DRAGON STILL RULES! SEPT 2013 FORMAT

Hello Everyone!

It's been 2 months since my last post (after winning nationals) and i really thought i was never gonna play nor write something about Yugioh! again due to my frustration not being able to attend World Championship 2013. But as we all know, life must go on. There are still so much things to do in Yugioh!. One of them is to help our team in the upcoming events. And now that the new banlist is upon us, we are back to the drawing board creating both new and old decks while teching it up for the upcoming meta.

What better way to start things of than reconstructing our beloved DRAGON RULERS!

After getting hit really hard by the ban hammer, many people think dragons are dead. but like my story, giving up is not an option. So I decided to look around and see what other players think about reconstructing this deck. The most popular one was the plant/trooper engine dragon rulers. At first, i thought about the same thing the instant i saw the banlist. After doing some test, i noticed that plants make the deck really slow. i was not satisfied. so i tinkered, rebuilt, researched, and came up with the build that i'm comfortable with.

Here's the list:

MONSTERS:
Blaster x3
Tempest x3
Redox x3
Tidal x3
Gorz x2
Necroface x1
Eclipse Wyvern x2
Light and Darkness Dragon x2
REDMD x1
Flamvell Guard x3
Dragunity Brandistock  x1 (corsesca is not playble in our region)

SPELLS:
Heavy Storm x1
Monster reborn x1
Dragon Shrine x3
Dragon Ravine x3
D.D.R. x3
Gold Sarcophagus x2
Seven Star Sword x2
Card Destruction x1

EXTRA DECK:
Dragosac x3
Big eye x1
Gaioabyss x1
Master of blades x1
Gaia Dragoon the Thunder charger x1
Jewel Flare Stardust Dragon x1
Jeweled Red Dragon Archfiend x1
Colossal Fighter x1
Scrap Dragon x1
Crimson blader (if you have one coz i dont)
2 more slots


Basically, the main strategy of this deck is to put out LADD on turn one. With the help of ravine and shrine, first turn can go from a lone LADD to LADD, Dragosac and REDMD. I find light and darkness to be really effective since the gameplay will be much slower compared to the previous meta. Having LADD will basically deplete your opponents resources while you beat him up and replenish at the same time. The deck runs smoother and more consistent than the one using plants as your normal summon will be dedicated for LADD or summoning a tuner for lvl 8 snychro only. Dragon ravine also serves dual purpose as it can dump the dragon you need or fetch you a lvl 1 Dragunity tuner. I used 3 flamvell guards to maximize the use of Dragon shrine's effect dumping 2 dragons (one being normal) so you can use it immediately to summon a dragon ruler. Necroface will enable you to reload your hand with it's banish effect and also, to replenish your deck if you banished to much dragons already. It won't be a problem you don't draw any DDR but having one will give you a lot of options. the rest are self-explanatory already so if you have dragon ruler cards, go ahead and try this build :)

For the side deck, it still depends on your local meta. but staple sides would probably be 3 Royal decree, 2-3 MST, 2-3 Tsukuyomi, veiler/maxx c. I didn't put Veiler on main since you will rarely use it once LADD is out.

So after building this deck, i lend it to my team mate for locals and he won (4-0) beating a verz deck during the final round. the other decks he fought were dragon ruler(with plants), another Verz deck, and machina gadget.

So that's it for now. i apologize for my poor writing skills. I just really want to share this deck to uplift those Dragon ruler fanatics. :)

Thanks for reading my post. Til next time!

 -IRWIN

Congrats to my Team mates @ Team ASIONG! POWER!

                                                               Chito, Me and Jun

Card gaming is not all about fun and games. having friends or meeting new people is a big part of it. and so I will take this chance to thank my team mates at TEAM ASIONG for helping me achieve what i have today in Yugioh (Back-to-Back National Champ)! And to Congratulate them as well for getting the other 3 spots at top 8. Finalists Jun Agoto, Semi Finalists Chito Racimo, and Quarter Finalists Alvin Lim (2010 Philippine National Champion). Job well done! To our other Teammates, thank you for the support! We are not done yet! :)

I also want to thank those people who joined us at our practice sessions and helped us in any other ways. Too many names to name but i know you guys are aware how thankful i am. :)

My decklist from Yugioh WCQ Philippines 2013

Hello Everyone!!!

It's been a reeeeaaallllllyyyy llloooooooooonnnngggg time since i last posted here. I wanna apologize to those people who are following my blog (if any) :) . I have been busy the whole year preparing for different events. it's reallly hard to manage your time especially when you're playing 3 Card Games at the same time (right now im actively playing Yugioh, Vanguard and Weiss Schwarz). Plus, we all know for a fact that i'm not good at writing, so most of the times, i feel lazy before i even start with my post. :P Anyways, Enough with the chit chat and let's go straight to the topic. here's the list

MAIN DECK:40

Monsters:
3x Blaster
3x Redox
3x Tidal
3x Tempest
2x Stream
2x Burner
2x Reactan
2x Lightning
3x effect Veiler
3x Maxx C
2x Droll and lock
1x Flamvell Guard

Spells/Traps:
3x Gold Sarco
3x Super Reju
1x Seven star sword
1x Heavy storm
1x Book of moon
1x Darkhole

1x Breakthrough Skill

Extra Deck: 15
1x Stardust Dragon
1x Colossal Fighter
1x Blackwing Dragon
1x Scrap Dragon
1x Blackrose Dragon
1x Ancient Sacred Wyvern
1x Gemknight Pearl
3x PBP DragoSack
2x Big Eye
2x Gaia Dragoon
1x GaioAbyss

Side Deck: 15
2x Tsukuyomi
2x Puppet Plant
1x Electric Virus
1x Metaion
2x Swift Scarecrow
3x MST
2x EEV
2x Vanity's Emptiness


For now, I'm not gonna discuss this in detail since i haven't got much time. but please feel free to ask for any questions and i'll be glad to answer them. But please don't ask me how i beat Prophecy, coz the answer is 1st, i only encountered it twice during the event (during round 6 of swiss where i loss and Finals. yep, its the same player). 2nd, I JUST GOT LUCKY during Finals. no special techniques whatsoever. :)

Thanks for reading and will try to post more soon! :)