Trend of Decks from the result of Asian Championship 2011 Finals

Hey, guys! Last week I have updated the result of Asian Championship 2011 Finals in Malaysia and today I will continue to share my observation for the deck types which appeared in this tournament. In Asia(exclude Japan), most of the promo cards(Shueisha Magazines and comics), Duel Terminal cards and also cards others than booster are forbid to be play in the official tournament. Thus, lot of the powerful cards such as Gorz the Emissary of Darkness, Thunder King Rai-Oh, Dark End Dragon, Mist Wurm, Tech Genus Hyper Librarian and etc were not seen in any of these decks.

Basically, the trends of deck is quite variety. Majority of the deck types are Six Samurai, Machina Karakuri(including archtype), Blackwing and Fairy decks. Next is OCG Gravekeeper, Sin Zombie, Gladiator Beast, Psychic OTK, Quickdraw Junk Doppel, Lightsworn, Junk Synchron and others. As I can say, the major trends deck gained more advantages in this championship with the applied of chaos battle mode. Thus, I saw a lot of main stream decks occurred in the Malaysia quarter final.

In this tournament, I find a deck which I think is quite interesting to share with you guys. This deck is owned by the Yu-Gi-Oh! Taiwan 2011 Champion, Liu Hsiao Wei's and it is a Fairy deck. I think it is quite interesting due to it is a bit differ with the Japanese style Fairy deck that we had saw for a long time. It is a far more structure deck based and emphasize on the attack power of Fairy monster. Moreover, it does not depend on the super draw engine. With the aid of The Agent of Miracle - Jupiter in the Fairy deck, they can kill almost all the synchro monsters without synchro summoning by using this cards. Below is the Taiwanese Fairy deck list:

Monster(18):
Archlord Kristya x1
Dimensional Alchemist x3
Herald of Orange Light x3
Honest x1
Master Hyperion x3
Nova Summoner x1
The Agent of Miracle - Jupiter x3
The Agent of Mystery - Earth x3

Magic(10):
Book of Moon x1
Dark Hole x1
Giant Trunade x1
Monster Reborn x1
Mystical Space Typhoon x2
Pot of Duality x3
Valhalla, Hall of the Fallen x1

Trap(12):
Bottomless Trap Hole x2
Dimensional Prison x2
Fiendish Chain x1
Mirror Force x1
Royal Oppression x1
Seven Tools of Bandit x1
Solemn Judgment x1
Solemn Warning x2
Torrential Tribute x1

Extra Deck:
Ally of Justice Catastor x2
Ancient Sacred Wyvern x1
Armory Arm x1
Avenging Knight Parshath x1
Black Rose Dragon x2
Brionac, Ice Barrier Dragon x1
Chimeratech Fortress Dragon x1
Colosseum Fighter x1
Gaia Knight, the Force of Earth x2
Magical Android x1
Scrap Dragon x1
Stardust Dragon x1
Trishula, Ice Barrier Dragon x1

Apart from that, some of my friends requested me to post the deck list of 1st runner-up of Asian Championship 2011 too. Thus, I also had attached the Korean Champion, Noh Jea-Yeong's Six Samurai deck list as below. This deck is not much differ with the common Six Samurai deck and the biggest difference is just the add of Neo-Spacian Grand Mole in main deck. Below is his deck list :

Monster(13):
Grandmaster of Six Samurai x2
Hand of the Six Samurai x1
Kagemusha of the Six Samurai x3
Legendary Six Samurai Kageki x3
Legendary Six Samurai Kizan x3
Neo-Spacian Grand Mole x1

Magic(14):
Book of Moon x1
Dark Hole x1
Gateway of Six x1
Giant Trunade x1
Monster Reborn x1
Mystical Space Typhoon x2
Reinforcement of Army x1
Shien's Smoke Signal x3
Six Samurai United x3

Trap(13):
Dimensional Prison x2
Double-Edged Sword Technique x3
Mirror Force x1
Musakani Magatama x2
Royal Oppression x1
Solemn Judgment x1
Solemn Warning x2
Torrential Tribute x1

Extra Deck:
Ally of Justice Catastor x2
Black Rose Dragon x1
Brionac, Ice Barrier Dragon x1
Chimeratech Fortress Dragon x1
Colosseum Fighter x1
Gaia Knight, the Force of Earth x2
Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En x3
Magical Android x1
Scrap Dragon x1
Stardust Dragon x1
Trishula, Ice Barrier Dragon x1

Our brand new Malaysian Champion's Tan Sung Lee is a guy whose playing Quickdraw Junk Doppel deck in this tournament. This deck is quite stable and competitive compare with those main stream decks but it is a bit losing hand card advantage due to the special summon of Quickdraw Synchron from the hand card requires a monster in your hand send to the graveyard so that it can be special summon. His deck list is as below:

Monster(22):
Card Trooper x2
Chaos Sorcerer x1
Debris Dragon x2
Dark Armed Dragon x1
Dandylion x1
Doppel Warrior x2
Effect Veiler x2
Glow Up Bulb x1
Junk Synchron x2
Level Eater x1
Lonefire Blossom x2
Mystic Tomato x1
Quickdraw Synchron x2
Sangan x1
Spore x1

Magic(12):
Dark Hole x1
Foolish Burial x1
Giant Trunade x1
Mind Control x1
Monster Reborn x1
Mystical Space Typhoon x2
One for One x1
Pot of Avarice x2
Reinforcement of the Army x1
Tuning x1

Trap(6):
Call of Haunted x1
Mirror Force x1
Solemn Judgment x1
Solemn Warning x2
Torrential Tribute x1

Extra Deck:
Ally of Justice Catastor x1
Armory Arm x1
Black Rose Dragon x1
Brionac, Ice Barrier Dragon x1
Drill Warrior x2
Formula Synchron x2
Junk Destroyer x1
Junk Warrior x1
Scrap Dragon x1
Shooting Star Dragon x1
Stardust Dragon x1
Trishula, Ice Barrier Dragon x1
Turbo Warrior x1

*All these countries champion's deck list may not be 100% correct.

One more news to share to you guys especially Malaysian before I ended my post  here is the Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2011 Malaysia Qualifier Tournament will be held for each Sunday at Game Arena, Sungei Wang Plaza until end of June 2011. Besides that, there will be another Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2011 Malaysia Finals in this coming July 2011. So guys please be prepare for the tournament start from now.

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

Asian Championship 2011 Finals Result

 

Hey, guys! As I mentioned earlier, Asian Final Championship was first time held in Malaysia and it is an unforgettable tournament for me. Overall, the tournament is consider good enough. However, I think the organizer did made some mistakes. The time of game to start the tournament suppose to be 9am but the actual time of tournament was on 8:30am and there are still a lot of players have not successfully register themselves due to the lack of manpower for handling the registration process.

 The name tag for all Yu-Gi-Oh! players to wear during the Asian Championship Final 2011.

This caused a bit of unfair to those whose arrive during 8:30am and unable to register themselves on time. Besides that, the tournament applying Chaos mode battle which means that each player will only have a single duel rather than match and each player should try to gain enough of win result so that they can proceed to the next game. The minimum requirement for proceed to next round is at least 4 stamps and those whose gain 4 stamps of lose will be disqualified immediately. Thus causing some of players just duel for several duels and did not collect enough of winner stamps so that they can proceed to the eighth-final in Malaysia.

Apart from that, I think I did not heard any explanation of the Chaos mode battle and they start the tournament right after 8:30am. As a result, some of players still did not understand of their situation and made them lose their advantages. I hope this situation can be improve on next time. This time the head of judge was came from Hong Kong and he did made a good job of it. He did create a fair judgment to all of us and I think it was no any unfair judgment towards any players regarding the rules and regulations of cards. I think most of you guys did not know that there was a rule for asking question to judges and I had saw and heard several comments from those players.

Special Card Sleeves just for all Yu-Gi-Oh! players whose have compete in the Asian Championship 2011.

As a judge, they cannot gave us any advice regarding the usage and combo of cards. They are not allowed to help us unless we have reveal our cards information to our opponent and only when we requested the help from them. Thus if your opponent did any mistake(for example special summon Doppel Warrior from the graveyard through the effect of Debris Dragon), then you should raise your problem to your opponent first. If the problem still cannot be solved, then you only raise it to your judges. In order to avoid such problem occurring during the tournament, you guys should keep on improving your cards ruling.

The Malaysian Asian Champion was Tan Sung Lee and he is the only one Malaysian who managed to reach into the semi-final. He is the player who play Quickdraw Junk Doppel deck. However, he defeated by the Singaporean, Soh Jun Yuan who officially became the Asian Championship Final 2011 Champion in the end. During the final, Jun Yuan versus the Korean, Noh Jea-Yeong who play Six Samurai deck and win in the event with the result of 2-1. He plays Junk Debris Doppel deck. Noh Jae-Yeong almost defeated by the Taiwan Champion, Liu Hsiao Wei whose play the Fairy deck during the semi-final. Luckily, he able to won at the last duel and he win with the result of 2-1 with Liu Hsiao Wei. The final of this game is very interesting and worth to be watch.

Before you guys view the video of Asian Championship Final 2011 final rounds from the link below, I had also attached the deck list of our Asian Final 2011 Champion in this blog. This deck is much more similar to the Japanese style Junk Debris Doppel and quite powerful as I watch his deck at live. Here are the full deck list(excluding side deck):

Monster(24):
Blackwing - Zephyrus the Elite x1
Card Trooper x2
Chaos Sorcerer x2
Dandylion x1
Dark Armed Dragon x1
Debris Dragon x2
Doppel Warrior x2
Effect Veiler x2
Glow-up Bulb x1
Junk Synchron x2
Lonefire Blossom x2
Lyla, Lightsworn Sorceress x1
Mystic Tomato x1
Ryko, Lightsworn Hunter x2
Sangan x1
Spore x1

Magic(9):
Charge of Light Brigade x1
Dark Hole x1
Foolish Burial x1
Giant Trunade x1
Monster Reborn x1
One for One x1
Pot of Avarice x2
Reinforcement of Army x1

Trap(7):
Call of Hunter x1
Limit Rebirth x2
Torrential Tribute x1
Solemn Judgment x1
Trap Stun x2

Extra deck:
Ally of Justice Catastor x2
Armory Arm x1
Black Rose Dragon x3
Brionac, Ice Barrier Dragon x1
Chain Dragon x1
Chimeratech Fortress Dragon x1
Formula Synchron x2
Gaia Knight, The Force of Earth x1
Scrap Dragon x1
Stardust Dragon x1
Trishula, Ice Barrier Dragon x1

Video links for Asian Championship Final 2011:
1st game : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOUGDze0m2g
2nd game : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-y3fzDFPUc
3rd game : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OoN7gfAzqE

Moreover, I will share another news regarding the structure deck of Dark World(SD21). The ace card of Dark World have been revealed and its effect is as good as the fairy's structure deck ace monster-Master Hyperion. As I predicted in my previous post, this structure deck did have a field spell for Dark World and its effect is all face-up Dark World monster will increase 300 attack point while this card is face-up on the field. Once per turn, you can removed from play 1 Fiend type monster in your graveyard and select 1 Fiend monster from your hand to discard. Then you can draw 1 card from your deck.

However, the details of reprinted rare cards other than Dark Bribe has not reveal. Hopefully, the reprinted cards will be Gorz the Emissary of Darkness, Stygian Street Patrol, Gold Sarcophagus and Escape from the Dark Dimension. With these reprint cards, OCG will be much more interesting and more variety of deck can be play in the Official Tournament soon. Thus I hope my wish list will became true in this coming June 2011.

Okay, I will ended my post here! One more thing before I ended my post, let us congratulate our new Asian Championship Champion, Soh Jun Yuan and wish him to win in the coming Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2011. Thanks for your precious time and wish you guys have a nice day! Please stay tuned for my next post.

Asian Championship History in Malaysia

Hey, guys! Sorry for being a long time not updating my blog and today I will share the small history of Asian Championship of Malaysia Final. In this coming Sunday(17th April 2011), we will see almost all Asian region top Yu-Gi-Oh! players excluding Japanese will be gathered in Malaysia due to the Asian Final Championship is going to be held in Malaysia and this is the first time Malaysia become the host of Asian Final Championship.

Before the Asian Final Championship 2011 is held, our main venue for Asian tournament was held at the top floor(6th) of Sungei Wang Plaza and it is located beside the Green-Box karaoke. This venue only able to support maximum 68 players to duel at the same time. Thus every time we having the Asian Championship, we will be divided into 2 section of duels and the format we used are knock-out based and it continue applied until the quarter-finals. As a result, a lot of players have very little chances to enter to the quarter-finals and it is time-consuming because they can only match the next duel players after the two section of elimination ends.

Apart from that, the judges quality is a bit unbalance and some of the judges are just Yu-Gi-Oh! players and they totally never have a formal training on Yu-Gi-Oh! rules and regulations. This means that their basic knowledge may not be good enough and some time they pretends to be profession in giving explanation of cards effect. This will arose the problem of unfair to some of the Yu-Gi-Oh! players and making them disappointed towards the national judges. Apart from that, most of these inexpert judges tends to not asking the rulings and advices from the head of judge when they are unsure of the cards effect and rulings.

This is a bit unfair to some of the Yu-Gi-Oh! players and this situation has been occurred for several years. Thus I hope Konami can concern of this problem and try to give some judgment guidelines to all the tournament judges so that they can give a fair judgment to us. The actual role of judges was to preserve a fair game to all the players and avoided some of the players from cheating. They are the one whose suppose to helps us to make judgment and solve our confusion on cards effect. In simple words, they are the one whose helps to reduce problems and making sure of fair game is happen during the tournament period.

I think this is the first time we having tournament at the concourse area of Sungei Wang Plaza and usually concourse area is use for others purposes others than having cards tournament(I'm not sure Sungei Wang Plaza had held this kind of event before). By having tournament at the concourse area, players will felt more pressure and once again this card game is re-introduced to public. Thus this card game may have more potential players after the end of this event. In addition, parents, youths and elders can learn of this card game and influence their mindset of "simplicity of this game". 

Okay, that's all I gonna share today. For more details of the tournament, please enlarge the picture and view it. Thanks for your time and wish you guys good luck. I will see you guys in the event soon. Please stay tuned for my next post.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

First Ever Asia Yu-Gi-Oh! Final Championship at Malaysia(Minor change of forbid cards)

Hey, guys! Today I wanna share a great news to all Malaysian's Duelists. There will be a national tournament held in Kuala Lumpur on 17th April 2011 and it would be the first time for Malaysia hosting the Asian Yu-Gi-Oh! Final Championship. Apart from that, champions from Asia region excluding Japan will be compete in this tournament too thus you guys may stand a chance to have their signature or even duel with them. However, you can only duel with them during the semi-final or quarter-final. Thus you guys must make sure yourself is not being kick out during the tournament.

Without wasting your time, I reveal the details of the tournament to your guys.

Time of Tournament:9:00am–9:00pm

Venue of Tournament:SUNGEI WANG PLAZA KL (6TH FLOOR – NEXT TO GREEN BOX KARAOKE)

Tournament Format:Knock-out Basis and Swiss Round Match

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. Only card game pack that comes together with Konami original software game products are allowed to be used in Official tournament. (Meaning Psp and any other game as long as it is a genuine product of Konami can be used)

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.[And also deck protector from starlight road duel disk eg: blue and gold are NOT allowed to use]

4. Double layer deck protector are allow provided the outer layer must be a transparent deck protector. And Players must use same color protectors for all decks and side decks. No markings allowed on protectors.

5.Promo card which are reprinted in structure deck or in any booster pack are allowed to be used.

6. The following card game products are not allowed in this tournament:-

a) Academy Duel Disk

b) Card Pack from any Shueisha Magazine, Yu-Gi-Oh! comic or any other English magazines (V Jump, LE.)

c) Dual Terminal Card Pack
d) PP11, PP12

e) Cards from Starter Deck 2011 and booster pack of Generation Force(GENF)

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

8. All players are to bring their own playmat (ONLY YUGIOH PLAYMAT ARE ALLOW)

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

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

11. Judges decision is final

12. ALL THE PLAYERS MUST HAVE DUELIST ID TO JOIN,CLICK HERE TO APPLY http://www.konami-asia.com/th/yugi5d/en/event/dk_duelist_id_apply.html

13. Ban list of March 2011 and new ruling of Ignition monster effect is effective in this event. Additional ban list can be found here.

14. Online registration form can be done at here.

Rules & Regulations:
1. This tournament is open to all Malaysians. Participants below the age of 21, will require authorization from their parents or legal guardian, in the event of winning any prizes involving overseas travel.

2. Entry forms are available at participating retail outlets. Photocopy of entry forms are allowed.

3. Proof of postage is not proof of receipt.

4. Participants are required to check in or register themselves for the tournament before 8.30am. Seating arrangements and oppositions will then be designated and announced.

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

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

Okay, that's all I wanna share today. Thanks for your concern and wish you guys have a nice day. Hopefully, we will meet in the tournament. Please stay tuned for my next post.

Exceed Monster and New Ruling of Ignition Effect Monster

Hey, guys! Today I would like to share some news regarding Exceed Summon and the new ruling of Ignition effect monster to you guys. All these changes is made due to the appearance of Exceed Summon which has almost the same style as Synchro Summon. Currently, Exceed Summon is quite new to all of us and Konami has set a new ruling for Ignition effect monster in order new duelists can learn and play Yu-Gi-Oh! cards more easily.

Exceed Monster
Exceed monster is a new type of monster card which have Black color and they are placed in the Extra deck.

Rank
Rank is the dark star(s) which placed on Exceed monsters and it is count from the left to right.

Exceed Summon
Exceed Summon is the proper type of special summon Exceed monster. It required several same star level monster on the field as Exceed material to Exceed Summon the same rank Exceed monster from the Extra deck.

Exceed Material
The Exceed Summon's Material monsters will not be send to graveyard, but it will overlay under the Exceed Monster. Its function is similar to Counter.

Procedure of Exceed Summon:
1) Gather the Exceed material monster face-up on your field
2) Place the Exceed material monster in face-up attack position on the Monster Zone
3) Exceed monster place face-up(Attack or Defense) position on the field and Exceed material overlay under the Exceed monster

Rule regarding Exceed Summon of Exceed monster:
-You can performed any number of Exceed Summon in a turn if you have enough of Exceed material and Exceed Summon can be performed even though your field is full.
-When you Exceed Summon, the Exceed material can be in any battle position (Attack or Defense) but they must be face-up on the field.
-Token is not allowed to used as Exceed material but trap card monster can be used as Exceed material.
-When you use Exceed materials which will "remove from play when it is removed from the field" to Exceed Summon, these material will not be remove from play and it will overlay under the Exceed monster.(Eg, "Plaguespreader Zombie" or "Quillbolt Hedgehog")

Rule regarding Exceed Material of Exceed Monster:
-The Exceed material must be overlay in face-up vertically and it is overlay under its Exceed monster's Monster Zone(its information is opened to both players)
-Overlay is not a card effect, it is not related to "Skill Drain" and the Exceed Material will not disappeared due to the effect of Exceed Monster being negated
-The overlay's Exceed materials will not be treated as monster cards and it is not related to any card effect which affect on monster card(Eg. "Rageiki Break" can target Exceed monster but it cannot target the Exceed material which overlay under the Exceed monster.)
-When the Exceed material is "removed" by the card effect, it will send to the graveyard
-When the Exceed monster is not on the field, the Exceed material will be send from the field to the graveyard (Eg. When the Exceed monster is destroyed, When the Exceed monster is temporarily removed from play by "Interdimensional Matter Transporter, When the Exceed monster is return back to the Extra deck by the effect of "Compulsory Evacuation Device")
-When the Exceed monster is turn to face-down battle position, the Exceed material will still face-up overlay under it
-When your Exceed monster is take control by your opponent, the Exceed material overlay under the Exceed monster will switch to opponent's Exceed monster's Monster Zone
-Exceed materials such as "Plaguespreader Zombie" or "Quillbolt Hedgehog" will be send to the graveyard when they are leaved from the field if you have use their effect to special summon themselves from the graveyard
-When "Macro Cosmo" is applied, the Exceed materials(which will be removed from play when it is removed from the field) is leaved from the field will be removed from play
-When "Dimensional Fissure" is applied, the Exceed materials(which will be removed from play when it is removed from the field) is leaved from the field will be send to the graveyard
-The overlay Exceed material is not treated as card. When these cards is leaved from the field and it is not treated as card, the card's effect of "When this card is send from the field" cannot be activate(Eg, "Sangan" will not activate its effect if it is used as a Exceed material which overlay under the Exceed monster and being "removed" by the effect of Exceed monster)

-When the overlay Exceed material is leaved from the field and it is not treated as card, the card's effect of "When this card send to the graveyard" can be activate(Eg, "Dandylion" effect can be activateif it is used as a Exceed material which overlay under the Exceed monster and being "removed" by the effect of Exceed monster)

Rule regarding Rank of Exceed Monster:
-Exceed monster cannot be used as Synchro Material to Synchro Summon Synchro monster
-Exceed monster cannot become the target of cards which targeted on star level monster(Eg, Exceed monster cannot be equipped by "Synchro Boost"(Increase 1 star level) or "Demotion"(Decrease 2 star level))
-Exceed monster cannot be affected by card's effect which affected on star level monster(Eg, cards such as "Level Limit - Area B"(Change the battle position of monster which have star level 4 and above) and "Gravity Bind"(Forbidden 4 star level and above monster to perform attack) will have no effect on Exceed monster).

Apart from that, 19th March 2011 onwards, all Yu-Gi-Oh! duelists are forbidden from using Ignition monster's effect when they have successfully Summon, Flip Summon or Special Summon their monster to the field. The turn player can only activate Spell Speed 2 or Spell Speed 3 cards when they have successfully Summon, Flip Summon or Special Summon their monster to the field. However, this ruling does not affected any of the Trigger effect or Quick effect monsters' effect.

This ruling will weaken some of the Ignition monster's effect such as Brionac,Ice Barrier Dragon, Card Trooper, Chaos Sorcerer, Dark Armed Dragon, Gungnir,Ice Barrier Dragon, Judgment Dragon, Lonefire Blossom, Lyla,Lightsworn Sorceress, Snipe Hunter and more. As a result, cards such as Bottomless Traphole, Chain Disappearance, Compulsory Evacuation Device, Torrential Tribute, Trap Hole and more will be much more powerful because most of the powerful effect monsters are mainly Ignition effect monster. Example of new ruling in effect is when you successfully special summon a Chaos Sorcerer and opponent field have face-up monster(s) then you cannot activate the effect of Chaos Sorcerer to out of play monster and you or your opponent can only activate Spell Speed 2 or Spell Speed 3 cards during this moment.

Last news before I end my post is Konami will release the structure deck of Dark World(SD21) to the OCG in this June. This theme deck has been disappeared for a long time and I remember that Dark World was one of the top decks among OCG and TCG in the year of 2006. Hopefully, Konami will boost this deck by introducing Dark World magic field card which quite similar to the magic field card of Dragunity deck and also add in at least a Dark World tuner monster so that Dark World deck can have different playing style.

Okay, that's all for today. Before I ended my post, let us welcome for the arrival of Exceed monster! Thanks for your time and let us wishing that Japan can recover from the natural disasters as soon as possible! Please stay tuned for my next post.

My Part-time Job in Game Shop

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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