Asura Priest
(LIGHT/Fairy/Effect/Spirit/4/1700/1200)
This card cannot be Special Summoned. This card returns to the owner's hand during the End Phase of the turn that this card is Normal Summoned, Flip Summoned or flipped face-up. This card can attack all monsters on your opponent's side of the field. You cannot attack your opponent directly if you attack any monsters first.
Today's Card of the Day is Asura Priest, a card that was used quite a bit during Nationals this year.
Asura Priest is mainly a side-deck "tech" card. His effect is very useful, being able to wipe out all of your opponent's monsters followed by attacks from your other monsters. His primary use was probably a Scapegoat counter at Nationals, however.
Being a Spirit monster can hurt him a lot. If you top deck him, unless you set him face-down, he's going right back to your hand, letting your opponent attack you with their monsters. If you equip him with a card like Big Bang Shot or Axe of Despair to let him do some hurting to your opponent, you're losing that card as soon as your turn is over. My favorite thing to do with him, though, is to equip him with Megamorph and destroy the majority of my opponent's monsters, but that's a very tricky combo to pull correctly without hurting yourself.
His ATK of 1700 is pretty good, though, being able to destroy a lot of the commonly used monsters like D. D. Warrior Lady, Tribe-Infecting Virus, unpowered Breaker the Magical Warrior or Blade Knight, and even D. D. Assailant if you're feeling riské. It's even LIGHT, which is Chaos-Food as always. Still, I'd keep this guy side-decked most of the time. Stall decks will stop him most of the time since he's a 4-star, and he's vulnerable to everything that monsters are usually vulnerable to, except on your opponent's turn (most of the time).
Rating:
Advanced Side-Deck: 3.5/5. Not too often will you be main-decking this.
Traditional in general: 2/5. A card like Asura Priest will be eaten alive in Traditional.
Art: 3/5. I couldn't tell that he was male for a while. Still, pretty cool art.
