I was expecting to see this card in your BLS review q:
Really like that link monster artwork.
Edit: Is the next one this one?
Really like that link monster artwork.
Edit: Is the next one this one?
Additional Trivia!
A Normal Monster variant of Black Luster Soldier was the first prize card for the first international ygo tournament in 1999. It is a one of a kind card and was printed on a steel plate and was put on auction for 10 million USD (althought I dont think it sold).
Also nest one should be this?
I was expecting to see this card in your BLS review q:
Really like that link monster artwork.
Edit: Is the next one this one?
Still taking suggestions? I thought of a great one.
Not just the card itself, but some of the Duel Terminal lore concerning it is pretty interesting.
Might as well just say itGreat new entrys! Are you planing a Kuribo overview anytime soon? I know, its again Gen 1, but I loved this card and Yugis strategy around it, even when it could never was replicated for the real game.
How are you going to mention all that without bringing up the Impcantations? A quartet of monsters focused on facilitating ritual summons by searching out ritual monsters and Ritual spells from the deck or grave and special summoning a second Impcantation monster to serve as tribute fodder. If the deck you're playing doesn't have dedicated tribute/searcher cards (and sometimes even if it does) then the Impcantations are a no brainer to give you reliably workable hands.
Would Thunder Dragon get any mention here? I don't know if anyone ever used a deck around him in any of the shows.
Sorry, I was referring to the post immediately above mine, rather than your post on BLS. the dedicated tribute cards in the deck are good enough that you'd want to use those over the Impcantations anyway.For this thread, I'm focusing on just direct support, to keep things as simple as possible!
Buster Blader
Exactly what I was thinking haha
Goomba?
Buster Blader
Generation 1: Duel Monsters
Users: Yugi Muto
Original Artwork:
Latest Artwork:
Sorry to be late with this one, I've been going through a lot this week, but as one of you guessed, the next card is Buster Blader!
Among the many cards Yugi added to his deck when preparing for "Battle City" there's a certain card that caught many fans eyes with it's cool design, and an effect that just screamed "Fuck You Kaiba", what's more this card saw his debut in Yugi's iconic duel against Slifer the Sky Dragon, making it easy for it to be remembered by fans for years to come. This card is the Level 7, EARTH, Warrior-Type Monster, Buster Blader! The Ultimate Dragon Hunter!
Buster Blader came to Yugi's aid on many occasions, the most memorable one being in his Duel against Seto Kaiba in the battle city semi finals, where his power combined with Dark Magician's to create "Dark Paladin" the card responsible for Yugi's victory
Unfortunately, this usually meant that Buster Blader became the equivalent to Dragon Ball's "Goten", whose treatment in the show after it's introduction is to become fusion fodder. But what about modern Yu-Gi-Oh? Can Buster Blader get out of Dark Magician's shadow? Let's take a look!
Artwise Buster Blader is striking, it's dark purple armor with gold accents is really well designed and really feels like something that belongs in the same world "Dark Magician" lives, though I´m not a fan of the horns, I feel like they're too comically long and make me think of the head of a Pokémon, I would tone those out because they're the bad part of an otherwise solid design. It's pose is very energetic and makes you feel like this heavy sword is coming straight at you, I appreciate the sword's design even if I feel it's a bit unremarkable. The background is just too simple for my tastes, by I guess it works well with the dark purple. Overall it's a solid design whose strengths far outweigh my problems with it.
I'm a big a fan of the Takahashi art, I feel like the detailed background, red accents instead of gold and smaller horns make the design much better, but I know I'm in the minority here
As a card though....it's not very good. It requires 2 tributes and while it's 2600 ATK are solid enough, it's effect requires that your opponent plays a specific type of card, and even in a game where Dragons are so popular like YuGiOh, that's never a good thing. Buster Blader's popularity did gave it access to some support cards, but it always felt like Konami was trying too hard to fit him with "Dark Magician" as fusion fodder with the kind of support he had back in the day.
Out of these, only "Emblem of the Dragon Destroyer" was a card that could help a "Buster Blader" focused deck over a "Buster Blader as fusion fodder for Dark Paladin" Deck which kinda sucked for it's fans....then Generation 5 happened.
Generation 5 as I keep bringing up in these Gen 1 reviews, gave a LOT of love to cards, but it gave Buster Blader something he really needed beyond being "The Warrior that fuses with Dark Magician", they gave him his own identity and a story all for himself. He's a card with his own lore and that can stand on his own, no longer bound by Dark Magician's popularity.
And now sit back because I'm about to tell you the sad story of "Buster Blader" while also showing you it's cool modern support.
Buster Blader starts his new journey by upgrading to a brand new set of lighter, more comfortable and stronger armor. He becomes "Buster Blader, The Destruction Swordsmaster" and now he not only can fuck dragons up, but he has the power to destroy monsters of any type.
During his travels, Buster Blader encounters an evil Dragon bullying a small inoffensive baby Dragon, while Buster Blader's specialty is killing dragons, he decides to save the poor little fella for a change.
The little Dragon is so grateful to Buster Blader, that it doesn't want to part ways with him, Buster Blader turns to have a heart of gold, and decides to keep the little dragon as his pet. The little creature is now known as "Buster Whelp of the Destruction Swordsman"
Buster Blader and Whelp become extremely close together, they go on hunting missions and save many from evildoers, Dragon or Human, the years pass, and these two become such friends that Buster Blader even allows it to guard his collection of Swords, the "Destruction Swords"
Then tragedy strikes. During one of their adventures together, a Dark Force gets a hold of Buster Blader's now adult Dragon friend, transforming it into the wicked "Buster Dragon" (Some fans speculate that Buster Whelp's species always becomes evil as adults, as is the same kind of dragon shown in "Prologue")
Buster Blader rushes to see who is it that is attacking the innocents...and is shocked to see his longtime friend corrupted and standing in front of him. Buster Blader has no choice, and with pain in his heart he unsheathed his sword.
The battle is as cruel as the fate of this two friends, and in the end, Buster Blader manages to strike the killing blow, he throws his blade aside in the rain, as the memories of his good friend make pain overtake him
Buster Blader rushes to his mortally wounded friend, who's now back to it's normal form, with it's last breaths, the adult Buster Whelp transfers his dragonic power into Buster Blader, so that they can remain together forever in some way...
And with this new power, Buster Blader emerges as the strongest swordsman to walk the earth, the ultimate Dragonslayer with the power of a Dragon itself running through his veins, his armor becomes stronger, his sword gets an upgrade and he achieves his ultimate form, with the power of his long time friend with him in every new adventure he takes from now on.
If you actually read the cards that form the story, you will notice that deck revolves around equipping Buster Blader with the different swords to get it's destruction effect going against Dragons, Spellcasters and Machines. Buster Whelp will help you bring Buster Blader easily, and Synchroing into Buster Dragon will allow you to revive Buster Bladers every turn, with Buster Dragon on the field changing the type of all opponent's monster to Dragon, it's just a matter of fusion summoning Buster Blader's ultimate form for some massive, game ending damage against one of your opponent's monster.
Buster Blader
Generation 1: Duel Monsters
Users: Yugi Muto
Original Artwork:
Latest Artwork:
Sorry to be late with this one, I've been going through a lot this week, but as one of you guessed, the next card is Buster Blader!
Among the many cards Yugi added to his deck when preparing for "Battle City" there's a certain card that caught many fans eyes with it's cool design, and an effect that just screamed "Fuck You Kaiba", what's more this card saw his debut in Yugi's iconic duel against Slifer the Sky Dragon, making it easy for it to be remembered by fans for years to come. This card is the Level 7, EARTH, Warrior-Type Monster, Buster Blader! The Ultimate Dragon Hunter!
Buster Blader came to Yugi's aid on many occasions, the most memorable one being in his Duel against Seto Kaiba in the battle city semi finals, where his power combined with Dark Magician's to create "Dark Paladin" the card responsible for Yugi's victory
Unfortunately, this usually meant that Buster Blader became the equivalent to Dragon Ball's "Goten", whose treatment in the show after it's introduction is to become fusion fodder. But what about modern Yu-Gi-Oh? Can Buster Blader get out of Dark Magician's shadow? Let's take a look!
Artwise Buster Blader is striking, it's dark purple armor with gold accents is really well designed and really feels like something that belongs in the same world "Dark Magician" lives, though I´m not a fan of the horns, I feel like they're too comically long and make me think of the head of a Pokémon, I would tone those out because they're the bad part of an otherwise solid design. It's pose is very energetic and makes you feel like this heavy sword is coming straight at you, I appreciate the sword's design even if I feel it's a bit unremarkable. The background is just too simple for my tastes, by I guess it works well with the dark purple. Overall it's a solid design whose strengths far outweigh my problems with it.
I'm a big a fan of the Takahashi art, I feel like the detailed background, red accents instead of gold and smaller horns make the design much better, but I know I'm in the minority here
As a card though....it's not very good. It requires 2 tributes and while it's 2600 ATK are solid enough, it's effect requires that your opponent plays a specific type of card, and even in a game where Dragons are so popular like YuGiOh, that's never a good thing. Buster Blader's popularity did gave it access to some support cards, but it always felt like Konami was trying too hard to fit him with "Dark Magician" as fusion fodder with the kind of support he had back in the day.
Out of these, only "Emblem of the Dragon Destroyer" was a card that could help a "Buster Blader" focused deck over a "Buster Blader as fusion fodder for Dark Paladin" Deck which kinda sucked for it's fans....then Generation 5 happened.
Generation 5 as I keep bringing up in these Gen 1 reviews, gave a LOT of love to many cards, but it gave Buster Blader something he really needed to be something beyond "The Warrior that fuses with Dark Magician", they gave him his own identity and a story all for himself. He's a card with his own lore and that can stand on his own, no longer bound by Dark Magician's popularity.
And now sit back because I'm about to tell you the sad story of "Buster Blader" while also showing you it's cool modern support.
Buster Blader starts his new journey by upgrading to a brand new set of lighter, more comfortable and stronger armor. He becomes "Buster Blader, The Destruction Swordsmaster" and now he not only can fuck dragons up, but he has the power to destroy monsters of any type.
During his travels, Buster Blader encounters an evil Dragon bullying a small inoffensive baby Dragon, while Buster Blader's specialty is killing dragons, he decides to save the poor little fella for a change.
The little Dragon is so grateful to Buster Blader, that it doesn't want to part ways with him, Buster Blader turns to have a heart of gold, and decides to keep the little dragon as his pet. The little creature is now known as "Buster Whelp of the Destruction Swordsman"
Buster Blader and Whelp become extremely close together, they go on hunting missions and save many from evildoers, Dragon or Human, the years pass, and these two become such friends that Buster Blader even allows it to guard his collection of Swords, the "Destruction Swords"
Then tragedy strikes. During one of their adventures together, a Dark Force gets a hold of Buster Blader's now adult Dragon friend, transforming it into the wicked "Buster Dragon" (Some fans speculate that Buster Whelp's species always becomes evil as adults, as is the same kind of dragon shown in "Prologue")
Buster Blader rushes to see who is it that is attacking the innocents...and is shocked to see his longtime friend corrupted and standing in front of him. Buster Blader has no choice, and with pain in his heart he unsheathed his sword.
The battle is as cruel as the fate of these two friends, and in the end, Buster Blader manages to strike the killing blow, he throws his blade aside in the rain, as the memories of his good friend make grief overtake him
Buster Blader rushes to his mortally wounded friend, who's now back to it's normal form, with it's last breaths, the adult Buster Whelp transfers his dragonic power into Buster Blader, so that they can remain together forever in some way...
And with this new power, Buster Blader emerges as the strongest swordsman to walk the earth, the ultimate Dragonslayer with the power of a Dragon itself running through his veins, his armor becomes stronger, his sword gets an upgrade and he achieves his ultimate form, with the power of his long time friend with him in every new adventure he takes from now on.
If you actually read the cards that form the story, you will notice that deck revolves around equipping Buster Blader with the different swords to get it's destruction effect going against Dragons, Spellcasters and Machines. Buster Whelp will help you bring Buster Blader easily, and Synchroing into Buster Dragon will allow you to revive Buster Bladers every turn, with Buster Dragon on the field changing the type of all opponent's monster to Dragon, it's just a matter of fusion summoning Buster Blader's ultimate form for some massive, game ending damage against one of your opponent's monster.
While far from competitive, this deck is fun and it gave Buster Blader it's own identity. So I will always love it for that.
I think I already gave you enough trivia for this one lol.
NEXT UP!
Why do I get the feeling you could build some evil decks around this card
Although not as dangerous as the original manga's version to negate all xyz summons(then again a monster that could negate all extra deck summons would be extremely evil...)
Now that is the core of an anti-meta deck I've been looking for! But um can you actually get it out fast enough to be effective?
I assume its KuribohIf you are already planning to cover an Abyss Actor without my input, then I would like to see you cover Macro Cosmos, because Spells/Traps are not normally covered.
Goomba?
Thank you for reading.
Well it's a pendulum monster so if you build your scale right it shouldn't be hard. And you always always resummon him from the extra deck.Now that is the core of an anti-meta deck I've been looking for! But um can you actually get it out fast enough to be effective?
The other guy is still fun though
Yes I am still considering lotdle if my backlog isn't too bad when it comes out.
You don't summon goliath via pendulum summoning, it's typically done by dumping and reviving it.Well it's a pendulum monster so if you build your scale right it shouldn't be hard. And you always always resummon him from the extra deck.
The issue here is amorphages all stop you from summoning non amorphage monsters from your extra deck, and there is no amorphage linkNow that is the core of an anti-meta deck I've been looking for! But um can you actually get it out fast enough to be effective?
The other guy is still fun though
Yes I am still considering lotdle if my backlog isn't too bad when it comes out.
Kuriboh
Generation 1: Duel Monsters
Users: Yugi Muto
Original Artwork:
Latest Artwork:
One of Yugi's most trusted cards is a little Level 1, DARK, Fiend type effect monster. Kuriboh is usually met with underestimation frm Yugi's opponents and in some cases, outright ridicule, however, Yugi always manages to make his plays involving this little card worth it, from playing a key role in the defeat of Mai Valentine and Maximillion Pegasus, to outright saving Yugi, Jaden Yuki and Yusei Fudo from certain defeat during the three protagonists face off against the evil Paradox, Kuriboh is always full of surprises!
In terms of design Kuriboh is the definition of simplicity, it's just a cute little furball with anime eyes and small, greenn reptilian limbs. Kuriboh is just adorable, his little eyes are just looking at me and saying "Please use me!" awww man, it's so fucking cute! The blue background is too simple for my tastes but I think it's supposed to give us the idea that despite it's innocent exterior, Kuriboh is still a fiend type monster, and one you don´t want to piss off.
His newest artwork I´m not a fan of, full disclosure, the green limbs always looked a bit weird to me in the original artwork. but this purple hair ball with yellow limbs version of Kuriboh just looks straight up bad for me, it looks way too unnatural for my tastes, that said, the newest background is much better, as it hints towards Kuriboh's ability to multiply, I quite like it.
For the game, Kuribo is one of the very first "handtraps" in the game, that means, monsters with effects that can be activated during the opponent's turn by discarding them from your hand. In Kuriboh's case the effect is a bit underwhelming as it can protect you from the damage of just 1 battle, making any other battle damage you receive still go directly to your LP. That said Kuriboh's ability to activate it's effect left a mark in the game, as today, for better or worse, "Handtraps" are an extremely vital part of building a competitive deck.
Yugi usually summons Kuriboh to the field, despite it's ability requiring him to have him in his hand, the reason for this is that there's several card to support a Kuriboh" on the field, the most famous one, as you might remember from Duelist Kingdom is "Multiply"
Multiply allows you to fill your field with "Kuriboh Tokens" which made for a decent barrier back in the day, nowadays it might sound tempting to get 5 Kuriboh Tokens and spam some Link Summons with them, but unfortunately "Scapegoat" is simply a much better option for that job, leaving "Multiply" forgotten in an era where Token Spam is very useful. Still, you cannot forget that "Multiply" is just half of Yugi's strategy! Back in the day Yugi used to say that "Kuriboh explodes when an enemy touches it", which is total bullshit, Kuriboh has no such effect, so a card was created to try and make it seem like Yugi wasn't making stuff up as he went. Here's "Detonate"
And while "Detonate" is a fun explanation to Yugi's straight up cheating, it's no substitute for a good ol' "Raigeki" or "Dark Hole" if destroying your opponent's monsters is what you want to do.
Yugi displayed a lot of Kuriboh variants during his run as protagonist, many (such as the fusion monster "Kuribabylon") are still to be printed even! But there's always a healthy stream of Kuriboh in Yugi's Deck.
In the "Waking the Dragons" arc, Yugi used a brand new variant of Kuriboh "Kuribandit"
And while not a handtrap, this card became extremely popular as it could easily fill up your graveyard. For decks that use effects that activate in the graveyard "Kuribandit" was a godsend, it's ability to let you take a card among the ones sent to the graveyard for your hand was just a nice little bonus.
In that movie I hate "Dark Side of Dimensions", Yugi showed off his newer version of Kuriboh against the evil Aigami, he called this one "Clear Kuriboh"
Which can negate effect damage and shield you from an attack while it's in the graveyard...Provided you draw a monster to shield you. It's not exactly a great card as there is better options for this kind of effects, but more Kuriboh can't hurt.
Then thehe Gen 5 "Structure Deck: Yugi Muto" gave us the latest Kuriboh for Yugi's Deck, lovingly referred as "Pope Kuriboh", here's "Kuribohrn"!
Kuribohrn can revive a monster that was just destroyed in battle this turn, and while in your graveyard it can shield you from an attack by reviving as many "Kuriboh" monsters as possible from your graveyard, this one is by far the most useful of all of Yugi's Kuriboh handtraps at the moment and it's still not very remarkable...
But fear not! We're just at the tip of a gargantuan Kuriboh iceberg. Kuriboh's immense popularity created a certain tradition in YuGiOh!, where all it's anime protagonist have a "Kuriboh" monster one way or the other. As such Round 3 will be the Round of the Kuriboh! at the end of each Generation we will always get some Kuriboh action as I will review each generation's "Kuriboh" cards!
Surely you won't EVER get tired of Kuriboh right?
TRIVIA TIME
Kazuki Takahashi recently designed the card "Palladium Oracle Mana"
Who can be seen summoning a brand new Ancient Egyptian Kuriboh, after lots of speculation, this particular Kuriboh was also released and named "Ankuriboh"
A manga exclusive, Takahashi designed Kuriboh that can search for "Monster Reborn"!
Generation 1, Round 3 is DONE!
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A certain set of god ripoffs you guys wanted me to review...yay
So I know I'm way late to the party to discuss Buster Blader, but their is something I noticed today that I want to someone to verify it.
For research for a personal project, I was looking up the Yu-Gi-Oh novelisation (and adaptation of the first two arcs plus a new story) and it included Buster Blader in it. The reason I found that odd was the date of the Novels publishing, September of 1999. Looking up the release date of Buster Blader debut in the manga, it's release date was April 2000 and the card's debut September 2000.
So was Buster Blader first ever appearance in a long forgotten obscure novel? Is Buster Blader the Boba Fett of YGO?
I skipped the first episodes of that arc as a child and I was so confused as to what was going on. I expected some Marik shenanigans and we were suddenly in cyberspace.Kuriboh love <3
Man, I really need to rewatch Yu Gi Oh, I never made it throught that weird season where the Battle City Tournament was distruptet and they suddenly were in some weird Cyberspace game.