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Pojo's Yu-Gi-Oh Card of the Day
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Bowganian
Common
Machine / Effect Monster
During each of your Standby Phases, inflict 600
points of damage to your opponent's Life Points.
Type
- Dark / 3 / 1300 / 1000
Card Number
- IOC-029
Ratings
are based on a 1 to 5 scale
1 being
the worst. 3 ... average. 5 is the highest rating
Date Reviewed - 4.27.04 |
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DM7FGD |
Bowganian
Bowganian's a pretty interesting Monster card, and
one that gets underrated
by a lot of people due to its low ATK strength,
being at only 1300. But with
its stats, it can be searched by the Witch, Sangan,
and the Tomato, making
it quite a speedy card. 600 damage to your opponent
during each of your
Standby Phases is nothing to laugh at, and it could
easily aide in bringing
you closer to victory over your opponent. Not only
is it capable of doing
quite a bit of damage, both with its Effect and ATK
strength combined, but
it's also a pretty fun card to use in such Decks as
Burner, Dark-based, and
Machine Decks. It's not exactly easy to utilize to
its full potential, being
that it'd be hard to keep face-up on the Field for
long, but with a little
bit of protection, it could be pretty effective for
you. Here's a link to my
article featuring Bowganian (Bowgunian in Japanese)
in my LItF section.
http://www.pojo.com/yu-gi-oh/FeaturedWriters/DM7FGD/2003/9-8-03.shtml
§~ Bowganian ~§
Overall Rating: 2.7/5 |
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dawnyoshi |
Bowganian is pretty simple. Let it stay alive and your
opponent takes damage every turn. Sounds simple,
right? Well, it is.
It's really easy to use Bowganian. Just summon him,
then protect your field while using stall cards to
keep the opponent from attacking. They'll be taking
a 600 damage gunshot every turn. Its stats aren't
that bad either, though you can't rely on Bowganian
winning you the game that easily...after all, it
isn't exactly a good wall if you're relying on
gravity bind or messenger of peace.
Constructed: 3/5
Limited: 3.5/5
Not bad if you get D.D Borderline or some Gravity
Releases, but this monster will more than likely die
early on. Of course, you could combine this with
spatial collapse have a beatstick like Big Koala
out, making your opponent regret attacking Bowganian
when the Koala smacks the opponent's monster for
some major damage. |
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ExMinion OfDarkness |
Tuesday:
Bowganian
This monster finds Gravity Bind and makes sweet,
passionate love to it. In public. Same with MoP.
Auto 600 per turn this card stays on the field...if
you're playing massive stall, your opponent may get
to Raigeki or Dark Hole some, but not all of these.
If you keep playing them, you will eventually get
them to stick for a few turns.
A 1300 attacker that is protected from either L4 and
ups or 1500+ that does 600 a turn is great for this
kind of deck. My only complaint:
You have MoP on the field and this. It's 1300. Your
opponent summons...Don Zaloog. Oh crap.
This is a scenario you will run into MORE than once
when playing this card if you're not going up
against total newbs. And when you're playing stall,
you need every option you can get.
3.75/5 in Burn, 1.5/5 in regular |
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Tony |
Hola everyone ^^ It's ur boii toNy back for Card of
the Day!
hRmmm...I guess we are doing direct damage/burn
decks this week...
Pros
+ Inflicts direct damage
+ It's a machine
+ It's 3 stars
+ Searchable with Mystic Tomato
Cons
- It's soooo weak
- It's only 600 life points
- It's very situational
The combos with this card only goes up to things
like Waboku, Limiter Removal, Gravity Bind, and
Swords of Revealing Light. Only 2 things are played
in the meta-game and other two are very easily
countered. This card can only belong in one type of
deck: Burner.
This card is not as good as other burner cards such
as Cannon Soldier, Injection Fairy Lily, and even
Des Koala.
Bowganian can be good if you play a LOT of machine
monsters in your deck. Limiter Removal is a very fun
burner card. That means you can also run a decent
stall card called Scapegoats in your deck also. And
since it is 3 stars, you can use Gravity Bind to
stall.
The bad part of this card is obviously its strength.
It's only 1300 strong. Mystic Tomato, Don Zaloog, DD
Warrior Lady...they can all destroy this card. And
plus, it's only 600 damage per Stanby Phase and when
was the last time you had a creature on your side of
the field for more than 5 turns? Even 3...
Ratings:
Constructed: 3/10 (only in burner deck, not even in
machine deck)
Limited: 6/10 (it's a decent burn if your opponent
can't kill it)
Best Situation:
Your opponent has a face up 1600-1900 attacker on
the field. You have Jinzo, Bowganian, Cannon Soldier
on the field with Limiter Removal in hand. You
attack with Jinzo, during damage step, activate
Limiter Removal, attack with Cannon Soldier, and
then Bowganian. Mainphase 2, launch all your
monsters to your opponent's life points directly. |
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Tranorix |
Tuesday: Bowganian
Here s another Burn monster, one whom some might
prefer over the Bird for several reasons. 1) It has
better attack, and 2) it s a Machine. It s also
level 3 and gets around Gravity Bind, but it does
slightly less damage. So let s look at it a little
further:
1300 ATK is not that good; most monsters played in
tournament decks will run over it with ease. The
solution? Gravity Bind. Play this and your opponent
won t be able to hit your Bowganian but will instead
have his monsters sit there while you steadily drain
his LP away, 600 per turn (or more if you have
multiple Bowganians or some Stealth Birds on the
side).
What about M/T removal? Simple! Use Judgment of
Anubis. Now you ll be killing his beatsticks,
protecting your Bowganian, and inflicting even MORE
damage. A deck based around just these three cards
could be deadly (hey, why not use Limiter Removal
for extra fun?), but Bowganian doesn t need his own
deck to succeed. A Waboku or Mirror Force will
suffice and allow you to do a little (and if you re
lucky, more than a little) damage.
Typical tournament deck: 2.5/5
Burn deck: 4/5
OVERALL RATING: 3.3/5
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Otaku |
Stats:
Bowganian is a Level
3 Dark/Machine. That means that right of the
bat, it’s got
possibly the top Attribute/Type combinations,
and works with Gravity Bind. Gravity
Bind-themed decks are often forgotten or ignored
at a player’s peril: the unprepared are simply
annihilated by a good Gravity Bind deck. The
ATK is a somewhat paltry 1300-this is low enough
that a Mystic Tomato can take it out. Its DEF
is even lower, a mere 1000. Personally, I would
like this card better if it were 1450/1500, for
reason’s to be mentioned below. At least that
makes it searchable via the effects of Witch of
the Black Forest, Sangan,
and Mystic Tomato, and lets it slip under
Messenger of Peace.
Effect(s):
This card has a wondrous ability to inflict a
solid 600 damage to your opponent’s LP during
each of their Standby Phases. Ah, but here’s
the rub: the card must naturally be face-up for
the effect to work. With its ATK/DEF scores
from above, that’s going to be
reeeeaaaal tricky.
Uses/Combinations:
Like Stealth Bird, this card screams for
protection from Messenger of Peace and/or
Gravity Bind. With this one, I strongly
encourage Chorus of Sanctuary be considered,
since even a Witch of the Black Forest can take
this thing out if it’s in DEF mode, and if you
think you’ll want it in ATK mode, remember that
Mystic Tomato can run this thing down, as can
Don Zaloog.
Something this has over Stealth Bird is that its
Attribute/Type bonus can be made use of. If you
use it just with Gravity bind, then a Mystic
Plasma zone jacks it up to an 1800 ATK. You
could also run it with Cannon Soldier, also a
Dark Machine, in which case, a kamikaze assault
seems good: try to summon multiple copies at
once, Limiter Removal, and finally tribute with
Cannon Soldier. Now, that doesn’t make any real
use of Bowganian’s
effect, so tack this step on: set a
Wobaku and Ceasefire
with these guys. On your opponent’s turn, you
will have a chance to activate Ceasefire before
the end of your opponent’s Standby Phase,
allowing Bowganian’s
effect to hit once, and doing some nice LP
damage aside. Waboku
can then easily protect them, since even if the
opponent tries to nuke
Waboku, you can just chain. You should
then be able to hit for some good damage on the
next turn, especially if your opponent lacks a
lot of monsters. And always remember, Limiter
Removal alters the monsters current ATK, so they
stack.
Ratings
Casual:
3.75/5-While weaker in terms of LP damage
inflicted and DEF,
Bowganian seems easier to run than
Stealth Bird.
Tournament:
3.25/5-Still easier, but like Stealth Bird, your
opponents’ decks in this format will be better
equip to get around things like Gravity bind and
Messenger of Peace, plus Cyber/Morphin
Jar #2 can wreak havoc with these kind of
set-ups.
Limited:
4/5-D.D. Borderline, again, makes this card
incredible, especially since the starting LP for
this format is only 4000.
Summary
A good monster that seems just a touch too weak
to be used outside a deck geared around it, in
my opinion.
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