Saturday, November 20, 2010

Structure Deck 4: Fury from the Deep (English Version)



Cover Card


Card List:
  • SD4-EN001 Ocean Dragon Lord - Neo-Daedalus (Ultra Rare) 
  • SD4-EN002 7 Colored Fish
  • SD4-EN003 Sea Serpent Warrior of Darkness
  • SD4-EN004 Space Mambo
  • SD4-EN005 Mother Grizzly x3
  • SD4-EN006 Star Boy
  • SD4-EN007 Tribe-Infecting Virus
  • SD4-EN008 Fenrir x2
  • SD4-EN009 Amphibious Bugroth MK-3
  • SD4-EN010 Levia-Dragon - Daedalus
  • SD4-EN011 Mermaid Knight
  • SD4-EN012 Mobius the Frost Monarch
  • SD4-EN013 Unshaven Angler
  • SD4-EN014 Creeping Doom Manta
  • SD4-EN015 Snatch Steal (Banned)
  • SD4-EN016 Mystical Space Typhoon (Semi Limited)
  • SD4-EN017 Premature Burial (Banned)
  • SD4-EN018 Pot of Greed (Banned)
  • SD4-EN019 Heavy Storm (Banned)
  • SD4-EN020 A Legendary Ocean x3
  • SD4-EN021 Creature Swap
  • SD4-EN022 Reload x2
  • SD4-EN023 Salvage x2
  • SD4-EN024 Hammer Shot
  • SD4-EN025 Big Wave Small Wave
  • SD4-EN026 Dust Tornado
  • SD4-EN027 Call of the Haunted(Limited)
  • SD4-EN028 Gravity Bind x2 (Limited)
  • SD4-EN029 Tornado Wall
  • SD4-EN030 Torrential Tribute (Limited)
  • SD4-EN031 Spell Shield Type-8
  • SD4-EN032 Xing Zhen Hu
Deck Review: This deck is extremely powerful that includes clearing the whole field, gaining the upperhand. Many monsters effect of this deck can be activated when a field spell card Umi is on the field. However, Umi is not included in the deck. Instead, a better field spell card A Legendary Ocean is in it to replace the absent of Umi. This card can be treated as Umi. Also, another effect is that it downgrades all water creatures level by one. This made summoning more easier as high level water monsters now could cost one less or no tribute. One of the best monarch, Mobius The Frost Monarch is also available in this deck The Main card Ocean Dragon Lord - Neo-Daedalus is so powerful that by just destorying Umi, you not only clear the whole field (except the itself) but also both player's hand. A worthy price to pay indeed. However one disadvantage of the deck is that it is too dependant of Umi. So cards like Teraforming would be good in this deck. Generally, this deck is very destructive as well as powerful. A rating of 4/5 best explain the deck.

Friday, November 19, 2010

Structure Deck 3: Blaze Of Destruction ( English Version)


Cover Card

Card List:

  • SD3-EN001 Infernal Flame Emperor (Ultra Rare)
  • SD3-EN002 Great Angus
  • SD3-EN003 Blazing Inpachi
  • SD3-EN004 UFO Turtle x3
  • SD3-EN005 Little Chimera
  • SD3-EN006 Inferno x2
  • SD3-EN007 Molten Zombie
  • SD3-EN008 Solar Flare Dragon x2
  • SD3-EN009 Ultimate Baseball Kid x2
  • SD3-EN010 Raging Flame Sprite
  • SD3-EN011 Thestalos the Firestorm Monarch
  • SD3-EN012 Gaia Soul the Combustible Collective
  • SD3-EN013 Fox Fire
  • SD3-EN014 Snatch Steal (Banned)
  • SD3-EN015 Mystical Space Typhoon (Semi Limited)
  • SD3-EN016 Molten Destruction x2
  • SD3-EN017 Nobleman of Crossout
  • SD3-EN018 Premature Burial (Banned)
  • SD3-EN019 Pot of Greed (Banned)
  • SD3-EN020 Tribute to the Doomed
  • SD3-EN021 Heavy Storm (Banned)
  • SD3-EN022 Dark Room of Nightmare
  • SD3-EN023 Reload
  • SD3-EN024 Level Limit - Area B x2 (Limited)
  • SD3-EN025 Necklace of Command
  • SD3-EN026 Meteor of Destruction
  • SD3-EN027 Dust Tornado x2
  • SD3-EN028 Call of the Haunted (Limited)
  • SD3-EN029 Jar of Greed
  • SD3-EN030 Spell Shield Type-8
  • SD3-EN031 Backfire x2 
Deck Review: The first released burn deck. This deck concentrates on fire burn cards. With the help of UFO Turtle, you are able to get any 1500 attack or lower power monsters to the field.The cover card Infernal Flame Emporer plays an important role of burning OTK methods. Most of the cards in this deck have quite low attack power and quite a number of low level monsters. This is its weakness as well as its strength. By using cards like Level Limiting, Gravity Bind or Messager Of Peace, your monsters are safe and able to activates its effects such as direct attacks and every-turn-burning effect. Also, player using this deck should be cautious when versus against strong beatdowns as you might not be always lucky to get stalling cards. Overall, I think this deck deserve a rating of 4/5.

Structure Deck 2: Zombie Madness ( English Version)


Cover Card
Card List:
  • SD2-EN001 Vampire Genesis (Ultra Rare)
  • SD2-EN002 Master Kyonshee
  • SD2-EN003 Vampire Lord
  • SD2-EN004 Dark Dust Spirit
  • SD2-EN005 Pyramid Turtle x3
  • SD2-EN006 Spirit Reaper (Limited)
  • SD2-EN007 Despair from the Dark x2
  • SD2-EN008 Ryu Kokki x2
  • SD2-EN009 Soul-Absorbing Bone Tower
  • SD2-EN010 Vampire Lady
  • SD2-EN011 Double Coston
  • SD2-EN012 Regenerating Mummy x2
  • SD2-EN013 Snatch Steal (Banned)
  • SD2-EN014 Mystical Space Typhoon (Semi Limited)
  • SD2-EN015 Giant Trunade (Limited)
  • SD2-EN016 Nobleman of Crossout
  • SD2-EN017 Pot of Greed (Banned)
  • SD2-EN018 Card of Safe Return (Banned)
  • SD2-EN019 Heavy Storm (Banned)
  • SD2-EN020 Creature Swap x2
  • SD2-EN021 Book of Life x2
  • SD2-EN022 Call of the Mummy x3
  • SD2-EN023 Reload x2
  • SD2-EN024 Dust Tornado
  • SD2-EN025 Torrential Tribute (Limited)
  • SD2-EN026 Magic Jammer
  • SD2-EN027 Reckless Greed 
  • SD2-EN028 Compulsory Evacuation Device x3   
Deck Review: This zombie deck instead of swarming, focusing on beatdown. The cover card Vampire Genesis, with the attack of 3000 is able to go on par with the Blue-Eyes White Dragon. However, it is hard to summon as it needs the present of Vampire Lord ; it has pretty less attack power of 2000. The second effect is to discard a zombie monster to special summon  from your graveyard a zombie card with less level than the discarded one. This effect can only be used once per turn. Since most zombie decks always end up with no hand, this effect is quite useless. The card Double Coston lets you to tribute it for a Dark type monster which requires two tribute. This is good as you could summon high attack monsters like Despair From The Dark faster. However, you who be having a hard time protecting it before tributing it away as it only has an attack of 1700. Overall,my opinion  is that it requires much modifications to improve the deck.. So I"ll give the deck a rating of 2.5/5.

Structure Deck 1: Dragon's Roar ( English Version)


Cover Card

                                                                
Cards List:
  • SD1-EN001 Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon (Ultra Rare)
  • SD1-EN002 Red-Eyes B. Dragon
  • SD1-EN003 Luster Dragon x2
  • SD1-EN004 Twin-Headed Behemoth
  • SD1-EN005 Armed Dragon LV3 x2
  • SD1-EN006 Armed Dragon LV5 x2
  • SD1-EN007 Red-Eyes B. Chick
  • SD1-EN008 Element Dragon
  • SD1-EN009 Masked Dragon x3
  • SD1-EN010 Snatch Steal (Banned)
  • SD1-EN011 Mystical Space Typhoon (Semi-Limited)
  • SD1-EN012 Nobleman of Crossout x2
  • SD1-EN013 Premature Burial (Banned)
  • SD1-EN014 Swords of Revealing Light (Limited)
  • SD1-EN015 Pot of Greed (Banned)
  • SD1-EN016 Heavy Storm (Banned)
  • SD1-EN017 Stamping Destruction x3
  • SD1-EN018 Creature Swap x2
  • SD1-EN019 Reload x2
  • SD1-EN020 The Graveyard in the Fourth Dimension
  • SD1-EN021 Call of the Haunted (Limited)
  • SD1-EN022 Ceasefire (Limited)
  • SD1-EN023 The Dragon's Bead
  • SD1-EN024 Dragon's Rage x2
  • SD1-EN025 Reckless Greed
  • SD1-EN026 Interdimensional Matter Transporter x2
  • SD1-EN027 Trap Jammer
  • SD1-EN028 Curse of Anubis 
Note: This Deck Is Currently No Longer Printed Due To The Amount Of Banned Cards In It.

Deck Review: The first dragon structure deck to be printed by Konami. Decent dragon deck which focus on Red-Eyes monsters. Basically a beat down deck which relies on Red Eyes Darkness Dragon effect.Dragon Bead is also a good card.Just by discarding a card you can negate a trap card effect which targets 1 face-up Dragon type.Moreover, this deck suppports LV monster eg. Arm Dragons and Horus Black Flame Dragons. The basic tactic of this deck is to increase the number of dragons type monsters in the graveyard to boost the power of Red-eyes Darkness Dragon. You could add foolish burial to aid this. After that, summon Red-eyes black dragons in order to special summon Red-eyes darkness dragon. Red Eyes Black Chick would be good to do this job. So generally, I give the deck a rating of 4/5.

    Delta Crow - Anti Reverse

    Type: Trap 

    Effect: Activate only while you control a face-up "Blackwing" monster. If you control exactly 3 "Blackwing" monsters, this card can be activated from your hand. Destroy all face-down Spell and Trap Cards your opponent controls.

    Advantage(s): A good subsitute for heavy storm to destroy face-down spell and trap. Now that heavy storm is banned in the september banlist 2010, this card become a must-have for all blackwing deck. It can also be activated by hand if you control exactly 3 "Blackwing" monsters. 


    Disadvantage(s): Only can destroy all face-down set trap and spell

    Dragunity Aklys

    Type: Dragon/Tuner

    Effect: When this card is Normal Summoned, you can Special Summon 1 "Dragunity" monster from your hand and equip this card to it as an Equip Spell Card. When this equipped Equip Card is sent to the Graveyard, select and destroy 1 card on the field.

    Advantage(s) Can destroy a card on the field which is useful most of the time.
                          Can Special Summon high level dragunity monsters eg. Dragunity Arms Laevatein & Dragunity Arms Misteil. Combo with dragunity legionnaire to destroy 1 card and 1 monster on the field. Great for synchro summons like StarDust Dragon, BlackWing Dragon and Red Dragon ArchFiend.

    Disadvantage(s): The effect is compulsory which means when you have no cards to destroy on your opponent field, you have to destroy one of your own cards.The Effect can be negated by By Order Of The Emperor