Xyz? So That Makes A Bit More Sense

Exceed seemed like a strange word. Xyz on the other hand - now that's a bit more YuGiOh! If you're reading our guides over the next few days, I'm working on changing all the uses of the word 'Exceed' over to 'Xyz', but it'll take me a while. For some reason, I'm even more interested in the new game mechanic now I'm going to be Xyz Summoning.

On the other hand, there's a name change I'm not so keen on. The intriguingly named Aspiring Emperor Hope has become plain old Number 39: Utopia. Still. It's one of the most interesting Xyz Monsters so far, so I can't complain too much.

The First Exceed Monsters Revealed

This week, I thought I'd give you a run through of the Exceed Monsters we've seen so far. At the time of writing, I've seen precisely five, although I must be honest and say I haven't had a look at the one from the Exceed Startup Duel Terminal yet. Of the other four, there's been one from the Generation Force booster and three from the Zexal OCG Starter Deck.

Starting (I guess logically) with the Starter Deck, the one I've been most interested in so far is Aspiring Emperor Hope. 2500 ATK and reasonably easy to summon with two level four monsters, the effect is a fairly handy one too, buying a bit of time to grab control of the field.

Gurensaurus sees a return of dinosaurs and it'll be interesting to see how that pans out. So far, we've only seen the card in a promo poster, with one or two key details of the card text obscured, but unless that missing bit of text causess a huge amount of damage to the opponent, I can't see any reason to get excited. Also, unless I'm missing something, there's nothing too special about the third one either - Gachigachi Gantetsu.

Moving on to Generation Force, we have Revise Dragon. It's the cover card from the booster and can quickly get up to 3K attack (although it can't attack directly once it's done that). Still for an easy cost of two level three monsters, I reckon this is quite handy. Good times :)