Appliancers debut in Collector’s Pack 2020

[Dokutah]

When the help around the house goes haywire.

Appliancer Socketroll
DARK/1/Machine/Effect/100/100
You can only use each of this card name’s (1)(2) effects once per turn.
1. If you control an “Appliancer” monster: You can Special Summon this card from your hand.
2. If an “Appliancer Socketroll” is Special Summoned to your field while you control this monster: You can Special Summon 1 “Appliancer Socketroll” from your Deck.

Appliancer Breakerbuncle
WATER/1/Machine/Effect/0/0
1. During damage calculation, if your “Appliancer” monster battles an opponent’s monster: You can discard this card; your battling monster cannot be destroyed by that battle, also, you take no battle damage from that battle.
2. If an “Appliancer” monster you control would be destroyed by card effect, you can banish this card from your field/GY instead.

Appliancer Copybokkle
DARK/1/Machine/Effect/0/0
You can only use each of this card name’s (1)(2) effects once per turn.
1. During your Main Phase: You can target 1 “Appliancer” you control; Special Summon this card from your hand, and if you do, this card’s name is treated as the name of that target until the End Phase.
2. During your Main Phase, except the turn this card was sent to the GY: You can banish this card in your GY, then target 1 “Appliancer” monster you control; Special Summon 1 monster with the same name from your hand or Graveyard.

Appliancer Celtopus
DARK/Machine/Link/Effect/0/LINK-2/BL, B
2 “Appliancer” monsters
1. This card cannot be targeted for attacks or opponent’s card effects while it is Linked.
2. During Damage Calculation, if an “Appliancer” Link Monster you control that is co-linked to this card battles an opponent’s monster: That co-linked monster gains 1000 ATK for each monster co-linked to this card during that Damage Calculation only.
3. Once per turn, if an “Appliancer” Link Monster you control that is not co-linked to this card is destroyed by battle or by card effect: You can Draw 1 card.

Appliancer Vacculephant
DARK/Machine/Link/Effect/1000/LINK-1/TR
1 “Appliancer” monster
You can only one of this card name’s (1) or (2) effects per turn, and only once per turn. You cannot use this card as Link Material during the turn it is Link Summoned.
1. During your Main Phase: You can send 1 card from your hand to the Graveyard, then target 1 card your opponent controls; destroy that card.
2. During your Main Phase, if this card is co-linked: You can target 1 monster in your opponent’s Main Monster Zone; destroy that monster.
3. If this card is not co-linked, it can attack directly.

Appliancer Scale
WATER/Machine/Link/Effect/0/LINK-1/T
1 “Appliancer” monster
You can only use each of this card name’s (1)(2) effects once per turn. You cannot use this card as Link Material during the turn it is Link Summoned.
1. During your Main Phase: You can Tribute this co-linked card; Special Summon 1 “Appliancer” Link Monster from your Graveyard, except “Appliancer Scale”.
2. During your Main Phase: You can Tribute this card that is not co-linked; Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower “Appliancer” monster from your Graveyard.

Appliancer Dryer Drake
FIRE/Machine/Link/Effect/0/LINK-1/TR
1 “Appliancer” monster
You cannot use this card as Link Material during the turn it is Link Summoned.
1. This card gains 1000 ATK while it is linked.
2. Once, during your Battle Phase, if this card is co-linked: You can switch the locations of 2 “Appliancer” monsters in your Main Monster Zones, including this card, and if you do, that other monster can make 2 attacks during each Battle Phase this turn.
3. Once per turn, when this card is targeted for an attack while it is not co-linked: You can negate that attack.

Appliancer Laundry Dragon
WATER/Machine/Link/Effect/1500/LINK-1/T
1 “Appliancer” monster
You cannot use this card as Link Material during the turn it is Link Summoned.
1. Neither player takes battle damage from battles involving this card.
2. Once per turn, if this co-linked card battles an opponent’s monster, after damage calculation: You can Banish that opponent’s monster.
3. Once per turn, if this card battles an opponent’s monster whlie it is not co-linked, after damage calcluation: You can destroy that monster, and if you do, inflict damage to your opponent equal to its original ATK.

Appliancer Reuse
Normal Spell
1. Target 1 “Appliancer” monster in your Graveyard; Special Summon that monster, but it it is sent to the bottom of its owner’s deck if it leaves the field.

Appliancer Test
Normal Spell
You can only activate one card with this card’s name per turn.
1. Target 1 “Appliancer” Link Monster you control; Special Summon as many Link 1 “Appliancer” Link Monsters as possible from your GY to zones that it points to, but they are banished during the End Phase.

Appliancer Electrilyrical World
Field Spell
You can only activate 1 card with this card’s name per turn.
1. When this card is activated: You can add 1 “Appliancer” card from your deck to your hand, except a Field Spell card.
2. Once per turn, if an “Appliancer” Link Monster is Link Summoned to your field: You can add 1 “Appliancer” monster from your Graveyard to your hand.
3. Once per turn, when either player’s monster declares an attack: You can move one “Appliancer” monster you control to another of your Main Monster Zones.

Source:

https://ygorganization.com/applyyourself/

[The Highlander]

I am under the impression that they are always just 1 monsters short (for a 2-card combo) to get out 4 monsters, so that might be problematic.

That being said, the access to "Where Arf! Thou ?", "One for One", "World Legacy Succession",  "World Legacy's Sorrow", "Machine Duplication" etc is not bad.

Furthermore the Field Spell is quite good (and with Ka_ppa Scale the downside of Appliancer Test is practically non-existent (see (*))).

Edit: Apart from Meklords (the anime versions) this archtype should be the closest to Valon's Armor archtype that we have gotten thus far.

 

(*) Reviving Ka_ppa Scale  and another monsters to be used for a second Ka_ppa Scale allows to effectively get out the 2 Link 1s without them still being tied to Appliancer Test (1 from the ED and 1 from the GY and for later Tests one can revive 2 Ka_ppa to do the same, furthermore one should always get 1 in the grave through laddering when setting up the field).

[Darj]

Overall, they look like having good swarming power, and the different Links act as problem solvers. I'm not sure if that's enough to make them meta-worthy though, and they are missing on spell speed 2+ disruption. As Level 1s they do get access to a handful of toys, like the ones mentioned above as well as the Lyrilusc to search D.D. Crow. DARK/Machine makes me think of Orcust Crescendo, but IDK if an Orcust engine would mesh well with them.

[Rayfield Lumina]

Am I missing something? Because I feel that Laundry Dragon is powerful as hell. 1500 ATK for a Link 1 mob, summonable by anything in the archetype. It's arrow pointing upwards can be remedied by the field, then the next moment the thing begins to banish or destroy + inflict direct damage simply by attacking depending on it's Link situation? Holy crap, neither player takes battle damage, you can ram it into something nasty and get rid of it while damaging the opponent greatly. Or does it need to stay on the field to resolve such effects?

[Darj]

On paper it doesn't look good enough to me. As said, they got tools to remove problems on board, including that card but have little to no means to disrupt the opponent from setting up, or protecting your own combos. A monster that removes threats by battle can only go so far. Just take a look as Shaddoll Construct: her effect may not banish, but she is just as accessible, and yet it rarely lasts on the board until your next turn. Looks like this archetype would rely on board breakers like Forbidden Drop and Ruler No More to break though disruption/negation boards.

[Friend of Justice]

Ok, This is exciting as all get out. But Konami, this isn't what I wanted! Give me my Drones! *Proceeds to have a minor 3 second tantrum*