[Leaderboard] Me vs Doc Stein

[Northern Sage]

First leaderboard of the season? Let's go.

 

-All Leaderboard rules apply.
First to 3 votes or most votes by the deadline wins.
All voters must elaborate on their votes.

-The winner gets a rep from the loser.
-All voters get reps.
-The deadline for entries is April 3rd.
-The contest ends on April 6th.
-Written cards are allowed. (Must be in written format, cards with blank pictures are not acceptable)

-Cards must be PM'd to me.
-Remove any evidence of the card being made by you to ensure anonymity.
-In case a downtime happens, the deadlines may be extended.

-The condition is to make an Xyz Monster with an effect similar to a banned card.

 

Card A:

 

3 Level 4 monsters

Once per turn, during your Main Phase 2, you can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card and declare one Monster Type; destroy all face-up monsters on the field with the declared type, and if you do: This card loses 200 ATK. If this card's ATK is 0: Destroy it.

(Tribe-infecting Virus)

Card B:

 

 

3 Level 5 monsters

Once per turn, during your Main Phase: You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card; This turn, Set Spell/Trap Cards on the field cannot be activated (Set cards cannot activate in response to the activation of this effect). If this card is destroyed: You can place 1 Frost Counter on all monsters your opponent controls. Monsters with a Frost Counter(s) cannot change their Battle Position, and if a monster with a Frost Counter is sent to the Graveyard; Inflict 500 damage to your opponent.

(Cold Wave)

[Gregory the Gregory]

Count me in...

[Northern Sage]

Count me in...

Sure.

[Gregory the Gregory]

The heck

[Northern Sage]

The heck

Leave it be and proceed as normal.

Also, updated with proper deadlines.

[Northern Sage]

Cards are up, please start voting.

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

Card A: Requires you to have conducted a Battle Phase (and weakens itself after each usage). Three usages drop it to 2000 and it kills itself when it hits 0.

 

Granted though, this pretty much shuts down a couple of Decks that you use this against (given many are mono-Type).

 

Card B: Blocks set cards from being activated during the turn you detach, places a Frost counter on your opponent's monsters that block them from changing Battle Positions and burns them for 500 damage if they go to the Graveyard.

 

You can still activate Spells from your hand after sealing off set cards on the field, but it "freezes" your opponent's monsters if it dies and they take damage if any of them die/leave field.

 

 

Which is the lesser evil of the two: Destroying all monsters with a certain Type or freezing the whole field and burning.

I'll have to choose card A because a type-specific Dark Hole isn't as bad as the other one

[-Noel-]

I'm a bit annoying that both cards are 3-mat which is hard to use, but well let see, Card A is kinda weak, activating only at M2 weaken it a lot, but guess that's some way to balance it. ATK lose didn't really needed here. Card B even better than Cold Wave, I mean the latter also stop you from using any Spell/Trap that turn, but this one not, so it's basically a win button that unchainable unlike Trap Stun.

 

this is a battle of usability and balance, and many times this happen, ppl usually choose Balance, so Card A got my vote

[Vector Nightmare]

Eh. Card B isn't as borked as it looks. You can still respond to the summon and 3x5 is very gimmicky. I think it probably would've been fine without the second effect slapped on though.

 

Card A is... ok I guess design-wise, but underwhelming. Even without the restrictions noone would really want to waste 3 LV4s on that, even in mono-Type match-ups.

 

I vote for Card B, much more usable, even if it leans a little towards the powerful side.

[Northern Sage]

2-1 Card A 

Thanks for voting.

[Northern Sage]

Bump for votes.

[RampageXWolf]

I hate those banned cards, and that probably cause me to dislike these cards. For Dark Hole on leg, the Main Phase 2 restriction is the only reason that make it not so broken, the ATK lose is really small, probably too small. But for Cold Wave-like, just what? stop set cards without prevent any cards in hand? that's really strong, way too strong, even a turn, but that turn usually be the final turn of the game.

 

If only Card B also stop you from setting or activating a card from hand, it'll get my vote because Dark Hole on leg, when facing many decks, is too much, but in this case I'll vote Card A

[Northern Sage]

3-1 Card B
Doc Stein wins.

[Gregory the Gregory]

Dark Hole on leg.

I like that name.