The people over at Konami were kind enough to send me some of the latest Yu-Gi-Oh! products, so I thought I’d share my thoughts. They sent me the Ash Blossom Accessory Collection and a box of the new Legendary Duelists: Magical Hero packs. We’ll start with the accessories.
The Ash Blossom collection features a game mat, portfolio, card box, and card sleeves. All of these items are good quality and I plan on using all of them. The portfolio has nine slots per page and they open to the side instead of the top. This should help when you accidentally put it in your bag upside down. The game mat feels very nice and has all the slots you need. The only critique I have is that there’s a big area that is a little more than a card tall at the bottom of the mat that I don’t see any point to having. It just makes the mat bigger. The card sleeves are perfectly sized for Yu-Gi-Oh! cards and the card box comes with a cute divider to separate your Extra and/or Side Deck(s) from your Main Deck.
Now, let’s talk about Magical Hero. This pack features 25 brand new cards and 31 reprints. The new cards provide support for a wide variety of cards and archetypes including Dark Magician, Dark Magician Girl, Elemental HERO, Synchron, Magician, Junk, Odd-Eyes, Utopic Future, Onomat, and many more. I think it’s great that they’re providing more support for these, but at the same time, I feel like it’s a bit of a waste to put all of them into one booster because there are so many. It makes buying these packs a lot less helpful unless you’re planning on creating decks around several of the supported archetypes. That being said, it looks like the new cards were designed with thinking forward to the new Master Rule 5.
Sadly, after opening all of my packs, I was not lucky enough to pull the featured card of the pack, The Dark Magicians. It’s an Ultra Rare, so it’s understandable, but it’s still sad. I do think with this pack we’ll see a resurgence of Dark Magician decks. Secrets of Dark Magic is going to help with Fusion and Ritual Monsters key to the deck and Soul Servant helps with draw power to name a few helpful cards. In addition, Elemental HERO Liquid Soldier is pretty awesome letting you Special Summon HEROs and draw cards. Maybe HEROs will also return?
What do you think of the new additions to Yu-Gi-Oh! with Legendary Duelists: Magical Hero?
