Cyber Dragon plus Dark soul rulings.

Is one of the most underrated cards this format. Aside from Cyclone la.

Just a few simple reasons.

A plus one presence on the field is always a good thing.

Throwing a 2100 attack beatstick on the field helps you bait out a Bottomless Trap Hole (which works 90% of the time among inexperienced players) and can help you gain bigger massive tempo in the game, especially in the early game.

Even in the late game, Cyber Dragon is very good when you are topdecking for monsters for your life.

With less and lesser ppl playing Bottomless Trap Hole now, Cyber Dragon can evade Bottomless Trap Hole etc so its a strong monster presence.

For decks like XX Sabers, Cyber Dragon helps you add aggro to your first turn field while you set Emmersblade or Darksoul for set up.

And when attacking an opponent's monster, you can make your opponent lose a monster because 2100 attack is usually gonna overcome anything in early game.

Sometimes, your opponent could waste stuff like Book of Moon / Ryko's effect and other stuff just to kill Cyber Dragon.

In sabers, Cyber Dragon can be used as a level 5 synchro fodder meaning you can bring out Black Rose with Pashuul, and a level 8 with Fullhelm Knight.

In Plants, especially Thanh Nguyen's build, Im gonna call that the 2 Cyber Dragons were the reason why his Plant Synchron won one of those YCS.

It gives you A HELL LOT more synchro variety in plants, and it just means more late game shenanigens. Cyber Dragon + Pot of Avarice = 2100 beatstick which came out for free + 2 cards from deck (more options) which puts you even further ahead than just having one Pot of Avarice in late game.

Cyber Dragon is Trishula fodder too.

Can also be used at tribute fodder for Caius.

Being at 2100 attack means it gets over Thunderking Raioh, which is very annoying.

For Samurai, they could side Cyber Dragon to kill Kinetic Soldier. It is very easy to bait out Kinetic Soldier.

No in-depth posting because feel weak so gonna hit the gym and then go out to catch a movie, and have dinner with friends.

And the airport just called to say my suitcase has been found! Hurrah!

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Also, could anyone from the TCG notify me of Darksoul's current rulings? As far as i've heard, Darksoul has been nerfed to searching one monster per Darksoul.

However there is no notification on yugioh-card, nor is there anything on Yugioh Wikia. Even with the nerf, Dark Soul is still strong.

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Edit : here is dark soul rulings. EVERYONE FROM KL PLEASE TAKE NOTE INCLUDING SUNG LEE / COOKIE/ AND EVERYONE WHO TOLD ME IT WAS NERFED.

thanks to Light Grunty who sent me a link.

thanks to ting jun for telling me singapore still uses the old one. and lfn too for telling me theres been no change so far.

Here's a link to what Julia said.

Now i will copy and paste because there are bound to be some people who still ask stupid questions after the confirmation link.

This is what Julia posted on Pojo:


This is how XX-Saber Darksoul works, so please read.

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Don't beleive what some guy at your locals tells you he heard from Konami. He is full of baloney.

WHO WANTS TO SEE ME DEBUNK THE CONFUSION ABOUT DARKSOUL

I KNOW I DO

I BET YOU DO

READY????

LET'S GO!!!
Wait - before you read this, note that there is a large FALSE in front of the FALSE statement. That means the FALSE statement is FALSE.
There is a large TRUE in front of the TRUE statement. That means the TRUE statement is TRUE. TRUE means it is the ruling you should use.

If you guys can't understand that I give up.


OK

HERE WE GO

FALSE: The effect of "XX-Saber Darksoul" can only activate the effect of "adding 1 "X-Saber" monster from your Deck to your hand" once, no matter how many
times it is sent from the field to the Graveyard. (This is not how the card works. You should not do this).

TRUE: The effect of "XX-Saber Darksoul" activates when it is sent to the Graveyard, although the effect is not applied until the End Phase. If it was sent multiple times during the turn, these effects can "stack up" and you can add 1 X-Saber monster to your hand for each time the effect activated. (This is how the card works! This is the ruling you should use!)

FALSE: The effect of "XX-Saber Darksoul" will not activate if "XX-Saber Darksoul" is not in the Graveyard during the End Phase which it was or would have
been sent to the Graveyard. (This is not how the card works. You should not do this).

TRUE: The effect of "XX-Saber Darksoul" activates when it is sent to the Graveyard. Assuming it actually made it to the Graveyard, it doesn't matter where Darksoul is during the End Phase. (This is how the card works! This is the ruling you should use!)

These are apparent from the card text. If the card text should ever change, we would notify everyone (everyone - at the same time!) on the official web site.

In other words, we will not email one store and tell them. We will not email one judge and tell them. We will not announce it suddenly at an event.
If you hear there was a change sent to a store, to one judge, or suddenly at an event, don't believe it.