What is this. Breakthough people! Lair wire for the win!

Inzektors.
Me: Crazy bombers
Ghakimx: You don't say!

In the past insect archetypes are like "Stupid"
Now, people worshiped them because of Inzektors. However, while worshiping them, they forgot about insect support cards. And Sam showed a difference between an average duelist and a pro duelist. There are always things that we overlooked, and it is these pros that make the breakthrough!

While watching game 2 of Malaysian Asia Qualifyer finals. Sam used this card:
Presenting



I was like "WDF is this!"
I was like "Why I never think of this!"
And guess what, under other card information tips section. I saw this:

I saw a badly misspelled tip in the last section for inzektors. It shows that that tip was written in last minute. (Maybe, it is  straightaway after the Malaysian Asia Qualifiers). 

What does this prove? It shows how many average duelists like me are very short-sighted. What to do? We must breakthrough! Need to be inventive and innovative to create new ways of plays. I wonder how will Singapore Asia Qualifiers be like? Will there be a new breakthrough?

I

Full Yen Econ Tournament Report (17/03/12)

Finally entered a tourney since last month. This time, got top 4 with Edward and Cheng Wee. Decided to play a Final Countdown instead of Empty Jar because its a lot less combo oriented and I thought it would be funny to see who can do what. Apparently, I've been proven wrong.

Match 1: W-W
Hakim (FC) vs Pei Ming (Infernity)

Round 1:

He start, Dark Grepher, drop and mill, etc. I draw, Final Countdown, thin deck, then I wait. At one point, had one Purgatory Dragon + Barrier Behind. My turn, I activate A Day of Peace, he let it pass, but then he eventually died because he occupied all his zones. Also, he had no Xyz monsters in his extra deck, so pretty jacked from there.

Round 2:
Same as before. He didn't side. I think I just played without siding since he was going to play like a boss.

Match 2: W-L-W
Hakim vs some X-Saber dude who's name I forgot

Round 1:
Struggled like siao. He Gottoms, I almost died. Screw Gottoms.

Round 2: He Gottoms again, I run out of cards to protect myself.

Round 3: He set a bunch of monsters and cards, then he flip summon his monsters but when he attempted to synchro a level 6 monster, I Skill Drain his ass and cock block him for most of the game. But near the end of the game, he bombed my field and hand but it was turn 19 and I had A Day of Peace the last turn.

Match 3: L-W-L
Hakim vs Chewy (Inzectors)

Why bother writing? Doesn't matter who wins because top 4 by then.

Match 4: L-L
Hakim vs Xhi (Six Samurai)

Round 1: Wa lao, I draw-search-draw-search NEVER GET THE DAMN COUNTDOWN. In the end, he summon out the Naturia Beast and I just switch to stalling tactics but still died.

Round 2: Apparently, he let my Card Car D pass a lot but then his turn he pull out Naturia Beast. Next turn, he pull out a few more monsters, like Grandmaster, Enishi, Kizan. My turn, I decided to be stupid and ask him, "Which are the most threatening monsters" to which he pointed to Beast and Enishi. Then, I tributed the Beast and Enishi for Lava Golem, then Final Countdown.

At one point in the game, as some girl with a dog came to our table and kept staying there. I had no idea who she was at first, but then I asked Xhi to hold on a while till she and the dog go away. But WTF, the table consisting of Xhi, me, Chewy and Edward just poker face down there. Then, she talked to Edward and then it seemed obvious she was his sister. Cheng Wee tried to move his leg away from the dog but then got barked him. You fookin' kidding me?

Seriously annoying. I mean, honestly speaking, what Edward's sister did is the same as me eating beef RIGHT IN FRONT of a Buddhist or a Hindu guy. Its SO offensive. Maybe its my fault for not saying I'm uncomfortable, but is Edward and his sister so air-headed that they don't know they should keep the dog away from muslims? C'mon lah, tolong and give us a break.

Anyway, back to the duel. At one point, we were running out of time. Then, Final Countdown left 5 turns but then the judge, Ze Xuan, give only 4 turns. Guess what, turn 19, I can stall, he default that Xhi wins. I try argue a bit lah, but then I can't be bothered. Better to control my anger for another day. But can we have a change of judge for once? Please?

So yes, in the midst of anger, a boy who I call Frog boy came to tell us something. Because I can, I shall illustrate it in the form of a rage comic.

And that's what happened, asides all the table flipping.

So Xhi decided to take first prize of Mist Wurm and we split 6 packs amongst ourselves. Edward got nothing, I got Annid and Chewy got Galaxy Photon Eyes. He swap the two Xyz monsters but I don't mind because what's mine is his.

That's all folks!
- Hakim

What is this!! Damn Bus!

As I walk in to Full Yen late at night, I saw this!!

What is this! Tour Bus of the underworld

Born in: Full-Yen, 20 00 to 21 00, 20/3/2012

Owner: Wei Yao

Description: His instinct paved him the way to be a proud father of the bitch bus of the underworld, now he is just missing a bitch guide of the underworld.

     

I missed out a lot!!!

After a 2 day camp, I was WDF! So many things happened!

Full-Yen Tournament on 17/3/2012, 3 of WDF academy hit top 4. Impressive!
Meanwhile in SP, I am swimming in a big sheet of detergent.

17/3/2012, WDF celebrates by having dinner.
Meanwhile at SP, I am crying (yes I am crying!) over not being able to memorise camp songs in West Coast! POW only!

And guess what, I brought my deck during camp and I sleep beside it at night.
To be honest, I felt more fit and clear-minded. Time to catch up with my team!
2 days without Yu-Gi-Oh, hmm, wonder how it affects me.

Visiting DB 10/3/2012

A Tournament was held at DB 10/3/2012
Number of Participants?: 30+??

Common decks seen everywhere:
1) Herobeat
2) Inzecktors

Wonderhow ASC 2012 turns out? Can't wait. Gonna have a hell of a fun time there.

Full Yen Non-Ranking Tourney Report (3/3/12)

I read up on many blogs about Chain Disappearance being a killer for this current Meta. I decided to put my feelings aside and try it out IN MY MAIN DECK for this tournament. I decided to main 2 of them in my deck, not sure whether this is suicide or a blessing. And to make this more “better” I also main D.D Crows and Veilers as well. Oh yeah, for desserts, I added an Icarus Attack, I want my Crow to be multi-tasking

Ok, on to the report: As usual any mistake, please correct me, my cool opponents.
Swiss elimination (I think)
Number of Participants: 10+

Deck used: Con-trolled Machina Gadget
Judge: Eustace??

Round 1 vs Wen Liang (Inzektors) ???
I kind of forgot how the whole match goes. I remember on Game 2, he goes Chimeratech Fortress Dragon on me and beat mw with 3k beat stick! Serious crow activity (I think). He seemed to have a bad hand so it was some luck for me I guess for me to win. Time and luck was on my side.
He was stunned when he used Centipede eff to bomb my face down card, which turns out to be a Icarus attack

Round 2 vs Sebas (BF) OXO

Game 1: He starts things up with a Rai-Oh to stop my hand advantage, I am forced to mind control Rai-Oh. I then summon a yellow gadget (no effect to search of course). I xyz to hope to attack. He then got rid of my hope. I am unsure on how I push for game.

Game 2: Rai-Oh again, what to do? Smashing ground. No choice, none of my level 4 monster can run it over. I then summon a gadget and attack. He then summons a Sirocco to punch. On the next turn, I go cyclone his backrow. I mind control his Sirocco and summon veiler to go for Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier. However, Sebas turn the tables with BLS (thanks to his Lavalval Chain), despite me veiling his BLS, he push the game from there.

Game 3: Top decking in progress, then He reborn my Machina fortress!! I was forced to smash it. He summon his Rai-Oh again!! I drew a Gearframe! Who cares if I can’t search, I just summon Gearframe. Fortress hit Rai-Oh then Gearframe go for game.

Round 3 vs Wesley (Inzektors) XOX
Game 1: Setting of backrow, I chain D his hornet but he torrential the field to ensure his hornet stay in grave. And I was like…… when he pot duality thrice! (Once per turn in 3 consecutive turn!), I used Phoenix Wing Wind Blast to top deck his hornet. (Learnt that from him) . However, I still lost to him, with his inzektors stuns.

Game 2: Limiter on fortress push the game for me when I ran it on Centipede
Game 3: He mst his own Mantis to produce more Inzektors that go for game for him.

Top 4

Round 4 vs Edward (Verz!) OXX

(Whoever wins this have a shot at Wesley again!!)

Game 1: My Gadget goes for push, not sure how I won.
Game 2: I made a terrible mistake. I had a face-down shadow imprisoning mirror but I ended up using solemn judgement. This mistake causes my loss.
Game 3: I had a really bad hand, only drew a gadget on the 4th turn, I was like …… I lost. L

Overall position: 4th

Well, maining chain disappearance is not a bad idea after all, why didn’t I do it in the first place? Being egoistic? From now on, I am not going to let my feelings take charge and let it cloud my Judgement on what is right for my deck. Enjoyed the whole tournament today

End of report
Jay Wong.

Yugioh Rage Comics - Part 1

Just some rage comics done by us...Enjoy!

Trolling Lagia

The Poor Shine Ball

The Awesome White Hole!

Pure Lv 6 Hieroglyph Build

My first Hieroglyph build for the March 2012 format. I have been play-testing this build for quite awhile recently and one thing is for sure, this deck is capable of OTK-ing very quickly. But I am sure many of you who actually played a Hieroglyph deck will know that the biggest flaw of this deck is its consistency issue.

I did not run Hieroglyph Seal of the Divine Dragon unlike most Hieroglyph builds simply because I did not have Ennead at the time when I built this deck. I only had Atumus and Gaia Dragoons so I decided to form a pure level 6 Xyz build; turns out it is also as deadly as other builds because of the infamous - 2x Atumus (overlay to Gaia) + 1x Gustaph Max + another monster (which is pretty easy to pull off).

Here's the build:-

Monsters - 22
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3x Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
3x Hieroglyph Dragon - Tfeni Dragon
3x Hieroglyph Dragon - Aset Dragon
3x Hieroglyph Dragon - Shiyu Dragon
2x Hieroglyph Dragon - Nephthe Dragon
2x Tragoedia
2x Wattdragon
1x Prime Material Dragon
1x Gorz the Emissary of Darkness
1x Delta Flyer
1x Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning

Spells - 9
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3x Hieroglyph Seal of Gathering
2x Night Shot (just trying out this card for the fun of it)
1x Monster Gate
1x Monster Reborn
1x Book of Moon
1x Heavy Storm

Traps - 9
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2x Call of the Haunted
2x Bottomless Trap Hole
2x Torrential Tribute
2x Solemn Warning
1x Solemn Judgment

Some interesting tech cards which most Hieroglyphs do not run would be Delta Flyer and Prime Material Dragon. As I do not need to run the Lv 8 balls, I decided to tech in these 2 cards. Delta Flyer is a Level 3 tuner which can add 1 Level to any other monster on the field. As most monsters are Level 6, it gives the deck instant access to Trident Dragion. (Although this deck has already its own OTK engine, 1 more OTK option is not that bad; Trident Dragion is also Level 10...more Gustaph Max fun) Prime Material Dragon, on the other hand, actually replaced Lightpulsar Dragon (Kudos to fellow teammate for giving me this suggestion). Turns out it is much better than Lightpulsar as he got a built in "Destruction Jammer" which comes in handy incase OTK failed. His second effect, which is anti-burn decks is also awesome. Do not need to fear of Chain Burn decks as you just need to summon Atumus and bring Prime Material Dragon out. Chain burn decks will probably get stuck for awhile until they find a way to get rid of him like a Lava Golem or something. However be careful when you summon this guy, you don't want to heal your opponent for 2000 LP just by carelessly going into Gustaph while this guy is on the field.

All and all, this is an interesting build which I had fun with for quite awhile. I am going to reform this deck as I recently pulled Ennead from buying some packs. I might be tech-ing in Card Car Ds in the new build for more draw power. (I do not like Super Rejuvenation)

Conclusion, this is not a good deck IMO. (An inconsistent deck is a bad deck to me) But for anyone who wants to try to play Hieroglyphs without the Seal (Trolololol), this should be interesting. It is also possible to summon 2 Gustaph Max in one turn with Sacred Ptolemys Messier 7, just for the pure joy of having two Rank 10s on the field. :)

Hieroglyph Dragon King - Atumus

"One hell of a scary card."

Full Yen Econ Tournament Report (25/02/12)

Today's tourney as seen by me. Learned quite a lot from today's experience.

Pre-tourney: Found out Sebastian was my first opponent. Divine Intervention isn't it? Considering I've entered the YT tourney 4 times and 3 times I've matched up against him. Rofl.

Judges: Jiyeon, Eustace

Match 1: Empty Jar (Hakim) vs E-Heroes (Sebastian)

Win-Lose-Win

Game 1: I think I set a Deep Diver first and ended. His turn I think he summoned Stratos or Alius or something and rammed my Deep Diver. He checks the effect because its new to him and I show him I top deck Morphing Jar, which at the point he realizes I'm playing an Empty Jar deck. Drew, set Morphing Jar, Taiyou- got countered by Effect Veiler but then chained Book of Eclipse and proceeded to victory.

Game 2: Bad hand. Couldn't do much. Sebastian beat me down and controlled with Shock Ruler.

Game 3: Fun stuff. He summoned Honest first and hit me. Then I set like 2 cards and ended. His turn, he summoned Stratos, search Alius, then he had Stratos, Alius and Honest on the field. I was around half my lifepoints at that point so when he attacked with Stratos, I used Super Poly on his Alius and Stratos to summon E-HERO The Shining, like a boss. He got mind blown. Then, he used Compulsory Evac to bounce it and whack with Honest. So much win. Drew and proceeded to victory.

After the match, I began feeling like I was burning up. Don't think it was the weather, maybe just nervousness. But even now I feel like its still in on me.

Match 2: Empty Jar (Me) vs Some E-Hero deck

Win-Win

Game 1: IIRC, he had one Stratos and 2 or 3 set cards. When I flipped up Morphing Jar, he used Super Poly to summon E-Hero Gaia. But I just used Feather of the Phoenix to top deck it and win the next turn.

The guy had no side deck.

Game 2: Pretty much won.

My body continues overheating. Was I cursed? Couldn't stand it. Needed water.

Match 3: Empty Jar (Me) vs Lightsworn (Yoong Kang)

Win-Win

Game 1: Kinda won easily because of the right hand.

Game 2: I was doing the stun and all but then I got countered by an Effect Veiler and I had no counter or Book of Eclipse/Moon. Surprisingly. I still continued the stun anyway and won.

Becoming very hot and shaky. Difficult to focus and play.

Match 4: Empty Jar (Me) vs Laval (Poh Seng)

Win-Lose-Win

Played very slowly because of my current condition.

Game 1: He used Sweltering Heat Trasmission Wave (which is pretty much double foolish burial) to mill like 5 cards instantly. He ended his turn with Card Car D. Mind Blown. I kept stalling for time until he had like only half his deck left. Then I proceeded to winning. Along the way, he asked me the effects of my cards and I was rather surprised he didn't know.

Game 2: Bad hand. I think my Morphing Jar was around the bottom of my deck and I couldn't get searchers. I realized that I should use Prohibition to stop D.D. Crow from removing my cards. Kept stalling for time but got owned by Ancient Flamvell Deity, Stardust and Black Rose Dragon.

Game 3: Wow. I really managed to pull through here. I don't really recall entirely but It took me a couple of turns and a few beatings but I managed to OTK him.

Match 5: Empty Jar (me) vs Inzector (Wesley)

Lose-Lose

Game 1: Deep Diver got bombed but in this game, I stalled LIKE A BOSS. I think I activated One Day of Peace like 5 or 6 times? Till Wesley had like one card left in his deck. You know, he kept bombing all this cards and even used Torrential Tribute and Heavy Storm on himself. That's kind of an accomplishment. However, he eventually set up a new field and owned me because I dropped Swift Scarecrow the turn before.

Game 2: Lost. Bad. I kept stalling for time but I realized I could win. So yeah, he has like 5 cards left in his deck, I set and taiyou a needleworm- Effect veiler- book of eclipse- fiendish chain- book of eclipse- effect veiler. Shit. Lost from there, but I could have won from the Book of Eclipse by themselves because Wesley would draw himself to death. I think I'll let this one slide because I wasn't in good health at this point.

Overall I'm OK with this because Wesley used to play Empty Jar back when Book of Moon was at 3, so guess he has good experience with it and how to counter. And he's a nice guy, so its cool.

Overall, a very good experience in the tournament. Apparently, everyone who has Effect Veiler mains it and everyone sides in D.D. Crow. I think I may have misplayed by not using Prohibition on D.D. Crow as well. I also may consider maining Prohibition because of Effect Veiler.

Another thing I learned is that in the US, Empty Jar decks run Tour Guide of the Underworld because it is a lot more effective than Deep Diver. I should seriously put it in if possible because of today's Inzectors. But really, this deck is like $50-75 and probably one of the most budget decks in Yugioh, asides the foils-only. So do I really wanna pay $500 just for this? Obviously not. Though it'll be cool if I ever won the next tourney.

Also, a lot of people keep activating Solemn Warning and Torrential Tribute in response to Morphing Jar but I keep telling them they can't because it is NOT a flip summon but just a flip or battle position change. I also had to convince Sebastian and Jiyeon that when I had 4 set cards and then Book of Taiyou, I can chain Book of Eclipse AFTER because once the effect resolves, I have an open slot to chain. Its quite troubling because I feel like no one trusts or they don't agree with what I know. I mean, I've played this deck for a while so I try to know everything about my deck. So I hope people in the future understand this.

End of Tournament Report.
- Hakim

Full Yen Non-Ranking Tourney Report (25/2/12)

Double-Elimination
Number of Participants: 14?
Deck used: Lightlord aka Lucksack Deck.

Judge: Jiyeon/Eustace??

Seeing how the March Banlist has given me another summoner, I decided to take out the deck again and see if Lady Luck favours me.

Once again, I am trying to do a decent report. If any mistakes with the report, please correct me. (I have a bad memory)

Round 1 vs Pei Ming (Infernity) OO-

Game 1: Looks like maining 2 D.D crow was the right thing.I crowed Archfiend and got some insane mill. I ended up with five lightlords. On his next turn, he got a AOJ Catastor, I just syn to Brionac and xyz to Number 17: Leviathan Dragon. I just push from there.

Game 2: He soul-release my Lightlord cards. I next turn drew a Judgement Dragon. I was like.........
I also forgot how I won that round

Round 2 vs Ying Jun (Inzektors) XX-

(This is a very bad match-up)

Game 1: He swarmed in the speed of light and I cannot do shit. What am I supposed to do if he got veiler and I am so dumb to think that he got a demon chain set face-down when it is a call of the haunted? I had taken 7900 LP worth of damage and I just literally scrub the next turn.

Game 2: Despite successfully getting rid of this Dimensional Fissure, due to bad hand and fear of Centipede. I misplayed badly (with him saying that I minus myself badly as well) and I lost from there.

Round 3 vs Ben (Ultimate Offering Gadgets) OO-

Game 1: Friendly exchange of blows, with me kick-starting the game with by using velier on his gadget. I kind of forgot how I won from there.

Game 2: Chain summoning with limiter and gadget effect. What a chain! Upon receiving a direct attack, I dropped a Gorz. My Judgement Dragon hits the field with a bang on the next turn. Push from there.

(Actually, at the mid-point of game 2, Eustace said that both Ben and I are already qualified for the top 8 as there are some people with 2 loses in a row but both of us insisted on playing till the end as it was so fun. And there is no way we will give up a game like that.)

Top 8 (Single Elimination)

Round 4 vs Hakim (Empty Jar) XX-

Game 1: Tried to veiler his morphing jar but he just Book of Eclipse it.My hand was clean while his hand is right and I just died to not being able to draw.

Game 2: Once again, his usual stuns with veiler in sight for me while no book is in my way. My Crowing of his Book of Eclipse came too late. Once more, I died to not being able to draw. How am I supposed to side-decked against that kind of deck! I had already mained 2 D.D crow and 2 effect veiler in my deck. What else can I do?

Congrats to Hakim for hitting top 2.

End of Report;

Jay Wong.

R.I.P. - Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier

Life is not measured
By the number of breaths we take,
But by the moments
That take our breath away,
Not forgetting the number of cards
... This badass removed from play.

R.I.P. - Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
2010 - 2012

Card Review: Photon Streak Bouncer

The new Rank 6 Xyz monster which is released in the Galactic Overload set is not to be messed with. Let us take a look at the stats of this card:-

Rank 6 [Light]
Warrior/Xyz/Effect
ATK/2700 DEF/2000

2 Level 6 monsters
Once per turn, when a monster your opponent controls activates its effect: You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card; negate that effect, and inflict 1000 damage to your opponent.




One hell of a boss card, even his picture looks badass, no? All right, let's discuss more on his effect. First off, he is a 2700 attack on field Effect Veiler. And secondly, he burns for 1000 damage after negating his target's effect! I would actually liked it better if he negates and DESTROYS the target instead, but hell, that would make him real boss and probably kinda broken. With many decks nowadays all running on lots of monster effect, Photon Streak Bouncer would probably be a pain in your opponent's ass. Inzektor Dragonfly effect? Negate! Black Rose nuke field? Negate! With 2700 attack points, running over him is also quite difficult. Even Master Hyperion will have to go toe-to-toe with Bouncer as he will just negate Hyperion's destruction effect. This card would actually be a potential Trishula stopper; but judging from the March 2012 banlist, these two monsters will probably never meet in a duel..

This card comes with a few drawbacks. Firstly, his negation can only be used once per turn...meaning your opponent can actually work around this guy (but slowing themselves down in the process). Secondly, he can only negate on field effects. So unlike the scary GB War Chariot, Bouncer cannot negate effects which activate in the Graveyard or hand. Apart from these two cons, Photon Streak Bouncer is one hell of a powerful Xyz which you will soon see in action in the upcoming tournaments.

Now, summoning Bouncer is not as hard as it seems. In fact, he can actually be teched into various deck archetypes... Hieroglyphs! The brand new dragon archetype released with this card can certantly Xyz summon Bouncer easily. Tfeni, Shiyu, Wattdragon (and sometimes Lightpulsar) are all easily summonable Level 6 monsters in a Hieroglyph deck. If you suspect that your opponent might have an Effect Veiler in hand and negate your Atumus's effect, Xyz Summon Bouncer instead and stun your opponent! Instead of your opponent successfully stopping your OTK move, summon Bouncer and its your turn to control your opponent!

Next we take a look at Graveyard Blackfeather. As we know this deck is capable of bringing out multiple Blackwing - Armed Wings in one turn with Vayu for a beatdown, summoning Photon Streak Bouncer is not impossible. Unable to finish off your opponent after swinging for 2300+2300 damage? Overlay the Armed Wings into Bouncer and make sure your opponent cannot make a come back by summoning Black Rose Dragon the next turn.

Other decks which can summon Photon Streak Bouncer include Gishki builds which still run Gustkrake. Xyz the 2 Gustkrakes which already used their effects into something better instead of letting them get beatdown the next turn. Dragunities, Inzektors, Photons and even Gigavise plant builds can also make use of this card. So when you have the chance, summon Photon Streak Bouncer and give your opponent a headache!

Card review: Thunderclap Knight - Gaia Dragoon

Thunderclap Knight - Gaia Dragoon (What is with the double"o"s?)
Dragon/Xyz/Effect
Good new chaos xyz card. The best part, it never uses its xyz material so basically it is a big beat stick that can pierce! It is not hindered at all if it does not have xyz material because it does not even use them! What is this? Yu-Gi-Oh!
NO 2 level 7? No problem, you just overlay this on a Rank 5/6 monster that has served its purpose.
It is a card that can be literally be splashed into any extra deck for one reason: Mind Controlololo I know, we were told not to steal. However, if it is for the taking why not?
Conclusion: Maybe that is why Mind Control was not banned for March 2012? To promote more Stealing chaos XYZ summon? That is epic, despite praying Mind Control being banned, it does not come true. What happens if more chaos XYZ monsters are being introduced? Mind Control will be bloody broken. With Mind Control around, This XYZ monster is not to be missed.

Before I end, Let me say my prayer: (Credits Ghakim)
Remain pure against those who manipulate others, Great Obelisk! Punish the weak and feeble, Great Slifer! Give us strength in out time of need, Winged Dragon of Ra! And most importantly, ban Mind Control. The Almighty Horakthy! Thank you!

The ray of light behind the list

Before I light the path for you, we first have to know what is in the list.

Forbidden Cards :
Glow-Up Bulb 「グローアップ･バルブ」
Spore 「スポーア」
Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier 「氷結界の龍　トリシューラ」
Trap Dustshoot 「ダスト・シュート」

Restriction Cards 「制限カード」:

Tech Genus Striker 「ＴＧ－ストライカー」
Agent of Mystery, Earth 「神秘の代行者 アース」

Semi-Restriction Cards 「準制限カード」:

Marshmallon 「マシュマロン」
Lumina, Lightsworn Summoner 「ライトロード･サモナー　ルミナス」
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」
Reborn Tengu 「Reborn Tengu」

No longer restricted 「準制限」:

Call of the Haunted 「リビングデッドの呼び声」

Reviews and thoughts:
Konami might implement a set rotation strategy with the ban of popular plant tuners and the notorious Trishula. I felt sadded though that Trishula is like our "Yubel" or "Astral" by our side where it both watched and help us won duels. Most grown up stronger with this card in the game.
The card gives lots of sentimental value to everyone, it became hard to let it go and accept the fate that it is gone. Every criminal eventually has to face the laws and the consequences. From the abuse of it in Infernities to the hands of an agent angel not to mentioned that Trishula became a man and grow balls too. Get it?? Venus + balls + any lvl 2 tuner. This are some of my thoughts on the banlist. Now moving on to the analysis that I wanted to show you.

Dustshoot:
Its a broken card that changes the game the moment you start first and had in in your starting hand. It gives players an advantage which rips one card away from your opponent's hand. For example a rescue rabbit, effect veilers and a maxx c. On top of that a chance to look at opponents hand is and predict its next move is too much of a disruptive advantage.
1st. It makes you a step ahead of your opponent. then it -1 of your opponent's hand. I bet everyone is happy that this card got ban. But the grin only stays short.

Trishula:
Similar to dustshoot. It gives a player advantage and minus 3 for your opponent in a form of a 2700 beat stick. Reason being is that Konami is trying to promote exceeds desperately and to do so, they had to kill the top tier synchro decks and monsters. This is also to promote the duel terminal 14's verz ouroboros to replace the trishula. Looking in the duel terminal archetypes, the only archetype that makes into the meta was lavals, gishki and x-saber (tcg) and (the) fabled. Broken Synchro monsters: Naturia Barkion, Beast and landoise, Ice barrier's Trishula and brionac. To look in another perspective, DT sales has been failing ever since. Konami has gone desperate and with a format with swarming insects, DT archetypes are not on a leveled playing ground with the current meta such as inzektors and windups.

This lead me into mentioning about the quick release of archetypes and boosters recently. After all the rants and complaints that the OCG players had made to the slow release of extrapacks and TCG exclusives cards on  the OCG playing ground. This also introduced a variety of more broken plays where the meta is heading right now with 2 of the most notorious deck remained untouched. This also help to earn the trust of the players that were hit hard by list which those who played agent angels and junk doppel. This then brings me to the next highlight that the TCG people are frustrated about.

Reborn Tengu:
It is an irritating card that floats no matter how you try to get rid of it which also a splashable tech card into any deck. Nobody expects Konami to hit a TCG exclusive card that never tasted the OCG ground before. Konami decides to be more stern and daring with this banlist to prove players wrong that Konami would not hit a TCG exclusive card. This only means that the OCG players would get the Tengu sooner than we would expect it. This brings me to the next topic of the tuners that were hit and a structure deck card.

Earth, Agent of Mystery:
After TGAA being topped in so many tourneys, Konami decides to hit it hard by jeopardizing its consistency and speed which is their very own E-hero stratos instead of the boss monster, Master Hyperion. The theory of "Konami would never hit a structure deck exclusive card" is wronged. Its been a year since the release of Structure deck 20:Lost Sanctuary. Usually after a year of release that structure deck becomes dead or unpopular. Which means nobody would buy the SD anymore. An example would be Machina Command. The deck totally never comes back anymore after insane releases of new archetypes. In a business perspective, its called a matured product which is outdated and has to go as konami only cares about its sales and revenue.

End of part 1. Tune in for part 2
Signing off the Masqueraded Psycho Jester :D

Maintainence

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Thoughts about the March 2012 banlist

Credits: Edwin Soh

Forbidden
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Grow-up Bulb - Level 1 tuner which can bring back itself, splashable in many decks. I personally do not think that they should hit this card. I think dandylion is a greater threat though.

Spore - Another tuner which brings back itself. Junk Doppels got hit hard this time. Two key tuners taken out from the deck, access to Formula Synchron will be much harder. Use an Effect Veiler? Tech in an Unknown Synchron?

Trishula - One of the most iconic cards in Yu-Gi-Oh! now banned. What is this? Yep, no doubt this card can sometimes really mess up your opponent, many meta decks now can come back after getting 'Trishula-ed'. Seriously, why this and not BLS? I guess we will miss the fun we had with this guy.

Trap Dustshoot - Seen this coming. A card which should go. Approve.

Limited
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The Agent of Mystery - Earth - Yep. Konami still did not hit any feature card of a Structure Deck yet. So to kill Agents? Take out more consistency from the deck by hitting their search power. They probably didn't want to hit Venus as people might just play Jupiter to make up for the loss. Do not really agree with this hit as Agents are already not doing as well as they used to; thanks to Inzecter and Lagia decks everywhere. Plus now with Trishula gone...

Tech Genus Striker - Level 2 tuner which can be special summoned easily. No problem with this hit.

Semi-limited
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Marshmallon - Not really much to say here. Stall/burn decks will be happy. Although this thing will not survive a turn against Inzecters.

Lightlord Summoner Luminous - Yeah! Lightlords finally got abit more support. No more "My charge mill away my Lumina now nothing to search!". More speed for this archetype which have been dead for a long time. Approve.

Emergency Teleport - Another card which many predicted will come back. No problem with this.

Shien's Smoke Signal - Although Six Samurais are still powerful, this at 2 should have been how the September 2011 banlist should look like.

Level Limit Area B - Nothing much to talk about here either. With so many backrow removal, this card will not survive long anyway.

Torrential Tribute - Good! More reason to play Starlight Road. Lol!

Ultimate Offering - This should have been the case in the last banlist where offering gadgets are more dominant. Maybe Konami might be planning to release some imbal Rank 4 soon and this prevents offering gadgets from abusing it.

Reborn Tengu - At first everyone was like WTF? We don't even have Tengu. People are now speculating that the Starter Deck 2012 might give OCG Reborn Tengu. Thus the hit.

Unlimited
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Call of the Haunted - Trololol. 4 'Monster Reborn's. Sangan and the likes, Knight of the End and Card Gunner are now happy. Or maybe Darklord Superbia can be abused to troll the shit out of people by summoning 2 big fairies in their face

Full Yen Ranking Tournament Report at (18/2/2012)

- Trying my best to do a decent report, my Opponents please enlighten me if there is anything wrong

After my bad performances on the last tourney, I decided to get things serious. Finally put in Chaos hope and Fortress
Number of participants : 12+??
Deck used: Karakuri
Judge: Jiyeon

Round 1 vs Edwin Soh/Fellow Teammate (Mirror Match) OXO

Game 1: He veiler my merchant at the start of the game, however, I did the standard karakuri stuns and push the game from there.
Game 2:  I veiler his Merchant at the start of the game (Conicidence). After I did my Karakuri stuns and failed to kill him, He just went Chimeratech Fortress Dragon and beat me from there.
Game 3: After turns of exchanging blows we ended up top-decking. Luck was on my side when I had a Karakuri Komachi mdl 224 “Ninishi” and drew another karakuri monster. Push the game from there.

Round 2 vs Wei Heng (Dark World) OO-

Game 1: If I remember correctly, I cyclone his face down skill drain. Beat him down from there, his Grapha revived for a beating only.
Game 2:  I had a bad hand at that time, have a Karakuri Ninja, DD.crow with two Iron call stuck there with no targets in grave. The intense moment is where he set heavy backrow with an active skill drain. He dragged down to grave my DD. Crow. However, I managed to draw another 1 and removed that Grapha from play. I actually had a heavy storm a few turns later, but I decided against using it as he had set 2 face down monsters (I suspect one of them is a morphing jar : Turns out to be true later. Decided to clear his two set monster before hitting for game)
He xyz Hope which of course I warning. Note: Turns out to be a great mistake…. Guess what I drew the next turn? Yes, surprisingly; Mind Control………(No chaos Hope.)
After I killed his two set monster (A morphing jar is one of them...), He makes things difficult by mind-crushing Iron call. Both of them get thrown into the grave. (He knows what I got due to drag down)
He also threw in “system down”, My Catastor was gone and my grave becomes karakuri free.
However, I gathered enough resources on my hand at that time. Heavy storm his backrow. I then did karakuri swarming, used mind control to move his last monster out of the way and go for game

Top 4

Round 3 vs Roger (Junk Doppel) OXX
Game 1: Used a Merchant to ram into a mystic tomato. He did not seemed to have anything for me. Went Trishula and hit from there. (He seemed to be warming up because things got hard for me on the 2^nd and 3^rd game)
Game 2: Made a terrible mistake when I set warning first instead of bottomless. Got 6k life points left, He threw in a trag and did beatdown.
Game 3: Made a serious mistake by continuing to special summon when he drop a Maxx C. Got bit nervous, and messed up. It ended up with Roger having 9 cards in his hand while taking 2.8k from scrap dragon. He did his swarming with that many resources and kills me from there.

Result: last 2 of top 4

Not much to say better than expected, some luck I guess.
Anyway, I got advice from Wesley about Maxx C so thanks alot
Got too nervous, I guess.but I had fun. Going to be better I hope.
End of report

Yoong Kang

GAOV is ………. And a “couple” Kinokuniya “raid”

Thursday, 16/2/2012

Should have written this yesterday but seriously…….

Basically, WDF had a gathering at Cheng Wee’s place with 6 box of GROV. What is this! Yu-Gi-Oh. We don’t have to eat at all. Yu-Gi-Oh is our food yeah, awesome.
Basically out of 6 boxes. We got the following

1)      I think Only got 1 Gaia Dragoon, the Force of Thunder/Thunderclap Knight - Gaia Dragoon (EDWIN!!!!)
2)      2 Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon
3)      Don’t know how many Photon Streak Bouncer
4)      Don’t know how many Number 25: Fullmetal Photoglide - Focus Force (ultra and ulti)
5)      Saw a few Inzektor Exa-Stag.
6)      Don’t know how many Number 32: Marine Biting Dragon - Shark Drake (Ultra and Ulti)
7)      Hieroglyph God Dragon – Ennead (how many lazy count…. >.<)
8)      Got tired of Dragon Devil - Queen Dragoon
9)      And no Holo!! What is this? Yu-Gi-Oh. WDF pick like so many boxes and what the hell

Well, we got lots of Hieroglyph commons and support though. Helping Edwin to look for buyer for commons. >.<

Inzektor really got lots of support. Especially it got its own “Mind Control”
That is all for yesterday. I am really late.  L

Friday 17/2/2012.

Today was kind of a blur. I did not meet up with the rest of the WDF members. Instead, I hanged out with a very beautiful friend of mine to get her Cosplay stuff in Orchard. LAWL.

Ok, WDF seriously, back to main point.

As we are at Orchard,  We both decided together to go Kinokuniya. For Window Shopping! (I was really broke)

We both got crazy over manga…..
I was broke so yeah when I see zexal manga 2 for the No.50…. I was like ||||

However, I got some tip:I was told that the V-jump for No. 15 Gimmick Puppet - Giant Killer will be hitting the main branch on next Wednesday, First Batch!!

However, I was told to be quick as there are lots of customers asking for books as well (Wondered who they were?). So by releasing this piece of shit, I think if everyone were to rush to kino next week, there might be a huge competition and we might ended up duelling; The winner get to buy the book (Lawl).

That is all, not going to say anything else.
Cheers

Spoiler banlist? What is this!!

Spoiler Ban list? (Credits to Jason Leong for finding it)

I saw two lists. Hmm which is more reliable?

Both of got the magazines to show evidence. >.<

Source Website: http://www.yuginewz.com/

1st list:

Forbidden:
Monster Reborn
Trap Dustshoot


Limited:
Karakuri Komachi mdl 224 “Ninishi”
Wind-Up Hunter
The Agent of Creation - Venus
Tsukuyomi
T.G. Striker
Rescue Rabbit
Instant Fusion
Pot of Duality
Rekindling
Ultimate Offering


Semi-Limited:
Armageddon Knight
Neo-Spacian Grand Mole
Blackwing - Kalut the Moon Shadow
Master Hyperion
Emergency Teleport


Unlimited:
Marshmallon
Magical Stone Excavation
Mind Crush

2^nd list:

Banned:

Sangan
Monster Reborn
Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning
Pot of Avarice
Card Destruction
Future Fusion

Limited:

Leviair the Sea Dragon

Exchange of the Spirit
Gold Sarcophagus
Instant Fusion
Ninjitsu Art of Super-Transformation

Semi-Limited:

Mystical Space Typhoon

Maxx "C"
Charge of the Light Brigade
Rescue Rabbit
Inzektor Dragonfly
Master Hyperion
Book of Moon

Now Unlimited:

Monster Gate

Bottomless Trap Hole
Magical Stone Excavation
Primal Seed
The Transmigration Prophecy

What is this!! The Banlist of nonsense.

I think all of them had  been tampered with. Who knows? Anyway no point pondering, just wait for the official release date.

Whole-Hearted Vs Half-Hearted

Now what do I mean by that? According to dictionary, being whole-hearted means being focused on just 1 role while being half-hearted means juggling different roles at all times.

Decks are like that too, they are also sorted to Whole-Hearted and Half-Hearted.

Examples of Whole Hearted decks: Karakuri, Six Samurai, Gadgets. Basically any deck that just focus on one archetype to play with a few side cards to assists such as veiler

Examples of Half-Hearted decks: T.G Agents, Junk Doppel
1)      Consistency issues;

Whole-Hearted decks usually had lesser consistency issues than Half-Hearted decks. They both had common issues bad draws/starting hands.  

2)      Ability to give a impact (If both have good hands)
 
Whole-Hearted decks cannot really guarantee you a win in one turn. They just ensure you a strong standing on the turn you start first. (Example: Six Sam plays Shi-en like a boss with Maga and heavy backrow at back!!)

Half-Hearted Decks can give you the OTK you wanted when you start second but be warned once you cannot OTK, you need to be ready to defend yourself. (Example: Junk Doppler opening hand: Foolish Burial, Junk Synchorn, One for One, DopplerWarrior, plus 2 other card. You should know what to do.)

That is my fruit of thought. What do you think?
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