The Qliphorts are like nothing you’ve ever played before. Debuting in The New Challengers, the Qliphort theme’s all about setting up Pendulum Summons, then leveraging them into swarming attacks and big Tribute Summons. Many Qliphorts give you special bonuses when you Tribute Summon them, or Tribute them for a Summon –since all but one of the Qliphorts are Pendulum Monsters they go right back to your Extra Deck when you Tribute them off. Since you can Pendulum Summon monsters from your Extra Deck, you can keep Tributing the same Qliphorts over and over.

Yes! You heard that right: nearly all the “Qliphort” monsters are Pendulum Monsters! That makes it really easy to load up your Pendulum Zones, because instead of hunting around looking for two specific cards, you can use almost any pair of Qliphorts. Read more…

There are lots of Rank 4 Xyz Monsters with all sorts of different abilities. Soon, another powerful new Rank 4 Xyz Monster will step onto the tournament scene. The New Challengers introduces Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon! Read more…

The Burning Abyss has exploded out of Duelist Alliance, becoming recognised as one of the top strategies after the set was released. With Shaddoll, Yang Zing and Satellarknight Decks all becoming stronger with The New Challengers, Burning Abyss Decks have to step up their game in order to keep up. Luckily, there are some great new cards you can use in your Burning Abyss Deck in The New Challengers!

We talked about Virgil, Rock Star of the Burning Abyss yesterday, along with Rubic, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss, so today we’re going to show you 2 other new Malebranche monsters as well as a powerful new Burning Abyss Trap Card! Read more…

With strong opening moves and a long-lasting grind game, Burning Abyss quickly became one of the most popular Decks of the year despite only offering 3 total Main Deck monsters. They were fast and consistent, and thanks to their Graveyard Trigger Effects they could play high-powered Trap Cards like Phoenix Wing Wind Blast and Karma Cut. The only thing they were missing was damage – they needed a boss monster that could really get at your opponent’s Life Points. While Dante, Traveler of the Burning Abyss was awesome at keeping you in cards, securing the field and triggering abilities, you’d often struggle to deal damage with him.

Improvisations like Rank-Up-Magic Astral Force were played – Astral Force could turn Dante into Constellar Pleiades to get monsters off the field so you could make direct attacks – which was extremely powerful, but not a move you could make at will. What Burning Abyss fans really needed was a monster that could, say… bash a fire-scythe-guitar over something’s head, anytime, anyplace. Read more…