My decks for 2013

Hey there fellow readers, LZ here bringing you a post on the decks that I'm running for 2013.

Over the past year, I've been playing and testing decks whether it's on CFC or in real life. So before, I get into the whole 2013 decks thing. Let's reminisce  a bit on the decks that I played last year. Let's go!

In 2012, I played a lot of decks and heres a list of it~

Oracle Think Tank
Murakumo

Granblue

Shadow Paladins

Great Nature 

Angel Feathers

Mega Colony

Narukami

Pale Moon
Dark Irregular

All of the above are the decks that I used to run. I took few decks to use for tourneys and the rest are for casual plays.

Unfortunately, some of the decks didn't catch on to me so I retired them (which are listed in red) due to the lack of performance and lack of interest. In the end, I ended up with 3 clans to play with. (Listed in blue)

For 2013, the 3 clans left in my arsenal will be my main clan until it dies out, which for me, never because these clans grew on me to the point that I'm willing, slowly though, spend more money on, especially Great Nature.

Now, we move on to the deck builds that I'm gonna run for 2013 for the 3 clans.

Great Nature

: When I first got into Great Natures, it was a deck that my friend bought off from his friend. The deck had 2 Leoplads in it and a other stuff I can't remember. I tried the deck myself and at that point in time, I had interest in it. Sooo~ I persuaded him to sell it to me, got it for BND$100. Immediately after that, I searched for the cards I need for the deck, because at that time, the deck had no nulls, and few little to non key cards like Binocular Tigers. A week after that, yes, A WEEK. I built the deck into a full Leopald Beatdown. I also tried every build that can be built. Including a deck based around School Dominator, Apt and Dumbbell Kangaroo, Lox-Chain Ride and the now famous, (at least what I think to be) the Armed Bison build.

Mega Colony

: Mega Colony...this one is a bit personal. So I'm just gonna say that, this deck is fun to play with and a cheap as it is. This deck trolls...A LOT.

Narukami

: Well, now. Narukami, this deck is my first mainstream deck since I left Shadow Paladin. For me this deck is by far my favorite deck to play with, managed to get myself top 8 in a tournament with my now main deck build for Narukami, and not it's not 'THE BLOOD,' it's the least popular build known as the 'Rumbling Thunder,' much like his older cousin, 'Goku-Blade' with a few exceptions. I even had the chance to try out the 2nd build utilizing Vayuu's power-up effect.

I'll get into more details of the deck that I'm currently running on a next post. My main goal for this year is to further improve myself in world of CFVG and make it to the big leagues~

Until then, this is LZ
SIGNING OFF!~

Revival

Wow.... 7 months without a post ._.

Dang...

Hey there! LZ here, it's been while. No, we're not dead, we're just too busy with stuff that we forgot that we even had a blog to begin with.

Anyways, happy belated New Years er'body, hope your new years resolutions comes true~....40% of it.

So what's new? Well...I stopped playing Yu-Gi-Oh due to the fact that the meta is pretty fucked up if you asked me, couldn't keep up and decided "eff this, I'mma play Vanguard!" Which is kinda hypocritical of me since I used to hate the game and all...

Enough about that. SO, um, YEAH!

I have no more to say other than saying, "Live long and prosper~"

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Oh yea, for those who didn't know, I'm pretty much updated with the cardfight news, reviews and decks that  are currently viable in this power creeping game known as 'Cardfight Vanguard."

Speaking of Vanguards....

They have a restriction list now like YGOs, who knew. I guess Bushiroad got sick and tired seeing DOTE and MLBs all day er'day SON!

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Those new TDs, man they be OP yo and they're introducing a new mechanic.

"From the minds of Bushiroad, weighing at 0.00000000000000001 miligram! RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE BREEEEEEEEEEEEEEAK"

I don't know why I did a wrestling-like intro.... Too much WWE13 i guess..

Meh, let this be a fun post because i'm pretty much bored at werk at the moment.

Well, that should be enough chaos in one day, sorry for the lack of posts for the last 7 months. We at The Silent Bible would like wish a Happy New Year, who knows I might come back with a new post tomorrow or some other day.

Until then, this is LZ
SIGNING OUT

Player's preference: The Good, the Bad, the Stupid.

Today's Rant is all opinion based...you may or may not agree on what I'm talking here regardless, enjoy~

^_^

Top deck'd a Krystia, and you got 4 fairies in grave. You special summon it, you smack a facedown and turns out to be a Ryko, what do you do?

(A) Skill drain it

(B) Forbidden Chalice it

If your answer is (B) then CONGRATS~ You' have common sense~

Ladies and gents LZ here, bring you a topic about player's preference and how good/bad to have one. Let's go!

In some decks today, they all have the same stuff in it. Some however does not and instead have a few different tech choices instead of the usual stuff. This is what it meant by Player's Preference. Player's Preference is something to do with the play style of a certain player. In terms makes it one or two cards more unique than the others.

For instance, you play Chaos, maining 2 Kycoos in this format is actually a good tech choice in the deck because:

1) It's a dark

2) It allows you to pester your opponent's graveyard since the meta now is all about the graveyard.

3) It's a nice 18k beatstick nonetheless~

Having Player's Preference is good...in some cases....

One thing you have to remember about 'Player's Preference' is make sure that it DOESN'T DEFY LOGIC!.

Don't go on playing an Archlord deck and maining fricken Skill Drain. That's just plain stupid don't you agree? (Yes, this does happen actually) Even if it's a good card, it doesn't belong in almost 60% 

of decks in the meta, ESPECIALLY A DECK THAT HAS A GOOD AMOUNT OF EFFECTS IN IT! 

So it comes down to what I can tell from my perspective.

Player's Preference is all good... But it must have it's logic behind that certain tech choice.

So with that said, this is LZ, your rebellious Demon.

SIGNING OFF!

Money, Fame and Respect in Card Games

Warning: The post you are about to read is quite sensitive among the card game community and everything here is all opinion based. You've been warned.

I've been checking through the posts on this blog and found an interesting subject to talk about, 'What makes a better duelist?' drafted by Haqimy himself. I read through his opinions about what makes a player good. By far, I agree to what he has to say (not being bias towards him or anything) because I am one of the few duelist that had financial problems to begin with. So here's my take in the subject in hand.


Many people know, whether it's Cardfight Vanguard or YGO, these games are based around skill and luck. While some people say that there are lot of skill involve in these games, it's fact that this game is leaning towards the luck factor than skills. So what does this have to do with financial doo-hickies?


Here's a paragraph of the unposted post created by the fellow blogger, Haqimy

"so what makes a better duelist?....is it the one that has infinite-like money, though impossible but let's just say this person's filthy rich!, however their dueling skill is average.....or the duelist who knows about the game like the back of their hand, however the person's financial status seems lower/average compared to the filthy rich~"

The answer for this question is, nothing.

Now, don't go Raging Bull on me simply because of the answer, but the matter of fact, for me it's the correct answer. Despite us being financially good and get the better cards, it doesn''t matter! You still suck at the game. On the other hand, you are skillful and adapted in the game (aka, know what's going on in the meta) it still doesn't matter because your deck is quite outdated and possible get screwed over by the new cards (I'm looking at you Hieratics)

So that's my response for that. Again it's just an opinion, our answers varies on this particular subject.

Second thing that I want to talk about is 'Fame and Respect in Card Games.'

It's goes back to the question that Haqimy made.

Why's that you ask? Ok, let's look it in a realistic way. If you have money, surely people will love you because you have the money, you have the power. If you put that into CG wise, that stinky rich dude will have a blinged out deck and buy the newest booster box. Not one, not two BUT A CARTON!. People be all respecting the dude. While the poor dude, who can only buy a few packs or less and have a budget deck will get mocked. This is quite an annoyance to me simply because no matter what your age is, it doesn't matter. As if buying and blinging decks on the spot no less makes you superior. The sad thing is that no one gives a fuck about it. Society is just like that, blinded by greed and so forth.

...dang, this is getting preachy. ._.

Well, that's it for my rant, special thanks to my fellow friend and blogger of this dead beat blog, Haqimy and my good friend 'Adam,' fellow duelist and a friend for the idea of this post.

THIS.IS.LZ, your rebellious Demon
SIGNING OFF!.

I have no idea what to post...so be it Random

As the title suggested, I really have no idea what to write about, might as well blog randomly I guess.

So REDU (Return of the Duelist) is out now and I'm pretty pumped up. No, not because of Madolce, well, partially because of Madolce. CURSE MY LIKING TO CUTE ANIME GIRLS!

In other news, tomorrow is tournament day at GPC, planning to enter that with Dark Worlds~ By far, the build I'm running is pretty damn good despite the lack of Drag Downs. That, or should I use my main that I never seem to talk about it here...

Meh, I'll just stick to DWs and see what happens~

L.Z signing out

WE'RE BACK!! (sort of)

After almost a year drama and inactivity...
We're coming back and this time...

...The Silent Bible goes black and blue..

New Format, New challenge!

The World of Cards revived!...yesh...out o nowhere right?....i just feel like i'm still accountable to keep posting here since i'm a contributor....just doing my job....as an active YGO duelist (still)....enjoy the read....

So I've returned to YGO after a long break from it....been involving myself with stuffs besides YGO....such as studies due to the start of my University life....busy with assignments and what not....aside from that i've taken up a new card game, Cardfight! Vanguard....which has little similarities to YGO which has caught my interest....actually i was put off by the previous YGO ban list to be honest, not give up or anything on it but so VG seemed the fresh new hobby....well enough abt tht...now tht there's a new Ban List....i'm all hyped up...

BAMF! September 2011 Ban List! [(+) My thoughts]

[Banned]

Fishborg Blaster

Though i haven't experienced it's true power first hand....i know it's very abusive....funny really how i wanted to experiment with it...then it gets banned....just my luck...they could've just limited it but maybe just an act of precaution, hence banned.....

Mental Master

I was wondering why it's has stayed so long without gettin banned...i play a Psychic OTK deck myself and it's the main engine to the OTK....so finally banned?...yeah....need to rebuild deck!~

Giant Trunade

Hmm....simply just substituted this with heavy....it was a lil bit annoying compared to Heavy weird enough....since the only way to negate it was to Solemn, Dark bribe or magic jammer it....so if u don't have these get ready for a wave of attacks....as for Heavy...there's not only solemn and bribe and magic jammer to negate it but also other cards which prevents destruction (e.g Starlight road, Stardust and etc)....n personally trunade + Swords of revealing light/future fusion/other re-usable continuous spells was annoying~

Royal Oppression
It was annoying at 1...but could've stayed at 1 due to 3 MSTs running ard now....perhaps to let xyzs roam ard in this format and see play....however now Synchros can also appear at will~

[Restrict to 1]

Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of Beginning

Oh hell NO!.....Really now?....a lot of ppl expected it to come back...and now it comes true....

Debris Dragon

Another act of precaution?....since it was still abusive at 2?....

Lonefire Blossom

Lone as in lonely lonefire blossom now...nyeh he he~ slows down the plant engine slightly?....

Legendary Six Samurai Shi En

I've went against 1 and it's enough to annoy the hell outta me....can't imagine 2 at once so at 1 looks great as ever!

TG Hyper Librarian and Formula Synchron

As expected by many...it was heck fast now it's slightly reduced....still useful but just at one each now~

Heavy Storm

Yesh.... no more set 5 backrow then hide behind them....traps got weaken....sad~

Primal Seed

Erm...pass?....

Shien Smoke Signal

Slows down Six Sams.....but ROTA still available....so 2 searchers now which is better than 4 previously! DUH!

Pot of Avarice

Never did try using 2...already used to playing 1 so it's ok...though i've seen people abuse more than 1 copy of it....*cough* Ganz's Fabled *cough* so at 1 looks ok~

[Restricted to 2]

Summoner Monk

Lvl 4 on lvl 4 action....more powa to rank 4 Xyzs!

Tragoedia

For xyz use and also protection!

Necro Gardna

Another protection card....now at 2~

Dewloren

Feel sorry for this though...will it see play?....prob?~ but less likely~

Destiny Draw

Revival of D-engine....

Swords of Revealing Light

At 2 for protection but 3 MSTs just ruins it's use.....

Mind Crush

Get a card in hand?....oh tht's gonna get declared....if no search...happy guessing guys...2 chances now~

Call of Haunted

Limit reverse got get swapped with this prob?....

[Released]

Judgment Dragoon

Oh man....more power to LS!~

Spirit Reaper

Stalls at 3?...more easer to get rid of now compared to last time....no problem~

Overload Fusion

Hmm....no problem here.....

MST

Now at 3...weakens traps....more backrow hate!

Megamorph

Meh....

Gravity Bind

Protection?....i play watts so might implement this~ but then again Heavy n 3 MSTs running around....so not so good~

Icarus Attack

Now at 3...more destruction to Blackwings...but was already ok at 2 for me....

See how shorter my sentences become from top to bottom.....lol yesh i'm lazy...so yeah, that's my opinion on the new Ban list.....next post maybe on how this affects my decks.....till then

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