I'm Finally Free again!! For an hour or so!

Sorry for not posting for over a week, preparing for my finals, just did my 1st paper an hour ago and logged on as soon as I reach home. Why did I even bother reading the whole morning, I can score that paper with my legs tied.

Back to topic, yesterday or maybe a few days back, I came to a discussion with a few "kids" and they were like all hyped about how powerful Samurai is ... seriously, they're out for about 6 months now ...

And I told them, its not as powerful as you guy think it is. Its concept is a lot like E HERO (which I use for example cause I'm familiar with the deck). And a small argument broke up, and I proceed to kick a 1st turn Shi-En with Shooting Star. They're all amaze for some reason cause, well, Junk Doppel is only bout 1/3 the price of Six Samurai, if not lower. And for some reason, cheaper decks should not win against expensive ones.

Librarians a bitch, and yes, it should slow done (reply to LG).

Zexal episode 3 is a cool episode, although it looks like filler (but its not). I like how Yuma didn't start a winning streak right after he owned Shark. And for some reason that teacher is so obviously the villain.

Yuma : "Revise Dragon! GET!"

I seriously wasn't expecting him to get Revise Dragon. Cause I thought Astral took the card and it became part of him. Or maybe it did became part of him, but he can let Yuma use it for duels. Then making his original presence possible only for the fact that he has No39 Aspiring Emperor Hope.

Speaking of Hope, the card is being skyrocket in price this few days. Well, not THAT high, but being a Starter deck card, its definitely expensive. Thanks to the fact that we have no Starter decks at all in the market from official dealer (all those we have now are brought in by players or unofficial shops from Japan, not from Hong Kong).

Generation Force has not even reach the shores of Malaysia yet as I heard (but same case apply to this as well).

Not much to talk about now cause I've not been following things much this week, due to exam and shit.

Junk Doppel Update 2

Yesterday after school, I went to Toysbar to get the new booster, where Alex, the owner, told me they haven't arrive yet and won't be arriving anytime soon.

But, I did saw something good, he broke out 2 new boxes of both DREV and STBL. Well, the DREV has only half a box left, since well, its DREV.

I bought a pack each, and pulled a Warning out of DREV. I'm like, okay, not what I was hoping for but great none-the-less. The problem was STBL, I opened the 1 pack I bought and saw Shooting Star, but no, I didn't see it, its white. I didn't realized I just pulled a Ghost Rare, and a super hyped kid was like : "OMG!! A GHOST RARE!! NO WAY!!". I go like : "Oh! Didn't realize it ..."

Since I got another Warning, I have an extra playset lying around. Took out Decree from my deck mainly because it didn't help me one bit recently.

And after some comparison, my build and Sung Lee's has one main difference, the number of traps. The guy ran a lot of traps in the deck, like the number of traps in Chaos Plant, makes me wonder how he even find space.

monster (23):

2 Junk Syncron

2 Debris Dragon

2 Effect Veiler

1 Spore

1 Glow Up Bulb

2 Doppel Warrior

2 Chaos Sorcerer

1 Dark Armed Dragon

1 Sangan

1 Mystic Tomato

3 Lightlord Hunter Ryko

2 Card Trooper

2 Lonefire Blossom

1 Dandelion

spell (11):

2 Mystic Space Typhoon

1 Giant Turnade

2 Pot of Avarice

1 Tuning

1 Reinforcements of the Army

1 Charge of the Light Brigade

1 Foolish Burial

1 Monster Reborn

1 One for One

trap (6):

1 Mirror Force

1 Torrential Tribute

1 Call of the Haunted

1 Limit Rebirth

2 Solemn Warning

I'm still fixing the side deck for more Malaysian Meta hate, and thanks to Andrew, Keepers became META before Recruiter even came in.

Might not be posting much starting from next week cause my finals starts next Friday.

Vayu Virus Turbo

I'm having an unreasonable liking towards the Virus cards lately. Must have been the side effect of getting hit by that stupid Royal Tribute last weekend.

*Must Hit Keepers with Viruses And Laugh at them in Their Face!!*

Virus card can and WILL work in my meta cause no one aside from me perhaps plays Trap Stun, which is weird, since the card is now RM25 a piece.

I don't have Vayu, I don't have Sirocco, I don't even have Shura.

But I've been toast by BF a Hell load (thats an actual measurement) of times, so believe me when I say I know how the deck works. But I'm not sure if this will work...

I don't understand why Malaysians don't like Virus, I mean, I love Virus, they're like my favorite traps, but one of them got banned ...

Anyways, To the Virus mobile!

monster (19):

3 BF Sirocco the Dawn

2 BF Elphen the Pitch-Black

2 BF Albrolhos the Megaquake

3 BF Vayu the Emblem

2 BF Shura the Blue Flame

1 BF Gale the Whirlwind

3 Dark Greppher

2 Armageddon Knight

1 Dark Armed Dragon

spell (8):

3 Pot of Duality

1 Card of Black Feathers

1 Reinforcements of the Army

1 Burial from a Different Dimension

2 Mystic Space Typhoon

trap (13):

3 Deck Devastation Virus

2 Eradicator Epidemic Virus

2 Icarus Attack

1 Mind Crush

1 Return from a Different Dimension

1 Royal Oppression

2 7-tools of the Bandit

1 Solemn Judgment

What do you think?

Disaster Dragons? Wait till you see this!

[WARNING! EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE DECK]

Wasn't in the mood for reading yesterday, so broke out my cards and build a somewhat new deck.

So, I look around for inspirations and read through some coverage of YCS Paris.

Proxied A HELL lot of cards and made this deck yesterday night, but tweak it a bit more just now before I came online.

The deck kinda Speaks for itself, so give some feedbacks after this.

monster (16):

3 Red Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon

3 Red Eyes Wyvern

3 Vice Dragon

3 Fusilier Dragon

3 Giant Kozaki

1 Unknown Syncron

spell (6):

3 Pot of Duality

1 Gold Sarcophagus

1 Future Fusion

1 Monster Reborn

trap (18):

3 Deck Devastation Virus

2 Eradicator Epidemic Virus

2 Bottomless Traphole

3 Proof of Powerlessness

3 Skill Drain

1 Call of the Haunted

1 Solemn Judgment

3 Dark Bribe

You can easily see what I'm trying to do with the deck. Why REDMD? Cause I can bring him back with Wyvern, thats basically IT. Free Virus food is not bad.

Unknown Syncron? That and Wyvern or Kozaki is an instant Catastor or Librarian. That with Fusilier, Stardust. Or Scrap Dragon if your opponent plays Decree, and starts first.

Just a concept deck, feedbacks please!

April 4th's Asian Tourney Report

I wanted to post this ASAP, but my phone cables are broken and the guys just came in fixing.

No idea who won yesterday, as I did not stay that late and the 1st thing I did once my Internet is back on, is THIS.

The format yesterday was stupid, really stupid, it basically spelled, if I brought an FTK, I win.

Since there was no 2 out of 3s in the quote "chaos battle" round, where you basically wait in a long long line and duel for a single round and step out. Win and you wait for bout 10 minutes in line for the next round, lose, 30 minutes.

So, if you kept on winning, you'll be in your 6 or 7th duel while some are only at their 3rd.

And how do we decide who who goes into the top16? The 6 players who have the most wins. Simple, straight forward, but a bit lack in fairness.

Deck played, Junk Doppel since I have 2 Formulas at my disposal and Shooting Star can rip anything out in the game.

1st round - Six Samurai - a Toysbar guy

Oh yeah, if your wondering how this match up was decided, I saw familiar faces and sat with them and chat. Cookie announce starting the rounds, I ask how do we check our opponents, he says, the guy in front of you .... LOL! So, sitting with friends suddenly became a bad idea.

I started with 3 Chaos Sorcerers and a Junk, but no Doppel nor a Light monster. Right ... He spammed 2 Shi-Ens and a Grand Master. Done for ? Not quite, I pulled a Trooper after taking that huge amount of damage, and was able to ditch Ryko into the grave. Sorcerer came out, removes a Shi-En and I ram Trooper into Grand Master (hoping for an awesome top deck , otherwise known as Dark Armed Dragon, and not taking an endgame attack from Shi-En), BUT he picks up Grand Master and puts it in the grave, I told him I was attacking with Trooper for the draw, he said, he knew, but Sorcerer would attack him anyways ... I lol'ed, but pretend to not notice that misplay (since I would lose if that didn't happen). His Shi-En destroyed Chaos Sorcerer, but now I have my Game on, Trishula came out and instantly changed the tides. And removing all of his resources from play. He pulled a Reborn (which could easily got rid of my Trishula with Sorcerer) and summon Grand Master in defense. End the game with a Junk Doppel classic syncro spam.

Alright, I admit, I cheated a bit.

1 - 0

2nd match VS Junk Doppel

Before the match starts, I greed my opponent when we were waiting in line. But the guy got nervous when his bud lost to some guy and his deck fell out, and I say Doppel Warrior ...

Next, the judges announced that we CAN side things in but we are advice not to cause we don't know what our opponents are playing ... yeah ... good news.

I sided in Mirror Match hate and beat him using nothing more than Royal Oppression. I mean, summoning Shooting Star and Junk Destroyer to nuke his resources, and setting an Oppression is a very big move.

2 - 0

3rd match vs Gravekeepers

Alright, the karma kicks in, worst match up ever. And no siding ...

I open with DAD, Sorcerer, Veiler, Doppel and Junk. Basically meaning if my opponent is not a back row heavy deck (or simply put doesn't have Warnings), I'm taking this. Felt confident with my hand.

My opponent set 3 S/T ... I was like, shit, backrow heavy ... Set a monster and discarded Commandant ... I was like , "OMG, so screwed!" Last card in his hand, and but of cause, Royal Tribute ...

I draw for my turn, and it has to be Reborn ... I gave up after thinking through what card I have in my deck that could possibly win this, and it was : NONE, they're all in the side ...

2 - 1

So, I got into this long ass line and chatted with Sean and some others for the next 20~30 minutes.

4th match vs Junk Doppel

Whats with all this mirror matches ... But my opponent was a, what I like to call, 12 year old. Can't be tough ... I'm just saying.

I started with one of the worst hand ever, which I forgot. I was like ... so screwed ...

I play the trooper, send cards into the grave. And set a bluff, he plays Turnade, I was like "Damn, screwed ..."

But after a long turn and a lot of drawing from 3 Formula Syncrons and some Avarice. He is with 3 cards in hand, 2 Formula on the field and an Armory Arm, which hit my Trooper.

I now have Glow Up in the Grave, Junk and Doppel in the hand ... Shooting Star came out and stayed there for the rest of the game.

3 - 1

I went back into what they labeled as The Winner Zone ... and the other WAS know as the Loser Zone. I'm not joking, there are a few poles with that written around the place.

But just as I was about to have my 5th duel, time was called. And those without 4 wins are asked to leave ... Damn, screw 1st turn Tribute ...

Aside from the main event, there was also an interesting side event known as "Challenge the Asian Representatives from other parts of Asia thing", which was interpreted by me as "Please make your country proud by making the other country's rep tired before the main event", again, I'm just saying.

After another long wait, I challenge a guy with golden hair. Which I assume to be the Hong Kong rep cause he spoke Cantonese to the guy next to him.

I was told that promos are allowed so I played my HERO deck, and pitted against his Samurai.

I started with Rai - Oh, and he instantly asked around if that was allowed, I told him another rep was using Airman, and he agreed.

He sat a monster and 2 face downs, which is obviously a Kageki. I sat Snowman and passed back cause losing Rai-Oh basically means forfeiting the duel. He sat another. I summon Alius and attacked into the samurai. Flips Snowman, which he Warnings, I played Miracle, he flips another Warning, but I have a second Miracle in my hand. Zero was summoned, and he gave up after drawing.

So, with 1 point for winning and not wanting to wait in line, I went for trading.

After a while, redeemed a prize promotion pack from that 1 point but pulled crap.

After a few rounds and more trading, I leaved, but not before watching Sung Lee's awesome duel, using Plants ... again. And it was broadcast live to the entire SW concourse area via a few TV sets.

Modded my Junk Doppel deck after I got home as Decree didn't help me at all through out the day, and I place in more traps like Sean recommended. And it works better now, and only if I did it a day before ...

Junk Doppel Update 1

Just a quick post to show you guys what I did to my Junk Doppel deck, the main cards are still the same, aside from some minor changes, but I've been having a problem coming up with an extra deck, help me out if you have time dudes.

So, on to the main deck,

monster (24):

3 Junk Syncron

2 Effect Veiler

1 Unknown Syncron

1 Quickdraw Syncron

1 TG Striker

1 Glow Up Bulb

1 Spore

3 Chaos Sorcerer

2 Doppel Warrior

1 Dark Armed Dragon

1 Level Eater

2 Lightlord Hunter Ryko

1 Lightlord Magician Lyla

2 Card Trooper

1 Spell Striker

1 Dandelion

spell (13):

2 Pot of Avarice

2 MST

1 Giant Turnade

1 Reinforcement of the Army

1 Charge of the Light Brigade

1 Tuning

1 Allure of Darkness

1 Dark Hole

1 Monster Reborn

1 One For One

1 Foolish Burial

trap (3):

3 Royal Decree

So, I took out all the non-decree traps to increase my monster line up. Sure, it may seem like suicide since Keepers and Royal Tribute are finally showing their nasty faces over here at M-land. BUT, the cards I originally have in here aren't helping anyways. I'll just side in 3 Dust Tornadoes when going against Keepers, or maybe Breakers ...

Anyways, give me some feedback guys, like last time, that was awesome!!

Thanks in advance!

Too Dangerous now ...

I was planning to play Junk Doppel this coming weekend, and even found myself a Formula and Shooting Star for it, the other I can borrow from my bud Fishtank.

But thanks to Andrew and his top2 with Keepers, it gonna be dangerous to run Junk Doppel now. !st of all, Keepers aren't a deck we would really care about cause Malaysia have this unique mindset, if its not proven, I'm not playing it.

But with Andrew bringing the deck to the finals and owning National Champ Micheal twice in the face, it really grab A HELL LOT of attention.

While I play 23 monsters in my main, I'm not really concern bout Tribute, cause my deck works very very well under control AND top deck situations, BUT 3 Necro Valleys is too much for the deck to handle, or if I put it this way, every single piece of combo in the deck is now DEAD.

That leaves me with Sabers, which is still quite Grave dependent, but at least I can Trap Stun Hyunlei his little' valley. Remind me to borrow a 3rd Trap Stun from Lam this weekend.

Thats it for now, making a side deck this afternoon, will be back if there is more to update!