Solardis, the Splended Sun's Son [WRITTEN]

[Tinkerer]

Solardis, the Splended Sun's Son

LIGHT 5*

Pyro/Effect

If you have another revealed card in your hand, you can Special Summon this card (from your hand). At the start of your Main Phase 1: You can reveal this card and it remains revealed until your End Phase. When you activate a monster effect: You can activate this effect; when this effect resolves, inflict 50 damage to your opponent. (You always have priority to activate this effect.) This card must remain revealed to activate and to resolve this effect. You can only activate this effect of "Solardis, the Splended Sun's Son" once per chain.

2200/200

[Loleo]

Worried about OTK but this card is awesome

[Tinkerer]

1 hour ago, Loleo said:

Worried about OTK but this card is awesome

Thanks!

Yeah, I think there's definitely a chance for it to be involved in an FTK, but fortunately since the card has to reveal itself at the start of the MP1, it makes any FTK attempts impossible unless you hard draw the card in your initial opening hand. Still, it is bad design, but I came up with the name first and just ran with the flavor. :p

I did forget one big thing though: I forgot to add a once per chain condition. As it stands now, the card could literally trigger itself for infinite burn damage xD

[Rayfield Lumina]

On 6/9/2022 at 1:27 PM, Redro said:

(You always have priority to activate this effect.)

This is the part that intrigues me. Experimental stuffy eh? I like it, though it makes me shudder when I remember the times of "priority effects" that I hated viciously, specially when a certain Emperor Dragon was involved xD.

So yeah, talking about sunburns. A tiny fix in the wording: 

revealed to activate and to resolve this effect

Now, I wouldn't call it "bad design". If you were able to stick this in a Six Samurai Deck lol...

[Loleo]

1 hour ago, Rayfield Lumina said:

(You always have priority to activate this effect.)

This is the part that intrigues me. Experimental stuffy eh? I like it, though it makes me shudder when I remember the times of "priority effects" that I hated viciously, specially when a certain Emperor Dragon was involved xD.

I think the same thing can be accomplished by making this a mandatory when effect, effectively always chain blocking every activation (yes this caught my eye before a little to)

[Tinkerer]

Thanks for the fix Ray!

Yup, based on what I know there's really no way to go about making this effect without experimental wording.

11 hours ago, Loleo said:

I think the same thing can be accomplished by making this a mandatory when effect, effectively always chain blocking every activation (yes this caught my eye before a little to)

I was initially thinking this, but your opponent is always allowed to respond to your actions (except in cases that restrict response entirely).

Even with a mandatory when, your opponent will have the opportunity to activate something in between the two effect activations because of game rules.

[Loleo]

3 hours ago, Redro said:

Even with a mandatory when, your opponent will have the opportunity to activate something in between the two effect activations because of game rules.

I think your half right the more I think about this, but I think the only thing your opponent would have priority to activate would be other mandatory effects.

The best example I can think of this is "Nopenguin" which Special summons itself from the GY when a penguin activates its effect, not letting your opponent respond to your first penguin's effect.

 

Trigger effects have an amount of greater priority to.

I play Fur Hires, If I control a lot of low-level monsters for hire and I special summon a big one, all their effects will activate in the order I choose before my opponent has a chance to respond. If your card was in play, it would enter between each monster in my chain, pretty sure.

Same thing with Shadolls, All their effects in the GY trigger before you have a chance to respond. Say we were both playing Shadoll and I used dark hole, then we would take turns picking CL to add starting with me as the turn player.

 

I think the only case a mandatory when effect wouldn't give you priority is if your opponent also had a mandatory when effect on your turn after you activated a card. (ex. You activate the effect of Aleister the Invoker to add Invocation from your deck to your hand, your opponent has a monster that mandatorily stops the first monster effect you activate each turn, that opponent's effect would take priority over Solaris's effect as a when effect but not with your experimental wording.