Dice Addiction • October 7, 2026
Joey Wheeler is back, and this time he brought more than a lucky coin. Beyond the Brave arrived at Dice Addiction on October 7 for its Official Tournament Store launch. General release and tournament legality follow October 9. Japan has been playing the set since July 18, giving us real results, interesting deck choices, and a few tricks to try with the English cards.
Beyond the Brave boxes are $79.99 and individual packs are $3.99 at Dice Addiction. Any three $3.99 booster packs for $10, with mix-and-match eligible packs across all games in store.
The Great Gallant Bandit: two monsters for your trouble
The first name to remember is The Great Gallant Bandit. In Osaka’s 64-player Cho Hasu Cup on September 22, Duston won with Sacred Beasts and an 8–1 record. Gachi Matome’s October 2 report specifically highlights Bandit in the Main Deck alongside draw cards. The event used October’s OCG restrictions early.
What it does: This Level 10 WIND Warrior has 2500 ATK and 2000 DEF. With no monsters of your own, its face-up Tribute Summon can use two monsters from your hand, your opponent’s field, or both. While face-up as a Normal Summoned/Set monster, its first Quick Effect can stop an opposing effect activated in the hand, Graveyard, or banishment and destroy that card. Its other Quick Effect reveals your whole hand during the Battle Phase to move opposing monsters into Defense Position. Both Quick Effects are usable once per turn. Full official wording.
Try this: Going second with an empty field, Tribute two opposing monsters for Bandit before beginning your engine. The Tribute Summon does not start a Chain, so those two monsters cannot respond with their on-field Quick Effects once you begin it. The Summon itself can still be negated. Then, if Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring tries to stop your next search, Bandit can negate its effect. You have turned the opponent’s board into removal and protection for your follow-up. Budget your Normal Summon for Bandit; Link Monsters also ignore its Defense Position trick.
Hey, Space Trunade!: clear a board, save a card
Road of the King’s August 5 OCG report identified Bandit and Hey, Space Trunade! as reasons players were adopting more board breakers. Trunade has an immediate selling point for decks that need their Normal Summon: it leaves that Summon available.
What it does: Resolve this Normal Spell by returning one or two field cards to their owners’ hands. Each player then chooses cards from their own hand equal to the number actually returned to that hand, and puts them on the bottom of their Deck in any order. The choice need not be the cards just returned. You get one activation per turn. It neither targets nor destroys, and it works on monsters, Spells, and Traps. Full official wording.
Try this: Your Fire Formation – Tenki has already searched Swiftwind Panther Warrior. Use Trunade to return Tenki and an opposing field card. Put a less useful card from your hand on the bottom of your Deck, keeping Tenki for another search on your next turn. Tenki’s once-per-turn activation limit prevents replaying it that same turn. This gives Trunade a second job when your opponent has only one card you need to remove.
The hand choice cuts both ways: your opponent can keep their returned card too. The appeal is flexible removal now, with the option to improve your own hand along the way.
Dark Time Wizard: Joey’s opening play has names now
What it does: Dark Time Wizard is a Quick-Play Spell with two choices, each usable once per turn. One searches another card whose text mentions it, then recovers a Dark Time Wizard from your Graveyard in the End Phase. The other lets you call a coin toss. A correct call destroys as many opposing monsters as possible and burns for half the destroyed monsters’ combined original ATK; a wrong call destroys your own monsters. Full official wording.
Start here: With Dark Time Wizard, another monster, and a spare card in hand, search Swiftwind Panther Warrior and Normal Summon it. During the Main Phase, Panther can Tribute that other monster to bring Alligator’s Dragon Knight out of your Deck. Alligator’s Summon effect can fetch Sleepy Scapegoats and Foolish Graverobber, then you discard one card. Discard the spare card to keep both new cards. Set Graverobber for the next turn, while Dark Time Wizard’s End Phase recovery gives you another decision later.
A second copy of Dark Time Wizard lets you take the coin-toss option during the same Main Phase; the first copy only comes back in the End Phase. Even the bad flip has a follow-up. If it actually destroys one of your monsters, then, during that same turn at an open point in your Main Phase, you can Tribute an opposing face-up monster to Special Summon Red-Eyes Black Dragon Exceed from the Extra Deck. That is a 3400 ATK monster that can revive Alligator or Panther. Their used once-per-turn effects do not reset, but you regain a body after the wipe. Joey’s luck still matters; knowing the follow-up matters too.
Another Japanese winner, another English starting point
The 43-player 23rd Mogi Cup on August 2 was won by Duston’s Ars Magna Elfnote deck, finishing 7–1. One English card to investigate is Theorealized Medius. When a monster is banished face-up outside the Damage Step, Medius can either search an Ars Magna card or banish itself to summon a Diactorus monster from your Extra Deck. Artmage Diactorus is the payoff highlighted in that report: it can negate an opposing on-field activation when you control at least three different Monster Types.
Try this with Medius and a Spellcaster already on your field, plus Ars Magna the Finite and the Infinite in hand. Banish Finite for its search; after that Chain resolves, Medius can banish itself to summon Diactorus. Finite can then summon itself back, giving you Fairy, Warrior, and Spellcaster for Diactorus’s negate. Medius’s search and Summon choices share one once-per-turn effect, so choose one that turn.
More familiar faces, more ways to build
Destiny HERO players get Destiny HERO - Dreadnought Master, whose search adds two cards tied to the theme. Atlantis, City of the Sea Dragon lowers monster Levels in both players’ hands and fields by one while a monster that mentions it is on the field, opening a different deck-building exercise for WATER fans. Ashtra pairs reusable face-down cards with Traps that become Tuners. The 100-card English set also includes selected extended-art and Starlight versions, giving collectors something beyond the tournament standouts to look for.
Launch-week singles and the local shelf
On October 7, CoreTCG’s English presale listings price The Great Gallant Bandit (standard Secret Rare) at $99.99, Hey, Space Trunade! (Secret Rare) at $54.99, and Theorealized Medius at $34.99. Gamers Choice lists Ultra Rare Dark Time Wizard at $12.99 and regular-art Ultra Rare Red-Eyes Black Dragon Exceed at $9.99. Those asking prices put the two splashable board breakers well above Joey’s central pieces.
For the Japanese comparison, Otachu’s October 6 buylist offered ¥7,000 for The Great Gallant Bandit (Secret Rare) and ¥1,600 for Hey, Space Trunade! (Secret Rare).
Keep in mind that these are OCG results; different card availability and restrictions can change how the ideas play out in the TCG.
Card images: Japanese OCG scans from Cardrush; English Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring, Fire Formation – Tenki and Artmage Diactorus from TCGplayer; English standard-print card images from TCGplayer and verified retailer listings on eBay; English extended-art scans of The Great Gallant Bandit and Red-Eyes Black Dragon Exceed from Tactical TCG. Card-effect links lead to Konami’s official English wording.
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