Protector with Eyes of Blue

We start Blue-Eyes week with Protector, one of three new level 1 tuners. Each of the three spellcasters have two effects, one that lets you gain or special summon another tuner when normal summoned, and a second effect that lets you special summon a Blue-Eyes monster for a Blue-Eyes Spirit or Azure synchro summon.

Now I’m not sure if it’s a good thing or a bad thing considering Blue-Eyes is wreaking havoc in the OCG, but two of these three support monsters are not very good, and Protector is one of them. It’s strange, but Sage with Eyes of Blue easily got the superior effect in both instances, exponentially so. Sage searches the deck and summons from the deck, while Master and Protector can only do things in the hand and graveyard. It’s very weird indeed that they weren’t split up more evenly. But as a result, Sage is being run in multiples while Protector and Master aren’t really seeing the light of day, and for good reason. 2-3 Sage and 2-3 Maiden is more than enough usually.

Outside of Blue-Eyes decks, Protector doesn’t have value, so he has weak future potential.

Advanced: 1.5/5

Future Potential 1/5

First, you take a -1 by summoning this card alone because it only has 400 ATK.  Special Summoning a monster from your hand is nice, but it doesn't grant you any resources. In fact, that's already 2 cards out of your hand.  Then you have to send a monster to the graveyard (that's another -1).  Then you Special Summon another monster from your hand (that's another card out of the hand).  Maybe if it Summoned that Blue-Eyes or that tuner from the deck, it may have been good.   It's bad though.  It's overly dependent on other cards.  This card is weak, it minuses and aside from helping to make Synchros (in a way that's less convenient than the old fashioned way), it does nothing.

1/5