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.