Duel Links Meta Snapshot October 2025 Week #3

Published on October 13th, 2025 by
Bismut

Tournament Analysis

Hello! This Tournament Analysis article series aims to summarize the tournament-winning metagame based on data from a weeklong period (for both Speed and Rush formats).

Today's report is based on tournaments held from October 06, 2025 to October 13, 2025

  • Speed Format
  • Rush Format

Performance Metric

Remarks

Another very good week for Blue Eyes. Shinobird is another deck with an incredible performance. The deck is the definition of a going second deck with Loading... as a powerful floodgate, Loading... for free and Loading... /Loading... to clear the board.

Tournaments considered

Format Players 1st 2nd
Meta Weekly #397 SE/No Side 19 Shinobird Blue Eyes
Suisen Weekly #170 SE/No Side 64 Guardian Angel Shinobird
Quantum Dailies #473 SE/No Side 53 Blue Eyes Shaddoll
Quantum Dailies #474 SE/No Side 54 Shaddoll Blue Eyes
Quantum Dailies #475 SE/No Side 54 Shinobird Blue Eyes
JTVCup #4 SE/No Side 34 Blue Eyes Guardian Angel
Starry Cup #63 SE/No Side 70 Shinobird Sky Striker
Sky Striker Cup #62 SE/No Side 55 Blue Eyes Shinobird
Cloudy City Weekly #54 SE/No Side 100 Blue Eyes Blue Eyes
Starry Cup #64 SE/No Side 69 Shaddoll Guardian Angel
Dynasty #32 SE/No Side 73 Shaddoll Shaddoll

Winning Deck Examples

1st Place in Meta Weekly #397 - Sora
1st Place in Suisen Weekly #170 - ラー
1st Place in |Sky Striker Cup #62 - yakamochi
1st Place in Quantum Dailies #474 - madara

Performance Metric

Remarks

The format remains the same for another week. Jointech is a little more powerful now thanks to the buffed skill (from once per duel to twice per duel) but overall, the metagame is very stale.

Tournaments considered

Format Players 1st 2nd
Cloudy City Rush Weekly #37 SE/No Side 36 Jointech Sevens Road
Quantum Rush #82 SE/No Side 27 Jointech Sevens Road
Rush Duel Dynasty #25 SE/No Side 25 Sevens Road Sevens Road

Winning Deck Examples

1st Place in Rush Duel Dynasty #25 - iZirius21
Skill Master Accel Road
29 cards
3 copies
Sevens Road Magician
3 copies
Sevens Road Witch
3 copies
Straynge Witch
3 copies
Mr. Alchemy
Elemental HERO Avian
Elemental HERO Burstinatrix
3 copies
Swordsman of Roadstar
3 copies
Straynge Cat
Pot of Greed
3 copies
Magical Stream
3 copies
Ghost Cyclone
Fusion
Trap Hole
Master of the Sevens Road
2 copies
Sevens Paladin
2 copies
Sevens Road Charmy Witch
Elemental HERO Burst Wingman
Elemental HERO Flame Wingman

Prerequisites

  • A registered Konami ID linked to your master duel game
  • Must login to Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards DB using the same Konami ID
  • If the Yu-Gi-Oh! DB website asks to login with Game Card ID just click "I don't have a game card ID" and fill some basic information to proceed

Export Guide

- Via the MDM extension (Recommended): Download on Firefox, or Chromium Browsers
For Chromium browsers (Chrome/Edge/Opera/Brave...etc) just click "Add to chrome" on the store page and it'll work on most if not all chromium browsers.
After using the extension, go to the Master Duel game => Main menu => Deck option => The Card database option at the top right corner => locate the deck you exported and copy it
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- Manually
  1. Click here to copy the export code
    2.
  2. Go to Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards DB and click My Deck => Add a Deck
  3. Once the deck page loads click Edit then do one of the following based on the platform your device is running:
    • (PC Only): Press F12 to open the DevTools window => Navigate to the Console tab in the window => Paste the export code => Hit Enter
    • OR (Other platforms/PC): In the address bar of the current tab remove the URL and type "javascript:" without the quotations then paste the export code, then if you're on mobile look for the *globe* icon and tap on it to run the code (Chrome only), for PC users just hit enter.
  4. The deck will save automatically
  5. Go to the Master Duel game => Main menu => Deck option => The Card database option at the top right corner => locate the deck you exported and copy it

Click here for a more detailed guide

1st Place in Quantum Rush #82 - soliman

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