Thursday, May 31, 2012

Hey guys! Been awhile since I posted, been so ever busy at my army camp! Relating to the above title, have you guys in Singapore decided on the decks that you would want to play? And have you all had enough practice so far? Well good luck for the World Championships then!

Decks that you could always count encountering them would be:

1) Inzektors
2) Laggia
3) Hieroglyphs
4) Gadgets

I could have missed a few other kinds of deck archtypes, but you could also do more research over the internet yourselves to see how can you prepare yourself for the upcoming qualifiers.

Also to mention that the new booster pack [Abyss Rising] has a new archtype that might be fun to play with! MERMAILS!

Compared to the [Book of Spells] archtype that I was testing in Dueling Network, this new archtype probably has more support than [Books of Spells] reason being that it has "generic" cards that can be used together with it!

Cards that causes you to discard from your hand.

[Raigeki Break]
[Phoenix Wing Wind Blast]
[Karma Cut]
[Dark World Dealings]

and well the list goes on!

Not to mention that there will be an upcoming new structure deck that revolves around the WATER attribute!

And I think the main star of the deck would just probably be [Armed Soldier of the Sea Emperor], but it has nothing to support [Mermails] because it just supports Sea-serpent type monsters, however there are [Mermail] monsters which are Sea-Serpent and can have this card support them. Other than that I think the deck has nice reprints such as

[Chain Disappearance]
[Eel of Greed]
[Dark Hole]
[Snowman Eater] <------   >=D


Well thats all today! I shall post up the details of the upcoming world championships Singapore qualifiers tomorrow!

Sunday, April 29, 2012

And I'm bored! Well because I'm also broke thats why.

Belated congrats to Jeff Soh Jun Yuan for defending his title as Asia Champion!

Also to Kenneth Koh A.K.A Plant for becoming Singapore's Champion and 2nd in place in the Asia Championships!

Moving along...

When you are bored....

You make new decks!

And so I made a Books of Spell deck online on Dueling Network!





Deck Name: Books of Spell

Monsters: 17

3x Batel of the Books of Spell
3x Magical Summoner, Tempel
2x Magical Warrior, Pholus
2x Gravekeeper's Spy
2x Effect Veiler
1x Summoner Monk
1x Breaker the Magical Warrior
3x Magical Priestess, Junon

Magic: 18

1x Dark Hole
1x Heavy Storm
1x Magical Dimension
1x Monster Reborn
2x Mystical Space Typhoon
1x Pot of Duality
3x The Grimoir Books of Spell
1x The Hygromantei Books of Spell
2x The Necronomicon Books of Spell
3x The Torah Books of Spell
2x Wonder Wand

Traps: 5

2x Compulsory Evacuation Device
2x Torrential Tribute
1x Solemn Judgment

Extra Deck: Anything you can think of for these 15 cards!


Review: Well Books of Spell isn't as strong as I thought it would be. Maybe more supports might pop up for this archtype? Or maybe I'm just not using it the right way! However the above decklist is just a trial run after 3 days of testing here and there in Dueling Network's Unrated category.

[Batel of the Books of Spell] serves as an exclusive [Elemental Hero Stratos] for this archtype as it is able to search for any Books of Spell magic card to be added to your hand. If you would like to further thin down your deck in future turns. You can always first search out for [The Grimoir Books of Spell] then using it to search for [Batel of the Books of Spell]. Then rinse and repeat for the next few turns.

[Magical Priestess, Junon] is the main ace card for this deck! Being a unrestricted [Dark Armed Dragon] which can be normal summoned, revived from the graveyard, special summoned from your hand by her own effect, or even being able to be special summoned from the deck by [Magical Summoner, Tempel]'s effect. Although having 2500 attack power these days may not be such a big threat, but the ability to destroy any card just by removing a Books of Spell in your grave can prove to be lethal.

[Magical Warrior, Pholus] actually proved to not be so useful when I build the deck up to its very first version. However with more and more testing, he proves to be a powerful beater and the ability to shuffle back any Books of Spell magic card to the deck can be good as [The Torah Books of Spell] is one good magic card that serves as a [Forbidden Lance] for this archtype can be recycled and searched out multiple times.


[The Necronomicon Books of Spell] is the [Premature Burial] for any spellcasters monster in your grave. Can be searched out by Batel, Grimoir and maybe an old friend [Hidden Armory/Arms Hole]?
[Magical Priestess, Junon] is a good target for this.

No [Card Car D]! [Wonder Wand] is the way! Well that said, I actually rather take a direct attack to my lifepoints rather than see my [Batel of the Books of Spell] getting pummelled by my opponent's monsters. So I thought of [Wonder Wand] as a good card to give me a +1 after I search out a Books of Spells via Batel's effect, then releasing Batel to draw 2 more new cards. Not to mention if I draw upon my traps or other cards, I can still activate or set them. Sometimes alot better than [Card Car D]! But we'll see how it goes, [Card Car D] still requires very little effort to draw 2 cards!

Well short post, I'll try to update again soon! In the meantime, why not try out the Books of Spell? =D

Monday, April 9, 2012

Hey guys! Been awhile since the last update! Lesser crap talk and get on with the main topic!

Deck used: HERO Beat

First Match VS Winson (Laval)
XX-

First Game - Totally got owned by [Rekindling] and lots of Synchro friends.

Second Game - I wasn't actually prepared to fight [Laval] as I hadn't had much practise against them, but what to do, none of my side deck cards came out even though I placed them in the deck. =(

Second Match VS Baha (Dragunity)
OXO

First Game: Tried to survive long enough before drawing onto my [Miracle Fusion] which allowed me to summon out [Elemental Hero Shining]. He did not have [Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier] in his extra deck so he was unable to get rid of it easily. He in end summoned out [Dragunity Knight - Vajrayana] in order to kill it first. However I think I drew into another [Miracle Fusion] and manged to win.

Second Game: It was to a point that I wasn't able to kill [Red Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon] because it was too fit and I had to count on [Elemental Hero Shining] to help me kill it. But Shining was bounced away by Baha's [Sacred Ptolemys Messier 7] and I got rushed in for the loss.

Third Game: Yes, [Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier] is very important in an extra deck whose deck has tuners available for easy access to level 6 synchro monsters! =X


Third Match VS Plant Kenneth (Wind-Up)
OXO

First Game: Blame [Elemental Hero Shining] for its tremendous attack strength that the [Wind-Up]s had problems dealing with.

Second Game: I got my whole hand totally sent to the grave and I blame myself for only putting 1 copy of [Elemental Hero Bubbleman] which I didn't had the luck of drawing it for some ray of hope =(

Third Game: [Effect Veiler]s and [Torrential Tribute]s used at the right time can help you to win against these self-touching [Wind-Up] decks.

Fourth Match VS Marcus (Hieratic/Hieroglyph)
XOO

First Game: I drew upon 2 copies of [Torrential Tribute] but I did not set any of them down for the fear of getting [Heavy Storm]ed in my opponent's turn. So I just set down a [Book of Moon],[Mystical Space Typhoon] and had a [Elemental Hero Stratos] summoned there. On Marcus' turn, he special summoned out [Hieratic Dragon of Tefnuit] and used [A Wingbeat of Giant Dragon] in an attempt to try to clear all of my magic/trap cards. However I chained towards the card's activation by using [Book of Moon] to flip Tefnuit into face-down defense position. That resulted in a "target lost" for [A Wingbeat of Giant Dragon]. However he then proceeded to do the One turn kill combo of that deck and I died terribly to it lol.

Second Game: Having [Skill Drain] early on the field and having enough [Gemini Sparks] with [Hero Blasts] to kill [Koa'ki Meiru Drago] is good! Not to mention that before I activated [Skill Drain], I already had a [Thunder King Rai-oh] standing fit there to stop Marcus' [Pot of Duality] and more.

Third Game: [Elemental Hero Shining] was not the only fusion monster that I could rely solely on to win me games. [Elemental Hero Absolute Zero] was the other fusion monster that got me my win.

With 3 wins, I managed to get up to the Top 8!

Top 8 Matches

First Match VS Sam (Laval)
XX-

First and Second Game: The exact same thing happened with my match against Winson's Laval deck. Damn! Blamed myself for not siding enough things to counter Laval Decks!

Second Match VS Bryan Ball-Snow (Inzektor)
OXO

First Game: With me drawing upon 3 copies of [Gemini Spark], it was hard for a [Inzektor] deck to have control over me. So in this first game, I managed to gain all the control needed against a [Inzektor] deck.

Second Game: Died terrible when my [Elemental Hero Shining] wasn't able to retrieve back any HEROs when battling against a [Ryko, Lightsworn Hunter] due to a mis-timing issue.

Third Game: Identical to the first game, I managed to snatch upon the tide of control.

Third Match VS I don't know who I was supposed to play against lol. Immediately the prizes were given out

Final Conclusion: 5th/6th placing

Prize: Numbers 50 - The Black Corn

Labels: Tournaments

Thursday, March 1, 2012

For those not updated with the recent changes to the banlist starting effect from today March 1st 2012. I've compiled instead, the full list of the banlist right below, so take a look and start tuning your decks!


Legend - * is newly added cards


Forbidden/Banned Cards 「禁止カード」:
The following cards cannot be placed into a deck:


Substitoad 「イレカエル」
Victory Dragon 「ヴィクトリー・ドラゴン」
Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End 「混沌帝龍　－終焉の使者－」
Sinister Serpent 「キラー・スネーク」
Witch of the Black Forest 「黒き森のウィッチ」
Dark Magician of Chaos 「混沌の黒魔術師」
Fishborg Blaster 「フィッシュボーグ－ガンナー」
Mental Master 「メンタルマスター」
Thousand-Eyes Restrict 「サウザンド・アイズ・サクリファイス」
Cyber Jar 「サイバーポッド」
Makyura the Destructor 「処刑人－マキュラ」
Magician of Faith 「聖なる魔術師」
Trishula - Dragon of the Ice Boundary 「氷結界の龍 トリシューラ」*
Dark Strike Fighter 「ダーク・ダイブ・ボンバー」
Goyou Guardian 「ゴヨウ・ガーディアン」
Tsukuyomi 「月読命」
Destiny Hero - Disk Commander 「Ｄ－ＨＥＲＯディスクガイ」
Cyber-Stein 「デビルフランケン」
Tribe-Infecting Virus 「同族感染ウィルス」
Fiber Jar 「ファイバーポッド」
Magical Scientist 「魔導サイエンティスト」
Yata-Garasu 「八汰烏」
Rescue Cat 「レスキューキャット」
Mirage of Nightmare 「悪夢の蜃気楼」
Delinquent Duo 「いたずら好きな双子悪魔」
Temple of the Kings 「王家の神殿」
Confiscation 「押収」
Painful Choice 「苦渋の選択」
The Forceful Sentry 「強引な番兵」
Giant Trunade 「ハリケーン」
Snatch Steal 「強奪」
Pot of Greed 「強欲な壺」
Change of Heart 「心変わり」
Raigeki 「サンダー・ボルト」
Dimension Fusion 「次元融合」
Card of Safe Return 「生還の宝札」
Brain Control 「洗脳－ブレインコントロール」
Butterfly Dagger - Elma 「蝶の短剣－エルマ」
Graceful Charity 「天使の施し」
Harpie's Feather Duster 「ハーピィの羽根帚」
Premature Burial 「早すぎた埋葬」
Mass Driver 「マスドライバー」
Metamorphosis 「突然変異」
Last Will 「遺言状」
Imperial Order 「王宮の勅命」
Royal Oppression 「王宮の弾圧」
Trap Dustshoot 「ダスト・シュート」*
Exchange of the Spirit 「現世と冥界の逆転」
Crush Card Virus 「死のデッキ破壊ウイルス」
Sixth Sense 「第六感」
Time Seal 「刻の封印」
Ring of Destruction 「破壊輪」
Last Turn 「ラストバトル！」

Restricted Cards 「制限カード」:
Only 1 copy of the following cards can be placed into a deck:

Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning 「カオス・ソルジャー　－開闢の使者－」
Elemental Hero Stratos 「Ｅ・ＨＥＲＯエアーマン」
Dandelion 「ダンディライオン」
Debris Dragon 「デブリ・ドラゴン」
Gladial Beast Bestarori 「剣闘獣ベストロウリィ」
Sangan 「クリッター」
Summon Priest 「召喚僧サモンプリースト」
Reborn Tengu 「」*
Plaguespreader Zombie 「ゾンビキャリア」
Dark Armed Dragon 「ダーク・アームド・ドラゴン」
Lonefire Blossom 「ローンファイア・ブロッサム」
Night Assailant 「深淵の暗殺者」
Neo-Spacian Grand Mole 「Ｎ･グランモール」
Necroface 「ネクロフェイス」
Honest 「オネスト」
Brionac - Dragon of the Ice Boundary 「氷結界の龍 ブリューナク」
Tech Genus - Hyper Librarian 「ＴＧ ハイパー・ライブラリアン」
Formula Synchron 「フォーミュラ・シンクロン」
Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En 「真六武衆－シエン」
Exodia the Forbidden One 「封印されしエクゾディア」
Right Leg of the Forbidden One 「封印されし者の右足」
Right Arm of the Forbidden One 「封印されし者の右腕」
Left Leg of the Forbidden One 「封印されし者の左足」
Left Arm of the Forbidden One 「封印されし者の左腕」
Blackwing - Kalut the Moon Shadow 「BF－月影のカルート」
Blackwing - Gale the Hurricane 「BF-疾風のゲイル」
Emissary of Darkness - Gorz 「冥府の使者ゴーズ」
Mezuki 「馬頭鬼」
Morphing Jar 「メタモルポット」 
Burial from a Different Dimension 「異次元からの埋葬」
Infernity Gun 「インフェルニティガン」
Foolish Burial 「おろかな埋葬」
Black Whirlwind 「黒い旋風」
Advanced Ritual Art 「高等儀式術」
Monster Reborn 「死者蘇生」
Primal Seed 「原初の種」
Scapegoat 「スケープ・ゴート」
Mind Control 「精神操作」
Reinforcement of the Army 「増援」
Cold Wave 「大寒波」
Card Destruction 「手札抹殺」
Pot of Avarice 「貪欲な壺」
Heavy Storm 「大嵐」
Charge of the Light Brigade 「光の援軍」
Dark Hole 「ブラック・ホール」
Future Fusion 「未来融合－フューチャー・フュージョン」
Reasoning 「名推理」
Monster Gate 「モンスターゲート」
Allure of Darkness 「闇の誘惑」
Limiter Removal 「リミッター解除」
One for One 「ワン・フォー・ワン」
Book of Moon 「月の書」 
Solemn Judgment 「神の宣告」
Mirror Force 「聖なるバリア －ミラーフォース－」
Ceasefire 「停戦協定」
The Transmigration Prophecy 「転生の予言」
Wall of Revealing Light 「光の護封壁」
Magical Explosion 「マジカル・エクスプロージョン」

Semi-Restricted Cards 「準制限カード」:
Only 2 copies of the following cards can be placed into a deck:

Archlord Krystia 「大天使クリスティア」
Card Gunner 「カードガンナー」
Necro Gardna 「ネクロ・ガードナー」
Tragoedia 「トラゴエディア」
Summoner Monk 「召喚僧サモンプリースト」
Marshmallon 「マシュマロン」*
Lumina - Lightlord Summoner 「ライトロード・サモナー ルミナス」*
D-HERO Diabolicguy 「Ｄ－ＨＥＲＯ ディアボリックガイ」
Dewloren - Tiger King of the Ice Boundary 「氷結界の虎王ドゥローレン」
Chain Strike 「連鎖爆撃」
Royal Tribute 「王家の生け贄」
Destiny Draw 「デステニー・ドロー」
Swords of Revealing Light 「光の護封剣」
Magical Stone Excavation 「魔法石の採掘」 
Emergency Teleport 「緊急テレポート」* 
Shien's Smoke Signal 「紫炎の狼煙」* 
Level Limit - Area B 「レベル制限Ｂ地区」* 
Torrential Tribute 「激流葬」* 
Ultimate Offering [血の代償]*
Ojama Trio 「おジャマトリオ」
Bottomless Trap Hole 「奈落の落とし穴」
Mind Crush 「マインドクラッシュ」
Magic Cylinder 「魔法の筒」
Solemn Warning 「神の警告」

Released from the Banlist/No longer restricted 「準制限」:
3 copies allowed per deck:

Call of the Haunted 「リビングデッドの呼び声」*

Labels: Banlist

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Hi guys! As you all might have known, this year's Yu-Gi-Oh! Asia Championships will be held in Singapore on the 15th of April 2012! Singapore's own qualifiers will be held on the same day, after which the Asia Championships will be held immediately after it. Below here are the info that has been provided to me.




Date: 15 April 2012(Sunday)
Venue: SCAPE warehouse, level 2
Registration time: 0930hrs - 1000hrs

Note: Late comers will not be entertained

1st Place: Rights to represent Singapore in the Asia Championships 2012 regional finals held immediately after the Singapore qualifiers
Remainder prizes to be updated

Entry Fee per player: Free
Door Gift for all participants: Asia Championship 2012 Goodie Bag


Single Elimination
*For seeded players, information as follows
Division D Seeded players will enter round 3 of the Single Elimination directly
Division C Seeded players will enter round 4 of the Single Elimination directly
Division B Seeded players will enter round 5 of the Single Elimination directly
Division A Seeded players will enter round 6 of the Single Elimination directly
Note that all seeded players are still required to do online registration as per normal. Failure to register online will be treated as no interest to participate

Seeded players are as follows: (To check, view http://www.konami-asia.com/th/yugi/event/seeded_player_2012.php?lang=en&ct=sg )
Division A - 333-XXX-963 ANG CALVIN
Division A - 333-XXX-852 HO SHU MIAO
Division B - 333-XXX-175 CHEW KAH MENG
Division B - 333-XXX-502 LEE LIANSENG
Division C - 333-XXX-917 BENJAMIN LIM BAI CHUAN
Division C - 333-XXX-852 BRYAN CHUA
Division D - 333-XXX-659 BRANDON CHEW
Division D - 333-XXX-828 CHUAN ZHI
Division D - 333-XXX-677 CHOO WEE MIN
Division D - 333-XXX-816 MICHAEL SANTOSO


1. Deck Construction Rules
Deck must be between 40 to 60 cards, inclusive.
Extra Deck, while optional, must be between 0 to 15 cards, inclusive.
Side Deck, while optional, must be between 0 to 15 cards, inclusive.

2. Time limit of each match: 45 mins

3. No Fake cards or Proxys allowed in the event.

4. 1st MAR 2012 OCG Ban and Restricted list used in Tournament.

5. 19th March 2011 Priority Ruling in effect.

6. Card Legality
Only legally distributed Japanese cards are legal for use in sanctioned tournaments in Asia (excluding Japan and South Korea), namely:

* Booster Pack
* Duelist Pack
* Extra Pack
* Gold Series
* Tournament Pack
* Premium Pack 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14
* Yu-Gi-Oh: Super Fusion! Bonds That Transcend Time Movie Pack
* Starter Deck / Structure Deck
* Video Game Promotional Cards
* World Ranking Promotional Cards
* OCG Duel Terminal 1 & 2
*OCG Duelist Box 2012

Asian English cards are legal.

The following are illegal (unless reprinted in at least one of the above*):

o Premium Pack 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 11, 12
o Limited Edition Pack
o Duel Disk Promotional Cards
o OCG Duel Terminal 3 and onwards
o Anniversary Pack
o Shueisha Promotional Cards
o Weekly Jump
o V Jump
o Valuable Book
o Master Guide
o Video Game Guide
o Yu-Gi-Oh! Manga
o Yu-Gi-Oh! R Manga
o Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Manga
o Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D Manga
o Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal Manga

*If the card is reprinted in at least one of the legal sets, you may use any version of that card. For example, Jurrac Guaiba was reprinted in Tournament Pack 2011 Vol. 3, hence you’re allowed to use the Duel Terminal version of Jurrac Guaiba.
**Even though Return of the Duelist is released on 14 April, it will not be legal to be used in the Asia Championships 2012

7. Any players who are found cheating or changing of cards during the tournament will be disqualified immediately.

8. All players are to submit their deck list online to register for the tournament prior to the event and ensure that their decks fulfill the rulings above.
*All players are to note that submission of decklists does not mean that responsibility of having a legal deck or not goes to the judges. Players not complying to the deck legality as per above rulings may be disqualified even if already mid game.

9. Only original Konami Deck Protectors can be used with the exception of deck protectors from Duel Disks or character deck protectors which are not allowed to be used in the tournament. [E.g. no Prisma or Starlight Road duel disk deck protectors]
*Will be strictly enforced as we will be hosting the Regional finals this year, please take note.

10. Double layer deck protectors are allowed, provided the outer layer must be a transparent deck protector. Players must use same color protectors for their decks, extra deck and side deck. No markings are allowed on protectors

11. Judges have the right to disqualify duelist who misconduct or violate rules

12. Judges decision is final

More rules and regulation can be found in http://www.konami-asia.com/th/yugi5d/en/event/dk_rule.html

13. Players who join must be a Singapore Citizen or Singapore PR. You may participate if you are none of the above mentioned but you will NOT be allowed to represent Singapore in the event that you win.

14. Players are reminded to bring along the following

. Pen
. Paper
. Playmat
. Duelist ID card
- Decklist
. Calculator
*Players are reminded to bring either pen and paper or calculator to calculate life points.

15. ALL THE PLAYERS MUST HAVE DUELIST ID TO JOIN, CLICK HERE TO APPLY
http://www.konami-asia.com/th/yugi5d/en/event/dk_duelist_id_apply.html


Hope this helps people! I will update again if there is any occurring changes!
If not, you can always visit this link here to get the information yourself too!

http://sg-ygo.userboard.net/t8458-asia-championships-2012

Labels: Tournaments, Updates

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Hey there to all readers out there! Ever since the leak about the banlist has appeared for around 1 and a half weeks or so. Many had a lot of disbelief for the scans at Shriek's website about whether it was real or not. But too bad to say people, it is real and we have to face it! Hard times are ahead! (Well perhaps not too much to duelists that uses more of Inzektors since its one of the most powerful and autopilot decks around!)


 - Perhaps Konami is trying to put an end to all the decks out there that is still trying to abuse Synchro monsters to its fullest, example would be like [Debris Junk Doppel] and decks that like to use [Phantom Skyblaster] for easy tuning with [Spore] or [Glow-Up Bulb] for synchro summoning out [Trishula , Dragon of the Ice Barrier]
But with this done, your graveyards are probably much much safer with the disappearance of Trishula. Inzektors will be able to rule the world with much more ease.

True though people will say that Junk Doppel decks can still have [Effect Veiler] around as their level 1 tuner monster. But still though, it will not be as fast as it is now with effect from 1st of March 2012!

- Personally I feel its good that this card is banned. I feel so much safer now having 4 or more cards in my hand without the fear of my opponent having the chance to peak at it! This allows Control type decks to try to predict more on what do you have in your disposal before trying to make any wrong moves that will lose their control over the field with you.


- The above 2 has just spouted the end of T.G Angel decks as it wouldn't be as consistent as before with these 2 cards both restricted to 1 copy at the same time. Reason being you won't be able to spam [Tech Genus Striker] for ease of special summon and to synchro for various synchro monsters but mainly being [Tech Genus Wonder Magician]. Or to even pair up with [Tech Genus Warwolf] perfectly!

With [The Agent of Mystery, Earth] to 1 copy, consistency of the deck will be that [The Agent of Creation, Venus] will not be so frequently seen on the field that quickly because it will not be able to be searched out by Earth as soon as possible. While this also means 2 lesser banishing fodder for [Master Hyperion]! Whether it would be banishing Earth for its summoning or for its destruction effect, it still proves to be a big hit for Agent Angel type decks now.



- Um... I've no comments about this really. Would you prefer playing [Spirit Reaper] or this card? Perhaps you can place this card in your Agent Angel decks as replacement for[The Agent of Mystery, Earth]! *laughs*

- Looks like Konami would like to bring back Lightsworn decks with a little more buff than before! How about mixing in the new archtypes brought in by [Galactic Overlord]? The [Lightray] theme sounds cool!

Emergency Teleport [緊急テレポート]
- This card was very good about 4 years ago when Tele DAD decks were rampaging around. However, even with this card back to 2 copies. It'd probably will not be seeing as much play as the era 4 years ago. Or even a year ago when [Mental Master] was still around. But now that its banned. The few good psychic type monsters to call upon would be like [Krebons]. Other than that, I could be wrong about the lesser play but.. it would be fun to see psychic decks trying to make their revival debut into the meta! =D

- This increases consistency for the Legendary Six Samurai decks! However with Inzektors coming about with even more resources and advantage generating effects. Even with this card back to 2 copies. The Legendary Six Samurai will still find it harder to gain the edge over the Inzektors in speed for control.

- The same when [Gravity Bind] gained its freedom. With cards like [Mystical Space Typhoon] at 3 copies. I don't really feel that this card will make any impact towards the current meta. With Xyz monsters not affected by this card as well.

- More upon-summon destruction traps would be useful against Inzektors or The Legendary Six Samurai to prevent them from trying to gain the edge over you. However, will this encourage more people in placing [Starlight Road] in their main/side decks?

- Offering Gadgets decks will slow down just by abit. They'd probably would be able to kill even without the final copy of this card.

- Even though the OCG hasn't gotten this card into our arsenal. By restricting this card first beforehand could be a good move as this means that this card will not be as powerful as it should be when it enters the OCG.(Means that it will be so much cheaper to get in 2s rather than 3s! Oh yea!)


- More Inzektor love! Enough said.

Well thats it for today's post! Been trying out the new archtype released in [Galactic Overlord] recently! Hope that it will be good enough for me to publish it soon! See you guys soon!

Labels: Banlist

Saturday, January 28, 2012

All right people! This is going to be the first and last post for the month of January by me, Dogchain! Sorry for this late post as I was busy testing out different builds for the recently released improved [Ninja] monsters.
As seen much in Shriek's website of the different decklists tested in Japan for the [Ninja] series. Most of them are being paired up with Dinosaurs type monsters such as the [Jurac] series because of their ability to quickly Xyz summon the formidable walking negation monster, [Evolzar Laggia].

I'm sure that many have tried to test out what can the [Ninja] series pair up with because of their newly released trap card in [Order of Chaos], the [Ninja Art of Super-Transformation]. If you do not know the effect of this trap card. Here it is below!



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忍法 超変化の術
Ninjitsu Art of Super-Transformation
Continuous Trap
Target 1 face-up [Ninja] monster you control and 1 face-up monster your opponent controls; send them to the graveyard, then Special Summon to your side of the field 1 Dragon, Dinosaur or Sea-Serpent type monster from your deck whose level is less than or equal to the combined level of the sent monster(s). When this card leaves the field, banish that monster.

I've decided to pair the [Ninja]s up with Dragon type monsters to see how will they fare with each other. Which, at the right timing. New allies from the new structure deck [Dragonic Legion] provides the deck with even more powerful Dragon type monsters. Deck list right below!







1x Lavalval Chain
1x Daigusta Emeral
1x Armored Ninja - Blade Heart

Through many days of testing for the build of this deck. This is one of the most consistent and stable build that I've found out by trial and error. These are the various points of the deck that I'm going to point out for easy reference.

1. [Ninja Grandmaster Hanzo] is here because of its ability to search out the [Ninjitsu Art of Super-Transformation] or when special summoned, is able to search out for [Upstart Golden Ninja]. Because of its searching ability and a decent atk strength of 1800, it is a very versatile beat-stick plus being able to use for the [Ninjitsu Art of Super-Transformation] for its own protection to call upon a higher-level Dragon Type monster after searching this trap card out.

2. [Upstart Golden Ninja] is able to discard a unusable trap card which does not favor your situation into calling out [Ninja Grandmaster Hanzo] for easy Xyz Summoning of a Rank 4 Xyz monster such as [Lavalval Chain], [Daigusta Emeral] and a warrior exclusive Xyz monster, the [Armored Ninja - Blade Heart]

3. [Summoner Monk] is the versatility of this deck. It does not restrict itself to summoning only level 4 monsters such as the [Ninja] series. It is the only one card that is able to bring out [Eclipse Wyvern] as well as a Xyz Summoning material.

4. The Chaos Summoning series such as the [Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning], [Lightpulsar Dragon] and [Darkflare Dragon] are the only ones that can fully utilise the effect of [Eclipse Wyvern]. For those that do not know the effect of [Eclipse Wyvern] , here it is below!




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エクリプス・ワイバーン
Eclipse Wyvern
Effect Monster/Light/Dragon/LV 4
ATK 1600/DEF 1000
If this card is sent to the graveyard; Banish 1 level 7 or higher Light or Dark Dragon-Type monster from your deck. If this card in the graveyard is banished; You can add the monster banished by this card's effect to your hand.


So why does the Chaos Summoning series work well with this card? Well, their ability to remove 1 Light and 1 Dark monster for summoning is helpful for [Eclipse Wyvern] as removing this card as a Light Material while in the graveyard is able to retrieve the Dragon-type monster that was removed previously by [Eclipse Wyvern]'s effect. A good monster to remove for [Eclipse Wyvern] in the deck would probably be [Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon]. As since the Chaos Summoning series are mostly dragons in the ratio of 4:1. After removing [Eclipse Wyvern] and retrieving [Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon] would be a good chance to summon it immediately to swarm up the field with another Dragon-Type monster.

Plus [Eclipse Wyvern] is a good Rank 4 Xyz summon material because even as a Overlay-Unit, once it is sent to the graveyard, it's effect will still be activated nonetheless.


5. The new Dragonic Legion Allies : [Lightpulsar Dragon] and [Darkflare Dragon]. Before the explanation of this 2 monsters. Lets have a description of their effects right below!



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ライトパルサー・ドラゴン
Lightpulsar Dragon
Effect Monster/Light/Dragon/LV 6
ATK 2500/DEF1500
This card can be Special Summoned from the hand by removing 1 light and 1 dark monster respectively from your graveyard. You can Special Summon this card from your graveyard by sending 1 light and 1 dark monster from your hand to the graveyard. When this card is sent from the field to the graveyard, you can target 1 level 5 or above Dark Dragon-type monster from your graveyard, Special Summon that target.



SD22-JP002
ダークフレア・ドラゴン
Darkflare Dragon
Effect Monster/Dark/Dragon/LV 5
ATK 2400/DEF 1200
This card can be Special Summoned from the hand by removing 1 light and 1 dark monster respectively from your graveyard. Once per turn, by sending 1 Dragon type monster each from your hand and deck to the graveyard to target 1 card in either player's graveyard; Banish that target.

Now that we've seen the respective effects of these 2 above Dragon monsters. Lets give an explanation to their abilities.

For [Lightpulsar Dragon] its ability to send 1 light or dark monster to the graveyard is very useful and can be linked up to its 3rd Revival ability. This also brings about why [Ninja Grandmaster Hanzo] is also useful because when it is Special Summoned, it is able to search out another [Ninja] monster in the deck other than itself to be added to the hand. In this case for this deck, the only other [Ninja] target would be [Upstart Golden Ninja]. Then [Upstart Golden Ninja] can be a fodder from the hand to send to the grave for [Lightpulsar Dragon]'s self revival effect. A good dark monster fodder could be either [Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon] or [Darkflare Dragon] as once they are in the graveyard, it makes your opponent think twice about trying to get rid of [Lightpulsar Dragon] from the field and send it to the grave as if it calls upon [Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon] out, it may begin a infinite loop for a never-dying [Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon] and [Lightpulsar Dragon] combo, provided that cards like [Macro Cosmos], [Dimensional Fissure] or [D.D Crow]s do not break it.

For [Darkflare Dragon], its a personal favourite of mine because it has the ability to send 1Dragon type monster each from my hand and deck to the graveyard! Not caring about whether the banishing effect resolves. The only strong part is about the cost of activating the effect as it allows me to send [Eclipse Wyvern] or [Lightpulsar Dragon] to the graveyard for easy setup of future turn combos.

6. [Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon] is only there for fun as it is a 4th target for [Eclipse Wyvern] provided that all of your [Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon] are no longer in the deck for [Eclipse Wyvern] to benefit from. Plus having this card in the deck will make your deck pretty immune to the effects of cards like [Wind-Up Zenmaines] and [Gachi Gachi Gantetsu]

7. [Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning] , it is the strongest Chaos Summoning Monster, enough said! However as it is not a Dragon Type monster. It'd probably won't be able to continue anymore combos rather it will just be a huge threat to your opponent, distracting him/her from your other combos.

Cards that can be added to the deck

1. [Divine Dragon Apocralyph] can be a good addition to the deck as it can be a good setup to the never-dying [Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon] and [Lightpulsar Dragon] combo. Simply just discard [Lightpulsar Dragon], select a [Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon] in your graveyard and add it to your hand, then removing [Divine Dragon Aprocralyph] and summoning out [Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon] then reviving out [Lightpulsar Dragon] does it! If you guys have not discovered what [Divine Dragon Apocralyph] is. Here it is below!



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神竜 アポカリプス
Divine Dragon Apocralyph
Effect Monster/Dark/Dragon/LV 4
ATK 1000/DEF 1500
Once per turn, you can discard 1 card from hand to activate this effect. Target 1 Dragon Type monster from your graveyard; Add that target to your hand.

2. [Dragon's Mirror] is a good card paired up with [Future Fusion]! However why I did not add that card to the deck is because by removing the other 2 more dragons with the [Eclipse Wyvern] does bring about 3 more hand cards advantage. However the other 2 dragons that were removed along with [Eclipse Wyvern] may be important pieces for swarming the field. So this is a good card, however you must be careful when using it.

3. [Escape from the Dark Dimension] is also another good card, however I chose [Different Dimension Reincarnation - D.D.R] over it as [D.D.R] is more generalised and it allows me to discard 1 card from my hand to activate. That means being able to discard cards such as [Eclipse Wyvern] and [Lightpulsar Dragon]. However [Escape from the Dark Dimension] is also good as sometimes you don't really want to discard important cards and would like to revive cards that were banished by your own [Ninjitsu Art of Super-Transformation]'s negative effect like [Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon] and [Darkflare Dragon].


Alright! That marks the end of today's long post! If you have any questions or advice, please feel free to talk to us at our tagboard or even at the comments section of the post. You could even send us an email! Till next time, cya!

Labels: Card Reviews, Decklist