[Leaderboard] tommers2008 vs Alpakha

[Nathanael D. Striker]

Rules:

All Leaderboard rules apply.
First to 3 votes or most votes by May 10th, 11:59PM PDT wins.
All voters must elaborate on their votes.
Both contestants and myself have the right to refuse votes, but must explain why we don't accept it.
Written cards are allowed. (Must be in written format, cards with blank pictures are not acceptable)
Card C Votes are allowed. 3 Card C votes result in a tie. If the deadline passes with Card C leading, then it's a tie.

Create a card with banishing as a secondary focus.

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The winner gets a rep from the loser.
All voters get a rep for voting.

Card A

Alien Mothership
****/Machine/Dark
Atk:1800/Def:1000
Once per turn, if this card destroys an opponents monster by battle you can, distribute A Counters to face-up monsters your opponent controls equal to the destroyed monsters Level. If this card is removed from the field except by battle Banish 1 monster on the field.

 

Card B

1 Tuner monster + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters

Your opponent cannot target other monsters you control with card effects. You can activate this effect during either player's turn: If this card was sent to the Graveyard by your opponent's card effect this turn, you can banish this card (during the End Phase) to Special Summon 1 "Spectrum Shielder" from your Extra Deck.

 

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

A lot of entries in this round seem to use the "banish a monster" path a lot, don't they?

 

Card A is more Alien support that banishes a monster, if your opponent is foolish enough to use effect removal on it.

Although with that in mind, not really familiar with Aliens, but this is another way to get the necessary counters. Also, still a relatively good beatstick.

 

Like a lot of cards, I have some reservations regarding its on-destruction effect (especially with stuff like Raigeki being common now) in multiples. Although with that being said, it's going to banish a monster regardless (if able), so indeed it can still backfire.

 

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Card B provides protection against Castel / 101 and other common threats; and can summon another copy of itself during the End Phase.

Being a generic Level 5 Synchro means that a few Decks will be able to run it (and certainly having an out to common threats is a plus).

 

So essentially, this card can replace itself two times if opponent is careless + destroys it with card effects. After the first one, your opponent will likely be smarter about carelessing using effect removal.

 

If this card replaced itself after being destroyed in any manner by your opponent [including battle], then I'd have a problem. But since it can still be run down in battle (2300 ATK is still on the lower end, although perfectly fine for a Level 5) and that won't trigger the effect, that balances it enough.

 

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I'm going with card B on this for overall usability. Honestly, I can see this being rather useful against certain cards nowadays.

Card A's really only useful with its intended Deck, unless you opt to randomly throw this in another Deck for the banishing thing.

[Nathanael D. Striker]

0-1 Card B

[Nathanael D. Striker]

0-1 Alpakha by timeout.