Blast Magician

For this week’s cards, we’re back to reviewing FET.  Unless you live under a rock or something, chances are you’ve heard about Blast Magician.  Cards like this come along once a set, usually; it’s a card that some people love and others hate.  King of FET Blast Magician is not, but he’s definitely useful.

You can see that his stats aren’t exactly great, though 1400 ATK isn’t terrible (it lets him come out via UFO Turtle, and soon Sangan, after all).  Of course, there’s also an effect.  Useful is a great word to describe it, but it’s also nothing amazing: every time you or your opponent activates a Spell, Blast Magician gets a Spell Counter.

Destroying opponents’ monsters is always fun, and Blast Magician’s effect allows you to remove Spell Counters from him in order to destroy an opponent’s monster with ATK less than or equal to 700 x the number of Spell Counters you removed.  Add it up yourself: remove three Spell Counters and you can kill a Berserk Gorilla.  Remove five and you can kill Jinzo.  Killing bigger monsters requires more Spell Counters, which is where Blast Magician has his weakness.

Playing against a competitive deck, it’ll probably be difficult to keep him on the field for very long.  As a result, it can be hard to accumulate enough Spell Counters to destroy anything worthwhile.  Let yourself wait too long and your Blast Magician will probably die.  Although potentially useful, the effect isn’t very consistent.  Deny his usefulness completely, however, and you’ll be wrong.  In the right deck (or against it – he’d work nicely both in and against Stall Decks), Blast Magician can be amazing.  Nice artwork too, I might add.

Traditional – CCCC: 2/5

Traditional – Stall: 3/5

Advanced – CCWC: 2.5/5

Advanced – Stall: 3.5/5  

OVERALL RATING: 2.8/5