Today is just a Pack Opener day. I’ll start with opening some packs, then I’ll summon the Synchroes I have. I have two sets to open, and I think I’ll do 20 packs of each. Starting with . Power Invader; Power Supplier; Break! Draw!; Consecrated Light; Reptilianne Gardna; Shreddder; Ritual of Destruction; Alien Brain; Core Blast Well, nothing new here. Bad start, but hopefully it will get better. Shreddder; Spiders' Lair; Sword Master; Fire Ant Ascator; Nature's Reflection; Advance Force; Codarus; Fiendish Chain; Reptilianne Vaskii Yeah, it got better. I got four new cards. Sword Master is a Tuner, which is nice, but its effect is basically useless and it lacks stats. Codarus is fine, nice to have a baby Daedalus. Fiendish Chain is OP, and I think I’ll install a copy into myself. It should fuse with my Dark Chain skill, and hopefully allow Dark Chain to prevent anyone bound by it from using their skills. Reptilianne Vaskii is fine. Just a shame it has that ‘cannot be normal summoned or set’ restriction. Other than that, perfectly good snake lady. … maybe I should Reverse Union with her or a different Reptilianne monster. I should gain a Naga or Lamia race from it. Gravekeeper's Stele; Changing Destiny; Temple of the Sun; Spiders' Lair; Apocatequil; Serpent Suppression; Variety Comes Out; Reptilianne Gardna; Ascending Soul Changing Destiny sounds like it would be a powerful card, but it is actual trash. Why would I ever use something like it? Ascending Soul is fine-ish. Recovering a monster used as a tribute for a Ritual summon isn’t terrible, but nothing great either. Rose Fairy; Viper's Rebirth; Psi-Curse; Consecrated Light; Gundari; Destruct Potion; Reptilianne Gardna; Ritual Cage; Ogre of the Scarlet Sorrow Rose Fairy is fine in the TCG, but for me, it is just a weak monster. But because she is a small fairy, she has her uses. Is she even a her? Do fairies have genders? Whatever. Viper's Rebirth is a sucky Monster Reborn replacement. Is what I would say if it didn’t have that last effect. Seriously. Why does it destroy the summoned monster during the end phase? There is no reason to have that limitation. Ritual Cage is great. Protects Ritual monsters from monster effects. And sadly, Ogre of the Scarlet Sorrow sucks. It tries to be GorzGorz the Emissary of Darkness, but it just isn’t. Changing Destiny; Reptilianne Rage; Serpent Suppression; Widespread Dud; Temple of the Sun; Power Invader; Nature's Reflection; Destruct Potion; Viser Des Viser Des is new, but it is absolute trash. Nature's Reflection; Machine Assembly Line; Forgotten Temple of the Deep; Supay; Reptilianne Servant; Unicycular; Serpent Suppression; Consecrated Light; Cyber Dragon Zwei Cyber Dragon Zwei is okay. I don’t really use Cyber Dragons as much as I should, but I do like them. And Zwei is a decent support card. Sword Master; Changing Destiny; Informer Spider; Oilman; Call of the Reaper; Gundari; Rose Fairy; Lair Wire; Ascending Soul Sword Master; Lair Wire; Psi-Curse; Fire Ant Ascator; Supay; Bicular; Reptilianne Naga; Machine King - 3000 B.C.; Reptilianne Vaskii Temple of the Sun; Codarus; Serpent Suppression; Call of the Reaper; Machine Assembly Line; Meteor Flare; Changing Destiny; Apocatequil; Reptilianne Vaskii Meteor Flare is new, and if it wasn’t for the restriction on activation, I’d call it great. 2000 burn damage is huge. Well, Erasure Magic for that part of the effect is always an option. Alien Brain; Weeping Idol; Call of the Reaper; Forgotten Temple of the Deep; Unicycular; Rose Fairy; Machine Assembly Line; Reptilianne Gardna; Shield Worm Shield Worm is new. And it is okay. Not great, but just okay. First 10 had 2 super rares, no other higher rarity cards. Maybe the next ten will be better. Lair Wire; Serpent Suppression; Inverse Universe; Reptilianne Servant; Power Invader; Pandaborg; Machine Assembly Line; Reptilianne Naga; Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast I already had a Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast, because I got it from the Fusion summoning challenge, but it is new from this set. And it is a decent beast. Sword Master; Lair Wire; Reptilianne Servant; Magic Hole Golem; Psi-Curse; Call of the Reaper; Spiders' Lair; Gravekeeper's Descendant; Gravekeeper's Visionary Gravekeeper's Descendant is kind of meh. Destruction effects are nice, but tributing another monster for it is costly. Gravekeeper's Visionary on the other hand is great. Gains attack for each Graveskeeper in the GY, and can prevent its own destruction. Nice. Codarus; Rose Fairy; Lair Wire; Gravekeeper's Stele; Machine Assembly Line; Temple of the Sun; Pot of Benevolence; Sword Master; Djinn Cursenchanter of Rituals Destruct Potion; Power Invader; Variety Comes Out; Power Supplier; Ritual of Destruction; Pandaborg; Spiders' Lair; Break! Draw!; Drill Synchron Drill Synchron is new, and it is decently good. The piercing for all Warrior-type monsters if nice, and on top of that, it also gives a free Pack token. Spiders' Lair; Fire Ant Ascator; Alien Brain; Oilman; Bicular; Tricular; Codarus; Psi-Curse; Dark Bug Nothing new here, next. Meteor Flare; Supay; Oilman; Sword Master; Rose Fairy; Fire Ant Ascator; Advance Force; Majestic Red Dragon; Djinn Cursenchanter of Rituals Majestic Red Dragon!!! I got it! And I didn’t even need to full send it with tons of pack tokens! And oh boy. You know I like the Majestic Star Dragon, and arguably, it is better than its Red counterpart. But I prefer Majestic Red Dragon. Just the power. It just hits differently. … yeah, it was a bad joke, but whatever. Hype is real, so let’s continue. Serpent Suppression; Reptilianne Rage; Rose Fairy; Shreddder; Destruct Potion; Alien Brain; Apocatequil; Psi-Curse; Cyber Dragon Zwei Nothing new here, next. Consecrated Light; Oilman; Shreddder; Destruct Potion; Codarus; Machine King - 3000 B.C.; Serpent Suppression; Viper's Rebirth; Core Blast Nothing new here, next. Machine Assembly Line; Bicular; Weeping Idol; Power Invader; Consecrated Light; Advance Force; Supay; Zeman the Ape King; Ritual Cage Zeman the Ape King is new, and it is pretty nice. Prevents Spells and Traps while attacking and can negate attacks. Just nice all around. Last pack of Absolute Powerforce. Spiders' Lair; Rose Fairy; Gravekeeper's Stele; Machine Assembly Line; Variety Comes Out; Serpent Suppression; Power Supplier; Drill Synchron; Super-Nimble Mega Hamster And the last pack had something new. Super-Nimble Mega Hamster. It's fine. The flip effect to set another Beast is nice. And its name is amazing. Now, time for a set change. Infernity Reflector; Corridor of Agony; Silent Graveyard; Lyna the Light Charmer; Infernity Break; Flare Resonator; Morphtronic Vacuumen; Phantom Hand; Blackwing - Backlash Corridor of Agony is interesting, but useless for me. It is super debilitating for certain decks, but I think Skill Drain is still better in every way. It works on everything, and while it doesn’t do as much as Corridor of Agony, the general nature makes Skill Drain better. Morphtronic Vacuumen sucks, but I guess if I want to make a vacuum cleaner. And Blackwing - Backlash is Mirror Force with extra steps. Doesn’t make it bad, but … Actually, considering that Mirror Force reflects the attack back at the attacker, maybe Blackwing - Backlash does something else, like summoning a murder of birds to bully the attacker. I need to test it out. Leeching the Light; Black Thunder; Genex Undine; Wattfox; Card Breaker; Infernity Break; Memory Crush King; Blackwing - Backlash; Wattgiraffe Genex Undine is nice. It can make new Genex Controllers. Memory Crush King is way too situational. Wattgiraffe if … okay. Direct attacking is not the best, but not the worst either. And the ‘Your opponent cannot activate cards or effects until the end of this turn’ is just a nice bonus. Power Break; Testudo erat Numen; Black-Winged Strafe; Synchro Magnet; X-Saber Palomuro; Genex Controller; Wattwoodpecker; Batteryman AAA; Koa'ki Meiru Shield Synchro Magnet … why? Why can’t you be normal summoned or set? You’d actually be decent if you could. Genex Controller is nothing special, just a normal monster tuner. But most Genex monsters require Controller, or a monster that can become a Controller, so nice to have the actual monster. Wattwoodpecker … should really have higher stats. Double attacking is nice, but the ‘cannot change battle position’ is trash, and with only 1000 attack, you aren’t running over much. Spoiler This update is available on Nove1Fire.net Crevice Into the Different Dimension; Flare Resonator; Batteryman AAA; X-Saber Palomuro; Wattcube; Morphtronic Vacuumen; Synchro Magnet; Dawn of the Herald; Revival Rose Revival Rose is fine. Special summoning from the GY very situationally is not bad, but not great either. Power Break; Koa'ki Meiru Initialize!; Infernity Reflector; Black Thunder; Worm Call; Genex Controller; Biofalcon; Morphtronic Vacuumen; Genex Searcher Genex Searcher is okay. It is a battle recruiter for Genex monsters. Assault Spirits; Blossom Bombardment; Blackwing - Bombardment; Wattfox; Ronintoadin; Infernity Randomizer; Dragon Laser; Koa'ki Meiru Sandman; Koa'ki Meiru Prototype Koa'ki Meiru Prototype is interesting. It has no maintenance cost like all the other Koa'ki Meiru monsters do, instead, it can destroy itself to save another Koa'ki Meiru from being destroyed because of the maintenance cost, or if another Koa'ki Meiru is destroyed because of the maintenance cost, it summons a token. A well designed card in my opinion. Only wish it could special summon itself if you control another Koa'ki Meiru monster. Then it would be fantastic. Corridor of Agony; Flare Resonator; Power Break; Changer Synchron; Second Booster; Wattfox; Trigon; Koa'ki Meiru Sandman; Revival Rose Nothing new here, next. Ronintoadin; Biofalcon; Flare Resonator; Testudo erat Numen; Wattwoodpecker; Synchro Magnet; Archfiend Interceptor; X-Saber Pashuul; Ally of Justice Core Destroyer Nothing new here, next. Key Mouse; Infernity Reflector; Blossom Bombardment; Black Thunder; Infernity Randomizer; Biofalcon; Infernity Break; Memory Crush King; Blackwing - Backlash Nothing new here, next. Morphtronic Vacuumen; Black-Winged Strafe; Archfiend Interceptor; Flare Resonator; Genex Undine; Dragon Laser; Trigon; Magidog; ZERO-MAX Magidog is okay. Decent stats, looks cute, yes that is important, and an effect when used as a Synchro material. ZERO-MAX is fine, even if it is only a Monster Reborn replacement. Also, like with Absolute Powerforce, the first 10 packs of The Shining Darkness had 2 super rares, but no other higher rarity cards. I just find that interesting. Genex Controller; Corridor of Agony; Spore; Key Mouse; Infernity Reflector; Flare Resonator; Chaos Trap Hole; Worm Call; Revival Rose Spore is okay. A Tuner and it can even adjust its level. Blackwing - Ghibli the Searing Wind; Crevice Into the Different Dimension; Morphtronic Vacuumen; Infernity Randomizer; Power Break; Corridor of Agony; Black-Winged Strafe; Biofalcon; Guard Mines Guard Mines is okay. Counters effects that target and destroy a monster. Changer Synchron; Crevice Into the Different Dimension; Assault Spirits; Chaos Trap Hole; X-Saber Pashuul; Hunter of Black Feathers; Biofalcon; Infernity Reflector; Koa'ki Meiru Shield Nothing new here, next. Card Breaker; Wattcube; Crevice Into the Different Dimension; Infernity Reflector; Testudo erat Numen; Chaos Trap Hole; Blackwing - Ghibli the Searing Wind; Flare Resonator; Cherry Inmato Cherry Inmato is new and I guess it is good. It summons two Inmato monsters when destroyed by battle. Magic Triangle of the Ice Barrier; Genex Controller; X-Saber Palomuro; Silent Graveyard; Archfiend Interceptor; Genex Undine; Wattfox; Infernity Beetle; Black-Winged Dragon Magic Triangle of the Ice Barrier is normally situational, but I can just force the requirement it has. But even then, unlimited summons, so I don’t need it. And then there is Black-Winged Dragon. … It sucks normally, but it is actually decent for me. Negating effect damage is just good, and since the dragon doesn’t have to attack, its reducing attack stat doesn’t matter that much. So yeah. Black-Winged Dragon is nice. Assault Spirits; Wattwoodpecker; Power Break; Silent Graveyard; Ronintoadin; Infernity Break; Dragon Laser; Koa'ki Meiru Initialize!; Guard Mines Dragon Laser; Trigon; Silent Graveyard; Crevice Into the Different Dimension; Memory Crush King; Morphtronic Vacuumen; Batteryman AAA; X-Saber Pashuul; Revival Rose Koa'ki Meiru Initialize!; Worm Call; Genex Undine; Spore; Changer Synchron; Wattfox; Koa'ki Meiru Sandman; Magic Triangle of the Ice Barrier; Magidog Morphtronics, Scramble!; Memory Crush King; Dawn of the Herald; Silent Graveyard; Crevice Into the Different Dimension; Archfiend Interceptor; Infernity Break; Fairy Archer; Infernity Avenger Infernity Avenger is another okay tuner. It is a bit too situational for my tastes, but it isn’t bad. Next, and last, pack. Worm Call; Testudo erat Numen; Chaos Trap Hole; Flare Resonator; Dawn of the Herald; Morphtronic Vacuumen; Assault Spirits; Synchro Magnet; Infernity Beetle Sadly the last pack didn’t have anything new. And also, my second 20 of Shining Darkness only had 1 higher rarity card. But it was the ghost rare Black-Winged Dragon, so it isn’t that bad. Now, last thing. Summoning the Synchro monsters I have. I don’t have that many, only seven. And that will only get me one more reward. But it is still worth doing. Those seven are Majestic Star Dragon; Majestic Red Dragon; Explosive Magician; Reptilianne Hydra; Blackwing - Silverwind the Ascendant; Zeman the Ape King and Black-Winged Dragon. I claimed my 80 summoned reward, Deep Sea Prima Donna and Deep Sea Artisan, summoned Prima Donna and checked what my next reward will be. Interesting rewards. Shooting Riser Dragon is nice, and I honestly do lack Synchro Tuners. Stardust Trail on the other hand is super pretty. Also, her effect practically yells: “I help in summoning Majestic Star Dragon!” But that is all for today. See you next time.