Card of the Day - Crevice Into the Different Dimension

Card Name: Crevice Into the Different Dimension
Wikia Page: www.yugioh.wikia.com/Crevice_Into_the_Different_Dimension

Using the concepts of Zombie-Type monsters, the graveyard has a lot of surprises when it comes to Special Summons. Similar to Zombie gameplay, cards such as Glow-up Bulb, can summon themselves from the graveyard with little cost to the player. Of course, this strategy is used for reversals.

CREVICE INTO THE DIFFERENT DIMENSION is a Trap card introduced in The Shining Darkness. This card has been included in almost every Side Deck of any kind of deck. Why? Due to its ability to Remove From Play two monsters with the same Attribute from either graveyard.

Since most meta decks run 1 specific Attribute (eg. Lightsworns are LIGHT, Infernities are DARK, or X-sabers are EARTH), this handy trap card can do some major damage to these decks. Since most 1-Attribute type decks uses Special Summoning from the graveyard, Crevice will cripple these decks into submission.

Trivia: The "rainbow" being sucked into the "crevice" is most likely referring to the different Attributes of the game. (eg. Yellow = LIGHT, Red = FIRE, Purple = DARK, Green = WIND, etc.)

Reference:

Image from: www.yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/File:CreviceIntotheDifferentDimension-EN-C-1E.png

Card of the Day - Miracle Synchro Fusion

Card Name: Miracle Synchro Fusion
Wikia Page: www.yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Miracle_Synchro_Fusion

Before Synchro summoning was introduced, Fusion Monsters served useful and easy to summon. They have great effects that can equal or even be better than of the Synchros. The only difference between the two is, Fusion Monsters require the use of a certain Spell Card that can perform Fusion Summoning. (eg. Polymerzation, Future Fusion, etc.) Of course, with the exception of Gladiator Beast and Neos Fusions due to the fact that they can perform fusion without these spells. This is known as Contact Fusion. But what if we combine both?

MIRACLE SYNCHRO FUSION is the latest fusion spell card introduced in Duelist Revolution. Similar to Miracle Fusion (for Elemental Heroes), this card is used to perform a Fusion summon using Synchro monsters as materials. One scenario where this card can be used is when, for example, Iron Chain Dragon got destroyed and sent to the graveyard. If there is a Warrior type monster on the graveyard, a player can use Miracle Synchro Fusion to summon Dragon Knight Dracoequeste, which is a 3200ATK beatstick to pull a reversal.

Along with the release of this card comes the first evolution of combining monsters. Few of these monsters are Dragon Knight Dracoequeste, Ultimate Axon Kicker, and Supreme Arcanite Magician.

Trivia: Yusei performed a Fusion summon with Stardust Dragon and Junk Warrior to create Dragon Knight Dracoequeste. This caught Jean of Team Unicorn by surprise; not knowing Yusei would Fusion Summon.

Reference:

Image from www.yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/File:MiracleSynchroFusionDREV_EN_C_1E.jpg

Trivia from http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh%21_5D%27s_-_Episode_102

Who is Team Intimidation?

Greetings everyone! Sorry, we forgot to introduce ourselves individually.

Name: Mark
Deck Name: Blackwings
Variant: Standard
Player Level: Master
About Me: Leader of TI, RC-1 Certified

Name: JiBs
Deck Name: Lightsworns
Variant: Kristyasworn
Player Level: Master
About Me: Team's Duel Trainer, RC-1 Certified

Name: Paustin
Deck Name: Gladiator Beasts
Variant: PrismaGladiators
Player Level: Expert
About Me: Team's Deck Mechanic, Strategist

Name: Tier
Deck Name: Monarchs
Variant: MacroMonarch
Player Level: Expert
About Me: Team's Researcher, Surveyist

Name: Karl
Deck Name: Dragons
Variant: SOL Dragon
Player Level: Expert
About Me: Team's Trickster

Name: Reis
Deck Name: Six Samurai
Variant: Standard
Player Level: Expert
About Me: "The New Guy"

Feel free to message us using our chatbox on the left. Welcome to our site!

C4 2010 YGO Open Tournament Report

Hey guys! I'm just gonna repost the report from last time.

This is an Open Tournament, where people get to duel whoever they want just to get records.

Anyways here are the results:

Reis 5W-0L-1D (Deck: Six Samurai)
- vs. Spellcasters (win)
- vs. "random" (win)
- vs. PrismaGlads (win)
- vs. "another random" (win)
- vs. Hopeless Dragon (draw "interrupted")
- vs. Zombies (win)

Paustin 4W-1L-1D (Deck: PrismaGlads)
- vs. Spellcasters (win)
- vs. Synchro (win)
- vs. Hopeless Dragon (win)
- vs. Six Samurai (lose)
- vs. Dragon (win)
- vs. Kristyasworn (never happened LOL)

Jibs 4W-0L-2D (Deck: Kristyasworn)
- vs. random (win)
- vs. dark (win)
- vs. sphinx (win)
- vs. hopeless dragon (win)
- vs. Six Samurai (never happened)
- vs. PrismaGlads (never happened)

General Comments:
- people were ranged from Intermediate to Advance Level only.
- gained little experience for future tournaments.
- the complete Hopeless Dragon Deck was the best challenge in the tournament.

We decided to exchange records just for the heck of it. We should've just stood on the table and said "We are Team Intimidation! Remember it!!" >=D

Card of the Day - Battle Fader

Card Name: Battle Fader

Wikia Page: www.yugioh.wikia.com/Battle_Fader



In today's meta, the classic "OTK" or One Turn Kill has been the cause of most game winning duels. For example, when Blackwings take control of your backrow with Delta-Crow Antireverse, and then swarms with up to 5 monsters for an OTK. Without a backrow, most players can't do anything because almost every time, those face-down cards were their only hope.

BATTLE FADER is a handy little effect monster introduced in Absolute Powerforce. It has the ability to special summon itself and end the Battle Phase when your opponent declares a direct attack. By doing so, you can pull off a possible reversal because your opponent failed to kill you and probably over-extended their resources.

This card was not only used to save a player from getting destroyed by 4-5 monsters. Battle Fader is a level 1 non-tuner DARK monster as well. It can serve as a free star for a Synchro summon, or a free sacrifice for a Tribute Summon. Although, once it leaves the field, it is removed from play.

With this card released in TCG, Yu-Gi-Oh!(tm) gameplay have reached new levels of tactics even with an empty field.

Trivia: Battle Fader is Jack Atlas' reversal card when he dueled Dark Signer Carly in Episode 59. Since the Earthbound Immortal Aslla Piscu declared a direct attack, he then used this card, along with Red Dragon Archfiend and Majestic Dragon to successfully summon Majestic Red Dragon.

Reference:

Image from www.yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/File:BattleFaderABPF-EN-UR-1E.png

Trivia from www.yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh%21_5D%27s_-_Episode_059

Card of the Day - Shooting Star Dragon

Whew... I'm back... I kinda stopped for a little. But anyways, here's today's card.

Card Name: Shooting Star Dragon
Wikia Page: www.yugioh.wikia.com/Shooting_Star_Dragon


Performing basic Synchro summoning is no sweat to most duelists. You can even Synchro summon without doing much or costing you a Normal Summon. But how "good" can a typical Synchro Type deck perform?

SHOOTING STAR DRAGON is the introduced and is the cover card of Starstrike Blast. It is one of the newly released Cosmic Synchro monsters - which are evolved and more powerful version of their original Synchro counterparts.

In the anime, Shooting Star Dragon can be summoned by ACCEL SYNCHRO - in which a duelist achieves a Clear Mind and tremendous amount of speed (on a motorcycle). But since we can't ride a motorcycle and duel people... Accel Synchro can be performed by using a Tuner Synchro Monster. As of this format, FORMULA SYNCHRON is the only Tuner Synchro monster in TCG.

Shooting Star Dragon has 3 devastating effects. It can attack up to 5 times depending on how many tuners you revealed, it can negate a card-destroying effect without any cost once, and it can negate an attack during the Battle Step.

Is it worth the summon? Yes and No.

YES because its not that hard to summon (eg. Starlight Road + Kinka-byo + any level 1). The effects will serve useful during mid duels.

NO: depending on what deck you are using, "teching" Shooting Star Dragon will be very difficult to pull off. (eg. Lightsworns - who only use synchro summoning for emergency situations most of the time).

Trivia: Shooting Star Dragon is Yusei's new Cosmic Synchro Monster. He summoned it for the first time against Primo (Placido) once he attained Clear Mind.

Reference:

Image from www.yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/File:ShootingStarDragonSTBL-EN-UR-1E.jpg

Trivia from: www.yugioh.wikia.com/Shooting_Star_Dragon

Card of the Day - Solemn Warning

Card Name: Solemn Warning

Wikia Page: www.yugioh.wikia.com/Solemn_Warning

COUNTER TRAPS are the fastest cards in the game with Spell Speed of 3. Most Counter Traps, such as INFERNITY BARRIER, can stop your opponent at his/her tracks easily. They can be a bother to Summoning, or activating Spells/Traps especially for reversal finishes.

SOLEMN WARNING is a counter trap introduced in Duelist Revolution. This card is somewhat, similiar to SOLEMN JUDGMENT, without the negation of "every" Spell/Trap card effect. It is a very handy card especially during the first few turns where neither player have taken damage to their Life Points. With the cost of 2000 LP, you can stop your opponent from summoning a monster by all means (even card effects!), compared to Solemn Judgment's "half your points" cost.

With today's meta focusing mostly on special summoning (eg. Synchros), Solemn Warning is capable of stopping your opponent from getting a hard hitter on the field and slow them down.

Trivia: Solemn Warning is a more "cartoon" and younger version of Solemn Judgment. It may be hinting that "the older you are, the more intelligent you are..." (that's just me... xD)

Reference:

Image from www.yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/File:SolemnWarningDREV-EN-UR-1E.jpg

Trivia from www.yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Card_Trivia:Solemn_Warning

Card of the Day - Intercept Wave

Card name: Intercept Wave

Wikia Page: http://www.yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Intercept_Wave

Most Synchro Monsters serve 1 important purpose: "Turn the tables around!". With high attack points or defense points, ridiculous effects, and easy summoning conditions, Synchros are very difficult to deal with during a duel. Luckily, its not true when it comes to Spells and Traps.

INTERCEPT WAVE is a handy little Quickplay Spell card, introduced in The Shining Darkness, that can neutralize every single synchro on the field. When it comes to attacking, this spell can instantly switch all synchros to defense position with an added twist. During the End Phase, all synchros get bounced back to the Extra Deck, preventing its user(s) to summon them once more with Spells/Traps.

Because the spell "Returns all Synchro Monsters back to the Extra Deck," it is immune to any effects that involve destruction like Destruction Jammer, My Body As A Shield, etc. And since its a Quickplay Spell card, it is way more flexible than traps - meaning it can be used in many more situations without setting it.

Reference:

Image from www.yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/File:InterceptWaveTSHD-EN-UR-1E.png

Card of the Day - Glow-Up Bulb

Card Name: Glow-up Bulb
Wikia Page: www.yugioh.wikia.com/Glow-up_Bulb

Yu-Gi-Oh! has evolved from normal monsters, to effect monsters, then to "destructive" effect monsters and finally, Effect Monsters that can activate from anywhere else, besides the field at will.

GLOW-UP BULB is one of the cards released in Starstrike Blast. This tiny little plant type monster has been very popular the second it was announced to be released in TCG. It has the ability to special summon itself without a -1 cost for the player (milling 1 card is hardly a -1 but actually +1 or even +2 for most meta decks). Besides the free summon, this little guy is also a level 1 tuner. This card is probably one of the best, splashable tuners next to Plaguespreader Zombie - the fact that PSZ is a level 2 which is more reasonable than a level 1 and its a DARK type monster.

The card being splashable, decks like Infernities, Lightsworn, Dark World work wonders with this card. Because its a plant tuner, this card grants BLACK ROSE DRAGON's 2nd effect to all non-plant decks that synchro and go in for the kill; instead of the usual "blow up the field" option.

With MONSTER REBORN and CALL OF THE HAUNTED available, Glow-up Bulb can be used multiple times without removing it from play, unlike Plaguespreader Zombie; ignoring the "this effect can only used once per duel." Of course, being a plant type, plant decks will abuse this card - even more abusive than Infernity Launcher.

Expect this card to show up almost every time in every deck you face. There is also a chance this card might end up limited in the next format due to its splashability and versatility.

Trivia: This card was originally used by Akiza Izayoi in the episode where she used Glow-up Bulb to summon Stardust Dragon against Andore of Team Unicorn.

References:

Image from www.yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/File:Glow-upBulbSTBL-EN-UR-1E.jpg

Trivia from www.yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh%21_5D%27s_-_Episode_099

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Team Discussions

Hey Guys!

This is where we should talk about card games and training plannings. This is what this blog is for. So instead of annoying facebook alerts, we could just check the site out maybe once or twice.

Possible Posts:
-interesting facts
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-when should we meet up?
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I'm not sure if this blog will survive since we all have lives now unlike before where we sold our souls to card games.

Welcome to Team Intimidation!

Greetings members and visitors!

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We join Local tournaments in the neighbourhood, and soon, we will work our way to winning it all!

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