Stats:
Kinetic Warrior is a very interesting card, but
not really here. :-P he’s a Level 3 is
good-obviously you can both drop it into play
without hassle but it also slips under Gravity
Bind. Earth is good-there’s a lot of solid
Earth Monsters and as such some decent support
to go with them. It says here that it’s a
Machine-gotta love
Limiter Removal. ;) An attack of 1350 is bad…
normally. You’ll see why it’s nice when we get
to the effect. This card can be gotten via
Sangan and Giant Rat with its low ATK score, and
slip under Messenger of Peace. The DEF of 1800
isn’t too bad-but a little lower (so that it
could be gotten via Witch of the Black Forest)
or higher (to survive the 1900 beatsticks).
Card Text (Effects):
During the battle step, if the monster this card
is doing battle with is a Warrior-type, then
during the damage step only, it Hulks out,
getting a 2000/2000 bonus, turning it into a
3350/4800 monster. Wow. That is an effect that
seems pretty good. Why? It’s useful for side
decks for certain, and maybe more… but looks
“safe”-even if you build a deck round it, it’s
not “broken”. The effect also takes place at
the best time (in my opinion)-the Damage Step.
Since only cards that alter ATK and DEF scores
can be played at this point-no
Waboku, no Mirror
Force, no Magic Cylinder, and no
RoD. Oh, and it
also sets up some great combos…
Uses/Combinations:
... here’s where we finally find some fun tricks
out for it. Opponent attacks normal
beatstick, maybe to
clear the way. For arguments sake, I’ll just
say its promo-mate, Slate Warrior. When Slate
Warrior attacks, chain DNA-Surgery, and call
Warriors. Defense or Attack mode, that’s
gotta hurt. Now,
what else can you do? Well, Goblin Attack Force
and Don Zaloog are
Warriors and is commonly played-toss in a little
trample and you can have real fun. I stated in
the beginning you can combo it with Limiter
Removal. Obviously, this could be used instead
of DNA Surgery against non-warrior types. I
don’t know if Limiter Removals effect rests on
the card, so there is a very small chance you
could use it before you DNA Surgery and have it
double the enhanced stats during the damage
step… I just don’t know
about timing issues and what not. If you
do try and build a deck around it, not
its both Messenger of
Peace (stats are boosted after the attack) and
Gravity Bind friendly. More importantly note
its just an insane
for fun deck-series players will use whatever
they can abuse until its banned, and Konami will
keep making it cause they haven’t got a clue…
Ratings
Casual:
3.5/5-Bizarre but potent stuff here. Even
outside the freaky deck I described, Warriors
are more common making it possibly work its way
into the main deck.
Constructed:
2.5/5-Solid Side deck material if Warrior decks
give you a hassle.
Limited:
Even if it could be drafted, it would matter
what it was drafted with…
Summary
This is an example of good, balanced card
design. A shame it’s the exception and not the
rule…
