Our last card here on this short week before
Thanksgiving is Xyz gift. It's the gift that is
supposed to keep giving, but let's find out if it is
worth getting in the first place. Xyz Gift says that
if you control 2 or more Xyz monsters, you can
detech 2 Xyz materials from a monster to draw 2
cards. This cards will make you wonder what is more
important, your Xyz materials for your Xyz monster's
effect or use to draw 2 cards. I would say it is a
very handy card, given the right situation. But by
the time you have this all set up....is it worth
using at that point? Unless you are behind and need
those few precious cards, you might not even need to
draw. Be wary when using this card, you might need
whatever effect from the Xyz monster you are
detaching from later, still it's decent draw power.
Traditional: 1
Advanced: 3.5
Fun Thanksgiving Fact: Benjamin Franklin wanted the
national bird to be the turkey.
Happy Thanksgiving Pilgrims!
Ninja
Goemon
A gift this early? Why thank
you! Today’s card is Xyz Gift!
Fairly simple card today; if
you control two face-up Xyz monsters, then you can
detach two Xyz materials and draw two cards. I’ll
stop you now before, “But we need those for stuff!”.
Well, under most conditions, you do need them.
When Gem-Knight Pearl is
released sometime next year, you’ll have access to a
high attack, non-effect monster with Xyz materials.
So Pearl will be a good choice to compensate for
this card’s cost. You can also use an opponent’s Xyz
monster as the second monster. You take control of
it by using cards such as Mind Control and Enemy
Controller and then use their materials for the
effect.
Still, this card is a little
too situational for my tastes. The detachment is
actually part of the effect (instead of as a cost),
but I can’t think of any situations that’d you want
to use this card in, other then those above. Still,
I bet it looks nice in Ultimate. Have a nice weekend
everyone!
Traditional: 1/5 (if you’re not
winning on the first turn, then this won’t help)
Advanced: 1.5/5 (for right now, it’ll be about 2.5/5
when Pearl is released)
Art: 2.5/5 (I like Space Gift more)
Angelic Nightmare
XYZ Gift
A present! For me? Why Konami, you shouldn’t ha…..
hey… You need 2 xyz monsters to activate this?!
These were the exact thoughts that crossed my mind
at my local sneak peak for photon shockwave. This
card falls very short of being splashable, also
considering you have to detach TWO xyz material
monsters from ONE xyz monster you control… If it was
two in total from a combination of the two it
wouldn’t see so bad. I would not want to make a
Utopia and get rid of the two possible attack
negations to draw two cards. If you really want to
run this card, your best bet is milling it off in a
Diamond Dude Turbo deck for the “Pot of Greed”
effect.
Traditional: 1/5
Advanced: 2/5
Have a great Thanksgiving everyone! Thank you to you
all! “See” you all next week!
- Angelic Nightmare
logan_nagol
and to finish off the short week we have Xyz
Gift:
If you control 2 or more face-up Xyz Monsters:
Detach 2 Xyz Materials from a monster you control
and draw 2 cards.
What we have here is some horrible support for Xyz
monsters, only time I see someone using this, is if
you gain control of their monster, I would
completely pass on this one.
1/5
Argouru
Wednesday:
XYZ Gift
Normal Spell
"If you control 2 or more face-up Xyz Monsters:
Detach 2 Xyz Materials from a monster you control
and draw 2 cards."
This card is the only really useful one of this
short holiday week. XYZ monsters seem fairly
playable to me and if you're stuck, this card can
give you more options. Sadly, some XYZ monsters die
when they lose all their material monsters, so this
card should only be used if your XYZ monster can
survive without material, or you're desperate to get
the right cards from your deck. I still wouldn't run
him as the effort involved in bringing out the black
framed guy just to draw 2 cards seems a little
one-sided.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. We'll be back next
week with more reviews.
Traditional: 2
Advanced: 3
Dark Paladin
Wednesday
Xyz Gift closes this short week, before the
Thanksgiving Holiday. Xyz Gift is another of
those "Draw two cards under x condition(s) cards"
and such cards are always worth taking a look at, if
only because they say "Draw two cards." Here,
if you control two or more face-up XYZ Monsters, by
detaching two XYZ Material cards from one of them,
you can then Draw two cards. This isn't all
that good, it's a -1, to start. The card
itself, plus the two discarded material Monsters.
Last I knew, we generally discarded those Monsters
for effects, not to draw cards. Not to say
this is a bad card, but the XYZ player should have
something to Draw two cards that isn't so costly.
