Pyro Cards [Casual Multiplies]

[Arcadia warlic]

"Iblis the Inferno Devil"

(Art Source: https://www.creativeuncut.com/gallery-11/gw2-fire-elemental.html)

(Pyro/Fusion/Effect/FIRE/Level 8/ATK 2800/DEF 200)

Effect: "Spirit of Flames" + "Inferno"
Must first be Special Summoned (from your Extra Deck) by banishing the above cards you control. If this card is Special Summoned: Place 1 Inferno Counter on it. Once per turn, during each of your Standby Phases: Place 1 Inferno Counter on this card. FIRE Pyro monsters you control gain 600 ATK for each Inferno Counter on this card during the Battle Phase. If a FIRE monster you control destroys an opponent's monster by battle: Inflict 1500 damage to your opponent. If this card would be destroyed by battle or card effect, you can banish 1 FIRE Pyro monster from your hand, field, GY instead.Pyro monster from your GY instead.

Lore: After fusing with an Inferno being, the Spirit of Flames became even more powerful, able to conjure vast blazes effortlessly. Its already great size is dwarfed by the flame avatar it conjures. As it burns matter, its power continues to grow, empowering other monsters of fire.

Notes:

• Name taken from the Japanese name of Spirit of Flames (Ifrit the Flame Spirit), wherein Iblis is a greater Ifrit (also incorporating in Inferno).

"Flame Immolation"

(Art Source: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/6qPrV)

Normal Spell Card

Effect: Add 1 level 8 or lower Pyro monster that cannot be Normal Summoned/Set from your Deck to your hand, and if you do, you can send 1 FIRE monster from your deck to the GY.

(Also supports Volcanics.)

[Darj]

ABC-Dragon Buster is a Contact Fusion that can "use" its materials from both field and GY, so this does have precedent.
In short, it's a FIRE beater that progressively gets bigger and with protection against destruction reminiscent of the Fusion Thunder Dragons. The burn is more of icing on cake. It can be a problem if the opponent happens to not run non-destructive removal to deal with, but in the competitive scene most decks do so I don't see this breaking anything. If it requires the materials on board then it's rather difficult to access for what it's worth, but if you enable to use it materials from the GY like ABC then it could be an amusing toy to mess with in mill-themed decks that could effortlessly get the 2 monsters in the GY. The trade-off being that both Inferno and Spirit of Flames are subpar in the current metas, but that can change anytime depending on what Koomy releases, since Spirit of Flames can be a welcomed FIRE-Attributed extender, akin to how some Mermail/Atlantean builds run Aqua Spirit every now and then.

By the way, "devil" is a word avoided by TCG for censorship reasons, so from a realistic standpoint you would have to go for another name. "Fiend" is usually the word they use as replacement.

[Arcadia warlic]

I meant for the redirection of destruction, apologies for the vague wording.

I tend to ignore such limitations for my own cards, though I do indeed recognize it would likely be censored as such. As stated in the post, it is effectively a Japanese name.

 

 

[TheWanderingMist]

21 hours ago, Arcadia warlic said:

I meant for the redirection of destruction, apologies for the vague wording.

I tend to ignore such limitations for my own cards, though I do indeed recognize it would likely be censored as such. As stated in the post, it is effectively a Japanese name.

 

 

All you'd have to do is add the words "your field or" as far as I can see (i.e., "If this card would be destroyed by battle or card effect, you can banish 1 FIRE Pyro monster from your field or GY instead."). There's probably some card out there that can already protect itself that way anyway.

[Darj]

Yeah, should be a non-controversial change even if it doesn't have any precedent. I would say the shared protection of the first-generation Six Sams are a solid example to follow.
Anyway, to be clear requiring both Inferno and Spirit of Flames on board to Summon is too steep to have any impact competitively, IMO, and even at a casual level because you would need the 2 different monsters at hand and at least 3 FIREs in the GY to banish, IIRC FIRE/Pyros are still unsearchable by practical means (no ROTA, no King of Feral Imps, etc.) and running multiple copies of them is asking for dead draws.

[Arcadia warlic]

Improved Iblis's protection effect and added in a consistency booster as per the feedback.