User:UltimateKuriboh/Set Content Reasoning
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- Armed Ninja, Crimson Ninja, Strike Ninja, White Ninja: To accompany upcoming "Ninja" support in ORCS
- Pinch Hopper, Howling Insect: To accommodate upcoming "Inzektor" archetype in ORCS, as supported by a Konami article
- Insect Barrier: To serve as a tech against upcoming "Inzketor" archetype
- Ultimate Tyranno, Black Stego, Babycerasaurus, Fossil Dig: For the released (and upcoming) "Evol" monsters (supported by same article)
- Gorz the Emissary of Darkness: possibly because of this article
- Dark Factory of Mass Production, Ancient Rules: Unknown, possibly because of "Hieratic" monsters or SDCC or "Thunder End Dragon", but seems unlikely
- Destiny Hero - Fear Monger: Was a tournament staple, used for reviving "Destiny HERO - Disk Commander"
- Old Vindictive Magician: Tournament staple, mostly for "Monarch" Decks
- Phoenix Wing Wind Blast: Tournament staple
- Blaze Accelerator: Briefly used in a top 8 SJC Monarch Deck(s) that teched "Volcanic Rocket", "Volcanic Shell", and maybe "Wild Fire"
- Call of Darkness: A new card, but most likely influenced by the recent 'Forbidden → Limited' status of "Monster Reborn"
- Blade Knight: Probably a reprint as a possible 'answer' to the widespread presence of staple Flip Effect monsters
- Super-Electromagnetic Voltech Dragon & Batteryman AA: Accommodating the "Batteryman" support cards in LODT
- Elemental Hero Stratos: in CP6's product blurb, it said "the return of popular promo card Elemental Hero Stratos"; also, it needed to be errata'd to include "Evil Hero" in its text
- Helios Duo Megistus: Accommodating "Helios Duo Megistus", released in LODT (TCG-only, since JP already had it)
- Soul of Purity and Light: Accommodating "Lightsworn" monsters, introduced in LODT
- Amplifier: Accommodating "Jinzo - Lord", released in LODT
- Cold Wave: Good staple card with only 1 release... interestingly, it was out-of-favor until shortly after its reprint here
- Bujin Yamato, Bujingi Turtle: For Bujin Decks, which really haven't been topping at the time... (maybe for upcoming "Bujin" card that will make them top)
- Gagaga Cowboy, Pot of Duality, Full House, Overworked: Staple cards (the last mostly used against "Bujin" and "Fire Fist" Decks)
- Card Trooper: Idk, it's always been somewhat of a staple for various Decks throughout the years, maybe just a reprint.
- Geargiarsenal: Rarity bump, even though "Geargiagear" just got Limited...
- Jenis, Lightsworn Mender, Charge of the Light Brigade: For the released Realm of Light Structure Deck.
- Mermail Abysspike: Rarity bump for a commonly used Deck at the time.
- Star Drawing: for "Artifact" Decks to Xyz with.
- Advanced Ritual Art: Long-needed reprint, perhaps for the upcoming NECH release that has new "Herald" monsters (for the record, TCG DUEA wasn't printed yet)
- Jurrac Impact: Likely for NECH "Lancephorhynchus".
- Tour Guide From the Underworld: Rarity bump for "Burning Abyss" Decks
- Number 11: Big Eye, Infernity Break, Bujincarnation: Old, useful cards that needed rarity bump
- Superheavy Samurai Big Benkei, Machina Fortress: "Superheavy Samurai" Decks
- King of the Skull Servants: For the released "Wightprince" in DUEA
- Nobleman of Crossout, Royal Command: Anti-"Shaddoll" tech
- Traptrix Trap Hole Nightmare: Staple-esque card that needed clarification on its effect, as well as rarity bump
- White Dragon Wyverburster, Black Dragon Collapserpent, Shaddoll Beast: Useful "Shaddoll" tech cards, with rarity bump
- Vanity's Fiend, Number 80: Rhapsody in Berserk, Traptrix Myrmeleo: Common tech card (not so much for latter 2, at time of release)
- Underworld Fighter Balmung, Thunder Crash: "Yang Zing" Decks
- Cursed Seal of the Forbidden Spell: Useful tech against "Shaddoll", "Qli" and upcoming "Nekroz"
- The Monarchs Stormforth: Needed clarification, also "Qli" tech
- Summoner's Art: "Qli" staple with rarity bump
- Madolche Queen Tiaramisu: Errata
- Van'Dalgyon the Dark Dragon Lord: Supposedly useful card for "tellarknight" Decks, also excuse for errata
- Gaia Dragon, the Thunder Charger, Castel, the Skyblaster Musketeer: Staple reprints with rarity bumps
- Spell Shattering Arrow: useful anti-"Qli" tech, as well as against Pendulums in general
- Satellarknight Altair, Satellarknight Unukalhai: Rarity bumps for a commonly-used Deck at the time
- Djinn Demolisher of Rituals, Dawn of the Herald: Likely meant for the "Herald of Ultimateness" released in NECH
- Scarm, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss: Rarity bump (with an errata) for a commonly-used Deck at the time
- Leo, the Keeper of the Sacred Tree: Common Synchro tech used by "Shaddoll" Decks ("Shaddoll Falco" + "El Shaddoll Construct"), as well as rarity bump
- Number 103: Ragnazero: Limited effectiveness against "Qli" and "Yang Zing" Decks at the time, mostly likely meant as staple reprint with rarity bump
- Twister, Fairy Wind: Tech used for "floodgates", such as "Light-Imprisoning Mirror", "Stygian Dirge" (BA Decks), "Anti-Spell Fragrance", "Imperial Iron Wall" ("Nekroz" and "Ritual Beast" Decks), "Mistake", etc. But also useful against "Qli" Decks, targeting their Pendulums or their floodgate backrow (though "Skill Drain" was newly Limited, but "Lose 1 Turn" was released). Rarity bump for "Twister".
- Dragon Ravine: Rarity bump, went from Forbidden to Limited in April of that year
- Senju of the Thousand Hands: Much-needed reprint (with PSCT) for "Nekroz" Decks
- Volcanic Scattershot: Much needed reprint (with PSCT) for "Volcanic" Decks using the newly released "Blaze Accelerator Reload"
- Madolche Puddingcess: "Madolche Puddingcess Chocolat-a-la-Mode" was released in CROS already
- Brotherhood of the Fire Fist - Spirit, Gladiator Beast Bestiari: Reprint of a card that went from Limited to Unlimited in April of that year.
- Storm: Tech used by some "Nekroz" Decks (destroying their Set Ritual Spells), as well as "Qli" Decks (destroying their Pendulums which can later be Pendulum Summoned, also triggers "Saqlifice"), helping OTKs
- Spiritual Wind Art - Miyabi: Possible reprint intended for "Mecha Phantom Beast" Decks, as hinted by this article.
- Light-Imprisoning Mirror, Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror: Techs against "tellarknight" and "Shaddoll" Decks, respectively
- Level Limit - Area A, Level Limit - Area B: Totally unknown why these were reprinted...
- Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier: Rarity bump, went from Forbidden to Limited in July of that year
- Mystical Space Typhoon, Fiendish Chain: Rarity bumps of staple cards
- Igknight Margrave, Igknight Gallant: Rarity bumps
- Toon Masked Sorcerer: Rarity bump to accommodate the Toon monster support in DRL2
- Graff, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss: Rarity bump, slight errata
- Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Evening Twilight: Reprint in AP08 makes it TCG-legal in all TCG territories. Meant to accomodate "Black Luster Soldier" support in DOCS.
- Spiritual Beast Rampengu: Rarity bump, even though "Ritual Beast Ulti-Cannahawk" became Limited on November 9th that year (the banlist was already spoiled when this set was released)
- Instant Fusion: Super Rare reprint, to accommodate the release of "Elder Entity Norden" in CT12
- Kozmotown: Rarity bump of a pivotal card in the "Kozmo" archetype
- Book of Eclipse: Rarity bump of a tech card used in "Nekroz" Decks as disruption, while simultaneously flipping copies of "Manju of the Ten Thousand Hands" and/or "Senju of the Thousand Hands" face-down to trigger their effects again. Was also used to get over "Djinn Releaser of Rituals" before that card became Forbidden. However, "Nekroz" was made unplayable by the November lists...
- Lose 1 Turn, U.A. Stadium: Needed clarification erratas
- Twin-Headed Behemoth: Needed functional errata... but seems odd, since the reprint is seemingly unrelated to anything in the current meta / product releases
- Swift Gaia the Fierce Knight: Reprint to accommodate the "Gaia The Fierce Knight" support in DOCS
- Kinka-byo: Sorely-needed reprint. Combos with "The Black Stone of Legend" in CORE, looping its first effect or alternatively Summoning "Beast-Eyes Pendulum Dragon" with it.
- Red-Eyes Wyvern: Reprint to accommodate "Red-Eyes" support in CORE.
- Gem-Knight Obsidian: Reprint to accommodate "Gem-Knight" support in CORE.
- Masked HERO Koga, Black Horn of Heaven: Needed functional erratas to match up with the OCG.
- Machine Duplication: Reprint to accommodate the continual "Deskbot" support over several packs.
- Safe Zone: Unknown
- Unpossessed: Needed functional Italian and Spanish erratas.
- Bountiful Artemis: To accomodate Counter Fairy strategy, with the release of "Guiding Ariadne" in BOSH.
- Vanity's Fiend: Good Side Deck card, probably for "Monarch" Decks (even though unsearchable). But it was even printed in Ultimate Rare for AP06...
- Masked HERO Dark Law: The trump card of modern HERO Decks. (But possibly also for "Phantom Knights" Decks, with "Mask Change II"?)
- Droll & Lock Bird: Excellent Side Deck card, especially with the massive amounts of searching that "Atlantean"/"Mermail" and "Performapal" Decks conduct in a single turn.
- Infernoid Patrulea: The only remaining non-foil of the Level 4 and lower "Infernoid" monsters.
- "Performapal" monsters: Self-explanatory, due to the "Performapal" Deck being Tier 1.
- Dinoster Power, the Mighty Dracoslayer: The only non-foil of the "Dracoslayer" monsters, and used commonly in the archetype's strategy.
- Anti-Spell Fragrance: Popular tech card against Pendulum-based Decks, preventing cards from being activated in the Pendulum Zones.
- Imperial Iron Wall: Side Deck card against "Kozmo" (but also "Monarch" Decks)
- Typhoon: Popular tech card against Pendulum-based Decks.
- Mezuki: To accommodate the "Shiranui" archetype introduced in BOSH.
- The White Stone of Legend: To accommodate the upcoming "Blue-Eyes" support in SHVI.
- Flying "C": Common Side Deck card against "Burning Abyss", which is likely to see a resurgence in popularity due to the release of "Beatrice, Lady of the Eternal" in PGL3.
- Michael, the Arch-Lightsworn: Possibly to accommodate the "Lightsworn" strategy of "Infernoid" Decks, which Summon this card by using "Lyla, Lightsworn Sorceress" + "Raiden, Hand of the Lightsworn".
- Cyber Dragon Nova: To accommodate the alternative Summon of "Cyber Dragon Infinity", which was released in BOSH.
- Mage Power: Unknown.
- Offerings to the Doomed: Tech card used by some "Kozmo" Decks to destroy their Machine-Type monsters during their Battle Phase to Special Summon another, facilitating OTKs.
- Monster Gate: Reprint to show that it excavates; used in "Infernoid" Decks.
- Allure of Darkness: Generic draw card for Decks that use plenty of DARK monsters.
- Summoning Curse: Tech card used by some "Kaiju" Decks to eliminate their opponents' hands, usually in tandem with "Yosenju" monsters (particularly the effect of "Yosenju Kama 1"
- Advance Zone: Probably to encourage use in "Monarch" Decks.
- Fog King, Mask of Restrict: For use against "Monarch" Decks (though I personally haven't seen "Fog King" teched much...).
- Kuraz the Light Monarch, The Prime Monarch: Rarity bump for a highly-used card in "Monarch" Decks (the former being Special Summoned via "Ehther the Heavenly Monarch", and the latter practically mandatory with at least 1 copy).
- Raigeki: Rarity bump for a commonly-used card.
- Gameciel, the Sea Turtle Kaiju: Common Side Deck card (usually used in tandem with "Interrupted Kaiju Slumber", "Kumongous, the Sticky String Kaiju", and another 1-2 different "Kaiju" monsters) due to its low ATK. For just a Rare card, its secondary market reached about 4-6 USD at one point.
- Fiendish Rhino Warrior: Rarity bump for a practically mandatory card in "Burning Abyss" Decks.
- Mithra the Thunder Vassal: Rarity bump for an often-used card in "Monarch" Decks that use "Edea the Heavenly Squire" and "Eidos the Underworld Squire" as their Tribute engine.
- The Phantom Knights of Ragged Gloves: Rarity bump for a core card in "Phantom Knights" Decks (including "Burning Abyss" hybrids).
- Super Quantum Blue Layer: Rarity bump for a card that forms the "Super Quant" Tribute engine in "Monarch" Decks (with "Super Quantum Red Layer" and "Emergency Teleport", although the latter got Semi-Limited).
- System Down: Common Side Deck card against "Kozmo" Decks.
- Ninjitsu Art of Transformation, Armor Ninjitsu Art of Freezing, Ninjitsu Art of Super-Transformation
- Dark Eradicator Warlock: To accommodate the upcoming "Dark Magician" support in TDIL.
- Infernity Archfiend: Unknown, probably just for its errata (removing the Damage Step restriction on its effect).
- Cyber Dragon Core: Probably reprinted to reduce secondary market price for it, as it was only printed once as a Super Rare.
- Galaxy Dragon: Unknown. Probably to serve as anti-tech against SR02 cards, though it doesn't seem very useful. Incidentally, this card would have been reprinted in SR02 (TCG side) but was replaced for better tech cards. Ultimately, probably reprinted to give it a functional errata.
- Prediction Princess Coinorma, Prediction Princess Tarotrei, Prediction Ritual: Reprints to support the upcoming "Subterror" archetype (specifically mentioned by Jerome in one of the video segments during the 2016 North American WCQ).
- United We Stand: Unknown. Probably for Pendulum Decks or something.
- The Melody of Awakening Dragon: Reprint to support "Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon in MVP1.
- Wiretap: Unknown. A good card in general, but isn't really needed in the current metagame.
- Because of "Speedroid Taketomborg".
- To complement "Speed Recovery", this being supported by a Konami Decklist.
- "Speedroid" monsters are also considered "roid" monsters.
