TCG: March GENESYS Point Adjustments Teased

Overview

Konami have announced that the next point Adjustments for the new Yu-Gi-Oh! GENESYS format, is scheduled to be announced around Thursday March 5th/Friday March 6th 2026.

Additionally, Konami shared some insight into cards and strategies they're looking at adjusting come next week which you can find below, with our usual card hovers/embeds to make things a bit nicer to read!

What to Expect on the March Points Update

New Cards from Maze of Muertos

There aren't many of these that will be getting points. The most important is Loading... since it makes Loading... ’s 100 point cost almost irrelevant.

Usage Rate Outliers (Decks)

Across the Proto-YCS events, Kewl Tune was by far the most played Deck, with 53 Duelists, not counting the White Forest Decks that used some Kewl Tune cards as an additional engine. That’s twice as many Decks as Exosisters (27), which was the second most played Deck. Following Exosisters were Monarchs (22), White Forest (19), Dracotail (18), Vanquish Soul (17), Radiant Typhoon (16), and Artmage (15).

Despite winning the Dortmund event, Kewl Tune’s overall win rate hovered around 50% for the weekend. Many players commented that once they sat down for real YCS level competition, they found that some of their card choices built up around casual Duels weren’t correct for a 7+ round Swiss tournament against exclusively strong Decks.

Many players regretted choosing Exosisters, and the data bears that out. No Top 8 finishes, 2 total Top 32 finishes between both events, and an overall win rate closer to 40% than 50%. Due to the play rate, they’ve earned some more points, but due to the lack of success, the increases will be far smaller than they would be for even a 50% win rate Deck.

Usage Rate Outliers (Engines)

The prophecy has finally come true, Loading... finally showed up as a popular draw engine in non-Radiant Typhoon Decks. How popular was it? More than 3 times as popular as the Radiant Typhoon Deck itself. This is a big change from the Invitational stage of the rollout where it was almost exclusively in Radiant Typhoon Decks.

The Regenesis cards have spread outside of just Regenesis and Vanquish Soul, and at the same time, the actual Regenesis Deck players have also been asking for a re-balance of their points, like we did for Adventurer and Branded.

Also in this category will be some changes to P.U.N.K. as well as Loading... and Loading... , which now appear as engines across 3 different Decks.

Usage Rate Outliers (Non-Engine)

This is where Loading... and friends will appear. Kewl Tune is really messing with the numbers in this category, since as a Synchro Deck it’s very Tuner-heavy, and the ghost girls are all Tuners, so this gets tricky. But a card like Loading... is definitely creeping up in usage so it’s going to go up in cost (it’s still showing up in less than a quarter of North American Decks, by the way, and even fewer in Europe). At the same time, Loading... has dropped in use (no surprise…) so will decrease a little bit, but not down to where it was before.

The “Standard” Side Deck