GAOV World Premieres Pt. 2

Galactic Overdrive, Overload, Overlord, Overcoal, or whatever you want to call it is here in full force. Whether you personally like the set or not is irrelevant, this product is moving and many retail stores in my area are already sold out (wasn't me!).  The first six World Premiere cards (the monsters) have mixed reviews all over the internet. What is there to say about the remaining cards?
GAOV-EN086 Draconnection
Normal Spell
Okay Konami, we get it. Dragons are strong. Apparently, they are so strong that they need more support. And yet, they can't be given anything too ridiculous. There are also a TON of Dragons out there, so the support has to be as general as possible. The result? Draconnection; excellent card in theory, but not anything the players really want to use. There will always be a time where a player has a hand that is just not as good as it could have been. Draconnection basically removes 1 card from your hand, to stack 1 card in your opening hand. Stacking your hand in your favor(legally) is good. Removing cards in your hand, however, is not good. I would like to believe that some day, when a minus to your hand isn't the end of the game, Draconnection can see some play. It really isn't a bad card for the types of decks you can use it in. Our current meta just can't warrant a -1 with no change in tempo on either side of the board. Still, a very solid. very balanced card.

GAOV-EN087 Trial and Tribulation
Normal Spell
I have been waiting for a card like this for a very, very long time. Some people are already using it in Frog Monarch decks. I have seen a couple of others tech in a copy for Hieratic decks. I am a lover of Ritual Monsters, and experimenting with this thing leads to many possibilities. And that is exactly what this card is, even its name and effect suggests experimentation among the player base. At its playable worst, Trial and Tribulation gives you a card draw, effectively thinning your deck by 1. In something like Monarchs, that "37 card deck" can increased chances of drawing awesome cards like Battle Fader, Gorz and Trag. Any deck that can tribute via effect, or drop double tributes like LADD get to salvage 2 monsters from their graveyard. It doesn't have to be the monsters offreed for the tribute. In fact, if your Darklord Asmodeus or Zerato are destroyed by Solemn Warning, you can add it along with another good monster back to your hand. The third option for Tri&Tri is the big one that most of the internet is focusing on. I feel that limiting the destruction to face-up cards was a little unnecessary, but I will chalk that up to Konami's tier-crafting. Not many decks can even tribute 3 things in 1 turn, but more and more ideas are surfacing every day. Obelisk and Slifer/Osiris Hieratics Beastking Barbaros Poseidra (OCG) Steelswarm Hercules Ice Master Of course, nothing is as good as the mainstream decks already teching Tri&Tri With Poseidra and other cards being released in the future, time will tell just how good this card can really be.
GAOV-EN-088 Hieratic Seal From the Ashes
Continuous Trap
After spoiling us with Dark Smog, Konami teased us with yet another World Premiere Continuous card to make a particular theme even more threatening. Seal From the Ashes does not tribute your Hieratics for free in the same fashion that Dark Smog gives you "free" discards. Instead, Seal From the Ashes provides a means of getting bad draws out of your deck and deterring your opponent from stopping you. Most of all, it supports the other 3 Hieratic Normal chasers, Seal of the Dragon King, Seal of the Sun Dragon, and Sutekh. The first effect of Seal From the Ashes supports these cards by putting the Seal monsters in the graveyard. This prevents you from drawing them when you don't want to. In the grave, they are targets for not only Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon, but also Sutekh and any other Normals tech you would like to add to your deck. After that, it will allow you to return banished Dragons to the grave. This may not seem useful outside of Sutekh, but a lot of people have been trying Chain Disappearance against Hieratics, as it destroys most of their special summons. Finally, if your opponent decides to destroy Seal From, you get a Hieratic monster from the grave to the field for free. Your opponent doesn't even have to destroy it themselves! You can use Sun Dragon to destroy your own Seal, and even target the same Hieratic you tributed for Seal's special summon. The plays are too good to pass up.
GAOV-EN-088 Xyz Wrath
Continuous Trap
Remember the first few packs of the 5d's Universe? We can even look at all of the 5d's starter decks. Konami gave us as much generic Synchro material as possible. We had cards that reborned Synchros for free, cards that boosted their attack and cards that destroyed your opponent's cards. Did we use any of them in competitive duels? Not really. So what does Xyz Wrath do that is so different than all of the old Synchro support? To be hones, not much. As the game goes on, we are being presented with more and more easily summoned level 5+ monsters that AREN'T synchro monsters. In your Wind-up, Inzek, Geargia, Verz, etc deck, this technically makes Xyz Wrath a live card. At least in the extra deck; you can theoretically side Xyz wrath against any boss drop deck like Lightsworn Dragons, Hieratics, Six Sams, Frog Lancer, and many more decks. Of course, you could also side hundreds of other excellent choices that will stun those decks perhaps more effeciently that Xyz Wrath. The Xyz requirement isn't too difficult in this Meta. They even go so far as to put one of the easiest Xyz to summon, Evolzar Soldda in the art. We'll see if anyone actually tries to use this card, but don't expect it to skyrocket in price if someone does.

GAOV didn't present me with a lot of cards I had to have. Cardcar D, Tri&Tri, Photon Bounzer, and a few others make up the very best cards in the deck. Surprise~ They're secret rare! If you can get these cards, then please do so. You may not use them now, but many of the cards in GAOV are so good outside of this format that they can easily generate a mint's worth in the correct meta.