Toon support

[Wrath's Child]

[quote][font=georgia,serif]Toon Shocktrooper[/font]

[font=georgia,serif]EARTH/LV4/Reptile/Toon/1900/800[/font]

[font=georgia,serif]Cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. Must first be Special Summoned (from your hand) if you control "Toon World", but Tributes are required for Level 5 or higher monsters. This card cannot attack during the turn it is Summoned. When this card attacks: pay 500 Life Points. When "Toon World" on the field is destroyed, destroy this card. If you control "Toon World" and your opponent does not control a Toon monster, this card can attack your opponent directly. If your opponent controls a Toon monster: select it as an attack target. When this card inflicts Battle Damage: add 1 "Toon" card or "Manga-Ryu Ran" from your Deck to your hand.[/font][/quote]


[font=georgia,serif]The Toon analogue of Alien Shocktrooper; with effect text as faithful as possible to the original Shocktrooper's vanilla description. An earlier version of the card (making it search for Toon cards upon summon) allowed for abuse via Sound the Retreat and like cards; so the effect was amended to have it search after inflicting Battle Damage, which for a Class A Toon is much more cumbersome.[/font]


[quote][font=georgia,serif]Toon Binder[/font]

[font=georgia,serif]LIGHT/LV3/Fairy/1100/1000[/font]

[font=georgia,serif]Cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. Must first be Special Summoned (from your hand) if you control "Toon World", but Tributes are required for Level 5 or higher monsters. When "Toon World" on the field is destroyed, destroy this card. If you control "Toon World" and your opponent does not control a Toon monster, this card can attack your opponent directly. If your opponent controls a Toon monster: select it as an attack target. If you control "Toon World", during your opponent's Main Phase, target 1 face-up monster your opponent controls; send this card from your hand to the Graveyard to reduce its ATK and DEF to 0 while face-up.[/font][/quote]


[font=georgia,serif]Binding Chain's Toon counterpart (as I understand it, Binding Chain is an OCG-only card, so pardon me). Designing this card was challenge, for I don't want Binder to be splashable (thus the effect activating only when its user controls Toon World) nor so easily triggered (hence the Effect Veiler-like activation window): but now I don't know if I nerfed it too much.[/font]


[quote][font=georgia,serif]The Toon Gentleman[/font]

[font=georgia,serif]DARK/LV4/Spellcaster/1500/1600[/font]

[font=georgia,serif]This card cannot during the turn it is Summoned. When "Toon World" on the field is destroyed, destroy this card. If you control "Toon World" and your opponent does not control a Toon monster, this card can attack your opponent directly. When this card inflicts Battle Damage: * Return 1 card in your Graveyard to your hand. * Send 1 card on the field to the Graveyard.[/font][/quote]

[font=georgia,serif]If you have seen or own a copy of The Illusory Gentleman, you will know that this Toon analogue's effect text befits him to a T.[/font]


[quote][font=georgia,serif]Toonish Ploy[/font]

[font=georgia,serif]Counter-Trap[/font]

[font=georgia,serif]Return 1 other "Toon" card or "Manga-Ryu Ran" that you control to its owner's hand: negate a card effect that would remove a card(s) on the field and destroy it.[/font][/quote]


[font=georgia,serif]One could say the 'cost' for such a liberal negation window is laughable, and I suppose it is; but either this or another Infernity Barrier/Divine Punishment clone, and we've had quite enough of that lazy slug-can-do design.[/font]

[Galkin]

These 2 cards well make toons playable:

Shocktrooper can search like crazy and turn a dead hand to a good hand (and a field of 0 to a field of 4) since it can search itself.
Toonish play compliments it by allowing re-use and since Toons can be Special summoned, it is hardly a cost for them.

[Wrath's Child]

[quote name='Galkin' timestamp='1336872586' post='5938257']
These 2 cards well make toons playable:

Shocktrooper can search like crazy and turn a dead hand to a good hand (and a field of 0 to a field of 4) since it can search itself.
Toonish play compliments it by allowing re-use and since Toons can be Special summoned, it is hardly a cost for them.
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[font=georgia,serif]So is Shocktrooper broken or not? I'm not too sure if making Shocktrooper a Class A Toon like Toon Mermaid made it balanced.[/font]

[Galkin]

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[quote]The effect of "Toon Shocktrooper" can only be activated twice per turn.[/quote]
There, balanced.

[Wrath's Child]

[font=georgia,serif]I see. Good thing you saw the combo with Sound the Retreat (and Begone, Knave!, if to a lesser extent).[/font]

[font=georgia,serif]But a twice-per-turn restriction is so unsightly, so how about making Shocktrooper add Toons to the hand via inflicting Battle Damage?[/font]

[Galkin]

That works too...