[Written] Help From Beyond

[Masterchris22245]

 

Help From Beyond

 

[Normal Spell]

 

Activate only if this is the only card in your hand. Draw 3 cards; discard all level 5 or higher monsters, spells and traps drawn by this effect, then you lose 500 LP of every monster card in your hand. You can only play the effect of "help from beyond" once per turn.

 

i tried to nerf/fix it

[Abdelrahman]

First off, here's the correct wording:

You can only activate this card if this is the only card in your hand. Draw 5 cards from your Deck, then discard all Level 5 or higher monsters, and if you do, lose 300 LP for each card in your hand. You can only activate the effect of "Help From Beyond" once per turn.

 

Now let's check out the effect. Its pretty damn OP, and will get abused by Performapals as they normally run Level 4 or lower monsters and not many Level 5 or higher monster. Also their pendulum ability helps clear your hand from monsters so this card won't be very hard to activate. Losing 300 LP for each card in your hand isn't much either. This isn't very balanced and needs to get nerfed.

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

Activate only if this is the only card in your hand. Draw 5 cards; discard all Level 5 or higher monsters drawn by this effect, then you lose 300 LP for every Monster Card in your hand. You can only play the effect of "Help From Beyond" once per turn.

 

(Further corrected OCG)

To be fair, a lot of common Decks nowadays run mostly Level 4 and under (with the exception of a few, which I'll abstain from mentioning due to the nature of this section). But yeah, this is basically a +5 draw for a very minimal cost, in which a good deal of combos can be made from the drawn cards (either SSing, search power, etc). For that matter, one can just play all of their other cards first, activate this and draw more, then proceed to make more chains. I will assume that the LP drop is supposed to trigger after the discard. 
 
Stuff like Burgesstoma/Paleozoic don't necessarily have a lot of monsters to begin with, so you effectively give them a free draw for either minimal or no damage (set their backrow and yeah). 
 
Cost needs to be higher, like 1000 LP per draw (similar to Soul Charge). Or really, nerf the draw and increase the LP loss.

 

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In terms of 'pals though, aside from maybe Odd-Eyes/Magicians, they really don't run Level 5+ (outside of Monkeyboard). 

[Abdelrahman]

Ok now this just looks like a worse version of Card of Demise do here's a suggestion. "Activate only if this is the only card in your hand. Draw 3 cards; discard all Level 4 or higher monsters drawn by this effect, then you lose 500 LP for each card in your hand. Your opponent takes no damage during the turn you activate this effect. You can only play the effect of "Help from Beyond" once per turn.

[Masterchris22245]

one thing, it will not let me add photos of the card to the topic page, any tips?

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

You can just leave it as Written for the time being; otherwise just open the card maker in another tab, find your card, right-click it and choose "copy image location". Open Imgur in another tab, then paste the resulting URL into the box (should be a very long one).

 

Once the pic uploads, copy the image location from there and paste it into your thread. Make sure you do not forget the (img)(/img) tags [change parentheses to brackets])

[Masterchris22245]

You can just leave it as Written for the time being; otherwise just open the card maker in another tab, find your card, right-click it and choose "copy image location". Open Imgur in another tab, then paste the resulting URL into the box (should be a very long one).

 

Once the pic uploads, copy the image location from there and paste it into your thread. Make sure you do not forget the (img)(/img) tags [change parentheses to brackets])

Thanks for the help