
by Epulboyz
CardStar Duelist: Every Duel, A LegendThe card shouldn't exist.Hoshinova Corporation just announced the first ★8 cards to the world — white-gold, official, years in the making. Haruto found his three months ago, washed up black and unmarked on the shore of his fishing village, a few weeks after burying his grandfather.He doesn't play because it was his grandfather's game. He isn't chasing some dream Jiji never got to finish. Haruto picked up that old, half-forgotten Warrior deck for one reason: he wanted to find out if this — being a Duelist — was what he'd been looking for. He still isn't sure. But every duel he wins asks the question again, a little louder than before.Now that same deck is all he has walking into the Miyazaki Qualifying Championship — the first rung of a ladder that climbs all the way to the national stage, and beyond, to Duelists the world hasn't even heard of yet. Every duel comes down to a hair's width: a Booster played half a second too late, a card sacrificed at exactly the right moment, Power stacked and countered until someone's Life Points hit zero.Haruto doesn't know why the card found him. He doesn't know what it wants. But somewhere between the wins and the losses, he's started to notice something he didn't expect —he's starting to love this game.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 05:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 05:28 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
Chart history contains only this ranking model's runs; legacy points are not spliced in.
Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
2%
Two or more lists
1%
Likely threshold order: Contemporary → Drama → Mystery → Action → Main.
Leading bundle: Contemporary (1%).
Estimated from one fitted shared story path; category probabilities are not multiplied as if lists were independent.
Separate entry forecast; this probability does not enter the ranking score.
Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank
#3164 of 12,145 · 3114 below RS #50
By genre
beats 43% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 30% of similar stories
Mid-pack, room on both levers
Traffic and conversion both sit mid-field for a story this size. Growth here compounds from consistency: steady cadence feeds traffic, and a sharper hook lifts what each view is worth.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 50–149 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.