Gympie Gympie the Self-Slaying Shrub (10 Nights of Fright 2019 Card #4)

[Black D'Sceptyr]

Card #4 is up now, and well, it's a unique one even for its own genus.

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Normal Trap Card  

Lore: Target 1 monster your opponent controls; Special Summon this card as an Effect Monster (Plant/FIRE/Level 8/ATK 0/DEF 2500), and if you do, send all other monsters on the field to the GY when this card leaves the field, except that monster. (This is also still a Trap.) During the End Phase, if this card was Summoned; Set it to your Spell & Trap Zone, then if your opponent took battle damage from an attack involving this card, you win the Duel when this card leaves the Spell & Trap Zone, except by its own effect. If you control no cards, you can activate this card from your hand.

So welcome, one and all, to Dendrocnide Moroides incarnate, which often goes by the name 'Gympie Gympie'. It is the most toxic of the Australian species of stinging trees. One such person exposed to the toxins this tree produces was Ernie Rider, in 1963 and, well, by his own words... "For two or three days the pain was almost unbearable; I couldn’t work or sleep...{T)he stinging persisted for two years and recurred every time I had a cold shower. ... There's nothing to rival it; it's ten times worse than anything else.[9]

To summarize just how horrifying so cutely named a plant can be....

Now that we have that gif out of the way, this card is the first Trap Monster to have a win conditions, making stuff like Durendal and Fantastic Theatre an out-and-out kill switch. However, due to it not having ATK, you'll need to do some trickery to get up its stats. Don't worry, thanks to stuff like Moon Mirror Shield and company, this should be a milestone. Beyond that, it's a faster Extinction on Schedule with Infinite Impermanence triggers that can easily perform a similiar job to Nibiru in the right circumstances.

So that's a fun way to have a unit of a Plant coming up on you in 2019, isn't it? 

Until the next card, tricks, treats, you know the drill. BD'S, signing off.