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Phoenix Saga 不死鳥編（スペクタクル・ノヴァ） (Fushichō Hen)

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Phoenix Saga is the 5th block of card sets in the Duel Masters trading card game.

List of Sets

It is composed of sets released between June 24, 2006 and February 17, 2007.

It also features promotional cards from Year 5.

Plot

The power of the catastrophe gears were so massive that they destroyed most of the world and created a spatial rift, where powerful invaders from the galaxy appeared and most races were extinct, leaving the most adaptable behind. In the same time, Hybrid Races appeared and researched methods against these powerful beings, eventually resulting in the appearance of Dragons in all civilizations. With Dragons in all civilizations, the civilizations and races made one last war to end the demise of the world.

Timeline

Main: Timeline/Phoenix Saga

Details

Emphasis on the link between races appeared with many evolution creatures appearing. The Phoenix race, a race based on summoning over multiple races of creatures feature, as well as the Meteorburn ability.

Abilities such as Sympathy on spells (allowing cards to cost less for each of your creatures that have a certain race in the battle zone) and Dynamo (allowing creatures to add power and abilities to other Dynamo creatures) allow synergy between races.

Reanimate cards, cards that put creatures from your graveyard into the battle zone were released starting with Inferno Gate.

The game's dark age since the appearance of Bombazar, Dragon of Destiny continues with an increasingly weak card pool and the dark age ends at the end of the block with the final ban on Bolmeteus Sapphire Dragon.

Metagame

DM-19 and DM-20 Stage

Bolmeteus Sapphire Dragon continued to appear throughout DM-19.

DM-19 was the first set to introduce a Reanimation card into the game, Inferno Gate, bringing forth faster ways to accelerate the deck, as well as play expensive non-evolution creatures for less mana.

This was quickly exploited as cards such as Dandy Eggplant were used to drop Sapphire into your graveyard and with enough Mana Acceleration, Inferno Gate was used to send it out as fast as in the 3rd or 4th turn and there are barely any ways to get around it.

However, single color rush decks such as Water or Fire were still strong and commonly used due to their cheap and efficient creatures.

Despite the officals promoting decks using Hybrid Races and Phoenixes, these strategies were at most Fun Deck level due to the harsh environment and only Grand Devils managed to win with minor successes. In fact due to the sheer weakness of the recent card pool, many players felt bored and left the game as new cards fail to impact the metagame at all. Most of these cards were forgotten or unheard of by more recent players.

Following from previous Light, Water and Darkness Deckout decks, Hell Slash deckouts began to use Fire.

At this point in the metagame, while the metagame seems equal, it actually created a situation where it is nearly impossible to win with any deck save for Bolmeteus Sapphire Dragon, Rush or Hell Slash.

DM-21 and DMR-22 Stage

New Card Pool continues to be extremely weak and the new cards bring no metagame changes, seriously boring most players as they played with a near-stagnant card pool and even more players left.

Around this time, the TCG was discontinued.

During January 2007, Bolmeteus Sapphire Dragon was placed directly on the Premium Hall of Fame, banning it to 0 copies, as well as other deck-out based cards; Lost Charger, Hell Slash and Future Slash. The deckout type of decks would not be seen again until much later during the Episode 1 metagame with Volg Thunder.

With those cards removed from the metagame, while rushes such as Pacific Champion Rush and Mono-Fire rush did not gain any additional cards to strengthen the deckout, they were unharmed by the banlist, allowing them to flourish.

To replace the lost seat of Sapphire, Removal Guardian decks, Bajula's Soul + Fighter Dual Fang, and Mana Burn decks involving Terradragon Zalberg and Terradragon Mildgarmus appeared.

DM-22 brought the powerful Dragon creatures of Spell Del Fin, Light Divine Dragon, Necrodragon Guljeneraid and Infinity Dragon each bringing strong additions to the line of Dragon cards. Decks involving Spell Del Fin and Fighter Dual Fang appeared, known as "Del Fin Fang" as well as decks based around Guljeneraid and combos involving his graveyard usage.

Unlike the previous sets, DMR-22 managed to spice up the metagame slightly along with fun deck favourites such as Ultimate Galaxy Universe and Supernova Apollonus Dragerion. Ultimate Galaxy Universe would not make a good impact on the metagame despite its grand stature, but Rogue Decks using it once in a while win various tournaments in the future.

DMR-23 Stage

DM-23 was considered one of the worst failures of Duel Masters history along with DM-07 as the set was consisted of sloppily made Quasi-Vanilla Shield Trigger/Life Gate/Bio Tackle creatures and the remaining few creatures with actual effects are nothing short of bland. The flagship card, Supernova Black Hole Thanatos was even considered an in-joke due to its disproportionately weak card power compared with its extreme strength in the background story.

However, Terse Ruth, Lightboom Guardian from this set has been used to counter the increase of mana burn decks. Singing Maid Lin Lullaby will be used in Imen Loop 9 years later to deck out the opponent.

Competitive Decks

Bolmeteus Sapphire Dragon
- Sapphire Removal
- Sapphire / Seventh Tower (F/N)
- Sapphire / Dual Fang (F/N)
- Sapphire / Eggplant (D/F/N)
- Sapphire Mana Destruction (W/F/N)
Fire Rush (F)
Zamaru (W/D)
Deckout (L/W/D/F)
Light / Darkness Aquan (L/W/D)
Grand Devil (D)
Guardian Removal (L)
Dragon Mana Destruction
Necrodragon Guljeneraid Reanimation (D)
Infinity Dragon / Guljeneraid / Dark Lupia (D/F)

Important Cards

Trivia

While he might have been retired during this period, all booster packs of this set show Shobu Kirifuda instead of Teru in which the latter plays the role of the main protagonist at this period.

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 {{Infobox Block
+|Japanese = {{Ruby|不死鳥編|スペクタクル・ノヴァ}} ''(Fushichō Hen)''
-|Name = Phoenix Saga
+|Image = [[File:DM_Creature_World_Map_C.jpg|300px]]
-|Japanese = 不死鳥編 <br> ''(Fushichō Hen)
 |Symbol = [[file:dm19symbol.gif]] [[file:dm20symbol.gif]] [[file:dm21symbol.gif]] [[file:dm22symbol.gif]] [[file:dm23symbol.gif]]
+|Next = [[God Apex Saga]]
-}}
+|Previous = [[Reincarnation Saga]]
-'''Phoenix Saga''' is the the 5th series of Duel Masters card sets.
+|Dmwiki= [http://dm-wiki.net/?%C9%D4%BB%E0%C4%BB%CA%D4 Article]
+}}'''Phoenix Saga''' is the 5th [[Block (sets)|block]] of card sets in the [[Duel Masters (Card Game)|Duel Masters]] trading card game.
-== List of Sets ==
+==List of Sets==
+It is composed of sets released between June 24, 2006 and February 17, 2007.
+*[[DM-19 Spectacle Nova]]
+*[[DM-20 The Ultimate Nova]]
+*[[DM-21 History of Devil Nova]]
+*[[DM-22 The Dragonic Nova]]
+*[[DM-23 The End of the Universe]]
+It also features promotional cards from [[Japanese Promotional Cards Gallery (Year 1-5)#Year 5|Year 5]].
-It is comprised of sets released between June 24, 2006 and February 17th, 2007.
-* [[DM-19 Spectacle Nova]]
-* [[DM-20 The Ultimate Nova]]
-* [[DM-21 History of Devil Nova]]
-* [[DM-22 The Dragonic Nova]]
-* [[DM-23 The End of the Universe]]
+==Plot==
-It also features promotional cards from [[Promotional#Year_5_.28Gallery.29|Year 5]].
+The power of the [[Evolution Cross Gear|catastrophe gears]] were so massive that they destroyed most of the world and created a spatial rift, where [[Phoenix|powerful invaders from the galaxy]] appeared and most races were extinct, leaving the most adaptable behind. In the same time, [[Hybrid Race]]s appeared and researched methods against these powerful beings, eventually resulting in the appearance of [[Dragon]]s in all civilizations. With Dragons in all civilizations, the civilizations and races made one last war to end the demise of the world.
-== Timeline ==
+==Timeline==
+*''Main: [[Timeline/Phoenix Saga]]''
+==Details==
-*Ten Thousand Years have passed since the Cross Gears were sealed away and the world, now labeled "Old World" is still gradually being swallowed by the Space Rift.
+Emphasis on the link between races appeared with many [[evolution creature]]s appearing. The Phoenix race, a race based on summoning over multiple races of creatures feature, as well as the [[Meteorburn]] ability.
-*With the appearance of the Five Phoenixes(Supernova Venus la Saint Mother, Supernova Mercury Gigablizzard, Supernova Pluto Deathbringer, Supernova Mars Disaster and Supernova Jupiter King Empire) the Five Civilizations promote an increase of wealth and Military power to compete with the Phoenixes.
-*The first to start the Military Expansion were the Great Mecha Kings, who sent some to the Central Continent to take it from the Dreammates. However, not knowing the power of said creatures lead to their downfall. Thus the Great Mecha Kings gave up that area and sent their soldiers to other parts of the world for resources.
-*The Great Mecha Kings turn their focus on the Tyranno Drake race and invade their home: the Crystal Tower, which is a source of tremendous energy.
-*Both sides seek a resource to maintain their armies. The Drakes, lead by Dolzabard, Superior Dragonic Phoenix, attempt to defend their home against the machine army.
-*Despite their might, the Great Mecha Kings became too much for the Tyranno Drakes and they were overwhelmed, losing many of their number. The spectators of this event, the Grand Devils, take note of this as the remaining Tyranno Drakes make their way to Skull Castle, home of the Grand Devils. Noting the similarities between the two races, a desperate Dolzabard proposes an alliance. Facing a crisis in the evolving technology, the Tyranno Drakes and the Grand Devils form an alliance.
-*In order to counter the Great Mecha Kings, The Grand Devils attempt to preform the art of resurrection via the Inferno Gate, to bring back to life old races. Despite the art being incomplete, they manage to bring back Ancient Creatures such as Jumasol, Bloodcurdling Fuuma, and Alcadeias, Lord of Spirits, who due to this in-completion mutated into Death Arcadia, Devil Saint.
-*With this resurrection art, the joint army of the Grand Devils and the Tyranno Drakes manage to exact their revenge against their enemies, capturing the attention of the Phoenixes.
-*Not able to leave the situation alone, the Phoenixes act, sending troops to invade the home of the Grand Devils. There, they discover Death Arcadia who they realize never existed 10 thousand years ago. Growing in strength, Death Arcadia proves to be a match for the Phoenixes.
-*By the actions of the Dreammates, events begin to unravel. They uncovered that the tear of time and space at the entrance of The Universe Gate had enlarged.
-*From the expanded rift, small "Comet" Phoenixes begin to emerge. While small, they are still powerful Phoenixes.
+Abilities such as [[Sympathy]] on spells (allowing cards to cost less for each of your creatures that have a certain race in the battle zone) and [[Dynamo]] (allowing creatures to add power and abilities to other Dynamo creatures) allow synergy between races.
-== Details ==
-Emphasis on the link between races appeared with many evolution creatures appearing. The Phoenix race, a race based on summoning over multiple races of creatures feature, as well as the Meteorburn ability.
+[[Reanimate]] cards, cards that put creatures from your graveyard into the battle zone were released starting with [[Inferno Gate]].
-Abilities such as Sympathy (allowing cards to cost less for each of a certain race in your battle zone) and Dynamo (allowing creatures to add power and abilities to other Dynamo creatures).
+The game's dark age since the appearance of [[Bombazar, Dragon of Destiny]] continues with an increasingly weak card pool and the dark age ends at the end of the block with the final ban on [[Bolmeteus Sapphire Dragon]].
-"Reanimation" cards, cards that bring creatures back into play from the graveyard into the battle zone were released on [[Inferno Gate]].
+==[[Metagame]]==
-== Competitive Environment ==
+===DM-19 and DM-20 Stage===
+Bolmeteus Sapphire Dragon continued to appear throughout [[DM-19]].
+DM-19 was the first set to introduce a Reanimation card into the game, [[Inferno Gate]], bringing forth faster ways to accelerate the deck, as well as play expensive non-evolution creatures for less mana.
-=== DM-19 and DM-20 Stage ===
-Bolmeteus Sapphire Dragon continued to appear through-out DM-19.
+This was quickly exploited as cards such as [[Dandy Eggplant]] were used to drop Sapphire into your graveyard and with enough [[Mana Acceleration]], [[Inferno Gate]] was used to send it out as fast as in the 3rd or 4th turn and there are barely any ways to get around it.
-DM-19 was the first set to introduce a "Reanimation" card into the game, bringing forth faster ways to accelerate the deck, as well as play expensive non-evolution creatures for less mana.
+However, single color [[rush]] decks such as Water or Fire were still strong and commonly used due to their cheap and efficient creatures.
-Cards such as Dandy Eggplant or Lost Charger were used to send Bolmeteus Sapphire Dragon in the owners graveyard, and then using Inferno Gate to bring it back into play. "Sapphire Fang" decks that were previously common using the mana acceleration from Fighter Dual Fang to play Bolmeteus Sapphire Dragon faster were seen less because of this new deck strategy.
+Despite the officals promoting decks using [[Hybrid Race]]s and [[Phoenix]]es, these strategies were at most Fun Deck level due to the harsh environment and only [[Grand Devil]]s managed to win with minor successes. In fact due to the sheer weakness of the recent card pool, many players felt bored and left the game as new cards fail to impact the [[metagame]] at all. Most of these cards were forgotten or unheard of by more recent players.
-However, single color haste decks such as Water or Fire were still strong and commonly used due to their cheap and efficient creatures. While many shared races between the civilizations were introduced during the Phoenix Saga, only the Grand Devil race managed to make a small appearance in the metagame, with a Water and Darkness beatdown deck.
-Following from previous Light, Water and Darkness control decks, a deckout deck also using fire was used during this time.
+Following from previous Light, Water and Darkness Deckout decks, [[Hell Slash]] deckouts began to use Fire.
-At this point in the metagame, each deck was seen as fairly equal, with each having a fairly balanced chance each other.
+At this point in the metagame, while the metagame seems equal, it actually created a situation where it is nearly impossible to win with any deck save for [[Bolmeteus Sapphire Dragon]], [[Rush]] or [[Hell Slash]].
-=== DM-21 Stage ===
+===DM-21 and DMR-22 Stage===
+New Card Pool continues to be extremely weak and the new cards bring no metagame changes, seriously boring most players as they played with a near-stagnant card pool and even more players left.
-During January 2007, Bolmeteus Sapphire Dragon was placed directly on the Premium Hall of Fame, banning it to 0 copies, as well as other deck-out based cards; Lost Charger, Hell Slash and Future Slash. The deckout type of decks would not be seen again until much later during the [[Episode 1]] metagame.
+Around this time, the [[TCG]] was discontinued.
-With those cards removed from the metagame, while mono-red rush did not gain any additional cards to strengthen the deckout, they were unharmed by the banlist.
+During January 2007, Bolmeteus Sapphire Dragon was placed directly on the Premium Hall of Fame, banning it to 0 copies, as well as other deck-out based cards; Lost Charger, Hell Slash and Future Slash. The deckout type of decks would not be seen again until much later during the [[Episode 1]] metagame with [[Volg Thunder]].
-Decks such as Guardian Removal, Bajula's Fang and Dragon Mana Destruction appeared in place of the former decks using Bolmeteus Sapphire Dragon.
+With those cards removed from the metagame, while rushes such as [[Pacific Champion]] Rush and [[Mono-Fire rush]] did not gain any additional cards to strengthen the deckout, they were unharmed by the banlist, allowing them to flourish.
-=== DM-22 and DM-23 Stage ===
-DM-22 brought the powerful Dragon creatures of [[Spell Del Fin, Light Divine Dragon]], [[Necrodragon Guljeneraid]] and [[Infinity Dragon]] each bringing strong additions to the line of Dragon cards. Decks involving Spell Del Fin and Fighter Dual Fang appeared, known as "Del Fin Fang" as well as decks based around Guljeneraid and comboes involving his graveyard usage.
+To replace the lost seat of Sapphire, Removal [[Guardian]] decks, [[Bajula's Soul]] + [[Fighter Dual Fang]], and Mana Burn decks involving [[Terradragon Zalberg]] and [[Terradragon Mildgarmus]] appeared.
-To counter the usage of mana destruction decks, the LWD control decks began to use Guardian creatures such as [[Terse Ruth, Lightboom Guardian]] who appeared in DM-23 to counteract this.
+[[DM-22]] brought the powerful Dragon creatures of [[Spell Del Fin, Light Divine Dragon]], [[Necrodragon Guljeneraid]] and [[Infinity Dragon]] each bringing strong additions to the line of Dragon cards. Decks involving Spell Del Fin and Fighter Dual Fang appeared, known as "Del Fin Fang" as well as decks based around Guljeneraid and combos involving his graveyard usage.
+Unlike the previous sets, DMR-22 managed to spice up the metagame slightly along with fun deck favourites such as [[Ultimate Galaxy Universe]] and [[Supernova Apollonus Dragerion]]. [[Ultimate Galaxy Universe]] would not make a good impact on the metagame despite its grand stature, but [[Rogue Deck]]s using it once in a while win various tournaments in the future.
+===DMR-23 Stage===
+[[DM-23]] was considered one of the worst failures of Duel Masters history along with [[DM-07]] as the set was consisted of sloppily made [[Quasi-Vanilla]] [[Shield Trigger]]/[[Life Gate]]/[[Bio Tackle]] creatures and the remaining few creatures with actual effects are nothing short of bland. The flagship card, [[Supernova Black Hole Thanatos]] was even considered an in-joke due to its disproportionately weak card power compared with its extreme strength in the [[Timeline|background story]].
+However, [[Terse Ruth, Lightboom Guardian]] from this set has been used to counter the increase of mana burn decks. [[Singing Maid Lin Lullaby]] will be used in [[Imen Loop]] 9 years later to deck out the opponent.
 == Competitive Decks ==
-* [[Bolmeteus Sapphire Dragon]]
+*[[Bolmeteus Sapphire Dragon]]
-** Sapphire Removal
+**Sapphire Removal
-** Sapphire / Seventh Tower (F/N)
+**Sapphire / Seventh Tower (F/N)
-** Sapphire / Dual Fang (F/N)
+**Sapphire / Dual Fang (F/N)
-** Sapphire / Eggplant (D/F/N)
+**Sapphire / Eggplant (D/F/N)
-** Sapphire Mana Destruction (W/F/N)
+**Sapphire Mana Destruction (W/F/N)
-* Fire Rush (F)
+*Fire Rush (F)
-* Zamaru (W/D)
+*Zamaru (W/D)
-* Deckout (L/W/D/F)
+*Deckout (L/W/D/F)
-* Light / Darkness Aquan (L/W/D)
+*Light / Darkness Aquan (L/W/D)
-* Grand Devil (D)
+*Grand Devil (D)
-* Guardian Removal (L)
+*Guardian Removal (L)
-* Dragon Mana Destruction
+*Dragon Mana Destruction
-* Necrodragon Guljeneraid Reanimation (D)
+*Necrodragon Guljeneraid Reanimation (D)
-* Infinity Dragon / Guljeneraid / Dark Lupia (D/F)
+*Infinity Dragon / Guljeneraid / Dark Lupia (D/F)
+==Important Cards==
+*[[Bolmeteus Sapphire Dragon]]
+*[[Inferno Gate]]
+*[[Cloned Nightmare]]
+*[[Dandy Eggplant]]
+*[[Bajula's Soul]]
+*[[Aquan]]
+==Trivia==
-=== Important Cards ===
+*While he might have been retired during this period, all booster packs of this set show [[Shobu Kirifuda]] instead of [[Teru]] in which the latter plays the role of the main protagonist at this period.
-* [[Bolmeteus Sapphire Dragon]]
-* [[Inferno Gate]]
-* [[Cloned Nightmare]]
-* [[Dandy Eggplant]]
-* [[Bajula's Soul]]
-* [[Aquan]]
 {{Set Blocks}}