XX-Saber Gottoms, Swordmaster

[Beerus]

 

1 Tuner + 1 or more "X-Saber" monsters
When this card is Synchro Summoned successfully: Both players send 1 card from their hands to the Graveyard. Once per turn, you can reveal 1 "Saber" or "Gottoms" card from your hand; Shuffle that card to the Deck then you can Special Summon 1 "X-Saber" monster from your hand or Graveyard. When this card is destroyed by battle: You can target 1 face-up non-Tuner "X-Saber" monster; treat that monster as Tuner as long as that monster stays on the field.

[Dramatic Crossroad]

Although this card kind-of looks the part, i think X-Sabers are completed as they are now the X's (roman numeral for 10) are already 10 at count so are the XXs, so i don't think this would fit in either.

The last effect kind takes it a bit over the top, i mean, sabers can swarm as quick as fudge and this card does indeed have a nice corresponding swarm theme to go, but once they received "Saber Reflect" i doubt they would need further support. 

 

And you need to plan what materials have to be run if this would be indeed played. 

Since most of the popular saber tuners are lv3, you might have to consider Wayne/Gardestrike. 

[Darj]

Both players discarding a card is fine.

Technically turning a Saber/Gottoms card in your hand into a monster is also fine in my opinion.

But the last effect doesn't feel right. As Crossroad pointed out, X-Sabers recently got "Saber Reflect" which searches exactly the same card, and giving a monster virtually the same effect feels... unoriginal, and yet another searcher of Gottoms E-Call for X-Sabers might not be fair. Also the "when this card leaves the field" condition is quite powerful.

 

My suggestion is to remove the last effect and give it a different effect, because a copy/paste effect of Saber Reflect hurts the card originality.

 

Regarding the card's flavor, It is true that "X-Saber" (with a single X) is reserved to the original 10 Sabers. At the same time, XX is a reference to the total number of Sabers after counting both X and XX Sabers, which is 20, so it would break the flavor if you renamed this card as an XX-Saber for a total of 21 Sabers.

However, something you can do either leave it as an "X-Saber" or naming it as "XX-Saber" and state that Dartoms is either one of the original 20 Sabers but with a different armor (read about the speculation behind Urbellum and Souza) and possibly a different age as well, or the descendant/incarnation of one of them. In both cases, given this card's name and appearance, I think this card could very well be either a younger Gottoms (has a lower ATK, DEF and Level than the original) or a descendant of him. Therefore, I believe would be more flavorful if you went for "XX-Saber Dartoms" and changed its type to Beast-Warrior.

 

@Crossroad: The card can be easily dropped with Fautroll+Pashuul

[Beerus]

Both players discarding a card is fine.

Technically turning a Saber/Gottoms card in your hand into a monster is also fine in my opinion.

But the last effect doesn't feel right. As Crossroad pointed out, X-Sabers recently got "Saber Reflect" which searches exactly the same card, and giving a monster virtually the same effect feels... unoriginal, and yet another searcher of Gottoms E-Call for X-Sabers might not be fair. Also the "when this card leaves the field" condition is quite powerful.

 

My suggestion is to remove the last effect and give it a different effect, because a copy/paste effect of Saber Reflect hurts the card originality.

 

Regarding the card's flavor, It is true that "X-Saber" (with a single X) is reserved to the original 10 Sabers. At the same time, XX is a reference to the total number of Sabers after counting both X and XX Sabers, which is 20, so it would break the flavor if you renamed this card as an XX-Saber for a total of 21 Sabers.

However, something you can do either leave it as an "X-Saber" or naming it as "XX-Saber" and state that Dartoms is either one of the original 20 Sabers but with a different armor (read about the speculation behind Urbellum and Souza) and possibly a different age as well, or the descendant/incarnation of one of them. In both cases, given this card's name and appearance, I think this card could very well be either a younger Gottoms (has a lower ATK, DEF and Level than the original) or a descendant of him. Therefore, I believe would be more flavorful if you went for "XX-Saber Dartoms" and changed its type to Beast-Warrior.

 

@Crossroad: The card can be easily dropped with Fautroll+Pashuul

Card updated.

[Darj]

Actually, I think the first effect would still be fine if it only discarded an opponent's card. Just make sure you put a hard OPT clause on it (You can only use this effect of "X" once per turn) to avoid killing the entire opponent's hand with loops.