Celebratory Deck Box

As part of V-Jump's celebrations marking 10 years of featuring Yu-Gi-Oh! Manga they have released this Limited Edition card box.
Unfortunately, Japanese exclusive so you'll have to settle to getting this via ebay or the like.
Made from foldaway plastic

Fan Art Gallery

Some fanart. All illustrations are property of their designated artists. If anyone knows who drew them let me know, so I can give due credit.
CLICK TO ENLARGE

some upgrading

-sigh-
I realise many of the readers might be disappointed with the quality of U-Gii-O of late. I'm sorry. In my defense I can't seem to muster enough motivation to continue if I never get any feedbacks or engagement. Point now being I have installed a Rating system for the blogs. So please either leave a comment or at least rate them so I can guage something <:0

Also the following will be soon happening:
New layout.
New Deck Garage.
Fan art Section!
New Polls

As always, I invite anyone who wants to share ideas or help contribute to the blog (reviews, news etc). There is no expectation for a commitment (do it as often as you like), and you will get credit for it too! :D

Card Rev - Ancient Telescope [SDK-039]

SDK-039 ANCIENT TELESCOPE
NORMAL SPELL

See the top 5 cards of your opponent's Deck. Return the cards to the Deck in the same order.

U-Gii-O Rating: D

Review
This by all means is an 'ancient' card. Way back to the original starter decks and more specifically the Kaiba starter - which is now somewhat of a rarity. So why my decision for this review? Firstly, because I lacked to find any online. Secondly, the current game atmosphere is very fast paced and focused on draw power, so what better thing than to know what your opponent would probably be dishing out? After some searching I found interesting facts about Ancient Telescope. It is, believe it or not, the ONLY card to date that will allow you to see your opponent's deck without any form of cost involved i.e. discard or LP. The only contender is Senri Eye, which checks only the top card every turn, but at a 100 LP cost. One can debate whether its more benefitial to check your opponent's hand over his incoming deck cards, but seeing as I was interested in knowing what my opponent would be drawing; deck it was.
Ancient Telescope at that time would have been a good ally, because the game in its infancy, was mostly just full of normal type monsters and very few cards that would trigger an 'in-game' shuffle of the deck. Searcher cards would only be introduced later and so the likelihood your opponent's deck would be left unaltered was very high indeed. Even if you didn't know the hand by anticipating their draws, this ultimately meant guessing the strategy and preparing your counter. Today's gameplay is much too unstable an environment. There is little good in using Ancient Telescope because, despite the 'free' cost, you can be certain the lineup will be altered by your opponent's draw or sooner. Searchers, discards, forced returns to deck, all will force a shuffle or the alternate, faster draws - so what you expected to be true for 5 turns would in fact boil down to 1 or 2. The evolution of the game just means Ancient Telescope can only gaze from afar.

Temp Win for Konami over Upper Deck

Effective by Monday Upper Deck CANNOT sell Yu-Gi-Oh! cards until a further court order.
The US District Court granted Konami a preliminary injunction against UDE's use of the game brand on Thursday 26th. Until a legal close to the dispute UDE can not reproduce any copyrighted affliation to Yu-Gi-Oh! regarding its distribution, sell, promotion or advertising. UDE can therefore not claim itself an authorised distributor of the franchise. Apart from existing stock pre-paid prior to Dec 2008 no NEW products are to be distributed while the injunction is in effect. In return Konami must produce a 700,000 USD security for having all related materials confiscated from UDE; Upper Deck is not satisfied and wants a 115 million USD bounty instead.

Since the start of the legal battle Konami annouced it will launch its own boosters (Crimson Crisis) in seperate venues. The latest set DP - Yusei was issued on Tuesday (24th).
Upper Deck has since called for a cancellation of its future Organised Plan events within North America.

UDE still holds issues with Konami, questioning whether "this course of action is in the best interest of the players." Thus has filed a seperate protest again Konami for using the holographic squares on the cards; this has not yet been judged.

Jump yet again

JUMP-EN032 BEAST KING BARBAROS
EARTH - BEAST-WARRIOR/EFFECT - LV 8
3000 ATK / 1200 DEF

You can Normal Summon or Set this card without Tributing. If you do, its original ATK becomes 1900. You can Tribute 3 monsters to Tribute Summon this card. When you do, destroy all cards your opponent controls.


Hmmm. I think this has potential.

2009 Ban List

That time of year again!
Only putting up the changes to the current one in force

-- Changes to Ban List ---
FORBIDDEN (0 copies per deck)
NONE

RESTRICTED (1 copy per deck)
Chaos Sorcerer (DOWNGRADED)
Gladiator Beast Bestiari (NEW)
Goyo Guardian (NEW)
Plaguespreader Zombie (NEW)
Dark Armed Dragon (UPGRADED)
Mezuki (NEW)
Emergency Teleport (NEW)
Card of Safe Return (UPGRADED)
Reinforcement of the Army (NEW)

SEMI-RESTRICTED (2 copies per deck)
Goblin Zombie (NEW)
Destiny Hero - Malicious (NEW)
Raiza - The Storm Monarch (DOWNGRADED)
Green Baboon, Defender of the Forest (DOWNGRADED)
Destiny Draw (NEW)
Gold Sacrophagus (DOWNGRADED)
Allure of Darkness (NEW)
Ultimate Offering (DOWNGRADED)
Mind Crush (DOWNGRADED)


NO LONGER IN LIST
Manticore of Darkness
Nobleman of Crossout
Twin-Headed Behemoth
Phantom of Chaos
Book of Moon