Stats                : Inferno Reckless Summon is a Quick-Play Spell.  It would be worse as a Trap (not a surprise) but if it created a lasting effect on the field, a la Last Will, it would have been better as a Normal Spell.

 

Effect(s)            : When you Special Summon a single, 1500 ATK or less Monster to your side of the field and when there is also at least one face-up Monster on your opponent’s side.  You then get to Special Summon all other copies you have of the card from your hand, graveyard, or deck.  Your opponent then selects one of their face-up Monsters and does the same.  This is quite nice if you can pull it off.

 

Uses and

Combinations  : This could be pretty sick when combined with Last Will.  Of course, you want to save the combo until you have a clear field, but at the same time it allows a ferocious swarm at any time: early game when your opponent’s nastiest cards are still locked away in your deck and late game when they are already gone, in the graveyard.  Imagine a Tomato-Control deck using this: Mystic Tomato dies, fetches a Cannon Soldier.  As long as you can take out any blatant defenses (e.g. they have a set S/T, you Dust Tornado it) you can Last Will, use Cannon Soldier to launch itself, get a Don Zaloog, activate Inferno Reckless Summon.  Now all you need to do is clear out their face-up Monsters, which shouldn’t be too hard since even though they may have gotten up to two more… you still have your Normal Summon (Exiled Force, a D.D. Monster, etc.) and all your other Monster Removal Spells.  Then watch them cringe as Don after Don attacks: even if they have enough Life Points to survive, their hand will be decimated.

 

However, that’s probably not going to be happening anytime soon.  You see, come April, Last Will becomes one per deck.  Last Will was vital to many rogue decks (and pretty sweet for some more mainstream decks as well), but with cards like Don Zaloog (and Proto-Cyber Dragon) that Last Will gets out so easily, things would get pretty broken, pretty fast.  Since the Summons should usually be coming all from deck or Graveyard… who cares if the whole shebang gets sucked into oblivion via a Dark Hole next turn?  Most of the time, you can probably just wait out a Breaker or something and then Smashing Ground it after Inferno Reckless Summon resolves.

 

Here is where we have some disappointment.  Unless they’ve changed the rulings, you can’t activate a Spell like this when something like Mystic Tomato resolves in the damage step.  So that option is out.

 

What is left for decks in general?  Not much: Premature Burial and Call of the Haunted but that’s about it.  Still, for Tomato-control… that might be worth a single copy of Inferno Reckless Summon at least side-boarded.  There are some specialty decks that can still make use of this card.  If you want to run a Batteryman AA deck… then yeah you want this: you can use Battery Charger to Special Summon a Batteryman AA from the graveyard, activate Inferno Reckless Summon, and you’ve got three Level 3 3000 ATK Monsters.  And if they all die, the same combo gets them all back again.  Up to two more times.  I was thinking about Gilasaurus, obviously as an early game surprise: at that point, it’s doubtful they have anything in their Graveyard.  So the first Gilasaurus is Special Summoned, you use Inferno Reckless Summon, and you have three expendable weenies on the field… provided they have a Monster face up.  Combine it with the right Tribute Monsters and you could have a fun deck.  I can see it maybe working with the Monarch Monsters, or my favorite… Gilford the Lightning.  After all, he’d clear out all their Monsters and let you hit them hard.  Heck, even though they are puny, 3 Gilasaurus are still something.

 

You know, it would be nice for a VWXYZ deck.  The Union effect Special Summons the Union Monster from the S/T zone.  This can let you quickly get the smaller pieces into your Graveyard, where they can be removed from play for several worthwhile effects… then using Return from the Different Dimension, custom assemble the Fusion of theirs you need.  Roll Out can get one piece from the Graveyard and equipped to a legal target in one shot, allowing you to then de-equip it.

 

All in all, it will require thinking outside of the box, but this card will definitely see play. 

 

Ratings

 

Traditional       : 1.5/5 – Nope, too hard to get the effect and make it worth while.  Maybe it could be risked in some OTK decks that could use the extra Summons.

 

Advanced        : 4/5 – For the decks that can use it well, like Batteryman AA.  In general, it’s about two points lower.

 

Limited            : 1/5 – Odds are you won’t have anything to trigger it, and even if you do… how likely are you to have multiples of it?

 

Summary

A good card that can lead to some major advantage if used properly.  However, frustration over it not working in response to a searcher like Mystic Tomato dying in battle, coupled with the need to play some cards perceived as “bad topdecks” means it probably won’t see the play it deserves.