Return of the Duelist Full Set Review 1

Alright before you read this post I want you to either scroll down to the previous post or follow this link(http://yaminoduel.blogspot.com/2012/04/disclaimer-following-list-is-powerful.html) either way you'll be rewarded with a very nice decklist for a very unsupported archetype. I am talking about Fortune Ladies... not that Fortune Lady Hero crap that says oooh I draw a lot and summon Absolute Zero!!! No it's nearly pure Fortune Ladies just 5 non-Ladies in the whole deck 3 of which are still female. Besides its just a ton of fun and is rather beautiful to watch perform. Anyway once you have looked at the awesome deck (It was just posted today and I am also posting this card review that could overshadow the deck due to being at the top of the blog posts...) Read More Please for the 8 reviews of the day.
FIRST CARD:
Neo The Magical Swordsman 2.0
Trans The Magical Swordsman
EARTH
Level 6
Spellcaster

2600/200
REVIEW: Amazing Epic Beautiful... He's literally Neo the Magical Swordsman... his text states that he was a Dimensional Drifter who has perfected his sorcery and his swordplay. besides a 2600 beater with the same stats as Frostosaurus is epic especially in Spellcaster form... It makes Dark Magician nearly obsolete if it wasn't for Dark Magicians useful support cards. You obviously can Normal Summon this... and paired with Illusion Snatch a monster I'll review later you can make Magi Magi Magician Gal. Temper cannot summon this card due to its Attribute but being a Normal Spellcaster has its perks. One being this card can be revived a myriad of ways and be supported by all the spellcaster support in the game. Also come on the art this set is the best art this game has ever had since well the earlier sets. I can literally say I want to own as many of the cards in this set as possible. If someone were to build a deck around this card I would utilize it's low defensive stat to spam it to the field. Note that this is an Earth monster so benefits from EARTH support. So I can imagine a Normal Spellcaster deck built to utilize him and Neo the Magical Swordsman with Magical Dimension for shits and giggles. Sounds quite cool actually.

NEXT CARD:
Damage Mage
DARK
Level 3
Spellcaster/Effect
Activate when you take Damage by a card effect. Special Summon this card from your hand, and gain Life Points equal to the Damage you took.
600/1200

REVIEW: Well now this is interesting more cards to side deck against burn... Spellcasters get this and Plants get Echo... Eco stops all effect damage for the turn which is useful... this though makes me wonder... Can this be activated during the resolution of a chain? If so you can survive Chain Burn and then comeback with an amazing Xyz/Synchro Summon... much like Eco. It's not the most useful of cards but it does have its uses in the side deck if one is terrified of Burn much like Doubled Reversal. The art is amazing though

NEXT CARD:
Zexal Weapon - Phenix Bow
FIRE
Level 3
Winged Beast/Effect
This card in your hand can be equipped as an Equip Card to a "CNo.39, Aspiring Emperor Hope Ray" you control. The monster equipped with this card by this effect gains 1100 ATK. When the equipped monster destroys an opponent's monster by battle, your opponent takes 1000 Damage. You can control only 1 face-up "Zexal Weapon - Phenix Bow" at the same time.
1100/0

REVIEW: Wow Zexal really... So Hope Ray can now deal 8000 damage in one turn... Of course this card must be drawn which is why Generation Force's text should include Zexal Weapons... that'd be epic. BTW Hope Ray lowers one monster to 0 gains 1500 making it 4000... equip Unicorn King Spear 5900... equip this 7000... Run over the monster... they take 7000 damage... monster is destroyed they take another 1000... Rare and hard to do but when it happens amazing and you deserve to win the tournament. Card is only as good as one who can actually use it to its full potential.

NEXT CARD:
Photon Kaiser
LIGHT
Level 8
Warrior/Effect
When this card is successfully Normal Summoned or Flip Summoned, you can Special Summon 1 "Photon Kaiser" from your hand or Deck.
2000/2800

REVIEW: Art is amazing once again... So this card essentially says... Photon Sanctuary becomes any Rank 8 in the game... Or use Guardian of Light along with it to make NGEPD. Another thing you could also use Mausoleum of the Emperor and pay 2000 Life for a free Rank 8 Xyz Summon... This card being Advance Summoned along with an in hand Illusion Snatch becomes NGEPD... Also this card makes summoning GEPD even easier by being 2000 ATK and grabbing another copy of itself... Also it works well with the fusion... as it supply its own materials for that... swing for 4000 Super Poly for another 2400 then De-Fusion for another 4000 for game... not gonna happen but cool nonetheless. I personally like this card and will be trying it out in a Photon build of sorts.

NEXT CARD:
Heroic Challenger Spartas
EARTH
Level 4
Warrior/Effect
Once per turn, when your opponent declares an attack with a monster you can activate this effect by selecting 1 other "Heroic" Monster you control. Until the end of the Battle Phase this card gains ATK equal to the original ATK of the selected monster.
1600/1000

REVIEW: If you control two copies of this card your opponent cannot attack with anything less than 3200... This card is one of the best in the Heroic archetype (which is sorely undersupported to the point of being just bad overall.) Being Earth and Warrior has its merits though... So I can see a Heroic deck if built correctly doing somewhat well thanks to a card i'm reviewing later today. All in all a 3200 Wall is hard to top.

NEXT CARD:
Heroic Challenger War Hammer
EARTH
Level 6
Warrior/Effect
When this card destroys an opponent's monster by battle and sends it to the Graveyard, you can treat the destroyed monster as Equip Card and equip it to this card. (You can only equip 1 monster at a time to this card). This card gains ATK equal to the ATK of the Monster equipped by this effect.
2100/1300

REVIEW: Another playable not necessarily good Heroic monster... Essentially when it kills something it becomes bigger like Truckroid but only one monster at a time... say this runs over a Stratos... it now is a 3900 beater. But beyond that its a waste of a summon if it doesn't kill something and its relatively low ATK makes it worse of a tribute summon than Hammer-Rush Bouncer.

NEXT:
Heroic Challenger Double Lance
EARTH
Level 4
Warrior/Effect
When this card is successfully Normal Summoned, you can select 1 "Heroic Challenger Double Lance" in your hand or Graveyard and Special Summon it in face-up Defense Position. This card cannot be used as Synchro Material. If this card is used as Xyz Material, it can only be used for the Xyz Summon of a Warrior-Type Monster.
1700/900

REVIEW: Easily a meh card... considering the limits on this card... Gogogo Giant is a better card. I mean it can summon another copy of itself from the Hand or Graveyard but that'd mean you'd have to have another copy already used or in hand to make it useful. It does make Rank 4's easily but restricts itself to only Warriors hurting its utility massively. The Synchro restriction was unnecessary as theres no real way to benefit from that massively. It didn't need any restrictions when Goblindbergh has none aside from stopping you from getting Optional Trigger Effects. I'd only use it for the Heroic namesake honestly much like the aforementioned War Hammer.

NEXT CARD:
Heroic Challenger Swordshield
EARTH
Level 4
Warrior/Effect
If you control a "Heroic" Monster, you can activate this effect by sending this card from your hand to the Graveyard. During this turn, Battle Damage to your Life Points becomes 0, and "Heroic" Monster you control cannot be destroyed by battle. This effect can be activated during your opponent's turn.
0/2000

REVIEW: Absolute best Heroic Monster... It's a Waboku you can use from your hand for Heroic's... thats amazing and its a warrior so it is searchable by Reinforcement of the Army. Very nice card... so why can't Double Lance just play any Heroic then it'd be greatness and make the archetype awesome... I don't have much I can say about this card that it doesn't say about itself.

hmm if I review the next two monsters I'll be in OOParts territory which would be bad for me as I'd have to separate the posts or do all in one which would be far more work than I had planned... So if I review all the OOparts 14 cards today I'd have to do 12 cards tomorrow and then 14 cards after that... every non-Xyz monster in 3 days... when I could just split it... 8 today... 12 tomorrow...10 the next day... and 10 the next day... it only adds 1 more day and I make up for it the next day anyway. I'll do that then...

Tomorrow I'm doing from OOparts until the end of Magical... Then I'm doing Madolce until the end of Geargia... Then I'm doing all the miscellaneous monsters until Heroic Champion Excaliber... then I'm doing the Xyz monsters... then I'm doing the first 10 spell cards... Then the next 5 spell cards and the first 5 Trap cards... then the last 10 trap cards. A grand total of 8 days of reviews counting today. I would do more today but it'd be awkward to only have 2 OOParts reviewed for a whole day. If there are any inaccuracies or things that you'd like to add don't hesitate to comment.