Friday, August 20, 2010

New Format Morphtronics

I have to say this incarnation is working better than the deck ever has in its life.

x3 Cyber Dragon
x3 Genex Neutron
x3 Morphtronic Radion
x3 Morphtronic Scopen
x3 Morphtronic Boomboxen
x2 Honest
x1 Morphtronic Remoten
x1 Morphtronic Celfon
x1 Sangan
x1 Gorz the Emissary of Darkness

Lots of search and high power, be it standalone or with combos. A great improvement over Morph lineups I've used previously. I've finally seen the light one one Celfon; it's just more consistent that way, especially when reducing the Morph count to remove mediocre members of the team like Boarden, who serves as nothing more than a specialized OTK card.

x1 Dark Hole
x1 Monster Reborn
x1 Scapegoat
x1 Limiter Removal
x1 Giant Trunade
x2 Mystical Space Typhoon
x2 Pot of Avarice
x3 Junk Box

With the deck spamming Synchros via Scopen all the time and the boon of Honest, activating Avarice is easier than ever, and it certainly tends to pay off, often grabbing the last couple cards for the winning push. Monster Reborn and Dark Hole have only increased their power, and have done so more than Brain Control and Heavy Storm ever did. Goats is to make up for lacking defense and open up Naturia Synchro options.

x2 Bottomless Trap Hole
x2 Dust Tornado
x1 Torrential Tribute
x1 Solemn Judgment
x1 Trap Dustshoot

Bare essentials. Debating Dustshoot, honestly, since it's not seemingly great in such an aggro deck.

x1 Armory Arm
x1 Ally of Justice Catastor
x1 Naturia Beast
x1 Goyo Guardian
x1 Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
x1 Scrap Archfiend
x1 Black Rose Dragon
x1 Power Tool Dragon
x1 Ancient Sacred Wyvern
x1 Colossal Fighter
x2 Stardust Dragon
x1 Scrap Dragon
x1 Mist Wurm
x1 Chimeratech Fortress Dragon

Still fiddling with the extra; not sure if I want to use a second BRD or not, and if so, what it would go over. The second Stardust struck me as a necessity since Cyber makes level 8 synchros ridiculously commonplace, and if the Road is going to be mained/sided, so much the better. For the most part, you can just Pot things back. I'm just slightly concerned about Bottomless and D Prison hitting my 1-ofs.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

I'm lovin' it

So for those who haven't seen the changes to the list, at least on the OCG end...

Banned:

Rescue Cat
Heavy Storm
Brain Control
Substitoad

Limited:

Black Whirlwind
Royal Oppression
Infernity Launcher
Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
Monster Reborn
Dark Hole

Semi:
Mystical Space Typhoon
Chaos Sorcerer
Snipe Hunter
Ojama Trio
Magic Cylinder

Unlimited:

Black Rose Dragon
Goblin Zombie
Cyber Dragon
Treeborn Frog
Royal Decree
United We Stand


Quite impressive. All the demons that ruled the format have been knocked off their high horses (except perhaps Sabers, but without Heavy and Cat they'll be a lot more tame), and the various restriction easing leads to a road where there's even more diversity than we've been seeing.

Granted, a few of these are rather LOLWUT (Hole, Reborn, Sorc), but I'm not really complaining about any of this.

...okay, maybe I'm not happy about 2 MST, but that's it.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Satchel was here. Lyndis is a loser.


...yeah this hack is starting to get there.

In YGO news... Storm of Ragnarok. The product details have me rather amped, but then, that's what they're supposed to do, no?

It's really the calm before the storm in the YGO world though... not much going on until the end of the month as people are getting sick of playing and looking forward to the coming format. That's probably why I've been working on Fire Emblem: The Seven Songs instead.

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Cool Story, Bro.

Lately I've been hacking Fire Emblem 7. The game play and script is completed through chapter 10. I'm sitting around waiting for graphical assistance so I can put the finishing touches on what I have so far.