Saturday, July 14, 2012

Random Card of the Week [13]


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Now featuring...Final Psychic Ogre
Effect:If this card destroys an opponent's monster by battle, you can pay 800 Life Points to select 1 Psychic-Type monster in your Graveyard, and add it to your hand.

Rulings
- Paying 800 Life Points is a cost.
- This effect targets the monster in your Graveyard.

Tips
"Foolish Burial" combos well with this card. 
- Return "Lifeforce Harmonizer" to reuse its effect.
- Use "Teleport" to summon this card without tributing a monster.

Trivia
- This card's effect is similar to "Armored Axon Kicker".

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Random Card of the Week [12]


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Now featuring... King Dragun
Your opponent cannot select any Dragon-Type monsters as thetarget(s) of Spell, Trap, or Monster Card effects. Once per turn, you can Special Summon 1 Dragon-Type monster from your hand.

Rulings
- The first effect of "King Dragun" is a Continuous Effect. The second effect of "King Dragun" is an Ignition Effect.
"Divine Wrath" is NOT a card that targets, so "Divine Wrath" may be used against Dragon-Type monsterswhile "King Dragun" or "Lord of D." is on the field.

Tips
- You can easily fusion summon this card with "Future Fusion", and even if "Future Fusion" get destroyed by your opponent card effect you can still bring it out by using "Dragon's Mirror" since you already sent the fusion material to the graveyard
- You can give this card near-immunity in a dragon deck with Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV8Royal Decree and then finally Stardust Dragon and or Prime Material Dragon. All of which can be easily brought out in a dragon deck.
- The use of DNA Surgery would work well with this card, giving all of your monsters protection from your opponent's effects whether or not they were originally Dragon-types.
- If you control 2 "Golem Dragons" and this card, it creates a very effective lockdown.

Trivia
- In the Maltese language, "Dragun" means dragon.
- "King Dragun" is holding "The Flute of Summoning Dragon" in his right hand. According the anime, it appears to be his weapon.
- This card has a Xyz counterpart "Queen Dragun Djinn".

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Random Card of the Week [11]


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Now featuring...Vampire Lady
Effect: When this card inflicts Battle Damage to your opponent: Declare 1card type (Monster, Spell or Trap); your opponent sends 1 card of that type from their Deck to the Graveyard.

Tips
- This card can be searched via "Pyramid Turtle".
- When using "Vampire Lady"'s effect, the safest bet is to get your opponent to discard Traps since they are the hardest to recover from the Graveyard. Monsters are almost never a good idea as many decks are designed to make use of cards in the Graveyard.
- This card works well with "Shadow Delver".

Trivia
- "Vampire Lady" has a counterpart, "Vampire Lord".
- This is the first card to have 1550 ATK and DEF.
- This monster is similar to the Lady Bats from Konami's Castlevania games.

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Random Card of the Week [10]


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Now featuring... Cyber Ogre 2
Effect: "Cyber Ogre" + "Cyber Ogre"A Fusion Summon of this monster can only be conducted with the above Fusion Material Monsters. When this card attacks, it gainsATK equal to half the ATK of the attack target, during damage calculation only.

Tips
- An easy way to Special Summon this card is to use Cyber Ogre and The Earth - Hex-Sealed Fusionwhile they are both on the field.
- By activating Limiter Removal after the ATK gain effect, you will effectively gain more ATK than activating Limiter Removal before you attack.
- Use this card with  Metalmorph so it gains the ATK of the attacked monster.

Trivia
- This is Chancellor Sheppard's (from Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Series) ace card.
- This card's attack boosting effect is similar to that of "Metalmorph".

(Cyber Orge)

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Random Card of the Week [9]


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Now featuring... Dust Lord Ash Gash
Effect: When this card inflicts Battle Damage to your opponent: This card gains 1 Level (max. 12).

Rulings
- The effect of "Dust Lord Ash Gash" which increases its Level by 1 is a Trigger Effect which activates when it inflicts Battle Damage to the opponent's Life Points.
- If "Dust Lord Ash Gash" changes its own Level and is then affected by "Skill Drain", then "Dust Lord Ash Gash" returns its original Level of 4.

Tips
- Use "Secret Pass to the Treasures" to allow this card to attack directly and use its effect.
- This is useful for Synchro Summons and Xyz Summons.

Trivia
-This monster's face is similar to the face of "Mad Archfiend", which may not be a coincidence, as they are both used by Jack Atlas. They also share the same Level, Type and Attribute.
- This monster's face also bears a resemblance to Taokaka from Blazblue.

Random Card of the Week [8]


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Now featuring... Sauropod Brachion
Effect:You cannot Special Summon this card from your Deck. You canTribute Summon this card by Tributing 1 Dinosaur-Type monster. Once per turn, you can change this card to face-down Defense Position. When this card is Flip Summoned, change all other monsters to face-down Defense Position. If your opponent attacksthis card, any Battle Damage they take is doubled.

Rulings
- "You cannot Special Summon this card" and "You can Tribute Summon this card by tributing 1Dinosaur-Type monster" are not effects.
- You can Tribute a face-down monster to Tribute Summon this card.

Tips
- Force your opponent's monsters to battle this card with "Battle Mania". They'll take an enormous amount of damage due to this card's damage-doubling effect and high original DEF. You can further increase the damage they take if you drop their monsters' ATK with "Fairy Box" or "Mirror Wall", and you can destroy their monsters if you use "Continuous Destruction Punch".
- If this card is in DEF, and it's the only monster on your side of the field, you can use this card,"All-Out Attacks", and "Nightmare Archfiends" or "Ojama Trio" for an OTK.
- Use "D2 Shield" to inflict further damage to your opponent.

Trivia
- This card's name is a pun on the words Sauropod and Brachiosaurus.
- This card's anime artwork features "Jurassic World".

Brachiosaurus

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Random Card of the Week [7]


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Now featuring... Roll Out!
Effect: Select 1 Union Monster in your Graveyard and equip it to an appropriate monster you control.

Rulings
- The effect of "Roll Out!" targets one Union Monster in your Graveyard.

Tips
- This is a great way to protect important monsters from being destroyed last minute by battle or by a card effect (depending on the Union Monster used).
  - One such use is equipping an "Oilman" with this cards effect to something like "Cyber Twin Dragon"in which a "Limiter Removal". This would allow you to attack twice, and draw 2 cards if you destroy 2 monsters in battle, and would protect the "Cyber Twin Dragon" from being destroyed at the End Phase.
- Very useful for VWXYZ deck.

Trivia
- The English name may be a reference to the Transformers  franchise; more specifically, the recurring Autobot phrase "Transform and roll out!"
- The monster shown on this card is "Perfect Machine King" equipped with "Heavy Mech Support Platform".