Aqua Jet Surface – #ROTA-EN048
Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower Fish, Sea Serpent, or Aqua monster from your hand or GY, but you cannot Special Summon from the Extra Deck, except Xyz Monsters, while you control that face-up monster. If your opponent controls an Attack Position monster: You can banish this card from your GY, then target 1 Fish, Sea Serpent, or Aqua monster you control; it gains 1000 ATK until the end of this turn. You can only use each effect of “Aqua Jet Surface” once per turn.
Date Reviewed: October 30th, 2024
Rating: 2.92
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale. 1 is awful. 3 is average. 5 is excellent.
Reviews Below:
King of
Lullaby
Hello Pojo Fans,
Aqua Jet Surface is a kind of one-sided Monster Reborn for WATER-based strategies.
Locks you into Xyz Summons as long as the monster you summon with it, but WATER decks usually do that so this just helps with that. Level 4 or lower Fish, Sea Serpent, or Aqua monster from the hand or grave covers an ocean of choices (yup, went there), so you shouldn’t be lacking for a target. This just enables faster Xyz Summons, especially if you can plus off the monster you summon (most of the time from the Graveyard). Recruiter monsters are your best choice for this, but really anything that can get you to your Xyz Summons will do as well.
Banishing to add 1000ATK to a Fish, Sea Serpent, or Aqua monster for the turn is going to add a bit more damage, but nothing in the grand scheme of things. Rarely, if ever will it be the finishing blow. This was a moment they could’ve tacked on a negation or protection ability and made it far more useful, but extra damage is far more a balanced effect coming out of the Graveyard.
Aqua Jet Surface is a good card that, while it won’t replace Monster Reborn if used in these kinds of WATER decks, it adds to their ability to rapidly Xyz Summon and Xyz Summon multiple times a turn.
Advanced- 3/5 Art- 3.5/5
Until Next Time,
KingofLullaby
Crunch$G
Midweek takes two of Shark’s Spells from the anime, Aqua Jet and Surface, and retrains them both into one card as Aqua Jet Surface.
Aqua Jet Surface is a Normal Spell that lets you Special Summon any Level 4 or lower Fish, Sea Serpent, or Aqua monster from your hand or graveyard, but you can only Special Summon via Xyz Summoning from the Extra Deck while you control that monster. It’s a free revival of your Shark monsters and other associated good cards you’d use to make your WATER Xyzs, which is all you’ll be doing with said monster more than likely after it is revived. If your opponent controls a face-up Attack Position monster, you can banish this from the graveyard to have any Fish, Sea Serpent, or Aqua monster you control gain 1000 ATK until the end of the turn. So we take Aqua Jet and turn it into basically a free graveyard effect on an already good card, so that’s a massive improvement. It’ll help you get over monsters and probably do more damage with your Shark Drake Xyzs. Each effect is a HOPT, which is fine. It’s nice for revival to extend your Xyz plays, plus that 1000 ATK boost can come up to finish a game faster. It’ll be searchable soon via Jet Shark in the next set, but a copy of this in Sharks is fine either way.
Advanced Rating: 3.5/5
Art: 4.5/5 Big Jaws is coming back!
Mighty
Vee
Why are we covering this card again? Aqua Jet Surface continues our Shark week coverage, a Normal Spell that, notably, can only be searched by the upcoming Jet Shark, which we don’t have yet. Surface comes with two hard once per turn effects– on activation, it’ll Special Summon any level 4 Fish, Sea Serpent, or Aqua monster from your hand or Graveyard, though you’ll be locked into Xyz monsters while it’s still face-up. Once again, the Xyz lock is largely irrelevant now that we don’t need to play Abyss Keeper anymore, but my main gripe with this card is exactly what it does! I’m never a fan of running extenders like Surface at more than one copy, because the risk of bricking on it is too great. When it does come up, Surface is actually pretty decent, since Jet Shark can search it and provide more extension in case something terrible happens to your combo. Until then, however, Surface is a mediocre extender you can’t even search for now. Surface’s other effect, while cute, is unfortunately quite pointless; it can only be used if your opponent controls an attack position monster, letting you banish Surface from your Graveyard to boost the attack of one of your Fish, Aqua, or Sea Serpent monsters by 1000 until the end of the turn. It’s a nice nod to Aqua Jet and provides a decent boost, but there is no good reason to require your opponent to control an attack position monster, and even less reason for the boost to be temporary when the original Aqua Jet was permanent. Once we get Jet Shark, it’ll be a decent one-of as a combo tool, but for now, it’s a very underwhelming extender, which Shark already has a surplus of.
+Decent extender searchable with Jet Shark
+Can help push past high attack monsters
-Unsearchable before Jet Shark
-Both effects are too low-impact to justify running at 3
Advanced: 2.25/5 (pre-Jet Shark) 3.25/5 (post-Jet Shark)
Art: 3.5/5 It’s a little on-the-nose, but expected considering Shark used Aqua Jet on Big Jaws in the literal first episode.
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