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Yu-Gi-Oh

2017-08-06T22:31:35Z

2A00:23C4:4FC4:7D00:9024:19C7:42BA:ABE5: Cleaning up the page a bit. Also wiped a few of the archetypes, just as there were frankly too many listed and it was clogging up the page.

[[File:Poogioh.jpeg|500px|thumb|right|With a pokemon backdrop, too.]]
''"The only thing intricate about this game is its ban list."''<br>
- [[Magnus the Red]], ''[[If the Emperor had a Text-to-Speech Device]]''

A [[Collectible Card Game|CCG]] produced by Konami which is based off a [[Anime|shonen battle manga]] of the same name. It can be surprisingly fun, and while confusing at first, it becomes second nature to most after just a few games.

While it does have some major rules problems thanks to idiotic ruling by Konami,missing the timing, semi hidden information going into hidden information zones, and an errata policy based mostly on what cards get reprinted. Yu-gi-oh is not as bad as some people have been led to believe. It has a quite interesting amount of game styles to choose from in the way you use the cards in your "deck" which is quite customisable. At least, unless you are playing in a tournament, in which case the majority of players will be playing 3 different decks styles max.

At first it was just played by a couple of groups of people over the world but then it got a major increase in the player base after its anime came out in the west. It is a simple to play game that can keep you entertained for hours thanks to deck building and combo opportunities. It's an alright game for playing with friends, but the competitive scene for it is awful due to Konami often releasing broken as fuck decks just to sell more packs.

==How to Play==
Yu-Gi-Oh is rather similar to [[Magic the Gathering]] in terms of play. Each player starts with a 40+ card deck and tries to take his opponent's 8000 life points down to 0. Players take turns to play creatures and spells, attack the opponent's creatures and deal with some of the most badass cards brought to play.

The number of cards you can have in play is limited: you can have five monsters, five spells/traps and one field in play at the same time. If you have five monsters you cannot summon additional ones without sacrificing others, you can however play spell/trap cards even if you already have five of them active, and you can play a field card if you already have one.

Note that 8000 is a really fucking huge number of life points to keep track of: you might want to bring a notebook, calculator or app along to keep track of your life points.

===The makeup of a card===
The three basic types of cards in Yu-Gi-Oh are Monster, Spell and Trap.

====Monster Cards====
These cards are your warriors who will do the fighting for you. Monsters have levels, which affects how you summon them. Monsters from level 1 to 4 can be summoned normally. Monsters of level 5 and 6 require you to sacrifice one of your monsters, 7 or higher require two sacrifices. Monsters also have Attributes (think the colors from Magic the Gathering, except there are seven, and they are much less important), Monster Types (like creature type, there are 23, including fish, aqua and sea serpent), Attack and Defense (Strength and Toughness). There are eight types of them. The first four are from the early days of the game, with the latter four being added in 2008 and onwards:
*Normal - Coloured yellow. A straightforward card with no abilities.
*Effect - Coloured orange. A monster that has a special ability.
*Ritual - Coloured blue. A ritual monster is summoned using a ritual spell card and tributing monsters. They are placed in the main deck and cannot be summoned without a ritual spell. Usually has an effect, but not always.
*Fusion - Coloured violet. A fusion monster is one where you have to combine two or more cards in order to summon it. This combining is done by the special abilities of other cards, usually the spell card, Polymerization, though not always. Fusion monsters usually have effects, but not necessarily. In the early days of the game they used to be the final argument of sheer attack power, but over the years they've been overtaken.
**Contact Fusion - A variation of Fusion that involves either sending the cards that make up the fusion material into the graveyard or the banishment zone, or shuffling them into the deck. Polymerization is not needed; this effect is inherent to the Contact Fusion monsters in question. This effect is commonly found on A-to-Z monsters, the Neos, Gladiator Beast and Ritual Beast archetypes, and a few other cards. This means that while the lack of dependency on Polymerization cards makes them easier to play, these cards require their tributes to be on the field instead of either on the field or in the player's hand.
**Transformation Summon - Limited to the Masked HERO archetype, Transformation Summons requires a tribute of one card in favor of another, more powerful one. This requires the play of a Change-type spell, of which there are three. Because all Change cards are Quick-Play, you can play them during the Battle Phase in order to avoid negative effects or targeted destruction by your opponent, as well as attack several times in a single turn.
*Synchros - Coloured white. They go in the fusion deck, now known as an extra deck, and are summoned by sending monsters with a total level equal to theirs to the graveyard, including one tuner monster.
**Dark Synchros - Used to summon Dark Synchro monsters,. Instead of adding the values of the Tuner and the non-Tuner monsters together the level of the Dark Tuner monster is ''substracted'' from the level of the non-Tuner monster. The result must be a negative number equal to the Dark Synchro monster's negative level.
**Double Tuning - The rare Synchro monsters that require two Tuner monsters to summon. There are only five of them in the game.
**Accel Synchro - Just like regular Synchro summoning, except all Synchro cards have to be Synchro cards themselves.
*XYZ - Coloured black. Pronounced "Exceeds", and summoned by placing two or more cards of the same level on top of each other. Instead of a level they have a rank which reflects the level of the monsters that must be "overlayed" to summon them from the extra deck.
**XYZ Evolution - XYZ Evolution monsters can be XYZ summoned as normal, but they can also use a single specific card as XYZ Material. This can be either from the effect of the XYZ monster itself or a Spell card. All XYZ Evolution monsters are either CXYZ or Number-C monsters.
*Pendulum - Coloured the same colour as the other monster type they are in their top half and green in their bottom half, with a transition between the two, to show how they're like a mix of monster and spell. Thus you can have effect pendulum monsters, xyz pendulum, fusion pendulum, etc. There are currently no ritual pendulum monsters or link pendulum monsters in existence, though this may change in future. These are monsters that can also be played as spells in the pendulum zones, and go to the extra deck when they're destroyed while on field. They have a number called a scale, which is used when they are played as a spell card. They also allow you to summon a bunch of monsters in one turn, as long as the levels are between the scales of the two pendulum monsters you have in your pendulum zones. Newfags.
*Link - Coloured blue, with a pattern of hexagons. Not to be confused with ritual monsters. They have a link number instead of defence points, and can never be in defence position. They go in the extra deck, and are summoned by sending a number of monsters you control to the graveyard equal to their link number. Instead of levels they have arrows called link markers that point to other monster zones. You can summon other monsters from the extra deck to the zones pointed at by the link markers. Their effects often relate to the zones pointed to by the arrows.

On top of that there are several secondary monster types that said monsters have on top of their normal type:
*Flip - When a Flip monster is attacked when it is face down or turned up by its controller or an effect, it triggers its own effect. Having the monster destroyed or exiled outside of being attacked, the effect does not trigger.
*Gemini - A Gemini monster is played as a regular Normal monster. It can later (either a later turn or outright, depending on what other cards its controller plays) be summoned again as if it entered the field from a player's hand. When it is, it triggers its effect. And no, Gemini Elf is not a Gemini monster.
*Spirit - When a Spirit monster is summoned, it returns to its owner's hand from the field during the End Phase. This means that Spirit monsters have little staying power, and they cannot be Special Summoned.
*Toon - Toon monsters resemble existing monsters in the game in a cartoony style. They rely on the Toon World card, and they are frequently destroyed if Toon World is.
*Tuner - These monsters are mandatory if you want to run a Synchros deck. While it is tempting to make a deck of nothing but Tuner monsters to make sure you always have one, many Synchros monsters require at least one non-Tuner monster or a monster of a particular type instead. Also exist as Dark Tuner monsters, who are used to summon Dark Synchro monsters.
*Union - Often weak on their own, Union monsters can equip themselves to another monster to grant said monter a special effect. If that monster were to be destroyed, its equipped Union monster is destroyed instead.

====Spell Cards====
These cards are for support, augmenting monsters, giving you more cards or life points, stunning the opponent...etc, anything to give you an upper hand in the battle. They are coloured green. They have have six subtypes:
*Normal - A one-time use card that is discarded after its effect is completed
*Continuous - The effect persists, so long as the card is still in play
*Equip - Equipped on a monster card to augment their stats or give them special abilities
*Quick-Play - Like a normal spell, but can be played at any time, including your opponent's turn if you set them first.
*Ritual - A card which lets you sacrifice monsters whose total levels are a certain amount in order to bring forth the patron of the ritual, a ritual monster (see above).
*Field - Changes the attribute of the playing field, which can give certain monsters buffs or penalties (I.E: Water monsters benefit from Umi and Dark monsters benefit from Yami). It used to be that only 1 field spell may be active at a time, but later rules made it that each player may have their own field spell at the same time.

====[[Trap]] Cards====
Trap cards can't be played directly and have to be deployed in the face-down position. As their name implies; they're traps for your opponent, which can be triggered either by your decision or once your opponent meets certain conditions. Thanks to the animu's flair for the dramatic, you're required to say "YOU'VE ACTIVATED MY TRAP CARD!" in a loud and smug fashion, while dramatically flipping your trap card, when you decide to activate your's. Verbally explaining the trap's effects in a dramatic fashion is optional. They are coloured pink. Trap Cards exist in three kinds:
*Normal - This sort of card can be used once and discarded after its effect is completed
*Continuous - This kind of trap persists so long as the card is still on the field.
*Counter Trap - A trap used to counter other cards; the only thing that can stop a counter trap is another counter trap.

===The Turn===
*The turn starts with a '''Begin of Turn''' phase where some things can happen depending on the cards in play, but most of the time this turn is just filler.
*The '''Draw Phase''' allows you to draw 1 card from your deck. Again, some abilities might be triggered in this phase, but it's not all that flashy.
*The '''Standby Phase''' the phase that happens between the Draw and Main Phase. Nothing really happens here, but some abilities use this as part of their trigger requirements.
*The '''First Main Phase''' is where it all happens: you can play 1 monster and as many magic/trap cards as you like. Monsters can either be '''Summoned''' or '''Set'''. Summoning means they are placed in a face-up upright position; this makes their Attack stat the number used in the combat phase. If a monster is set it is placed in a face-down position turned 90 degrees to the right; this makes their Defense stat the number used in combat.
*The '''Battle Phase''' has four sub phases. Again it has a Start and End step in which some effects trigger, but most of the time they're just there to look pretty. The big part of this is the Battle and Damage steps: you choose one of your monsters and attack one of your opponent's monsters. You then compare your monster's Attack to the other monster's opposing stat. If it is in Attack Position you compare the two Attack scores: the monster with the lowest Attack is destroyed and its controller loses life equal to the difference in Attack. If the scores are equal both monsters are destroyed. If the monster is in Defense Position you compare your Attack to the other's Defense: if yours is lower or equal then you lose life (but not your monster) equal to the difference (obviously you can't lose zero life), if yours is higher the other monster is destroyed but the opponent does not lose life. If the scores are equal nothing happens. If you attack a face-down monster this way then it flips up: either to reveal a weak monster that your opponent put down to stall for time, an effect monster that does something beneficial when flipped or destroyed, or a large blocker that might deal you damage. All monsters you control may attack only once (Unless an effect says otherwise), one by one; you are allowed to attack the same monster several times.
*After this is the '''Second Main Phase''', which is identical to the First Main Phase. You don't get another summon, unless you never used it during your first main phrase, so it's mostly just used to set traps and quick play spells to use in your opponent's turn.
*Finally there is the '''End Phase''' where effects might be triggered and where you have to discard cards from your hand if your hand is over the current hand size cap of six to meet it.

==Archetype==
Unless you possess some sort of post-human intellect that allows you to see synergy between otherwise unrelated cards and have supernatural luck to make these combinations work, you'll want to stick to an archetype for your deck. Archetypes are series of cards of a similar theme or kind, often with a series of related monsters. Through their interwoven and complementary mechanics a deck can become greater than the sum of its parts. There are dozens upon dozens of archetypes in the game, with many of them having their own sub-archetypes. Some of the archetypes are:

* '''Blue-Eyes''' - Based on the famous Blue-Eyes White Dragon used by Seto Kaiba in the first series, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon itself has the distinction of being the most powerful Normal Monster in the game at 3000/2500. With its plentiful support a well-built Blue-Eyes deck can, with a bit of luck, [[meme|summon a bunch of monsters in one turn]] and lay a massive smackdown through regular monsters and powerful Rank-8 Xyz monsters. This archetype also includes the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, which has a whopping 4500 ATK. The downside is that while it's a massive beatstick it lacks any ability and getting it onto the field is a pain. With its light scales and disintegrating breath the Blue-Eyes is based on [[Bahamut]] from [[D&D]].
* '''Burning Abyss''' - Taking its inspiration from the Inferno part of Dante's Divine Comedy, the Burning Abyss archetype is based around swarming the field, then summoning its Xyz, Synchro, Fusion and Ritual boss monsters. On their own the Burning Abyss monsters (called Malebranches) are not very strong: except for the boss monsters they are all Level 3 and top at 1700 ATK and 2000 DEF. On top of that, if you control a non-Burning Abyss monster all of them go to the graveyard, and if you don't have a spell or trap card on the field you can special summon them. The Malebranches have a variety of effects to help them not immediately crumble come your opponent's battle phase.
* '''Dark Magician''' - The signature monster of Yugi Muto from the original series. On its own the Dark Magician is... not very good. 2500/2100 for a two-Tribute monster is middling, even back in the day. Summoned Skull provided the same ATK for only one Tribute, and for two Tributes you could instead get a Blue-Eyes White Dragon. To mitigate this the archetype includes a fair number of spell cards to support and protect the Dark Magician.
:* '''Dark Magician Girl''' - A sub-archetype based around gaining power and summoning more Spellcaster-type monsters. The Dark Magician girl is notable for being one of the most popular [[waifu]]s of the game.
* '''Egyptian Gods''' - Giant God-Soldier of Obelisk, Sky Dragon of Osiris and Winged God-Dragon of Ra, aka Obelisk the Tormentor, Slifer the Sky Dragon and Winged Dragon of Ra. The only three monsters in the game with the Divine-Beast type, they are legendary monsters based around the Egyptian gods Ra, Osiris and... [[Wat|Obelisk]]. They all require THREE Tributes to summon normally but they are beefy: their summoning cannot be negated and no cards can be activated as a reaction to their summoning. Obelisk has a hefty 4000/4000, cannot be targeted by spells, traps or card effects (but can still be destroyed by non-targeted effects). By tributing 2 monsters Obelisk can destroy all monsters your opponent controls, but Obelisk cannot attack that turn. Slifer's has all monsters your opponent summons lose 2000 ATK (if they hit 0 they are destroyed), and Slifer's ATK and DEF are equal to the number of cards in your hand x1000. Ra starts out with 0 ATK/DEF, and by paying all but 100 of your LP Ra's ATK and DEF becomes equal to the paid. By paying 1000 LP you can destroy one monster on the field. It's obvious that these two abilities are difficult to use at the same time. While powerful they're difficult and risky to use.
* '''Elemental HERO''' - Used by Jaden Yuki from GX, the HERO monsters (based on superheroes) require extensive use of Fusion Summoning to get your good monsters on the field and attack with them. A serious source of [[skub]] because of the heavy reliance on summoning, the fact that they were used by the GX protagonist, that they were in every set of the GX era meaning that they clogged up booster space, and there were a LOT of them. Seriously: about two dozen in the main deck, over three dozen in the Extra Deck, and that's not even counting all their support cards and sub archetypes. On top of all that the HERO monsters are not even that good, with only a few being worth running.
:* '''Destiny HERO''' - Like the Elemental HERO monsters, except 50% more [[British Empire|British]] and 50% more [[edgy]]. Used by Aster Phoenix from GX.
:* '''Evil HERO''' - As above, but less Britishness and with extra edge. Used by Jaden Yuki once he goes evil in the third season of GX.
:* '''Masked HERO''' - Based on [[Mantis Warriors|Kamen Rider]], the Masked HERO cards use Transformation Fusion to turn Elemental HERO monsters into Masked HERO monsters, who have powerful effects. The three transformation cards are all Quick Play cards, allowing you to change your monsters mid-turn to attack over and over again.
* '''Exodia''' - The most famous win condition, Exodia comes in five pieces. If you have all pieces in your hand you win the duel. While on their own it's very unlikely to obtain all parts, when combined with a wide variety of draw and search engines you become able to draw just about your entire deck in one turn and obtain all the parts. This means that playing an Exodia deck automatically makes you [[That Guy]], even in the eyes of other That Guys with their own That Guy decks. There are a number of monsters based on Exodia and are supported by him, bust they're mostly even more difficult to use than regular Exodia.
* '''Gem-Knights''' - A gemstone-themed archetype of warriors who can combine to create more powerful beings in order to face more powerful opponents. And before you ask: the Gem-Knights came around just over three years before Steven Universe became a thing. The Gem-Knights are [[Paladin|a bunch of honorable warriors who fight to protect the weak]]. They are very reliant on Fusion Monsters: of the 24 monsters in the archetype there are 12 Normal, Effect and Gemini monsters, 11 Fusion monsters and one Xyz monster. To aid in this they have access to six cards that allows Fusion for Gem-Knights in a variety of ways.

==Formats and Ban Lists==
Yu-Gi-Oh has a strange relationship with what cards are legal or not. Unlike the two other big card games, [[Pokémon]] and [[Magic: The Gathering]] Yu-Gi-Oh does not have a "standard" format that says "all cards in sets X, Y and Z can be played and the rest cannot". This means that every single card, printed from ''Legend of the Blue Eyes White Dragon'' to ''Maximum Crisis'' (the first and most current set available in the West) can be used in a deck, as long as they're not on the ban lists. This means that in effect there are several thousand cards legal to use in your deck, with only a fraction being limited and only a handful being outright banned. Cards have four levels of legality, determining how many you can have of any one card in your Main, Extra and Side Decks:

* Unlimited: 3
* Semi-Limited: 2
* Limited: 1
* Forbidden: 0

There are also Illegal cards: cards that were never intended to see use in official duels or tournaments. These are often promotional materials, with all but six of them having conditions that allows their player to win the match. Not the duel: ''the best-out-of-three match''. The six remaining ones are two cards based on the anime, one being a promotional card handed out during the World Championship of 2007 that is quite useful in the right kind of deck, and the last three remaining cards being the unofficial versions of the three Egyptian Gods.

Exactly which cards are of what legality is determined by the region you're in. Yu-Gi-Oh has two regions where the game has different names: the Official Card Game and the Trading Card Game, shortened to OCG and TCG respectively. The OCG is played in Asia while the TCG is played in the rest of the world. Both regions have their own ban lists, meaning that a deck that is played in one region might not work as well or is perhaps not even legal in the other. This is even further complicated that while the OCG has only one format, the TCG has two: Advanced and Traditional. The difference between the two is akin to the difference between Legacy and Vintage: the former restricts more cards to create a more balanced experience and has quite a few cards that are illegal in the format. The latter is a friendlier kind of game: all Forbidden cards are either Semi-Limited or Limited. If you want to use Illegal cards you need your opponent's permission first. Advanced is the format used in official tournaments and events, making it akin to Standard.

==The Anime==
[[Image:Banditkeith.jpg|450px|thumb|right|This is what the rest of the world thinks all people look like... IN AMERICA.]]
* Yu-Gi-Oh was clumsily "advertised" by a cartoon for children about adults playing a children's card game, which shared the same name.
* Season 0 Yami Yuugi is a well known follower of [[Tzeentch]] (As if the Egyptian gig wasn't enough of a give away). Mostly it was about Yami Yuugi punishing local bullies and scumbags by challenging them to a "Yami No Game", a dark and demented game of Yuugi's making with a stringent set of rules (That depends on the current challenge) that are meant to test the person's true character. If the person looses a Yami Game, or breaks the rules in any way, Yuugi will either kill them or [[Grimdark|give them such realistically horrifying hallucinations that they turn into a gibbering, hapless wreck]]. As an example, he once played table hockey with a puck full of nitroglycerin and blew the other guy to bits. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWXTZ8zuuDQ In another game in the anime, he tricked an armed criminal holding his girlfriend hostage into pouring 180 proof vodka all over himself and putting a lighter on his hand. Ensuring that if he did anything wrong, he'd burn a horrible death]. Subsequent Yugis... were most likely to [[Slaanesh]].
* Dan Green voices both Yugis in the English version.
* The aforementioned program was so popular, they released a spin-off show called Yu-Gi-Oh GX, about children attending a university that teaches students how to play a children's card game (really). Even the US dubbers noticed how stupid this was, and would write dialog that mocked the franchise, making [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2bml9_is-littlekuriboh-writing-for-yu-gi_fun#.Ub5g-_k3uSo some parts] of the show look like an Abridged parody.
* This spawned another spin-off, Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's, where angsty emo teenagers play a children's card game on motorcycles, in a setting that's some sort of attempt at dystopian [[cyberpunk]]. Seriously, that's actually the premise. Not terrible. Surprisingly interesting and edgy at times. The dub is mediocre compared to the subbed, as 4kids of course excised the more "mature" parts from their localization. This is the show that introduced synchro monsters to the game.
* This was followed by Yu-Gi-Oh! ZeXal, which is basically [[anime|Naruto]] with card games instead of ninjas set in an alternate universe from 5Ds where Synchros don't exist. Xyz monsters were invented here.
* Next up was Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V, which seemed to have remembered the other series and summoning methods existed, but the promise the show had got butchered once they travelled to the synchro dimension, a world similar to that of 5D's.
* The most recent (started in May 2017) one is Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS (which stands for Virtual Reality Artificial Intelligence Network System), which introduces Link monsters. Its villains, the Knights of Hanoi, are basically Anonymous with a technomagical supercharge.

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Trazyn the Infinite

2017-08-06T20:05:28Z

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{{MattWard}}
[[File:Trazyn.jpg|300px|right|thumb|He's come to steal your shit! (Probably literally, if it's rare enough) And if you're (un)lucky, he might even steal you.]]
'''Trazyn the Infinite''', also known as '''Trollzyn the [[Tarpit]] Breaker''' and '''Trashy the Incontinent''', is the best [[Necron]] Overlord/Phaeron (while ''technically'' his title is Overlord, he has his own Overlord subordinates and rule his own little empire like Phaeron). Basically what you'll get if you combined Doctor Doom, a [[Tomb King]], a [[Blood Ravens|Bloody Magpie]] and the Terminator.

Trazyn the Infinite is a preserver of histories, artifacts and events. In his possession are technologies and relics that are so valuable as to be priceless. Amongst his collection are the fabled wraithbone choir of Altansar, the preserved head of [[Sebastian Thor]], the ossified husk of an Enslaver '''and a suit of baroque power armour, complete with the Space Marine who was still wearing it.''' (Who according to a recent White Dwarf issue hints that it may or may not be [[Vulkan]].) This means that he is the only creature in this or any other universe that rivals the stealing power of the [[Blood Ravens]]. In such a dangerous galaxy, Trazyn is loath to go out and explore it himself, but with so many exquisite artifacts to see and catalogue, he cannot afford to miss out. As a result he will send out substitutes of himself to do his dirty work. On the battlefield this can become increasingly irritating, as killing what appears to be Trazyn may simply be a [[Lychguard]] or a Necron Lord. Meanwhile, somewhere nearby, the real Trazyn is busy smashing his way through his foes to get his metal hands on his latest acquisition.

(That's how the fluff handles it; the crunch rules imply that he simply takes over the body of another Lord, Lychguard, or [[Cryptek]]. He was there; you killed him; he just ran like the troll he is. [[Butthurt|Oh, and you didn't]] [[Alpha Legion|get Slay The Warlord by the way.]] Just imagine this guy politely trolling with the voice of Terl from Battlefield Earth : "Oh, dear ! What a wonderful contingent of Imperial Guards ! I shall thank you with all my heart, General, for this marvelous gift. Please tell them to strike a nice pose while I prepare a stasis grenade...")

/tg/ has gained a fondness for him, due to his thieving ways, his Doctor Doom-esque body doubles, and his polite yet [[Troll|trollish]] attitude, he is also known for using completely self-evident aliases, which nevertheless seem to work quite well. It is generally agreed that he is one of the only good things Matt Ward has ''ever'' put into the [[fluff]].

"A war-torn city in the [[Ultramar]] system. The [[Ultramarines]], aided by an [[Imperial Guard]] regiment led by Lord Castellan Ursarkar [[Creed]], prepares to face an [[Ork]] incursion in a final battle. The Orks are numerous, but the [[Imperium]] has the upper hand, just barely, as Lord Creed's tactical genius has proven invaluable. As the Orks begin their final assault on the city, the Ultramarines ready their defenses. Creed, ever oddly silent, gazes intently at a large flagpole in the center of town, watching through binocs as the Orks' charge is funneled towards the center of the city. Suddenly, as the Orks near the square, the tip of a [[Baneblade]]'s main gun can be seen coming around the flagpole. The great tank begins to emerge from behind the thin metal object, perfectly and impossibly concealed. It begins to move into its firing arc, and a great shout is heard from the [[Warboss]] down below, just barely carrying over the rest of the din. "CREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-" Suddenly, the cry cuts off in confusion, as Creed spits out his cigar. Where the Baneblade once stood, there is air, thin air. Not a trace remains of the enormous tank. It has vanished completely. Then, gradually, a green, crackling, electrical rune appears hanging in the air where the Baneblade was. It extends gracefully, for its platonic geometric form. If Creed was given to poetry, he might even say it resembled a rose. But he knew better. A rage he had felt only once before began to boil deep within, and his cry shook the world as the Orkish tide began to hack his guardsmen and the Marines to pieces. "TRAAAAAAAAAAAAZYYYYYYYYN!"

==From [[Matt Ward|Ward]] Himself==
"Trazyn's also no slouch in combat. Whenever his empathic obliterator kills an enemy, it has a chance to kill all other enemies of the same type in the same combat - perfect for Ork mobs. This isn't so useful against characters, but that's why Trazyn also carries a clutch of mindshackle scarabs - why kill an enemy when you can take over his mind and have him kill for you...?"oh wait nope, mss are now just a useful fear test.So now the only real use you'll find for him in a duel is whacking them with a stick.

==The Infinite List of Dickings==
[[File:Trazyn2.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Daww]]
Trazyn is universally regarded as a <strike>[[Eldrad|huge dick]]</strike> pretty fun guy to be around due to his <strike>[[Blood Ravens|rampant kleptomania]]</strike> erudition and wit. Here is a list of his <strike>crimes</strike> many-splendored accomplishments, compiled for the <strike>warning</strike> edification of /tg/.

* Killed five invading regiments of Catachans, then turned them into [[Wargame|miniatures for his collection.]]
** Sent [[Inquisitor Valeria]] fan mail (maybe, we can't tell if he was being sarcastic in the letter) attached to an armed tesseract labyrinth [[Blood Ravens|as a reward for "gifting" him said Catachan regiments.]] <s>huh, maybe that's why she was not in codex inquisition eh?</s> <s>it was revealed in codex gk that not only she survives that but also manages to add that artifact to her collection and use it in battle she was removed because GW is too lazy to make her a model</s> UPDATE: As of Fall of Cadia, Trazyn has revealed that Valeria became his waifu before subsequently getting BLAMed for consorting with xenos, hence why he releases Greyfax the Angery instead of getting Valeria to tag along (Just as planned? How about Tau start summoning daemons for battle? And maybe Orks start building their own webway.)
* Banned from the Necron throne world of Mandragora after trying to [[Ork|loot]] [[Imotekh the Stormlord|Imotekh's]] staff.
** [[Troll|Pops in whenever he feels like it anyway.]]
* Stole Sebastian Thor's [[wat|head]]. Maybe (there's like five other museums claiming to have his skeleton; the only reason Trazyn stands out is because his Thor head is preserved in a jar, rather than a skull).
* Took the World Spirit Shrine of Carnac, an [[Exodite]] world as a trophy for helping to conquer it.
* Uses other Necron Lords as body doubles [[Troll|without telling them.]]
* Told the [[Ultramarines|greatest amongst us all]] he was old pals with [[Roboute Guilliman|Rawbutt Girlyman.]] Considering that one of the pokeballs he unleashed against Chaos at the Fall of Cadia was a bunch of Ultramarines fresh from the aftermath of the Horus Heresy, he might be telling the truth ("old pals" by his definition, of course).
** And then informed them that maybe [[Troll|he was going to take Papa Smurf, as he'd be better off with him than in the company of the Ultramarines.]]
*** And with Rowboat coming back, [[wat|somehow]], for 40k End Times, we might actually get to see how the two know each other. If they actually do. There's every possibility that [[troll|Trollzyn was just lying]].
* Has a fucking PRIMARCH stored at his pad, supposedly... Possibly Vulkan according to White Dwarf, which makes the next one all the more hilarious.
*Told Vulkan He'stan he had the Song of Entropy, luring the Salamanders into a 10-year war with the Necrons. At the end of it, Trazyn pretty much said "just kidding, I don't have the Song of Entropy," as he tried to steal the Spear of Vulkan. Kind of back fired when [[Vulkan He'stan]] decided to just give him the Spear. ''Tip'' first. He'stan was pretty pissed when he learned Trazyn just jumped into another body.
** Twice.
*Invaded the Imperial planet of Midgardia and nabbed a C'tan shard of Nyadra'zatha, despite [[Logan Grimnar]]'s attempts to stop him. It's notable that he pulled this off in Logan's own codex supplement, where most other battles in the book were a resounding Space Wolf victory. To be fair, Space Wolves destroying (and thus accidentally freeing) a C'tan shard would make them look like an assholes. I mean even more assholes than they already are.
**In retribution, Logan hunted him down to another planet, Vhaloth IV, and ended up kicking Imotekh's ass instead. ([[Just As Planned]]. The dick deserved it for hanging on to his staff anyway.)
* Captured an Ork warboss and the Deathwatch kill team that was hunting said warboss, and sat them in front of each other in his collection for all eternity. And he double-checked they were both still self-aware, just to feel them suffer.
* Caught a bunch of tech priests evacuating from the necron invasion of Magogue, and set them up in stasis as a monument to that planet's fall. Notable because he pulled it off in the Skitarii codex. Trazyn's apparently the go-to guy for being able to win outside of his own codex.
* May or may not be the one pulling the strings behind the events of [[Xenology]], as probably he won't have any problems impersonating a C'tan shard.
* Has been hanging out on Cadia for who knows how long as the "man of iron" which all but confirms the pylons are necrons made.
* Steals Creed himself after the fall of Cadia.
* Steals Papa Smurfs' (The Ultramarine bloke that can't spell Robert properly) pillow from his lumber.

==Things on Trazyn's 'Must Have' List==
[[File:TrazynAndDiomedes.jpg|thumb|right|300px|There can only be one true magpie.]]
*Kartoth the Bloodhunger, both so he can say he won the game as well as rip holes to go back in time for more collecting.
*[[Abaddon]], no, really!
*Saint Celestine, go read The ''Fall of [[Cadia]]''!
*A lock of the Emperor's hair (Assuming it hasn't rotted away by the time he gets to Terra)
*[[Magnus the Red|Magnus the Red's]] favourite eye
*A 7th edition Sisters of Battle codex
*The [[Sanguinor]] in a stasis field
* One Sister of battle issue vibrator from each Order with viewing martial
*<s>A living Tyranid zoo (no stuffed dolls for our old collector). Would be much easier to accomplish if 'Nids didn't try to keep the fuck away from Necrons and their worlds.</s> Never mind. He gave up on this one after his specimens broke out of their exhibit and ate half of Solemence. Attempting to redo it on another planet near Solemence.
*One of each type of Eldar Aspect Warrior, arranged in complementing color order.
*Each [[Phoenix Lord]], including the fallen Ahra or Drazhar (just in case he's Ahra); bonus points for the originals. Otherwise, something from them, such as one of [[Asurmen]]'s twin-linked [[Shuriken Catapult]]s or a lock of [[Jain Zar]]'s hair (bonus points for getting things from all of their incarnations).
*A signed autograph from each Primarch. (Still asking [[Orikan the Diviner|Orikan]] for "access" to his time machine so he can get one from [[Ferrus Manus]], [[Horus]], [[Sanguinius]], and [[Konrad Curze]] since they're all presently busy being dead.)
*A signed autograph from each chaos god.
*A sweet ride so he can cruise the galaxy looking for new junk
*The [[Baneblade#Fortress of Arrogance|Fortress of Arrogance]], preferably with [[Commissar Yarrick]] as well.
*[[Sammael|Sammael's]] Jetbike
*A shoulder pad from each space marine chapter (Pre-heresy legions and post-heresy chapters all together of course, going for the complete set!)
*A Space Marine from each of the first founding chapters (this collection would be easily finished if not for the fact that he cant find any marines from the two missing legions).
*A painting of one of the Emprah, Tzeentch, Cegorach, and the Deceiver's card games.
*A circus filled with nothing but Eldar Harlequins.
*A <s>school report and childhood items</s> first set of kid-sized slave shackles of Asdrubael Vect.
*A garage filled with one of each type of the Imperial Guard's tanks.
*A feather from Sanguinus's wing.
*An Imperial Titan that has been CREEEEEEEDed.
**A snap shot of the look on Abaddon's face upon seeing aforementioned Titan in the middle of his battle line, shouting CREEEEEEEED
*Abbadon's arms. Creed hid them so well that even Trazyn is having trouble finding them.
*A matching pair of [[Angry Marine]] Powerfeet.
*A pair of a Sisters Of Battle Canoness Regulation Holy Panties from each Order, stolen from their quarters while they are asleep. Is surprisingly hard to pull off, even for Trazyn.
*A set of [[Lelith Hesperax|Lelith Hesperax's]] Combat Attire after a fight. This is even harder to pull of than the Sisters of Battle Canoness Regulation Holy Panties.
*One of the fingers from the Talon of Horus.
*Slaanesh's entire porn collection
*One of Ferrus Manus's hands. He isn't picky which.
*An [[Imperial Knight]] from each house.
*The Panacea STC.
**And since [[Lady Malys]] got there first, anything cool she owns, as well as a selfie with her before and after she realizes he stole her stuff.
*The Eye of Horus. As in the ''actual'' Eye.
*Commander Puretide and/or all of his students.
*A calm and rational [[World Eaters|World Eater]] marine.
*A clean and disease free [[Death Guard]] marine.
*A [[Emperor's Children]] marine who shows restraint.
*Alive and fleshy non-sorcerer [[Thousand Sons|Thousand Son]] marine. (As of Ahriman: Unchanged, there is now exactly one of these)
*Remnants of the Inquisitorial acolyte who died of old age. Ones aged by a [[Hrud|Hrud's]] entropic field do not count.
*The cure for the [[Red Thirst]].
*The cure for the Curse of the Wulfen.
*The right hands of [[Helbrecht]], [[Eldorath Starbane]] and anyone else who had their right hands cut off by Imotekh.
*At least one [[Jokaero]].
**And anything they make/modify.
*A [[Female Space Marines|Female Space Marine]].
*As many [[Catgirl|catgirls]] as possible.
**Along with a selfie with each of them.
***And as many [[Kitsune|kitsunes]] as possible, along with selfies and a shrine to their name.
*Any 100% reliable information about Alpha Legion.
*Any 100% reliable information about Alfa Legion.
*The Blood Ravens Armoury. Since most of the above was already "gifted" to the Chapter.
*A machine to control the [[Warp]] so he can create impossible things.
*A complete and unblemished cosmetic kit 'gifted' by a [[Pretty Marines]]' Company Captain, still with a wrapping bow attached. (Getting one each from both Loyalist and Chaos Pretty Marines Captains would be even better!)
*The very [[Ethereal|Ethereals]] who united the [[Tau]] race back when they were limited to only their homeworld, or their bodies.
*A picture with Kharn.
*One of each type of Imperial Assassin in the position they held before trying to kill him. This wouldn't be so problematic if it wasn't for the fact that he has yet to convince the Assassinorium to send a Culexus assassin against him.
*A 1st Edition copy of the [[Codex Astartes]] with Roboute Guilliman's autograph on the dust jacket.
*A recording of Warboss [[Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka|Ghazghkull]] famous: "Wez gonna Waagh!"speech.
*A prison capable of holding [[Cypher]], containing the man himself.
*<s>A STC detailing how to finally have enough Dakka</s>. <span style='color:green;font-size:100%'>'''HERE...HERESESS...BLOODY 'ELL WHOTEVER DAT WORD IS YOU 'UMIES KEEP SAYIN' BEFORE Y'SHOOTS EACHUVVER!'''</span>
*<s> An interdimensional portal device so he can collect artifacts from Warhammer Fantasy.
*An interdimensional portal device so he can collect artifacts from Lord of the Rings.</s> (Trazyn has now accomplished this according to some writefaggotry posted on fanfiction. Much nerd rage shall ensue. You have been warned.)
*<s>An interdimensional portal device so he can collect artifacts from Star Wars.</s> (He has also accomplished this due to MORE Writefaggotry on Fanfiction.net)
*An interdimensional portal device so he can collect artifacts from Star Trek.
*All the NON-Grimdarkness of the 41st millennium in a bottle. So nothing in bottle then.
*[[Temperus Maximus]]' Adamantium Cigar. Trazyn almost managed loot this, but Temperus suddenly called an Orbital Strike on top of himself before this happened. Temperus' armor received minor scorch marks when the strike ended and Trazyn's body double was obliterated.
*One marine from each chapter of the cursed founding.
*A death corps of Krieg gas mask serial number 0000000000000000000000001.
*Names, addresses and personal phone numbers of the two unknown Primarchs.
*Cardinal Anton Fedelicus and his collected writings, which if introduced would have allowed for a very large degree of sexual freedom to have been integrated into the ecclesiarchical theology without increasing the risk of Slaaneshi corruption.
*A living [[Astral Knights|Astral Knight]]
*A "lucky" [[Lamenters]] marine (also count as one of the cursed founding collection).
*A working time travel device create by the [[Ordo Chronos]] ([[heresy|if it was ever made]]). The purpose for this device being, you guess it, collect more artifact from the past.
*His own body double in an alternative universe, if only he did not manage to turn into [[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure|dimensional sponge]] in the process or lost to his alternative self in a collection contest.
*A lock of hair from each of the [[Tarkus|infamous]] [[Boreale|baldraven]] [[Diomedes|marines]].
*A "My First Assault Cannon* box set (even better if unopened)
*A photo of the Emperor as a boy.
*As well as all of his photographic recording scatter throughout the time, whether it is rock scribble from the stone age or painting in the Da Vinci Era or the youtube video he has made back in 20XX.
*A [[Squat]].
*A living Boneripper.
*The personal battle standard of [[Gabriel Angelos]] used at his ascension to chapter master.
**The Blood Ravens also want one of Trazyn's personal banners.
*An Ogryn's 'Guardsman's Primer: Colour Book Edition' and matching 'The Great Crayon Crusade' coloring set
*The oldest dreadnought of each Space Marine chapter
*Samus' armor
*The Entire first Season of "If The Emperor had a text-to-speech device" in blue-ray signed by Chapter Master Alfabusa.
*Limited collectors edition of Half life 3(After all, it's only been 38,000 years in development, maybe Valve will finish it before chaos/da WAAAAGH/the Tyranids/Imotekh's ego consumes the entire world!)
*[[Sly Marbo|Sly Marbo's]] personal pistol, though not even Trazyn is willing to try and collect it.
*An actual ork sniper.
*Butlin-Class Titan.
*The [[Men of Iron|Man of Iron]]
*<s>The Cigar Creed always chews but never smokes.</s> Acquired as part of the new Creed exhibit.
*The legs from an Imperial Sentinel (must have attachment for his own legs)
*A list of names of the fallen to wave at the Dark Angels.
*A ham personally provided by the Ordo Draigo.
*A book borrowed from the black library with a selfie of him and Cegorach.
*A picture of himself before he turned to necron.
*The best pole dancer in the Commorragh in a stasis chamber.
*The best pole dancer out of all Slaanesh cultist in a stasis chamber.
*A photograph of a Cyclonic torpedo the moment it impacts the ground.
*A group photo of Thunder Warriors with Arik Taranis and the Emperor.
*An acknowledgement from GW that Malal does indeed exist.
*An actual affordable GW Warhammer 40k miniature from any faction.
*[[Carlos McConnell]], or at least one of his catgirls, in a stasis chamber.
*A jar of [[Skub]].
*The book "[[Standard Template Construct]]" for dummies.
*Sensible [[Blood Angels]].
*Hairless [[Space Wolves]]. Being shaven doesn't count, the Marine has to be hairless naturally.
*A copy of Battletoads.
*The Statue of Liberty, shrunk to 10 feet size and taken from Nova Yourk hive of Merica.
*Blueprint of [[Angron]]'s Butcher's Nails.
*A WW2 Era Luger pistol, original.
*Enough Blood for the [[Khorne|Blood God]].
*Enough Skulls for the Skull Throne.
*One of Roboute Guilliman's new [[Primaris Marines|Super Space Marines]].
*A Pokeball that can Hold a C'tan
*A Living member of the Interex.
*A Picture of Eldrad and Vect trying to Out dick each other.
*An STC that has technology that will allow him to do some Dark Eldar Drugs.
*A video of Nemesor Zahndrekh putting on glasses and realizing that he is now a Skeleton Robot and the Other Necrontyr are not what they seemed to be
*An member of an Alien race the Imperium actually gets along with. (Pretty damn Impossible.) (Yvrainne. Next?)
*An Ork who can actually think
*An Autograph from [[Nagash]]
*A video of Yarrick taking over the Orks. (<s>Only a Matter of time now</s> It's mentioned in the 8E rulebook that the Orks and Humans on Armageddon formed an alliance to fight chaos, so this is pretty much canon now.)
*The Golden Throne. That means trazyn is not allowed on holy terra.
*[[Belisarius Cawl]]
*Enough DAKKA.
*An official GW ninth age tournament

==Ever-increasing Trazyn's aliases List==
*Pepe
*Bob The regular non-necron guardsman.
*Bob the Builder
*The Fat Controller
*Every notable persons from your childhood
*Borris the generic soul-less warrior
*Phaeron Imothephek the Thunderboltlord.
*Onionkyr the Voyager.
*Nemesor Zahnpasta.
*The grinch
*Barack Obama
*Vanguard O'Brien.
*El Bandido Dickbag de la Muerte
*Trellsin the Singular.
*[https://youtu.be/v4Y4QBL5Fmg Bender][https://youtu.be/OWPfcEOr2Yg Bending Rodríguez]
*Necropimp
*The most fabulous Necron of them all (after he said this, Sanguinius appeared before him and told him that if he ever said the word fabulous again, he would steal everything he owns)
*Illuminor Spookyras.
*Notc'tan the Diviner.
*Sissy Rack the Loud Queen.
*Dio Brando/ZA WARUDO.
*Thanquol the (In)Competent.
*Marisa Kirisame
*Shas'O Wi A'bu.
*Inquisitor Emprah of Catachan.
*Anon Y. Mouse.
*Captain Inkoc Nito.
*Winona Ryder
*Dean Isle.
*Kaz Miller.
*Mideer Laydee.
*Eliphas the inheritor.
*Commissar Hugh Mann.
*Korporal Dick Goesinzya.
*Canoness Ivanna Purgealot.
*High Scout Henrick Day-o-midis.
*Farsighter Loldrad Gretchinbane.
*Lord-sergeant Ultramarius Sicarius.
*Archservitor Robotnik Wilhelm.
*Warboss Ghozkull Grotstealer.
*Skitarius Ranger Alpha Stroheimus JJ-1337.
*Archon Kim Ke.
*Suede O'Niim.
*John Smith.
*Alan Smithee.
*Kyon.
*Ned Cron.
*Mouse M.D.
*Victor Domashev.
*Bernie Madoff
*Carmen Sandiego
*Lara Craft
*Master Thief
*Sir Welland Dowde
*High Admiral tankcommander Pascual.
*Techpriest 01110100 01110010 01100001 01111010 01111001 01101110 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01101001 01101110 01100110 01101001 01101110 01101001 01110100 01100101 00001010 .
*Gordon Freeman.
*Mr. Roboto.
*Nyzart the ending
*Nafqa.
*Sly Cooper
*The God emperor of Mankind.
*Mac Tonight.
*The G-man.
*Venom Snake.
*He-Man.
*Skeltor
*Iron Man.
*Albert Wesker
*Gabe Newell.
*SLYYYY MARBOOO!! (When Trazyn assumed this disguise, every necron in the segmentum had a Catachan Fang spontaneously appear in its skull and teleported to self repair, and the knife that appeared in Trazyn's hands had "I'll let you off this time" written on the grip."
*Big Boss Final
*Zharn the Bee Trainer
*Tray the Model Man
*BIg BobbyG.
*alpharius.
*not omegon.
*pantheon of 40k (GW)
*Belisarius Cawl
*Donald Trump's pubic wig
*JOHN CENA!!!
*The Immortal Jod Emper of Space-skeletonkind
*Spartacus
*Danger Powers
*The Second Coming of Matt Ward
*Fresh Prince of Ultramar
*The King of Games
*Mr E. Man
*The real thief of the Primarchs
*Sister Superior Wendy
*Chaplin Hamburglar
*Donald Trump's intellect
*The Doctor

===Fall of Cadia===
Oddly enough, it appears that Trazyn decided 'aid' the Imperium in their defense of Cadia (he decided that after 60 million years it would be interesting to play the hero for once). He knows the secrets of the Pylons on Cadia, and he even releases Imperium people from his collection (represented in game by letting you deep strike units, if you take Trazyn in your Imperium army). What a great guy giving up his collection to have more space for other exotic exhibits...
Specifically he got the feeling that something was coming after the Bell of Saint Gersthal started chiming in his collection, messing with the programs of his Tomb World and sending his forces back into stasis, ringing thirteen times before ceasing. He then headed off to the Celestial Orrery on Thanatos to see what the fuck was going on (but not before casting the bell into the webway, [[Troll|hoping it would be as much of a pain in the Eldar's ass as it was his]]). And what do you know, there was but the Crons' watching over the thing could do nothing about it cause they were just meant to watch over the thing, not play galactic peacekeepers (although they eventually let him in, the guards weren't happy that Trazyn was there, due to an incident where some priceless artifact mysteriously went missing the last time he visited). Thus Trazyn decided to take up the role as a savior for once (mostly because he was bored and wanted to try something other than grave-robbing), and find the source of the corruption, which happened to be the little boring world of Cadia.

Long story short, Trazyn went off to Cadia released some parts of his collection (most notably Inquisitor Greyfax, though that is mostly just because his old Pen Pal Valeria was apparently killed by another human), and helped the Imperial forces screw around with the Pylons. Which somewhat backfired to put it lightly, though not that it mattered much to him because he stopped caring about playing the hero role and figured that while he was around he could find something for his collection to commemorate such a historic moment. And while he was originally hoping to claim Abaddon for his collection, his second choice was no less impressive.

''Creed stands alone on the ruined surface of Cadia. He sees a metal giant in a scaled cloak in front of him, hand outstretched.''

''"Ursurkar E. [[Creed]] - This is not your end. Eternity Awaits"....''

==See Also==
* [http://images.wikia.com/heman/images/b/bc/Skeletor.jpg] Compare and contrast, comrades.
* [http://youtu.be/jJh5PETGihs?t=10m16s Epic duel ahead.]
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