Merry X'mas 2008!

Hey guys, its that time of the year again, so a big merry christmas to all! 5 more days to 2009, and the end of school hols to most of the readers who are students. Cool stuff coming up in 2009 with the newest packs and all, Kino has the Vjump obelisk all sold out and lots of weekly jump with Black magician to spare! (Which idiot did not expect that?)

Anywayz, loads of new cards seem to be coming up in January and Febuary so yup, lets keep this place up and thanks to all the readers who are too free and actually visit the blog on Christmas! LOL!

Merry Christmas...

... To those who visits the blog!

Lack of update recently but well there are no new stuff and I am playing less now due to work + World of Warcraft lol.

Hopefully the blog will still be alive for another year =)

Merry Christmas to all once again!

Dark Legends

So I bought a Dark Legends set today out of fun. I didn't know what is inside and I just bought for the sake of the Gorz anyways.

I did not know what is the cards inside, except for those on the cover obviously. I opened the first pack and was disappointed to find that there are no foils in every pack. Yeah for 40 dollars, I was hoping to get at least 1 foil in every pack and I got a rare Gate Guardian.... And I was like

"If the other pack no foil also then die ahhhhh wtf!!!!"

But the surprise came in the next pack.


"I realise my phone camera sux"

You will see "oh nice, Destiny Draw..." But if you look at the card list, you will realise the first 7 cards (Relinquished to Blue Eyes) are foils lol! I thought there might be an error in packaging and my Gate Guardian pack was an error and Stupidly enough I went to buy another set. I get Blue Eyes Super rare only, cb!

And that is the story of how Bahamut get 7 foils in ONE pack.

True Story.

Side Story: Steven bought 2 sets and got 3 Solemn o_O

Tag Force 3

Yeah old news. But hmm, is it just me or they improved the OPPONENT AI and nerfed my partner's AI. I swear if I could strangle Judai I would, or I could just strangle Colin. Whatever =/

I got hit by mirror force all the time!

Yeah I had some losses here and there, but hey those who got perfect win all the way are obviously cheaters lol. There are times when AI do crazy stuff and you dunno wtf just happened. I got Gift Card-ed twice and died while simochi was on the field. Bitch Nurse.

- LOL@ Dark Armed and Allure as common.
- Do not pick Asuka! Her hand is full of blues and she is a burden! I'm amazed I actually completed with her! If it wasn't for Darkness I wouldn't have bothered.
- Darkness as partner is pro o.o
- Not so pro when he summon red eyes Darkness metal, 2 dark horus and early burial a spear dragon and use a stomping crush on a freaking Valhalla and run into mirror force!!! orz

Oh it gets worse. It was the final tournament and I was like dying liao! stupid CB destiny draw a Premature Burial and he just had to fuck that up! Sometimes the computer do crazy stunt, but they are always against you!

Oh yes I'm playing some sort of "Hopeless Dragon" deck. Hey it's fun when there is 3 allure, with mobc and premature and reborn and disk guy and everything that's crazy.

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Ok I should take a break from TF3. Once you get beast synchro deck suddenly the game loses its kick.

Deformer makes Top 32!

Well, top 32 in Kansai Region that is. As I would expect though, its filled with alot more traps then I would like, though that would probably the best way to play the deformer deck. Some control in the deck, and the deformer slow field building strategy works pretty well. Interested to read more? Check out the decklist below

http://shriek.twoday.net/stories/5353297/

[Part 2] Dark Dive 1 Kill

LoL at Dian zhang =/

Thank god Advanced Ritual is R to 1 lol.

Duelist Box

I got 2 box.

No sense in getting 3 since if you were to play a Stardust Dragon/Buster deck you wouldn't put 3 in the deck either. It will have the same feeling as drawing 3 Diabolic....

So anyway I opened the boosters first, as usual I would think all these booster that are packed into these special packaging usually will have foils, crappy ones. But holy shit I was wrong lol. So out of 6 packs, I got a foil from each set...

TDGS - Bolt Hedgehog (T_T)
CRCS - Death Kaiser Dragon/Buster (orz)
CSOC - Black Rose Dragon HOLO OMG OMG!!! \o/ \o/ \o/

Would be nicer if I got a Stardust Holo but I guess I shouldn't ask so much, less complain!

Time for some Stardust Buster deck!!!

Btw on the DVD.....

GOD DAMN NICE!!!!!!!

For the purpose of making it spoiler free, lets just say most of the cards used inside are from Crimson Crisis. And it's mostly a see-saw of Red Demon VS Stardust with lots of Trap activation here and there. And at one point, the picture below happened.


Stupid pics for entertainment purposes.


And nice pic of Aki!! She is actually smiling o.o

New banner for celebration!

CDL Duel Kingdom Pt 2

Alright guys, after Baha's challenge finally my turn to do the challenge. Went down last Sunday to play, mainly cause I just wanted to try my new deck, Deformers! And how did it turn out? Well, take a look!

Deck Used: Deformer Direct Deck (DDD!)

Round 1 - GB Deck (James) XX
Ugh, could not control at all, my hand was filled with small monsters, I did not draw my defensive traps, and his version had the GB fish that can kill off my defense mode Bodon, mobilephone kept summoning nothing out, add in a few chariot looping, zzz...

Round 2 - Cosmos Deck (Jess) OXO
Finally drew abit better, Jess got pretty shocked at the deck. He could not do anything about the Bodon and Radio when they were in defense mode except to waste monster removal on them. I even had D-Cord on the field, used it to destroy his defense traps and he went huh? After he ran out (Earth smash, fissure, mercenary troops), used deformer bodon, deformer field, and gadet driver to lock him down. Even a 100atk calculator had 2100 attack, LOL, my radio and radio cassette were even bigger

Round 3 - Undead Synchro (Ding Jun) XOO
First round got rushed. 2nd round I managed to lock down using 2 gadget drivers and 1 curse of anubis, so he just kept eating direct attacks. Had no deformer field or they would have gotten PRETTY big. 3rd round managed an OTK with Deformer Field + Radio + Bodon + Unity + limit break. My hand had nothing left but 2 gadget drivers, so figured if he mirror forced, I could just turn defense mode and slowly keep poking. In the end he had thunderbreak but had decided not to use it to control me the next turn. Oh well, LOL. I attacked too slowly the 2nd round so he did not expect a sudden rush

Round 4 - Plant Synchro (Yi Siang) XOX
1st round did a mistake, I had bodon and radio cassette and limit break while he had a brionac I believe. Could have direct attacked with radio cassette for win as he had only 4700lp left, but I forgot to ask and ended turn since I had no gadget driver or curse of anubis. Next turn he called out red daemon, cleared the defense monsters and you know the rest. 2nd round managed to rush him, I had 5 counters on deformer field thanks to curse of anubis and gadget driver. 3rd round got 2 DAD and 1 brionac. Hey, so whats new?

All in all, not bad, if not for the mistake I would have won 3 out of 4 rounds. Score not enough to get to finals, but hey, deformers could have won 3 out of 4, and I was not done testing the deck some more. Anywayz, here are a few basic combo pieces of the deck to move your brain cells

Deformer field + Gadget driver/curse of anubis + Bodon
If bodon is on the field, gadget driver is enough to make a wall filled with defenses, since almost all my monsters are deformers. Just loop a direct attack, use gadget driver to turn all to defense, next turn turn back to attack mode and direct attack, rinse and repeat. With deformer field, and the usual 2-3 deformers on the field, you can easily get 4 counters on deformer field in a single turn. 1200 attack to 3 deformers that can direct attack? Extra 3600 dmg, cool stuff

Standard opening move - Defense mode bodon/radio. Next turn use deformer field summon mobilephone, get a radio out, all direct attack, 1600 + 1200 + 2100 = 4900atk, cool stuff. Use a gadget driver during opponent turn, next turn repeat again, 2 turn kill, hey.

Anyway, thats it for this deck for the moment. If I have the time, may go down for another CDL after tuning up the deformer deck. And then again, maybe not. Oh well, we shall see how it goes. Till then, tah tah

Crimson crisis ~ The True crisis??

Alright, I bought it last saturday, just got 1 box for myself to save trouble on finding any cards since I have less time to play nowadays. Here are my box foils!


3D Death Kaiser Dragon/Buster - My first foil, I see then like eh???
Arcanite Magician/Buster
Hyper Psycho Gunner/Buster
Silver Barrier Silver Force
Dark Dive Bomber
Giant Battleship Big Core MKII
Psycho Sword
Super Natural Healing - Why no dimensional fortress weapon, nuu~ Someone sell me 3...


Why the true crisis? Well, when I looked at my foils, the 3 ultras were heh? Then my 3 foils also mainly only dark dive bomber was good. But after looking at the final rarity list, hey, I dont know what other good foils are there anyway. Kinda makes me regret getting a box, but, if I bought 30 packs and only got commons/rares I would be pretty pissed too, so....

Anyway, still a few notable cards in the pack, but as mentioned, all normal/rare stuff, so...

Turret Warrior
- Makes for nice big warriors on the field with the right deck. Prob wont see much play though

Debris Dragon
- Junk synchro combi play with tuning supporter part 2? Have not seen a successful deck creation on that deck though. Other then that.... Nah... 500atk? Not much stuff.

Trap Eater
- Cool card, will find its way into my side deck, and probably a few others as well

Twin Breaker
- Quite an imbal warrior actually. Mini cyber twin with extra effect plus its a 4star warrior. Benkai deck return, anyone?

Black feather series
- Effects quite cool, anyone who saw the right episode of 5DS will know what I mean, so its nice that no change to the anime effect, but still not enough stuff. Looks like the harpy deck of original YGO series to me... The "looks nice, but never will see competition play cause not enough support cards" Even fun deck also too hard to build, and will need to splash alot of random cards in till it looks weird

Reactor series
- Similar thoughts as black feather series... Sad....

Buster mode series
- Sounds like black paladin, looks cool, but see competition play? Nah.....

Black bomber
- Comes with dimensional fortress weapon in the set people, get it now! With COSR, summon this, draw free card, and get synchro summon of DDB, so technically, you get a free DDB for cost of a normal summon, pretty good deal IMO.

Life Coordinator
- Nice kuribo side deck against burn decks, plus it destroys as well. Good for those big store few turns 1 shot burn a few k cards, no?

Gladial Beast Samnite
- Who cares about first effect, its rescue cat playable! So its rescue cat summon, call out 2 of these, sp summon 2 whatever, contact fusion, blah blah bleh

Dimensional Fortress Weapon
- Interesting method to slow down those DAD and lightlord decks, no?

Cross Sword Hunter
- Quite a strong card, but dont think Insect decks are gonna go up anytime soon

Dark Dive Bomber
- After all the promotional ads by Baha, need I say more?

Star Blast
- Strong card for high level decks. Lets you use for both as cost down, or to control synchro level, not bad?

Psycho Sword
- Calvin will play this card. Quite strong IMO, solves the psychic monsters are small issue. 3.2k attack Clevonce anyone?

Telekinesis Collector
- Anyone seen Calvin's jumper anyone? LOL Another cool card for him. Calvin, throw away the Aport lah. Too situational already, heh

Gladial Beast's Primal Strength
- Splashable just to play 1 copy, to put all those beastari, or 1 copy of the fish you guys play

Triangle Area
- Cool stuff. Destroy opponent 1 card, summon 1 of your own. 2 for 1? Gotta play an Alien deck though...

Ivy Shackle
- This is nice for the plant decks. No need for DNA surgery, plus when this card goes you draw a card. Not bad. Only limited to during your turn, but hey, as long as you dont play the insect barrier crap....

Thorn Wall
- Mirror wall for plant decks? Throw away those reactive armors!

Planetary Polluting Virus
- Raigeki for Alien decks with free alien counters, not bad I would say. Combiine this with Alien Revenger!


And now, the question everyone is asking, where are the deformer cards? Well, time to do a special on them! Well, at least the stronger cards in this set. And here they are!

Deformer Bodon
- This card will turn out to be the key card of all deformer deck wannabes. Just change this to defense mode, and everything on your field cant die of battle. Turn to attack mode, and suddenly all your cards have a "This card can directly attack opponent" effect. Have a Deformer Radio on the field? Opponent takes 3100 direct attack dmg. Also have another deformer radio cassette on the field? Opponent takes 7100 direct attack dmg now! So yes, this card is pretty strong, and is the main morale that will let you guys see me with a deformer deck the next time

Deformer Pacchin
- Use with Deformer mobilphone for free card destruction. Just mobilephone effect get this card, sac mobilephone away, and hey, free destruction effect. I will prob splash 1 of this in my deck over the deformer clock.

Deformer Field
- Another very good card for deformers. Use with enemy controllers for quick counter gaining on the field. Gadget driver is cool too, but only adds 1 counter to it no matter how many deformers change mode, please note. If the opponent tries to do a, declare attack, then cyclone to make your cards smaller, just summon Deformer Bodon/Radio! Note: Like Gear City, this card works with magical silk hats too

Situation 1. You declare attack, opp uses cyclone on the field
- Summon Deformer Radio, attack still goes back up by 800 for all deformers

Situation 2. Opp declare attack, opp use cyclone on the field
- Deformer Radio is also good, but if not big enough, just put a Bodon in defense, eat abit of damage and get on with life

Deformer Barrier
- Final deformer card which I think is not bad. Any M/T that destroys deformers, negate and search out a deformer, so thats a free negation effect. Good against those mirror force when you plan to do that mass direct attack

And that ends my special on Deformers! Woohoo, gonna start building the deformer deck probably this evening, cool stuff

Crimson Crisis useful cards

11/11 - Updated with Booster pulls!

Plenty of good cards for this set compared to Crossroad which was filled with mostly plants and more plants. I can safely say the only super awesome card are Carrier and Black Rose, the rest are just either fairly average or crap.

Moving on! These are the cards that I feel can be useful is some ways. People may disagree but whatever.

Turret Warrior
- This is actually pretty good since it is a special summon. You can do weird stuff like summon Zero, and then release it for this. Clear field plus a slap in the face for 3700 lol =D

Trap Eater
- This is really really awesome. Eating Skill Drain, Oppression, both Magic Mirrors, Decree, Anti Sac Mask, Anti Spell Fragrance and shit like that followed by rewarding yourself with a 1900 4 star tuner!

Twin Breaker
- This is actually quite decent as well. It can attack twice, it can trample, it is dark and most importantly, it is a warrior! Yay for 3 reinforcements. I think it just passed with flying colors. If there are people still playing rush decks, this is good stuff.

Trap Reactor RR
- Not many people cover tons of traps unless they are playing GB, metabeat, or skill drain decks. Summoning this little thing before doing your crazy Synchro Stunts can ensure that OTK!

Black Bomber
- Another easy mode summoning of DDB. And continuous abuse with Dark Burst can lead to some major damage.

Gladiator Beast Samnite
- Another super addition to GB. The previous problem where GB can't find its chariot is now solved. Can be summoned by Rescue Cat, going into Samnite + Slave Tiger and then using Tiger effect and woosh attack for chariot! And things like that. Thank god OCG doesn't have Retiari.

Dimensional Fortress Weapon
- Lightlords just died a little lol. Prevents Foolish Burial and Knight of the End too!

Alien Revenger + Alien Monite
- These 2 are just good! One is a fake cyber Dragon and it sprays A counter all over the field and the other is a Junk Synchron on hyper mode.

Dark Dive Bomber
- And you thought Brionac was gay. Meet it's new best buddy! The next metagame defining card. People will shift and make their deck into something that will burn people like crazy or try and block like crazy. Usually the Burn wins though.

Arcanite Magician
- Another good Synchro. Free shot at the field and it can use counters from other place. *Cough*Endymion*Cough*

Star Blast
- A much better Cost Down.

Telekinesis Collector
- Crazy Psychic monster rush with Power Injectors? lol

Nightmare Demons
- You can go somewhere like summon a Torch Golem, then release the token, and then stealing them all back with Brainwash Cancel! yeah that would be fun =/

Thorn Wall
- Mirror Force is a welcome addition even though Stardust just make it look bad.

And there we go, quite alot of useful cards overall. For the serious competitors, welcome back to Crossroad where you are only looking for Dark Dive Bomber. It's kinda hard to get since it is only a Super Rare. Yes those people who buy only few packs and got their Dark Dive can go show it off somewhere else.

Wait! Where did the Busters go!

No I did not list them there since they are all too situational to make into a pure Buster Deck. Buster Mode and Buster Beast are the only 2 cards you want to play the deck. Yeah it's weird to put a nice Red Dragon pic and not have it in the review at all lol.

What about Black Feathers!

They are ok, but too little cards to make it work at the moment.

Deformers?

No thanks.

Booster Pulls

[1] Red Demons Dragon/Buster HR
[1] Red Demons Dragon/Buster UTR
[3] Red Demons Dragon/ Buster UR
[2] Arcanite Magician/Buster UR
[2] Deathkaiser Dragon/Buster UR
[1] Hyper Psycho Gunner/Buster UR
[1] BF Armored Wing UR

[3] Silver Barrier Silver Force
[3] Arcanite Magician
[2] Hyper Psycho Gunner
[ONE] Dark Dive Bomber <---- WTFBBQ!
[1] Giant Battleship Big Core MKII
[2] Turret Warrior
[1] Space Fortress Golgar

Yeah after like 6-7 boxes, I've opened 2 HR Red Dragon and only ONE got frigging damn Dark Dive bomber??

Dark Dive 1 kill

Summon priest -> summon priest -> Rescue Cat -> 2 Airbellun -> 2 DDB

Directo attack! DDB shoot shoot.

2600 2600 1400 1400 = 8000

Yeah welcome the new meta where you will die when you try to be cool and end turn when you have no Gorz/Necro Guardna/Anything significant to play. or you can just cold wave =D

Too many scenarios to illustrate how you will die in one turn.

[Deck]Plant 1 kill

Here we are with the lack of new decks at the moment. Maybe it's because Undead Synchro is owning everything else, or maybe Crimson Crisis is just around the corner. So here is something that is different but with the concept that everyone is familiar with. Btw, I swear Brionac is so godly strong.

Monster = 17

[3] Camellia Titanial
[1] Gigaplant
[3] Thunder Dragon
[3] Lord Poison
[3] Weed
[3] Lonefire Blossom
[1] Sangan

Magic = 22

[1] Monster Reborn
[1] Heavy Storm
[1] Hurricane
[1] Card Destruction
[2] Hand Severing
[2] Pot of Avarice
[2] Magical Stone Excavation
[3] Arms Hole
[1] Mark of Rose
[2] Card of Safe Return
[3] Grass Fertilizer
[3] Symbol of Heritage

Trap = 2

[1] Mirror Force
[1] Torrential Tribute

Symbol of wha...?



Yeah you guys are probably wondering what the hell is that.

Symbol of Heritage
Equip Magic
You can only activate this card while there are 3 monster cards with the same name in your Graveyard. Select 1 of those monsters. Special Summon it to your side of the field, and equip it with this card. When this card is destroyed, destroy the equipped monster.

Say hi to your new Premature Burial. It can be easily used with the Lonefire Blossoms that practically send copies of themselves usually ending with Gigaplant for more Special Summoning next turn.

And we are all familiar with the Brionac combo. Symbol grabs Lonefire, Brionac bounces Symbol. Lonefire grabs Something big such as Titanial or you can even go Lord Poison + Weed for Goyou. Grass Fertiliser does the same thing so no further explanation required. Combined with Card of Safe Return. Whoope!

The only sad thing is, a DD crow and the deck is about dead since all your Symbols just turned into crap. It was fun while it lasted.

Next Article: DD1Kill! (Hint: It's not Different Dimension!)

Absolute Zero: Absolutely Strong!?

Yes I cannot believe I have an article on any E Heroes besides Airman. No offense intended.


8 Star
Warrior/Water
2500/2000
[Hero] Named Monster + Water Type Monster
This card cannot be special summoned except by Fusion Summon.
The attack power of this card is increased x 500 for each face up Water Type Monster on the field Except [E.Hero Absolute Zero].
When this card leaves the field, destroy all monster on opponent's field.

This card is like super easy to summon? One HERO + Water Type monster. Elemental, Destiny and Evil heroes. Feel free to pick any. Water type, just get some overpowered one that won't live long. Cards like Yomi Ship and Crystal Seer comes into mind =/ And there's this thing called Miracle Fusion. Turning Miracle Fusion into Thunderbolt aka Raigeki is great =D

You can ignore the effect where it powers up cos I think it will only be abused for the next effect.

Why is it overpowered? This effect is not those effects where it has to be "... sent to grave" or "...destroyed by battle" etc. All it needs is to leave the field. Meaning, it can be abused by cards that you thought were retarded like Interdimensional Transporter Device. Or you can just simply ram it into Dark Armed Dragon and see it blow up opponent's field. Better still, shoot it over with Dark Dive Bomber for cool effects. The point is, something will definitely die even if you attack blindly.

Retarded things to do when you are bored. Use Super Fusion on Airman and opponent's Brionac!!

Opponent can't steal it with Goyou and removing it with Brionac or Dark End won't do any good. Of course the ever-so-imba Stardust stops it but hey, I'm sure any good deck builder will find ways to prevent Stardust from hitting the field. I was gonna say use cards like Phoenix Wind Blast or Evacuation Device but theres Buster Mode but that would be for the next article. =P

The only problem is... It's a Fusion Monster and it takes up precious space in the Extra deck!

PS: Stardust Buster is fun to play with. How to find money to buy 3...

orz

Junk Synchron is not junk!

Junk synchron was inaccessible to ppl like me who refuse to buy the starter deck. Thank god for the duelist pack now that Junk Synchron is a common that no one wants =D

Seriously, it is a crazy card. It provides that +1 card advantage and combined with Card of Safe Return can net you crazy number of cards as well. Refer to my Tuning Supporter post below =/

And just watch this video, some retarded Junk Synchron Abuse spotted haha. Of course I don't doubt the video, just that the luck is too imba!



I blame 3 Reinforcements =/

btw If you guys watched the first half of the video. Nitro Warrior had a very cute +1000 sign.

CDL Duel Kingdom

Ok so I went to the tournament today trying my luck since it's my off day =/

As usual I'm using Destiny Dark Armed (I should rename this into something else, there is only Diabolic guy inside!)

CDL Duel Kingdom
Deck Used: Diabolic Synchro (this sounds better, no?)
Format: Swiss

First Match: Beatdown
OXO
1st: Usual lead with 2 Stardust and Dark Armed.
2nd: Retarded hand filled with Raious, cannot even win all the bloody Goblin Attack Force and shits.
3rd: The same thing as 1st round,

2nd Match: Meta Gadget
XX
1st: Nothing much I could do when there's a gethering of Banisher of Radiance and Fossil Dyna there backed with tons of traps.
2nd: Legendary hand, started with 3 Teleport, Phoenix Wing Blast, Decree and Thunder Break... And the next draws were Psychic Commander and 3 Clevonse. Nothing much I could do lolol.

3rd Match: Mirror
XOX
1st: Died cos Dark End is too pro lol, Brionac and Stardust like that die.
2nd: Since I was gonna die anyway, I could finally test my side deck. Kycoo and Skill Drain works wonders when you are leading.
3rd: Did 2 retarded mistakes. I sided Grepher out and had no more target for Reinforcement lol. And I put back Diabolic back for carrier effect and then realise I had not enough Dark, bleh.

Result: De Fea Ted =(

Better luck next time =/

Yum, profit!

Ok so the new duelist pack is out. Everyone is excited blablabla. Somehow it didn't give me that sense of enthusiasm to buy alot of packs. I bought only 1 pack and got an Arms Aid and that was it. No drive to buy any more packs...

But anyways, I'll just go through with some of the cards that might combo well.



Tuning Supporter
Imo, this is the card to get for the set. Drawing a card is basically making your synchro free. And as DS mentioned, using Machine Duplication is happiness.

Junk Synchron + Tuning Supporter + Machine Dupe = PROFIT!
Junk Synchron + Tuning Supporter + Reckless Summoning = MORE PROFIT!
Synchro Cancel and Synchro somemore = Draw somemore!!!
(I do noticed how retarded this is but lol)

Yes you can draw when paired with Junk Synchron.

You might think that using 3 cards to get back 3 cards is nothing big, but you cycled through 3 cards of your deck and plus you get a free monster on the field. Not that bad of a deal actually.

Do not underestimate the man under the frying pan!

Next is Give and Take.

Giving opponent recruiter monsters or even better still, everyone's favourite Goblin Zombie to dig for more goodies, PROFIT! And as stated on one of the Strategy Cards that are inside every pack.

Give and Take + Dancing Samurai (Aka Sasuke Samurai #3) + poke it with something small = DRAWTILLSEVENCARDSPROFITLOL!!!!

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Yes I noticed the overusage of the word Profit in this article and I'm a draw whore. Well anyways, more deck testing at the moment. Dark Dive Bomber is so overpowered....

Yuusei Duelist Pack is Out!

Alright, after like working non stop for dunno how many days, finally managed to get myself let out of work yesterday and got to play my deck abit, still not bad so far, heh, but abit more tuning to do. Anywayz, on to the Yuusei pack, it arrived in Khatib CC at about 3+ yesterday evening! So alot of people bought 2 packs of that as entry fee. I got crap but regardless, here is just some info on the foils! Courtesy of http://shriek.twoday.net

DP08-JP016
Arms Aid 「アームズ・エイド」
LIGHT/Machine - Synchro/4/1800/1200
1 Tuner + 1 or more Non-Tuner monster
Once per turn, during your Main Phase, you can treat this card as an Equip Card and equip it to a monster OR unequip this card and Special Summon it in face-up Attack Position. Only if this card is treated as Equip Card, the ATK of the equipped monster is increased by 1000 Points. When the equipped monster destroys an opponent's monster by battle and sends it to the Graveyard, deal damage to your opponent's Life Points equal to the ATK of the destroyed monster.
Ultra Rare
- A machine! Okayz, that aside before I get eyeballed. The first level 4 synchro monster! That makes it the usual must have, just for those just in case situations. People force rotate tokens, frog players, etc etc. Basically, it is a union monster, with flame wing man pasted on it, plus an extra 1k attack to boot. Quite not bad, but not sure if you will wanna do a synchro just for this. But as anyone would say... Just in case so, 1 for every synchro pile i say!


DP08-JP011
Tuning Supporter 「チューニング・サポーター」
LIGHT/Machine - Effect/1/100/300
If this card is used for a Synchro Summon, you can treat this card as a Level 2 monster. If this card is used for the Synchro Summon of a Synchro Monster and sent to the Graveyard, draw 1 card.
Ultra Rare
- Machine no. 2! Theres like tons of machines and machine lookalike cards in this pack seriously. Makes me wonder if Yuusei was actually a machine and warrior user just nobody noticed. Its attack and class makes machine users only think of 1 thing, Machine Duplication! (Shame on you bladeknight, look so long then notice) Well, this gives you interesting things to do. Kinda like a summon this, machine dup, and teleport, and contact all of them for a synchro monster from level 5 to 8 (Assuming clevonce) and 3 draws! So you get a synchro monster that you can chose a multiple of levels for free!

............... Ok, maybe not that strong after all. Seriously, you used 3 hand, and got back 3, so after all that hard work, you got a free synchro monster. Not sure its worth it for the trouble. (Anyone feel free to prove me wrong with a better combo). But like said, since you can control the level, you can get almost any synchro out, so not bad?

DP08-JP0??
Limiter Break 「リミッター・ブレイク」
Normal Trap
When this card is sent to the Graveyard, Special Summon 1 "Speed Warrior" from your hand, deck or Graveyard.
Super Rare
- Who loves speed warrior! 900 attack cool shit man. Maybe somebody will 1 day do some cool emergency ration combo, earn 3k lp and summon 3 speed warrior! ......... The old Limit Break is just 5000000 times stronger......

DP08-JP010
Massive Warrior 「マッシブ・ウォリアー」
EARTH/Warrior/2/600/1200
Any Battle Damage to you as a result of this card battling becomes 0. Once per turn, this card cannot be destroyed by battle.
Super Rare
- ........ Seriously not sure what can this do, maybe somebody can enlighten me.

DP08-JP0??
Give & Take 「ギブ＆テイク」
Special Summon 1 monster in your Graveyard to your opponent's side of the field in defense mode. In addition, raise the level of 1 monster on your side of the field equal to the level of the monster Special Summoned on your opponent's side of the field. This effect lasts until the End Phase of this turn.
Super Rare
- Wow... This thing just makes Tragopedia look like shit man. You give 1 monster for the exact same effect Tragopedia can do and lots more. Unless you give some killer tomato kind of thing I have no idea who will use this

And of course without the effect... Stardust Dragon

And there you have it! Thats all the 6 foils in this pack, in their barest DS opinionated form. Mainly just the 2 ultras and stardust will probably have some use in this pack out of the 6. And of course the people who did not get foils but said, "Cool, Junk Synchro!" are probably just that BIT worse of then those who got Arms Aid. And thats the full info from DS, so go out there and spend some money on those packs!

mh Cup Results

[1] Light Undead
[2] Tele Dark
[3] Gladiator Beast with Aroma

Looks like Oppression Skill Drain deck won this time round. GB with Aroma was an interesting tech against the now super fast synchro decks. The Tele Dark was pretty much Undead Synchro with Teleport =/

I browsed through like really alot of blogs, and Synchro Cat is pretty much revived with Natural Beast. Too bad it didn't make it lol. And yes there are plenty of Undead Synchro too. =/

Net Decking can be found below.

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優勝：光アンデ/福田康夫

モンスター(20枚)
馬頭鬼（めずき）×3枚
邪神機（ダークネスギア）－獄炎
魂を削る死霊
闇竜の黒騎士（ブラックナイト・オブ・ダークドラゴン）
ライオウ×3枚
メタモルポット
ピラミッド・タートル×3枚
ゾンビキャリア
ゴブリンゾンビ×2枚
クリッター
オネスト×3枚

魔法(4枚)
大嵐
死者蘇生
月の書×2枚

罠(17枚)
奈落の落とし穴×3枚
聖なるバリア－ミラーフォース－
神の宣告×3枚
死のデッキ破壊ウイルス
激流葬
王宮の弾圧×3枚
スキルドレイン×3枚
サンダー・ブレイク×2枚

エクストラデッキ
Ａ・Ｏ・Ｊ　カタストル
ギガンテック・ファイター
キメラテック・フォートレス・ドラゴン
ゴヨウ・ガーディアン×2枚
スターダスト・ドラゴン
ダーク・ダイブ・ボンバー
ダークエンド・ドラゴン
デスカイザー・ドラゴン
ブラック・ローズ・ドラゴン
メンタルスフィア・デーモン
レッド・デーモンズ・ドラゴン
蘇りし魔王　ハ・デス
氷結界の龍　ブリューナク×2枚

サイドデッキ
Ｄ．Ｄ．クロウ×2枚
クロス・ソウル
コマンダー
サイクロン
サイバー・ドラゴン
バスター・ブレイダー
強制転移×2枚
邪帝ガイウス×2枚
洗脳－ブレインコントロール
転生の予言
氷帝メビウス×2枚


２位：緊テレダムド/有稀

モンスター(23枚)
冥府の使者ゴーズ
馬頭鬼（めずき）×2枚
終末の騎士×2枚
メタモルポット
ネクロ・ガードナー×2枚
ダーク・グレファー
ダーク・アームド・ドラゴン×2枚
ゾンビキャリア×2枚
サイコ・コマンダー
ゴブリンゾンビ
クレボンス×2枚
Ｅ・ＨＥＲＯ　エアーマン
Ｄ－ＨＥＲＯ　ディアボリックガイ×3枚
Ｄ．Ｄ．クロウ×2枚

魔法(15枚)
大嵐
増援×3枚
洗脳－ブレインコントロール
精神操作×2枚
死者蘇生
緊急テレポート×3枚
闇の誘惑×2枚
ハリケーン
サイクロン

罠(4枚)
死のデッキ破壊ウイルス
激流葬
サンダー・ブレイク×2枚


３位：剣闘獣(タッチアロマ)/月の真理

モンスター(16枚)
剣闘獣ラクエル×2枚
剣闘獣ムルミロ
剣闘獣ホプロムス
剣闘獣ベストロウリィ×3枚
剣闘獣ダリウス
剣闘獣エクイテ×2枚
Ｅ・ＨＥＲＯ　プリズマー×3枚
Ｄ．Ｄ．クロウ×3枚

魔法(7枚)
大嵐
死者蘇生
剣闘訓練所（グラディアルトレーナー）×3枚
月の書×2枚

罠(19枚)
魔宮の賄賂×3枚
奈落の落とし穴×3枚
聖なるバリア－ミラーフォース－
神の宣告×3枚
剣闘獣の戦車（グラディアルビースト・チャリオット）×3枚
銀幕の鏡壁（ミラーウォール）×3枚
強制脱出装置×3枚

エクストラデッキ
Ａ・Ｏ・Ｊ　カタストル
Ｎ・マリン・ドルフィン
アームズ・エイド
ギガンテック・ファイター
キメラテック・フォートレス・ドラゴン
ゴヨウ・ガーディアン
スターダスト・ドラゴン
ブラック・ローズ・ドラゴン
ミスト・ウォーム
レッド・デーモンズ・ドラゴン
剣闘獣ガイザレス×3枚
剣闘獣ヘラクレイノス
氷結界の龍　ブリューナク

サイドデッキ
ゴッドバードアタック×2枚
サイクロン
ツイスター×2枚
王虎ワンフー×3枚
盗賊の七つ道具×3枚
魔導戦士　ブレイカー
魔封じの芳香×3枚

Deck Testing in progress!

Update of Destiny Dark Armed

[Monster] = 22

[2] Dark Armed Dragon
[3] D Hero Diabolic Guy
[1] Messenger of Darkness Gorz

[1] E Hero Airman
[3] Raiou
[2] Knight of The End
[1] Dark Grepher
[3] Clevonse
[1] Psycho Commander
[2] Zombie Carrier
[3] D.D Crow

[Magic] = 13

[1] Monster Reborn
[1] Heavy Storm
[1] Cyclone
[1] Mind Control
[3] Allure of Darkness
[3] Reinforcement of the Army
[3] Emergency Teleport

[Trap] = 5

[3] Thunder Break
[1] Deck Destruction Virus of Death
[1] Prophecy of Reincarnation

I realise the deck has alot of space after throwing out Destiny Draw. It was fast, but I think it was too fast. So now, the deck slowed down a little but offers a little more control. Yes I threw out the Destiny Draw coz I think they are abit too situational which some might think is caused by my poor deck building with the lack of D Hero.

The reason it had 3 Destiny Draw is because I wanna draw them in my starting hand duh, and 3 Reinforcement makes sure that I get that Airman for the all important discard. So no they were not useless at all. And people were complaining that I get Airman + Destiny Draw so often making it sound like I cheated. It's called Deck Consistency!

Alright main reason I want to slow down is because, even if I got 2 Stardust and Friends, if I don't OTK, it usually means opponent will just waste their resource somehow to summon a Brionac and bounce them all away. And adding to the fact that Undeads never seem to run out of fuel, it is very disadvantagous for me.

New Addition:

-Gorz
I got OTK-ed so many times coz I don't put Guardna lol, so I put this =/ Can be easily removed for allure if you don't need it =D

- Raiou
Great against most matchup. It stops those Reinforcement or Goblin Zombie abuses. Sitting there and doing nothing also helps against GB. Mirror Match is also a plus. Overall great card. Stardust + Raiou on field = happiness.

- Dark Grepher
Using this to throw Diabolic.

- Psycho Commander
Added in for randomness. Once in awhile when I'm dying against GB I just try my luck for Black Rose =D

- Mind Control
Cute card, but mostly useless. Still testing...

- Prophecy
I realise that 3 crows wasn't enough to stop mirror matches and Undead Synchro. And here we are.

Still trying to solve the imbalance Burial from DD loop. Gaius have been removed entirely coz I think they are a waste of time.

You probably thought why am I main decking all the stuff from my side deck, but hey, if I have space then I will have even more cards to put in my side deck =D

Words of wisdom: with the current grave dependent meta, if you don't main Crow, you are most likely to lose your first round unless your deck is totally a counter to that specific deck (metabeat/skill drain oppresion decks). Then by the time you side, your opponent probably sided in something cool against you too, so yes it's most likely GG for you =)

Next version might try Necro Guardna as I try another build of Standard Dark Synchro...

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Natural Beast deck pending, because I got owned so bad by GB. It was working fine till I got raped by Big Bird repeatedly T_T

Meanwhile, rub the sitting jade tiger for good luck!

Old deck with a cool twist!

Alright, have been quiet for another period of time again, even went to work today on a sunday, but some how nothing much happening tonight, so just gonna post out my deck which I used yesterday!

Deck Name: Jinzo rox Diabolic! (well, not really the deck name, but thats the whole idea)

[Monster] = 16

[2] Dark Armed Dragon
[3] Jinzo
[3] Jinzo Returner
[1] Cyber Dragon
[1] Knight of The End
[2] Dark Grepher
[2] Clevonse
[2] Zombie Carrier


[Magic] = 24

[1] Monster Reborn
[1] Brain Control
[1] Heavy Storm
[1] Cyclone
[3] Allure of Darkness
[3] Hand Severing
[2] Card Of Safe Return
[2] Foolish Burial
[3] Reinforcement of the Army
[3] Emergency Teleport
[1] Future Fusion
[1] Megamorph
[1] Limit Break
[1] Enemy Controller



Alright, this deck idea works similarly to the standard tele dark arm in the sense that 6+2 = 8 star synchro monsters, 4+2 = Goryu galore, etc. Yet the deck's engine is very different from the standard tele dark arm. The usual tele dark arm has to do a good 3-4 synchro monster to kill the opponent fast. Mine on the other end, being a machine deck has the potential to do a kill without a single synchro or dark arm. Note: This deck was solely inspired on my own idea of using synchros with jinzos to note waste the jinzos, as well as control my grave for dark arm easier. Not net-decked from any place..

Shall not talk too much about the standard jinzo + returner engine, you can look at the previous deck for the comments on that. The main improvement here would be that grepher comes in. A very standard combo would be to just have grepher/reinforcement + jinzo in the first hand. That makes for a very quick 4.1k damage. Add in a teleport in that list and its a potential 5.3k, and I end the turn with a grepher and a stardust on the field for the cost of 3 cards. And of course, card of safe return makes the combo even sweeter.

Jinzo is much better then diabolic imo because you can actually rely on jinzo as a fighter in any situation unlike diabolic which cannot do anything. And of course, its trap negating ability stops any dimension prison, phoenix wing blast which would otherwise kill off your stardust. And of course being a machine means.... Sudden kills are pretty cool. And further more, FF makes for a 1 card OTK on its own.

Regarding my choice on hand severing, my deck is actually much faster, considering that I can throw my zombie carriers or jinzo into the grave, while drawing into my dark arm and card of safe return much faster.

Anyway, think I have said enough on this deck. For more info on how it works, look at my previous post on my jinzo reborn deck. The basic engine is here, but this is still the pretty raw version of the deck so tuning is still required. I will probably tune it before next week using my experience from yesterday. Till then, be in expectation of the tuned up version of the deck!

Counter Attack of Justice!

X sabers are missing from this set!! Did they all die and turn into Plants!?

Did Airbellun turn into Natural Beast!

Are A.O.J really the allies of justice! All they do are kill Light monsters!

Stay tuned for more!

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I'm bored...

More Destiny Dark Armed

Changed my Destiny Dark Armed but I feel that it is a bit weird now haha.

Well anyway I was trying out a Japanese build using Instant Fusion. According to the creator of the deck, the chance of doing OTK on the second turn is very high. Of course this is not counting Gorz and Tragoedias.

[Monster] = 21

[2] Dark Armed Dragon
[3] D Hero Diabolic Guy

[1] E Hero Airman
[2] Knight of The End
[2] Dark Grepher
[3] Clevonse
[1] Psycho Commander
[1] Mental Master
[3] Zombie Carrier
[3] D.D Crow

[Magic] = 16

[1] Monster Reborn
[1] Heavy Storm
[1] Hurricane
[1] Cyclone
[3] Instant Fusion
[3] Allure of Darkness
[3] Reinforcement of the Army
[3] Emergency Teleport

[Trap] = 3

[3] Thunder Break

Yes It's basically a direct copy of the Japanese guy's deck. So anyways, with DD Crow/Thunder Break in your starting hand plus other usual stuff for your synchros, it is very high chance to do an OTK.

But with my god luck, the theory above don't work. Coz I keep freaking drawing 2 fugging Diabolics in my starting hand!!! Don't say do an OTK, I'm trying not to get OTK-ed loh! Fighting Undead Synchro never felt so difficult =(

Note: I do not claim credit for the creation of the deck. If the creator of the deck decides to post it on the net, then it is safe to assume that it is ok to be copied lol. The same applies to whatever I posted on this blog. Destiny Dark Armed is not something new so yah, I do not claim credit as the founder of the deck either.

Moving on, I was using this deck to try out for a small tournament on Monday.

Round 1: Vs Volcanic
One of the bad matchup. He packs like a Gorz and 3 Tragoedias, so don'teven think about doing anything more than 4000 damage lol. And Blaze Cannon totally pwned my Stardust. Lucky hand on my side and no Trago/Gorz means win, lucky.

Round 2: Vs Undead Synchro
Got OTK-ed on the first round =( Subbed in 3 Raiou to kill all the Goblin Zombies and lock the Reinforcements. 3rd Round was OTK from my side.

Round 3: Dark Armed
Non Synchro Dark. Anyways I got pwned by Necro Guardnas. No DD Crow/Thunder Breaks for me plus all I have are god damn Diabolics...

Round 4: Gladiator Beasts
The Diabolics must be angry and I drew a pair of them again and again. Got Thrashed again bleh. For some reason, I do not draw Thunder Break/ DD Crow. And Diabolic is only 3 cards! No I did not use my Airman to search for them! Table Shuffling does not work for people with shit luck.

So final result is 2-2. boo =(

Side story: There was this boy who was really noisy thinking the whole world belonged to him and argued with his wrong rulings. Luckily we are all mature grown ups, otherwise he would have found himself dragged to some alley and get beaten to death before getting dumped into the dumpster. =/

Demon Roar God Raven!

Ok ok I post! At the same time enlighten people that...

"It does indeed work with Dark Realm!"

All you need to know about Raven can be found here!

And as usual, as the nice person I shall do you all a favor and translate some interesting bits from there.

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Discard any number of cards from your hand, increase the level of this card equal to the number of cards discarded until the end phase.
This cards attack power is increased by 400 x number of card discarded until the end phase.
This effect can only be used once per turn.
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Ok this is an ignition effect and it can only be used on the controller's turn. The ruling is that, the hand discard part is an effect and not a cost. Thus Dark Realm is able to come out and do fun stuff.

Gold and Silver are 5, so plus 2 and 1 equates to Stardust Dragon!!



Normally, effects that discard your hand cards should come with powerful effects. Just look at Thunder Break/ Phoenix Wing Blast. People are packing it in their deck to the maximum.

I feel that Raven's effect is not that spectacular, but discarding multiple Dark Realm monsters in one turn might just lead to an OTK if you have that nice hand.

I haven't seen a deck in action yet so this is all just a speculation. Maybe I'm gonna try and form to play tomorrow. Once I find my Dark Realm cards that are buried somewhere in some shoe box in the corner of my room lol.

Fun Facts:
- The level ofthis card can exceed 13.
- Combining this with Forced Requisition will result in some crazy hand discards.
- This card only needs 17 cards to deal 8000 damage!
- In stupid world's theory, the level of this card can reach 61 and have an attack of 24900. Impossible unless you have a 60 card deck and a way to draw them all.

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On other news, Dian Zhang is spotted getting banged by a "Hopeless Dragon Deck".

5D anime is pretty cool!

Yeah I kinda just started watching again coz there is actually more action now instead of repetition of Yuusei vs the police man. I've had enough of Junk/Nitro/Turbo warriors =(

Now that there are alot of Aki action, I kinda enjoy watching the show! We finally get to see the showdown between Blackrose and Stardust!

Anime Blackrose is just pure imbalance with having its destruction effect even just by a regular special summon from the grave. My only complaint is having to see Blackrose summon animation three freaking times in one episode. Ooops for spoilers.

But yah, Aki played like really alot of revival, more cards for Crimson Crisis? Wicked Reborn seems great, Call of the Haunted for Synchros.

Further Spoiler ahead!





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The new meta deck?

Destiny Dark Armed makes a return here with the release of Allure and the unrestriction of Diabolic Guy.

People are just gonna "no ways, GB rules all!"

But it's been proven that the deck is just too fast for a GB deck lol. Of course I shall not compare with the English meta since they have no access to carrier which is kinda important. Well anyways GB won the latest SJC, probably coz he has Dimensional Prison to fight off all the Stardust bullshit hahaha.

I hope the GB craze is going down soon, and maybe I can finally buy an affordable Prisma lol. But of course GB still remains a competitive deck and someday someone will just find some tech to make it stay on top.

By popular demand, here is my deck list which I was using for testing purposes the other day. It worked too well and now I have harassment issues. I've had enough of people calling me on the phone and ask for deck list! Improvements can still be made but the play style is pretty much there. Draw draw draw, synchro synchro synchro. Control and win.

[Deck] Destiny Dark Armed V 1.0

[Monster] = 20

[2] Dark Armed Dragon
[1] Emissary of Darkness Gorz
[2] Wicked Emperor Gaius
[3] D Hero Diabolic Guy

[1] E Hero Airman
[1] D Hero Defend Guy
[2] Knight of The End
[3] Clevonse
[2] Zombie Carrier
[3] D.D Crow

[Magic] = 15

[1] Monster Reborn
[1] Heavy Storm
[1] Brain Control
[3] Destiny Draw
[3] Allure of Darkness
[3] Reinforcement of the Army
[3] Emergency Teleport

[Trap] = 5

[1] Deck Destruction Virus of Death
[1] Torrential Tribute
[3] Thunder Break

Simple explanation.
1) Get Diabolic in Grave
2) Use your tuners and synchro with Diabolic.
3) Win!

Ok, that was totally useless comment but what else can I say. That's what the deck do lol. I don't wanna be long winded to explain the already obvious. The deck usually run out of steam after running out of Diabolic, so if you wanna do multi Synchro Summon this turn, you better take control of the game.


Against GB:
- Get control early and everything should be your way.



Against Lightlord/Undead:
- I put them together since their playstyle is about the same. Just summon everything that is big and bang. I did a Red Demon + Gigantech. Making sure there are no retarded Judgement Dragons. For undeads, try to cycle and dig for that DD crows!


Against Skill Drain Oppresions:
- About the same thing as above, just summon everything that is big hopefully they have no oppression. Some side decking might be required.


Against Metabeat:
- Untested. Coz no one plays them. Everything in the deck is expensive lol.


Against Mirror:
- Good luck with your side deck.


Against Neos Beat
- Im bored, I made one for Colin lol. Beware of Neos Chop!

As you can see from the above, I had too much free time photoshoping the above lol. Yes stealing is allowed, but just give me some credits for it =( Don't be surprised if one day your "stolen goods" becomes like this. Anyone with decent photoshop skills can make them.

Welcome to the new banlist!

Yeah I know it's been confirmed. For those who don't believe in V Jump and are still in denial with the new banlist, here you go.

Official Yugioh Website here!

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Schedule for the rest of the year.

13/09 - Extra Pack
27/09 - Tag Force 3 + Guide Book
18/10 - Yuusei DP
15/11 - Crimson Crisis

Save money!!

Edit: 2/09

So much for saving money. I think I spent quite a bit on TDGS boosters T_T nothing really good except 3d Teleport. And then saw another person getting an ultra teleport from the same booster stack argh! Could've been my 3rd teleport but oh well....

Rulings on Tragoedia!

New cards always pose problems for everyone. People would just argue about anything especially when it will determine the outcome of their duel, even if it's just a casual match =D

So your beloved Bahamut sama is going to do everyone a favor and dissect the effect into little bits for people to read.


Tragoedia 「トラゴエディア」
DARK/Demon - Effect/10/?/?
When you take Battle Damage, you can Special Summon this card from your hand. Increase the ATK and DEF of this card by 600 Points for each card in your hand. Once per turn, by sending 1 monster from your hand to the Graveyard, take control over 1 face-up monster you opponent controls with equal level as the sent monster. Also once per turn, you can select 1 monster in your Graveyard, and until the End Phase of this turn, this card becomes the same level as the selected monster.

When you take Battle Damage, you can Special Summon this card from your hand.

This is different from Gorz and all it takes is just take a battle damage. Meaning, you can ram your recruiter, summon Tragoedia and still search with a recruiter. Any searcher would even be better since it's like paying some life points to instantly summon a big monster from your hand. I'm sure no one would activate a monster removal on a Sangan/Goblin Zombie, unless its a Dimensional Prison. But if they had the monster removal in the first place, Tragoedia would just die in the end so it doesn't matter lol.

This is so similar to Gorz, so the same rule applies, you cannot use Solemn Judgement to negate it's efffect. Of course, you can still use Divine Wrath.

Fun stuff, when there are 5 monsters on your field and you take battle damage, you cannot summon Tragoedia because during damage resolution, your monster slot are still full. And of course, you cannot summon more than 1 Tragoedia at once from your hand by its effect.

Ｑ：手札にこのカードが複数枚存在する時に戦闘ダメージを受けた場合、複数枚特殊召喚できますか？
Ａ：いいえ、特殊召喚できるのは１枚だけです。

Ｑ：場に５体のモンスターが居ます。
　　そのうちの１体が戦闘破壊されるとき、その戦闘によるダメージを受けた時特殊召喚できますか？
　　(このとき、モンスターカードゾーンに空きができてから特殊召喚されますか？
　　　まだ埋まっているタイミングで特殊召喚タイミングが過ぎてしまいますか？)
Ａ：戦闘ダメージを受けてこのカードを特殊召喚するタイミングではそのモンスターはまだフィールド上に存在しますので、このカードを特殊召喚することはできません。（08/08/21）


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Increase the ATK and DEF of this card by 600 Points for each card in your hand.

This is a continuous effect and constantly changing according to the hand size. So using Book of Moon on this guy is not gonna reset its attack. Also, using stats modifier that are based on base attack such as Shrink and Megamorph would do nothing to this guy. As the stats are ?/?, it is considered as undefined and in this case treated as 0.

Ｑ：攻撃力は常時変動しますか？
Ａ：はい、常時変動します。（08/08/21）

Ｑ：《収縮》や《巨大化》を受けた場合攻撃力はどうなりますか？
Ａ：元々の攻撃力(守備力)０を半分（/２倍）にした後、攻撃力をアップするので結果的に変化はありません。(08/08/23)

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Once per turn, by sending 1 monster from your hand to the Graveyard, take control over 1 face-up monster you opponent controls with equal level as the sent monster.

The text says send, so no funny Dark World business to be done here. And also, because it says Send, the effect cannot be activated when there is any Macro Cosmos like effect on the field. And I believe the discarding monster part is a Cost.

By the way, the monster does not return as it does not state till the end phase. Surprise surprise!

Ｑ：コントロールを得るのは、ターン終了時までですか？永続的ですか？
Ａ：永続的にコントロールを得ます。（08/08/21）

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Also once per turn, you can select 1 monster in your Graveyard, and until the End Phase of this turn, this card becomes the same level as the selected monster.

This is a grave targeting effect. Say hi to Necro Valley! And also, when the monster that is selected gets removed from the grave during resolution, the effect will not resolve and does nothing.

Ｑ：最後の効果は墓地のカードを対象にとりますか？
　　効果解決時に選んだカードが存在しない場合、どう処理しますか？
Ａ：対象をとります。効果解決時に選んだカードが存在しない場合、その効果は適用されません（08/08/21）

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Such long post! Anyway this card is so good and easily splash-able into almost every deck.

Dark Decks:
A welcome addition, it can help discard Dark into grave, it can steal opponent Dark Arm if you can't summon your own (if it lives), and many other creative stuff.

Undead Decks:
Chugging Mezuki was never so easy and rewarding. Combine with Carrier for good results.'

Gadget decks:
Always big! Gadget decks might just see more play with Tuners now but who knows.

Lightlords:
I dunno how it will fit in other than discarding your Lightlords to make your grave bigger lol. But yah, it's additional Defense.

Gladiator Beasts:
Uhm.... I dunno... Maybe not.... lol

Emperor Decks:
The same old thing, now with additional "Brain Controls".

There are of course other things you can do with this but there are just too many to list, tap into your creative juices now!

Why Damudo (Dark Armed) got restricted!

■優勝チーム／ぽけたんと愉快な仲間達／１３
レスキューダムド／ぽけたん／Ａ
アンデダムド／seventh／Ｂ
緊テレダムド／けーあい／Ｃ

■２位チーム／ジャンクにしてあげるのです。にぱ～☆／４４
レスキューダムド／ぼん／Ａ
アンデダムド／やす／Ｂ
キャリアライロ／ショウイチ／Ｃ

■３位チーム／ヴォーダン／３８
アンデダムド／ふらわぁ／Ａ
スキドレ光アンデ／ルシエちゃん／Ｂ
レスキューダムド／J-SPEED／Ｃ

■４位チーム／oWaTA／２６
アンデビート／嵐／Ａ
レスキューダムド／ワンコ／Ｂ
スキドレ光アンデ／TokiAme／Ｃ

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If you can't read Japanese, you will find similar characters on almost every line.
Key Word: ダムド (Damudo aka Dark Armed)

That concludes your Japanese lesson today =)

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Upcoming info???

Alright people, for once Im actually rested, and not going to work today (Yes, nowadays I do go to work on sundays even), so here's my 2 bits on the latest ban list and stuff

Banned
Dark Magician of Chaos
- Expected already, too much DDR armshole previously. Sadly it should go with reasoning and gate as well
Destiny Hero - Disc Commander
- All the new cry of living dead out now, so kinda expected? Especially with the synchro bounce bounce picture etc. (You can search on google, some japanese site has baha's self created picture of the brioniac bounce disc guy shit
Premature Burial
- Along with disc guy gone, plus effectively makes arms hole crap card?
Dimension Fusion
- Espected since UDE did it. Well, with MOBC gone, no more infinite draw/burn to begin with anyway

Restricted to One
Breaker the Magical Warrior
- Of course. Never should have been banned anyway. IMO, Laila is stronger, that should be restricted. Not to mention save for GB and light control, not that much traps around anyway. Dark arm synchro?? Prob only have return from DD, LOL
Cyber Dragon
- Sigh, there goes my power bond deck. Doesnt seem to have that much purpose anyway. My Jinzo reborn deck only uses 1 anyway, if anyone is wondering, LOL
Reasoning
- Sad, guess there goes sp summoning decks for awhile. But this fully kills FTK decks
Monster Gate
- Same as above
Return from the Different Dimension
- Again, expected since UDE did it

Restricted to Two
Dark Armed Dragon
- Well, judgement is much stronger imo, so 2 is fair i think? I have only 2 anyway, LOL
Judgment Dragon
- This should be restricted to 1 seriously. With monster reincarnation and lightlords deck flipping effects, 2 doesnt make much of a difference
Summon Priest
- Too much rescue cat synchro going around I would say. Though 2 is still playable imo
Rescue Cat
- Same as above
Card of Safe Return
- Well, just makes it harder to draw it. Small blow to the zombie carrier decks i guess
Nobleman of Crossout
- Who plays face down anymore anyway? Not to mention 1 DAD or JD still kills all.
Phantom of Chaos
- Erm.... Never had much purpose imo
Chain Strike
- This should encourage a few chain burn decks to return. Chain burn decks are fast enough to fight the few meta decks at the moment if they draw good

Released From List
Light and Darkness Dragon
- Well.... Too slow, plus summon laila and end turn = Bye bye LADD
Reinforcement of the Army
- Eh, not sure why... Dun think that much people will wanna play 3 save from Colin
Mage Power
- Again, with the monster based decks nowadays, mage power just doesnt cut it
D Hero Diabolic Guy
- Time to hear complains of drawing all 3 in hand again. Gd luck to those playing 3
Royal Decree
- Used to slightly counter GB's chariot maybe? But then again Gyazarus will kill decree. Not much point imo

And there you have it. With GB's show in the current world champs and all tournaments, I thought some better consideration would be given. But then again, Extra pack is coming out... Kinda reminds me of gadgets last time, where seriously i think they restricted 1 list late cause UDE was gonna start selling the structure deck. Most people in USA would have bought 3 decks? Good $$$

And on to the newest promo!

VJMP-JP0??
Tragoedia 「トラゴエディア」
DARK/Demon - Effect/10/?/?
When you take Battle Damage, you can Special Summon this card from your hand. Increase the ATK and DEF of this card by 600 Points for each card in your hand. Once per turn, by sending 1 monster from your hand to the Graveyard, take control over 1 face-up monster you opponent controls with equal level as the sent monster. Also once per turn, you can select 1 monster in your Graveyard, and until the End Phase of this turn, this card becomes the same level as the selected monster.
Ultra Rare

IMO, this card is not only for synchro users. This is like another 3 Gorz in any deck! Just imagine holding 1 in your hand and you end turn. 1 airman attacks, and you drop this down. In your next turn, hi, I have a 3600 monster on the field. With the potential to drop 1 card, and I can deal you 4800 damage by controlling your airman.

Just think after that summoning calculator some more? 2400 attack + 1800 + 4800 = 9k Damage! LOL, inspirational. Time to consider playing back my calculator deck. Plus anybody notice something? This card can actually be sp summoned back with revival, using reasoning and gate etc. LOL, crazy imo.

Banned and Restriction List (9/1/2008)

Ok so the list it out. With pictures and everything I guess the list is confirmed. The list basically does nothing except buffing GB for the next 6 months. Or maybe something cool would be released in Crimson Crisis/ Yuusei DP but it's unlikely lol.

Banned
- Dark Magician of Chaos
- Destiny Hero - Disc Commander
- Premature Burial
- Dimension Fusion

Restricted to One
- Breaker the Magical Warrior
- Cyber Dragon
- Reasoning
- Monster Gate
- Return from the Different Dimension

Restricted to Two
- Dark Armed Dragon
- Judgment Dragon
- Summon Priest
- Rescue Cat
- Card of Safe Return
- Nobleman of Crossout
- Phantom of Chaos
- Chain Strike

Released From List
- Light and Darkness Dragon
- Reinforcement of the Army
- Mage Power
- D Hero Diabolic Guy
- Royal Decree

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Cheers for getting all 4 cards correct in the To-Be-Banned section! Some unexpected is Cyber Dragon. It saves me alot from Catastor when I'm playing Honest Viper =(

Seriously, Breaker didn't deserve to be in the banlist in the first place and it is nowhere near broken. The current meta deck mostly pack 3 bottomless. How is breaker gonna help you, they should unrestrict Cyclone. And I have no idea how 3 Phantom of Chaos can be broken. Enlighten me?

@Summon Priest- LOL at 8000 yen!

The good news is, you can play 3 Allures for the next 6 months =D

Expected Meta decks
1) Gladiator Beast at full strength
2) Skill Drain/Oppression Variety decks.
3) Lightlords
4) Synchro Dark Armed with max draw power
5) Prime Material Monarch (!?)

- Gladiator Beasts don't need to be explained.
- Skill Drain/ Oppresion decks can range from Undeads to Light decks or a special cocktail of the two.
- Lightlords with one less Judgement is about the same thing.
- Synchro Dark Armed with 3 Destiny Draw and Allures anyone? With that kind of draw power, I'm sure you can dig that pair of Dark Armed...
- Beast Synchro is still playable but no more playing with yourself lol.
- Yes I added Prime Material Monarch there, 3 Teleport and 3 Diabolic = easy mode summoning.

We are approaching TCG metagame!

On a side note, I'm surprised Gorz didn't get banned.

VJMP-JP0??
Tragoedia 「トラゴエディア」
DARK/Demon - Effect/10/?/?
When you take Battle Damage, you can Special Summon this card from your hand. Increase the ATK and DEF of this card by 600 Points for each card in your hand. Once per turn, by sending 1 monster from your hand to the Graveyard, take control over 1 face-up monster you opponent controls with equal level as the sent monster. Also once per turn, you can select 1 monster in your Graveyard, and until the End Phase of this turn, this card becomes the same level as the selected monster.
Ultra Rare

When you take Battle Damage, you can Special Summon this card from your hand. Increase the ATK and DEF of this card by 600 Points for each card in your hand.
Translation: Hi guys, I'm Gorz!

Once per turn, by sending 1 monster from your hand to the Graveyard, take control over 1 face-up monster you opponent controls with equal level as the sent monster.
Translation: Hi guys, I'm also a Brain Control!

Also once per turn, you can select 1 monster in your Graveyard, and until the End Phase of this turn, this card becomes the same level as the selected monster.
Translation: Hi guys! I can also be any level you want!!

Simple scenario
- Attacked by Card A. Summon Tragoedia. Discard Mezuki and gain control of Card A. Mezuki effect, summon Zombie Carrier. Synchro Summon one! Tragoedia effect be level 4 and special summon Carrier. Synchro Summon again!

Reserve your 3 copies now at any Kinokuniya near you!

Back =D

Hi guys I'm back. I know I didn't do so well but oh well. I can say it's probably a wrong deck to bring to the meta lol. But it's also quite hard to say. Since I was expecting Lightlords and Gladial Beasts and that is why the deck became like that. But well luck plays a part, and I only get to fight the Monarch decks.... which is my deck's worst match up lol.

Match 1: Vs Japan
Eh nothing much to say, first round no oppression nor solemn. Second round was my mistake. Mistake one was turning my shine angel to defend mode and second mistake was not activating the limiter in my hand to push for damage. And Japanese using the Malevolent Catastrophe was unexpected to me lol. And of course later on I found out he top decked that last Judgement dragon, can't really do anything much there.

Match 2: Vs France
Monarch decks are bad =( I hit into Jujitsu, followed by a Raiza, followed by a Phoenix Wind Blast. Tell me what a true pro should do in this situation?

Match 3: Vs Australia
more lightlords which I am prepared for. I was hesitating whether to activate oppression when he monster reborn his Luminas. Coz I was greedy and hope I can make him lose 1 more card. If he tribute into Celestia, thats it! lol but yeah I guess the bait worked. Ended the final round with Viper hitting into Garoth with Limiter and Honest which was instant game.

Match 4: Vs Germany
More monarch deck... This time is even the worse type. The one which turtles all the way. Setting every single cards he have every turn. All I do gets bottomless/Prisoned/Solemned. Mask of Darkness and Book of Moon never felt so strong lol. So yes, tell me what a pro can do against that.

Match 5: Vs USA
Won the first match with beats, second round I got OTK-ed lol. He had like Brain Control, Dark Arm and Premature and blablabla. 3rd round wasn't any help either, I draw Hurricane, Storm and Cyclone. So, what would a true pro do?

So yes, Disgrace? See what you can do if you were in my shoes lol. Everyone makes it sound like winning the matches like a piece of cake. The duelist I'm facing is not the regular noobs that you bully everyday in your neighbourhood shop. So lol, if you feel you can do better than me, then win the next world tournament, represent your country, and prove me wrong. Otherwise, don't even bother.

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And so moving on, overall it was a great experience. All the players are nice guys, well mostly. I kinda didn't like the German rep. But he was quite funny lol. When I played him, I summoned Another Neos and he was like "what effect?" I said "as good as no effect" then he went all "huh" and called the judge to ask for effect lol.

Bought alot of cards from the Japanese, wanted to buy the Prisma but it was like 25 Euro on the first day, 40 on the 2nd day and 30 on the final day. So I kinda hesitated... And I also found out that Summon Priest is like uber expensive in Japan. I asked How much was it and he was like "Ha Sen" Thats 8000 yen wtf! Their Brionac is only 20 Euro, and Summon priest is like triple of that??? lol. Totally cannot afford, so those who have summon priest, better cherish it hahahaha. I think people who read this will start to spoil market , but yah if DT cannot be used locally, it holds no meaning to sell at such a high price.

Unfortunately, Lazaro lost his deck. heard there were like 2 Lightlord decks, and 5 Dark armed Decks or something like that. Gratz to the guy finding it I guess...

And yes, non asian players really like to cover their Heavy Storm aka Pro Storm haha. And one of them even commented that we Asian Players are crazy cos we cover traps with no fear of Storm at all lol. But with more and more GB, Pro Storm are less seen now. Not funny when you cover storm and get hit by Gyzarus.

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I kinda regret not buying the prismas though =(

WTB Japanese Prisma! Leave a reasonable offer! lol

Oh yes and those who are curious, We all got NOTHING from the trip. No free boosters or whatsoever. Only top 4 got prizes, everyone else eats crap. I think that's pretty sucky considering that they give away something every year lol. And the Chimera promo, anyone who attended the event can get one. So it's quite worthless I would say.

Happy note: I successfully promoted Victory Viper hahaha. Even though I lost, At least I got a feature match as I hoped =)

Short updates on the germany world champ!

Alright people, here's abit of an update from what I can understand, which is limited cause the language of the site is mainly in german. If got typo or understanding error dont mind, the german doesnt help, and im typing this 3.30am in the morning...

After 5 rounds of standings, Baha is standing at 19 out of 22nd place, with 1 round win against Australian rep, Hahn (AUS), Richard. Well, 1 win out of 5? Thats still better then our Malaysian neighbour i guess, 0 out of 5 win. (Not to look down on them of course)

Well, at the moment from what I see, Baha at least walks home with a Chimera master of the beasts promo card. Possibly if have time he will join the sneak preview for the duelist genesis? Well, he should still walk away with much better prizes then from our Singapore tournament thats for sure.

Top deck of the day is a control deck, with over 20 traps. So sad, when i first read the top, it wrote there, innovative deck using the Fusilier dragon aka, Gunner Dragon. Then i check deck list, ends up its just a control deck with skill drain, therefore use Fusilier as a 2800 monster. Zzzz. Oh wellz.

Then they have a DS world champ 2008 tomorrow. Sad, wonder why we didnt have someone to go for that one. Oh wellz.... Anyway, if there are any German savvy guys around, heres the website for you guys. Japanese lang guys like me cannot understand shit siah

http://entertainment.upperdeck.com/yugioh/uk/events/WC2008/event.aspx?eid=34

Anywayz.... 3 G-Beast, 3 lightlord? No guesses whats gonna be seen in the ban list. And to all the people who say G beast got nothing to restrict/ban, whatever lah. Not Im the one who gonna think how to do it anyawyz. Zzzz... Up with machines I say!

Off to Germany!

If you are reading this now, I am probably at Germany =D

This post will be updated once I get back, hopefully bearing good news.

Hopefully!

It's that time of the month!

It's August guys! Time for some Restriction list speculation again! This post will always be on top till 9/1 (or if the list is released first lol) So don't forget to scroll down when looking for updates!

The list will probably be finalized after the world tournament, see what card is super imbalanced lol.

Note: Read again, SPECULATION! Not the actual list!!

To be Banned
- Premature Burial
- D Hero Disk Guy
- Dark Magician of Chaos
- Dimension Fusion

To be R to 1
- Wicked Emperor Gaius
- Dark Armed Dragon
- Judgement Dragon
- Honest
- Summon Priest
- Rescue Cat
- Gladiator Beast Kaisares
- Card of Safe Return

To be R to 2
- Gladiator Training Ground
- Gladiator Chariot
- Gladiator Bestowari
- Goblin Zombie
- Mezuki

To be Released from Restriction
- Cyber Dragon
- D Hero Diabolic Guy
- Light and Darkness Dragon
- Book of Moon

I did not touch Synchros since it is retarded to restrict them. Looking forward to the list since there are so many meta decks this time round!

I think there will never be anymore gay Synchro like Brionac lol. I mean, why would you bother to do 2 tribute summon when you can use that 2 monster to Synchro summon something that is probably more powerful.

Just look at Kaisares, it puts all other tribute monster to shame. I know it's not exactly Synchro summon but you get my point.

The only 2 Tribute high level that I feel is overpowered is MOBC and... Oh wait, there's no one else =/

This post will be continuously updated!

So something exciting...

So I was testing my deck against GB and because I tried to be funny with my oppressions, end up I had to ask around and since Oppression is becoming popular I decided to ask at the UDE forum....

http://entertainment.upperdeck.com/COMMUNITY/forums/thread/1321967.aspx

It became a long and weird where
- You can't activate Dust Tornado when negating a summon

Which kinda doesn't make sense and makes flipping and paying 800 into super super powerful shit lol. As for those who don't know about the Oppression change, you may click here. (Scroll down a little till you see a wall of red text)

Discuss.

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I'm looking to borrow [Prohibition] to bring to Berlin. Any kind soul who have and willing to lend please let me know. I lost mine =(

The cards to get in CSOC!

Don't really have time to look through, sit down and think of what can some cards can be used for. So this post will be continuously updated =/

But I think the obvious card to get is this!


Picture is for illustration purposes only! Please do not PM/email/tag me regarding this.

Welcome to the Crossroad!

Ok so Crossroad is out in Singapore. After opening 4 boxes here is what I got.

1x Black Rose Dragon (HR)
1x Black Rose Dragon (UTR)
2x Black Rose Dragon (UR)
2x Resurrected Demon King Hades (UTR)
1x Resurrected Demon King Hades (UR)
1x Death Kaiser Dragon (UTR)
2x Death Kaiser Dragon (UR)
1x Turbo Warrior (UR)
2x Emergency Tuning (UR)
3x Black Garden
4x Hane Wata
3x Storm Summoner
2x Hell Bramble
1x Pedigree of whatever

Broke... =(

PS: Thank god for no many many Turbo Warrior! But it came with the HR Black Rose... Can't complain =(

Will do some "useful cards" review soon once I take a look at everything again...

The art of Brionac abuse!

Hi guys, today I shall teach you guys how to use Brionac like a true pro!

First up, the details of the card!



Dragon of the Ice Boundary Brionac
6/Water/Sea Dragon/Synchro
2300/1400
Discard any number of cards from your hand, bounce card(s) on the field equal to the number of card you discarded this way.

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At first look, this card might just look barely decent with normal stats and an effect that is just so-so. Normally destroy effect are favored over bounce unless it bounces to the top of the deck. Just look at what happened to Raiza. But with the release of new cards such as Armshole and decks that rely on grave, this card suddenly unlocked it's full potential.

This card is now my favorite Synchro and yes I swear it is the best Synchro monster ever created. Over Goyou Guardian, I would still pick this to summon simply because you never know that you might just draw Premature Burial on your next draw. Comparing any other 6 star Synchro to Brionac is like comparing dirt to gold.

Lesson 1: The basic!

Brionac + Premature Burial

This is the most basic combo of all and commonly abused. Having an adequate hand size with some tuners in grave will result in multiple Synchro summons in a turn that will usually leave opponent dead or at least crippled. From this combo, you can go into other advanced combo which I will explain as we go further.

Depending on deck, there are a lot of loop that makes use of this simple brainless combo.

Example 1: Zombie decks

With the release of Zombie carrier, its so easy to summon this with near zero effort. Pyramid Turtle and Goblin Zombie can search almost everything in a Zombie deck.

Now just imagine this Scenario. Carrier and Goblin Zombie turns into Brionac. You search Mezuki. Use Premature on Carrier, throw Mezuki and Premature for another Goblin. Synchro again!

Easy mode looping and full field in no time plus a clear opponent field usually. Even without Premature this combo is still do-able.

Example 2: Plant decks

Brionac + Grass Fertiliser. Loop Botanity Girl and Copy Plant and keep searching while bounce the Fertiliser and yes, full field again in no time. I did summon 3 Botanical Leos on another duel with this combo. 3 2500 attack lion and a Brionac, yum!

Example 3: Regular Dark Decks

Knight of the End with Carrier into Brionac. Premature Knight of the End for MOBC, Bounce Premature and use it to summon MOBC. Repeat till your field is filled with crazy high level. This is also a good way to reduce your number of darks till its 3 and summon you-know-what.

Lesson 2: Cycling through your deck.

All the examples above usually involves swarming the field. But there are some times your hand suck balls. Do not worry, with Disk Guy and a Premature, you can cycle through your deck easily! Assuming 8000 LP, you can draw about18 cards from your deck =)

1) Have Brionac on the field.
2) Throw a Disk Guy
3) Premature Disk Guy
4) Bounce Premature
5) Bounce Disk Guy
6) Set Premature and bounce it with Disk Guy
7) Repeat from step (3)

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Just look at all the different possibilities you can do with just a Premature Burial.

Why am I posting this? Such a powerful thing should be kept to myself! But well, new restriction list is coming pretty soon. With stupid things like the above, I think Premature Burial has like 90% chance of going in lol.



With combos like this, Monster Reborn doesn't look overpowered at all lol. Unless you are stealing your opponent's Brionac of course ;)

Restricting Brionac is dumb, since all you need is just one. Banning it is also unlikely.

It's not Brionac's fault, it's Premature Burial's fault!
(and a little bit of Arms Hole's)

WTB New deck ideas =(

I need new deck to play!!!

Anyway sad for those who went to the Malaysia tourney over the weekend and couldn't join. It's sad that I couldn't go with you all, not that I wanna abandon you guys just cos I won the Singapore one lol.

Well anyway hopefully crossroad comes in next Monday. Then maybe I'll play some stupid Plant deck! Already made the deck on DO but yah, got thrashed by Dark Armed again. I think I'm just gonna stick to playing Honest Viper until I go Germany, can be used as thrashing training session for me.

Anyway I heard that Honest viper deck is attracting some attention from other countries. I hope it doesn't attract that much attention lol.

Countdown to the Crossroad!

Nothing to post this few days, nothing huge going on. Hopefully there will be some interesting decks from Taiwan and HK qualifiers.

Yeah it's still early, but well who knows Singapore might just get it early again. Estimated in two weeks time. Plus 70/80 of the cards are already revealed.

The cards to get:

Black Rose Dragon
Best (and only?) 7 star syncro so far. Yes Nitro Warrior is shit, I'm just gonna keep saying this over and over again.

Zombie Carrier
The next best tuner since Clevonse. Self revival is pretty gay.

Botanity Girl
Plant Searcher, never bad. But I don't know how good will plant be. Especially with so many Special summon hate that every one is packing. Too bad it can't search Botanical Leo.

Jade Knight
Some Victory Viper Love? lol Yeah I know I just mentioned this because it's a support card lol.

Village of Spellcasters
Easy to use and it locks magic. Nothing can be more noobish.

Urgent Tuning
Should be useful to push that last bit of damage. Or you can just do crazy shit with X saber Arbelun now. Drop hand not enough still wanna beat more life point.

Cards to throw when you get it from your pack/box.

Death Kaiser Dragon
Nope it is not strong at all thanks. Goyou Guardian/Brionac is the best 6 star synchro ever created.

Ressurected Dark Ruler Hades
As above.

Turbo Warrior
Refer to above again.

I think I just shot down all the remaining Ultra rares in this set. oops =/ I can see it now, my box will contain the above 3 omg!

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And also some update from upperdeck website woot.

Continuous Trap Cards with Ignition-Like Effects July 2008
When you activate (flip face-up) a Continuous Trap Card that has an Ignition-like effect, you can choose to activate that effect. The Ignition-like effect does not create an additional Chain Link. You simply state if you will also activate the effect of the Continuous Trap Card at the same time you activate the card itself.

Example 3:
Player A activates “Monster Reborn” and selects a monster in Player B’s Graveyard. Player B can activate “Royal Oppression” and also activate its effect to negate “Monster Reborn.”

Previously Oppresion had to be face up first before activating it's effect during a chain. Good news for me, no more opening in during stand by phase and get shot by stupid bitch Laila. =D

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To those ppl at the tagboard. Play nice =)

And yes I have issues with gladial beast. Not that I hate them, I just feel that the deck is very scrub-ish. Very little skills required, well not that Synchro Dark Armed needs a lot of skill either.

If any of you think that Gladial Beast is not strong then yeah I guess if you were thrown into the competitive scene in a non asian region and not get thrashed by Gladial Beast, pls link me your feature match and tell me I'm wrong.