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Wow, already news on Raging Battle and Crimson Crisis isn't out yet. Where did all these announcements come from by the way?

Thats one sad part about it.
Or maybe we get more OCG exclusive?

Fossil Dyna and Il Blud were not TCG exclusives :P

May seems like a decent release date since CRMS is March 3rd.

May huh? eh, what are the chances of that happening? Does anyone know the status of whats going on with UDE and Konami. After some news of thoes two maybe a better conclusion of what will come of the release dates of Raging Battle can beconducted.

earthbound immortal sucks... earthbound god was awsome :3 i knew they where gonna change it.. but i expected something cooler like wicked deity or cursed or sealed phantoms anything!! (liked my first option better ^^) but as usual they end up putting a ridiculous name that kills the awsomeness of shuoting out the name of the card when u summon it -.- ... anyway.. they wouldnt have bested "earthbound god" that name is just badass ^^

fine then u name them! come on! give me the name u think would suit them best! and deity is closer to god than immrotal u know-_- and yes immortalty is cool... but in this name sucks... and i can agree that it couldve been worst... but i still dnt like it -.-

theyve never used the word god in a card and they never will... fuking religious censor >_> well.. guess earthbound immortal couldve been worst... and i actually think itll be earthbound immortal - the giant... why astronaut?? and any other info on the other earthbound gods?? is ccalayia gonna be in this pack or in ancient profecy?? im hoping they release the monkey AND the spider on the next one... after all.. in the episode 45 spoiler of 5ds rudger appears and fights yusei.. but i doubt he'll use his god... if yusei fought another god and survived,,that would suck -_-

Lovely new cards and a great pack. But some cards shouldend have bin made in the first place. Like crimson hellfire. A counter trap and when your opponnent activates a spell or trap that inflicts damage you do the double amount of damage back to them when you have a red deamon dragon on the field. Come on people thats just wrong.

But there are a alot of good cards in there. I love the dark vendure plant. And over dead line is nice and wonder clover is upped a little but stil not good enough. I finally see whats great about gaurd hedge, it can protect my stardust if my opponnent uses honest or shrink to kill him. And magic planter isnt a plant card but its really good for plants. Magic planter/spell/By sending one continuous spell card to the grave draw 2 cards. People always tell me to use card of safe return in zombie and plant decks. But for me it never worked out, i always draw them when im top decking and i lose because of them. But with this card even if i dont need it i can change it for 2 new cards, and what continious spells are there for plants. Ehh world tree, that plant damage card and miracle fertilser. I can see it now. Use miracle fertiser to summon gigaplant then activate magic planter and i have a 1 card advantage.

Alien dog is extreme good for aliens, cause getting those A counters on them is so important. That my fave card in this pack. And the knew psychic is very good, level 4 and it can get up to 2500. And when i read the from play effect i knew that there where to many psychic cards with that effect and that a card had to be made. And yes a great spell card comes out. By paying 800 life points you can add 2 psychic monsters that are removed from play to your hand. And thats awesome, just like the psychic tribute.

And the level 4 dragon is great support for blue eyes. And trident dragion is awesome and where gonna see so many OTK decks with him. The sea serpent tuner and syncro is just mwehhh, its no so special and my first thougth was yaay finally syncro's for my umi deck. To bad i was hoping something really nice. The core cards are interresting but the best cards are offcourse the blackwing cards. There are now 7 blackwings and multiply them by 3 and you have 21. Thats enough for a great blackwing deck. I predict they wil see alot of action. And o i forgot... level 7 tuner + 5 tuner OMG. And natural tune will be the start of many vanilla syncro decks.

Overal its a great pack but some cards i just really dont understand who gave them the green light.

this is what the booster box looks like
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/5034/ragingbattlexj6.png

The ocg spoiler is awesome. I really like some of the cards here. The earthbounds are fun, they show potential of acctually being playable, especially since they have the continuous spell, Earthbound Temple, when activated it gains counters for every monster on the field in mode, and gains more counter for each defense mode monster on the field during standby phase. Remove four, to special summon EI That and a strong field spell like magic city endymion is lethal. I think earthbounds are pretty balanced, some may be limited if they are over abused, but they shouldn't be a problem. I love how the buster monsters pretty much guarentee that any synchro worth getting will be super rare, I mean, why in the world would they, whoever they are, make the Buster monsters less rare than the originals? Sorry wrong topic, but anyway
The Cursed Chalice will be an awesome poor man's solemn. Hope they keep it as a comm/rare.

Fuck this, why is Core Chimair now "Koa'ki Meiru?" This makes no sense, not at all!

"The newest YuGiOh Trading card game booster pack introduces the fourth of the legendary Dragon Syncho monsters"

Wait are they serious? Rua (Leo) is a signer? Spoilers much. The Japanese anime hasn't even confirmed that, yet at least.

i hope they will put genecis and vice dragon in here.

I personally hope we get Shutendoji and/or Kasha. Personally i hope that nine-tailed fox would make its grand premier as a TCG exclusive or first. Yes i know that is far fetched but hey what the hell.

I wounder if there are gonna have new Koa'ki Meiru monsters not seen in Japan in this pack?

they need to hurry up and put up the rest of the cards the other 20 in the pack.man good old dragons im going to be all over this preview yes dragons.

if i am a noob,then that makes you shit in this card game who ever the hell you are. My dragon deck will smash out scubs like you because you dont sound like your good. Stay in a scubb place young man or girl. And i was not blameing the site you fool.Plus dont get made because i can be creative and you are a net decker and telling by how you speek, you must be one sad ass net decker.LOL.Now on to the set and of the scub, i wonder what are going to be the other 18 cards in the set.

Hardened Armed Dragon? Geez, after Dark Armed Dragon, I'm afraid to see anything Armed Dragon. Well, at least it's not a dark variant lol

i think that KDE in america is goin to change the rarity of two particular cards the blackfeather moon ligh something (honest for blackwings) and the delta crow cards, dont want to be right on the money for these two but im seing at least one of them as a super hope im dead wrong couse y want to complete the blackwing deck...

Why do I see Hardended Armed Dragon being a broken secret rare dark monster?

This would be an hilarious summoning condition.

'This card cannot be normal summoned or set. This card cannot be special summoned except by tributing one 'Dark Armed Dragon' you control.'

Aka. Dark Armed Dragon LV10

I dont think it will be that broken. Maby some thing that will give dragons a little ummph,not to broken but some thing that will make dragons more playable to make it into the meta.Truthy dragons cant beat lightsworn right now.But we still have bw's to worry about.

I JUST heard on www.yugioh-card.com that the new prize card for the Shonen Jump Championship is Dark End Dragon! AND they announced that Light End Dragon will be a Secret Rare in Raging Battle! WAHOO!

That web site has live coverage of the Championships.

Light End Dragon will be nice for LS. Combo with honest for massive damage :O

So far it looks like there are unrealistic expectations especially in USA i think konami forgot that parts of us & UK are in a recession, they need to make some serious rarity changes no more secrets put them in the rare or super rare area please. The fact is it's unreasonable to expect the players to spend the kind of money they have in the past and the odds of anybody getting them are slim and none needless to say slim just left. That's number 1 number2 if konami says that there going to do something they need to do it if you make statement that your adjusting support for troubling economy i suggest you do it part of the reason the economy is tanking is because of dishonesty. When you say something you need to mean it period there is no justification I was willing to let the last 2 sets slide but by know konami should have it's act together I suggest that if you have to something with cards that where in limited edition packs in japan ETC you make premium pack 3 masters collection at the end of the year .
know what i have to say is not all negative konami has done some good stuff to they have done great job with the hobby league and sneak preview things and i applaud them for release stucture decks etc and the special products rule so far and i do like them better than upper deck .

I just got my copy of Shonen Jump Magazine which had pictures of 7 of the cards and their rarities. The picture of BlackWing Armed Wing is Super at the most as the monster name is in Black not Gold.

Come oooon, Konami needs to release the rarities soon. We're 4 days away from the freakin SP...

I just want to see how bad they're gonna make the rarity of Alien Dog. Probably as bad as what they did to Plaguespreader...sigh....

too lazy for effects, and alien dog is a common

Shadow flip - counter trap RGBT - RGBT079 Super rare

Exploder dragonwing - dragon/synchro/effect dark/7/2400/1600 Ultra rare RGBT - EN040

Earthbound immortal aslla pisu - winged beast/effect dark/10/2500/2500 ultra rare RGBT-En019

Earthbound immortal Ccapac Apu - fiend effect dark/10/3000/3000 ultra rare RGBT-En020

Light end dragon - Dragon/synchro/effect light/7/2600/2100 Secret Rare RGBT-EN091

King of the beast - beast/effect earth/7/2500/800 secret rare RGBT-EN086

Koa'ki Meiru war arms - warrior/effect earth/4//1400/1200 super RGBT-En081

Koa'ki Meirupowerhand - machine/effect earth/4/2100/1600 super rare RGBT-en023

Phoenixian cluster amaeyllis - plant/effect fire/8/2200/0 super rare RGBT-en006

reinforced human psychic borg - pychic/effect earth/4/1500/800 super rare RGBT-en029

Ojama red - beast/effect light/2/0/1000 rare RGBT-en096

Ojama blue - beast/effect light/2/0/1000 rare RGBT-en097

Ojama country - field spell card RGBT-en098

It's not much, the official wording for some of the Raging Battle cards from Shonen Jump is up. And some card name for the Wii and DS promo.
But.. it doesn't have the Ojama cards. O.o Still, I would love those to be printed in the TCG.

My retailer just sent me an email saying the sneak peak has been delayed until June! Is this true?

omg.............we MIGHT get Ojamas and OJAMA COUNTRY!!!!!!

~essentially confirmed

Well im a big fan of the earth immortals but I think their going to change the names except for earth immortals in their names because how in the world can anyone pronounce aslla piscu and ccapac apu?I mean whats up with those names?I can't even say those names.I summon earth immortal ccapac apu in attack mode thats stupid lol.

ok I saw the photobucket pics in english wording they did keep earthbound immortal in but you've got to be joking their still called aslla piscu and ccapac apu?How in the hell can you pronounce those names?I can't believe they still left those names in the english versions of the cards.

http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/vertalian


Confirmed with Images:
King of the Beasts
Blackwing Blizzard the Far North
Blackwing Kalut the Moon Shadow
Reinforced Human Psychic Borg
Sphere of Chaos
Alien Dog
Sea Dragon Lord Gishilnodon
Phoenixian Cluster Amaryllis
Magic Planter
Rockstone Warrior
Magic Planter


as well as those other cards listed for sale on Ebay.

Also, why are the EBGs still listed as Earth Immortal on the list, when the images clearly have "Earthbound Immortal" still. I knew Pojo was full of it on that.

EDIT:
Confirmed Ojama Red, Blue and Country too.

EDIT:

Confirmed:
Against Wind's English name is now "Against the Wind"
Black Whirlwind's TCG is unchanged from OCG.

EDIT 8:08PM
Confirmed:
Koa'ki Meiru War Arms with image (Super Rare)
Iron Core of Koa'ki Meiru (rare)
Koa'ki Meiru Ice (rare)
Koa'ki Meiru Doom
Koa'ki Meiru Guardian
Urgent Synthesis
Reckoning Power
Iron Core Immediate Disposal.

Will we get Arms Hole in this set?

Well we're probably going to have to get used of the earthbound immortals still being called aslla piscu and ccapac apu in the raging battle english set if thats what their really named in the english set.I wouldn't be surprised if the 2009 collector tins coming out this fall and winter that would be some of those earthbound immortals,ancient fairy dragon,and that new stardust savior dragon card from the upcoming sets within 6 months from now because I think that would be awsome but thats just my imagination and jumping ahead of myself but I would love to see that happen.

Elphin and Arms Wing are awful! Why make them ultra!?

Also Swallow's Nest = amazing! Epic Harpie and Blackwing support!

You could even tribute Armor Master for a Dark Simorgh =3

Maybe this card is RGBT-EN092...I thought it would be logical^^

alot of the people are complaning about the oringal names being used which are amix of spanish and ancident brazilen and othe old sounth american names, but yugioh is the best for using some of the most famous names of gods, angels and great sprits from differents religeons and history from just look at the 'SPRIT' cards most have the true names hard to say like 'Fushi No Tori','Hino-Kagu-Tsuchi' or even the forever band 'Yata-Garasu' but perfection which helps yugioh surpass the rest alot of cards have old french names or are name afther greek legends yugioh like the UN of card games so many cultures in one place and if you look at the back storties of some cards you may like this legends trust me its better than harry potter.

With an exception of Sphere of Chaos, I don't feel the OCG Add-Ins (including the potential of Snowman-Eater and Raccola if the pattern fits) are bad cards and I totally wanted the Ojama (especially Country).

That said, I am very disappointed, but only because I had high hopes for what we could have had. If the pattern fits, there's only 1 OCG slot left and no one can guess what it will be.

EN099 - ??????

Might still be Dark Simorgh as the last Secret, might be Vice Dragon or Shield Wing as they were also in the Jump Festa with Snowman, Raccola and the 3 Ojama cards. It's nice they went the easy route and choose to put two whole packs into this to make sure we get them, but I really wanted Dark Simorgh, Vice and Gaia Plate, so and what we got doesn't compare.


Again, I like the cards, just not for this. Maybe Dark Simorgh being a VJ will be the September Promo for SJ.

Please note that this below post will contain very strong opinon releated to the raritys of this new set. If you are easily offended, or a fanatical Konami supporter, I would really suggest that you don't try to argue, and turn away.


Konami have done the impossible, they made the best set in this entire 5D era into a entire mess, they included support that has very little to do with the theme and have bumped up almost all teh stuff worth having to unreasonable raritys.

Fuck this Konami. Honestly, we have supported this game for 10 years between all of us? What gives them the goddamn right to treat us like fucking dirt and give Japanese players the constant upper hand over us, scrap this TCG treatment.

Scrap the exclusives, and give us those limited edition packs like you give to them and stop bloody changing the raritys of anything remotely worth having to super and ultra. How in the hell do you manage to make it so that the rares outnumber the commons in a 48 to 52 common rare ratio. How do you expect to even keep fans with this sort of racial and cultral discrimination? When you will only just release the extra stuff at discount prices to your culture anyways.

Honestly, we prayed that you would bring about a balienced metagame, but I honestly wish that UD and UDI were back. Because at least we would still have a voice, give yourself a pat on the back, you done the impossible and ruined a good set, and ruined a steadyfast fan's opinon on your company. Please for the sake of your profits reconsider your actions and bring equality to this game.


Then again, not like they wil read this post anyways. >_> I am aware that I have used some colourful languge, but I believe it is justifed, I said this would happen. Konami would slander the blame on UD and play it safe a couple of sets before hitting us with the bomb.

I would to know more about When this card is Normal Summoned, you can Special Summon . If i had to make a guess,i would say its some how linked to the Earthbound Immortals.
It's power may be something like,if this card is send to the Graveyard,its owner can pick one Earthbound Immortal card of their Deck or Graveyard to their hand. I mean Earthbound Immortals can't be Special Summon to the field or from your hand. Unless,it's power let's you bypass it some how. We'll just have to see if I'm right. It's should be done really soon,since it is only a few days to go.

Worst Rarity changes ever. I hate almost all of them. Whenever dragons get good support, they up the rarity. dark End Dragon should have been replaced with Tragoedia (although not to do with this set), Light's End is too bad to be a secret as most usually are, Core Chimail Drago is acctually a higher rarity than Valafar, Hardened armed dragon is so good for dragons, yet so hard to get, and all other dragon support here sucks except for Explode wing and strong wind.

Chalice got upped too not happy about that.

This adds to my list of crappy TCG name changes.
Dark Verdure- Dark Verger
Exploder Wing Dragon- Explorer Dragonwing
Rakkoala- Sea Otter
Messenger from the Underworld- Emissiary from Pandemonium
Double Tool D&C- Double Tool C&D (sounds better the other way)
Wicked Reborn- Wicked Rebirth (wtf happened to it being called "Dark Tuning" in the dub)


It seems the "Earthbound Immortals" do keep their names as opposed to "Earth Immortals." Of course, I'm surprised they aren't Secret Rares themselves, since they basically bumped up the Super Rares to Ultra Rares, and Commons to Rares.

Somehow I knew Arms Wing (or rather, Arms Wing) would be getting a toy gun in the TCG; they did it to almost every other monster with a projectile. But really, I find it amusing that they would make the toy gun orange and blue.

And now for the TCG promos. Hardened Armed Dragon surprisingly is not an "Armed Dragon" in the sense. It can be Special Summoned by discarding a Level 7 or higher monster.
Moja apparently has two incarnations- Beast Striker and King of the Beasts. The former has a slightly higher ATK than most Level 4 Beast monsters, while the latter has below-average ATK for its level and a negative effect not making it useful. Both require "Moja" to be used, though, giving it slightly more use.
Swallow's Nest is one of the best TCG-exclusive cards ever; it is highly recommended for Black Feather Decks (especially when using specific Black Feathers for Synchro Summons). Even Harpie decks can get a boost when used with Harpies' Hunting Ground. You can even tribute the BF Synchro monsters to summon high-leveled Birds such as Simorgh Bird of Ancestry or Dark Simorgh.
Overwhelm can negate the effects of a Trap or Effect monster that targets a Level 7 or higher monster that is Tribute Summoned, but there are other methods to summon monsters and plenty of other negate cards better than this one.
Berserking is a great card for Beast Decks, and the fact that it is a Continuous Trap Card makes the effect useful.
And now the promos- there are plenty of recent (some of which are even good) promos. These include Light End Dragon, the Ojama cards, Rakkoala, Snowman, and the Chaos cards. What a pity Dark End Dragon is not among these promos.

Elfin fails for being bumped to Ultra when he's not worth it. Forbidden Chalice bumped to Ultra annoys me greatly as I was expecting to get 3 easily. Swallow Flip irkes me more so as I was counting on it being rare like Pulling The Rug was.

Most of the TCG exclusives are bad only Swallow Nest and possibly KM - War Arms will see use.

Who agrees?The TCG exclusives are great but the OCG ones are pretty bad.

HAD and Nest have amazing effects.

so many things to say about this set

i'm happy and disappointed at the same time after looking at this spoiler.

the part that makes me happy is the fact that there are good support cards in this set, some anti-meta cards, and the fact that the tcg exclusives are getting better and better

then the part that disappoints me

i see so many types/themes that get some many good "solid" support cards and still get many more good support cards

while other themes get crap (or crappy support)...especially spellcasters

i know people will say "spellcasters already got support cards"

let's be real....most of the support cards (or cards for spellcasters) revolve around or involve spellcounters

can we get a real good "solid" support card for spellcasters

i just don't think that using cards just to get spellcounters is worth it

other themes have cards that don't require too much work to put into and still do decent

while we have cards that require other cards and spellcounters

plants and aliens, and hell...even frogs have a card that destroys all monsters in attack mode when an opponent attack a monster of a certain type

d-heros, plants, darks, lightsworn, and psychics got good draw cards

and lets not forget another type/theme that also gets the same treatment...dinos

they're strong...but thats about it

i would like to see some themes not really played get some good/decent support cards that don't require so much effort

I'm reading some really crazy posts here.

First off, America is NOT the richest country in the world. Have you seem our national debt clock lately? Asia OWNS us we're so indebted to them. To suggest otherwise is just majorly mis-informed.

Secondly, what do the rarities really matter? If it's a good card, then it's a good card regardless if it's shiney or not. I mean really, this is what you're throwing your hissy fit about? If you compare Japan's list of Raging Battle to ours, isn't it the same? I mean, we even get the extra 20 cards(!) to catch up with them.

And last, cards should have an even distribution or at least, reprints. Why should the person who spends the most money win the game? What's the matter? Afraid someone might beat you if it was (financially) a level playing field? Hmm?? I also want some cards to be collectable and rare (value wise) but I think everyone should have a crack at them. Reprints or otherwise.

On a side personal note, if Japan wants to have better cards than us, it's only fair. They did invent the game.

why does Hardened Armed Dragon look like i giant bug

I spy a new meta-deck with this little guy can be very mean (Its the new malicious of synchro)

Iam so glad the secret rare cards r ones I don't need lol X3

Hm..............

Dark End Dragon for shits and giggles?

Why nobody talks about this thing ?
Well, it's not that graet though, but you can really disturb people by bringing out this creature VERY OFTEN because this creature can also special summons itself FROM THE GRAVEYARD AS WELL AS IN HAND by tributing Moja, which we can get by that darn limit reverse, graceful revival, and also that moja-calling-beast...

That good ? Maybe not..
That bad ? Totally not...

Hardened Armed Dragon seems pretty neat if you feel you can afford to run tribute monsters. The special summon is nice too if you're running a lot of level 8s.
Let's think what you can tribute it for that would benefit lots.
Tributing for Yubel would be rather nasty as Yubel can't be destroyed in battle. That would force them to somehow negate it's effect, or get rid of it without destroying it (i.e. remove it from play, brain control then tribute, etc.)
Tyrant Dragon and White Night Dragon are both immune to targeting spells/traps for added immunity.
Also you could go for Ancient Gear Gadjiltron Dragon, with it's battle immunity to spell/traps and additionally limiter removal (without a side effect). Adding in Green Gadget as the other tribute for that would let you get away with insane amounts of damage.

I was expecting something more similar to Armed Dragon LV7/Dark Armed Dragon, but this is neat too.

for a secret hardened armed dragon kind of sucks
and i dont really get the effect does the tributed monster not get destroyed

best card in the set by far
finally a new cyber dragon gonna run three
man if teleport was not limited that and this guy would rape so easily

The Red Dragon Assult Mode isnt a money card, nobody trades for them because Assult Modes arent competitve. Well unless your going to netdeck that guy from the JUMP.

And ya the Tetthys is about 25$ .

I went to the sneak, and can easily fill in those two missing spots in the common list for you shriek:

RGBT-EN028 Minoan Centaur
EARTH/Beast-Warrior - Effect/6/1800/1000
This card cannot be Special Summoned. You can Tribute this card to Special Summon 2 Level 4 Beast-Warrior-Type Normal Monsters from your Deck.

RGBT-EN034 Spined Gillman
WATER/Sea Serpent - Effect/3/1300/0
All Fish-Type, Sea Serpent-Type and Aqua-Type monsters you control gain 400 ATK.

Shriek,

Here be five of the six effects you're missing. There's a shitload of eBay auctions now for the set's Common cards.

RGBT-EN005
Phoenixian Seed
Attribute: FIRE
Type: Plant/Effect
Level 2
ATK/800 DEF/0
You can send this face-up card to the Graveyard to Special Summon 1 "Phoenixian Cluster Amaryllis" from your hand.

RGBT-EN015
Morphtronic Videon
Attribute: LIGHT
Type: Machine/Effect
Level 4
ATK/1000 DEF/1000
● While in Attack Position: This card gains 800 ATK for each Equip Card equipped to it.
● While in Defense Position: This card gains 800 DEF for each Equip Card equipped to it.

RGBT-EN016
Morphtronic Scopen
Attribute: LIGHT
Type: Machine/Tuner
Level 3
ATK/800 DEF/1400
● While in Attack Position: Once per turn, you can Special Summon 1 Level 4 "Morphtronic" monster from your hand. Destroy it during the End Phase.
● While in Defense Position: While this card is in face-up Defense Position, it is Level 4.

RGBT-EN028
Minoan Centaur
Attribute: EARTH
Type: Beast-Warrior/Effect
Level 6
ATK/1800 DEF/1000
This card cannot be Special Summoned. You can Tribute this card to Special Summon 2 Level 4 Beast-Warrior-Type Normal Monsters from your Deck.

RGBT-EN034
Spined Gillman
Attribute: WATER
Type: Sea Serpent/Effect
Level 3
ATK/1300 DEF/0
All Fish-Type, Sea Serpent-Type and Aqua-Type monsters you control gain 400 ATK.

Still nothing on Immortal Ruler. However, one seller lists its effect as retrieving Zombie World from the Grave. Sadly though, that same seller listed its Attribute as being DARK, not EARTH, =/

this set has really sucky cards
none of the 5d's have been as good as duelist genesis and that was the first one
they need to step it up with better cards

Eww at Battlestorm's actual text. At requiring 2 Wing-Beasts it was ok and might be brought in for stall/spell and trap reliant decks but needing 3 makes it near unusable.

@Kages: When you have 3 Winged-Beast creatures on the field - I'd rather them all to be BlackWings and use Delta Crow instead of Battlestorm.

Hardened Armed Dragon isn't very good due to the lack of targets which are Lv7 or higher that you actually want to Tribute Summon out. The notable ones are:

The Earthbound Immortals (gives them a degree of protection from both the opponent's effect and their respective weakness).

The Creator (he pays for himself by possibly reviving one of the material used to summon him)

Darklord Zerato (allows you to keep using it's effect and survive)

Angel O7 (pretty much guarantees its survival as long as you keep it away from battle destruction and spin/bounce effects)

So 5 good targets. Not many. HAD doesn't deserve to get anywhere near the price, hell it'll be lucky to get anywhere near $20 once the hype dies.

The money card in CRMS was DSF but it was only super and easy to pull. I got mine at the CRMS sneak peak. As for RGBT it will probably be Swallow's Nest and maybe HAD on par due to the rarities.

DSF isn't even expensive compared to Charge (money card of TDGS) and PSZ at the time (money card of CSOC).

HAD sucks in every deck.......not much else to it. You will be some noob running triple HAD in Zombies and everyone else will redicule you for it.

Plus if your gonna spend 90$, get triple Solemns over HADs........

Once again, you dont call a card good because it works in a 4 card combo. Its still easy to eliminate a monster even if you cant kill it by effects.

Why the hell did they change the Text on Battlestorm!!! He was fine at being 2 wingbest and get his effect. Anyone want to please tell me this is a miss print. And why the hell was it changed RIGHT BEFORE SNEAK PREVIEW!

You can completely see where shriek had it saying. "2 wing-beast" not 3. For the first time im saying this. Konami you blow so bad for changing the damn text!

Grandmaster of the Six Samurai
Dark Grepher
Rose was meh

We need something game breaking!

Just had to make that clear..........

HAD sucks ass.........not much else to it. . . . . .+ Kages are u stupid or something? Once you tribute HAD for Despair from the Dark or Zombie Dragon thing.....your opponent still can kill it with DAD and JD.......then kill your solemns with their solemns or heavy storm etc....or even Brain Control, Mind Control (which is seeing play these days), Honest (gurantee you this will happen), GB Heraklinos, or easily pop out a THought Ruler Archfiend or Stardust with Malicious or something.

It will almost NEVER be game. In fact by doing that you are setting yourself up to lose, HAD and Zombie Dragon or dead draws, so your essentially -1s yourself and -2s yourself when you bring out Zombie Dragon.

Really, just go make a poll/argument on pojo or something.

Seriously, I am dumbfounded by the idiocy of some, but not all TCG players.

fucking sucks. Seriously, try tributing in this meta for a double tribute is horrible. the monster tributed can just be removed from the field by a Dark End dragon, o wait its a championship card for you guys...

Nice to see they raised the value of almost every card. (sarcasam)

Why is everyone saying that Moja sucks? Yes, I agree that its support (King of the Beasts and Beasts Striker) is horrible, and the monster could have done without them, but Moja itself is actually rather good, if only because it lets you retrieve the one card that I'm sure all of you elitist Synchro wankers drool over: Rescue Cat.

Think about it, once X-Saber Airbellum comes out in the 2009 starter deck, I'm sure most of you will switch to the classic Rescue Cat Synchro builds (especially now with DAD, Plaguespreader Zombie and Emergency Teleport limited to 1), and Rescue Cat is level 4 while Moja is level 1. Still can't see the combo? Let me walk you through it:

1. Get out Rescue Cat.
2. Tribute Rescue Cat for Moja and X-Saber Airbellum.
3. Suicide Moja (or use Creature Swap to switch it over to the opponent and attack it) to get its effect, returning Rescue Cat to your hand.
4. Find some way of resummoning Rescue Cat.
5a. Synchro Rescue Cat and Airbellum for Black Rose Dragon or any of the other level 7 Synchros you might have, OR
5b. Tribute Rescue Cat to bring out the Beasts you need to Synchro with Airbellum to get out any of the other Synchros you need.

Y'see? Nice little way of abusing the Rescue Cat/Airbellum combo even more than it already has, especially with Rescue Cat limited to 2. And for the record, it can also return King Tiger Wanghu (for you Summon Control duelists), Giant Rat (for you Rat Toolbox duelists), Voltic King, Berserk Gorilla, Bazoo the Soul Eater, etc. There's a ton of useful Beasts you can get back with this card. Its support, I agree, sucks ass, but Moja itself is not bad; you just need to put in a tiny bit of thought to the combos you can pull off with it.

Like many on here, I'm rather upset at the rarity changes, especially with some of the key cards I was looking forward to getting, like Forbidden Chalice, though I'm willing to forgive Chalice's change to a small degree, since being an Ultra Rare also means you can get it as an Ultimate Rare, and from my experience with card pulling and those I've heard from other people, that makes it slightly easier to get than if it had stayed a Super.

Battlestorm's change from needing 2 Winged Beasts on the field to 3 is rather stupid, but you have to realize that the promos for these things are usually created to go with the main driving card theme of the set, in this case the Blackwings. However, it does have a use in your typical Harpie Lady build, and once we get Dark Simorgh, I wouldn't be surprised if it saw use in a combined Blackwing/Harpie Lady deck.

As for the hate for the other TCG-Exclusives, a good deal of it I don't get. I already gave my two cents about Moja and its support (to recap: Moja is a good card with many combos that would appeal to tournament elitists, should they have the brain power to realize them, but the support is just stupid and don't deserve their rarity), but Hardened Armed Dragon I can actually see having some use. Frankly, I think the major point of contention with it is that it's specifically designed for use with high-level monsters that you NEED to Tribute Summon, and that's just too much for your typical tournament duelist to go through. Please. While I'm not sure how it will interact with Emissary from Pandemonium (god, what a stupid name, the original was much better without having to be censored; as for the "problem" with it and HAD, I'm not sure if HAD's effect would still apply once EfP changes to a level 5 monster on the field after you tribute it with 1 tribute), there's still Behemoth the King of All Animals, and in a pure non-Blue-Eyes or non-Red-Eyes dragon deck, you've got a multitude of high-level Dragons you can use, like Tyrant Dragon, or Light and Darkness Dragon. Again, like Moja, it all depends on the combos you can come up with for the card.

Similarly, Berserking I find rather intriguing; a Beast-specific, reusable Riryoku that doesn't specify from which side of the field the selected monsters need to be, AND can be used either during your turn or your opponent's Battle Phase. Against a Rescue Cat Synchro build, I can see this card gaining some use, and all you need is a DNA Surgery to go to town with it.

I'm kinda surprised no one's commented on Immortal Ruler, yet. It's a level 4 zombie that can't be Special Summoned and can dig up Zombie World from your graveyard when you tribute it. Whoopee. It would've been better if it was like the other Field Searcher monsters. Plus, it looks damn-near identical to Ha Des. What the hell is up with that?

Overwhelm...I have to kinda agree with the masses on this, since - despite the multitude of level 7 or higher monsters that would benefit from being Tribute Summoned - it's just not that good of an effect to demand such a stiff restriction. I DO like how it can negate either traps or monster effects, but why leave out Spells?

My biggest contention is with War Arms; WHY IS IT NOT A BEAST OR BEAST-WARRIOR?! This is a big problem with me and monster cards; sometimes they don't match up in their art with what monster type they're listed as. For example, take Koa'ki Meiru Crusader in the next set; it's listed as a Beast-Warrior, but it looks like a hulking zombie. Why not list it as a Zombie? Same goes with Hayabusa Knight as a Warrior when it's clearly a Winged Beast, or Alligator's Sword as a Beast when it's clearly a Reptile. I don't get it. And besides, Shueisha had already created a Warrior Koa'ki Meiru monster that they could add into the next set; why make another? I mean, jeez, half of the TCG-Exclusives are already catered to Beasts anyway, so why not have one more? Also, how many level 3 and lower Warriors are played, nowadays? Not many, and I honestly don't think there ARE any that are really that good, so making War Arms a Warrior is rather pointless, especially considering that there are PLENTY of level 3 and lower BEASTS that are being played, nowadays, further proving that they should've just made it a Beast.

Finally, the rulings: I don't like a good deal of them. First, why can't you Normal Set Emissary from Pandemonium with 1 tribute? There's no ruling in Japan that says you can't, so why have it in the Western rulings? It's also really inconsistent; Every other monster you can Normal Summon with 1 or 0 Tributes, you can SET them, even Fog King, and there are rulings in place that address what happens to them when they are Set like that, and then flipped face-up. Why not apply that to EfP?

My biggest problem with the rulings is with the Earthbound Immortals: it's a big plot point in the Dark Signer arc of 5D's that, if the only monster the opponent has out is a face-up EI, you can attack them directly. Hell, Yusei has exploited this fact at LEAST THREE TIMES ALREADY, in three different duels. So why was this not implemented in the actual card game? Again, it's not a ruling that was in the Japanese version, so why have it be in the English version? Do they want to keep The Legendary Fisherman special like that? With that chink in the armor of the EI, they're now officially BROKEN. Yes, they got rid of their Spell/Trap immunity, and they are now destroyed instantly if there's not a Field Spell on the field (which brings up another crap ruling: why aren't the Immortals destroyed when your opponent replaces your Field Spell with their own, yet they do when you replace your own Field Spell? And why aren't they destroyed when they're chain-summoned to the activation of a Field Spell?), but that still leaves them as an imposing battle wall that can hammer your ass into oblivion until you get rid of it, and there are plenty of counters to monster, spell, and trap effects to ensure it survives. What the hell?

About the only ruling change that pleasantly surprised me was the one for Natural Tuning; so, if you use Natural Tuning on a Normal Monster or a Gemini monster that's treated as a Normal Monster, and the monster becomes level 5 or higher or gets resummoned as an Effect Monster afterwards, it doesn't lose its status as a Tuner monster? Epic score! I've always been a devoted believer in the power of the Normal and Gemini monsters, and this just makes my belief in them that much stronger.

Overall, I'm kinda glad I didn't go to the sneak preview, or that my mate doesn't have the funds to get me a booster box of the set for my birthday. It's really a big disappointment.

Moja does suck........

this set officially comes out in 4 days now
i think it will go down in price pretty quickly just like crimson crisis
when it first came out i was getting the special edition boxes for $7.00 a piece not i get them for $4.50 in a matter of two weeks
this will be hot for two weeks top too after the special edition comes out
only because allure will be in it

not that im supporting the moja guy... but i actually like moja the art is funny and it could actually go on a skill drain deck... i've seen preety good beast\skill drain decks since most beasts effects astivate in the grave... especially now that we'll get airbellum and finally got barbaros combined with baboon at 2... this deck could become meta breaking... and moja could be a good adittion for it... i dnt know bout the support or a pure moja deck with the king and striker... but i think moja by himself's got its charm :P

Does anyone have any idea when the set is gonna be released in Europe?

To me, they lost the title of "God" when they lost their immunity to Spell/Traps. Now they're just kind of Toon monsters in a way.

What're the odds of these being worth summoning, without their immunity, it's only to easy to kill them or you can just stop them with Scrap-Iron, and bam your open for a direct attack if you don't get out another monster. And your opponent can keep Scrap-Ironing them, until they pull out Fissure/Hammer Shot/Smashing Ground/Soul Taker/etc.

Or they can use Magic Cylinder, slam you for around 3000, then go for a direct.


The anime ones were WAY better... they actually Deserved to be gods, since you need a monster effect to actually stop them.

Whoever typed up the effect for Battlestorm put "2 Winged-Beast monsters" and the text on the card reads "3 Winged-Beast monsters".

So is the money card Light End Dragon. It's the most expensive card I've seen in the pack using ebay price listings.

i pulled a bunch of ko kai crap and the earthbound and trident dragon ultimate so it was ok since i bought the box for $57

Look I know this is not the place but a lot of people come on here ok. Get off my damn back. Its not like this board is going to blow up any time soon.

this s@#$ was a big a# disapointment to me .I thought konami was going to make tornament ready tcg dragon cards but i gess not and it's so nice how they downgraded exploder dragonwing on his rulling. I was looking forward to this set and it was a fluke for dragons.Everything eles in the set is good for there own type of deck exept dragons i mean come on,hardened darmed dragon for example.1It looks more of a chicken skull than a dragon 2.It's nice how it can be abused by other types like most of all other dragons. WERE ARE THE SPELL AND TRAPS FOR DRAGONS. I'm not aksing for dragons to become tele-dad.I just want to play dragons in tornament.Like they should keep doing the red eyes sub type.Look at blackwing compared to dragons people.Dragons have good monsters but in the second episode of yugioh they said "you need more than just monsters to win.You need to balance out your deck with spell and trap support".This set almost made me quit this game and go to magic.This set could have been alot better.They could have put in vice or genesic dragon insted of hardened armed dragon or immortal ruler.

G.B. Hunter was added to the "TCG's Censored Cards Collection"

anybody gotten lucky?

bought a box and pulled nothing
feel so jipped