[MW] Pump up the Tunes before Blazing Dominion’s Release

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Are you ready for the Blazing Dominion format?

With Blazing Dominion inching closer to release in the TCG, players have been going after cards for preparations for the new format. This article will be focusing on many of the cards that have been rising up over the past weeks as quantities on the North American market have become scarce for some cards and spikes that have happened as more players return to the game. So let’s dive into this week’s Market Watch.

Killer Tunes with Kewl Styles

It’s not a shocker that Naturia Rosewhip showed its face… well, vines again, but every copy of this card has hit under 20 copies on the North American market, with players picking it up for Kewl Tune. This is because Kewl Tune Cue can Special Summon it from your hand, Deck, or GY on Cue’s Normal Summon. When Rosewhip is on the field, your opponent can only activate 1 Spell/Trap per turn, which can hinder strategies like Dracotail or Sky Striker if they don’t draw an out to this card.

Along with Naturia Rosewhip, Kewl Tune Synchro has been rising heavily in price as your main 3-of in the Kewl Tune deck. You can use this card up to twice per turn, and it adds a Kewl Tune card from your deck to your hand, then immediately after it resolves, you can Synchro Summon a Tuner Synchro Monster, but the “downside” of this card is that it locks you into only being able to Special Summon Tuners. It pairs extremely well with PSY-Framegear Gamma and Epsilon to stop Monster effects, like Ash Blossom & Joyous Springs, or Trap effects like Dominus Impulse, if you’re going first.

Recently in the meta, many decks are currently playing The Fallen & The Virtuous, and this has caused cards like Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon to rise up more in price. This powerful Synchro Monster is completely generic, and during the Main Phase, you can activate its effect to banish it from the field (until the End Phase), and if you do, you can Special Summon 1 Fallen of Ablaz or a Level 4 or lower monster that mentions it from your Deck or GY. This is extremely useful for summoning Blazing Cartesia, the Virtuous, or Guiding Quem, the Virtuous, to your field to advance many of your plays, depending on the deck you’re playing. If this card is in your GY though, you can target a Level 8 Fusion Monster in your GY or banishment and 1 card on the field in order to shuffle both back into the Deck, making this an amazing card to assist you in breaking the opponent’s board.

Players have gone in the masses to buy copies of Soundproofed, an old Spell Card that was originally released in Extreme Victory and hasn’t seen a reprint since. This card can be activated at the start of your Main Phase 1, and after it resolves, neither player can Special Summon Synchro Monsters until the end of your opponent’s next End Phase. Just like cards like Heat Wave, this card kills anyone from playing Synchro monsters, so it is one of the best techs currently against Kewl Tune as a whole.

These cards are the main ones players have been looking at from the mass pool of other cards to prepare for the future format. Maybe we will see some of these cards reprinted within this year, while some may see a hit on the Forbidden & Limited list when the time comes.

Recent Surges on the Market

From Artmage K9 being a part of the winning team from Team YCS to DoomZ becoming an extremely competent deck in both Genesys and soon the TCG with Blazing Dominion, there are also some techs for the upcoming formats that have some interesting insight for the future of the game.

First, we will take a look at the start of the current lore series, Medius the Pure. This card has seen so many buyouts over the years, and this one is no different. With new support for Artmage, DoomZ, and Elfnote in Blazing Dominion, both Artmage and DoomZ are picking up speed from more innovation. This is the main monster that all three decks want to run, as if it is Normal or Special Summoned, you can add it to your hand or Special Summon 1 Power Patron monster from your deck. While this card is in your GY, you can shuffle 1 monster from your hand or face-up field into the Deck to Special Summon this card, but it’s banished when it leaves the field. So even if this card was discarded, there is always a way for it to come back to the field to start your plays in every Medius Lore theme.

It has been noted recently that DoomZ V Five – Amalthe has gone up in price due to players having high expectations for DoomZ in the coming format. This is one of your main monsters that lets you, on Normal/Special Summon or destruction by card effect, add any DoomZ monster from your deck. While this card is equipped with an Equip Card, you can quickly Special Summon 1 WIND Machine Xyz Monster from your Extra Deck with the same Rank as this card, and if you do, attach this monster and its Equip Cards to that monster as material. This is also treated as an Xyz Summon, so this will trigger the Special Summon effect of DoomZ Break – Diactorus to destroy a DoomZ card in your hand or face-up field, and then you can destroy 1 monster on the field as a powerful form of interruption.

Waiting for its time to see play with Dark Magical Curtain (YGOrganization Translation), Gravekeeper’s Shaman is one of the best techs to Special Summon off of it. Being originally released in Legacy of the Valiant, this card has seen two total reprints over the past 12 years in the 2014 Mega-Tins and the Speed Duel Starter Deck: Destiny Masters. The main reason is that, when it’s face-up on the field, Gravekeeper’s Shaman negates all monster effects that activate in the GY, except Gravekeeper’s monsters. Stopping massive pushes from decks like Dracotail, or stopping Tearlament monsters from using their effects to fuse, is absolutely amazing to even the playing field, even if it negates your activated monster effects too. This is just one of the many techs we will see in the future and definitely one to keep an eye out on.

The format is ever-changing with new cards coming in and out of popularity for better options or a new hyped tech, but one thing that is definite is that players will always follow the wind and venture out to find new innovation within newer cards being released. Come back next week to see the affect that Rarity Collection V had on the market!

Edited and co-written by Angryjon