Dark
Paladin |
Tuesday
Shifting to a Jump promo, we look at Zubaba
General. This is a Rank 4, Earth attributed, Warrior
XYZ Monster, with 2000 attack and 1000 defense. This
guy honestly isn't as useless as his effect makes
him seem, he's just outclassed by other XYZ
Monsters, I'd say most notably Heroic
Champion-Excalibur. By discarding an XYZ Material,
you can Equip a Warrior type Monster from your Hand
for this card to gain attack equal to combined
attack of the Monsters equipped to himself via his
effect. If you're using Zubaba, I guess I'd use one,
but there's just too much competitiveness for this
guy to really make a splash.
Ratings:
Traditional: 1.5/5
Advanced: 2.5/5
Art: 5/5
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Leo
Kearon |
Zubaba General
EARTH/Warrior/Xyz/Effect/Rank4/2000/1000
2 Level 4 monsters
Once per turn: You can detach 1 Xyz Material from
this card; equip 1 Warrior-Type monster from your
hand to this card. This card gains ATK equal to the
combined ATK of the monsters equipped to it by this
effect.
Our next promo is Zubaba General, part of Yuma’s
Zubaba series of monsters which is strange since the
two other members of this series are level 3 and
therefore can’t be used to get this card out. Zubaba
General is a Rank 4 Warrior Xyz with 2000 ATK, with
an interesting effect, by removing 1 material you
can equip this card with a warrior from your hand
and it will gain ATK equal to the combined ATK of
the equipped monsters. On the plus side, it would an
easy way to increase his attack and get around any
monsters in your hand that you can’t summon, but
with some much spell destruction cards chances are
you aren’t going to have a attack boost for long.
However, an interesting card might be better off if
there wasn’t so much spell destruction cards are the
moment, a bit of fun but that’s sadly about it.
Traditional: 1/5
Advanced: 2/5
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Philosophical
Psycho |
Here we have the first card ever that has its
origins hail from the
D Team Zexal manga, when Yuma used it with Goblin Attack Force. In a
nutshell, once per turn you can give up one Warrior
in your hand and he gets its ATK. You can use any
Level 4 monster to Xyz Summon him, but since you can
only equip one Type of monster anyway, it wouldn’t
make that much of a difference if it were “2 Level 4
Warrior-Type monsters.” I admit that while that
effect can give the General ungodly attacking
strength, it’s mostly just all talk. “Oh, you have
5750 ATK? Tell it to my Trap Card.” Besides, most of
the time it’s more useful to actually use your
Warriors than to just throw them onto this guy.
Due to the uniqueness of using monsters as Equips,
there are some funny combos you can do, but in most
cases it’s too slow to pull off and it isn’t worth
it; I know of nine such Warriors that get effects
even if destroyed as an Equip:
Over half of them (Noble Knight Joan, Power Breaker,
Grandmaster of the Six Samurai, Maldoche Chouxvalier,
Maldolche Messengelato) must be destroyed by an
opponent’s card effect, I wouldn’t really use the
General in the Decks that actually use these
monsters, and I wouldn’t ever use Power Breaker in
the first place. The other four (Phantom Bounzer,
Colossal Fighter/Assault Mode, Brushfire Knight,
Laval Lancelord) could potentially be very cool, but
it still wouldn’t be the most convenient combo out
there.
When the General first came out, one of my friends
made a Deck based around him. He used a bunch of
high-ATK Warriors, including one Gate Guardian.
Someone with that huge ATK by using other monsters
as Equips is fun to use, but just the fact alone
that he’s reliant on Equips means it’s hard to rely
on him. He’s just stopped by any form of monster
removal (which every good Deck should be packing).
In the end, you might as well use a monster with
more ATK and another effect AND get to keep the
monster in your hand. He could be strong, but he’s
too easy to stop and uses up too many resources.
Trad: 1/5
Adv: 1.5/5 (it’s a bad sign when you can get
destroyed by Tsukoyomi or Maestroke, and even if you
can block their attacks, they’ll still destroy your
Equip Card)
Aesthetics: 2.5/5 You know, there are three Zubaba
cards. Two of them are Level 3 and this guy is Rank
4. Other than the fact they’re all Warriors with
heavy armour, I don’t really see what their deal is.
What I find funny is that the General’s abs are
exposed; I bet if this were a woman, the card people
would’ve covered that up.
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