Guys, there’s no huge news (other than the official reveal of the Eye of Timaeus and DMG the Dragon Knight but you can go look that up yourself) but I wanted to share something with you. Something that reminds me why I still come back to this game even with all the ridiculousness.
You see, this wasn’t me but a friend playing Bujins. He’s staring down Beelze and Trooper and the opponent on 8000 LP. Beelze is a NIGHTMARE for Bujins to deal with normally because short of Number 101, they have no conventional ways to deal with him ESPECIALLY if playing the Kaiser/Decree variant.
However what my friend did was a stroke of brilliance. See he had Honest in his hand and Bujintei Susano’o can attack all monsters on the opponent’s side of the field once each. Now, normally Honest vs big monster is all you need, but doing it simply against Beelze can be a death sentence. But what he did is, he crashed it into Beelze first and played Honest and Crane to become a nightmare of a 7800 beater. Now Beelze lives and actually becomes a 7800 beater himself but it doesn’t matter. See, while Crane wears off after that battle, Honest does not so it keeps the 3K boost. So he rams the 5400 Susano’o into Trooper for game.
It’s these little strokes of creativity that I enjoy about the game. When I said it was the TCG version of Marvel I meant it. Where you can do all these neat little tricks with cards against what you’d usually use them for. Like the game doesn’t feel as locked in or enclosed as others do.
As a bujin player, I can say that play was fucking genius. Usually if I’m faced against a beezle, I pray I can get ARK out or just draw into compuls. Susano is a nightmare card itself but the only outs we have to big monsters is ark, crane, or dark hole. Good shit to your friend.
Dragons of Legend has officially been released, it’s a good set.
As for the title, if you don’t already know…
Soul Charge
Normal Spell
Target any number of monsters in your Graveyard; Special Summon them, and if you do, you lose 1000 Life Points for each monster Special Summoned by this effect. You cannot conduct your Battle Phase the turn you activate this card. You can only activate 1 “Soul Charge” per turn.
So…broke card is broken. I mean, what was the point of limiting Rekindling again? I actually just cut through like 30 pages of pojo, and there was not one happy face to be found. I’m not really sure what to think myself. On one hand, it quite honestly breaks the game (not that Pendulum Summoning didn’t already put it halfway there). Generic mass summoning from the graveyard? *Sigh me up! But on the other (ant-sized) hand you can’t attack that turn, so unless you employ a burn or alternate win strategy, the opponent does have a (very slim) chance to turn things around. But overall, this just has to be the most broken card released this year. What I’m curious about is, what archetypes will benefit most from Soul Charge? And how long do you guys think it will stay unlimited?
Pendulum Summoning at the moment doesn’t break the game. It just seems like it when opponents trying their best to abuse it themselves don’t run any semblance of backrow or S/T hate. Now, with the way Konami does things, I give it two more OCG sets before it does get snapped but as of now it’s nothing too crazy.
Now onto Soul Charge…yeah, it’s busted. What will benefit the most? Dragon Rulers, Zombies…basically a lot of decks that like mass SS from the grave, but even ones that don’t get mileage out of it. You don’t have to spam from the grave, you can just grab back a couple of monsters. Nothing like a 1 card Excite Knight on call. Or a 2 card Shooting Quasar Dragon. TWO FUCKING CARD QUASAR.
How long will it stay Unlimited? One format, this one. That’s it. It’ll get Limited or Banned by July. At least it’s not a short print in DoL so it’s not like it’ll be terribly hard to get a hold of.
Shadolls are just a pain in the ass and another step in the game’s shift to Floaters for Everyone. It’s starting to become very risky to destroy anything, and god forbid if any Supply Units are out.
Like…the usual reason is to sell a set. You know, make busted card, make it Secret or Short Print, enjoy the profits. But Dragons of Legend was already going to sell well, and Soul Charge is really easy to pull from a box. Like, most people pull 4-5 from a box so even if it was a busted card in a bad set to sell it…the set wouldn’t sell that well because you’d only need one box. Soul Charge is only a $10 card right now because it’s pretty easy to pull.
So in other words…no clue. If there’s an upside to it though, it’s that making Rulers Tier 1 again might finally cause Konami to do the right thing and ban them to hell so the ridiculous amount of cards they hit to keep Rulers around can come back.
