[DPR] A tiny bird with a big impact, most notably by becoming really hard to kill and giving you a ton of LPs

[Eshai]

Ittybird

EARTH - Level 1 - Winged-Beast/Tuner/Effect - 100 ATK/100 DEF

Once per chain, when a card or effect is activated: Banish this card until the next phase.

If this card is banished, gain 400 LPs.

You can only control 1 “Ittybird”.

 

I remember someone made a card like this, but I couldn’t for the life of me find the name of the card or the original post. It was 2000ish ATK, didn’t have the LP gain, and wasn’t a Tuner. If you made the card tell me cause you deserve some credit.

 

My take on the idea is that it’s a Tuner that your opponent might not want on the field, so they may do stuff to stop it. They could try to attack it, but if you activate anything you can banish it yourself if you find that worth it. The only thing that can stop this is negation, but that negation could be used for the Synchro monster that your opponent thinks you might Summon, which keeps you in this cat and mouse state of gaining LPs and screwing with your opponent.

 

This has some obvious combos with cards like Soul Absorption, but again it’s LP gain so that shouldn’t be too big of a deal.

 

Lore is that it’s a tiny bird scared off by just about everything. If you’re going to ask, it’s an EARTH monster because I don’t prefer having smaller birds WIND monsters. The reason for the restriction is because I figure gaining 1200 LPs EVERY PHASE could get a bit crazy, and putting 3 on the field in chain beat could get broken. This should still be a great card though.

[Eshai]

Bump cause reasons.

[SkaterTheDJWolf]

Pretty unique.

 

There aren’t very many cards that can consistently gain LP these days, so this card is a must for Synchro decks (or Aromages). It’s also a Tuner, and pretty low-Level, so it’s pretty searchable and useful. It can be searched by Sangan/Black Witch and any Tuner support. A rather unique strategy for this type of thing.

 

Can easily be shut down by Imperial GY Trap Stopper Iron Wall, but not many Decks run it.

 

OK, banish until the next PHASE? Isn’t that a bit too OP, especially because its effect is triggered by anything? You’d get +1200 each turn, maybe make it until the Standby Phase.

 

Pretty nice card, but just the tiniest bit B R O K E N.

[Eshai]

Considering it's LP gain, tiniest bit broken might be good for the game, although I think there are enough weaknesses that it's fine.

 

For starters, you have to activate a card every time during your opponent's Battle Phase. Sure there are easy ways of doing that, but that's still harder than it sounds considering it's exactly the same as having cards that negate attacks every turn, considering you'd probably have not that many monsters and your opponent can nullify any LP gain you had in a single turn (nearly every Deck these days is capable of an OTK seriously)

 

Then there's chaining to the effect. You could chain to the card another effect or even a Counter Trap to stop it, which isn't all that hard. I've been looking at it and realized that if your opponent activated another effect in response, Ittybird activates again. That was unintentional, so I'm adding a "Once per chain" clause so that weakness becomes apparent.

 

I do think the card is surprisingly solid, but then again it's a Tuner that you might have to Normal Summon, and can be taken off the field pretty easy if your opponent tries hard enough. I think 350 LPs is technically balanced, but I feel 400 means that the card could spawn some interesting Deck ideas with a bit more of a LP gain version of Chain Beat or Chain Burn.