#Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon

[ludoka]

So, I don't know if the heat has already made me crazy but... is it possible that Seto Kaiba would have beaten Supreme King Z-ARC?

It is that I was seeing the attacks and effects of Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon and Blue-Eyes Alternative Ultimate Dragon. And well... They kind of have good effects and a great attack. Zarc had like 4000 attack (and an absurd amount of text that could be summarized as "cannot be targeted by opponent's card effects") While Ultimate Dragon has 4500 and MAX Dragon 4000 and both have the effect of not being destroyed or selected by cards from your opponent.

So that... Kaiba could see him put up a fight at least.

[2012-04-18]

[aminotvxq]

I sure hope I'll finish this by this weekend...🥲🥲

[asetoblog]

Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon and Deep-Eyes White Dragon.

Ever thought of these two dragons as the representation of Seto and Kisara (which can also be interpreted as the masculine and feminine side of BEWD, the original card)?

Look at their figures: Chaos MAX has a big and physically strong body, a masculine form; whilst Deep-Eyes has a very slender and feminine silhouette.

According to Jung and his Archetype theory, there are two energies inside us (among many others) which are, always according to him, the "masculine" and the "feminine". These can also be interpreted in a more mythological point of view like "chaos" or "darkness" (in religions and myths chaos has always been considered masculine, because it's a destructive force) and "order" or "light" (in religions and myths order has always been considered feminine, because it's a creative force) and looky here: Chaos is literally in MAX Dragon's name, also its attribute is Yami (= darkness), and Deep-Eyes' attribute is Hikari (= light), just like BEWD.

I think it's very interesting how their names, attributes and aesthetic fit everything: not only they're chaos and order, but they also respectively represent brute, earthly force (Chaos MAX) and some kind of otherwordly, ascended and goddess-like force (Deep-Eyes). Chaos MAX has harsh forms, it's very angular, like Kaiba's machines and jets; Deep-Eyes is more sinuous, serpentine and "round".

In the Pharaoh's Memories arc we are told BEWD's power can be compared to the power of a god (aka Divine Beasts) and here we see some kind of circle behind Deep-Eyes, which may represent the sun, the perfect divine symbol.

To add more to that, the way Seto summons them in the movie DSOD is pretty self-explanatory: Chaos MAX is summoned in a quick and brutal way, but it takes some more effort for Seto to summon Deep-Eyes on the field, because he needs to chant some kind of magic formula. Or he just wants to do that, but anyway, he even says Deep-Eyes is his "strongest dragon" (always referring to the original dub, not the american one!), meaning that he has higher regards for Kisara's godly power than his own, which is just physical strength.

These two dragons are absolutely beautiful and I think they perfectly represent Seto and Kisara separately, because BEWD can't do that alone anymore. BEWD needs to split to show us both its sides, because whilst we know it as Kisara's soul, in modern days it's considered to be Seto's "soul" too: he himself calls it in the original dub "ore no tamashi" ("MY soul"). That's why we now need two BEWD-surrogate dragons to represent them both.

[zakurarain]

.: Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon :.

[chara16]

Is it just me or is this art too cool

[not-that-n]

Master Duel is pretty fun because sometimes you just summon Albaz and use the opponents boss monster that has 17 different types of protections and then you fan feel your opponents will to live become slightly smaller.

[fountainpenguin]

"We could have ourselves quite a fling... Tail to tail, feather to feather- don't you think we oughta flock together~?" (x)

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Chapter 30 - “Scintillate (Bdubs)”

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After a long debate, the Jungle Duo agree to restructure their archaeologist roleplay into romance. Bdubs can roll with anything- it's fine! He's not feeling lonely and worthless after passing his phantom flock captain title to Martyn.

Grian, who just took a slap in the face from Scar rejecting his QPR proposal, opts to throw caution to the wind like the chaos-chasing bird he is. Let's plan a little roleplay...

(First 1,000 words under the cut)

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BdoubleO100

Status: Taking the lead

Captain of New Star Station’s phantom hybrid flock

💙  🧡  💚

Grian’s idea of a skin change, apparently, was pulling his goggles down over his eyes and switching out his red sweater for a green one. When Bdubs gives him a pointed look, Grian whips his Sherlock Grian hat out from behind him and situates it carefully on his curls. They’re extra fluffy today… Bdubs wonders drearily if that’s just part of the costume change or if Grian’s trying to get a reaction out of him. Oh, he’ll get a reaction… 

Bdubs crosses his arms. There are several farm servers and they keep the portals in a hallway-shaped building of the same name. One’s for sheer optimization- Testing, fiddling, and demonstrating farms at max efficiency. Several are for mobs. One of the food servers is a little tamer and you get a lot of recipe theorists practicing their culinary crafting in there. One server’s packed with restaurants. Kinda defeats the purpose when it won’t leave you saturated in Between, but Scott likes to review the required resources (read: taste-test) before he approves them into New Star.

Then, well… There are the carrot servers. Several of ‘em, actually, just to give people elbow room. Nice way to minimize running into an ex. There are some servers with nice ballrooms or gardens to walk through, but Grian specifically asked for beds. So, cabins and beds is what he’s gonna get. Bdubs waits near the portal entrance (away from the line) and starts tapping his foot as Grian jogs up to join him. “I thought I said you don’t wanna attract attention in there.”

“Honestly, you know what I’m like. This is as good as it gets with me, mate.” Grian looks him up and down. “Don’t look at me that way when you barely changed either. Bdubs! Turn around for me.”

Bdubs gives a grunt. He picked a skin with a dark blue shirt for this, plus gray checkerboard pants. Very soft. Perfect snugglewear.  He’s still got his mossy shawl on, but it’s not a big deal if he’s recognized. He pops by the carrot server all the time. Not always ‘cuz he’s here to see someone… Far too many people steal away in their low-energy moments and forget the server will kick them out when they’re in the last few minutes of phantom hour. This place is a feeding frenzy for phantom hybrids ten minutes before the clock tower chimes.

This is where the lower-ranked members of the flock hunt, actually, ‘cuz it’s so easy it doesn’t take any skill. Bdubs can see two of them perched high in the alcoves, chatting and licking code strings from between their fingers. They’re both splattered in blue. Well-fed. It’s way too easy here.

Maybe it’s time I let you two roam the streets.

They’re not the only ones, either. The Fox Dragon’s phantoms are loitering here too. Easy pickings, they must’ve figured out. Bdubs itches to nip at them, tell ‘em to go do some real hunting in the city, but this isn’t his circus and those aren’t his monkeys. Martyn’s the one who’d have to shoo ‘em off, and he’s back at the clock tower like a good boy. He better be.

At least the rival captain’s not here. She’s got smaller wings, but Bdubs isn’t her biggest fan. She’s fine. But introducing two captains into one hunting ground without a lot of buildup is always gonna be trouble. She and Martyn prickled around each other when Bdubs set him up on a “blind playdate” Monday night. When he and Scott went back for pick-up, they were building with Lego at the same table and talking about whatever, but the ruffled hair and many scratch marks told a story that didn’t need questions asked.

Still… New Star’s a tempting hunting ground. If Martyn can’t hold his own, Charlotte’s captain might try to throw him out.

Welp. Good lesson to learn if it come to it. Not his problem tonight. While Grian smirks, tugging at the end of his mossy shawl, Bdubs turns his head towards the portal mouth. The line’s been moving at a decent speed. Grian moves towards it, but Bdubs hesitates before plodding over to join him.

“What’s up?” Grian asks, folding arms behind his head.

“… You’re gonna get scoped out as a new kid. It’s your first time on the server. We’re dropping in at spawn. That’s where they try to get you.”

“Who was this?”

“Code sellers. Don’t look at ‘em.”

“Oh.” Grian goes quiet then. People ahead of them disappear inside the portal. After a moment, Grian asks, “Did you log out at spawn?”

“Near there, yeah. At least, I think I did… But just to be safe, give me ten seconds before you step in after me. Oh, and… We’re gonna be around sparked villagers, so try not to show your hands too much. Scares ‘em.”

Grian nods. They step into a fenced-off little area of space. The white blocks and pink mist of the portal yawn in front of them. HALO Copper’s watching, splitting groups and asking people one at a time if they’re consenting to step inside. One of New Star’s phantom hybrids drapes atop the portal blocks in silent reminder that she’ll lunge if requested. Grian moves to the side while HALO Copper shoots Bdubs a skeptical look.

“Business or pleasure?”

“Oh, he better not give me any trouble.” Bdubs hooks a thumb at Grian, who waves back. “I’m here with G. No funny business and no hunting. Cross my middle heart.”

Couple more questions. The usual. Then Bdubs pops through the pink mist. He mentally grabs hold and swishes downwards, landing with a shimmer when he’s on-server and the mist is gone. 

BdoubleO100 joined the game

Everything looks to be in order. He’s near the “town square,” in a partitioned-off spot surrounded by fence posts. There’s a bed a few blocks away. You’re s’posed to set spawn at the bed upfront before you leave, or at the very least they want you to break the bed you were using. You can probably imagine how awkward it’d be to die and respawn in a room someone else rented for the evening.

The spawn area’s got an open sky. It’s pretty much a town, complete with a market. The usual solicitors try and get his attention, but Bdubs flips up his hood and ignores them. He struts back and waits around the square ‘til Grian shimmers in at spawn in front of him.

Grian joined the game

Grian shows up stretching high, wings fanned out around him. Show-off. Bdubs grunts in memory of what he lost, but doesn’t comment. Since Grian changed skins, his feathers have lost their high-saturation shimmer, but there’s no denying he still looks good. Mossy green’s a pretty color on him.

Can’t wait to help with that.

“Whoo, what a rush,” Grian muses, and starts parsing the feathers in his wings as though examining them for the first time in his life. “It’s not vanilla here, then.”

“‘Cuz your wings didn’t shrink?” Baby wings are the default if you haven’t touched an elytra yet. Dog’s Life is one of the exceptions to that rule since they’ve got trait mods going on. “Yeah, the admin knows people like to flaunt ‘em. It’s why they don’t make you scrub client-side mods off before you join. C’mon- gotta put our names in the book and tell the staff when to check up on us.”

“Runs like a wheel,” Grian remarks, trotting after him.

[Full chapter on AO3 - Link at top]

[ygo-monster-type-tournament]

Round 3c, Match 1: Blue-Eyes vs. Code Talker!

Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon // Recoded Alive

[pod-together]

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[pridepoisoned]

YGO deck I wanna see what you pick b/c I have idea as well

IT’S TIME TO DUEL!! (your muse’s Yu-Gi-Oh! profile) / not accepting

<determining keywords: dragon, timeless, legend...>

RED plays a BLUE-EYES deck, and his ace monster is BLUE-EYES CHAOS MAX DRAGON.

Over the lifespan of this game, no other monster has been more influential or enduring than the BLUE-EYES WHITE DRAGON. This is a perfect fit: Red, an icon of the Pokemon world, deserves mastery over this equally timeless archetype. The majestic Blue-Eyes has been crashing into worthy opponents since the beginning of time, and it's outlasted them all, still going strong with new support and adaptable strategies. A crowd favorite. Everybody knows the name. Both of their names.

Red's ace--Chaos MAX Dragon--is Blue-Eyes unleashed at its fullest, wildest power. Summoned from a ritual using both light and dark magic, MAX is an overwhelming force, breaking through any harmful card effects to absolutely crush opponents (and any defensive monsters that they dare hide behind.) The strategy to bring out this great dragon might seem old-fashioned and unwieldy at times, but when it does hit the battlefield...well, the duel is probably over for the opponent. It's that strong.

Throughout the years, Blue-Eyes has dabbled in spirits, machines, and summoning magic...but at its core, this archetype has always been about unmatched offensive power. Chaos MAX elevates Blue-Eyes to its most untamable, fearsome form yet, a behemoth finally ready to break its bindings and embrace its chaotic nature head-on, while hardheadedly obliterating all foes standing in its path.

Who better to wield this renowned dragon than Red, the reckless, chaos-attracting dragonhearted? A legend for a legend...

[aminotvxq]

The Blue-Eyes Chaos Max Dragon represents among the peak Kaiba aesthetics for dragons. It's one of my ultimate favorite Yugioh monsters of all time, along with his Deep-Eyes White Dragon and Atem's Dark Paladin.

I think the BECMD is also a symbol of the inner child in Seto, contrary to its appearance as a power heavyweight. Its hard, machine-like design reminds me of super cool high-end transformable robot toys🤖 that only get the spotlight at the end of an action TV series for kids. It looks like the most powerful, resource-intensive combat gadget with which main characters crush the evil mastermind once and for all in the very last episode. Luxury toys that most children from middle class or lower could only dream of.

In the DSOD, Kaiba never listens during his duel with Yugi. He takes out the biggest and most violent monsters at hand, including the BECMD, to completely crush Yugi down. In a way he almost looks as if he was throwing a tantrum😂 and he knew what he was doing. I understand he is that desperate. Some say, though, that he could've saved at least some of all the drama if only he hadn't cut Yugi off and instead listened to him... and I have to secretly agree with them😭

[claire-starsword]

Max’s Diary - Chapter 8

(26) Month of the Yellow Tiger, Day 33

We arrived at Runefaust. But, there's no sign of their army in the city. From what Mahato told me, the army has retreated and we must give chase. In front of the castle they just built, Darksol... Seems he's the root of all these evils. We attacked at once, but he fled to the depths of the castle, and in his place came Emperor Ramladu of Runefaust. Things happened one after the other and Ramladu also retreated further as the battle began. Argh, we must get to him.

The ninja Hanzou will be working with us from this battle on. He's a strong fighter who knows the instant death spell, Desoul. But, ninja are from the shadows. I'll leave him at headquarters. We'll defeat Darksol without borrowing the power of shadows. Probably.

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(27) Month of the Purple Pearl, Day 4

With everyone working together, we somehow defeated the beasts with breath attacks, Blue Dragons and Chimeras. All that is left is to beat Ramladu.

Torch Eyes and Steel Claws showed up but, with our current power they aren't much of a problem. We're also faster and that'll be the key to victory, we'll quickly made work of those stupid machines. After destroying them we'll go after Ramladu.

Once only Ramladu was left, he finally got his heavy butt up to work. And, the moment Pelle got closer, he spun his weapon and sent him flying. Aah! Pelle was wrecked in one hit. Okay, time for the usual tactic of throwing all we have at him. Everyone do your best. I'm right behind you.

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(28) Month of the Purple Pearl, Day 15

We infiltrated the Castle of the Ancients. It was a long path from what I recall. A lot of events started flashing back in my mind. After all this struggle, all that's left is to defeat Darksol. Let's move onwards.

Darksol isn't anywhere to be seen in the castle. Huh? Where is he hiding. As we searched here and there we felt the presence of monsters. Seems the castle's defense system has activated. Colossus started moving, and the Chimeras came to attack us. We were taken by surprise, but with Anri's Bolt and Tao's Blaze level 4, and Diane and Lyle's Buster Shots, we intercepted the Chimera and Blue Dragon combination. All that was left was Colossus. Let's surround them one by one to take them down. Huh? We defeated them with no injuries. So weak.

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(29) Month of the Purple Pearl, Day 20

After turning Colossus into kebab without any trouble, we continued the infiltration. Finally we found Darksol. It's the final battle. Anri and Tao's magic shines, Gort swings the Atlas Axe. Diane and Lyle's Buster Shots blast fire, Balbaroy flies about. Pelle throws the Valkyrie, Khris and Gong run around doing the healing. Musashi cuts enemies in half with the Kiku-ichimonji, Domingo floats around without a care. And I finish everything off with the Chaos Breaker.

With this ultimate force we corner Darksol. His Demon Breath is intense but, as we hit him with everyone at once it doesn't matter much. Alright, we defeated Darksol! I was so glad, and as I celebrated like that...

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Even now, in the Castle of the Ancients' "last chamber", Darksol works to awaken the Dark Dragon. Will the protagonist succeed in saving the world of light in the end? The answer to that question is something only the Chaos Breaker knows.

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Notes:

(26): Big mistake on this one, when mentioning Hanzou’s instakill spell they call it Detox (Antidote in the original).

Also, those ellipses when Max meets Darksol in front of the castle... They have a bit more weight if you know Darksol's original dialogue.

"How many times have we met so far? I've begun to think of you as a friend, Max!"

"However, our friendship ends here as well. I've became quite busy here so I have no time to face you. My Dark Dragon... The legendary Dark Dragon who slept at the bottom of the ocean for a thousand years shall awaken by my hand! Wahahahahaha! By the way, and young Cain, is he well?"

"Oh I see, so he's dead? Even though he was quite useful. Well, so that's all he was worth. Oops, our talk turned out quite long. Excuse me now. I must go to the Castle of the Ancients. There are still rites needed for Dark Dragon's revival... If you wish to come then come as well. But ahead is my reception... Hah! Emperor Ramladu will be your opponent... You'll face hell... Well then, goodbye, though it hurts to see us part... For me and for you, Max! Wahhahahaha! Wahahahahaha..."

(29): Domingo saying only his own name in these doodles might be the reason he's like that in the GBA version? Even though it's just a joke.

Those final lines are from the final page of the strategy part. Because the diary doesn't mention the ending in any way I felt like adding something in to make it more complete.

[ben-talks-art]

My Favorite Yu-Gi-Oh! decks!

I've talked a little bit about Yu-Gi-Oh! on this Tumblr, mostly regarding my feelings about Jaden as a character, but I also have plenty of feeling about the game itself as a super casual fan.

I like the artworks of plenty of cards, with Iris, in particular, being my favorite design, I like the different mechanics of fusion, pendulum, ritual, and XYZ, and I love how they keep trying to mix different themes like RPGs creatures, superheroes, and freaking V-Tubers of all things (because why not?).

As for the actual gameplay, while, again, I'm mostly just a casual player, there are some decks that I do enjoy playing with and never get tired of, so I felt it would be fun to list down my top 10 and try to talk about why I like them!

Heroes

Yeah, this one was obvious. I love Jaden so of course I love heroes.

But even without Jaden, there are still plenty of things about this deck I love.

For starters, I really like decks with tons of extra deck boss monsters. It gives the feeling of if you when you're stuck in a situation and you need the right guy for the job you can just pick one of the many options you have.

I also like how they play around with different themes of what makes a hero in terms of design. We have "Kamen Rider" heroes, "Dc and Marvel" heroes, "Ultraman-like" heroes, edgy 90's heroes, and so on.

They feel like a very adaptable deck, like when you don't know what villain you might face, but once you do know you just have that "Oh! I know who to call to deal with you!" feeling.

I also like how they mostly tend to focus on combat which was always my favorite part of the Yu-Gi-Oh! game. I like putting out a bunch of cool characters on the field to fight with the opponent.

The one thing I don't like about them is the lack of options for searching spells and traps. They mostly just search fusion and mask change cards but sometimes I just find myself thinking "Man, I wish I had Favorite Hero or Hero Legacy right now..."

2. Super Heavy Samurais

Another deck that focuses on combat and putting a bunch of cool guys on the field.

This is such a weird but fun idea. Playing with no spells or traps while being always in defense position. It's unique, to say the least, and very satisfying to pull off well.

It feels like you're always playing with your hand behind your back by removing two-thirds of the options of cards the game gives you and instead relying on hand traps, grave quick effects, and equip monster cards.

Just like heroes, I like how each of the boss monsters in here feels like different solutions for different situations. Plus, they all look cool, mixing this theme of sumo wrestlers and samurai robots.

For someone who tends to not enjoy synchro decks, I really love this one!

3. Drytrons

This is my favorite ritual deck, simply because this is the one deck that gives you access to every ritual in the game.

Every ritual monster can be your boss monster if you play Drytrons. Lord of the Red, Blue-Eyes Chaos Max, Magician of Chaos, Megalith Bethor, Cyber Angel Vrash, White Relic of Dogmatika, you just have a plethora of options to build your deck around and it's so fun trying out all the different things you can use.

For years I saw rituals as this one part of the game that I would never even consider, but now? Getting access to any ritual boss monster that might look cool or fun to use, made me see how much I was missing!

Drytrons made me love rituals, and that alone is amazing.

4. Galaxy-Eyes

Leaving alone the fact that these are some of the coolest-looking cards in the game to me (I mean, look at them! Dragons made of light covered in armor? How's that not awesome??), this is another case of "Tons of strong boss monsters to put on the field to do battle."

Sorry, I'm a very simple person...

Any deck that has a cool extra deck easily wins me over, and this extra deck is just so freaking cool! The main deck is also not that bad itself, but man it can brick a lot...

5. Cyber Dragons

Yeah... I'm just repeating myself at this point. Cool-looking boss monsters, focus on braindead combat, ways to reach absurd numbers... I just like hitting stuff really hard, okay?

They don't exactly have a ton of options to different problems, but they do have tons of ways of coming back from the dead with their extreme love for getting banished.

I have mixed feelings on whether or not I prefer to play them pure or to mix with cyberdark cards... But I can't deny that they can help out the deck a lot in plenty of ways.

6. Tearlaments

This one is basically the same thing as Drytrons, but for fusions.

The way Tears work is that when they hit the grave they can fuse with anything that's in the hand, field, or grave by shuffling back into the deck... ANYTHING!

So you can just throw in a bunch of copies of King of The swamp and when they do their thing you can just make any fusion monster you want that requires an effect or a dark monster as a material. It's kinda crazy, honestly.

Sadly there aren't as many options as Drytrons, but you can still do plenty of cool things with it with a little experimentation (Assuming there are still any cards left in the deck once Konami stops banning all of its members...)

7. Branded

Probably the first, and so far only, time I ever cared about the lore in a Yu-Gi-Oh! deck.

I like the story of Albaz and Ecclesia forming a friendship and visiting all these other archetypes and bonding with them and making a new fusion that represents their connection each time, while also showing the threat of the Despias approaching and taking over other monsters.

What I'm NOT a fan of though is how lame some of the effects of the fusions are, basically acting mostly as just stuff meant to be dumped into the grave nine times out of ten. I am glad that Konami started to fix that with time and eventually made much better fusions to use like Mirrojade.

The way Branded handles fusions is kinda interesting because it feels like they keep bouncing these things all over the corners of the game. The extra deck, the field, the grave, the banished zone, your mother's house, the hospital, the school... There are so many cards that say "send fusion there, bring fusion here, put fusion back into the deck!" that kinda makes these creatures feel more like ping-pong balls than actual monsters.

Good God, I remember one time I think I just kept sending and recovering Albion like four or five times from the grave and barely ever actually summoned him. It's kinda sad but funny.

Fun lore, cool designs, interesting ways to treat its fusion monsters... Just wish they would make more actual bosses to hit the field.

8. Rocks

This is probably the most ridiculous deck I ever tried to make it work. Some kind of mix of the Fossils fusion archetype, the Megalith Ritual archetype, and the Adamancipator synchro archetype.

I don't know why, there was just this period of time where Konami was obsessed with rocks for some reason and they kept making support after support for this monster type, and I just kept looking and thinking "I wonder if they can work well together..."

Turns out they can as many of their effects are "Rock" generic, but it is very clunky to pull it off. Doesn't stop it from being fun though!

9. Water Xyz

Much like rocks, this is a deck where the fun is in trying to make it work at all.

I really like the character of Nash from Zexal so I always wanted to try and make a deck based on him. The problem was that... Nash has some really bad boss monsters... So instead of trying to make a shark deck I just tried to make a water xyz deck (with the exception of Toad because f*ck that thing...)

Much like rocks, it can be really clunky and mostly just used for casual plays, but still very fun to use nonetheless.

10. Metalfoes

So I was kinda deciding on which pendulum deck I would count as my favorite. It was either this or Abyss Actors, and while I do like Actors a lot, their lack of an actual boss monster kinda narrows their gameplay a bit to "float into things when they die, the archetype!"

Meanwhile, Metalfoes manages to check a lot of boxes on my wishlist in a deck. Cool artwork with the whole "psychic fire spoon users" thing, boss monsters with interesting effects, smooth gameplay with the way it mixes fusion and pendulum with their spells and traps, and nice recovery and focus on battle!

I do wish they would give more options to raise their attack values but, oh well...

I'm always a fan of when a deck tries to mix two summon mechanics, like Nephthys which mixes ritual and link, Magikey which mixes fusion and ritual, Mathmech which uses XYZ and synchros, and so on. That's not to say I love these archetypes but I do love the attempt at trying to mix things up (I personally would really love to see a solid fusion and synchro deck), and I think Metalfoes blends fusion and Pendulum really well!

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Never mind, I did some playtesting, and MetalFoes actually didn't age that well. Abyss actors for the win!

And that's all for me. Again, these are not great competitive decks or anything. I'm not a meta guy so I don't know how good or bad these decks actually are, but they are the ones that I tend to have the most fun using!

If you wanna play me on Master Duels, here's my ID: 210-063-125

[itachi86]

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[magpiejay1234]

Remaining reprints for side: PRIDE are:

**Trade-In

**Dragon Ravine

**Dragon Shrine

**Chaos Form

**World Legacy Guardragon

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Blue-Eyes Chaos Dragon, or Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon are not part of the reprints in this set, so this Chaos Form reprint might be for a future Chaos Ritual.

Dragon Ravine, and World Legacy Guardragon are here for the two Dragon Link reprints.

Trade-In is obviously for the recent Level 8 monsters from Infinite Forbidden.

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With this, there is nothing to see tomorrow. We will wait for next week for a bunch of minor reveals.