Malaysia December 2010 Tournament

Hey, guys! This coming 26th December(Sunday) there will be a Yu-Gi-Oh! tournament at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This tournament is the single person tournament and not the tag team tournament. Belows are the details of the tournament:

Date : December 26 2010 (Sunday)
Venue : Gamers Arena 金河廣場The Roof Top (Six Floor Next to Green Box)
Time : 10.00am~6.00pm
Age Limit : 10 years old and above only
REGISTRATION FEE:
Early Bird Registration :RM10.00
Tournament Day : RM15.00(Inclusive of 1 Booster Pack)

1st Prize
1. YUGIOH Booster Box X 5 Box
2. Promo Tournament Pack X 3 PC
3. YUGIOH Rubber Play Mat X 1 PC
4. YUGIOH Card Case & Medal X 1 PC

2nd Prize
1. YUGIOH Booster Box X 3 Box
2. Promo Tournament Pack X 2 PC
3. YUGIOH Rubber Play Mat X 1 PC
4. YUGIOH Card Case & Medal X 1 PC

3rd Prize
1. YUGIOH Booster Box X 2 Box
2. Promo Tournament Pack X 1 PC
3. YUGIOH Rubber Play Mat X 1 PC
4. YUGIOH Card Case & Medal X 1 PC

4th Prize
1. YUGIOH Booster Box X 1 Box
2. Promo Tournament Pack X 1 PC
3. YUGIOH Rubber Play Mat X 1 PC
4. YUGIOH Card Case & Medal X 1 PC

5th to 8th Prize
1. YUGIOH Booster X 8 Pack
2. YUGIOH Rubber Play Mat X 1 PC
 

Special Notices:

1.The tournament organizer will only allow original Konami Japanese or/and Asia English Version Official Card Game to be used in Official Tournament.
2. The game products on the Asian Forbidden card list [2010-10 version] are not allowed in this tournament. Please visit http://www.konami-asia.com/th/yugi5d/en/event/dk_forbidden.php for more details.
3. Only original Konami Deck Protectors and Card Sleeves can be used in Official Tournament. Card Protector from Academy Duel Disks are not allowed to be used in tournament.

4. All players using transparent/clear card sleeves must also used Konami Deck Protector in order to participate the tournament. 

5. Players must use same color protectors for all decks and side decks.No markings allowed on protectors.

6. Players must possess the 5D's Duelist ID card. 

 

Rules & Regulations:

1. This tournament is open to all Malaysians age 10 and above only.

2. Entry form are available in at participating retail outlets. Photocopy of entry are allow. 

3. Proof of postage is not proof of receipt. Registration fees are not refundable.

4. Participants are required to register themselves for the tournament latest before 9:30am. Seating arrangement and oppositions will then be designated and announced.

5. The organizer holds all rights to the entries and will bear no responsible for loss of personal belongings and/or personal injuries during the tournament.

6. The decisions of the judges are final and no correspondences will be entertained.

7. The organizer reserves the rights to change any of the prizes at any time without any prior notice.

8. By participating in the tournament, participants are agree to be bounded by the Rule and Regulations of the organizer.

Okay, that's all for today! Thanks for your time. Wish you guys have a nice day and good luck in the tournament.

Angel Strike is Back!

Hey, guys! Konami had just introduced the 20th set of structure deck "Lost Sanctuary" to the OCG. This new structure deck is a great news for all Angel-lovers because this deck is quite valuable to play as it included most of the powerful reprint cards. The whole deck list can be viewed here.

Apart from that, this deck can be play by combining 3 sets of this structure deck. This deck mostly focuses on the Sanctuary of Sky so that the Angel-type monsters can have additional effects. The ace cards in this deck are Master Hyperion and Archlord Kristya. With the aid of Archlord Kristya, angel's player is far more easy to control over their opponent in the same time forbidden opponent to special summon monster(s).

Besides, with the reprint of Archlord Kristya, this also means that OCG countries can play it legally in the tournament. This also means deck of Herald of Perfection is absolutely legal and powerful enough in the OCG countries. Apart from that, deck which mainly focuses on Archlord Kristya can be build and use in tournament from now. This also means that the variety of deck for OCG has been increased and players can have more option of decks to play in the tournament.

As a result, decks which focuses on special summon such as Quickdraw Dandy and Six Samurai may have a difficulty against the Angel deck. Another latest news from the next booster pack "Extreme Victory" are the Machine Emperor sub-members which is Machine Soldier would be included in this booster pack too. However, their effect have not been revealed yet. In addition, the Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's anime series is gonna end up soon in year 2011 and it will be continue with a whole new series called as Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal.

Let's us wait and see whether the Six Samurai can be stop by the Angel deck in the OCG. Okay, that's all for today! Thanks for your time and wish you guys have a nice day. Please stay tuned for my next post.

Six Samurai Regain New Strength Soon!

Hey, guys! I just done with all my final exams and I gonna share with you all about the latest news of Six Samurai. The latest Shueisha Magazine had mentioned that Six Samurai will get new supported cards soon and detail of it will be revealed soon. The current trend of the Six Samurai deck is speeding synchro deck and it can kill most of the popular deck such as X-Sabers, Machina and Quickdraw Dandy.

Most of the current Six Samurai deck consists of 5 major monsters which are Grandmaster of Six Samurai, True Six Samurai -Kizan, True Six Samurai -Kageki, True Six Samurai -Mizuho and Kagemusha of the Six Samurai. All these monsters are used as major beat-stick monster in Six Samurai deck. As a result, Kizan is very expensive in OCG no matter at Japan or any Asian countries due to its rarity and its popularity.

As I predicted, Six Samurai may get new supported cards for destroying opponent's Spell and Trap card because most of the Six Samurai monsters lack of destroying Spell and Trap cards ability or even cards that can destroy Archlord Kristya or piercing Marshmallon and Spirit Reaper. The release of Structure Deck 20 also helps to brings the popularity of Herald of Perfection to Asian countries and this would become another trend to the OCG circumstances soon. Thus the speed of special summon will a bit slower and new Six Samurai supported cards may overcome this problem.

However, Blackwings also won't much affected by the Herald of Perfection because I predicted Blackwings will also gain new supported cards on next series due to Crow used some new Blackwings cards in the latest episode of 5D's anime. Apart from that, Gungnir, Dragon of the Ice Barrier will also reprinted in the GS2011 thus three of the most famous Ice Barrier synchro monster has been reprinted and can be used in the OCG soon. I also hope that Karakuri can get more supported cards because it is one of the potential deck to against most of the current deck and it is quite similar to Scrap deck.

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

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.

Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG Asian Tournament 2010 Plus(Team Play) Malaysia Qualifier

Hey, guys! Another great news to all Malaysian Yu-Gi-Oh! players. There will be a Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG Asian Tournament for Malaysian on 21th November 2010. This tournament is a bit different with the usual tournament because this is the new and first team play tournament organised by Konami.

Without wasting your time, let's have a look for the tournament details. Detail of the tournament is as below:

Date: 21th November 2010(Pre-registration date: 14th November 2010[Done through online registration at http://www.konami-asia.com/th/yugi5d/event/acs/2010plus/online_application.php?lang=cn-t])

Time of Tournament: 10am - 6pm

Age ranges: 10 years old and above

Venue of Tournament: Sungei Wang Plaza 6th Floor (next to Green Box Karaoke) 

Registration Fee: Free of Charge (FOC) but each team must bring along 10 Official Yu-Gi-Oh! Booster Packs' packet or 2 boxes of Yu-Gi-Oh! Structure Decks' boxes for entry into the tournament (proof of purchase)

Prizes:

1st prize Air ticket & Accommodation to Hong Kong for Team of 3 persons to participate in Hong Kong Yu-Gi-Oh!OCG Asian Championship Finals on 12th December 2010, Yu-Gi-Oh! Booster Packs x 30 packs, Yu-Gi-Oh! play mat x3 pieces, Yu-Gi-Oh! Trophy

2nd prize Yu-Gi-Oh! Booster Packs x 15 packs, Yu-Gi-Oh! play mat x3 pieces, Yu-Gi-Oh! Trophy

3rd prize Yu-Gi-Oh! Booster Packs x 9 packs, Yu-Gi-Oh! card box x3 pieces, Yu-Gi-Oh! Trophy

4th prize Yu-Gi-Oh! Booster Packs x 3 packs, Yu-Gi-Oh! card box x3 pieces

Tournament Details:

1. Each team must comprise of exactly 3 Yu-Gi-Oh! players

2. The team leader has to decide on a team name, member's position and ensure that the deck list of the members have been finalized prior to registration. Once it has been submitted, no further change is allowed.

3. Each team must share 1 Forbidden Card List, which means that total number of cards for 

i) Limited type cards: maximum 1 piece for whole team player's deck

ii) Semi-limited type cards: maximum 2 pieces for whole team player's deck

iii) Regular type cards: maximum 3 pieces for whole team player's deck

4. All competition will be in single elimination format.

Special Notice:

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

2. The game products on the Asian Forbidden card list [2010-10 version] are not allowed in this tournament. Please visit http://www.konami-asia.com/th/yugi5d/en/event/dk_forbidden.php for more details.

3. Only original Konami Deck Protectors and Card Sleeves can be used in Official Tournament. Card Protector from Academy Duel Disks are not allowed to be used in tournament.

4. All players using transparent/clear card sleeves must also used Konami Deck Protector in order to participate the tournament. 

5. Players must use same color protectors for all decks and side decks.No markings allowed on protectors

6. Players must possess the 5D's Duelist ID card.

Further rules and regulations can be found in http://www.konami-asia.com/th/yugi5d/cn-t/event/acs/2010plus.

This tournament is organised by CTC Game Pro Sdn Bhd and sponsored by Konami.
 
Okey, that's all for today! Wish you guys good luck for the Team Play tournament.

Tournament Situation

Hey, guys！Today I gonna share about the Yugioh Tournament Situation at Asia region excluding Japan. This article is as an extra knowledge for you guys to understand of Asia Tournament trends.

In Asia region, we do apply the world wide ban list and also the region ban list too. The region ban list is a ban list of cards that allow to use in official tournament. This ban list consists of Duel Terminal, Structure Deck, Gold Series, Limited Edition and all ShueiSha magazine or comic's cards. For example, LE cards that has not been reprinted such as Dark End Dragon is not allow to use in Official Tournament. Apart from that, cards from Western countries or we refer as TCG are forbid from used in the Official Tournament too. We only allow to use Japanese or Asia-English version cards in the Official Tournament.

As a result, most of the Asia region lack of decks such as Angel deck, Fable deck, Flamvell deck and others. The decks that we familiar to see during the Official Tournament are Blackwings, Gladiator-Beast, Machina, Lightsworn, Quickdraw Synchro and Infernity. All these decks are easily to build and they are not forbid from being used in the Official Tournament. Apart from that, cards such as Gorz, Emissary of Darkness; Tragodia, Necro Face, Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier; Elemental Hero Stratos, Mezuki, Dewloren, Tiger King of the Ice Barrier  and Golden Sarcophagus are forbid to use in the Official Tournament too.

As I know, this is a policy from the Konami and this policy only apply to Asia region including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. As you guys can see, China is not being listed in the Asia region although Yugioh Trading Card Game has launch for 10 years. May be is the policy of China that forbid Konami to have their office in China. Hopefully, China officially listed in the Konami Asia region soon.

At here, I also like to share a great news about the latest OCG booster pack which is Storm of Ragnarok (STOR). This booster is more emphasize on the support cards for Six Samurai which has been leave out for quite a long time. The new support cards for Six Samurai are extremely great and consider as essential to all Six Samurai players. I personally predict that Six Samurai gonna be the next new trend after the appearance of Blackwings and it might replacing the popularity of Blackwing. However, I also believe that STOR gonna include 5 to 6 pieces of Blackwings cards because the latest preview only show us a piece of Blackwing monster.

Anyway, 2 more weeks later STOR will be release then we can see how the trends of OCG will change. Therefore, let us wait for its release. Thanks for your reading. Stay tuned for my next post. Hope you guys have a nice day.

Prediction card list for Gold Series 2011

Hey, guys! Today I gonna release my prediction card list for the Gold Series 2011 in OCG. This card list may not be 100% correct but just as a reference to you guys.

Below are the cards that I predict to be reprint in GS03:

Monster

Elemental Hero Prisma

Thunder King Rai-Oh

Snipe Hunter

Mist Wurm

Trishula, Ice Boundary Dragon

DD Warrior Lady

Reflect Bounder

Caius,The Shadow Monarch

Chaos Sorcerer

Necro Gardna

Spell

Smashing Ground

Dark Hole

Pot of Avarice

Nobleman Crossout

Cold Wave

Reinforcement of The Army

Golden Sarcophagus

Hand Destruction

Enemy Controller

Destiny Draw

Trap

Seven tools of the bandit

Royal Oppression

Ceasefire

Mind Crush

Ojama Trio

Trap Dustshoot

Among the 26 cards that I listed above, some of them already reprint in GLD03. According to my notice, previous GSs will reprint several cards that has been reprint in GLD. Apart from that, most of the cards I listed here was listed in the limit and semi-limit card list before this or staying in the limit and semi-limit card list. Therefore I think that most of them will be reprint in GS03.

However, I do hope that some cards such as Light and Darkness Dragon, Tragodia, Gorz the Emissary of Darkness, Red Eye Black Metal Dragon, Manticore of Darkness, Mezuki, Treeborn Frog, Dark End Dragon and Dewloren, Tiger King of the Ice Barrier to be reprint so that almost all Asia can use these cards during National Championship. I think most of the players will agree to my opinion for reprint cards such as LADD and DED because these cards are consider as essential to any kind of deck. Without these cards, the National Championship is far more bore because deck variety is too little. In additional, with these cards, we will be more familiar with them and can use them effectively during the World Championship.

Ok, that's all I gonna discuss today. Thanks for reading my post. Stay tuned for my next post and wish you all have a nice day.