Buddyfight is dead but the cards are still here

    I see so many persons mouring the death of Buddyfight, saying the have so many good memories of the game. Yes that is a loss, but come on ! The cards are still here ! Your friends are not leaving to the other side of the world ! So many memories are still yet to be made.
With so many years of development, the game leaves us with so many flavors to be tested.
   You can play the game with the most recent cards, tuning the ban list as you and your group of friends wishes.
    You can play block formats, only playing cards of one block (first season, H, X, Ace...).
    You can totallly build your own formats with the set of cards you chose.
    You can build your own cube drafts.
    You can, and this one is my favourite one, play retro Buddyfight : old versions of the game, set a limite date, and only play the cards available to this date. Heck, you can even custom your retro Buddyfight : ban cards too powerful or "timeshift" cards that came too late for a struggling deck.
This will let you play decks and cards with unique styles that were unfortunatly lost in time due to power creep.
This will let you rediscover the game, through the years, due to powercreep the game completly shifted. Going from a slow game with few plays a turn that rewards you on picking the play with most risk reward to a fast game with lots of plays that turns that rewards you on learning your deck setplays and combos and forseeing how you turn will play out.
This is what I do with Yugioh, and that is a lot of fun !

All you need is to keep your cards and agree with your friends how you all want to play and you still in for a very funny ride !

Ps : you don't even need to spend money, you can proxy your deck if you don't have the cards.

Why I felt in love with Buddyfight

After the news of Buddyfight's end. I went back to my blog to write the article to encourage everyone to keep playing the game casually. I found this article that was in the draft.
I finished it to be able to publish it.
In this article I am only talking about Buddyfight while I was still playing competitively, before 2017.
Enjoy !

I want to take the time to remember the good time I had, and why I loved Buddyfight so much.

Thoughts about the new wizard support

TLDR : Gunrod, Hammer Schmidt Type-CLA will be incredible, Amanosuzu Chance has potential thanks to Hammer Schmid, the rest is decent.

Deck review : Grind Wizard

TL;DR
Cards analyses
 
Previous Wizard file

     First of, I want to shoutout to Charles and Alban who  really helped me in the construction of the wizard build.

TL;DR : Wizard

Buddy : Magic Artist, Andy

Cards playtest : Wizard DBt01

Note : if before the analyses of the card, it is written "Relexion", that means that the analyses is only the result on my reflection/theory on the card. The card has not been playtested.

The good old games Part 1 : Duel master

    The first old game I want to talk about is Duel master.
Duel master is still running in Japan, but it has been stopped in the west unfortunatly.

    To sum up, Duel master, is a quick pace game, light version of Magic.

The good all games : new article serie

     There are a lot of games I played or at least I tried. Unfortunatly, they ended, or I stopped playing that game.

      I want to give them an article to recall those good old games. How they work, and which

good design ideas they had.

    Hopefully, starting next week, you follow me on that journey to remember the good time on those games or to discover those old games.

Battle booster : why, how to play and counters

     Out of all the clone cards, the battle booster (+3/+3 counterattack) is by far the one that is cloned the most. It is also the trickiest one : it has a lot of potential, but also counterplays.

[April fool] Starting a new blog

Hello everyone, how are you doing ?

Today, I have a great news : I am starting a new blog.

Wydar Sarkal update

    One of my friends recently asked to playtest Wydar sarkal with him. Here are my results out of it.
Before I get into it, you should read my last article on Wydar sarkal. Duchess Elizabeth and Great Wind Fairy, Sylph are not in the article, but most of what is said still apply.

    Right now, Wydar sarkal are in a very tricky spot. They are basically the embodiement of why ressource advantage is meaningless if you end up dying. They ressource control are incredible, they dethroned the Wizards in this domain.
    If your opponent tries to go after your monsters and win with ressource control, he is in big trouble. But if he goes directly for your life and sets good defenses, all the ressource in the world won't help you if your life reaches zero.

    But I definitly feel Wydar sarkal can do more than that.

Duel Dragons Godol Ark

    Duel dragon (Godol Ark variant) is a deck that needs it's set up  to compete. Godol + Dangerous RAIZI and/or Item. You usually won't recover if you don't get a major advantage on the game with your first Demongodol.
    You cannot play late game cards or cards that require to already have a setting. Because they will be overkill if activated or dead.

Conclusion of the journey with the omni lords, Part 2 : Cards review

In the previous article, I looked for the strengh and  weaknesses of the keyword 'Omni lord'. You can find the article with this link. I will now review each Omni lords individually.

    I classed the Omni lords in three classes : -the must have who are very powerful and that you need in your collection because you will need them in your build one day or another
-the others, which are the decents cards with potential, and the very bad one (Venom nova)
-deck specific who are only used in strategies based around them.

Conclusion of the journey with the omni lords, Part 1 : Omni what ?

     The H seasons is coming to an end. With it, the Omni lord mechanic is leaving us. Overall it is near thirty new cards that hold this Keyword (or the inverse one).
     Some of them are very good, some are less good.
    Let's take a general look at those cards, when they are strong, if they have to be in your collection..
                                                                   Part 2

The basics 4 : Rule time part 2 : Skill resolution

     In the previous article I explain how activating a spell and a skill worked and what was their differences. If you haven't read it yet, you can find it here.
    To recap :
-Spell : Declare the spell, pay the cost, target. Counter timing for the opponent. Resolve.
-Skill (from a monster/item/set spells...) : Declare the skill, target and select the ressources for the condition. Counter timing for the  opponent. Pay the condition and resolve the skill.

    Now let's see how it works when you pay the condition of the skill. This rule is very important in the game because it creates a lot of very interesting situations that don't happen in other card games.

Omnirion : The return of the terror

    Kaizerion dictates it, Omnirion is an aggro deck . You equip Kaizerion and you hit with it's high crit penetrate. The only changes are Schwarz sd and the omni lords which gives you a very safe edge in term of offensive power.

Why star is now a lock deck

     At the creation, Stars was designed to be a lock deck : Astraeus + Frozen stars = obvious lock combo. But it turned out that the community didn't use they that way : Damian topped with a grind/flood Star decklist. Me, and every other Stars players followed this way. The lock concept just wasnt competitif.

With the recent support, it is now the lock variant under the spotlights.

Explanation of the evolution of the lock.

HD Beatdown : Join the Hundred demons

    Coming from every worlds, the Hundred demons seek to dominates Buddyfight.

Rallied by the great fiend, Yamigedo, and gathered with the sneaky ability 'Thunder Mine'; they now unleashed, and nothing will stop them.

    Don't try to ignore it. You too are called by Yamigedo to rally the army of evil. Come join me to The Parade of the Hundred Demons.

The basics 4 : Rule time part 1 : Effet and spell activation rule

Part 2

     Buddyfight has a very unique use of the payment/resolution of the effects. This unique gestion of the skill truly makes Buddyfight a deeper game.
     Unfortunatly, it also causes a lot of chaos because this is something that too much players ignore. A lot of those players use the assumption that Buddyfight works the same way that X other card game work.
      This is why I want to explain how the most important rule in buddyfight works : Skill activations.

TL;DR Purgatory Knights

The latest version of Purgatory knights can be found in Justin Gee's video.
You can find his channel here.

Archives of TL;DR Purgatory Knights.