This card can
only be Special Summoned by removing 1 LIGHT and 1
DARK monster in your Graveyard from play. Once
during each of your turns, you can remove 1 face-up
monster on the field from play. If you activate this
effect, this card cannot attack during this turn.
Card Ratings
Traditional: 3.40
Advanced:
4.00
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale
1 being the worst.
3 is average.
5 is the highest rating.
Date Reviewed - 09.14.09
Well, it's Ban List week, and our first card went
from being Restricted down to Semi-Restricted, that
card being Chaos Sorcerer. My thoughts haven't
changed much from last Format when you could use
one, so please allow me to digress.
Chaos Sorcerer wasn't the answer or solution to the
Tier 1 powerhouse and dominant Decks last Format
people expected him to be. He was splashed into a
few Decks and people hoped for the best, but it
didn't do anything, it just wasn't enough.
The same holds true here, having a second copy
doesn't really make him any better, and even if you
had three, Chaos Sorcerer wouldn't be powerful
enough to make a real effect on the Format. Stick
with what you know, and what works...that isn't
Chaos Sorcerer. Expect to see him rise for a little
bit and just fade away again, just like last Format.
Ratings:
Traditional: 1/5 Why would you play him here?
Advanced: 2.5/5
Art: 4/5
General Zorpa
Chaos Sorceror
This guy is one card that is broken, but not enough
to even really be limited to 2. We have a DARK
Spellcaster of the level 6 variety with 2300 ATK.
Those are pretty decent stats, as he can see play in
a variety of decks, especially Lightsworn, without
really taking away anything from the whole
consistency of the deck.
His effect is that you cannot Normal Summon him and
you can Special Summon him by removing a LIGHT and a
DARK monster in your graveyard from play. Then, once
per turn you can remove a monster from play one face
up monster. This is a great card, as he is
essentially a free special summon as well as being
card removal. The not attacking effect is not that
big a deal, as if you can protect him, he will
basically win you the game, removing and attacking
whenever it is necessary.
The big thing about this guy is to use him to remove
something and then Tribute him for a Monarch or to
summon a level 2 Tuner and then Special Summon a
level 8 synchro to back yourself up. You can also do
some cool things with removing cards from play and
then bringing them back with Return from the
Different Dimension or DDR-Different Dimension
Reincarnation.
Actually getting both a lIGHT and a DARK monster
into the graveyard is a bit harder than it looks
these days. LIGHT monsters have never been
especially effecive at having good generic monsters,
but DARK monsters have always had an easy time dying
for their master. Anyway, splash this and
Thunderking into some decks to get some pretty
amazing results.
All in all, he should have stayed at one, because
now Chaos decks are starting to pop up again, which
just means that this guy WILL see even more
tournament play. Just bring back Black Luster
Soldier while you're at it Konami!
Traditional-5/5
Advanced-5/5
Jeff Lang
Today’s card up for
review is Chaos Sorcerer. This card was recently put
at two per deck, for those who didn’t see the new
list yet. The question is, can the Chaos deck be
playable anymore? In my eyes, I don’t see Chaos
Sorcerer as consistent, besides maybe in Lightsworn.
A lot has happened since Sorcerer was above 1 per
deck. The game has advanced pretty far for one
thing. We have Lightsworn running loose, and the
banned list did nothing to weaken it. Outside of
that, there simply isn’t many good Light Monsters
that you can run. Sure you can use Shining Angel,
but then you are at a disadvantage against Gladiator
Beasts. Too early to say if Sorcerer will actually
see play at a competitive play. People will
certainly try to use him, but I honestly think he
isn’t worth the spot in the deck. The card on it’s
own is amazing, it’s just a bad time to try him out
Trad: 3/5
Adv: 4/5
Freeza
Chaos Sorcerer …
This is Ban List week, folks … although its more
like “limited week”, seeing as how these cards
aren't actually “banned” … although some probably
should be! … Like this one. Chaos Sorcerer. It’s
very strong and very easy to summon in this day and
age. Back in the days when the Black Lust Soldier
and Chaos Emperor Dragon were a problem for duelists
and nobody even paid attention to the Chaos
Sorcerer, people had trouble balancing a deck with
usable lights and darks … mostly cuz the great
lights were fewer in supply. But that is way far
from the case today. U almost ALWAYS have fuel for
this thing. So u can always special summon a 2300
attacker with 6 stars to remove a face-up threat and
nowadays tune it to create a larger Synchro, or …
whatever else u can think of. This guy is tough. Not
much else to say about him. He should be banned in
my opinion. I think he only gets a pass cuz its too
easy to look at him as a “weaker” watered-down
version of the BLS. But he’s his own monster, and
he’ll wreck just about any other monster he faces.<
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Traditional: 4.5/5
Advanced: 5/5
- FREEZA
N o V a
A new week means a new
set of card reviews, and to start this week off we
have one of the three "Chaos" monsters, Chaos
Sorcerer. Now since its unbanning and it hitting the
Semi-Limited list, it still hasn't seen much play,
and why is that? Well considering the fact that
people still prefer Dark Armed Dragon over Chaos
Sorcerer makes things rather difficult, at least
when it comes to adding Chaos Sorcerer in any deck
with Dark Armed Dragon. This is because Dark Armed
Dragon needs exactly 3 DARK monsters in the grave.
Chaos Sorcerer reduces the amount of DARK monsters
you have in your grave. Unless you're running Burial
from a Different Dimension, you're probably not
gonna have the DARK monsters you removed for Chaos
Sorcerer to use for Dark Armed Dragon's summon
requirement. Now all that trouble for 1 card isn't
worth it, which is why you dont really see many
people playing Sorcerer right now, as they feel they
could use better cards in Sorcerers place. Now if
you dont have Dark Armed Dragon, Sorcerer isn't a
bad second choice, so long as you can build a deck
that can actually use it. Mixing Lightsworns with
various DARK monsters isn't a bad way to go,
depending on what your monster line-up is. Chaos
Sorcerer isn't a bad card, its just most players
feel they have better options, especially since most
players DARK based decks dont run many if any LIGHT
monsters.
