Gishki’s Part 1 – Gishki Core – GenForce through HA5

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The  highlighted will be discussed at length in the current article. You should at least be familiar with the ritual monsters and the ritual spell listed.

Effect Monsters: Gishki Diviner, [highlight]Gishki Beast[/highlight], [highlight]Gishki Abyss[/highlight], Gishki Vanity, [highlight]Gishki Marker[/highlight], Gishki Chain, Gishki Ariel, [highlight] Gishki Shadow[/highlight].

Ritual Monsters: Evigishki Mind Augus, Evigishki Soul Ogre

Ritual Spells: Gishki Aquamirror

Gaining Advantage

Each Gishki monster, with the exception of Vanity, attempts to fetch cards to your hand in some way. You can easily rate the ones that will be most useful to you based on how quickly and accurately they can perform their effect.

Part 0 – Why Gishkis

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This article is part of an ongoing series about the Gishki Archetype and the interesting directions they can be taken. This first article is a short explanation of what makes Gishkis superior to other ritual monsters, and a little about why I think they’re cool. You’ll see them every Wednesday and Friday.

Why Gishkis?

As you know, if you have listened to our Gishki podcast, this archetype is Water-themed and focused on providing quick access to Ritual Summoning.

It’s an interesting concept right? Ritual monsters are generally not popular, unless they have effects that severely limit the interactions between players like:

The Burn Patch

Card Review: Double Return

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The Burn Patch

I’m sure they mean well…

When you take 1000 or more damage by your opponent’s card effect, place 1 Twofold Counter on this card for each multiple of 1000 damage you took. During your opponent’s next End Phase: Destroy this card, then inflict 2000 damage to your opponent for each Twofold Counter that was on this card.

Double Return is a Continuous Trap Card releasing in Galactic Overlord. In the OCG, it’s a rare and should stay that way when it sees a TCG release.

YCS Lima – Bounty Hunters

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Before you ask, Dino Rabbit won YCS Lima, congratulations to Hector Delgado. But, that’s not what I wanted to talk about. What I wanted to talk about was:

Bounty Hunters
During YCS Lima, 10 Duelists were given the designation as Bounty Hunters. They can be randomly selected or chosen (if they exhibit extraordinary Yugioh-ness). This designation enters them into a pretty cool system.

Each round, these special duelists get 4 packs added to their “Bounty Pile.” If they win their match, they will automatically be awarded 2 packs from that stash. But if they lose, their opponent will get EVERY PACK currently in their stash! SOO cool!

For the mentally indifferent, if you beat a Bounty Hunter on round 5, after they have gone 4-0, you will get 12 packs!

 

This is the first time I’ve seen a feature like this, let alone during a YCS. If it’s been done before, awesome! If not, it’s a great idea! All I’m saying is: more epic stuff like this.

Deck Building Tips: Testing Those Scenarios

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I’m generally known here, at the Yugioh Card Game Podcast, for coming up with random maybe-not-so-good ideas (haha). When deck building, I often times throw caution to the wind and just build.

When I think of a “Deck Idea”, often times it’s nothing more than a “Situation.” I have a specific action, play or “set-up” that I want to achieve. At this point in the deck-building process, I’m generally not concerned with what the rest of the deck may do. I’m just looking to achieve that “Situation.”

A Spore was planted here

The Banned List Arrives

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Thank you Japan!

A Spore was planted here

Since the beginning of February, we duelists have been bombarded by fake list after fake list. Each, somehow, increasing in credibility but ultimately being outed as a Photoshop mockery – Japan gets first dibbs on the list through their monthly V-Jump  magazine – or a blatant impossibility.

Many of us saw the “fake” (but actually legit) banned list that was posted on Shriek. Even though Shriek is one of the most reliable sources we have for early info, not even they could escape the chaos. The discussion that followed in the comments was pretty wild. 

Card Review – Evoltile Odonto

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Evoltile Odonto
LV2//Fire//Reptile//500//1200
When this card is Normal Summoned: You can Special Summon 1 “Evolsaur” monster from your hand.

 

Overview:

Evoltile Odonto is a somewhat frustrating monster from the Evol Archetype that asks you to invest heavily onto the field. At present, with Photon Shockwave as the latest release, the climate is not quite temperate enough for starting a play with Odonto.

With 500 attack and 1200 defense, it is not a monster that anyone would want to summon or set without good reason. Since its effect leaves it vulnerable to attack, and therefore punishment, one would expect a reasonable return for such an investment. The results are somewhat worth the investment, let’s take a look.