Hello readers today I will be talking about some more cards from photon shockwave(btw sorry for not having any pictures in my review posts as my computer is very stubborn and won't let me insert pictures, but I am planning to get a new computer soon.) Moving on with the post today we have:
Watt King Cobra: 1000 atk and can atk directly and when it inflicts battle damage you search your deck for a watt and add it to your hand. So this is a big step in the right direction for watts as it gives them search power, which they need. But looking at the deck as a whole it stilll needs some better support, don't get me wrong this monster is great it's just that the archtype needs some help as there are better control decks out theere.....for now.
Next we have extra gate(spell card): declare a level from 1 to 12 and your opponent banishes 1 card from their extra deck with the same level declared, if there are no monsters in their extra deck discard 1 card from your hand. So this card seems very intriguing(sorry for spelling) to me. Now if you declare a level 5 or some other common level you likely won't get much out of this card, but if you declare level 12 now that changes things, there are only 2 level 12 synchros in the game: T.G halberd cannon and of course shooting quasar, and if you play yugioh(which if you didn't why are you reading this blog?) you would know that once shooting quasar comes out in the tcg, halberd cannon will become more irrlevant than it already is. Also one look at ocg meta and you will see that shooting quasar is defining their meta so i see many possiblities for this card....
So next is dark flash which is a trap card and effect is: tribute one dark monster with 1500 or more atk, destroy all special summoned monsters this turn. I have to say this card sounds very good and I think is konamis way of trying to make a more balanced crush card virus. I can see alot of decks using this( well dark decks anyway. it gives dark world decks a more controlling option to go along with ddv, and eev, but now that they have this they can stop alot of threats. The one deck that I see most benefitting from this card though are Blackwings(post about them is coming soon along with decklist) the way i play the deck is much more of a control deck so this card is like a godsend to them, being able to deny all threats and stop your opponents push. But in all honesty I think i have a bias for blackwings so in the end all dark decks will benefit from this card.
Thanks alot for reading, i havce noticed that my blog is getting a bit more popular in pageviews so that is good.
-Cameron
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
European WCQ Recap: Tengu takes it all
Hello readers doing good on my promise I will now do a recap on the European WCQ. One side note is that the european covergae team covering this event did a top notch job, they had feature matches from every round, lots of pictures, and of course graphs breaking down the deck distribution for the event. I give my complements to the european coverage team and the North America coverage team could learn a thing or two on how to cover an event, though this is the case almost all the time: the european coverage team does a better job.
So first and foremost if you could not tell by the title tengu plants win it all, no shock there, and gravekeepers came in second which is also not a surprise considering they have a good plant matchup. In the top 16 there were 5 tengu plants, 2 T.G, 2 worms, 2 six sam, 1 gravekeeper, 1 x-saber, 1 dopplesworn, 1 junk doppel, and 1 diaster dragon. Since I pay very close attention to the European meta it did not surprise me at all that and x saber made it considering that the U.K is an x-saber hot spot and 4 of the top 16 players were from the U.K. Again same thing as the North America WCQ: T.G also showed up here with two spots after T.G winning in North America that should no longer come as a shock( or vice versa as if you read the european coverage first it would have come to no shock that T.G won in North America.) Six Sam toppi8ng is old news by now same thing with gravekeeper. Diaster Dragon always has a habbit in topping in European events. Junk doppel was one deck that i expected to have more spots in the top 16, but it appears that the consistency of tengu plants is better than the explosivness of junk doppel decks. doppelsworn did surprise me as when I looked at the list it really did have a legit lightsworn engine 2 lyla, 3 ryko, and 1 jain, so it works ( I have not really looked into this deck as much so I cannot really give my view on the subject.) The 2 worm decks that topped had a splash of anti-meta in them so that is what made them so effective, also couple that with the worm engine and w nebula metorite and you have a solid choice for nationals, just a choice that i did not expect to top, but i don't disaaprove infact i am glad to see that worm decks are seeing success.
In the end though Michel Gruner(from Germany) won the event with tengu plants. Michel Gruner has won a YCS before ( i forget which one sorry!) so he is a famaliar face. On to another topic though there were 580 players at this national which is low compared to North America standards but might not be low compared to european standards.
In conclusion both WCQ's ( North American and European) showed the same thing: Tengu plants are the deck to beat, six sam is still a good deck but doesn't have a good plant matchup ( showed by the top 8 standings were no six sam made it in the North America WCQ) gravekeepers still have a favorable plant matchup and Tech genus is one of the best control decks because it takes advantage of tengu. Most of this information was already known. Once the decklists come out for North America I will do a post on that, thanks for reading!
-Cameron
So first and foremost if you could not tell by the title tengu plants win it all, no shock there, and gravekeepers came in second which is also not a surprise considering they have a good plant matchup. In the top 16 there were 5 tengu plants, 2 T.G, 2 worms, 2 six sam, 1 gravekeeper, 1 x-saber, 1 dopplesworn, 1 junk doppel, and 1 diaster dragon. Since I pay very close attention to the European meta it did not surprise me at all that and x saber made it considering that the U.K is an x-saber hot spot and 4 of the top 16 players were from the U.K. Again same thing as the North America WCQ: T.G also showed up here with two spots after T.G winning in North America that should no longer come as a shock( or vice versa as if you read the european coverage first it would have come to no shock that T.G won in North America.) Six Sam toppi8ng is old news by now same thing with gravekeeper. Diaster Dragon always has a habbit in topping in European events. Junk doppel was one deck that i expected to have more spots in the top 16, but it appears that the consistency of tengu plants is better than the explosivness of junk doppel decks. doppelsworn did surprise me as when I looked at the list it really did have a legit lightsworn engine 2 lyla, 3 ryko, and 1 jain, so it works ( I have not really looked into this deck as much so I cannot really give my view on the subject.) The 2 worm decks that topped had a splash of anti-meta in them so that is what made them so effective, also couple that with the worm engine and w nebula metorite and you have a solid choice for nationals, just a choice that i did not expect to top, but i don't disaaprove infact i am glad to see that worm decks are seeing success.
In the end though Michel Gruner(from Germany) won the event with tengu plants. Michel Gruner has won a YCS before ( i forget which one sorry!) so he is a famaliar face. On to another topic though there were 580 players at this national which is low compared to North America standards but might not be low compared to european standards.
In conclusion both WCQ's ( North American and European) showed the same thing: Tengu plants are the deck to beat, six sam is still a good deck but doesn't have a good plant matchup ( showed by the top 8 standings were no six sam made it in the North America WCQ) gravekeepers still have a favorable plant matchup and Tech genus is one of the best control decks because it takes advantage of tengu. Most of this information was already known. Once the decklists come out for North America I will do a post on that, thanks for reading!
-Cameron
Monday, July 18, 2011
WCQ North America Results: Tech genus wins it all!
So as you probably know by now tech genus has won nationals in north America. SIDE NOTE: I will be covering the european national results in a different post. So lets get off the subject of T.G winning and look at some of the good things konami did. First they only did feature matches on good players so that is a plus, but the bad thing is that they didn't do any top 32 coverge they then just switched to dragon duel coverage WHAT? Besides that nothing konami did or did not do really had an impact.
Now lets move on to the event itself of course plant decks had a huge showing, actually all of the tier 1 decks had a good showing. But T.G really hammered it home, it was like out of nowhere that alot of people played this deck, not that I disapprove. Or maybe it wasn't it was that i just didn't pay attention to the meta that much( which I don't think is the case but whatever.) Also quite a few pros made it to the top 64, including jeff jones, Adam Corn, Alistar Albans, and Frazier Smith. But this pro streak ended when it came time to advance to the top 32 as somebody must have oredered a massacre on the pros, as all of the ones I mentioned above were emilnated, plus a alot of others, which left us with a top 32 with very few known names. i of course don't have any information on the top 32 as konami thought dragon duels were more important. Same story with the top 16, i really have no idea what konami was thinking and their coverage team needs a reevaluation. We did have a feature match in the quarterfinals(finally) between Jeff Walker and Joesph Bogli, both duelists were running tengu synchro decks. Now we go to the finals between Hansel Aguero and Samual Pedigo, hansel running T.G and Pedigo with tengu synchro( or plants whatever you want to call it).
The everntaul winner was Hansel Aguero, so congrats to him and everybody else who made top 64 they all did a great job, except for 2 people in that top 64 ( Paul Cooper and Nizar Sarhan). Paul Cooper from what i understand used his empty jar deck and was dq'd in top 64 for unknown reasons but if you know who he is from YCS coverage you can probably figure it out ( he was using his empty jar deck see any problem?) Moving on to Nizar Sarhan I firmly believe he did some form of cheating, why? Well Michael Bonacini of Death Aspect Blog has all of that information so make sure to look at that.
Overall I am pleased with the results, it is unforunate that alot of pros were ousted in the top 64, but oh well, let's let some new people represesnt North America. T.G is a good deck so I don't think that it deserved not to win, infact i amk quite pleased that a tengu varient did not win. That is all for today so check back tomorrow for a recap of the european nationals.
EDIT: I will do more of a deck breakdown once the decklists come out, but with the european national recap I will cover it all in one post.
-Cameron
Now lets move on to the event itself of course plant decks had a huge showing, actually all of the tier 1 decks had a good showing. But T.G really hammered it home, it was like out of nowhere that alot of people played this deck, not that I disapprove. Or maybe it wasn't it was that i just didn't pay attention to the meta that much( which I don't think is the case but whatever.) Also quite a few pros made it to the top 64, including jeff jones, Adam Corn, Alistar Albans, and Frazier Smith. But this pro streak ended when it came time to advance to the top 32 as somebody must have oredered a massacre on the pros, as all of the ones I mentioned above were emilnated, plus a alot of others, which left us with a top 32 with very few known names. i of course don't have any information on the top 32 as konami thought dragon duels were more important. Same story with the top 16, i really have no idea what konami was thinking and their coverage team needs a reevaluation. We did have a feature match in the quarterfinals(finally) between Jeff Walker and Joesph Bogli, both duelists were running tengu synchro decks. Now we go to the finals between Hansel Aguero and Samual Pedigo, hansel running T.G and Pedigo with tengu synchro( or plants whatever you want to call it).
The everntaul winner was Hansel Aguero, so congrats to him and everybody else who made top 64 they all did a great job, except for 2 people in that top 64 ( Paul Cooper and Nizar Sarhan). Paul Cooper from what i understand used his empty jar deck and was dq'd in top 64 for unknown reasons but if you know who he is from YCS coverage you can probably figure it out ( he was using his empty jar deck see any problem?) Moving on to Nizar Sarhan I firmly believe he did some form of cheating, why? Well Michael Bonacini of Death Aspect Blog has all of that information so make sure to look at that.
Overall I am pleased with the results, it is unforunate that alot of pros were ousted in the top 64, but oh well, let's let some new people represesnt North America. T.G is a good deck so I don't think that it deserved not to win, infact i amk quite pleased that a tengu varient did not win. That is all for today so check back tomorrow for a recap of the european nationals.
EDIT: I will do more of a deck breakdown once the decklists come out, but with the european national recap I will cover it all in one post.
-Cameron
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Photon Shockwave Disscussion Part 1
So I am now back from vacation and ready to blog again. So as you can see I decided to do a review ( or at least part 1 of the review) of photon shockwave. I might do a review of generation force but right now photon shockwave is just a much better booster and will likely have a very large impact on the game.
First is rescue rabbit which by banishing this card you can summon 2 normal monsters with the same name. So at first i thought this card was very balanced but as I played out the combos in my head and also read online, this card is anything but balanced. It is almost an instant exceed of any level ( barring levels five and up). They just really didn't make this card have enough restrictions, the cannot be special summoned from the deck stops summoner monk and random floaters but who cares, with all the draw power decks have no days it is almost like searching for any card you want( well it's not that bad) and to be quite honest the "restriction" of being banished instead of being sent to the grave is better in my view, can anyone say empty sea space levathien( srry for spelling).
Second is tribe shocking virus. I will stick to my previous of view of this card in saying that this card is balanced, it basically does the same thing as tribe infecting virus, but it banishes the card instead of discarding it. EDIT: This card is only useful in mirror matches as you must destroy the same type of monster that you banished, ex: if I banish a warrior I can only destroy warriors but i still think it will be a good side deck option for tier 1 decks as they will have alot of mirror matches.
The last card I will review for this part is preacher of the ice barrier which by tributing this card while you control another ice barrier monster to special summon another ice barrier from your grave but you cannot special summon level 5 or higher monsters the turn you use this effect, not to mention you can special summon this card from your hand if you control another ice barrier. So this card gives a reason to play ice barriers.
That is all for today thanks for reading!
-Cameron
First is rescue rabbit which by banishing this card you can summon 2 normal monsters with the same name. So at first i thought this card was very balanced but as I played out the combos in my head and also read online, this card is anything but balanced. It is almost an instant exceed of any level ( barring levels five and up). They just really didn't make this card have enough restrictions, the cannot be special summoned from the deck stops summoner monk and random floaters but who cares, with all the draw power decks have no days it is almost like searching for any card you want( well it's not that bad) and to be quite honest the "restriction" of being banished instead of being sent to the grave is better in my view, can anyone say empty sea space levathien( srry for spelling).
Second is tribe shocking virus. I will stick to my previous of view of this card in saying that this card is balanced, it basically does the same thing as tribe infecting virus, but it banishes the card instead of discarding it. EDIT: This card is only useful in mirror matches as you must destroy the same type of monster that you banished, ex: if I banish a warrior I can only destroy warriors but i still think it will be a good side deck option for tier 1 decks as they will have alot of mirror matches.
The last card I will review for this part is preacher of the ice barrier which by tributing this card while you control another ice barrier monster to special summon another ice barrier from your grave but you cannot special summon level 5 or higher monsters the turn you use this effect, not to mention you can special summon this card from your hand if you control another ice barrier. So this card gives a reason to play ice barriers.
That is all for today thanks for reading!
-Cameron
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Shattered pot of greed
So konami made this card, effect is: when you draw a card by your draw phase place one counter on this card you can remove 2 counters from this card to draw 2 cards. So this card can fit in any deck and migitates any -1 and turns it into a plus 1. Now this card is a prime target for mst but I would rather have that happen then someone mst my judgment or any other controlling or good card I have in my backrow, much more on photon shockwave when I get home from vacation.
-Cameron
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