Ryusei the Morning Star Posted March 22, 2016 Report Share Posted March 22, 2016 During either player's turn: You can discard this card to the Graveyard to target 1 card in your opponent's Graveyard; banish that target. So this card has, become the power side card of the Format. For Example, back in July, Super Poly was the power-side to due to it's ability to convert any two XYX's or Synchro's into Norden. Furthermore it hit almost every deck in the metagame. A similar situation has arisen with D.D. Crow. The top two decks of the format, Blue Eyes and Phantom Abyss both greatly rely on the grave since much of the engines target cards in the grave ie. Dante, Break Sword, Gospel, Reborn etc. Moving down from the top two decks, why is the old guard so divided? Qli's performing much better than both Nekroz and Shaddoll. In the case of Nekroz, DD Crow can damage the Exciton Game, can make Diagusto fizzle, and invalidate Djinn as a threat. Shaddoll have it worse. Nothing works simply put. The Fusions can't grab the spells. Falco can't float. DMoC loses his Target. You can make Pot of Avarice fizzle with on calm discard. Qli on the other hand couldn't care less about their graveyard. Why are Heros having moderate success despite being so grave Heavy? That's simple. Crow cannot activate under Law. The last time I recall D.D. Crow having this much of a warping impact on the game was during Tele-DAD (funny cause TeleDAD is basically at full power in OCG atm). The show goes on however. Not only does Crow take a sheet on the current meta, it even hits the future ones such as Metaphys and Shiranui. It's kinda refreshing to see a 10 year old card have a sway over the metagame again though :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slinky Posted March 22, 2016 Report Share Posted March 22, 2016 Why are you making assumptions on a format that hasn't started yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryusei the Morning Star Posted March 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2016 Why are you making assumptions on a format that hasn't started yet? Assumption: thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof >we've had a good 10 decent sized tournaments using the new list? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaiji Posted March 22, 2016 Report Share Posted March 22, 2016 This looks way to fair, resources that hit the grave are usually the result of cards paying for themselves ie they're free. The BA Abyss context is awful since the deck utilizes Beatrice to dump free resources if dante or the detached Xyz Material hasn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryusei the Morning Star Posted March 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2016 This looks way to fair, resources that hit the grave are usually the result of cards paying for themselves ie they're free. The BA Abyss context is awful since the deck utilizes Beatrice to dump free resources if dante or the detached Xyz Material hasn't.I mean it's fair. But it's exceedingly good at what it does due being able to stop engine and powerspells in their tracks Also why Soul Charge is more popular than reborn make sense now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maeriberii Haan Posted March 22, 2016 Report Share Posted March 22, 2016 maybe you're mistaking a card having useful utility with a card having warping effect on the meta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryusei the Morning Star Posted March 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2016 maybe you're mistaking a card having useful utility with a card having warping effect on the meta.Yeah, maybe. I guess, I figured that being able to shut down a swath of limited power spells and interrupting the engine of 4 major decks could be considered Meta warping, but I suppose that was a bit dramatic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ihop Posted March 22, 2016 Report Share Posted March 22, 2016 Although the interactions Crow has are numerous, they're also really mediocre most of the time. Crowing a Break Sword? It's got its value simply by hitting the board and needing to be removed. Same goes for stuff like Dante, Construct etc. Throwing away a card just to stop what is essentially a bonus effect in the case of a lot of these cards isn't going to get you anywhere, you need to be hitting really high-value targets to make it worth it. Veiler is a good hand trap because you can hit genuinely important and devastating effects. The number of such effects that Crow hits is incredibly low. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(GigaDrillBreaker) Posted March 22, 2016 Report Share Posted March 22, 2016 I remember both it and Cycle Reader were pretty dope against HAT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toffee. Posted March 22, 2016 Report Share Posted March 22, 2016 I remember both it and Cycle Reader were pretty dope against HAT. Cycle against Artifacts sound really gimmicky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ihop Posted March 22, 2016 Report Share Posted March 22, 2016 Cycle against Artifacts sound really gimmicky. It was, especially considering that the majority of the time the issue was Moralltach being triggered by Sanctum. Cycle Reader was just an overhyped card from when people thought pure Artifacts were a thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(GigaDrillBreaker) Posted March 22, 2016 Report Share Posted March 22, 2016 Even at that time, crow was better, since it could stop Dionaea, but damn did cycle reader work well when it worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryusei the Morning Star Posted March 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2016 I remember both it and Cycle Reader were pretty dope against HAT. It was Chronofacts last I checked cause Nebra did live in the grave for a bit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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