Let us move on in order to the second Duelist Pack, Chazz Princeton. It had the same release dates in the TCG and the OCG as the first Duelist Pack, as it went hand in hand with Jaden's pack, and overall was a good choice to help introduce this new idea of a small, character focused pack.
On the cover is Armed Dragon LV10, card only found in this pack and in Duel Terminal 5, while the other levels are easier to come by (with LV7 being found in three packs, including this, and not counted was the promo in a Wal-Mart package, and LV3 and LV5 being in several decks). A rather nice yet difficult card to get out at times, due to its unique summoning conditions, but more on that later.
Overall in terms of the cards in this pack, 17 of the 30 cards are monsters (including fusions), 9 spells, and 4 traps. Time to break these down a bit.
First up, the monster cards. For normal monsters we have V-Tiger Jet, with a decent 1600 ATK / 1800 DEF, Ojamas Green, Yellow, and Black with 0 ATK / 1000 DEF (and Beast type 2 Star Monsters, meaning running a Junk Synchron in an Ojama deck lets you use Frozen Fitzerald), and finally X-Head Cannon, a great 1800 ATK/ 1500 DEF Light attribute Machine type (like all the VWXYZ monsters).
For effect monsters that leaves us with Y-Dragon Head (1500 ATK / 1600 DEF) and Z-Metal Tank (1500 ATK / 1300 DEF) that both are unions that attach onto X-Head Cannon or the other for an ATK/DEF boost. W-Wing Catapult (1300 ATK/ 1500 DEF) is also a union but only for V-Tiger Jet. Next up is Infernal Incinerator (2800 ATK / 1800 DEF), an odd Fire attribute Fiend type monster that can only be normal summoned/set by discarding your hand (outside of it) and tributing 1 monster with 2000 ATK you control. It can gain 200 ATK for each monster your opponent controls but loses 500 for each other one you control, and is the first Rare of the pack.
Armed Dragon LV3 (1200 ATK / 900 DEF) needs to be face up at your standby phase to send to the graveyard to special summon Armed Dragon LV 5 (2400 ATK / 1700 DEF) from hand or deck, although that can actually be tribute summoned normally, as well as having the effect of sending 1 monster from your hand to the grave to destroy one of your opponent's monsters with an ATK less than or equal to the sent monster's. If it destroys an opponent's monster by battle, at the end phase you can special summon Armed Dragon LV7 (2800 ATK / 1000 DEF, Super Rare in the pack) from hand or deck. Unlike LV5, this has to be special summoned by LV5's effect, however this time you can send 1 monster from your hand to grave to destroy all face up monsters with ATK less than or equal to the sent monster's. Armed Dragon LV10 (3000 ATK / 2000 DEF, Ultra Rare in the pack) is a bit different, as it can only be special summoned by tributing LV7, however you can now send 1 card from your hand to the grave to destroy all monsters your opponent controls. While there are a number of cards to prevent destruction nowadays, back then it was a rather annoying and troublesome thing to deal with outside of a few cards. A rather interesting thing, in my opinion is that all four of these dragons are Wind attribute.
Like the Jaden pack, this has fusions. XYZ-Dragon Cannon (2800 ATK, 2600 DEF, a Rare in pack) needs X-Head Cannon, Y-Dragon Head, and Z-Metal Tank on the field to summon, and you don't need polymerization (just to remove them), but it does let you discard 1 card to Destroy 1 card your opponent controls. Ojama King (0 ATK / 3000 DEF) is the fusion of Ojamas Green, Yellow, and Black, and once it hits the field you can select up to 3 of your opponent's Monster Card Zones to no longer be used while it is out, and is a rather neat stall card. VW-Tiger Catapult (2800 ATK / 2100 DEF, Rare in pack) is a fusion of V-Tiger Jet and W-Wing Catapult that can only be brought out by removing them from your side of the field, not with Polymerization. You can discard 1 card to chane the position of an opponent's monster (flip effects don't trigger). Last but not least is the grand daddy of them all, VWXYZ-Dragon Catapult Cannon (3000 ATK / 2800 DEF, Rare in pack if you can believe it) that needs VW-Tiger Catapult and XYZ-Dragon Cannon to be remove from play, and once per turn you can remove 1 card from play your opponent controls, and can change the position of an attack target of it without activating flip effects.
Spell wise we have Ojama Delta Hurricane!! (needs the three ojamas face up to destroy all cards on your opponent's field), Level Modulation (Rare, opponent draws 2, special summon a LV monster from your grave, ignoring Summoning conditions, and it cannot attack/use its effect this turn), Ojamagic (Rare, when it is sent from hand or field to grave, add 1 each of Ojamas Green, Yellow, and Black from deck to hand), Ojamuscle (Rare, Select 1 Face up Ojama King, destroy all Ojama monsters on the field except it, it gains 1000 ATK for each one destroyed), Chthonian Alliance (Equip card, monster gains 800 ATK for each other face up monster with the same name as it), Armed Changer (Equip card, Send 1 Equip Spell Card from hand to grave to activate, if the equipeed monster destroys a monster by battle, the controller of Armed Changer can add 1 monster with AK equal/less than the equipped monster from grave to hand), Magical Mallet (Super Rare, shuffle any number of cards from hand into deck, then draw that many). Inferno Reckless Summon (Rare, quick play spell, activate when 1 monster with 1500 or less ATK is special summoned to your side of the field while an opponent controls a face up monster, special summon all cards with the same name as it from hand, deck, and grave in face up attack position, and your opponent then selects 1 face up monster they control and do the same), and last but not least Ring of Defense (quick play, activate only when a trap that inflicts damage is activated, it now does 0 damage).
Surprisingly, there are only four traps. Ojama Trio special summons three ojama tokens (same stats as green, yellow and black, but not the name) in defense position to your opponents side of the field, they can't be tributed for a tribute summon, and when destroyed their controller takes 300 points of damage for each one. Chthonian Blast activates only when a face up monster you control is destroyed and sent to the grave, destroy 1 face up monster with the lowest ATK and deal damage to both players equal to half its ATK. Chthonian Polymer activates only when an opponent fusion summons a monster, tribute 1 monster you control to take control of it. The Grave of Enkindling (Super Rare) can only be activated when a monster you control is destroyed by battle. You and your opponent special summon 1 monster from your respective graves in defense position, and neither can change its position while it is face up without using a card effect.
The cards only found in this pack are Armed Dragon LV10 (I don't really count Duel Terminals as packs), Inferno Reckless Summon was only in the Machina Mayhem structure deck outside of this pack, believe it or not Ring of Defense was only in this pack and Duelist Pack Kaiba (I figured it was printed somewhere else first, but my initial guess was wrong), and The Grave of Enkindling was only in this pack.
Overall it is a rather nice pack, yet lacks a little. The lack of Polymerization in this list is slightly annoying, given the fact Ojama King needs it, but at the time since Jaden's pack was released with it, they probably saw no need to have the same card in both packs, instead having people buy both or the special edition box that had both packs in it. It is still an interesting pick up for what is in it though, and even if you can't find it by itself, I managed to come upon a 5 pack blister in a few Meijers I've been to that have old duelist packs pseudo randomly (I've noticed they tend to make them with certain packs, but it might depend on location/supplier/repacker) and they did include some of these in them, along with Jaden Yuki pack 1, 2, or 3, even possibly a Duelist Pack Aster Phoenix, but more on those in future Walls of Text.
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