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We've got a bunch of new cards revealed for Sacred Beasts of Chaos, as well as some confirmed reprints: Confirmed Reprints (as of 13/02/20): Raviel, Lord of Phantasms Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder Uria, Lord of Searing Flames Dark Summoning Beast Fallen Paradise Phantasmal Martyrs Armityle, the Chaos Phantasm Phantasm Emperor Trilojig We're also getting two new Tokens with this deck: A Phantasm Token, and a Phantasmal Martyrs Token. New Cards (12/02/20) Genmaoh Raviel – Tenkai Juurinken / Raviel, Lord of Phantasms – Heaven Crushing Fist (Dub: Raviel, Lord of Phantasms – Shimmering Scraper) DARK / Fiend / Effect LV10 4000/4000 "Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned (from your hand) by Tributing 3 monsters. You can only use this card name’s (1) and (2) effects once per turn each. (1) (Quick Effect): You can discard this card, then target 1 “Raviel, Lord of Phantasms” you control; for the rest of this turn, its ATK is doubled, also it can attack all monsters your opponent controls, once each. (2) If this card is in your GY: You can Tribute 1 monster; add this card to your hand." I find this a rather weird implementation - it feels like it should have been an Equip Spell Card for Raviel, but was changed to be in line with Hamon and Uria's support: all 3 being the same card type as used to summon them by their own effect. It can't even be used as a substitute Raviel for Armtiyle. Either way, this card can be discarded from the hand to make Raviel a Stardust Charge Warrior with 8K ATK for a single turn, and then be recycled back to the hand for your next turn for 1 tribute: assuming that either Raviel isn't blown up, or that you even need the next turn. I can also see this being used alongside a plethora of discard effects and Phantom of Chaos for an additional 4k beatstick alongside your existing Raviel. I'd run this at just one in a Sacred Beast deck - It can be an OTK if you start second and draw a good starting hand, but can also quickly become a garnet. Ankoku no Shouraishin / Dark Beckoning Beast DARK / Fiend / Effect LV2 0/0 "You can only use this card name’s (1) effect once per turn. (1) When this card is Normal Summoned: You can add 1 “Uria, Lord of Searing Flames”, 1 “Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder”, 1 “Raviel, Lord of Phantasms”, or 1 card that specifically lists any of those names in its text from your Deck to your hand, except “Dark Beckoning Beast”. (2) During your Main Phase, you can Normal Summon 1 Fiend monster with 0 ATK and DEF, in addition to your Normal Summon/Set (you can only gain this effect once per turn)." By far, Dark Beckoning Beast is the best support card we've had revealed in Sacred Beasts of Chaos so far. While lacking any offensive stats, this Level 2's two effects are brilliant: Upon being Normal Summoned, you have a free choice of adding any of the Sacred Beasts, or any card that specifically mentions them by name, from your Deck to your Hand (excluding itself). Most of the time, this will be for Dark Summoning Beast - which synergises nicely with Beckoning's second ability - an additional Normal Summon of 1 Fiend monster with 0 ATK & DEF per turn. This essentially makes Beckoning a no-tribute version of Dark Summoning Beast, while at the same time thinning your deck of beasts you can't summon. If you don't intend to summon a Dark Summoning Beast, you can always use Transmodify on it to bring out Sangen and get that sent to the GY to search out a hand trap, or a Tour Guide of the Underworld for a Link/XYZ next turn. TL;DR: You need 3 of these in any Sacred Beast Deck. Shitsuraku no Hekireki / Lightning Strike of Paradise Lost (Dub: Cerulean Sky Fire) Continuous Spell Card "(1) To Special Summon “Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder” using its own procedure, you can send face-down Spells you control to the GY instead of face-up Continuous Spells (or any combination of both). (2) Once per turn, when an opponent’s activated Spell/Trap Card or effect resolves while you control an Attack Position “Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder”, you can negate that effect, then change 1 “Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder” you control to Defense Position. (3) If “Uria, Lord of Searing Flames”, “Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder”, or “Raviel, Lord of Phantasms” you control leaves the field: You take no damage for the rest of this turn." Cerulean Sky Fire is one of those cards which looks good on paper but turns out to be deeply flawed in reality. Its first effect of allowing the use of any face-down Spell Card as a substitute for a face-up Continuous Spell as a tribute for Hamon seems clever - until you realise that 95% of the time you will be summoning Hamon via Dark Summoning Beast anyways and that the spells in your deck that would have to sacrifice would be quite valuable, and in reality, I would consume this card as part of the tribute and lose out on the other effects. The only time I would use this was if my opponent was using something like Anti-Spell Fragrance, and that presumes I had activated Sky Fire beforehand. Cerulean's second effect is the "best": Once per turn, if I control an Attack Position Hamon, I can negate the effect of an opponent's Spell/Trap card by switching Hamon to Defence. This synergises with Hamon's own effect, directing any of your opponent's attacks to a 4K blocker. This is useful for preventing your opponent using staples like Monster Reborn and Raigeki, and in a pinch can save Hamon from an unexpected Mirror Force. If you have this available to play, then you should prioritise the summon of Hamon over Uria and Raviel. Cerulean's final effect is rather bland: If Uria, Hamon or Raviel leave the field, no more damage (battle or effect) for the rest of the turn. Note this doesn't prevent battle damage involving them if they are destroyed in battle: Damage Calculation occurs before destruction during the Damage Step. So it might still be game over even with Cerulean Sky Fire on the field. In short, I'd experiment with 2 copies so far, and see how effective they are, and then evaluate if you can make do with just the 1. Hyper Blaze Continuous Trap Card "(1) To Special Summon “Uria, Lord of Searing Flames” using its own procedure, you can send face-down Traps you control to the GY instead of face-up ones (or any combination of both). (2) When an attack is declared involving your “Uria, Lord of Searing Flames”: You can send 1 Trap from your hand or Deck to the GY; its ATK/DEF becomes 1000 x the number of Traps on the field and in the GYs for the rest of this turn. (3) Once per turn: You can discard 1 card; take 1 “Uria, Lord of Searing Flames”, “Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder”, or “Raviel, Lord of Phantasms” from your GY, and either add it to your hand or Special Summon it, ignoring its Summoning conditions." The final reveal today is Hyper Blaze, and in many ways is similar to Cerulean Sky Fire - only better. Its first effect is identical to Cerulean's, only it focuses on Uria and the use of any face-down Trap for tribute. While most Sacred Beast decks are only going to have Solemns and Return from the Dark Dimension, Uria-centered Burn decks might see Hyper Blaze as a way to diversify their repertoire of traps without compromising on Uria's summoning conditions. Uria's second effect is more direct and compensates for Uria's crippling weakness - Total dependency on Continuous Traps in the graveyard for ATK power. By discard a trap from the Hand or Deck to the GY, Uria's ATK becomes equal to the number of traps (note: any trap, not just continuous) in all graveyards x1000, until the end of the turn. That can easily turn Uria into the strongest monster on the field during the late-game, though this effect shouldn't make Uria your priority to summon. There also might be some traps that could take advantage of being sent directly from the Deck to the GY. Hyper Blaze's final effect is the highlight, finally giving us an effect the Sacred Beasts were stripped of when they became real cards - revival. Once per turn, for only a discard, we can either add to our hand or Special Summon 1 of the 3 Sacred Beasts. Apart from the general greatness of this effect, the discard can be used to send Dark Summoning Beast to the graveyard, ready for Phantom of Chaos to take advantage. Like Cerulean Sky Fire, I'd start off with 2 of these. I'm not sure if you would want to change beyond that yet - it all depends on how long you can protect your beasts with other cards.

Aye, its a bloodbath. I'd say its clearing the way for new meta, once the updated rules come into effect in April. I've had to pretty much rebuild all my decks on Duel Monsters Genesis to salvage what I can. The limiting of Demise is what I consider the most damaging. It cripples anything that doesn't have either its own draw power or a compatible draw engine. At least now Solemn Warning is at 3.

First new card for the Sacred Beast structure deck has been revealed, and its the debut of an anime-only card. Jigen Yuugou Satsu / Dimension Fusion Destruction Spell Normal (1) Special Summon 1 “Phantom”* Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck, by banishing its materials from your hand, field, and/or GY, ignoring its Summoning conditions. You take no damage from battles involving the Special Summoned monster. If you control “Uria, Lord of Searing Flames”, “Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder’, or “Raviel, Lord of Phantasms”, your opponent cannot activate cards or effects in response to this card’s activation. *Note: Due to weirdness in how the Sacred Beasts were translated from the OCG to the TCG, this could theoretically be abused to unintendedly summon other fusion monsters such as Chimera the Mythical Flying Beast, who is considered a Phantom Beast by rule text. So, expect errata changes when it makes it over to the west. Currently, in the OCG this card can be used to only summon Armityle and Trilojig. Been testing this on Duel Monsters Genesis, and I can say this for sure makes summoning Armityle much easier, now that you can have his materials also in the hand or GY. Means you only need to use 1-2 Dark Summoning Beasts now to set him up. The no battle damage buff also covers one of Armityle's gaping flaws, but not the other - a big stinking lack of protection, leaving us still relying on Fallen Paradise. The Speed Spell 4 clause for having one of the materials on the field is little consolation if it can still be Raigeki'd the next turn. The wording of "Phantom" monsters could be hinting at a retrain of Armityle, or other chimeric fusions of the beasts, so we'll just have to wait and see. The deck will include the 3 Sacred Beasts and Armityle as reprints.

Servant of the Faith Asaka Yukio https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iM4LbJVUVQ6oKRK9z1AGCudVkgX03zBxiisU3NPdBI8/edit?usp=sharing Customs will be added as I finish them (I'm behind on that due to stuff). Comments are on for feedback before we start.

It has been a good haul this year. Took longer because someone in the family was being lazy, after complaining about us not staying up too late on Christmas Eve. But here is the primary haul. Intel i7-9700K Processor. This one was kinda weird, as I paid for 2/3rds of it myself, and ordered it myself. My parents trusted me to handle my techy purchases. It even almost never made it - DHL delayed the shipment from Taiwan and only made it to my door with a day to spare. Took me most of the day to gut out my PC and rebuild it with the 9700k, along with a new(ish) motherboard I had bought in anticipation for it. The old parts will be sold on to let me continue upgrading it - mainly an AIO cooler to replace the hazardously sharp tower cooler I have now, and maybe some 3200Mhz DDR4 RAM. £85. MONEY MONEY MONEY. Fake Gold Bullion Piggy Bank. this one was funny. I've been playing more GTA: Online with the release of the Casino Heist update. Seems appropriate someone with my vast online criminal enterprise would have a solid kilo bar of gold as a paperweight. Dunno if my parents knew, or just got lucky. I guess the latter - they don't dare go into my room. Spider-Man: Far from Home DVD. I don't get to go to the movies often, so I saved my trip this year for The Rise of Skywalker after boxing day. This makes up for missing it in cinemas. Mini USB Vacuum Cleaner. For when I eat too many Tortilla Chips over the keyboard while watching Spider-Man. Haribo. Because I've yet to contract Diabetes. Body Sprays and "Smellies". I get the picture. A surprising lack of pants and socks this year - there was a policy of "if it ain't on Amazon, your not gettin' it." due to work timetables being so tight. There was also an emotional moment: My sister burst into tears, followed shortly after by my mom and grandfather when she was gifted my late grandmother's necklace, after being cleaned up at the jewellers. I didn't have the same impact since I already knew. Parents were also pleasantly surprised when my uncle gifted my parents a £300 gift voucher to a 5-star spa and hotel. It is actually where the NATO Summit was hosted this year. One downside. Dad pissed me off and I couldn't say a word. I don't eat Turkey (makes me feel ill), so he bought me an absolute beast of prime sirloin steak... and just ruined it! He just bunged it in the oven without seasoning and turned it into a well-done, dried roast! And I had to put on a fake smile as to not ruin Christmas dinner. GRAH. *Flips table.*

Okay, let's see what I get.

I aim to please. Putting my reserve down for the first time in years.

Hmm. Go on then. Do your work.

This is the worst motherboard support thread ever.

This was my usual lunch while in College: Bread: Italian Herb & Cheese - Toasted. Cheese: Yes - Monterey Cheddar Meat: Spicy Italian - Pepperoni and Salami. Veg: Red Onions, Green Peppers, Jalapeños, and Lettuce. Sauce: Yes - Chipotle Southwest

...I'm probably going to regret this.

Assuming I can pick any multiplayer map from the series: Spire, Needle Rifle, & Gauss Warthog.

Salted tortilla chips. Nacho cheese or cool flavour ones are also acceptable.

Yup, I'm doing one of these. Not sure if anyone will care. Snacks are appreciated.

I'll wait here then. All weekend. In the dark. Alone... send snacks.

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