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Article 50: Packing the bag

When the reader see the title of the article, they would be like..."WHAT"?

No, I'm not packing my bag and quitting the game...yet...

So, what's the purpose of this article? Well, some metagame update, some spammer hate, and some reason why I'm not so active...

New Metagame:
Of course, the metagame right now in both English and Japanese side is still not stabilize. People are still trying out new cards or underlook cards to see what work best...or, they're still replacing what's lost from the last list.

So, first I would talk about what I'm more familiar with: the Japanese metagame. Although there may not be any major tournament in Japan (like SJC and like), according to the datas I gather via a bunch of small tournaments...

1. Gadget is not as dominate as I guess.
- Of course, this is due to the rise of [E-Hero Airman]. How? Well, Airman outmatch the Gadgets in stats. Since the consistancy are the same anyway (they're both use because they constantly search each other so there's the monster presence in hand), why use a "vanilla" in Gadget while Airman have secondary effect?
- Also, people are mixing in Gadget with Airman...
- The death of Chimera OTK (due to restriction of [Future Fusion]) does not help either

2. New sets? Who cares...new promos...hell yeah
- As seen from many of the Japanese decklists...cards like [Airman], [Gors], and [Golden Chest] are widely used
- Reason? They're good...

So from tournament results...here're the temporary "tier list".
Tier 1:
- Cy-Cali-Gors (CyDra + DCK + Gors + Airman + the utilities)
- "Toolbox" a.k.a. "Good Stuff" (Not the TCG version...this deck just mix in anyhing good)
- Dark Gors (Dark Realm/World + Gors + utilities)
* Of course, the deck is here because a LOT of people use it. However, it does not mean it's a good deck

Tier 1.5:
- Gadget variants
- Necroface variants
- Horus variants
- Other Dark Realm/Dark World variants
- "Destiny Blade" (Diamondguy - D-Fusion - Blade/mix with Monster Gate)

Tier 2:
- Emperor and/or High Tribute Aggro-Control
- Burn

And yes...[Devil Franken] a.k.a. [Cyber Stein] is use...but only few decks put 1 or 2 in.

TCG:
As said in metagame.com...there're basically 4 core ideas: Warrior Toolbox, Monarchs, Random Beats, and OTK (varies). The only thing I would say here...
1. WHY IN THE WORLD people still use [Dekoichi the immobile Choo Choo]? Seriously, Chaos is gone...
2. Stein is WAY over covered. The card is not "make or break"...
3. Lily is finally use...so Tewart cannot have the excuse of "unrestricting it"...

GOD...I hate spammers!!
For those people who use the chatbox, they know there's a damn idiot call "The Judge" that have to find a life outside of spamming the Comet chatbox.

For those who don't know how the chatbox work...well, the chatbox is kind of shitty, and to delete messages, I have to go into Dreamweaver (the HTML coder I'm using right now) and delete lines of codes from it. So where does this led to? Me spending time in deleting those shits...

GOD, I never get how someone can just spend time typing lines and lines of spams (not even advertising...but immature stuff like random "fuck you bitches") while they could have...well, socialize with his/her friends and/or family, spend time doing work/homework, etc.

So unless they get paid to spam...for god sake...I do not get pay for deleting spams. And what can I do? Pretty much nothing...name ban is stupid (I cannot force people to register to write in the chatbox), IP ban is dumb because it's dynamic IP, and it's not like they would bother to read my rant...

Why I'm "dead" playing the game?
Actually, the answer is not that hard. First, the store I usually goes to stop having Japanese products, so basically outside of ordering them online, I have no way to get new cards. But why even bother with new cards? The recent few packs are pieces of shits...

You wonder why I don't care about the game anymore? Well, because even people like me who just like to look for random card(s) to play around with cannot find any fun cards to play around. A set? Hero stuff (either unoriginal or unusable), anti-meta cards (then ban the cards that they're design to go against), or simply cards that have bad cost-effect proportion.

No, I did not quit the game yet...I simply don't care. And no...I (or we) would not stop translating sets for you guys, so don't worry.

So the last reason of me simply caring nothing about the game? Well, it's because there's something call Ravnica (OK, and Time Spiral) block in "Magic: the Gathering" and the block is the best designed block EVER. So I cannot stop myself playing Magic...

So yeah...building decks? Not much fun now as either they're "unoriginal" or "unplayable". With simply casual players like many of you, you know that we're being ignore thanks to the anime fans...

Too bad...the R&D team would never learn as long as the main target of this game is "kids".

Next article: it should probably be STON overview...

P.S. Happy 4th birthday, DMComet (10/30)

- Baron, 10/25/06