My Part-time Job in Game Shop

Hey, guys! Sorry for late updating my blog. My blog have started for 3 years already but I seldom mention about my story of Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. Thus I will share my story how I meet with Yu-Gi-Oh! cards and a bunch of my friends with you guys. My first impression on Yu-Gi-Oh! cards was came from the aired of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monster Anime Series. I still remember that this anime series started aired on my local television channel in the year of 1999. Start from that moment, I started play Yu-Gi-Oh! cards.

However, my first Yu-Gi-Oh! deck was built from pirated cards. I have played pirated Yu-Gi-Oh! cards for around 2 years then only switch to play original Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. The reason of playing pirated deck was because I never knew the existence of original Yu-Gi-Oh! cards in my hometown until the day I went to a shopping centre in my hometown. Start from that moment, I decided to play original Yu-Gi-Oh! cards although my pocket money was not enough for me to buy any of the Yu-Gi-Oh! decks or booster boxes.

Thus, I tried to save my pocket money and red packets received from my siblings and parents during Chinese New Year to buy some original Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. During those time, the Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh! starter decks that sold in card shop was Yugi Moto(YU), Kaiba(KA), Joey Wheeler(JY) and Pegasus(PE). Each deck is costs around RM90 as I remembered and I think I have collected those money for around 6 months before I bought the Yu-Gi-Oh! Starter deck.

My first starter deck was the combination of Joey Wheeler and Pegasus starter deck. By hybridize these deck, I started my journey of becoming a Yu-Gi-Oh! duelist and started to learn the effect of Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. During those time, I don't even know any single word of the Japanese and I have a hard time for learning all these cards' effect. Luckily, my first original Yu-Gi-Oh! friend, You Sing Soon has came to my life to he is the one that motivate me for learning these cards' effect. I still remember that the first duel I have with him is a good lesson for me because I lose to him. With the eager for revenge, I started to learn all these cards' effect and the tactic plus strategy.

After that, I started to appeared in the public tournament from the year 2002 and I had met a bunch of Yu-Gi-Oh! duelists in my hometown. However, most of them already quit from the game from year 2003 until 2006. Within this period, Yu-Gi-Oh! cards was one of the most popular cards game for all young kids and teenagers. To looking for new duelists, I went to the game shop in my hometown frequently and I met with two new friends who were Wei Jun and Han Wei. Both of them were the staffs of the game shop and they were duelists too.

This game shop basically sell all kind of games and entertainment devices including card game, PlayStation, MP3 players and etc. With the occurrence of them, this game shop become one of my favourite places to go because I can learn more knowledge and skills of Yu-Gi-Oh! from them. Apart from that, I learn most of the cards' effect and rulings from them. However, this happy period did not last long because they have leaved the shop after they had worked for 2 years. Since that moment, Yu-Gi-Oh! card also no longer popular in my hometown due to lack of the appearance of experienced duelists and nobody teach those new players to play it.

This situation has last for 2 years until the appearance of me as a staff in the game shop. The purpose of me accepting this part-time job was because I like Yu-Gi-Oh! cards and I do not want this game to be leave behind from those people whose interested with it plus I was waiting for my result of STPM. During those time, I had set an objective for myself which is to promote back Yu-Gi-Oh! cards to anyone else whose interested with it. From the moment I joined the game shop, the Yu-Gi-Oh! cards sale also become better and I did promote this game through organizing tournament for several months. Although this tournament is considered as small tournament and not much of people joining it, this event still able to attract some new players.

Within the period, Yu-Gi-Oh! products were sold more faster and I had made some arrangement on the single card's price so that those cards can be sold more easily. I also met with a duelist whose has quit from this game for a long time and he started play Yu-Gi-Oh! cards again since the day we met in the game shop. Today, he is a duelist who also sell Yu-Gi-Oh! cards in another game shop which situated not far away from my ex-company. I just joined the company for 3 months and then I quit my job because I wanna continue my study life.

Within those time, I managed to teach some new players to play Yu-Gi-Oh! cards and they always asking me the rulings and combos of cards from me. Until now, some of the players still asking me questions regarding cards' ruling and combos. However, I would not reject anyone for questioning Yu-Gi-Oh! cards because this is one of the way to improve our understanding on Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. By the way, I am more than a duelist start from 2008 because I also offer service for helping people to search for rare cards too. So if you guys have any problem regarding the Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, you can leave a message in my chat box, email to my address or even leave comment in my latest post. Besides, one of my friends have created a new Yu-Gi-Oh! fan page in facebook and if you guys interested with it, you can visit it by clicking here.

Okay, that's all I wanna share for today. Thanks for your time and wish you all have a nice day! Please stay tuned for my next post.

The reveal of March 2011's ban list

Hey, guys! I would like to share an instant news to you guys about the March 2011's ban list. This time the ban list does not much affected all the popular decks among OCG and TCG. However, Konami did trying to slow down the speed of OTK and FTK decks such as Six Samurai, Psychic, Blackwings, Angel, and Debris Plant too. The most unexpected cards included in this list were Goyou Guardian and Royal Tribute.

Cards that are listed in the below are just the cards that was changes in the current ban list.

Forbidden/Banned Cards:
Goyo Guardian
Cold Wave
Mass Driver

Restricted/Limited Cards:
Honest
Dandylion
Blackwing - Kalut the Moon Shadow
Book of Moon
Gateway of the Six

Semi-Restricted/Limited Cards:
Card Trooper
Archlord Kristya
Spirit Reaper
Debris Dragon
Royal Tribute
Overload Fusion
Megamorph
Solemn Warning
Icarus Attack

No longer restricted or limited cards:
Chaos Sorcerer
Demise, King of Armageddon
Snipe Hunter
Dewloren, Tiger King of the Ice Barrier
Gold Sarcophagus
Skill Drain
Ultimate Offering

Based on the ban list, I can see that the release of Exceed Monster will be a big hit to the OCG plus TCG. With the limit of Blackwing - Kalut the Moon Shadow and semi-limit of Icarus Attack, Blackwings will be a bit slower and the chances of OTK also drop too. The limit of Honest and semi-limit of Archlord Kristya also weaken the Angel deck. Once again, Dandylion limit to one and Debris Dragon being semi-limit will reduce the speed of Debris Plant deck.

With this ban list, Machina deck does not hit much and they can even fusion summon with the Cyber Dragon using Overload Fusion. Thus, Karakuri and Machina deck will be more powerful after the apply of this ban list. Psychic deck also not much affected by this ban list thus they can OTK more frequent compare with the Blackwings. Besides, the banned of Goyou Guardian also means Exceed Monster can be play more safely. The banned of Cold Wave also mean no more afraid of back row cards being destroyed. Overall, this ban list does make some hits to the current circumstances.

Apart from that, I will share the news regarding the Exceed Monster. This is the Exceed monster that will be released in the Starter deck 2011. All Exceed monsters are black color and they required 2 and above monsters(token can be used) which have the same star level and face-up on the field to Exceed Summon it from the Extra Deck(In this case, this card required 2 star level 4 monsters). The Exceed material will be stack together under the Exceed monster instead of sending the Exceed material to the graveyard. When the Exceed material is being removed, it will be sent to the graveyard and these Exceed material will not be consider as monster when they are stack under the Exceed monster but it can be use like the counter. Lastly, the Exceed Monster will not have star level thus those cards that applying on certain star level monster will not have effect on them. For example, Level Limit - Area B will not have effect on all Exceed Monster. Those star level is named as Rank.

Okay, that's all the latest news of today! Let's us await the arrival of Exceed Monster. Thanks for your time and wish you guys have a nice day! Please stay tuned for my next post.

Seremban Tournament Result

Hey, guys! I think some of you guys had went to the tournament and it is a bit fun to all of us. Thus, I gonna share the Seremban Yu-Gi-Oh! Tournament result to your guys! However, the sad news is Trishula, Ice Barrier Dragon was no longer the champion prize and it has been replaced by Extreme Victory (EXVC) booster packs, several pack of GS2011 and several packs of special pack. The whole tournament is a knock-out based game and the total number of players whose compete in this tournament is 16 person.

This time, almost all the Seremban duelists also lose in this tournament and the finalists consisted of three Malays and a chinese. However, this is a good phenomenon to Malays Yu-Gi-Oh! players and the whole game is a fair enough tournament. The finalists consist of two six samurai, a blackwings and a magician deck. The champion is Suria Hadi, 1st runner-up is Ahmad Rahimi, 2nd runner-up is Leong En How and 3rd runner-up is Mokhtar. Although this tournament is a small game but it does reflect the power of six samurai deck too.

Thus, I will reveal the deck list of our champion to you guys since March 2011 is coming soon. Basically, this six samurai deck consists of some new cards from Extreme Victory (EXVC). Without wasting your time, let's us look at his deck.

Main:
Monster(14)
Grandmaster of the Six Samurai x3
Herald of the Six Samurai x1
Kagemusha of the Six Samurai x3

Legendary Six Samurai - Kizan x3
Legendary Six Samurai - Kageki x3
Morphing Jar x1

Magic(20)
Book of Moon x2
Gateway of Six x3
Giant Tornado x1
Monster Reborn x1
Mystical Space Typhoon x2
Reinforcement of Army x1
Shien's Smoke Signal x3
Shien's Dojo x2
Six Samurai United x2
Upstart Goblin x3

Trap(6)
Double-Edged Sword Technique x3
Solemn Warning x2
Solemn Judgment x1

Side Deck(Not all confirmed):
Consecrated Light x3
D.D. Crow x2
Kinetic Soldier x2
Dark Hole x1
Six Samurai United x1
Kanakani Matagama x2
Mirror Force x1
Royal Oppression x1
Starlight Road x1
Torrential Tribute x1

Extra deck:
Ally of Justice Catastor x1
Black Rose Dragon x1
Brionac, Ice Barrier Dragon x1
Colossal Fighter x1
Goyou Guardian x1
Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En x3
Magical Android x1
Mist Wurm x1
Scrap Dragon x1
Stardust Dragon x1
Trishula, Ice Barrier Dragon x1

Basically, with the aid of Shien's Dojo he manage to special summon Six Samurai monster even faster than before and it also act as a combo with the Gateway of Six. The strategy is similar to most of the Six Samurai deck and it is more based on special summon plus opponent's field control. Besides that, his hand luck was quite good during the tournament. Most of the time, he is able to synchro summon and special summon monster successfully. As a result, he manage to get the champion.

This tournament also reflected what cards will be included in the coming ban list. Moreover, the release of Extreme Victory also give us some forecast of the ban list such as Gateway of Six and Mind Master. I predicted Tech Genus(TG), Angel, Six Samurai, Blackwings, Machina Karakuri Plant and Psyhic decks would still be the next trend that obviously occurs during the tournament. Apart from the tournament news, next week I'm gonna update the real March 2011 ban list to this blog so guys please stay tuned in my blog and waiting for it.

Okay, I gonna end this post here. Thanks for your precious time and wish you guys have nice day! Please stay tuned for my next post.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Tournament In My Hometown Again!

Hey, guys! I have a great news for you guys especially for those whose live in Seremban! The Yu-Gi-Oh! Tournament in Seremban will fall on this coming February! It is open to the public and no matter you are beginner, advanced or expertise Yu-Gi-Oh! players! If you wanna grab the prizes please come and join this event on the following day. Below is the details of the tournament.

Venue: Recess shop, 2nd floor, Terminal 1 Shopping Center, Seremban, Negeri Sembilan
Date and time: 12th February 2011(Saturday), 12pm-6pm
Registration fee: RM25 

Ban list: Refer to September 2010 ban list(Check it here or this page)
*Prizes:

Grand place Gold Rare Trishula, Ice Barrier Dragon x1, Gold Series 2011(GS03) japanese version x5 packs

The rest of prizes will be announced by the person in charge soon.

Closing Date of Registration: Any player whose interested with this event please register yourself before 12th February 2011 or on-site register.

Rules and regulations:

1. This tournament is open to the public.

2. Participants are required to register themselves for the tournament latest before 12.00pm. Seating arrangements and oppositions will then be designated and announced. 

3. The Organizer holds all rights to the entries and will bear no responsibility for loss of personal belongings and/or personal injuries during the tournament.

4. The decisions of the judges are final and no correspondences will be entertained. The Organizer reserves the right to change /substitute any of the prizes at any time without prior notice.

5. The event host reserve all rights for the final decision.

 

Special Notice:

1. Korea and Upper card are not allowed in ALL Official tournaments. The tournament organizer will only allow original Konami Japanese or Asia English Version Official Card Game to be used in Official Tournament. 

2. Promo cards from Shueisha Magazine or Comics, Duel Terminal (DT), Premium Pack(PP) and Limited Edition(LE) cards can be used in this tournament even though it have not reprinted.

3. All deck size must be 40-60, Extra deck 0-15, Side Deck 0-15.

4. Any players who found cheating or changing of cards during in the tournament will be disqualify instantly.

5. Judges have all right to disqualify duelist who misconduct and rule violations.

6. Judges decision is final.

Person in-charge: Au Fatt Loong 016-2191868

Feel free to attend, please call the contact person. Okay, that's all for today! Thanks for your time and wish you guys good luck for competing in the tournament! Please stay tuned for my next post!

Forecast for March 2011's Ban List

Hey, guys! We already passed through year 2010 for several weeks. However, there are one more important thing for all Duelists around the world besides the release of new cards which is the March 2011 ban list. Thus, I would like to share my own forecast of March 2011's ban list to you guys.

Unlike the previous forecast, this time I will predict that the coming March 2011 ban list is a major hit to the trend of OCG and TCG. Before I continue my forecast, I would like to share some of my opinion towards the current situation of OCG. With the effect of September 2010 ban list, the whole trend of OCG is becoming more horrible and OTKs still frequently happen during tournament. However, this situation mostly occurs among Blackwings and Six Samurai decks.

Among all those popular decks before the impact of September 2010 ban list, Infernity, Lightsworn, Blackwings, Frogs, Frog Monarchs, Quickdraw Dandy and Cat-Synchro are superb decks during those time. With the apply of September 2010 ban list, 3 major popular decks have been hit heavily and they are Cat-synchro, Frogs and Infernity. Start from that moment, some of these decks started disappeared from the eyes of public. Therefore I would predicted that these decks may re-appears in the eyes of public soon because Konami may need to reduce the OTKs speed through releasing these powerful decks to against the popular decks especially Blackwings and Six Samurai.

With the release of Extreme Victory(EXVC), psychic will definitely become the next FTK/OTK deck. By using these whole new set of psychic support cards, psychic deck can regain their FTK/OTK opportunity. Basically, Konami quite against with the idea of FTK/OTKs thus Mind Master may say goodbye to all psychic players after March 2011. Besides, this new booster pack is a bit more focus on out of play monster(s) from the graveyard or deck. For more details of EXVC, check it at this page.

Okay, below is my forecast ban list.

Ban:
Mind Master
Monster Reborn

Limited:
Judgment Dragon
Rescue Cat
Tech-Genus(TG) Hyper Librarian 
Heavy Storm
Mystical Space Typhoon

Semi-limited:
Black Rose Dragon
Debris Dragon
Mezuki
Neo-spacian Grand Mole
Emergency Teleport
Gateway of Six
Pot of Avarice
Pot of Duality
Ceasefire
Royal Decree
Royal Oppression
Icarus Attack

Unlimited:
Snipe Hunter
Bottomless Trap Hole
Magic Cylinder

However, this ban list does not hitting much to the decks such as Karakuri, Scraps, Plant OTK, or even Tech Genus(TG). Apart from that, with the air of Yugioh Zexal series during the Spring of 2011 in Japan, Konami may change the rules of game soon due to they will introduce the new method of special summoning - Exceed/Excess Summon and new archtype of Monster - Exceed/Excess monsters. This special summon required players to have 2 or more monsters with the same star level in order to perform Exceed Summon of Exceed monster(s). According to the duel ruling in the Yugioh Zexal comic, the Exceed Summon materials will placed on the fields instead of sending to the graveyard as performed by Synchro Summon. Thus, Konami needs to add additional rulings about this special summon.

I predicted that the Exceed Summon is also a special summon of monster from the Extra deck thus the Extra deck card limits may change to 20 cards. In addition, Exceed Summon also required a new archtype of monster that helps to perform Exceed Summon which similar to Tuner in Synchro Summon. Thus, we may see a whole set of monster series occurs in the next booster pack(705) and the year 2011 starter deck. Hopefully this special summon is another style of game play thus the game may become more interesting.

Okay, that's all I wanna share today. Thanks for your time and wish you guys have a blast day. Please stay tuned for my next post.

Is it Gold Enough?

Hey, guys! Today I would like to share the full card list of Gold Series 2011(OCG). I think most of us also have awaiting for the arrival of GS2011 and Konami did not disappointed us this time.

Full card list(has been arranged in sequence):

Mask of Darkness
Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer
Injection Fairy Lily
D.D. Warrior Lady
Chaos Sorcerer
Thestalos the Firestorm Monarch
Ryko, Lightsworn Hunter
Chimeratech Fortress Dragon(NR)

Gungnir, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier(NR)
Nobleman of Crossout
Dark Hole
United We Stand
Riryoku
Fires of Doomsday
Dust Tornado
Ceasefire
Trap Hole
Compulsory Evacuation Device
Widespread Ruin

Based on the card list, we can concluded that this pack of gold series is valuable to buy. Almost all the cards that reprinted in GS2011 are usable in most of the decks and even NR such as Injection Fairy Lily and Fires of Doomsday also included. This is a great news for all OCG players since rare cards as Gungnir can be found easily. So what are you waiting for? Go and grab GS2011 as soon as possible for all OCG players.

Somehow, the appearance of GS2011 would certainly change some of the OCG countries' tournament style. Thus, we may see more types of decks compete in the national tournament event. However, the release of GS2011 does not much affected the Blackwings and Six Samurai decks. Another latest news about Extreme Victory (EXVC) is almost all Bruno cards are reprinted in this booster pack. Thus, Tech Genus(TG) may become the next popular decks soon.

The TG cards will included the first 12 star synchro monster which is TG Halberd Cannon and it is a monster version of "Solemn Warning". Apart from that, it is easy to synchro summon because it does not have much restriction on the synchro material. Somehow, it is one of important synchro monster for TG deck players. Another good synchro monster for TG is TG Recipro Dragonfly which works as a combo with TG Hyper Librarian for drawing card(s). However, this combo would only works well if we use Plant TG deck. They also have a TG version of Gladiator's Return which is TGX3-DX2 but it is a trap card and it allows player to draws 2 cards.

Okay, that's all I wanna share today! Thanks for your time and wish you guys have a nice day. Please stay tuned for my next post.

Angel Top Deck

Hey, guys! Happy new year! Today I would like to share about the latest top deck at Japan for these few weeks. Just with the release of Lost Sanctuary (SD20) in the OCG, Angel has regain their position in most of the unofficial tournament. However, Debris Plant, Quickdraw Dandy, Blackwings and Six Samurai are still the most popular decks among others in the OCG.

During these days, we seldom see the Herald of Perfection deck in the OCG tournament although Angel deck has been released for a number of weeks. Most of the Angel players started focus on Master Hyperion because of its destruction effect and it is easily to special summon from the hand. However, they also more focuses on the usage of Angel tuners such as The Agent of Mystery - Earth and Herald of Orange Light. By adding these cards, we can have choices to synchro summon destructive synchro monsters such as Trishula, Mist Wurm, Scrap Dragon and Black Rose Dragon.

With the help of synchro monsters, they can even swarm the field more faster and this also enable Archlord Kristya to special summon from the hand more easily. Thus, prevent their opponent from special summoning monsters. Apart from that, with the aid of Herald of Orange Light, they can stop those destructive monsters' effect from the opponent such as Dark Armed Dragon, Brionac, Trishula, Black Rose Dragon and others. Besides, they may also put Ancient Holy Wvyern in their extra deck because it can helps in OTK opponent at certain time.

In my opinion, Angel deck that focuses on super draw can gain more advantage than those decks that lack of draw engine. During those days, Blackwings are powerful enough because of drawing and hand card advantage from the Allure of Darkness and Black Whirlwind. But with the limit of Allure of Darkness and Black Whirlwind, Blackwings swarming speed are a bit slower than those days. As a conclusion, Angel deck that focuses on drawing engine is more powerful. Before I end my post today, I would like to share deck list for the super draw Angel deck.

Monster:
Master Hyperion x3
The Agent of Mystery - Earth x3
Archlord Kristya x2
Honest x2
The Angel of Creation - Venus x3
Mystical Shine Ball x3
Herald of Orange Light x3
Herald of Purple Light x1

Spell:
Mystical Space Typhoon x2
Monster Reborn x1
Book of Moon x2
Cold Wave x1
Pot of Duality x3
Dark Hole x1
Giant Tornado x1
Treasure of Heaven x3

Trap:
Solemn Judgment x1
Solemn Wishing x2
Mirror Force x1
Torrential Tribute x1
Return from the Different Dimension x1
Dimensional Prison x1

Okay, that's all for today! Thanks for your time. Wish you guys have a blast new year and let's us await for the release of GS2011 in the OCG. Please stay tuned for my next post.