CH.722 Completing The New Challengers
Taking care of the few time travel problems I figured out last time didn’t take too long. As suspected, if I turn off all of my senses, I can travel backwards in time without much difficulty. There is still this sense of ‘wrongness’ that transmits through my mana circuits, but I can’t exactly block that.
Because of that, we began working on an improved version of our time travel spell. Something that would block most of that sensory feedback.
That led to a bunch more tests, and thanks to those, Laura began to figure out how to deal with the ‘two Brians’ problem. She couldn’t yet fully mask us from the System, but we are getting there.
When it came to the other parts of the time travel, the sword and the Demon God’s coin maker, those were already figured out. The coin maker was simple, since I could just copy the design from the actual thing and recreate it with Chaos God Core.
The sword was a bit more difficult, but Wilma and I managed to forge it, and Wilma is currently working on the enchants for it. The difficult part was not naming the sword, as the Hero must be the one to name it. So we’ve been referring to it by its title, The Hero’s Holy Sword. Or ‘the Hero’s sword’ or just ‘the sword’.
But yeah. The sword will be ready way before I am. Not that it is a surprise. Making a sword is much easier than figuring out time travel.
But, I need more packs to calm myself from all of the actual work I’ve been doing.
Well, to be more specific, I’ll be completing a set. The New Challengers. And if it doesn’t take too long, I’ll also update the Pendulum and Ritual challenges.
And since I’m completing a set, it starts with 200 packs, speedrun style.
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200 NECH packs 1
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Wonder Balloons (Common) x30
Toy Vendor (Common) x30
Elegy the Melodious Diva (Common) x39
Canon the Melodious Diva (Common) x25
Superheavy Samurai Soulbang Cannon (Common) x38
Ruffian Railcar (Common) x34
Ms. Judge (Common) x39
Guiding Light (Common) x44
Deskbot 002 (Common) x36
Superheavy Samurai Soulfire Suit (Common) x30
Superheavy Samurai Kabuto (Common) x44
Watch Dog (Common) x31
Shogi Lance (Common) x29
Superheavy Samurai Soulshield Wall (Common) x34
Fluffal Cat (Common) x31
Scrounging Goblin (Common) x29
Serenade the Melodious Diva (Common) x28
Gogogo Goram (Common) x40
Fluffal Bear (Common) x33
Superheavy Samurai Soulbreaker Armor (Common) x40
Fluffal Rabbit (Common) x22
Lindbloom (Common) x28
Block Spider (Common) x29
Satellarknight Betelgeuse (Common) x35
Dododo Driver (Common) x27
Fluffal Leo (Common) x25
Satellarknight Procyon (Common) x36
SZW - Fenrir Sword (Common) x23
U.A. Powered Jersey (Common) x27
Cursed Bamboo Sword (Common) x26
Hexatellarknight (Common) x33
Celestia (Common) x38
Laser Qlip (Common) x34
Shaddoll Hound (Common) x27
Fusion Substitute (Common) x36
Mimiclay (Common) x40
Magical Star Illusion (Common) x31
Qlimate Change (Common) x31
The Phantom Knights of Shadow Veil (Common) x31
Command Performance (Common) x27
Different Dimension Encounter (Common) x31
Punch-in-the-Box (Common) x33
Yang Zing Brutality (Common) x34
Performapal Revival (Common) x23
Qlipper Launch (Common) x32
Strike of the Monarchs (Common) x36
Oracle of the Herald (Common) x37
Valerifawn, Mystical Beast of the Forest (Common) x31
Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon (Ghost Rare) x1
Xyz Change Tactics (Rare) x8
Oasis of Dragon Souls (Rare) x13
Naturia Sacred Tree (Rare) x8
U.A. Midfielder (Rare) x12
Superheavy Samurai Scales (Rare) x10
Unmasked Dragon (Rare) x11
Calcab, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss (Rare) x11
U.A. Goalkeeper (Rare) x9
Apoqliphort Towers (Rare) x17
Shopina the Melodious Maestra (Rare) x10
Satellarknight Sirius (Rare) x8
Fluffal Owl (Rare) x9
Alich, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss (Rare) x9
Fluffal Dog (Rare) x7
Frightfur Bear (Rare) x12
Frightfur Wolf (Rare) x11
Qliphort Shell (Rare) x9
Performapal Trampolynx (Rare) x11
Performapal Cheermole (Rare) x5
Draw Muscle (Rare) x10
Solemn Scolding (Secret Rare) x2
El Shaddoll Grysta (Secret Rare) x2
El Shaddoll Shekhinaga (Secret Rare) x1
Yazi, Evil of the Yang Zing (Secret Rare) x1
Edge Imp Sabres (Super Rare) x3
Taotie, Shadow of the Yang Zing (Super Rare) x3
Machina Megaform (Super Rare) x2
First of the Dragons (Super Rare) x2
1st Movement Solo (Super Rare) x3
Fire Lake of the Burning Abyss (Super Rare) x3
Qliphort Carrier (Super Rare) x3
Lancephorhynchus (Super Rare) x2
Herald of the Arc Light (Super Rare) x3
Number 39: Utopia Beyond (Super Rare) x3
CXyz Barian Hope (Super Rare) x1
Frightfur Bear (Ultimate Rare) x2
Stellarknight Triverr (Ultimate Rare) x1
Zaborg the Mega Monarch (Ultra Rare) x3
Denko Sekka (Ultra Rare) x2
Night Dragolich (Ultra Rare) x3
Saqlifice (Ultra Rare) x1
Qliphort Scout (Ultra Rare) x1
Herald of Ultimateness (Ultra Rare) x2
Jiaotu, Darkness of the Yang Zing (Ultra Rare) x2
Stellarknight Triverr (Ultra Rare) x1
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21 new cards. Nice.
Let’s start with the normal Pendulums.
Lancephorhynchus has a good attack stat and when it is a Pendulum scale, it gives normal monsters piercing.
Qliphort Scout just searches Qli monsters, but that is exactly what you want it to do.
I’ll also go over Saqlifice now, since it is the only other Qli card, except Scout. It is great. 300 attack boost and battle destruction immunity are already nice. But then being able to act as 2 tributes, and Saqlifice searching when it is sent from the field to the GY just make it a great equip card.
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Now … let’s just do the rest of the main deck monsters.
Denko Sekka is something. Preventing setting spells and traps doesn’t prevent spell use, but it does prevent delayed activation spells. Not that they are commonly used, as they can be challenging to use. And most of the time there is no need. But preventing trap setting should prevent people from making traps. And Denko Sekka also prevents trap activation.
Jiaotu, Darkness of the Yang Zing can allow for a double special summon from the deck.
Machina Megaform is nice. Special summoning from the deck and situational self resurrection.
Night Dragolich is an okay floodgate, but it could be better.
Performapal Trampolynx returns cards from the Pendulum zone to the hand. Which could be alright. I might get a card that sets a Pendulum scale from the deck and this thing can then return it to my hand.
Superheavy Samurai Scales is great. Free special summon and you even get to resurrect a Superheavy Samurai from the GY.
Zaborg the Mega Monarch is fine. The extra deck dump is sometimes used with Converging Wishes for an OTK, so it can be quite a lot of fun. But even outside of that, Zaborg is good.
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Let’s do the spells and traps next, and save the extra deck for last.
1st Movement Solo specials a Melodious from the deck. So its great.
Fire Lake of the Burning Abyss destroys two of your Burning Abyss monsters, and then 3 other cards. Which can be alright, but it is just a worse version of Icarus Attack.
Solemn Scolding is a decent countertrap, but some of the other Solemn traps are better as they are more generic.
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And that was all the spells and traps, so let’s move onto the extra deck monsters.
El Shaddoll Grysta can negate summons.
El Shaddoll Shekhinaga can negate effects.
First of the Dragons is interesting. Mainly because I’m not quite sure what counts as a ‘normal’ monster when it comes to people. And even outside of that, being unaffected by ‘monster’ effects is still great.
Frightfur Wolf can attack multiple times.
Herald of the Arc Light is great. I mean, it is a floodgate, kind of, can negate spells/traps/monster effects. And it searches if it goes to the GY.
Yazi, Evil of the Yang Zing is fine. Honestly, it could be a bit better.
CXyz Barian Hope is nice enough. Shame it isn’t the anime version, where it gains the effects of the Number C monsters attached to it as Xyz material. That thing was busted since it could use each effect once per turn.
Last card is Stellarknight Triverr. Returning everything except itself to the hand on summon it really good. And it can randomly destroy stuff in your opponent’s hand.
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Now, you know the deal. I’m checking what I’m missing and setting up the capsules for them.
And there were only seven of them. I’ll again start with the main deck stuff.
Rubic, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss is just a free special summon from the hand.
Rescue Hamster is situational. But it can summon 2 level 5 or lower monsters from the deck.
Qliphort Helix is a Qli. The only unique part about it is that if you tribute it, you get to pop a spell or trap.
Qliphort Disk allows you to special summon 2 Qlis from the deck when you tribute summon it. So yeah, nice and useful.
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Now, we have one spell and two extra deck monsters.
El Shaddoll Fusion is a Quick-Play Poly for Shaddolls.
Virgil, Rock Star of the Burning Abyss can shuffle a card into the deck.
And Number 99: Utopic Dragon is a Number monster. And almost a Utopia monster. It has 4k attack and can negate targeting effects. And can special summon Numbers from the GY.
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But yeah. That is The New Challengers completed. And since I have time, let’s see what my Pendulum and Ritual challenges are missing.
First, rituals. Since there are way fewer of them. In fact, I’ve only gotten 5 new ones since the last time I updated the challenge.
Paladin of Photon Dragon; Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon; Saffira, Queen of Dragons; Nekroz of Sophia; Herald of Ultimateness
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Summoning all of them brought my total to 44, so I claimed the reward at 40, which was Saffira, Divine Dragon of the Voiceless Voice and Blessing of the Voiceless Voice. Interesting that I got a Saffira retrain after just summoning Saffira, Queen of Dragons.
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Naturally I summoned the new Saffira, which brought my total to 45, and thus one more reward. That reward was Cynet Ritual and Cyberse Sage. She is cute and allows for fusion summons, as well as has an effect if used as Synchro material, but she is just a combo piece.
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| Summon unique Ritual Monsters |
| Unique Ritual Monsters summoned: 46 |
| Performance of Sword, Relinquished, Paladin of White Dragon, Hungry Burger, Crab Turtle, Black Luster Soldier, Shinato, King of a Higher Plane, Legendary Flame Lord, Dark Master - Zorc, The Masked Beast, Chakra, Dokurorider, Skull Guardian, Elemental Mistress Doriado, Reshef the Dark Being, Fortress Whale, Magician of Black Chaos, Garma Sword, Javelin Beetle, Super War-Lion, Zera the Mant, Cu Chulainn the Awakened, Demise, King of Armageddon, Ruin, Queen of Oblivion, Lycanthrope, Fiend's Mirror, Blue-Eyes Chaos Dragon; Divine Grace - Northwemko; Garlandolf, King of Destruction ; Herald of Perfection; Ruin, Supreme Queen of Oblivion; Evigishki Mind Augus; Evigishki Tetrogre; Evigishki Soul Ogre; Evigishki Gustkraken; Gishki Zielgigas; Gishki Psychelone; Evigishki Levianima; Ohime the Manifested Mikanko; Paladin of Photon Dragon; Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon; Saffira, Queen of Dragons; Nekroz of Sophia; Herald of Ultimateness; Saffira, Divine Dragon of the Voiceless Voice; Cyberse Sage |
| Next Reward is given at 50 unique Ritual Monsters |
| Next Reward: Dogmatika Alba Zoa + Dogmatikalamity |
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And next time I’ll be getting some Dogmatika cards. Don’t remember them, so must be newer than me being sent to this world. It does sound quite powerful, and 4k attack is always nice. Probably not as easy to summon as it seems like, as I feel like if printed as is, it would be too good. Or maybe it got banned. Or maybe the meta just got to the point where this is normal. This could be five or ten years to the future. No idea.
Sadly for me, it will just be a 4k beatstick. So Chaos-MAX is just better in every way. Also, how is he a Spellcaster and not a Fiend? He looks like an Archfiend.
Okay. Pendulums … will have to wait until next time. I have way too many of them. Sorry, not sorry. It isn’t my fault that I have 46 new Pendulum monsters. Blame the sets.