Fire Dart Abaki (10 Nights of Fright 2022: Card #4)

[Black D'Sceptyr]

Night Number Four, and I feel it's time to show just how we bring an old, overlooked card in Yu-Gi-Oh! into common-day relevance. And no, I don't mean the way that the Manticore of Smashing did, that was absolutely jank. That was spine-chilling for a different reason entirely.

Nah, let's take Rata's patron saint of paltry burn, A-BA-KI, and make it twice the power and prominence by making it center around another underutilized trap of chance, Fire Darts!

Card's below, folks, and check out the riot of blond hair it's sporting. A rock star all its own1

 

Fire Dart Abaki/FIRE/Fiend-Type Effect Monster/Level 8/2700 ATK/2000 DEF

 

Lore: Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. If this card is added to your hand, except by drawing it: You can Special Summon it from your hand or GY, but banish it when it leaves the field, also each player takes 1000 damage. You can only Special Summon "Fire Dark Abaki" once per turn. If this face-up card leaves the field: You can Set up to 2 "Fire Dart(s)" from your Deck and/or GY, and if you do, return that many cards on the field to the hand.

And once again, until the next card, may the reviews and revelry arrive in abundance. D'Sceptyr, signing off.

[Loleo]

The "if this card leaves the field" effect is VERY powerful, especially since you can just link it off, get 2 cards from your deck and bounce 2 of your opponent's cards. Was the bounce supposed to be only your cards? If not I reccomed only setting 1 "Fire Dart" card and only bouncing 1 card anywhere.

[Black D'Sceptyr]

5 hours ago, Loleo said:

The "if this card leaves the field" effect is VERY powerful, especially since you can just link it off, get 2 cards from your deck and bounce 2 of your opponent's cards. Was the bounce supposed to be only your cards? If not I reccomed only setting 1 "Fire Dart" card and only bouncing 1 card anywhere.

no, this is meant to be a universal one, where the limitations of the card at the center of this - a trap that only works on an empty hand and relies on RPG burn - is the catch of this card.

[Loleo]

On 10/26/2022 at 7:22 PM, Black D'Sceptyr said:

no, this is meant to be a universal one, where the limitations of the card at the center of this - a trap that only works on an empty hand and relies on RPG burn - is the catch of this card.

ah Fire Darts is a trap that does ~1000 burn on average. interesting. I still think bouncing 2 cards is a powerful effect, but I guess it does require you to play 2 bricks.