[31 Days to Asia Championship 2012] Counter(s) on monsters

It's 31 Days away from Asia Championship 2012.
Placing counter(s) on monsters. Let's talk about the worst you can get for not placing counter(s) on monsters.

Breaker the Magical Warrior
When this card is Normal Summoned, place 1 Spell Counter on it (max. 1).

I personally think that it is better to place the counter to it as you might forget to use it's effect or you might just die for not putting the counter. Losing it's 300 atk for not putting the counter might cost you the match.

Life point 900, Opponent attack you with Machina Fortress. You let it go through and die by taking 900 damage when you haven't use breaker effect.

Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En
Once per turn, when your opponent activates a Spell/Trap card, you can negate its activation and destroy it.

This monster is a Once Per Turn effect and got no placing counter effect but it would be better if you place the counter to remind you that you have not use Shi En's effect. Opponent might just cheat you when you ask "I use Shi En's effect already?". Just like a lot of the duelist ask "I normal summon already?" when they do a lot of combo with special summon and forget whether he/she normal summon a monster that turn.

Cards like "Shrink", "Forbidden Lance", "Forbidden Chalice" and etc..

You might also want to place counter on monster(s) affected by card with similar effect listed above to avoid a misplay in using the affected monster to attack a monster with higher attack or using a monster to attack the affected monster which got a higher attack and lose to match from there.




The counter I used is actually a normal counter, its not Mentos. lol.