Divine Knight Ishzark...another
decent card who doesn't fit the environment, and
yes, the majority of that is due to the 2300 attack
on a one tribute monster.
Don't get me wrong, Ishzark has
some things going for him.Light monsters are good, Warriors are just as
good, and removing your opponent's monsters when you
destroy them is a good thing.Dimension Fusion being Banned is good.However, back to Square One, 2300 attack is
not good.
Honestly, we still have too many
ways to revive monsters from the Removed From Play
Zone, that I just don't think Ishzark is a good
idea.
Ratings:
Traditional:3/5A Light-Warrior, and he removes things?Could be an anti-Chaos card.
Advanced:X-.25/5Where X equals each card that your opponent
plays
with 2400 or more attack that is
one tribute and any card they play to rescue
monsters from being removed.
Art:4/5
Creator
OfThePoint
System
Thursday:
Divine Knight Ishzark
This card's jank...but it's not absolutely horrible
jank either.
2300 ATK isn't that great for one Tribute, and being
able to remove monsters a card destroys is
half-decent (Lesser Fiend saw some play previously.)
What this guy has going for him is that he's
Light-type, and thus can gain interaction from
Honest. Being able to attack over AND REMOVE
Heraklinos or Gyzarus can be significant in shutting
down an opponent's Premature Burial/Monster Reborn
hopes for later.
It's not great, but it's not bottom of the barrel.
2/5
General Zorpa
Divine Knight Ishzark
Well, he tries really hard. 2300 ATK and being a
LIGHT Warrior certainly doesn't help nor hurt him,
but the level 6 does although he has a decent
defense. His effect mirrors that of Dark Magician of
Chaos and D.D. Crazy Beast in that he removes from
play anything that he destroys in battle.
This effect has it's uses, particularly against
Sangan and other graveyard themed cards. If he were
level 5 I think he might have seen some play in a
Reasoning deck packing Honest. Since so many cards
use the graveyard these days, it is really a good
strategy to negate that advantage for another
player. If he had something else to his effect, like
when he is summoned you remove a card in an
opponent's graveyard from play, then he might see
sporadic play, but as it is Kycoo the Ghost
Destroyer, Dark Magician of Chaos and Banisher of
the Radiance are far better at doing that.
Traditional-1.5
Advanced-1.5
Tony Mera
LODT-EN091
Divine Knight Ishzark
LIGHT
Level 6
ATK/2300 DEF/1800
[Warrior/Effect]
Any monster this card destroys by battle is removed
from play.
17902462
Super Rare
The Card
This card is not that bad. If only it had 200 more
attack. Then it would get over jinzo's, Monarchs,
and Prime Material Dragon. The effect is not bad at
all and this guy can demolish anything on the field.
It can remove things like sangan, Gladiator beasts,
Lightsworns, and Darks. Which means no searching
for sangan, less Darius targets, less lightsworns to
bring out Judgment Dragon, and not enough darks to
bring out Dark Armed Dragon. This card isn't that
bad, but Prime Material Dragon turns out to be a
much better choice. Prime materials effect is more
useful, even though this card does have a lot of
potential.
Advanced
With Gladiator beasts, Lightsworn, and Dark Armed
Dragon being one of the top decks with Monarchs,
this card isn't so bad this format. It can do some
great damage, but it has a bad match up against
monarchs, which would destroy this card. If you can
keep this out against a Lightsworn deck and a Dark
Armed Dragon deck, you can most likely win. You can
probably combo this up with Prime Material to keep
this safe, and run some honests to keep this guy
protected and run a whole Light theme to it. You can
end up doing a lot of weird things with this card
and how you make the build around it. The problem is
that having him out on the field alone he is prone
to anything and a quick Gyzarus, goes your chance of
making him amazing and win the game for you. It
would be an amazing lock with prime material. You
would also use triple solemns, like every deck is
running to protect him as well. This card has
potential somewhere to be side deckable or
maindeckable with the right build for him. Worst
match up is against a monarch deck. Against GB it
wouldn't be so bad, because you run Primes when
running this card.
Traditional
Bad here.
Combo's
Like I said Prime+this card is good. Using honests
to protect him.
Suggestions
Try to make this guy work, because he isn't that
bad. Test around and try to do what works. He may
end up pretty good. This card just needs testing
which no one does anymore, because the decks are
already established.
Art
2/5
It's looks ok
Traditional- 1/5
Advanced- 3/5
David "BobDole"
Hoffman
Divine Knight Ishark
Let me start by saying that I'm
almost always biased regarding Warrior type cards.
It's my favorite theme by far. I promise to try not
to be biased.
DKI is a card that once again,
has that potential for being fantastic. Just 150
more ATK points and he would have been incredible
useful to any Warrior deck. Heck, most Light decks
could have made good use of him.
Unfortunately, he's at a
lackluster 2300 ATK, which is enough to kill most
anything nontribute, but it still falls to Monarchs
and Jinzo. The ability to remove monsters from play
that this thing kills is pretty decent. It will put
a dent in the game plan of most decks, but really
doesn't affect DAD terribly. I only wish the effect
read "Any monster this card battles with is removed
from play". That would have given it some suicide
potential atleast.
In the end, it's just not nearly
as good as it could have been, but for what it is,
it's alright. Not going to be breaking the meta
anytime soon though.
Traditional: 2/5 It is a Light
Advanced: 2.5/5 It's alright, but nothing fantastic
Bob Dole
Velvet Jones
LODT-EN091
Divine Knight Ishzark
LIGHT
Level 6
ATK/2300 DEF/1800
[Warrior/Effect]
Any monster this card destroys by battle is removed
from play.
17902462
Super Rare
The attack value of the card reduces the playability
of this card.2300 is 100 shy of competitive.The reduction in attack does somewhat“balance” the effect, but it will also keep
it in the binder.
