Wave Motion Cannon

[Eshai]

Old but pretty awesome card for the meta it was in.

 

Wave Motion Cannon

Spell - Continuous

Current OCG: During your Main Phase, you can send this card to the Graveyard to inflict 1000 points of damage to your opponent for each of your Standby Phases that have passed since this card was activated.

 

An attempt at updating the OCG: You can send this card to the GY to inflict 1000 damage to your opponent for each of your Standby Phases since this card’s activation.

 

I'm thinking of making a card like this but I'm not quite sure how I want to do it. I want it to be the kind of the card that doesn't have support but can spawn some different kinds of Decks in the meta just because it would warrant the power level, but I would rather it not be good in your typical Trickstars (I'm sorry I meant YGOpro: Cancerstar the Odyssey.)

 

Any suggestions?

[Sleepy]

Umm it was a Continuous Spell, not a Normal Spell.

 

Oh how I remember this card. It was a better Final Countdown, requiring 16 turns, but being able to speed up 3x depending on the copies you got.

At the same time, possible to cancel, unlike Countdown where you just had to win first or you'd lose over there no matter what.

The card started going out of favor when removal became more prevalent, but a couple people tried it during the Synchro era because Stardust helped with that.

 

Nowadays each player on average has 2 to 4 turns before the game is over so the card has issues. It'd need some form of anti-target protection and maybe opt destruction protection to do something, and you'd still have to protect your own life in the process. It also needs to be searchable, which I remember people back then did with Different Dimension Capsule, and posteriorly with Gold Sarc......

 

Iirc, there is a Morphtronic with a similar effect to further aid the cause of this card. 

http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Morphtronic_Clocken

Just 100 points shy of a Machine Dupe play.

 

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You could make an equip with an effect that OPT let a monster gain X ATK/DEF, and that when popped, allowed you to gain that much LP (or make damage too, if you want the idea to be more akin to a win con like Wave Motion Cannon is).

 

Or you could make it a one-time card that placed a Counter on another face-up card and passed down the effect of time bomb building up. You could even make it into a field wipe instead of a LP burn (destroy 1 card x turn).

 

There are options.