[Overhaul] Poker Joker Yarliqueen

[Darj]

2 Level 4 monsters
When this card is Xyz Summoned: You can add 1 "Full House, "Straight Flush" or "Three of a Kind" from your Deck to your hand. You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card, then activate 1 of these effects. Each effect can only be used once while this card is face-up on the field. You can only use this effect of "Poker Joker Yarliqueen" once per turn.

• Target 1 face-up Spell/Trap Card on the field; Set that target, and if it is an opponent's card, it cannot be activated.

• Target 1 Set Spell/Trap Card on the field; flip that target face-up, and if you do, force its activation OR negate its effects if the activation timing is incorrect. Also, that card remains on the field.

 

This card's detach effect used to copy Spell/Traps, then nerfed to copy Continuous Traps, but even that was deemed as problematic, so I decided to take a different approach, as a backrow disruptor, which in a way contributes with making 2 of the poker cards it searches, Full House and Straight Flush, more live, while clogging the opponent's S/T Zone.

 

To go more in-depth with the effects:

- The search effect adds flavor by relating this card with poker themed traps. Also, this perk may be relevant depending on the format, like when Full House was a side/meta call during Fire Fist formats.

- The first detach effect essentially disables face-up cards, including annoying floodgates or key archetype cards (Black Whirlwind, etc.). Also, not destroying may be handy sometimes as it prevents the targeted card from triggering any floating effect it may have (Geartown, Toy Vendor, etc.). Granted, the locked card may can still be used by bouncing it or using it as fodder (Scrap Dragon, etc.), but if you really want to remove said Spell/Trap from the field, there are other Rank4s for that job. OR you can use it on a card you own to effectively re-use it (dead Fiendish Chain, CotH/Oasis, etc.).

- The second detach effect is more to add another silly trick to the card, help with making Full House more live, while further empathizing this card's joker/prankster theme. Forcing activation may not be ideal when it could very well straight out negate the effect, but still, it can get silly by forcing the opponent into activating a card he/she doesn't desire to use at that time (e.g. a Virus card maybe?). Besides, anything chainable will most likely be activated in response to this card's effect anyway so this cute perk doesn't really hurt.

By the way, The "forcing activation" mechanic was borrowed from "Bait Doll", a rather underused card for obvious reasons; but when it is available in the Rank4 toolbox, it should become interesting.

 

 

Thoughts?

[(GigaDrillBreaker)]

I enjoy this quite a lot. First effect should probably end with "for as long as ~ remains face-up on the field" unless that was not the intent