American Football

So hey guys, it's been a long time since I last post. Today I'll be sharing with you my favourite sport American Football also known as Gridiron Football. Even though American Football is not in my country, I still love this awesome sport as it requires both brains and brawn. I'm not saying that the other sports do not require, but rather this sport emphasises equally on both as the players need to have strategies to win the opponent teams and speaking of opponent teams, there are different methods of scoring and each type of scoring gives you a different number of points. So allow me to go through the number of points each type of method is awarded.
Method Name: Touchdown
Points Awarded: 6
Description: This is the most common way of gaining points in American Football. This is when the offense team tries to advance through the defense team side of the field to the end zone. However, there are also such instances where the defense team manage to get the ball from the opponent and rush for a touchdown(This is call an interception).
Method Name: Field Goal
Points Awarded: 3
Description: This is an alternate way of scoring where the special team comes in. This method is more situational which it usually happens on the fourth down, where the team is in need of getting the points.
Method Name: PAT
Points Awarded: 1 or 2
Description: Point after touchdown(PAT for short) is a type of scoring method that happens after a touchdown(the name says it all). The amount of points gain depends on the method used. If a field goal is done for PAT, 1 point would be awarded to the team(7 points total including touchdown) again  the special team is used. However, the team can attempt another touchdown, this would award the team 2 points.
Method Name: Safety
Points Awarded: 2
Description: This is a rare method of gaining points. This method happens when a player causes a ball to be dead on their own end zone and the point is awarded to the opposing team(usually the defensive).
So now you know the different methods of scoring, now we will be talking about the types of teams in football. In a football team, there are 3 sub-teams in it. The first is the offensive team which aims to score points against the other team's defensive team. The second is the defensive team which as it name suggests, is to prevent the offensive team from scoring touchdowns and try to make a turnover for ball possession. The third and final is the special team. This team specialises in field goal and also trying to gain possession on the field. That's not all! Each team also consist of players with different positions as football is a game where a single player specialises in one aspect. Hence, people who maybe good in one thing but not the other might like football. I'll be covering the positions in the three different teams another time!
If you guys are interested in learning the game, you guys can watch NFL(National Football League, the official league for American Football in America) and NCAA(College Football) although the rules might be different in little ways. Also, for anime lovers out there, there's also an anime for you guys called Eyeshield 21. I believe these are the ways that can help you guys learn football. In addition to American football, there's also Australian Football League, Canadian Football League and Arena Football League). I will talk about these different variations as time comes.

Heroic Quasar of the past

Ah, nothing better than anothet great OTK streak from Shooting Quasar Dragon again! Welcome back guys it's YGO-Duel Here and today I will be talking about Hero Quasar deck. Basically, this deck abuses the Future Fusion to bring out Quasar! How? Well there a few things you need to know. This deck is basically dead now I just wanna share with you guys what people say when they say HERO Quasar deck. Steps: Firstly, use Future Fusion, reveal Escuridao sending Any E.HERO and Blackwing - Zephyros the Elite from your deck to the grave. Then, bounce Future Fusion and special summon Zephyros via its own effect taking 400 Life Points. Next activate Future Fusion again, reveal Escuridao sending another E.HERO and a Plaguespreader Zombie to the graveyard. Then, used Plaguespreader Zombie to SP itself using its own effect. Now tune the Plaguespreader Zombie with Zephyrus to Synchro Summon Brionac! Use Brio's effect ditch a card, bounce Future Fusion. Activate it, reveal Escuridao again, this time send any E.HERO and Level Eater to the graveyard. Then use Brionac's effect again ditching a card and bouncing FF again. Activate FF, reveal Gaia this time round, sending any E.HERO and Dandylion to the grave. Dandy effects activates SS 2 Fluff tokens. Repeat the previous 2 steps but this time send any E.HERO and Spore to the grave. Then banish Dandylion SS spore via its own effect. Then tune Spore(Now level 4) with one fluff tokens for T.G. hyper Librarian. Then repeat the Brio loop again sending a E.HERO and Glow-Up Bulb this time. SS Glow-Up Bulb via own effect, tune Glow-Up Bulb with the last Fluff token to get Formula Synchron. Drawing 2 cards thanks to Librarian and Formula Synchron. Now SS Level Eater by "eating" Brio's level down(Brio now level 5). Now tune Formula with T.G Librarian and Brio to summon out Quasar. Attack twice with Quasar(4000 x 2 = 8000) Weakness: Though this deck is strong it is pretty much dead with this new format. With Brio, FF and Glow-Up banned, this deck cannot be worked out at all which is probably why Konami banned them...) Alright this ends my Deck Strategy for Yugioh today!

Return to Ravnica!!!

Yes guys it's me YGO-Duels and today I'll be covering about the upcoming set of Magic: The Gathering! As it names implies yes the upcoming set will be Return to Ravnica! For all those old school magic players out there es Ravnica will be back! This time instead of the old block-splits of the 10 Guilds, 4-4-3 it will instead be 5-5-10. Which means Return to Ravnica will feature 5 Guilds, while Gatecrash(After RTR) will have another 5 Guilds and Sinker(The last set in the block of Return to Ravnica) will feature all 10 Guilds while it is quite a small set itself. What makes me excited is that Return to Ravnica's pre-release event will be different from other pre-release event but similar to the Mirrodin Besieged in which attendees who attend to the Pre-release Event must choose a Guild(Which in Mirrodin Besieged case, its a faction). And then you will get the following: 5 Return to Ravnica Packs, 1 Guild Pack on a base on the Guild you choose, 1 Promo Pre-Release Card, 1 Guild Spin-Down Life Counter, 1 Guild Sticker, 1 Guild Invitation from Guild Leader, And a Prerelease challenge card! And Players will be able to use those pre-release cards before the actual Release! Like I said before in RTR there will be 5 cards and these are the 5 cards that will be in Return to Ravnica: Azorious(White/Blue) Rakdos(Black/Red) Selesnya(Green/White) Golgari(Black/Green) Izzet(Blue/Red) And here's all 10 Guild Symbols!

I hope I'll be able to attend the pre-release event as Ravnica is my favourite blog and if I'm able to join the Guilds I'll be joining Izzet as it's my favourite Guild. Azorious seems decent too. I have a 70% chance of going to this prelease. For Gatecrash chances are 30% I'll be able to attend unless it's in January or something or better yet in December! The place I'm going for the pre-release cost $35. I hope you guys will attend the pre-release event or better yet have fun when attending it! The pre-release event will be on 29-September and 30-September! Hope to see you guys there. And if you guys need a place to know where will the Event be held at go to here and click on the events locator section!

MTG?

Yep it's me YGO Duel an I've decided to continue to play back Magic: The Gathering! Of course if you guys want to play MTG here are some things you may or need to know! Firstly, you are a Planeswalker a so-called Sorcerer that is on a battle against another Planeswalker on a Plane. Each player starts with 20 life points. You lose if you have one of these 3 conditions: 1) When you have 0 Life Point 2) When you have 10 Poison Counter 3) When you have no cards in your hand during your Draw Phase Alright let's skip to the Building a Deck Part. This is the video on how to play Magic The Gathering. Credit goes to WizardsMTG and their respective owners. No copyright infringement intended. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6(END) I recommend you guys to watch the video first but of course there are an FAQS section which will be updated soon for the new mechanics. Q: What is Deathtouch A: Deathtouch means any amount of combat damage done to a creature by a creature with Deathtouch is enough to destroy it. Q: What is Regenerate? A: Regenerate means putting the same creature back onto the battlefield by paying its Regeneration cost in an untapped position Q: Flash A: Flash are creatures that you can cast anytime you would cast an Instant spell. I'll update more soon when I have the time or when I finish on research.

N.O.V.A-Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance!

Yes as it's name suggest its not Yugioh but i've been thinking of giving it a quick review as well as for Nova 2 and Nova 3! Alright I've played both Nova and Nova 2 and I'm addicted to it! I must say its the best FPS game for the iOS. The game was developed by Gameloft which is excellent!However unlike most Gameloft's full game or rather all of it are paid with Nova being at $4.99 and Nova 2 at $6.99 in the AppStore. What makes this game great is its graphics and campaign modes and when playing online it's super awesome! The match you play with real-life people around the globe takes FPS in an iOS into a higher level! Of course you could get Nova 3 as there aren't anymore updates on Nova 2 and Nova, but I would get Nova first then Nova 2 and Nova 3 so I could get the storyline better but that's just different styles. Anyway what also makes this game fascinating is the fact that you could use a sniper rifle I'm not saying there aren't I've just have yet to seen it! Of course with pros comes with cons, Nova depletes a lot of battery but of course it's not a big matter what really matters is the fact that it is during Multiplayer matches this game lags 65% of the time. That's like approx. 2/4 of the time you spent to play on a computer. But overall I love Nova and Nova 2!

T.G. And techs

Well I'm back again and today I'm gonna tell you guys about my opinions and impression of Tech Genus(Simply called T.G. or TG). Alright when I first watch 5D's and saw how Bruno Accel Synchro his TG Blade Blaster I immediately liked the deck. Plus they hawks a great ability that is to be treated as both Machine and their original types. And I'm over the moon when I heard they were to be released on EXVC. Which I spent $80 which I didn't actually regret it. But what struck me off guard was the fact that these cards do not have the treat as Machine types. But they are really better than Anime as I could search for a TG monster with a different name(It couldn't be the same monster) which is great as you could toolbox your way to milling out your deck.
But that's not the main point today I'm Going to talk about certain decks and decklist which I might come out with(March 2012 Format duh?!) but TG decks are pretty slow themselves but when combine with other decks to form Hybrid decks it's really broken. Once such examples were TG Agent Angels which were a Top Tier deck in the last format. TGAA(Short for TG Agent Angels) uses Earth to search out for Venus and pay 500 to get out Shine Balls then tune it with Earth for a Trishula or you could Overlay it for Gachi Gachi Gantetsu which is a purrrrrfect defense. But if there aren't any Earths the play would bring out Venus 1st to get out Shine Balls and stall it with Gantetsu.The play could then bring out Hyperions to attack. Another method is to immediately tune with TG Striker with Warwolf if you don't have Earth or even Venus you could summon striker. No Earth but have Striker and Venus? Great wait for your opponent to get out at least one monster then SS Striker normal Venus pay 1000 to get out Shine Balls tune it up for a Level 9 Trishula(September 2011) or Mist Wurm. There are many more strategies to this deck actually but these are some ideas of the deck. Unfortunately, this deck was crippled due to the limitation of Earth which made this deck much slower. Also since Trishula have been banned, players have to rely on other synchros and also Mist Wurm as their Level 9 option which Mist Wurm have a great effect in annoying your opponent flooding their hand(especially if it is Exceed like Utopia). As an OCG player I have seen lesser and lesser TGAA. In this current format Inzektors are far OP. Hieroglyphs are also another decks to look out for!
Anyway back to the TG topics, players also used certain TG cards to splash into their deck or create variants. Some decks are: TG Rhino Beatdown(This deck made Rush Rhino ram over monster with a boastful 2000 ATK monster. Trust me don't underestimate deck. I have tried playing it with my main deck(Last time now changed to Lavals and Gishki) which the guy(My friend) used Rush Rhino to keep direct attack me. And the only TG Synchros needed is TG Wonder Magician I ask my friend what is it for and he told me it was for popping the backrow and get a plus 1 when TG Wonder Magician is destroyed. Another deck Variant is a Synchro deck which uses Striker and of course Warwolf which tunes out Hyper Librarian and you get the idea.
So TG cards are splashable into any decks and that I don't recommend you running them as a deck. Not because they suck as a whole but they shouldn't be played in the current Meta or even format. Not if you're playing competitive. Alright that's all or today I'll see if I'll update more blogs tomorrow or the day after. This is YGO-Duel signing out~

Gishki HEROes

Monsters: 19
Elemental HERO Stratos x1
Elemental HERO Ocean x2
Gishki Abyss x3
Gishki Shadow x3
Vision Gishki x3
Evigishki Mind Augus x1
Evigishki Soul Ogre x3
Deep Sea Diva x3
Spells: 14
E-Emergency Call x2
Gishki Aquamirror x3
Salvage x3
Super Polymerization x2
Pot of Duality x2
Heavy Storm x1
Dark Hole x1
Traps: 7
Bottomless Trap Hole x2
Solemn Warning x2
Safe Zone x3
Extra Deck:
Elemental HERO Absolute x3
Elemental HERO Great TORNADO x1
Chimeratech Fortress Dragon x1
No. 39 Utopia x2
Gachi Gachi Gantetsu x1
Any cards you want
Review:
NOTE: Play this deck at your own risk I have yet to test it out as I have no time building but roughly knows the strategy of course an OTK is possible if you get the right cards.
Basically this card uses the HERO Strategy to add Ocean to my hand for recycling and the Gishki Monsters to bring out their Ritual Spell. Ditch Ocean or anyother cards in your hand Ritual Summon out Soul Ogre use it to get right of BLS or even other pesky cards like Utopia in a stall deck(I don't have much examples). You could also fuse! Use Gishki Engines to get out Aquamirror then ditch. Use Aquamirror returning Ogre to hand and return Gishki Aquamirror back to your deck! It's recycling in a way! Ocean and Stratos to get out Absolute ZERO! If you guys don't see a synergy here then comment to me in the comments below!