BATTLES OF LEGEND: MONSTER MAYHEM and a New Branded Deck Coming
Last month, Konami released the Battles of Legend: Monster Mayhem booster set for the Yu-Gi-Oh! trading card game. Duelists who watched the recent NAWCQ observed just how powerful some of the cards and archetypes could be with Orcust taking first place!
There were two really cool features about Monster Mayhem that really got attention. The first was that nine famous monsters such as Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Skull Servant, and Elemental HERO Neos got new alternate chibi artworks which were just amazing. My favorites are Skull Servant, Gorz, and Gearfried.
The other feature of Monster Mayhem was emblazoned cards for Dragonmaid, P.U.N.K., and Orcust archetypes. These cards have their archetype emblems emblazoned in the card text box and they look really cool. Now, I had no idea that archetypes had emblems but I think these are really cool and want to know what all the emblems are for archetypes! This is definitely something that Konami should continue doing in my opinion.
Konami was kind enough to send me a box of Monster Mayhem and you can check out my pulls below. Let me know what your favorite chibi artworks were from this set and keep reading for additional news from the world of Yu-Gi-Oh!.
About a week ago, Konami announced a new deck for duelists to grab titled THE CHRONICLES DECK: The Fallen & The Virtuous (All-Foil Edition). Taking inspiration from Yu-Gi-Oh! CARD GAME: THE CHRONICLES animated shorts, The Fallen & The Virtuous is a 51-card deck focused on Fallen of Albaz and Dogmatika Ecclesia, the Virtuous (aka Branded Dogmatika). There are two brand-new cards and four new alternate artworks included in the deck, plus 50 of the cards will be Ultra Rares. The last card will be a Secret Rare copy of one of the other 50 cards with a chance of being a Starlight Rare, reminiscent of what they did in Blue-Eyes White Destiny. You’ll be able to pick up The Fallen & The Virtuous on October 24 with an MSRP of $19.99.
I’m sure that Konami is using the all-foil aspect as their rationale for making the MSRP so high for the deck, but I think this is going to be a huge detriment. I theorize that most duelists won’t care that much about the fact that all the cards are Ultra Rares considering most of those cards will most likely just be thrown in bulk piles anyways.
I guess it depends on what the brand-new cards are and the overall deck composition is, but I’m not holding my breath for it to truly be something that many will see as worth that $19.99 MSRP. Tell me if you think I’m wrong in the comments below.
But wait, there’s more! This last week, Konami announced a new product for fans of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s! Legendary 5D’s Decks is the fifth Legendary Decks set and will feature three complete decks for duelists to use. At this point we know that one deck is built around Yusei Fudo and the other two decks will be based on other Signers from the anime.
I personally think Crow and Jack are the easy guesses, but due to Jack getting the Crimson King Structure Deck not too long ago, I’d wager it’s going to be Luna or Akiza. Yusei’s deck will have eight brand-new cards though which will definitely be interesting to learn about.
Each of the three decks will have a 40-card Main Deck, 10-card Extra Deck, 5 Ultra Rares, 45 Commons, and an additional Secret Rare chibi art version of the Signer’s main monster as a 51st card (that means we get a chibi Stardust Dragon for Yusei). Inside of Legendary 5D’s Decks, duelists will also get three Secret Rare Token Cards with chibi art for the three Signer characters featured in the product which is sure to be a lot of fun.
The final note is that Konami has stated that popular tech cards including Infinite Impermanence and Mulcharmy Meowls will be included and “the 5D’s-themed cards in each Deck aren’t a 1-of-each sampler, but come in the 2’s and 3’s you’ll need to make these Decks really work.”
I have a hard time believing that we won’t need to still buy three copies of the product to make any of the decks work though which will lead to a ton of unnecessary bulk and waste plus it’s not very financially viable. Regardless, Signers and duelists can purchase Legendary 5D’s Decks starting November 7 with an MSRP of $31.99.