WATER boost

Met a foreign TCG player today and realised how lucky we are to be playing in the OCG, the game is not so money based and we have less to worry about such as the threat of Tour Guide and Tengus durh. Card Car D and Zenmaines, stuff that some of them struggle to get, are also easily available to us.

Anyway, appreciate the OCG, not everyone is as lucky to own a Gold Zenmaine for like 1/20 of the price of a Secret one.

That said, more craps from the upcoming SD23 has made me more excited and almost certain to play it after release.

Dragon Rider is a good card that combos well with Sniper. However it is slightly harder to trigger its recruiter effect as not many things can force it into Grave, the only ones I can think of off the bat are Brio and Gungnir. Though allowing Sniper to attack directly is good enough as it can transition into a Rank 3 or 4 play easily.

Roar of the Sea Dragon makes Treeborn Frog obselete in the deck. I initially wanted a Swap Frog engine in it with Veilers, but looking at it now that seems totally unecessary. Will have to wait and see though, won't be easy feeding 3 mobs in anyway. Could prove cloggy.

The new Mermail archetype is a fucking rip off off Bermuda Triangle, seriously, mermaids that are good? This will get a whole bunch of skillless noobs into the game who just wanna look at boobs. I mean, I like the design of the archetype but the ART!!! Why can't we have something more macho, more masculine, mermaids? I'm not sexist or anything, jus don't like the idea they are jumping on the Bushiroad bandwagon and now we gonna have otakus running some of the best design Konami has made in a long while.

All that out of the way, the WATER archetype does look to be semi competitve, and could be able to fight for a berth in Tier 1. I believe that DARK has been given too much support and LIGHT has Lightlord and FIRE has Laval, so potentially the huge boost will push WATER decks in general to actually have a Tier. Still in desperate need of testing though. Anyone saying Poseidra is bad though is mad. Or noob. Or both.