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Pojo's Duel Masters Site
Front Page Archive
May - July 2005

Friday, July 29, 2005  Our Duel Master Card of the Day today is Kizar Basiku, the Outrageous from Thundercharge. Steven Cantrell has a review.

Wednesday, July 27, 2005  Our Duel Master Card of the Day today is Phantasmal Horror Gigazabal from Thundercharge. Horus has a review.

Christian sends us his Dead Sea Tourney Report from the Comic Chest in Virginia.

BalmungX sends us a combo CCG Tip that he's found effective in dueling. And, Zeedox General sends us his Top 10 List of stupid mistakes he sees duelists make. Mistake number one would be not reading pojo.com.

Tuesday, July 26, 2005  Nimbly stops by to chat about The Monsters of Mana Control in Nimbly's Nook!

Monday, July 25, 2005  JMatthews has done an awesome job compiling a brand new Price Guide for the site. Check it out!

JMatthews also has a budget deck idea for those of you short on coin & cards.  Check out "Building On Budget: Seeing the Wood for the Trees".

Our Duel Master Card of the Day today is Valkrowzer, Ultra Rock Beast from Thundercharge. Steven Cantrell has a review.

Friday, July 22, 2005  Our Duel Masters Card of the Day today is Cosmic Nebula from Thundercharge. Steven Cantrell, Horus and Toilet Head Brett have reviews.

Wednesday, July 20, 2005  Our Duel Master Card of the Day today is Tangle Fist, the Weaver from Thundercharge. Horus, Toilet Head Brett and Steven Cantrell have reviews.

Horus also passes along a note he received from an Events Manager at WotC. Apparently, Due to a scheduling conflict with the venue, the date of the Duel Masters Continental Championship has been changed to October 29-30, 2005. The factsheets at the WotC website have been updated to reflect the new information. Anyone affected by this change should check with WotC. Especially if If you won an invite to the Championship from an Invitation Circuit event and have already booked your travel.  More details in our News Section today. 

Lots of Dueling action to catch up on. We have Tourney Report from the Duel Masters Invitational in Austin, TX attended by JMatthew with tons of picts. William gets into a real Tourney Shirt Fight in Virginia at the Comic Chest. You can check out an Invitational Report from Toilet Head, one of our card reviewers. Steven Cantrell has a regular update from Galactic Quest also with picts. And, Lee Abrahams brings us some jolly ol' action from across the pond in Sheffield, England. Thanks guys!

Tuesday, July 19, 2005  JMatthew sent me an email today with this important info on it:  "The Duel Masters Continental Championships date has been changed to October 28 thru the 30th. Thanks to Gordon Kane for noticing this for us as there does not seem to be an announcement from DCI or WotC..."

Monday, July 18, 2005  Our Duel Master Card of the Day today is Trenchdive Shark from Thundercharge. Horus and Toilet Head Brett have reviews.

Friday, July 15, 2005  Our Duel Master Card of the Day today is Headlong Giant from Thundercharge. Steven Cantrell, Toilet Head Brett, Nimbly and DimAssassin have reviews.

Wednesday, July 13, 2005  Our Duel Master Card of the Day today is Crath Lade, Merciless King from Thundercharge. Cecillbill, Steven Cantrell, Toilet Head Brett and DimAssassin have reviews.

Monday, July 11, 2005  Our Duel Master Card of the Day today is Daidalos, General of Fury from Stomp. Horus, Toilet Head and DimAssassin have reviews.

Johnny Blaze drops off his Tourney Report from the Duel Masters Invitational Circuit held at Time Warp Comics in Cedar Grove, NJ.

Friday, July 08, 2005  Our Duel Master Card of the Day today is Propeller Mutant from the new set, Thundercharge of Ultra Destruction! Lee Sandow, Horus Master , DimAssassin and Toilet Head have reviews.

Wednesday, July 07, 2005  Our Duel Master Card of the Day today is Kooc Pollon from the new set, Thundercharge of Ultra Destruction! Justin Florio, DimAssassin and Toilet Head Brett have reviews.

Tuesday, July 05, 2005  Our Duel Master Card of the Day today is Venom Charger from the new set, Thundercharge of Ultra Destruction! Drizer and DimAssassin have reviews.

JMatthew is back today with an all-new Featured Article for you today.  Today's article is titled: "Critique and Analysis: Top 5 Ways to Draw in the July 2005 Metagame". 

Kerokero has a Featured Article for today titled: The Kaijudo Code:
What Comes to Mind???

Friday, July 01, 2005  Our Duel Master Card of the Day today is Crisis Boulder from Stomp. Nimbly, Justin Florio, Prince Yaken, Gregory Scere and Horus have reviews.

Thursday, June 30, 2005  We have Tourney Reports from Drizer, Steve Cantrell (with picts), and a down under dueler, Tozer, who checks in from Sydney, Australia with some outback action.

Wednesday, June 29, 2005  Our Duel Master Card of the Day today is Shock Hurricane from Stomp. Steven Cantrell, Justin Florio, Prince Yaken, Horus Master lv8, White Wolf and DimAssassin have reviews.

Tuesday, June 28, 2005  JMatthew is back today with an all-new Featured Article for you today.  Today's article is titled: "Strategy & Gameplay: Rethinking Duel Masters- Impact of Invitationals on the North American Metagame".  It's a fun read. 
 
We also back posted a couple Cards of the Day from a new reviewer, Prince Yaken. His reports accidentally went into our junk mail bin. Sorry Prince, welcome aboard.

Nimbly has Parts 1 and 2 of his DM Invitational Tournament Reports held at The Batcave in Vancouver, WA. Check out how he did.

Monday, June 27, 2005  Our Duel Master Card of the Day today is Future Slash from Stomp. Steven Cantrell, White Wolf and Nimbly have reviews.

Nimbly opens up his featured articles page with his first article; Inside the Game: Mainstreaming vs. Creativity. Check it out in Nimbly's Nook!

Friday, June 24, 2005  Wizards of the Coast is doing another: Name the Set Promotion.  But this time they're taking submissions from the public for the names.  Feel free to get creative

Our Duel Master Card of the Day today from the Micky D's Promo Set is Angry Maple. ToiletHeadBrett, Drizer and Steven Cantrell close out this series with their reviews.

Thursday, June 23, 2005  Our Duel Master Card of the Day today from the Micky D's Promo Set is Star-Cry Dragon. ToiletHeadBrett puts this on his must have list. Steven Cantrell, gives it a McAverage.

Michael Sebik sends us his Top 10 Spells.

Wednesday, June 22, 2005  Our Duel Master Cards of the Day McDonald's Promo is Gigarax.  Toilet Head Brett has a brief review.

Monte Eads, a.k.a. NFG has a BFD today. He has been asked to attend a Duel Masters Invitational tournament. He talks about what to look for, including him, at Origins.

Tuesday, June 21, 2005  Our Card of the Day is another of the McDonald's Promos we're featuring this week. Today it's the Water card Twister Fish.  Toilet Head Brett, Steven Cantrell and Drizer all have reviews. And, no, you may not super size it.

We have some Tournament Reports to check out including a Duel Masters Invitational that was attended by our very own Johnny Blaze! This one even has pictures.

Monday, June 20, 2005  For our Duel Master Cards of the Day we'll be looking at the McDonald's Promos this week. Today we bring you the Light card Loth Rix, the Iridescent.  Toilet Head Brett and White Wolf have reviews.

JMatthew has a huge Tourney Report for you guys with more than a dozen photos from the San Antonio Qualifiers. 

Speaking of Tourney Reports, tomorrow we'll be tossing up a nice Tourney Report from John Chimento with lots of photos from the Torrington, CT Duel Masters Invitational Circuit.  If you have a tourney report out there, send it on in ... everyone loves them, no matter how well you do.  ;-)

Friday, June 17, 2005  Our Duel Master Card of the Day today is Living Citadel Vosh from Stomp-a-Trons.  Fish, Toilet Head Brett and White Wolf all have reviews.

Thursday, June 16, 2005  Drizer, one of our regular card reviewers, brings us an article on The Importance of Going to Tournaments. Check it out, especially if you're a newbie to DM, dueling, and trading card games.

Wednesday, June 15, 2005  Our Duel Master Card of the Day today is Frost Spectre, Shadow of Age from the Stomp-a-trons set. White Wolf and Toilet Head have reviews.

Tuesday, June 14, 2005  Daniel Seghers sends us his Spell Crazy Tournament Report from the DM Invitational held in Gretna, LA.

Monday, June 13, 2005  Our Duel Master Card of the Day today from the Stomp-a-trons set - Armored Decimator Valkaizer. ToiletHeadBrett and White Wolf both have reviews.

Friday, June 10, 2005  Just for fun today, our Duel Master Card of the Day will be a Dealer's Choice. Reviewers picked their 'key' card in the deck they are using at invitationals.  ToiletHeadBrett, Steven Cantrell and White Wolf give it a shot.

JMatthew has a new Featured article for you today.  Today he peeks into the future and looks at cards that might impact the metagame.  Check out: "Critique and Analysis: Distant Rumblings of the Thunder’s Charge"

Stephen Cantrell has another Tournament Report with a some action picts from his duels with a few other regular pojo contributors.

Wednesday, June 8, 2005  Our Duel Master Card of the Day today is another old base set regular - Terror Pit. ToiletHeadBrett and White Wolf have reviews.

Monday, June 6, 2005  Our Duel Master Card of the Day today is an awesome card from the Base Set -  Aqua Hulcus.  cecillbill, White Wolf, Steven Cantrell, Lee and ToiletHeadBrett have detailed reviews for you today.

Lee Sandow has been studying the flavor text on Duel Masters cards. Today he has a detailed look at The War in the Duel Masters World.

Brett has a Tip today on how to use Daidalos, General of fury in the Tips Section today.  

Steven Cantrell submitted a Top 10 list for the Top 10 Creatures last week.  Today he lists the Top 10 Spell cards.  Check out our Top 10 section

Saturday, June 4, 2005  Sorry that I'm a day late with these COTD today.  My kids had their last day of school ... so we went out to lunch, and then shopped for a Birthday Bicycle.  :-P   - Pojo

Our Duel Master Card of the Day today is Splinterclaw Wasp from Stomp-a-Trons.  cecillbill, White Wolf, Mohamed Alhendy, and ToiletHeadBrett have detailed reviews for you today.

We added a couple more Top 10 Lists today.  ToiletHeadBrett tells us the Best 10 cards in Stompatrons.  And Tbclego lists his Top 10 Flavor Texts.

Wednesday, June 1, 2005  Michael Sebik sent us a Top 10 List today.  His list is titled "The Top 10...From a Magic Player".  Nice job Michael.  Feel free to submit yours.  ;-)

Stephen Cantrell stops by with an all-new Tournament Report. Today's report includes photos. 

Our Duel Master Card of the Day today is Valiant Warrior Exorious from Stomp-a-Trons. Toilet Head Brett, White Wolf and Steven Cantrell have reviews today.

Tuesday, May 31, 2005  I just returned from Iowa & Nebraska last night.  I was gone for 4 days.  Over that period of time, I got a lot of good DM stuff to post.  If you sent me something ... give me a day or two to get it up.  Thanks! - Pojo

Steven Cantrell sent us a Top 10 List of the Top 10 Creatures in the game.  We haven't had that many Top 10 Lists lately, we'd love to hear from you!  ;-)

JMatthew has a new Featured article for you today.  "Today’s article covers two of the most popular of the races - Beast Folk and Humans. In future “Race Wars” articles I will endeavor to cover more of the races. You are more than welcome to write me with your suggestions, including your own evaluations!"

Drizer is in his Deck Garage looking over a mono-blue deck today. 

Drizer also wants to show you this Scan of his newly claimed mis-print card.  I don't know too much about this right now. 

Monday, May 30, 2005  Our Duel Master Card of the Day today is Tank Mutant from Stomp-a-Trons.  Steven Cantrell, Drizer and Toilet Head all have reviews.

Friday, May 27, 2005  Our Duel Master Card of the Day today is Sopian from Stomp-a-Trons.  DimAssassin has a review.

Wednesday, May 25, 2005  Our Duel Master Card of the Day today is Lu Gila, Silver Rift Guardian from Stomp-a-Trons.  Toilethead Brett and Drizer have reviews.

DimAssassin sends us a quick and easy Duel Yammer for Blue/Green decks called Crystal Lancer + Brutal Charge.

Tuesday, May 24, 2005  Here's some news from WOTC about the Duel Masters Invitation Circuit Qualifiers. 

Drizer is looking for more decks to fix for his Deck Garage.  If you'd like some advice, please feel free to contact him. 

Monday, May 23, 2005  Stephen Cantrell stops by with an all-new Tournament Report. Today's report includes a handful of fun photos. 

Actually ... we have two Tourney Reports to tell you about today.  JMatthew sent us a report with photos from the 5 Civilizations Tourney.  

Our Duel Master Card of the Day today is Crystal Jouster from Stomp-a-Trons.  Toilethead Brett, Steven Cantrell and DimAssassin.

Friday, May 20, 2005  Our Duel Master Card of the Day today is Craze Valkyrie, the Drastic from Stomp-a-Trons.  Toilethead Brett, Steven Cantrell, and, our newest reviewer, DimAssassin.

Thursday, May 19, 2005   Nimbly, one of our regular Card of the Day reviewers, has sent us his Tourney Report from action at the Tournament of the 5 Civilizations held at Rainy Day Games in Aloha, Oregon.

Wednesday, May 18, 2005  Our Duel Master Card of the Day today is Invincible Cataclysm from Stomp-a-Trons.  Toilethead Brett has a review for you.

Tuesday, May 17, 2005  Our Duel Master Card of the Day today is Invincible Aura from Stomp-a-Trons.  Toilethead Brett, Fish and Steven Cantrell all have reviews today.

Monday, May 16, 2005  Well, the Card of the Day crew wrote reviews for the COTD last Friday, and I forgot to link it to the main pages of the site.  DOH.  So you'll get 4 COTD's this week.  Today's Card of the Day is Invincible Abyss from Stomp-a-Trons.  XvDimAssassinvX, cecillbill, ToilerHeadBrett and Steven Cantrell all have reviews today. 

JMatthew has a new Tournament Report for you: “Tournament of the Stars”.  This report features George Bush, Michael Jackson, Tom Cruise, Adam Sandler, and many other players, along with photographs!

We also posted a Tourney Report from Mike C in Delaware. 

"Voting will be open to the public for about a week and a half, then we'll take the winning name and submit it for Legal review. As long as there are no copyright or other legal conflicts (it takes about 8 weeks to complete a full copyright search on a set name), we'll announce the winner and that name will be used for the April '06 Duel Masters expansion."  Go Vote!

Thursday, May 12, 2005  This week and next week are "Invincible Weeks" in our Duel Master Card of the Day section.  Today's Invincible card is Invincible Unity from Stomp-a-Trons.  XvDimAssassinvX and Elk have reviews today.  Tomorrow we'll be looking at  Invincible Abyss.

We posted a Tourney Report from Christian in Virginia.  Christian was playing a Darkness/Water Deck at the Comic Chest. 

Wednesday, May 11, 2005  Our Duel Master Card of the Day today is Invincible Technology from Stomp-a-Trons.  Justin Florio, Drizer and Steven Cantrell all have reviews today.

Also, We added cecillbill's & Elk's reviews of Cutthroat Skyterror to last Friday's COTD.  ;-)

Friday, May 06, 2005  Our Duel Master Card of the Day today is Cutthroat Skyterror from Stomp-a-trons. Justin Florio has another review.

Wednesday, May 04, 2005  Our Duel Master Card of the Day today is Q-Tronic Gargantua from Stomp-a-trons. Steven Cantrell has a review, and, we welcome a new reviewer, Justin Florio.

We have a little micro-tip in Duel Yammers from Toilethead Brett. That's his signature not necessarily our opinion. ;)

Monday, May 02, 2005  Our Duel Master Card of the Day today is Rikabu's Screwdriver from Stomp-a-trons. Nimbly and Steven Cantrell have reviews.

JMatthew has a new Featured Article today:  Be in the Zone:
Understanding the Lingo of the Duelist – Agro and Control.

Also, JMatthews is looking for your help:  "I am looking for any stories or examples you may have about how you have used or do use the Kaijudo Code. These example can come from playng Duel Masters or even from every day life. I will be looking to compile this information for a future article and would greatly appreciate your participation! I’m currently switching ISPs so I’ve set up a new temporary e-mail account, so e-mail this information to jmonpojo@hotmail.com. Thanks!"

Drizer's Dungeon is unlocked again today for another quick fix. Drizer mixes it up with a Blue and Green = Yellow? deck. 

We have a wad of Tourney Reports from all of the action this last weekend. Especially from the Tournaments of the 5 Civilizations Featuring Stomp-A-Trons which were held all over the U.S. to promote DM and the new card set. Many of the regulars got into the action and even met up at the events.

 

 



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