Looking Ahead 5

Why am I not surprised the Gorz was the only card that got commented on? Oh I'm sure the others will get some comments sooner or later. Granted, there might be a little bit of saturation with this at the moment, but there are a lot of great cards at the moment that should be shared. Eventually though things will settle down to a couple times a week.

If Pot of Greed was considered to be the only true "staple" card in the game (as in it was an automatic selection for any and every deck out there), then this card is the 2nd one to join that list. This card is a Valuable Book Promo card. The few cards of these we have received showed up in Tournaent Packs and 1 Tin. Another one was reprinted in a Structure deck which will likely be the only way we'll probably get these.

Sealed Gold Coffer
Normal Spell
Select 1 card from your Deck and remove it from play. During your 2nd Standby Phase after activation, add the removed card to your hand.

Where From: Valuable Book Promo 9
TCG Appearance: Shonen Jump Championship Prize Card

This is everything Different Dimension Capsule should have been and then some, which is why it was Restricted to 1 on the March 07 Restriction list. For starters, this card does not remain on the field so once activated, 2 turns later you will get the card you selected. Secondly, the card removed from play is removed face-up so that if you selected a Monster card, you can use Dimension Fusion and related cards to just bring it to the field instantly. Most abused move with this in the OCG, activate this card, search for Gorz.

Honestly, not much need be said since the uses are obvious. Any card from your deck, in your hand in 2 turns. There is no better mill card in the game. If it does get released in the TCG, get it and deck it. There is no downside to using it.

5 out of 5.
 
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There is something extra to mention. It's perhaps one of the most difficult cards to play so to speak. Why do I say that? Simply because the card is removed face-up. If you were to remove the likes of a Heavy Storm, yes, it will control you opponent by not setting to many to the backrow. However, that simply means that you will never actually gain any advantage from playing Heavy Storm, or your opponent may try and trick you into using it. Therefore, unlike Pot of Greed, it actually does take some skill to use Sealed Gold Coffer correctly. Similarly, should you remove mass removal such as Mirror Force, your opponent will be aware never to attack with multiple monsters and to try and force an early activation by using floaters.

In other words really, there is a huge significance on what to actually search. Take this into account as well, you won't be getting the card for two turns. You would need to accurately predict what card you would be needing in two turns time. You can't simply search out a card you need for that turn, otherwise it could be potentially dead in two turns time. Playing Sealed Gold Coffer on the first turn could be pointless almost, as you would have no idea what you would be needing against your opponent's theme, unless it was round two or three. Perhaps they were playing a burn deck and you before-hand tried to search out a Mirror Force, where the ideal situation would have been to search out that Heavy Storm.

Other than that, absolutely brilliant card. Decent in the average player's hands, godly in more experienced hands. :)
 
One other tactic I'm sure that will place nice is for some instant fuel for Dimension Fusion / RFtDD. If the ruling applies like IMT and such, you can remove the card, monster card this time, and then bring it to an attack.
 
As I said up there, the card is indeed removed face-up so if you selected a Non-Nomi Monster (like Dark Magician of Chaos) you can indeed use Dimension Fusion to bring them to the field.
 
The ULTIMATE tutor. Seriously, I was wondering why the HECK did they even create this broken card. Even IF it takes 2 turns, since it's RFP face-up, you can immediately use Dimension Fusion, RftDD whatever monster (if you selected a monster with Coffer) to special summon it. This should be in the 1x per deck list permanently. (Since OCG Japan always had Magical Stones as 1x when DDT got invented, they used this thing as 3x for the Diamond Dude effect)

The only time this card would be bad is when your top-decking. (i.e. out of cards in hand and field) In those cases, you can't wait 2 turns.
 
It's TCG Appearance will be GenCon 07 and will be known as Gold Sarcophagus. It will replace Crush Card Virus as the new Shonen Jump Championship Prize card.
 
I'm extremely disappointed with that decision, but I should've expected as much, with the way things have been going lately. I don't think UDE will ever learn that making a power card into a prize card, and unable to be used by the masses, giving a select few an unfair advantage, leads to a lot of bad blood by its consumers.
If they want to make it a prize card, that's just fine and dandy, but it should be made unplayable for as long as the card isn't reprinted in some other way.

With the way a lot of deck stacking can be done with the Hobby League cards as well, they should make those illegal for play at tournament events, as well. Might help a little bit with some of the cheating problems out there you hear about all the time.
 
CraniumX said:
I'm extremely disappointed with that decision, but I should've expected as much, with the way things have been going lately. I don't think UDE will ever learn that making a power card into a prize card, and unable to be used by the masses, giving a select few an unfair advantage, leads to a lot of bad blood by its consumers.
If they want to make it a prize card, that's just fine and dandy, but it should be made unplayable for as long as the card isn't reprinted in some other way.

With the way a lot of deck stacking can be done with the Hobby League cards as well, they should make those illegal for play at tournament events, as well. Might help a little bit with some of the cheating problems out there you hear about all the time.
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I agree that they should be unplayable, but then its not much of a Prize then, is it?? But it also stands to reason that if you are going to hold off new Boosters from Major Events until EVERYONE can buy them, why not SJC Promo's as well???

The problem is, the ones who win, can almost perpetuate themselves winning, as long as they are part of a experienced Team.
 
masterwoo0 said:
I agree that they should be unplayable, but then its not much of a Prize then, is it?? But it also stands to reason that if you are going to hold off new Boosters from Major Events until EVERYONE can buy them, why not SJC Promo's as well???

The problem is, the ones who win, can almost perpetuate themselves winning, as long as they are part of a experienced Team.
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Yeah, if you watch and notice, it's pretty much almost always someone from a "team" that has sponsorship from some place in a big city, that wins the events. It's pretty disheartening for the random small town person that likes to play competitively, but doesn't have a "Daddy Warbucks" supporter, so to speak.

I do know that the card will eventually be reprinted (still waiting on that Des Volstgalph already), I'm sure Crush Card will be coming up in some special edition packs of some sort towards the end of this year, but it still doesn't change the unfair advantage a few people can get for those few months. It's not like you can actually "trade" for that card, afterall. At least with other overpriced cards, you have the knowledge that you can still trade other cards for them, it just might be a lot of them. No amount of normal cards you might have will let you trade for a prize card.

Many previous prize cards for video game events, and I believe some Japanese events have been special cards that are unplayable in a duel, and are just that, prizes. Very special still to the winner, but doesn't give them any kind of playing advantage over others. They could very easily do the same kind of thing for the Shonen Jump Events. Ah well, that's enough from me on my opinions of this topic, it's kind of the wrong place to express them in this thread anyway, I realize.

All I can say, though, is IF they somehow release Necroface over here, while this card is still a SJC prize card, you can expect a major advantage given to winners that want to try to play that decktype, unless there's some banlist changes that would affect the deck design in general.
 
Perhaps they should focus on making prize cards more specific. Sure, they can still be strong, just difficult to pull off because of restrictions. Crush Card Virus kind of does this in the sense that you need a weak dark monster to pull it off. But releasing a powerful card that everyone would want to use with very little restrictions is not a good idea. Or even releasing a card that boosts decks that already shine too brightly.
 
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