YGO TCG News: The Duelist Genesis

The Duelist Genesis

A new Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME era dawns with The Duelist Genesis, the latest booster set for the world's number one selling trading card game! This 100-card set is the first to feature cards from the all-new Yu-Gi-Oh! animated series, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, presently scheduled to make its North American debut on 4Kids TV in early September. Just as the new TV show marks the next chapter in the ever-popular Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise, The Duelist Genesis also marks a fresh beginning for the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG, introducing new types of monsters and an amazing new game mechanic! Be prepared to kick your Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG Dueling into overdrive with The Duelist Genesis!

Selling Points:

Create a new line of attack with the new Psychic-Type monsters and Synchro monsters with Tuners (effect monsters that fuse with regular monsters to bring out Synchro monsters).
Featuring two key cards: "Stardust Dragon" - the signature monster for Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's hero - along with his opponent's deadly monster, "Red Dragon Archfiend."
Introducing a new game mechanic that ties directly to the show
Players can collect and play cards along with the development of the exciting new show
100 card booster set with more Ultra Rares, Super Rares, and Rares to collect featuring 10 cards exclusive to Upper Deck and 10 cards previously only released in Japan.

JeffP@UDE
Beginning with The Duelist Genesis, if a booster pack has a holo, it will not replace the regular rare. That means that if you get a secret, ultimate, ultra or super rare in a pack, you will get a regular silver rare also plus seven commons, rather than just eight commons (from what I'm told).

Approximate Release Date: 2nd September 2008
Sneak Preview Date: 9th - 10th August 2008
Legal for local events: 9th August 2008
Legal for Premier Events: 6th September 2008

CONTENTS:
48 Common Cards (8:1)
20 Rare Cards (1:1)
14 Super Rare Cards (1:5)
10 Ultra Rare Cards (1:12)

//Dates according to the German UDE Newsletter

shriek | New Packs | 8. Aug, 09:04

161 comments | add comment

EliteKakashi - 1. May, 00:19

The Duelist Genesis~

You sure like to post things in advance.

scorchingwolf - 1. May, 14:13

yea

this is going to be super special awesome for real this pack is big and yugioh 5d is kinda sweet. Just take the time to look at the cards they play noooo one liked yugioh gx when it came out and nooo one liked judai or jaden (his english name) but when the show was ending everybody liked him now this stuff is about to come out and it is going to be the same as better then gx.

scorchingwolf - 1. May, 14:16

oh

and whoever post this stuff you work fast and post early great job i guess way to early though lol

Great Shogun Shine - 2. May, 02:19

Promo card

I wonder what the new promo card is? Maybe its a new Tuner monster, or a Synchro monster, or a Psychic monster? Guess we will have to find out later!

scorchingwolf - 2. May, 13:59

most likley

it is a Synchro monster because this pack reflects on yusai alot of those Synchro monsters and they are real good.

Great Shogun Shine - 6. May, 02:21

A new ages of Yu-Gi-Oh!

Now that all the GX packs are out, it time we live in a would with the new cards from the 5D shows. Well it true that not all the GX shows are done in America! But in 3 months, when The Duelist Genesis pack comes out, we know live in the ages of 5D!

Cosmos - 6. May, 14:44

Changes

Hi ! everybody, this is my first post

Dual ----> Gemini
Tuner -----> ?
Synchro ------> ?

Hopefully they don't change it until it sounds weird....

ShiroRyu - 6. May, 16:13

I don't think they'll change it, Toon, Union, etc. stayed the same, and I think they only changed Dual to Gemini 'coz "dual monsters" sounds too much like "Duel Monsters".

Forrenz - 6. May, 20:52

Yeah

Changing from "Dual" to "Gemini" didn't really matter; "Gemini" sounds more appropriate and interesting. Toons, Spirits, et al wouldn't have made sense to change, since, y'know, there's nothing to change them to.
Tuners are called what they are for a reason, because what they do is "tune" monsters in "sync" with Synchro monsters. I'd be majorly (well, okay, maybe a hyperbole there) shocked if they changed it.
On that topic, you just KNOW they'll make all but 'Magical Android' be Secret Rare, which will oh-so-totally suck. 'Mental-Sphere Fiend' (as I'm assuming it'll be called) may keep it's Ultra Rare status, as may 'Goyou Guardian' (which is funny because it's name means "Order Guardian", and LOTD was given 'Guardian of Order' :P).
Hopefully they'll give us an easier-to-get Synchro monster or three (I don't think we need more Tuners after this and the 5Ds Starter Deck which comes out before this but isn't up on here yet for some reason. Man, what a long sentence that is!), especially if they're throw-backs to older monsters like the 'Gaia Knight' one from the 5Ds Starter Deck! Like a 'Flame Swordsman' one whose name counts as 'Flame Swordsman', or a 'Swordstalker' one, or one that also boosts older themes like LOTD did.
OH! Maybe they'll add some of the Duel Terminal cards, even if its just the "Wurm" ones and the 'Neos' and such support...

ShiroRyu - 7. May, 10:56

I wouldn't mind that frost dragon one from the Duel Terminal series myself. Plus a Flame Swordsman synchro whose name counts as Flame Swordsman might be cool. I wouldn't be surprised if there was some Red-Eyes related Synchro actually, considering how much they love Red-Eyes.
I hope you're right, that UDE release some easier-to-get but still cool Synchro monsters. I reckon Earth Giant Gaia Plate will be in this set, along with (hopefully) Arcana Force EX - The Light Ruler and Dark Simorgh. I also reckon UDE will release another exclusive Lightsworn, since we got Dark Freed in LOTD.

Forrenz - 7. May, 19:24

I know, right?

I hope they throw in 'Gaia Plate' too, as well as 'Saurobeast Bracheon', but still a tough call, but hopefully those cards from those Holy/Dark packs are released soon, just because.
I'm also betting on there being AT LEAST 2 cards to cut down on the costs that the Psychics focus on... Especially Spell card ones, since they only have the 2 traps as LP increasing, and 'Jinzo' may be seeing more play.
And, to restate, 'Angel Lift' + 'Destiny Hero - Disc Commander' = BROKEN! O.o
And I can't wait for "Gear Town'!!

scorchingwolf - 7. May, 14:58

yea

this pack is sweet can't wait till it comes out lightsworn support and gladiator and mabye dark support but what's up with geminis i bet there will be another secret rare gemini because i don't see any in that pack geminis are pretty danm sweet matter fact there epic does anybody agree?.. anyway only thing i want to know is why make a gladiator get a monster from the grave to your hand seems kinda dumb i mean the pic is sweet and i'm not saying the card is useless but why and i think their gonna make these like neo spacians there gonna make a whole bunch of fusions IIIIII REALLY HOPE THEY do because gladiators are awesome the new one in light of destruction is too good to be a common but hey anyway off the subject who thinks they can name the secret rares in this pack if there is any.

Forrenz - 7. May, 19:25

Well, probably to use 'Gladiator's Respite' or whatever. You want them in your Deck to bring them out anyways right?

Forrenz - 12. May, 18:55

And I hope they make a Secutor and/or Murmillo Fusion, just so they aren't so left out, especially poor Secutor who never gets to return to the Deck like his comrades :(

Forrenz - 9. May, 21:59

Oh yeah!

Who wants to bet that 'Gear Town' will be called 'Gearville' in English? I think that sounds cooler. And isn't it such a broken card for the Ancient Gear monsters? 'Ancient Gear Golem' for just 1 Release? Thank you very much! I ain't afraid of your face-downs now!

ShiroRyu - 14. May, 14:50

Hehe, Gearville. Seriously when that comes out, I'm actually going to try out that deck. I've got 3 Ultimate Gear Golems (the fusions) and 3 Ultra Gear Golems (1 from TLM, 1 from DR3) so I'm gonna give it a spin.
As a random idea i came up with, Gadjiltron Dragon + Alchemy Cycle + Machine Dupe is quite funny.

Forrenz - 18. May, 21:35

Whoa! That's actually a sweet play! Risky but cool! And if they all got ditched to the Grave, they'd be great fodder for 'Ancient Gear Factory' for a "free" 'Ancient Gear Golem'.
Honestly, I'm sure someone will find a way to bring the Ancient Gears to a top 8 finish soon enough, especially thanks to this card.
All they would need is both 'Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror' and 'Light-Imprisoning Mirror' and they'd be set!

jayjay91764 - 18. May, 04:32

whatt happen to the secrets?

Is this just a error or ude realize there evil way

sonic_slicer - 18. May, 07:27

My guese for rarity changes.......

Guard Block will go from super to ultra

synchron reflect will stay common rare or go super rare

psycho charge will probably go super rare

judgement of thunder will probably go common or super rare

gear town super or ultra

Cosmos - 18. May, 11:12

AGAIN ?!??!

48 commons + 20 rares + 12 supers + 10 ultras = 90 cards
Secret rares again ?!?!?!
I'm tired about this.. Will there any ghost rares again ?

I hate those secrets you know.....

Varthol - 18. May, 12:21

you know it...

This booster will also have Secret Rares... UDE is really stupid...
Both Stardust and Red Deamon's will be Secret...
Luckily they will be in the Tin pack in August, i'm sure...
Well, expect Mental Sphere Daemon to be secret too...
Also, psychic deck will be ultra broken!!!
I like the Gladiator support in this pack...

Forrenz - 18. May, 21:29

That's the thing though - even with the Psychics from Crossroads, they're not quite "broken", because most of their abilities cost 800-1000 LP to activate; That's rom one tenth to one eighth... Not that their effects and Spell and Trap support aren't amazing. We'll see soon enough...

Is anybody else amazed they left 'Red Demon's Dragon' alone, name-wise? Good thing I didn't bet on them changing it to 'Red Fiend's Dragon'!

ShiroRyu - 24. May, 21:32

I wouldn't dismiss the Psychics due to their costs, forrenz. Remember Cyber-Stein? Dimension Fusion? Both high cost cards and both saw a lot of play before their ban. And then there's many other cards like Return and Solemn that cost considerable points unless you're playing it late-game. So I don't think the Psychics costs will effect their playability too much. Not to mention all the Life Point gaining cards available. (Emergency Provisions, Solemn Wishes, just to name a few)
I'm sure "Red Demon's Dragon" will be changed, even if they advertise it as "Demon's". Remember, UDE have messed up with advertisements in the past (Dark Grepher's type, for example).

cybergx - 25. May, 14:17

Agree

I've played with Pyschics before, and the Life Point cost doesn't really hurt them. The only thing they really lack is a good trump card. Mental Sphere Daemon is nowhere close to a trump card as it only provides a control element to the game. Hopefully, Crossroads of Chaos can make Pyschics more playable, and give them better monsters.

CyberMaster7 - 20. Jun, 22:43

I like the secret rares. Isnt there a card that takes the cost off of the cards. Wow i am late on this comment. LOL. But deal with it. But we will more than likely wait for better pyschics.

wolfchadren - 18. May, 22:20

Wrong Information

They say Synchro Monsters can be summoned by using Tuner monsters, which are effect monsters, and regular monsters. But there are also Normal Tuner Monsters. So this information isn't 100% accurate :P

shriek - 19. May, 08:51

what do you think the mean by "regular monster"? oô

cybergx - 19. May, 19:26

I think he means by monsters that aren't Tuner. Like Blue Eyes, Red Eyes, Elemental Hero Stratos and so on.

cybergx - 19. May, 06:21

The name is going to be changed to Red Archfiend's Dragon or something similar. It can't be "Demon's".

Varthol - 19. May, 09:51

Red Daemon's Dragon

I don't think his name will change. UDE will just make a ruling that he counts as "Archfiend". Just like how it did with Summoned Skull, Lesser Fiend etc...

wolfchadren - 19. May, 14:05

-sighs-

what do you think the mean by "regular monster"? oô

This is the information given:
...and Synchro Monsters with Tuners (effect monsters that fuse with regular monsters to bring out Synchro Monsters)

So the regular monsters don't refer to the Tuner monsters but to the other needed monsters used for a Synchro Summon.

Forrenz - 19. May, 16:42

Manjyome Thunder says that the "Daemon" part in his name isn't the same as the "Demon" that was changed to "Archfiend in English...
Also, this seems to be the official information, so I'm betting that really will be its name.

cybergx - 19. May, 19:24

Sigh

Don't count on it to be kept. Daemon is still Demon, and that is religious issues. Yes, other card games do have Demon or God in the names, but The Yugioh TCG isn't fond of doing that. It could change to Red Archfiend's Dragon, Red Skull Dragon or Red Fiend's Dragon (the names you suggested earlier Forrenz-both of those names are more likely than Daemon's)

Its too early, in my opinion, to get your hopes up.And Daemon's is Demon Forrenz. I've seen the Japaneese translators (Horoko and Gondora) even say that it is Demon too, and therefore makes it Arcfiend.

Forrenz - 20. May, 11:25

Well...

I'm just passing it on...
Also, there's the three "Goddess" cards in English, and everyone so into their religion that they don't let their children play games like this because it's "practice for practicing witchcraft" are the only people really against it.
I just try to pass on what I've heard. If I hear it from someon known to be reliable, like Manjyome Thunder, then I gotta go with that. If it is the same as "Archfiend", then okay.
This info IS from the German card game, so maybe they've never ruled out using "demon" in the cards' names, like the French ones.
(Funny note: 5Ds will be on the CW network, which has the show Supernatural. Maybe they'll let it go if they're not bogged down by the psychos of the Fox network. and THEN the T.M.N.T. cartoon comes into play, with "the Demon Shredder" and on...)

cybergx - 20. May, 22:37

I understand you Forrenz. I was just saying that because I think its too early to think about the names. Let's just wait until this comes out so we don't have to worry about the name.

And that Equip Spell from Phantom Darkness for the Gladiator Beasts has "Daemon" in it, but it was changed to "Archfiend". Ahh, jus trying to back up my previous point... But don't think I'm trying to be rude though-I'm not. But I don't remember English cards having "Goddess" in the name... Can you please elaborate?

Forrenz - 22. May, 17:19

The three "Goddesses"

1) 'Goddess of Whim"
"Once per turn, you may flip a coin and call it. If you call it right, double this card's original ATK; if you call it wrong, halve its original ATK."
I think... I can't find it in any of my card boxes, but that's its name and I think that effect's right... :P

2) 'Goddess of the Third Eye'
(Fusion-Substitute)

and um... Well, I think that's it, actually. The third one I thought was one was actually 'Queen of Fate - Eternia', but obviously I buggered that up, hehehe.
<= Ditz! LOL

cybergx - 23. May, 01:04

LOL. Thank for telling me about those cards. I forgot about them, lol. Anyways, to change th topic, do you think that some of the TCG exclusives will be Pyschics? Maybe there'll be a Pyschic that heals! But maybe not because of that (OMGZ-DAEMON, maybe Arcfiendz?lol) Mental Sphere Daemon monster...

Myrel - 19. May, 07:47

When exactly does 5D start in America? I haven't been paying attention to the anime since just after the the Fiend god storyline in GX

Forrenz - 19. May, 16:42

September.

cybergx - 19. May, 19:31

I've seen this awesome deck now. Six Samurai with Tuners and Synchros are just really good. really hard to beat-they get a Synchro out pretty reliably. Order Guradian the one turn, Brionac on the next. And hopefully some of the Duel terminal cards come out in this set.

Oleif - 25. May, 18:33

Yes, I do hope they'll add Duel Terminal cards to the 80+ cards.

1310 - 29. May, 17:25

Summon priest

I think Upperdeck should give cards from Limited Edition 8 and Summon priest in this box series because he can help to find tuner or monster for easy synchro. and they gave cards from Limited Edition 7(shuesha) in PTDN & LODT

Johnist - 31. May, 14:29

Just wondering....

What happened to all the information that *had* been here...?

Cosmos - 3. Jun, 07:55

No no

With the release of sturdust dragon and the oter 3 cards in tin, I don't think this pack is that worthy to buy, UNLESS they put something special, usefull, a lot, and hopefully CHEAP in this pack. Otherwise, I don't think this pack is good.

CyberMaster7 - 20. Jun, 23:35

Someone anyone....

needs to become a fortune teller and see when and what cards are coming out. For TCG and OCG. I am going crazy on waiting. Hopefully the fusion for the 3 knights will come out. You know Jack's Knight Queen's Knight and King's Knight. I liked the fusion card. What would be cool to see is the Three goddess come out. Goddess Skuld's Oracle, Goddess belldandy's Guardian, and Goddess Urd's Altar. And the Walkures. And cards played by Bakura. Like Necro Mannequin, Wall, Soldier, And Pot. Also Ghost Duke, and Diabound Carnel, Discredited Mage. And Cards like Cinderella, Pumpkin Carraiage Thorn Princess, Little Red Rideing Hood, Hex Trude, Ginger Bread House, Glass Slippers, well acually there is alot that i would like to see as a rear or super rare or ultra rare and secret rare. I just dont think people would be happy with my 100 card wish list. But Guardien Airtos and Death Scythe and their weapons and All of the Silant Magicains and Sliant Swordsman. Nadn Blue Flame Swordsman and Lord of the Red and Palandien of Dark Dragon, Time Jump, and Weevils insects and Grandpa's Anicants.Orichalcos and its monsters and thats it for know. I want turtor you that much LOL.

CyberMaster7 - 26. Jun, 06:51

Yessss

Finally. But is there no ScR. I liked the ScR. I liked the ScRs. I wish there where more toons. It is cool to add a new breed in to the game. They need to do that more often.

By the way
ScR=Secret Rare
UlR=Ultimate Rare
UR-Ultra Rare
SR=Super Rare
R=Rare
C=Common
P=Promo

CyberMaster7 - 26. Jun, 06:55

Also

What about the rest of GX. Are they not going to finsh the show.
Also suggestion to the runner of the site. Please put an add comment like at the bottom of the comments. Do it for all of the fast scrollers out there :( They need the help to. LOL. I am not jking. We do need the help.

cybergx - 16. Jul, 17:07

They'll air GX and 5D's at the same time, just like they did with the orginal series and GX.

Blader88 - 25. Jul, 07:28

Up in the air

Personally, I think the information is a bit of a stretch.

With Yu-Gi-Oh GX moving to CW4Kids, they're either going to have to broadcast 5Ds on 4KidsTV (unlikely), or by my count it'll be much later before they begin broadcast of the new series.

Personally, I could see a late December/early January release, especially if CW4Kids does 1-hour blocks of the last season of GX...

FilipGX - 16. Jul, 12:52

What? They even have changed the Ghost Rare of this pack. If you go to The Duelist Genesis - Spoiler you can see Stardust Dragon and its rarity is Ultra Rare. What card do you think will be Ghost Rare? Maybe Nitro Warrior or Mental Sphere Archfiend...

FilipGX - 16. Jul, 13:01

Oh and by the way Stardust's text says:
You can TRIBUTE this card to negate the activation of a Spell Card, Trap Card or Effect Monster's effect that designates 1 card on the field and destroy that card. If you negate an effect this way, you can Special Summon this card from your Graveyard during the End Phase. (please excuse me if I made some mistakes in the text)
So they are not going to change Tribute to Release. :)

cybergx - 16. Jul, 17:05

I'm so happy they didn't change it to "Release". That makes me feel better! No need to change what isn't broken.

I'm thinking the new Sneak Preview Promos will be the new Ghost rares, that is if Star Dust isn't the Ghost rare.

Too bad. Star Dust Dragon would've looked so cool as a Ghost rare.

CyberMaster7 - 16. Jul, 21:43

I am starting to get mad.

I like the way they did the sets from Strike of the Neos to Light of Destrution. Haveing the Secret Rares was a cool thing to do. Now they might be changing the Ghost Rare to an Sepret card. Than the players in Japan are going to get mad than the will release that Ghost Rare in Japan. Than they will just turn around and release Stardust Dragon Ghost Rare here. They need to stick to their plan like they have been doing. And not changing it.

cybergx - 19. Jul, 15:57

...

I personally didn't like the Secret Rares this time around. When they began with the introduction of the Secrets, they released cards that were supposed to be as Structure Deck Promos! Really, that was a stupid move on UDE/Konami/whatever changes the rarities.

C'mon! Freya, Spirit of Victory is being sold for nearly $40! And that deserves the common status! They screwed up the Secrets when it was first introduced. I am happy that i got a very shiny Neo-Parshath in my first pack, but still. the chances to get a Secret are so high, and you will most likely get one of the worse Secrets. (during STON and FOTB)

Now, when they decided to change the rarities in the packs, I got a bit mad. I liked the concept of the Secret rares this time around, but doing so didn't mean that they didn't have to make other cards so freakin' hard to get. TAEV had 1 good Secret Rare-Il Blud. I understand that reasoning. but the rest of the Secrets? The other TCG exclusives weren't the best. GLAS even gave us bad Secrets and gave us worse cards for the previous rarities.

Tongue Twister as a Secret? Gil garth as a Secret? Security Orb as an Ultra? Some really bad decisions for the rarities. Really, really bad.

Phantom Darkness and Light of Destruction improved much better than the previous sets involving the rarities. Still, your casual player in Japan has like 3 or 4 EXTRA Dark Armed Dragons for burning, and can buy cards there heck of a lot cheaper than here. The Secret Rares really made the game into a rich man's game. I didn't like that. Why should I spend $100 for a piece of paper? UDE and Konami must have thought their customers were stupid or desperate or something. There is no way I'll ever buy a Secret rare. Even the half decent ones cost over 25 or 30 dollars. I liked it better when they originally had 2 Secret Rares in each pack. /rant

I'm thinking that they still might have Secret rares and Ghost rares. The only reason why star Dust and Red Dragon are Ultras is because they are being released in tins. Expect BRD and Turbo Warrior to be Ultras as well. I don't quite understand you where you said Japan would get angry. They have Holographic Rares instead of Ghost Rare cards.

FilipGX - 16. Jul, 22:38

Did you check out the The Duelist Genesis Special Edition? The Variant Cards are Gladiator Beast Heraklinos and Eradicator Epidemic Virus! I'm so happy about it! :D

arapokemaster - 17. Jul, 02:20

heres an idea for ya.what if all the original rarities remain,and the best tcg exclusives,and ocg cards become secrets,and the rest just become rares,supers,and ultras to fill the set up to 100 cards from Japan's 80.Like always they are going to have 10 ocg,and 10 tcg cards.They should release ocg cards from the end of gx,so we can have them ,and cards that can help synchros.
Possible ocg cards
Chaos End Master,Light End Dragon,Dark End Dragon cause the 2 dragons are ocg syncchros and the master can help them,God Neos from the end of gx,and Neos Wiseman from the end of gx,Summon Preist to halp get enough monster to synchro summon,and 3 other good cards.If they did release these cards I'm guessing the 2 Dragon would be secrets,Chaos End Master super,God Neos,secret,neos Wiseman Ultra,and summon priest super.by the way who else thingk they are going to air the last season of gx,the same time as 5D's premieres like what they did with gx,and the last season of the original yugioh,maybe half an hour of gx season 4 and a half hour of 5D's season 4 is only about 25 episodes so it should take about 4-5 months to finish and then they will just show 5D's

CyberMaster7 - 18. Jul, 08:00

This would be cool or at least to me.

You know how there is the Airknight Parshath, Neo-Parshath, The Sky Paladin, Darknight Parshath, and Avenging Knight Parshath. What if there where 2 more in this set, you know the extra cards. What if they put in a Tune-Parshath and another Parshath one that requierd dark and light monsters that to me would be cool. It might not be cool to anyone else but than that would help explain why they Avenging Knight Parshath. Or what about an fusion one to. And have 3. The fusion one could be Darknight and Airknight to make something really cool.

ShiroRyu - 18. Jul, 11:26

When they released Darknight Parshath they also releashed Darklord Zerato... maybe they'll make a synchro Zerato? lol..
I don't think they'll do a tuner Parshath, tuners are never higher than level 4 so far. Plus I think they've done enough Parshaths... he's cool but there's a limit to how many versions they make before it becomes a bit silly.
Personally I'm betting on UDE making a TCG-exclusive Lightsworn in the set. Might be good, might not, but I reckon they'll make one. PTDN releases 2 TCG-exclusive decent Darks, LOTD releases 2 TCG-exclusive Lightsworns. LOTD releases 1 TCG-exclusive Dark, so I think TDGS will release 1 TCG-exclusive Lightsworn. (btw when i say Dark i mean a dark version of something else.. Darknight Parshath, Darklord Zerato, Dark General Freed)

CyberMaster7 - 18. Jul, 22:31

True

But i like the Parshaths. They are like my top fav. Light monsters, and one Dark monster. And that would be cool to se ar synchro Zerato. They just might do it. I also belive that people have heard wrong on the ScRs i belive that there will be them and Stardust Dragon will also be GR and ScR. The Parshath will be SR and ScR like Grandmaster and Gardian of Order and Volcanic Rocket and so forth. But People are saying that there want be ScRs in this set. You know what would be cool to see to would be A Synchro Freed or a Six Samurai. You know how they turned some monsters to dark well they should turn some to light like Light Necrofear, Light Necroface of something like that. You know what would be cool if they turn like Wind Necrofear or Windlord Zerato of Windnight Parshath same for water earth fire that would be cool. I know i am over doing it but just think they could they started with Dark so why not go throught all of the elements. Or Main Types what ever you want to call it.

Forrenz - 18. Jul, 17:12

Awww...

Why'd they bump up 'Montage Dragon's rarity up to UR? Lame.

CyberMaster7 - 18. Jul, 22:32

Theroy

They are going to turn some of the cards to ScRs so they need to move some cards up to fell the URs places.

arcana force 1 the magician - 19. Jul, 18:38

it dosent say for any secret rares so have my prayers been anwsered and the curse of those deadly secret rares have been lifted and put to rest?

shriek - 19. Jul, 20:36

hmm, 80 cards from the ocg set, 10 cards that have been exlusive to the ocg and 10 cards that are completly new. and now for counting the amount of cards for each rarity.

need to explain more?

arapokemaster - 20. Jul, 18:21

sorry shreik i messed up.this set has 92 cards how.Wait maybe it will have 92 cards counting the tcg and ocg cards.So they might have 6 ocg cards and 6 tcg cards 80+6+6+92 I'm so stupid,

shriek - 20. Jul, 19:49

nope, the set will have 100 cards.

ShiroRyu - 21. Jul, 01:11

Basically there will still be 10 ocg- and 10 tcg-exclusive cards, along with the original 80, totalling 100, however there are 92 non-secrets, and 8 secrets (as apposed to previous sets which had 90 non-secrets and 10 secrets). UDE never include Secrets in their set ratios for some reason (it's not as if they're actually 'secret' anymore...)

TriforceMaster3000 - 25. Jul, 04:17

Sweet!

Psychic Overload looks like it'll be common! That's a first for major drawing cards, which are usually ultra rare (Rare Value, Solar Recharge, etc.). That's sweetness for when I make my Psychic deck hehe. Hopefully they don't go and change their mind later >_>

cybergx - 26. Jul, 04:40

Destractotron and other Ultra Rares

I have a strong feeling that'll become Super rare or Ultra Rare. Its another Breaker. thought Ruler Archfiend could also become Ultra, and (maybe because of Montage Dragon becoming Ultra) Multi-Piece Golem could also become Ultra Rare.

hinderedzombiemaster - 27. Jul, 14:35

here is a complete spoiler for the duelist genesis

here is a complete spoiler for the duelist genesis in english thanks to them italians, just click on the link below itll take u to a google search page, it'll be the second official search on there and you can click on any name in the list, it'll hyperlink you to the bottom section of the page and then next to each card description is a hyperlink to each picture yourwelcome shriek!!!!

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4DKUS_enUS280US280&q=TDGS%2dEN032

cybergx - 27. Jul, 17:05

...

On the Yugioh wiki? That shows the Japanese card list, not the TCG one. Shriek will post up the TCG list.

ShiroRyu - 27. Jul, 22:25

Yea the yugioh wiki's japanese list is pretty much accurate for 001-080, but not the 20 extra that UDE add. Plus, shriek has a habit of not posting card spoilers until the english name/text has been discovered.

EDIT: Oh, I see what you mean by Italian site. Those fakes are very well made, lol.

Forrenz - 28. Jul, 21:23

Yeah...

I prefer Manjyome's site...

Y'know, this is out in 12 days (I mean the Sneak Preview), so I thought maybe we'd have at least half out by now :P

shriek - 28. Jul, 21:53

is it just me or don't people here know about my other blog o.O
http://shriek.twoday.net/stories/4565892/
effects are up for weeks, wikia has only copy and paste of those (most likely including some old errors that have been fixed)

as for the italian page, they are all fakes, as the title stats. but they are well made, that's for sure :P

Forrenz - 30. Jul, 15:09

Re: Jeff's update

So, if the pack we open has a rare higher than normal rare, we still get a normal rare, then 7 commons.
But, does that mean that in packs with only a normal rare, we get just the same as always (since the "Contents" odds are unchanged, I'll assume it is that way).

FilipGX - 30. Jul, 16:32

AWSOME!

cybergx - 30. Jul, 18:22

Wow

So, if I get an Ultra, Super, Ultimate, etc, I also get a Rare? Wow. That's great. I just don't know what to say about this.

leonaxium - 31. Jul, 17:32

Synchros

Well this set is pretty good in my idea. I'll run a Plasma Control with Tuners becuase Plasma Control constantly keeps me with monsters and all I have to do is change a few cards to tuners that can abuse limit reverse and bam! Many people will not only have the problems of plasma but imagine if there was protection for plasma like Stardust on the field?
With the UDE extra rare thing, a good idea because I'm tired of going to sneak peaks and not pulling very well or pulling multiples of bad cards (Phantom Dragon anyone?) and now at least I get a rare to compensate for it. Even if the rare isn't good, I'll feel better.

FilipGX - 31. Jul, 19:02

What a difference!

WOW! "Emergency Teleport" was changed from Common to Ultra Rare. I can't believe it.

Forrenz - 31. Jul, 20:03

~:P

Yeah, that's pretty weird. Then, they DID "upgrade" 'Montage Dragon' to UR too, and it can be a tricky card to use...
That makes me wonder what will be changed to Secret Rare...

It appears that all the pics are there, but they all show up as those stupid "Upgrade to Pro Today! Bandwidth exceeded. Photobucket" images :P

FilipGX - 1. Aug, 00:58

Yeah, I thought that PHOTOBUCKET only appears on my copmuter, but now i know that I'm wrong. But there aren't all the pictures, they are kind of fakes. :)

Chaos_Blaze - 1. Aug, 21:26

Other Confirmed Cards

The Splendid Venus is a Secret in this set.
Proof: http://i339.photobucket.com/albums/n444/Sanctum1991/Image003.jpg

Forrenz - 1. Aug, 23:30

Yay! An update!

That must mean 'Big Saturn' is in here too.
And sweet call on 'The Tricky', but tough to tell if its signature Quick-Play Spell is in here. (EDIT: I guess I didn't scroll down all the way; it's in here, as well as a few others, including some of the cards from the Shonen Jump vote thing back in January...)
That Equip Card for Psychics that is TCGX is obviously a broken card that the Psychics NEED, especially the ones that need ya to cough up 1000LP.
And I'm assuming 'Small Piece Golem' is a common; I truly expected the rarities of the Golem Pieces to be unchanged, but maybe they'll be easier to get? ('Large Piece Golem' a normal Rare and 'Multi-Piece Golem' a Super? Pleaseplease!)

shriek - 1. Aug, 23:32

woops, thought i fixed that long ago

but now it's fixed :)

TriforceMaster3000 - 2. Aug, 00:14

Yay for brokeness

That equip spell makes Psychics pretty broken. They needed something like that. Hopefully they'll be able to grab the attention of the metagame more with that card.

And is it just me, or are they starting to add more and more spellcaster and spellcounter monster/supports in each set? Although the card in this set is a nice beatstick, I'd rather stick with Magical Exemplar from the last set.

arapokemaster - 2. Aug, 01:02

So the confirmed Ultras are Emergency Teleport,Stardust Dragon maybe Red Dragon Archfiend,Goyo Guardian,Nitro Warrior and Montage dragon.I think they will also make Thought Ruler Archfiend,and Pychic Overload ultras thats 8 cards so the other guesses might be a good tcg card and ocg card.Supers should be along with Izanagi,Unstable Evolution,and Counselor Lily,Toy Magician if they do confirm it,Summon Priest which I'm really hoping for it can really help get cards to synchro summon,Trap Of Darkness,The Selection.Multi Peice Golem,Gaurd block,Synchro Cancel.Angel Lift and sinister Sprocket.Like I said I listed the confirmed cards first and then my guess.If they released The Splendid Venus they should release The Big Saturn in one issue of shonen jump they said they would be released together soon.
I like tat they did not take out the secrets but lowered them,and that the good ultras are not Secrets too.I know the tin cards were made ultras for the reason but thank god Nitro Warrior,and Goyo Guardian are still ultras.The Herald Of Orange Light is a very good rare tribute itself and another fairy for effect negation and destruction and since it's a fairy I'm guessing konami think we'll put Avenging knight in our fairy decks but I now counter faries are already good and this card pwns.I already pre ordered the tins so I will play twice at the sneek peek to pick up some tuners,and maybe Goyo Guardian and Nitro Warrior and Nitro Synchron.my dad dark deck will soon be Synchro DAD and Stardust's brokenness shall be real in America.It's sweet that stardust can revive itself by it's own effect but monster Reborn can also revive it.I hope ude does not ban monster Reborn again cause they might with the brokenness of a free solemn aka Stardust but please god I'm crossing my fingers the ban list will let us cope with this sets best cards.now we only need an easy to get tcg card that will totally change the sychro age
One thing we can say is that this set is way better than the first gx set and that did not get us in the series with a bang cause it did not introduce any new types or mechanics and did not give us what we wanted.the first 5d's set changes all of gx'es flaw.

TriforceMaster3000 - 2. Aug, 15:29

Psychic Overload...

If they make that an ultra, that'll suck. It seems all the good drawing cards are always ultras. Like for Lightsworns, those decks NEED 3 Solar Recharges, but they're freakin Ultras, kinda hard to get. I can take rare, hell even supers because my luck makes me pull a lot of supers. But ultra? Man, it'll be unfair all over again...

FilipGX - 2. Aug, 10:30

What's with the Token Cards? I hope we'll get 1 Token Card in every Booster Pack. :)

magikarp - 2. Aug, 15:44

tokens cards are in a separate pack.
ps, kunai with chain is 98 and tricky 4 is 91.

EDIT: scans of cards-
http://img227.imageshack.us/my.php?image=photo0012ut3.jpg
-tricky spell 4
http://img227.imageshack.us/my.php?image=photo0013jq0.jpg
- shield warrior
http://img227.imageshack.us/my.php?image=photo0015oo7.jpg
- quillbolt hedgehog
http://img294.imageshack.us/my.php?image=photo0016fo8.jpg
- mind over matter
http://img230.imageshack.us/my.php?image=photo0017bo2.jpg
- kunai with chain

pps, the effects of destructotron and psychic snail are the wrong way round.

shriek - 2. Aug, 16:15

heh, thanks :)

gonna have to add you to the credits as well ;)

magikarp - 2. Aug, 16:21

Yay, I'm Famous!!

But seriously, thanks.

cybergx - 2. Aug, 16:18

Pyschic Overload

*Don't read this comment unless you don't want to know a card in the next set.*

Why does everyone think that this card is going to be an Ultra Rare? Its a Trap version of Pot of Avarice (with no limit). Its a bit slower. I think that this Trap shouldn't be an Ultra. maybe a Rare, maybe a Super, but not an Ultra Rare.

Besides, this ISN'T even the Pyschic's signature drawing card. Read the spoiler for Crossroads of Chaos. There's a Trap called Pyscho Trigger, and it allows you to RFG 2 Pyschics when your Life Points are lower than your opponent's and you draw 2 cards.

Now, if they do make it an Ultra, its because of Pyscho Trigger (Pyschics will have 2 drawing cards, but they don't really work together that well...)

Yeah, my thoughts.

Forrenz - 2. Aug, 17:35

Um...

Yeah, I keep getting those two cards mixed up :P
But you made a bit of a mistake there:
" maybe a Rare, maybe a Super, but not a Rare."
Just saying.

Also, I agree it's maybe only as good as 'Pot of Avarice', and only MAYBE deserves to be at most a Super.

cybergx - 4. Aug, 17:56

There, I fixed it! I bet it didn't make sense before.

FilipGX - 2. Aug, 17:14

As I can see there will be no Ghost Rare. (Whatever big deal.) I would like to see Synchro Cancel as Rare, just like De-Fusion. And magikarp, where did you find all those pictures of Tricky Magic 4, Shield Warrior...? Please tell me. I am searching everywhere but i didn't find anything.

Forrenz - 2. Aug, 17:43

AWESOME

'Quillbolt Hedgehog' is bumped down from Super to Common?! Easy Synchros, here we come!
Also, having all the Synchros be Ultra Rare (and in 'Magical Android's case, a Super) so they'll be more accessable. No Ghost Rare is wierd though, as the original sets still have Holo Rares...
Just one more week... too cool.

magikarp - 2. Aug, 22:15

i've heard of a ghost stardust recently, btw. and the pictures were found in my phone, after i took pictures of my cards. :)

arcana force 1 the magician - 2. Aug, 20:17

I hope Gandora, dragon of destruction will be one of the ocg exclusives. That would be AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

magikarp - 2. Aug, 22:20

http://i37.tinypic.com/245f30h.jpg - some cards, including Goyo (ultra)
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u281/ras0018/scan00040001.jpg - toy magician!
also, i think red daemons dragon is an ultra.

Here's the back of the booster-
In Neo Domino city, Five Duelists are marked by destiny to uncover the secrets of the five Dragons. Start your engines and get ready to Duel - the future of Yu-Gi-Oh! is kicking into overdrive! More cards, more Duels, more excitement: Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's-
rev it up!

arapokemaster - 2. Aug, 23:04

Sweeteset set ever.Will chage meta for while

sweet Quilbolt Hedgehog got bumped down to common.Now I can easily get a playset.With Stardust and Red Dragon's Archfeind Coming in the mail in the tins,all I need is 3 of the hedgehogs,3 jutte knights and goyo guardian.So far the Lily has spiked my interest.We have these tcg cards so far avenging Airknight Parshath,The Lily,Maiden Of Macrabe Izanami,Telekinetic Charging Cell,Grapple Blocker,and Herald Of Orange light only 3 more tcg cards to go.The ocg cards so far are the Splendid Venus,Toy Magician,The Tricky,Tricky Spell 4,Cold Enchanter,Kunai With Chain,The Selection,and Trap Of Darkness.
2 more and I'm hoping for Summon Priest,and The Big Saturn.But I don't think they will release Summon Preist.Maybe it will be Aki Oni,or even arcan Knight Joker.I'm really like the Jocker,and Aki Oni can go with mezuki and the structure.I know allot of people also what Airbellum so do I but only 1 Duelist terminal card is not worth it for konmai ans upperdeck,but is for us fans.So I'm crossing my fingers so Synchro DAD can beat Glad Beasts and can be faster and more smooth.I know it's fast but the ocg decks are better so Summon Priest and Airbellum for my winnng hopes.The Duelist genesis will change the face of the meta and even casual play.5D's Acceleration

hamsterworld - 3. Aug, 01:14

o dear god this secret rare thing aguin

that's it i quit yugioh.

ShiroRyu - 3. Aug, 01:38

oh ok bye.
I reckon UDEs been more sensible with the rarities this time, at least the main cards are Ultras this time around rather than secrets. Personally i am very glad they kept lightwave tuning and geartown as common, and having The Tricky as rare is pretty sweet. Quillbolt Hedgehog as common is a bit silly, but its about time we got awesome cards that are easy to get (japanese got common crush and rare dad). I'm also happy that the spirits seem easy to get, i've been looking forward to the spirit support since i first heard about it.

arcana force 1 the magician - 3. Aug, 02:14

hamsterworld

WAT A BIG BABY I MEAN ITS JUST A DUMB SECRET RARE GET OVER YOUR SELF, THERE EASY TO PULL. IN THE LAST SET I GOT ANGEL07, 2 TUALITANS,FOG KING, AND ARCANA FORCE EXTRA THE DARK RULER. SO QUIT COPLAINEN AND U SHOULD KEEP PLAYIN DA GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hamsterworld - 3. Aug, 02:24

reI reckon UDEs been more sensible with the rarities this time

I will still stop by the site and leave my two cents but I'm done buying cards,however I will get the stater deck I promised to buy because I already said I would only because I have something upper deck doesn't integrity and my word means something to me.
I'm quiting because upper deck doesn't understand where not as rich as Seto Kiba.

ShiroRyu - 3. Aug, 02:41

Yeah I'm sure Upper Deck doesn't realise we're not rich, that's why they lowered Hedgehog's rarity to common, and bringing out both stardust and red archfiend dragons in tins...
Oh by the way, that was SARCASM.
The secrets so far aren't really crucial to the meta (unlike last 3 sets), so chill a bit won't ya?
IMO Upper Deck are doing things right this time.

EDIT: Oh, on a side note, I was hoping UDE would change Lightlord Rapier to Lightsworn Sabre. Woot!

hamsterworld - 3. Aug, 03:31

reYeah I'm sure Upper Deck doesn't realise we're not rich, that's why they lowered Hedgehog's rarity to common,

OK I did not notice that, ill hang on one more year maybe I can put something orginal together that works from me by then.I guess I got so angary that this set had secret rares I did not see the positive things.

FilipGX - 4. Aug, 12:07

Does anybody else coudn't enter on shriek yesterday, just like me? 'Cause i coudn't. Also I have to thank Konami for reducing the Secret Rares to 8 and for making all the new cards Super Rare and Rare. Thank you KONAMI.
Also I want two of the Japanese Cards to be Axe Dragon and Lance Dragon.

shriek - 4. Aug, 15:03

yes, it was down the whole day for everyone. no idea why though...

Rokrekler - 4. Aug, 13:39

??????

WTF?? Did anybody notice they made Dark Hunter(Dark Assasin) Ultra Rare? And the spirit supports Super(Izanagi,Kinkabyo)? I don't know what's up with UDE nowadays,but it's something like this: good cards>common or rare, average and not-so-good cards>super or ultra. I find it REALLY weird...

ShiroRyu - 4. Aug, 14:14

Actually Dark Hunter is fairly decent. Between 2-4 darks you have yourself a 2000ATK beatstick (which is okay I suppose), but mainly when you have more than 5 (which is quite common) then you have yourself an exiled force which can take out multiple monsters. Especially if you combine it with Swords of Concealing Light, Book of Moon or any other card which can flip your opponent's monsters into face-down position.
Still I agree it's not quite ultra material, probably rare, maybe even super..
As for the Spirit Supports, Izanagi has a pretty sweet effect (and can be Special Summoned, to boot), and Kinka Bayo can get back any Level 1 monster from your grave just by summoning him. Let me remind you: Copycat, Cyber Valley, and Disk Commander are all targets for Kinka Bayo. Considering Disk Commander may be banned (due to Angel Lift abusing him along with Limit Reverse), you can still easily summon Valley and remove the 2 of them for draw power.

Post-TDGS pre-september banlist, we have so many ways of reviving Disk it's gone far beyond rediculous.

cybergx - 4. Aug, 18:02

Yeah

Kinka Bayo does have a pretty nice effect. It allows Spirits to abuse Disk Commander, when used right. (Mass Driver + Kinka Bayo + Disk Commander = mean, just plain mean...)

Forrenz - 4. Aug, 18:26

Re: 'Dark Hunter'

Isn't there also a new "Book" card, 'Book of Eclypse', or is that a CSOC card? Anyways, this dude really may deserve being that rarity. Heck, 'Dark Grepher' can dump 3 in one swift motion. I'd love to see somebody take out a whole field of "Lightsworn" with this guy, then I'd laugh and laugh... Oh, wouldn't we all?

Rokrekler - 4. Aug, 20:45

Re:Re:'Dark Hunter'

It's in this set yeah(the book), but I still think that Dark Hunter is too high rarity. And it's not as if it would be a meta-changing card like DAD(which IS reasonable as a short-print secret),so it may end up like Crystal Seer from TAEV way back.And Kinka Bayo also has a downside: after it revives the monster gets RFG-ed, so it's no good to get back Disk Commander having it removed...

ShiroRyu - 5. Aug, 01:13

Kinka Bayo's reviving of Disk Commander does have it's downside, but that's why cybergx mentioned Mass Driver - allowing you to tribute the Disk Commander before it gets RFG'ed. Or you could use something different, whatever suits you.

cybergx - 5. Aug, 21:09

Thanks ShiroRyu

Yeah, my Exodia Turbo LOVES Kinka. Disk Commander should be banned. Too good in this format, so many ways to bring him back. I'll be surprised if he isn't banned on the next ban list.

FilipGX - 4. Aug, 15:43

Secret Rare "Stardust Dragon" looks GREAT! I can't wait to get one.

Also in this pack there will be NEW LIGHTSWORN CARD! I'm sure it will be Super Rare.
http://www.metagame.com/yugioh.aspx?tabid=33&ArticleId=9996

Charge of the Light Brigade
Normal Spell Card
Send the top three cards from your Deck to the Graveyard. Add 1 level 4 or lower "Lightsworn" monster from your Deck to your hand.

ShiroRyu - 4. Aug, 16:47

Sweet, I knew there'd be a new Lightsworn card :p I was hoping for a monster though, but that's ok. Charge is going to be a very awesome card.
Oh and btw, I have a secret Stardust I got from a friend, and it does look amazing. :D

marucho8d7 - 4. Aug, 17:54

i think it's going to be a secret rare, because although the other lists aren't full, you can pretty much guess what's going to be in each rarity.

cybergx - 4. Aug, 17:59

Wow

That's exactly what Lightsworns needed to up their game. Now they'll be MUCH more faster than they were before. And I like the name too. Sounds sweet. :)

ShiroRyu - 5. Aug, 01:06

Unfortunately I agree with Marucho... looking at the rest of the set, Charge is gunna be a Secret. Unless for some reason they make either [Multi Piece Golem, Nitro Warrior, Red Dragon Archfiend, Summon Restriction, Equip Shoot, Broken Blocker, Psychic Overload, Intercept, or Lair of the Needle Insects] a secret. Which is unlikely as so far there aren't any cards from the OCG TDGS set that have been upgraded to Secret Rare.
A shame though, it's gonna be tough to get if it is secret. I was hoping for Super, maybe even Ultra if nessecary...

Also, looking at the list, 4 commons and 1 rare from the ocg set are going to be super or higher in the tcg, coz all the common slots but 1 are taken and all the rare slots are taken :s

magikarp - 4. Aug, 21:09

book of total eclipse(not sure of name)- 100% common :)

shriek - 4. Aug, 22:51

well, the name is what i'd like most at the moment >_<
already sure it's common

magikarp - 5. Aug, 13:37

book of total solar eclipse. found it :)

ShiroRyu - 5. Aug, 02:32

TCG Exclusives revealed:

http://metagame.com/yugioh.aspx?tabid=33&ArticleId=9998
TDGS-EN085 - Hand of the Six Samurai
FIRE/Warrior-Effect/Lv 3/ATK1600/DEF1000
While you control another "Six Samurai" monster, you can tribute 1 "Six Samurai" monster to destroy 1 monster on the field.

http://s45.photobucket.com/albums/f94/obscure-designs/?action=view&current=Image033.jpg
TDGS-EN086 - Cyber Shark
WATER/Level 5/Fish-Effect
2100 ATK/2000 DEF
If you control a WATER monster, you can Normal Summon this card without Tributing.

EDIT: Fixed with effects.
Oh, also, Hand of the Six Samurai and Charge of the Light Brigade were confirmed secret, though it'd be obvious they were anyway looking at the other cards in the set anyway.

Forrenz - 5. Aug, 07:56

Re: 'Cyber Shark'

Ain't his effect redundant? I mean, you can do the same thing thanks to 'A Legendary Ocean', and you don't need another monster already out, but I guess this'd be ace to use with 'Double Summon'. Overall, I prefer 'Terrorking Salmon'.

ShiroRyu - 5. Aug, 12:08

Yeah, it is really :s which would u rather run, the secret cyber shark or the common giga gagagigo? Shame really, all the other secrets are worth having for one reason or another... If they made it Special Summon then it would have at least been useful to ALO decks...

ShiroRyu - 5. Aug, 18:11

Edited my 2nd to last post since HoSS's attribute was revealed on metagame.
Also, Multi Piece Golem is now Multiple Piece Golem, and is an Ultra:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dGt078kJJSM

cybergx - 5. Aug, 21:06

Cyber Shark...

He could have been better. MUCH better. Well, at least he provides a sort-of Level 4 beatstick. You would've thought with all of the new Fish support being released in the last couple of sets that they would release someting better than this Shark.

FilipGX - 5. Aug, 19:02

The Attribute of "Hand of the Six Samurai" is Fire.
And there is a mistake, De-Synchro is a Rare in the cardlist, but in the spolier it is a Super Rare.

leonaxium - 5. Aug, 19:55

UDE and Rarities

What I like most about this set is that all of the cards that are being hyped in general are no more than Ultra. On top of that, all the other cards that will be used by most of the synchro or psychic players are all in the range of common to super, with the exception of Emergency Teleport. This means that players should be able to build the new decks they want without buying like a case or something just to get a playset of broken cards that weren't that rare in the OCG (Dark Armed Dragon, that's you). Maybe UDE realized that players want broken cards easy, or maybe they got enough money and don't give a s***. Or maybe this is gimmick to get more people to buy cards. Feedback, anyone?

arapokemaster - 6. Aug, 02:07

UDE secrets

Well Cyber Shark clearly sucks you would be much better off putting in 2 Cyber Dragons in a fish decks since they are good in almost every deck.Like some people said before me it should have been special summon.Sure a 2100 beatstick for free could stall your opponents level 4 sticks and cydras but 2300 at the best is still not enough.if it was 2300 at the start it could have been 2500 with Atlantis and could go toe to toe with other good cards such as Monarchs.Hand of the Six Samurai seems like the best tcg secret 1600 attack is decent and Ebon Steed can prevent it from being destroyed by battle.Shein's Castle can make it reach 1900 attack.And tributing your weak samurai's such as Yarazi,Nasashi,and other dead ones when they are out at the wrong time to destroy your opponents cards is a great effect.I'm not saying the listed samurai's are bad,but some times they can be really bad depending on the situation.You don't wanna attack directly using Yarazi's effect when your opponent has strong monsters to attack with last turn,and other effect such as destroying spells or traps would suck now that stardust can negate them.Charge of the Light Brigade in my book is decent cause it's effect is a staple searching out a monster is great but the lightsworn decks are already milling tons of cards with the support they already have now,ude just wants to be consistent with archetypes effects similarity and make the effects for all the staple cards for the thyme have the milling effect.Milling 2 cards could possible save you a card that might be a good draw.the secrets are great counting the ocg ones,but so far I can only see competitive play in Hand and charge as the tcg secrets.Hand and Charge are clearly great cards but I don't run either deck type so I'll either sell em,or trade em.I'd say they will go for about $40-$50 at least and about $60 when the set gets massed released.anyway i'm glad the good cards like the Stardust,RDA,Goyo,and Thought Ruler are ultras.Like in my last post Stardust and RDA are ultras only cause they are in tins.Other then tat the ocg cards are great.In PTDN the best ocg cards were drk Red Enchanter,belial and some other cards and in LODT they were Fossil Dyna which was great and Fog King which was iffy.The cards in this set are awesome.Venus is sweet possibly beating glad Beast with all the important spells and traps and weakening Heraklinos,The Tricky is great for syncho summoning if you use it's spell.And Ice Master is pretty good.Overall I'm happy with this set,and can't wait till the preview.

TriforceMaster3000 - 6. Aug, 21:56

Charge of the Light Brigade

How is it just decent, might I ask? As of now, it's one of the most broken cards for the Lightsworns. Not only is it a RotA for the Lightsworns, but you also have the possibility of getting wulfs in the grave for special summoning, along with the card you just got. If used correctly on the first turn, it can help you bring JD out on the very first turn. Not to mention it also acts like a "Get out of jail free" card. Meaning, your opponent has something that's stopping you, say, marshmallon, use it to bring out Ehren. What about face downs or traps like gravity bind, etc.? Use it to search out Lyla, all the while putting more lightsworns in your grave for JD, Gragonith, Beckoning, Reincarnation, or Wulf. Everyone seriously trashes the Lightsworns for milling too much, well, with how fast the deck is, by the time you mill half your deck, your opponent is dead usually, if you're using a well built Lightsworn deck. Charge may actually bring Lightsworns some more competitive play.

arapokemaster - 6. Aug, 22:52

more lightsworn comments,my DAD support and overall thoughts on the set

Lightsworns don't need any more milling.I ask you when have lightsworns ever topped a SJ Championship or National.I'm not saying the card sucks I'm saying it's decent not an incredible new tcg card like Darklord or Allure.You know it's going to be a secret and other cards like this don't mill.Do they really need more mill effects.The synchros will help DAD decks with Stardust for protection of your own DAD,red Demons to get rid off defense cards and Sinister Sprocket,and Dark Resonator are also darks so once you tune them you'll only need 1 more dark.Samurai's will also rise.Lightsworns will be better but can win against DAD or glad Beasts but probably will not top,this is the last set that Lightsworns will be featured but Darks will always be darks cause it's not an archetype and Synchros will be relesed till 5D's end which is probably in about 4 or 5 years.DAD will be supreme till Crossroads of Chaos comes out and will still be top tier along with the Zombies and Plants.Zombie DAD is also a good deck type but lightsworns have not even been better in the ocg.Don't forget tht almost all the Lightsworn staples are super and above the only easy to get ones are Garoth,Jain,Lumina and the 2 traps.Saber will be secret and Lightsworns really don't need a burn strategy with Jenice.Players now have either traded Lightsworn cards,made Twilight decks or are testing a deck type that is solid but has many flaws.With all the Lightsworn cards milling 2-4 cards and thats about 20 or so cards in about a few turns your deck will be last then half and Judgment Dragon will be easy to get out,this type does not need more cards to mill it.It already is pretty solid,but milling still gets it beat by Darks which get out DAD much faster without putting you in the risk of deck outs,and Glad can get heraklinos and Gyzarus out as soon as turn 2 or 3 if you get the right cards in hand.Lightsworns are fast but a little in my book too fast and risky.It's okay to be a lightsworn player,but this is just an opinion.I run a DAD deck with 1 DAD if your asking why just one thats all I could afford and I was not planning to buy it but some stupid guys stole my honest and JD so my dad got me a DAD.1 DAD is the only big money card you need I play tested it against my strongest deck and it one 2 matches.I have a proxie so my DAD is in a safe place but I rarely go to big tourneys so a proxie is fine.Good luck getting the new Lightsworn cards and have fun testing the new cards.As for me I'm playing twice in the sneek peek,and I'm hoping to get the Dark Tuners,Jutte fighter,Goyo Guardian,3 Quilbolt Hedgehog's and some other stuff to help my deck.If I don't get a good card right off the bat,I'll try to trade decent cards I might get like the new Lightsworn cards,and maybe some glad beasts cards,since I don't run those types.Well everyone have fun at the sneek peek.and ude did a great job on this sets ocg cards,the decent tcg card being less than secrets,and the new configuration.Overall A++ set thanks to those great set contents and the Synchros,and Psychics.My 2nd fav set after Phantom Darkness better new stuff them Tactical Evolution and the 1st gx set the Lost Millenium,I'd say it's the best set of 08,only4 days till the sneek peek.If anyone is going to go to the sneek peek at Dream Wizards in Rockville Maryland let me know.I'll be their at 10 am.

cybergx - 7. Aug, 14:10

But...

I do have to say that you are not giving credit to Charge's full power. You have to admit that is a better card then you are crediting it for. It essientially turns into just about any effect that the Lightsworn monsters have. (Only Level 4 or below, but its still an awesome effect.) If you have a good Lightsworn deck, you shouldn't worry about milling your deck.

This card makes Lightsworns a bit more consistent than before, and that's what Lightsworns needed to be a better deck.

leonaxium - 7. Aug, 18:54

I'll have to agree with cybergx, Charge is an amazing card for Lightsworns because it replaces the ROTA that some Lightsworn decks ran. Not only are you able to search any useful lightsworn, except Celestia, but, you are able to mill as well. This means that there is a revival to the opening of Lumina, dump Garoth, mill 5 and try to draw two because you may actually have targets this time. This is what the Lightsworn needed because you can even search out the fourth, different Lightsworn to play Recharge and drop Judgement. Lightsworn may finally do better than a top 16 at a SJC.

boingboing1 - 7. Aug, 16:40

Sinister Sprocket and Kunai with Chain!!!!!!!!!!

Another 2 Pointless Supers, PTDN had the Golden Flying Fish and Field Commander Rahz while LODT had Union Attack and Helios Trice Megestis!!!!!!!!

I mean Sinister Sprocket, For one there ain't many great Dark Syncro Monsters at the moment and Secondly, the only face-up S/T's used constantly are Premature Burial and in there phases Wave-Motion Cannon!!!!!!!!!!!

and what about Kunai with Chain, About 15 Sets and 2 x Yu-Gi-Oh Series late!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rokrekler - 7. Aug, 20:25

It ain't that bad

It is not that bad: there are more than 10 different S/Ts which are commonly played and can be used in multiples, so the destruction effect will kick off nearly every duel. It IS a decent card.
And on a side note:Golden Flying Fish isn't that crappy- it belongs into it's own deck to make it work properly and it's effect is nice combined with Coelacanth.

ShiroRyu - 7. Aug, 21:14

Kunai with Chain isn't terrible, granted Enemy Controller is always a better choice but in the Pre-Release scene Kunai with Chain is going to be a useful card if you pull it, and could potentially net you a high ranking in the pre-release. Personally in the tournament I'd rather pull cards to win the tournament in the packs, and then win the cards I want in the prize support.

RAq - 7. Aug, 21:28

Emergency Tp

why the hell did they make emergency tp ultra\ultimate Y_Y. Another nice card for effin' much money , that some ppl can't afford. ARgh

Red-Eyes Darkness Girl - 8. Aug, 08:27

Thanks Alot Upper Deck of America.

2 commons and a rare just got to be Ultimate/Ultra Rare thanks to Upper Deck of America.
6 commons became Super Rare.

And finally, 3 rares became super.

ShiroRyu - 8. Aug, 14:17

Yeah. That's what happens when they lower rarities of the more useful cards like Quillbolt Hedgehog and Graceful Revival, and making exclusives like The Tricky rare rather than super or ultra.
We have a different meta here than in japan so it's only sensible to alter rarities accordingly. Unfortunately lowering some forces others to be raised. Also if you had rarities exactly the same as in japan then the exclusives would have rediculous rarities (remember STON and FOTB?)
I'd say count your blessings that aside from Emergency Teleport and Dark Hunter nothing major was raised.

Forrenz - 9. Aug, 17:57

Re: Rarity Changes

I'm pretty glad with how all the rarities turned out. Personally, I'd rather have 'Montage Dragon' tough to get than being easier to get multiples of. Also, all the non-Synchro Psychic-Types are now easy to grab, so that boosts their use, even without 'Magical Android' being an easy pull. For those others, you can't deny that Emergency Teleport could easily be broken if it were as easy to get, and comboing 'Dark Hunter' and 'Book of Eclipse' is game-breaking.

You also have to remember that the OCG has had over three months to use these cards, so the changes are likely based on the impact those cards have had on their meta.

FilipGX - 8. Aug, 11:05

So the only cards that aren't in the rarity list are: Power Filter and Charge of the Light Brigade.

I'm sure that:
Power Filter - Super Rare
Charge - Secret Rare

Forrenz - 11. Aug, 17:05

Sneak preview?

Did anyone go? Score anything good? I missed out, as usual :P

ShiroRyu - 13. Aug, 00:04

Out of 36 packs I got a Cyber Shark, Montage Dragon, Multiple Piece Golem and some supers. Not even any of the synchros (aside from the promo).
T-shirt is nice though, makes up for lacks of anything decent (aside from rares, got plenty of decent rares).

Forrenz - 13. Aug, 11:18

No Synchros? :(

But remember that the first wave of tins is out next week.

Has anyone thought of any cool plays with these cards? I plan on running 'Montage Dragon' in my Yubel Deck, and the Golem Pieces are able to get plenty of monsters on the field, and make it easier to Synchro Summon (see: Ep. 4)

ShiroRyu - 13. Aug, 23:54

Montage Dragon was almost MADE for Yubel, it's pretty cool. Drop 3 Yubel for Montage Dragon, attack, if they survive set Limit Reverse.
As for the Golem Pieces, I don't particularly like them. Maybe in a Dark Gaia deck where you get extra choices from them (either for Synchro or Fusion of Dark Gaia), but I'd rather run Bushi for a Synchro-specific deck.
I managed to pick up a couple of Red Archfiends yesterday though, one tin and one ultra, so I'm happy now. I just need some Stardusts next...

smithpro - 14. Aug, 08:28

ENGLISH SPOILER

Anyway in my comment, i strong state that english are always spoiling the market around the world, coming out insane cards that seems to stop us from playing Yugioh. Why is it so?? well, the reason is pretty simple, Dark grephier and Dark Zerato for instance, stupid cards that simply win the game, wtf...

And also they change the name of the red daemon dragon to Red Daemon Archfiend, Arch what fiend, this is a dragon hello, not those chess pieces, same goes for the tormenting archfiend. The name stays important for an individual card, when jap release it earlier, it is fixed to be there, now ENGLISH is coming out with editted names, must ask them to close down the company, haiz

Hopeless bunch of idiots trying to spoil the japan market.

ShiroRyu - 14. Aug, 10:46

Japan also get those cards. Look at the Extra Pack. In fact it's easier for them to get cards like Darklord Zerato and Dark Grepher than it is for us. Don't get so upset over it anyway, it always happens that we have game breaking cards, unless you started too recently to remember Chaos.
Also they changed it to Archfiend since the original Archfiends were called Daemons in Japan. Therefore to avoid people getting confused over card rulings they change all Daemons to Archfiends.
For example, in Japan you can use Pandemonium's effect to summon a monster if Red Daemon's Dragon is destroyed. Therefore to allow the same to happen in english they have to keep the name change consistent. Similarily you could use Archfiend's Roar to summon Red Dragon Archfiend, or play Falling Down if you control Red Dragon Archfiend. Both you could do in Japan because it had "Daemon" in it's name (which what the Japanese Archfiends were called).

Forrenz - 14. Aug, 13:12

Don't assume, or...

Konami still makes the cards, they just choose to release them outside Japan first. UDE (or even two whole continents) isn't the one you should be angry at.
The only ones you can actually be angry about are 'Beast(Archfiend) of Talwar', 'Dragon Ice', 'Tongue Twister', and 'Skreech'.
I guess you wouldn't know better, smithy, since you obviously just started playing again after quitting a few years ago after Dark Crisis was released.

ShiroRyu - 15. Aug, 10:52

That is true, Konami are the ones to tell UDE what "UDE-exclusive" cards to make. And besides, it's not as if Zerato and Grepher are terribly broken next to some other cards. Though I think it is UDE's fault that they're harder to get (they don't have any Secret Rares in Japan, for instance), but there's not much we can do about that really. :/ Except move to Japan so we can use their cards lol.

darkmaster0001 - 14. Aug, 09:41

NO SPECIAL EDITION

HOLD ON A SEC YOU MEAN THERE WILL BE NO SE BOX FOR DUELIST GENESIS BUT FOR CROSSROADS OF CHAOS IS ALREADY SCHEDULED?

ShiroRyu - 14. Aug, 10:46

There is a Special Edition, just look at the links on the side under 17th October :/

smithpro - 14. Aug, 16:35

Have been updating..

Forrenz, i am no noob to english market, so don say it as thou i am some noob to this =)

I meant no harm in saying that english releasing cards are stupid, but is just the fact that they do release some cards that are too in a sense "godly", but i am not so interested in the english market anyway, so don mind my words over Konami.

Thanks also Shinoryu for infomation on the names, maybe i went to overbroad, yup the extra pack are coming out, i hope english players don get too upset when the market prices of certain cards differs by alot.

Forrenz - 15. Aug, 23:14

Extra Pack

I've already got a box on order, so I'm good :)

smithpro - 16. Aug, 05:44

U kidding???

Ya good???, well dats make other players god, a box means nothing
pls take note.

cybergx - 17. Aug, 21:38

...What?

You obviously misread Forrenz's post. Please try again.

Forrenz - 20. Aug, 23:58

~~~~:P

Wow, you've never heard that expression? It's like when somebody offers you food, but you just ate, so you tell them "No thanks; I'm good".

What I meant by that was: Since I'll be getting a box of Extra Packs, I won't mind all the TCGX cards' "worth" being lowered by their exclusivity. If I can get a bunch of cards in Japanese that I could never dream of getting in English, then so be it. Why try so hard to get Secret rares when I could get Common versions instead is what you meant before, right? :)

smithpro - 23. Aug, 20:11

commons are better den secret rare.

Yup, i do mean that common are better den secret rares, not in terms of pricing and rarity that would be another case.

Devastating isnt it for english players to think that Allure of darkness is going common for japs, LOL

No offences for english players in the europe, but the fact konami did it, i as a player just have to respect their decisions also.

Forrenz - 9. Sep, 09:24

Here's hoping...

I hope UDE considers also making the Extra Pack next year (that's the most likely chance, if ever...
I've already ordered a box of Extra Packs, so even if they can't be used in official tournaments, at least I'll finally get them! Especially 'Ill Blood', 'Grandmaster', and 'Octavius'

Air Force - 8. Sep, 00:38

my Pulls

I pulled from a box

Emergency T, Pyschic Overload, Nitro Warr, and Hand of Six Samurai.

Im happy with what i pulled but could been better.
I wanted Adroid but i didnt get it :(

bherrell2 - 5. May, 05:38

Only 1 card Worth buying in the pack

Charge of the Light Brigade