I would SO love to get these!

The Korean Playmat Special Edition package comes with 1 playmat (Yusei-Jack or Aki-Crow, random design per box), 50pcs Junk Berserker sleeves, 12 5D's booster packs (from TDGS to EXVC), 1 Secret Rare Tech Genus Hyper Librarian and 1 Secret Rare Shooting Quasar Dragon! They're in Japanese-style Secret-Rare Cross Foil too! What an awesome package for only $30-40! AWESOOOOME! OAO

Reaction to the recent fall of home sales in the US

In response to the topic presented in this link, of all the economics topics to appear in my news feed, the timing of this one couldn’t have been any better. We just had our lesson on the recession and this bit of news is directly related to it. So, the prices of houses in the United States are falling. No surprise there. This was expected, considering the housing boom they had a few years back. Investors put too much of their investments on houses and banks became lenient to the point that they let people with bad credit balance make housing loans. Bad move of their part. Added the fact that they overbuilt, it “should” have been expected that there would be a surplus of houses the moment the housing craze ends. Perhaps it was expected. Perhaps the economists knew. After all, they are experts in this field. They should have foreseen something like this the moment the housing craze spread like wildfire throughout the country. I know some housing or real-estate organizations seek out the opinions of professional economists. I can only presume that these so-called professionals have given some sort of warning. Perhaps these organizations chose to ignore it? That might be, considering that the money earned from the returns of such large investments would seem tempting indeed. And of course, as with all booms, the bubble has to burst at some point or another.

Now, I have read a few other articles that talk about a similar topic, particularly about the fairly recent economic recession of 2006. These articles claim that one of the causes for the recession was because of financial institutions and individual money lenders hiding the risk involved in making such big economic decisions and empowering themselves by fooling investors. Whether or not this is true, the fact is that they really did invest too much in housing. The way I see it, they were too ambitious and invested heavily on something during the time of an economic boom and when it ended, repercussions were felt throughout their entire economy.

The effects of the previous recession would haunt the housing market as the memory of the suffering felt during the time is still fresh in the minds of many. Because of this, people would no longer be willing to buy. If they’re unwilling to buy, the country’s economy falls. If the economy of the country falls, we too are affected. We would feel the effects of the recession because of globalization. As the countries in the world are part of the worldwide economy, the fall in one will lead to serious fluctuations in another. If this continues, the way I see it, another recession will be inevitable.

New-home sales fall, 2011 could be worst year yet

For Economics class: link to news article

New Disaster Dragon deck for the new Banlist

In a meta that's slower, where Xyz material monsters are not considered to be on the field and where Tour Guide doesn't exist, I've been having a lot of success with Breakers in the main deck. At first, I had put that as a temporary substitute for RaiOh until I get my own copies, but now, I'm actually thinking of keeping them in for good. It's a great way to test if the field is safe and if ever, remove the threat of backrow when Mystical Space Typhoon and Heavy Storm aren't available. Breakers gives me access to both Arcanite Magician and Dark End Dragon, similar to what Summon Priest does, but to greater efficiency as he doesn't force you to minus yourself. Here's what I've been running so far:

Monsters: 22
3 Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
3 Red-Eyes Wyvern
1 Dark Horus Dragon
1 Prime Material
3 Core Chimair Drago
2 Masked Dragon
1 Delta Fly
1 Exploder Dragon
1 Messenger of Hades, Gorz
2 Breaker the Magical Warrior
1 Chaos Sorcerer
2 Effect Veiler
1 Sangan

Magics: 11
1 Future Fusion
1 Dragon Canyon (this should be replaced with something, but I'm leaving it in as a filler for side-decking options)
1 Monster Reborn
1 Dark Hole
1 Heavy Storm
3 Mystical Space Typhoon
1 Mind Control
1 Book of Moon
1 Allure of Darkness

Traps: 8
2 Divine Warning
1 Solemn Judgment
1 Bottomless Trap Hole
1 Torrential Tribute
2 Call of the Haunted
1 Mirror Force (Filler for now, but it's been working good... so far. I've got Burst Breath sided if ever. I can also remove it if need be.)

Total Deck Count: 41 (40 if either Mirror Force or Dragon Canyon are removed)

Extra Deck: 15
1 Five God Dragon
1 Tech Genus Hyper Librarian (filler ->to be replaced with Kachi Kochi Dragon when I get it)
1 Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Boundary
1 Chain Dragon (to be replaced with Revise OR Orient Dragon... if ever)
1 Black Rose Dragon
1 Scrap Archfiend (filler -> to be replaced by Dark End! Yey for Breakers!)
1 Thought Ruler (filler ->to be replaced by Crimson Blader... if ever)
1 Gigantech Fighter (filler ->to be replaced by Arcanite Magician when I get it)
1 Stardust Dragon
1 Scrap Dragon
1 Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Boundary
1 Catastor (filler-> Numbers 39: Kibou-Oh Hope)
1 Ancient Fairy (filler-> Gemknight Pearl)
1 Gurenzaurus (filler-> Inverz Roach)
1 Numbers 20: Giganto Brilliant (filler-> Numbers 17: Revise Dragon / Levaiel)

This build is still subject to change. Here's hoping the deck works when the time comes!

Heads up people! It's BANLIST time!

New Bans:
Fishborg Blaster
Mind Master
Giant Trunade (guuuh...)
Royal Oppression (NOOOOO!)

New Limiteds:
Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning (So it WAS true...)
Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En
T.G. Hyper Librarian
Debris Dragon
Formula Synchron
Lonefire Blossom
Heavy Storm (STARLIGHT ROAD IS BACK ONLINE!!)
Primal Seed
Shien's Smoke Signal
Pot of Avarice

New Semi-Limiteds:
Summoner Monk (Tch... More exceed shenanigans)
Tragoedia
Necro Gardna
Dewlauren, Tiger King of the Ice Barrier
Destiny Draw
Swords of Revealing Light (Wut?)
Mind Crush
Call Of The Haunted (HUH?! They took out Oppresion and put THIS to 2?!)

New Unlimiteds:
Judgment Dragon (WHAAA???)
Spirit Reaper (Huh?????)
Overload Fusion (Cybers?)
Mystical Space Typhoon
Megamorph
Gravity Bind (Tsk. They REALLY wanna milk Exceeds, don't they?)
Icarus Attack
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Junk-based decks are dead, but LS and BFs are BACK! Run for your lives people! It's Chaos all over again! DX