Mood:  don't ask

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

Posted by ulquiorraschiffer at 5:24 PM EDT

Updated: Sunday, 7 October 2007 5:59 PM EDT

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Mood:  don't ask

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

Posted by ulquiorraschiffer at 12:10 PM EDT

Updated: Sunday, 7 October 2007 5:29 PM EDT

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Mood:  irritated

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

Posted by ulquiorraschiffer at 12:51 AM EDT

Updated: Wednesday, 26 September 2007 12:52 AM EDT

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