Over the next few days, Janina was obsessed with the Memory Palace. And for an understandable reason.

She’s lived for a long, long time. And during that time, she’s forgotten so many things.

It is understandable, especially when she told me that she focused on keeping a hold of some of her oldest memories. Of the times before she was the ruler of the Dragon’s coast. When she was just a dragon amongst the other dragons.

As I watched those old memories with her, I was introduced to the supreme dragon before Janina. আমিই সেই or Ami Sei. She was a serpentine dragon, like Janina, with dark purple scales. Janina told me she was a master of Space and Light Magic, which is really cool, as I’ve never met a dragon who knew Space Magic.

Also, Ami. Both Janina and Sei have the Ami prefix to their name, so I asked about it. I assumed it might be a title, but it is actually a sort of family name. It isn’t actually family, but more like a teacher to student relationship, but calling it a family name isn’t exactly wrong either.

But no, Sei isn’t Janina’s mother. Or father. Well Sei was a female dragon, so mother. Janina’s parents didn’t care for her, not that dragons usually do beyond the first few years. But they didn’t give Janina even that. So Sei, the supreme dragon at the time, became basically Janina’s mother. She took care of her, taught her how to use Magic, sent her on an adventure in a dragon avatar, and welcomed Janina back home when she returned for her journey.

Then Sei began training Janina to take over her position as the ruler of the Dragon’s Coast. And no, you don’t have to be a ‘supreme dragon’ for that. A supreme dragon is just a classification, denoting a super powerful dragon that goes beyond the usual ‘greater’ level.

As we went through all of those memories, I definitely understood why Janina wanted to hold onto them with all of her might. They really were wonderful.

To the point where watching them was the first time I saw Janian cry. I didn’t actually know that dragons can. And yes, she was in her full dragon form in the Memory Palace.

Oh, and one last thing. Time. In the Memory Palace. It is a mess. There is basically a small amount of time, about a minute, required for entering and exiting the Memory Palace, but everything else that happens there, happens outside the flow of time. So we can be there for what feels like five minutes, or five days, and on the outside the same amount of time will have passed.

Because of that, we could live for what feels like days inside the Memory Palace. I still made sure Janina and I wouldn’t forget ourselves there.

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Now, to some pack opening stuff. Specifically, I think it is about time I complete another set. Shadow Specters is the oldest I have, so I’m just going to complete it.

And as always, completing a set starts with 200 packs. It will get me most things, and we can see what I’m missing afterwards.

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Chain Ignition (Common) x23

Baby Raccoon Ponpoko (Common) x30

Bujingi Centipede (Common) x26

Ghostrick Stein (Common) x36

Malicevorous Fork (Common) x34

White Dragon Wyverburster (Common) x34

Yellow-Bellied Oni (Common) x33

Ghostrick Specter (Common) x29

Ghostrick Witch (Common) x29

Terrene Toothed Tsuchinoko (Common) x33

Vampire Grace (Common) x29

Secret Sect Druid Wid (Common) x42

Battlin' Boxer Rib Gardna (Common) x31

Malicevorous Knife (Common) x40

Ghostrick Yuki-onna (Common) x39

Bujingi Boar (Common) x27

Risebell the Star Psycher (Common) x36

Pumprincess the Princess of Ghosts (Common) x34

Mythic Water Dragon (Common) x38

Armed Protector Dragon (Common) x35

Secret Sect Druid Dru (Common) x45

Ghostrick Jiangshi (Common) x40

Black Dragon Collapserpent (Common) x38

Mecha Phantom Beast Sabre Hawk (Common) x37

Blue Duston (Common) x35

Malicevorous Spoon (Common) x26

Bujingi Ibis (Common) x26

Soul Drain Dragon (Common) x28

Mythic Tree Dragon (Common) x29

Battlin' Boxer Rabbit Puncher (Common) x32

Chow Chow Chan (Common) x23

Magicalized Duston Mop (Common) x33

Dragon Shield (Common) x28

Ghostrick Mansion (Common) x31

Vampire Kingdom (Common) x28

Baby Raccoon Tantan (Common) x23

Skelesaurus (Common) x30

Knight Day Grepher (Common) x29

Gagagatag (Common) x36

Numbers Overlay Boost (Common) x30

Survival of the Fittest (Common) x29

Intrigue Shield (Common) x47

Ghostrick Scare (Common) x31

Ghostrick Vanish (Common) x32

BIG Win!? (Common) x27

Sacred Serpent's Wake (Common) x35

Rasetsu (Common) x31

Mira the Star-Bearer (Common) x28

Divine Dragon Knight Felgrand (Ghost Rare) x4

Secret Sanctuary of the Spellcasters (Rare) x17

Bujingi Raven (Rare) x12

Mecha Phantom Beast Kalgriffin (Rare) x7

Bujingi Crow (Rare) x14

Vampire Duke (Rare) x11

Archfiend Giant (Rare) x8

Vivid Knight (Rare) x11

Swarm of Crows (Rare) x8

Bujin Regalia - The Mirror (Rare) x11

Burst Rebirth (Rare) x14

Oh Tokenbaum! (Rare) x11

Grisaille Prison (Rare) x8

Swords at Dawn (Rare) x12

Aratama (Rare) x3

Giganticastle (Rare) x11

Puralis, the Purple Pyrotile (Rare) x15

Battlin' Boxer Cheat Commissioner (Rare) x6

Number C65: King Overfiend (Rare) x10

Number 64: Ronin Raccoon Sandayu (Rare) x6

Number 65: Djinn Buster (Rare) x5

Lady of the Lake (Secret Rare) x1

Divine Dragon Knight Felgrand (Secret Rare) x1

Kidmodo Dragon (Super Rare) x3

Dragard (Super Rare) x4

Ghostrick Ghoul (Super Rare) x2

Vampire Hunter (Super Rare) x3

Ghostrick Lantern (Super Rare) x1

Noble Knight Borz (Super Rare) x2

Marina, Princess of Sunflowers (Super Rare) x1

Battlin' Boxing Spirits (Super Rare) x1

Vampire Takeover (Super Rare) x1

Number C96: Dark Storm (Super Rare) x2

Number 46: Dragluon (Super Rare) x3

Armored Kappa (Super Rare) x3

Bujintei Kagutsuchi (Ultimate Rare) x2

Number C96: Dark Storm (Ultimate Rare) x2

Number 46: Dragluon (Ultimate Rare) x2

Ghostrick Alucard (Ultimate Rare) x1

Divine Dragon Knight Felgrand (Ultimate Rare) x1

Return of the Monarchs (Ultra Rare) x1

Sinister Yorishiro (Ultra Rare) x1

Bujin Mikazuchi (Ultra Rare) x2

Vampire Sorcerer (Ultra Rare) x1

Celestial Wolf Lord, Blue Sirius (Ultra Rare) x1

Genomix Fighter (Ultra Rare) x3

Ghostrick Alucard (Ultra Rare) x3

Bujintei Kagutsuchi (Ultra Rare) x2

Sacred Noble Knight of King Artorigus (Ultra Rare) x1

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Alright, new stuff. What to start with? Maybe the Ghostricks?

Ghostrick Lantern and Ghostrick Ghoul are fine in a Ghostrick deck, but outside of that, they are nothing special. And Ghostrick Alucard is also fine, but again, nothing crazy.

Vampire Sorcerer I already had, but Vampire Hunter is actually new. Interesting that I never got the Hunter for the Vampire mission, despite the fact that it has Vampire in the name. Maybe because it has a different OCG name or something? Vampire Hunter is a decent monster.

Bujin Mikazuchi is a Bujin. It is fine, good for the deck, but I probably won’t use it.

Dragard is fine. A bit situational maybe, but it does allow for some Rank 8 plays. And it is a cute little dragon.

Mecha Phantom Beast Kalgriffin is not the best Mecha Phantom Beast. Sure it is nice for summoning the Rank 7 MPB, but other than that, it is just a costly level 7 with not even all that great of stats.

Lady of the Lake is a decent tuner, if you are playing Noble Knights. Other than that, it is super restrictive.

Noble Knight Borz is nice. Sure it is a normal monster when it doesn’t have an equip spell, but that is fine. The effect it has is good. Just a shame it isn’t treated as a normal monster in the GY, or it would work better with Lady of the Lake.

Marina, Princess of Sunflowers is a level 8 that can’t special summon itself, and doesn’t have any sort of protection. So not worth using as a monster. But I feel like she’ll find her place on the HomeBase CropFields.

Return of the Monarchs is a decent search card. Well, it is actually great, but only in Monarchs.

Secret Sanctuary of the Spellcasters is busted. Especially if you combine it with Secret Village of the Spellcasters.

Puralis, the Purple Pyrotile is a level 2 Synchro Tuner, but it is just a worse Formula Synchron. Pretty sure it was printed because Formula was banned.

Celestial Wolf Lord, Blue Sirius has good stats and does a massive attack reduction when it dies.

And then we have the numbers.

Number 46: Dragluon is a really cool dragon. Wish it had its anime effect where it cannot be targeted by card effects or attacks when you control another dragon, but it is what it is. The best effect for me is the permanent mind control of a dragon, even if I don’t really need that.

Number 64: Ronin Raccoon Sandayu can summon super powerful tokens, which is nice.

Number C65: King Overfiend is a one sided Skill Drain. … not really. It actually just prevents effect activation. But it is still a great monster.

And last, Number C96: Dark Storm. It is nice. Reducing the attack of something to 0, while gaining all the attack they lost is great. And even if that effect doesn’t go through, Dark Storm still inflicts all the battle damage to your opponent. Not quite Yubel style, as you also take the damage, but it is still nice.

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Now, what did I miss?

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As it turned out, not much.

Tuning and Stardust Dragon had a limited reprint in this set.

Mistake limits me more than any opponent.

Labradorite Dragon I already had, as it is a high level tuner.

Ignoble Knight of High Laundsallyn equips a card from the deck to itself. So it can get me new Noble Arms cards.

And Meliae of the Trees is nice. Either mill a Plant or special a Plant from the GY.

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But that is Shadow Specters done. Another set done, and we are slowly moving towards a complete Pack Opener. I wonder if when I finally have every card ever released, will I then get Holactie? Or maybe some other super rare card?

… and I guess I’ll update you on the Numeron Code progress. Not much new there. I have 62 Numbers and 18 Chaos Numbers. So only 2 more Number Cs and I’ll get the Numeron Code Teleportation ability.