Tuesday, March 29, 2011

New Trend of OCG After the Effective of March 2011 Ban List

Hey, guys! Today I want to share the trends of OCG decks after the effective of March 2011 ban list and the new ruling. Most of the decks have weaken due to the effective of March 2011 ban list and the new ruling. As we can see, Blackwings are still quite powerful in certain region. Some of Blackwing players still remain to play with the Whirlwind Blackwing style and some just switch their style back to the Graveyard-based Blackwings which was quite popular in the year of 2009. Thus, Blackwing deck still survive in this ban list.

Six Samurai also still powerful enough even though Gateway of Six is limit to one and I can see that not all Six Samurai decks play Shien's Dojo in their deck although Shien's Dojo is good for special summon Six Samurai monster. Now the Six Samurai deck much more emphasize on the control style by using Legendary Six Samurai - Shi-En. This 5 star synchro monster is a beat stick for them and it help to gain field advantage through its "negating spell or trap card" effect.

Apart from that, Machina and Karakuri deck is the deck which not much affected by the March 2011 ban list. Thus, I predicted that we can see a lot of Machina and Karakuri deck during Asian Championship 2011.
Karakuri gain advantage through its draw engine. They make this combo through synchro summoning their Karakuri bosses which are Karakuri Shogun mdl 00 "Burei" and Karakuri Steel Shogun mdl 00X "Bureido". With them on the field, hand card advantage can be formed and monster(s) swarming on the field within a turn with at least a Synchro monster on the field.

Although Plant Synchro have been weaken, it is still playable and they have change it to Doppel Debris deck. This make the deck quite competitive although Dandylion is once again limit to one. Fairy is much less appear after the effective of March 2011 ban list. Most probably this circumstance is caused by the limit of Honest and semi-limit of Archlord Kristya in the Fairy deck. Thus, I predicted that Six Samurai deck will be the major deck occurred during the Asian Championship 2011. One more deck which had been the world champions deck is Gladiator Beast deck and this new format does not much affected thus it might be the black horse of this tournament.

Apart from that, I also want to share additional rulings regarding the Exceed Summon, Exceed monster, Exceed material and Rank of Exceed monster. Below are the details:

Rules regarding Exceed monster
-Exceed monster have special summon restriction which the same as Synchro monster and most of the cards effect will treated them the same as the Synchro monster.
-If Exceed monster did not special summon via Exceed Summon, it is not allow to special summon from the graveyard or removed from play zone.
-When Exceed monster is special summon to the field others than Exceed Summon, it will not have any Exceed material overlay under it.
-Exceed monster can be discard from the Extra deck to the graveyard by the effect of "Gale Dogra".

Rule regarding the Exceed Summon of Exceed monster
-During the Exceed summon, the Exceed materials will not leave from the field and they will lose the bond with the cards that targeted them.
-Example 1, When "Doom Shaman" is used as the Exceed material, the monster special summon by "Doom Shaman"'s effect is not destroyed and they will lose their bond.
-Example 2, when monster(s) special summon via "Miracle Fertilizer"'s effect is used as Exceed material, "Miracle Fertilizer" will not be destroyed and they will lose their bond.
-Example 3, when monster special summon via "Birthright"'s effect is used as Exceed material, "Birthright" will not destroyed and they will lose their bond.
-When you Exceed summon, you cannot use the monster that declared by "Prohibition" as the Exceed material.

Rules regarding the Exceed material of Exceed monster
-All the monster that removed by the effect of Exceed monster or due to the leave of Exceed monster, they will send to the graveyard and this is not consider as destroy.
-When "Spear Cretin" which have flipped-up is used as Exceed material, its effect will not activate if it is send to the graveyard.
-The cards which is declared by the effect of "Prohibition" can be used as cost or removed by card's effect. -When the Exceed monster is flipped face down by the effect of "Magical Hats" and randomly placed to the monster zone, the Exceed material will still overlay under it, thus opponent can know the exact position of Exceed monster.

Rule regarding Rank of Exceed monster
-"Satellite Cannon" can be battle destroyed by Exceed monster.
-Exceed monster cannot be used as Exceed material, Synchro material, Ritual material or any summon which required star level monster(s). Eg, Exceed monster cannot be used as the cost or activation condition for the "Dark Dive Bomber" or "A Major Upset".
-When opponent only have Exceed monster(s) face-up on the field, "Locomotion R-Genex"'s effect will be activated but it will not be resolved.

Okay, that's all for today. Let us await for the Asian Championship 2011 and check out who will be the Asian champion. Thanks for your time and wish you guys have a nice day. Please stay tuned for my next post.

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