Dark Blade the Dragon Knight

[goodfusion]

 

"Dark Blade" + "Pitch-Dark Dragon"
Each time this card inflicts Battle Damage to your opponent, you can select up to 3 Monster Cards from your opponent's Graveyard and remove them from play.

 

I quite like Dark Blade and his Unions. A deck using them is much easier to use with Fusion Reserve an Conscription existing.

 

Anyway, I'm just kind of annoyed that Union monsters are still strongly lacking in support. Combination Attack is basically an OTK card, except there aren't good enough targets for it. Roll Out and stuff is cool, but still not that good.

 

If Dark Blade were to ever get legacy support, a Fusion of him + Kiryu would be nice.

 

Anyway, discuss this card, or the Dark Blade theme in general.

[GarlandChaos]

Dark Blade and his support and related cards were always favorites of mine, but c'mon, Konami. The cards are pretty shite nowadays.

 

So retrain 'em. You guys know you want to make these bad boys into Pendulums.

[goodfusion]

Pendulums, idk. Dark Blade does technically have a retrain already, Dark Blade the Captain of the Evil World, but there is no real reason to use him in a Dark Blade deck except as a side deck card. Or you just wanted it to fit with the theme and didn't actually care about how much synergy it would have.

 

There is potential for an Archetype there though, and with the support Konami has made for Gaia the Fierce Knight I wouldn't be too surprised if they made Dark Blade an archetype.

[Sleepy]

It'll probably get a newer retrain eventually. It was one of those iconic cards from back in the day when 1800 and 1900 ATK vanillas were good, and Konami likes catering to nostalgia a lot.

Then again, the retrain we currently have sounds pretty solid, though it needs to have the unions retrained. Also, it lacks in flavor because Dark Blade has been known to tame dragons, not LIGHT.

 

I still think the whole lore that constitutes "Union" should have been included in the rulebook and not on the card, just so that:

a ) There would be more space for actually different effects in the text box (the Union lore takes up about half the lines on them).

b ) The term "Union" itself could be updated and help the older ones carry on with the newer support. The way we have them, most of them only protect the monster from being destroyed by battle. Some of the newer ones decided to protect against any kind of destruction. If it were to be updated again, I'd vote for them to erase the restriction of one Union per monster at a time. Things like that. It's not like the game doesn't already have keywords like "banish" or "piercing", even if those examples are much more simple than this.