	Left Leg of the Forbidden One

*Note: Your deck must still contain a minimum of 20 cards excluding the Exodia cards.

Tips

Special duels decks

1) Gather every Exodia parts in your hand.

If one of them is missing, you will not be able to win as you do not fit the criteria of having all of them in your hand. This means that hand destruction and deck destruction cards will be very effective against Exodia-dependent decks. These include cards such as Abyssal Designator, Decayed Commander and Warm Worm.

2) Grab some cards that allow you to conveniently draw more cards from your deck

By drawing more cards, you will boost your chance in gathering all five Exodia parts as quickly as possible. Cards such as Skelengel and Shard of Greed may help to exhaust your deck.

Useful cards for this special duel

Card	Explanation
Amazoness Chain Master	It is able to steal a key exodia part from their hand. This speeds up the process of finishing up your Exodia collection while, at the same time, preventing your opponent from winning the duel with Exodia's effect.
Emissary of the Afterlife	Helps to gather normal Exodia pieces when sent from the field to the graveyard. However, this card can benefit your opponent as they are able to get a normal Exodia part too.
Blue Dragon Summoner	When sent from the field to the graveyard, it helps to get normal Exodia parts from your deck as they are Spellcaster-type monsters.
Legion the Fiend Jester	When sent from the field to the graveyard, it helps to gather normal Exodia parts from your deck as they are normal Spellcaster-type monsters.
Warm Worm	When destroyed on the field, it helps to mill away your opponent's deck 3 cards at a time. If even one Exodia part is not present in your opponent's hand, they cannot win the duel with Exodia the Forbidden One's effect.
Skelengel	Allows you to draw a card when flipped face-up from face-down position, thinning your deck as well as speeding up the process of Exodia parts collection.
Bubonic Vermin	It helps to thin your deck as well as defending yourself from non-piercing attacks, raising the chances of you getting every Exodia parts in your hand as soon as possible.
Thunder Dragon	It helps to thin your deck, raising the chances of you getting every Exodia parts in your hand as soon as possible.
Dark Mimic LV1	It allows you to draw a card when flipped face-up from face-down position, thinning your deck as well as helping you to get Exodia parts more often.
Dark Mimic LV3	It allows you to draw a card when flipped face-up from face-down position, thinning your deck as well as helping you to get Exodia parts more often.
Airknight Parshath	Allows you to draw a card after successfully dealing damage to your opponent. Also helps to thin your deck and raise the probability of you getting your Exodia parts.
Decayed Commander	It is able to force your opponent to discard a random card, possibly an Exodia part, after successfully dealing damage to your opponent.
Shard of Greed	Allows you to draw two cards when it is able to stay on the field for 2 turns. Also helps to speed up your Exodia parts collection as well as thinning your deck.
Abyssal Designator	Helps to get rid of Exodia parts from your opponent's hand or deck by declaring DARK-attribute and Spellcaster-type.
Heart of the Underdog	It is able to thin your deck greatly, which also helps you to get all the necessary Exodia parts as fast as possible.
Exchange	Like the name of this card, it allows you to exchange a card with your opponent. You are able to prevent your opponent from gathering every Exodia parts by removing 1 Exodia part from his hand.
Cup of Ace	Just like Shard of Greed but you are able to draw this turn without delays if you call it right. Very risky as it is able to speed up your opponent's Exodia parts collection if you call it wrong.
Wonder Wand	Allows you to draw two cards when you send this card and the equipped monster to the graveyard. Helps to thin your deck as well as drawing Exodia parts more consistently.
Jar of Greed	It helps to thin out your deck as well as getting more consistent draws.
Terrible Deal	Able to punish your opponent when they use draw-related spell cards. It forces them to discard a random card from their hand which may be an Exodia part.
Secrets of the Gallant	It is able to discard 2 random cards from your opponent's hand when all conditions of this card is met. Very effective card against Exodia-dependent decks.
Dark Coffin	This card is included in this list solely for its first effect. It can discard a random card from your opponent's hand which may be an Exodia part.
Backup Soldier	Great card for retrieving normal Exodia parts from your graveyard. Able to retrieve multiple normal Exodia parts with this one card as long as conditions are met.
Magician's Circle	If your opponent does not use a Magician deck, this card is able to force your opponent to summon Exodia to the field and end up destroying it with your spellcaster-type monster summoned by Magician's Circle. This will prevent your opponent from winning the duel with Exodia the Forbidden One's effect.

List of special duel events

Special Duels
2016/12/26 - 2017/1/2	2017/3/13 - 2017/3/21
2018/7/6 - 2018/7/12	2019/4/15 - 2019/4/25

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HandofHypnos

I have been having good luck with this so far.

Regretful rebirth and Blue Dragon Summoner is a really nice combo. Basically you just want to see the body of Exodia early and you search the parts really quickly.

Blizzed and the mimics are flex spots, I have tried a bunch of other stuff, and so far they do the best.

Feel free to make sugestions for these spots, if there are other good spell casters that im forgeting that would be perfect.

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<< Anonymous(HandofHypnos)

Anonymous Reply

Are people really trying to summon exodia lol This was the fastest trip to k.o.g I've ever had. Just moved up got my gems and back I go to dueling real duelist in ranked matches

<< Anonymous(HandofHypnos)

Ulle Reply

I play a similar Exodia deck, just worked fine so far!

Anonymous

Warm worm will be very fun to use in this event ahahahahahaha

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tgurkan

My anti exodia deck

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<< Anonymous(tgurkan)

Anonymous Reply

Updated:
Removed: Balloons and pendant
Added: Skull lair(Too many relinquished after silver) and extra baou

<< Anonymous(tgurkan)

Anonymous Reply

Worst deck ever

B-Rad

Is "Grandpa's Cards" skill available for dropskill after this special duel? Even though individuals arent trying to use the effect of Exodia, ive won twice with it, and would have done a third if it wasnt for connection failure on my opponents part!
I would love to receive this skill after the special event!!
Konami, please make this skill available after the special duel event!!!!

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<< Anonymous(B-Rad)

Anonymous Reply

No, this is Skill is only for Yugi Muro when he will playable.

I.C

I feel so bad for the people actually trying to summon exodia. I knock em out in like 2 turns lol. Hey I didn't want to be forced to just use a regular beat down deck but since rookie rank I was already getting pummeled by normal decks I wasn't going to keep on loosing trying to summon exodia. The whole event is trash they need to change it so the winning method is getting exodia or something

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<< Anonymous(I.C)

Anonymous Reply

I lost 5 in a row trying to do an exodia summon deck, got sick of it, went back to my regular, made it up to S5 with no issues. Dumb. Should have made exodia the win factor.

<< Anonymous(I.C)

Anonymous Reply

hahahaha, mister I.C, you say that because probably you can't summon exodia, you try and try but you can't do it :P, just relax and have fun son

<< Anonymous(I.C)

Anonymous Reply

I've won both with Exodia deck and beatdown deck. I still think the event is great to show Konami if Exodia is OP or not, so they can release the skill in the future (by the looks of it, it's not gonna be a great deal)

<< Anonymous(I.C)

Anonymous Reply

i agree with the last comment, and if you can see, the deck isn't very OP, you can win or lose against them.. it's funny to play

Climax

I love this Tournament, No field Advantage meaning no more Mako, Rex, and Harpie Decks. Even Relinquished Decks are not that effective.

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<< Anonymous(Climax)

Anonymous Reply

You must have never made it past silver ranked

<< Anonymous(Climax)

Anonymous Reply

relinquished decks are still effective, you've just run up against bad ones. I still use my relinquished deck to great effect. Exodia parts are just tribute summons.

<< Anonymous(Climax)

Anonymous Reply

CLEARLY still in silver lol

<< Anonymous(Climax)

Climax Reply

I am already at Gold 3. Comparing to the Standard Ranked. I find them not much of a Problem.

Clife

So you HAVE to have all exodia parts in your hand and not on the battlefield and hand. This is something that I don't like at all. Guess they definitely should change the wording there

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<< Anonymous(Clife)

Claire Reply

They don't need to change the wording; the effect specifically says "in your hand", and that has always been the win condition from the very first booster set. Only time anyone put the Exodia cards on the field was Yami Yugi in the very first episode of Yu-Gi-Oh.

<< Anonymous(Clife)

Anonymous Reply

This card has been out for decades, the world doesn't bend to your will. Learn to play the cards correctly the way they are instead of 🔥ing

<< Anonymous(Clife)

Anonymous Reply

If the win condition was on the field or hand then that would be way too broken, especially as they add more cards into duel links

<< Anonymous(Clife)

Alozar Reply

*pushes up glasses* Actually in the show the pieces of Exodia are played as soon as all five are pulled, and single pieces were played by both the Rare Hunter who defeated Joey in the beginning of Battle City, as well as by Gozaburo Kaiba in the Virtual World Arc when he summoned EXodia Necross. Just saying. (Might be more)

Jheck

DRAW EXODIA!!!

(Empate = Draw in spanish)

My enemy sacrifices his "Emissary of the Afterlife" and both of them get a part exodia, finishing duel a Draw!

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Jheck

DRAW EXODIA!!!

(Empate = Draw in spanish)

My enemy sacrifices his "Emissary of the Afterlife" and both of them get a part exodia, finishing duel a Draw!

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<< Anonymous(Jheck)

Jheck Reply

Pliz delete its comment for error upload imagen!

Anonymous

literally every opponent I've faced isn't even bothering with the exodia draw. just running regular duel decks. they should have made exodia the winning factor. at least make it challening

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<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Yes, i agree with you. The essence of Special Battle is Exodia Battle. It's about how the player must get all exodia cards quickly. that's the fun factor. i don't know what's on their mind. are they don't know about exodia or they don't understand yu gi oh?

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Yes, i agree with you. The essence of Special Battle is Exodia Battle. It's about how the player must get all exodia cards quickly. that's the fun factor. i don't know what's on their mind. do they know about exodia or do they understand yu gi oh?

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

dunno. but to me, it's just boring. same old same old duels. nothing interesting. and all exodia does is clog up all my KoG and other competitive decks. the gem payout isn't really even worth it

<< Anonymous

Claire Reply

Yeah, even with the 3000 duel assessment for using Exodia's win effect, it's still mediocre, seeing as duel assessment prizes for PvP is always a small amount of keys/gold. Pity.

Muko

so, with everyone wanting to use Draw Power cards Muko is finally being put to good use guys... makes your opponent discard the drawn card when an effect of drawing a card is active xD

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just_blaze

and another one...
3 Magical Merchant
2 Veil of Darkness
2 Backup Soldier
1 Windstorm of Etaqua
1-3 Sphere Kuribo
1-3 Double Barrel Dragon
1-2 Pumpkin Princess
1 Dark Mimic LV1
1 Dark Mimic LV3
1 Emissary of the Afterlife
1 Legion the Fiend Jester
1 Mirror Wall
1 Enemy Controller

if u r missing some of the UR cards just fill them up with Whiptail Crow and Jar of Greed

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Anarchy Reply

Any way to get the head back if magical merchant discards it?

<< Anonymous(just_blaze)

Luxtux Reply

If you merchant the head how do you get it back?

<< Anonymous(just_blaze)

Anonymous Reply

what do you do if merchant puts exodia's head in the graveyard, dang near impossible to get him out at that point

<< Anonymous(just_blaze)

Anonymous Reply

switch Enemy Controller for Pot of Dichomoty to restore Exodia Head card

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