h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I followed links relating to Yu-Gi-Oh to get here, but it's not on your favorites list. I'll ask you anyway though. What're your favorite cards and deck types? Don't bother answering if you don't know anything about it though.


And while I have your attention......

What's your favorite Star Trek series? And who's your favorite character on Stargate?

How did you find me through Yu-gi-oh channels? I really should update that list...

If my posting here is a little sporadic, that's because I really only check here about once a week. I used to be a daily visitor, but there are so many more interesting sites to visit.

Now, to return to your questions...

Right now I play a Maha Vailo Beatdown deck. Before this newest ban list, I played a sort of Chaos Sorcerer/Control deck. I've been a Maha Vailo fan for a long time. Other cards I particularily like are: Solemn Wishes, Wall of Illusion, Mirage Dragon, Big Bang Shot, Hysteric Fairy, and Mataza the Zapper.

I do know a lot about Yu-gi-oh. I've watched since Heart of the Cards (and own the first ten videos, looking for the rest) and have played since the days of two starter decks and Metal Raiders.

Now, to move onto sci-fi. Favorite Trek: well, that's a toughie. Like so many of us in Gen X, I grew up on NextGen, and used to consider that to be the best Trek. Then I started to watch TOS, and realize where people are coming from when they say how you really need to appreciate the original. DS9 has some of the best character interactions and story arcs, only major complaint is that a station at war should really be doing war stories until it's over. Voyager is really the NextGen of the nineties, and I like it a lot. Enterprise is total hokum to me. It's fine, and I watched it sporadically, but they just broke so many of their own rules and history there.

Stargate character: you really know how to pick the toughies. Why couldn't you ask Trek character, so I could just reply Q and move on? The key thing about Stargate is that there are so many great guest stars and semiregulars that it's so hard to pick. I guess I like Jack the best. He's just so good at what he does. He can be the James T. Kirk, the Joey Tribbiani, the Rambo, and so much more all at the same time.

~*~How did you find me through Yu-gi-oh channels? I really should update that list...~*~

I don't quite remember. I was in a conversation about it (or something else) and I saw your name. Apparently I liked what you said because I clicked on it to ask these questions here. *shrug*

~*~Other cards I particularily like are:...Mirage Dragon~*~

Mirage Dragon is awesome.

~*~Other cards I particularily like are:...Big Bang Shot, Hysteric Fairy, and Mataza the Zapper.~*~

I don't remember what those are, unfortunately.

~*~I do know a lot about Yu-gi-oh. I've watched since Heart of the Cards (and own the first ten videos, looking for the rest) and have played since the days of two starter decks and Metal Raiders.~*~

Score. Another old fogie. High Five.

You don't happen to know anywhere you can play online do you? Preferably where you don't have to play for thus and such a period of time before you can actually use your own cards because you need to have a certain Duel Rating or something like that. I can't play around here because the closest tournament is too far away; it's very irritating.

~*~Enterprise is total hokum to me. It's fine, and I watched it sporadically, but they just broke so many of their own rules and history there.~*~

Yeah, but they fixed a lot of it at the end. The only thing that annoys me (really), is that there was never a Romulan War. And the Romulans knew about the Vulcans, while we're on the subject. And Spock was the first Vulcan in Starfleet, /not/ T'Pol. But otherwise......

High five. I'm still amused at the promos about "real monsters" where they used Joey's line. That's what's so funny, they aren't real monsters until (at the very earliest) Pegasus's game The Night Before. Okay, I guess The Gauntlet is Thrown is real monsters, too, but the principle still stands.

Big Bang Shot: basically Fairy Meteor Crush, but it includes a 400 ATK boost. The downside is that if you destroy the equip card seperately the monster gets removed from play.

Hysteric Fairy: a standard 1800 level four, but you can sacrifice two monsters and it'll boost your lifepoints by a thousand. Also useful for killing off Brain Controlled monsters or as Chaos fodder.

Mataza the Zapper: a true classic. You can attack twice, it's Chaos fodder, plus your opponent can never take control of it.

I play online using Yugioh Virtual Desktop. Unlike Apprentice which is Magic patched into having Yugioh capability, YVD is designed for Yugioh. You can get it at Xerocreative. It has a built-in chat program for using really old-fashioned chatrooms to find other players.

If every episode of Enterprise is to be considered canon, then the whole thing is hokum and you can't scratch that. It was established that first contact with the Klingons led to eighty years of war, but did we see that? No.

What's Mataza's attack strength? Dark or Light?

Thanks for the site by the way. I'll check it out when I get a chance.

And I don't think I've ever heard that first contact with the Klingons led to eighty years of war.......

Can't help you with the Klingon reference, but it's stuck in my mind someplace...

Mataza is 1300 Dark. He's actually better than Hayabusa Knight, who's 1000 Earth, plus your opponent can actually steal Hayabusa.

And he's dark. Good. Do you know what Pack he's in?

Invasion of Chaos, but he's also in one of the structure decks.

Cards from the Structure Decks are annoying.

I have mixed feelings about them. I think what it really comes down to is that after five years they really should have real-world duelists on their staff who can tell them if a card is overpowered or not. Banning cards shouldn't have to occur more than a year after the game was released, because by that time we could tell them what's overpowered and/or annoying. For example, I've sincerely despised Yata Garasu ever since I heard about it. That card should have never existed.

Hey, I like him. I don't /use/ him anymore, but I like him......

My opinion of the Banned List is that it's pretty ridiculous and should only be used to stop really stupid combos that let you win with only two cards, no matter what your opponent does. In practice I just ignore it and make my Deck however I want, because if you're too much of a Cry Baby to come up with a way to defeat a card, you shouldn't be playing in the first place.

If you like Yata Garasu, then you've never fallen victim to it.

The sad part is that in theory, every card individually isn't that powerful (except for the Envoys, may every copy burn in the Card Graveyard), but that they can be comboed to heck. The trick is how easily can you combo them. Dark World, for example, way too easy to combo. Way too stinkin' easy.

'Course I have. Everybody has. But if you don't overextend yourself odds are you'll have some way to stop him.

But comboing cards is the whole point! If you have a bunch of cards that don't function cohesively then it doesn't matter how powerful the cards might be, you /will/ lose to any deck where the cards support and build on eachother.

Ex: Two of my favorite cards are Jinzo and Dark Ruler Ha Des. It's true that they each have strong effects in and of themselves (Jinzo negates traps and Ha Des negates monster effects), but either one of them alone can be easily stopped/resisted because even though one option isn't available to you, at least two others are. Whereas when they're together both traps /and/ effect monsters are useless, and they're the ones that would be most likely to work. (Just need to find a way to stop Magic Cards after that. )

By comparison if you had, say, Guardian Angel Joan with Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys... Yes, they're both useful cards, but neither one of them supports or augments the other.