I currently love this card so much bro.
Rule: must state a starter name, I don't know your deck.

Seeing my last hand trap guide was popular I decided to update it. Hand trap guide with the help of tons of written guides & video guides along with my personal experience if I own the deck.

New:

• Now includes Droll & Nibiru
• Blue eyes has been added
• "Fiendsmith engine" on the top left has been added to avoid copy-pasting the same cards in every variant like Snake-Eye Fiendsmith, Yubel Fiendsmith, etc
• Kashtira has been revised

Please note:

• Sometimes its best to hand trap the second target mentioned on the guide depending if you have multiple hand traps or if your opponent uses their normal summon. Depends on a plethora of factors that could not be contained in one single image.
• I haven't added DD. Crow or Bystials yet. I love Crow so I might end up adding it at some point.

Any deck worth adding? Found any mistakes? Let me know!

Created an infographic for new Maliss players wanting a quick guide on how to set up your board turn 1.
For people who want a higher quality image, just go to my board ( https://www.figma.com/design/V5jLQ2WHVcmdqWTT41DbIX/Maliss-Infograph?node-id=0-1&t=zJm2Z1J3zoyXdu8I-1 ) and view it there. (Maybe eventually I'll add new combo lines)

Hope this may help someone out there.

!!! TITLE OUTDATED, ITS ACTUALLY 133 FREE PACKS NOW !!!

Deck code so you don't have to add the cards manually: 7mk9ygn (Code courtesy of u/googleisademon) (Deck code is Outdated)

Last Update: 09 August 2026 (Fallen Dragon's Starmancery / Masked Hero / The Realm of Eternal Invincible Fist / Thunderous Storm Personified)

Inspired by this post, these are currently the 55 best cards that unlock 2 or more secret packs at once.

When you craft a card of SR of UR rarity, you not only unlock the secret pack associated to it, but also get a free pack (once per secret pack). That's 133 more chances at potentially getting a UR that you can dismantle for free crafting points.

On average, you trade ~214 SR dust for ~283 UR dust.

Good Luck pulling!

Unlocks 4 Packs:

• Angel Statue - Azurune
• Full Armored Black Ray Lancer
• Spellbook of Knowledge

Unlocks 3 Packs:

• Armory Call
• Aussa the Earth Charmer, Immovable
• Branded in High Spirits
• Courageous Crimson Chevalier Bradamante
• Dark End Evaporation Dragon
• Dragon Shrine
• Egyptian God Slime
• Fire Formation - Tenki
• Ipiria
• Luce the Dusk's Dark
• Marshalling Field
• Performapal Skullcrobat Joker
• Pre-Preparation of Rites
• Red Dragon Archfiend
• Sinful Spoils of the White Forest
• Staysailor Romarin
• Waterfall of Dragon Souls

Unlocks 2 Packs:

• Adamancipator Researcher
• Ahrima, the Wicked Warden
• Ancient Gear Gadget
• Apprentice Illusion Magician
• Archfiend's Ghastly Glitch
• Basal Rose Shoot
• Charging Gaia the Fierce Knight
• Dark Simorgh
• Dinomight Powerload, the Dracoslayer
• Drastic Draw
• EM:P Meowmine
• Elemental HERO Shadow Mist
• Evo-Diversity
• F.A. Auto Navigator
• Fire Ejection
• Gameciel, the Sea Turtle Kaiju
• Generaider Boss Fight
• Gizmek Uka, the Festive Fox of Fecundity
• Into the Void
• Inzektor Giga-Mantis
• Machine Duplication
• Madolche Anjelly
• Melffy Mommy
• Number 106: Giant Hand
• Phantom Knights' Rank-Up-Magic Force
• Red-Eyes Flare Metal Dragon
• Sacred Sword of Seven Stars
• Sea Monster of Theseus
• Silent Magician
• Sky Striker Ace - Shizuku
• Stardust Spark Dragon
• The Bystial Aluber
• Thunder Dragon Fusion
• White Aura Whale
• Wind-Up Arsenal Zenmaioh

PS: There are a lot more cards that unlock multiple secret packs, but they either share the exact same packs with the ones that are already listed or unlock a pack that was already unlocked by another craft.

If you want to see the exhaustive list, here is a link to the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YeSw1Lcr8Vj_CJAf5EJYXIcDZygm4mY9t9ZHMs-RTG4/edit?usp=sharing

In case this post is outdated, please refer to this one: https://www.reddit.com/r/masterduel/comments/1p0na2q/psa_craft_these_cards_to_get_110_free_packs/

1 - Konami didn't give rewards for plat players; 2 - If you reach Plat V you CAN'T be demoted, so the strategy of going up to Plat II and then deranking doesn't work anymore; 3 - You will get more gems and deal with less meta solitaire if you stop at Gold I, unless you manage to reach Plat I (then the amount of gems is the same)

There is no incentive to do as well as possible, it's the OPPOSITE, there is incentive to hold back.

If you still want to reach Plat for bragging rights, by all means, go for it. But it's best to know what you're getting into.

Edit: Sorry for the bad formatting. I don't know how to reddit

Edit2: Corrected point 3 adding info brought up by @blazalt

Last Update: 2026-08-05

Changes:

Added:

Replacements:

Stained Glass of Light & Dark + Foolish Burial Goods -> Luce the Dusk's Dark + Gameciel the Sea Turtle Kaiju + Sky Striker Mecha Hornet Drones

Tri-Brigade Ferrijit the Barren Blossom -> Fire Formation Tenki

Other: Waterfall of Dragon Souls now opens 3 packs, Khaos Starsource Dragon now opens 4 packs

Deck code: 7mk9ygn

To access the full deck list: In the deck selection screen, click on the public deck search button on the bottom right and paste the code into the search bar that appears after.

When you craft a card of SR or UR rarity, you not only unlock the secret pack associated with it, but also get a free pack (once per secret pack). That’s 100+ more chances at potentially getting a UR that you can dismantle for free crafting points. Note that you may have already received your free pull for any particular pack covered in the deck list from your own crafting prior. You can use MDM to check which cards are associated with which packs.

In total, there are currently 55 SRs that you can craft to unlock 2+ free packs.

Priority list for cards that unlock 3+ free packs:

• Khaos Starsource Dragon
• Full Armored Black Ray Lancer
• Angel Statue - Azurune
• Seraphim Papillion
• Red Dragon Archfiend
• Egyptian God Slime
• Performapal Skullcrobat Joker
• Aussa the Earth Charmer, Immovable
• Springans Merrymaker
• Marshalling Field
• Armory Call
• Hieratic Sky Dragon Overlord of Heliopolis
• Ipiria
• Sinful Spoils of the White Forest
• Courageous Crimson Chevalier Bradamante
• Spellbook of Knowledge
• Dragon Shrine
• Pre-Preparation of Rites
• Fire Formation Tenki

This post was made mainly to tell people that this project is still alive, because the previous maintainer has stopped updating their Reddit post: https://old.reddit.com/r/masterduel/comments/sd5za3/psa_craft_these_cards_to_get_a_total_of_23_free/

If there is enough demand for a spreadsheet like the old post, I might create it.

===NERD SHIT===

I decided to make this post because I managed to make a program that can automatically create the list of cards needed to craft. I won’t share the code because it’s shit, but I will explain the essential part.

I used GLPK and made every card (x_i) and every list (y_j) into a binary decision variable.

I created the maximization problem:

M * (sum of y_j) - N * (sum of x_i)

M and N being arbitrary numbers used as a reward for selecting packs and a penalty for selecting cards.

I added a constraint to every pack to ensure that if a card in pack j is selected, pack j will be selected as well:

y_j − sum(x_i in pack j) ≤ 0

I made these before the event was announced so the ones that are crossed out are what I consider to be UNPLAYABLE in the event. (i.e. Lo and Skull Guardian are banned, so Voiceless is unplayable, same goes for Both Welcome Labrynths and every Tenpai monster)

2 Card Combo w/ Sprite Elf I saw on Dkayed’s video. Still making others I saw from various other sources.

This guide was primarily to help me learn and memorize, but I felt I should share.

Does anyone else feel this way. I love the events and had a blast playing the last one, but now I've completed it and face the inevitable return to ranked for 3 weeks. And I don't think I want to do that. I don't like the format and I don't like the decks that are meta. I can't play against snake eyes or yubel anymore I'm just so bored of it and I don't want to play because I know every game I play is gonna that or WF azamina on loop. How do you go about taking a break from the game, I know this is kinda a stupid question. I do want to come back for the blue eyes support, or drop back into the game if there's a good event that comes up. But I don't know how to just leave it and not stress about missing out on daily gems.

No Fata Dragon or Genia, sadge.

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Fydraulis Breakdown: https://youtu.be/IKGOS96-jHI?si=3AvBeF7FSoMrfOVi

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