The REDU Sneak Peek Experience

Well it was a rather below average sneak peek for me. It doesn't change the fact that it wasn't bad for me at all. We had a not so solid 13 players, and someone got a bye TWICE! It sure as hell wasn't me though. I've observed that my pulls turned out to be, and hoped for a good result for the piece of shit stack of cards I called a deck! I must say that it was a tough deck for me to build this time around. I couldn't even find 20 playable cards in the deck! I had to put cards that I thought would be even near playable in order for me to be successful in the sealed event.

I felt that with knowledge around me, I felt like I pulled the best cards among everyone else there. In fact, I was one of two people to pull a secret rare! First thing I pulled was Number 33: Chronomaly Mechu Mech. At least I knew from there that I was going to have an Extra Deck to use! I never realized that it was going to be the MVP of my day when I read up on a few cards. I then pulled that stupid Noble Knight thingy as my super. It was so dumb that I got trolled by the damn card. Could be worse though. It could have been something like Colossal Fighter/Assualt Mode. After that, I pulled Miracle Contact. Useless to me, so I just simply gave it to my friend.

During my rounds, I felt that I had the best deck that I could ever come up with. However, I felt that I had almost no outs to anything! The real MVP of the day was Compulsory Escape Device. I would watch their one monster get shuffled back while I had a couple of wide open monsters to hit for game. I was close to making top 4, but TERRIBAD hands arrived as I kept drawing all of my useless traps and the Tribute monsters afterwards. Not much you can do about that. =[

So you thought that was it? I have to rant about this set. Yes. There are cards in this set that will help me out a lot with the decks that I currently run. However, I think Konami took it too far with rarities this time around. EVERY single card that you would even be remotely interested in is either ultra or secret rare! I felt trolled when Gear Gigant X was a secret rare currently worth about $80-100 right now on eBay! Worst part is that NOBODY pulled the damn gadget! As for everything else, the best cards in each archetype are all secret rares. UGH!

Chronomaly's had a great showing at the sneak peek, but as it looks, it's not competitive at all. They're just another kind of monster that makes Xyz monsters, but at least they got their own Xyz's that are fairly decent. Of course, you'd all be better off playing the Rank 3 one. Mechu Mech is alright, but even when the amount of ATK points off it's original ATK, it's no more than 500 points, and that's if you're very lucky! I don't know too much else about this archetype, but I'm bound to learn more later about it.

Madolche's didn't show very well at the sneak at all. Every time I saw one on the field, it was gone and shuffled back into the deck. There was that one that searched for another Madolche and put it into your hand, but that's more of a gadget engine on it's own. Some of them are very nicely used with the use of banishing cards like Macro Cosmos and Banisher of the Radiance. However, none of them are as good as simply shitting a 2500 Guardian Eatos out of your ass! Give me more time and I'll learn on how this deck works.

NOW we get to the good archetypes! Heroic's! These things are really good, and we only have 5 of them so far! (including the Xyz) One of them is an "on the field" Honest, another one takes steroids after destroying a monster, and the others, well you'll figure that out. I think this could have potential as more of these come out. For now though, put some of these in another Warrior based deck. You might see some good results coming September.

Now for my favorite of all archetypes, and that's Spellbook/Prophecy! We didn't even get the field spell yet, and we still have ourselves a deck! This deck has the ability to bring out ANY Light/Dark Spellcaster on turn 1! You have so many search cards, and for a chance, your spell cards are more important than your monsters! When we get the field spell, this deck will show some competitiveness due to the field's ability to draw an extra card each turn once conditions are right! For now, just figure out the strategy, and you'll be in love with magicians again!

In all, this set was below average. I was hoping this was going to be another DREV as far as cards were concerned. For those who didn't pay $20 to get in, you made the smart move. As for the story of my life, another hyped up thing ends up becoming a major disappointment. In short; Skip this set, and move on to Abyss Rising in a few months. Lets just hope the Special Edition saves this set's hope of sales.

September 1st, 2012 Banist: The Review

Well guys, it's official. The list is up! It's on yuginewz.com if anyone wants to see it. In this blog, I'm gonna take my predicted list and compare it with the actual list. This one's gonna be a long blog (I think) so get your snacks and "DINNER!" ready for the list that just may have temporarily saved this game!

First off, lets list out what I predicted to be the list.

Banned:
Future Fusion
Wind-Up Zenmaines (BOY WAS I ANYTHING BUT RIGHT HERE!)

Limited:
Inzektor Hornet
Rescue Rabbit
Red Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
Royal Oppression
One Day of Peace
Super Polymerization

Semi-Limited
Tour Guide
Miracle Fusion
Lonefire Blossom
Mirror Force
Brionac
BW-Kalut

Not Limited:
Marshmallon
Level-Limit Area B

NOW FOR THE REAL LIST! LOOK AT THIS ONE!

Banned:
Future Fusion
Brionac

Limited:
Inzektor Hornet
Inzektor Dragonfly
Red Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
Ultimate Offering
Tsukuyomi
Chaos Sorcerer
Gishki Krakken (OCG)
Spore
Wind-Up Carrier Zenmaity

Semi-Limited:
Tour Guide
Mirror Force
Reasoning
A Hero Lives
Hieratic Seal of Convacation
Rescue Rabbit
BW-Kalut
Pot of Duality
E - Emergency Call
Debris Dragon
The Agent of Mystery - Earth

Not Limited:
Marshmallon
Level-Limit Area B
Swords of Revealing Light
Emergency Teleport
Necro Gardna
Magic Cylinder
Destiny Draw

Now can I say..Woah. This is what I call Konami stepping in and hitting on everything that's even half dominating the format right now. I've personally never seen a list this long for changes to the list. My biggest surprise is me calling Mirror Force right at 2! I just threw that out there as a Konami wild card and there it is! Enough about my bragging though. We need to talk about how each deck got hit, what decks got help, and what decks will dominate the first half of the upcoming format!

Inzektors: Gotta start off with this deck. We lost 4 cards in this deck. The bad news is it will be much harder to see your Hornet, and to pop 2 cards on the first turn. This is rather unfortunately now because the deck is now about dead. I could see Inzektors become a potential engine in another deck though. However, the good news is that we still have the Zektkaliber combo in the deck for us to use! Hitting Dragonfly instead of Centipede might have just saved this deck by a thread! All we can do is hope someone has an imagination to save it.

Chaos Dragons: BAHAHAHA! This deck got hit hard! No more Future Fusion! That card created instant setup for a first turn win if the hand is right. Not to mention that REDMD will be at 1, so now the deck's Lightpulsar loop will be more unstable to keep up! If you can banish the lone REDMD, the loop will be over! I'm sure Darkflare Dragon won't be too harmful though should that come back instead. Another bad thing is that we lost TWO Chaos Sorcerers! I guess that's what happens when we have 3 Lightpulsar Dragons, 3 Darkflare Dragons, and BLS along with Sorcerer.

Wind-Up's: No more hand looping like 4 cards on turn 1! Tell you the truth though, this deck has more of an outside box that Inzektors do. There are many Wind-Up monsters that we don't use now that we'll "Wind-Up" turning to now! The biggest threat this deck serves now is Wind-Up Shark for a Rank 5. I'll leave it to everyone out there to think outside the box on how to break this deck once again.

Classic Chaos: 2 Sorcerers gone = R.I.P. Start making Chaos Dragons and get in with the trend. Not much else to say here.

Rabbit: This deck got a little scratch if anything. It's been proven that 2 Rabbit can still win tournaments. -1 Tour Guide = +1 Tour Bus. That is all. Rabbit Players; Have fun dominating the first half of the format.

Now we can mention the decks that got some help from this list!

Tele-DAD: Wow. 3 Destiny Draws, 3 Emergency Teleports, and what not. Will this deck come alive again and win big events like it was 2008? Maybe not like then, but it will be a deck option to use for the format. Now lets just pray that E-Teleport gets reprinted in a Special Edition or a Tin.

Plants: They're BAAAAAACK! Just without Bulb though. Perhaps Spore can make way into a Tele-DAD deck too I suppose. Oh and with Debris Dragon at 2 now, I'm making this deck the deck of choice! I challenge someone to make D-Hero Plants! Did I mention that I'm in before another Plant YCS win?

Lightsworn: 3rd Necro Gardna = DE-FENCE! :P I guess if we're gonna have aggro decks, why not, right?

Blackwings: 2nd Kalut might have boosted this deck up more than you think! I want Goyo back now!

Empty Jar: Tsukuyomi = another Book of Moon. Win!

Agents: One more Earth could really make a huge difference in this deck. I wonder who would like to try a tech Rabbit in this deck with Shining Friendships?

There are other decks that got small help from this list, but I'll let you think about that. Now to conclude to what Konami did with this list, and what I think the story is all about when making it.

They're reminding everyone that Synchro's are in the game still. We might have lost Brionac due to the future of the game being really dumb, but we have Laval's, Gusto's, and Plants and Tele-DAD have made returns thanks to this list. Last format was the format of the Xyz's. Konami wanted everyone to use the new black cards so they could make more money. Now that we have them into our game's system, we can now use Synchro's competitively again!

And there you have it guys! The review of this list! I know I didn't do the best job writing this, but I'm sure you guys can think harder than I can on this list at this point. All I can say is good luck, and have fun losing to Rabbit and Plants for the next couple of months!