Lafish Archetype [written] (feedback appreciated)

[Loleo]

Lafish Pike

Equip spell

Can only be equipped to an aqua, fish, monster you control. The equipped monster gains 200 ATK for Each "Lafish" card you control. The equipped monster gains an additional attack during each battle phase for each FIRE monster on the field. If the equipped monster attacks a defense position monster, inflict piercing battle damage to your opponent. You can only attack with the equipped monster and the equipped monster cannot attack directly

Lafish Aquactress level 3 FIRE Fish 300/100

If this card is normal summoned you can add one "Aquactress" monster except "Lafish Aquactress" and one field spell that list WATER in its text from your deck or GY to your hand. (Quick effect) you can destroy this card: deal 50 damage for each "Aquactress" monster you control times the number of WATER monsters in your GY.

Lafish Castle Field Spell

If this card is activated or destroyed: you can add one "Lafish" card from your deck to your hand. Change all instances of WATER in an effect to FIRE. All WATER monsters you control and in your GY are also treated as FIRE monsters. This card is unaffected by its own effect.

Lafish Fencing Continous Spell

Once per turn when a FIRE monster battles: Before the damage step destroy both battling monsters, then deal 500 damage yo your opponent and both players can special summon a monster from their hand or GY with the same Attribute as their destroyed monster.

Lafish Princess level 1 FIRE Fish 300/100

You can tribute this card; Special summon up to 2 monsters from either players GY. Monsters Special summoned by this effect cannot attack or activate their effects and their attack becomes 0 unless they are a WATER "Lafish" Monsters. You cannot Special summon monsters from the extra deck the turn you activate this effect.

Lafish Suship level 1 FIRE Fish 300/100

If you control no monsters or only WATER Aqua/Fish-Type monsters: You can special summon this card from your hand. You can target 2 WATER "Lafish" monsters you control and a "Suship" monster you control: The first targeted monsters gain the second monsters name and level even while attached as XYZ material.

Lafish Swordfish level 4 FIRE Fish 2000/100

If a monster declares an attack(Quick effect) : you can Special summon this card from your hand or GY and deal 400 damage for each WATER monster on the field. During either player's battle phase if you control a WATER Lafish monster: You can Equip one equip spell from your hand or GY to this card. If this card destroys a monster by battle and you control at least one WATER monster: return that monster to the top of the deck and deal 200 Damage for each WATER monster you control. Is unaffected by monster and Trap effects during your turn while equipped. This original ATK of this card is treated as 300 while in the GY.

Lafish Lavaspa Continous Trap
If you control a WATER "Lafish" monster you can activate this card the turn it's set. Each player can only special summon 4 non-FIRE monsters per turn . Each time a WATER monster is Special summoned: deal 400 damage to your opponent. Each time an aqua or fish monster is Special summoned: Target one card on the field; destroy it.

Lafish Retribution Continuous Spell

Once per turn, when a "Lafish" card is destroyed and sent to the GY: deal 100 damage to your opponent for each FIRE or "Lavish" card remaining on the field times the number of "Lafish" or FIRE cards in your GY. If this card is sent from the field to the GY: Excavate cards from the Top of your deck equal to the number of FIRE monsters in Your GY: Add up to one each "Lafish" monster, spell, trap, and shuffle the remaining cards back into the deck

Lafish fEEL Spell
If you control a FIRE, WATER, aqua, and fish monster: draw 3 cards and discard one card.

Lafish Scholar FIRE Fish level 1 300/100
When a card effect is activated: You can discard this card reveal a card in your hand or from the top of your deck; If it is a "Lafish" card that matches the type of the card activated (Monster, Spell, Trap) Negate and Destroy the activated card and set or activate the revealed card

Lafish Codback FIRE Fish level 1 300/100

You can reveal this card and target one "Lafish" monster in the GY; Special summon it and this card, then you can destroy a card on the field if you control 3 or more WATER monsters. You can only use the effect of "Lafish Codback" Once per turn.

NEW:
Lafish Marincess FIRE FISH Link-1 SW 1000 ATK (1 level 4 or lower WATER monster)

When this card is summoned: Declare "Fire" or "Water"; All monsters you control become the declared type until the end of the turn, then you cannot Special summon monsters except FIRE or WATER Link monsters for the rest of the turn. FIRE Fish Link monsters this card points to are treated as having NW and NE link arrows.

Lafish BASS a coda FIRE Fish Link-1 SE 1000ATK (1 "Lafish" monster)

If this monster is summoned to an extra monster zone: you can add one "Lafish" S/T from your deck or GY to your hand, then you can't special summon monsters except "Lafish" monsters for the rest of the turn. While this monster is Co-Linked: Your "Lafish" Spells are unaffected by card effects. If you would take damage: You can banish this card and one other "Lafish" Link monster you control; Your opponent takes the damage instead.

[Kokoroshi]

20 hours ago, Loleo said:

Lafish Pike

Equip spell

Can only be equipped to an aqua, fish, monster you control. The equipped monster gains 200 ATK for Each "Lafish" card you control. The equipped monster gains an additional attack during each battle phase for each FIRE monster on the field. If the equipped monster attacks a defense position monster, inflict piercing battle damage to your opponent. You can only attack with the equipped monster and the equipped monster cannot attack directly

Lafish Aquactress level 3 FIRE Fish 300/100

If this card is normal summoned you can add one "Aquactress" monster except "Lafish Aquactress" and one field spell that lists “WATER“ in its text from your deck to your hand. (Quick effect) you can destroy this card: deal 50 damage for each "Aquactress" monster you control times the number of WATER monsters in your GY.

Lafish Castle Field Spell

If this card is activated or destroyed: you can add one "Lafish" card from your deck to your hand. Change all instances of WATER in an effect to FIRE. All WATER monsters you control and in your GY are also treated as FIRE monsters. This card is unaffected by its own effect.

Lafish Fencing Continous Spell

Once per turn, when a FIRE monster battles, Before the damage step destroy both battling monsters, then deal 500 damage to your opponent and both players can special summon a monster from their hand or GY with the same Attribute as their destroyed monster.

Lafish Princess level 1 FIRE Fish 300/100

You can tribute this card; Special summon up to 2 monsters from either players GY. Monsters Special summoned by this effect cannot attack or activate their effects and their attack becomes 0 unless they are a WATER "Lafish" Monsters. You cannot Special summon monsters from the extra deck the turn you activate this effect.

Lafish Suship level 1 FIRE Fish 300/100

If you control no monsters or only WATER Aqua/Fish-type monsters, you can special summon this card (from where?). You can target 2 WATER "Lafish" monsters you control and a "Suship" monster you control, the first targeted monsters gains the second monsters name and level even while attached as XYZ material.

Lafish Swordfish level 1 FIRE Fish 2000/100

If a monster declares an attack(Quick effect) : you can Special summon this card from your hand or GY and deal 400 damage to your opponent for each WATER monster on the field. During either player's battle phase if you control a WATER Lafish monster: You can Equip one equip spell from your hand or GY to this card. If this card destroys a monster by battle while you control at least one WATER monster: return that monster to the top of the deck and deal 200 Damage to your opponent for each WATER monster you control. Is unaffected by monster and Trap effects during your turn while equipped.

Lafish Lavaspa Continous Trap
If you control a WATER "Lafish" monster you can activate this card the turn it's set. Each player can only special summon 4 non-FIRE monsters per turn. Each time a WATER monster is Special summoned: deal 400 damage to your opponent. Each time an aqua or fish monster is Special summoned, you can target one card on the field; destroy it.

Lafish Retribution Continuous Spell

Once per turn, when a "Lafish" card is destroyed and sent to the GY, deal 50 damage to your opponent for each FIRE or "Lafish" card remaining on the field times the number of "Lafish" or FIRE cards in your GY. If this card is sent from the field to the GY: Excavate cards from the Top of your deck equal to the number of FIRE monsters in Your GY, Add up to one each “Lafish“ monster, spell, trap, and shuffle the remaining cards back into the deck. (add excavated “Lafish” cards with different names to your hand, then shuffle the remaining cards back into the deck)

Lafish field Spell
If you control a FIRE, WATER, aqua, and fish monster: draw 3 cards and discard one card

Lafish Scholar FIRE Fish level 1 300/100
When a card effect is activated: You can discard this card reveal a card in your hand or from the top of your deck; If it is a "Lafish" card that matches the type of the card activated (Monster, Spell, Trap) Destroy the activated card and set or activate the revealed card

Lafish Codback FIRE Fish level 1 300/100

You can reveal this card and target one "Lafish" monster in the GY; Special summon it and this card, then you can destroy a card on the field if you control 3 or more WATER monsters. You can only use the effect of "Lafish Codback" Once per turn.

all grammar mistakes or card text mistakes are in blue in the quote

the archetype is a little weird since it expects you to have WATER Lafish monsters yet all the Lafish monsters are FIRE attribute. The archetype kind of contradicts itself and since all the Lafish monsters are already FIRE monsters, the field spell is pretty pointless. It wold be a pretty good archetype IF all the monsters were WATER to start with instead of FIRE.

[Loleo]

8 hours ago, Kokoroshi_Games said:

all grammar mistakes or card text mistakes are in blue in the quote

Thanks I'll tidy it up.

the archetype is a little weird since it expects you to have WATER Lafish monsters yet all the Lafish monsters are FIRE attribute. The archetype kind of contradicts itself and since all the Lafish monsters are already FIRE monsters, the field spell is pretty pointless. It would be a pretty good archetype IF all the monsters were WATER to start with instead of FIRE.

The "WATER Lafish" Effects are supposed to be extraordinarily powerful only activatable under the condition you have the field spell or made them WATER.

Edit: I don't think I explained this well. The objective of this archetype was to make FIRE Fish, a non-existing combination. I settled on trying to make a FIRE deck playable with all the other WATER cards out there. The effects that specifically require "WATER Lafish" monsters would be extraordinarily powerful if they weren't harder to work. I tried to make the deck have an easy to access field spell to allow powerful abilities similar to how the Salamangreat field spell ensures their gimmick. I even made it Zefra like touching on other bridge archetypes, like the under supported Aquactress/Aquarium and Aqua FIRE Suships! If you thought it was underpowered before, I did add some link monsters that tie it together a little. I applied most of the fixes you brought up. Funny misunderstanding "Lafish fEEL" is the name and it is a regular spell. 

[Tinkerer]

I read through these and I will admit, I'm also kinda confused.  I mean, I understand it mechanically, but I have trouble seeing how effective it would be as a strategy.  ...then again, maybe I'm just tired... been a long week.

Retribution has "Lavish" in its effect instead of "Lafish"

Kinda curious why Swordfish has 2000 ATK.  I know stats are losing more and more meaning every day, but a Level 1 with 2k ATK, no summon conditions, and only positive effects is still at least a few years out, dontcha think? xD

Is Scholar just meant to destroy without negating?  It is interesting that it can get a Spell/trap/monster on the field during turn 0, but it doesn't feel like enough of a benefit over ghost ogre.

Of the mixed archetypal lafishes, imo the only one that feels like it really benefits the other deck is the aquaactress one.  Marincess can't actually summon the Marincess link and the suship one requires very odd deckbuilding that would probably be redundant in a Suship deck.

I guess the most interesting card to me is the field spell since it opens up ANY generic WATER support card to double as FIRE support.  I can't think of/find any really broken interactions, but stuff like Moray of Greed (alongside Lafish fEEL), Salvage, White Howling, and (just to be silly) High Tide on Fire Island seems like they could be decent.

[Loleo]

On 4/14/2022 at 8:58 PM, Redro said:

I read through these and I will admit, I'm also kinda confused.  I mean, I understand it mechanically, but I have trouble seeing how effective it would be as a strategy.  ...then again, maybe I'm just tired... been a long week.

Retribution has "Lavish" in its effect instead of "Lafish"

Fixed

Kinda curious why Swordfish has 2000 ATK.  I know stats are losing more and more meaning every day, but a Level 1 with 2k ATK, no summon conditions, and only positive effects is still at least a few years out, dontcha think? xD

Fair now level 4 (I really wasn't thinking lol)

Is Scholar just meant to destroy without negating?  It is interesting that it can get a Spell/trap/monster on the field during turn 0, but it doesn't feel like enough of a benefit over ghost ogre. 

It negates, I worded it poorly probably, but it says negate.

Of the mixed archetypal lafishes, imo the only one that feels like it really benefits the other deck is the aquaactress one.  Marincess can't actually summon the Marincess link and the suship one requires very odd deckbuilding that would probably be redundant in a Suship deck.

Marincess are Cyberse?!? Well, I tried to modify that one at least a bit. The Suship might be a little forced, but it's where I want it to be? I might remove the water restriction entirely.

I guess the most interesting card to me is the field spell since it opens up ANY generic WATER support card to double as FIRE support. 

:). Literally only way I could think of making FIRE Fish work without a full separate category. I think allowing WATER to support FIRE would really just make Yugioh awesome.

I can't think of/find any really broken interactions, but stuff like Moray of Greed (alongside Lafish fEEL), Salvage, White Howling, and (just to be silly) High Tide on Fire Island seems like they could be decent.

Yeah! I was wondering if there were any other Fish with rekindling stats that would be affected by the field spell in GY to. High Tide on Fire Island is especially interesting, but I'm having trouble understanding it.

I'm planning to make one high level (7) main deck monster "Sous Chef" that can be special summoned from hand by returning 3 banished Fish to deck or GY by banishing 5 FIRE monsters from GY, and banishes up to 3 monsters from the GY to activate his effect: draw one discard one for each Fish, Destroy card on the field for each WATER, place card on top or bottom of deck (owner's choice) from either GY or Banished for each FIRE

[Neo Nae]

these cards are sooo cute, it would be cool to see what sort of art the pictures would show of these cards