Well its just one month to banlist folks and i here wanna make a speculation. The banlist is probably the most crucial part of the yugioh game where broken decks will have their power-reduced and broken cards will stay in our binder and collect dust.
So here is the changes to the banlist (IMO)
Banned cards.
ADDED: Dhero diskguy- do i have to mention why? [limit reverse], [arms hole]s, briunac loop, zombie madness, [destiny draw] everything makes this card just so good and i am really sick of seeing this card (actually i never seen one because no one in my area has it and neither do i =D)
Premature burial- why? because its broken. thats why. briunac loops it infinitely, arms hole recycles it and everything its so much better than [call of the haunted]. The fact that the monster isnt gone from the field when this card is bounced back to hand/deck makes it really nifty around Briunac and [giant trunade]
Dimension fusion- its banned in TCG. Its bound to be banned anyway. The banlist will most likely look as alike as the OCG/ TCG ones anywya. That makes this card banned whether we care or not.
Restricted to one
Added: Breaker the magical warrior- originally banned. I dont see why it shouldnt return, its not much of a threat anyway. Anyway if you guys have been observing the previous banlists, breaker has been banned at every march banlist and released back at every september ones. Will it be the same this time? We'll just have to wait and see.
Gladiator beast Bestiari- Im not gonna limit kaiseris because this is the root of evil in gladiator beast decks, Why? kaiseris can be stopped if this card is gone! Why people wanna limit kaiseris i also dont't know. This card is more splashable than [GB kaiseris]. Look at it this way. If [GB bestiari] is gone, 3[GB kaiseris] in ur opponent extra deck also no need to fear. If we limit kaiseris and we kill off 1 [GB bestiari], its not gone yetr! 2 more bestiari in deck/ hand will still be able to contact out the [GB kaiseris] in fusion deck! If u [Bottomless trap hole]d [GB kaiseris] and say its gone forever ur opponent will still be able to create havoc with [GB bestiari] around. But if u bth [GB bestiari] or [dd crow] it when it gets to grave, its gone forever no more signs of [GB kaiseris]. I hope this isnt confusing and hope u guys agree with me on this 0ne....
Dark armed dragon- Konami dint kill this guy off in the previous banlist because they wanted TCG to have a chance to use it...They got their fun we got our fun [ and unfun =( ] so its time to say bye bye to this guyt. If restricted to one, its no more of a mayhem hehee....
Judgement dragon- another crazy crazy card that screams ban me or you will never see the end of lightlord decks!!! Pay 1000 points to destroy whole field and still keep this card on the field? Just damn crazy...3 turns later you got game....
Honest- This is crazy card also probably the best best best cover card monster ever! A [magic cylinder] and [reactive armor] rolled in one! IT cant even be predicted and it isnt affected by [light-sealing mirror]! siaw!!
Rescue cat- This lil kitty is more than meets the eye. It can really kill. The [rescue cat] synchro deck is really dominating the OCG meta now and i think it should be killed off or just kill of [x-saber airbellum] which i dont think will be a wise decision since promos are banned anyway....
Caius the shadow monarch- broken broken broken >.< everyone agrees on this one right?
Mezuki- oh my god, monster reborn for zombies. did its job too and stay on field or was a discard cost! Herey! Herey! Limit it! Limit it!
Confiscation- i just think this gem should be given back to us. I really miss the good old days when we would open the game with [confiscation] and then pay 1000 lp and see that look of despair or " shit ur just damn lucky..." on your opponent's faces. Sigh good times...good times...
Snatch steal- With the amount of monster-relianced metagames i think its time we get back an old card that can really change the game tide and has that " in your face" or " have a taste of your own medicine" written all over it. Steal [dhero BlooD] with it and your opponent is in deep shit.
Gladiator beast war chariot- a free counter trap that negates all sort of monster ignition effects ? N the only cost is to have a GB ont he field? This card screams kill me off or you'll regret it!
SEMI LIMIT LIST
Card of safe return- A bit too much at 3 a deck. Lets see it at 2 . Maybe its not so crazy? Plants and zombies abuse this card so well...
Reasoning + monster gate: okay i put 2 different cards in one cause they both hacve abt the same effects anyway. If one makes it int0 a deck the other is bound to be in as well, Oh well...
Royal oppresion- Im a bit still reconsidering this since its an anti-meta card thats too well. I know i know...Must kill meta, if this card become the new meta then how? Anyway itts maindecked and sidedecked to much...So keep at 2 a deck la....
OFF-list
Light and darkness dragon - doing no harm, come on konami let it back at 3.
Well, thats all im posting about. I'm bound to repost another one before the banlist (maybe in 3 weeks time?).
Im signing off now. Hope you guys agree with my decision, I know it looks a little bit like baha's but most people know what should be done or not, right? By the way guys i didnt include Magician of black chaos becuase its not doing any much harm now, I agree its broken but konami usually only bans the card if its really doing a lot of mayhem. Look so many other broken cards how come only some gets limit? So i sure hope this is good news if MOBC isnt gonna be limited (well at least thats my opinion)
Till next time, play hard play fair and have some fun. Im starting on a fanfic tomorrow. Its about the 5 signers but gonna change the characters, cant have yuusei running around all the time right? =D
off topic: Nick im not gonna ban Deon Lim from coming to this blog. In fact what im trying to say is that i CANNOT do thatIts your problem with him you settle it do NOT bring it to public and on to the World Wide Web. I hope this isnt offending you now, and i wont take sides
i'll just sit on top of the fence.
Look at it this way, its free will.
You cant BAN a person practically.
I mean look even if u say i ban "DL" or "asskicker" (no pun intended, no offence either) but they can still come and look and read and post in message box right?
Its free will. In fact if you ban them they might just make a new name and spam this blog even more and this will disappoint and make the other readers feel uncomfortable.
So what can you do? Settle things out with Deon. Things and action should be taken after consideration and looked upon on a neutral point of view not by feelings and personal issues. Take care man =)
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Plants ownnnn =)
gigaplant
botanity girl
camelia titanial
So im here to build a competitive plant deck since the new crossroads of chaos focuses on plants. Thus we have many support n new competitive startegies to bring out.
Lets start with a card that never really saw play because he was a plant n he helped plants. Y he is damn broken n i gurantee with plants out i will use him n play this deck ( remodified)
Lets welcome gigaplant
plant/2400/1200/level 6/earth
effect: When this card is summoned or in the graveyard/hand anyway else besides being resummoned, this card is treated as a normal monster. If this card was resumoned, u may gain this effect:
You may special summon one plant or insect card from tyour hand or graveyard.
Now with plants gettin bigger im glad i got my 3 copies. (hey ! its just common guys! In OCG)
So on to the plant deck:
20
3 gigaplant
2 botanity girl
3 weed
2 lonefire blossom
2 camelia titanial
2 cyber dragon
1 morphing jar
3 vandalygon the dark dragon lord
2 lord poison
11 spells
3 inferno reckless summoning
2 foolish burial
3 grass fertilizer
3 card of safe return
1 heavy storm
1 premature burial
1 monster reborn
10 traps
3 solemn judgemnt
2 divine wrath
2 dark bribe
2 bottomless trap hole
1 mirror force
extra deck
3 hell bramble
2 black rose dragon
2 stardust dragon
2 goyu guardian
1 AOJ catastor
1 brionac dragon of the ice boundary
3 dark end dragon
voila a deck of 41 cards packed perfectly into a crazy siaww deck that can kill seriously . A deck not expecting this startegy is gonna lose badly.
the deck works the same way as the il blud zombie used to. Basically it swarms the field except this time we have synchros.
Role of cards
Lord poison effect: special summon one plant monster from graveyard when this card is destroyed by battle. sweet right?
camelia titanial effect: 2800 attack is one reason to play it. It sacs one plant to negate the effect of one spell/ trap/ monster on the field that targets a card on the field n destroys it. Another good effect since the amount of reborning is gonna be alot. LOL. really wat with 3 gigaplant, lord poison and 3 grass fertilizers.
Lonefire blosson: Sac this card n bring out one plant type monster from the deck on to the field. Another sweet card effect right. Sac it for effect then use grass fertilizer to reborn it n special again. A big big effect n there's more to it such as thining deck (its a TCG exclusive card we don have it yet. but with extra pack coming out its bound to be in there as a common.)
weed : a level 2 tuner. Thats its role.
botanity girl: a witch of the black forest effect for plants. Great card too.
card of safe return: draw cards for doing nothing =.=
foolish burial: send card to grave for gigaplant n grass fertiliser, lord poison etc
Grass fertilizer: a monster reborn for plants every turn if u give up your normal summon. Use with caution. perfect with card of safe return
inferno reckless sumon: summon faster . I mean targetting just one monster n u get to summon 2-3 copies. Great with big monsters like Vandaly'gon and Camelia Titanial for OTK.
vanday'gon: with 7 counter traps in here i wanna run it.
Divine wrath: negates effect n discards plants also =)
Hell bramble ( extra deck) : deals 1000 damage per summon that is not plant. hehe painful card.
Dark end dragon: a destroyer n field clearer. Best man.
Okay i only put this deck together when writing the post. A good plant deck need not be like this. Its just the basic structure n idea. With many tech coming around we might even see this deck as a META deck. Lol. Maybe nia la. Since there r more cards from Crossroads Of Chaos that isn't released yet. So, there might be more great cards for plants. Well i dint run torrntial tribute because this deck usually does the swarm so i wouldnt wanna torrential my own plant army right???
Till next time play fair , play hard n make way for plants to break into the tournament scene. Michael signing off.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Okay. Here is to that sidedeck
Okay. Malaysia nationals coming up . Anyone going pls read this.
So i would like to make this clear:
NO promos can be used, U heard this im NOT JOKIN. Colin confirmed this, so did Gamers Arena shop in sungei Wang( the place where the tourney is held.)So..... don cry guys..... its okay. u just have to refrain from using
a) dhero diskuguy
b) airman
c) ARMS HOLE.
d) phantom of chaos
e) blooD decks (they r not bad. quite good actually,can reach Tier 1, not joking..)
f) duel terminal cards
okay im repeating myself so on to the post
Since all those decks r not to be worried abt anymore, lets go on to the metagame n c how its affected
the top decks in meta now r (in order)
1) dark decks
b) gladiator beast
3) lightlord
Personally if u ask me the most affected is NONE!!! none of these decks revolve around promo cards . Each deck probably runs one or two promo cards such as
a) gorz- staple
b) phantom of chaos- lightlord use for judgemnt dragoon and dark arm use for copying himself
c) ehero prisma- gladiator beast use it. but onli those who have it.....it isnt a staple n gladiator beats still run well without them...
So to couunter those decks we need
a) light imprisoning mirror
b) dark imprisoning mirror
well those mirrors shut down one common thing - dark n lights. Yes they shut down all Dark/ light effects in field and graveyard BUT NOT HAND- beware dd crow and honest
But do keep in mind one thing, they cant shut down continuos effects. they shut down trigger effects n ignition one only (ruling checked on official yugioh website not on wikia)
Ignition n trigger effects r such as monarchs, snipehunter, judgemnt dragoon, bla bla. Do keep in mind it doesnt negate jinzo. So if jinzo summon they r effectless. See, jinzo effect doesnt trigger, its continuous.
c) deck lockdown
this card is the card to defeat gladiator beast. These annoying cards just bother us to much. Deck lockdown is a good card to defeat G beasts. Even if it lasts for abt 2 turns only, it shut down bestiari from coming from deck, equite, darius n so on......
Remember that dark decks r slow. Pardon me 4 saying that but it is the fact:
a) No more diskguy
b) we dont have allure
since diskguy is gone expect to see lots of destiny draw
thats y the card to counter here is definitely curse seal of the forbidden spell. It has a heavy discard cost ( one spell card) but its effect is mediocre, as it prevents opponent from playing that same spell for the remainder of the duel. Good right? bye bye destiny draw,,,,
Hand severing
okay as we can see, now that format is slow bla bla dark decks will surely play hand severing,. Thats y we must play more discard cost traps. This isnt a must but through my personal experience many times ppl have been killed by discard cost traps. No not by their effects but their cost - discarding one card. Y? lets say opponent has bad hand So he attempts to solve it by playing hand severing to draw. U have exactly 2 cards in hand. So u can stop that by chaining raigeki break, karma cut, phonix wing wind blast .... soo that leaves ur hand at only 1 card therefore hand severing is gone ahahaha
dont maindeck mind crush n trap dustshoot. It is good in TCG yes i admit, but no OCG. Remember the abundance of hand severing? u can play mind crush but what if opponent chain hand sevring ? then u will lose urself n be at disadvantage. Also discard cost cards stop dustshoot and mind crush. They target ur card u discard that card to make them look bad.
Phoenix wing wind blast
with a slow format i suggest this card to be sidedecked against dark decks. Dark decks will be hurt by this,. Dont play this against lightlords or gladiator beatss as gladiator will just shuffle away the card into their deck to be used again! lightlords discard effect will just throw that card to grave again. Useless.
Karma cut
its good. Probably the best matchup against gladiator beats. removing gladiator beast from play is crucial as none of the beasts yet hav an effect to special summon gladiator beats from outplay zone.
Raigeki break
Probably the slowest of the three, Dont play it
Bottomless trap hole n solemn judgemnt are 2 cards that i suggest playing. Why? they break opponent combos ....they stop dark arm, judgemnt, kaiseris and many more ....y not? Remember solemn judgment is gonna be widely played as it is probably the highest ranked counter trap in the game. the onli thing to stop solemn is another solemn.
Dust tornado
Don forget this usefull card. Kills stall. I got hit by spatial collapse stall lately...wasnt fun....but it was funny...
PULLING THE RUG
This is the card im gonna mention to sidedeck. With a slower format back. there is a good chance monarchs r seeing more play again. Though i dont think they r scary anymore, Still disruptive but not scary
DDcrow
* note: this is not for sidedeck . This is for maindeck. DD crow is the best surprise cards in the game
a) pre-burial
b) dark armed dragon
c) Judgment dragon ( sometimes....)
d) yomi frog( treeborn)
e) monster reborn
f) dhero malicious and many many more......
This is the tech card of the day. Don forget to maindeck it, U might nvr noe u play against dragon deck n then he plays dragon mirror, u crow him n laugh in his face,
Well, this is all for now, no pics of the cards sorry. I assume u all know these cards already as i dint mention any weird cards that nvr c play b4...
Till next time. play fair, play hard, n remember how important a sidedeck is in a tournament!!! =)
So i would like to make this clear:
NO promos can be used, U heard this im NOT JOKIN. Colin confirmed this, so did Gamers Arena shop in sungei Wang( the place where the tourney is held.)So..... don cry guys..... its okay. u just have to refrain from using
a) dhero diskuguy
b) airman
c) ARMS HOLE.
d) phantom of chaos
e) blooD decks (they r not bad. quite good actually,can reach Tier 1, not joking..)
f) duel terminal cards
okay im repeating myself so on to the post
Since all those decks r not to be worried abt anymore, lets go on to the metagame n c how its affected
the top decks in meta now r (in order)
1) dark decks
b) gladiator beast
3) lightlord
Personally if u ask me the most affected is NONE!!! none of these decks revolve around promo cards . Each deck probably runs one or two promo cards such as
a) gorz- staple
b) phantom of chaos- lightlord use for judgemnt dragoon and dark arm use for copying himself
c) ehero prisma- gladiator beast use it. but onli those who have it.....it isnt a staple n gladiator beats still run well without them...
So to couunter those decks we need
a) light imprisoning mirror
b) dark imprisoning mirror
well those mirrors shut down one common thing - dark n lights. Yes they shut down all Dark/ light effects in field and graveyard BUT NOT HAND- beware dd crow and honest
But do keep in mind one thing, they cant shut down continuos effects. they shut down trigger effects n ignition one only (ruling checked on official yugioh website not on wikia)
Ignition n trigger effects r such as monarchs, snipehunter, judgemnt dragoon, bla bla. Do keep in mind it doesnt negate jinzo. So if jinzo summon they r effectless. See, jinzo effect doesnt trigger, its continuous.
c) deck lockdown
this card is the card to defeat gladiator beast. These annoying cards just bother us to much. Deck lockdown is a good card to defeat G beasts. Even if it lasts for abt 2 turns only, it shut down bestiari from coming from deck, equite, darius n so on......
Remember that dark decks r slow. Pardon me 4 saying that but it is the fact:
a) No more diskguy
b) we dont have allure
since diskguy is gone expect to see lots of destiny draw
thats y the card to counter here is definitely curse seal of the forbidden spell. It has a heavy discard cost ( one spell card) but its effect is mediocre, as it prevents opponent from playing that same spell for the remainder of the duel. Good right? bye bye destiny draw,,,,
Hand severing
okay as we can see, now that format is slow bla bla dark decks will surely play hand severing,. Thats y we must play more discard cost traps. This isnt a must but through my personal experience many times ppl have been killed by discard cost traps. No not by their effects but their cost - discarding one card. Y? lets say opponent has bad hand So he attempts to solve it by playing hand severing to draw. U have exactly 2 cards in hand. So u can stop that by chaining raigeki break, karma cut, phonix wing wind blast .... soo that leaves ur hand at only 1 card therefore hand severing is gone ahahaha
dont maindeck mind crush n trap dustshoot. It is good in TCG yes i admit, but no OCG. Remember the abundance of hand severing? u can play mind crush but what if opponent chain hand sevring ? then u will lose urself n be at disadvantage. Also discard cost cards stop dustshoot and mind crush. They target ur card u discard that card to make them look bad.
Phoenix wing wind blast
with a slow format i suggest this card to be sidedecked against dark decks. Dark decks will be hurt by this,. Dont play this against lightlords or gladiator beatss as gladiator will just shuffle away the card into their deck to be used again! lightlords discard effect will just throw that card to grave again. Useless.
Karma cut
its good. Probably the best matchup against gladiator beats. removing gladiator beast from play is crucial as none of the beasts yet hav an effect to special summon gladiator beats from outplay zone.
Raigeki break
Probably the slowest of the three, Dont play it
Bottomless trap hole n solemn judgemnt are 2 cards that i suggest playing. Why? they break opponent combos ....they stop dark arm, judgemnt, kaiseris and many more ....y not? Remember solemn judgment is gonna be widely played as it is probably the highest ranked counter trap in the game. the onli thing to stop solemn is another solemn.
Dust tornado
Don forget this usefull card. Kills stall. I got hit by spatial collapse stall lately...wasnt fun....but it was funny...
PULLING THE RUG
This is the card im gonna mention to sidedeck. With a slower format back. there is a good chance monarchs r seeing more play again. Though i dont think they r scary anymore, Still disruptive but not scary
DDcrow
* note: this is not for sidedeck . This is for maindeck. DD crow is the best surprise cards in the game
a) pre-burial
b) dark armed dragon
c) Judgment dragon ( sometimes....)
d) yomi frog( treeborn)
e) monster reborn
f) dhero malicious and many many more......
This is the tech card of the day. Don forget to maindeck it, U might nvr noe u play against dragon deck n then he plays dragon mirror, u crow him n laugh in his face,
Well, this is all for now, no pics of the cards sorry. I assume u all know these cards already as i dint mention any weird cards that nvr c play b4...
Till next time. play fair, play hard, n remember how important a sidedeck is in a tournament!!! =)
Emergency post:Something funny is happening...?
Let me define promo cards for all. Promo cards = cards that r available from:
a) vjump books
b) weekly jump
c) jump
4) game console(psp, GBA, PS) bla bla promos
5) duel terminal promos
6) many more such as mangakas, jump fest promos ...
Well, hear, hear ! In malaysia, a rumor has been driving wild n spreading so fast like SARS ( ^_^)
IT is a rumor that u cant use promo cards in national champs or the world champs
Yes,yes probably a pile of bullshit but i already heard from Miri, KL, n even in kuching. YES YES its shocking as u r gonna say WTF x1000000000000. Y? because promos are the heart of the yugioh game!!! Some say that Japan made this F*cking rule and they r affected by it too. Some say singapore also but i doubt tat since baha, colin no one talked abt this yet.
Imagine cards gone if cant use promos
1) ehero airman ( super crucial!!!!)
2) dhero diskguy ( very crucial!!!)
3) duel terminal cards ( aaaaahhh! baha's gonna scream so is colin. he uses 3 wrath of neos )
4) ehero prismer ( im saying this because gladiator beast run it. so does colin )
5) light monarch kuraz- bye bye magic explosion ftk not tat u were tat good anyway
6) arms hole - AAAHH!!!! everyone( mostly) gonna scream now
7) Gorz the emissiary of the netherworld- Lets all scream. Nothing to stop otks now
8) chimeratech fortress dragon- hail machine decks /=(
9) other promos such as dandylion, dhero blooD bla bla
So, if these promos are banned these decks r killed
a) magical explosion FTK
b) Crazy FTKS (arms hole)
c) dhero blooD control ( no.....)
d) colin's wrath of neos MK(4?) (i dono wat MK is it now ..i think its 4?)
e) Baha's synchro otk
f) those crazy draw decks abusing 3 destiny draw, 3 angel lift, 3 limit reverse ( we alll know wat got banned- diskguy )
g) other decks such as simorgh lock (dont look at me baha i don play this deck)
Decks which still can be consistent
1) gladiator beast( not all play prisma wad..... so still can..)
2) dark decks...onli thing gone is dhero diskguy and maybe phantoim of chaos
3) light lords. ntg affected
Okay not sure if this is real. It may may be real it may not....I hope not.. ( no..blood....=(
I am posting this because some duelists r gonna enter malaysia nationals on this 6th june. I know baha and colin is. ( good luck u 2...)
My advice: pls find out the confirmation bout this first be4 u go..... if u bring synchro shokan and wrath of neos MK IV then ur trip there might be wasted, so go to www.yugioh-card.com and find out. I will too. But i cant read japanese =(.
Till next time, play hard play fair and those attending malaysian nationals good luck
Next time: wat malaysian plays, and the proper sidedeck.
a) vjump books
b) weekly jump
c) jump
4) game console(psp, GBA, PS) bla bla promos
5) duel terminal promos
6) many more such as mangakas, jump fest promos ...
Well, hear, hear ! In malaysia, a rumor has been driving wild n spreading so fast like SARS ( ^_^)
IT is a rumor that u cant use promo cards in national champs or the world champs
Yes,yes probably a pile of bullshit but i already heard from Miri, KL, n even in kuching. YES YES its shocking as u r gonna say WTF x1000000000000. Y? because promos are the heart of the yugioh game!!! Some say that Japan made this F*cking rule and they r affected by it too. Some say singapore also but i doubt tat since baha, colin no one talked abt this yet.
Imagine cards gone if cant use promos
1) ehero airman ( super crucial!!!!)
2) dhero diskguy ( very crucial!!!)
3) duel terminal cards ( aaaaahhh! baha's gonna scream so is colin. he uses 3 wrath of neos )
4) ehero prismer ( im saying this because gladiator beast run it. so does colin )
5) light monarch kuraz- bye bye magic explosion ftk not tat u were tat good anyway
6) arms hole - AAAHH!!!! everyone( mostly) gonna scream now
7) Gorz the emissiary of the netherworld- Lets all scream. Nothing to stop otks now
8) chimeratech fortress dragon- hail machine decks /=(
9) other promos such as dandylion, dhero blooD bla bla
So, if these promos are banned these decks r killed
a) magical explosion FTK
b) Crazy FTKS (arms hole)
c) dhero blooD control ( no.....)
d) colin's wrath of neos MK(4?) (i dono wat MK is it now ..i think its 4?)
e) Baha's synchro otk
f) those crazy draw decks abusing 3 destiny draw, 3 angel lift, 3 limit reverse ( we alll know wat got banned- diskguy )
g) other decks such as simorgh lock (dont look at me baha i don play this deck)
Decks which still can be consistent
1) gladiator beast( not all play prisma wad..... so still can..)
2) dark decks...onli thing gone is dhero diskguy and maybe phantoim of chaos
3) light lords. ntg affected
Okay not sure if this is real. It may may be real it may not....I hope not.. ( no..blood....=(
I am posting this because some duelists r gonna enter malaysia nationals on this 6th june. I know baha and colin is. ( good luck u 2...)
My advice: pls find out the confirmation bout this first be4 u go..... if u bring synchro shokan and wrath of neos MK IV then ur trip there might be wasted, so go to www.yugioh-card.com and find out. I will too. But i cant read japanese =(.
Till next time, play hard play fair and those attending malaysian nationals good luck
Next time: wat malaysian plays, and the proper sidedeck.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Mind crushed 3: some deck building tips n summary
Im not gonna put the picture of mind crush in this post again as im sure evryone of u have seen it n probably sick to c it again.
Well, i've basically listed most of the deck building tips in part 3. Its MY OPINION n i would like to stresss on these points. the summary is here too.
1) dont include a searcher with only 1, 2 or 3 targets. Okay 3 is reasonable but 1 and 2 is definitley out of the question. Eg: dont put 1 destiny draw in the deck if u have only 2 or 3 targets. if u so desperate to put at least put 2 or 3 la.
2) (unless ur deck isnt based on drawing) include sufficient draw cards in ur deck. Dhero disk commander is a good example so are destiny draw, hand severing, trade in bla bla. If u play a theme with its own draw cards( eg: destiny draw, solar recharge, bla bla..) wad r u waiting 4? play it right away...
3) include cards that help u ( dont put them in just cause u c it big on metagame.com or somewhere n u think: wow wat a good card i hav to play it !) no. dont. example: in a infinite draw deck: include stall cards . example 2: don include cards like card trooper if every card in ur deck is important so if u happen to topdeck it away u will cry
4) Number of cards in deck : i think evrry1 know this the number should be 40 or 41 . no more no less. the less cards the better chance u got of drawing cards u need,
5) excessive testdecking: Always testdeck.... This is a must so u can undestand ur deck better. For example u must testdeck ur deck at least 30 to 40 times to get to know it better. I know ppl say u must testdeck 60 games or more but i think thats too much. Infact if ur deck has a straightforward strategy ( eg: those FTK decks) all the better !
6) cardiness . ( no this aint a real word . derived from the word "wordiness" Means excessive words. eg: u r such a awesome, consevative, creative, smart player...." where as we can just say " u r such s great player" cardiness means useless cards in deck that waste space n should be taken out for needed ones) Okay cardiness: Don put useless cards in the deck. Don waste space. Avoid putting situational cards in decks.
7) last but not least u must MUST have a good sidedeck. No deck can do well against every deck. can aggro beat a stall deck if it just special summons n attack? No. one stall card boom. When u sidedeck, think of the decks that worry u. remember only include cards in side deck that help against other decks. if it kills 50% of ur deck forget it. Eg: Don sidedeck in to shadow sealing mirrror if half of ur monster cards r dark. Even though u kill opponent deck chances r that u will be hurt urself as well. It doesnt hurt if u sidedeck in to light sealing mirror if only play one or two light monster in ur deck. Just make sure those light monsters arent ur main strategy thats all. Sidedecks are arguable the most important thing in deckbuilding. Remember u don need a sidedeck in casual play but make sure u have one in tournament. Dont forget as welll. Remember the metagame in ur area. If six warlords r popular sidedeck ur kinetic soldiers. Dont sidedeck cards that r meaningless. Eg: don sidedeck light sealing mirror if no one plays a light deck
8) The element of surprise: Its good to have the element of surprise in ur decks. For example paul levitin , n steven harris all played crush card virus in their decks even though there are only 2 or 3 dark monsters in their deck ! Yes this is considered as wasting space as i said before don put card with only 2 or 3 target. But if it a must to take everything down, u find it good, efficient and easy to activate, GO FOR IT .
9) Jerry Wang's concept : jerry wang's deck concept from SJ nashville really appeals to me. Since i saw how his deck worked n ran according to matt peddle, i have been trying to tune my decks in to following the same concept:
a) disrupt opponent strategem
b) the element of surprise
c) making sure ur opponent has no options left
d) taking out ur opponent with the simplest effort
i would say the best would be concept D. This is really a great thing. Its is what players i the States call the concept of superiority. It doesnt fear opponent and doesnt try to cope with ur opponent, rather it makes ur opponent being unable to cope with ur monsters. Singpaoreans are good at this. Malaysians have still a long way to go to learn this. ( this is frm my personal observation. Sry malaysian players out there, its the truth- no i M NOT BIASED i m MALAYSIAN too) Y do i say singaporeans r good at this? Look at baha's deck or colin deck from the other 2 blogs. hell i have no idea whether their decks r still the same ( colindeck now at MK 4 coming to MK 5 soon who knows how many times he changed his neos deck every month) Baha's deck ( sry i dont noe his real name) focuses on swarm with synchros. This makes opponent unable to handle if unaware. Mirror force ? torrential? no fear stardust is here. Then field control: brionac . what abt defense cards scapegoat bla bla ? red dragon archfiend is there as an answer. Attributes botherring u? Meet AOJ catatsor. Colin's deck is abt field control too. It plays wrath of neos ( man konami so unoriginal. follow MTG's wrath of god...) I probably not allowed to disclose his deck idea now ( im not actually sure if its still the same! ) but it makes opponent unable to deal with his monsters too. Most of you should follow this concepts in ur deck ( be it random, theme deck, or metagame deck) don follow this concept if u're playing some sort of infinite strategy FTK.. thats pure inovation.
Most of u probably know all this already. But always keep this in mind in deckbuilding.
Till next time, play hard play fair and don forget to apply this concept to ur deck. It helps . =)
Next time: i will dissect a deck from SJ st louis n tell y its doin so well.
Well, i've basically listed most of the deck building tips in part 3. Its MY OPINION n i would like to stresss on these points. the summary is here too.
1) dont include a searcher with only 1, 2 or 3 targets. Okay 3 is reasonable but 1 and 2 is definitley out of the question. Eg: dont put 1 destiny draw in the deck if u have only 2 or 3 targets. if u so desperate to put at least put 2 or 3 la.
2) (unless ur deck isnt based on drawing) include sufficient draw cards in ur deck. Dhero disk commander is a good example so are destiny draw, hand severing, trade in bla bla. If u play a theme with its own draw cards( eg: destiny draw, solar recharge, bla bla..) wad r u waiting 4? play it right away...
3) include cards that help u ( dont put them in just cause u c it big on metagame.com or somewhere n u think: wow wat a good card i hav to play it !) no. dont. example: in a infinite draw deck: include stall cards . example 2: don include cards like card trooper if every card in ur deck is important so if u happen to topdeck it away u will cry
4) Number of cards in deck : i think evrry1 know this the number should be 40 or 41 . no more no less. the less cards the better chance u got of drawing cards u need,
5) excessive testdecking: Always testdeck.... This is a must so u can undestand ur deck better. For example u must testdeck ur deck at least 30 to 40 times to get to know it better. I know ppl say u must testdeck 60 games or more but i think thats too much. Infact if ur deck has a straightforward strategy ( eg: those FTK decks) all the better !
6) cardiness . ( no this aint a real word . derived from the word "wordiness" Means excessive words. eg: u r such a awesome, consevative, creative, smart player...." where as we can just say " u r such s great player" cardiness means useless cards in deck that waste space n should be taken out for needed ones) Okay cardiness: Don put useless cards in the deck. Don waste space. Avoid putting situational cards in decks.
7) last but not least u must MUST have a good sidedeck. No deck can do well against every deck. can aggro beat a stall deck if it just special summons n attack? No. one stall card boom. When u sidedeck, think of the decks that worry u. remember only include cards in side deck that help against other decks. if it kills 50% of ur deck forget it. Eg: Don sidedeck in to shadow sealing mirrror if half of ur monster cards r dark. Even though u kill opponent deck chances r that u will be hurt urself as well. It doesnt hurt if u sidedeck in to light sealing mirror if only play one or two light monster in ur deck. Just make sure those light monsters arent ur main strategy thats all. Sidedecks are arguable the most important thing in deckbuilding. Remember u don need a sidedeck in casual play but make sure u have one in tournament. Dont forget as welll. Remember the metagame in ur area. If six warlords r popular sidedeck ur kinetic soldiers. Dont sidedeck cards that r meaningless. Eg: don sidedeck light sealing mirror if no one plays a light deck
8) The element of surprise: Its good to have the element of surprise in ur decks. For example paul levitin , n steven harris all played crush card virus in their decks even though there are only 2 or 3 dark monsters in their deck ! Yes this is considered as wasting space as i said before don put card with only 2 or 3 target. But if it a must to take everything down, u find it good, efficient and easy to activate, GO FOR IT .
9) Jerry Wang's concept : jerry wang's deck concept from SJ nashville really appeals to me. Since i saw how his deck worked n ran according to matt peddle, i have been trying to tune my decks in to following the same concept:
a) disrupt opponent strategem
b) the element of surprise
c) making sure ur opponent has no options left
d) taking out ur opponent with the simplest effort
i would say the best would be concept D. This is really a great thing. Its is what players i the States call the concept of superiority. It doesnt fear opponent and doesnt try to cope with ur opponent, rather it makes ur opponent being unable to cope with ur monsters. Singpaoreans are good at this. Malaysians have still a long way to go to learn this. ( this is frm my personal observation. Sry malaysian players out there, its the truth- no i M NOT BIASED i m MALAYSIAN too) Y do i say singaporeans r good at this? Look at baha's deck or colin deck from the other 2 blogs. hell i have no idea whether their decks r still the same ( colindeck now at MK 4 coming to MK 5 soon who knows how many times he changed his neos deck every month) Baha's deck ( sry i dont noe his real name) focuses on swarm with synchros. This makes opponent unable to handle if unaware. Mirror force ? torrential? no fear stardust is here. Then field control: brionac . what abt defense cards scapegoat bla bla ? red dragon archfiend is there as an answer. Attributes botherring u? Meet AOJ catatsor. Colin's deck is abt field control too. It plays wrath of neos ( man konami so unoriginal. follow MTG's wrath of god...) I probably not allowed to disclose his deck idea now ( im not actually sure if its still the same! ) but it makes opponent unable to deal with his monsters too. Most of you should follow this concepts in ur deck ( be it random, theme deck, or metagame deck) don follow this concept if u're playing some sort of infinite strategy FTK.. thats pure inovation.
Most of u probably know all this already. But always keep this in mind in deckbuilding.
Till next time, play hard play fair and don forget to apply this concept to ur deck. It helps . =)
Next time: i will dissect a deck from SJ st louis n tell y its doin so well.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Mind crushed part 2
Okay so im back with part 2. Read on:
To be a good duelist, one must always be patient, n take advantage of the situation. Like yugi said, the 2nd n 3rd rule of playing games would be acting professional n unfazed as well as holding ur trump card to the end. Therefore, we should never ever make risky moves unless u r in a situation whre ntg benefits u n u might as well do it.
On to taking advantage of situations. For example when u use crush card virus, we ought to make full us of it. Lets say we have hand severing nmorphingjar,we should flip morphing jar up to draw. This way not only do u get to draw but u get to see ur opponent's hand (n most likely activate ccv's effect to eat up the fatties) .Then, still, since we allowed to write stuff /notes on paper while playing in tourney, we should write down the cards drawn. I;ve seen many ppl not writing down in the notebook then later got killed by mirror force, even though they saw it in hand by CCV's effect. Then they say " shit! i forgot have mirror force!" there. a simple situation. too late to go back n do anything now.
Also, we should learn to be less forgetful. For example, we should always look in the graveyard from time to time (opponent's too) to make sure everything is going ur way. Sometimes i see duelists scooping the game because of drawing mobc n he has ntg to tribute for. But in his graveyard there is dhero malicious, yomi frog n dhero dashguy! After scooping the game n realizing his mistake, he says " oh yea,,.... i forgot dasher!"
On to the deck building skills which i have promised to list. Its not the best of the best, some ppl may disagree with me but heck, this is my blog. a blog to list my opinions. dont agree? nvm...who knows? i might just learn a thing or two frm listening to u guys. Okay
Well first thing abt deckbuilding is knowing wat type of player r u.., R u the aggro player or r u the control player? So u ought to build a few decks to play first then find which one u do betterr with aggro or control.
Secondly, u ,must choose whether u wanna go into competitive yugioh or just play for fun. Compettive yugioh is more time consuming as u have to netdeck, or view blogs ( :D ) ,or read up decklists n everything .
Thirdly, u must choose the deck u wanna play. For example u wanna follow the metagame and copy the decks there or u wanna inovate n try to bring an original build to stardom. Stray from the decks that dont have good combos or tat don have good searchers .good decks includes decks which have the following:
1) combo piecers
2) combo retrivers
3) searcher( eg: airman, volcanic rocket, mental master bla)
4) draw spells ( destiny draw, hand severing, solar exchange)
5) traps that r good n supportive( eg: lightlorddecks have glorious illusion,)
6) bonus* spells that have godly effects that suport theme (eg: batterires have their own monster reborn, n raigeki( short circuit)
Then, u must think of the deck that u playing. U must must must understand the concept of the deck n archetype. Eg: u must understand that gladial beast main thing to do is to special summon out monster from deck n get their effect. Don use them for something new unless u very vvery sure. Oh well we'll get to tat later.
Once u r sure with ur archetype; combo ,control or aggro u must look at each card of the deck n list down the combos. Most of the time, ppl wont approve this but i find it quite useful. U never know u could draw foolish burial n monster reborn on turn 1 n bury mobc n reborn him. If u have dark simorgh in deck , the right thing to do is to bury dark simorgh n reborn him on turn 1 to seal ur opponent. Tat works sometimes for me =) If u don wanna follow this its okay u'll eventually find out the combos while testdecking ur deck.
Include cards that thin the deck while provide advantage for u ( eg: card gunner, sangan, ehero airman, rescue cat, i can think of millions bla bla so can u all)
Stay away from situational cards such as beginning of the end if u have onli like 9 monsters tat r dark in deck or if u arent playing a rtfdd combo. Teching is good but u must not go overboard.
Next out this is important ! We ought to include cards tat break opponent combo. Huh? like wat card u ask? well some includes : lightning vortex, torrential tribute, mirror force. The more popular ones tat r gaining increase in play are trap dustshoot, crush card virus n mind crush. Like i said, mind crush is just so good. the technique and the card itself. Sometimes ur opponent holds his hand low n u get to see his cards. Lol . Always happens to me.
An example of a deck dedicated to breaking ppl combo is jerrywang's deck from shonen jump nashville. 4 team overdose players changed their deck to his in the last few minutes after he showed them his deck ! n i hav to say it is good! like matt peddle said, it destroys ur opponent with the simplest effort. I hav no time to discuss it here. Go c it on metagame.com n read matt's article on the champions.
okay. for this article it end here, i will continue with part 3, n it wont be much though but stay tuuned,
Till next time , play fair, play hard , n enjoy the game.
Next time: part 3.
To be a good duelist, one must always be patient, n take advantage of the situation. Like yugi said, the 2nd n 3rd rule of playing games would be acting professional n unfazed as well as holding ur trump card to the end. Therefore, we should never ever make risky moves unless u r in a situation whre ntg benefits u n u might as well do it.
On to taking advantage of situations. For example when u use crush card virus, we ought to make full us of it. Lets say we have hand severing nmorphingjar,we should flip morphing jar up to draw. This way not only do u get to draw but u get to see ur opponent's hand (n most likely activate ccv's effect to eat up the fatties) .Then, still, since we allowed to write stuff /notes on paper while playing in tourney, we should write down the cards drawn. I;ve seen many ppl not writing down in the notebook then later got killed by mirror force, even though they saw it in hand by CCV's effect. Then they say " shit! i forgot have mirror force!" there. a simple situation. too late to go back n do anything now.
Also, we should learn to be less forgetful. For example, we should always look in the graveyard from time to time (opponent's too) to make sure everything is going ur way. Sometimes i see duelists scooping the game because of drawing mobc n he has ntg to tribute for. But in his graveyard there is dhero malicious, yomi frog n dhero dashguy! After scooping the game n realizing his mistake, he says " oh yea,,.... i forgot dasher!"
On to the deck building skills which i have promised to list. Its not the best of the best, some ppl may disagree with me but heck, this is my blog. a blog to list my opinions. dont agree? nvm...who knows? i might just learn a thing or two frm listening to u guys. Okay
Well first thing abt deckbuilding is knowing wat type of player r u.., R u the aggro player or r u the control player? So u ought to build a few decks to play first then find which one u do betterr with aggro or control.
Secondly, u ,must choose whether u wanna go into competitive yugioh or just play for fun. Compettive yugioh is more time consuming as u have to netdeck, or view blogs ( :D ) ,or read up decklists n everything .
Thirdly, u must choose the deck u wanna play. For example u wanna follow the metagame and copy the decks there or u wanna inovate n try to bring an original build to stardom. Stray from the decks that dont have good combos or tat don have good searchers .good decks includes decks which have the following:
1) combo piecers
2) combo retrivers
3) searcher( eg: airman, volcanic rocket, mental master bla)
4) draw spells ( destiny draw, hand severing, solar exchange)
5) traps that r good n supportive( eg: lightlorddecks have glorious illusion,)
6) bonus* spells that have godly effects that suport theme (eg: batterires have their own monster reborn, n raigeki( short circuit)
Then, u must think of the deck that u playing. U must must must understand the concept of the deck n archetype. Eg: u must understand that gladial beast main thing to do is to special summon out monster from deck n get their effect. Don use them for something new unless u very vvery sure. Oh well we'll get to tat later.
Once u r sure with ur archetype; combo ,control or aggro u must look at each card of the deck n list down the combos. Most of the time, ppl wont approve this but i find it quite useful. U never know u could draw foolish burial n monster reborn on turn 1 n bury mobc n reborn him. If u have dark simorgh in deck , the right thing to do is to bury dark simorgh n reborn him on turn 1 to seal ur opponent. Tat works sometimes for me =) If u don wanna follow this its okay u'll eventually find out the combos while testdecking ur deck.
Include cards that thin the deck while provide advantage for u ( eg: card gunner, sangan, ehero airman, rescue cat, i can think of millions bla bla so can u all)
Stay away from situational cards such as beginning of the end if u have onli like 9 monsters tat r dark in deck or if u arent playing a rtfdd combo. Teching is good but u must not go overboard.
Next out this is important ! We ought to include cards tat break opponent combo. Huh? like wat card u ask? well some includes : lightning vortex, torrential tribute, mirror force. The more popular ones tat r gaining increase in play are trap dustshoot, crush card virus n mind crush. Like i said, mind crush is just so good. the technique and the card itself. Sometimes ur opponent holds his hand low n u get to see his cards. Lol . Always happens to me.
An example of a deck dedicated to breaking ppl combo is jerrywang's deck from shonen jump nashville. 4 team overdose players changed their deck to his in the last few minutes after he showed them his deck ! n i hav to say it is good! like matt peddle said, it destroys ur opponent with the simplest effort. I hav no time to discuss it here. Go c it on metagame.com n read matt's article on the champions.
okay. for this article it end here, i will continue with part 3, n it wont be much though but stay tuuned,
Till next time , play fair, play hard , n enjoy the game.
Next time: part 3.
Mind crushed part 1
Lately alot of ideas have been coming into my mind, so im gonna cramp some of them into this post, Also, im gonna give some deck building tips because DL on the chatbox suggested for,
okay on with the post.
Okay, in the game of yugioh i've been observing something. Alot of times, when we suspect something or wat ur opponent is gonna play, it happens. Well, myfather used to tell me smthg when i was young, he said tat many things happen due to the power of the mind. No idea but its true , well kinda. C, when ever a teacher asked a question n i dint noe the answer i was like omg, don ask me pls pls pls >< but in the end she asked me so =.= i was punished for nt listening in class. bla bla. Next on lets get on to yugioh real life experiences:
The most most most most obvious experiences are of course:
1) suspecting ur opponent have torrential tribute, mirror force, watever n u decide to summon a monster n take the plunge. I m sure some of us have come into situations whre we kinda well want to finish the game quick. like misawa from the yugioh gx manga, he decided to attack manjyome but got blasteed by an adverse effects of holy water card.
c? We just think: okay okay i've gotten so far already so i might as well just get on with it. Okay here goes...."
Then we get blasted by mirror force / torrential tribute. In other words, we fell for the bait n got crushed.
A friend of mine's personal message on msn was " the first n most outmmost victory is to conquer urself but to be conquered by urself is the greatest shame" (i think it sounded smthg like tat :D ) Well basically there r many useful articles i have read while being bored n surfing the web n many of them taught me abt dueling n applying real life concept to dueling. U c , dueling is like a fight making use of the stuff around us n using it to ur opponent's disadvantage, example to quote a simple one: brain control opponent card or monster reborn it so we can use his monsters against him. Its a simple concept tat we can apply.
Okay mind crushing is one of the most simple to achieve "skills" of yugioh n very easy to manipulate n use it to ur advantage. No ! im nt talking abt mind crush card im talking abt mind crush itself!
U c, many times in life we can achive mind crush
1) when friends try to hide secret from u, u can noe wat it is by observing him/her
2) when ur girlfriend 2 timing u ,u will noe,
3) expressions on ppl face
4) when ppl hate u but u noe due to the way he is acting or if they dont talk to u as much anymmore cuz they go to other ppl.
5) When u talk to ur parents sweetly to ask for more money, they will ask u first: " okay...wat do u wan"'
c..? there r so many situations tat use mind crush ! i can think of a 100 more, so can all of u!!!
Now we must apply this concept n learn to hone it. anyone can do it, its simple.
Lets start with a simple situation, when opponent get a good card, his face will brighten up, n we will noe if we r disadvantageous or not. Some ppl have this thing called the poker face where their face will be blank all the time. This is hard to come across but i have seen some players like this. Sometimes if we get a bad card , we would say oh shit! or smthg else.
NOW NOW, i noe wat u guys r thinking, michael stop telling us this. we know liau. " But im sure not all of u have the time to think abt this in dueling. Most of u will probably forget this after reading. There fore, i ask of all of u to make an effort to keep this in mind always, ALWAYS. before u duel, make sure u think of this: " is there anything important that i can remember to help me in dueling?" then get on with it...
okay..on with the post:
Since we can judge ppl by the face, there r some ppl who can be lying to u or smthg. For example tat person is trying to trick u. How can we tell the difference? How?
Well, we have to knoe tat person a bit. If we r pllaying in our area, then we must be aware if tat person is the type to lie, starightforward type n so on... If that person is cunning type, we must not go on this n predict his expression. These ppl r the type of ppl tat bother n trouble us in this skill.
There r ways to counter these type of ppl
1) use hand revealing cards" crush card virus, trap dustshoot"
2) know wat tat person is playing. Tat person is an aggro duelist, control ? what deck he plays ? calculate his chances of getting a good card in his deck. there r many ways.... these r all important factors to keep in mind n can help in this.
Remember most ppl wont consider abt this. They just play n then play without realizing these concpetuals.. Remember, this isnt a must n those ppl arent wrong.
Note: apply this in tournanment onli !! No need to apply this in normal playing unlesss ur testdecking for a tourney. Anyway, there r many times to apply this. Know it, find it out urself. Its better no need to let ppl noe abt this or they will noe how to avoid ur trick n it becomes worhtless. Next post i will talk abt the deck building tips n how to apply the mind crush concept to this deck building tips.
This post aint the best there is n i swear i dint copy this from any website or post or metagame.com! it just came out of my mind ! okay. time to sign of.
till next time, play fair, play hard, don give up n do n forget to apply the mind crush skill !!!
Next time: part 2.
okay on with the post.
Okay, in the game of yugioh i've been observing something. Alot of times, when we suspect something or wat ur opponent is gonna play, it happens. Well, myfather used to tell me smthg when i was young, he said tat many things happen due to the power of the mind. No idea but its true , well kinda. C, when ever a teacher asked a question n i dint noe the answer i was like omg, don ask me pls pls pls >< but in the end she asked me so =.= i was punished for nt listening in class. bla bla. Next on lets get on to yugioh real life experiences:
The most most most most obvious experiences are of course:
1) suspecting ur opponent have torrential tribute, mirror force, watever n u decide to summon a monster n take the plunge. I m sure some of us have come into situations whre we kinda well want to finish the game quick. like misawa from the yugioh gx manga, he decided to attack manjyome but got blasteed by an adverse effects of holy water card.
c? We just think: okay okay i've gotten so far already so i might as well just get on with it. Okay here goes...."
Then we get blasted by mirror force / torrential tribute. In other words, we fell for the bait n got crushed.
A friend of mine's personal message on msn was " the first n most outmmost victory is to conquer urself but to be conquered by urself is the greatest shame" (i think it sounded smthg like tat :D ) Well basically there r many useful articles i have read while being bored n surfing the web n many of them taught me abt dueling n applying real life concept to dueling. U c , dueling is like a fight making use of the stuff around us n using it to ur opponent's disadvantage, example to quote a simple one: brain control opponent card or monster reborn it so we can use his monsters against him. Its a simple concept tat we can apply.
Okay mind crushing is one of the most simple to achieve "skills" of yugioh n very easy to manipulate n use it to ur advantage. No ! im nt talking abt mind crush card im talking abt mind crush itself!U c, many times in life we can achive mind crush
1) when friends try to hide secret from u, u can noe wat it is by observing him/her
2) when ur girlfriend 2 timing u ,u will noe,
3) expressions on ppl face
4) when ppl hate u but u noe due to the way he is acting or if they dont talk to u as much anymmore cuz they go to other ppl.
5) When u talk to ur parents sweetly to ask for more money, they will ask u first: " okay...wat do u wan"'
c..? there r so many situations tat use mind crush ! i can think of a 100 more, so can all of u!!!
Now we must apply this concept n learn to hone it. anyone can do it, its simple.
Lets start with a simple situation, when opponent get a good card, his face will brighten up, n we will noe if we r disadvantageous or not. Some ppl have this thing called the poker face where their face will be blank all the time. This is hard to come across but i have seen some players like this. Sometimes if we get a bad card , we would say oh shit! or smthg else.
NOW NOW, i noe wat u guys r thinking, michael stop telling us this. we know liau. " But im sure not all of u have the time to think abt this in dueling. Most of u will probably forget this after reading. There fore, i ask of all of u to make an effort to keep this in mind always, ALWAYS. before u duel, make sure u think of this: " is there anything important that i can remember to help me in dueling?" then get on with it...
okay..on with the post:
Since we can judge ppl by the face, there r some ppl who can be lying to u or smthg. For example tat person is trying to trick u. How can we tell the difference? How?
Well, we have to knoe tat person a bit. If we r pllaying in our area, then we must be aware if tat person is the type to lie, starightforward type n so on... If that person is cunning type, we must not go on this n predict his expression. These ppl r the type of ppl tat bother n trouble us in this skill.
There r ways to counter these type of ppl
1) use hand revealing cards" crush card virus, trap dustshoot"
2) know wat tat person is playing. Tat person is an aggro duelist, control ? what deck he plays ? calculate his chances of getting a good card in his deck. there r many ways.... these r all important factors to keep in mind n can help in this.
Remember most ppl wont consider abt this. They just play n then play without realizing these concpetuals.. Remember, this isnt a must n those ppl arent wrong.
Note: apply this in tournanment onli !! No need to apply this in normal playing unlesss ur testdecking for a tourney. Anyway, there r many times to apply this. Know it, find it out urself. Its better no need to let ppl noe abt this or they will noe how to avoid ur trick n it becomes worhtless. Next post i will talk abt the deck building tips n how to apply the mind crush concept to this deck building tips.
This post aint the best there is n i swear i dint copy this from any website or post or metagame.com! it just came out of my mind ! okay. time to sign of.
till next time, play fair, play hard, don give up n do n forget to apply the mind crush skill !!!
Next time: part 2.
Saturday, May 24, 2008
A preparation of next format
As everyone can see, dark arm dragon is ruling the format. So is gladiator beasts, lightlord bla bla. Im not sure if DAD will still rule if it was added to the limited list. Obviusly 1 of this evil monster cannot functionToday we will talk about cards that help the DAD DECK if it is limited next format. I will talk only about the important cards.
Go
Phantom of chaos.4. fiend. dark.
atk 0
def 0
effect: Choose and remove an effect monster from your Graveyard and from the Game. When this card is face-up on the field, this card is treated as the same name of the removed monster gaining the same attack strength. This effect can only be activated once per turn. Battle damage dealt to your opponent as a result of battle becomes 0.
Killer effect eh? Though it deals no damage, it can copy Dark arm dragon and deal a lot of destruction
Here's a card that most people overlooked. If u r playing a deck focused on dark arm's destruction effect , this is a must. If u r looking for ways to stop ur opponent's return from the different dimension this is the card. If u r looking for more dark monsters in grave to fuel cards such as beginning of the end, dark nephythys this is the card u r looking for. If u r looking for ways to get Necro gardnar back int0 play, u must consider this cardfiend.4.dark
atk ?
def 0
This card's attack is the number of removed from play DARK monsters x300. When this card is destroyed and send to the graveyard, all dark monsters removed form play are brought back to the graveyard.
Don forget most of the time u could sack it with virus. U could also do this:
Dark armd dragon remove 2 dark monsters n do his job. pimm pamm
Then the last dark monster in grave is removed to destroy doomsday horror. Then the 3 removed from play monsters r brought back. Then u end up with 4 dark monster in grave( 3 dark + doomsday horror). SWEET right?
Burial form the different dimension.
return up to 3 monster removed form play back to the graveyard.
I would have to say that this card is great to stop return. In the new dark arm deck it will be the swiss army knife. It can stop rftdd from doing its job. It basically does the job like doomsday horror. It can be chained to return ur necro gardnar back to grave to protect ur lp
It can also return dark arm dragon removed from play to copy for phantom of chaos again,
Escape from the dark dimension.Imagine if return was limited n dimension fusion was banned,
this card will be the card to own. Oh ya here is his effect:
Select one dark monster outplayed and return it back to field. When the monster is destroyed, destroy this card. If this card leaves the field, destroy the monster n outplay it.
Well for one thing i would have to comment is that ths card cant bring back dd survivor. Note its text: When this card leaves the field, DESTROY then remove from play that monster. Dd surviror basically needs to be removed from play straight from the field. This card basically destoryed n rfp the monster. So it reach the grave first then is rfped. Same concept as bottomless trap hole
So here is a deck to abuse the dark return element if DAD is limited , return is limtied and dimension fusion is banned, NOT SURE IF IT WILL WORK AS ITS JUST AN OPINION ( keep tat in mind critics( asskicker cough cough) )
22
1 dark magician of chaos
22
1 dark magician of chaos
1 Dark arm dragon
3 necro gardnar
1 phantom of chaos
1 mask of darkness
1 sangan
3 dark nephythys
1 cybervalley
2 knight of the end
2 doomsday horror
1 ehero stratos
1 dhero diskguy
1 snipe hunter
1 gorz
1 jinzo
1 spirit reaper
14
2 hand severing( hand destruction)
2 reinforcements of the army
1 heavy storm
1 lightning vortex
2 the beginning of the end
1 burial form the different dimesnion
1 ddr
1 monster reborn
1 premature burial
1 golden sarcophagus
1 monster reincarnation
5
1 torrential tribute
1 crush card virus
1 mirror force
1 rtfdd
1 escape from the dark dimension
Remember thois is just a basic skeleton of what a neew format dark return deck might look like, Definitely not as fast as the past but quite okay. I dint include destiny draw because this deck has only one dhero and that is diskguy. Since hand severing can help discard cards for beginning of the end, help to discard necro gardnar. This deck will no doubt have enough cards to disrupt opponent strategy( dark nephythys, necro garnder, snipe hunter, lightning vortex, crush card virus) I am not sure what cards ought to be taken out for cards such as solemn judgement, phoenix wing wind blast n stuff . Mask of darkness is in here because he can recycle rftdd , crush card virus and other cards. Monster reincarnation serves as a way to get dark arm fast as u can discard him with knight of the end.
Till next time: play the yugioh game whole heartedly, dont give up n have fun!
Next time: Shonen jump st louis.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
An inexpensive solution
Gladiator beasts have been doing so well this format, i can't shun from reviewing them anymore.
Take a look at the gladiator up there. This card is one of the reasons gladiator beats r big. The effect is as follows:
This card can only be Special Summoned from your Fusion Deck by returning the above cards you control to the Deck. (You do not use "Polymerization".) When this card is Speciial Summoned, you can destroy up to 2 cards on the field. At the end of the Battle Phase, if this card attacked or was attacked, you can return this card to the Fusion Deck to Special Summon 2 "Gladiator Beast" monsters from your Deck, except "Gladiator Beast Bestiari
How good is it? It IS AWESOME.
There are so many combos to bring this guy out so easily. This article, i will discuss the combos and their effeciency
First
(copyright) from metagame.com( jerome mchale) He uses ehero prisma to perform this awesome trick. How? Look and c
a) use prisma and send bestiari from deck to graveyard
b) assuming u can get another monster out( special summon or normal summon) Get out gladiator beast darius and special summon out gladiator beast bestiari from graveyard to field
c) contact fuse bestiari and darius to become gyzarus
d) destroy ( pimm pamm watever) then attack.
e) special summon 2 more gladiator beasts from deck( at least 1 must be laquari)
f) contact fuse laquari, ehero prisma( bestiari) and the other gladial beast to summon heraklinos to totally control the field!!! GG!!
Gay card.....
In case u guys dont know..... u dint lose a single card in that combo above
Bestiari, prisma, all went back to deck . So good right? While ur opponent loses 2 crads( gyzarus) and some life points.
In case u guys don noe wat is heraklinos' effect, look on:
This card can only be Special Summoned from your Fusion Deck, by returning the above cards you control to the Deck. (You do not use "Polymerization") You can discard 1 card from your hand to negate the activation of a Spell or Trap Card and destroy it. You can use this effect during either player's turn
Good right? Assuming, that combo was amde in early game, u should be controlling.
If combo made in mid game, u would still make opponent worry and fret all over...
if combo made in late game, wa wa even better, opponent already out of steam and combo so u would own! and gyzarus' destroy 2 effect will make opponent suffer even more, How gay.....
And did i mention, heraklinos has a whopping 3000 attack. How to pawn? Dark arms? ya can.....Since opponent destroy cards with gyzarus u should get ur dark monsters in grave easily. But u would have taken a chunk of damage by now. N i mean a huge huge chunk
In case anyone dint notice, these gladiator beasts take their name from real life mythological fighters that r popular. Note heraklinos. Sounds familiar right? Heraklinos...Heracles....And heracles is what the greek called hercules. Also anyone noticed gladial beast spartacus comes from the name spartans . Spartans strong =) too bad the card isnt.=(
There is 2 more cards.... gladial beats octavius and gladial beast alexander..... Octavius himself was a great gladiator in history ( he existed)
Alexander basically takes after the guy called alexander the great
Okay enough talking abt myth yugioh time
Anyway on to praising the gladial beasts
there is a card called gladial beats chariot
Thats the card above gyzarus . Its effect is:
Negate the effect of one effect monster that activates and destroy it. This effect can only be used when u control a gladial beats on the field.
Good or not? rememebr how i said heraklinos can be taken down with dark arms or judgement dragon? This card says it alll.... Its just mediocre n So awesome! dude! Most monster run in decks r effect monster. I would say nearly all ( some decks play normal monsters but r effective ahem ahem colin...neos)
Gladial beaasts r a anti metagame deck. However, it seem that they r of the metagame!!!!
Cards to counter gladial bests
in fact i cant think of many now, onli have cards such as fossil dyna pachyphaelo or ryal opreseion. Then both also have weak points. Fossil dyna attack is damn low even a simpel attack from bestiari will kill off la.
Then royal oppresion damn costly, 800 lp. Gladial beasts play cold wave and solemn judgment for ultimate seal power. Talk abt brutal man.
A card to recycle chariot
Enter gladial beast equite:
When this card is successfully Special Summoned by the effect of a [Gladial Beast] monster, choose a [Gladial Beast] card in your Graveyard and add it to your hand. When this card battles you can return this card to the deck at the end of Battle Phase, then Special Summon a [Gladial Beast] monster, except [Gladial Beast Equite] from the deck to your field
This awesome guy caught my eye while i was looking through the duelist genesis preview in manjyomethunder.net
He has so much potential since effect says one gladial beats. Don forget gladial beast chariot can be taken back. The rest of the monsters can too. Those equip spells too. He is the recycler. 1600 attack is not bad too....
Gladial synchro
When i first ssaw on baha and ds' blog abt the japanese metagame, he mentioned gladial synchro, At tat time so confused ler how to synchro gladial beast out? Then i remembered rescue kitten.
Though i would say its an expensive combo since it requires one of the duel terminal cards that is X saber airbellum. Baha's playing that deck now n i have to comment its quite fast and advantageous. So on with gladial synchro. Rescue cat special summons x saber airbellum and other glaidal beasts with low attack say hoplomus, murmilo or smthg . Then straight away boom! out goyou guardian, brionac, aoj catastor or smthg else!
Okay, now we know how much of a threat is the gladial beasts. So much watch out for it and sidedeck against them in tourney! 3 solemn to counter their solemns . Though i doubt gladial beasts can be beaten easily by any normal deck. However it can be outspeeded. Many decks can do that. Lightlord( sometimes) , dark arm( sometimes too). A counter deck isnt gonna help either as the gladial beasts have tech such as murmillo n bestiari to destroy spell/trap or monster that disturbing deck combo.
Good luck to all duelists out there. Shonen Jump St Louis is merely a few days away. From now on,i will do something like what Matt Peddle does in metagame.com.
If i c a good deck, i shall review it in this site. And dont worry i shant copy matt's as mine will be earlier or different deck.
P.s: if anyone wanna add matt peddle on hotmail his email address is mpeddle80@hotmail.com
He's quite a friendly guy though busy most of the time
Time for me to sign off now, till next time, play fair, play hard n dont give up.
Friday, May 9, 2008
review on the latest emergency ban
okae hi guys! Im a new poster on dis blog. Mie, like mike, is the editor of dis bloggie. Bleh maybe ah eu guys will tink tat ah my english SUCKS bt den ah eu guys muz understand tat im using my hp to post ma... So before i continue, a big apology to eu guys... Okae erh... If eu guys dun like mie type like tat den post on the tag box n tell mie den i type in proper english. Bleh... Okae self intro of my self.
Name:nick. Bleh dun 1 sae full name...
Country:singapore
Age:14
Sku:CCHMS (chung cheng high main school)
Okae so tats a self intro...
Bleh 1 reason y im using my hp to post. Cuz i at tution ma den freaking bored so post luh...
*Erherm..* my motive for 2daes post is to review on the latest emergency ban. The emergency ban(oficially called mid-format change) takes effect 2dae, US time. Serious man i hate UDE... Last time cyber-stein n den now... okae so now erm the cards that got banned...
Name:nick. Bleh dun 1 sae full name...
Country:singapore
Age:14
Sku:CCHMS (chung cheng high main school)
Okae so tats a self intro...
Bleh 1 reason y im using my hp to post. Cuz i at tution ma den freaking bored so post luh...
*Erherm..* my motive for 2daes post is to review on the latest emergency ban. The emergency ban(oficially called mid-format change) takes effect 2dae, US time. Serious man i hate UDE... Last time cyber-stein n den now... okae so now erm the cards that got banned...
DIMENSION FUSION
Okae actualli this card should not be ban. limited maybe?? reason no.1 it cost 2000LP!!! its a quator of ur lifepoint man!!! reason no.2 it helps ur oponent n ur oponent do not have to pay a single lifepoint....
Okae actualli this card should not be ban. limited maybe?? reason no.1 it cost 2000LP!!! its a quator of ur lifepoint man!!! reason no.2 it helps ur oponent n ur oponent do not have to pay a single lifepoint....RETURN FROM THE DIFFERENT DIMENSION
Okae luh dis is about the same as D.fusion... but the cost for dis can be higher, or lower depends on ur LP. n dis also dun help ur oponent so dis card limited stil okae. aiyo review until here i tink ah since UDE or Koonami will ban cards right, y even create dem in the same place?! diao....
ALLURE OF DARKNESS
MY FAV CARD NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! bleh... i seiously lurve dis card man..... but at least they didnt ban it tats gud.... but actualli its hard to get dis card sia... secret rare TCG onli rite?? m i wrong?? bleh...
Actualli y didnt UDE bann the DAD or at least let it have 2 copies?? wasnt it like the serial killer monster tat wacked n wacked?? bleh... but den 1 prob guys... do we go with UDE or Koonami ban list?? i tink tat Koonami will also make the same thing, so an advice. folow UDE. den eu wun waste ur money lol....for mie, my deck GG liao... now nid to make new de...
The link ah?? here luh..... http://entertainment.upperdeck.com/community/forums/1/1160322/ShowThread.aspx
bleh maybe dis review suxs, i dunno... but juz giv mie ur comments guys... after all its my 1st time..
POSTED BY NICK!!!
PS: Dueling legacy is undergoing plastic surgery, bleh an extreme make over by mie!!! we r gonna revamp the whole blog by changing th skins etc... the whole process may take a bit of time cuz i got sku de leh.. MIKE also ma... so play hard, play fair. rmb ani thing eu unhappy muz sae out. my job is to make eu guys happy n allow mie to change for the better, so if eu guys bo sae wat thing bad den i cannot change n make eu guys sastified ma...
MY FAV CARD NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! bleh... i seiously lurve dis card man..... but at least they didnt ban it tats gud.... but actualli its hard to get dis card sia... secret rare TCG onli rite?? m i wrong?? bleh...
Actualli y didnt UDE bann the DAD or at least let it have 2 copies?? wasnt it like the serial killer monster tat wacked n wacked?? bleh... but den 1 prob guys... do we go with UDE or Koonami ban list?? i tink tat Koonami will also make the same thing, so an advice. folow UDE. den eu wun waste ur money lol....for mie, my deck GG liao... now nid to make new de...
The link ah?? here luh..... http://entertainment.upperdeck.com/community/forums/1/1160322/ShowThread.aspx
bleh maybe dis review suxs, i dunno... but juz giv mie ur comments guys... after all its my 1st time..
POSTED BY NICK!!!
PS: Dueling legacy is undergoing plastic surgery, bleh an extreme make over by mie!!! we r gonna revamp the whole blog by changing th skins etc... the whole process may take a bit of time cuz i got sku de leh.. MIKE also ma... so play hard, play fair. rmb ani thing eu unhappy muz sae out. my job is to make eu guys happy n allow mie to change for the better, so if eu guys bo sae wat thing bad den i cannot change n make eu guys sastified ma...
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