Subject: LoD Reviewed Part 2: Spirits at the Beach - Sce211 Hello all As I promised before in part 1, this one is not as long. Yes, this is part 2 of my 3 part review of Legacy of Darkness. Last time, I talked about the 3 new decks that will probobly impact the most in the new envirnment. Those decks were Darkness/Fiends, Blazing Dragons, and Warrior Beatdown. Some of the cards mentioned for those were the Tyrant Dragon, Dark Ruler Ha-Des, and Initiate Troops (now officially known by Upper Deck as Exiled Forces). Also, I want to mention that if you want to see the new pictures of the new cards, you can go to www.abctoy4me.com for scans of the set's Ultra and Secret Rare's! First, let me begin by saying that Pojo does a great job on their website and to please give all thanks to Edo. To get to his website, click here Edo's Yu-Gi-Oh! Page! Now, probobly anyone who has visited Edo's website has checked out his Card of the Week Reviews. Plus, anyone should know about The Legendary Fisherman (TLF) card pretty well. If you don't, let me put it this way: it began the Aqua deck's arrival on the envirnment of Yu-Gi-Oh!. It's stats are completely horrible for it's level and tribute cost, 5/Water/Warrior/1850/1600. But, remember, with bad attack brings great effects (you will hear me say this alot), and TLF has a good one for Aqua decks everywhere. As long as Umi was on the field, it wasn't effected by magic cards, targeted and non-targeted. Your opponent uses Raigeki, TLF stays alive. Dark Hole, nope. Change of Heart, nope. Pot of Greed, well, that still works. What I am saying is, this card needed support, and horrible. Jinzo was also released and was frequently played with TLF to prevent the use of traps against it. The key to defeating this mighty monster was to instead attack the Umi itself. Now, what do I mean when I say, Attack the Umi itself? Well, it's pretty straight forward. Use a quick Mystical Space Typhoon (MST) or Heavy Storm or the newly added Harpie's Feather Duster (HFD). Once Umi is gone, TLF is a walking Gemini Bait. This will all change... Yes, I know, in LoN, the Tornado Wall was put in play. It acted as a permanent Waboku to your monsters if Umi is on the field. That lasted not very long. The combo was extremely slow., trust me. It was just like Umi, MST bait. Now, LoD will bring this deck out of the depths of the sea (see, a metaphor kids! And they say that you can't learn English on Pojo!). This amazing set will produce the one card to make Aqua decks a new threat to the table, The Lost City of Atlantis (try saying that 5 times fast, TLCoA). TLCoA does many things for just a field card. It serves as a base for the NEW Aqua Deck, having the exact same power ups as Umi did. But what makes this a wonder is it's ability to still provide Umi being on the field, as stated on the card, "This card acts as having Umi on the field." Also, the thing that makes this card perfect for Aqua decks is that it lowers that level of all of your Water monsters. Now, just what is that level? Well folks, it's the amount of those little red and yellow stars at the top of a card. For example, You have TLF in your hand and you have a Legendary City of Atlantis on the field. Congradulations, you now have a four star monster with pretty nice stats and an awesome effect. Can you guess the combo with a 7-Colored Fish and Gravity Bind. I can't reveal all of these tricks! Find them out on your own... Last time, I talked about one of the two worthwhile Spirit cards. That card that I did talk about was the Yata-Garasu, now proclaimed Secret Rare of those 36-pack boxes. The other spirit thats worthwhile is the Yamata Dragon (YD), also known in Japan as the Eight-Headed Dragon. For starters, this is the Spirit version of the Blue Eyes White Dragon (BEWD). What do I mean?! Well, it's a spirit with 8 stars and 2600 attack, 3100 defence. What makes it somewhat worthwhile is that when it deals LP damage to your opponent, you draw cards until you get 5 cards in your hand. In other words, deal LP damage with this thing and at the end of the turn have a maxed out hand (stops Yata-Garasu in it's tracks). But what makes Yata-Garasu better than this is that Yata-Garasu was only 1 star while the YD is 8 stars. There is a Fire Spirit like this, but does the exact opposite. This spirit has 2900 attack, 2800 defence. When it deals LP damage to your opponent, they discard their hand. This can severely help Yata-Garasu out, but is hardly worth your time. Your best bet is with the Tyrant Dragon if your going to use a big monster, at least Barrel Dragon. Which of the two is the best though? It really depends on your play style. If you play an Exodia deck, you might want to put in the Yamato Dragon. Using discard, you may want to use the Fire Spirit. Both wouldn't truly change the envirnment as much as Yata-Garasu will... Now for the card everyone's been waiting for, the Injection Fairy Lily! This beauty (isn't that little Needle cool?) is probobly the most powerful card a beatdown will every recieve. But how? It only has 400 attack?! How could that little thing win anything? It's attack stat is even less than Man-Eater Bug! You could not be ever more wrong. This "cute" nurse, in one simple payment of "gulp" 2000 LP, gets a 3000 attack bonus during the damage step of the battle phase (to all of the novice players out there, the Damage Step is the time where you calculate damage!). So, now that you know the power of this card, you know why it's restricted to 1 in Japan. Fear it, for in the beginning of the game, it's nearly unstoppable in battle... More cards? You want more cards? Pojo reviews them everyday. Just go to the yugioh cotd area of Pojo - Pokemon, Dragon Ball Z, Magic The Gathering, Digimon, Gundam Wing, Anime and check it out yourself. You shouldn't be angry that you didn't. That's all folks, next time is the rest of the Sprits (theres one for every subtype in the book!) and how this mighty set impacts the current envirnment's Exodia, Beatdown, Discard, Hand-Disruption, Aqua, and other archtypes for this great game. See ya later! SN: Sce211