Author: Cheesedude

More of the Sylvan cards from LVAL have had their TCG names revealed.

“Noble Knights” get a new toy to play with – and not one you may have expected.

Two more TCG names for LVAL cards have been revealed!

“Shinra” has become “Sylvan”, with the only full name confirmed being “Sylvan Flowerknight” for “Shinra Knightcissus”. The new Gravekeeper’s boss is “Gravekeeper’s Oracle”, while the Spell and Trap support are “Hidden Temples of Necrovalley” and “Imperial Tombs of Necrovalley”, respectively.

Quite a bit of confusion popped up on the Internet a week or so ago, back when some recent card previews hit Japan. One particular card in those previews – LVAL-JP056 – caught the attention of the community. Players thought it belonged to all sorts of groups, and there was enough confusion for us to feel we should speak about it directly. The name of card number LVAL-JP056 is 励輝士 ヴェルズビュート. We would romanize it as “Reikishi Verzbuth”. We would sound it out as “Ray-key-she Verz-boot.” And we will use it to teach you how the Organization handles names.

The new Official Tournament Store Championships (OTS Championships) provide Duelists with more opportunities to qualify for the World Championship. By winning, you earn the title of “Store Champion”, an invite to Worlds and a OTS Championship game mat featuring a monster such as “Star Eater”. Placing second in one of these events also earns you an invite. The tournaments are held in Swiss format, with the number of rounds dependent on how many entrants there are. There are no playoffs, at the end of the Swiss rounds, the Duelist listed number 1 in the standings is crowned champion. These events…

The Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG is ultimately derived from the manga and anime, right? I see many complaints about how characters in the anime “cheat”. Guess what? They don’t. They are not playing Yu-Gi-Oh!. They are playing Duel Monsters. You must think of it as a separate game entirely that happens to share cards and mechanics.

This is the fourth in our series on handshots. We’ve reached ZEXAL now, which is still on-going, of course.

This is the third article in our series about hand shots. 5D’s is more difficult to spot these in, as Riding Duels often feature very far-off hand shots. Let’s see what we can spot though and also take a look at Ground Duels.

This is a continuation of the previous article detailing this concept in Yu-Gi-Oh!. Here, we move on to Yu-Gi-Oh! GX. As a reminder, this is only the Japanese version, which you’ll want to keep in mind when we get to some of the “what is this doing here?” examples.