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Well it was a long and dramatic weekend, but it looks like Galileo De Obaldia beat Vincent Paglia from Las Vegas in order to become the official Yu-Gi-Oh TCH 2010 World Champion.

The tournamnet brought in 37 players in all, hailing from 18 different countries and pulling together the most talented players from across the globe. There were 12 months of tournaments and qualifying tournaments numbering in the hundreds, but the results are now officially in.

For full details on the event you can check out Konami’s offical website here.

Well after being thoroughly researched and game tested, it looks like Duelist Revolution is finally ready to go. It is being released to general audiences today, with the 100 card booster set bringing players the latest monsters of the “5D’s” era. That includes Yusei’s 3200 ATK Fusion Monster: Dragon Knight Draco-Equiste. That’s quite a mouthful, if I do say so.

Duelist Revolution also allows players to team up their monsters from other sets with cards like Fabled Raven. Fabled Raven can help out a number of Synchro Monsters, but is best suited to other Fabled monsters from Hidden Arsenal 2 (the upcoming Hidden Arsenal 3 will work as well). Another well known card from the set is Pot of Duality, which gives the spell caster a choice from the top 3 cards of their deck.

In total, the set will comprise of 48 common cards, 20 rare cards, 14 super rare cards, 10 ultra (superduper?) rare cards, and 8 secret rare cards. 

Hey all,

In my last post, I did a brief overview of field spells in YuGiOh.  In short, field spells are cards that will provide a universal effect to a game.

Considering that field spells tend to be risky since they affect both players, there has to be a way to break the symmetry.

Of course, there is–the way is through Earthbound Immortals.

Earthbound Immortals are 10-star dark-attribute creatures that require a field spell in play.  Should that field spell be removed, the immortal will be sent to the graveyard.

Being gods also means  not having any other Earthbound Immortals in play.  After all, there can only be one.

While having some steep requirements, these Earthbound Immortals pack plenty of power.  Each individual immortal has a unique ability that can swing game momentum in your favor.  As a whole, Earthbound Immortals can’t be selected as the target of an attack.  Plus, these Earthbound Immortals are capable of directly attacking and have a high attack (most are between 2500-3000), meaning that they can end the game in 2 or 3 turns.

While there are 8 in total, I’ll only be covering 4 for now.  Stay tuned for next post to see more Earthbound Immortals.  Without further ado, here are four of them:

Earthbound Immortal Uru – The spider immortal is a favorite of mine since it is an insect.  As an insect, the easiest way to cheat it into play is Pinch Hopper.  One cool trick to do is use Limit Reverse to bring back a Pinch Hopper at the end of your opponent’s turn, then switch it to defense mode to destroy it and bring in Uru.  Uru itself is a powerful card, packing 3000 attack and being able to tribute a creature to take control of an enemy’s creature (like Enemy Controller).

Earthbound Immortal Cusillu – Being able to halve your opponent’s life points is a powerful effect, and the first card that comes to mind when considering how to do so with this monkey is Shrink.  Besides that, he’s literally a beast, so give Beast Soul Swap a shot if you’re up for sneaking him out for twice the damage.

Earthbound Immortal Ccaryhua – Considering how much effort it takes to put an  Earthbound Immortal down on the field, it sucks to have one of them removed.  Ccayrhua takes this into account by clearing the field when he’s destroyed by a card effect.  Note that the controller of the effect doesn’t matter, so feel free to destroy your own creature if the situation arises.

Earthbound Immortal Aslla Piscu – This card just screams to be played with Ojama Trio.  When the tokens are destroyed by this card’s effect, this card will inflict a total of 3300 damage to your opponent.

That’s it for now.  Stay tuned for the other four immortals next time.

Hey guys,

Check out field cards.  Here are the basic rules on them:

• There can only be one field card in play at a time.
• They are denoted by a four-pointed star in the top right corner.
• If a field card would enter play with another one in play, the original field card is destroyed (unless protected by Field Barrier) and replaced by the new field card.
• Each player may only have one field spell, either set or active, in play.

Field spells are global effects that affect both players.  Effects include boosting creature attack or defense, reducing creature level, or allowing forcing all creatures to attack each turn.  Here are a look at some field magic cards:

Clear World

Ancient Forest

Think of field cards as a double-edged sword.  While they will either provide a positive benefit to you or a negative effect to your opponent, they’ll also provide the same effect to you.

The key to using field magic spells is to use the effect more effectively than your opponent, otherwise known as breaking the symmetry.  Usually the opponent will be unable to benefit from the field spell, however, to further put you at an advantage, you should use creatures and spells that benefit from the field magic card.

There is also a tutor for any field spell.  It is known as Terraforming.  While it will thin your deck by one card, the deck thinning is minute and not worth using for only that effect.  It also shuffles your deck after searching.

If the field spell card plays an essential role to your deck, run 3 copies of the spell card as well as 1-2 copies of Terraforming.  As your dependency on the spell card lessens, Terraforming becomes less necessary.

One creature group requires the usage of field spells.  Despite their handicap, they are capable of ending games, able to attack directly as well as not being able to attack.  Stay tuned for more information on those next time.

Till then,

Hey,

Check this card out:

This card has the potential to destroy any card on the field at the cost of one card from your hand.

Of course, any card that can produce that card of 1-for-1 advantage has some sort of catch.

Whenever you activate his ability, you must roll a six-sided dice.  Should the result be a 1 or 6, the effect does nothing.  That means success occurs on a 2, 3, 4, or 5.

Probability-wise, here’s the percentage breakdown:
Success: 4/6, or 66.66%
Failure: 2/6, or 33.33%

The probability for succeeding is a little over 50%, meaning that it is slightly in your favor; however, it’s not by much.

Compare it to Brionac, a card who has the same discard cost, but a guaranteed return-to-hand effect.  While the effect is guaranteed, realize that the effect is temporary.  Even if the card is a tribute summon, that card can easily be summoned another turn.

Snipe Hunter’s effect is permanent though, placing the targeted card into the graveyard upon a successful roll.  Also note that Snipe Hunter requires no synchronization to summon, making it a great answer to a potential threat from an opponent.

While Snipe Hunter’s lack of guaranteed destruction may look like a downfall to the card, it also is a valid answer to Stardust Dragon.  Stardust Dragon’s ability can only be activated when there’s a guaranteed source of destruction; Snipe Hunter is not one.

Besides the ability to destroy things, Snipe Hunter is also useful for getting cards into your graveyard.  Need one more creature to summon a Dark Armed Dragon?  Use Snipe Hunter.  Need two more fairies to get out your Archlord Krystia?   Call the man with the number gun.  Snipe Hunter serves as a reliable way to get creatures in your graveyard.

If you haven’t given Snipe Hunter a shot, by all means do so.

And that was an intended pun.

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