TCG Rarity Bumps: Maxx "C"?

I assumed that the card price would stop at around $35 but no it's going up to around $45?

I get that Maxx "C" is a great stopper for special summoning but really? Forty five flippin dollars?

Maybe it's just me, but this seems way too ridiculous. This card should've just been a super rare max from the start. LOL KONAMI

New Decklist

Err, I'll get to more explaining later cuz it's 1 in the morning and I'm pretty tired. Just writing the decklist when my mind's pretty clear:

Monsters - 16

x3 King Tiger Wanghu

x3 Beast King Barbaros

x3 Reborn Tengu

x3 Thunder King Rai-Oh

x2 D.D. Warrior Lady

x1 Pitch Black Warwolf

x1 Morphing Jar

Spells - 8

x3 Pot of Duality

x3 Burden of the Mighty

x2 Book of Moon

Traps - 16

x3 Horn of the Phantom Beast

x3 Skill Drain

x3 Dimensional Prison

x2 Solemn Warning

x1 Mirror Force

x1 Solemn Judgment

x2 Bottomless Trap Hole

x1 Torrential Tribute

Focusing on Wanghu!

I really want to emphasize on this whole Wangu Anti-Meta Beast deck idea. Augustin Herrera's build in Indianapolis really got my attention. It was a build from the last format, but with just a little tweaks, it can be a devastating competitor for the meta this format too.

First of all, you have King Tiger Wanghu, which is a great against Gadgets, most T.G monsters, Blackwings, Underworlds, and some plants. The problem with Wanghu is that it needs so much protection. Having 3 Horn of the Phantom Beast, 2-3 Forbidden Chalice should do the trick but takes so much of the deck.

Other monsters like Barbaros & Thunder King work great. Barbaros combos great with Horn of the Phantom Beast and also Skill Drain.

Skill Drain is a MUST for this deck. In case your plans fail of keeping Wanghu out on the field, Skill Drain and Barbaros is your back up. Now let's say your strategy of shutting down with Wanghu works. Having 3 Skill Drain in your deck can really be dead draws so that's a risk you gotta take.

Of course Reborn Tengu is needed. Great combo again with Horn of the Phantom Beast and for quicker monster line-up, since decks like these play around only 15-17 monsters.

Other cards you can play with are Thunder King, Doomcaliber Knight, Banisher of the Radiance preferably side decked), Fossil Dyna, & Pitch-Black Warwolf. All these cards are really just basics of a strong anti-meta build. You can make this anti meta to the extreme by playing 3 Fossil Dyna, 3 Thunder King, and 3 Doomcaliber but if you wanna, just make a anti-meta deck. :P

Wanghu can be greatly used, but it all depends on your protection for him. Think of your offense too, always have 3 Burden of the Mighty, (even if it may look like a dead draw) it will probably be quickly MST'ed a couple of times around. I personally want to try out an own build and even might have a deck profile later on.

That's it for today. Until my next post, peace!

Short Review: Wave 2 Tins

We can FINALLY get our 'easy' copies of solemn Warning, and also Fossil Dyna! The other promos look pretty sick too:

• CT08-EN00? Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon (Secret Rare)
• CT08-EN0?? Malefic Stardust Dragon (Super Rare)
• CT08-EN0?? Solemn Warning (Super Rare)
• CT08-EN0?? Guardian Eatos (Super Rare)
• CT08-EN0?? Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo (Super Rare)
• CT08-EN00? Number 10: Illumiknight (Secret Rare)
• CT08-EN0?? The Tyrant Neptune (Super Rare)
• CT08-EN0?? Solemn Warning (Super Rare)
• CT08-EN0?? Ehren, Lightsworn Monk (Super Rare)
• CT08-EN0?? XX-Saber Darksoul (Super Rare)

Just gotta say, WTF is The Tyrant Neptune doing here? garbageeeee

I'm REALLY looking forward to 'Number 10: Illumiknight' the card itself because of it's pretty interesting effect. It basically lets you get rid of a dead card in your hand (up to 3 times). It may look like it's an annoyance to get him out but decks like Offering Gadgets can make it with ease.

'Number 10: Illumiknight' Full effect:

3 Level 4 monsters
Once per turn: You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card; send 1 card from your hand to the Graveyard and draw 1 card.

HUGE Liquidation Sale

Finally doing one of these. As Legendary collection 2 and Generation Force are coming out soon, I'm planning to sorta restart my collection. EVERYTHING is on discount. Pretty cheap stuff, so go check the video out! (click on the title)

Herro

Yes, I was gone on Blogger for a while.

Look! Extreme Victory is already out but the set doesn't look promising for me.

yep, anyways new posts soon.

Are Blackwings doomed?

Because of the banlist being released and all, many are saying that Blackwings will now be "shunned out" or they're just going to less played.

Honestly, I am sad to see Kalut to go to 1, which no one really predicted, and will leave Blackwings' defense wide open..

Icarus Attack going down to 2 WILL slow down field advantage. And also, we lost a beloved level 6, Goyo :[

I think it's fair that Kalut can be replaced with a 2nd Vayu (if you run 1), or a another Spirit Reaper. Because it stays on the field for at least 2 turns, you can draw a Gale out or use Shura to get a tuner out for faster synchro-ing.

That's all for now. I know it's short, I'm a lazy ass. But I just don't think Blackwings are over yet..

Pot of Duality & Solemn Warning not needed?

I ran a Blackwing deck at locals today w/o any Pod or Solemn Warning and it did pretty well. Here is how I did:

Blackwings 1-2

Blackwings 1-2

GBs 2-1

So yeah, I ended up overall losing to both other BW decks but they ran Pod and Warnings of course. Since I don't have either of them, I did:

PoD -> Cards for Black Feathers

Solemn Warning -> Dark Bribe & Blackwing Backlash

Cards for black Feathers actually came in very handy because I just fucking hated when I had just Kalut in my hand. So i usually end up dumping Kalut, use Cards for Black Feathers and end up with Shura or something. Cards for BF + Allure + same turn = EPIC

Dark Bribe was probably a terrible tech choice, since it just gave so much to my oppenent. I ended up using it once, and the guy drew a Dark Hole, Dark Armed Dragon, and then game. I was stupid for doing that, since I didn't even notice his graveyard.

Blackwing Backlash was very good, considering how fast I got my monsters to the grave, because I was overpowering with draw power. >:D Again, Cards for BF + Allure + same turn = EPIC

But I guess PoD and Solemn Warning do help in decks, and make it faster. But as a budget player, I'll fix that. The deck didn't too bad, and I'll post the decklist soon on Youtube.

-xc

Price Drops

If ANYONE has noticed, over the years, Konami has been dropping the prices of cards in GENERAL. I mean, back in the day, CCV used to cost $350 USD , and DAD was around $250 USD.

It's been a lot easier to complete decks these days, just around about $50. (excluduing PoD, warning)

Tele-DaD used to cost a lot of money to make, but since Malicious' and Dad was reprinted for the x20000 time, it's been very easy to gather all the cards. (also the banlist)

Excluding tourney cards, the AVERAGE price of usable cards are around $50-60.

I actually respect Konami for doing this because it gives so much chance for budget players and for new players to feel at ease entering the game, and not be overwhelmed by overpriced cards.

This doesn't mean that there aren't staple cards that don't cost a lot of money, like Solemn Warning, which I dearly own none of.

NOOOOOO ! !

I just wish it gets limited or something..

The Next Big Archetypes (March 2010 Banlist)

First of all, I think Insects will FTW in the next format :D. I'm just joking around, but who knows?

Konami brought back the most unpredictable card, Dark Hole in the last format. Also, Rescue Cat was banned a little after a super rare version of it was released. Pissed lots of players a lot for sure.

Instead of like everyone who talk about decks who have gained lots of attention, I mainly want to focus on other decks/archetypes that haven't.

First of all, Genex monsters were first introduced in Duel Terminal and then Hidden Arsenal 2 and have not gained much popularity. I think there's much support to make them into an alright deck. Most of them are low level and not much ATK, but have effects which can summon out each other from the deck. They mostly depend on synchros, so I guess oppression pretty much stops them.

Fabled support were also introduced in Duel Terminal (not sure which one) and have continued on with Hidden Arsenal 2 & 3, DREV, and STBL. The deck itself is not very considerate enough for players to think about playing this, but you can't blame them. Fabled's need tons of new support to work better in the next format. Konami just through in a bunch of useless stuff, except Grimro, and a bunch of weird ass synchros. ;D

Dragunities without a doubt will make a huge impact in the next format. The worst the banlist can do is maybe semi-limit Phalanx. As everyone knows, the structure is coming out and this archetype will prevail!

Dandywarrior / Quickdraw - I fear that Debris Dragon and Quickdraw Syncrhon will get heavily hit on the banlist. (get it?? like Heavy Storm got banned?? HAHAHA)

Debris is too strong right now, considering it can't even be stopped by Skill Drain. Either Debris has to go, or Black Rose...but I kinda want Black rose to stay.

What will Konami do?! No one knows!!! I wish Tele - Dad or Little City format would come back. Ahhhh, the old days. When Stratos was at 3 and Reinforcement was at 3. :DD