Asia Championship qualifiers 2011

Getting ready to set off for the qualifiers held today! Hope that I dun get that many bad draws... And good luck to all who are participating!!

LUNAR NEW YEAR!!!

Hey everyone!! Happy Lunar New Year to all chinese readers!! HUAT AR!!!

Deck Review: Fish Synchro

Hey everyone! Once again, happy new year!! With the new year, comes new sets that will help boost the metagame pretty significantly, such as GOLD SERIES 2011, where Trishula will become legal in major tournaments here in asia, as well as EXTREME VICTORY, where the new archetype, Tech Genus, will become available to us. Anyway, onto the main post today. I will be doing a deck review on the decktype which has become popular both in the OCG and TCG metagames. The deck is Fish Synchro. Basically, there are a few variants of this decktype which are used.

-Hyper Librarian Mass Draw
-Mausoleum OTK
-Frog Fish Synchro

Firstly, I will talk about the Hyper Librarian Mass Draw variant. Ever since the synchro TECH GENUS-HYPER LIBRARIAN was released in the OCG, many decks have found ways to abuse it one way or another. Fish synchro is no exception. People have been adding in cards that are not normally found in this deck, such as Metabo Shark and 7-Colored Fish, in order to synchro summon Hyper Librarian. The otk normally ends with a Scrap Dragon, a Holy Ancient Wyvern and a Scrap Archfiend.

Next, there is the Mausoleum variant of the deck. This version utilizes the field card MAUSOLEUM OF THE EMPEROR to summon the big fish easily. This enables the combo to work without having 2 tributes on the field, and can catch your opponent off-guard, as they would expect you to stall till you get 2 tributes on the field before you start your combo.

Finally, there is the variant that incoporates frogs into the deck. This variant uses cards typically found in frog monarchs, such as Treeborn Frog and Ronintoadin to generate multiple tributes to summon the big fish easily. Then, it can also do the same type of combo as the Hyper Librarian variant, and also be able to slowly stall with cards such as Dupe Frog and Snowman Eater.

However, there are a few cards that this deck has to watch out for. One such card is Effect Veiler. After painstakingly summoning the big fish and activate its effect, a Effect Veiler can totally screw up the whole combo. However, there is a way to get around this con. You can special summon a Fishborg Blaster before activating the effect of the big fish, as doing so will be able to protect the big fish's effect from being negate by tributing the Fishborg Blaster.

Anyway, be sure to expect this deck to rise in popularity in the coming months due to its OTK capabilities.

I will be back with another deck review soon, as school has just resumed and I am busy with projects. For now, enjoy the new year and once again, a very happy new year to all readers!!

New Year 2011

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!

Report 23/12/10

Hey everyone! Today, I went to a local tournament with my gladiator beasts, and got 6th place. Here is how it went:

Round 1: VS Winson (Anti-Meta Gadgets) XX

Game 1: Lost to too many 1 for 1 destruction cards and a constant swarm of gadgets.

Game 2: Did a mistake and forgot to bottomless his Doomcaliber Knight. That mistake caused me the game as I failed to draw enough monsters.

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He went on to win the tournament.

Round 2: Random (Mixed and match beatdown) OO

Game 1 and 2: Controlled him with gladiator beasts and traps. Heraklinos and Gyzarus also made appearances.

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Round 3: Banana (Inferinty) OO

Game 1: Trap Dustshoot on the 1st turn enabled me to remove his snowman eater and thus leaving him with no protection, while I had traps to keep his monsters at bay.

Game 2: It was a back and forth battle, but I managed to gain control in the end, and clinched the win.

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THe tournament organizer didn't want to play out the top 8, as he wanted to end it early, so we were given prizes according to our ranking going into top 8.

Placing: 6th Place
Prize: 1 Starstrike Blast booster (Pulled Crap)

That sums up my day at the locals

Karakuri deck review + Card Review

Hi everyone! It's been quite a long while since I last posted. Anyway, since my holidays has just started, so I have more spare time to write blog posts. Today, I will be talking about the deck which has recieved more support from Storm of Ragnarok, and was made famous by DSummon of DuelingDays. Here is a sample decklist, credit to DSummon.

Karakuri Machiner:
Monster [20]
[2] Cyber Dragon
[3] Machina Gearframe
[3] Machina Fortress
[3] Kuikku, Karakuri Ninja
[2] Saisan, Karakuri Doorkeeper
[2] Nishipachi, Karakuri Staff Officer
[2] Nisamu, Karakuri Soldier
[2] Ally Genex Birdman
[1] Card Gunner

Magic [11]
[1] Monster Reborn
[1] Black Hole
[2] Cyclone
[1] Mind Control-
[1] Limit Break
[1] Enemy Controller
[3] Book of Moon
[1] Pot of Duality

Trap [9]
[1] Call of Haunted
[1] Trap Dust Shoot
[3] Urgent Tuning
[2] Bottomless Traphole
[2] Dust Tornado


Okay, this is a hybrid build between Karakuri and Machiner. DS has chosen to only include the main core of the Machiner engine, namely 3 Gearframes and 3 Fortress. Peacekeeper and Force are not needed as this deck focuses on Karakuri monsters instead of Machiner. One of the common plays that one could make with this deck is to discard either Saisan, Karakuri Doorkeeper or Nishipachi, Karakuri Staff Officer with Machiner Fortress to special summon it to the field, and then summon Kuikku, Karakuri Ninja to whack a monster, special summon back the monster which you discarded for Fortress, and synchro summon for either Burei, Karakuri Shogun or Bureido, Karakuri Great Shogun, depending on which monster you discarded. And then you can special summon a Level 4 or lower Karakuri monster, preferably Ninja, then you can do the synchro summoning again next turn. Another alternative is to use Urgent Tuning during your battle phase when Ninja special summons back a tuner, so as to gain another 2 more attacks.

Now, on to the card review! Here is the card which got many of us OCG player hyped up recently: Tech Genus Hyper Librarian.


THis card is quickly becoming a generic synchro that most of us will be putting into our extra decks. He is a level 5 dark attribute, which means that it will be easy to bring out with cards like BF-Blizzard of the North Pole and Deep Sea Diva, and being dark it can fuel the graveyard for cards like Dark Armed Dragon. Spellcaster-type makes synchro summoning Arcanite Magician and Tempest Magician much easier than before. And 2400 attack and 1800 defense is a pretty strong stat. However, the most broken thing about this card is its effect. Drawing a card everytime either player synchro summons is an effect that is a first in the game, and to a certain extent could be game breaking. Synchro summoning is something that most decks will do, and in particular Infernities, Dandy Plant and Fish Synchro. Synchro summoning Hyper Librarian before you perform other synchro summons will enable you to gain back advantage while summoning larger synchro monsters to gain control of the field and the game.

On a side note, the Weekly Jump Magazines were quickly sold out on the day the were released in Singapore, proving how hot Hyper Librarian is now.

I will be reviewing another decktype - Fish Synchro soon, and also the combos that the deck can perform.

So for now, see ya!!

STORM OF RAGNAROK

Heys everyone!! HAve not been posting in a long time due to other commitments. Anyway, STOR was released in sg today, and here's my spoils for the boxes. (Shared 2 boxes with Sazabi)

Ultimate Rare: -Polar God Loki
-Polar God Thor

Ultra Rare: -Polar God Thor
-Polar Sacred Emperor Odin
-Atomic Scrap Dragon
-Karakuri Grand Shogun Bureido

Super Rare: -True Six Samurai Enishi
-2x Polar Star Angel Valkyrie
-2x Eleckirimu
-Forbidden Holy Lance