[SD35] Salamangreat Mole

[Thomas★Zero]

Salamangreat Mole
Level 1 FIRE
Cyberse/Effect
During the Main Phase of a turn in which you Link Summoned a Link Monster: You can Special Summon this card from your hand to your Monster Zone that a Link Monster points to. If you control no monsters: You can banish this card from the GY, then target 5 “Salamangreat” cards in your GY; shuffle all of those cards into your Deck, and if you do, draw 2 cards. You can only activate each effect of "Salamangreat Mole" once per turn.
ATK/0 DEF/0

[The Highlander]

Well, Meer is clearly outmatched (though it being one of the better ones still means it is worth plyaing), I mean with Falco Meer is a "invest 2 cads for 2 vanilla materials", while this card is also an "invest 1 card for 1 material", only that it can easily be triggered with any level 4 or lower salamangreat into veilynx (Link 1) and later a Pot of Avarice for its archtype, not to mention Veilynx's very existence makes the "have 5 monsters to recylce" part ridiculously easy, 2 level 4 or lower Salamangreats into a link 2 already send 4 materials to the grave and another one to the field.

The card is definitely solid and much better with the existence of Salamangreat Veilynx (in meeting the conditions for both effects).

[Thomas★Zero]

Agreed this card is quite handy as its a archetypal version of Link Infra-Flier where if you summon Veilynx you can get this from your hand to ladder into Sunlight Wolf and in addition to that with all the other Salamangreat Support and Extra Deck monsters used the avarice effect won't heavily fill your Main Deck up as at least 2 or 3 of the cards you return with moles effect will be Extra Deck cards.

[BlackBeartic]

While this is easily their best monster in their main deck barring Meer for starting plays, it irks me that they held on to printing this for so long.

Imo it took way too long to give them another monster to initiate plays, especially when mole was shown in the same episode that the other SGs from Savage Strike got printed in. I get saving the "better stuff for later" but yeesh.

That said yeah, amazing card. One for One target and can be summoned at any point during the turn as long as you have summoned a Link. Also searchable by Lady Debugger which is even better. Now to give them better high link monsters and we actually have a decentish casual deck to play. (Maybe one more play starter but that might be a bit greedy, maybe a S/T Rota since they still have no real searcher).

That does bring up the question though, how many more new cards are we getting in this structure. I believe mole brings it up to 3 cards currently.

[Thomas★Zero]

That does bring up the question though, how many more new cards are we getting in this structure. I believe mole brings it up to 3 cards currently.

Well for what I can think off the Extra Deck has 2 Heatleo (one OG art, one Alt art) and 1 Lynx which leaves the remaining 3 to be potential new Salamangreats of either Fusion, Synchro and ect. In addition the main deck at least has 2 new cards so am going to hazard a guess that we might get in terms of new stuff mostly Extra Deck and Spell and Trap Support for them in this like say 4 new Extra Deck (considering 2 of the 6 are Heatleo) 1 or 2 new monsters and possible 2+ Spell/Traps which would lead to something like 8 to 10 new cards for Salamangreat. Also does lead to the question of what past support they will have included in this deck as well.

[BlackBeartic]

Well for what I can think off the Extra Deck has 2 Heatleo (one OG art, one Alt art) and 1 Lynx which leaves the remaining 3 to be potential new Salamangreats of either Fusion, Synchro and ect. In addition the main deck at least has 2 new cards so am going to hazard a guess that we might get in terms of new stuff mostly Extra Deck and Spell and Trap Support for them in this like say 4 new Extra Deck (considering 2 of the 6 are Heatleo) 1 or 2 new monsters and possible 2+ Spell/Traps which would lead to something like 8 to 10 new cards for Salamangreat. Also does lead to the question of what past support they will have included in this deck as well.

In terms of past support, I would think Meer and Will of the SG (SG Heart in OCG) would be good bets since they're some of the best cards. Then again I have no idea how konami works when marketing structures, especially since this is probably the only one i've paid any attention to recently.

 

If there is to be another new Spell I would heavily hope it's a ROTA of some kind. These guys really need it honestly lmao.

[~ P O L A R I S ~]

Not a huge fan of Salamangreats so far but it's another free Cyberse Special Summon from the hand for what that's worth. We can only go so far into the VRAINS before Cyberse as a type starts to do something.