Yugituber GoldenNova has gone over the entire lore of the first part of the Duel Terminal story; here it is, all complied into a single Hour-and-a-Half-plus video.
Edited by MEKristian on Feb 14th 2023 at 12:00:56 PM
Like reflections in the glass!
Speaking of which. I was wondering. While it is cleared that the Fabled are modeled after Fallen Angels and spanish monsters, I have to wonder if they are also influenced by creatures of a more fey nature as well.
In other news. Considering building an Icejade deck, want to know spicy tech choices for the green crystal girls.
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Genex Controller and Genex Undine. Good tech option for it.
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Ice Barrier (trap), Supreme Sea Mare,marincess coral anemone, silent sea nettle, and of course stealth kragen and kragen spawn work well.
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The Unknown
Jack Atlas is getting his own Structure Deck.
No info other than a date.
The King's Burning Soul will never be extinguished!
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Crimson Dragon got a card, maybe Crimson Devil now to go with him?
The pig of Hufflepuff pulsed like a large bullfrog. Dumbledore smiled at it, and placed his hand on its head: "You are Hagrid now."
Well, at least this probably confirms he's out of the running for Duelists of the Inferno set.
Well, this sure is gonna go into overdrive faster than a Blue Wyrm Archangel.
Wonder if it's all the Red Dragon Archfiend and counterparts will be included?
I wonder if it'll include Absolute King Back Jack? Because it's not a card he ever used, but it is literally him, even if it's not really the kind of card that would benefit his core strategy of 'big synchro unga bunga'
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Maze of Memories reveals. The new cards include four Gate Guardian Fusion retrains, the stuff from the History Archive, and Wall Shadow and Jirai Gumo making a comeback as a Spell and a Trap respectively - couldn't help but smile a bit at the latter, as that's what he (rather inexplicably) was in the original.
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YGOrg link, if you don't want to sit through a pack opening video.
The gameplay loop (I'm gonna use some acronyms):
- Field:
- gives all non-high level monsters summoning sickness
- searches Guardian Pieces ("GP", that is, Sanga, Suijin, or Kazejin) on your turn, and
- pops opponent's weak monster at start of their battle phase.
- Support cards:
- bring GP or new support cards from hand, deck or banished, to hand, graveyard, or backrow once per turn.
- Once per turn disruptive effects
- Contact fuse banish from hand, field or graveyard for the new 3 piece Gate Guardian
- If New GG leaves the field because of opponent's card, special summon original GG, or any of the new 2 piece GG.
- Each GG (3 piece and 2 piece) has a disruption effect that can be used once per turn ''per number of pieces it has' (except for one that's a once per turn searcher)
- If a 2 piece GG leaves the field, replace it with one of its component pieces.
- Loop as necessary
Edited by wanderlustwarrior on Feb 27th 2023 at 11:28:04 AM
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My first impression of the Gate Guardian cards is they're effective nostalgia bait- which I'm not immune to; the field card and the trap and the general look of the fusions brings a smile to my face- and the fusions themselves are pretty good, but as a deck... it's asking you to play a lot of bricks and not giving you great ways to get those bricks out of your hand.
"Canada Day is over, and now begins the endless dark of the Canada Night."
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The bricks are the old monsters, and you only need to play one of each. You get them out of your hand by contact fusing, at which point they're continually in play unless they get returned to deck or put face down.
If your first turn opening hand consists of only the Tank and Field, you get:
- A 2 piece fusion, which can either:
- once per turn search a support card
- twice per turn QUICKIE negate opponent backrow
- twice per turn QUICKIE bring opponent's monster DOWN TO ZERO (and thus, eligible to be destroyed by the field on their battle phase)
- A 2400 atk/def wall that can once per turn destroy an opponent's monster if you have the field in play
- Summoning sickness on all opponent's monsters that aren't high level monsters
- Pop a low atk opponent's monster once per turn
- And if the field and Tank make it to your next turn, you can search and create another 2 piece fusion, including another of the same one as before, using the same materials.
The deck doesn't have monster effect negation (outside of the new 3 piece GG) or floodgates, admittedly. Though it can be run along with "There can be only one", since each monster is a different type, except for the 2 piece fusions sharing a type with one of their pieces... but those pieces can be contact fused without being in a monster zone.
Edited by wanderlustwarrior on Feb 27th 2023 at 12:04:58 PM
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Only once you get all three in hand. Which is why I said no 'great' ways to get them out. And the ways you get them back from banish zone, other than relying on your opponent playing along, all involve putting them back in your hand, where they're once again dead until you get all three.
Edited by Gilphon on Feb 27th 2023 at 12:42:25 PM
"Canada Day is over, and now begins the endless dark of the Canada Night."
The field and the tank can both get them on the field from pretty much anywhere, though? Sure, it's not the next tier 0 deck, but it's hardly worthless.
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Again, the field and Tank can recycle from banish to backrow. And the two piece fusions can contact fuse from backrow. TBH, the other support cards are nowhere near as good as the field and Tank, and thinking about ratios, assuming you want all of the fusions to be options, you could run a minimum:
- Sanga, Suijin, Kazejin - minimum 1 each
- 3x field
- 3x tank
- 1x shadow
I just reread the other support cards. Their graveyard effects can be used the turn they're sent to the grave; there's no "only one effect per turn" clause on the YGORG translation. I note the only "double attack" card is a reference to the point in the duel in which Suijin was destroyed and removed off of GG. I do wonder if they will release other "double attack" cards or a "triple attack" card. I hope so.
Edited by wanderlustwarrior on Feb 27th 2023 at 12:03:31 PM
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Oh, I'd run three copies of the Shadow Ghoul, for the simple reason that the field card is a soft once per turn, so if you open the field and Shadow Ghoul, (or Shadow Ghoul+ Terraforming, you know how it is) that gets you two uses of the field.
And I'm not saying they're worthless, just that it strikes me as high-roll and inconsistent. I'm imagining hands that are, like, two Gate Guardians pieces, the Jurai Gumo trap, and a pair of Ash Blossoms.
Edited by Gilphon on Feb 27th 2023 at 1:14:35 PM
"Canada Day is over, and now begins the endless dark of the Canada Night."
Unless they're the same piece, you can at least get a fusion onto the field first turn, since you can contact fuse from hand.
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You can only contact fuse the 3 Piece from hand. The 2 Piece fusions say "control", so they have to be on the field, whether monster zone or backrow. That's why the field and tank make sure you can also bring them from hand to backrow if need be.
I'm a bit surprised there's no continuous card that says you can reveal one of the pieces in your hand and set it to backrow, to be summoned to a monster zone on a following turn, since that's pretty much what the Brothers did. I wouldn't mind that effect being added to the pieces as errata, tbh.
Edited by wanderlustwarrior on Feb 27th 2023 at 12:09:41 PM
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Y'know what this needs, actually? A card that lets you search a monster that mentions "Labyrinth Wall". That would be enough to get you to Tank + Field card with sufficient consistency.
"Canada Day is over, and now begins the endless dark of the Canada Night."
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The Kazejin-Suijin fusion is SO derpy. He's trying his best dammit!
The pig of Hufflepuff pulsed like a large bullfrog. Dumbledore smiled at it, and placed his hand on its head: "You are Hagrid now."
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- Sanga + Kazejin: Only tells the truth
- Kazejin + Suijin: Only tells lies
- Suijin + Sanga: Stabs people who ask tricky questions
A new Animation Chronicle
has been announced for June.
Vegeta: I'm back bitches!Any guesses for what it will bring? My only guess is that for VRAINS, due to their rather low character number, we'll be getting either Blood Shepards "Drones", Lightning's "Armatos Legio", or Windy's "Stormriders". The other, less likely options imo, are Bohman's "Hydradrive", Pandor's "Topologina", Genome's "Helixx", Faust's "Motor Worm", or Baira's "Virus/Dark Mummy".