#2: Brotherhood of the Fire
Fist-Bear
- #CBLZ-EN024
Once per turn, when this card inflicts battle damage to your opponent: You can Set 1 "Fire Formation" Spell Card directly from your Deck. Once per turn: You can send 1 face-up "Fire Formation" Spell/Trap Card you control to the Graveyard to target 1 monster on the field; destroy that target.
Card Ratings
Traditional: 2.17
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 - Feb. 7, 2013
Not much to say about Brotherhood of the Fire
Fist-Bear. It's the best Fire Fist Monster in my
opinion, and we just recently covered it before this
countdown starts. The first effect as to get a Fire
Formation Magic/Trap card is excellent, via
destroying an opponent's Monster and sending it to
the Graveyard. But you get a slightly different,
balanced, 1-for-1 in this instance. Yesterday you
could send a face-up Fire Formation Magic/Trap card
to your Graveyard to select and target a Magic or
Trap card on the Field and destroy it. Here, you
can select and target a Monster on the Field, and
destroy it. Bear is slightly better than his
Gorilla counterpart, simply for that, and the fact
we're in a Magic/Trap heavy destruction Format at
present.
Ratings:
Traditional: 3/5
Advanced: 4/5
Art: 5/5
Leo
Kearon
Brotherhood of the Fire Fist – Bear
Fire/Beast-Warrior/Effect/LV4/1600/1200
Once per turn, when this card inflicts battle damage
to your opponent: You can Set 1 "Fire Formation"
Spell Card directly from your Deck. Once per turn:
You can send 1 face-up "Fire Formation" Spell/Trap
Card you control to the Graveyard to target 1
monster on the field; destroy that target.
Number 2 on our countdown is Brotherhood of the Fire
Fist – Bear. BOTFF – Bear is very similar to
BOTFF – Gorilla, both have similar stats, though
Bear has an extra 200 DEF, and Gorilla destroys
spells/traps and Bear destroys monsters. Like
Gorilla, Bear needs to battle in order to get his
“when X happens, get a Fire Formation card” effect,
but this time all he has to do is damage the
opponent’s life points. Sadly the same problem of
Gorilla’s effect applies to Bear. Yes you can give
boast his ATK but 1600 ATK isn’t great for this type
of effect.
Bear’s second effect is again similar to Gorilla’s
but this time you lose your Spell and Trap Card to
destroy a monster. This is better that Gorilla’s
effect as not only does this get rid of one of your
opponent’s monster (or one of your own, for some
reason you want to destroy your own monster), it
actually can help Bear get off his first effect by
giving him the chance to attack directly.
Overall Bear is better than Gorilla but only due to
slightly better effects. His lackluster stats
do stop him from being 100% essential.
Traditional: 3/5
Advanced: 3.5/5
Bleak
dragon55
As we approach the end, we look at one of the
most expensive cards from the set (just recently as
wel!) that has the most potential to skyrocket. We
already covered it once, but let’s take a look at it
again, Brotherhood of the Fire Fist – Bear!
Brotherhood of the Fire Fist – Bear
Lv4, Fire, Beast Warrior
Once per turn, when this card inflicts battle damage
to your opponent: You can Set 1 "Fire Formation"
Spell Card directly from your Deck. Once per turn:
You can send 1 face-up "Fire Formation" Spell/Trap
Card you control to the Graveyard to target 1
monster on the field; destroy that target.
A lot of my main points are going to be from what I
talked about when we covered Bear the first time,
but let’s take a look again…. It destroys monsters
(just like many popular decks have the capability of
doing) by destroying your Fire Formation cards,
which are quite easy to get out on the field due to
his second ability to search them out by inflicting
life point damage…. Which is easy to do once you
destroy a monster, haha.
Using Monday’s card, Tenki, we can do an easy combo
of Tenki - > Bear -> Kill something -> Inflict
damage -> Search Tensu -> Normal again (maybe
Gorilla, Dragon, or Snake) -> XYZ rank 4.
All of this was able to be done thanks to Bear,
which sets up many of the combos for the deck. Not
much else to say really…. Read my review for the
first time to see more haha.
Advanced: 4.25
This monster RUNS the Fire-Fist deck currently, and
is amazing in its own deck. I will say the lower
attack is a bit lacking; but you should be having it
around 1900-2100 with your spells and traps anyways.
It’s an amazing card and should be rated high.
Traditional: 2.0
Firemonsters don’t work very well in traditional
sadly, haha.
Art Work: 4.5
Still love the artwork… despite the $35-40 price tag
XD
Pojo rank: 2nd
My rank: 5th
Obskera
(Review from Jan. 23) - So today we have the real
backbone of the new Brotherhood of the Fire Fist
archetype:
“Brotherhood of the Fire Fist – Bear”
“Once per turn, when this card inflicts battle
damage to your opponent: You can set 1 "Fire
Formation" Spell Card directly from your Deck. Once
per turn: You can send 1 face-up "Fire Formation"
Spell/Trap Card you control to the Graveyard to
target 1 monster on the field; destroy that target.”
This guy is the backbone that makes this deck so
scary. Like a lot of his brethren, you’re probably
never going to use his first effect unless you’re
playing against Mermails or you have an attack boost
handy, but his second effect cuts like a dagger. I
see this as a possible format defining card. While
it is a VERY powerful card, Konami also balanced it
pretty well by giving him a low enough attack that
anything from “Jurrac Guaiba” (In rabbits) to “Lyla,
Lightsworn Sorceress” (in dragons) can stomp over
him next turn.
In FireFist decks he is going
to be run mostly at 3, however 2 could also be an
option in a hybrid build that is running “Call of
the Haunted”. You should probably also run 2-3 “Horn
of the phantom beast” so you can keep the party
going.
So all in all, he is a very solid card that adds
solid tier 1 playability to the FireFist archetype.
Expect to play against a good few of these decks,
and make sure you side a couple extra “Dust
Tornado”!
Advanced: 5/5 in a FireFist deck
Traditional: 1/5 Still way too much removal in
traditional to consistently play this successfully.
Art: 4/5 In my opinion this card has the best art of
the new cards. However, I also love bears. (Rawr!)
momiwant
cake
(Review from Jan. 23)Brotherhood of the Fire Fist – Bear
Attribute-Fire
Types-Beast-warrior/Effect
ATK/1600
DEF/1200
The Brotherhood of
the Fire Fist- Bear is easily one of the best
monsters in the Fire Fist archetype.It is a monster with solid attack points that
just becomes stronger with the boosts from the fire
formation spells and traps.
What makes
this card so great is that Bear is a great way to
combat cards like Tragoedia and Gorz.
Its first
effect lets you set a fire formation card spell from
your deck just by inflicting battle damage to your
opponent.The second effect lets you send a fire
formation card to the grave to destroy an opponent’s
monster. So essentially, you can inflict battle
damage and then use the spell card you just set with
this card’s effect to destroy a monster in main
phase 2.
That sounds pretty good in terms of card advantage
because Bear can be a potential +2 if used with Fire
Formation-Tenki.
Advanced: 4.25/5
-Bear is a great
card that should probably be run in multiples in
most Fire Fist decks.It has a lot of potential that really helps
make this archetype as destructive as it is.
Traditional: 2/5
-It’s a good card
but it’s not dark, light, and it’s not too
impressive on its own.
Art:4.5/5
The fire fist
monsters have very cool looking art designs and just
look amazing with the flaming animal spirits behind
the warriors.
John Rocha
(Review from Jan. 23)Brotherhood of the Fire Fist –
Bear only needs to inflict battle damage to get its
effect to search for a Fire Formation card. 1600
attack is not much so you will have to combine it
with Fire Formation cards, Horn of the Phantom
Beast, and other attack modifiers in order to attack
over your opponent’s monsters. The nice thing about
Bear is that if you already have a Fire Formation
card, you can use it to destroy your opponent’s
monster and then attack directly to get another Fire
Formation card.
The nice thing about Fire Formation cards is that
they work with Beast-Warrior monsters, so you can
use other themes along side the Brotherhood monsters
like T.G. and Reborn Tengu. By using Bear and
Gorilla to clear your opponent’s field and search
for Fire Formation cards, you clear the way for more
powerful Beast Warrior monsters.
