The LiquidLegends Lounge - Page 1336

Yugioh is an... odd inclusion to this game. The majority of the sets are comics, Marvel, DC, and TMNT. Wizkids is part of WotC, so they have access to the D&D lisence easily enough but... yugioh? Funny story, it was actually the first set to be designed, but Wizkids waited for an IP that had more pop until they landed Marvel. This makes Yugioh a very wierd set because templating was awful, the power curve of the game wasn't very smooth, and some of the cards straight up didn't work with how the rules of the game were and had to be erratad on release. Oh, did I mention the art sucks? Instead of having proper drawings like everything else, Wiz Kids was forced to take screen shots from the anime. That's not even mentioning that the dice in this set were stamped with index number and in official tournaments you need at least one die for the character with the right number, more on that later.

But, regardless of my feeling on yugioh in general, it has some strong cards and is becoming difficult to find online so I figured better now than later like the case with Avengers vs X-Men where you're lucky to find it less than 2x MSRP.

The Team:
Morphing Jar x2 1(Mask) - One of the few vanilla cards that is worth playing. It isn't a game ender but is super efficient for it's cost.

Thousand Dragon x1 6(Bolt) - Sadly the only super rare I got in this box, which average 1.75/box in all non AvX sets. When fielded, opponents character die that get KO'd that turn to to the used instead of the prep. This ability is massive in Dicemasters as the KO => Prep mechanic provides a hefty defender's advantage. It's also the only character to have the fusion mechanic, where you can KO two different characters of the Thousand Dragon Fusion affiliation to buy him for free. So now you'd get an expensive die in exchange for some board presence, but you get to roll that die and the sacrificed characters the next turn anyway. Since there is no common Thousand Dragon, it's rare for there to be more than one in a draft(there wasn't) so when I saw it I immediately snatched it up on my 2nd pick.

Time Wizard x3 5(Mask) - The first part of the fusion fodder, the Time Wizard I used lets me move 2 sidekick dice from the used to prep when he's fielded. Think of that as playing a creature that creates a suspend 1 copy of seething song. The opportunity to take advantage of his when fielded and then KO him for Thousand Dragon is strong in draft. I grabbed these guys when I saw them.

Baby Dragon x1 3(Bolt) - The second part of the fusion fodder. My team was kind of lopsided since Yugioh tends to either be cheap stuff or super expensive, so I passed on the more expensive version with an ability for the cheaper vanilla. I probably could have netted them both, but it was worth securing one instead of getting none and this one fit my curve better.

Blue-Eyes White Dragon x1 6(Bolt) - This is the big beat stick of the team. When it attacks it gets +1A for each other attacking die, which can be massive. On 2 of its 3 character faces it deals 3 damage to a character die, shades of Flametongue Kavu.

Curse of Dragon x2 5(Bolt) - When it's in the used pile if I field a character die with "Dragon" in the name(Baby Dragon, Thousand Dragon, Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Curse of Dragon) I can roll the die. If it comes up as a character face I can field it for free. Very nice for keeping a board presence when a character either slips through blockers or is let through to remove it from the board for a while.

Jinzo x 1 5(Shield) - When fielded I can cancel the effect of an action die in the field. Think of this like Naturalize or Disenchant with legs.

Doomcaliber Knight x2 5(Fist) - Long story short, it has Hexproof and has a global where a player can pay a fist to make their attacking characters have Hexproof.

Basic Actions:
Horn of the Unicorn - Two characters get +1/+1, on 2 of the 3 action faces they also get Overcrush(trample)

Monster Reborn - Lets me roll a character die from my used pile. If it lands on a character face I put it into my reserve. If it doesn't it hops into my dice bag.

Game 1:
Last time I said I wanted to do best of 3's with future drafts. This game killed any shot of that happening by lasting over an hour and a half long I should have called it at 30. It was trench warfare as lots of sidekick faces got rolled, leading to ranks of blockers nobody really had any consistent way of getting around. I mess up big time early by not buying a Time Wizard since I was playing on a mat for the first time. For some reason when I was learning the game, probably on account of being left handed, I learned the Prep Area and Used Pile backwards, so instead of being able to roll a previously KO'd Morhping Jar I was stuck with 3 energy instead of a possible 5. If I wanted to be a dick about it I could have reversed the turn and fixed it, because it isn't an optional thing, but I didn't feel like making a deal out of it. I took a few hits as my opponent was able to get a decent early tempo in Breaker and La Jinn, but was able to stem the tide with Thousand Dragon's effect. Luckily he didn't notice some synergies on his team until it was too late into the game for them to matter. He has a habit of this. The game came to a conclusion as I just said "fuck it" after fielding my Blue Eyes and alpha striking just to get the game over with. Blue eyes alone had 15A after it's ability triggered and between that, Thousand Dragon, Curse of Dragon, alongside two of them getting Overcrush from Horn of the Unicorn it was more than enough to finally bring things to an end.

1-0

Game 2:
Really short game. Guy didn't pick much early game or put it on his team so the only thing he had was a Goblin Attack Force for a while which can't block. I chumped it easily enough over and over with Morphing Jars and either attacked into an open field or bypassed the Goblins. This could have been a best of three, but we were playing outside, the breeze had died so the heat was annoying, and we were all getting hungry so we said fuck it.

2-0

Conclusion:
Overall I'm decently happy with my draft. Jinzo and Doomcaliber were literally useless, but only due to their abilities not being needed despite being good. My dragon core was up to the task despite my poor piloting but in the end I was playing down to the level of my opponents that day. The one thing that has me miffed though is that the die for the rare Jinzo, one of the two cards in the set that sell for $20+, is currently missing. Since they are index number stamped, if I were to go to a competition I wouldn't be allowed to use the character and the resale value of the card goes down heavily when not in a proper pair. The search continues.

I hope this has been somewhat decent to read. I'm mostly doing these to put my words down and I know a couple people gaze over them for shits and gigs while not having a firm grasp on the game, so I've been keeping the nitty gritty light. Lemme know if you guys want more detail. Not sure when the next one will be again. I don't expect to be buying more DM until September when the Green Arrow/The Flash set comes out since Sun/Moon and Zelda+NX(or WiiU) is soaking up a lot of my free money at the moment. Nor do I know the future buying patterns of my friends. Currently there's a 44% off of The Amazing Spiderman set from one of the big online retailers, so maybe somebody will pick up one of those.

Draft 1 - Marvel: Civil War
Draft 2 - DC: World's Finest