Old Synchros are getting better!!

Do you remember the synchro era? Of course you do. Some synchro monsters are still used these days.

But do you remember those ones ?

Recently ,OCG released some better version of those monster.
If you didn't saw them before, let me introduce to you Fairy Dragon - Ancient, Power Tool Mecha Dragon, and Flashing Carat Dragon - Stardust!!

YCS Barcelona Report By Nicolas P.

Hi everybody this is my first Report on Elbrarian's Infos my name is Nicolas Pirasteh I'm going present my experience from this YCS.

My YCS Barcelona Report

Hello everyone,

I went to YCS Barcelona, for playing this time. I didn't judge because I wasn't selected, and it was the first time out of 9, simply because no one can be selected everytime. ^^

So I went with others french players, and I really had a great weekend, thanks to them.

I decided to play Dino Rabbit, with Macro Cosmos in it of course.
There is what I played:

Mermail

A while ago, I did an article about Inzektor, and I was pretty proud of it. So I will try to do the same about another archetype : Mermail & Atlantean.
I'm not gonna talk about every single cards that countains those archetypes, but just about the deck which gathers the two.
They both came around the same moment in Yu-Gi-Oh! history and they were destined to work together.

Abyss Rising - Censorship

Hi everyone,

For the last few sets, I did an article about the cards has been censored while traveling from OCG to TCG.

In Abyss Rising there is 8 cards that  have been censored. And here they are :

YCS Seattle/Tacoma - Decklists

Hello,

The last YCS was in Seattle/Tacoma this weekend, and 756 players came to participate.
The event was won by Michael Stibbins and his deck Inzektor.

Here are the decklists I gathered from the Top 16 : 

YCS Providence - Decklists

There were 1154 players this weekend in Providence, Rhode Island for the YCS.
And after two days, one player came victorious with his deck, a deck Geargia!
His decklist and others from this event are below:

All About Cheating Part 1

Hey yo everybody, Nicolas here again !!

Today i would like share with you the big recurent sujet at Yu-Gi-Oh ... The Cheating !!

Cheating is an unfortunate part of any game that has ever come into existence, and it only gets worse when there are prizes involved or a reward of any kind for winning.

This problem is especially rampant in the world of trading card games, like the Yu-Gi-Oh. There are all kinds of cheaters in the world of Yu-Gi-Oh, but there are ways to spot, stop and prevent these kinds of problems from occurring.

This article is intended to help honest players, not to give ideas to those who are dishonest and looking for an easy win, so here are some of the top ways to prevent cheating.

THE Geagia's Analyse !

Hi everyone,

Let me present myself,
my name is Nicolas P. And i'm happy to be a new writer for Elbrarian's Infos
I would like to say a big thanks to Elbrarian for giving me this opportunity.

We'll start today with a first arcticle on deck GEARGIA.

look like a familly 

Return of Duelist - Censorship

Hello everyone,
Like I did for the previous sets, I will do an article about the censorship in the latest set which came out in TCG in August : Return of the Duelist.

Every time a set come from the OCG to the TCG, some cards get little changes.
I'm not talking about effect or ATK, I'm talking about their artwork.
For some reason, the game in TCG is supposed to be appropriate for little kids or whatever, so some content must be controlled. Therefore, card artworks are redraw to appear less agressive, horrific, or sexual.

Below are the censored cards from Return of the Duelist :

Decklists from YCS Indianapolis

Hi everyone.

Since the coverage site of the USA won't post the decklist of YCS Indianapolis, (I still don't know why they keep on not posting the decklists), I'm gonna put here the ones I found:

Astral Pack 1 - Spoiler

From Konami :
So it’s time for a new tournament pack series. But what do we call it? Something cool. It needs to be something related to Zexal. (”Feelin’ the Flow”… no, that’s too long.) Something about Dueling. Since we’re adding more foil (more about that in a bit!) it needs to be something shiny….
Shiny? Cool? Dueling? Only one thing fits the bill! After all, who else has an incredible knowledge of all things Dueling? So coming soon, when you participate in officially sanctioned events, you’ll receive the all-new, and shinier-than-ever ASTRAL PACK ONE.

The Seal of Orichalcos

The Seal of Orichalcos will be available in the Legendary Collection 3: Yugi's World the 27th of September. It will be Ultra Rare and 100% tournament legal.

On my way to Sheffield

YCS Toronto - Deck Lists

 Since the US coverage team don't want to put the deck list on the Konami coverage site, I will put the one I got, here.

So there is some deck list of YCS Toronto.

The deck I want to use starting September 1st

This deck work a lot like the deck Tengu Plant, but is with no Tengu and no Plants. ^^
The deck I want to use don't have a name for now, so I'm gonna call it Debris Teleport or Emergency Peten  or something like that.
So here it goes :

Poll Result - The cards you wanted to see in the forbidden list.

A few mouths ago a started a poll with this question : "Which one of the following cards you would like to see banned?"

The Ban List is finaly here!

Here is the next ban list, which will be effective starting September 1st

The List is Coming!

Previously on F&L List - The End of an Era

Six months ago, a new Forbidden & Limited Card List was announced. And players find that one pretty much useless, at least for TCG, because it didn't have any real impact on the top tier decks.

DSF Number 2 now available for TCG

Do you remember this dude?

This dude can, all by himself, deal 4000 damage to your opponents life point, by attacking and by tributing himself for his effect. And before being tributed, he can activates his effect on other monsters you control to inflict damage equal to its level x200 to your opponent.
This very powerful card is of course forbidden. But a new card, which is a little like him, will be available for play soon.

Now, meet the new Dark Strike Fighter, Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Gustav Max :

Some National Stats

Hello everyone,

National season ended for TCG, the European Championship is next weekend in the Italian city of Milan (I'll be there for judging btw). WCQ North America took place last weekend, and the winner is Tyler Tabman with his Wind-Up Deck.

But in all that, wich deck did best during this National Season? Well there is your answer :
They were 44 Nationals, and there are some stats about which decks won :

Night Beam Vs Mystical Space Typhoon

Spoiler - Turbo Pack 8

The next Turbo Pack will be available in June and will contain, as always, 21 cards :
- 9 Commons
- 6 Rares
- 4 Super Rares
- 1 Ultra Rare
- 1 Ultimate Rare

Spoiler :

Spoiler - Gold Series - Haunted Mine

Spoiler - Samurai Warlords

The Tale of Warrior Dai Grepher

Warrior Dai Grepher was a swordsman with an unknown past, but with an interesting future ahead of him.

Galactic Overlord - Censorship

As always, when a booster set comes from the OCG to the TCG, some pictures get changed. this precess is done to avoid religious connotation, sexual content, or any sign of violence.
And the newly released set Galactic Overlord didn't escape his destiny and have been censored like the others. If you wanna see the censored cards of Order of Chaos, click here.

This time, 6 cards are censored :

French National

Hello everyone,
This past weekend the french national took place in the same place the YCS Paris did, and last year national championship did too.
The French Champion of 2012 is Sebastien Ma, and he won with his Wind-Up deck, defeating Tudor Mitchel and his Inzektor in the final match.
504 Players were in Paris to battle for the title of Champion of France 2012, and all of them struggled with the new rule which came out a few days before the tournament.

Poll Result

The last poll was about which deck is the best, and they were 4 possibilities, Rabbit, Inzektor, Wind-Up and "Other".
And the result is :

29% Other
29% Rabbit
27% Inzektor
15% Wind-Up

The next poll will be about ... well, I don't know, but I will put one soon. ^^

YCS Toulouse report

Hi everyone,
I was the Assistant Head Judge for YCS Toulouse, and I liked it. I was probably chosen because I am french, and the Head Judge was not.
There were only 435 players, so it wasn't really challenging (as a judge) so I wasn't busy all the time as I expected.

The Emptiness of Vanity's Fiend

Card text : Neither player can Special Summon monsters. Destroy this card when a card is sent from the Deck or the field to your Graveyard.

The Best Booster Set Ever!

When Yu-Gi-Oh! first came out, they was a limited card list in the rulebook, where cards like Change of Heart, Monster Reborn, Dark Hole and the five pieces of Exodia was on it. Then the forbidden list came out, bannishing cards judged too powerful to be played. In April 2004, for the first time ever, cards was forbidden :
- Cyber Jar
- Fiber Jar
- Injection Fairy Lily
- Yata-Garasu
- Change of Heart
- Delinquent Duo
- Harpie's Feather Duster
- Painful Choice
- Raigeki
- Imperial Order

And today, 9 of the 10 are still forbidden.

And now I will tell you the top 5 of booster sets containing the most forbidden cards. (excluing the reedition packs)

N°5 : We have two sets at N°5, each one containing only 2 forbidden cards :

Dark Crisis : 
- Butterfly Dagger - Elma
- Tsukuyomi

The Duelist Genesis :
- Mind Master
- Goyo Guardian

Poll result

On this blog there was a poll, a yes-or-no question about the future of Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning in the Limited cards list. So the question was "BLS re-banned?" and 47 people answered. 61% responded "Yes" (BLS rebanned), and 38% responded "No". And now that we know the ban list, we can confirm that BLS stays Limited, so 61% of the people who voted were wrong.

The next pole on this blog is "Which deck is the Best ?" and they are 4 possible answer "Inzektor", "Rabbit", "Wind-Up" and "Other". The poll is on the right top corner of the blog.

So, Who's the best?

Ban list of March 2012

This is the ban list for TCG and OCG, effective March 1st 2012.

Ban :
- Glow-Up Bulb
- Spore
- Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
- Trap Dustshoot

Fake Banlists

On the internet we can find some fake banlist.
Here are some of them :

All you should know about Inzektors.

On the newly released set Order of Chaos, the Ninja and the Wind-Up archetypes are now powered-up with new interesting cards, but the most played cards of the set are probaly the Inzektors. Why? Because it's cheaper thant Wind-up, and stronger than Ninjas.

The deck Inzektor is a dark-based deck with only 4 different new cards, Inzektor Hornet, Inzektor Dragonfly, Inzektor Centipede, and Inzektor Giga-Mantis (there are more Inzektor cards but only those 4 are played)

Order of Chaos Censorship

Hello and Welcome into the censorship of the newly released set Order of Chaos.

Every time a set goes from OCG to TCG, some card pictures get changed. Those changes can be from tiny details (a removed halo or horn) to a redraw of the card. In the last set (Photon Shockwave) only 4 of the 90 cards from OCG have been censored.
In this set there are 5 cards censored :

Turbo Pack 7 - Spoiler

There is the content of the Turbo Pack 7 :

Ultimate Rare :
TU07-EN000 Ally of Justice Catastor