Kenn's Card of the Week 4
Mood:  bright
Now Playing: The 69 Eyes- Betty Blue
Topic: Kenn's Cards of the Week

Light and Darkness Dragon, Destiny Hero – Bloo-D, Spell Striker, and the quintessential

Light and Darkness Dragon Deck

 

I’m so sorry for being away for so long, but school has been hell, my professors all decided to have 5 page papers due at the same time, so I’ve been going through hell, but I still found the time to build a new deck, with a new theme, based on a new card, ready to rock the new format, that card of course, is none other than the “overly” hyped Light and Darkness Dragon.

Now, I’m assuming you all can read his effect so I’ll just clarify some of his rulings.  His effect is compulsory, one step up from mandatory (like a maintenance fee), so instead just of being forced to activate it, because he’s multi trigger, you’re forced to activate it on Chain Link 2.  He can only be placed on a chain once this is so he doesn’t keep going crazy negating everything, and it gives you a bit of an advantage protecting him, for example, when he’s so weak, and you need to save your Life Points, flip up a Shrink, have your Dragon activate, then flip a Mirror to save yourself, but forget the Dragon, but we’ll get to that later.  His values cannot drop below their minimum, this means he can only negate FOUR times unless you increase his ATK and DEF, but in this case, it’s his DEF keeping you from going to 5 negations, so he’ll lose 2000 off of his initial 2400 to get to 400 DEF (leaving him with 800 ATK, which is a step up from 300, forget if he gets killed, we just don’t like too much damage).  And finally the cake-topper, he cannot negate preexisting continuous effects, as he stops only the activation of effects, so don’t’ worry about your Jinzo chilling there, he can take care of traps so LaDD can only negate spells and monsters, letting him drop slower, but who cares if he gets killed?  Now for why I keep emphasizing my nonchalantnessocity about his death, we want him to get killed.  You see, when he gets killed, you get to Special Summon anything you can, including that Dark Magician of Chaos you got discarded, or your Disc Commander chilling there while you wait for a Fear Monger.

And while I believe I covered everything on the dragon, let me slyly transition into Destiny Hero – Bloo-D, one of the best cards to be rocking in a LaDD deck, because he fits the rest of the disruption so well, you just can’t say no, but don’t forget, this deck isn’t all about disruption, its more or less making your opponent waste their resources to run over LaDD to summon out a stronger monster, but back to Bloo-D, his explanation is simple, 3 tributes, continuous monster effect negation (so LaDD can’t stop him) and his absorption may not be the early-union absorption of Relinquished and the Thousand-Eyes Restrict, but to think, I’m moving my opponent’s monster to a place where they can’t get it back.

So now we get to the little guy, the one who hasn’t seen much play, the one who can be special summoned practically for free, the one who can attack directly, and the one who takes no battle damage when destroyed.  Still scratching your head? I’m talking about Spell Striker, of course, and let me tell you this, he’s essential in this build, think of your Treeborn Frog, who activates every Standby Phase, who will drop your LaDD to 800 ATK in no time at all.  Now don’t call me a hypocrite just yet, I’m not saying that LaDD is meant to stay out, just that the more field time he gets, the better. So now you need a replacement for Treeborn, something that special for damn near nothing, something that is as fast to be Special Summoned the turn you topdeck it, so no Trap Monsters here, what do you turn to?  This guy and the best part is, during all of my testing and tournament play with him, people refuse to get rid of him! 600 direct?  Fine, I won’t waste my Mirror or Phoenix on it, but what they don’t realize is that that 600, it stacks up.  And if your opponent has a nice lineup of Marshmallon, Spirit Reaper, and Gemini Summoner chilling in defense, not much better than to Special Striker, go direct, and then offer it for Raiza, the Storm Monarch to destroy Reaper via Reaper’s effect.  So, If you'relooking for a fast as all hell Fodder Generator, go for this little guy, you won't regret running him.

 

And now that I’ve outlined the headliners, I’ll give you the build to go along with its pretty, pretty Oreo^TMBrand face, and our very first decklist for the CookieCutters who have supported the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game metagame for oh, so long

 

Duel By My Side, Dragon, Light & Dark

 

Monsters: 21

Light and Darkness Dragon x3     

Destiny Hero – Bloo-D x1

Dark Magician of Chaos x1

Raiza the Storm Monarch x3

Cyber Dragon x2

Herald of World Creation x1

Elemental Hero – Stratos x1

Snipe Hunter x1

Destiny Hero – Fear Monger x2

Sangan x1

Spell Striker x2

Marshmallon x1

Destiny Hero – Disc Commander x1

Spirit Reaper x1

 

Spells: 15

Brain Control x1     

Fissure x1

Foolish Burial x2

Heavy Storm x1

Mystical Space Typhoon x1

Pot of Avarice x2

Premature Burial x1

Reinforcement of the Army x1

Shrink x2

Smashing Ground x1

Soul Exchange x1

Trade-In x1

 

Traps: 4

Call of the Haunted x1

Mirror Force x1

Phoenix Wing Wind Blast x2

 

Sideboard:

Jinzo x2

Thestalos the Firestorm Monarch x2

Cyber Dragon x1

D.D. Assailant x2

Mei-Kou, Master of Barriers x2

D.D. Crow x3

Treeborn Frog x1

Pulling the Rug x2

 

Confused? Questions? Contact me via my e-mail, 4evrdrk@comcast.net, anything I may have missed in this article will be posted additionally.

 

 

 

-Kenneth Duffy 1101111010101101

-Six years Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game experience, UDE Demo Team Member, Yahoo! Answers Card Games Top contributor and Number 7 Top Answerer

-Kenn spends his time building decks for his Regional-bound friend who thought Zombies and Dark Worlders would work well together.

Kenn's Cards of the Week 3
Mood:  lyrical
Now Playing: Aiden - Teenage Queen (Conviction)
Topic: Kenn's Cards of the Week

Shield Crush, Black Magic Curtain, Dark Bribe

 

Well, it’s that time again, and with a (marsh)MALLOwer schedule, I've gotten to do three reviews again!  And first off is one of my favorite cards ever!  Shield Crush!  Now I know all of you are probably thinking “Yeah, but Nobleman removes all copies from play”, but I say, deal with the immediate problems first, and if you made the mistake of siding out Fissure in Game 2, and you DON’T topdeck Nobleman, if you attack into a Marshmallon, he’s going to be there for a while.  So here we have this situation, you attack into Marshmallon, then two turns later, you drop Crush to PWN Marshmallon and sweep for game.  And don’t forget that Crush works on sets, too!  And this goes without saying that it sucks to remove your own Magician of Faith, or Crystal Seers.

 

And another of my videogame faves!  The Black Magic Curtain!  It’s a great endgame card to let your Black Magician run rampant and sweep in, well, game range.  While the curtain sounds like the half of your LP, and the inability to play monsters face-up (that’s right, you can still set, but you won’t get Apprentice’s effect because he is technically a special summon that evades Torrential, etc.) is a HUGE cost, they’re right, but this is a card that you use to kill with, especially in a Black Magician Aggro, where you can kill in as early as the second turn with this card.  Now here’s the situation, first turn (Turn count 2) you summon an SKDM, Crush, attack, Dimension, DM, attack, TC4, BMC for game.  Now, while this is less splashable than say, Crush or my first three reviews, which work great in almost any deck, this deck need to be made right.

 

And here’s the last, but certainly not least, Dark Bribe, a promo from the new Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Tag Force 2, Bribe is like Magic Jammer and Seven Tools of the Bandit…ON CRACK.  Dark Bribe can easily be run in a playset, as it’s free S/T negation, and its being a Counter Trap means that the only cards that can stop it are Solemn Judgment (just think, them blowing half their LP to get ANOTHER Bribe in their face!), Counter Counter, and another Bribe!  The costless aspect of this card makes it great tech times a million, and your opponent’s draw can easily be offset by their loss of a card effect.  And even though it’s only just been released, it’s already OU’ed!!! Expect to see this on the next format, it’s that great.

 

 

- Kenneth Duffy

- Yahoo! Answers- Card Games Top Contributor and Top 10 Answerer

- Master of the Magicians Black

Happy Birthday Ulquiorra Schiffer!
Mood:  happy
Now Playing: The 69 Eyes - Angels
Topic: Randomnessocity

Well, today's our house Arrancar's birthday, so I'm giving him the week off, and from now on ALL of my CTW's will be posted on Fridays!

And since I'm not a fan of eating a Cero blast, I'm still going to let Ulquiorra do whatever he wants as long as he gets it done, but he should remember, I have Kurosaki Ichigo's number on speed dial (number 15 lol)...

 

- Kenneth Duffy
- Yahoo! Answers- Card Games- Top Contributer and now TOP 10 ANSWERER
- Master of the Magicians Black

 

 

All jokes are courtesy of running gags from Bleach by mangaka Kubo Tite 

October 6th, THE WORST DAY EVER!!!!
Mood:  sad
Now Playing: TOO BUSY CRYING
Topic: News and card spoilers

OMFG!!!!!! ALL OF THE PP01 SECRET RARES ARE CREASED!!!!

Yes, it's true, I bought $80 of the Two-Packs available at Wal-Marts everywhere (released four days early, as per usual) and there is not a single non-creased Secret Rare, and to make matters worse, they're creased in two spots!!! (I have included a scan of one of my seven Chaos Mages, it is shrunken for me to be able to circle the areas, so the creases are not as visible, but if you just can't wait to get that Marshmallon [who's the equivalent of an ultra rare in this pack, and damn near impossible to get] the creases are not very deep, and are not wrinkling the card around it, so the card itself is not too bad off, and 100% playable).  I have contacted UDE about this matter, and they will try to set up a redemption program for the damaged cards.  More details to follow.

 

PP01, SD13 and Wicked Dreadroot
Mood:  rushed
Topic: News and card spoilers

~Premiurm Pack 1 is set to retail on October 10.

~SD13 Rise of the Dragon Lord is set to retail October 24.

~The last wicked god card is set to be in the January issue of Shonen Jump.

*Unconfirmed YuGiOh GX Season Four anime in Japan is set to air on October 10*

~U-Schiffer

Oct. 10 is a lucky day. ;;

Vennominaga the Deity of Poisonous Snakes
Mood:  don't ask
Topic: Ulquiorra's Review

What a busy week. >__<

So this one is late now...but whatever..Vennominaga the Deity of Poisonous Serpents, my most favourite venom monster ever. (I like the original art for this card better as shown below)

Attribute : Dark

Type: Reptile

ATK/ 0 DEF/ 0

 This card cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. This card cannot be Special Summoned except with its own effect or with "Rise of the Snake Deity". This card gains 500 ATK for each Reptile-Type monster in your Graveyard. This card cannot be targeted and is unaffected by the effects of other Monsters, Spells, and Traps. When this card is destroyed by battle and sent to the Graveyard, you can remove from play 1 other Reptile-Type monster from your Graveyard to Special Summon this card. When this card inflicts Battle Damage to your opponent, place 1 Hyper-Venom Counter on it. When 3 Hyper-Venom Counters are on this card, you win the Duel.

 Again just like Vennominon, this card looks weak aswell. This card too looking at it is the most dangerous and powerful card in existence. Technically speaking if this card hits your field, you pretty much win the duel. With absolute immunity to any type of monster removal the only way to destroy this card is by battle and by the time this comes out, it should have around 4000-5000 ATK late game. The only problem about this card is the summoning cost, but if your opponent is dumb enough to destroy Vennominon via spells/traps/effects, play this if you have Rise of Snake Deity facedown.

Counters for this card

Graveyard Removal - the most reliable method of getting rid of Vennominaga, remove the graveyard so this card has 0 ATK then destroy it by battle and it won't be able to ressurect itself.

Seriously, if you protect your graveyard from removal...this card is nearly unstoppable.

~U-Schiffer

 

Kenn's Cards of the Week 2
Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: KCVDS
Topic: Kenn's Cards of the Week

Well, this week I'm only doing one review this week due to a hellish weekly schedule (but don't worry, it'll be a big E HERO Special!), but I'm doing it on one of my favorite cards printed, Hero Counterattack.

 

Ok, common, Elemental Hero related, I bet most of you are thinking that this is just a random piece of crap that won't help anything at all.  But then there's the little guy, the E-HERO user that's discovered the Wildedge OTK and just lacks the spunk to get his game into gear.  This card is for him.  A bit A Hero Emerges, a bit Magical Dimension, a bit Pwn4g3, Let's just examine this card. 
Activate only when an E HERO  monster you control is destroyed as a result of battle.  Your opponent selects 1 random card from your hand, and if that monster is an E HERO monster, destroy 1 monster your opponent controls, then Special Summon the monster.
Now, this is very self explanitory, "What if your opponent selects something that's not a monster?" easy, pretend you've set a Morphing Jar and set the other cards!  Now, you might want to set your Hero with this card, so your opponent will probably guess a Jar with your sets, and then attack freely, only to have Counterattack flipped up on them to take out their main attacker and get you out a Bladedge! 200 points above most everything else, not to mention the beautiful Piercing effect that can slam down on a pretty little set (or for the less- Mirror Force inclined duelists, my favorite MF replacement, Windstorm of Etaqua can really screw over your opponent). and a primo choice to throw with Counterattack.  Or the next best thing, Necroshade, who is a huge target, but is that bad?  He dies, and then you can Normal Summon Bladedge with no tribute!  It's a Win-Win Situation! And don't forget, you still get a free monster destruction, so you can easily smash face on an open field afterwards!

 

- Kenneth Duffy
- Yahoo! Answers Top Contributer- Card Games

Vennominon the King of Poisonous Snakes
Mood:  don't ask
Now Playing: ................................
Topic: Ulquiorra's Review

For my second card review this week, I am going to do one of my new favourites, Vennominon the King of Poisonous Snakes.

 

Attribute : Dark

Type : Reptile

ATK 0/ DEF 0

This card cannot be Special Summoned by another Effect Monster's effect. This card is unaffected by "Venom Swamp". This card gains 500 ATK for each Reptile-Type monster in your Graveyard. When this card is destroyed by battle and sent to the Graveyard, you can remove from play 1 other Reptile-Type monster from your Graveyard to Special Summon this card.

Just looking at this card at first glance, it obviously seems weak with 0 attack and 0 defence points. However, it is useful as a card and moreso by end game because that's when it gets very good. Not only is it unaffected by venom and it's a reptile, so you can power it up with multiple copies of Vennominon it gets into the graveyard. And with 0 attack, it's easily special  summoned via Damage = Reptile, which I will cover some other time. Too bad it's effect limits it from being special summoned by something such as Mystic Tomato. The best part about Vennominon is that it's never gone for long. Either you get another out by Damage = Reptile, or you can chose to remove a reptile monster from your graveyard to resummon if it was killed in battle, which is a great effect for a monster that can be easily killed in battle. However, if your opponent is careless enough to destroy Vennominon by a card effect, sure it's resurrection effect won't be able to activate, but if you have a facedown Rise of the Snake Diety, to summon Vennominaga, the Deity of Poisonous Snakes then you'll have something better out. 

Counters for this card

~Non battle monster removal

~Graveyard removal  

Not much counters, destroy it in battle, resurrect it back right away. Destroyed by effects, activate Rise of Snake Deity. Or Damage = Reptile another one out.

~U-Schiffer

 

Marshamallon, Vennominon, Vennominaga
Mood:  irritated
Now Playing: Legend of Dragoon
Topic: Ulquiorra's Review

First Card of the Week I am going to do is one of my most favourite cards.

Marshmallon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Attribute: Light

Type: Fairy

Atk 300/ Def 500

The controller of a monster that attacks this face-down card takes 1000 damage after damage calculation. This card cannot be destroyed by battle. (Damage calculation is applied normally.)

 One of the reasons this one one of my personal  favourites is the simple straightfowardness of this card. It is a wall. That inflicts 1000 surprise damage to your opponent. Similar to Spirit Reaper minus the ability to be destroy by a simple equip or something of the sort. It also has a higher defence then Spirit Reaper(barely noticeable), but at least you take less pierce damage as opposed to Spirit Reaper. Stats obviously make it Sangan searchable which is always good. Almost every deck will need a card like this for situations where you need to stall for extra draws, etc.

 Counters for this card

~Nobleman of Crossout when it's facedown always hurts

~Any spell card such as Smashing Ground or Fissure when it is faceup

~Monster removal cards

Even with a reasonable amount of counters out there, I have found this card to help me in a number of tight situations. I believe some of the most helpful ways is basically when you can topdeck this card with both scores below 1000. Players don't usually expect walls so late in the game, and by this point any type of monster removal may have already been used up. They attack this, unexpected, causes 1000 points and they lose. Actually I had a few cases where I won like that.

 

~UlquiorraSchiffer

 

September 1, 2007
Mood:  blue
Now Playing: Bauhaus - In the Flat Fields
Topic: Ban Lists

I. Forbidden Cards You cannot use these cards in your Deck or Side Deck:

BLACK LUSTER SOLDIER - ENVOY OF THE BEGINNING

BUTTERFLY DAGGER - ELMA

CHANGE OF HEART

CHAOS EMPEROR DRAGON - ENVOY OF THE END

CHAOS SORCERER

CONFISCATION

CYBER JAR

CYBER-STEIN

DARK HOLE

DELINQUENT DUO

EXCHANGE OF THE SPIRIT

FIBER JAR

GRACEFUL CHARITY

HARPIE'S FEATHER DUSTER

IMPERIAL ORDER

LAST TURN

LAST WILL

MAGICAL SCIENTIST

MAKYURA THE DESTRUCTOR

METAMORPHOSIS

MIRAGE OF NIGHTMARE

MONSTER REBORN

PAINFUL CHOICE

POT OF GREED

RAIGEKI

RING OF DESTRUCTION

SINISTER SERPENT

SNATCH STEAL

THE FORCEFUL SENTRY

THOUSAND-EYES RESTRICT

TIME SEAL

TRIBE-INFECTING VIRUS

TSUKUYOMI

VICTORY DRAGON

WITCH OF THE BLACK FOREST

YATA-GARASU

NEW! - Confiscation, Metamorphosis, Ring of Destruction, Snatch Steal

II. Limited Cards You can ONLY use one of the following cards in the Deck & Side Deck combined:

BOOK OF MOON

BRAIN CONTROL

BREAKER THE MAGICAL WARRIOR

CALL OF THE HAUNTED

CARD DESTRUCTION

CARD TROOPER

CEASEFIRE

CHAIN STRIKE

CRUSH CARD VIRUS

D. D. WARRIOR LADY

DARK MAGICIAN OF CHAOS

DESTINY HERO - DISK COMMANDER

DIMENSION FUSION

ELEMENTAL HERO STRATOS

EXODIA THE FORBIDDEN ONE

FISSURE

FUTURE FUSION

GIANT TRUNADE

GOLD SARCOPHAGUS

GRAVITY BIND

GREEN BABOON, DEFENDER OF THE FOREST

HEAVY STORM

LEFT ARM OF THE FORBIDDEN ONE

LEFT LEG OF THE FORBIDDEN ONE

LEVEL LIMIT - AREA B

LIMITER REMOVAL

MAGE POWER

MAGIC CYLINDER

MAGICAL STONE EXCAVATION

MAGICIAN OF FAITH

MARSHMALLON

MEGAMORPH

MIND CRUSH

MIRROR FORCE

MORPHING JAR

MYSTICAL SPACE TYPHOON

NEO-SPACIAN GRAND MOLE

NIGHT ASSAILANT

OVERLOAD FUSION

PREMATURE BURIAL

RIGHT ARM OF THE FORBIDDEN ONE

RIGHT LEG OF THE FORBIDDEN ONE

SANGAN

SCAPEGOAT

SMASHING GROUND

SNIPE HUNTER

SPIRIT REAPER

SWORDS OF REVEALING LIGHT

THE TRANSMIGRATION PROPHECY

TORRENTIAL TRIBUTE

TRAP DUSTSHOOT

TREEBORN FROG

TWIN-HEADED BEHEMOTH

ULTIMATE OFFERING

UNITED WE STAND

WALL OF REVEALING LIGHT

NEW! - Brain Control, Breaker the Magical Warrior, Card Trooper, Destiny Hero - Disk Commander, Fissure, Gold Sarcophagus, Magician of Faith, Marshmallon, Megamorph, Smashing Ground, Snipe Hunter, Trap Dustshoot, The Transmigration Prophecy, Wall of Revealing Light

III. Semi-Limited Cards You can ONLY use two of the following cards in the Deck & Side Deck combined:

APPRENTICE MAGICIAN

CREATURE SWAP

DESTINY HERO - MALICIOUS

GREEN GADGET

JINZO

MANTICORE OF DARKNESS

MASK OF DARKNESS

NOBLEMAN OF CROSSOUT

POT OF AVARICE

RECKLESS GREED

RED GADGET

REINFORCEMENT OF THE ARMY

ROYAL DECREE

YELLOW GADGET

NEW! - Destiny Hero - Malicious, Green Gadget, Jinzo, Nobleman of Crossout, Pot of Avarice, Red Gadget, Royal Decree, Yellow Gadget NEW! - The following cards are no longer Limited: D.D. Assailant, Deck Devastation Virus, Good Goblin Housekeeping, Protector of the Sanctuary

Kenn's Cards of the Week 1
Mood:  caffeinated
Now Playing: Bauhaus - Dark Entries
Topic: Kenn's Cards of the Week

Card Destruction, Foolish Burial, Instant Fusion

 

Hmm, how many times have you ended up with a bad hand? More often than desirable, I’m sure, and as many players will use Reload or Magical Mallet to refresh their hands, they’re not truly effective. So let’s do the math 40-6+5=39 before your draw, so that’s roughly an 80% chance that you’ll get the same hand. And then there’s Card Destruction, which has so much more to offer than any of them, as it offers not only a refreshed hand, but also disruption and thinning, and a 100% new hand! With a 5 card thinner deck, it also assists you to get to your stronger cards faster, and the discard drops off your higher-level monsters to the much more accessible Graveyard. And finally, the disruption aspect, do you remember the little spell that rained hell most of the last format? “Pay 1000 Life Points. Look at your opponent’s hand and select 1 card in it, and discard that card.”. That’s right, Confiscation, now let’s look at it this way, “Why bother paying 1000 to discard one of my opponent’s cards, when I can discard them all and draw in the process?”

 

Now here’s a Predicament, you’re staring down a Mobius the Frost Monarch, and you’re sitting on a Premature Burial with only a Sangan and Old Vindictive Magician in the grave, the rest of your hand gone like Chaos decks, and I’d bet you’d love to have a Dark Magician of Chaos in there right now to pick up on your dead Brain Control. Well, the new Structure Deck: Revival of the Dragon Lords (SDRL, a modified SD13) can grant you that wish! The new spell, Foolish Burial, lets you select one monster from your deck and send it to the grave, where cards are right there in front of you to see what you can do with them. Now you can laugh even more obnoxiously when you pick up on Destiny Hero – Malicious into a Destiny Hero – Dasher for those last 2100 Life Points.

 

In a metagame filled with Monarchs, faster fodder with no drawbacks, like Soul Exchange taking away your attack, or Premature Burial taking away your, well, Premature Burial, is greatly needed. And the solution to this predicament, Instant Fusion is a great way to get out quick fodder that will let you keep your attack, and a great fusion monster like Dark Balter the Terrible or Fiend Skull Dragon in the grave that won’t waste your Premature Burial. And here’s the best part, IT’S UNLIMITED. And especially now, in this fresh format, this little box of Top Ramen will surely lead to other little discoveries in the form of Level 5 Fusion Monsters, in fact, I just recently unearthed my Series 1 book and whipped out some Musician Kings to Magical Dimension into Dark Magician.

 

Welcome!
Mood:  special
Now Playing: Kaiba Corp Virtual Dueling System
Topic: Welcome!

Hello and Welcome to Kenneth Duffy's Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game!   An alternative site to find out about the current metagame to keep you in the loop about everything YOU need to know to keep up-to-date with the game!

We plan to feature the following as time goes on:
Ban Lists
New Set Spoilers
Popular Combos
Large-Scale Tournament Results
Deck Advice
And Multiple Cards of the Week!

- Kenneth Duffy
- Yahoo! Answers Top Contributer

 

e-mail me at spookygothcore@yahoo.com for special requests, like specific deck reviews, cards to view on our Cards of the Week, or anything else you might want! 

 

 

 

 

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Kenn's Cards of the Week 5
Now Playing: Sorry! No fancy pictures this time! Try again next time!

Kenn’s Cards of the Week 5

 

E·HERO - Malicious Edge, E·HERO – Hell Gainer, Doom Shaman

 

Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit’s that time again!  I’m coming at you this week with a new archetype that’s been getting more than a fair bit of hype, Evil Heroes.  Now, what’s up with my notation?  It’s for an easier explanation of just how this deck will work, and now, here’s a lesson in the Japanese language.  First, the main font is called Kanji, which is ideographs to represent the word and is learned by advanced students, as every word is different (Sayonara = ???????????????).  Secondly, there is Katakana, which, like the Latin/Roman inspired languages use to “spell out” words phonetically, and is learned by young students (Sayonara = SAYONARA).  Finally, there is “Romanji”, which uses the Roman alphabet to “spell out” Japanese words phonetically (i.e. Sayonara).  These can actually all be seen at once on a Hero card. You will have the Romanji for what kind of Hero it is (E-HERO, D-HERO, E·HERO, or Elemental Hero, Destiny Hero, and Evil Hero, respectively), Kanji for its name, and Katakana for those who have yet have learned Kanji or English.  And now, why I opted to use the Romanji for the Heroes’ names, in the OCG, Elemental Hero - Stratos’ effect translated to “E or D-HERO”, which lead the single E to not only apply to Elemental Heroes, but also Evil Heroes, which changed just about everything, now all E-HERO cards now also applied to E·HEROes (note how I switch between English and Romanji). This now made E·HEROes that much more versatile, especially due to the support given to them from the previously successful E-HERO build, Big City.  Now that we’ve gotten through the explanation, let’s get to the card reviews.

 

First, here’s the “new face” of aggression, Evil Hero – Malicious Edge!  Now, when we got Elemental Hero – Bladedge, everyone immediately though of how great he was, 2600 ATK with a pierce, and good players found that combo'ing him with an Elemental Hero – Necroshade in the graveyard (thanks to Dark World Lightning, and for a short while, Dark World Dealings) was an amazing move. But now, we have a 2600 piercer that can be brought out with, wait for it, 2, 1, or no Tributes!  Clear your opponent’s field?  Bummer, he’s a two Tribute.  Let your opponent get something out?  One Tribute.  Used a Foolish Burial to send an Elemental Hero – Necroshade to the graveyard? Free 2600 piercer.  Now, how can you say no to that?  He must have the shortest explanation of all time, a simple “Pwn4g3” could’ve sufficed, but I love him so much, you got all of this. Yay!

 

Combo attacker please! Evil Hero – Infernal Gainer, he deserves the same explanation as Elemental Hero – Malicious Edge, but eh.  Pwn4g3.  Remove him for two turns, Malicious Edge can attack twice, “Yayness”, right?  Getting two of these babies out and Evil Hero – Malicious Edge can pretty much shut down a duel, by telling your opponent that you’re not going to let them get any tribute fodder out for their Raiza the Storm Monarch, and that if they even TRY to set a Marshmallon, that’s still 4200 in their face right off, and if they think that Raiza the Storm Monarch will help, I’m sure you’ll have an unused Elemental Hero – Necroshade you can easily get to just about anywhere.

 

DOOM SHAMAN!  Need I say more?  I think so, Call of the Haunted, Premature Burial, Second Summon, Special Malicious Edge, I think that can get you to game in no time at all.  Okay, okay, I wasted a lot of my bandwidth on the explanations, and the internet is going to run out of space in two years, so now I’ll get to the deck.

 

Bad Neighborhood in the Big City: 40

Monsters: 20

Evil Hero – Malicious Edge x3

Evil Hero – Infernal Gainer x3

Elemental Hero – Stratos x1

Elemental Hero – Necroshade x3

Doom Shaman x3

Cyber Dragon x2

Sangan x1

Marshmallon x1

Spirit Reaper x1

Spell Striker x3

 

Spells: 14

Reinforcement of the Army x2

E-Emergency Call x2

Dark World Dealings x2

Foolish Burial x2

Premature Burial x1

Ancient Rules x2

Heavy Storm x1

Brain Control x1

Smashing Ground x1

 

Traps: 6

Call of the Haunted x1

Mirror Force x1

Torrential Tribute x1

Hero Counterattack x3

 

Now THAT’s a sexy build!

 

And because of almost everyone whose decks I’ve been working on via Yahoo! Answers, and a couple on TCGPlayer (less on the latter) can’t make a Sideboard, here’s a simple basic defense Sideboard that, well, I guess it defends against just about everything, I even use it due to its effectiveness.

 

Jinzo x2

Mei-Kou, Master of Barriers x2U?

Banisher of the Radiance x2

D.D. Crow x2

Burial from a Different Dimension x2

Twister x2U?

Dust Tornado x2U?

Pulling the Rug x3

Solemn Judgment x2

 

Okay, I know it’s nineteen cards, but if you notice, Mei-Kou, Master of Barriers, Twister, and Dust Tornado are Transmutation Circled, which means that they’re interchangeable, depending on your deck and your Metagame, if you have a very specific spell lineup, Mei-Kou, Master of Barriers or Dust Tornado would be a better choice, follow this depending on what you wouldn’t mind losing out of your Monsters, Spells, or Traps, also, if your Metagame is blasted with burn decks, or your mainboard already costs a lot of Life Points to use, try not to use Twister, it is the fastest, most economic, and the most versatile of the three choices, but if your Life dwindles from big swings with Injection Fairy Lily and Dark Elf, it’ll hurt more than help.  But, if you can’t seem to decide, let me nudge you on over to Mei-Kou, Master of Barriers.  Sure, he won’t destroy anything and let you set, or kill face-ups on the turn you draw it, but Continuous Spells will be your biggest threat in the forms of Call of the Mummy, Card of Safe Return, Call of the Haunted, Light-Imprisoning Mirror, and Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror, and most decks need their specific Spell and Trap line-up for their main speed, consistency, and “aggressive” defense, but often have a couple Creatures they can lose, so while it’ll take you longer to predetermine just what to Sideboard out, it’ll be more valuable in the long run.  And in case you live under a rock, and you’re NOT running Breaker the Magical Warrior AND Mystical Space Typhoon, they’re the two to put in the side.

 

Next week, I’ll go over some of the other cards in this Sideboard, and why they’re necessities.

 

 

-Kenneth Duffy

-Six years Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game experience, UDE Demo Team Member, Yahoo! Answers Card Games Top contributor and Number 7 Top Answerer

 

Kenneth Duffy spends his time brown-nosing for his presidential campaign by kissing hands and shaking babies