Warped Hellhound

[Skarlet]

Warped Hellhound

DARK

Level: 4

Pyro/Effect

Lore: When this card is Normal Summoned, Place 1 "Hellfire Counter" on it. Each time this card attacks a monster and destroys it by battle, you must send 1 DARK monster from your deck to the Graveyard and and place 1 "Hellfire Counter" on this card if you can not, remove all "Hellfire Counters" from this card. During each of your Standby Phases, you must remove 1 "Hellfire Counter" from this card or send it to the Graveyard. When this card is sent to the Graveyard by it's own effect, your opponent draws a number of cards equal to the number of DARK monsters sent to your Graveyard by this card's effect.

ATK: 1850

DEF: 1200

[Vector Nightmare]

Hmm. To be consistently useful it requires you to destroy at least a few monsters with this card, which just won't happen easily. Its effect is nice but in most decks where it'd be used, people generally won't want to wait until the Battle Phase, whose outcomes will be uncertain anyway, to dump a DARK monster - they'll just use the safer and faster method of Armageddon Knight. It's just that Dark decks have no need for a semi-beatstick with an unreliable dump effect, when they have sufficient dump cards already and easy ways to bring out stronger monsters, and this card doesn't really fit anywhere else.

 

However, it does have an original idea and I like the concept of perseverance through battle domination. It's a nice card, but it'd probably end up like all those 'almost' cards, as in: "Oh, I'd put it in this deck, but this other card is more useful / consistent and I have no room / use for more of this effect".