A New Beginning?

New format, new tiers. New everything. People coming back from inactivity, will the new format really bring back the much needed diversity and freshness lacking in the past six months?

My honest opinion, is no. It'll be better probably, cos noobs will win less due to jus drawing right. But shit will still happen, and people will still complain about downright broken shit.

Heck, I'm already complaining about Hyperion.

Good luck for the next six months people, and may the odds be ever in your favour.

Everyone playing Laval.

I am visibly offended whenever I see people play Laval.

If all you want is a Librarian Scrap endboard on Turn 4, you really shouldn't be touching the deck.

It is so much more than just Sarco Rekindling Transmission Field. Any self respecting Laval player can tell you that.

Anyone who knows for themselves that they aren't very good, so decide to play Laval, is as good as deciding when you decided to play Inzecter, you jus want that cheap easy win.

I not doubting the person deciding that's it's ok to splash a deck which can win at 60% max potential, I'm doubting the player, whether or not he truly wants to improve and discover that extra 40%.

Trust me, Laval's true power is much more devasting than Librarian Scrap and drawing into Rekindling number two. You will win with that, no doubt. But you will just be stuck playing decks that win by themselves.

NOTE: I'm not attacking anyone in particular, I just don't see why anybody who doesn't understand the capabilities of a deck should have it, I just saw one today, and tipped me past my boiling point, I've bottled this in too long.

Madolche is irritating.

Oh ya, Day 1 on Doppel v.Sept'12, it's a bit shaky. But double Debris helps alot. Hyperion is still a bitch though.

Muh Agent decklist

Why everyone posting their Agent decklists? I oso wan post.

3x The Agent of Creation - Venus
3x Master Hyperion
3x Mystical Shine Ball
3x Vermillion Declarer
2x Effect Veiler
2x Death Guide Leaving the Underworld Bound for the Overworld
2x Junk Synchron
2x The Agent of Mystery - Earth
2x Archlord Kristya
1x The Agent of Miracles - Jupiter
1x Honest
1x Sangan
1x Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning
2x Mystical Space Typhoon
2x Pot of Duality
1x Heavy Storm
1x Monster Reborn
1x Reinforcement of the Army
1x Book of Moon
2x Torrential Tribute
2x Bottomless Trap Hole
2x Call of the Haunted

BITCH ANGEL AND DOGSHIT HYPERION ARE BACK!

Funny what one Earth can do.

Y U MAX DECLARER?!
Trust me, everyone will max it soon.

JUNK SYNCHRON?!
I just like it. Can make Destroyer easy +1. If Hyperion rating as a top deck was 10, Junk Synchron is 7-8? Let's me play RotA, good deck thinner.

WTF NO TOUR GUIDE?!
Joking, but I thought the Jap name was damn cool, so I keep using it.

CotH IS A TRAP! IS SLOW!
Not when you have Declarer.

NO MIND CONTROL! NOOB!
I see the point, but don't really want to do it. I can win without it anyway.

Testing with the deck and it's really damn strong. Hyperion is really too imba.

Still, every card in the hand is important, needs to to be able to do something. Sometimes two Venus no different from having two Shine Ball in hand.

The balls remind me why I don't play this deck. I can't play anything with yellowskins.

And to anyone who's thinking WTF all OCG noob can't see Tele at 3? Yes please go fuck up your consistency with Tele, Krebons Ball Gachi too stronk.

The Gold Box

Is gonna depreciate Pot like fuck.
WOOT!

My experience on one pack.

Me : O.o SPELL!
Everyone else : O.O
Me : (Reveals first word) 强? Yes!!
Everyone else : EH?!?!
Me : (Stares at Creature Swap) NOOOOO.....

Next time must reveal from the right, 壶.

Second time in life, kena troll by Creature Swap.

Anyway, Dandy and C.Soc from pack telling me remake Doppel.

Banlist Aftermath

List is real and the low down is:
Inzecters are kinda dead.
HEROs have consistency slashed.
They REALLY don't like Book of Moon.
They REALLY don't like hand loops whether deck or grave.

What this means:
Format is safer, slower, more room for build up plays.
Format will punish people unprepared for explosive early agression.
Decks with explosive early aggression must commit or die.

Well, maybe must is a strong word, at least make the Warnings dead.

As for Doppel enthusiasts, sad to say but my all time 3rd favourite deck is unlikely to make a comback.

If you were a good enough Doppel player you'd realise by now you have nothing to fall back on if your board blows.

And for BF enthusiasts, my opinion is that the deck REALLY needs Book of Moon. My 2nd favourite deck of all time is gonna get crushed by the Tier 1 of free boss mobs decks.

_|_ Hyperion.

Agents will reshape the meta with their reintroduction, as will Laval. And the speed of the format allows Dark World much more breathing space.

And there is one move I totally do not agree with on the list, and that is E-Tele to 3.

You just wait, free tuners are not cool.

If 99.99% banlist is true

Tier 1:
Mermail
Gadget (Offering and Machina)
Laval
Dark World
Agent

Tier 1.5:
Six Samurai
Rabbit Ragia
Chaos Dragon
Wind-up
HERO

Tier 2:
Any mass Synchro deck
GKs
Photon / Galaxy
Final Countdown
Inzecter
Hiero

Nope I didn't Tier BF cos I really don't think it's playable.

Aftermath of Worlds

Jus met up with current World No.4 Wesley, and we had a little chat over his experience in Tokyo. It's all confidential, but after it all, I guess he left a better impression of Memoli and Winston.

Anyway, the cards in Japan, in case anyone who doesn't have a brain hasn't realised, are fucking cheap. Verz Ophion is worth about as much as toilet paper there.

Shiny toilet paper.

Anyway, I jus hav a new found respect for both Memoli and Winston, who've both taken alot of flak for whatever "wrongs" that they did. And anyway, for those with doubts over Memoli's sportsmanship, I can say Wesley has cleared all of mine, he speaks very highly of the Italian.

That is all.

So it's over for Singapore

Congratulations on Wesley Seek aka Lamby from Insane Tech YGO on taking 4th place in World Championships. Top 8 already very good but he went one step furthur great job.

Now all that's left is Dragon Duel Final and Expert Class Final. Japanese pride on the line in both games.

As for the banlist, it appears the Airman ban one is not legit, but the Brio/FF ban one is, not sure which is better but I really don't see the need for Tsukyomi back in the format seriously. I really rather dual Book of Moon.

Anyway, the one that fucks HERO and Zecter the hardest will be most welcome. Reborn not banned on both lists WTF.

Thoughts on WCS so far

I only watched 3 of the stream matches, namely Japan (Dark World) vs Inzecter (Hong Kong), Japan (Skill Drain Valley) vs USA (Exodia WTF) and Malaysia (Chaos Dragon) vs Thailand (Chaos Dragon)

My thoughts so far:
Japan did well to overcome the disadvantage from D.Fissure in Game 3 but Zecter jus too strong.

I thought it was Countdown, but good showcase of One Day of Peace being hit worthy.

I think the extra Normal Summon wouldn't have changed the tempo of the game at all IMO, but still should hav been stopped. Judge's fault.

Wesley so imba Top 8. Inzecter as a whole imba, taking up SIX of the Top 8 slot, and the only Japanese player not to qualify was poor guy who got owned by Zecter as mentioned above.

If Exodia wins, FUCK THE WORLD.

Edit: I believe the list with the Airman to be real, the only problem with it is no Reborn ban, which seems very funny yet totally believable.

One Day of Peace

I've been seeing this on alot of TCG players lists recently, and all I got to say is though I feel the flak on rogue decks is too damn high over there, One Day of Peace is broken as fuck.

Like, anything that uses One Day of Peace is unhealthy for the game, maybe not threatening, but most definitely unhealthy.

So I may go as far as to say that this piece of shit is banworthy. They did it to Fishborg because it was unhealthy and same goes for Substitoad. So the new 3 to 0 card in the September list I'm expecting is One Day of Peace.

Just some discussion I had with a friend

My friend likes to run GBs and though the deck has lost a lot of viability, I guess it's safe to say that GBs are OK to be allowed some free rein in the format?

But for those who are too dumb to see it, Bestiari to 2 alone is gonna do as much as Bestiari to 3 for GBs. Nothing at all.

The problem is that GBs playstyle is a turn by turn control playstyle, where you tag in and out based on whatever your opponent is having. Gyzarus is much less of a problem these days because of Warning and the fact that it is so hard to keep that 1 GB before you set the Bestiari on board now. Bestiari is completely balanced and was never the problem card for GB, and with Gyzarus being less of a problem each format, GBs as a whole became less of a problem.

If the format stays as fast as it is GB will continue to have no say in it simply because of how quick they will lose their board. I do believe that GB in the meta now would be healthier than probably WWBF, but in order to that the format really must slow down another 5-8 turns.

In fact, if any sort of revival is to be made for old school control decks in general, the format needs to be slowed by at least 3-5 turns, as none of them can one card one turn lock on turn 1 like Rabbit can.

If I were to choose a meta between control or action, I would choose control, and have a 15-18 turn format, where the slightest misplay could push one's disadvantage through the roof, as compared to jus failing to OTK.

All that said, Chaos Dragons should remain in the format as a form of a polar opposite and in any case is a good deck in the meta no matter what people say.

Yaya that's all

Lalalala

As we await the new format

I dunno man, YGO has come to the point where, there's really nothing to talk about anymore.

It's all banlist predictions and shitty format declarations.

We could talk about Vanguard, but don't get me started on how so many people can't realise that in order to win you jus hav to build a deck that wins.

Really, I don't get why people play shit like Pendragon or Butterfly Man, and Megablasters in general bar CEO, Pacifica and Robert.

Jud build an MLB deck, without any insane tech, standard stable MLB and you can win without racking your brains or even sacking too much.

Ok I better end my Vanguard rant now.

Hope for a better September. The game's a wreck now.

Lalalala