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day-may · 8 months
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Card Thoughts of the Day #2 (08/30/2023) Another metagame destroying entry already? SPYRAL Double Helix, released in the set Circuit Break (CIBR) in 2017, is a Link-2 monster belonging to the World Premiere SPYRAL theme. It allows the user to Special Summon any SPYRAL monster from their deck by successfully calling the type of card on top of your opponent's deck, a gimmick shared by many other SPYRAL monsters, while also being treated as "SPYRAL Super Agent" on the field. Before the release of Double Helix, SPYRAL was considered to be a weak theme. This was primarily because many SPYRAL cards (But mainly SPYRAL Quik-Fix) needed the user to control SPYRAL Super Agent on the field to use their effects, but because the basic Super Agent was limited to either a Normal Summon or a gamble reliant Special Summon, it was difficult to reliably get him on the field. Other monsters were able to take SPYRAL Super Agent as their name, such as "SPYRAL Tough" but they were equally difficult to get on the field. Ironically, many of the most powerful SPYRAL cards later on were released in the first wave of cards (SPYRAL GEAR - Big Red, SPYRAL Quik-Fix, SPYRAL GEAR - Drone), and were seen as having a lot of potential.
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Double Helix, by being an Extra Deck monster treated as "SPYRAL Super Agent," unlocked that potential, becoming notorious for enabling SPYRAL as a strategy that could spam Link monsters easily and quickly by Special Summoning SPYRAL Quik-Fix or SPYRAL Master Plan from your deck to begin a combo, seeing mass adoption in the OCG and TCG metagame for a time. Later on in 2020, it reappeared alongside the newly released Magicians' Souls, a consistency tool allowing the user to send SPYRAL Master Plan from their Deck to the GY, with a further refined Link spam strategy, albeit not as all-encompassing to the metagame as it's 2017 counterpart.
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My thoughts on SPYRAL Double Helix and the SPYRAL theme are complicated. Like a lot of other World Premier themes, the art of SPYRAL is phenomenal. It provides a very clean modern-day aesthetic, clashing (but in a good way) to the more magical or fantastical themes in Yu-Gi-Oh, alongside a small story about a teacher turning on his student and their organization. It's gameplay, however, involves a lot of Soft Once Per Turn abuse and generic link monsters, which does put me off of the strategy as a whole. However, I do hope that with the newly revealed SPYRAL Double Agent, SPYRAL Master Plan makes it off the TCG Banlist so SPYRAL players in the TCG can enjoy their deck to the fullest.
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hajihiko · 3 days
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It runs in the family
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tizzypizza · 3 months
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washed out agent 4
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jomeimei421 · 2 days
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Felt a bit nostalgic watching RT shut down…Here are the og faves again for old times sake 💙
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chio-chan2artbox · 2 months
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Realization hit him hard
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squoobest · 5 days
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THE VERDICT.....
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(link to original poll here <- there it is!)
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pjs-everyday · 1 month
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*immediately loses their cool* lmao 🤓 // linework >> grayscale // ko-fi
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pangur-and-grim · 1 year
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BRO I GOT A FULL REQUEST! HEHHEHEHEHEHHEHEHEHEHEHEHHEHEHEHEHEHHEHEHEHHEHEHEHHEHEHEEHHEHEHEH
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gummywurm-gaming · 1 year
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I love when video game movies just say "you know what eat up you little homos < 3" and give us these
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nephilimbrute · 3 months
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#02 continue
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discopaws · 4 months
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INTRUDER ALERT! CATCH THOSE RABBITS!
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ghosthoodie · 1 year
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SUPER CHUMPS!!!<333
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mepomepo · 6 months
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holyshit litol slugs!!!!!
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gaymer-hag-stan · 25 days
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Of course Lara Croft is more iconic than Mario, Sonic, Link and the rest, you can cry about it all you want in the replies on Twitter but it's the truth.
She's the most successful woman to ever hit video games.
She jump-started the action adventure genre.
She revolutionised 3D gaming.
She inspired tons of imitations and her likeness (dual pistols, long braid, blue tank top + brown pants combo) continues to be applied to various degrees in female characters to this day.
She has stayed relevant across decades.
She was the very first and only video game character to become a pop culture icon and be treated as a celebrity in the 90s, appearing in magazine covers, advertisements for Séat, Lucozade, Visa etc., touring with U2 and having her own publicist.
She has won multiple Guinness awards.
She has been portrayed by two Hollywood-winning actresses.
Her games have been extremely successful, both critically and commercially, and she has outlived her main and only competitor, Nathan Drake.
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Lara Croft IS video games. It's just facts
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daisyssousa · 1 month
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this daisy with this sousa ♡ alien/human hybrids version [vibration manipulation & stopping time]
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starslasher · 4 months
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designs i made for the agent 24 zine magnet contest ^_^
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