Canadian Posted September 19, 2012 Report Share Posted September 19, 2012 [center]No more rares? New rare card? Old cards getting blinged out? Konami basically prints their own money now. [url="http://www.konami.com/yugioh/articles/?p=4260"]http://www.konami.co...rticles/?p=4260[/url] [quote] [b]Something New… Something Duel…[/b] [color=#555555][font=Verdana,]So it’s time for a new tournament pack series. But what do we call it? Something cool. It needs to be something related to Zexal. (”Feelin’ the Flow”… no, that’s too long.) Something about Dueling. Since we’re adding more foil (more about that in a bit!) it needs to be something shiny….[/font][/color] [color=#555555][font=Verdana,]Shiny? Cool? Dueling? Only one thing fits the bill! After all, who else has an incredible knowledge of all things Dueling? So coming soon, when you participate in officially sanctioned events, you’ll receive the all-new, and shinier-than-ever ASTRAL PACK ONE.[/font][/color] [color=#555555][font=Verdana,][color=#FFFFFF].[/color][/font][/color] [img]https://www.konami.com/yugioh/articles/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/AstralPackOne.jpg[/img][/center] [color=#555555][font=Verdana,]Lots of things about Astral Packs will be the same as previous series:[/font][/color][list] [*]3 cards per pack [*]You get them for participating in official tournaments at your local store. [*]You’ll get a chance to bling out your Deck with shiny versions of cards you might already have. [*]We’ll reprint some other cards so they’ll be easier to get. [*]Astral Packs will be a great way to get the latest (and most accurate) card text on complicated cards. [/list] [color=#555555][font=Verdana,][color=#FFFFFF].[/color][/font][/color] [color=#555555][font=Verdana,]But we’re always learning and improving. Astral Packs needed to be better and cooler than Turbo Packs. So we made a few changes, as well:[/font][/color][list] [*]Ultimate Rares are really cool – so we tripled them! Each Astral Pack set will have [b]3 different Ultimate Rares[/b]. [*]All cards that would have been normal Rares have been upgraded to Super Rare – there will be [b]10 different Super Rares [/b]per set! [*]Since Super Rares are replacing Rares, the “1 rare card per pack” rule will now be [b]“1 foil card per pack”[/b] (most of the time – manufacturing errors DO happen from time to time). [*]Set size increased to 25 cards. [*]There will be 1 new monster per set, like the old Normal Monsters. But it will be VERY hard to get. [/list] [color=#555555][font=Verdana,]So why did we take the normal Rares out? They just didn’t seem that exciting. If there are cards that we really want everyone to have, we just make them common. And the foil cards are there as the exciting chase cards. Normal rares just didn’t seem to have much of a purpose in this set, especially since the number of packs you can get is very limited, and based on how many times you can play in your store’s local tournament. So we just bumped all the Rares to Super Rare and called it a day.[/font][/color] [color=#555555][font=Verdana,]We also removed the 1 Ultra Rare per set. With 3 Ultimates per set now, we just felt that the single, solitary Ultra Rare would just be over-shadowed. Sandwiched between the Ultimates and Supers, it just seemed to get lost in the shuffle.[/font][/color] [color=#555555][font=Verdana,][color=#FFFFFF].[/color][/font][/color] [color=#555555][font=Verdana,]With 13 foils per set – and a foil in every pack – we’re pretty sure that Astral Packs will be fun and exciting to open every time you play in your local tournaments![/font][/color] [color=#555555][font=Verdana,]Astral Packs are still a bit of a ways off, but once they come out, you’ll be able to bling out your Deck with cards like the Ultimate Rare [b]Tsukuyomi[/b], Super Rare versions of [b]Kagemusha of the Six Samurai[/b], [b]Terraforming[/b], [b]Mask Change[/b], and [b]The Gates of Dark World[/b], and easy-to-get common versions of cards like [b]Swift Scarecrow [/b]and [b]Thunder of Ruler[/b].[/quote][/font][/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airride Posted September 20, 2012 Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 Super gates sounds sexy, And I don't even play DWs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementuo Posted September 20, 2012 Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 TSUKUYOMI AS ULTIMATE?! ME GUSTA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Majishan Posted September 20, 2012 Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 I want super Gates and Mask Change. Super Kagemusha sounds cool as well since all important Sam Monsters are now going to come foil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agro Posted September 20, 2012 Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 So this is our Turbo pack now. Okay. Not seeing anything I'm gonna go crazy over. Though I WILL admit, if I can get an ulti Tsukuyomi or Super Playset of Gates... that'll be pretty cool. Won't go after them, but they sound cool. EDIT: OKAY. I reread this and since no one really mentioned it... [color=#ff0000][size=8][b]TL;DR for the rest of you:[/b][/size][/color] [b]#1. There are no Ultras or Rares. There will be a foil in every pack. You'll either get one of the Supers or one of the Ultis[/b] [b]#2. There's going to be 3, count it, THREE Ultis per pack. Tsukuyomi is one.[/b] [b]#3. There will be 1 BRAND NEW CARD in each Astral Pack[/b] Seems legit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~British Soul~ Posted September 20, 2012 Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 Super Gates is nice, I might want a playset of them, if I can pull them (further bling for my DWs) Ultimate Tsukyomi is awesome Super Terraforming: I can find a use for that atm those are the only foils I want. As for the brand new card, it could either be exciting or it might not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ihop Posted September 20, 2012 Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 Hopefully they give us a Super Gemini Spark too, I hate having to play commons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanAtlus Posted September 20, 2012 Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 Common Scarecrow and Thunder? Inb4 Final Countdown as a foil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jord200 Posted September 20, 2012 Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 Tsukuyomi? Ultimate? DO WANT. New cards? No Rares? I'm liking the sounds of this. Maybe a reprint of a Number or something? It could happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementuo Posted September 20, 2012 Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 Wait, new card? ...yfw Volca as an ulti Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toffee. Posted September 20, 2012 Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 [quote name='Dem The Magic Dragon' timestamp='1348183562' post='6028936'] Wait, new card? ...yfw Volca as an ulti [/quote] Volca actually being English would be [i]VERY[/i] nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legend Zero Posted September 20, 2012 Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 lol Terraforming Mask Change and Tsuku are very tempting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.WHAM Posted September 21, 2012 Report Share Posted September 21, 2012 [quote name='Dem The Magic Dragon' timestamp='1348183562' post='6028936'] Wait, new card? ...yfw Volca as an ulti [/quote] [quote name='Armadilloz' timestamp='1348183689' post='6028938'] Volca actually being English would be [i]VERY[/i] nice. [/quote] Literally my exact thoughts when I considered a new card. I think we are owed Volcasaurus as we are long over due. And thats my baby!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~British Soul~ Posted September 21, 2012 Report Share Posted September 21, 2012 [quote name='Dem The Magic Dragon' timestamp='1348183562' post='6028936'] Wait, new card? ...yfw Volca as an ulti [/quote] yfw the new monster is the hard to get card of the set. If Volca ends up in the Astral Pack, it could end up as a £50/£60 card at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementuo Posted September 21, 2012 Report Share Posted September 21, 2012 [quote name='~British Soul~' timestamp='1348213832' post='6029120'] yfw the new monster is the hard to get card of the set. If Volca ends up in the Astral Pack, it could end up as a £50/£60 card at least. [/quote] My point exactly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agro Posted September 21, 2012 Report Share Posted September 21, 2012 The last time they did the new cards (rather, I should be saying OCG Exclusive) in these packs, it was always the rarest card. So yeah, prolly an Ulti. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~British Soul~ Posted September 21, 2012 Report Share Posted September 21, 2012 [quote name='Dem The Magic Dragon' timestamp='1348234113' post='6029168'] My point exactly. [/quote] If Volca ends up in one of these packs, I'd rather be waiting for over a year for a reprint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ihop Posted September 21, 2012 Report Share Posted September 21, 2012 I'm picking up as many Turbo pack foils as I can, now that Turbo Packs don't exist at all anymore they might go up in value. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jord200 Posted September 21, 2012 Report Share Posted September 21, 2012 I just thought of something...... Volca Freezerdon Goldrat Coat of Arms Destiny Leo Giant Killer Heaven's Strings If it IS a Number for the new card, whose to say they won't troll us and give us Goldrat, Coat of Arms, or Freezerdon? Or something else that sucks. OR maybe its a new Number. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~British Soul~ Posted September 21, 2012 Report Share Posted September 21, 2012 [quote name='Jord200' timestamp='1348240686' post='6029212'] I just thought of something...... Volca Freezerdon [b]Goldrat[/b] Coat of Arms Destiny Leo Giant Killer Heaven's Strings If it IS a Number for the new card, whose to say they won't troll us and give us [b]Goldrat[/b], Coat of Arms, or Freezerdon? Or something else that sucks. OR maybe its a new Number. [/quote] I don't think it'll be Goldrat, especially if we're getting DP Kaito. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agro Posted September 21, 2012 Report Share Posted September 21, 2012 Your face when it's this: [img]http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110906210859/yugioh/images/thumb/d/dd/Bat-B02-JP-C.jpg/300px-Bat-B02-JP-C.jpg[/img] Though they HAVE been known to put in a Normal monster as the new card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.WHAM Posted September 22, 2012 Report Share Posted September 22, 2012 [quote name='Agro' timestamp='1348251748' post='6029287'] Your face when it's this: [img]http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110906210859/yugioh/images/thumb/d/dd/Bat-B02-JP-C.jpg/300px-Bat-B02-JP-C.jpg[/img] Though they HAVE been known to put in a Normal monster as the new card. [/quote] I would hate them if they did that. As for the speculations about Volca and other new XYZs: they make sense due to cards like that being hard to obtain and they have been out for a while in the OCG. I would be happy if I pulled one. The problem IS pulling the card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agro Posted September 22, 2012 Report Share Posted September 22, 2012 Putting Normal Monsters in the packs is also something they did before Turbo Packs (Am I the only one who read the whole article?) Anyway, if they put Bat in, I'd be totally fine with that. Let the people play BatOTK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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