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.

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