Hello Dice Fans!

The best part of digging in to a new set is all of the new combinations that become evident as we learn about all of the cards and how to use them. Some abilities are familiar, even perhaps becoming staples of Dice Masters at this point. Others have their similarities, but put a different twist on the mechanism. Still others are wholly new.

Today, we're going to look at a card that helps us up our churn potential and how we might build a competitive deck around it using only Yu-Gi-Oh cards - if it's even possible!


Sometimes it's best to approach this game like any other CCG, find your win condition, and stick with it. However, it's important to remember that this game borrows heavily from the deckbuilding genre and games like Dominion, Ascension, and Star Realms. This means that it is viable to start with your engine and see how to best exploit it - just as we did in Avengers vs. X-Men with Beast "Mutate 666."

Luckily, we have at least one such card in this set.

The card in question? Uncommon Sangan.

His ability reads as follows: "When this monster gets KO'd, you may return a monster from your used pile to your prep area."

Loading your prep area in order to roll an avalanche of dice has been a staple of Dice Masters strategy for some time, and this character gives you the ability to do so. He's an inexpensive buy and has a total fielding cost of just two. He'll do just fine as a character that we try to cycle.

We need a way to get him to the used pile. My choice is the rare Blue Eyes White Dragon. There are two excellent reasons for this: His monster ability and his global ability.

Both allow you to knock out a character, one for free, the other at the cost of a bolt. And of course - he is quite a bruiser in his own right, with anywhere from six to eight attack. This monster provides utility (allowing us to KO Sangan or other dice while lowering the cost of purchases) and also strength (allowing us to defeat our opponent). The global is also confirmed to stack, meaning you can essentially turn two bolts and two prepped characters into four energy.

Next up, we need a means of keeping the energy flowing. The obvious choice is the common Morphing Jar, Canopic Jar. With a purchase cost of just a single energy, this die appears ideal on so many levels. It gives you the ability to buy a three-cost on your first turn while still purchasing something else. Once in your bag, you can either field a cheap and easy character or utilize a hefty amount of energy - energy that will pay for your bigger buys. This monster gives us a volume of potential energy, but not necessarily energy that we can use all of the time. Still, his purchase flexibility is strong.