Having missed the last two week’s of CotDs for multiple reasons (mild illness, slightly heavy school work, and my inability to stick to a tight schedule), and the fact that this seems to be a cyclical occurrence, this will be another short review.

 

We were asked to review the Destiny Board cards by a fan of it who claimed to have great success with it.  Since I was the one who initially “bumped” the review to a later date (starting a trend; sorry Destiny Board fans) and didn’t immediately reschedule it, I kept reminding the other’s we still needed to do it (how hypocritical, I know).  This may have given them the impression I liked these cards. 

 

I don’t.

 

There are some personal reasons why, but I won’t get into them.  No, it’s not because I lost to them (I might have, but I don’t remember).  They actually have an auto-win condition I can tolerate; like Final Destiny, you have to work hard for the win and it can’t happen first turn.  The main problem is that you are forced into a bad situation with these cards: most things that could protect them would negate them, or eat up Spell/Trap slots.  Since you need all five of your basics Spell/Trap slots, you can’t have any protection for the Destiny Board cards lingering: for example, the Magic Jammer that protects them will be in their way if your opponent never activates a Spell… and is useless if they use a Dust Tornado.  You can negate one of your own Spells to get rid of the Jammer, but that’s a lot of cards pretty much wasted.

 

If a Destiny Board piece is nuked, you have to start over.  Since you have to play the cards appropriately through their effect, it means that your opponent just needs something to nuke one S/T to waste all those cards.  Easiest trick to handle Destiny Board is to wait until just before the final (I couldn’t resist) piece would be laid… then nuke the “F” piece to score a four for one.

 

I couldn’t access any recent ruling sources, so check the official FAQ if something doesn’t seem right.

 

Ratings

 

Traditional       : 1.25/5-You can build a deck around this, but why would you unless you are really bored, are insanely skilled and want a challenge, or like losing.  Since it’s the focus of its own deck, this is really the score for the entire deck type.

 

Advanced        : 1.75/5-You can build a deck around this, but why would you unless you are really bored, are insanely skilled and want a challenge, or like losing.  Since it’s the focus of its own deck, this is really the score for the entire deck type.  Though your odds are a hair better here.

 

 

Limited            : 5/5-Please not this assumes you pull at least one copy of every piece.  In this kind of environment, the deck is sick as most players will be unable to stop you from getting the effect.  Realize then, that a single piece is worth only 1/5, adding 0.05/5 to that for each additional piece, in order, and not reaching the entire set.  Why?  Pure sadistic bluffing, though at the cost of burning your own S/T zones (not a huge a deal here).

 

Summary

An interesting idea poorly executed.  Even in the cartoon, the only one we’ve seen use it did so only with a (non-existent irl) Field Spell that gave him extra Spell/Trap zones to use up.

 

Finally, it’s done.