New Mechanic Idea

[LinktotheFuture]

Partially inspired by terastallization from Pokemon Scarlet & Violet, I've had this concept rolling around in my head for a while.  What if we tried to apply a similar concept to a Yugioh card?

Imagine a cardboard sleeve that you could slide an existing Yugioh card into.  This sleeve would have gaps that would leave a monster's name, image, and stats exposed.  But where the Attribute Icon, and the Type & Effect Box is located would be new text.  The old monster would suddenly have a different Attribute, Type, and Effect, ala terastallization.

This would be a way to introduce a new type of product without introducing a new summoning mechanic.  It would also be able to turn any Normal Monster into an Effect Monster.

Of course, there are many ways this could be broken if you could just rewrite everything in your deck, so I've thought of limiting it to just the three copies of a single monster, and they must all have the same cardboard sleeve with the same effect.  This also keeps consistent with the idea that only one of your team members can terastallize in a battle.  For now this would be limited to just Main Deck monsters, because I'm not sure how safe it would be to apply it to the Extra Deck.  Ritual monsters could probably work, though.

I've been trying to think of ways to flesh the idea out and wanted some feedback.  I've just taken a liking to the idea of pretty much giving whatever effect you wanted to any given monster, as well as playing with cardboard. :)

[Sleepy]

I think you need to layout the card idea a bit more concretely.
From what I understood, 3 times per game you can take a Monster Card and re-skin it in a way that can change everything about the card except for essentially the card art.... 

I am not sure how to begin to list the things that don't really add up in my head about it....
How generic is your plan for these? Let's say you have a Seven Colored Fish, and your mechanic has a card to turn it into a FIRE Machine Level 7 Ritual Effect Monster with 2500 ATK and 2000 DEF..... is that same ritual-colored sack of potatoes able to re-skin anything else like a Vorse Raider or Bunnilla?

There's a point where the idea would be better off as a retrain or direct upgrade of a specific card or group of cards, but the parameters are vague so I can't make up any sort of suggestion. You'd have to make a sample terra card and make a tutorial scenario where one can see more clearly how it works and stuff..... the mechanisms of how it works are still not something I grasp very well.

[Horu]

The other thing is, YGO, unlike other card games, doesn't really put a hard limit on what type of card you can have. Also, you'd have to consider that Terra card would count toward the actual limit of that card's name.

So say I had 2 BEWDs and a Terra BEWD. The Terra would count as my third copy and would like have text like "(This card's name is always treated as "Blue-Eyes White Dragon".)"

[LinktotheFuture]

Mmmm, let me try to clarify it a bit.  The basic gist is that you place the monster into a single type of sleeve.

For example, say I take 3 basic Dark Magicians, and I have 3 sleeves with Jinzo's effect, 3 sleeves with Dark Armed Dragon's effect, and 3 sleeves with Utopia's effect.  I would not be able to sleeve each copy with a different effect, but only the same effect.  I could have 3 Dark Magicians with Jinzo's effect, 3 Dark Magicians with Dark Armed Dragon's effect, or 3 Dark Magicians with Utopia's effect.

If the effect is strong enough, you could only sleeve a single monster card.  For weaker effects you could sleeve all 3 copies of one monster.  The sleeve would be staying on the monster throughout the entire duel; Graveyard, banished zone, hand, back to the deck, all of it. 

You also would not be able to sleeve a ritual effect onto a regular monster.  I only mentioned Ritual monsters as a possibility.  They would get their own separate blue colored cardboard sleeve. 

I did mention that the monsters stats would not change.  A Seven Colored Fish is not going to get a sudden ATK/DEF boost.  I forgot to mention that levels wouldn't change either.  A Blue eyes is not going to suddenly become a 4 star monster that you can normal summon.

I also forgot to mention that these sleeves are not treated as separate cards in the deck.  They would either be something that was slotted on the card from the beginning of the duel from within the deck, or placed to the side to be applied at a certain time.  These are not cards with just gaps for the artwork.  There would be gaps in the cardboard that allows you to see the slotted card's name, level, and ATK/DEF as well.

The overall goal was to make Normal Monsters more playable, because there are so many Normal Monsters that are integral to some archetypes but always are bricks to the deck.  Now they'd be effect monsters that can contribute to your plays.

[Kokoroshi]

I really feel like there are so many mechanics l ready in Yugioh that we don’t need anymore, however I’m not completely opposed to the idea. Also however, I wouldn’t be surprised if Konami make another mechanic seeing as how popular and big Master Duel, then again that could also be a reason against them adding a new mechanic to the game. Anyway, cool idea, just don’t know what Konami would do.

[LinktotheFuture]

Yeah, 100% agree.  I was deliberately not trying to introduce a new summoning mechanic.  This seemed like a fun little addition to the game.  By limiting it to 1-3 monsters in the deck, we'd not suddenly have a new monster type pushing out all the old ones.