the edge of the format

This month has been really stressful for me because of personal stuffs. Today I feel in the eye of the hurricane, so I decided to use these minutes of calm to write a little on the blog.

I know I have been absent the last month and already explained the reason on previous posts. Even I dont have a place to play yugi-oh on my current town, I still play in dueling network from time to time and keep update about new cards, tournaments topdecks and reprints.

I was relieved when I saw the new cards from shadow specter. I still think the next format will be an agro format, but we will be seeing a slow transition between agro and control. Something similar happened at the end of teledad format. I could say more nice things about the future, but I guess we will have time for this. We havent even started the banlist speculation, even though probably everybody want it.

Meanwhile, I have been testing some decks and making some videos to show you. However, there is two problems about it:

-Testing in DN is harder due to the new duel pool and match duel.
-Speelbook and Dragon Rulers are so OP than any deck look like a fool against them. It take some time to record a duel that is decent enough.

Anyway, I dont know if I could show you something in the next few days or weeks, I hope I can.

Good luck during the rest of this joke format.

Too many news and too many time...

Long time since my last post and probably all of you know why. This game have change a lot bla bla bla etc etc. I think I don't even need to tell you what happen because we all can see it, many youtubers and bloggers have talk about it, quieted this game and ranted about what it become. I won't do the same, but I understand their feeling to the game, and feel as sad as them.

Anyway, a lot have happen on this game since my last post. Elemental dragons (ED) and Spellbooks (SB) went up and big eye become a high price card. Judgment of the Light was released on the OCG and nothing competitive came up to compete against ED or SB. It is a really interesting pack in my opinion, but maybe won't sell as good as lord of the tachyon.

At this point, I feel far from the competitive or even casual scene. And I like it because the game is awkward right now, I have this feeling of guilt or hate if I win or lose just because I open lucky. I have been trying to think on the future of this game, but every time I make some deep thoughts on the last cards designed I see the same things we already faced right now.

Blue eyes structural deck, which include blue-eyes maiden and blue-eyes silver dragon, seems to be focus on special summon a 3000 atk beater. This probably means that the agro style format we have been living for the past two years will be keep going for a while.The new syncro monsters are no difference, Celestial dragon, Claiomh Solais, Almades and  Psychonductor Behemont have effects usefull mainly in agro formats.

To provide some kind of peace on this format of brokeness, konami created a new anti-meta card: Trifortressops. I should call it anti-dead card instead, because is one of the few things that can stop all the elemental dragon tools and LaDD. Also, in case you didn't notice, if your opponent summon 3 or monsters, you can summon this card at ANY MOMENT THIS TURN. This is not like fader, gorz or tragoedia. Your opponent can not see this coming never. This card may become expensive, you should try to buy two or three.

As I said before, I have been trying to think on the future. It is clear to me that the format will still be agro. However the fact that konami keep printing cards against backrow confuse me, few decks can afford to play backrow anyway. Harpie ladies destroy all backrow while all phantom beast are untouchable, I could say similar things about spell books or evilwarms, but I'm sure you already see the point here. I guess this is only a push foward to an agro format.

September is still far, but I guess konami knows that Dragon lords are not here to stay. Eventhough they are super rare in Asia, they are coming rare for the TCG. I think Konami is trying to sell as much as possible of them before the banlist. Which is nice because brings some good feelings for the future, however I don't know why konami put the dragon lords on tins, and maybe more important than that, what else is coming in the tins?? If dragon lords isn't a toptier deck, big eye won't need a reprint.

Anyway, I will try to be back on the blog. Thanks to keep reading me.

Side deck card against Incarnate Dragon

Many of you already fear the first turn LaDD combo.

So, to stop the huge elemental summon avalanche, you can summon Chaos hunter while your opponent is trying to summon the first incarnate.  Since this is the first turn, your opponent won't attack you and you will be capable of stop most moves and design a strategy to win.

Sorry for the lack of posting, honestly I just don't feel exciting with yugi-oh right now for different reasons. I hope most of you find some fun on it.

Water synchron is on the House!

In this video I started with an awful hand. I pushed for damage thanks to nitro warrior effect. He had Evacuation device, but clearly didn't use it because he want to take control of nitro with creature swap. He makes an awful mistake then and I take full advantage of it. 

I wasn't sure if I should start with nimble momonga in attack, or pull the foolish + junk combo. I usually never go that fast in duel. But since this is a video for you guys, you should see the deck in action. I didn't want to set lance because I didn't see an scenario where it actually works in the next turn. Also I was fearing MST, I made the good call. My opponent go crazy with heavy + dark hole. I win anyway one attack.

Finally some videos!!!

I finally have a new computer, so for the next few weeks you will see videos about all the previous decks I made.

Now I present you two duels I had with my Quickdraw Water deck. As you can see, the duels are pretty fast and I kill in one/two attacks.

I added some music, please leave a comment if you DON'T like the music.

The first one is against Inzektor and the second one is against Ophion (my worst enemy)

Side deck card against Ophion

I was building a gogogo zombie deck and I found this card:


It is a great card against Ophion since they remove one material to search for their infestation pandemic. Then you just use space cyclone to remove the last material on Ophion and it is done. You can special summon gorz or tragoedia or anything you need to beat him.

Btw, Forbidden lance or infestation pandemic can't stop space cyclone because Cyclone don't affect the xyz monster, only affects the material. I already ask this question on the judge forum.

Deck lockdown and the blue-eyes

Many of you probably already played against Spellbook and their new awesome draw card, and even when the deck is really vulnerable to Rai-oh or Naturia beast, I present you another solution:

It not only works like Rai-oh, it also stop special summons from the deck, which is good against fire king or temperance or rescue rabbit, or tourguide, and so on...

Honestly, I know is not a really good choice but that's because this game have 3 mst on it. Maybe if you are playing aliens or Beastlord Volcan...


Anyway, probably all of you already heard about the new structural deck based on Blue-eyes white dragon. Finally Konami realize most of his audience are adults XD

So, if you remember this card, I suggest you to buy it while it is still a low price card.