[Leaderboard] XOXO vs Papyrus

[Nathanael D. Striker]

Rules:
All Leaderboard rules apply.
PM the card to me.
First to 3 votes or most by 1:15pm PDT on 11/1 wins.
If there are no votes after the deadline, next vote wins.
All voters must elaborate on their votes.
My opponent and I 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)
Create a monster that can Special Summon itself from the hand.

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

Card A

D.D. Jester
LV 7
Fiend/Effect
DARK
3000/3000
While you control no monsters, you can banish 5 monsters from your graveyard; Special Summon this card (from your hand). You cannot Special Summon monsters from the Extra Deck during the turn you activate this effect. When a monster is summoned: Negate it's effects until the End Phase. When this card is sent to the graveyard: You can add 1 Banished card to your hand

Card B

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(This card is always treated as a "Penguin" monster). All "Penguin" monsters you control gain 500 ATK. You can send 1 Aqua-type monster from your hand to the Graveyard; Special Summon this card (from your hand). You can only Special Summon 1 "Emperor Penguardian" per turn.

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

Card A requires you have an empty field and at least 5 monsters to banish for its summon (so I guess in heavy mill decks or something). Though it is essentially a Breakthrough Skill in most senses (well, activation-wise), so it does stop monsters from triggering on summon (happens a bit nowadays).

 

As much as I'd like to say Chaos decks can run this, since they'll probably recover stuff anyway, don't think it's ideal; especially since you also get negated. Though, you can still retrieve something when it goes, so there's that.

 

Though, I guess you can use this as a last resort option mid/late-game; provided you don't care about your ED.

 

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Card B is a lot simpler to work with; ditch a Penguin (or whatever Aqua you want) and this comes out.

Also gives Penguins a little power boost; if I remember correctly, they aren't very strong offensive-wise, so increasing damage output is nice.

 

Plus, it's a Penguin itself so it benefits from its own effect; 2300 ATK isn't bad at all.

 

There's also possible Rank 6s with this card in certain Decks, though at time of writing, can't necessarily think of any.

Penguins don't have any; if this were a 5, you could probably do stuff with Great Emperor or something.

 

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In all, I'll give my vote to A on this one.

I might not agree with its summoning conditions, but given the amount of Graveyard usage, it might actually be more feasible than I made it out to be here.

 

B is nice for its intended Deck, but that's about it.

[Nathanael D. Striker]

1-0 A

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

Unless any of the participants has any complaints about the voting, card A wins 1-0.

(At present, it's 1:08 pm HST, which is two hours behind Striker's zone [now that DST is over])