I think I said something like, "I'll probably rate Mythical Beast Cerberus, Magical Dimension"...
I lied? I don't know. I think I said maybe. For now, I'll rate another card, and then go back. Hey, it's my topic.
Anyway, before I go back to the recent new releases, I'm just gunna go ahead and rate the most powerful card among the upcoming cards in the next Shadow of Infinity Pack.
Yes I'm talking the most horrid, the most powerful, the ultimate, weenie 100ATK monster?
Yeah, it's Yomigaeru. I think the English version, it's gunna be named Treeborn Frog. I've heard of this in some places. Who knows. But for now, I'm gunna call it Treeborn Frog, and then change it to whatever the real name is once the name is confirmed. (This is USA YGO forum.)
Now, let's see it's weenie power.
(Copied from dmcomet and it's JPN text.)
SOI-JP025
Yomigaeru ("Yomi Frog")
Water/Aqua/1/100/100
When this card is in your Graveyard at your Standby Phase, and you don't have Magic/Trap
cards on your field, you can special summon this card to your field. This effect
cannot be activate if a [Yomigaeru] is face-up on your field.
Rare
Basically, it's a "weak" monster as in 100ATk and 100DEF. It's not gunna be able to kill anything. Even Magician of Faith can kill this card. It's just that weak in number stats. But then, why does no one uses Lust Dragon or Blue-Eyes White Dragon if they got supreme numbers. That's cause often time, the effect can make a weenie card supreme, and a powerful stat card into crap.
So let's look at the stats. It basically says, as long as you have no s/t on your field, at your stand-by phrase, you can special summon from the graveyard. Yeah, it's a free summon. And it's optional meaning you can choose to have one, or not have one. Whatever. And since it's a special summon, you can still normal summon a monster. So you got instant 2 card swarm. But you'll be saying, "Swarm with 100ATK." Well Jim, no don't put this in ATK position, just put it in DEF position and it's a 1 turn hit wall. But then you'll be saying Spirit Reaper is better then that. But here's the thing, this comes out from the graveyard. So there is absolutely no hand cost. So it's instant field advantage. Spirit Reaper, you have to at least waste a normal summon. THis card doesn't
However, that's not the true nature of this card. I said a free 1 monster on the field as special summon. And since you got a 1 normal summon choice and you got 1 monster on the field. That's right, the true power of this card is that it's a bonus freebie tribute. Yep, a free Tribute. So if your packing alot of lvl 5-6 monster, this card is for YOU! (Yes, I'm talking to you Soul Control Moarchy decks. This is your best hot sexy wife you'll ever get.) Heck, this card is for everybody. (Sorry Soul Control, but this card also goes around and give freebie hot loving service to everyone else for free. She's too hot. What can you do. She got an unending love to every living tribute monsters.)
So like I said, this is a Soul Control's dream. With this card addition, you don't even NEED to worry about having a Snatch Steal, or Brain Control, or Soul Exchange, to get a tribute monster summon. Even without that, you always have 1 monster wall. So this card is god in late ending part of the metagames where everyone will be top-decking. Say the game is almost over and you got no cards on the field or hand and your top-decking. You drew Mobius. But there's no mosnter to tribute summon this. In most cases, this is a dead draw and you lost your match. However, now with this card, you can choose to summon Treeborn Frog from the graveyard at your stand-by Phase, tribute it for Mobius, knock every other s/t on the foe's field, and go for the win. Good job, you just won your game! And it's all thanks to Treeborn Frog. Even if you top decking and you drew a useless card, you can summon Treeborn Frog for a 1 turn stall. This can be good when you top-decked Return from the Different Dimension. This card is considered one of the best top-deck cards. But the only prob is, you have to wait 1 turn. And in alot of cases, you just don't have the time. Come in Treeborn Frog, just stall 1 turn so I can summon my 3x DDA, 1x DDWL for OTK win the game.
If you haven catch the drift. This card is the younger brother of the evil Sinister Serpent. If Sinister Serpent was a free-discard, 1 free monster card in hand broken card, this card is 1 free tribute, 1 free monster on field card broken card. This card doesn't have the broken deadly poison poison like his evil brother, but lick this toad and you'll be seeing stars, stars of when your foe's Moby Whale just nuked the entire field that is.
I'm actually expecting some counter techs to be almost a staple in deck design or side-decks JUST to counter this. Remember when DDA hit the US world? People were packing 3x DDA, 1x DDWL to mass removal. And then ram RftDD OTK at the late final part of the battle. People are teching, AND STILL TECHING, D.D. Survivor JUST to counter these cards. D.D. Survivor, the effect by itself, is a crappy card. But since DDA/DDWL are running way too often and wreaking havoc, people have no choice but to tech it. With Treeborn Frog, I'm expecting the revival of Soul Release spell card, and Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer as monster card. I mean come on, Kycoo DIED quite awhile ago. But it might be the only thing to get rid of that Treeborn Frog from the graveyard and put it removed from play so they can't keep that frog in there.
But even WITH Kycoo, there's still gunna be major annoyance. I mean, look at DDS. Sure, it's tech can kill DDA/DDWL just safely. But then your foe summons Cyber Dragon, kill DDS, and THEN summon another copy of DDA on the field. Now you HAVE to bring back DDS and waste a CotH/Premature just to get rid of another DDA. I can see the same picture for Treeborn Frogs if people runs these in triples. I set Treeborn Frog. Then my foe kills it and send it to the grave. Now your foe have to tech Kycoo/Soul Release to get rid of Treeborn Frog. Now I summon Cyber Dragon to kill off Kycoo. Then I set another 2nd copy of Treeborn Frog. Now your foe have to CotH/Premature their Kycoo or MoF their Soul Release. They were able to get rid of my 2nd Treeborn Frog. I get rid of Kycoo again, and then set my final 3rd Treeborn Frog.... now I need to run away from the game after I win cause he's gunna come running at me with a baseball bat pounded with nails.
You kinda see where I'm going with this. I mean, this card, literally downgrade all level 5-6 monster cards into lvl 4 normal summoning without tribute monster. And as a bonus, with no cost cause there's no hand disadvantage. Now people can FINALLY maybe use those lvl 7-8 cards they never bothered using cause those cards have no been downgraded to lvl 5-6 with no cost.
And final thought. Treeborn Frog effect can only be done when there's no 0 s/t on your field. Meaning, people are not gunna be running that many continous spell/traps anymore. (Say good by to Royal Decree?) Now the ONLY continu-ish card people will use are CotH/Premature/Snatch Steal.
(Besides also in SOI Silent Insect. A total Countinous card counter. If you want to know that stat.
SOI-JP020
Silent Insect
Earth/Insect/2/200/300
When this card is successfully Normal Summoned or Reverse Summoned put it in defense mode. When this card is face-up on the field, negate the effects of all Continuous Magic and Continuous Trap cards.
Yep, it means this card can TOTALLY KILL all burn/stall Decks. Say goodbye to Royal Decree/Gravity Bind/LLAB/Skill Drain/etc. Another good bug, and another card I'll rate in the future.)
And guess what, since people won't be setting too many s/t on the field, this actually WEAKENS your Mobius. (ZOMG, Mobius weakened? BLASHEMY!) Now listen out. Since Mobius is a tribute monster, to get the fair 2 vs 2 trade, you need to and should destroy 2 sets of your foe's s/t. So if your foe's is using like just 1 s/t for the entire duel cause of Treeborn Frog on the graveyard, then well you cannot fully use the power of Mobius. And guess what, after you DO bring out Mobius and then destroy all cards on the foe's field. Then your foe will bring out Treeborn Frog at stand-by Phrase, and then summon HIS Mobius to instantly nuke your 2 s/t you set after you bring out Mobius. See what I'm saying of how Mobius power have been weakened by Treeborn Frog, it's instant equaliser that works both ways. (It's kinda funny. This card is Soul Control's wife, and yet at the same time sleeping with other deck styles and majorly hurting it. Like I said, this card just goes away giving service to any tribute monster.) It's kinda like how Thestalos the Firestorm Monarch and Don Zaloog gotten severly weakened just because of Dark World monsters and especially cause of Goldd, Wu-Lord of Dark World.
Overall, this card is 1 card combo. Don't need support but instead support all others. If supported, turns totally evil. run it in 3's and it's extremely overkill for your foe to counter. The fact that I'm seeing tech-counter cards coming from it's "trash section" ashes to counter this card shows it's enormous powers.
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In the end, I give this card a
11 out of 10
That's right TCG world. PLEASE semi-limit to 2 or restrict this card into 1 per deck. This toad licking is just too powerful for one man to handle without going into coma seeing stars and swirlies.
(NOTE: To my other card rating and how I do things, please check my Lets Study cards with the Doctor)
I lied? I don't know. I think I said maybe. For now, I'll rate another card, and then go back. Hey, it's my topic.
Anyway, before I go back to the recent new releases, I'm just gunna go ahead and rate the most powerful card among the upcoming cards in the next Shadow of Infinity Pack.
Yes I'm talking the most horrid, the most powerful, the ultimate, weenie 100ATK monster?
Yeah, it's Yomigaeru. I think the English version, it's gunna be named Treeborn Frog. I've heard of this in some places. Who knows. But for now, I'm gunna call it Treeborn Frog, and then change it to whatever the real name is once the name is confirmed. (This is USA YGO forum.)
Now, let's see it's weenie power.
(Copied from dmcomet and it's JPN text.)
SOI-JP025
Yomigaeru ("Yomi Frog")
Water/Aqua/1/100/100
When this card is in your Graveyard at your Standby Phase, and you don't have Magic/Trap
cards on your field, you can special summon this card to your field. This effect
cannot be activate if a [Yomigaeru] is face-up on your field.
Rare
Basically, it's a "weak" monster as in 100ATk and 100DEF. It's not gunna be able to kill anything. Even Magician of Faith can kill this card. It's just that weak in number stats. But then, why does no one uses Lust Dragon or Blue-Eyes White Dragon if they got supreme numbers. That's cause often time, the effect can make a weenie card supreme, and a powerful stat card into crap.
So let's look at the stats. It basically says, as long as you have no s/t on your field, at your stand-by phrase, you can special summon from the graveyard. Yeah, it's a free summon. And it's optional meaning you can choose to have one, or not have one. Whatever. And since it's a special summon, you can still normal summon a monster. So you got instant 2 card swarm. But you'll be saying, "Swarm with 100ATK." Well Jim, no don't put this in ATK position, just put it in DEF position and it's a 1 turn hit wall. But then you'll be saying Spirit Reaper is better then that. But here's the thing, this comes out from the graveyard. So there is absolutely no hand cost. So it's instant field advantage. Spirit Reaper, you have to at least waste a normal summon. THis card doesn't
However, that's not the true nature of this card. I said a free 1 monster on the field as special summon. And since you got a 1 normal summon choice and you got 1 monster on the field. That's right, the true power of this card is that it's a bonus freebie tribute. Yep, a free Tribute. So if your packing alot of lvl 5-6 monster, this card is for YOU! (Yes, I'm talking to you Soul Control Moarchy decks. This is your best hot sexy wife you'll ever get.) Heck, this card is for everybody. (Sorry Soul Control, but this card also goes around and give freebie hot loving service to everyone else for free. She's too hot. What can you do. She got an unending love to every living tribute monsters.)
So like I said, this is a Soul Control's dream. With this card addition, you don't even NEED to worry about having a Snatch Steal, or Brain Control, or Soul Exchange, to get a tribute monster summon. Even without that, you always have 1 monster wall. So this card is god in late ending part of the metagames where everyone will be top-decking. Say the game is almost over and you got no cards on the field or hand and your top-decking. You drew Mobius. But there's no mosnter to tribute summon this. In most cases, this is a dead draw and you lost your match. However, now with this card, you can choose to summon Treeborn Frog from the graveyard at your stand-by Phase, tribute it for Mobius, knock every other s/t on the foe's field, and go for the win. Good job, you just won your game! And it's all thanks to Treeborn Frog. Even if you top decking and you drew a useless card, you can summon Treeborn Frog for a 1 turn stall. This can be good when you top-decked Return from the Different Dimension. This card is considered one of the best top-deck cards. But the only prob is, you have to wait 1 turn. And in alot of cases, you just don't have the time. Come in Treeborn Frog, just stall 1 turn so I can summon my 3x DDA, 1x DDWL for OTK win the game.
If you haven catch the drift. This card is the younger brother of the evil Sinister Serpent. If Sinister Serpent was a free-discard, 1 free monster card in hand broken card, this card is 1 free tribute, 1 free monster on field card broken card. This card doesn't have the broken deadly poison poison like his evil brother, but lick this toad and you'll be seeing stars, stars of when your foe's Moby Whale just nuked the entire field that is.
I'm actually expecting some counter techs to be almost a staple in deck design or side-decks JUST to counter this. Remember when DDA hit the US world? People were packing 3x DDA, 1x DDWL to mass removal. And then ram RftDD OTK at the late final part of the battle. People are teching, AND STILL TECHING, D.D. Survivor JUST to counter these cards. D.D. Survivor, the effect by itself, is a crappy card. But since DDA/DDWL are running way too often and wreaking havoc, people have no choice but to tech it. With Treeborn Frog, I'm expecting the revival of Soul Release spell card, and Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer as monster card. I mean come on, Kycoo DIED quite awhile ago. But it might be the only thing to get rid of that Treeborn Frog from the graveyard and put it removed from play so they can't keep that frog in there.
But even WITH Kycoo, there's still gunna be major annoyance. I mean, look at DDS. Sure, it's tech can kill DDA/DDWL just safely. But then your foe summons Cyber Dragon, kill DDS, and THEN summon another copy of DDA on the field. Now you HAVE to bring back DDS and waste a CotH/Premature just to get rid of another DDA. I can see the same picture for Treeborn Frogs if people runs these in triples. I set Treeborn Frog. Then my foe kills it and send it to the grave. Now your foe have to tech Kycoo/Soul Release to get rid of Treeborn Frog. Now I summon Cyber Dragon to kill off Kycoo. Then I set another 2nd copy of Treeborn Frog. Now your foe have to CotH/Premature their Kycoo or MoF their Soul Release. They were able to get rid of my 2nd Treeborn Frog. I get rid of Kycoo again, and then set my final 3rd Treeborn Frog.... now I need to run away from the game after I win cause he's gunna come running at me with a baseball bat pounded with nails.
You kinda see where I'm going with this. I mean, this card, literally downgrade all level 5-6 monster cards into lvl 4 normal summoning without tribute monster. And as a bonus, with no cost cause there's no hand disadvantage. Now people can FINALLY maybe use those lvl 7-8 cards they never bothered using cause those cards have no been downgraded to lvl 5-6 with no cost.
And final thought. Treeborn Frog effect can only be done when there's no 0 s/t on your field. Meaning, people are not gunna be running that many continous spell/traps anymore. (Say good by to Royal Decree?) Now the ONLY continu-ish card people will use are CotH/Premature/Snatch Steal.
(Besides also in SOI Silent Insect. A total Countinous card counter. If you want to know that stat.
SOI-JP020
Silent Insect
Earth/Insect/2/200/300
When this card is successfully Normal Summoned or Reverse Summoned put it in defense mode. When this card is face-up on the field, negate the effects of all Continuous Magic and Continuous Trap cards.
Yep, it means this card can TOTALLY KILL all burn/stall Decks. Say goodbye to Royal Decree/Gravity Bind/LLAB/Skill Drain/etc. Another good bug, and another card I'll rate in the future.)
And guess what, since people won't be setting too many s/t on the field, this actually WEAKENS your Mobius. (ZOMG, Mobius weakened? BLASHEMY!) Now listen out. Since Mobius is a tribute monster, to get the fair 2 vs 2 trade, you need to and should destroy 2 sets of your foe's s/t. So if your foe's is using like just 1 s/t for the entire duel cause of Treeborn Frog on the graveyard, then well you cannot fully use the power of Mobius. And guess what, after you DO bring out Mobius and then destroy all cards on the foe's field. Then your foe will bring out Treeborn Frog at stand-by Phrase, and then summon HIS Mobius to instantly nuke your 2 s/t you set after you bring out Mobius. See what I'm saying of how Mobius power have been weakened by Treeborn Frog, it's instant equaliser that works both ways. (It's kinda funny. This card is Soul Control's wife, and yet at the same time sleeping with other deck styles and majorly hurting it. Like I said, this card just goes away giving service to any tribute monster.) It's kinda like how Thestalos the Firestorm Monarch and Don Zaloog gotten severly weakened just because of Dark World monsters and especially cause of Goldd, Wu-Lord of Dark World.
Overall, this card is 1 card combo. Don't need support but instead support all others. If supported, turns totally evil. run it in 3's and it's extremely overkill for your foe to counter. The fact that I'm seeing tech-counter cards coming from it's "trash section" ashes to counter this card shows it's enormous powers.
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In the end, I give this card a
11 out of 10
That's right TCG world. PLEASE semi-limit to 2 or restrict this card into 1 per deck. This toad licking is just too powerful for one man to handle without going into coma seeing stars and swirlies.
(NOTE: To my other card rating and how I do things, please check my Lets Study cards with the Doctor)
