What a Charming Combination!

(J.) Hello!
I can't help it!
I need to share these adorable cuties!
Here are the Pictures of the new "Charmer" character Sleeves!

Enjoy!

source:Ygorganization

Cover of the Sleeves! So adorable!

View of the other side of the Sleeve deck Divider

-Jhay

The Day before "The Day"

(J.)I'm so glad to be back!
After weeks of being sick and inactive in blogging and playing the game,I'm here to share my thoughts about the things that has happened while I'm away.

October 1st,2014,the official date of the start of the new format both OCG and TCG. But first let us talk about the OCG version.

Here are the changes:

Forbidden:
(none)

Limited:
Soul Charge
El-Shadoll Construct
El-Shadoll Winda
Star Seraph Sovereign
Summoner Monk
Sinister Shadow Games
Dark Armed Dragon

Semi-Limited:
Blackwing-Gale the Whirlwind

Unlimited:
Wind-up Shark
Abyss Sphere
Needlebug's Nest

My thoughts:

As you can see,Shadoll is badly hit and the Star Seraph Combo is broken.Soul Charge is just an overpowered card and deserves the limited status considering it has also its drawbacks.The universal rank 4 searcher named "Summoner Monk" is now back to 1 and a player can now only have 1 DAD because 2 DADs are pretty sick.Blackwing regained their second gale which is good to push the archetype a little bit on this fast paced format.Lastly,there are some random comebacks in the form of Wind-up Shark,Abyss Sphere and Needlebug's nest.Overall,the list is good so players can try newer archetypes and strategies(For those who were hit.)

Here is the second one and the moment I saw this one I was like "For real?" .Here is the TCG October 1st Banlist

Here are the changes(It's not actually a change,it's a HUGE CHANGE!)

Forbidden:
(None) Just like OCG.Maybe some sort of trend?

Limited:
Glow-up Bulb
Infernity Archfiend
Raigeki
Soul Charge
Super Polymerization

Semi-Limited:
Blackwing Gale the Whirlwind
Gorz the emissary of Darkness
Ceasefire
The Transmigration Prophecy

Unlimited:
Coach Soldier Wolfbark
Magician of Faith
Formula Synchron
Reinforcement of the Army

My thoughts:

Raigeki
Raigeki
Raigeki
Raigeki


and yet dark hole is banned? why?
Infernity archfiend is a good hit,the one I have wished the OCG has done instead of limiting summoner monk.I like the Super Poly hit tho limiting it will reduce the popularity of attribute fusions of Shadolls and heroes.Though Super Polymerization is a strong card,it requires many cards for you to play like the monster on your field and the discard that's why I think it was not hit on OCG.Glow-up bulb is surprising but time will tell if the infamous bulb will still impose a huge threat in TCG environment.The rest of the unlimited section is understandable though I found unlimiting Reinforcement of the Army odd.It's an okay list aside from the fact that it has Raigeki in it.



Closing Remarks:
So far,I still can't decide on what will I build on OCTOBER format.Right now I am practicing my old Prophecy Deck and I'm trying to make it adopt on a Qliphort heavy Format.Hopefully,I can play again on our local and official tournaments.
Right now,I am focusing on the new look of this blog.Hopefully,I can implement it on the third week of October.Stay tune for more articles!

Thanks for following!

Singing off
Jhay

Card Reasoning for the card "Reasoning"-Single Card Discussion

(Kaz) Good Day!113 Days to go before Christmasand guess what?25 days to go before the October 2014 Banlist.Seems like christmas,everyone is already been discussing few of their predictions for the upcoming banlist where hate post about their most hated cards arises.My new article for today is about a card that has been Limited for a few long years but is now free from the sealing chain of the forbidden list.The card I am talking about is "Reasoning".For those who don't know what this card does,here is the full effect:

"I choose you!"(using Ash voice from Pokemon)

Reasoning
Normal Spell Card
Card Effect:
Your opponent declares a monster Level. Excavate cards from the top of your Deck until you excavate a monster that can beNormal Summoned/Set. If that monster is the same Level as the one declared by your opponent, send all excavated cards to theGraveyard. If not, Special Summon the excavated monster, also send the remaining cards to the Graveyard.

What makes this card amazing?

• First,it acts a generic searcher for all monster cards(provided that the opponent chose the wrong level and the monster excavated is not a nomi

• Second,It can trigger monsters that has a trigger effects whenever it is special summoned

• Third,It's a one for one.Meaning you do not lose card advantage(Still provided that your opponent picked the wrong level that your monsters has

• Fourth,If there is a point that your opponent might declare the right level,it acts as a lucky-based foolish burial.

• Last,Old cards are cool.:)

What are the decks that can benefit with this card?

1. Melodious-Here is our first candidate.It is an archetype that involves about special summoning.In simpler term,it doesn't do anything if "Melodious" monsters aren't special summoned.This card can be a great help for them because it special summons.It has a high chance that you can special summon a "Melodious" because their levels vary from 3-8

1. Ice Barrier-One of the member of the south water tribe Duel terminal.It receives a massive support on Photon Shockwave which was named "Prior of the Ice Barrier" and the plays that this deck makes involves using Prior everyday.But the biggest problem is that aside from their theme searcher "Medallion of the Ice Barrier",there is no other card or if so,few cards can only search those prior or moreover,the requirement of ice barrier to have another Ice Barrier face up.Good thing Reasoning can aid that.Like Melodious,Ice barrier does have different levels on the monsters part,they can also fully utilize the power of Reasoning.

1. Spellbooks-Not only it can aid on maintaining a face up Spell caster-type monster for various Spellbook cards to work out,it can also send excavated Spellbook Spell cards as a huge fuel for Spellbook of Fate to banish cards.

1. Dragon Rulers-dragon rulers is marked as one of the most annoying and indeed one of the most hammered deck in Yu-Gi-Oh History.In addition,Dragon Ravine which serves as their Search engine has recently been limited.Reasoning can help on summoning those dragons for no cost and since dragon Rulers has little to no number of level 4 monsters which the opponent might always declare for reasoning's effect,this deck has a great potential for using "Reasoning"

1. Chaos Dragons-The Structured deck 22 which includes a reprint of "Reasoning" and yet no one uses it because let's admit at that time that it is overhauled by many stronger cards such as Future Fusion,Future Fusion and Future Fusion. :D Now that Future Fusion is banned and Reasoning is now unlimited(Semi-Limited for TCG for some reason,kindly explain this to me),I think this is the best deck that can use the card "Reasoning" full force! As I have said,once the opponent has luckily declared the right level that your excavated monster has,it proceeds to the graveyard.For Chaos dragon's case,whether the monster is special summoned and sent to the graveyard,it will have it's uses! In the case where your opponent declares level 4,you have a chance of sending Eclipse Wyvern to grave at the same time triggering it's effect! Then if Eclipse wyvern has happened to be special summoned instead,then you can even plus more because you can have field presence or maybe you can use it to summon Rank 4 xyzs.Same applies with Lightpulsar Dragon. Sweet!

1. Sylvan-Since this card also has the word "Excavate",obviously it is designed as one of the cards that can help in this deck's piloting.If your opponent calls a wrong level,you can summon your Big trees or little plants.If the opponent happens to call the right level which is a very small chance,then you can trigger the effects of your powerful sylvans for no cost and without your normal summon.This is by far one of the most appealing archetypes that can use the card "Reasoning" at full advantage.

While there are many known decks that can benefit from it,offcourse there are some who doesn't and do not have a synergy to start with.

1. Satellarknights-While satellarknights trigger their effects in any method of summoning(aside from ritual and fusion off course),it is very common that the opponent calls level 4 because it is one of the common levels in every deck.It so happens that all satellarknight monster level is 4 so you might end up just sending your knights which Mathematician and Unukalhai already does.

1. Evilswarm-Same as above.

1. Fire Fist-Same as above

1. Rock Stun-most are level 4

1. Geargia-Really,it doesn't help.

1. Gadgets-definitely not.

There you have it, while reasoning has many pros and cons in a certain deck,there are some other decks that doesn't benefit from it.Still,it is a widely known card but yet forgotten due to the luck factor and popularity of other cards but who knows,this card might be the key to speed up your cool decks! See you next time for more exciting articles!-Kazuhiko