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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.
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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-third card is Hey, Trunade!, which is a spell that returns all set spells and traps to the hand. It is a lesser version of the card Giant Trunade that does the same thing without needing the cards to be face-down. It can be useful against Paleozoic decks or anything else with a lot of traps. It can be more useful than the Giant Trunade if you run continuous or equip spells and traps, but if not then you would be better off using the other one. A decent card, and thank you to Konami and Hill and Knowlton Strategies for giving us this Advent Calendar.
The twenty-second card is Ghost Reaper & Winter Cherries, which is a good way of getting rid of extra deck monsters. It has no attack and decent defense, but it’s main use is that when your opponent controls more monsters than you, you can discard it to chose a monster from your extra deck and banish every copy of it in your opponents extra deck. It is great with links, especially if you’re using similar decks or aiming at cards that are out in most decks. It is one of a set of five hand traps that have four words separated by the & symbol and discard to activate. The hand traps seem to be mostly unrelated to each other despite their similar names and activations. A good weapon against the extra deck, and thank you to Hill and Knowlton Strategies and Konami for giving 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.