Summary

Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel’s newest Selection Pack for January 2025 features a pair of powerful cards, commonly seen as some of the best “hand traps” in the card game. The meta for the massively popular digital trading card game has seen major change throughout recent months, withplenty of powerfulYu-Gi-Oharchetypes debuting. December saw the introduction of the “White Forest” cards and new support for “Gimmick Puppet,” while also bringing back several banned cards including “Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon” and “Master Peace the True Dracoslaying King.” Now, the newest pack is bringing some major cards with it.

“Hand trap” cards have become a staple of modernYu-Gi-Ohand many of the cards have been among the most-used cards inYu-Gi-Oh Master Duel. Maxx “C” serves as one of the most notorious hand traps in the game, allowing the user to draw a card every time their opponent Special Summons a Monster. Other popular choices like “Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring” and “PSY-Framegear Gamma” offer powerful forms of interruption, negating an opponent’s card effects from the hand. The newest Selection Pack is now adding two more noteworthy options to the mix.

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Thursday saw the release ofYu-Gi-Oh Master Duel’s newest Selection Pack, with “Dragons' Reincarnation” available for just under two months. The pack introduces the powerful “Mulcharmy” cards to the game, with “Mulcharmy Purulia” and “Mulcharmy Fuwalos” allowing players to draw cards when their opponent Summons from the hand or Extra Deck. The Selection Pack also introduces the “Ashened” archetype toYu-Gi-Oh Master Duel, while adding new support for the popular “Drytron” theme.Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel’s newest Selection Packwill be available until the early morning of March 6.

Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel Adds New Selection Pack, “Mulcharmy” Cards

The “Mulcharmy” cards will likely look to make a major impact on theYu-Gi-Oh Master Duelmeta and heavily affect players' choices when deckbuilding. Mulcharmy Purulia and Mulcharmy Fuwalos have often been compared to the previously mentioned Maxx “C,” which has consistently been placed asMaster Duel’s most-played card. The prominence of Maxx “C” within the game has also led other cards to see spikes in their play rates, including cards like “Called by the Grave” and “Crossout Designator.” Other new cards like “Light & Darkness Dragonlord” will likely see play in pre-existing decks like “Branded.”

Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel’s newest Selection Pack will join several recent shake-ups to the digital card game’s competitive scene.Recent banlist updates forMaster Duelhave seen several powerful cards hit with limitations or removed from the competitive format entirely, including “Pot of Prosperity,” “Fairy Tail - Snow,” and “Dimension Shifter.” The January Selection Pack also released alongside a banlist update, with the dominant “Tenpai Dragon” deck seeing both “Tenpai Dragon Chundra” and “Sangen Summoning” limited to one copy.Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duellooks to be experiencing even more major changes as the game enters 2025.

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