Farewell for now.
ANNOUNCEMENT: With the release of Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG Speed Duel: Battle City Finals, the initial Speed Duel saga we started a few years ago will be concluding.
While we are including new content (like Noah, Duke, and Tristan), the Speed Duel releases are starting to re-tread a lot of familiar ground, so the product line will be pausing for a rest.
As always, Speed Duel cards are legal for TCG play and there will be continued OP support for Speed Duel so that Duelists can continue to play the format.
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Oh I thought it was getting the full boot and just being discontinued
This is basically the nice way of informing the community “it’s gone but you can still use your cards for the real game”
And the biggest reason to avoid saying it outright: they want to sell the upcoming final box. Who wants to buy a product for a dead game?
Its not a dead game, despite what haters seem to think.
My hope when they get back into printing Speed Duel sets, is that they stop coming up with skills following Yugioh and Yugioh GX characters and start with 5D’s characters.
Maybe in the future they’ll have a rule in the Master Duel format where you can use Skill Cards (probably won’t be tournament legal, but you could use them in casual duels. Maybe with the VRAINS one per deck limitation?)
> My hope when they get back into printing Speed Duel sets
Who’s gonna tell him?
I remember when they executed drafting in broad daylight and shrugged.
Nothing to see here folks! Please disperse! Nothing to see here!
“are starting to re-tread a lot of familiar ground”
We have no idea how to incorporate new game pieces outside the modern-day soft-FTK framework. Please return to your regularly scheduled slop.
u mad bro?
@2024: get shot harder. staged
IT’S SPEEDOVER!
Still as unfunny as ever. It’s Brunover (I wish)
Good riddance
So.
I’m betting my currenty failing liver and galbladder that the reason is incoming release of Rush Duels outside of Japan. Speed Duels covered similar niche as simplified version of YGO and even name is similar.
In any case. How would Konami TCG bring Rush Duels correctly? There is like a 5 year difference between Early Rush Duels and Present Rush Duels.
I feel like Rush Duels won’t have a happy ending with whatever strategy they use.
The only thing I can think of is to bring the DM Decks (nostalgia sells), but there is a power difference between those Decks and other Decks (including the DM’s)
Look. Just because you lost at locals doesnt mean you can drink yourself to the shadow realm. Get some help.
They could bring them over fairly easily, actually. they proved they can with the AE release of the OCG, with a far bigger time gap.
probably just do a dual pack release starting from the new series, like what they are doing in China or like the retro packs of yester year.
that way we have a congruent pack release with the OCG and then a catchup pack to import the iconic/important cards to get the TCG up to about the same power level.
the only issue i see is that this new format for producing the anime makes justifying an idea like this unlikely.
You know I’d be one of the first pack openers if Rush duels to get a proper western release but all signs point towards no, considering they bought over the sim but then never updated it after a while despite the JP version still getting updates. The current TCG environment in the west also doesn’t really facilitate that when kids only play Pokemon and adults would probably just ignore it.
another question is that Would Rush Duel cards sell in the West? As if it won’t sell well why bring it over
Mhm… Is it also include Duel Links packs?!?!?!?
No.
This is for the physical Speed Duel products released in the TCG territories.
If Duel Links declares End of Service, you’ll know.
In other words, the Speed Duel products weren’t selling well.
It was expected, no one was willing to buy again cards they already have only to be able to play another format. People in my locals that enjoyed the format played with their tcg cards despite not having that watermark. It’s much more a gentlemen’s deal so you spend your money wiser elsewhere
not to mention the cycle for making money off. this was just scummy. nobody was going to buy boxes of these more than thrice in a best case scenario, so expecting people to buy it repeatedly to get all of the variant cards was a doomed plan from the beginning.
I’m never a fan of speed duel and never expect it to sell well. I think, this announcement just confirms my point. It basically reverse the whole format back to the DM’s beginning era with only few cards to play with at launch, even with more cards released nowadays, it’s still not a s fun as a real TCG/master duel format. If you want to play a speed duel format, just download the Duel Link and play online.
The physical version of speed did at least provide what DL doesn’t anymore, simple streamlined yugioh. honestly the idea wasn’t bad, just executed in the worst possible way.
if the skills had better balancing, if the pool was a little more diverse, and it just released more frequently, i might have tried it with my friends.
Lot of folks in here that just don’t know what they’re talking about, lmao.
As long as they print me a skill card version of Destiny Board that works the same way it does in Duel Links in the game’s final moments, I’ll be happy.
Of course, I’ll be happier if this is signaling Rush Duel EN.
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Don’t get me wrong, as a football fan, more format means more competitive. I know Konami need your money but this is not the end for speed duel format as duel links still does not shown any declining. Also chance for any player to win tournament that they couldn’t do at regular tournament. Even TCG still don’t import Rush Duel card so there’s still a hope.