Yugioh Card of the Week: 4/12/13

To start off April we will bring you the latest Yugioh Card of the Week and this time we step away from the 5Ds era and now heading to Zexal.   This week we will be focusing on non other then Yuma's favorite card NBumber 39: Utopia.  Exceed Cards work similar to Synchros except instead of adding monster card levels this time you use monsters with the same levels.  To summon Utopia you will need two monsters with same level in order to summon it.  However Exceed cards work differently then any other card in the game.  This is because instead of sacrificing the monsters and putting them in the graveyard they actually go under the Exceed monsters as shields and used for other effects.  Utopia's power allows you to use one of the monsters under it as a shield to protect its destruction which is a quite handy effect.  Also whats good about Exceed monsters is that they are even easier to summon then Synchros so its easier to pull off the winning play.  If you haven't started using Exceed monsters I suggest you should start off with Utopia since he is one of the easier monsters to summon and has a pretty nifty effect to go along with it. 

Yugioh Card of the Week: 3/27/13

In the last installments of Yugioh Cards of the Week we featured cards that were either fan favorites or Main Character Signature Cards.  This week we are going really obscure at least compared to the earlier weeks.  This weeks card is Super Sonic Skull Flame.  Now this card is kind of special because its the first card made   that actually changed its Atk from the anime version to the real life version.  Normally its just effects that change but this time its also his base Attack points is strange. In the Anime it was actually 3000 Atk points for his base stats but in the real game Konami reduced it to 2600.  Its possible that they changed because his effect would pretty much bring him back to 3000 anyway but who knows.  This card surprisingly is the first time I don't recommend using unless you got three copies of the game when it was released or got the Skull Flames separately.  Yea for this week I am actually talking about a card not recommended to play just because his effect would force you to get multiple copies of another card just to use the card for its full potential.  If it weren't a game promo I would say that the card would be okay to use but due to its effect I personally think not many players should use this card unless they really want to or if you somehow got a hold of the other cards.

Yugioh Card of the Week 3/18/13

We may be in the middle of March but that doesn't mean we will be slowing down as you bring to you this week's featured card.  Today for the Yugioh Card of the Week its Crow's favorite Synchro Monster Blackwing Armor Master.   This pretty epic card is one way to strike down your opponent in the toughest of times since it will make your opponents monsters defenseless. This is because it can cause the attacked monster go down to 0 atk points after using his special effect.  This can be extremely crucial when your opponent has many overpowered monsters.  The best part is that you will not be damaged when you attack them and it protects itself from being destroyed in the process.

Yu-Gi-Oh Card of the Week: 2/25

Welcome again to another installment for the Yugioh card of the week.  This week's card is none other then Yusei's favorite Stardust Dragon. During the era of Yugioh 5Ds this card was a heavily used card but thanks to Zexal it became kind of underrated card. From what I hear synchros have been ignored in the metagame in the recent years but personally I think you should give this card a chance. Its effect is one of the better synchro type effects because it doesn't rely on any specific cards so anyone can use it. Thanks to its effect you will be able to stop its destruction and allows you to summon again on the field. 5Ds may be long over but that doesn't have to mean that this card stay collecting dust so if you are currently not using it or haven't used it at all I think you should have another look at it.

Card News: Cardfight Vanguard Hosts TEAM LEAGUE Tournament!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Bushiroad Announces Cardfight!! Vanguard Team League 2013

Singapore, February 15, 2013 – Bushiroad South East Asia Pte Ltd and Bushiroad USA Inc announced a new Cardfight!! Vanguard tournament series: the Team League 2013. This will be the first ever Bushiroad-sanctioned international team tournaments in Cardfight!! Vanguard.

The Cardfight!! Vanguard Team League 2013 is a three-stage, team tournament campaign running from April through July across the North American, Europe and Asia-Oceania regions.

Players of all ages may form teams, consisting of three members, to face against rival teams in a continental level championship utilizing Bushiroad’s unique three-on-three team tournament format. Participating teams will receive promotional goods unique to Team League 2013.

The tournament structure is split across three phases; open shop qualifiers from April to May, regional qualifiers in selected tournament stores from May to June, and continental finals for each region in end June to July.

Tournament shops currently registered with Bushiroad will be eligible to hold open shop qualifiers.

The open shop qualifiers will be open to all teams across all three regions. These qualifiers will be listed on the Cardfight!! Vanguard website in March 2013. The top placing teams in each shop qualifier will receive an invitation to regional qualifiers in selected tournament stores in their specific regions. Regional qualifier team champions will be awarded with invitations and travel/lodging fees to the continental finals in their region. Second placing teams will only be awarded invitations to the continental finals in each region.

The finals for the North American region will be held in Los Angeles, CA, in July, with a venue to be confirmed. An open qualifier for the Team League will take place the day before the Team League finals (venue and date TBD), for players who have missed their chance on participating in the open shop qualifiers.

The finals for the European region will be held in the United Kingdom in July, with a venue and specific date to be confirmed.

The finals for the Asia-Oceania region will be held in Singapore in end June/early July, with a venue and specific date to be announced. Similar to the North American Team League qualifiers, an open qualifier will take place the day before at the same venue.

More details will be revealed on the Cardfight!! Vanguard website and Facebook pages as the dates draws near.

Bushiroad concluded their first international tournament series: World Championship 2012, in December 2012. The World Championship 2012 focused on individual players. The World Championship 2013 will be held in the latter half of 2013.


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  That Was the official press release. According to the official CFV English website, rules for the Tag tournament is that it is 3 on 3. Each person will get a number and face off with their corresponding number on the other team. Each member of the team must have different clans and only 1 clan per deck. The ONLY EXCEPTION to the clan rule is if you are using a "Royal Paladin" deck, you may have up to 10 "Shadow Paladin" cards. That's it. 3 team members. 1 clan per deck. Different clans for each team member. Keep it locked in here as we will continue to follow the rules for the tourney and where the team league will be held.

Card News: Stand Up! Challenge Singles Tournament for Cardfight Vanguard

Bushiroad USA Inc. Announces Cardfight!! Vanguard Stand Up Challenge Cup 2013

 

Walnut, CA, February 8, 2013 – Bushiroad USA Inc. announced a new Cardfight!! Vanguard tournament for North America: the Stand Up Challenge Cup 2013.

 

The Cardfight!! Vanguard Stand Up Challenge Cup 2013 is a three-stage, one-on-one player tournament running from March to June, and is a tournament exclusive to North America. Players will participate in store qualifiers for a chance to win invitations to the regional qualifiers. With over 270 stores signed on, only the first and second place finishers at each qualified store will receive an invitation to the regional qualifiers.

 

There will be 25 regional qualifiers spread throughout the United States, with one regional qualifier for Mexico and one regional qualifier for Canada. The winner of each regional qualifier will receive an invitation to the Stand Up Challenge Cup finals along with airfare and hotel accomodations. Second place finishers from each regional will only receive invitations to the finals.

 

The Stand Up Challenge Cup finals is scheduled to take place on June 2, venue to be announced. A last minute qualifier will take place the day before on June 1 at the same venue.

 

Cardfight Vanguard Clan Analysis

Check out Fatal Triggur gets into why Kagero is such a great clan. For all you dragon fans out here, take a look and what Kagero is all about.

Card News: Vanguard 2013 Set Releases & Tournament Schedule

The following was reported originally by Touya.

News: English Tournament Season for 2013, Set Release Schedule

Recently-released posters have set out a much-awaited schedule for 2013's tournament season, as well as a schedule for booster set releases. In addition to these, dates for sneak preview events have gone up, providing exclusive chances at getting playmats, promo cards and early access to new cards.

Tournament Schedule
March-June 2013: Cardfight!! Vanguard Stand Up Challenge Cup
A singles tournament whose victor will "Rise as the number one Cardfight!! Vanguard player." This is currently speculated to be WCS2013; the four month time frame presented matches up with that of the 2012 world championships. If this were the case, then it's possible that the schedule will parallel 2012's closely, with the Indonesian, Australian, Philippine and German national tournaments taking place in March while the tournaments for France, Great Britain, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan take place in April and the North American championship runs concurrent to the others, extending into May. If this were the case, the world finals would be in early June. However, there may be more participating countries than in the previous year.

Within the time frame of the tournament, BT05 will be usable from the beginning, while EB01 will become available in late March, TD07 will become available in the tournament's second month, and BT08 will be made available during its third. BT09-onward will most likely not be usable before the end of the tournament, based on its late release date. This means that the major players during the Stand Up Challenge will likely be Dragonic Overlord The End, Majesty Lord Blaster, Scarlet Witch CoCo andGoddess of the Full Moon Tsukuyomi. Notably, Aqua Force is projected to have a very slim window to appear within; its first opportunity to take a tournament title will probably be at a stage when only trial decks are available.

April-July 2013: Cardfight!! Vanguard Team League
A worldwide triples tournament that will pit the strongest teams from different regions against one another to select for the globally strongest team. This tournament being confirmed as a global one strongly implies that the Stand Up Challenge is an international event. Due to the timing of the tournament, it appears that it will not interfere with the Stand Up Challenge Cup, possibly allowing for dual participation in both tournaments.

Note that Fighter's Road 2013 will be starting up in May and ending in July, concluding in the same timeframe as the Team League. This is similar to how the 2012 international cup and Fighter's Climax 2012 were structured, with WCS2012 starting up a month earlier but ending in the same month as FC2012.

BT05, EB01 and TD07 will all probably be available at the start of the Team League, with TD07 having the most room to be excluded. Within the first three months of the tournament, every set listed below with the probable exception of BT09 and definite exception of EB06 will be made available.

Booster Set Schedule
BT05: Awakening of Twin Blades
February 15/16/17 2013 - Sneak Preview
February 22nd, 2013 - Set Release
Will provide the opportunity for fighters to receive a The End playmat and Darkside Pegasus promo card. Reinforces Royal Paladin, Shadow Paladin, Kagerou, Dark Irregulars, Pale Moon, Nova Grappler, Oracle Think Tank and introduces Murakumo and Neo Nectar.

EB01: Comic Style Volume 1
March 22/23/24 2013 - Sneak Preview
March 29th, 2013 - Set Release
Reinforces Royal Paladin, Murakumo, Pale Moon, Nova Grappler, Kagerou and Megacolony, and introduces the Exculpate the Blaster promo card for Royal Paladin.

TD07: Descendants of the Marine Emperor
April 19th, 2013 - Deck Release
Introduces Aqua Force to the English pro scene.

BT08: Blue Storm Armada
April 26/27/28 2013 - Sneak Preview
May 3rd, 2013 - Set Release
Reinforces Aqua Force, Neo Nectar, Narukami, Great Nature, Dimension Police and Tachikaze.

BT09: Clash of the Knights and Dragons
June 21/22/23 2013 - Sneak Preview
June 28th - Set Release
An all-star set which reinforces Gold Paladin, Narukami, Aqua Force, Angel Feather, Oracle Think Tank, Nova Grappler, Murakumo, Great Nature, Pale Moon, Royal Paladin and Shadow Paladin.

EB06: Dazzling Divas
July 19/20/21 2013 - Sneak Preview
July 26th, 2013 - Set Release
An extra booster dedicated wholly to Bermuda Triangle, much in the style of EB02: Banquet of Divas. The set will feature Eternal Idol, Pacifica as a major card, succeeding Top Idol, Pacifica of EB02.

Cardfight TV: Granblue vs Narukami

The Granblue face the Dragons of Just and the Narukami.

Cardfight TV: Granblue vs. Shadow Paladin

 The Paladins of Darkness come for Cardfight TV and his Granblue! Who will win?

EXCLUSIVE: Cardfight Vanguard World Championship Final Match!

There are no subs for this but you can see the cards. This was posted by Busiroad officially. ENJOY!!

Yugioh Card of the Week: 12/9/12

Continuing with GX once again we will now enter the second week of December with today's featured card. Today I will be covering non other then Armed Dragon Lvl 10. The previous forms of this card were released way back in Soul of the Duelist.  Level cards in general were usual unpopular just because there were either too hard to summon or that the gimmick itself wasn't that interesting during the time they were introduced. Chazz from Yugioh GX helped made them a little more popular after using them quite in a bit in the show and taking the Armed Dragons to the next level.  When the card was released in the real card game it became one of the most sought after cards because of his effect and sweet design.  Its effect allows you to be able to destroy all your opponents' face-up monsters with the cost of discarding a card so it became one of the most used cards in peoples' decks. The previous forms of this card were only able to destroy all monsters that were less then or equal to their atk points so when Lvl 10 was created it completely dominated the fields.  Since then there have been several reprints so getting this card shouldn't be too hard at this point so it can be a great addition to anyone's decks. Keep in mind you would need the weaker forms of this card to play it but if that doesn't bother you I say its worth using it.

SPECIAL: Learn How to Play Cardfight Vanguard

Here is a special tutorial from Busiroad themselves on how to play the Cardfight Vanguard game. Check it out.

Cardfight TV: War of Cray Tourney - GRANBLUE vs DARK IRREGULARS

  Cardfight TV continues into the second round of the War of Cray Tournament. This time ... he faces off against the player known as Just.  We have undead pirates vs demons .... It's Granblue vs Dark Irregulars on a new Cardfight TV.

Yugioh Card of the Week: 12/2/12

The holiday times are coming but that doesn't stop me for bringing you the latest Yugioh Card of the Week. This week I will be covering another card used during GX called Cyber Dragon.  This is yet another fan favorite card that all players alike have in their decks.  Cyber Dragon was used by Zane Truesdale in the anime to perform fusion summonings in several different occasions.  In the real card game it can be useful for just about anything.  Its ability to allow you to summon this card when you have no monsters while your opponent has at least one can really help you out a tight squeeze. Not to mention its 2100 atk can give a pretty good advantage over your opponent. This card has also been used in several different tournament level decks so for those who haven't taken a look at this card I'd say check it out.

Yugioh Card of the Week: 11/25/12

After a break for Thanksgiving we return for yet another installment of Yugioh Card of the Week.  Previous weeks I covered cards that were flawed in the card game or ones that haven't become real cards.  This time I am going to be mentioning a good card that many people who enjoy playing Elemental Heroes in their decks. Today's card is Elemental Hero Neos.  It was mainly used in the show by Jaden for summoning Neos fusions. Neos is quite a powerful card that can actually be used in any deck but mostly Elemental Hero based decks.  It can be used in many different strategies such as fusions or even when you just want to summon powerhouses to the field.  I personally used this in several of my decks and I highly recommend it if you haven't used it before. 

Yugioh Card of the Week: 11/15/12

Its that time again and lets get this rolling. In this next installment of the Yugioh Card of the Week we will be moving away from the first season and go to Duel Academy.  For those who don't know Duel Academy revolves around the second anime series Yu-gi-oh GX.  Anyways the card I have chosen for this week is the Spell Card Philosopher's Stone- Sabatiel. No I am not talking about Full Metal Alchemist but what I am talking about is the card that Jaden used against Kagemaru.  This card's effect allows players to add a card from their deck when a winged kuriboh is sent to the graveyard and then its sent back to the hand. The drawback though is that you must pay half of your life points per usage however after you use the card three times another effect triggers.  What happens on the fourth time of activation is that you will be able to select one of your face up monsters and it will gain atk points multiplied by the number of your opponent's monsters so the life point cost is worth the cost.  This card has yet to be released in the TCG or the OCG although I think it may have a chance with some minor tweaking.

Yugioh Card of the Week: 11/13

With another week passed we will now go into the third Yugioh Card of the Week.  This time we will be covering a card that has not and will not be in the real tcg card game. Today's card is Timeaus and he was one of the three dragons that played a key role in the Dartz arc of the original anime series.  As much as this card was cool as well as the other two dragons we will not see real card forms of these at any time.  They were used only for plot convenience and make no sense to be made into the TCG or even the OCG. The Seal of Orichalcos may have turned into a real card but that doesn't mean that these dragons will too.  If Konami decided to make these they might as well even make the armor cards that Rafael and the rest of Dartz's minions used but we all know for sure that is not going to happen.

Cardfight Vanguard Card of the Week 10/27/12

CARDFIGHT VANGUARD CARD OF THE WEEK

MONTH 1, WEEK 4 & 5
Grade 3: Swordsman of Explosive Flames, Palamedes
Royal Paladin Clan


  We end the first month honoring Vanguard Cards with the first Grade 3 to be inducted into CFV Card of the Week. Now, I am sure this surprises many. Since we have been hitting the Royal Paladins all month, I am sure they would have figured that Gancelot or  Soul Saver Dragon or King of Knight Alfred but no. Wanted something a little different. Palamedes is a beautiful card in the Royal Paladin Clan that works really well.
   
   Oddly enough, Palamedes is the only salamander in the Royal Paladin Clan.

   Effects:
 
              If you have 2 or more Royal Paladin Vanguards & rear guards , this card will get +3000 attack till the end of that battle. This is good because Royal Paladins main attraction to the deck is that the units really like to work together in multiple ways. Also, this unit's effect can be used as both Vanguard or rear guard. Making this unit a strong rear guard to have in any place on the battlefield.


Hope you enjoyed this first month of CFV card of the week. Next month, another clan & a Grade 0. Any suggestions, ideas? feel free to email me at francisco.k.rodriguez@gmail.com.

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Yugioh Card of the Week: 10/27/12

Yugioh Card of the Week: 10/27/12

So in the second Yugioh Card of the week we will be exploring the card called Card of Sanctity.  This card roots back to the original battle city where many different players used it.  It was mainly used by Yugi and Kaiba but Pegasus did use it once as well.  This card's effect was very simple and usefull.  It basically allowed you to draw until six cards so it was a very benefial card.  However Konami decided to do something very evil to this card.  When it finally got to the real card game they nerfed it so badly that only decks that revolve around removing or having less cards in the hand. In other words what could have been a staple card for almost every deck has now become a gimmick card that few people use.