By Froylan Carreno
Things in the Yu-Gi-Oh! world have been slow for a while now. Not much noteworthy news has surmised, and I don't see any being announced any time soon. However, some things that were announced was support for several card archetypes, including Lightsworns and Ghostricks. Lightsworns are a powerful deck that rely on sending cards straight from the deck to the Graveyard via card effects, by whatever form necessary. Ghostricks are a new archetype that still has not been released outside of Asian countries. They rely on the power of negating attacks and putting the opponent in a tight, uncomfortable corner. Both decks have potential to potentially become Meta with the addition of these new support cards.
Lightsworns are an older archetype that was actually once considered Meta long ago. The whole point of the deck is to dump as many Lightsworn monsters in the grave as possible as fast as possible, in order to summon their big monsters like "Judgment Dragon," who has the ability to destroy all cards on the field. In terms of new support, they will be getting a strong level 4 tuner monster with no drawbacks that can increase it's own attack by sending cards from the top of the deck to the Grave -- Which only benefits the deck. In addition, they will be getting another level 2 tuner named "Minerva, Lightsworn Maiden", who in my opinion, is even better than the level 4 tuner, "Raiden, Lightsworn Assailant." "Minerva" has multiple useful effects, but her most prominent effect being the ability to search and add "Judgment Dragon" from the deck to the hand, which was a wildfire of excitement for a short time. In order to search "Judgment Dragon," you have to have 8 or more Lightsworn monsters with different names in your Graveyard -- A task that is hard even for the mighty Lightsworns. And to put some last icing on the cake, there is a still a Lightsworn Synchro monster whose effect and stats have yet to be announced! Depending on those traits, Lightsworns could very well be a serious contenter for the top spot in the May 2014 Meta.
Ghostricks are still a new deck, and have even yet to be released in the TCG. From what little experience I have with them, they are a deck composed of mostly small, weak-attacked monsters that rely on their effects to stop attacks and continually re-supply each other with new monsters. To me, they don't seem very capable of holding a high spot in the Meta, even in the foreseeable future with their new support card. The new support card "Ghostrick Mary" is a monster that allows you to Special Summon a monster from your deck at any time when you take damage. This monster, though still unreleased even in the OCG, is considered one of the best in the deck. I can tell this is exactly what Ghostricks needed, but the deck still needs much more if it wants to compete with other future Meta decks.
It was also announced there would be support for some other archetypes, but I don't think those are good or important enough to be mentioned. Overall, we have several things to look forward to in the coming weeks, which I will detail then, and I will also try to squeeze in an extra article to catch up with the six I should have by now.
To be honest, there are times when I wish I had decided to do this blog about Anime, and not Yu-Gi-Oh! Not because I don't like it or have gotten bored of it, but I'm just in an Anime mood recently, and it feels like a shame I can't express my current desires. But for the long term, Yu-Gi-Oh! was the way to go, and it's definitely something that is constantly changing and entertaining -- Whereas I think just re-telling an anime or reviewing it might have been boring to write and even more boring for someone to read. There's a reason for everything I guess. Next week I will be detailing Yu-Gi-Oh! products that are nearing their release date, and give my thoughts on them.
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