Tournemant Ghostrick Support

[Spinny]

3 cards for the tournemant that are currently probably overpowered but i mean, it's ghostricks and im limited to 3 cards to make them competitive so?
[spoiler= Ghostrick Imposter Pirate]

https://gyazo.com/44645af0e3ce211917c2a26dfc16ca65 or

https://www.duelingbook.com/card?id=220535

(Quick Effect) Discard this card and target 1 monster the opponent controls; Special Summon 1 "Ghostrick" monster from your deck and turn both the summoned monster and the target to face-down defense position. If the target cannot be turned to defense position, return it to the hand. You may shuffle this card from your graveyard into your deck: change the battle position of 1 monster on the field. You may only use each effect of "Ghostrick Imposter Pirate" per turn.

 

 

[spoiler= Ghostrick Imposter Empress]

https://gyazo.com/49a4b228efeb045c51740486fda0fe1c or

https://www.duelingbook.com/card?id=220596

2 "Ghostrick" Monsters

Other "Ghostrick" cards and set cards you control cannot be destroyed by card effects. If a set card(s) is activated or flipped face-up (other than by this card's effect): You may target 1 monster on the field; change it's battle position. Shuffle that monster into the deck instead if you cannot. If this card is sent to the Graveyard: You can target 1 other "Ghostrick" card in your Graveyard; add that target to your hand.

 

 

[spoiler= Ghostrick Malevolent March]

https://gyazo.com/2861bfc7c772370848b88e10d9eb7e8d or

https://www.duelingbook.com/card?id=220695

Monsters cannot attack face-down Defense Position monsters, but can attack directly if all monsters their opponent controls are face-down Defense Position. (Quick Effect) If you control no face-up monsters: Change the battle position of each monster you control; Draw 1 card, then Special Summon 1 "Ghostrick" monster from your hand. (Quick Effect) If you control no face-down monsters: Set all monsters on the field into face-down defense position. You may only use 1 effect of "Ghostrick Malevolent March" per turn and only once that turn.

 

 

 

How to nerf/ change if necessary? I think i probably over did it with the quick effects and trying to slow the opponent down but uh, oh well. (by alot)

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Darj]

No need to add "Imposter" in their names, IMO.

 

Pirate:

Really pushing it. It's pretty much an archetype Book of Moon/Compulsory hand trap that also comes with a +1 Summon. This card can pretty much deny the opponent from extending ED ladders at all. Not to mention that you can keep it grabbing back with the floating effects of most of the Ghostrick Xyzs. Maaaybe remove the Ghostrick Summon and it may be acceptable, IDK. You would have to make it require a Ghostrick on the field, hand or GY, though, otherwise it would be splashable.

 

Empress:

Like Pirate it can also lock the opponent from summoning from the ED, although this has a condition that the opponent can see coming so in that way it's not as oppressive as Pirate. Still, IMO it's a bit too nasty that it protects the Set cards that enable its second effect. This card pretty much would give Ghostricks an advantageous match-up vs. ED-reliant decks, which is... most of the current metagame, except for maybe Altergeist, as well as Dinosaurs & variants. While that's not a bad thing, I cannot be get flashbacks of Evilswarms, which were mostly relevant once for locking out Dragon Rulers and Spellbooks, but lost to anything else. A major difference is that nowadays all ED-based decks rely on an ED Zone and Links to advance their plays, precisely the Zone and monster type this card will be denying. Maybe nerf it to negate the effect or drop the ATK of the monster whose position cannot be changed.

 

March:

Another Field for Ghostricks, as if they didn't have enough already :v

Spell/Traps are not confirmed to have quick effects, to far those are only written in monsters. You can use good old "during either player's turn" instead. Anyway, seems to me this is a faster Merry-Go-Round. I remember seeing that card in action and it managed to lock even Zoodiacs in their prime IIRC so a Field spell speed 2 version of it should do wonders for the archetype. You can even splash it in Flip decks to trigger flip effects right away, sweet!

This is a card I would prefer to see in action to better grasp its impact.

The first effect is strange, though, since it flips by cost, not effect, and IIRC there is not any card that does that.  Also it requires a Ghostrick on hand to Summon so I assume if you don't have any, you cannot activate the effect in the first place?

[Tinkerer]

No need to add "Imposter" in their names, IMO.

 

Pirate:

Really pushing it. It's pretty much an archetype Book of Moon/Compulsory hand trap that also comes with a +1 Summon. This card can pretty much deny the opponent from extending ED ladders at all. Not to mention that you can keep it grabbing back with the floating effects of most of the Ghostrick Xyzs. Maaaybe remove the Ghostrick Summon and it may be acceptable, IDK. You would have to make it require a Ghostrick on the field, hand or GY, though, otherwise it would be splashable.

 

I mean, it's already really splashable. If I were in the tourney, I'd have tossed 3 in my deck since it can summon another copy of itself, become Linkuriboh fodder, and shuffles itself back into the deck so none of the copies would ever be dead draws.

 

Maybe change the Summon effect to only Summon other Ghostricks and have it only work if you control no face-up cards/only have Ghostrick cards?

 

 

Empress feels fine-ish? As it is, it's actually looks surprisingly difficult to out, but getting it onto the field actually sets back most Ghostrick plays. At the very least, though, I'd recommend dropping its ATK to something more... manageable (especially considering Ghostrick aren't exactly known for their stats).

 

 

March is certainly something. On the one hand, it works pretty well for Ghostricks. On the other hand... It works ridiculously well for Link spam Decks, because it becomes a costless Book of Eclipse that's searchable by Terraforming and enables all your monsters to attack directly so... yeah. You should probably swap the conditions (i.e. Book of Eclipse effect if you only control Sets + Draw/SS effect if you only control face-ups).