Duelist Revolution Sneak Preview

I was there for four hours. It was fun, overall.

Honestly, with all of the rarity jumps, I was just going to trade/buy some of the new cards, and also to get the Scrap Archfiend, which I plan on using.

I pulled Amazoness Shamanism. The rest were garbagy Rares and Commons, except for Scrap Golem. Aki was going to try and trade for a Paradox Fusion, but he pulled it. It looks pretty nice as a Super Rare.

I was able to trade a Super Rare Monster Reincarnation and Rare Symbols of Duty with Secret Rare lettering for a bunch of Genex; including Power Planners, a Duel Terminal Searcher, and a HA02 Windmill; Miracle Synchro Fusion; and two Anti-Magic Prisms. The Prisms seem interesting, since they deal with the ubiquitous Mystical Space Typhoon and Book of Moon. I doubt that I would use them, but they're nice to have.

After that, I was able to buy an Ultra Rare Scrap Dragon for $15. Quite a good deal. Everyone I talked to thought that Scrap Dragon was a terrible card, but they didn't even know its effects and uses. But, I wasn't able to get any Scrap Chimeras, so it'll take a while before I get to make a Scrap Deck. I still plan on making one, though. Hopefully I'll be able to trade for some Scrap stuff at the World Championships next week.

I dueled with one of the people who was ignorant about Scrap Dragon's amazingness about 6 matches. It was pretty even, overall, but he liked to scoop early when I took control of the game. I was playing my Vayu Turbo build with a Cyber Ouroboros engine, and he was basically playing Pineapple Cat without the Naturias. During our numerous duels, he got a call from his friend, offering to sell him two Naturia Pineapples, so I assume that he'll have the deck finished soon.

After that, I dueled against someone whom Aki dueled against. I saw that he was using a Watt deck, including cards from Starstrike Blast. But, when I first dueled him, he used this odd Monarch deck with Dark Simorgh, Super-Nimble Mega Hamster, and a "removal engine." I didn't see the removal engine, but I'm assuming that he would just flip Return from the Different Dimension after removing a bunch of stuff with Dark Simorgh. He almost won the first duel, but I turned it around with about 150 LP left.

After a match with his Monarch deck, he started using his Watt deck. It was pretty good, but it was almost completely dependent on boosting effects like Wattcastle and Wattcache. I was able to win fairly easily with my Vayu Turbo build.

That was basically my whole day. We didn't really get enough cards to make new decks using Duelist Revolution themes (except Amazoness, which we've had enough cards for since Aki got the box of OCG Duelist Revolution and I got Gold Series 3 packs...), but we did make a new Hero variant. What a surprise, right? (Sarcasm, if you couldn't figure it out.)

Regardless, it was a pretty good day. And now, I'm going to upload a lone video we took with me using an Empty Jar deck, so that should be up in an hour or so. And I'm just saying this because I've run out of things to talk about...

Dark Desertapir

Yes, you can revive Rescue Cat with it.

Yes, you can use its effect through Gold Sarcophagus (Cyber Ouroboros!).

No, you cannot activate its effect by removing it with Gigantes. It will MISS THE TIMING. The last thing that will happen is the Special Summon of Gigantes (same goes for The Rock Spirit). It's the same deal as when you tribute Peten the Dark Clown for a Tribute Summon. The Tribute Summon is the last thing to happen, so Peten's effect Misses the Timing.

So please, stop trying to make Dark Desertapir decks with Gigantes and The Rock Spirit. It won't work. Feel free to use Gold Sarcophagus, though.

Of course, none of this matters if Rescue Cat gets banned, since all of the other Level 4 or lower Beasts aren't worthy of Dark Desertapir.

Ultimately Shining Extra Long Post

In 5D's Episode 121, Yusei figured out Team Taiyou's strategy. So then, the whole audience magically figured it out (after seeing Leo's warning, which was extremely far away...). For some reason, the crowd started cheering for Team Taiyou; the reason was probably that Team Taiyou was trying to pull off an impossible summon. That's a really bad reason, but it's an anime...

Hopes for the ban list:

Rescue Cat to 0 - Even though it's not the key card behind X-Sabers, it's still too good to exist.

Brain Control to 0 - Whether or not it happens doesn't matter much.

XX-Saber Faultroll to 1 - It must happen, or X-Sabers will keep winning.

Substitoad to 1 - It must happen, or Frog FTK will keep winning.

Infernity Launcher to 1 - It will most likely happen, since Infernities are good in the OCG.

Judgment Dragon to 1 - It should've happened forever ago.

Black Whirlwind to 1 - See Judgment Dragon.

Pot of Duality to 1 - It's better than Allure of Darkness. I would also like to be able to buy one...

Scapegoat to 2 - I don't expect this to happen, but it would be nice...

Mezuki to 2 - I don't expect this to happen either, but Zombies aren't exactly going to start killing everything if this happens.

Gold Sarcophagus to 3 - I don't except this to happen, but I like Cyber Ouroboros...

Lastly, a discussion of the TCG version of Duelist Revolution.

I like the promo, Scrap Archfiend. It'll be a nice generic Level 7 Synchro, but the other Scrap cards are either garbage or Super Rare. That'll make it annoying to make a Scrap deck...

The rarities of Chivalry, Solemn Warning, Paradox Fusion, and Pot of Duality have all been increased. That's really annoying, seeing as how I wanted three of each...

The OCG imports are all meh, except for Stygian Street Patrol, which will help Infernities. But, some of the TCG exclusives are nice. Naturia Pineapple is going to be a Secret Rare (I'll laugh at everyone who wanted to make Pineapple Cat, even though I would've liked to pick up some Naturia Pineapples...). Dark Desertapir is going to be interesting. If I could somehow combine a Cyber Ouroboros engine with Beasts, it would be pretty nice.

So, let's list all of the Commons I'd like to pick up at the Sneak Preview: A/D Changer, Lock Cat, Elephun, Double Cyclone, Miracle Synchro Fusion, Chain Whirlwind, and Genex Power Planner. Hmm, I was expecting the list to be shorter, with all of the rarity increases...

Oh, and if you don't get the reference in the title, you should watch more YouTube...