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Neil

@neilbefore.me

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Yu-Gi-Oh Community Feed Maintainer he/him Senior Software Engineer Former: Microsoft, CloudCheckr Developer at ygoprog.com

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 06/08/2026

Here's a little bit of what it currently looks like :)

SimOrg Home screen UI

SimOrg Deck Builder UI

Neil @neilbefore.me · 11/07/2026

he's hanging out

Dog with a toy on top of the couch

Neil @neilbefore.me · 26/06/2026

Picked up some new cards for the slop pile. +5 Franchises getting us ever closer to the ideal Magic the Gathering deck.

Several universes beyond cards with a SpongeBob commander deck, sleeved with SpongeBob sleeves

Neil @neilbefore.me · 28/03/2026

Finally got in the intended sleeves for The Slop Pile. Really ties everything together

Neil @neilbefore.me · 06/03/2026

Behold, the worst deck I own. A deck I lovingly refer to as "The Slop Pile". A fully functional Universes Beyond commander deck, organized as all MTG decks should be - by franchise of source material. This is Magic the Gathering as Richard Garfield intended.

Spongebob MTG Card

A chunk of a UB only MTG deck

A second chunk of a UB only MTG deck

The last chunk of a UB only MTG deck

Neil @neilbefore.me · 06/02/2026

waow

dog

Neil @neilbefore.me · 07/01/2026

look at my son

dog

Neil @neilbefore.me · 04/10/2025

they put me on a card

Neil @neilbefore.me · 07/04/2025

There is no other game like Void Stranger.

Neil @neilbefore.me · 12/12/2024

since the snakes are dead, I'm bringing something fun to locals today

Neil @neilbefore.me · 26/11/2024

I love paying life points and saying no

Neil @neilbefore.me · 17/11/2024

I found him a buddy

Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/11/2024

Necroface, I just think this card is very funny and resolving either effect is hilarious

Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/11/2024

Super Starslayer TY-PHON Sky Crisis is one of the cooler recent innovations in the game's design. Incredibly well designed card that can give you just one more option to keep playing!

Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/11/2024

Caius the Shadow Monarch is the greatest of the original monarchs. Incredibly powerful card for its time. Awesome artwork as well.

Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/11/2024

Mirror Force, an incredibly iconic card. In my opinion this card is an important piece of formats like Edison as a mechanism to punish overextension in a way that you can still reasonably play around!

Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/11/2024

Chaos Ruler the Chaotic Magical Dragon. I know he's a criminal and he deserved to be banned. But it's just such a fun card to play.

Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/11/2024

Big Welcome Labrynth is the card that makes Lab an interesting deck to play! It makes it easy to trigger the various effects of Lab cards and lets you dodge interaction or remove one of your opponents cards.

Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/11/2024

Dark Magician of Chaos is an incredibly powerful card with an often game-ending effect. I love both the artwork and the general play pattern involving this card.

Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/11/2024

Magician of Faith is one of the most powerful Flip monsters of the DM era. I just love recycling my power spells!

Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/11/2024

Kurikara Divincarnate - One of my favorite board breakers. It feels great to resolve and your opponent has to play into it, making it a little more interesting than a Lava Golem or a Kaiju.

Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/11/2024

Torrential Tribute, one of the quintessential traps that punishes your opponent for overextending. Incredibly powerful card historically, and still occasionally finds modern formats where it becomes relevant once again.

Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/11/2024

Maybe I'm a sicko for this one, but I have a lot of love for powerful flip effect monsters from the DM/GX era. And none of them are more representative of this than the one and only Fiber Jar. Extremely unique card with beautiful artwork and an absolutely unreasonable effect. But I love it.

Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/11/2024

Return from the Different Dimension is one of my favorite old-school payoffs. Everything from the incredibly strong effect to the artwork referencing tons of other cards from the era just speaks to me!

Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/11/2024

Dark Armed Dragon is THE card I think of when it comes to boss monsters. He's a constant looming threat over the entire game in the decks he was played in historically. This, to me, truly embodies what it is to be a boss monster.

Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/11/2024

Paleozoics are one of the coolest Trap strategies ever printed and I think Paleozoic Dinomischus is the one of the most powerful cards in the engine. Just a super fun way to play if you love grindy games with high interaction!

Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/11/2024

That Grass Looks Greener is unique card that emblematic of an interesting paradox of deckbuilding when it's present at a high rate. Do you go to 60 to counter or run Grass? Or do you play a lower count for higher consistency while leaving yourself vulnerable to Grass?

Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/11/2024

Pacifis, The Phantasm City is the primary enabler for the Phantasm Spiral strategy which provides a significant amount of advantage and powerful effects at the cost of being unable to use effect monsters.

Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/11/2024

Fairy Tail - Luna is the center piece of a unique strategy called Luna Kaiju Control. I think this deck is super interesting and plays on a very unusual axis.

Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/11/2024

This may be a controversial one, but in my opinion, Kashtira Fenrir is a pretty well-designed card that provides a fair but powerful body & interaction when played as non-engine to many decks. I think it's much healthier than a card like Pankratops and it feels fair to play both with and against.

Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/11/2024

Another one of my favorite boss monsters, Rescue-ACE Turbulence. Setting 4 feels great and the games I played in this format felt super interactive and interesting!

Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/11/2024

In general, I do like Swordsoul, but going first it can be a little too linear. The real beauty of the deck comes from the flexibility when going second, and I think the card that represents this ability the most is Tenyi Spirit - Vishuda.

Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/11/2024

Shining Sarcophagus is the centerpiece of it's eponymous strategy. Really fun engine to play with and surprisingly competent with tons of room for non-engine!

Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/11/2024

In case it wasn't obvious, I love using my life points as a resource, so we have to include another one of my favorite boss monsters, Dinomorphia Rexterm. Very strong card in many games, though it's likely very frustrating to sit across from.

Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/11/2024

Psychic End Punisher is one of the big payoffs for both Gold Pride and P.U.N.K.! Sometimes it feels pretty good to just make a giant towers and go in for lethal!

Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/11/2024

Gold Pride - Chariot Carrie lets you bridge the P.U.N.K. engine into another one of my favorite engines, Gold Pride. Awesome theme all around on these cards!

Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/11/2024

It's hard to pick just one P.U.N.K. Monster, but Foxy Tune is the piece that makes the engine work! Incredibly fun engine to play with and beautiful artwork across the board on the entire archetype.

Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/11/2024

Eldlich the Golden Lord is the centerpiece of one of my favorite engines. The recursion and flexibility of the engine makes it one of my all-time favorites.

Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/11/2024

Solemn Judgment is a powerful card that can be relevant in nearly any format while still having meaningful cost.

Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/11/2024

Sacred Fire King Garunix has been the card that single handedly has made playing Snake-Eye fun for me. It's an extremely powerful and incredibly interesting card that provides deep, layered interactions.

Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/11/2024

This does seem like a fun time

Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/11/2024

This poor Goyo Guardian came out a little crimped

Yugioh Card, Goyo Guardian, crimped at the top

Neil @neilbefore.me · 16/11/2024

One has to wonder - how does a locomotive become battlechanted?

Yugioh Card - Dekoichi the Battlechanted Locomotive

Neil @neilbefore.me · 12/11/2024

Hmm, I've never heard of this card before...

Yugioh Card - STON Ultimate Rare First Edition Elemental Hero Air Neos

Neil @neilbefore.me · 26/10/2024

I have the Collector's Rare for Amazing Dragon. Gorgeous card.

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Neil @neilbefore.me · 26/10/2024

I think this is the card I always think of first when it comes to Ghost Rares

Yugioh Card - Ghost Rare First Edition Stardust Dragon

Neil @neilbefore.me · 24/10/2024

doin a little board gaming

Neil @neilbefore.me · 23/10/2024

Oh yeah I don't think I've posted any of my ghost rares

Yugioh Card - Ghost Rare First Edition Rainbow Dragon

Neil @neilbefore.me · 22/10/2024

I won Digimon locals today on Three Musketeers. Super fun deck.

Digimon cards - Three Musketeers alt arts

Neil @neilbefore.me · 21/10/2024

I also have some pretty neat elestrals cards

Elestrals card - Serialized Stellar Full Art Drakking 6/10