Now I'll review some cards that I DO like that's coming out. (Unlike Card Trooper) These cards are Destiny Hero support. But Destiny Hero, IMO, are way more powerful the E-Heros ever be. And with these supports, now they can be at a competitive level. (Seriously, these supports are WAY better then any of the E-Hero support cards given in Jaden packs)
Let's start with the fresh new Destiny Hero Monster that in Aster Pack.
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Destiny Hero - Malicious
Dark/Warrior/6/800/800
text from DMCOMET (i.e. not the offical English text)
Remove this card from Graveyard from the game. Choose a [Destiny Hero - Malicious] from your deck and special summon it to your field.
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Now the stat. Okay, for a level 6 monster... it's only 800ATK/DEF... another words, stat wise, WORST DESTINY HERO EVER. (Stat wise) If you thought Double Dude had crappy stats for a level 6, this one beats it by a milestone. But then again, I never really like Double Dude being unable to be special summoned. But this one CAN, in fact, it's whole effect is PURELY for special summoning.
So let's ignore the stats and go for the effect. By removing this card in the graveyard from play, you can summon another one from your deck. But you might go, hey it's only 800ATK crappy stat. But see here, it's a FREE special summon that you can TRIBUTE FOR A TRIBUTE SUMMON. This monster is pretty much a semi-Treeborn Frog in a Destiny Hero form. Now, this monster can't special summon itself for infinity unlike the Treeborn Frog. Not to mention cause of it's effect, you either run 3x Malicious or run none. (And hope that you draw only 1 and have the other 2x in your deck.) However, this monster got SPEED that Treeborn Frog doesn't have. Treeborn Frog effect is only during stand-by phase. So even if you discarded it with Graceful Charity, you have to wait a turn. But this monster, you can discard it, and then immediately activate it's effect during your main phase. In fact, if you tribute the 2nd Malicious that hits on your field, (i.e. you send the 1st one to the graveyard, then remove it to summon the 2nd one from your deck) you can remove that 2nd one to summon a 3rd one from your deck immediately. That's 2x special summons right there off the bat. Treeborn Frog can't do these things. So if that tribute summon was a Dasher, you tribute summoned Dasher, and you got that 3rd Malicious on your field to tribute that off the bat and instantly bump Dasher into a 3100ATK monster in turn 1 that'll be able to kill anything. It's just that fast. Not to mention great deck-thinning.
D-Heros are all about special summoning swarms with neat effects as a bonus for the others. (e.g. Diamond Dude/Doom Lord doesn't have special summons but have a neat effect) And this one got one of the fastest special summon effect ever. Not even Dasher or Double Dude can create instant field presence as fast as him.
But you guys are going. "Well, it's still a LV6... I mean, I REALLY don't want to tribute summon him." Well, you don't. You got Graceful Charity, Card Destruction, Morphing Jar, the new card Destiny Draw (Review for Destiny Draw http://www.cogonline.net/showthread.php?p=159610) to discard or search it out with Last Will, Mystic Tomato (Unlike Double Dude, you can special summon this thing), etc. Seriously, unless you draw into 2~3x Malicious the first turn, it's effect lets you start off fast with a bang that'll make you start off with a HUGE advantage. Never ignore the power of free special summons.
And being a LV6 Destiny Hero, it combos well with another card that's coming out in Aster Pack, "Over Destiny" (Review on Over Destiny http://www.cogonline.net/threads.19006) With Malicious, Destiny Draw, and Over Destiny, the support is now good enough that you can actually USE Destiny Hero - Dogma as a decent deck design. (Before, it was just pot luck with Scapegoat + 1 Destiny Hero most of the time)
After you read all of my review of Destiny Hero - Malicious, Destiny Draw, and Over Destiny. You can actually do some crazy thing like this in turn 1.
Your foe starts off with a set monster and 1 s/t. (A standard start)
You start off with Destiny Draw. Discard Destiny Hero -Malicious to draw 2 cards from your deck. Now you start with Over Destiny. You select Destiny Hero - Malicious from your graveyard to special summon Destiny Hero - Doom Lord from your deck. Now you activate Doom Lord effect with priority and remove the face-down from play for 2 turns. Now you RFP Malicious from your graveyard to special summon a 2nd Malicious. Now you tribute the Malicious from your field for a Destiny Hero - Dasher. Now you remove that 2nd Malicious that's in the graveyard to summon the 3rd Malicious from your deck. Look it here. 3x Destiny Heros on the field in turn 1. Yep, tribute all 3 to special summon Dogma from your hand and then set 1 s/t and sit out to let Dogma burn your foe for 4000LP on their stand-by Phase. I mean, how awesome is that. And the only real "cards" I used was Over Destiny, Dasher, and Dogma. (Destiny Draw doesn't count, since you lose two cards to draw 2 cards. +0 loss) And Dogma is still on the field so the only real "loss" was just Over Destiny and Dasher.
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In the end, I give this card a
8 out of 10
The only "prob" with this card is that it can only special summon another copy of itself. So you either run 3x or run none. (You can just run 2x, but 3x is better. See examples I gave) And running 3x of LV6 monster that's only 800ATK/DEF can be a HUGE risk if you draw into multiple copies in your first 6 hands. (That's a BUNCH of dead cards worst then even drawing out 3x Hydrogeddon in your first turn.) And thus I can't give it too much of a high rating. However, this card is definately overall better then Captain Tenacious and Fear Monger.
Let's start with the fresh new Destiny Hero Monster that in Aster Pack.
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Destiny Hero - Malicious
Dark/Warrior/6/800/800
text from DMCOMET (i.e. not the offical English text)
Remove this card from Graveyard from the game. Choose a [Destiny Hero - Malicious] from your deck and special summon it to your field.
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Now the stat. Okay, for a level 6 monster... it's only 800ATK/DEF... another words, stat wise, WORST DESTINY HERO EVER. (Stat wise) If you thought Double Dude had crappy stats for a level 6, this one beats it by a milestone. But then again, I never really like Double Dude being unable to be special summoned. But this one CAN, in fact, it's whole effect is PURELY for special summoning.
So let's ignore the stats and go for the effect. By removing this card in the graveyard from play, you can summon another one from your deck. But you might go, hey it's only 800ATK crappy stat. But see here, it's a FREE special summon that you can TRIBUTE FOR A TRIBUTE SUMMON. This monster is pretty much a semi-Treeborn Frog in a Destiny Hero form. Now, this monster can't special summon itself for infinity unlike the Treeborn Frog. Not to mention cause of it's effect, you either run 3x Malicious or run none. (And hope that you draw only 1 and have the other 2x in your deck.) However, this monster got SPEED that Treeborn Frog doesn't have. Treeborn Frog effect is only during stand-by phase. So even if you discarded it with Graceful Charity, you have to wait a turn. But this monster, you can discard it, and then immediately activate it's effect during your main phase. In fact, if you tribute the 2nd Malicious that hits on your field, (i.e. you send the 1st one to the graveyard, then remove it to summon the 2nd one from your deck) you can remove that 2nd one to summon a 3rd one from your deck immediately. That's 2x special summons right there off the bat. Treeborn Frog can't do these things. So if that tribute summon was a Dasher, you tribute summoned Dasher, and you got that 3rd Malicious on your field to tribute that off the bat and instantly bump Dasher into a 3100ATK monster in turn 1 that'll be able to kill anything. It's just that fast. Not to mention great deck-thinning.
D-Heros are all about special summoning swarms with neat effects as a bonus for the others. (e.g. Diamond Dude/Doom Lord doesn't have special summons but have a neat effect) And this one got one of the fastest special summon effect ever. Not even Dasher or Double Dude can create instant field presence as fast as him.
But you guys are going. "Well, it's still a LV6... I mean, I REALLY don't want to tribute summon him." Well, you don't. You got Graceful Charity, Card Destruction, Morphing Jar, the new card Destiny Draw (Review for Destiny Draw http://www.cogonline.net/showthread.php?p=159610) to discard or search it out with Last Will, Mystic Tomato (Unlike Double Dude, you can special summon this thing), etc. Seriously, unless you draw into 2~3x Malicious the first turn, it's effect lets you start off fast with a bang that'll make you start off with a HUGE advantage. Never ignore the power of free special summons.
And being a LV6 Destiny Hero, it combos well with another card that's coming out in Aster Pack, "Over Destiny" (Review on Over Destiny http://www.cogonline.net/threads.19006) With Malicious, Destiny Draw, and Over Destiny, the support is now good enough that you can actually USE Destiny Hero - Dogma as a decent deck design. (Before, it was just pot luck with Scapegoat + 1 Destiny Hero most of the time)
After you read all of my review of Destiny Hero - Malicious, Destiny Draw, and Over Destiny. You can actually do some crazy thing like this in turn 1.
Your foe starts off with a set monster and 1 s/t. (A standard start)
You start off with Destiny Draw. Discard Destiny Hero -Malicious to draw 2 cards from your deck. Now you start with Over Destiny. You select Destiny Hero - Malicious from your graveyard to special summon Destiny Hero - Doom Lord from your deck. Now you activate Doom Lord effect with priority and remove the face-down from play for 2 turns. Now you RFP Malicious from your graveyard to special summon a 2nd Malicious. Now you tribute the Malicious from your field for a Destiny Hero - Dasher. Now you remove that 2nd Malicious that's in the graveyard to summon the 3rd Malicious from your deck. Look it here. 3x Destiny Heros on the field in turn 1. Yep, tribute all 3 to special summon Dogma from your hand and then set 1 s/t and sit out to let Dogma burn your foe for 4000LP on their stand-by Phase. I mean, how awesome is that. And the only real "cards" I used was Over Destiny, Dasher, and Dogma. (Destiny Draw doesn't count, since you lose two cards to draw 2 cards. +0 loss) And Dogma is still on the field so the only real "loss" was just Over Destiny and Dasher.
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In the end, I give this card a
8 out of 10
The only "prob" with this card is that it can only special summon another copy of itself. So you either run 3x or run none. (You can just run 2x, but 3x is better. See examples I gave) And running 3x of LV6 monster that's only 800ATK/DEF can be a HUGE risk if you draw into multiple copies in your first 6 hands. (That's a BUNCH of dead cards worst then even drawing out 3x Hydrogeddon in your first turn.) And thus I can't give it too much of a high rating. However, this card is definately overall better then Captain Tenacious and Fear Monger.