Why GK is not dead?

Let's analyze what they did in the past format:

1.- Control every monsters on the hand thanks to royal tribute.

2.- Control every monster on the field thanks to GK descendant.

3.- Control every effect monster due to warning and necrovalley.

All those three things happen thanks to GK recruiter and pot of duality. Now I want you to think on the format before this one, you know what I'm talking about, that format where plant-debris was strong. That format where they play 3 debris dragon, 2 dandylions, giant trunade and cold wave. That format where everybody was afraid of a black rose summon in any turn.

In that format, the first GK deck won a YCS using 2 starlight road, and they had more enemies than a simple heavy storm. So, do you still think that they won't survive in this new format?

Skill Successor

Don't you know how to protect your Steelwarm roach against trooper or jain or any other monster? Are you afraid of MST and heavy storm? No problem...

Skill successor can be chain it to MST or heavy, so you will boost roach to 2300 atk. Then you can remove skill successor next turn to beat your opponent.

What I think about the new banlist

The new list gives a lot of mixed feelings for everyone. I'm not too sure about what I feel... this list solve a lot of problems of the meta, but sangan will be in the game to make tour guide a high price card. This force people to make a lot xyz summons, and abuse of rescue rabbit via sangan, another example of this is call of the hunted, now we can easily bring sangan with tour guide and then bring him back with call of the hunted.

We barely have mind crush to avoid the sangan's search, but that isn't enough. That only makes GK stronger than they already are. In the other hand, we have summoner monk at two. A big push for scrap decks, since they are now capable of make scrap dragon, any other syncro of lv8, arcanite magician, roach, utopia or any other xyz of rank 4. In fact, we have a lot of card to hide ourselves (gravity bind or swords of reveling light) until we make a xyz summon.

To avoid all those xyz summons we only have royal tribute (for GK) and mind crush to enhance our victory. And we have icarus attack again, now BW can fly again to stop syncro and xyz monsters. Also sirocco is a great card against roach, like gale or vayu or anything else. But that's it; nothing else can stop xyz monsters...

Sure we got a lot of material for chaos and lightsworm. But soon the priority rule will disappear and all those special summon (lv6+) will be food for roach and bottomless trap hole (and deep bottomless trap hole)

As you can see, konami didn't touch machina or fairies. But they limit the power and consistency of plants and six samurais. So, you should be prepare for a season of no-syncro monsters, this time the battle will be between high star monsters and xyz monsters. Too much work for steelwarm roach?

Ban list 2011 sept

http://duelingdays.blogspot.com/2011/08/september-2011-banned-and-restricted.html

go check it out.

I will make a review about it soon

Campeonato Mundial - Noticias

En estos momentos se esta jugando el campeonato mundial, posiblemente todo el mundo que sepa ingles y sepa donde buscar ya estará al tanto de los resultados ronda a ronda. Para aquellos que no lo saben, y por alguna razón visitan este blog, voy a hacer una breve explicación de lo que ha ocurrido.

Para empezar, el campeonato mundial reune 13 jugadores occidente, 12 jugadores asia y al campeon mundial del año pasado. Estas 26 personas juegan un torneo de 5 rondas de una hora cada una, para terminar en top8. Existen 2 cosas que diferencian este torneo de cualquier otro:

1.- El meta: Estan prohibidas todas las TCG exclusive, es decir, todas las cartas que el OCG tiene prohibido usar. Estan prohibidas todas las cartas de Generation Force hacia adelante, es decir, todas las cartas que aun no han llegado al TCG. Esto quiere decir que un gran numero de exceed monsters no se pueden usar, de la misma manera cartas de alto nivel como tengu y tour guide son inutiles.

2.- El Ruling: Despues de mucho discutir se llego a la conclusión que la prioridad esta prohibida en el torneo. De la misma manera, los xyz material no estan en el campo (sangan no se activa si es enviado al grave como xyz material). Por tanto, y como en años anteriores, el ruling del mundial refleja el juego del OCG. Esto ha pasado ya 5 veces en toda la historia de los mundiales, de hecho en otros años la lista de septiembre agregaba un cambio de ruling para que el TCG sea igual OCG (¿ya saben que pasara este año no?).

Por estas dos razones, el campeonato mundial es el torneo mas complicado que puede tener el juego. Solo jugadores totalmente dedicados y con la mejor preparacion pueden ser capaz de sobrellevar estos cambios y salir victoriosos.

Ahora os presento la disposicion de decks del campeonato de este año:

Con estos resultados podemos ver que Konami a generado structural decks demasiado potentes, capaces de batir casi todo el meta normal del juego. Por otro lado Junk doppel es tan fuerte como tengu plants, prueba suficiente de que el problema real del deck es el motor planta.

De los 26 representantes voy a centrarme en 3 de ellos, el primero es Raul Fernandez, jugador español que ocupo el 2º puesto en el campeonato europeo usando worms. Michel Grüner, jugador aleman con un amplio curriculum, ganador del campeonato europeo de este año usando tengu plants (como nunca se habia visto antes). Por ultimo Galileo Obadia, jugador panameño ganador del mundial del año pasado.

Lamentablemente de estos 3 solo dos de ellos han logrado entrar en el top8, de hecho son los unicos representantes de occidente. En top 8 Obadia sigue defendiendo su titulo, llegando a top4. Sin embargo Grüner ha recibido su segundo warning por tardar usando el side. Esto ha hecho que reciba un game lost, tras una acalorada discusión, y un duelo mas, Grüner ha quedado fuera tras perder contra Junk doppel.

Mas noticias sobre el top4 y el ganador del torneo, en unos momentos.

El top4 son 2 Junk doppel, 1 Machina y 1 Fairy

Galileo de Obaldia quedo 3º

La final entre Junk doppel vs Agents (ambos de Japón) ha acabado en victoria para Agents.

Prueba final de que Konami se esta pasando con los decks estructurales.

Crystal Beast with Exceed monsters

UPDATE: http://yugiohoi.blogspot.com/2011/09/crystal-beast-xyz.html

I have been testing crystal beast, to prove the power of xyz monsters in old decks. The result is quite interesting. Many cards that used to be useless become totally necessary.

This is my actual decklist (I'm still working on it):

New things that came due to xyz monsters:

Reborn tengu: Since the TCG ruling of the xyz monsters indicate that xyz material are on the field, tengu and Sangan become more broken than before. Now it isn't only a tool for syncro summons, it is also a tool for xyz summon. His job in crystal beast is making the combo easier when the time comes.

Crystal Promise: I always saw this card like a monster reborn for crystal beast, but wasn't that useful. either way, right now is a tool to create a xyz monster or to put ruby on the field again.

Crystal abundance: I no longer need to depend on this card to win. In fact, I'm thinking in put it out of the deck.

Crystal blessing: In the past this card was one of the worst card of the deck, you had to wait a lot in order to be able to use it. However with xyz monsters, all the crystals go to graveyard so blessing become more useful and really important.

Usual situations:

Normally I make Utopia and roach if my opponent doesn't have anything strong in the field. But when he has a searcher or a strong monsters, I bring Vylon disigma.

XYZs and old decks

In Yugi-oh there are some fun decks that have nothing to do in the competitive environment, either way a lot duelist work every day to make them competitive decks. Usually only casual players spend their time playing these type of decks (batteryman, aliens, watts, ice barriers, koaki meru, etc) without waste big amounts of money in cards like warning or pot of duality. But sadly, they need these cards more than anyone else because is the only way to give stability to those unstable strategies. Luckily for everyone pot of duality will be reprinted, and all those casual players will have the opportunity to improve their strategies. Meanwhile, Xyz monsters are coming to the TCG, they work in every deck and the best monsters right now are mainly for control. If you think this carefully, you will find a lot of all strategies capable of bring a steelwarm roach without lose card advantage. Maybe this is a opportunity for all the player that don't have syncro monsters but want to try out the xyz monsters. It is time to change the game.

Batteryman:

This deck began with batteryman AA and the possibility of generate an OTK. This idea started to shape itself with batteryman charger, micro cell and short circuit. But the deck lack of consitence, it doesn't have any tuner monster, and summon three batteryman into the field become harder than before. Later batteryman AAA appeared with batteryman fuel cell in shining darkness, it increases the chance of use short circuit, but batteryman AAA was really useless a turn later or in any other scenario. Now things are going to change, you can summon Batteryman AAA, find your way to summon an extra batteryman, and after cleaning the board with short circuit, you can make roach or Utopia instantly. Like this, Batteryman have a lot of cards to create more xyz monsters than anyone else.

Crystal Beast:

A lot of people don't know the potential of this deck, however I'm not going to talk about how good is ancient ruins rainbow city or crystal abundance. The important part now is Crystal beacon. With this card we can summon Ruby from the deck and summon the two (or more) crystal monster in our backrow into our field. Ruby, Emerald, and amathist are no longer garbage in the field thanks to the xyz monsters. Now they are potential material for leviathan or Utopia or roach. One of the main problem in this deck was the total commitment to the field that it required, JD, DAD, black rose and other monster used to kill crystal beast. But now is easier to protect them thanks to roach. At the end you can play abundance, summon 4 crystal beast and overlaid to summon utopia and roach.

Like those two, there are more old cats capable of learn new tricks, I'm going to keep searching.