Reinforcement of Six Samurai

Hey, guys! Storm of Ragnarok (STOR) has been released to OCG and the full card list has been revealed. As mentioned by Konami, this booster pack's theme is all the Polar God cards which used by the Team Ragnarok. But as we can see, this booster pack is mainly focus on Six Samurai rather than Polar God. This booster pack abbreviation is similar with the Strike of Neos (STON) which also have the theme not regarding to Six Samurai.

So far, Six Samurai is the one of the card series that have almost all kind of support cards in a booster pack. From here, we can see that Six Samurai is one of the card series that boost by Konami rapidly. This booster pack has included around 14 new support cards for Six Samurai and most of these cards are powerful and can be consider as essential components for Six Samurai deck. Therefore, we may see that Six Samurai deck become one of the top decks on OCG start from this weekend.

However, Blackwing also has new support cards but one of the Blackwing cards that may be put into the Blackwing deck by the Blackwing players is Blackwing - Bora the Sharp. This card is quite useful to Blackwing deck because its effect is quite similar to Blackwing - Kalut the Moon Shadow but instead of increasing attack point, it helps to prevent Blackwing monster from battle destroy and receive 0 battle damage plus destroying the attacking monster after the Damage Calculation. Its effect can only be activate once it is in the graveyard. However, it may not activate its effect during opponent's turn. Somehow, we still need to wait for the ruling from Konami to make sure whether its effect can be activate during opponent's turn.

Not just the Six Samurai and Blackwing, this booster also boost up the Karakuri, Watt, Scrap and other series too. Apart from that, a new spirit monster also included in this booster pack which is Yasha. This card may replace the Breaker, The Magical Warrior soon because its effect quite similar to Breaker and instead of destroying the card, it return back the opponent's Spell or Trap card back to opponent's hand. Moreover, dual Plant OTK may become more frequent than before because of the occurrence of Vairon Matter. Vairon Matter helps to retrieve back exactly 3 Equip Spell cards from the graveyard to the owner's deck and then user can choose either one of the effects which are draw a card from the deck or destroy an card controlled by the opponent.

This booster also added another new member for D.D deck which is D.D. Spirit. It is a 1 star tuner and it can be special summon from the hand to the field by removing from play a face-up monster on the field. The monster removed from played with this card effect will be returned to the controller field during your next Standby Phase. Moreover, this booster pack also included support cards for "Resonator" monsters and new "Skill Drain" which is Tyrant's Reckless Words. However, its activation cost a bit higher than Skill Drain. It required 2 monsters as activation cost but it also negate the monster's effect which activate on hand and field. For further details of STOR, please visit this page.

Start from this week, we may see a new top deck always occur on OCG which might be Six Samurai. However, their best rival might be Blackwing. Somehow, Six Samurai do have Magatama of Musakani to stop the Icarus Attack from Blackwing players. So we might see an interesting duel between these two decks soon. Another good news for all OCG players is Trishula, Ice Barrier Dragon has been confirmed to be reprint in GS2011 thus most of the OCG players may have a copy of it in their main extra deck soon.

Here are some guideline for building your Six Samurai deck:
Monster
True Six Samurai -Kizan x3
True Six Samurai -Kageki x3
True Six Samurai -Shinai x2
True Six Samurai -Mizuho x2
Grandmaster of Six Samurai x3
Spirit of the Six Samurai  x2
The Six Samurai -Yaichi x2
The Six Samurai -Zanji x2
Kagemusha of the Six Samurai x0/2
Shien's Yuriko x0/2

Spell
Gateway of the Six x3
Mystical Space Typhoon x2
Giant Tornado x1
Reinforcement of Army x1
Shien's Smoke Signal x2/3
3 Way Slash Style of Six x0/1/2
Ascetism of the Six Samurai x2/3
Monster Reborn x1
Book of Moon x2
Six Samurai United x3

Trap
Matagama of Musakani x3
Trap Stun x2
Mirror Force x1
Seven Tools of the Bandit x2

Okey, that's all for today. Let's us wait for the top deck lists in Japan during this weekend. Hope you guys have a nice day and good luck for drawing the STOR. Thanks for your reading. Please stay tuned for my next post.