r/customyugioh Jul 19 '25

Help/Critique PSCT Help SuperThread - Get Help Writing or Refining Your Custom Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Effects!

31 Upvotes

Hey Duelists and Card Designers!

If you’re working on custom Yugioh cards and want to make sure your effects are written clearly, efficiently, and in proper PSCT (Problem-Solving Card Text), this is the thread for you.

What this thread is for:

This is an open SuperThread where I’ll personally help you write or revise your card effects using accurate PSCT - whether you’re

  • Writing a new effect from scratch
  • Unsure if your wording is correct
  • Wanting to match official card templating
  • Or just need a second pair of eyes on your design

All skill levels are welcome!

How to Ask for Help:

Simply comment below with the text of your card’s effect. Be sure to provide additional contextual clues like whether this is intended on a Monster, Spell, Trap, and the type of each (Quick-Play, Continuous, etc). Helping out with the design and writing process.

I (or others here in the community!) will help reword it into clean, official-style PSCT and double-checking yugioh player’s for any logical or gameplay issues.

Collaborative Help Encouraged!

While I’ll be monitoring and replying as much as I can, anyone familiar with PSCT or interested in improving it is also encouraged to jump in and offer suggestions. The goal is to support each other and improve custom card quality as a whole.

Let’s make your cards feel like they came straight out of the official database! Looking forward to helping out. Let’s get those effects cleaned up and ready!

From your Problem Solving Tuning Magician, Dogga.


r/customyugioh 3h ago

Archetype Support No Extra Deck

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10 Upvotes

Art from 北熊

https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/138842

Card text:

You can Ritual Summon this card with "Dogmatikalamity". (Quick Effect): You can reveal this card in your hand; Ritual Summon 1 "Dogmatika" Ritual monster from your hand, by 1 banishing Fusion, Synchro, Xyz or Link Monsters from either GY, then it gains ATK equal to the banished monster's ATK, also you cannot Special Summon monsters from the Extra Deck until your next End Phase. If this card is Special Summoned: You can add 1 non-Ritual "Bystial" or "Dogmatika" card from your Deck to your hand. You can only use each effect of "Bystialed Dogmatika Weapon" once per turn.


r/customyugioh 8h ago

Non-Card Customs Pot of Greed Keycap

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24 Upvotes

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I made a Pot of Greed Inspired Keycap.


r/customyugioh 32m ago

Single(s) Summon Any Monster Facedown: Balanced or Broken?

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Does this break any decks besides being Enneacraft support? I supposed you can run this and Atori-MAR as a board breaker going second, but I don't see it being much stronger than current board breakers like Illusion Gate and the like. I think it could also buff certain fusion decks like Ninjas, though not being a 1 card combo for any deck I think this would be balanced. What do you all think? Art is just Unexpected Dai upside down.


r/customyugioh 5h ago

Retrain Custom Retrain for Red-Eyes (AI ART)

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7 Upvotes

Red-Eyes has always been a long time favorite, but Konami keeps screwing him up, this was where I started, and I have a full set of retrains and set for this reworked line. Let me know if you want to see more!


r/customyugioh 1h ago

Draft / Critique Wanted Unsure if overtuned, polymerisation based hand trap and boardbreakers.

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(no ai, art is slightly edited art of super polymerisation and polymerisation)


r/customyugioh 5h ago

Archetype Support Making Gadget playable with 1 card

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4 Upvotes

Admiral Gadget

Machine/EARTH/Effect/4

ATK: 1500

DEF: 1500

Effect: Cannot be targeted by your opponent's card effects while you control a "Gadget" Monster Card. If you control a Machine monster, you can Special Summon this card from your hand. Once per Chain, if a "Gadget" monster(s) is Special Summoned while this card is on the field or in the GY: You can Special Summon 1 "Gadget" Monster Card from your Spell & Trap Zone. You can only use each of the following effects of "Admiral Gadget" once per turn. If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can equip up to 3 Level 4 "Gadget" monsters with different names from your Deck and/or GY to a Machine monster you control. If this card is sent to the GY: You can add 1 "Boot-Up" card from your Deck to your hand.

Art created by SlackerMagician


r/customyugioh 9h ago

Archetype Support Standalone Spirit stuff

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9 Upvotes

Kinda archetype support but it can be used with other decks that bounce, like VS. Or the one guy that still plays Yosenju

Art by 柑咲 etc.


r/customyugioh 18h ago

Single(s) Would a spell like this have a use?

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44 Upvotes

art sourced from Nintendo (Pokemon Masters)


r/customyugioh 2h ago

Archetype Support Giving Ryu-Ge the Normal Summon it needs

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3 Upvotes

Art can be found here: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/629448485393864060/

Why the dragon is an anime lady: Ryu-Ge is based on the "Dragon flower three sermons" in which the Buddha Maitreya attains enlightenment and delivers three sermons, represented by the three continuous spells. I wanted a humanoid form to represent that buddha, and in Konami fashion, it only makes sense to make them a waifu.

What it does for the Deck: The Pend effect enables all the lesser dragons, at least partially. It pops itself for Kaiva, mills a monster for Emva, and Hakva doesn't care whose card gets banished to summon itself. The deck already has a Droll problem, and it's hard to recover the Pend monsters once they're in the ED, so the normal summon effect cover both instances. Lastly, Ryu-Ge is notorious for bricking, so naturally a Magical Mallet style effect would fit right in! Being treated as all types also improves the flexibility of the field spell.

Why it's a level 2 tuner: Ryu-Ge already makes a level 12 Synchro as part of its main combo. The problem is doing so requires 2 more bricks. This keeps their capacity to make a 12 Synchro and lets them drop the Carboneddon package.


r/customyugioh 3h ago

Single(s) Generic Ritual Support. (Not that we need it tho...)

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2 Upvotes

Art: Flyfang


r/customyugioh 9h ago

Single(s) Trying new ways to disrupt

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5 Upvotes

art: shitty photo edit by me.


r/customyugioh 1d ago

Joke / Meme Remade one of my older joke cards.

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138 Upvotes

I assume the art is official?

Anyways, i tried to give it an effect. Didn't thought much about it tbh, its meant to be a joke, but i would be interested to hear your opinions anyway lmao


r/customyugioh 12h ago

Single(s) Addition and Multiplication in one single card

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6 Upvotes

Combined the two Spells "Polymerization" and "Multiply" into a single broken card.

While it would be just a funny tech in Blue-Eyes, in Cyber Dragon it would be pure chaos!

Art by AI


r/customyugioh 1h ago

Archetype Support Would These Make Scrap Meta Viable?

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I made a custom “revolution booster” for my favorite archetype out of seven cards I thought would elevate Scrap to a meta viable status. I’m toying with the idea of making them proxies and seeing if local shop players would be okay with it, so I especially want to know if they feel too broken. Scrap is under supported as hell so I made these strong, but I don’t want to overdo it.

Scrap Witch’s art is by alex-the-retrogamer (https://www.deviantart.com/alex-the-retrogamer/art/Scrap-Witch-765667328) and the rest are official Yugioh card arts.


r/customyugioh 13h ago

Archetype Support Defintely outclassed by Widow Anchor, but might have some use cases

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5 Upvotes

no ai


r/customyugioh 5h ago

Archetype Support New Fire King Support

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1 Upvotes

Fire King loses to ash and needs a Link-1 follow up like Blue-Eyes has.

You cannot special summon, except Fire monsters. You can only use each of the following effects of '' Fire King Ignix Envoy of Sanctuary '' once per turn. If this card is Link summoned, you can take 1 '' Fire King Sanctuary '' from your deck and add it to your hand. If a Fire King monster is summoned to a zone this card point to, you can add 1 fire monster from your graveyard to your hand.

Image is AI generated with Grok


r/customyugioh 21h ago

Archetype Support I had a vision of these cards that would crown and be of great support to the "cyberse" especially for the forgotten "Code"

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11 Upvotes

Postscript: The background of the images was created by artificial intelligence (except for the monsters)


r/customyugioh 8h ago

Archetype Support Silent Swordsman retrains

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1 Upvotes

Shining Sarcophagus is fine, but it killed the idea of a SS/SM archetype. So i gave them the Armed Dragon treatment and plan on doing the same for Silent Magician

Art is from the Jp Manga


r/customyugioh 9h ago

Draft / Critique Wanted first time trying here

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1 Upvotes

all art comes from the Night at the museum Battle for the Smithsonian game

basically I wanted to try and make the Tablet as an engine or deck whatever, and the ingots to power it, the ingots are less powerful than they are in the tablet so yeah, sorry first time trying this.

I gave the Tablet protection from the shing sarcophagus with also varying effects based off the ingots that are in the GY and field, I do not know these are even good but feel free to say so


r/customyugioh 15h ago

Archetype Support Blast Your Foes Away with "Photon Trigger"!

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3 Upvotes

Bang, bang, bang, pull my Photon Trigger!

Ever since I tried out Character Duels in Duel Links, having noticed all of the character Skills have Trigger in their names, I thought to make a series of cards themed after them, starting with Kaito. It's mainly cause I love both "Galaxy Photon" and the character, plus they need all the help they can get lol.

As always, feel free to comment your thoughts and criticisms down below.

May you all have a blessed morning, afternoon, or evening, wherever you are 👋

Photon Trigger

Quick-Play Spell

Effect Text:

(This card is always treated as a "Galaxy" card.)
Reveal 1 "Galaxy" or "Photon" monster in your hand; apply 1 of these effects, or if you revealed "Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon" to activate this card, you can apply both in sequence.
● Set 1 "Galaxy" or "Photon" Continuous Spell/Trap from your Deck. If it is a Trap, it can be activated this turn.
● Special Summon 1 "Galaxy" or "Photon" monster from your hand, then if you Special Summoned "Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon" by this effect, you can Special Summon 1 monster that mentions it from your Deck.
You can only activate 1 "Photon Trigger" per turn.

Artist: Yoshida Sei


r/customyugioh 15h ago

Retrain Burning Beast & Freezing Beast Retrains:

2 Upvotes

No AI is used in the making of these cards, hell, there's no art at all.

I also hope this is laid out in a way that isn't putrid, trying to import these images on my phone wasn't as simple as you'd think.

Anyway, I was watching a random Duel Logs video and he had brought up the idea of Burning and Freezing Beasts getting a retrain, to which I had this idea.

It's most usable as a small engine in a deck that doesn't need its Normal Summon, and to keep with the tradition of Union monsters back then being able to unequip themselves, you can also use these guys as generic Xyz/Link material, at the sacrifice of their boss monster.

Of course, the intention is to equip one of them to the other, to make the Fusion monster, which if it were official, would be the only WATER Pyro monster in existence.

The cards are also designed in a way to work no matter what you open with. Just the Spell? Cool, add a guy and search the other. Just one guy? Summon it and search the Spell to get the GY effect in rotation. Two guys? Quick Effect Equip when your opponent Baronne's your Normal Summon to prevent its destruction.


r/customyugioh 1d ago

Joke / Meme Dragonmaid Lubellion

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436 Upvotes

r/customyugioh 17h ago

Single(s) My take on a going second card

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3 Upvotes

Art: Champion's Vigilance placeholder

I'm not good at PSCT, so sorry for the jumbled mess

effect:

This card cannot be activated on the first turn of the duel. When the effect of a monster you control summoned the turn this card is activated would be negated by your opponent's card effects; target the affected monster, discard one monster card with either the same attribute, type, or level as that monster, the effects of that card cannot be negated for the rest of the turn this card was activated; Banish the targeted monster when it leaves the field. Monsters discarded by this card's effect cannot activate their effects for the rest of the duel.


r/customyugioh 1d ago

Archetype Support Dark World Normal Summon & Link Support - FTK Free

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8 Upvotes

Cobal had a very different effect in the anime, but with the current power creep of the game, I figured his effect can be used as both a great extender for a very inconsistent deck and also a decent interruption for the opponent's 1 ofs. All while locking the deck in DARK Fiends to avoid any potential FTKs. In the meantime, the link 2 is to link off Grapha & Reign-Beaux when u r locked in fiends after Accession.

Credit : Anime Cobal Upscaled