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Surprising Results of the ‘Your Favorite Synchro Monster’ Poll

If you guys haven’t noticed yet, I recently put up a new poll on Yugioh Cards Blog inquiring about people’s favorite synchro monsters. The results were quite surprisingly actually; most people checked Red Nova Dragon as their favorite synchro monster. Though it’s  a strong monster, I don’t understand why Red [...]

Top 10 Tuner Monsters in Yugioh Part 2

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Published on: March 27, 2011

Hey readers, this is the part 2 of the top 10 tuner monsters in Yugioh. If you have not already, read Top 10 Tuner Monsters in Yugioh Part 1. 5. Delta Flyer Delta Flyer is a great tuner because it not only has pretty high attack points for a level [...]

Top 10 Tuner Monsters in Yugioh Part 1

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Published on: March 25, 2011

As I was contemplating on what post to write, I figured I should write another top 10, since I haven’t written one for some time. Then I realized that though I have written a top 10 synchro monster list, I have never written a top 10 tuner monster list despite their dominance in Yugioh. So, here are (in my opinion) the top 10 tuner monsters in Yugioh:

10. Dark Resonator

For some reason, I have a huge fetish with the ‘Resonator’ tuners. One of my decks on Yugioh Online is a Resonator deck where I swarm Resonators on to the field and synchro summon powered monsters with them. Anyways, the reason Dark Resonator is on this list is because it is a pretty powerful low-leveled tuner with 1300 attack points. Plus, once per turn Dark Resonator can negate its destruction through battle. Its effect allows you to stall to find the right synchro material monster you need. Plus, a synchro monster who was summoned with Dark Resonator gains 300 attack points.

9. D.D. Sprite

With no attack points and 100 defense points, D.D. Sprite may not look like much but it is a great tuner monster. You can remove one monster on your side from the field and special D.D. Sprite. That is huge because if you haven’t normal summoned that turn, you can use your normal summon to bring out a monster you can use to synchro summon. Also, the monster you removed from play to special summon D.D. Sprite returns your next standby phase, so if D.D. Sprite is still alive, you can synchro summon it with the returning monster. This is a very efficient monster and is amazing in D.D. decks.

8. Plaguespreader Zombie

Just like D.D. Sprite, Plaguespreader Zombie can also special summon itself, but you have to return one card from your hand to the top of your deck. Like I mentioned with D.D. Sprite, this is great because if you have not used your normal you can use it to play a monster that you can use as a synchro material monster. The reason I like Plaguespreader Zombie better than D.D. Sprite is because you can easily normal summon level four monsters, which in turn allows you to bring out level six synchro monsters (most notably, Goyo Guardian).

7. Blackwing – Gale the Whirlwind

Perhaps one of the best Blackwing tuners in the game, Blackwing – Gale the Whirlwind just had to be on this list. It can special summon itself when there are one or more Blackwing monsters on the owner’s field. This allows for instantaneous synchro summoning capabilities, as Blackwing monsters are so good at swarming monsters onto the field. Gale also has 1300 attack points and once per turn, it can halve the attack and defense points of one monster on the field! That effect allows it to destroy any monster with 2600 or lower attack points.

6. Mist Valley Soldier

Mist Valley Soldier is a great tuner monster. Not only is it a level four tuner, which when tuned with a level four monster (the most common monster level) allows you to synchro summon powerful level eight synchro monsters. Mist Valley has a pretty good attack stat with 1700 attack points, but its effect is stellar. It can return a monster back to the owner’s hand if it is not destroyed by battle after battling Mist Valley Soldier. That allows you to return extremely powerful cards, such as the Yubels that are not destroyed by battle, back to their owner’s hand which is clutch if those monsters are throttling you.

Numbers 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 one will be revealed on part 2 of this list.

Exceed Monster Lockdown

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Published on: March 23, 2011

Cards such as Gravity Bind and Level Limit Area – B do not not allow any monsters over level four from attacking. So I was thinking, couldn’t people use Exceed monsters to make those lockdowns broken? Here is my reasoning: Exceed monsters do not have levels, they have ranks. A rank is the average of the merger between two levels, so it is not qualified as a level. I’m not really familiar with a lot of Level Limit Area – B lockdowns but there are many Gravity Bind lockdowns, such as the Darkness Neosphere lockdown, that would be virtually unbreakable with Exceed monsters. Maybe that’s why Konami is making Exceed monsters a bit weaker than synchros, it’s because they add new aspects to the game like this one. What do you guys think?

Light End Dragon VS Dark End Dragon

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Published on: March 20, 2011

Light versus darkness. In the movies, the good guys (light) always beat the villains (darkness). However, today we are going to see which of one of these two components are superior in Yugioh by comparing to monsters, Light End Dragon or Dark End Dragon.

1. Light End Dragon

Light End Dragon is a synchro monster that’s artwork is almost God-like. It’s statistics, with 2600 attack and 2100 defense points, as well its effect are not to shabby either. You can decrease Light End Dragon’s attack and defense points by 500 to decrease the attack and defense points of a monster it battles by 1500 defense points. That means it can destroy any monster who has 3600 or less attack points by battle!

Artwork: 10/10, Power: 8/10, Playability: 8/10, Deck Adaptation: 7/10, Effect: 6/10, Game Changer: 7/10. Light End Dragon overall score is 7.7/10 – C+.

2. Dark End Dragon

Dark End Dragon is another very good monster card and he’s been a great asset to my Dark Armed Dragon deck. Dark End Dragon has same 2600 attack and 2100 defense points as Light End Dragon. Its effect is somewhat similar as it can destroy one monster on your opponent’s side of the field by decreasing 500 of it attack and defense points.

Artwork: 7/10, Power: 8/10, Playability: 8/10, Deck Adaptation: 8/10 (since more people run dark oriented decks than light ones), Effect: 8/10, Game Changer: 8/10. Dark End Dragon’s overall score is 7.8/10 – C+ which means Dark End Dragon is the victor!

The Mystery of Cosmic Blazar Dragon

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Published on: March 11, 2011

In a couple of episodes, in the final episode of Yugioh 5Ds, a monster called Cosmic Blazer Dragon will be debuted. There is a rumor that this will be the strongest monster in the Yugioh 5Ds series, similar to Elemental Hero Divine from the Yugioh GX series. Now I do have some guesses as to what type of monster Cosmic Blazer Dragon will be, for example it will probably be a fire attribute, level twelve, dragon type monsters. Here is my guess for its effect:

Attack 4000/ Defense 3000

One Tuner Synchro Monster + One Non-Tuner Fire Attribute Synchro Monster + One Non Tuner Dragon Synchro Monster

This card cannot be special summoned except by synchro summoning. When this card is summoned, return all non dragon monsters back to the owner’s hand. Once per turn, you can destroy all monsters on the field to inflict life point damage to your opponent equal to the number of monsters destroyed x 200. If this monster is destroyed this way, you can do one of the following:

Special summon the synchro monsters used to play this card.
Special summon any dragon synchro monster from your extra deck/ graveyard (disregard summoning conditions).
As long as this card is in the graveyard, once per turn, you can put one dragon monster or fire attribute monster from your deck or graveyard to your hand.

How powerful do you guys think Cosmic Blazer Dragon will be? Do you think it will be Yusei’s strongest monster or will that title remain with Shooting Quasar Dragon? Finally, what type of statistics and effects do you think Cosmic Blazer Dragon will have?

My Dark Armed Dragon Deck

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.

Top 5 Yugioh 5Ds Duels

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Published on: February 25, 2011

With the Yugioh 5Ds series almost over, I thought I should recap on some of the most popular duels this season. Here are the links to some of the most epic duels in Yugioh 5Ds!

1. Aporia VS. Yusei: Part 1, Part 2.

2. Goodwin VS. Yusei, Jack, and Crow.

3. Jack VS. Red Familiar: Part 1, Part 2.

4. Crow VS. Greiger.

5. Yusei VS. Placido: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.

First Exceed Monster: No. 17 Revise Dragon

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Published on: February 20, 2011

In my last post, I talked about the new type of monsters, exceed monsters, who will debut at the start of Yugioh Zexal. I wanted to talk about a particular exceed monster and show you a picture so you can see what exceed monsters look like.

This is No. 17 Revise Dragon and don’t worry, its weird name belies its strength. Revise Dragon is not only a pretty good statistical monster with 2000 attack, but it has a stellar effect as well. When an exceed monster is played, the exceed material monsters act as union monsters. Revise Dragon has the ability to gain five hundred attack points every time you remove one of its exceed material monsters it gains 500 attack points. The only downside to that effect is that if you remove both its exceed material monsters, though it will have 3000 attack points, it cannot attack directly. Still, No. 17 Revise Dragon is still a pretty good monster.

Delta Accel Synchro Summon

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Published on: February 14, 2011

When Starstrike Blast came out, I had this fascination with Red Nova Dragon and its effect. Yesterday, for my cousin’s birthday, I bought him a Red Nova Dragon tin and together we built a deck out of the cards. He’s a pretty old school duelist so he wanted me to duel with his deck (and him with mine) just so he could learn some techniques and strategies. I was really giddy about dueling him with that deck because of the fact that Red Nova Dragon in it. Three turns passed, seven turns, then thirteen and he hit with the finishing blow. During the whole duel, I was not once able to bring out Red Nova Dragon because of its difficult summoning conditions. So I wandered, if accel synchro summoning is this difficult, how is delta accel synchro summoning even possible?

Delta accel sycnrho summoning is an even advanced form of synchro pioneered by Vizor/Antinomy (again). When one delta accel synchro summons they have to tune a tuner synchro monster with two or more non-tuner monsters. Wouldn’t that be almost impossible? Tech Genus monsters have the ability to swarm others into their hands, so people will probably utilize this archetype in the real world in order to rapidly play synchro monsters on the field in order to accel and delta accel synchro summon even stronger monsters. If that is the case, the Tech Genus archetype will be a very hard archetype to beat!

I do not see the point of introducing Delta Accel Synchro summoning. Sure it might benefit the Tech Genus archetype and make them strong but it is so hard to pull that those cards just seem like a waste! Plus, who likes saying,”I delta accel synchro summon Tech Genus Halberd Cannon!” What do you guys think, do you like Delta Accel Synchro summoning or do you think its bogus?

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