Thunder End Dragon – Strong or Weak Yugioh Monster?
Thunder End Dragon is a very powerful Yugioh card, but it is very hard to summon. Is its strong effect worth the difficult summoning conditions?
Thunder End Dragon is a very powerful Yugioh card, but it is very hard to summon. Is its strong effect worth the difficult summoning conditions?
The Agent Yugioh archetype is a deck that focuses around life points and summoning Master Hyperion, the strongest fairy monster in Yugioh. In short, they are very, very strong.
The Yugioh Xyz monster, Number 61: Volcasaurus is really powerful because it has a great effect and great stats. It is the strongest Xyz monster in Yugioh.
Yugioh psychic monsters are not only a powerful monster type, they are quite unique as well and are really fun to duel with!
Shooting Quasar Dragon is one of the strongest synchro monsters in Yugioh and is Yusei’s strongest monster.
Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon is the ace card of the main antagonist of Yugioh Zexal, Kaito Tenjo, but is it stronger than Stardust Dragon?
There are lots of reasons to anticipate the arrival of Generation Force, the booster pack that has all duelists talking. There is of course, a new genre of monsters being released, known as Xyz monsters. However, there are several other reasons to be excited about Generation Force. For one, all duelists can relax for synchro monsters are still being manufactured; in fact Generation Force has very powerful syncrhos. Also, Generation Force will introduce several new archetypes and some of them have the potential to be top-tier. Here are three things that I have been the most enthusiastic about regarding the release of Generation Force:
1. Pain Painter – Tuner
Pain Painter is going to be overused in a zombie deck. It is a level two tuner, that’s name can be treated as Plaguespreader (allowing it to synchro summon monsters with Plaguespreader Zombie as a requirement). Its strongest effect is this though: it can make two zombie monsters on your side of the field level two monsters. It might seem like a simple effect, but, Pain Painter makes it so much easier to play Archfiend Zombie Skull. With 2500 attack points, AZS is an ace zombie synchro monster that makes sure faceup zombie monsters are not destroyed by card effects!
2. Steelswarm
The Steelswarm archetype has the potential to be one of the strongest archetypes in Yugioh. Steelswarm monsters take advantage of tribute summoning with their swarming capabilities. However, the Steelswarms monsters that are tribute summoned get powerful effects that can devastate opponents. For instance, Steelswarm Caller allows you to special summon a level four or lower Steelswarm monster when you tribute summon one. This swarming effect allows you to quickly tribute summon Steelswarm monsters. They are going to be a mighty deck, especially because they already have a good amount of support cards.
3. Number 39: Utopia
Okay, I love collecting duelists ace monsters (as I already have Dark Magician, Elemental Hero Neos, and Stardust Dragon) and Utopia will be an add-on to the list. Its a powerful monster that can be very easily summoned (have two level four monsters) and it can remove a Xyz material monster to negate an attack. So, it is fairly powerful as well.
Following the release of the Nordic Gods in the booster pack Storm of Ragnarok, the booster pack Extreme Victory that was released yesterday in TCG has lived well up to expectations. Though its cover monster, Junk Beserker, is not the strongest of monsters, the release of Antinomy’s cool Tech Genus cards make Extreme Victory one of the most exciting booster packs in the series. Let’s not forget that this pack also debuts Life Stream Dragon, a.k.a the “6th dragon”, as well as Aporia’s beast Meklord Astro Dragon Asterisk.
The Tech Genus monsters are really powerful when played correctly, as you can tell from the way that Antinomy really beat down Yusei when they dueled. Though not all of the Tech Genus monsters and support cards have been released in this pack, this archetype still has the potential really strong. The two crucial monsters that were released in this pack were the accel synchro monster T.G. Blade Blaster and the delta accel synchro monster T.G. Haldberd Cannon. Both monsters have great stats with 3300 attack and 2200 defense points a piece, but they have stellar effects as well (Blade Blaster, Haldberd Cannon). The Tech Genus monsters are going to be a force to be reckoned with as long as those cards aren’t banned!
Besides the T.G. monsters, the debut of Life Stream Dragon is very exhilarating as well. I was in awe when I heard that Life Stream Dragon had been revealed for its image had been online for ages, but once Blackwing Dragon had been introduced, I figured that was the end of Life Stream Dragon. When Life Stream Dragon is summoned, you have the option to make your life points 4000, which can be a huge game changer. Plus, any effect damage you take becomes zero and if Life Stream Dragon gets destroyed, you can remove an equip spell instead. All these monsters and new releases makes Extreme Victory a pack worth getting!
Last month, I decided to create a dark monster deck that revolved around summoning Dark Armed Dragon and The Wicked Avatar. It was a decent deck, but I believed it had the potential to surpass my Infernity-Dark World deck. I knew in order for it to reach its maximum strength, I had to add more dark oriented spells and traps, add more swarm monsters, and replace Rainbow Dark Dragon with another trump card. Last week, after buying five Phantom Darkness booster packs and acquiring a super rare Dark Armed Dragon to be my ace, I received the proper additions to create my ultimate dark deck (obviously, there were a few forbidden cards in the deck, so it is only a deck for leisure duels).
The point of this deck is to quickly bring out Dark Armed Dragon through spells like Graceful Charity and then quickly swarm dark monsters in order to play The Wicked Avatar, then remove the monsters in my grave to summon Rainbow Dark Dragon. Due to The Wicked Avatar’s effect, my opponent would not be able to activate any spells or traps for two turns, allowing me to destroy them with my high powered monsters. Monsters like Witch of the Black Forest and Dark Grepher makes this a fast process. If my opponent was able to halt my strategy, I had cards such as Dark Necrophear, Relinquished, and Blast Sphere as back ups. Overall, I’d say this deck is Dark Armed Dragon Burn deck.
The only weakness this deck has is the weak spell and trap support. I don’t really need to utilize much spells or traps for my strategies, but it would still be useful if I had some in the scenario that both my plan a and b were halted, in which case I would have to really on my various dark monsters (Dark Crusader, Barrel Dragon). Otherwise though, I think this deck is good enough to take on a lot of decks out there, however, it is strategies like the ones I use in this deck that make many of these cards forbidden!
Do you guys have any suggested improvements I should make on this deck? If so, list them in your comments.
The new Yugioh booster pack, Storm of Ragnarok, was released four days ago. The Storm of Ragnarok features cards in the distorted timeline arc such as Stardust Shimmer, Zero Force, and the cover card of the pack; Odin, Father of the Aesir. The fierce ruler of Asgard has the ability to revive itself by removing a ‘Nordic Ascendant’ monster from play when destroyed. For the turn that it’s special summoned, Odin is unaffected by spell trap cards. Along with Odin, the other two (powerful) Nordic legends, Loki and Thor, are available in the pack as well!
The Storm of Ragnarok looks like an awesome booster pack, not only because of the release of the Nordic Gods, but of the loads of support it brings for new archetypes as well. The Legendary Samurai archetype gets a lot of support, as a semi-archetype known as the Legendary Six Samurai debut in this booster pack. Blackwings also get some good support and there as a powerful new addition to the Elemental Hero archetype as well (Elemental Hero Ice Edge)! Storm of Ragnarok will also be featured in the upcoming Yugioh video game, World Championships 2011: Over the Nexus.