Blue-Eyed Prophecy

http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Blue-Eyed_Maiden

This card would work so well in a Prophecy deck. Goodbye lone Veiler?

Summon Maiden. Target it with Power. Summon BEWD! Too bad it's a "once per turn" only effect.
You can even target Maiden with Torah xD

Lv1 so can be easily summoned by Judgment Day. Now it is not that bad when you can only activate 1 spell after Judgment Day. Also, she may be able to stall your opponent since he'll need to attack her twice to get over her plus the BEWD that she'll be calling.

One more thing you can do.

Opponent's turn. Activate Judgment Day. Use Fate against 1 of his moves. Summon Maiden in the EP.
Your turn. Now, there's lots of things you can do with her.

1. Target her with Power. Summon BEWD. You now have a 4k atk field.
2. Target her with Torah. Summon BEWD. Sync her with Batel for Claiomh Solais the Hazehawk (Mist Bird Clausolas). Run over Clausolas target with BEWD. Cool 3k direct damage.
3. Target her with Torah. Summon BEWD. Sync her with Junon for a lv8 synchro like Blader.
4. Target her with Torah. Summon BEWD. Sync Blue Eyes Silver Dragon for the lols.

OR you can just let her stay there and be a wall that calls out BEWD every turn. :))

Downside is that you'll need to main 1-2 BEWDs. hahaha. Good luck drawing those.

Zexal Weapons + Utopia

Let's lean back and relax a bit from the rush of the competitive scene and let's look at some new cards from the upcoming Cosmo Blazar booster set. The Flame Dance archetype reminds me of the Shakugan no Shana anime with a mix of Chinese elements. However, it's not them that I want to mention today.

http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/ZW_-_Lightning_Blade

= add 1200 atk + all ZW indestructible by effects + sub-destroy by effects to a Utopia monster

http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/ZW_-_Tornado_Bringer

= add 1300 atk + untargetable by effects + sub-destroy by battle to a Utopia monster

You remember how Gigamantis attaches itself to any Inzektor and, well, these cards do the same thing barring they can only be equipped to a "Utopia" monster. So far, that's Utopia itself and Utopia Ray (perhaps we'll see more non-Xyz Utopia monsters someday?). Tornado Bringer is my choice over the two since it's better to be untargetable once your Utopia is already on the field. Generic traps out there like BTH and Torrential guarantee that your Utopia is already destroyed way before it can be equipped with anything, so, barring Mirror Force and Dark Hole, there should be nothing else that is a staple that can kill something that is untargetable. Also, you can use/side in Lightning Blade against kill-all decks like Lightsworn and Anti-meta.

Xyz Utopia is easy to summon nowadays. Photon, Gadgets, etc., maybe we can see Utopia decks in the future that uses these new ZW cards since a 3800 ATK Utopia that cannot be targeted by anything SHOULD be able to troll anyone.

GAOV cards to look out for!

The vids of the recently ended Philippine ACQ aren't ready yet (still being annotated and uploaded) so I'll post something about new stuff from GAOV that caught the attention of players.

First let's have the new card to join the ranks of Duality, Formula, Librarian, etc as generic draw card.

Card Car D
EARTH/Machine/Effect
800/400
Cannot be Special Summoned. During your Main Phase 1, if this card was Normal Summoned during this turn: You can Tribute it; draw 2 cards, and enter your End Phase. You cannot Special Summon monsters during this turn.

It is a monster version of Pot of Greed but with a little restriction: you get 2 cards in exchange to proceeding to your End Phase. Meaning, whatever those cards you draw with this are useless for that turn as you cant use/set them right away. Of course, some cards can bypass this drawback such as "hand traps" - like Veiler and Maxx C - and Quick-play Spells that you can activate during the End Phase.

One way to use this is to do everything you can without making a normal summon before you play this card. Abusing Card Car D along with Pot of Duality will let you see a total of 11 cards from your deck on your first turn (Draw 6 >> Duality reveals 3 >> Car draws 2 more). You can see a total of 13 cards if you factor Allure of Darkness in, lol. Expect to see ppl using Duality, set traps, then summon Car to draw 2 and end turn.

Card Car D is definitely another game-changing card. Of course, everyone likes a free +1 but hates to let their opponent do the same. Thus, you can expect Car to get spammed by Veiler as it totally erases Car's effect since Car can only be tributed to draw during the turn it was normal summoned.

The second card is not a generic-use card but a support for an already powerful theme - Inzecters!

Inzecter Gruf
DARK/Insect/Effect
500/100
Once per turn: You can equip 1 "Inzektor" monster from your hand or Graveyard to this card. While this card is equipped to a monster, increase the equipped monster's Level by 2, and gains ATK and DEF equal to this card's ATK and DEF respectively. You can send this Equip Card to the Graveyard to target 1 monster you control; increase its Level by 1 or 2.

This lets Inzecters summon Ranks 4 and 5 monsters with ease with a single Damsel. Remember when Summoner Monk is used just to dump Hornet with Armaknight and make a Lavalval Chain? With Gruf, you can get the same results without risking your life with Monk!

With Gruf, you can make the following Xyz monsters and benefit!

Rank 4s
1.  Lavalval Chain = mill a Hornet or place Dark Armed Dragon or Damsel on your top deck
2.  Daigusta Emeral = reshuffle your used Damsels and Centipedes back to your deck to draw more stuff

Rank 5s
1.  Tyrus = big monster that cant be destroyed except battle and destroys a card each time it attacks? wow
2.  Volcasaurus = we know why Ring of Destruction is banned right? plus, this guy can attack too!
3.  Inzecter Exa-Stag = can steal opponent's field/GY monster and equip to this guy
4.  Ninja - Crimson Shadow = great on turn1 as it can't be destroyed for 2 turns!

Plus, the chances of you making a Inzecter stunt on Turn 1 marginally increases! Oh, and dont forget the new Rank 3 Xyz monsters that are coming out in Starter Deck 2012! Surely, Inzecters are receiving much love from Konami. lol

The last card is an Xyz monsters that looks mediocre but is actually pretty well designed.

Thunderclap Knight - Gaia Dragoon
WIND/Dragon/Xyz/Effect
2600/2100
2 Level 7 monsters
You can also Xyz Summon this card by using 1 face-up Rank 5 or 6 Xyz Monster you control as the Xyz Material. (Xyz Materials attached to that monster also become Xyz Materials of this card.) If this card attacks a Defense Position monster, inflict piercing Battle Damage to your opponent.

What's so great about this card is the fact that you can Xyz summon it on top of any Rank 5 or 6 monster for free - just like how you summon Chaos Hope Ray.


Summon this on top of Volcasaurus after you use its burn effect to be able to do a direct attack! This single move could possible end a duel outright! In a Hieroglyph deck, summon this on top of a used Atumus to be able to attack. Basically, you get to bypass the drawbacks a Rank 5 or 6 Xyz monster has in exchange for their powerful effects.


This ends my list of cards that caught my attention in the latest set GAOV. Konami is pushing products fast as in March we'll get Starter Deck 2012; then, come April we'll get set 801 "Return of the Duelist". Let's hope my money doesn't wear out faster than how new products come out, lol.

Thanks for reading!

Rocket Arrow on the Knee

"Took an arrow on the knee"

Have you seen this line over and over again in the net world? This just means that in the past you used to do "something" then another thing happened that you were not able to do "something" again.

"I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow in the knee."

-do you know where this net-famous line come from? xD

Well, I didn't post this because I want to teach English, dont worry. On the new cards in Galactic Overload, there's a new monster that is POWERFUL... but USELESS!... and it is Rocket Arrow!

Roaring Express Train Rocket Arrow
EARTH/Machine/Effect
5000/0

Cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. Must be Special Summoned (from your hand) by controlling no cards, and cannot be Special Summoned by other ways. You cannot conduct your Battle Phase the turn this card is Special Summoned. While this card is face-up on the field, you cannot activate or Set cards. During each of your Standby Phases, send all cards in your hand to the Graveyard or destroy this card.

In the anime, Anna used this card to summon her Rank 10 Xyz monster and that is ONE way to use this card since it cannot attack and you cannot use other cards as long as this is faceup. PLUS, it even has a drawback that you need to dump you hand when you want this card to stay next turn. Totally worthless crap, right? 

Unless you want to special summon this card then use as tribute for a Monarch or something...

Wait...

!!!

Great Maju Garzett
DARK/Fiend/Effect
0/0

The ATK of this card becomes twice the original ATK of 1 monster that you Tributed for the Tribute Summon of this card.

This card only needs 1 monster for a tribute right.... What better monster to sack than Rocket Arrow~~~!!

Who wants a 10000ATK Great Maju Garzett to punch through a 2000ATK Venus? Trololol.

I think I want to start trolling in DN using this idea. Haha, Great Maju Garzett can be searched by Sangan. :))
If you see someone using this combo, that's gotta be me or one of my friends, haha

Credits to Bahamut for the title since I think I remember reading it in one of his comments in another blog.

Happy Halloween!

Happy halloween everyone!

There've been no tournament last Sunday due to most people preparing to go to the provinces to visit cemeteries. However, the Saturday tournaments still went on and gave 3 more invites for the Store Championships. There's a total of 13 persons with invites now. lol, 13? What a coincidence.

Going back to the halloween topic. 

Im thinking of what card can represent the season while also being a good card in the meta.

I came up with... Spirit reaper!

So why Spirit reaper? Here's a few points:

(how did this post become a card review? lol)

Useful against the Agent matchup somewhat when they got Kristya down. Most likely they wont have an out to it in their main deck.

A cool LV3 monster that can survive on its own. Its very useful when bringing out Trishula, Brionac, Leviair, or even Acid Golem.

Ryko > destroy monster > summon Reaper > direct attack.

I so like this combo in the early game. BTH usually just sits. Veiler cant do anything to it unless they use it on Ryko. lol. bad move.

Also, the Reaper is one of the favorite mascots of Halloween! There's lots of version of him. The common black robe + Scream mask. The grotesque Shinigami of Death Note. The characters in Bleach. And also a funny Reaper with big hands in Soul Eater!

I guess, that sums up this post. Thanks for reading and enjoy your vacation!