Veggies, Tourneys, and PS3

Don't be fooled by the title, this post still talks about Yugioh. :p

It's 4 more days until the 2011 Phil. Open Championships and here is a picture of the prize for 1st place!

Last year was a PSP... now it is a PS3!

I know the PS3 is already out for a few years now but who wouldn't want to own a new console, right? I dont even have one yet. >.<

For those wondering, here in the Philippines we have 2 kinds of tournaments: Sanctioned and Open. Sanctioned tournaments are those Konami-ranked tournaments that only allows Asia-legal cards in it. However, we also have a good number of players that only play TCG cards and that is why the Open tournaments are held where both OCG and TCG cards are allowed. Annually, an Open Championship is held and this usually is attended by lots of players coz of the bigger prize pool, chance to sell cards, and have good trades.

It's the 3rd Open Championship now and looking back to the previous ones...

2009 = 1st: Christian Discipulo with Anti-Meta
2010 = 1st: Alvin Lim with Hero Metabeat

I dont have a list for the 2009 deck (EDIT: Got a link to it now) but it is almost the same as the 2010 deck but without the Heroes. Why anti-meta? Open tournaments are the only events where anti-meta cards such as Raioh, DCK, and Fossil Dyna are allowed and most PH players are not accustomed to playing against them. So should we expect another Anti-Meta-ish deck to win once again on Saturday?

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Last time I said I was using a deck I called "chopseuy". Here it is...

Monsters: 26
1 Dark Armed Dragon
2 Chaos Sorcerer
1 Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning
2 Tragoedia
1 Gorz
2 Card Trooper
1 Lightlord Summoner Lumina
1 Lightlord Sorceress Lyla
3 Lightlord Hunter Ryko
3 Lightlord Beast Wulf
2 Necro Gardna
1 Plaguespreader Zombie
1 Grow-up Bulb
1 Spore
1 Dandylion
1 Sangan
2 Destiny Hero - Malicious

Spells: 13
1 Allure of Darkness
2 Destiny Draw
3 Solar Recharge
1 Charge of the Light Brigade
1 One for One
1 Foolish Burial
1 Heavy Storm
1 Dark Hole
1 Monster Reborn
1 The Warrior Returning Alive

Trap: 1
1 Trap Dustshoot

Talk about bad deckbuilding, right? lol

I guess you can now guess why I called this chopseuy. Its a deck made by mixing together Plant, Lightlord, Chaos, and Dhero, just like how you make mixed vegetables: just throw everything in and hope it tastes good! For me, I made this just so I can use all the "draw" cards available!

Its great when...
= you draw Solar Recharges and a LS
= then you draw another Solar Recharge and a LS, OR
= you draw Destiny Draw with Malicious
= you draw Trooper, mill great +/- Wulf/s, and have a Trago/Gorz in hand
= you can do the Plant tricks

Its SOOO bad when...
= you draw Solar Recharge but no LS
= you draw DDraw but no DHero (happens aLOT at early game)
= you draw Warrior Returning Alive but got no mill yet
= you dont draw Trooper and/or Trago/Gorz
= you draw the plants and gardnas
= you draw multiple Wulfs
= you draw 2 Malicious or milled them both
= OR wtf... you draw 3 Wulfs and 2 Destiny Draws/2 Malicious! (believe me, this happened to me 2x!)

What can I say... Pls dont even attempt to try this deck out competitively, unless you want your friends have fun laughing about what you drew with your 1st six cards. :))

Thanks for reading! :)

Sep 1 changes! LS vs Agents!

Was not able to update the blog for several days now because of personal/school things that are needed to be dealt with first, but I'm back now! :D

Today several things are changing in Yugioh...

1. The update for the forbidden and limited lists take effect today!

We all know the changes that happened. Goodbye Trunade! Hello Storm!

2. TCG-side now updated their rulebook regarding Xyz summoning and how that affects the "leaves the field" triggers.

This should have been cleared up a long time ago. The OCG have long ruled that Xyz summoning and detaching are not considered as "leaving the field." Kevin Tewart said otherwise though and that's why we have the Tour Guide engine. I'm in an OCG country, btw, so this shouldnt concern me. However, im still playing at DN and im so irrirtated with all the advantages that a simple normal summon of 1 card gives.
So, thanks Konami, at least you did your job. Bye Tour Guide sh1t! Good riddance

3. The meta, from all-Junk Doppel/Six Samurai, is now all-TG Agents!

Way to start the new format. We all expected Lightlords to make top spots all over but this was not what happened. Remnants of decks not hit with the banlist - namely TG and Agent Angels - combined and took up Tier0-1 status because their previous mismatches were hit with the list.

Why Agents and not Lightlords? Let's compare

Lightlord bosses: 3 Judgment Dragons, 1 BLS, 2 Chaos Sorcerers, 1 DAD, 2 Trago, 1 Gorz
Agent bosses: 3 Hyperions, 1 BLS, 0-2 Kristyas, 1 Trishula, Gantetsu/Phoenix

LL opening: Summon LS/Trooper > mill well *hopefully
LL opening2: Solar Recharge >> Draw well *hopefully >> mill well *hopefully
LL opening3: Set Ryko/Sangan/whatever >> pass *hopefully opponent doesn't draw nuts

Agent opening: Summon Venus >> 2-3 Balls >> 1 Venus + 1 Gantetsu + 0-1 Ball
Agent opening2: Pot of Duality >> Summon Earth >> next turn Venus into Trishula play + Hyperion/Kristya
Agent opening3: Set TG Warwolf >> next turn Striker/Venus into Trishula + Hyperion + BLS play

LL Pros: CAN summon a heck load of bosses in one turn....if you mill well though
LL Cons: THE mill itself. Luck-sacky. Drawing bosses early without mill cards = gg.

Agent Pros: Simple summons of Agents lead to easy to gain rewards. Summon Kristya = gg. Orange light = irritating
Agent Cons: Drawing Shine Balls without any way to get Venus. Boss hand.

Conclusion:
Although Lightlord are much more explosive compared to Agents, it is much more inconsistent. See the LL bosses? They have harder requirements to summon compared to the Agents'. You can add Duality to LL to gain some consistency, but Agents have already done that. lol. Duality + TG monsters made the deck super consistent compared to last format.

4. My blog is added with Tabs! :)

My blog just hit 3000 views the past few days while I was away. Most of my viewers are also from my country. To comemorate and as thanks, I've put up a section where a list of regular and scheduled tournaments here in the Philippines are shown.

5. Tomorrow, NEW DECK! The 2011 PH Champion, William "Wslasher" Sy shows his new deck idea for his Six Samurai deck. Watch out for it! 


Thanks for reading!