Darkness after the Chaos

After living for about with strong and nearly unbeatable decks (unless you'd use any counter-strategy or play extremely defensive) like Chaos Dragons, Inzektors and Wind-Ups, came a banlist that could have made it's job six months ago. Aside from practically destroying Chaos Dragons decks and balancing all the others decks, the list did something else: brought a dark past back.

TeleDAD decks (a.k.a.: Teleport Dark Armed Dragon) were a top deck in many tournaments before March 2009. It had a quite variety of DARK monsters almost ready to perform Synchro Summons with Psychic-Type Tuners and quite a knack to make the summon of Dark Armed Dragon possible. Now, their cards are far cheaper and September 2012 banlist made it possible a better comeback.

Rekindling the FIRE

After the banlist previously posted here was confirmed official, people can expect less from handless decks like HERO and Infernity and a little more from any other deck not harmed with new limitations. But there is a deck that it hasn't shown much but it's still quite powerful, even by the fact that the banlist didn't affected it at all. We're talking about Lavals.

As many other archetypes, Laval's Synchros are well worth to take most space in the Extra Deck, rather than regular Synchros and XYZ. Their affinity to the Flamvell archetype is also useful as many Laval monsters are FIRE with 200 Defense points. Which makes them perfect for the massive summoning Spell Card ever existed:

Power Balance

At March 1st, Konami really surprised every single player by not conducting their usual and proper job of keeping the game level balanced by forbidding and limiting certain cards for the Advanced Format. Inzektors, Wind-Ups, Chaos Dragons and Dino-Rabbits continued unaffected since their release. That is, until September.

It was released after the World Championship the most likely confirmed banlist and it will pretty much fix whichever mistakes Konami did:

Just for the artwork

A Hero Lives with a Dark Destiny

After being away for a while, we're back. This time, we're going to talk about a variation of a deck that people are starting to be fond of: Elemental HERO, or, more precisely, A Hero Lives.

Most people haven't care much about their Life Points being used as a cost, so defending themselves with cards like Solemn Warning and Solemn Judgment didn't see much. Oddly enough, using Life Points to get offensive makes some people reluctant. That's why this kind of HERO deck never got popular. But with the release of Escuridão, things can be different.

Let's have a different view of that deck with this card: