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The fourth card is Clear Kuriboh, the Kuriboh from the Dark Side of Dimensions movie. You can discard it to stop one of your opponents monsters from doing effect damage, and when it’s in the graveyard and your opponent attacks directly you can banish it to draw a card, and if it’s a monster special summon it. The second effect seems more useful, drawing a card no matter what, and you might get to summon a higher level monster with it.
The third card is a Kuriboh Token, it’s just one of the things summoned by Multiply. While there hasn’t been much that was wintery or Christmasy yet I’m guessing Detonate will appear soon. There’s not much to say about this card, it’s neat actually having the token but that’s it. Now I’m wondering how they deal with Token cards in actual duels, it probably just means that your opponent knows you have a token generator but I’m guessing they get their own deck off to the side. I do wonder where it would be put though.
The second card is Multiply, one of the support cards I mentioned in the previous post. It tributes a Kuriboh on the field to summon four defense position tokens that have the same stats as Kuriboh, which could be useful for things such as Link Summoning, a defensive wall, or detonating to take down four of your opponents cards. Literally only useful if you have Kuriboh, but they can be useful.
This Advent Calendar starts with Kuriboh, not much to do with Christmas but one of the iconic monsters of Yu-Gi-Oh that has gotten many variants over the years. It’s also one of if not the first hand trap, stopping one battles damage from being inflicted. It can also be used with Multiply and Detonate to destroy up to four of your opponents cards. While there are better cards for its main effect now, it can be used as a defensive wall, or fairly good removal with its support.
We’ve gotten another Yu-Gi-Oh Advent Calendar for this year, this time bought by us. We’re planning on doing the same as we did last year again, though we did start a bit late. This time with a Kuriboh apparently known as Performapal Kuribohble as the front cover. Hopefully you will enjoy our review.
The final card in the Advent Calendar is Oh Tokenbaum!, the card which pictures a Christmas party. It lets you tribute multiple tokens of the same level, to summon monsters from the grave that share that level, but they don’t keep their effects and they die when the turn ends. It can be useful for setting up XYZ summons, because tokens can’t be used as material for those, and if there are extra deck monsters that have more specific requirements, you can switch tokens with the right level for monster in the grave that you need. It might also be useful for switching out tokens that would be destroyed by battle with monsters that your opponent can’t attack over. It might be useful on the attack as well. A decent card and thank you to Konami and Hill and Knowlton Strategies for gifting us this Advent Calendar.
The twenty-first card is Number 41: Bagooska the Terribly Tired Tapir, probably filling in for the children with sugar-plums or a creature to go with the mouse. Bagooska is a rank 4 XYZ monster that takes two materials, and loses one each standby phase, so it will last for three turns before it runs out of materials and destroys itself. Its effect is different depending if its attacking or defending. If it is in attack mode then it can’t be destroyed or targeted by your opponents effects, and if it is in defense mode then everything else goes into defense mode and the things that were already there lose any activated effects. It’s moderately powerful at 2100 attack and 2000 defense, and if you use cards like Numbers Overlay Boost or XYZ Override then you can make it last on the field even longer. Its defense has gotten somewhat less effective because of link monsters and their inability to go into defense mode. Overall a great shield and a decent attacker, and thank you to Konami and Hill and Knowlton Strategies for giving us this Advent Calendar.
The twentieth card is Toy Magician, who has the effect of being set like a spell or trap and summoning itself upon its destruction. It shares that ability with the Artifact archetype and the Silver Sentinel. Whenever this card leaves face down defense position it gets to destroy spell and trap cards equal to how many of it are on the field. It only gets summoned if your opponent is the one to get it off your spell/trap zone. It is apparently part of an archetype seen in the series, but in real life there seems to be this card, Toy Knight which seems almost completely unrelated, and Toy Vendor which is support for the Fluffal archetype. It would go well with cards that can flip it face down like Tsukuyomi and Magical Hats, so it can get its effect off multiple times. A decent card that can act like Mystical Space Typhoon and tank a hit at the same time, thank you Konami and Hill and Knowlton Strategies for giving us this Advent Calendar.
The nineteenth card is Valerifawn, Mystical Beast of the Forest. It lets you discard a card to summon two other 1 or 2 star beasts. There are three other Mystical Beasts of the Forest that are made to work with this card, Kalantosa who destroys something and Uniflora who summons another beast from the hand or grave, and Alpacaribou who can’t be summoned by Valerifawn. There are other beings of the forest, but none who are capable of being summoned by Valerifawn. You can also get a variety of minor support monsters for other groups, notably Ojama and Fabled. There is actually a 2050 monster that you can get with this. You could also use this to go to almost any 1 or 2 rank XYZ monsters, or use it to go into a link monster. It looks to be a pretty good card, and thank you to Hill and Knowlton Strategies and Konami for getting us this Advent Calendar.
The eighteenth card is a Christmas tree topper, Hoshiningen. It is a monster that boosts light monsters by 500 attack and weakens dark monsters by 400 attack, it has 1000 attack as long as its effect is active. It could be fairly useful in fairy decks, especially since it is a fairy as well. If you can keep it alive it could be moderately useful, especially if your opponent uses dark monsters, probably only kept in the side deck. There are actually similar monsters for all six of the main attributes, and they all have upgraded link versions, this ones being Hip Hoshiningen. Either way, thank you Hill and Knowlton Strategies and Konami for the Advent Calendar.