CDIP-EN017: Vanity's Fiend
EDIT: OH my god. I posted this on a wrong section. Mods, PLEASE move this to the correct section which is Card Review and Tips section. I'm very sorry I did this. Thank you.
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Another review my me. And ah, we review the 1 card that IMO is actually VERY GOOD in this pack. (Other then Instant Fusion before the banning of TER. Japan just LOVED their 1x Instant Fusion with 1x TER in their Fusion decks for a bit of awhile. The only reason they didn't ran more was cause there wasn't more TERs in their fusion decks.)
Today, we get a Tribute monster that pretty much says NO to monsters. Like how Jinzo says NO to traps.
CDIP-EN017
Vanity's Fiend
Dark / Fiend / 6 /
2400ATK / 1200ATK
This card cannot be special summon. When this card is face-up on the field, monster(s) cannot be special summon.
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Wow. For once, we got a VERY SHORT TEXT for a monster effect. And for something short, we got a good effect.
At first glance, you might go, "WTF, you cannot special summon this thing that's a level 6. Why the heck you run it?" Then again, why people run Monarchs if they have to be tribute summoned to kick in their effect. Sometimes, an effect can just destroy. And for my good sakes thank GOD this card cannot be special summoned. If it WAS, I would have to rate this card another 11/10. (Imagine a CotH/Premature/MonsterGate/Dasher/RftDD/etc. effect) And the only card I ever rated a card 11/10 so far was a Treeborn Frog. And when I rate a card 11/10, it means "BROKEN, PLEASE RESTRICT OR BAN THIS CARD?!" Lucky, the lack of special summon puts this card in the "balanced" level.
Now, the effect, why this card is out, NO SPECIAL SUMMONS. Now you might go, "Meh, just a special summon". But seriously, this YGO game and dueling have ALOT to do with all about summons, and ALOT of summons in one turn to go for aggro win. (Unless your playing alternative win strat, like burn/stall/mill/etc wheter s/t are more important then monsters) Especially now with Chaos being banned. (This card would have KICKED ASS against Chaos) If Jinzo put all the negative on Traps that made it 1 per deck, this puts all no to special summons, and lets actually LIST the stuff this card cancels out then to see just how evil and brutal this is.
Scapegoat
Cyber Dragon
Cyber-Stein
Treeborn Frog
All Recruiters (Tomato, Angel, Rat, Turtles, Pyramid, etc.)|
Apprentice Magician
Nimble Momonga
Giant Germ
Hydrogeddon
Last Will
Metamorphosis
Future Fusion/Dragon's Mirror/Overload Fusion/Power Bond/Poly/etc.
All Ritual Spell cards.
Premature Burial
Call of the Haunted
GK Spy
Goldd/Sillva
D Hero Dasher
etc. etc. etc.
Now, how many of then are being run on CC top tier Meta level of dueling right now, almost all of them in one form or another. Basically, after you build up your army of Monsters, summon this and pretty much say. "NO MORE MONSTER FOR YOU". It's like Last Warrior from Another Planet in a non-fusion Tribute Monster form. (Although not as deadly)
You might go, "well, Jowgen the Spiritualist can do the same thing, and it's a level 3" Well my friend, that weenie is just 200ATK. And with only 1300DEF, it's NOT gunna live long at ALL. This thing is 2400ATK. That's Monarch/Jinzo level. That means it WILL live for awhile and thus they need to do some positional change/steal or use some form of monster removal. Your foe will NOT gunna be taking this thing out by battle while in ATK position 95% of the time. (Only a Monarch/Jinzo suicide or Rush Recklessly with Cyber Dragon kicked in can help)
But this card isn't a stable or "God tier". The main prob, it cannot be special summoned. And it also doesn't give you immediate 1 vs 1 or 2 vs 1 advantage trade-off like the Monarch do. It's more like a Jinzo, where it's not immediate advantage, but on-field advantage where your foe will cower in fear in over long period of time. I mean, how many times did you try to attack directly to be shut down by scapegoat. Or like attack a face-down to get recruiters or some other form that just replaces by another monster. Or that stupid Treeborn Frog that makes it a 1 turn wall each blasted turn that you cannot go through. Or say they Cyber+Monarch tribute to totally change the shift of the control of the game. That's all GONE after this card being summoned.
But like I said, it's not an immediate advantage. And it's a TOTAL waste of a tribute if you tribute summon this mosnter just to get Saku/Mirror/Torrential/BTH/etc. So what kinda decks that can take advantage. IMO, swarms deck. (e.g. Hydrogeddon) Swarm decks got PLENTY of tribute fodders just lying around here and there to get tributed. So if you got 3x Hydrogeddon on the field, might as well tribute one for this one. But IMO, I think before you summon him, make sure you blast the s/t off the foe's field to make sure he lives. This card is monster advantage card, so you don't have to worry about a face-down monster unless it's a Sangan or Spirit Reaper. But you DO have to worry about s/t destroying this. So before you summon this, have a Heavy ready or CotH Jinzo IMO. Yeah, I mean, have 3x Hydrogeddon or some good field presence, bring Jinzo, tribute one fodder for Vanity Devil, and yeah, watch your foe cower in fear. The only monster they CAN play are just Exiled Force or DD family against Vanity Devil to counteract it. (And Newdoria or Night or Old Vindictive-like)
The only thing I fear is that it's DEF is just 1200. That might not matter, but it does against a Hydrogeddon decks. I mean, if they Enemy Controller it and then smack that, they can start their chain again. So yeah, protect his monster. (It won't matter much against Dark World since they usually don't run Enemy Controllers or the like) And like Jinzo, also fear Brain Control or Book of Moon as well.
Lastly, it's a 2400ATK Dark monster, i.e. it can be DDV. If they destroy it or try to steal it, might as well DDV it. That'll seal the deal of destroying more monsters from hand and drawing. (Yeah, all those "dead monsters" in their hand now all die.)
Staple, no. CC, likely so. Very good "tech card" that we might see here or there in main. And IMO, a very good sidedeck. (Hate Dark World, splash this along with Banisher and BAM, they fear you.) I expect this to come out in regionals and someform of Shounen Jump Championship like around December as tech.
In the end, I give this card
9.5 out of 10
I can't give it 10/10. That's a Cyber Dragon level. (Which is pretty much considered staple in multiples in most tournament level decks these days.) Really, my ranking of this is the highest I'll give that's below the "Staple" level. My rating of 10/10 is a "staple" or Cookie-cutter level card. (Monarch, Cyber Dragon, etc.) 11/10 is a broken card that needs to be 2 or 1 per deck. (Spirit Reaper, Treeborn Frog, Cyber-Stein.) 12/10 is either 1 per deck but usually a ban. (Heavy Storm, Mirror Force, etc.) and 13/10 is PURE BAN THIS THING 100%. (Raigeki, etc.)
EDIT: OH my god. I posted this on a wrong section. Mods, PLEASE move this to the correct section which is Card Review and Tips section. I'm very sorry I did this. Thank you.
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Another review my me. And ah, we review the 1 card that IMO is actually VERY GOOD in this pack. (Other then Instant Fusion before the banning of TER. Japan just LOVED their 1x Instant Fusion with 1x TER in their Fusion decks for a bit of awhile. The only reason they didn't ran more was cause there wasn't more TERs in their fusion decks.)
Today, we get a Tribute monster that pretty much says NO to monsters. Like how Jinzo says NO to traps.
CDIP-EN017
Vanity's Fiend
Dark / Fiend / 6 /
2400ATK / 1200ATK
This card cannot be special summon. When this card is face-up on the field, monster(s) cannot be special summon.
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Wow. For once, we got a VERY SHORT TEXT for a monster effect. And for something short, we got a good effect.
At first glance, you might go, "WTF, you cannot special summon this thing that's a level 6. Why the heck you run it?" Then again, why people run Monarchs if they have to be tribute summoned to kick in their effect. Sometimes, an effect can just destroy. And for my good sakes thank GOD this card cannot be special summoned. If it WAS, I would have to rate this card another 11/10. (Imagine a CotH/Premature/MonsterGate/Dasher/RftDD/etc. effect) And the only card I ever rated a card 11/10 so far was a Treeborn Frog. And when I rate a card 11/10, it means "BROKEN, PLEASE RESTRICT OR BAN THIS CARD?!" Lucky, the lack of special summon puts this card in the "balanced" level.
Now, the effect, why this card is out, NO SPECIAL SUMMONS. Now you might go, "Meh, just a special summon". But seriously, this YGO game and dueling have ALOT to do with all about summons, and ALOT of summons in one turn to go for aggro win. (Unless your playing alternative win strat, like burn/stall/mill/etc wheter s/t are more important then monsters) Especially now with Chaos being banned. (This card would have KICKED ASS against Chaos) If Jinzo put all the negative on Traps that made it 1 per deck, this puts all no to special summons, and lets actually LIST the stuff this card cancels out then to see just how evil and brutal this is.
Scapegoat
Cyber Dragon
Cyber-Stein
Treeborn Frog
All Recruiters (Tomato, Angel, Rat, Turtles, Pyramid, etc.)|
Apprentice Magician
Nimble Momonga
Giant Germ
Hydrogeddon
Last Will
Metamorphosis
Future Fusion/Dragon's Mirror/Overload Fusion/Power Bond/Poly/etc.
All Ritual Spell cards.
Premature Burial
Call of the Haunted
GK Spy
Goldd/Sillva
D Hero Dasher
etc. etc. etc.
Now, how many of then are being run on CC top tier Meta level of dueling right now, almost all of them in one form or another. Basically, after you build up your army of Monsters, summon this and pretty much say. "NO MORE MONSTER FOR YOU". It's like Last Warrior from Another Planet in a non-fusion Tribute Monster form. (Although not as deadly)
You might go, "well, Jowgen the Spiritualist can do the same thing, and it's a level 3" Well my friend, that weenie is just 200ATK. And with only 1300DEF, it's NOT gunna live long at ALL. This thing is 2400ATK. That's Monarch/Jinzo level. That means it WILL live for awhile and thus they need to do some positional change/steal or use some form of monster removal. Your foe will NOT gunna be taking this thing out by battle while in ATK position 95% of the time. (Only a Monarch/Jinzo suicide or Rush Recklessly with Cyber Dragon kicked in can help)
But this card isn't a stable or "God tier". The main prob, it cannot be special summoned. And it also doesn't give you immediate 1 vs 1 or 2 vs 1 advantage trade-off like the Monarch do. It's more like a Jinzo, where it's not immediate advantage, but on-field advantage where your foe will cower in fear in over long period of time. I mean, how many times did you try to attack directly to be shut down by scapegoat. Or like attack a face-down to get recruiters or some other form that just replaces by another monster. Or that stupid Treeborn Frog that makes it a 1 turn wall each blasted turn that you cannot go through. Or say they Cyber+Monarch tribute to totally change the shift of the control of the game. That's all GONE after this card being summoned.
But like I said, it's not an immediate advantage. And it's a TOTAL waste of a tribute if you tribute summon this mosnter just to get Saku/Mirror/Torrential/BTH/etc. So what kinda decks that can take advantage. IMO, swarms deck. (e.g. Hydrogeddon) Swarm decks got PLENTY of tribute fodders just lying around here and there to get tributed. So if you got 3x Hydrogeddon on the field, might as well tribute one for this one. But IMO, I think before you summon him, make sure you blast the s/t off the foe's field to make sure he lives. This card is monster advantage card, so you don't have to worry about a face-down monster unless it's a Sangan or Spirit Reaper. But you DO have to worry about s/t destroying this. So before you summon this, have a Heavy ready or CotH Jinzo IMO. Yeah, I mean, have 3x Hydrogeddon or some good field presence, bring Jinzo, tribute one fodder for Vanity Devil, and yeah, watch your foe cower in fear. The only monster they CAN play are just Exiled Force or DD family against Vanity Devil to counteract it. (And Newdoria or Night or Old Vindictive-like)
The only thing I fear is that it's DEF is just 1200. That might not matter, but it does against a Hydrogeddon decks. I mean, if they Enemy Controller it and then smack that, they can start their chain again. So yeah, protect his monster. (It won't matter much against Dark World since they usually don't run Enemy Controllers or the like) And like Jinzo, also fear Brain Control or Book of Moon as well.
Lastly, it's a 2400ATK Dark monster, i.e. it can be DDV. If they destroy it or try to steal it, might as well DDV it. That'll seal the deal of destroying more monsters from hand and drawing. (Yeah, all those "dead monsters" in their hand now all die.)
Staple, no. CC, likely so. Very good "tech card" that we might see here or there in main. And IMO, a very good sidedeck. (Hate Dark World, splash this along with Banisher and BAM, they fear you.) I expect this to come out in regionals and someform of Shounen Jump Championship like around December as tech.
In the end, I give this card
9.5 out of 10
I can't give it 10/10. That's a Cyber Dragon level. (Which is pretty much considered staple in multiples in most tournament level decks these days.) Really, my ranking of this is the highest I'll give that's below the "Staple" level. My rating of 10/10 is a "staple" or Cookie-cutter level card. (Monarch, Cyber Dragon, etc.) 11/10 is a broken card that needs to be 2 or 1 per deck. (Spirit Reaper, Treeborn Frog, Cyber-Stein.) 12/10 is either 1 per deck but usually a ban. (Heavy Storm, Mirror Force, etc.) and 13/10 is PURE BAN THIS THING 100%. (Raigeki, etc.)