New canon ending to EG:DM · 1:11am Feb 24th, 2020
Adagio wins.
With the insistence I embrace Link monsters over on Discord; that means Adagio wins. She would have used Predaplants in the story; the only archetype among any of the main characters up to that point that has Link support. Decks without Links lose to those with them; a notion I've tested numerous times on YGOPRO.
So with that: Adagio wins. She consumes the main cast and countless others and their souls, attains the power of the Dark Games to manifest monsters into the world to act as her unstoppable army with which she subjugates the world and places herself as the undisputed overlord of Earth; an entire planet to rule, an entire world on which to feed. Because Princess Twilight and Sunset weren't meta enough.
There you have it: In this alternate timeline the Rainbooms failed to stop Adagio Dazzle because the publisher of a card game made very bad decisions in design and mechanics she used to her advantage. Sure, she ended up losing both her sisters to get there, but, hey; whole world under her heel. All hail the supreme siren overlord!
But why tho
This is why I prefer fics that use oldschool yugioh
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"With the insistence I embrace Link monsters over on Discord; that means Adagio wins. She would have used Predaplants in the story; the only archetype among any of the main characters up to that point that has Link support. Decks without Links lose to those with them; a notion I've tested numerous times on YGOPRO."
Spells it out right there. Links will always beat non-Links. It's a proven truth. Adagio was the only character so far with a Link-supported deck, therefore she wins.
If you mean why declare this? Simple fact; I hate Link Monsters. They ruined the core mechanics of Yu-Gi-Oh, procrastinating on the genuine progress they made with Arc-V in favoring all of the franchise up to that point where Fusion, Synchro and Xyz were all represented evenly, only to be vice-gripped by the Link mechanic, rendering most older archetypes completely useless, given how almost none of them have their own Link Monsters to call on. Then with Master Rule 5 freeing up the first three, Pendulums still remain under the Link mechanic's thumb, all the while with the previous mechanic's faults; Link monsters are drastically more powerful compared to the other three, so even then non-Link decks will suffer. So it would stand to reason that the only character so far with a Links format-supported deck, Adagio would win each time.
As for "why not just leave out Links"? People elsewhere have been urging me to use them. Eventually there comes a point where I will draw the line in reader/consultant influence. I will accept criticism and advice with open arms when it comes to my work, but telling me to change it into something I am not comfortable with crosses said line. Hate me all you want for canning a work and even slipping in a "rocks fall, everybody dies" scenario, part of the blame needs to go to the people telling me to embrace something I wasn't comfortable with (and maybe Konami, but then again, they deserve so much more blame for so many other things on top of this hubbub.)
Also how does computer sci-fi and Matrix correlate to magic from a different dimension interacting with magic from the human dimension based on the occult and ancient civilizations?
It's a pity that this story had to end, but...yeah, link summons are ridonkulous. I couldn't work with pendulum summons, let alone the new layout and...just no. So I'm... saddened, but I can understand. Thank you, for giving us so much
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My friend is working on an audio series of the same premise, starring the likes of Wubcake, Dawilstanator, aka Thespio, Magpie and such, with some artwork provided by me as well (I left the project a few days back since I got sick of anything involving YGO, but my work is still going to be used), Honestly, I think what I've gleamed from him makes it better than EG:DM in so many ways. I hope that's consolation enough.
This is why writing stories like this is tough. Because the dogshit rules keep changing every year or so. That's why I kept away from Links and will continue to nerf them into the ground if I ever get around to them. Damn shame the story ended like that but hell, had to happen I guess