[CIBR] Fire King Avatar Ganesha

[Dokutah]

CIBR-JP029 炎王獣 ガネーシャ En-Oh-Juu Ganesha (Fire King Avatar Ganesha)
Level 4 FIRE Beast-Warrior-Type Effect Monster
ATK 1800
DEF 200

You can only use the (1)st and (2)nd effects with this card name’s once per turn each.
(1) When a monster effect is activated, if you control this card (Quick Effect): You can negate that activation, and if you do, destroy 1 FIRE monster in your hand or that you control (other than this card).
(2) If this card is destroyed and sent to the GY: You can target 1 FIRE Beast/Beast-Warrior/Winged Beast monster in your GY, other than “Fire King Avatar Ganesha”; Special Summon it, but it has its effects negated (if any), also destroy it during the End Phase.

 

Sauce: https://ygorganization.com/thoselookabitpointyohremoverofobstacles/

[Snatch Steal]

IM SCREAMING. IS THIS REAL?

 

God I'm so glad I kept my old fire king cards. Negation and resurrection....it's beautiful. They need to bait it out with a spell/trap card, which would likely destroy it and activate the second effect.

 

I guess it doesn't make fire king that much more viable due to floaters, but I sense floaty decks could end up getting nerfed kind of hard, like Burning Abyss.

 

Also props to Konami for keeping the lore of the east-Asian cultures. It's cool learning about them.

[Atypical-Abbie]

Well, this seems pretty damn good for them, high ATK, Level 4, Beast-Warrior, the whole lot. Interesting note is that it only negates activations, so you could make Garunix not destroy the whole field.

[Tinkerer]

I kinda just wanna build a generic FIRE Self-destruction deck now...

 

Anyway, this seems like it does much more for FKs than that Mermail card does for that, though both are amusingly fairly generic. Being able to counter opponent's floating for a "cost" that's liable to not be a cost at all is pretty nice.

 

As for myself... Looks like my Hazy Flame Cerberus found a partner-in-crime since it searches off destruction, can search itself, and is Beast-type.

[Guest BGMCANN0N]

Combos really well with Circle of the Fire Kings as that card in itself is a minus 1. Hitting this with Cirlce would make it neutral, and also a possible way to make an Xyz, Synchro, or Link.