[SINGLE] Heavenly Cascade

[.Rai]

[left][color=#003333][b]Heavenly Cascad[/b][b]e[/b][/color][/left]
[left][color=#003333][b]Quick-Play Spell Card[/b][/color][/left]
[left]Banish any number of monsters from your Graveyard. Banish cards from the top of your Deck equal to the number of monsters banished in this way. Add 1 of the banished cards to your hand, and return the others to your Deck. Then, shuffle your Deck.[/left]

[Premier Alexander Romanov]

I'm a little confused on how this card is supposed to work.
What's the point of banishing them if they're just going back to your Deck anyways?

[Galkin]

I believe this is a form of Pot of Duality. You can skip ahead into your next draw phase(s) and pick a card from there, much how Duality lets you. This card would be genius in a monster mash deck when the Grave is full of cards; you'll practically be able to pick any card from your deck and add it to your hand.

However, due to the requirement of monsters , this card has little use early game as it takes at least 3 monsters to mirror the purpose of Pot of Duality. Also, I think it would be best if you "revealed" the cards instead of banishing, since they will return to your deck by the same effect.

[.Rai]

[quote name='TheFinalFan' timestamp='1338742047' post='5951542']
I'm a little confused on how this card is supposed to work.
What's the point of banishing them if they're just going back to your Deck anyways?
[/quote]

Just a little bit of extra abuse potential with Necroface. Obnoxious potential, but oh well. I might be wrong with when Necroface's effect actually triggers within the chain, but if I'm right, banishing is alright. Otherwise, yep, I'll change.

[quote name='Galkin' timestamp='1338743629' post='5951551']
I believe this is a form of Pot of Duality. You can skip ahead into your next draw phase(s) and pick a card from there, much how Duality lets you. This card would be genius in a monster mash deck when the Grave is full of cards; you'll practically be able to pick any card from your deck and add it to your hand.

However, due to the requirement of monsters , this card has little use early game as it takes at least 3 monsters to mirror the purpose of Pot of Duality. Also, I think it would be best if you "revealed" the cards instead of banishing, since they will return to your deck by the same effect.
[/quote]

Again, basically the Necroface stuff. But I'll probably end up changing it anyway. It was understandable that the card wasn't gonna be as good in the early game anyway, but the way it plays is just substantially different from Duality:

- Banishing monsters from your Graveyard should play out as a interesting condition in this card.
- No "You can only activate ~ once per turn." does mean you get none of those really horrible triple Duality hands (but is then balanced out by the fact that this isn't really good in the early game).
- As you said, it's a pretty fun tech in monster-heavy decks as a one-off like in Monster Mash.
- It does make an interesting alternative to Duality in some other decks too.
- There's no restriction on Special Summoning.

I think that last point is quite substantial here. And it plays differently mainly because it starts off weak in the duel, and gradually gets better during the midgame. I'd probably say it's better in control decks than Duality and worse in other places.

Thanks for the comment.