This may probably be my very first post which is related with card review (or card of the week). Well, this old card seems to be "suspicious" because of his appearance in the upcoming series of Gold Series 4. Then, why do I discuss this long-banned card? Well, there is something clings on my mind, but please do take it as a grain of salt since I am not responsible in arranging the banlist.
In my opinion, this guy may probably be unbanned (back to limited again). This is just a mere speculation and my argument is still debatable. The following will explain why I think that this guy will be probably unbanned:
1. Nowadays, most decks are fast-paced theme. Most meta decks are able to perform multiple special summon or even synchro summon within a single turn and unleash an OTK blow (leaving the player's field with multiple monsters with gigantic attack). Thus, this card will be a kind of "punishment" for those who cannot finish their OTK within a single turn.
2. Chaos Sorcerer is now out of the list. Why should this card still be banned? In fact, this guy is a "giant" version of Chaos Sorcerer (with higher attack, defense, and even level). His drawback which appears as a result of banishing a monster is pretty painful since your opponent will be able to take him down in the following turn.
Well, we may think that this guy has another effect which can attack once again if he can destroy your opponent's monster. Though the second effect is pretty powerful, I think it is not as broken as previous meta. Remember, we, right now, have a fast-paced meta which allows players to swarm their field with tons of monsters within a single turn. Thus, again, this card will be a kind of "punishment" for players who spend their resources without attempting an OTK blow.
3. Cards like Solemn Warning, Solemn Judgment, Royal Oppression, Bottomless Traphole, and also Torrential Tribute are now played in each deck. These cards are pretty good in order to secure players field from being rampaged by this guy. In addition, cards like Dimensional Prison, Mirror Force, Dark Hole, and even Synchro Monsters like Trishula, Brionac, and Black Rose Dragon are enough to remove him from the field if players who summon him cannot end the duel. In brief, this card is less threatening than before since most decks run a lot of blocker cards.
4. Deck theme. We may think that this card is a "horrible" warrior for Junk/Debris hybrid theme deck. Yes, it is true because this card can be an irritating addition for the terrifying Junk Debris theme deck. However, I find that this card is not so compatible in some meta decks such as Gladiator Beast, Machine theme (Gadget, Machina, or Karakuri), and also X-Saber. So, this argument is still disputable.
5. It is now reprinted in GLD-4. This may probably be a sign that this card will be unbanned. However, this argument is also still disputable as well since in OCG card sets, this guy is still hard to be obtained. Despite of that, I have a strong feeling that this guy will not be a waste gold rare card in GLD-4. Just like GLD-3 series, I found there is no waste gold rare cards. All of those reprinted cards are nice and good to overcome the "overpriced" cards.
Now, I will talk about GLD-4 series briefly. So far, the revealed cards are nice and good, especially the gold rare cards since we can obtain some "overpriced" cards such as Doomcaliber Knight, Toon Table of Contents, and also Tytanial, Princess of Camellias. In addition, Konami also allows players to foil their decks by upgrading rarities by cards such as Morphing Jar, Royal Oppression, and also Grave Keeper's Spy. However, for common cards, it's a bit disappointing for a moment though it is just a little portion of the whole common cards in this series. I can only hope that the last six gold cards will be "overpriced" cards again, and the common cards will be highly sought cards.
Well, that's all for today since my college is in semester break right now, I may probably be able to update this blog weekly.
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