Cost Idol

[Altαir]

Pseudo-insurance in Yu-Gi-Oh?

Cost Idol
EARTH/Rock/Level 2
200 ATK/100 DEF
Effect Monster
While this card is in your hand, if your opponent must pay a cost(s) to activate a card effect(s), you can Special Summon this card instead.

Is it useful?

[The Dark Knight]

Is this supposed to stop cards that have a cost? Because the way it's worded it won't stop the effect, just the cost. So, opponent uses Solemn Warning, you use this, opponent stops your summon for nothing.

[Altαir]

No, it's meant to only stop the cost. However it will stop effects if the summoning of Cost Idol negates the requirements for activation.

And that's why you get to choose which cost you wish to stop, so that you don't have to Special Summon Cost Idol on cards like Solemn Warning.

[Big Bad Pennar]

Cost Idol is a Quick Effect, Spell Speed 2
Warning is Spell Speed 3, thus that won't work

I would not find a use for it XD

[Altαir]

I was thinking of making it a Tuner. Then it could go like this:

Opponent flips Trap Card/uses Monster Effect that requires cost. You Special Summon Cost Idol. If it's during your opponent's turn, Urgent Tuning is your friend? During your turn, you get a free Level 1 Tuner on the field. And all you had to do was negate a cost.

But your right, Flandre, >.> maybe it isn't so useful as it stands.