Card Review : Divine Fowl King Alector

Hey guys! As requested by the readers out there, I'm going to do a card review about the latest promo card released in the [Yu-Gi-Oh! R Volune 5 ] comic book! The card reviewed today is.... [Divine Fowl King Alector]! So sit back and relax while reading!




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[神禽王アレクトール]
[Divine Fowl King Alector]
Attribute: Wind , Type: Winged Beast
Effect Monster , 6 stars , Atk 2400/Def 2000
If your opponent controls 2 or more face-up monsters with the same Attribute, you can Special Summon this card from your Hand. Once per turn select 1 face-up card on the field. Negate the effect(s) of the selected card during this turn. Only 1 [Divine Fowl King Alector] can be face-up on the field at the same time.


On watching the stats about this card. It has a decent 2400 attack strength for a level 6 monster. And also a much more superior defense of 2000 rather than the 1000 defense of the [Emperor] monsters. And by being a level 6 monster, it will be a cinch to normal summon this monster with 1 monster sacrifice! Hmmm, guessed that I should change my way about [Normal Summon] or [Sacrifice]... Okay! This card can be Advanced Summoned quite easily by Releasing cards like [Treeborn Frog] or [Dandelion].

For this card being a Wind attribute as well as a Winged Beast type allows a couple of combos to perform with it. The Wind attribute part allows this card to be a ingredient to special summon monsters like [Dark Simorgh]. While the Winged Beast type allows this card to be released for the condition to use [God Bird Attack] to destroy 2 cards on the field in the case of an "Emergency" LOL!

Well about the effects for this card. The first effect about able to Special summon this card from your hand when your opponent controls 2 or more monsters with the same attribute makes it easy for this condition to be fufilled! When your opponent activates cards like [Flames Of Demise] , [Scapegoat] , [Stray Lambs] or even [Inferno Reckless Summon] that will be able to swarm their own field with monsters of the same attribute. To be able to fufill the condition of special summoning your own [Divine Fowl King Alector] !

As for the second part of the effect for this card. Enabling this card to have the ability to negate a face-up card's effect on the field can be quite powerful at some situations. Even if the situations is about targetting your own cards on your own side of the field. Situations simliar like about targetting your own cards that can benefit you a whole lot will be like.... Targetting your own monsters like [God Beast King - Barbaros] which allows it to resume its enormous attack strength of 3000 points! Or another situation can be that you will be able to target [Beast God Machine King Barbaros UR] to allow it to actually inflict battle damage to your opponent's life points! (Do note that some of these ideas are actually suggested to me by some people that I know. I've compiled some of these information in this review =D)

Continuing on the second effect about [Divine Fowl King Alector] , using it to target cards that disallows you from using of your monsters to declare an attack against your opponent! Target cards like [Gravity Bind] , [Wall Of Revealing Light] , [Swords Of Revealing Light] , [Messenger Of Peace] or even allowing your monsters to revert back to their original positions from cards like [Level Limit - B] or [Level Limit - A]! Or even releasing yourself from lock effects like [Jinzo] or [Spell Canceller] , [Royal Decree] and so on so forth. Allowing you to continue your stunts with these card locking effects negated!

And for the third effect of this card. There can only be one [Divine Fowl King Alector] on the field at all times. This means that the early bird catches the worm! Whoever summons out [Divine Fowl King Alector] first will most probably get the upperhand earlier!

Well thats all for today people! Hope that this review is good enough! And also thanks to those people that provided me with ideas to complete this review! Okay then till next time to our next update! Goulian Signing Off~!

Thoughts On The Asian Championships 2008!

Hey all! Its been awhile again since we last updated! Well today was a day of fun and excitement! The Asian Championships held in Singapore were well planned and very organised. Much better than I had expected. Well before the tournaments were fired off... There was a side event about letting our local players pit their skills against the 4 foreign players from Taiwan , Korea , Malaysia and Hong Kong. Below are some pictures! Don't blame me if my camera skills are bad! =X




Taiwan Representative



Korea Representative



Malaysia Representative



Hong Kong Representative


Well lets hope that they had a great time in Singapore playing with our local players! There was really a very long queue today! All waiting to challenge the 4 representatives! LOL! Hope our local players also have their share of the excitement challenging them!

Well as for myself.. I got into the top 8 players for SG but did not get a chance to get into the top 4 placings. Only the top 4 placings will be able to play with the foreign players for the title of Asian Champion!
After all the fighting. It would seem that all 4 of our representatives managed to win their foreign opponents after a big struggle! Congratulations to them! And this year's Asian Champion is also from Singapore! Below are the pics for the prize giving session


Our Red Boy for today! Grats Sui Kai on getting 4th place in SG!


Grats Hong li on getting 3rd Place in SG! Smile man!


Grats Fish for 2nd place in SG! Great Job!


Grats Shi Fu for being 1st in SG!!!!!! Good For You!

Now for the Asian Championships..... You will see that its like the order is in reverse or something.. LOL!



4th in Asia! Shi Fu!



3rd in Asia! Fish!



2nd in Asia! Sui Kai!



1st IN ASIA! HONG LI! YOU'RE THE MAN!



And all the foreign players and our top 4 local players!


Well here is the decklist for my deck in this tournament! Was going to play [E-HERO Prismer] deck actually but.. Since Kenneth was helping me build deck too so, I decided to play our version of the [Emobc] deck! Think Baha also lent us some aura ar! LOL! At least made it to top 8 =X


Decksize : 41


Monsters : 19

1x Dark Magician Of Chaos
1x Envoy Of Hades - Gors
2x Dark Armed Dragon
2x Wicked Emperor Gaius
1x Sky Scourge - Norreras
2x Kycoo The Ghost Destroyer
1x Priestess Ohm
3x Knight Of The End
1x Sangan
2x Necro Guardner
1x Spirit Reaper
1x D-HERO Diskguy
1x Phantom Of Chaos

Magic : 14

2x Reinforcement Of The Army
2x Arms Hole
1x Monster Reborn
1x Golden Sacrophagus
1x Heavy Storm
1x Foolish Burial
1x Brain Control
1x Cyclone
1x Enemy Controller
2x D.D.R
1x Early Burial

Traps : 8

1x Crush Card Virus
1x Holy Barrier - Mirror Force
3x Dimension Imprisonment
1x Torrential Tribute
1x Karma Cut
1x Divine Wrath


Side Deck : 15

Monster : 5

1x White Horn Dragon
2x Cyber Dragon
1x E-HERO Prismer
1x D.D Crow

Magic : 3

1x Soul Exchange
2x Shrink

Traps : 7

1x Karma Cut
2x Limit Reverse
1x Dark Dimension Release
1x Divine Wrath
2x Solemn Judgement

Fusion : 3

3x Chimeratech Fortress Dragon

Well above here is my decklist for this Asia Tournament! Ain't that strong but if there are anymore ways that I can improve on this deck to make it better.. Do email us at duelsociety@gmail.com or just tag us at our Duel Chat! box on the right hand side of the blog! Thanks! Till then to another of our updates... Goulian Signing Off!

Card Review : Honest

Phew! Its been awhile since Duel Society last gave a review to the readers that visits this site! Sorry about that as we are still as busy as usual.. Cabaling that is! LOL! Anyway today's review will be on the cover card of [Light Of Destruction] ! The card is... [Honest] !




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[オネスト]
[Honest]
Attribute: Light , Type: Angel
Effect Monster, 4 stars, Atk 1100/Def 1900
During your main phase, you can return this face-up card from your side of the field to your hand. When a LIGHT Attribute monster you control battles, during the damage step, you can send this card from your hand to the graveyard to have your monster's attack points increased by your opponent's monster's attack points until the end phase of this turn.

Hmmm.. Onto seeing the stats of this card.. It ain't really a fighter but quite a defender because of the stats Atk 1100/Def 1900. Being able to defend against some monsters that can be quite a killer for your level 4 and below monsters. Such as... [Vorse Raider], [Raiou] , our famous [E-HERO Airman] and many more! And since being a 1100 attack points LIGHT attribute monster... It can be searched out by [Sangan] and also being able to be special summoned out onto the field by [Shining Angel] and [Calling Nova].

Lets get onto the first effect of this awesome monster. Being able to return this face-up card from your side of the field to your hand might be quite useful sometimes. At least you'll know that you will be able to use the second effect no matter what happens! Unless your opponent has itchy hands and placed cards like [Divine Wrath] or [Mind Crash] into their decks just to counter your [Honest]!

As for the second effect of this monster. Whenever your LIGHT attribute monster battles. You can send this card from your hand to the graveyard to have the opponent's monster's attack points added onto your monster's attack points! As most of our decks are being splashed with quite alot of LIGHT Attribute monsters such as... [Cyber Dragon] , [E-HERO Prismer] , [Lightning Emperor Zaborg], [Light Emperor Kreis] , [Freed The Brave Wanderer] and the newly released [LightLord] monsters!

This card allows you to be able to fend off against any monsters that has incredibly high attack points such as.... [Five God Dragon] , [Dark Magician Of Chaos] , [Blue Eyes White Dragon] and so on so forth. And of course you can also use this card's effect on low attack points monsters to get their attack points added onto your monster just to go in for the kill!

And 1 combo that is quite impossible to do unless you have extremely powerful luck will be like this...

Example

Your [Cyber Dragon] Battles

Chain 1:You Activate [Limiter Removal]
Chain 2:You Activate [Honest]
Chain 3:You Activate [Honest]
Chain4:You Activate [Honest]

Conclusion: You get a very big fat [Cyber Dragon] that most probably will smack your opponent upside down and senseless! But this is just a thought! It might and might not happen LOL!
And yes... Whoever activated [Honest] effect first will gain the most Attack points at the end of the resolution. Always remember that Chain 1 will resolve the last. Thus the [Honest] that was activated in Chain 1 will gain the most attack points. Ouch?!

Okay thats the end for the review today! Lets hope that we will have more time to bring you readers out there even more reviews in times to come! Till then to our next update! Goulian Signing off!

Full List Of The Banlist (March 2008 - September 2008)

Yo yo everybody! I know its a little late but anyways.. Here is the full list of the banlist that has taken effect from the 1st of March 2008! The list here is to clear confusion among the players out there. So sit back and relax while you are scrolling down this list! =D


Banned Cards 「禁止カード」:
The Following Cards Cannot Be Placed Inside The Deck


Victory Dragon 「ヴィクトリー・ドラゴン」
Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End 「混沌帝龍　－終焉の使者－」
Chaos Sorcerer 「カオス・ソーサラー」
Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning 「カオス・ソルジャー　－開闢の使者－」
Sinister Serpent 「キラー・スネーク」
Witch of the Black Forest 「黒き森のウィッチ」
Thousand-Eyes Restrict 「サウザンド・アイズ・サクリファイス」
Cyber Jar 「サイバーポッド」
Makyura the Destructor 「処刑人－マキュラ」
Tsukuyomi 「月読命」
Cyber-Stein 「デビルフランケン」
Tribe-Infecting Virus 「同族感染ウィルス」
Fiber Jar 「ファイバーポッド」
Magical Scientist 「魔導サイエンティスト」
Yata-Garasu 「八汰烏」
Magician of Faith 「聖なる魔術師」**
Breaker the Magical Warrior 「魔導戦士　ブレイカー」**
Mirage of Nightmare 「悪夢の蜃気楼」
Delinquent Duo 「いたずら好きな双子悪魔」
Temple of the Kings 「王家の神殿」
Painful Choice 「苦渋の選択」
The Forceful Sentry 「強引な番兵」
Pot of Greed 「強欲な壺」
Change of Heart 「心変わり」
Raigeki 「サンダー・ボルト」
Butterfly Dagger - Elma 「蝶の短剣－エルマ」
Graceful Charity 「天使の施し」
Harpie's Feather Duster 「ハーピィの羽根帚」
Dark Hole 「ブラック・ホール」
Last Will 「遺言状」
Confiscation 「押収」
Snatch Steal 「強奪」
Metamorphosis 「突然変異」
Imperial Order 「王宮の勅命」
Exchange of the Spirit 「現世と冥界の逆転」
Sixth Sense 「第六感」
Call of the Haunted 「リビングデッドの呼び声」**
Time Seal 「刻の封印」
Last Turn 「ラストバトル！」
Ring of Destruction 「破壊輪」

Restricted Cards 「制限カード」:
Only 1 Copy Of These Cards Are Allowed To Be Placed Into The Deck


D. D. Warrior Lady 「異次元の女戦士」
Elemental Hero Stratos 「Ｅ・ＨＥＲＯエアーマン」
Sangan 「クリッター」
Dark Magician of Chaos 「混沌の黒魔術師」
Spirit Reaper 「魂を削る死霊」
Dandelion 「ダンディライオン」
Twin-Headed Behemoth 「ドル・ドラ」
Raiza the Storm Monarch 「風帝ライザー」**
Night Assailant 「深淵の暗殺者」
Neo-Spacian Grand Mole 「Ｎ･グランモール」
Exodia the Forbidden One 「封印されしエクゾディア」
Right Leg of the Forbidden One 「封印されし者の右足」
Right Arm of the Forbidden One 「封印されし者の右腕」
Left Leg of the Forbidden One 「封印されし者の左足」
Left Arm of the Forbidden One 「封印されし者の左腕」
Marshmallon 「マシュマロン」
Envoy of Hades - Gors 「冥府の使者ゴーズ」
Morphing Jar 「メタモルポット」
Green Baboon, Defender of the Forest 「森の番人グリーン・バブーン」
Treeborn Frog 「黄泉ガエル」
Destiny Hero - Disk Commander 「Ｄ－ＨＥＲＯディスクガイ」
Card Trooper 「カードガンナー」
Snipe Hunter 「スナイプ・ストーカー」
Heavy Storm 「大嵐」
Overload Fusion 「オーバーロード・フュージョン」
Mystical Space Typhoon 「サイクロン」
Advanced Ritual Art 「高等儀式術」**
Dimension Fusion 「次元融合」
Scapegoat 「スケープ・ゴート」
United We Stand 「団結の力」
Chain Strike 「連鎖爆撃」
Card Destruction 「手札抹殺」
Premature Burial 「早すぎた埋葬」
Swords of Revealing Light 「光の護封剣」
Monster Reborn 「死者蘇生」**
Giant Trunade 「ハリケーン」
Gold Sarcophagus 「封印の黄金櫃」
Future Fusion 「未来融合－フューチャー・フュージョン」
Limiter Removal 「リミッター解除」
Level Limit - Area B 「レベル制限Ｂ地区」
Megamorph 「巨大化」
Nobleman of Crossout 「抹殺の使徒」**
Brain Control 「洗脳－ブレイン・コントロール－」
Smashing Ground 「地砕き」
Fissure 「地割れ」
Ojama Trio 「おジャマトリオ」**
Gravity Bind 「グラヴィティ・バインド－超重力の網－」
Torrential Tribute 「激流葬」
Crush Card Virus 「死のデッキ破壊ウイルス」
Mirror Force 「聖なるバリア －ミラーフォース－」
Ultimate Offering 「血の代償」
Ceasefire 「停戦協定」
Mind Crush 「マインドクラッシュ」
Magic Cylinder 「魔法の筒」
Trap Dustshoot 「ダスト・シュート」
The Transmigration Prophecy 「転生の予言」
Wall of Revealing Light 「光の護封壁」

Semi-Restricted Cards 「準制限カード」:
Only 2 Copies Of These Cards Are Allowed To Be Placed Into The Deck


Manticore of Darkness 「暗黒のマンティコア」
Mask of Darkness 「闇の仮面」
Cyber Dragon 「サイバー・ドラゴン」**
Necroface 「ネクロフェイス」**
Light And Darkness Dragon 「光と闇の竜 」**
Destiny Hero - Malicious 「Ｄ－ＨＥＲＯディアボリック・ガイ」
Reinforcement of the Army 「増援」
Foolish Burial 「おろかな埋葬」**
Book of Moon 「月の書」**
Mage Power 「魔導師の力」**
Magical Stone Excavation 「魔法石の採掘」**
Royal Decree 「王宮のお触れ」

No Longer Restricted 「準制限」:
3 Copies Of These Cards Are Allowed Into The Deck


Apprentice Magician 「見習い魔術師」**
Jinzo 「人造人間－サイコ・ショッカー」**
Red Gadget 「レッド・ガジェット」**
Yellow Gadget 「イエロー・ガジェット」**
Green Gadget 「グリーン・ガジェット」**
Pot of Avarice 「貪欲な壺」**
Creature Swap 「強制転移」**
Reckless Greed 「無謀な欲張り」**


Legends:

** = Newly Added Cards.



Okay guys! Thats all for the latest banlist for March 2008 till September 2008! Be sure to tune in more to us for more exciting updates! Again sorry for the late posting of this banlist! Till next time! Goulian Signing Off~!

Thoughts on Banlist Part 2

Okay. Since everyone is doing this already, I guess I shld give my 2 cents about this new banlist.

Banned:
Magician of Faith 「聖なる魔術師」
- Personally, I felt that not many people were really using this card. Konami probably didn't want people to abuse the Pot of Avarice cycle again and again. A card that came back for awhile and went back into the list again.
Breaker the Magical Warrior 「魔導戦士　ブレイカー」
- It was really a good card. A card that came back for awhile and went back into the list again.
Call of the Haunted 「リビングデッドの呼び声」
- This is a good card because it can chain to other cards. But its still a trap and is of course slower then [Premature Burial] . Not much people probably saw this ban coming. Its still a good card overall, 1st turn [Destiny Draw] or [Knight of the End] a [D-Hero Diskguy] into the graveyard, set [Call of the Haunted]? I guess we won't see this combo for awhile. But nevertheless, we probably won't need this card for revival purposes anymore. - Refer to Monster Reborn.

Restricted to 1:
Raiza the Storm Monarch 「風帝ライザー」
- It didn't make it into the previous list as expected and now it finally did. I'm still wondering why they restricted this and not [Caius the Shadow Monarch]. Konami sure is screw loose.
Advanced Ritual Art 「高等儀式術」
- So sad Demise decks! LOL
Monster Reborn 「死者蘇生」
- Now this is the reason why I said we won't need [Call of the Haunted]. There is definitely something wrong with Konami for unbanning this card. Haven't they forgottten how badly this card was abused? With [Call of the Haunted] banned ,even your opponent can't chain cards to save their own monsters! Well, unless you negate it with something... Now our EMOBC decks are now even more gayer! Somebody slap Konami for unbanning this!
Nobleman of Crossout 「抹殺の使徒」
- Since [Magician of Faith] is gone, not many will play this anymore. Unless u hate face down monsters.
Ojama Trio 「おジャマトリオ」
- No more abuse wif Just Desserts and burn!

Restricted to 2:
Cyber Dragon 「サイバー・ドラゴン」
I'm quite used to playing 2 copies of this already. It would only probably affect power bond decks.
Necroface 「ネクロフェイス」
- The infinite life deck is going to be finite!
Light And Darkness Dragon 「光と闇の竜 」
- Finally this card, I thought it was going to be restricted to 1. Oh well, 2 is still rather gay.
Foolish Burial 「おろかな埋葬」
- Why is this even here?
Book of Moon 「月の書」
- Ok cool. Abuse L&DD even with 2?
Mage Power 「魔導師の力」
- Gem Beasts just got bigger! Other than that, not much people play this card either.
Magical Stone Excavation 「魔法石の採掘」
- Omg no DS! Dun abuse this card again! Anyway, with this card to 2, Diamond Dude decks can be much faster.

No longer restricted :
3 copies per deck allowed:
Apprentice Magician 「見習い魔術師」
- Since theres no more Breaker....
U still can abuse this as a searcher, for Old Vindicative Magician or Guiding hand of Phoenix, Cyrstal Seer or simply for tribute folders.
Jinzo 「人造人間－サイコ・ショッカー」
- Ever since it became 2, not much people played this either. Mabe their preparing for LODT?
Red Gadget 「レッド・ガジェット」
Yellow Gadget 「イエロー・ガジェット」
Green Gadget 「グリーン・ガジェット」
- All 3 gadgets were not really powerful after the entire Chimeratech Fortess Dragon thingy.
Pot of Avarice 「貪欲な壺」
- Yay. MMPT anyone? Dun DD. Crow me! T_T
Creature Swap 「強制転移」
- Nice card! Search engine decks are now much gayer.
Reckless Greed 「無謀な欲張り」
- Draw 6 and skip 2 draw phrases? I'd like to abuse this card greatly, but how hard is it to actually draw all 3 at the same time?

Ok, thats basically my thoughts on this list. I feel that its going to be one of the worse lists ever.
They didn't touch
- E.Hero Prismer ( Look at Colin's deck for abuse )
- Dark Armed Dragon
- Arms Hole
- Magician of Black Chaos
but wif Monster Reborn around, it isn't very safe to throw MOBC or Diskguy with Knight of the End anymore... =(
Which also means, we'll be seeing more of EMOBC decks! =D

I hope the new Synchro monsters will change our game more than this stupid banlist!