Great News for most OCG players

Hey, guys! The upcoming Gold Series(GS2013) definitely is one of the most valuable set that must list into to buy list. It is packed with almost all kind of useful cards such as Effect Veiler, Naturia Beast, Black Rose Dragon, Lavalval Chain, Forbidden Chalice, Macro Cosmo, Mind Control and etc. As a result, I have decide to buy 3 boxes of GS2013 so that the chances to hit a NR may be a bit higher.

As I have mentioned in my previous posts, Heraldic Beast deck is one of my major target to be build and currently I still seeking for a stable build. So far the build is still unstable because I found it hard to against most of the big ATK monster. If I play pure Heraldic Beast build then it will be more slow. Anyway, I will modify it till I feel it is pretty solid then only share the deck build with you guys.

Evilswarm started began popular in Malaysia now due to this deck can beat down most of the Meta deck in Game 1 and it is quite a cheap deck. Therefore, a lot of player choose to play it during the Yu-Gi-Oh! Malaysia Open Tournament 2012. Apart from that, quite a number of players playing Fire Fist during the tournament and 3 Fire Fist succeed to enter the final of the tournament.

This proves that not many of the players aware of Fire Fist and the 1st runner-up is playing the Fire Fist build without any side and promos. Therefore, we can see that Fire Fist is quite a stable as they can counter most of the Meta easily. I can see that Fire King and Fire Fist raise to tier 1 after March 2013 ban list. Thus please don't feel surprise with their result.

By the way, lately I have seen several Spellbook Prophecy deck appearing in some of the major tournament. However, they haven't topping in those event yet else the deck may become hot deck. Spellbook Prophecy is not a bad deck but they easily lack of monster. In other words, they still requires some low level beat stick spellcaster.

Anyway, I do have a OCG Spellbook Prophecy build in my DN account. I haven't test the deck yet but you guys may test the deck build. Below is my deck build:

You may ignore the Extra deck as I simply put any synchro/Xyz monster into it. Hopefully you guys can make use of their combo wisely. The combo basically is starting from Secret search for Master then search for Tower. From there, the loop will keep on going on if the Tower can stand at the field. Treacherous Trap Hole is the lonely trap in the deck and it will act as your defensive trap.

Spellbook Prophecy is deck where you will gain hand card advantage in a slow tempo. However, if you able to survive through the huge wave of attack, then 80% of the time, you will win the game afterward due to too much hand card advantage. The side deck of Spellbook Prophecy might be a bit difficult to build due to the whole deck not much slot to swap side cards.

For the side deck, you may put Dimensional Fissure, MST, Royal Decree, Oracle of the Sun and etc. The most difficult part of siding for Spellbook Prophecy is what monster that you requires to side due to not much power spellcaster monster to be put in the side. For the side deck that I have put in this picture, you may ignore it because some of the cards may not work on you guys.

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

Change of Card Quality in OCG!

Hey, guys! SD24 has arrived at OCG and many OCG players found out that its card quality dropping. The most important point is it is MADE IN USA. Konami has switched its card factory from China to USA due to money issue.

I'm not sure what have happen to KDE(Konami Digital Entertainment) and seems like they are owing the China factory for several months of payment(received the unofficial news from China website). This has caused the factory to unemployed some of the foreign workers. Due to factory lack of money to operate, as a result, they also stop producing cards for Konami.

Therefore Konami find other vendors to solve this issue. Hopefully Konami will solve this issue soon and restore our OCG card quality again because I so like with the old card quality. Apart from that, I also a bit late to update a few new rulings regarding Swap Frog.

Swap Frog
Q1: When I have activate its 3rd effect to return itself to the hand as a cost of activation, then I SS it from hand again. Can I activate its 3rd effect to return itself to the hand again?
A1: Its effect can only be activate once per turn. If the situation is as stated above, then you are not allowed to activate its 3rd effect again.

Q2: If my field have 2 Swap Frog, can I activate Swap Frog's 3rd effect?
A2: NO, CANNOT activate its effect UNLESS ONLY 1 Swap Frog on the field.

Q3: After Evilswarm Castor was successfully summoned, if I have activate Swap Frog's 3rd effect, can I normal summon any Ilswarm or Frog monster?
A3: In such case, NEITHER Ilswarm or Frog monster can be normal summon.

Q4: After Karakuri Komachi mdl 224 "Ninishi" was successfully summoned, if I have activate Swap Frog's 3rd effect, can I normal summon any Karakuri or Frog monster?
A4: In such case, NEITHER Karakuri or Frog monster can be normal summon.
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Besides that, I also share the latest ruling for cards reprint in SD24: Assault of the Flame King so that you guys can play the deck more confidently. If you have any doubt of the answer, kindly leave your message and I will reply it as soon as possible.

Fire King High Avatar Garunix
Q1: What is the category of its effect?
A1: All 3 effect is trigger effect. Its 1st effect which activate when it was destroyed WILL OPEN a chain link while its effect that activate during Standby Phase will NOT OPEN a chain link.

Q2: When its SS effect that activate in the graveyard was negated by LADD or etc, can I activate its SS effect again within the same turn's Standby Phase?
A2: No, you CANNOT activate it.

Q3: If it was destroyed while it was treated as EQUIP CARD, can I activate its SS effect?
A3: Yes, you CAN do so.

Q4: During Standby Phase, effect of Fire King High Avatar Garunix and Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys activate at the same time, how do I resolve it?
A4: 1st, Fire King High Avatar Garunix will SS itself from your graveyard via its effect, then all monster on the field except itself will be destroy. After that, Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys will SS itself from your graveyard via its effect, all spell/trap will be destroy. If their effect are activate simultaneously, you can arrange them to resolve according to your choice.

Q5: If it was destroyed during this turn's Draw Phase, does its SS effect activate within this turn's Standby Phase? If it was destroyed during this turn's Standby Phase, does its SS effect activate during next Standby Phase?
A5: Yes, you are CORRECT.
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Fire King Avatar Barong
Q1: What is the category of its effect?
A1: Both effect also trigger effect. Besides that, its 1st effect can be activate if Fire King monster was destroyed by card's effect in chain link 2.

Q2: If it is destroyed by card effect and sent to graveyard, during next standby phase, it is no longer in the graveyard, can I activate its effect?
A2: No, you CANNOT activate its effect.
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Fire King Avatar Qilin
Q1: What is the category of its effect?
A1: Both effect also trigger effect. Besides that, its 1st effect can be activate if Fire King monster was destroyed by card's effect in chain link 2.

Q2: Can I activate its SS effect and send a Fire attribute monster from deck during Damage Step?
A2: You CANNOT activate its SS effect but you CAN activate its send a Fire attribute monster from deck during Damage Step.
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Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys
Q: If it was destroyed while it was treated as EQUIP CARD, can I activate its SS effect?
A: Yes, you can do so.
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Assault of the Fire King
Q1: Does the destruction effect during End Phase would trigger a chain link?
A1: No, it DOES NOT trigger a chain link.

Q2: Does monster effect that activate in the graveyard would be negated?
A2: Monster effect that activate in the graveyard will NOT be negate.

Q3: Does its destruction effect treated as "card's effect destruction"?
A3: Yes, it IS a card's effect destruction.

Q4: Can Forbidden Lance avoid the applied of its destruction effect?
A4: During the timing where the monster is SS via this card effect, Forbidden Lance effect is not applied yet(due to the monster haven't SS from the deck and no target to activate it), therefore, even Forbidden Lance's effect has applied afterward, the destruction effect(Assault of the Fire King) still cannot be avoided.

Q5: If the monster SS via this card effect is equipped with Buster Blaster and Bluster Blaster substituted it from destroyed during this turn's End Phase, during the next End Phase would the monster SS via this card effect destroy(due to this card effect)?
A5: Yes, the monster WILL BE destroy.

Q6: If Assault of the Fire King was negated by Solemn Judgment, can I activate 2nd copies of Assault of the Fire King within this turn?
A6: Yes, you CAN do so.

Q7: There is monster on your field when this card effect is resolving, does the SS effect still resolve?
A7: Yes, it WILL resolve normally. If the monster zone is fully occupied when this card effect is resolving, then its result still under regulation/unconfirmed.
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Fire King Fire Cycle
Q1: Can I select face-down Fire attribute monster?
A1: No, you can't.

Q2: Does the destruction and SS resolve simultaneously?
A2: Yes, they resolve simultaneously.

Q3: If the selected monster in my graveyard no longer at there(graveyard) when this card effect is resolving, does the selected monster on my field would be destroy?
A3: Yes, the selected monster WILL still be destroy.

Q4: If the selected monster on my field no longer there(field) when this card effect is resolving, does the selected monster in my graveyard would be SS?
A4: No, the selected monster WILL NOT be SS.

Q5:  If the selected monster on my field was face-down when this card effect is resolving, does the destruction and SS still resolve normally?
A5: Under regulation/Unconfirmed.

Q6:  If the selected monster on my field was change control to opponent when this card effect is resolving, does the destruction and SS still resolve normally?
A6: No, NEITHER destroy NOR SS will be resolve.

Q7: If Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV6 or Metaion, the Timelord on my field was selected, does the SS effect still resolve normally?
A7: You may choose Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV6, however, NO destruction of the selected monster thus NO SS effect will be resolve.

Q8: If this card was negated by Magic Jammer, can I activate 2nd copies of Fire King Fire Circle?
A8: Yes, you CAN do so.

Q9: Can I select the non-Fire attribute monster that is changed to Fire attribute due to DNA Transplant as destruction target?
A9: Yes, you CAN do so.

Q10: If the selected monster on my field is change to non-Fire attribute when this card effect is resolving, does the destruction and SS still resolve normally?
A10: Under regulation/Unconfirmed.

Seems like Konami will reprint a lot of goodies in OCG Gold Series 2013. If the news came true then this gold series will be the 1st ever gold series that reprint a lot of good and worthy stuff. Other than this, the upcoming booster Lord of the Tachyongalaxy might be another hot booster. Hopefully Konami will not let us down for this booster.

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

Awaiting for new META to reform

Hey, guys! Today I will discuss some of the impact of the release of Cosmo Blazer(CBLZ) in OCG. Since the release of this booster, Fire Fist started become one of the main attraction for OCG players and this booster do released a lot of Fire attribute monsters or support cards.

Fire Fist is quite similar with Mermail Atlanteans and basically this deck is a promo deck oriented deck. The reason I say so is due to the deck requires a lot of promo cards and without those promo cards, this deck tempo will be slow and not easy to gain hand advantage. As a result, promo cards are essential in this deck. Therefore, more promo = Deck Price Expensive/Imba.

Anyway, players will still play the deck although it is pricey. Current tier 1 decks consists of Mermail variant, Wind-Up, HERO, TGU Rabbit, Gadget/Karakuri variant and Fire Fist had just join the Meta call not long ago. I didn't grouped former top decks(Hieratic, Inzektor and Chaos Dragon) under the category of tier 1 due to the significant number of play less than the current tier 1.

Therefore, I more prefer to group them under tier 1.5. For tier 2 decks, it is consists of Angel variant, Dark World, Six Samurai, Junk Doppel/its variant and etc. Soon Heraldic Beast will join tier 2 and will rise up from there after March 2013. Apart from that, SD24 - Assault of the Flame King is a nice deck and I think it will join tier 1 after 2 months of its official released.

As usual, I will go with my ruling post again. This time I will share the latest ruling of cards that have released in Cosmo Blazer(CBLZ). For those whose don't know the effect of the card, you can search it at Yugioh Wikia(http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page).

Dododo Bot
Q1: What is the category of its effect?
A1: It is Continuous effect.

Q2: It was destroyed by battle and Dimensional Fissure is on the field, in such case, does it banished? Since it is unaffected by card effect, does it sent to the graveyard?
A2: In this case, it would be banished.
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Gogogo Ghost
Q1: If this card was SS via Gogogo Giant's effect, do I miss my timing to activate its effect to SS Gogogo Golem?
A1: No, you won't miss your timing and you can SS Gogogo Golem via its effect.

Q2: If this card was SS in defense position, can I activate its effect to SS Gogogo Golem?
A2: Yes, you can do so.

Q3: If this card was SS in Damage Step, can I activate its effect to SS Gogogo Golem?
A3: Yes, you can do so.

Q4: If this card was SS as chain link 2 while Final Attack Orders is face-up on the field, can I activate its effect?
A4: Yes, you can do so.
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Tasukeleton
Q1: Does this effect targeting the monster being attacked or monster that has attacked?
A1: No, its effect is non-targeting effect.

Q2: If its effect was negated by Divine Wrath, can I activate its effect again in this duel?
A2: No, you are not allow to do so.
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Amarylease
Q1: The term of normal summon in this card, does it means I cannot reduce the number of monster that I need to tribute to SET my high level monster?
A1: Yes, its effect will only applied on normal summon in face-up position.

Q2: If Zaborg the Thunder Monarch was normal summon by using this card's effect, can I activate its effect to destroy a monster card on the field?
A2: Since Zaborg was normal summon without tribute a monster thus it is not consider as advanced/tribute summon. As a result, its effect can't be activate.

Q3: If Beast King Barbaros was advanced/tribute summon by using this card's effect and tribute 2 more monsters, can I activate the trigger effect "when I release 3 monsters to advanced summon this card"?
A3: No, you cannot activate the trigger effect of Beast King Barbaros "release 3 monster to advanced summon this card".

Q4: Can I use this card's effect to reduce the number of monster to summon The Wicked Avatar?
A4: No, you are not allow to do so.

Q5: When my opponent do not control any monster on the field, can I activate this card's effect to normal summon Evil HERO Malicious Edge without release/tribute a monster.
A5: No, you are not allow to do so. In such case, you must release/tribute a monster and using this card's effect to advanced/tribute summon Evil HERO Malicious Edge.

Q6: If I activate this card's effect and Majestic Mech - Goryu's effect, can I normal summon Majestic Mech - Goryu without release/tribute monster? If such case is valid, would my Goryu self-destruct during the end phase?
A6: You are not allow to activate both of their effect(you can only activate either 1 of the effect).

Q7: If this card's effect was negated by the effect of Divine Wrath or etc, can I activate the effect of another copies of this card within the same turn?
A7: Yes, you can do so.
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 Mermail Abyssdine
Q1: If I activate both of its effect within the same turn?
A1: No, you are not allow to do so.

Q2: Can I activate its effect during the Damage Step?
A2: Yes, you can activate its effect during the Damage Step.

Q3: If my Mermail Abyssdine 1st effect were negated by Divine Wrath, can I activate 2nd copies Mermail Abyssdine 2nd effect within the same turn?
A3: No, you are not allow to do so.
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Charging Fire Fist King - Soko
Q1: What is the categories of its effect?
A1: Its 1st effect is Trigger effect, 2nd effect is Ignition effect and 3rd effect is Trigger effect.

Q2: Does the effect of non-Beast-Warrior-Type effect monster that summoned after the applied of its negation effect would be negated as well?
A2: No, its effect will only affect the monster(s) that is face-up on the field when its effect is resolving.
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Haze Beast Basilicock
Q: If this card have 6 or above Xyz materials, would the effect of unable destroyed by cards being applied?
A: No, it would only gains the effects of having 3 and 4 Xyz materials.
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Mermail Abysstrite
Q: If this card destroyed by the effect of Chain Destruction in Extra deck, can I activate its reborn's effect?
A: Yes, you can activate it.
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Terror Fang Wolf, Dire Wolf
Q1: If either 1 of the targeted card leave the field before this card's effect resolves, would the remain targeted card destroyed?
A1: Yes, it still would be destroyed.

Q2: Would my card and opponent's card destroy at the same time?
A2: Yes, they will be destroy at the same.

Q3: Can I activate Wolf's effect to select card that cannot be destroyed by card effect? If Wolf's effect can be activate, the rest of cards are destroyed or not?
A3: Yes, you can activate Wolf's effect to select card that cannot be destroyed by card effect. The rest of cards will be destroyed by this effect.
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Lightning Plover
Q: Is this card's effect targeting effect?
A: Yes, it is targeting effect.

Okay, that's all I wanna share with you guys! Let us wait for the new meta to form by end of this year and thanks for your time to pay a visit. Hereby I wish you guys good luck and stay smart during the tourney. Please stay tuned for my next post.

Card Rulings of EP12(Extra Pack 2012)

Hey, guys! This coming Saturday(10 November 2012) gonna be the day of Malaysia Final Team Tourney 2012. I know most of you guys are busy adjusting yourself to your best mode. However, frequent update for your Yugioh Database is essential because this may lead you to a win either through sharking or legally.

Today I gonna share some new updates regarding cards from EP12. Many of the OCG players haven't realize of the update. Therefore, I hope you guys can spread the rulings around your team and even your team mates.

Dark Smog
Q1: The resolve of discarding a Fiend type monster and banished the selected monster in your opponent's graveyard is resolve at the same time?
A1: Yes, it is resolve at the same time.

Q2: If the targeted monster has leave the graveyard when this card's effect is resolving, do I still need to discard a Fiend type monster?
A2: Yes, you still need to discard a Fiend type monster from your hand.

Q3: When this card's effect is resolving and I no longer have any Fiend type monster on my hand, then how does this card's effect resolved?
A3: In this case, the targeted monster in the graveyard will not be banished due to you have not discarded a Fiend type monster.

Q4: Can I activate this card's effect right after I flipped this card from face-down?(Just like Ultimate Offering)
A4: Yes, you can do so.

Wind-Up Rabbit
Q1: The effect of banished a face-up Wind-Up monster on the field can be activate during Damage Step?
A1: No, you can't.

Q2: When this card's effect is resolving and your opponent chain to play Enemy Controller or etc to gain control of the targeted monster, does the monster still banished?
A2: Yes, the targeted monster will be banished. During your next Standby Phase, the targeted monster will return to opponent's monster field 1st then only switch back to yours monster field.

Q3: I activate the banish effect during my Draw Phase, does the targeted monster return to my field during this turn's Standby Phase? Furthermore, I activate the banish effect during my Standby Phase, does the targeted monster return to my field during my next turn's Standby Phase?
A3: Yes, you are correct for both case.

Interplanetarypurplythorny Dragon
Q1: Its effect is belongs to which categories?
A1: Its effect is categories below trigger effect.

Q2: If my monster on the field was destroyed by card's effect and sent to the graveyard during Damage Step, can I activate its effect to SS it?
A2: Yes, you can activate its effect.

Q3: If my monster on the field was destroyed and sent to graveyard, can I SS multiple copies of Interplanetarypurplythorny Dragon?
A3: No, you can only SS a copies of Interplanetarypurplythorny Dragon.

Q4: If there is other card's effect to be resolve right after your monster was destroyed, would this cause miss timing to activate its effect?
A4: No, miss timing will not occur and you can activate its effect right after the chain link(s) have been resolved.

Apart from card rulings from EP12, I share with you guys regarding an old card ruling.

Lava Golem
Q1: When the effect of inflict 1000 damage to the controller is resolving and my opponent chain to its effect with Enemy Controller or etc to gain control of it, which player that will inflict the damage?
A1: Since you control it when its inflict damage's effect is resolving, you will be the player that received the damage.

Q2: If Light and Darkness Dragon is face-up on the field, how does the inflict damage's effect resolve?
A2: The inflict damage's effect that activate during Standby Phase will only activate once per turn. Since its effect has been negated by LADD then its effect will no longer re-activate within the same turn's Standby Phase.

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

Card Ruling of DP13

Hey, guys! Sorry for less updating my blog and today I will share some of my thought regrading the shift of meta deck. Just few days ago, Konami revealed some of the great cards to be release in the upcoming booster, Cosmo Blazer(CBLZ).

Similar with previous year, this booster gonna introduce new theme and most of the cards release in this booster will affect the trend of meta decks. One of the most obvious part is the release of Flaming Star/Firestar and Heraldic support cards. With these cards, a lot of old theme deck may alive due to their presence.

I personally feel that Heraldic is the descendant of Scrap and they might inherent the destruction power of Inzektor soon. So far, Heraldic can easily Xyz summon any rank 4 monster and they do have their own monster reborn. Thus most of the time Xyz summon for them is not longer -1 issue and Xyz monster will become their major boss.

I feel that Heraldic may rise to Tier 1 before or during March 2013. Apart from that, SD24 is a major boost for old cards such as Manticore of Darkness, Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys and etc. They also have the support of boss monster and it can act as a finisher at certain moment. Similar with SD22, SD24 might become Tier 1 after this.

With the rise of these decks, graveyard is still the most important component in the game play. Therefore, any card that can get rid of graveyard will remain in one of the side deck choice. As a result, Compulsory Evacuation Device is still one of the best card to get rid of annoying boss or defense wall.

Besides that, let me share some new rulings of cards from Duelist Pack 13: Kite(DP13). Below are the details of each card.

Kuriphoton

Kuriphoton
Q1: What are the categories of its effect?
A1: Upper part effect is Quick effect while the remainder effect is Ignition effect.

Q2: Can I activate its effect for turning my damage become 0 during Damage Step?
A2: No, you cannot activate it during Damage Step.

Q3: Is it the effect of my damage become 0 included the battle damage of my monster become 0 as well?
A3: No, only player's damage will becomes 0 while monster's damage will not becomes 0.

Galaxy Knight

Galaxy Knight
Q1: When I control Photon token monster on the field, can I normal summon this card without tribute monster?
A1: Yes, you can do so.

Q2: When I don't have Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon in the graveyard and I control "Photon" or "Galaxy" monster on the field, can I normal summon it without tribute monster?
A2: Yes, you can do so.

Q3: I don't have Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon in the graveyard and I normal summon this card with its effect, since I got no Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon to be SS, would Galaxy Knight's ATK reduce 1000 until the End Phase?
A3: Yes, its ATK will still reduce 1000.

Q4: During the resolution of its effect, Galaxy Knight is no longer face-up on the field and cannot reduce 1000 ATK, can I still SS Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon from the graveyard?
A4: No, you cannot SS Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon from the graveyard if its ATK cannot reduce 1000.

Q5: When this card's effect is resolving and any card's effect that caused this card ATK below 1000, can I SS Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon from the graveyard?
A5: Yes, you still can SS Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon from the graveyard.

Q6: The effect of selecting Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon in the graveyard is targeting effect?
A6: Yes, it is targeting effect.

Radiant Photon Paradios

Radiant Photon Paradios
Q1: What is the categories of its 1st effect?
A1: Its effect is Ignition effect.

Q2: For its 1st effect, can I target non-effect monster?
A2: Yes, you can.

Q3: For its 1st effect, can I target the monster with ATK 0?
A3: No, you cannot do so.

Q4: If its 1st effect is resolving and the targeted monster's ATK change to 0 due to other card's effect, would the negation effect still applied?
A4: No, it won't be applied.

Q5: If this card is battle destroyed by opponent's monster, can I activate its 2nd effect?
A5: Yes, you can.

Q6: When Shining Angel was targeted by this card effect, can my opponent resolve its effect?
A6: The effect that activate at graveyard cannot be negated, as a result, your opponent can activate its effect to SS monster as normally.

Q7: Can I target the monster that have been targeted by Forbidden Chalice? If so, how do I calculate its ATK?
A7: Yes, you can target it and its ATK becomes 0.

Q8: If the monster's ATK is 0 due to the applied of this card's 1st effect(original ATK is 1400) and it is targeted by effect of Shrink, how do I calculate its ATK?
A8: Its ATK becomes half of its original ATK which is 700. After the End Phase, its ATK will return to 1400.

Galaxy Expedition

Galaxy Expedition
Q: When this card's effect is resolving and the level 5 or above of "Photon" or "Galaxy" monster no longer on the field, would the SS effect still resolve?
A: Yes, it would resolve normally.

Galaxy Zero

Galaxy Zero
Q1: Would the prevent monster from destroy effect start a chain link?
A1: No.

Q2: Would the effect of the equipped monster's ATK becomes 0 start a chain link?
A2: Yes, it would.

Q3: If this card targeted by Raiza the Storm Monarch and return to the top deck, would the effect of equipped monster's ATK becomes 0 activate?
A3: Under Regulation/Unconfirmed yet.

Q4: When this card is equip and Forbidden Lance targeted the equipped monster, can I activate equipped monster's effect and declare attack?
A4: Yes, you can.

Q5: If Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon's ATK becomes 0 due to this card's effect and Shrink targeted on Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon, how do I calculate its ATK?
A5: Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon's ATK will becomes 1500. If the effect of Shrink is no longer applied after the end of end Phase, its ATK will returns to its Original ATK which is 3000.

Q6: During the Battle Phase, if this card and the equipped monster is destroyed by card effect that simultaneously destroy cards on the field such as Icarus Attack and etc, would the equipped monster left on the field?
A6: No, in such case, the effect that prevent the equipped monster from destroy cannot be applied thus equipped monster will be destroyed as well.

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

Effective of OCG Format in Asia

Hey, guys! Sorry for not updating my blog for a long time! Recently quite busy with my working life. Okay, today I would like to share some of my thoughts regarding the effective of OCG format at Asia. It has been a long time for not allowing promo cards to be play in Asia official tourney. However, not all promo cards are legal except all magazine, comic, guide book cards and DT cards from DT01 till DT02.

With the legality of promo cards, we might see more interesting decks playing around the official tourney. IMO, this is a good environment to train a player to be skillful enough or creative. Therefore, our side will be more generic due to variety of decks will compete in this environment. EP12 gonna release next month and the OCG environment will have a lot of impact. We will see Wind-Up or Rabbit Laggia become the top meta very soon in OCG.

Anyway, EP12 gonna be the last extra pack in YGO history and we might see new promo pack been introduced during next year August till October. Apart from that, the new booster pack, Cosmo Blazer introduce the theme of Flaming-Star. Similar with Flamvell, they all are Fire attribute and Beast-Warrior type too. However, it was not too compatible with the Flamvell deck due to their DEF not below 200.

Based on the card set that have been revealed, I can see that the Flaming Star is quite similar with Magician play style. As a result, I expect the new SD24: Assault of the Flaming King will highly support the current Flamvell theme card so that Flamvell deck can rise as the top META by the end of this year. I expected the cover card of this SD will be a level 7 or 8 monster with the effect of banish opponent monster on the field.

For the spell and traps, I wish they could draw or search a monster from the deck. As a result, Flamvell deck will be much more stable. Btw, ZW - Lion Arms is quite a useful card and it can be used to combo with Wind-Up deck to produce OTK. Apart from that, it is quite a big beat stick although you can't use it to perform direct attack. Garbage Lord is useful too because it can be combo to instant Xyz rank 5 Dark Xyz monster or act as a defense wall.

For the Fish deck, Xyz Remora is a good combo to instant Xyz Number 32: Shark Drake. I can foresee that Gold Series might not be produce anymore but still we will see more reprints to be happen in OCG soon. The reprint pack might reprint all kind of hot cards and all time favorite cards just like Gold Series. Therefore, inflation of card price especially in OCG will happen any time soon.

3 more weeks later, EP12 will be release in OCG. Hopefully I can get Reborn Tengu and Tour Guide from Underworld with the reasonable price. Okay, that's all I wanna share with you guys. Wish you guys have a nice day. Please stay tuned for my next post.

Latest Card Rulings Update

Hey, guys! I'm back and today I will share some latest rulings regarding several cards. I think most of you have thought of this kind of question before, however, you might not be able to found the actual answer in Yugioh Wikia. As a result, I will share it with you guys here.

Waboku
Q: Is this card's effect targeted player or monster card?(Would the monster card which applying effect such as Forbidden Lance or etc have no battle damage? Furthermore, the monster card which applying effect such as Forbidden Lance or etc can be battle destroyed or not?)
A: This card's effect neither targeted player nor monster card. Thus, the monster which applying effect such as Forbidden Lance or etc will have no battle damage and prevent from battle destroyed.
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Monster Gate
Q: The monster that special summon via the effect of Monster Gate is considered special summon from what location?
A: It is special summon from the deck.

Q: If Metaion, the Timelord was revealed, would the special summon proceed as normal?
A: No, special summon will not be proceed, in this case, Metaion, the Timelord will be send to graveyard along with other revealed cards and the resolve of effect end here.
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Number 30: Acid Golem of Destruction
Q: This card was turned face-down when its effect is resolving during my Standby phase, do I need to detach its Xyz material?
A: Yes, you still need to detach its Xyz material.
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High Medallion Arts
Q: When Summon Limit is face-up on the field and I have perform Summon, can I activate it?
A: No, you can't.

Q: When Scary Moth is on the field, can I activate it?
A: No, you can't.

Q: Can I activate Black Horn of Heaven to negate the Xyz summon?
A: Yes, you can activate it right after 2 of the targeted monsters was special summoned and Xyz summon is performed.

Q: Would this Xyz summon affected by the effect of Stygian Dirge?
A: Yes, it does and the monsters special summoned by this card's effect will reduce 1 level.  Eg, when 2 level 4 Heraldic monsters was special summoned and their level were level 4, thus you must Xyz summon rank 3 Xyz monster.

Q: When this card is activate and Stygian Dirge is chain to its activation(this caused the level of monster change) and I don't have any Xyz monster that can Xyz summon with those monsters, how should it resolved in this case?
A: The targeted monster will be special summoned, in this case, Xyz summon will not be performed and those monsters remains on the field.

Q: If opponent control Stygian Dirge on the field and I don't have rank 3 Xyz monster in the extra deck, can I activate this card to target 2 level 4 Heraldic Beast monster?
A: Yes, you can activate it. In this case, the selected monsters will remain on the field.

Q: If opponent control Stygian Dirge on the field, I don't have rank 4 Xyz monster but contain rank 3 Xyz monster in the extra deck, can I activate this card to target 2 level 4 Heraldic Beast monster?
A: No, you can't activate it.

Q: During card resolution, if either one of the targeted monster left the graveyard, how does it resolved?
A: In this case, no monster will be special summon.
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Mermail - Gaioabyss
Q: After the effect of negating monster effect is applied, the monster that opponent summon afterward which have ATK point lower than it would be negated or not?
A: No, this card can only negate the face-up effect monster's effect that remain on the field when it is resolving. The monster that summon after the applied of Gaioabyss's negate effect will not be negate. In simple term, it will negate the effect monster's effect that activate on the field no matter the monster's effect is resolved at where once this card's effect is applied.
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Okay, that's all I want to share with you guys. Thanks for your precious visit and wish you guys have a bless day. Please stay tuned for my next post. If you still have any question or suggestion, kindly leave your comment(s) and I will reply as soon as possible.

New Format will kill the current META?

Hey, guys! Since the real ban list have been revealed, I think most of you guys may think that the current March 2012 META decks may fully retired from tier 1 to tier 2. However, the truth is such thing may not happen for current META decks. Before I proceed to the discussion point, let's have a look of the current META decks.

Current tier 1 consists of Inzektor, Hieratic, Chaos Dragon, Gadget variant, Rabbit Laggia, Wind-Ups, Six Samurai while tier 2 consists of Dark World, Agents Fairy, Mermails/Atlanteans, Karakuri variant, Scrap, Junk Doppel, Hero variant and etc. META decks are powerful due to the number of power cards or key cards in their deck. Most of the time, they have built-in search and destruction engine. As a result, they can have arise to be tier 1.

By referring to the tier 1, the September 2012 ban list does not kill the deck while it emphasize on the skill play nowadays. Eg, Inzektor have lost 2 Hornet and 2 Dragonfly thus they need to play the deck much more carefully to avoid their key cards from being destroyed whereas Wind-Ups still can wipe up at least 4 of your opponent hand cards. As a result, I don't see the current META will drop down from the front line although number of players for current META deck will drop.

Apart from that, Konami have made a great decision for bringing up previous META deck back to the stage and this will cause the card game environment much more competitive and interesting. However, please beware that Mermails/Atlanteans, Madolche and Prophecy Beat may replace the current META decks as tier 1 soon. You might not see the arise of them now but somehow I can see how potential they are.

Currently, I am trying different build for current META decks and they are still alive. If you build them solidly, I pretty sure they still can topping in most of the tournaments. As I expected, the next SD gonna be Fire attribute deck and this SD gonna be a major boost for current Fire-themed deck. I think they will reprint some of the Laval cards in this SD and this SD might have new cards that built-in destruction effect.


Next month Extra Pack 2012 (EP12) gonna released at OCG and this will drastically affect META deck build. As a result, we might see new archetype of decks soon. I think I will collect a few pieces of Reborn Tengu and Tour Guide of Underworld. However, their price should be quite expensive due to their rarity. Okay, that's all I wanna share to you guys today! Thanks for dropping here from time to time and wish you guys have a great day! Please stay tuned for my next post.

THE FINALIZED SEPTEMBER 2012 BAN LIST

Hey, guys! Today I will share a short post regarding the finalized September 2012 ban list from Konami. You guys may doubt this list whether real enough, however, what I can say is this list will be applied on 1st September 2012.

Picture taken from Dueling Days

Forbidden/Banned List(Not allow to include any single copy at all):
Brionac, Ice Barrier Dragon
Future Fusion

Restrict/Limit List(Can put at most 1 piece):
Wind-Up Carrier Zenmaity
Evigishki Gustkraken
Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
Inzektor Dragonfly
Inzektor Hornet
Spore
Chaos Sorcerer
Tsukuyomi
Ultimate Offering

Semi-Restrict/Semi-Limit List(Can put at most 2 pieces):
Blackwing - Kalut the Moon Shadow
Rescue Rabbit
Debris Dragon
Agent of Mystery - Earth
Tour Guide from the Underworld
Emergency Call
Reasoning
A Hero Lives
Hieratic Seal of Convocation
Pot of Duality
Mirror Force

No Longer Restricted/Unlimited List(Can put at most 3 pieces):
Necro Guardna
Marshmallon
Destiny Draw
Emergency Teleport
Level Limit - Area B
Swords of Revealing Light
Magic Cylinder

Based on the new ban list, I can see that many Inzektor or Wind-Up players will quit the game or update their current META according to the list. Anyway, this list does not kill most of the decks while it allow you to play with your skill more than playing bluffly. Btw, we may see Black Rose Dragon appear in the game more often now.

With this list, the old META(META of 2011) will join the game together and this will create a more competitive environment. Hopefully we can see this situation last for a long time so that everyone can have almost equal chances of winning the top spot but not only a deck that topping among all decks. Is time for me to play back my Debris Plant now. Hahaha!

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

Inzektor Dominate the World

Hey, guys! Sorry for letting you guys wait so long for my new post. Finally, I'm back to share some news with you guys. Yugioh World Championship 2012 just ended few days ago and the new ban list gonna reveal within these few days. Let us congratulate Akikazu Saito for winning the Yugioh World Championship 2012 Expert Champion Title and Japan again holding the world title in their hand.

So far, this world championship is quite interesting because we have variety of decks competed in this championship. However, Inzektor is dominance at OCG land and it is far more consistent compare with other META decks. As a result, we can expect the major occurrence of Inzektor players and win the world title.

At here, I would like to point out the mistake where my country champion, Tan Sung Lee had did during the championship. During Day 1 Swiss round 5, I found that he made a misplay for his 2nd game. He had made extra normal summon for his Zephyros during the late part of the 2nd game and this issue has brought some conflict among the Yugioh Community.

For those whose haven't watch the replay, you guys may watch it now. Below is the match where Malaysia Champion, Tan Sung Lee versus Thailand Champion, Santi Phromduangsri during the Swiss round 5 Table 1. Both of them are playing Chaos Dragon and the misplay was made during the late part of 2nd game.

At here, I would like to represent Sung Lee apologize to Thailand champion, Santi Phromduangsri for his misplay during the 2nd game. Although Sung Lee had represented Malaysia to play in YGO major events for numeral of times, he is still a normal human, therefore he may misplay due to nervousness. Hopefully, Santi would forgive Sung Lee's misplay.

Not long ago, many players still doubt regarding activation of Atlantean monster effect if they were discarded due to Mermail - Megaloabyss effect. The actual answer is Atlantean monster effect CAN BE TRIGGERED if they were discarded due to Megaloabyss effect. I know you guys have another question in your mind and the question would be "Discarded 2 Water-attribute monster to SS Megaloabyss is a summon condition but why it would trigger the effect of Atlantean monster?"

To make the thing clearer, let us check the effect description of Machina Fortress and Mermail - Megaloabyss. Both of the SS effect is quite similar thus we can notice the difference. In this case, I will just take the 1st part of effect description to do the comparison.

Machina Fortress Japanese effect description:
このカードは手札の機械族モンスターをレベルの合計が８以上になるように捨てて、手札または墓地から特殊召喚する事ができる。
Translation:
You can discard Machine-Type monster(s) whose total Levels equal 8 or more, then Special Summon this card (from your hand or Graveyard).

Mermail - Megaloabyss Japanese effect description:
自分のメインフェ イズ時、手札からこのカード以外の水属性モンスター２体を墓地へ捨てて発動できる。このカードを手札から特殊召喚する。
Translation:
During Your Main Phase: You can activate this card's effect by discarding 2 Water Attribute monster except this card to the graveyard, then Special Summon this card (from your hand).

In a simple manner, Megaloabyss is chainable special summon or effect that special summon. As a result, you CANNOT ACTIVATE Solemn Judgment, Black Horn of Heaven, Thunder King Rai-Oh and Steelswarm Roach effect to negate its special summon. Thus it can trigger the 2nd effect of Atlantean monster(Marksman, Armed Soldier, Dragon Rider).

Apart from that, a new ruling regarding Mermail - Abyssturge was just released not long ago. The FAQ is as below:
Q: If I activate Abyssturge effect to discard Mermail - Abyssgunde or Atlantean Armed Soldier and added either one to my hand, can I activate Abyssgunde or Atlantean Armed Soldier's effect?
A: If you discard and target Atlantean Armed Soldier, then its effect can be activate. If you discard and target Abyssgunde, then the result is unconfirmed.(Unconfirmed = you are forbid to activate its effect now until the exact answer is provided)

Okay, that's all I wanna share to you guys today. Thanks for dropping by and wish you guys have a nice day. Let us await for the real ban list to reveal. Please stay tuned for my next post.

Revise of Damage Step

Bull Blader

Hey, guys! Today I will share with you guys regarding the whole flow and what cards that you capable to activate during Damage Step. Bull Blader is a GB support card whereby it can help GB monster to clear the high attack monster. GB always face the problem of hardly to get rid of high attack monster. As a result, Bull Blader is needed. Bull Blader's effect will be resolved After Damage Calculation which is different from Ally of Justice Catastor.

First of all, Damage Step is a step in the Battle Phase whereby Battle Phase will be divided into Start Step > Battle Step > Damage Step > End Step. Start Step is the step where you would prepare to declare for entering Battle Step. Battle Step is the step where you would declare attack and select attack target. Damage Step is the step where you and your monster may or may not destroy by battle or card effect. End Step is the step where you would declare to end your Battle Phase.

In Damage Step, we can further categories it into 6 major sub-steps which is Start of Damage Step > Before Damage Calculation > Damage Calculation > After Damage Calculation > Result of Battle, Resolve of flip/trigger effect > End of Damage Step. Every monster will enter Damage Step once their battle are succeed. If there is chain link occur, the chain link will be arranged according to turn player priority.

Generally, we are forbid from activate any spell speed 2 or below cards EXCEPT spell speed 2 cards that can alter the monster ATK or DEF point and counter trap card in Damage Step. All face-down monster that being attacked will flip face-up unless card effect that caused it not to flip face-up. All face-down flip/trigger effect monster that flip face-up due to attack will activate and resolve right after Damage Calculation. If this monster is destroyed by battle, then it cannot choose itself as the target of its effect.

1) Start of Damage Step (before flipping up the face-down monster)
At this timing, you can activate quick effect/card that can alter the ATK or DEF point of monster and the face-down monster being attacked will not be flip face-up at this point. During this timing, trigger monster effect that apply before flipping the monster face-up will activate and resolve at this timing. All continuous monster effect that apply before flipping the monster face-up will resolve at this timing too. MULTIPLE CHAIN LINK can be occur at this timing.

*Note: All continuous monster effect will not have activation timing and it will automatically apply once the condition is fulfilled, therefore, no chain will be started at this point.

Eg of continuous monster effect that activate during Start of Damage Step is Jain, Lightsworn Paladin, Steamroid, Rampaging Rhynos and etc. Eg of trigger monster effect that activate during Start of Damage Step is Neos-Spacian Grand Mole, Mystic Swordman, Sasuke Samurai and etc will start a chain at this timing due to they will not flip face-up the attacked monster.

2) Before Damage Calculation (after flipping up the face-down monster)
At this timing, the face-down monster that being attacked will be flip and monster effect that activate when it is flip will not activate and resolve now. Eg of continuous effect that will apply Before Damage Calculation is Gaap the Divine Soldier, Level Limit - Area A, Level Limit - Area B and etc. Eg of trigger monster effect that activate Before Damage Calculation is Reflect Bounder, Blast Sphere, Drilldroid and etc.

Once again, you are allow to activate quick effect/card that can alter the ATK or DEF point of monster and MULTIPLE CHAIN LINK can be occur at this timing. Card effect that have the card text of "Without Applying Damage Calculation" having the same meaning with the card text of "Before Damage Calculation" and the Damage Calculation sub-step will be skipped. However, the remainder of sub-step in Damage Step (After Damage Calculation) will proceed as normal.

3) Damage Calculation
At this timing, you can only activate cards that have "During Damage Calculation" in the card text description such as Defense Draw, Kinetic Soldier, Honest, Injection Fairy Lily, Psychic Commander and etc. You are not allow to activate card that can alter ATK or DEF point of the monster except it have "During Damage Calculation" in the card text description. Eg, Shrink, Rush Recklessly and etc.

You can only have A CHAIN LINK in this timing thus if you miss this chance then you are not allow to play any cards that can activate in this timing. Once the chain of card effect that can alter ATK or DEF point of monster finish resolved, then only continuous effect will be applied. Eg, once the effect of The Wicked Avatar, The Wicked Dreadroot and etc have been applied then Damage Calculation will only perform.

Damage Calculation will go through in such sequence: Confirmation of ATK/DEF point > Damage Point Confirmation (apply of piercing or battle destroy effect) > Occurrence of Battle Damage (reduction of Life Point) > Confirmation of Battle Destroy (apply of continuous effect). During Confirmation of Battle Destroy, which monster that battle destroy will be confirmed here. During this timing, Spirit Reaper that targetted by card effect, Giant Kozaky or Thunder Nyan Nyan that flipped up will be destroy by its own effect.

*Note: Some judges clarify that Spirit Reaper self-destruction effect will start a chain is TOTALLY FALSE and self-destruction of Spirit Reaper will NOT START A CHAIN.

4) After Damage Calculation
Trigger effect that activate after receiving battle damage will activate and start a chain link at this timing. Eg, Gorz The Emissary Darkness, Tragoedia, Airknight Parshath and etc. After Reflect Bounder have applied its effect that inflict opponent battle damage Before Damage Calculation, it will activate its self-destruction effect at this timing.


5) Result of Battle, Resolve of flip/trigger effect
All chain of flip/trigger effect that should be activate during Before Damage Calculation will be delayed till this timing then it will activate and resolve it. Eg, Snowman Eater, D.D. Warrior Lady, Divine Knight Ishzark and etc will activate at this timing. The monster effect that activate at this timing is treated as activate on the field thus Destiny Hero- Plasma, Skill Drain, Rainbow Veil and etc can negate the monster effect.

6) End of Damage Step
At this timing, the battle destroyed monster will leaving the field and card effect such as Banisher of the Radiance, Dimensional Fissure, Macro Cosmos and etc will resolve here. Trigger card effect such as recruit monster(SS monster from the deck), Coffin Seller and etc that will be activate during this timing. Card effect that prevent the equipped monster from battle destroy such as Relinquished, Machina Gearframe and etc will also resolve at this timing.

Okay, that's all I wanna share to you guys today! Thanks for your precious time and wish you guys have a nice day. Please stay tuned for my next post. If you guys have any issue regarding the card, please leave your comment here. I will try to reply as soon as possible.

Forecast of September 2012 Ban List

Hey, guys! Left with 1 more month then the September 2012 ban list will be released. Similar with previous years, I will do ban list prediction as well. Current existing META decks such as Inzektor, Hieratic, Chaos Dragon, Wind-Up, Rabbit Laggia and etc might be affected by the latest ban list.

Forbidden:
Brionac, Ice Barrier Dragon
Future Fusion
Mind Control

Limit:
Goyo Guardian
Hieratic Dragon King of Atum
Wind-Up Carrier Zenmaity
Dark Magician of Chaos
Inzektor Hornet
Wind-Up Hunter
Ultimate Offering

Semi-limit:
Blackwing - Kalut the Moon Shadow
Debris Dragon
Gladiator Beast Bestiari
Rescue Rabbit
Scapegoat
Mirror Force

No longer limit:
Marshmallon
Snipe Hunter
Tragoedia
Destiny Draw
Emergency Teleport
Level Limit - Area B
Swords of Revealing Light
Ojama Trio
Magic Cylinder

For the forbidden list, I think that Brionac deserve to have a rest at here due to it can be combo with variety of decks to do unlimited loop. Future Fusion is one of key card that can helps Chaos Dragon to perform OTK easily and Mind Control is so broken due to it is costless and almost guarantee a win for you if you draw it on time.

For the limit list, I think that Hornet, Carrier Zenmaity, Hunter should be included in this slot due to the whole deck combo basically work with these cards. The return of BLS also signify that DMOC may return to the game again. Mind Control is too evil especially in this environment because it can grab any monster costless and push the game back from there. Ultimate Offering is too good to play in Geargia and Gadget and with it, they can instantly OTK or control the game.

We have been a long time for not seeing Blackwing topping in major event and the main weak point is due to the number of Kalut in their deck. With the semi-limit of Kalut, their deck can be much more competitive. I personally wish that Debris Dragon return to semi-limit because synchro theme deck is rarely to play nowadays. Gladiator Beast deck is too slow and hardly to regain advantage thus Bestiari may return to semi-limit.

Semi-limit of Rescue Rabbit for sure won't kill the deck but its play will be a bit slow compare with current build. Scapegoat hardly to play nowadays due to the overwhelming of Xyz version of Gaia and Xyz summon don't even required of it. Most importantly, Spore and Glow-up Bulb is still in the forbidden list. Mirror Force may also return to 2 due to it is hardly to play nowadays due to too many destructive cards in the game.

For those new unlimited card list, most of them are hardly to be seen in the game nowadays and some of them not effective to be play in current environment. Therefore, Konami may unlimit them in the September ban list. If Konami really unlimit Destiny Draw, I pretty sure HERO engine will be splash into almost any deck and variant of Tele-DAD may rise from there. Anyway, hopefully this forecast ban list will become true.

Abyss Rising(ABYR) is going to release by this week and the full card list have been revealed. Among those cards, I strongly recommend you guys to collect Bull Blader, Mogumole, Gagaga Gunman, Forbidden Gorment, Magic Deflector and Memory of a Rival. Gagaga Gunman and Forbidden Garment will be the main attraction in this booster and they are splashable into any deck. By the way, the art of Mogumole is damn cute!

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

Heroic Challenger would it be the X-Saber descendant?

Heroic Champion - Excalibur

Hey, guys! Today I will share about my opinion for cards that will be printed in Abyss Rising(ABYR) booster pack. Heroic Challenger and Magical will have their new support cards soon. Based on my observation, Heroic Challenger series is much like the variant of X-Saber and most of them are Earth attribute as well.

Somehow, they are all Warrior type but their effect still not extremely good enough. Most of their monster effect are not too supportive except Double Lance that allow you to Xyz summon easily. Anyway, they can fully fit with the Earth Spirit God - Grand Soil to have Xyz summon or beat down your opponent more easily. One of the bad part of the deck is they lack of level 3 monster to act as support or defense.

With the support of level 3 monster, we can Xyz rank 3 monster easily or combo with M-X-Saber Invoker to SS Warrior-type monster to perform additional Xyz summon. Apart from that, Card Trooper is plenty useful in this deck because it can help to fill up the graveyard and you won't lost your advantage if it is destroy by battle or card effect. The most important part is it is an Earth monster as well. T.G monster also allow you to stall on the field for a while too.

Gogogo Golem also act as the stall monster and it can combo with Gogogo Giant so that you can Xyz summon rank 4 monster easily. This build will have many Earth monster and consists of 9 Warrior-type monster in the main. Instant Fusion can also added so that you can have more option of synchro or Xyz summon. This deck basically is a bit competitive and the only problem with it is just lack of some speed and stability. Anyway, this deck is good for newbie to learn to play combo deck.

I would named this deck as Earth Beat Down deck. The whole deck surround with 14 Earth-attribute monster and without Effect Veiler at all. Thus this deck required a lot of strategy planning and how you gonna play around with your opponent's Effect Veiler. In a nutshell, this deck will improve your skill and you will be practice to think further before you perform any of the combo.

Monster(19):
Bull Blader x1
Card Trooper x2
Earth Spirit God - Grand Soil x1
Gagaga Gardna x1
Gogogo Golem x2
Gogogo Giant x2
Heroic Challenger Double Lance x3
Photon Slasher x2
T.G Striker x1
T.G Rhino x1
T.G Warwolf x2
Tasuke Warrior x1

Spell(14):
Book of Moon x1
Dark Hole x1
Foolish Burial x1
Forbidden Chalice x1
Heavy Storm x1
Instant Fusion x1
Mind Control x1
Monster Reborn x1
MST x3
Pot of Duality x2
RoTA x1

Trap(7):
Compulsory Evacuation Device x2
Solemn Judgment x1
Solemn Warning x2
Torrential Tribute x2

Extra deck:
Blade Armor Ninja x1
Brionac, Ice Barrier Dragon x1
Fairy King Alverd x1
Fusionist x1
Gaia Dragon, the Thunder Charger x1
Heroic Champion - Excalibur x2
Karbonala Warrior x1
M-X-Saber Invoker x1
Maestroke the Symphony Djinn x1
Number 17: Leviathan Dragon x1
Number 39: Utopia x1
Photon Papilloperative x1
Wind-Up Zenmaines x1


Besides this deck, I had play with SD23: Roar of the Sea Emperor which build by my friend. This deck is not bad and it allow you to easily Xyz any rank 2 or 3 monster easily. The whole deck rely on the effect of Deep Sea Diva and an Effect Veiler can spoil the whole deck combo. However, with the release of Mermail in ABYR, I can see that this deck will be competitive during that time. Thus Effect Veiler may no longer as the major threat for this deck.

For those whose haven't understand how the Mermail combo works around, please learn it now because I can see that their deck will be found anywhere at the local once ABYR is officially released. This deck can perform many of the OTK stuffs, however, I won't discuss any of the Mermail combo since many bloggers had shared their ideas. For those whose interested with the Mermail combo, you may check it from here.

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

Chaos Dragon Owning Malaysia WCQ 2012 Final

Hey, guys! Today I will post a short post regarding the result of Malaysia World Championship Qualifier 2012 Final. Similar with Malaysia Asian Championship Selection 2011 Final, Tan Sung Lee regain his champion title by using Chaos Dragon and this is the 1st time for having Chaos Dragon owning in the Asian format. The final deck list consist of Chaos Dragon, Inzektor, Hieratic and another deck list I have forgotten(Oops, poor memory! My bad).

Chaos Dragon is a deck which has the same synergy as Junk Doppel and it won't be easily disrupted by the tempo of opponent deck. It has the destruction power where Junk Doppel once have it before (Lightsworn Lyla & Ryko) and it can easily come out those boss monster from nowhere. The most important part is it can OTK most of the decks easily and it is the natural disaster for Inzektor.

Although it might not as good as Hieratic but with the correct build, it can overcome the weaknesses of against Hieratic thus it is a much more flexible choice compare with pure Hieratic. Apart from that, its speed can be maintain without losing too much of defense and seldom have hand clogging issue compare with Hieratic.

For those Inzektor players at TCG, you guys should try to play the Card Trooper build instead of OTK or Card CarD build. Today I have play test with this build for few hours and the result of having 2 Card Trooper with 3 CoTH is damn good. You almost can add any card from the deck to your hand and do your combo easily. Besides that, you can SS BLS much more easily with this build.

Hopefully, you guys will try the build because it is different from the TGU that you guys seen in TCG and I personally think that it might be fit to TCG environment. Furthermore, you guys may main 1 Tragoedia so that you can reduce the chance of being OTK. Okay, that's all I gonna share to you guys today! Thanks for your time and wish you guys have a nice day. Please stay tuned for my next post.

Malaysia WCQ is coming to the corner!

Hieratic - another META other than Inzektor in OCG format

Hey, guys! I'm back. Sorry for not updating so frequently. This is due to I'm too busy with my current job and I have spend more than 48 hours per week just for completing the task on time. Anyway, I will still spend my time for sharing my thoughts and knowledge with you guys.

So I will join WCQ 2012 this time due to I didn't join the ACS 2012 during last time. Although this is my 5th time(including this time) for joining this event, I still have the feeling of nervousness during the tournament. Hopefully, I can overcome this feeling and perform well during the event.

Many of the Yugioh players keep on quitting from Yugioh and kick-start at Card Fight!Vanguard especially those that just learn to play Yugioh not long ago. Yugioh is a TCG where you would need a lot of skill and knowledge plus some luck, CFV is much more straight forward compare with Yugioh because they more focus on luck and some skill play.

The biggest difference among Yugioh and CFV is Yugioh allow you to play mind/strategy game whereas CFV lack of it. Many of the players blame on the inflation of Yugioh but they haven't realize the inflation of CFV also increase drastically. Many of the players still thought CFV is cheap card game but the truth is the price of building a CFV deck is started increasing nowadays.

In Yugioh, most of the useful card is harder to pull out from the booster. The same thing is happening on CFV now. Thus please don't be surprise if you feel that CFV also applied the same business strategy as Yugioh because they also want to increase the sales. I'm not bias with CFV but all these conclusion are made after I have analyzed the Bushiroad marketing strategy.

Most of the time, only certain deck in Yugioh would have the same engine while most of the CFV deck would have the same engine. As a result, CFV less emphasize on the skill play while Yugioh players need to emphasize on the skill play due to some decks lack of the engine to work around. Yugioh allow player to play psychology game as well. These are the uniqueness of Yugioh.

For those whose plan to join WCQ, please bear in mind that have enough of rest before the day of event and play test your deck as much as possible before you join the event. Those whose not qualified in top 16 including myself would find difficulty into the other top 16 spots due to the tournament format is single-elimination. Therefore, please prepare yourself as confident as possible.

Before I ended my post, I would like to share a ruling regarding Inzektor Hornet/Gruf. They are treated as EQUIP SPELL card when it is send from the field to the graveyard and the effect that apply when they are treated as equip card(Increase level and 500 atk point) is treated as EQUIP SPELL card effect. Thus Forbidden Lance also can't drop them off from the equipped monster.

When they are send from the field to the graveyard to activate their effect(destruction/increase level), the effect is an cost and treated as EQUIP SPELL card effect thus even Divine Wrath or Herald of Perfection also can't stop it. Their effect are activate from the field thus Soul Drain can't prevent their effect from activate.

Okay, that's all I gonna share today. Thanks for your precious time and wish you guys good luck in preparing the WCQ that gonna held next Sunday. Please stay tuned for my next post.

Are you kidding with me again, Konami?

Hey, guys! Today I will share the news regarding the upcoming SD, SD23 that will be released in OCG within 2 more weeks. The new SD is surrounding with the theme of Sea-Serpent and many rare cards is reprinted in this SD. Eg, Abyss Soldier, Snowman Eater, Pot of Avarice, Chain Disappearance and etc.

This SD also have a TCG exclusive card which is Lost Blue Breaker and it is firstly reprint in this SD for OCG. Therefore, it is a good combo for Deep Sea Diva to destroy the set card of your opponent. It can also enable you to synchro summon level 5 monster with the help of Deep Sea Diva.

This SD is totally focus on the effect of Deep Sea Diva and those Atlantean monster. However, I still can't figure out its cover card, Atlantean Dragon Poseidra can generate what kind of advantage compare with the previous SD cover cards. Besides that, it also not easy to SS compare with previous SD cover cards because it requires 3 level 3 sea-serpent to SS from the hand or graveyard.

The upcoming booster pack, Abyss Rising(ABSY)'s Mermail is a boost to this SD and it can combine with this SD easily. Hopefully, you guys will try to combine and play it because I can see that the mechanism of the Mermail can combine with this SD although they are belong to 2 different types. Anyway, please try it before you conclude the play style of this SD.

The discussion for the SD will be ended here and I will continue with my strategy play here. Basically, if I were to play any of the deck, I will try to find out the key card(s) and how the combo works around. If I haven't figure it out, then I will not compete in any of the events because I want to make sure myself is fully understood of my build so that I can generate huge advantages from the play.

However, I will play test my deck every time in DN or real life so that I can have the feel of the deck build. Anyway, I won't believe the result of play test in DN because the result is not as accurate as the life time duel. Always try to spend your time and play your deck face-to-face with you friends so that you can learn from the play and correct your play as time go by.

Apart from that, do observation on your friend's play and always figure several times for your next move before you decide to play the move. You need to think wisely what is the move that enable you to generate huge advantages. With this thought, you will able to play your game wisely and a step forward from your opponent.

Besides that, always observe the way your opponent play the game. Through the observation, you can know how to slow it down or disturb the tempo. You should also practice have no facial expression when you are dueling. This is to avoid your opponent can know how bad situation you are facing now. Many of the top players will have this attitude and you may thought it as arrogant.

Okay, that's all I gonna share to you guys today! Thanks for your time and wish you guys have a nice day! Please stay tuned for my next post and don't hesitate to leave any comments here.

Headache for siding cards?

Hey, guys! Sorry for long time not updating my blog due to I'm too busy with my current job. Today I'm back for posting some side deck recommendation to you guys so that you guys can have some preparation for the WCQ that almost comes to the corner.

Before I proceed to the main topic of this post, I would like to re-answer how does Soul Drain can stop the Rabbit Laggia combo. I have make a wrong answer regarding this question and I apologize based on the wrong answer that provided by me previously. Soul Drain can't stop the effect of Rescue Rabbit from activate due to its effect is activate from the field.

Now we left with 4 more weeks to prepare for the World Championship Qualifier at Malaysia. Hopefully, everyone will think of their side decks carefully and many Tier 1.5 or 2 decks will compete in this event thus please over-rated of the Malaysia's environment. I can predict that TG Agent Fairy, Six Samurai, Gravekeeper, Dark World, Machina Geargia and etc will enter the top 16 due to many players will not well prepare for their side to against these decks.

Okay, let's me introduce some OCG Official side cards that can be used to against most of the META decks.
1. Overworked/Compulsory Evacuation Device
With the overwhelmed of Inzektor and some Heroic OTK deck, you can shut them down instantly with Overworked. CED can be included in your side if you lack of Forbidden Lance and it is good to get rid of most of the Synchro or Xyz monster.

2. Chain Disappearance/Mischief of the Yokai
Chain Disappearance is one of the best cards that should be included in your side deck to against most of the META deck such as Rescue Rabbit, Inzektor and etc. Apart from that, it can help to combo with Mind Crush. Mischief of the Yokai can be used to interrupt most of the META decks so that they can't Xyz or Synchro summon so easily. Eg, Inzektor, Rabbit Laggia, Hieratic, Wind-Up and etc.

3. D.D Crow/Maxx C/Effect Veiler
D.D Crow is a must for almost every deck and this card can be put in side at almost any format. Useful against Dark World, Machina, Inzektor and etc. Maxx C is useful when you meet with Wind-Up, Hieratic, HC OTK, Machina or etc deck that heavily rely on OTK/FTK whereas Effect Veiler is extremely useful in this environment because you can shut down almost any monster effect that activate on the field.

4. Royal Decree/Trap Stun
Many of the META decks will focus on the amount of traps in their deck and this card can shut the trap plays for several moments.

5. Forbidden Lance/Forbidden Chalice
Most of the time when you enter 2nd match, your opponent will side in a lot of spell/trap and you can stop those spell/trap by using Lance. In order to shut down yours or your opponent monster effect, you can use Chalice to temporary shut it down.

6. Cyber Dragon & Chimeratech Fortress Dragon
Cyber Dragon is one of the machine monster that almost can be fill into any deck so that you can get rid of Machina Fortress, Geargiganto X, Wind-Up Zenmaines and etc machine-type monster easily with the fusion summon of Chimeratech Fortress Dragon.

7. My Body As Shield/Safety Zone
A cheaper substitution card for players that lack of Forbidden Lance since so many cards capable to destroy your monster nowadays. Eg, Dark Hole, Torrential Tribute, BTH, Lair Wire and etc.

8. Soul Drain/Skill Drain
With Soul Drain, you can against most of the META decks because some of the META deck monster effect is activate from the graveyard or banish zone. Eg, Hieratic, Dark World, Madolche and etc. Skill Drain can help you to lock down most of your opponent's monster effect from resolving and with protection of traps you able to generate advantages.

9. Snowman Eater/Ryko
Both of them capable to destroy any monster on the field or slow down the tempo. Useful when you meet with Rabbit Laggia, Machina and etc.

10. Puppet Plant/Electric Virus
Both cards capable to steal your opponent monster for a turn. However, due to the increase of OTK in the OCG environment, both cards may not be as effective as we thought now.

11. Morhing Jar 2/Neos Grand Mole/Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon
Morphing Jar 2 capable to shut down the OTK of Hieratic or Machina Geargia, I think Hieratic player will feel pain when they saw this card during the 2nd game. Neos Grand Mole is a card that can beat any monster that have higher attack than it whereas Galaxy-Eyes is almost flawless & undead during the Battle Step.

12. Swift Scarecrow/Battle Fader/Tragoedia
These cards are useful when you meet with Hieratic, Machina, HC OTK and etc. They can save your life on time. However, Japanese more prefer Swift Scarecrow because it won't occupy your monster zone thus you can have 1 more monster slot to do your combo. Tragoedia is a bit risky to be used in most of the decks because it rely on the number of hand that you are controlling.

13. The Transmigration Prophecy/Fiendish Chain
This card can slow down the play of Hornet, Hieratic, Wind-Up or Grapha and most important part is it is chainable thus it can be used to bait MST, Grapha, Heavy Storm, Raigeki Break and etc. Fiendish Chain may be included to against most of the META deck especially Wind-Up, Inzektor, Machina and etc.

14. Mind Crush/Macro Cosmos/Banisher of the Radiance
Mind Crush is best card for Dark World because they can use to combo DW monster or stop their opponent play for a while. Nowadays, most of the META decks will show their hand through the effect of searcher such as ROTA, Sangan, Centipede, Snoww and etc thus you will less having blind activation anymore. Macro Cosmos and Banisher of the Radiance can banish any card that is sent to the graveyard so that some of the combo can't be play normally.

15. Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror/Light-Imprisoning Mirror
Most of the META decks are surrounded with the Light or Dark attribute monster thus this card can negate their effect and slow down their play. Some time, it may even cause your opponent lose the game.

16. Summon Limit/Mask of Restrict
As recommended by LGQ, this card is quite useful to against current META such as Hieratic, Rabbit Laggia, Gadget Offering, Machina Geargia, Wind-Up, Six Sam and etc. Mask of Restrict is one of the card that can stop the combo of Hieratic, Frog Monarch and any decks that heavily rely on releasing monster so that can gained the effect of the monster.

17. Tribe-Shocking Virus/Gozen Match
Tribe-Shocking Virus is useful when you are having mirror match and nowadays many of the META decks surround with the same type of monster. Gozen Match useful to against Six Samurai, Rabbit Laggia, Wind-Up and etc.

18. Raigeki Break/Phoenix Wind Wing Blast/Lair Wire
These few cards quite important and can be see in almost many deck today because it is chainable and can target any card on the field with little or no cost due to the effect of CardCar D. Lair Wire is quite helpful in Inzektor due to it can helps to banish your Dragonfly so that Leviair combo can be perform and destroy your opponent monster on the field instantly.

Besides that, I will share a latest ruling from Konami. The latest ruling regarding Number 25: Focus Force have been updated not long ago and its effect cannot be activate during the Damage Step thus it is a much more weaker version of Photon Streak Bounzer. Apart from that, I can see the rise of a new force that runs the same engine as Junk Doppel after the applied of September 2012 ban list. Thus please be ready for it.

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

TCG finally synchronize with OCG? Yes, no doubt!

Hey, guys! Finally TCG is synchronize with the OCG and we no longer have the priority for activate the Ignition monster effect. In OCG, we have explain the whole thing very clearly and completely. However, TCG explanation is a bit complex but still follow the rules of OCG. This is the most great news to all OCG players because we have practicing it for 1 year above. The number of Rabbit Laggia and Wind-Up players may drop drastically while Inzektor, Hieratic and Dark World players may increase drastically.

Effect Veiler will become much and much expensive after this in TCG and TCG players will find difficulty to pull the SCR Card Car D from GAOV. However, this situation may not last for a long time because as I predicted Konami will reprint them in the tin box soon(TCG). Oops! TCG have reprinted Effect Veiler in the Order of Chaos: Special Edition. Besides that, the new structure deck that gonna released in OCG is a deck that oriented with Deep Sea Diva combo and it is similar with the SD22 that oriented with the REMDD combo.

I can foresee that the deck will have a field spell that can add 1 level 4 or below sea-serpent monster from the deck and mill 1 sea-serpent from the deck with the cost of banish a sea-serpent from the graveyard so that we can search the Deep Sea Diva much more easily. By just looking at the effect of the cover card of SD23, I can see that its 2nd effect is used to combo with its field spell so that players can re-use of its effect again. I also hope that its new trap will be far more useful than previous trap card in other SD. Hopefully Konami will make this deck as the Tier 1.5 materials so that more players can join the joy of duels.

Hieratic will be officially released in TCG and let us see how far can this deck dominate OCG and TCG. Soon we will see Inzektor, Hieratic, Wind-Up, Dark World, Rabbit Laggia at least in the semi-final list of World Qualifier Championship 2012 and I can feel that the final of World Championship 2012 will be interesting because variety of decks is competing in the event. Although many players may not agree the act of Konami for releasing theme cards such as Inzektor, Hieratic and etc, I still want to thanks it for providing the fair skill play in the game although you guys might feel that most of the decks seems like auto-piloting.

Even the deck have the auto-pilot engine, you still required skills so that you can bait your opponent to enter your comfort zone. Comfort zone is an environment where you will enjoy yourself and do the thing according to your like or an environment where you would feel familiar and allow you to do usual stuffs easily. You might think that comfort zone as the strategy/tactic of the game but it does included your tempo, sensors(including your six sense) and whatever that you would have/feel during the duel. With comfort zone, you can unleashed your deck power easily and can owned your opponent when the time is right.

Many of the players haven't see the important of comfort zone and tends to rush when their opponent is in the comfort zone. In order to take control of the game, always remember to create your own comfort zone when the time is mature. Some of the players like to listen to their favorite music when they are dueling and this is an act to create their own comfort zone. No matter you are playing MTG, Yugioh, Gundam or any trading card game, you still need to create comfort zone. This is the basic of playing trading card game.

Apart from the comfort zone, you also required to have understanding towards your extra and side deck. Many of the players did not plan well for the side deck and this stuff have been mentioned by K'yde Ren in Digital Mortal thus I won't discuss it anymore. You also required to fully utilize of your side deck. Never ever forget your extra deck's monster especially during critical period and do check your side deck if you have forget what else extra monster left in your extra deck.

Eg, you have Monster Reborn and Pot of Duality in your hand while you have no monster on field and left with 2500LP. Your opponent have 1  Maestroke the Symphony Djinn with 1 Xyz material overlay on it and he have no set card and no hand card and left with 1000LP. Your graveyard have 1 Blade Armor Ninja(being negated by Warning), 4 level Vanilla monster, 1 Heroic Champion Excallibur, 1 Photon Slasher, 1 T.G. Striker, 1 Number 39: Utopia while your opponent graveyard have only 1 Card Car D and 1 Hornet. Thus what is best solution for you to stay longer if you have 1 Number C39: Utopia Ray, 1 Maestroke the Symphony Djinn, 2 Heroic Champion Excallibur and 1 Brionac?

For me, I would choose to reborn Utopia but not Striker because I still can use Utopia to Xyz summon Utopia Ray and use it to stay for longer period. If you prefer to use POD then you may face the problem of without monster on the field(no Reborn Tengu at all). Furthermore, Utopia Ray can be used to reduce the Xyz material of Maestroke so that he can't win you instantly. Anyway, the situation may vary according to your experience and your strategy to create the comfort zone.

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

Dark World for OCG and TCG

Army of Dark World

A good day to every duelists! Today I gonna share about Dark World game play and counteract to against Dark World. Recently, Dark World has topping in the OCG's Hong Kong Asian Championship and TCG's Yugioh Championship Series. This shown that the deck is powerful enough to against most of the META decks.

Basically, Dark World is a deck focus on all kind of spell or trap that able to discard the monster with its effect but not for cost. Almost all DW monster effect is activate from the graveyard except 2nd effect of Ceruli, Guru of Dark World and Brron, Mad King of Dark World. As a result, without the graveyard, they can't do their combo. Besides that, players can arrange their DW monster effect in any chain link order as they like because all DW monster effect is mandatory effect, thus no miss-timing will occur in DW monster.

Currently, DW deck can have several types of play style but the most popular one would be Control style or Beat Style. DW deck that using control style is focus on the usage of viruses which is Deck Devastation Virus and Eradicator Epidemic Virus. With these viruses, they can kill most of the decks such as Inzektor, Chaos Piper, Rabbit Laggia(in TCG), Wind-Up and etc. However, this build is not too stable and its effectiveness might not be as good as you think.

Beat DW deck is the deck that surround with the theme to re-use of Grapha and keep on beating down your opponent with Grapha. This build is far more stable and quite consistent as long as you have enough of hand discarding cards. In OCG build, the deck will have more trap to cover the lack of Dark Smog(TCG exclusive). Besides that, OCG build will more emphasize on OTK whereas TCG will more emphasize on control and beat down opponent slowly. That's the biggest difference between OCG build and TCG build.

Anyway, both deck still runs their engine in the similar ways thus you can apply same strategy against both builds. In order to stop their engine from running, there are several method that you can perform. 1st, negate their cards activation with Gemini Imps, Dark Bribe, Magic Drain and etc. 2nd, banish them with Dimensional Fissure, Macro Cosmos or etc. Apart from that, you may choose Soul Drain which just released in REDU. With this card, you can chain to their card effects that will discard the DW so that even though they have discarded the DW, their effect still cannot be activate.
*Note, Soul Drain can only prevent the monster effect that activate in the graveyard or banish zone cannot be activate but not negate the monster effect.

3rd, negate the DW monster effect with Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror, Divine Wrath, The End of Anubis or etc. 4th, prevent their special summon with Bottomless Trap Hole, Solemn Warning, Void Trap Hole and etc.
By referring to these four options, you can solve most of the DW problems. In order to match up with Dark World deck, please try to put as much chainable cards in your main as possible. With enough of chainable cards such as MST, you can destroy their DW field spell before they can resolve the draw power.

Previously, anonymous ask me how can Soul Drain stop the Rabbit Laggia. Basically, Rabbit Laggia is a deck that focus on the effect of Rabbit to SS Laggia and Dolkka. If you able to set up Soul Drain and having those monster that able to stall for a long time eg, Snowman Eater, Ryko, Spirit Reaper or etc then you will not have big deal to overcome Rabbit Laggia. As a result, you can stop Rabbit Laggia by siding this card. Apart from that, Soul Drain can be used to against Dimensional deck.

Recently, I went to the local card shop to have some observation on the Malaysia Yugioh environment. Based on the observation, I can conclude that most of the players still lack of idea how to play their deck effectively and they are inexperience plus a bit over-look towards their opponent. They do play META deck but most of the time, they can't combo, control the situation or change their strategy as necessary. As a result, they having better chances to lose the game. Moreover, they also a bit weak in term of card rulings thus they can't use the advantages that generate by the card ruling to overcome their opponent.

Hopefully, Malaysia Duelists can learn their lesson based on the game play or deck testing and please always find someone that having better rulings, experience and good game play for improving your game play. Because they are the better players that can see the whole flow of your deck and can helps to point out your weakness especially in skill play testing. In order to learn skill play, I suggest you guys to play with this deck build, Nordic Diva deck. This is one of the deck that I personally feel you may required a lot of skill to master the whole flow of the deck.

Although this deck have a lot of staple cards but it still can cost you to lose the game easily because if you make a wrong step then you will lose the whole game due to this deck is a bit slow and hardly to perform OTK. Anyway, this deck is good for intermediate or above players that tends to improve their skills level and test whether how good is their skill level. Hopefully, you guys will enjoy using this deck although it may not good match with the Hieratic, Inzektor or Wind-Up deck.

Nordic Diva

Below is the deck build of my Nordic Diva:

Monster(20):
Atlantean Pointman x1
Deep Sea Diva x3
Effect Veiler x2
Guldfaxe of the Nordic Beast x3
Nimble Hamster x2
Photon Thrasher x1
Ryko Lightsworn Hunter x2
Sangan x1
Spirit Reaper x1
Tanngnjostr of the Nordic Beast x2
Tanngrisnir of the Nordic Beast x1
Tragoedia x1

Spell(9):
Book of Moon x1
Dark Hole x1
Heavy Storm x1
Mind Control x1
Monster Reborn x1
MST x2
Pot of Avarice x1
Scapegoat x1

Trap(11):
Bottomless Trap Hole x2
Call of the Haunted x1
Compulsory Evacuation Device x1
Gleipnir, The Fetter of Fenrir x1
Mirror Force x1
Solemn Judgment x1
Solemn Warning x2
Torrential Tribute x2

Extra Deck(15):
Ally of Justice Catastor x1
Black Rose Dragon x1
Brionac, Ice Barrier Dragon x1
Gachi Gachi Gantetsu x1
Gaia Dragoon, the Force of Lightning x1
Leviair the Sea Dragon x1
Maestroke the Symphony Djinn x1
Number 39: Utopia x1
Number 61:Volcanosaurus x1
Number C39: Utopia Ray x1
Scrap Archfiend x1
Scrap Dragon x1
Stardust Dragon x1
Thor, Lord of Aesir x1
Wind-Up Zenmaines x1

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