Foreword

Hello everyone and welcome to the opening review for the week! Now before we go any further I want to let you guys know that I am experiencing some technical difficulties at the time. It seems that my WORD software has died on me. This is the reason for there not being a review for Friday. So I am being reduced to using a flunky third party word processor. Sorry this means no article this week, too. I desperately tried to fix things but I do not expect my computer to be back at 100% until Wednesday at the earliest. Again my many apologies, but there is nothing that I can do.

Anyways this week we take a look at cards selected by Dan. Our first card for review is a pretty big beat stick that seems very popular. With this being said read on...

Card Advantages

Epicenter is one of those cards that the new player will flock to. It boasts big stats for a very costly price and it can be potentionally even bigger. The big thing that Epicenter has going for it is the above average stats of five force and five intercept. Nice, eh? That is pretty dang tough to deal with seeing as we have such a limited card pool. Then again it will only score 50% of the time. (I see five force as a toss up as far as scoring goes.) But that is where the effect kicks in. For one extra green furyoku you can boost this sucker by 1 force. That is pretty nasty if you were to ask me. This pushes your score rate up by about 15/20% and can really be a tough thing to deal with. I used to use this card in multiples for this reason. Big force equals big time advantage over the opponent young grasshoppers. >.< Ehh, I had to add that somewhere sometime...

Rounding out the good points on Epicenter is the fact that it is not franchised. Happy times huh? Yes, young beatdown players scream in happiness! You get a big weapon to beat people over the head with. Only problem is it does have some big drawbacks.

Pros

Nice stats.

Nice effect.

Not franchised.

 

Card Disadvantages

Sorry to say but this great power comes with one big ol cost. Coming in at a whopping two yellow furyoku, Epicenter is not cheap to use. In fact it is what breaks this card down. The fact that you are paying 2 yellow furyoku for a little power, to me, is not very advantageous. In fact it is pretty meaningless in my humble opinion. I used to run this as I stated before, but the price simply made it to where this was way to much. In a Zeke deck like mine you want to play advantageously. And this card is just not advantageous at all. You are losing three furyoku potentially to get a 60/70% chance at a point. While not terrible if you were running up against a defensive deck this would get creamed. And against another beatdown deck this would again be knocked away easily. However, this card does pose a threat to furyoku control decks and the like. It whales on Ponchi and Konchi and everything else they might throw at you. And in a beatdown deck match up it can be okay at least

Cons

Poor cost.

Summary

To me this card should see a lot of play. Why not? In such a limited card pool this thing can be a great card and it is in my opinion a nessacary evil. I cannot not recommend it in beatdown. Just dont go overboard. Run two and no more than that.

Ratings

Tournament-3.0

Casual-3.0

Sealed-4.0

Overall-3.5

Feedback Information

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