Reviewing…

(to be continued)

Advanced: 1/5
Traditional: 1/5
 

Metal Dragon is one of those Fusions that exists because it appears in the manga or animé… or at least that is what I have heard.  If it doesn’t… oh well, it’s a poor card either way.  It is a Level 6 Wind/Machine/Fusion with an ATK of 1850 and DEF of 1700.  Now, most of the major Fusion “cheats”, that is Magical Scientist and Metamorphosis, don’t even need this card, as its stats are just that poor.  Even a halfway proper Fusion makes no sense since the Fusion Materials are also bad.  Finally, it has no effect to offset this.

Now, don’t get me wrong: between Limiter Removal and Power Bond, Machine Fusions have to be really weak.  Well, that’s a bit of a lie: they just need to ban those two cards.  Restricting them helps, but as it’s been made painfully clear by my duels with others, even the brain AI from the first GX game… Power Bond + Limiter Removal + otherwise playable Machine Fusion = Broken.  This sap doesn’t do it, but most others have OTK potential.  Steam Gyroid?  Power Bond it, Limiter Removal it, and while it dies at the end of the turn and costs you 2200 LP, you have an 8800 ATK Monster, plus your Normal Summon still alive.  UFOroid Fighter may seem like a joke since you have to use UFOroid or else the only ways to Summon it will result in a 0/0 ATK Monster… well its lovely with Goblin Attack Force: 14000 ATK.  Yeah it cost you a lot (4 cards and eventually 3500 LP), but if you have a Catapult Turtle or any of several other useful combo cards… its well worth it.  Really, only Cyber Saurus and Metal Dragon are legal Power Bond targets that can’t abuse the two cards combined.  They try, but their pitiful natures allow them only to briefly flash as potent beatsticks and Tribute Fodder.  Every other Machine-based Fusion either has the raw ATK and/or a brilliant effect to produce hugely unbalanced results.  The most blatant offender is Cyber Twin Dragon.  Cyber Dragon is already a broken card; yes it is sometimes dead weight, but in the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG, its Special Summoning requirements tend to pop up close to every other of your turns.  So Cyber Twin Dragon is very worth building a deck around.  Power Bonding it results in a 5600 ATK Monstrosity that can attack twice.  Second turn, this will almost always gain a huge advantage for the player who pulls it off, and many times it will just simply be game.  If it is combined with a lucky Limiter Removal, the odds of surviving drop even more.  Limiter Removal was potent even when we had only one good Machine: Mechanical Chaser (Cannon Soldier, at the time, wasn’t as great since it was the era of Beatdown).

Well, it appears I’ve gotten a good rant in on the subject.

Basically, another useless Fusion.  Now that there is a way to punish someone for a big Fusion deck, once again we need to be more choosey about what we use.

Rating: 1/5