Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Overload Review – What You Should Know
Crunch$G
The remnants of the Link Vrains Packs are finally here. Hello Pojo Readers, Crunch$G here to tell you what you should know about Duel Overload. Duel Overload is a $30 set that gives you 6 packs of 5 Ultra Rare cards as well as a giant card based off the manga artstyle. Overall there are 56 new cards in here with 30 Link Monsters, 23 other imports, and 3 World Premieres. We also got a grand total of 44 reprints of good staples, old cards with lack of printings, and necessities for several different strategies. There’s a lot of variety in this set, so there is most likely something in here for everyone, so let’s take a look and see what we got all together.
Oversized Manga Cards
The first thing I will mention are the 6 different oversized manga art cards you can get. Of course these cannot be used in a Duel, mostly cause they’d stick out like a sore thumb in your Deck, but they are pretty cool for collectors of oversized cards. You got Blue-Eyes White Dragon and Dark Magician Girl in their Movie Pack artworks, The Dark Magicians from Legendary Duelists: Magical Hero, Stardust Dragon in its original artwork, and then you got Cyber Dragon Infinity and Tour Guide from the Underworld both in their alternate artworks. Each box will come with 1 of these cards, so I imagine on average you’d get 2 of each per case. I’m sure these are items that’ll be worth a little bit of value after a few years, so have them early I’d say.
Link Monsters Galore
The biggest selling point of this set was probably the grand total of 30 new Links we were getting in this set, most of which were from the three Link Vrains Packs in the OCG so we can finally have them all, and many of which were long awaited. Crystron Halqifibrax is a Link-2 of any 2 monsters (including at least 1 Tuner), has the good Bottom Left/Right arrows, upon Link Summon can summon any Level 3 or below Tuner from the Deck, and can banish itself on the opponent’s turn to summon any Synchro Tuner from the Extra Deck. Celestial Knightlord Parshath is a Link-3 of any 2+ Fairies, has all arrows pointing down, can let you discard any card to search The Sanctuary in the Sky or any card that lists The Sanctuary in the Sky in the effect text, or lets you search any Fairy with this effect if you already control The Sanctuary in the Sky, and if a face-up Fairy you control is sent to the graveyard, you can banish a Fairy from the graveyard to summon a Fairy from the hand with a higher Level than the banished monster’s. Alien Shocktrooper M-Frame is a Link-2 of any 2 Reptiles, has Bottom Left/Right arrows, can discard any monster as a Quick Effect to place A-Counters on monsters equal to the Level of the discarded monster, and upon its destruction lets you revive any non-link Reptiles up to the number of opponent’s monsters with A-Counters. D/D/D Abyss King Gilgamesh is a Link-2 of any D/D monsters, has Bottom Left/Right arrows, upon Special Summon can place 2 D/D Pendulums with different names from your Deck to the Pendulum Zone in exchange for you not being able to Special Summon any non-D/D monsters for the rest of the turn and you taking 1000 damage, and upon your opponent destroying this card that you control lets you summon any D/D from the Extra Deck or graveyard in Defense Position. Raidraptor – Wise Strix is a Link-2 of any 2 DARK Winged Beasts, has Bottom Left/Right arrows, upon Link Summon can let you summon any Level 4 DARK Winged Beast with its effects negated and it not being usable for Link Material, and it lets you set a Rank-Up-Magic Spell from the Deck if a Raidraptor Xyz Effect is activated and it lets you use that Rank-Up-Magic the same turn if it was a Quick-Play. Condemned Darklord is a Link-2 of any 2 Fairies, has Bottom Left/Right arrows, lets you Tribute Summon any Fairy that needs 2 Tributes by instead banishing 2 Fairies from the graveyard, can let you discard a card to take a Darklord monster in your Deck to either add it to your hand or send it to the grave, and during each of your End Phases lets you gain 500 LP for each Fairy you control. Five-Headed Link Dragon is a Link-5 of any 5 monsters, has arrows pointing all down and to the sides, must be Link Summoned, destroys all cards the opponent controls if you used a DARK, EARTH, WATER, FIRE, and WIND to summon it, cannot be destroyed by battle with the listed attributes, is unaffected by other card effects, and during the opponent’s End Phase makes you banish 5 cards from your graveyard (not optional) or it sends itself to the graveyard if you can’t. Protector Whelp of the Destruction Swordsman is a Link-2 of any 2 monsters, has Bottom Left/Right arrows, upon Link Summon lets you send any Destruction Sword card from the Deck to the graveyard and then you can summon a Buster Blader monster from the hand, and at the end of the Battle Phase if your opponent controls no monsters you can target a Buster Blader monster that didn’t attack and deal damage to the opponent equal to the targeted monster’s ATK. Union Carrier is a Link-2 of any 2 monsters with the same Type or Attribute, has Down and Right arrows, cannot be used as Link Material the turn it is Link Summoned, can let you target a face-up monster you control and equip it with a monster from the hand or Deck with either the same original Type or Attribute, the monster equipped gains 1000 ATK, and the monster you equipped to another monster cannot be Special Summoned for the rest of the turn. Ancient Gear Ballista is a Link-2 of any 2 EARTH Machines, has Right and Bottom Left arrows, upon Link Summon searches any Ancient Gear monster or Geartown, and it can let you target a Spell/Trap you control and a face-up monster the opponent controls to destroy your card and make the opponent’s monster ATK/DEF become 0 for the turn. Herald of Mirage Lights is a Link-2 of any 2 non-Token monsters with the same Type and Attribute, has Bottom Left/Right arrows, can let you send a Fairy from your hand to the graveyard as a Quick Effect whenever a Spell or Trap Card or effect is activated to negate the activation and destroy that card, and if this card is sent to the graveyard in the owner’s possession by the opponent, you can add 2 differently named cards from your graveyard to your hand that are either Ritual Monsters or Ritual Spells. Simorgh, Bird of Sovereignty is a Link-3 of any 2+ monsters (including at least 1 Winged Beast), has arrows all pointing down, cannot be used as Link Material, prevents your opponent from targeting Winged Beasts this card points to with card effects, can destroy another Simorgh card you control instead if it would be destroyed in battle, and during the End Phase lets you summon any Winged Beast from the Deck with a Level up to the number of unused Spell/Trap Zones on the field. Xtra HERO Infernal Devicer is a Link-2 of any 2 HEROs, has arrows pointing Down and Bottom Right, upon Link Summon lets you reveal any HERO Fusion from the Extra Deck to add up to 2 of the specific Fusion Materials with different names listed on it from your Deck to your hand, but only lets you summon HEROs for the rest of the turn, and it lets Fiends it points to gain 100 ATK times their Level. Selene, Queen of the Master Magicians is a Link-3 of any 2+ monsters (including at least 1 Spellcaster), has arrows all pointing down, upon Link Summon gains Spell Counters equal to the number of Spells and Traps on the field or in the graveyard, cannot be targeted for attacks while you control an Endymion card, and during the Main Phase once per turn as a Quick Effect can remove 3 Spell Counters from the field to summon a Spellcaster from your hand or graveyard to a zone it points to. Crossrose Dragon is a Link-2 of 2 monsters with different Types, has arrows pointing Left and Down, during the Main Phase as a Quick Effect can tribute itself and a Plant to summon any Rose Synchro or any Plant-type Synchro from the Extra Deck (treated as a Synchro Summon), and if a monster you control is destroyed by a card effect while this card is in the graveyard, you can banish it from the graveyard to summon any Rose Dragon from your graveyard. Reptilianne Echidna is a Link-2 of any 2 monsters (including at least 1 Reptile), has Left and Bottom Right arrows, upon Link Summon lets you target an opponent’s face-up monster to make its ATK become 0, and during your Main Phase while the opponent controls a monster(s) with 0 ATK lets you search any Reptiles with different names from the Deck up to the number of monsters the opponent controls with 0 ATK, but it only lets you summon Reptiles from the Extra Deck for the rest of the turn. Mecha Phantom Beast Autoradon is a Link-3 of any 2+ Machines, has arrows pointing Left, Down, and Bottom Right, upon Link Summon can let you summon 3 Mecha Phantom Beast Tokens (Machine/WIND/Level 3/ATK 0/DEF 0) as long as you can’t Link Summon for the rest of that turn, and can let you tribute up to 3 monsters you control to destroy a card on the field if you tributed 1 monster, summon any Mecha Phantom Beast from the Deck if you tributed 2 monsters, and lets you add a Trap from your graveyard to the hand if you tributed 3 monsters. Bujinki Ahashima is a Link-2 of any 2 monsters with the same Level, has Up and Bottom Right arrows, cannot be used as Link Material, upon Link Summon lets you Special Summon 2 monsters with the same Level (1 from hand and 1 from graveyard) with their effects negated and it immediately lets you Xyz Summon using those monsters as material, and when an Xyz Monster it points to activates its effect by detaching a material you can target and destroy an opponent’s Spell/Trap. Artifact Dagda is a Link-2 of any 2 monsters with different names, has Bottom Left/Right arrows, as a Quick Effect lets you set any Artifact monster to the Spell/Trap Zone when another card or effect is activated, but the set card is destroyed during your opponent’s next End Phase, and it can let you Special Summon any Artifact from the graveyard in Defense Position if it was destroyed during the opponent’s turn. Bloom Harmonist the Melodious Composer is a Link-2 of any 2 Fairies, upon Link Summon lets you discard any card to summon 2 Melodious monsters with different Levels from your Deck in Defense Position, but it only lets you Special Summon Melodious monsters for the rest of the turn, and if a Melodious monster this card points to attacks, the opponent cannot activates cards or effects until the end of the Damage Step. Predaplant Verte Anaconda is a Link-2 of any 2 Effect monsters, has Bottom Left/Right arrows, can target a face-up monster on the field to turn its Attribute to DARK for the rest of the turn, and can let you pay 2000 LP and send a Fusion or Polymerization Normal or Quick-Play Spell from the Deck to the graveyard to have this card’s effect become that Spell’s effect when it’s activated, but you cannot Special Summon monsters for the rest of the turn after this resolves. Abyss Actor – Hyper Director is a Link-1 of any Abyss Actor Pendulum Monster, has a Down arrow, and it can target a card in your Pendulum Zone and Special Summon it to then activate an Abyss Actor Pendulum Monster in the Pendulum Zone from the Deck or Extra Deck, but you can only Normal/Special Summon Abyss Actor monsters for the rest of that turn. Lib the World Key Blademaster is a Link-2 of any 2 monsters, has Left and Bottom Left arrows, can only be Link Summoned if there is a World Legacy card in your graveyard, can let you set any World Legacy Spell/Trap from the Deck but not let you activate it if you don’t have a World Legacy monster in the graveyard, and if this Link Summoned card is sent to the graveyard as Link Material it can shuffle a card on the field into the Deck. Sky Striker Ace – Zeke is a Link-2 of any 2 monsters (including at least 1 Sky Striker Ace), must be Link Summoned, can only be Special Summoned once per turn, upon Link Summon can target an opponent’s monster to banish it until the opponent’s next End Phase, and once per turn can target a card you control to have this monster gain 1000 ATK and then send the targeted card to the graveyard. Yuki-Onna, the Absolute Zero Mayakashi is a Link-4 of any 2+ Zombies, has Left, Right, and Bottom Left/Right arrows, you can only control 1 of this card, it negates the activated effects of your opponent’s banished cards, and if a monster is Special Summoned from the graveyard or a monster effect is activated in the graveyard, you can target another face-up monster to make its ATK become 0 and have its effects become negated. Tenyi Spirit – Sahasrara is a Link-4 of any 2+ Wyrms, has arrows pointing Up, Down, Upper Right, and Bottom Right, prevents the opponent from targeting Effect Monsters with attacks or card effects while you control a non-Effect monster, and as a Quick Effect lets you target an opponent’s monster to summon a Tenyi Spirit Token (Wyrm/LIGHT/Level 4/ATK ?/DEF 0) and the Token’s ATK is equal to the targeted monster’s original ATK. Armillyre, the Starleader Dragon is a Link-2 of any 2 Effect monsters, has Bottom Left/Right arrows, cannot be used as Link Material, and can target a face-up monster this card points to in order to let you summon a monster with the same Level from your hand to a zone it points to in face-up Defense Position with its effects negated. Ferocious Flame Swordsman is a Link-2 of any 2 monsters with different names, has Left and Bottom Left arrows, let’s all Warriors gain 500 ATK, and when this Link Summoned card is destroyed by the opponent, you can target a non-Link Warrior in your graveyard and Special Summon it, but it is banished when it leaves the field. Ojama Emperor is a Link-3 of any 3 Beasts (including at least 1 Ojama), gains 3000 ATK and cannot be destroyed by card effects while you control Ojama Country, makes your opponent take any damage you would have taken from battles involving this card instead, and can let you target 1 non-Link Ojama in your graveyard to Special Summon it, but you can only Special Summon Fusion Monsters from the Extra Deck for the rest of the turn. Finally, Relinquished Anima is a Link-1 of any Level 1 monster that isn’t a Token, has an Up arrow, and it can target a face-up monster this card points to in order to equip it to this card (max. 1) and have it gain ATK equal to the equipped monster’s ATK.
A Malefic Army
For the first time since the Bonds Beyond Time Movie Pack, we see more support for the Malefic archetype with new cards as well as cards from the movie. Malefic Divide is a Quick-Play Spell that can target a Malefic in your graveyard to Special Summon it with its effects negated and it is banished during the End Phase. Malefic Selector is a Normal Spell that banishes 2 Malefic cards from your graveyard to search from the Deck any 2 Malefic cards with different names from each other and the banished cards. Malefic Tune is a Normal Trap that lets you draw 2 cards if a Malefic monster you control is destroyed by battle or opponent’s card effect, and if a face-up Malefic monster is destroyed while this card is in the graveyard, you can banish it to search for any Malefic monster. Malefic Paradox Gear is a Level 1 that if a Field Spell is face-up on the field, you can tribute this card to Special Summon a Malefic Parallel Gear from the Deck and also search for any Malefic monster that isn’t Malefic Paradox Gear, and if you would summon a Malefic monster with its summoning procedure, you can banish this card from the graveyard to summon it instead of banishing a monster from the Deck or Extra Deck. Finally, Malefic Territory is a Continuous Spell that upon activation can let you activate Malefic World from the Deck and while it is in the Field Zone, neither player can target a card(s) in the Field Zone for effects, the Malefic monster effect of “There can only be 1 face-up “Malefic” monster on the field” becomes “There can only be 1 face-up “Malefic monster on the field with the same name”, and it negates the effects of all your Malefic monsters during the Battle Phase.
Cubics Ascent
From one movie to another, we go from Malefics to Cubics with more new cards and the remaining movie cards. Cubic Ascension is a Normal Trap that when the opponent’s monster declares an attack, it lets you summon a Vijam the Cubic Seed and switch the attack target to the Vijam, and also it can be banished from the graveyard while the opponent’s LP are at least 2000 higher than yours to summon a Vijam the Cubic Seed from the hand, Deck, or graveyard and then if only the opponent controlled a monster, you can summon up to 2 more Vijam the Cubic Seeds. Cubic Dharma is a Continuous Spell that prevents you from taking damage from battles involving Cubic monsters, can let you send a Cubic card from the hand to the graveyard to let you draw a card, and can be banished from the graveyard to target a Cubic monster in the graveyard and add it to your hand. Finally, Cubic Causality is a Normal Trap that distributes Cubic Counters on face-up monsters the opponent controls up to the number of Cubic monsters you control (monsters with Cubic Counters cannot attack and have their effects negated), and you can banish Cubic Causality from the graveyard to target a Cubic monster you control and if it destroys a monster with a Cubic Counter by battle, you can burn the opponent for damage equal to the destroyed monster’s original ATK.
Other OCG Imports
For some more cleanup to get more OCG Imports to the TCG, we have 18 more cards imported from various sets of theirs. Angraecum Umbrella is a Level 3 Tuner that upon Normal Summon lets you discard a card to target a Level 4 or lower monster in your graveyard to Special Summon it from the graveyard in Defense Position with its effects negated, and you can only Special Summon Synchros from the Extra Deck for the rest of the turn. Firebrand Hymnist is a Level 3 that upon Normal Summon lets you send cards from the top of your opponent’s Deck to the graveyard equal to the number of cards they control and upon Special Summon lets you send the top cards from your Deck to the graveyard equal to the number of cards the opponent controls. Awakening of the Possessed is a Continuous Spell that lets all your monsters gain 300 ATK for each monster you control with a different Attribute, prevents your Charmer and Familiar-Possessed monsters from being destroyed by the opponent’s card effects, and lets you draw a card if a Spellcaster with 1850 original ATK is Normal or Special Summoned to your field. KIngyo Sukui is a Continuous Trap that can target a monster in the opponent’s graveyard to then let you excavate a card from the top of your Deck and lets you add the card to your hand if it is a monster with the same Attribute as the targeted monster, otherwise the excavated card is sent to the graveyard and this card is destroyed. Speedroid Marble Machine is a Level 2 Scale 1 Pendulum with a Pendulum Effect that when a Defense Position monster is targeted for an attack, you can switch it to Attack Position to prevent it from being destroyed in that battle and for a Monster Effect lets you add a Speedroid monster from your Deck to your hand upon Normal Summon, but only lets you Special Summon WIND monsters for the rest of that turn. Speedroid Hexasaucer is a Level 4 Scale 6 Pendulum with a Pendulum Effect to target a WIND Synchro in your graveyard or banished and return it to the Extra Deck and a Monster Effect that makes both players take damage from battles involving this card, any damage players take from attacks involving this card becomes halved, and if it is destroyed in the Pendulum Zone you can Special Summon a Speedroid Pendulum face-up from the Extra Deck. Dark Anthelion Dragon is a Rank 7 Scale 10 Xyz Pendulum that needs 2 Level 7 monsters with a Pendulum Effect to target an opponent’s monster once per turn and halve its ATK for the turn and a Monster Effect that lets you Pendulum Summon this monster if you can Pendulum Summon Level 7s, can detach a material as a Quick Effect to target an opponent’s monster and halve its ATK and have this card gain ATK equal to the amount lost, and if destroyed in the Monster Zone can be placed into the Pendulum Zone. Starving Venemy Lethal Dose Dragon is a Level 8 Scale 1 Fusion Pendulum that needs 3 DARK Pendulum monsters and in the Pendulum Zone can once per turn during your Main Phase place a Venemy Counter on each face-up monster the opponent controls and has all non-DARK Dragons lose 200 ATK for each Venemy Counter on the field and has a Monster Effect that places a Venemy Counter on this card each time a card is sent from the field to the graveyard for each sent card, debuffs every non-DARK Dragon by 200 ATK for each Venemy Counter on the field, once per turn during your Main Phase can negate the effects of all face-up monsters your opponent currently controls until the end of the turn, and if destroyed in the Monster Zone can be placed into the Pendulum Zone. Dangerous Frigutfur Nightmary is a Level 10 Fusion of 1 Edge Imp monster and 2 Fluffal monsters, gains 300 ATK for each Fairy or Fiend in your graveyard during your turn, can send a Frightfur, Edge Imp, or Fluffal monster from the Deck to the graveyard equal to the original Level of a monster this Fusion Summoned card destroys in battle, and can banish a Frightfur from the Extra Deck as a Quick Effect to negate an opponent’s card or effect that targets this card. Phantasm Emperor Trilojog is a Level 10 Fusion of 3 Level 10 monsters, and upon it being Special Summoned or another monster being Special Summoned from your graveyard to your field while you control this card, it can let you target an opponent’s monster and deal damage to them equal to half the targeted monster’s original ATK. Rose Bell of Revelation is a Normal Spell that lets you add a Plant monster with 2400 or more ATK from your Deck to your hand and can be banished from your graveyard to Special Summon a Plant with 2400 or more ATK from your hand. Synchro Transcend is a Quick-Play Spell that lets you target a Synchro Monster your opponent controls to let you Special Summon a Synchro from your Extra Deck with 1 Level higher, but it cannot activate its effects that turn. Enma’s Judgment is a Normal Trap that destroys an opponent’s monster(s) when your opponent Special Summons it, then it can let you banish 5 Zombies from your graveyard to Special Summon a Level 7 or higher Zombie from your hand or Deck. Graveyard of Wandering Souls is a Continuous Trap that lets you Special Summon 1 Fireball Token (Pyro/FIRE/Level 1/ATK 100/DEF 100) when a monster you control is destroyed by battle and sent to your graveyard, or it can let you Special Summon any number of Fireball Tokens up to the number of monsters sent from your hand or field to the graveyard by an opponent’s card effect at that time. Finally, Card of Fate is a Normal Spell that lets each player take a card from their Deck and then each player combines that card with 4 random cards from their Deck selected by the opponent, then each player picks a card randomly from their opponent’s 5 cards to reveal and add to the owner’s hand while the other cards go back to the Deck.
Surprise World Premieres
A last minute announcement from Konami was 3 cards in this set that were being printed for the first time ever. Traptrix Genliesa is a Level 4 that’s unaffected by Hole Normal Traps, and can tribute itself to set 2 Hole Normal Traps (1 from the Deck and 1 from the graveyard) with different names to your field, but they’re banished when they leave the field. Hollow Giants is a Continuous Trap that can only be activated when both players control a monster Special Summoned from the Extra Deck and it negates the effects of all monsters Special Summoned from the Extra Deck, then when a monster is destroyed by battle involving 2 monsters Special Summoned from the Extra Deck, this card is sent to the graveyard and the player that controlled the destroyed monster takes 1000 damage. Finally, Mayakashi Mayhem is a Continuous Trap that if a Zombie Synchro is Special Summoned, except from the Extra Deck and even during the Damage Step, you can activate the effect to either draw a card, set a Mayakashi Spell/Trap from the Deck excluding another Mayhem, send a monster the opponent controls with the lowest ATK to the grave (your choice if tied), or burn the opponent for 800 damage.
Alternate Arts
Another piece we recently saw in the OCG was some of the new alternate arts, which we got all of except for Dark Magician Girl the Dragon Knight. In this set, we had new artworks for Tour Guide from the Underworld, Chaos Dragon Levanieer, Cyber Dragon Infinity, and Sky Striker Ace – Kagari. Infinity and Tour Guide are always good reprints, Chaos Dragon really needed one, but Kagari didn’t really need the reprint after Sky Strikers were hit if it wasn’t for it getting an alternate art. Each artwork does look pretty nice, so I’m sure they’re all something players can appreciate while also getting necessary reprints.
Noteworthy Reprints
Now we get to the other 40 reprints in this set that aren’t alternate artworks. We got a bunch of reprints of high value cards in the current environment before this set. Vanity’s Ruler really needed a reprint since it was last printed in Cyberdark Impact and in a Champion Pack. Gigaplant gets its first reprint ever to make sure Phantom Darkness wasn’t the only way to get it. Swap Frog gets a foil print that isn’t an Ultimate Rare from an OTS Pack. Wattgiraffe gets its first print since The Shining Darkness. Wightmare gets its first print since being a short printed Common in Starstrike Blast. Blackwing – Zephyros the Elite finally gets a foil print outside Duelist Pack: Crow. Scrap Orthros is finally accessible outside Extreme Victory. Madolche Magileine has needed a reprint since Return of the Duelist where it was originally printed, and same goes from Madolche Puddingcess Chocolat-a-la-mode from Crossed Souls, since the archetype has support in Eternity Code. Destiny HERO – Celestial finally has a foil print outside Destiny Soldiers. Secret Six Samurai – Fuma, Magical Musketeer Caspar, and Magical Musketeer Starfire are finally reprinted from Spirit Warriors. Witchcrafter Madame Verre and Witchcrafter Creation is reprinted from Infinity Chasers in time for the Eternity Code support. Fantastical Dragon Phantazmay is a good reprint, even with Master Rule 2020 coming up. Sauravis, the Ancient and Ascended is a good hand trap that missed the 2017 Mega Tins meaning it was only in Invasion: Vengeance. The Last Warrior from Another Planet and King Dragun both needed reprints for over a decade. Super Vehicroid – Stealth Union finally has a holo print outside Gladiator’s Assault and has another print besides Duelist League. Chaos Goddess is finally printed outside The Shining Darkness in time for Toon Chaos. PSY-Framelord Omega and Daigusto Emeral can always use more reprints. Number 27: Dreadnought Dreadnoid, Salamangreat Almiraj, Double Evolution Pill, Cyber Emergency, and Golden Castle of Stromberg are all cards needing of reprints from Battles of Legend sets. Dingrisu, the Orcust of the Evening Star is good to have reprinted before the new Orcust card in Eternity Code. It’s always nice to have a foil print of Mystical Space Typhoon, Terraforming, and Compulsory Evacuation Device. Magic Formula finally has a foil print that isn’t worth an arm and a leg for collectors. Deck Lockdown and Cybernetic Overflow get long overdue foil prints. Zombie World needed a reprint since its other foil print was worth a lot. Hysteric Sign reprinted is useful for Harpie players. Cynet Mining is a great reprint for all Cyberse Decks. Paleozoic Dinomischus is reprinted in foil outside an older OTS Pack, plus it’s upgraded. Finally we get a reprint for the second year in a row for Infinite Impermanence, which was very necessary.
In Conclusion
This is the best March reprint set we’ve probably had so far. All these Link Monsters are good for pleasing many different players of many different strategies. It’s nice to get the new Cubic and Malefic cards finally. The other imports have some good things. The exclusives are great, especially the Traptrix and Mayakashi cards. Also, we got a bunch of reprints for cards that haven’t been printed in years, have needed their first foil print or just another foil print in general, and necessary staples and cards for specific strategies. Also those manga-style cards are nice. There’s a lot of good value in this set due to so many great cards, which is why many players have ordered cases of this set (me included, which I’ve never done before now). The set is just that good and it’ll be hard to top with any other set this year or any future reprint sets that also give new cards.
