Dragon Week Day 4: Blue-Eyes White Dragon

You know, the one from Yu-Gi-Oh? Possibly the most well known monster in the game? 

Anyway, Blue-Eyes was at one point, (at least in my neighborhood) the monster that everyone wanted to have! I mean, it was almost a myth until last year, when I happily received a Yu-Gi-Oh structure deck named "Saga of Blue-Eyes White Dragon."

Then, Blue-Eyes changed from a myth to beast with mythical power. He absolutely crushed my opponents in the early days of having that deck and after some modifications to the deck, he became easier to summon with the addition of two more Blue-Eyes.

Now, enough about its story and how much it means to me, let's learn about the card. 

Blue-Eyes is a normal monster, so no abilities. However, it has a whopping 3000 ATK and a fair 2500 DEF. It's incredibly high ATK stat makes a scary card to have to attack. Unfortunately, besides its high attack, it doesn't have any special abilities of its own. The combos you can create are awesome, though! Here are some now!

Favorite Combo:

Use the XYZ monster Wind-Up Zenmaister's ability to trigger Maiden with Eyes of Blue's ability (when she is targeted by a card, she summons Blue-Eyes from the hand, deck or graveyard) and poof! Blue-Eyes appears!

Second Favorite Combo:

Use Dragon Shrine to send Blue-Eyes to the graveyard, then call it back using Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon's ability (Summons a dragon monster from your graveyard once per turn).

These are the combos that I use the most! Try them out and tell me what you think!

I think Blue-Eyes is an awesome dragon to have, both for its story and for the sick 3-card combos you can pull off using it!

Dragon Week Day 3: Schwarzschild Dragon

Now we're jumping into a dragon from Cardfight: Vanguard! (I told you all dragons would be welcome!) Now, CF: Vanguard has some pretty sick dragons and I'll be talking about one that is truly unforgettable!

Schwarzschild Dragon is actually part of  a ride chain, one that starts with the Grade 0 monster, Micro-Hole Dracokid, then rides to Grade 1 Gravity Ball Dragon and Grade 2 Gravity Collapse Dragon, finishing, of course, with Schwarzchild Dragon. Like most ride chains, this one has several countermeasures to prevent Gradelock. (If you ride the Grade 1, you can search the top 5 cards of your deck for the Grade 2 or Grade 3 of the ride chain)

However, Schwarzchild really excels in the realm of his Persona Blast! It's Limit Break 4, by the way. By Counter-Blasting 3 cards and discarding a Shwarzschild Dragon from your hand, you can increase your Vanguard Schwarzchild Dragon's power by 10000 and its critical by 1! That's not all, though! You can also lock up to three of your opponent's Rear-Guard units! In one turn, you can effectively cripple your opponent's offense for next turn and wear down their defense with Schwarzchild Dragon's punishing attack!

Even though the Persona Blast requires a bit of luck to pull off, when you do get it off it can be devastating! I would highly recommend getting some Schwarzchild Dragons from yugiohmint.com! (They carrot them for quite cheap and as singles)

I love talking about the mighty Schwarzchild Dragon and its ride chain, so leave a comment below if you feel like it! 

Dragon Week Day 2: Blue Sky Knights

For day 2, I'm  going to talk a for a bit about monsters from Buddyfight, more specifically, Dragon World.

The Blue Sky Knights (BSK) are an interesting subtype of Dragon World. Unlike regular Armordragons, their power and defense are surprisingly low. On the bright side, they cost very little gauge, so you can spend more gauge on spells, impacts and items. Their critical numbers are not spectacular, either.

However, their main gimmick is somewhat simple, but incredible useful. The BSK use all manner of ways to increase the player's life points. BSK Drum Bunker Dragon gets you one life when he attacks, Bonblade Dragon gives you one life when he enters the field and Crimson Arrow Dragon gives you two life when he enters the field when there are two or more BSK in the drop zone.

The Blue Sky Knights even have an equip card to go with them! It's called Dragonblade, Dragowing! It starts with a critical of two and costs one gauge to equip. It also gains a critical every time you gain life, to a maximum total of three critical.

As you can see, the BSK are not the most powerful subtype of Dragon World, but they play great as a sort of hybrid tank/rush type of deck. The Blue Sky Knights are a deck I would love to build, given the time and the money!

I hope you enjoyed my analysis!

Dragon Week Day 1: Salamence

To kick off Dragon Week, I thought I'd do a little throwback to Pokémon Week and talk about my Salamence-focused Pokémon TCG deck. Just a heads-up before I say any more about it, this deck does not fit in the Limited Format, I'm purely playing this deck for fun within a small group of friends.

                            

Ah, okay, so, in order to get Salamence to the field, we have to evolve him first from Bagon, then Shelgon. This means it needs to be easy to find one of Salamence's lower stage evolutions, which isn't hard because the deck is draw-heavy. I chose three Bagon, two Shelgon and one Salamence (I would have put another Salamence into the deck but I didn't have another one).

Next, let's see what types this deck is running, shall we? The Salamence deck is Fire and Normal-typed, focusing more on the Fire side of the deck. For Fire Pokémon, I like to run some Stage 1s like: Rapidash, Charmeleon and Macargo. For the Normal types, I like  Delcatty, Raticate and, of course, the Stage 2 Salamence.

Now, because of Salamence's unique attack, Dragon Finish, I need to put both Fire and Water type energy cards in my deck. I tend to run a ratio of about 1:1 for energy types. However, even though his attack costs 4 energies, 2 Fire, 2 Water, it is worth the cost. Th player I given a choice, they can discard 2 Fire energies to deal 100 damage to the defending Pokémon OR they can discard 2 Water energies to deal 100 damage to a Pokémon on your opponent's bench! This makes Salamence twice as useful, even though he has to have a steady stream of energies coming to him.

Now, as you might be able to tell, the Stage 1s are there only as backup and protection for Salamence. This is what makes the deck so risky and exciting! It's a constant race with my opponent rose if I can get Salamence out first or if they can defeat me before I get him powered up!

I hope you enjoyed the first day of Dragon Week! Check back tomorrow for Day 2!

The Week of Dragons Begins!

Hello, this week, we have another weeklong event on Creative Wargaming! Much like, Pokémon Week, there will be one post per day, each focusing on a different card, combo or miniature. 

Unlike Pokémon Week, however, the topic is a bit more broad. All dragons will be welcome in Dragon Week! 

Well, what are you waiting for? Let's start Dragron Week!

Perfect Pack 01: Golden Buddy Pack!

Today marks the release of Future Card Buddyfight's first Perfect Pack: Golden Buddy Pack! I'm super excited about this, even though I've only been a member of the Buddyfight community for a short time. How fortunate is it, then, that yugiohmint.com carries the new Pack! (Make sure you check them out and pick up a few packs or even a box!) Anyway, the cool thing about GBP is that every card in the set  is a RR card or higher and it has a ton of Buddyrare monsters! I'm stoked about this being released and for the new episode of Buddyfight on YouTube, tonight! As Buddyfight's main Magic World user, Tetsuya, would say, "Peace out, yo!"

Quick Sale!

Hurry and check out Yugioh Mint! Click the banner and order from them before it's too late! Seriously though, yugiohmint.com is having a sale for Creative Wargaming readers that use the coupon code war at checkout! You get 10% off your order and $5 off shipping! However, this deal will only last for a few days (until Valentine's day) so be quick about it!

New Sponsor

All right, if you haven't seen the new banner up at the top of this page, I have a new sponsor. The store is called Yugioh Mint and they really do have an impressive collection of cards. Check out their website at yugiohmint.com or click on the banner to be taken there directly! They focus on Yugioh and Cardfight: Vanguard cards, but they also carry a bit of the Pokemon TCG, Magic: the Gathering, Future Card Buddyfight and Weiss Schwarz, which makes me very happy because I play most of those games. Besides those, they carry some great gaming supplies, like card sleeves, dice and playmats.

I will be ordering from them soon and so should you!

XY Primal Clash!

Hey, everyone, since I've been playing an awful lot of the Pokemon TCG lately, I'm super excited for the release of Pokemon: XY Primal Clash! This set features the mighty Groudon and Kyogre and also the Primal Reversions of these awesome legendaries! They released today, so go check them out!

Almost Stolen

( I wrote this post a week and a half ago, but I'm going to keep it in the perspective of the day after it happened) Well, I had a bit of a scare yesterday morning. At around midnight, my family's van got "rummaged through" by what we think were a small group of teenagers. The bulk of what was taken was my Magic and Cardfight Vanguard decks. (They were in there because the main people I play with live a considerable distance away and that way I don't have to load them up every time.

Anyway, the scumbag theives took off with my cards, only to realize that nothing in there has any resale value. So, they ended up tossing the bag into my neighbor's driveway only half a block down the street. I ended up getting all of my cards back, undamaged, and even got to play a game of Cardfight Vanguard this afternoon, mostly thanks to my neighbor. I guess everything turned out all right! So, there's an interesting wargame story that just happened to me!