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....