The Second Zexal Booster Announced

Well Generation Force hasn't even hit the streets of Japan yet, and here we are, already in possession of the name of the next one. It's called Photon Shockwave, it'll be the second Zexal booster, and it's due for Japanese OCG release on July 16th of this year. Now for the next bit, you folks talk amongst yourselves while I attempt to fill up the rest of this blog post, because that's pretty much the sum total of what we know about it so far. Oh, other than the cover card will be called Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon and I'd place a bet right now (if Ladbrokes would entertain me) that it's an Exceed Monster. As usual we have a (currently rather sparse looking) information page on Photon Shockwave, that'll grow as we find out more.

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 :)

OCG Release Round Up

With the forthcoming launch of Zexal for the OCG, it's an exciting time for all YuGiOh! players wherever they are in the world. As promised last week, this is just a quick post today to keep you up to speed with forthcoming OCG Zexal releases, and all the stuff we know about them so far.

March 19th is the big date for the diaries - on that day, we get the brand new 2011 OCG Zexal Starter deck 2011, and finally get to solve all the mysteries around how Exceed Summoning works. Over on our guide page to the deck, we've got a guide to what we know so far about Exceed Summons, but there's still a huge number of questions around how it impacts other game mechanics, so we wait with bated breath.

We then need to contain our excitement for nearly a full month before we get the next two installments. First up, there's a new Duel Terminal - the name Exceed Startup tells us everything we need to know :) Then we have the first OCG booster for Zexal - Generation Force - out on the 16th April in Japan, and featuring loads of the cards already seen in the new Manga. Exciting times!

New YuGiOh! Booster Announcement - Generation Force

A quick post this evening because we've had exciting news out of Japan today. The next booster has just been announced, and it's called Generation Force. It'll be the first YuGiOh! booster in the new Zexal generation, so it's a particularly interesting one. It's due out in Japan for the OCG in April, so presumably getting an English-Language TCG release late summer.

We've already heard about one new game mechanic in YuGiOh! Zexal called an Exceed Summon, where two monsters of the same level are used as material, but instead of being sent to the graveyard, are instead somehow stacked with the Exceed Monster. We're a bit confused, but sure it'll make sense in the end. Presumably there'll be Exceed Monsters abounding in Generation Force.

Anyway - to help you get up to speed, we have a full rundown of everything we've been able to find out about YuGiOh! Zexal - Generation Force here.