Command from the Royal Palace and Grats to Jeff Jones!

Jeff Jones is the winner of the last SJ championship!

I'm impressed by the Quickdraw Dandylion deck. The name is stupid, but the deck is cool. But the name really sounds so gay to me.

Works pretty much like Synchro Cat because it sets up the field and then later takes control of the game with good gamebreaking combos.

Its definitely nice to read new feature matches instead of the usual BF and Lightlords.

But what amazes me is how come not even a single BF top??? TCG players totally give up on BF?

I saw a feature match of a guy teching Dark Eruption. Wth? Nothing better to play isit.

Has BF and GB been totally reduced to tier 1.5 or 2 in the TCG (quotes D-Slayer)

Still, from all those feature matches, I find that Quickdraw Dandylion decks can draw very bad crappy hands. I've seen many matches where the opening hands are very bad.

Maybe its because of the high monster count?

Or lack of synergy? Though I doubt it. Since it has lots of synergy.

I dont see why Jeff Jones should run Trooper in his build. Its ok ok only. If i were him, I would spam 1 copy of Reinforcements of the Light to search Ryko (like what Jerry Wang did)

OK, so again, why the bad hands?? I dunno too, i never play the deck, all I know is this ceratinly gives you TCG ppl something to think about!

Also, why was there not a single Flamvell Monarch or Flamvell Cat deck there??????????

Did Jae Kim scare them off with his article about Flamvell Firedog and Shura??? (which was sort of a hidden warning to TCG ppl to watch out for it and to maindeck more Raiko and Spy!!)

Shows the influence of the spiky hair dude in YuGiOh. Hehe.

Old school gadgets in 2nd place!!!

So, with the rise of Quickdraw Dandylion and Synchro Cat decks, lets see how we can thwart both decks with a single card!

Lets look at: Royal Command!

the image is so big, you ppl can read it urself.

So what does this do?
* Stop the Hamster from setup
* Stop the Raiko dog from preventing setup.
* Stop Gravekeeper Spy from setup with Descendant or another one.

Best deck to play this card in? BF. Lets stop the setup of Cat and Quickdraw dandylion warrior!
Afterall, there ISN'T any specific card that we can side in to vs that deck right....
Unlike Infernity/ Bf/ Lightlords that have specific cards to stop them dead in their tracks.

Here, we learn another important lesson today!

The importance of setup!

Which is another characteristic of a Tier 1 deck:
* being able to set up well.
* being able to break opponent's set-up decks well too.

So being tier 1, you must have:
1) the ability to set up well and break set up too.
2) have such godly setup or big opening plays till you dont need to worry about breaking ppl's setup.

GB has totally been reduced to tier 1.5 in the TCG and the OCG. Every format, ppl think "walao! *so and so* deck is dead and the best thing left to play is GB!"

Lesson learnt: Do not believe other ppl or ourselves when we think about it.

GB is a skill-oriented deck. And the best way to play it is to simplify all the game, with one-for-ones and make even trades while building tempo for huge Gyzarus plays and to gain back advantage with Equeste. In my opinion, its how GB is meant to be played.

As many decks are autopilot and about only 20% to 30% (approximately) of the YuGiOh players have immense depth and skill or are considered awesome born winners.

Possibly 2/3 of those duelists are playing tier 1 meta decks of the format. He or she has probably a good number of cards, a decent collection, and has just about the important cards for every sort of deck that has potential, so that he or she can use it in the formats to come if that deck suddenly blooms.

Now if we subtract everything the number of duelists left that are skilled are only 7% to 10% of the duelists left that MAY or may NOT play GB.

That's why GB is a hard contender in tourneys and competitive scenes as hardly any ppl play it. Only a minority of those players are skilled. And there are alot of decks that can do the same thing it does, if not better, eg: gadgets.

No offence to GB players. I apologise if this has offended you. But its the harsh truth. I have seen and do know some tough and skilled GB players though.

From Malaysia, eg: Michael Yap and the guy who top Malaysian tourney in 3rd or 4th place last year.

Good day guys!