Another monster. And another card that's one of the few decently good cards in this deck.
Snipe Hunter
Effect Monster
Dark / Fiend / level 4
1500ATK / 600DEF
Discard 1 card from your hand. Select 1 card on the field and roll a six-sided die. If the results is not a 1 or 6, destroy the selected card.
Okay, the stats. It's a level 4 that's 1500ATK plus Dark. Gee, that means it's REALLY easy to search. You got Tomato and Sangan to work with. And it's a Fiend so you can use Dark Necrofear on it. Pretty good start. It's DEF is only 600, but that's not too important in this case.
Now it's effect. You discard a card to attempt to destroy a card on the field. ANY card BTW, it can be on the foe's field, or even your OWN field. (depends on the combo your trying to pull of course) And the best part is, there's no restrictions of how many times you activate it. Of course, there IS a restriction that you have to discard by a COST. (No Goldd discard please.) So you can activate as much as cards in your hand. And thank GOD that Night Assailant is 1x per deck and Sinister Serpent is banned. (Think of this with 2x Night Assailant per deck... it's garentees 100% of the foe's field wipe no matter what...) But still, with 1x Treeborn Frog and 1x Night Assailant to work with, you got some decent discards to trash to activate this effect.
Now I know what your saying, it's NOT garenteed. But still 66% is very high rate. And if you got nothing but dead cards in your hand. (Cards that's totally useless at the moment) well, you pretty much turned all of them into potental MST/Smashing/NoC cards. That's GOOD even IF you fail. Seriously, I've seen this card being played, and getting a 1 or a 6 is pretty darn rare. It's kinda sad to see my foe discard 3 cards to wipe out all of my field in one turn. It's pretty darn scary. I consider this card the weaker stat version of Blowback. But if there's a positive part of it, Blowback effect is only 1 shot each of your main phase, but Snipe Hunter can activate as much as you want as long as you got the discards for it. And seriously, there are some cards that's just meant to just hit the graveyard that's not Dark World. (Oh say D Hero Dasher for example.) And while Blowback is a 1 tribute monster, this is no tribute monster that can be searched by Sangan and Tomato. That's alot of goodness. Seriously, even IF it's a chance by discard, your foe WILL try to get rid of this as quickly as possible if you have alot of cards in your hand.
Just imagine this. The foe summons Snipe Hunter. Discards till it wipes the foe field clean with no cards on the foe's field. Finally, it discards another card to destroy itself of Snipe Hunter... now they play Last Will for Cyber-Stein... Oh yeah....
CC material.... probably not. But this deck can fit into ALOT of decks. Fiend Decks, decks that have alot of discards needed, etc. etc. etc. (And it was probably the best card to use when you went to pre-release sealed-pack tournament using only CDIP cards.) We'll probably won't see play in SJC unless it's a deck that can use it's full potential. (i.e. not Monarch/Hydrogeddon/etc. deck) But we might see some rogue darkhorse decks that will use this even if the dice roll may fail on them.
Final thing. If you summon Snipe Hunter during your Main Phase, the first time you discard to activate it's effect, you CAN call priority. (Just in case your foe Ring of Destruction/BTH/Torrential immediately) But on your 2nd or 3rd discard, there is no priority.
I give this card a
7.5 out of 10
Fun card. And a pretty cool version of "weaker Blowback".
Snipe Hunter
Effect Monster
Dark / Fiend / level 4
1500ATK / 600DEF
Discard 1 card from your hand. Select 1 card on the field and roll a six-sided die. If the results is not a 1 or 6, destroy the selected card.
Okay, the stats. It's a level 4 that's 1500ATK plus Dark. Gee, that means it's REALLY easy to search. You got Tomato and Sangan to work with. And it's a Fiend so you can use Dark Necrofear on it. Pretty good start. It's DEF is only 600, but that's not too important in this case.
Now it's effect. You discard a card to attempt to destroy a card on the field. ANY card BTW, it can be on the foe's field, or even your OWN field. (depends on the combo your trying to pull of course) And the best part is, there's no restrictions of how many times you activate it. Of course, there IS a restriction that you have to discard by a COST. (No Goldd discard please.) So you can activate as much as cards in your hand. And thank GOD that Night Assailant is 1x per deck and Sinister Serpent is banned. (Think of this with 2x Night Assailant per deck... it's garentees 100% of the foe's field wipe no matter what...) But still, with 1x Treeborn Frog and 1x Night Assailant to work with, you got some decent discards to trash to activate this effect.
Now I know what your saying, it's NOT garenteed. But still 66% is very high rate. And if you got nothing but dead cards in your hand. (Cards that's totally useless at the moment) well, you pretty much turned all of them into potental MST/Smashing/NoC cards. That's GOOD even IF you fail. Seriously, I've seen this card being played, and getting a 1 or a 6 is pretty darn rare. It's kinda sad to see my foe discard 3 cards to wipe out all of my field in one turn. It's pretty darn scary. I consider this card the weaker stat version of Blowback. But if there's a positive part of it, Blowback effect is only 1 shot each of your main phase, but Snipe Hunter can activate as much as you want as long as you got the discards for it. And seriously, there are some cards that's just meant to just hit the graveyard that's not Dark World. (Oh say D Hero Dasher for example.) And while Blowback is a 1 tribute monster, this is no tribute monster that can be searched by Sangan and Tomato. That's alot of goodness. Seriously, even IF it's a chance by discard, your foe WILL try to get rid of this as quickly as possible if you have alot of cards in your hand.
Just imagine this. The foe summons Snipe Hunter. Discards till it wipes the foe field clean with no cards on the foe's field. Finally, it discards another card to destroy itself of Snipe Hunter... now they play Last Will for Cyber-Stein... Oh yeah....
CC material.... probably not. But this deck can fit into ALOT of decks. Fiend Decks, decks that have alot of discards needed, etc. etc. etc. (And it was probably the best card to use when you went to pre-release sealed-pack tournament using only CDIP cards.) We'll probably won't see play in SJC unless it's a deck that can use it's full potential. (i.e. not Monarch/Hydrogeddon/etc. deck) But we might see some rogue darkhorse decks that will use this even if the dice roll may fail on them.
Final thing. If you summon Snipe Hunter during your Main Phase, the first time you discard to activate it's effect, you CAN call priority. (Just in case your foe Ring of Destruction/BTH/Torrential immediately) But on your 2nd or 3rd discard, there is no priority.
I give this card a
7.5 out of 10
Fun card. And a pretty cool version of "weaker Blowback".
