Monday 27 February 2012

Angry Birds

Bored with the Machina Offering Gadget, so playing back my "angry birds" a.k.a Black Feather (LOL~ what my friend name it). As we know, BF deck is wing-beast monster, yet they have hard time to hunt down their primary food which is "insect" a.k.a inzekter. Beside, this deck also have lost its previous power due to the ban list, introduce of Xyz monster and new stronger arch type eg. Hieroglyph Dragon and etc.

However, still worth to play. Just need some tuning around then it can catch up tier 1 deck again.
Below is my build.

Monsters (20)
1x Gorz the Emissary of Darkness
1x Dark Armed Dragon
2x Thunder King Rai-oh
1x Blackwing - Zephyros the Elite
3x Blackwing - Shura the Blue Flame
3x Blackwing - Bora the Spear
3x Blackwing - Blizzard the Far North
1x Blackwing - Gale the Whirlwind
1x Blackwing - Kalut the Moon Shadow
2x Spirit Reaper
2x D.D Crow

Spells (9)
1x Black Whirlwind
1x Allure of Darkness
1x Monster Reborn
1x Dark Hole
1x Heavy Storm
1x Enemy Controller 
1x Book of Moon
2x Mystical Space Typhoon


Traps (11)
1x Solemn Judgment
2x Solemn Warning
1x Bottomless Trap Hole
1x Mirror Force
1x Torrential Tribute
1x Starlight Road 
1x Compulsory Evacuation Device
3x Icarus Attack


Side Deck:
1x Thunder King Rai-oh
2x Kycoo, the Ghost Destroyer
2x Effect Veiler
1x Delta Crow -Anti Reverse
1x Compulsory Evacuation Device
2x Black Horn of Heaven
2x Skill Drain
1x Nobleman of Crossout
3x Dimension Fissure


Yes, my build don't have Sirroco or Vayu inside. Because my deck is more towards beat down then syncrho summon and also my side deck don't like my graveyard that much.
If you noticed, I also don't have Pot of Duality in my deck too due to I don't have one of it yet.


Will play this deck for few weeks or months. Depend on when I finished my Quickdraw-Dandy Warrior deck. So, stay tune for my build.


Feel free to comment. Thanks.

Saturday 25 February 2012

Hieroglyph


Hi everyone. KC here. After seeing the March banlist, i am so relieved that decks like TG Agent and Quasar are weakened, but the dreaded Laggia and Inzektors are still at large... Wait, i should be talking about

Hieroglyph!!

Hieroglyph is a new arch-type introduced in the new Galactic Overload pack, and yes, it is a very powerful OTK swarm deck. For players who are not well prepared, u will find your game ending very fast.

Hieroglyph's uniqueness derives from its effect when being tributed for either a summon or as cost. Most members(Non XYZ, save for Nut) can swarm another normal DRAGON-type(Konami loved dragons, after SD22 and it is still dragons... Because of the year of the dragon perhaps?) monster of any level from your hand, deck and even grave. This means that no matter where the normal monster(Best if not in your hand, its a pain unless it is a level 8 and you have a trade-in in hand) is, you can use it freely for XYZ summon(Usually XYZ summon because monster Special Summoned this way has its attack/defense become 0, which is another special feature of it)

There are even uploaded Youtube channel about the deck, which is free to watch. If you ask me why am i writing this despite all other sources out there, i would say because everyone has their style of playing depending on deck contents. I would focused on clearing the set cards and swarm the hell of the opponent! ( I love swarm decks very much, it is always satisfying)

And yes, "Card Car D" to get the extra draw. No many decks can OTK you like Hieroglyph do. So, this card is a great replenishment of hand cards in case the opponent screw your previous plans before.(This Card Car D combo is originated from a fellow Youtuber DuelingDays) Since the Hieroglyph combo usually starts with a Tefnut which rely on opponent having at least one monster, this draw 2 is also provides you a better chance of setting up. You can include "Reckless Greed" for the extra hand cards if you want to. Another good card would be "One day of Peace"(This idea is from a DN player Smokeball1223) The rest are basically standard.

Now for the mind game part, my personal favorite would be "Wingbeat of Giant Dragon". As unpredictable as Junk Doppel(where you don't know when or where to solemn them) this deck pretty much nails especially when your opponent has plenty of set cards without any starlight road. Thanks to the "Card Car D", you have more hand cards and can easily psycho your opponent until they are all frustrated. And for more frustration creating, you can play "Prohibition" on cards like "Starlight Road", "Effect Veiler", "Herald of Orange Light" ^ ^



Tuesday 21 February 2012

March is drawing near...

So the March Ban list has been confirmed. Below are the changes to 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」
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From the list above, we can conclude that Konami is trying to shut down synchro monster as hard as they can in order to promote Xyz / Exceed monster to their game.
Hence, Junk doppel deck was chosen by Konami through banning Spore and Grow-Up Bulb.
However, I don't think this deck is death yet. There are still many ways to play around and one of them is by playing Quickdraw based deck.
We will know it soon how to play this deck, just wait for the die-hard fans to make some tune.

Trap Dustshoot - deserved to get ban.

Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier - since effect veiler and fiendish chain are hanging around summoning it will not be an option for players. Yet, still a powerful synchro monster and that is why it was targeted by Konami.

Finally, SD card get hit and Agent of Mystery, Earth will be the first.

T.G. striker - As expected to get limited.

Torrential Tribute - In 2 copy ?! Trying to promote starlight road ?

Ultimate Offering - As expected too. But, most of them just run 2 copy in gadget deck, not a big deal.

Call of the Haunted - Can play 3 copy now. Wow !!! Inzector gets stronger again. Beside, for now we have 4 reviving cards, 1 monster reborn and 3 Call of the Haunted. Not a healthy game.

Reborn Tengu - No comment.

Others are not a big deal.

From the list, there is no sign of hitting Rabbit and Inzectors. Hence, we still need to fight with all those 'insect' again for the following 6 months.

Thus, beware of the 'insect' bite or being fool by the charm of rabbit.

Monday 13 February 2012

Updating...

Hi ! Is me again. After 2 months of blogging, i have learned a lot, from posting til editing, every single of them are learned by myself. Yet, sometime I still need to copy here and there. Hence, if I have copy any of yours feel sorry for that.

As what you have seen in the title, the updating of the blog is in progress. There are still many thing need to be adjust and edit. Will try to make it as fast as i can.

I also want to say sorry to u all for not bringing any post or info after spending 9 days 8 nights at KL and Ipoh. I really busy for my activities during the trips. Hence, there are no free time for me to pay visit to the local shops.

Put the sorry things to aside, I hereby declare that we have a new author in this blog. And the guy will be KC, Melaka duelist. He is quite experienced in the game, hope he will provide as many info as he could to you all. Feel free to challenge him in DN.

Thats all for today. Thanks. 

Sunday 12 February 2012

New Author+New Post

Hi everyone. Kuan Chen(KC) here. I am now a co-author of this blog, thanks to Chee Hou. You can find me on facebook: Yong Kuan Chen, or in Dueling Network: darkless88

I promised to write something about holy mark, the new archtype from GAOV after a match with the main author on DN, he loves it but i don't find it at its perfection yet because there is one week left until the release of the pack itself. So i will rest on it, and i hope that GAOV-JP001 is a level 6 holy mark normal dragon monster card. ^ ^

Anyway, i wish to introduce a new possible meta after march. "Zombie XYZ" (I am very into a board game call Resident Evil deck building game, suddenly a zombie fan). We shall be abusing the Blue-Blooded Oni!!

Looking at its stats, an attack of 1000(Beware of chain disappearance http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Chain_Disappearance) and a defense of 1700, slightly better than summoner monk with a devastating effect. Once per turn: You can detach 1 XYZ material you control to target one level 4 Zombie in your graveyard and special summon it. The broken thing about XYZ is its activation of its effect. Usually you can use an XYZ monster's effect once per turn, and at most a turn since your opponent can destroy it easily with so many cards like dark hole etc. So usually there will be some leftover materials which this monster can make good use of it. With proper mill, Blue-Blooded Oni can swarm plenty of rank 4-XYZ monster and perform an OTK.

Here is how the math goes. Assume opponent has no set cards and one monster with 8000LP. You have at least 2 zombie(Be it Zombie Master or Blue-Blooded Oni) in your grave and many hand cards while 2 of them are either Zombie Master (http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Zombie_Master) or  Blue-Blooded Oni , Summon Zombie Master, discard 1 monster to special summon another Zombie Master and Special Summon One Blue-Blooded Oni. XYZ the first rank 4, i prefer Lavalval Chain http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Lavalval_Chain. Mill another zombie (Be it Zombie Master or Blue-Blooded Oni) and use Blue-Blooded Oni's effect. Remove the remaining XYZ material to SS another zombie from the grave. Now you have 1 Lavalval Chain (OR be any powerful rank 4 XYZ monster) 1 Blue-Blooded Oni and 1 Zombie Monster (Zombie Master if the previous rank 4 monster you summon has 0 XYZ material and Blue-Blooded Oni if you have 1 XYZ material left) and repeat until you have a lot of monster enough to wipe your opponent's LP clean.

Recommended XYZs are
a) Lavalval Chain, makes a great mill
b) Verz Oroboros which requires 3 Level 4 Monster and has an imba effect which return a card to the enemy's hand. (Field Clearance)
c) No 32: Marine Bite Dragon Shark Drake which another powerful Goyo-like XYZ monster which requires 3 Level 4 Monster for summoning. (Deals more damage and high attack of 2800)
d) No 39: Utopia, common XYZ with 2500 attack (Epic WOW and abundant reprints)
e) Vylon Disigma
f) Daigusta Emeral (For extra hand card)
g) Evigishki Merrowgeist
h) No. 50 Black Corn (Imba effect against annoying little creatures likes set Ryko)




This is how my DN deck looks like, using lightsworn milling engine to mill my precious zombies~ Very fast mill but luck dependent. If your luck is like s***-like, do not attempt. That is all and another thank you for Chee Hou for allowing me this opportunity to share my views with my penang friends. Miss you all so much, do come visit me in Melaka!!

Thursday 2 February 2012

Going KL ...

Yes, I'm going to KL tomorrow. Will be at KL for 5 days due to society activity. Hope I can find some time to visit Gamer Arena, its been awhile for me paying visit to that shop.

After the 5days, i will straight go to Ipoh to find my course mate. And will stay there for 3-4 days i think. For sure, will pay visit to the local shop too. Hope I can meet some of my old pals, have some good trades and of course have some good duel else well. So, if you meet me any challenge is accepted.



Enough for the trip, back to the YGO topic.

March ban list has been hot topic for awhile, everyone have their own desire ban list.
For those who hate Inzektor, hope to have Inzektor Dragonfly to get limited.
For TG agent hate, they will bag the god to have Hyperion, Kristya and TG striker to get srike.
While for mainspring/wind-up, Zenmighty or Hunter will be the hate most.

But for my view, i really don't have any idea yet (LOL~). May be will try to think of it later, but for now i think every deck have their chance to get hit especially for those which most played by duelist. Yet, who know what Konami will do after all.

Hence, I only can advice you all to be patient for the list. And don't be cheat by those created or so called the fake ban list.

Note that:V-Jump Magazine will be released on the 21st of February 2012. The real Forbidden and Limited list will be inside.

Thats all for today, will try to report any thing I have experienced in my KL and IPoh trip. Stay tuned then.