Zushin the Sleeping Giant

[mshends]

Level 10 EARTH Warrior-Type Special Summon Effect Monster
ATK 0
DEF 0
Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned by Tributing 1 monster you control that has 10 Zushin Counters on it.
(1) Once per turn: Reveal this card in your hand until the end of the turn, then target 1 Level 1 Normal Monster on your field; place 1 Zushin Counter on that monster.
(2) This card is unaffected by other card effects.
(3) When this card battles another monster, during damage calcuation: This card’s ATK and DEF become equal to that monster’s ATK +1000 during damage calculation only.

[~British Soul~]

Pretty much similar to the anime version then (except it's also unaffected by card effects that don't target too). Shame the art is different.

Remember when this card was seen on the poster for the fake "World of Nightshroud" set last year?

[Hallohallo]

Oh wow. It took them that long to print this. It's gonna be a pain in the ass to summon this (just like in anime), unless they give some support for those counters.

[Atypical-Abbie]

Oh man, I remember this guy, one of the most interesting duels in the anime. How on earth you will actually manage to get 10 counters on something I have no idea, but I guess having multiple copies can cut it down somewhat.

[ENMaker]

Well if you have 3 in hand you can get it out in a mere 4 turns. Great stuff.

[Atypical-Abbie]

Oops, double posted.

[vla1ne]

so do you think somebody's gonna take this to a tournament and prove themselves to the world with it?

[Dokutah]

MY SPIRIT ANIMAL CARD IS PRINTED?! HUR DUR HURAAA!!!

 

but despite the hyper-joy. its still a challenge to summon this beast. it can be summoned faster sure. but fitting and protecting a level 1 Normal monster in your deck and play is not an easy feat. the dual nerf & buff on the requirement give me mixed feelings. as it can speed up the accumulation of counter by running more copies (flavor wise kinda live up the legend as the hardest common card to summoned) ...and therefore more bricking. but its less assuring than the original since you need to search this card first before you you start to gather the counters.

 

Zushin...SMASH!

[-kyo-]

you could use foolish burial then add it to you're hand with warrior returning alive but thats slower than most would like

[The Highlander]

Not that I would say monster reincarnation is a good card, however you could reveal it, cycle it and reveal again for a second counter and if you can keep something like that up can summon it in 1 turn or a mere 2 turns ... fusion gate loop to summon it in 1 turn ... for whatever that it worth.

[vla1ne]

Not that I would say monster reincarnation is a good card, however you could reveal it, cycle it and reveal again for a second counter and if you can keep something like that up can summon it in 1 turn or a mere 2 turns ... fusion gate loop to summon it in 1 turn ... for whatever that it worth.

it has to remain revealed until the end of the turn though, so revealing it and discarding it would do nothing. on the other hand, having 3 in hand would lead to 3 counters per turn if i'm reading it right. also, this card had better not be rare or short printed. it has to be the most common of any common card ever printed.

[~British Soul~]

also, this card better not be rare or short printed. It has to be the most common of any common card ever printed.

I wouldn't worry about that, it doesn't look like it'll be a Super in OCG (definitely common rarity here).

[Atypical-Abbie]

it has to remain revealed until the end of the turn though, so revealing it and discarding it would do nothing. on the other hand, having 3 in hand would lead to 3 counters per turn if i'm reading it right. also, this card had better not be rare or short printed. it has to be the most common of any common card ever printed.

Revealing it is a cost, you reveal it and keep it revealed is basically what that means, it places it counter after you first activate it, re-adding it would actually mean you can activate the card again.

[Jord200]

Huh. On one hand, I'm shocked we got this. On the other hand, I feel like this was to be expected at some point.

 

Pretty much similar to the anime version then (except it's also unaffected by card effects that don't target too). Shame the art is different.

Remember when this card was seen on the poster for the fake "World of Nightshroud" set last year?

 

 

Haha, yeah. I remember that. Good times.

[~British Soul~]

 

 

Haha, yeah. I remember that. Good times.

Good times indeed, especially since one of the cards was also Gimmick Box

[Delibirb]

Hype for super Bunilla!

[heraldry_lord]

Good times indeed, especially since one of the cards was also Gimmick Box

 

Sandaion, the Timelord was also one of the cards, which pleased me (though I'm sure some guys here shuddered at that).

[goodfusion]

Obviously you use a Petit Moth as the Level 1 Normal, so you can either go for Zushin to run over tough monsters or Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth for the whopping 3500 direct attacks!!!!!!!!

[Βyakuya]

This card was released a little too late. It's good enough that OCG doesn't have it, Kaijus just ruin this, no matter how you find some way to protect it.

[~British Soul~]

 

 

Sandaion, the Timelord was also one of the cards, which pleased me (Though I'm sure some guys here shuddered that).

True, though the reason why I brought up Gimmick Box was because it was the first thing I remembered from that fake poster. (One of four things, the others being Sandaion, this and Groundbreaking)

[heraldry_lord]

This card was released a little too late. It's good enough that OCG doesn't have it, Kaijus just ruin this, no matter how you find some way to protect it.

 

It would have been garbage even when it was shown in the anime; it's meant to be garbage.

[Kanashimi]

keeping L1 on the field is hard, and the easiest way to do is using Safe Zone

 

but then safe zone is easily pop*d with mst and the rest . . . but well we have Meklord Emperor Wisel to negate Spell eff, and L1 too

 

then again, that is if you really want to summon this card so badly, well for fun

[ENMaker]

It would have been garbage even when it was shown in the anime; it's meant to be garbage.

 

Never actually seen any 5Ds but from what I recall it wasn't supposed to be shite, just ridiculously hard to summon which made it essentially worthless and basically everyone had a copy of it.

[heraldry_lord]

Never actually seen any 5Ds but from what I recall it wasn't supposed to be shite, just ridiculously hard to summon which made it essentially worthless and basically everyone had a copy of it.

 

It is shite because it's so hard to Summon, no matter how powerful it is when you can actually bring it out.  Team Taiyou won most of their matches by other means, but in their very last duel in the WRGP, they managed to bring it out because no member of Team 5Ds had an answer to their Hand-Holding Genie setup.

 

My point is that even if it was released back then, it'd be virtually impossible to bring out, so saying it was released "too late" is pointless.  When I said it's meant to be trash, I didn't mean whoever created it in-universe intended it to be trash (though that's debatable); I meant that it being almost unusable and an "against-the-odds" card was what defined it in the anime, and if you wanted to be faithful to its flavour, the same should go for its IRL version.

[Miror B]

Combo with Arcana Force fool ftw. (just don't get heads if you Special Summon him face up )

 

I'll bet some gimmick deck user will try to splash this into Skull Servants or a similar deck.