Subject: Magic Ruler and the Metagame: Breaking the Magic Ruler Block -
Andrew Lee

With the relese of Magic Ruler on the horizon, and
most people knowing that Magic Ruler is two certain
japanese sets put together (as are all the other US
sets) we can take a look at the cards in each set and
figure out ways to use them.

Look out for a new deck type with the release of Magic
ruler. Though it's still hard to pull off, Deck
Destruction gets a huge boost with Hurricane, which
puts all magic/trap cards into players hands. While
Heavy Storm is more effective for removal, using a
card destruction after will most likely make his deck
smaller than yours. Magician of Faiths keep the fun
going. Also, the Grave Keeper Familiar discards a card
from the top of the deck when an opponenet attacks,
while Demon Investigator forces a player to draw 3
cards and discard any magic from it. Of course, this
deck will be even better once Metamol Jar (otherwise
known of Morphing Jar, which is also restricted, think
Ultimate Offering and be satisfied) and Needle Worm
(which discards the top 5 cards of an opponent's
library) come out in Booster Chornicle. Also, Emissary
of Peace costs 100 life points each turn, but 1500+
attack monsters can't attack. Think Swords of
Revealing Light on steroids or something.

Also in are the contreversial Toon Cards. All toons
attack life points directly if you opponent has no
toons on the field. Certain cards can only attack
toons and not non-toons, and other toons have added
effects that they didn't have in their non-toon state.
The bad thing about toons is, they get nuked if your
toon world leaves play, and toon world itself costs
1000 life points to play, 500 life points to keep it
that way, all toons take 500 life points to attack.
This is a phenomally bad thing to base your deck
around, because all your opponent has to do is rid
your toon world and your strategy crumbles like
there's no tommorow. Playing this against an Exodia
Deck or defensive deck especially is dangerous, since
they all run 3 Magic Jammers and at least one or two
Solemn Judgements. Very very bad.

Other cards such as Theft and Demon Axe will
compliment creature decks nicely. The Penguin Knight,
Yugi's Feldon's Cane, shuffles your graveyard into
your library as an effect, very nice thing to have.
Also makes exodia decks a bit more playable.

other good cards include Labrynth wall, a one-tribute
3000 defense creature, sure to find it's way into all
defensive decks and Shield and Swords decks, and Chaos
Pod, which is the first card to appear that is an
integral part of the infamous 1-st turn kill deck in
Japan.

As a conclusion, most decks are boosted in strength
and ability, watch of for Card Destruction decks. F/S
Beatdown should be able to take it down if you get a
good, fast draw.

Well, that's all for now, email me at
Andrewllee@yahoo.com, i actually got email last time,
but i'm usually not on on weekdays, i'm a student
y'know :-P seeya

-andy