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Article 13: Rise of more Separation

OK, long time no article from me, right?? (Voice: QUIT being lazy, you, I want more out of this site!!)

Anyway, as by my "trend" of writing an analyzation of a new pack whenever they're release...this time, I would do the SAME thing...separate yet again to 2 parts: Deck Types and Useful Cards.

Deck Types from this set:
Whenever a new set of cards release, each time, they must have some kind of "theme" to it...well, this time, it was boosts of 3 sub-types: Pyro, Bird, and Machine.

This set got yet 3 more LV monsters...well, it's normal, if they don't have it...where would cards like [Mystic Swordsman LV6] be release?? Well, from this set's release, I would now guess that Konami want to release the LV monsters in DIFFERENT set, so, they could make people buy new sets, and proof that this theme is not a "dead theme" like Guardian or Chess Demons.

Also, it seems to be a trend of Konami to just "stop making powerful Light/Dark card and boost other Main type" to stop the Chaos craze...oh well, they just don't know the best thing to do to stop it is banning them...

Now, after talking about the theme, it's time for the deck types:
NEW DECK TYPES:
- God of World Creation "Dump-Reborn" deck
- Mystic Swordsman/Warrior deck
- Pyro sub-type deck (that works)
- Bird sub-type deck (that works)
- Weenie Machine/Machine Duplication Tech. deck
- Element (Many Main-Types) deck

And the following deck types get SOME boost (or...a LOT):
- Harpy Lady/Wind deck
- Normal Machine deck
- Fire Aggro
- Wind Aggro
- Samurai/Ninja Deck
- Water deck (kind of...)
- Trample deck
- SCIENTIST DECK!!

After talking about the deck types, it's time to move onto my list of "what I think would be useful" in this set:
- God of World Creation
- Perfect Machine King
- Element Zarusu
- Spirit of Reversed Flame
- Fire Emperor - Testaros
- Explosive Flame Union Body - Gaia Soul
- Transformable Machine - Cannon Dragon
- Dragon Knight of Dark Realm - Dark Sword
- Continuous Magics
- The Give and Theft Jewelry
- Machine Duplication Technique
- Flint
- Reversal of Dead
- Judgment of Sky
- Chain Explosives
- Pikeru's Magical Formation
LONGER list than SOD...can you believe it??

My second topic of today is...yet another view on the difference between OCG and TCG.

I should NOT have to discuss this, Konami DID do a BAD JOB on "unite the game". Although now they realize their mistake and try to correct it (look at PP7, and the upcoming SOD), still, there's two separate environment.

I have been to huge argument over at another Yu-Gi-Oh forum about the OCG player feeling supremacy over TCG players.

All I would say here is...this is a FACT...and here's my reasoning:
- World Championship placing...
- The way of most good TCG players have experience on playing OCG

Flame me all you want, I don't care, but WHY this is happening?
It's NOT about skill and experience, it's NOT about the ban or what, it's about...the thinking of the players. Since OCG, most likely, would get cards before TCG players would even know them, so, they would test out the cards for them, make a list of cards that is useful or non-useful, then make decks and decks just to "play" with cards...

Is this happening over at TCG?? No. Yu-Gi-Oh is not a game that boost "original mind", since really, there could not be much new deck types from a set of 60 cards. BUT, from those "little" deck types, there's always new ideas, right?? Yeah, that's is what suppose to be, EXCEPT that, this game, like EVERY OTHER CARD GAME OUT THERE, would have cards that is more powerful than others, have a deck type that is always "better" than the others in general. When a deck type is powerful, people want to play it, just to?? WIN, duh...You see, even in the World Championship, WHY it is Chaos v. Chaos?? Because, Chaos deck, no doubt, is the most powerful deck type out in the game right now (no matter what you say...no matter how much "anti-Chaos" cards you have...). When people PLAY TO WIN, they would use the most powerful, even they could be original at casual. The problem with this game is, MAJORITY of the player just "play to win", not "play for fun". So, when a deck type dominate, people would just know how to build THAT specific type of deck, but COULD NOT THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX for more original idea. Really, it's rare to see a "TCG exclusive deck type that comes out of mind of TCG player that was NEVER been think of in OCG", nope, that NEVER happen.

So, supremacy?? Yes...if Konami keep releasing cards like this, it would just cause "separation", not "unite".

This would do my crazy article.