Earn Fast, Spend Faster.

                A few years ago, my friends and I discussed about possible plans to take a vacation in Tokyo, Japan. Hoping to get closer into Japanese culture, I even started to learn Japanese language with my mother tutoring me... (the progress is slow). Of course going to Japan would be expensive and we were only students living with our parents money, so we decided to get the money through our little business (from Cardfight Vanguard Stuff and Anime Access) and sell anime stuff in anime conventions until we've earned enough money to cover our flight tickets. 

                Recently, an anime convention known as Animangaki 2015 happened in Sunway Piramid conventions and I was lucky enough to share a booth with a friend of mine. It was last minute and I was desperate to get a booth. He agreed to let me share his booth with an RM1 commission for every stuff I sell..... Surprisingly he actually earns a lot more than a fixed payment (I didn't have enough confidence thinking that I would sell so many of my stuff). Anyhow, I still earned a huge profit out of the sales and it was ALMOST huge enough to cover my flight ticket to Japan. I also had a great time at Animangaki seeing some friends and meeting new people. Jarred from Grimfilms also showed up at the event and he had a VIP  booth upstairs.....(his a Malaysian Youtuber, definitely took a selfie with him).

                I guess anime conventions are great places to sell your anime stuff to earn some money. However, after seeing I had so much money. I kind of invested it for my Cardfight Vanguard Stuff by pre-ordering 2x G-Comic Booster 01... (I already did planned for it). But what's worst was that I used the remaining amount to purchase a PS3 console....(Yup, I got a PS3 console and I'm happily enjoying playing Naruto Shippuden: Full Burst 3). And it was awesome, but there goes my savings for Japan -_- I guess I'll be staying in Malaysia for a very long time and hopefully I can make a comeback through some other anime conventions..... (Comic Fiesta seems to be risky due to it's booth fees being charged at RM400 per-table). Until then, I'll be studying as a normal college student. Stay tune for my deck profile :)

Deck Profile 02: The Return of Star-Vaders

         
                 Too start-off this deck profile, I'm just going to make it fast and simple. First of all, I don't know how long will I be doing this (probably until I run out of decks to review). But I will eventually mix some parts of my life story while reviewing my deck profile. Not a big deal, just want to publish everything out in one go before the next blog comes.

                  A lot has happened these past few weeks. First of all, Ariya (An old friend of mine back in Form 3) is going to move to USA to continue her studies on music through a scholarship. It all came into a surprise, but I kind of knew this feeling where a friend moves oversea and you will have to say your goodbyes..... eventually. So her best friends decided to throw her a farewell party at a restaurant, Big Hug Burger and invited almost everyone she knew..... (that includes me). Greg and Ash came as well so it's good to see some familiar faces. We enjoyed ourselves, had a great burger feast, played some party games and spend the last moments with her before she returned again.... after 4 years.

                                            
                                                 Recommended restaurant for a farewell party.
   
                     With all that out of my mind, Ariya will be missed. And the rest of the days until now would still be the same where I continued my exhausting schedule on College studies. Anime Club is back for students to join and more assignment is given for students to finish -_-... That's about it for my life at the moment.

                      Now to get started on the deck profile, Link Joker will be the main focused here. To have the whole idea of what cards you'll need is simple. Get 4x Koko Crunch Dragon (Big Crunch Dragon), 4x Chaos Breaker Dragon, 2x G-TD05 and you're good to go. Because that is literally all you need in order to make this deck to be consistent. Your play style would be to make your opponent choose between getting his/her rearguards "Retired" (Chaos Breaker Dragon's skill) or "Omega Locked" (Koko Crunch Dragon's skill) with additional supports for "Omega Locks" and gaining power-ups from "Locks".

                        Let's get started with the grade 4 units (stride units) and the starter vanguard (grade 0 starter).

                                 

                                   Definitely you'll need 4x Koko Crunch Dragon, Because you can only use their skill twice (due to the cost of their persona G unflip). The skill allows you to "Omega Lock" one whole row of rearguards (Basically 2x rearguards, if they're dumb enough to call any). Your other stride units can be 4x Judgement Messiah or 2x Judgement Messiah and 2x Blizza. Judgement Messiah can be used for an early single lock and thus caused the opponent to waste their hand-size just to guard in order to prevent you from locking them (90% of them will guard unless they got an empty field). As for your grade 0 starter, I don't really know which one you would want to use. You can choose a vanilla grade 0 as your starter for all I care (it works well with C.B.D. since it has "Star-Vader" in it's card name). For me, I just want to get grade 3's in my hand for striding. So I prefer to get a "grade 3 searcher" as my starting vanguard.

                                                     Onto the grade 3's (The main event).

                                      4x Chaos Breaker Dragon would be your main grade 3 avatar. Use your Koko Crunch Dragon to "Omega Lock" and after 2 turns (which you should be at 4 damage by then), you burn those 2 locked units and increase your hand size by 2. Of course if you keep on drawing cards for your hand size, you will deck out fast. So you'll need Legion to neutralize decking out. Halfnium would be well-recommended because you can get power-ups just by combining with Koko Crunch Dragon's "Omega Lock".

Now for the grade 2 line-up.

                                        4x Dusk Blade is a highly recommended card to have because you can spam locks with just one "Counter Blast" cost for every turn as long as it's being boosted. 4x Radon (Obviously you'll need the mate for "Legioning") and 4x Technitium which allows you to power-up by 5k just by dropping one hand size and if the attack hits the opponent's vanguard, you can "Soul Charge" and "Counter Charge" (It's a good compensation for Chaos Breaker Dragon's cost since it needs to "Soul Blast" in order to burn your opponent's units and draw a card). They'll guard the attack which will lessen their hand-size.

                                                      On to the supports (grade 1 units.)

                                 4x Null guard units that "Counter Charges" since you'll be using a lot of "Counter Blasts". 3x Destiny Dealer (stride-assist), which you'll need in order to stride continuously. 4x Charcoal (LB unlockers), just in case if you're still in 3 damage and your opponent's about to unlock his/her units on it's next turn. You can guarantee a successful burn as long as this unit is on the field. And 2x Bolt Line because let's face it, Koko Crunch Dragon is confirm going to help you "Omega Lock" your opponents' rearguards so I doubt that you'll still want to waste your time for making your opponent choose to guard your attacks or not. I mean it's not like you can stack "Omega Locks" just to make them become "Alpha Locks"..... (I'm just Saiyan)...

                                              And finally, on to the triggers (grade 0 units).
                                        

                                       Simple as what you see here. 6x critical triggers, 6x draw triggers and 4x heal triggers. I don't care what type of art design you would like to see, just make sure they're "Star-Vader" units or else you're gonna be having a hard-time paying the cost for Chaos Breaker Dragon and Technitium's skill.

                                  Keep all that in mind and I'm sure you're going to have blast playing Link Joker. At the time of this blog that is being published, the deck is up for sale and if you happen to be interested or do require more information on how the sale works. You can help us like and share our Facebook page on: www.facebook.com/cardfightvanguardstuff , leave us a message and we will reply to you as soon as possible. Until next time, I'll be thinking of reviewing either a hybrid Nova Grappler deck or maybe a hybrid Link Joker deck.... You guys can vote through the comments :) See you then.

What a Lovely Day to start Semester 2

                         I'm going to wrap up what I have been doing with my whole July holiday in one word: NOTHING!!! Semester 2 just started for my college. Everything became new. (some are still the same) And I had to start my day, waking up early in the morning around 7am to attend classes again... I got used to it since it was the main habit of my school days. I left my house around 7.30am and that was normally the time where parents send their kids to Sri K.L. (my primary school) And the road in front of the school would normally be jamming like shit. Normally I would avoid that road when going to Taylor's university. But since I haven't gone to campus in the morning for one whole month. For some god forsaken reason, I took that damn abyss path and got stuck in the jam for a long time.

                          Alright, reached campus just in the nick of time. Found a sweet parking space for my car. Ran to class just to make sure I don't arrive late on my first day for semester 2. I took my seat and looked around. Holy shit, I don't recognized any of the students from my previous semester. Am I even in the right class??? Later I found out that I was in Foundation for business. And that's when I realized that something is definitely wrong. I quickly got out and went to my Division Office to ask if there might have been any changes to my timetable. They told me that there are no MPU subjects in the first week................... fanfuckintastic.....

                           After laughing manically in my mind for about few minutes. I went to grab something to eat for my breakfast. And now here I am in my campus, doing absolutely nothing but blogging. God I hate myself. So that's pretty much my first day of semester 2.... Not much to say because I'm in a state of near-insanity. Although it's my own fault for not seeing the changes in my timetable (THEY CHANGED IT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT WHILE STUDENTS ARE ASLEEP!!!). But anyhow, I will be uploading a new deck profile featuring the clan: Link Joker in my next blog. If you're interested in building one of the best Link Joker deck, stay tune and you might just be amazed :)                     

Deck Profile 01: A Real Maelstrom

                           
                    As I've mentioned on my previous blog, I will be sharing a deck-build occasionally. This time will be featuring the best way to play an Aqua Force Maelstrom deck with Admiral Maelstrom as the main stride unit.

        Alright first off, These are your grade 4 stride units that you will need in your deck.

Oh and the grade 0 starter should be Bubble Edge Dracokid.

                                    

                 Bare in mind, the 2x blizza should be changed to Lambros. But if you want to save up some money (cuz Lambros is freaking expensive). Blizza works too. Your aim is to stride Admiral Maelstrom continuously while paying the cost with useless stride units (the 2x Tidal Bore Dragon). And then end it with Blizza (or Lambros if you're rich enough to afford 2x).

                      These will be your grade 3 line-up.
                                            

                     After a long testing on experimenting this deck, here's the weakness that I've managed to compensate. You see, Maelstrom decks are normally used to increase your hand size after every succeeding 4th battle. In other words, there's a high probability that you WILL draw an extra card if you were to make your Maelstrom attack on the 4th battle (Which is an easy job for Aqua Force to do since that's their clan mechanic). But you're constantly drawing card's every 4th battle and spamming strides almost every turn, you WILL deck out without your opponent having in need to beat you. That's when you'll need Zaharius to Legion and restore triggers back into your deck to end the game faster (don't forget your mate :) 

                       Maelstrom Reverse should be your main Grade 3 Vanguard (NO, you don't need Glory Maelstrom because it's too risky to get 5 damage just for it's ultimate break to become effective). I did say that you will be striding every turn. But what happens if you couldn't stride??? (you're screwed with just a useless Glory Maelstrom sitting in as your vanguard). Maelstrom Reverse is more effective because you gain a "critical" just by making it attack on the 4th battle. And obviously your opponent has to guard (cuz u know, there's a "crit") And you draw a card if the attack doesn't hit while retiring one of your opponent's rear guards. (Now that's O.P.)

Here's when things get interesting with grade 2 and 1 units...

                   Of course you'll need 4x of the mate (Ianis). 4x Tidal assault and 2x Magnum assault (Note: Do NOT play 4x Magnum because your deck will become "counter blast-heavy.) What you're aiming for is "Mega hand-size" while ending it with Legion with huge amount of triggers back into your deck. So Saberflow Sailor is good for increasing your handsize. (When she attacks the opponent vanguard on the 4th or higher battle, after attacking, retire her and draw 2 cards.)

                     Your grade 1 units would be 4x null guard unflippers (every time you nullified an attack, you un-flipped a "counterblasted" damage). 3x Nikki (your deck has the potential to let you stride with 10 cards instead of 7). 4x Stacia (cuz people are going to get annoyed by that back-row 9k whacker) and 2x Penguin soldier (MEGA-HAND SIZE B****HES, remember that). The best way to make a 4th battle for your vanguard is to have a Tidal Assault and a Stacia in the same column. They spam up to 3 battles (Tidal 2x battles and Stacia 1x battle). Allowing your Maelstrom vanguard to be on the 4th battle. 

Finally, this would be your trigger line-up.

                     8x crits, 4x draws and 4x heals. The critical triggers MUST have 4x Despina because she supports Maelstrom a lot and gets returned into the deck after every 4th battle. (Basically, you refreshed your critical triggers to increase your chances when drive-checking.) 4x supersonic sailor might be useful since you are counter blasting with every Maelstrom unit. and there's no guarantee that the null guard unflippers are going to compensate completely. (There's also your Magnum assault...)

 The best formation you should be playing should be like this...

                         With Tidal assault and Stacia in one column pumping up 3x battles. Maelstrom comes in on the 4th battle with the support of Despina which prevent your opponent using grade 0 to guard (waste their null guards and even better if you're a 20k whacker with Maelstrom Reverse). And then increase your hand-size with Saberflow Sailor on the 5th battle and her support can be either Stacia or Penguin Soldier. (The penguin allows your to draw a card juz by soul-blasting 2x cards.) 

                       Well there are other formation you can use but I find this to be the best one it can be. So what do you all think about this deck-build, let me know through the comments and if you are interested in buying it. leave a message through www.facebook.com/cardfightvanguardstuff . I hope this deck profile has been helpful to all Aqua Force players out there. Until next time, see ya.

A Deck of Lives

                     
                    You know, it's strange that we never knew when is our time to go to the afterlife. I suppose god doesn't want us to look at the "life clock" so that we won't worry about ourselves on how long we can live. Imagine if we can see our "life clock" every moment in our life, we might tried to make every second worth of living by doing everything that a human being can do. But since we the "life clock" is not visible to us, I guess that means that sometimes we need to relax and be lazy once in a while. Not to say being lazy is a good thing, but at least set yourself a specific amount of time to be lazy that way you'll know when to wake up from your wonderland.

                     With all that said, that's what I have been doing since the start of July 2015. I'm in my semester break for the whole July until the August. Basically a whole month of summer vacation for me to do whatever I want (NO HOMEWORK!!! Since it's college). Anyhow, I realized that I've wasted almost half a month and what I've done so far are selling Vanguard cards and promoting the Facebook page: www.facebook.com/cardfightvanguardstuff . Not really productive. I did try to join a local League of Legends tournament in Campus League and it was a disappointment because our team captain didn't show up on the big day event. With 4 team members, we just trained in a cyber cafe and went home as if it was normal day.

                       After realizing that I've wasted quite a lot of time and I'm sure another 15 days will go by very fast if I don't do anything awesome. I decided I had like to help out people with whatever things I can do. As you all know that I am a Cardfight Vanguard player, I've build decks before and I would like to share my deck recipe to the public (Yes, you can abuse the play style if you want to. No copyright shit will happen to you or anything of that sort). From now on, I'll be uploading pictures of my deck recipe up online and maybe a video (If I think that deck is awesome) and showing you all how to use it's skills to the maximum. For those who doesn't play the game, I recommend you to try and learn it because it's a really fun game to enjoy with a friend. Every once a month, I'll be uploading at least 1-2 deck profile on my blog. This month I'll be uploading an Aqua Force deck featuring the real way to play a Maelstrom deck with the latest cards and a mix of the old LB era.  So stay tuned if you guys think it might help you in building your decks :)

SEMESTER 1, OVER!!!!

   
                  FINALLY!!! At long last, I've finished my exam for the entire semester 1 in college. Now I've gotta prepared for semester 2-6 -.- But I did at least get a sem-break for the entire July. Going to be able to relax myself for the holidays while at the same time pray that I pass EVERY module or I would have to retake the same thing again, which will lead to my parents having to spend a lot more money from what they were expecting.

                   To be honest, I didn't really study much and I just spend the last whole 2 weeks studying a little and played a lot of LOL. Surprisingly, I was able to take the exam pretty normal. Even during exam week, I was watching movie instead of revising. I suppose it's a way for me to release exam stress from my mind. Now that I think about it, I might have watched a lot more movie than I should have. Jurassic World, Minions and Parasyte 2, it was well worth it to actually watch these movies while taking exams.

                 I would say that it was really risky having to have done this while my college work is literally the deciding factor of my future. But at some point, I just thought of "ah screw it, studying last minute for exam is too mainstream. Lets watch a movie damn it" and I kept on repeating the cycle until I almost finished my exam. It wasn't easy, but at least I wasn't panicking about it. I'm not planning to go back to my "SPM-stress mode" again just because I got exams.

                   Eventually, you'll get used to exams being part of your educational life and it's just a piece of paper trying to scare you. If you never bother to enjoy your life just because you got tough obstacle coming your way, what's the point of you to even read what I'm blogging right here. Come on, get out of here and go have some fun. You never know :)

Back from Work to get started on Work

         
                     This past weekends, my friends and I happened to opened a booth in an anime convention called C2AGE 2015 at Help International School. We sell anime badges, nenderoids, sutekkas and figmas. It was a great experience knowing how does it feels to be a vendor from their perspective. Now we have to work instead of having fun at the event. I had to wake up early in the morning to pick up my friends and drive all the way to a deserted location just to set-up a booth before the event starts. By 10a.m, people started coming in and we started to promote our stuff for sale.

 Welcome to our booth: Day 1

More stuff happened on Day 2

                     For those that visited our booth during the event, thank you for your support. We were really thankful for your contributions just by checking out what we sell. Our company name is under Anime Access which would be awesome if you guys could help us like and share our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/animeaccess1863 to check out more awesome anime stuff online X).

                     Of course, we didn't just sit at our booth for both days. We repeately took shifts of 2 hours for the whole day which stacked up to 7p.m. It was really exhausting but by the end of the day, we were really excited on our sales income because we actually earned pure profit from our revenue. 

                      Aside from us working as vendors, we also joined some event activities during the 2nd day. As you all know, a Taiwan cosplayer, "King" came to Malaysia as our VIP guest for this event and they hold a 'meet and greet' session for everyone to get signatures and selfies with her. 

This represents one of Anime Access greatest accomplishment, getting our postcard signed by "King". Special thanks to Milton Leong, our artist for drawing our mascot and me!!! standing in queue for more than AN HOUR!!! just to get "King" to sign it. WORTH IT!!!

                      By the end of the event, we celebrated our success with a great feast in a Japanese restaurant. 

Gambei in Sushi Flash.

                         Surprisingly, it was Milton's birthday as well 0.0 but we all just replaced the fun by counting the money we've earned on our sales and we still have remaining badges for future sales. Overall, after all we've been through on opening a booth in an anime convention for the FIRST TIME!!! We're are going to aim even higher by opening a booth at Comic Fiesta. Either 2015 or 2016, we are going to do the exact same thing with only more variety of anime stuff to sell than before. By then, stay tune for more updates on how we are going process it. Thanks for reading X)