The December 2024 TCG banlist goes into effect today, that means a new ranked season is starting on Dueling Nexus, as well as Battle Pass season 7! Here is a full list of the new features coming out with the new TCG banlist:

A Ranked Season reset, featuring the new December 2024 TCG Banlist.

A new Battle Pass, featuring all-new exclusive Avatars, Sleeves, Borders, Frames, and Playmats based on popular archetypes, such as Ashened City, Tenpai, and Ancient Gear, all hand drawn by Muraselune and Wontonie!

A Boutique Refresh, with new Seasonal Items featured for the current season. Additionally, items from Season 4’s Battle Pass and Titles will be added soon!

What Else is New?

New Timer

Stallers begone! We’ve overhauled the Timer to combat stalling and AFKers.
The new Timer will now properly display minutes and seconds remaining. Time gain is now capped at 1.5x the default start timer. This means that the timer will start at 4:00, and increase by no more than 2:00 per turn. Each packet will continue to add 1.5 seconds to the timer.
After 30 seconds of inactivity, the Timer will go into AFK Mode. While in AFK Mode, the timer will drain two times as fast at first, and progressively get faster the longer a player is AFK. The bar’s colour will change from blue to yellow, and the text will also change from white to red to indicate this change.
When the timer reaches 0, the player will be given a Game Loss as normal. The changes should prevent unnatural timer extensions and help speed along malicious opponents trying to wait out their turns.

Event Log Changes

Cards revealed from the Extra Deck by effects of cards like Kashtira Unicorn are now properly logged.
Cards revealed are now be properly logged instead of just saying “A Card” with effects like Pot of Duality.
Texts were updated to fix grammatical issues and use updated PSCT for terms like Banishment.

Server Fixes

We’ve made various updates to our servers, which should result in a smoother user experience! User will no longer experience significant lag or delayed server responses.

New In-Game Chat Emotes

Express yourself like never before! Emotes featuring our other mascot characters: Shiloh, Dimitri, Lorelei, and Petra join Nyx in the in-game chat. Use them to express various emotions, such as sending a GG or to express that you’re Thinking!
Additional emotes featuring Avester will be added soon!

What Comes Next?

We’re still hard at work to provide users with the best possible in-game experience, and are working on a few things:

Manual Ranked Mode

Manual Mode is currently deep in development, and it’s almost ready to see the light of day! Manual mode will feature various changes from our normal Automated gameplay loop, while featuring the same progression system everyone enjoys.
Unranked Manual Mode will feature both Single and Match matchmaking, while Ranked Manual Mode will feature a separate MMR from Automatic Mode and accompanying skill-based matchmaking.
We are going to roll out a Judge Exam and system within our Discord server soon. Judge calls will be fully integrated with our server, and judges will receive exclusive in-game rewards for their services. More information will come soon.

Site Lobby Redesign + Featured Game Modes

We’re planning to improve a lot of aspects from the Site Lobby design! These include a new Duel Zone layout that supports addition functions such as more game matchmaking modes, informational panels about each mode, and more.
In addition to this, we plan to roll out a Featured Game Mode playlist, similar to Master Duel’s Festivals, which are limited time modes with exclusive matchmaking and participation rewards. Planned modes include Retro Formats, OCG, and other popular modes!
These changes will accompany some mobile improvements to the overall user lobby experience.

Streamer Mode

Being added really soon, Streamer Mode is designed to help Streamers and Content Creators!
Enemy names and cosmetics will be censored in order to avoid potential NSFW content. Additionally, the option to mute Chat and mute Spectators is already available.
Do you stream DNX? Consider joining the DNX Partner Program!

Mobile Compatibility Fixes

Currently, the site’s mobile mode is in open Beta. We plan to continue to improve the mobile experience for players on-the-go.
Tablet experiences and experiences to those on foldable devices may not be at its best, and we encourage those users to switch to Desktop mode for improvements.

Challenges

Not to be confused with Achievements, Challenges will feature three modes- Daily Challenges, Weekly Challenges, and Seasonal Challenges.
These challenges will reward players with XP for their Battle Pass, and Credits to use in the Boutique.
These Challenges will be simple, repeatable tasks that should come in normal play.

And more!

Join the Nexus

If you are interested in helping us grow our platform, consider joining our team! We are currently looking to partner with Content Creators to promote our platform! We are in the beginning stages of development a referral system for partners, which allows their watchers and consumers to support them and gain exclusive in-game prizes while doing so!

We are also currently looking for volunteers to help us expand our platform!

If you are a Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Korean, or Thai speaker, we need your help localising our game into your language!
If you are a Graphical Designer, and looking to have your work featured on our platform, we are in need of people who can design game assets, renders, illustrations, and artworks.
If you are an EDM Musician who’d like your music featured in our site, we are looking for audio engineers to contribute to our ever-growing OST, and SFX library.
If you are a Lua programmer, we are looking for Card Scripters to get card updates out even faster for players to enjoy.
If you are a writer, journalist, or editor, we are currently looking for authors to write News Articles, Discussion Posts, and more for our site.

As a final note, PLEASE keep in mind that these features are in active development, and bugs could therefore appear. If you experience any issues with these game changes, please report them to us in our Discord server, under the #open-beta-feedback channel. We would love to hear if you have any suggestions on what you would like to see added to Dueling Nexus!