Rank-Up-Magic Limited Barian's Force

[heraldry_lord]

 

 

Rank-Up-Magic Limited Barian's Force

Normal Spell Card

 

Target 1 Rank 4 Xyz Monster you control; Special Summon from your Extra Deck, 1 "Number C" monster that is 1 Rank higher than that monster you control, by using it as the Xyz Material. (This Special Summon is treated as an Xyz Summon. Xyz Materials attached to that target also become Xyz Materials on the Summoned monster.)

 

 

 

In an ironic twist, this "limited" RUM is the most flexible flavour, because Rank 4 has the widest variety of RUM targets, and many of these targets are good, and they seem to be getting better overall with time, especially with C101 and C69 (unconfirmed) becoming things.  Also, since this has no Type restriction, you can Rank Up a lowly Lavalval Chain into C104, or Number 50 into C106 (and it gets its effect from any Number), or any Rank 4 into C101, or (if it's legit) a 4000 ATK behemoth with a built-in nuke if your opponent tries to attack anything with anything. 

 

This seems to be the kind of card that will just get better with time, unless Konami ditches Xyz or the RUM mechanic.

[evilfusion]

The entire Rank-Up mechanic wasn't handled ideally. I remember originally saying that I hated the mechanic for being absurdly gimmicky. But now they've used it so much that it's more or less an accepted quirk of the game to me, and actually pretty fun to do.

 

Barian's Force was mediocre because of the Type restriction, and only working on CXyz and Number C monsters, and the majority of all Rank-Up monsters require their previous form to be even remotely good.

 

Limited Barian's Force changed that. It works on any Rank 4 (and only Rank 4), but turns it into a Number C of a higher Rank. I suspect that BECAUSE this card existed, Konami felt it necessary to make the majority of the Rank-Up Chaos Numbers be Rank 5, so that Limited Barian's Force wouldn't be a strictly inferior card with no virtue to running it over regular Barian's Force, since the Rank-Up Chaos Numbers still need their previous form to be awesome.

 

But because Limited Barian's Force can't evolve monsters into CXyz, the CXyz are ridiculously gimmicky and dumb (requiring original Barian's Force because none of the other Rank-Up Magics can Summon them), but the Rank-Up Number Cs are just getting better and better.

 

I don't really know why Rank-Ups other than Limited Barian's Force needed to match types, because the Rank-Up Xyz usually need their former form for the effect. It really should have been one or the other, not both.

 

In any case, Rank 4s are the only Rank that has worthwhile Chaos Numbers to Rank-Up into at this time, with almost all the Over-Hundred Numbers (107 is the only holdout) and Utopia. Because Limited Barian's doesn't do anything else, it keeps C104's MST effect from missing the timing, but in exchange, the Summoned monster can be hit with Torrential/Bottomless, whereas Barian's Force (if it steals an Overlay Unit) and Numeron Force will make such Traps miss their window if they apply their effects.

 

After testing Heraldic Beast Rank-Up, I found Limited Force is easily superior to the other two by a wide, wide margin just because it's so easy to bring out C104 for the MST and 3000 body, something Heraldics otherwise have trouble doing, as most Rank 4s don't carry that much ATK with only 2 Materials, and Heraldics need combo plays to bring out 3 Material Rank 4s.

[Mugendramon]

I find it odd that you think RUM - MST Force is better than Numeron when in most cases the latter gets more things done AND it might just render the backrow you'd have tried to snipe useless- whereas they might have chained it to C104 anyway.

 

But it really is this thing's use of any Rank 4 that makes it the best of RUMs so far.

Still... am I the only one who initially thought we were getting a new card icon when the first RUM was released?

[玄魔の王]

At present the best RUM in the OCG, but whether it stays that way is entirely contingent on whether Argent Chaos Force is released without a nerf (I don't mention Astral Force because it's guaranteed it will).

[evilfusion]

I find it odd that you think RUM - MST Force is better than Numeron when in most cases the latter gets more things done AND it might just render the backrow you'd have tried to snipe useless- whereas they might have chained it to C104 anyway.

 

But it really is this thing's use of any Rank 4 that makes it the best of RUMs so far.

Still... am I the only one who initially thought we were getting a new card icon when the first RUM was released?

 

Numeron has the Type restriction. Otherwise, it'd exceed Limited Barian's.

 

Plus, Numeron negates your stuff, too. Heraldic Beasts (my primary Rank-Up focused Deck) can Summon Xyz very easily, and unless I have Rank-Up Magic in hand already, drawing a RUM card means I either have to devote more resources to Summoning a particular Xyz to Rank-Up, or use what I already have. In that sense, Limited Barian's into C104 is almost always a good play to push for more advantage and get rid of a Set card, or bait out that Set card.

 

This is especially a case when the Set card isn't chainable/at that timing, like Mirror Force. Numeron Force tends to be superfluous when Heraldic Beasts wield it, and doesn't really offer protection despite the awesome negation stuff.

 

No comment on how Numeron Force tends to negate my Number Wall.

[goddamnit names are a pain]

No comment on how Numeron Force tends to negate my Number Wall.

But say you activate Numeron's Force, Summon something like Utopia Ray Victory, and then flip up Number Wall? I think the opponent is temporarily powerless at this point. It's my favorite RUM so far, but Limited Barian's follows closely. Then again, I don't own RUM BF.

[Aerion Brightflame]

Of currently released RUM's, Limited is the best because it fufils the flexability that the cards needs bcause the lack of a searcher makes it a tech in decks with extra deck space and a good Xyz summoning capability.

 

That combined with the fact that the best abilities on the good RUM targets just happen to be the ones without a specific material (Currently released that is)

 

Numeron is only better in something like UtopiaTK, because it only has one target that the deck wants to use regularly, it can make better use of the negate everything part.

 

All the mechanic really needs is a searcher as things stand, and it's complete.

[Alastar Rainford]

I replaced Numeron Force with this in my zombie rank-up,because of no type restrictions.z world+pyramid late game is always a good boost and if not protection on summon.

[Blake]

Given that Hunders have access to [url=http://forum.yugiohcardmaker.net/topic/308100-bujintei-tsukuyomi/]Tsukuyomi[/url], and, unless I'm forgetting something, access to every Over Hundred Number revealed so far bar 107, especially Masquerade and S.H.Ark Knight, it really seems like the best deck for this card now.

 

Probably still has better things to do than run a RUM, but at least it's not dreadful with a card likes Tsukuyomi.