History YMMV / YuGiOhDuelLinks

* WinBackTheCrowd: A lot of old-school Yu-Gi-Oh fans picked up the game not only because it featured the original cast, complete with voice-overs, but also serves as a return to the game's roots for those disenchanted with the regular game's PowerCreep or new summoning methods. Any cards introduced from GX onward are selected so as not to overpower the original generation cards, and power cards from the original game have been excluded (e.g. the strongest instant-kill cards are no more powerful than [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Michizure Michizure]] or [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Yomi_Ship Yomi Ship]]). Thus, cards and strategies that never saw any use before, such as [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Gravity_Axe_-_Grarl Gravity Axe - Grarl]], and even the gained a new lease on life.

** [[http://duellinks.gamea.co/c/snluya1s Relinquished]] became this as soon as it debuted in the Toon World event. Despite being a Ritual Monster that takes plenty of resources to summon, its ability to absorb enemy monsters more than makes up for it, especially since such unconditional monster removal is rare in the metagame. Even though there are ways around it, primarily spell removal, it is an amazing come-back card that also serves as a win condition in itself, and decks built around it have quickly garnered as much hate as Rex and Mako beatdown. It's also very accessible to most players, since it only took a few tries against max level Pegasus to get two copies of his signature monster and its Ritual Spell.

* HeartwarmingMoments: Joey and Mai are quite cordial to each other in contrast to the usual trash talking they and most other duelists invoke towards others. Considering how tumultuous their relationship was in the actual series, it's nice to see that everything worked out in the end.

** [[Relinquished]](http://duellinks.gamea.co/c/snluya1s) became this as soon as it debuted in the Toon World event. Despite being a Ritual Monster that takes plenty of resources to summon, its ability to absorb enemy monsters more than makes up for it, especially since such unconditional monster removal is rare in the metagame. Even though there are ways around it, primarily spell removal, it is an amazing come-back card that also serves as a win condition in itself, and decks built around it have quickly garnered as much hate as Rex and Mako beatdown. It's also very accessible to most players, since it only took a few tries against max level Pegasus to get two copies of his signature monster and its Ritual Spell.

** Relinquished became this as soon as it debuted in the Toon World event. It is the easiest Ritual Monster to summon in the game, as it is Level 1 and thus requires only one Tribute while most require two or more. Also, despite the resources required to summon a monster with 0 ATK and DEF, its effect makes up for it: absorbing an opponent's monster as an Equip Card that allows Relinquished to gain its stats and serves as a meat-shield against one attack. This not only allows it to break even in card advantage, but also provides amazing field control while removing a huge threat, especially since such unconditional monster removal is rare in the metagame. Even absorbing a weak or face-down monster (for no stat gain) can be beneficial because while equipped, the opponent also takes any battle damage its controller incurs. Even though there are ways around it, primarily using spell removal to destroy its Equip and render it completely powerless, it is such an amazing come-back card that also serves as a win condition in itself that it has quickly risen to one of the most hated decks along with Rex and Mako beatdown. It's also very accessible to most players, since it only took a few tries against max level Pegasus to get two copies of his signature monster and its Ritual spell.

** Wonder Balloons is a heavily-desired card in both modes of play, being a continuous spell that lets you discard cards to lower every enemy's attack power by 300 per counter.
** Mako's Level 4 skill sets Umi on the field at the start, letting you use his water cards with ease. Rex's Level 4 skill also works this way, giving his monsters up to 1900 ATK with the field spell boost.

* WinBackTheCrowd: A lot of old-school Yu-Gi-Oh fans picked up the game not only because it featured the original cast, complete with voice-overs, but also serves as a return to the game's roots for those disenchanted with the regular game's PowerCreep or new summoning methods. Any cards introduced from GX onward are selected so as not to overpower the original generation cards, and power cards from the original game have been excluded (e.g. the strongest instant-kill cards are no more powerful than [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Michizure Michizure]] or [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Yomi_Ship Yomi Ship]]). Thus, cards and strategies that never saw any use before, such as [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Gravity_Axe_-_Grarl Gravity Axe - Grarl]], gained a new lease on life.

* WinBackTheCrowd: A lot of old-school Yu-Gi-Oh fans picked up the game not because it featured the original cast, complete with voice-overs, but also serves as a return to the game's roots for those disenchanted with the regular game's PowerCreep or new summoning methods. Any cards introduced from GX onward are selected so as not to overpower the original generation cards, and power cards from the original game have been excluded (e.g. the strongest instant-kill cards are no more powerful than [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Michizure Michizure]] or [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Yomi_Ship Yomi Ship]]). Thus, cards and strategies that never saw any use before, such as [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Gravity_Axe_-_Grarl Gravity Axe - Grarl]], gained a new lease on life.

* WinBackTheCrowd: A lot of old-school YuGiOh fans picked up the game not because it featured the original cast, complete with voice-overs, but also serves as a return to the game's roots for those disenchanted with the regular game's PowerCreep or new summoning methods. Any cards introduced from GX onward are selected so as not to overpower the original generation cards, and power cards from the original game have been excluded (e.g. the strongest instant-kill cards are no more powerful than [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Michizure Michizure]] or [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Yomi_Ship Yomi Ship]]). Thus, cards and strategies that never saw any use before, such as [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Gravity_Axe_-_Grarl Gravity Axe - Grarl]], gained a new lease on life.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: Kaiba's {{Jerkass}} statements when aimed at the little kid NPCs:
-->'''Kaiba''': [[UnsportsmanlikeGloating You're a third-rate duelist with a fourth-rate deck!]]

'''Pegasus:''' Poor Kaiba boy. You let everyone down! I will spare you the agony of carrying on in this world... by imprisoning your soul within a card!\\

'''Pegasus:''' Poor Kaiba boy. You let everyone down! I will spare you the agony of carrying on in this world without him... by imprisoning your soul within a card!\\

'''Pegasus:''' Poor Kaiba boy. You let everyone down! I will spare you the agony of carrying on in this world without him… by imprisoning your soul within a card!\\

* FridgeHorror: Ishizu invokes this in her appearance, berating Kaiba for recreating her Millennium Necklace and Battle City, as that would mean Yami Marik and the misery that followed would also be recreated. One can only hope Duel Links' Yami Marik is an NPC...

* TearJerker: Yugi's lines when you beat him are pretty upsetting, especially if you're Yami Yugi.

** Mako's Level 4 skill sets Umi on the field at the start, letting you use his water cards with ease.

* GameBreaker: Bandit Keith's Switcheroo skill is devastating in single-player duels, as it lets you return a card to the hand, shuffle, and draw a new one, potentially saving yourself from certain defeat or brick hands. It can be used twice per Duel, as well.

-->'''Yugi:''' ... Am I not good enough? Maybe I can't win on my own.

* FridgeBrilliance: Duel Links being created by Kaiba in-universe means that some characters having exaggerated parts of their personalities or quoting famous duels can be how Kaiba sees them.

* GameBreaker: Bandit Keith's Switcheroo skill is devastating in single-player duels, as it lets you return a card to the hand, shuffle, and draw a new one, potentially saving yourself from certain defeat. It can be used twice per Duel, as well.

* FridgeBrilliance: Duel Links being created by Kaia in-universe means that some characters having exaggerated parts of their personalities or quoting famous duels is part of how Kaiba sees them.

* FridgeHorror: Ishizu invokes this in her appearance, berating Kaiba for recreating her Millennium Necklace and Battle City, as that would mean Yami Marik and the misery that followed would also be recreated. One can only hope Yami Marik is an NPC...

* FridgeHorror: Ishizu invokes this in her appearance, berating Kaiba for recreating her Millennium Necklace and Battle City, as that would mean Yami Marik and the misery that followed would also be recreated.
** This goes double for Yugi, as the game's timeframe is ambiguous, meaning the Yami Yugi seen and ineracted with could be a virtual simulacrum and not the real deal.