[Leaderboard] Dyson Sphere vs Rocket Man (start voting)

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Rules
1. All YCM and Leaderboard Rules Apply
2. Cards must be PM'd to me.
3. First to 3 votes or most by the deadline wins.
4. Votes must have a valid reason, and must be 2 sentences long at minimum.
5. Winner gets 1 Rep from loser.
6. Written Cards are allowed.

Deadline
Card must be PM'd to me by 48 hours after I accepted the challenge
Votes' Deadline is 72 hours after cards are up

Requirement

my opp... enough of that, make a Rank 5 or lower Zombie-Type Xyz Monster

 

[spoiler='Card A']

Lore:

2 Level 4 DARK monsters
While face-up on the field or in the Graveyard, this card is unaffected by card effects that activated in the Graveyard. Once per turn: You can detach 2 Xyz Materials from this card to target 1 card on the field; send that target to the Graveyard face-down. If this card is sent to the Graveyard, except by your card effects: You can send 1 monster from your Deck to the Graveyard.

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[spoiler='Card B']

Lore:

2 Level 2 DARK monsters
During your Main Phase, you can also Xyz Summon this card using 1 Zombie-type Xyz Monster you control as an Xyz Material, except "Wandering Jiangshi", and if you do: You can return up to 3 of your banished monsters to the Graveyard. If this card inflicts Battle Damage to your opponent, you can detach 1 Xyz Material from it; your opponent cannot add cards from their deck to the hand until their next End Phase.

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[Northern Sage]

The revenge

again

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The revenge

again

um... are you joining?

[Northern Sage]

um... are you joining?

Yes?

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it's voting time!

[~Shin~]

A: First effect is neat, but a 2k "I want you to kill me" body would not be the target for such effects anyways. Nothing remarkable, it could free some ED space for whatever runs it (Evilswarm, BW, GK, anythingzombie....). It just adds nothing to their game.

 

B: Seriously!? An extra deck better Yata-Garasu!? With Ghostrick, TGU and Malicevorous to spam it!?

 

I would like to assume that the lock was not intentional (a matter of wording, and therefore the card should be edited... ?) or that I'm mistaken in a way or another, and vote for B, but as it stands A gets my vote.

[Northern Sage]

1-0 Card A

Thanks for voting.

[Vector Nightmare]

...yeah I really think card B was meant to have an "except by drawing them" clause.

But even with that clause it's really just annoying because it can hover between drink coaster and extremely abusable depending on what other Zombie Xyz do (with the current TCG/OCG ones, it's pretty bad tbh). Still design is unhealthy, because this is BFDD upon summon with very generic conditions.

Card A has decent design even if it feels kinda lacking. At least it has something original in it (that's not stupid) and does actually incorporate FB in a non-abusable way. The DARK-only is harsh, though, and makes it difficult to use in certain Zombie variants. Then again the requirement wasn't even to make a card that works in Zombie decks, it was to make a Zombie Xyz, so Card A gets my vote.

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

Card A: Has immunity to effects that activate in the grave while face-up or in the graveyard; one-time "send stuff to graveyard face-down" and mills a monster if it dies outside of your own stuff.

 

Card B: Can use another Zombie Xyz to summon self, then returns banished stuff to the Graveyard; and a detach version of Yata-Garasu. (Not sure if creator meant "except by drawing" them or something). But as it is, it's broken (reason why Garasu was banned to begin with a long time ago)

 

 

So card A gets vote here for staying with requirement and balance. Its effect is somewhat underwhelming, as Vector noted, given that only certain Decks can run it (and not necessarily pure Zombies); but it could see use as a semi-generic Rank 4 in DARKs

[Northern Sage]

I meant "except by drawing". That was my mistake.

2-0 Card A

Dyson wins by deadline.