Reinforced Human Psychic Borg...a monster with too
long a name, opens the week. We have a Level 4,
Earth attributed, Psychic-type monster with 1500
attack (low), and 800 defense (even lower...)
Now, RHPB tries to make amends for his subpar attack
by an attack increase ability. Generally, you would
probably play the monster that has more attack
points, but let's at least look at how he increases
his attack.
Up to twice per turn, you can remove two Psychic
monsters from your Graveyard from play to have this
card gain 500 attack. So if you remove one, that's
2000, and two gives you 2500, both which are good on
a Level 4 monster.
I have a couple of problems here...first, don't
Psychic Decks work best by Synchro Summoning
monsters and having other Psychic types on the
Field? Furthermore, this card is really only good
later in the game, as you need the monsters in the
Graveyard to remove.
Ratings:
1/5 both formats, as it does something, but it's
horribly outclassed, even in it's own Deck
Art: 3/5
General Zorpa
Reinforced Human Psychic
Borg
We are the Borg. Lower your traps and surrender your
cards. Resistance is futile. LOL at myself. Anyway,
today's card is Reinforced Human Psychic Borg. A
mouthful of a name on a meh card. He has 1500 ATK
and 800 DEF, which is on the lower end of average
for competitive play for a 4 star EARTH Psychic.
The effect is that up to twice per turn you can
remove from play a Psychic monster in your graveyard
from play to have him gain 500 ATK. For those of you
playing at home, that is 2000 or 2500 ATK
respectively. You remember how good Bazoo was? This
card is better. He gets up to the same boost with
one less card to remove and is in a much more
supported monster type.
There is a Psychic support card from RGBT that
allows you to get 2 removed from play Psychic
monsters and add them to your hand. You can combo
these cards with Hand Destruction in order to sift
through your deck, power up your Borg and at the
same time leaving an opponent reeling from your
nerdy awesomeness.
Granted, it is rather a limited combo, but a solid
Psychic deck has a chance, and even though this card
is only pretty cutesy in terms of the things it can
do, a 2500 beater every turn while setting up for
DDR or Return from the Different Dimension is
actually pretty devastating. Combo this with Krebons,
Mind Master, Mind Protector and Krebons and you have
some pretty neat stuff you can do. The format is a
little slower now, so it might actually have a
chance competitively.
Traditional-1/5
Advanced-3/5
Freeza
Reinforced Human
Psychic Borg ...
Nice. This is a very understated monster that i feel
has gotten overlooked in this set, what with a lot
of big flashier monsters that spark much more
conversation. But just take a look at how this Borg
is built!
First off - he's a Psychic type with no life point
cost. He's earth attribute ... nice. And with 4
stars - his stats are almost as sound as can be. 800
DEF is a little pesky, but 1500 ATK makes him
perfectly searchable by Sagan, or special summonable
by Giant Rat, if that's your stylo ...
And then effect? - Up to TWICE per turn u can remove
1 psychic monster in your grave from play to
increase his ATK by 500. So limited only by the
amount of psychics u have at your disposal, he can
essentially boost his own ATK by 1000 each turn. a 4
star 2500 attacker? - are u kidding me?? And his
effect doesnt appear to go down, so next turn - u
can bring him to 3500.
This is just awesome, with no real downside to
playing him. If I played Psychics - i'd play 2 or 3
of these. No doubt.
Traditional: 3.5/5
Advanced: 4/5
- FREEZA
N o V a
Reinforced Human
Psychic Borg starts off our Card of the Day this
week. Seriously has a long name. Anyways, he's a
pretty decent monster. Earth, level 4, 1500 attack,
800 defense and by removing 1 Psychic type monster
from your graveyard from play it gains 500 attack,
and you can use the effect twice per turn. This is a
good card to have in any Psychic themed deck only
because of the fact that with Krebons, Psychic
Commander and Emergency Teleport you are bound to
have multiple Psychic monsters in your graveyard to
remove for his effect. He's searchable with Giant
Rat too if you somehow worked Rats into a Psychic
deck.
There really isn't much to this card, its mainly a
beatstick for Psychic monsters, you can abuse its
effect with cards like Burial from a Different
Dimension, Return from the Different Dimension and
various other cards. Its something you cant just
splash into any deck though so strictly for a
Psychic Deck.
Traditional: 1.5/5
Advanced: 2/5
Lol Pisko
Reinforced Human
Psychic Borg
This card is a Bazoo for Psychic monsters only, but
the attack gain is permanent. It seems like it could
be good for taking down big synchros, but the
Psychic theme as a whole (outside of Teleport,
Krebons, and Commander) isn't very good. Another
problem is that Book of Moon is such a huge this
card. If you aren't playing against a deck that
mains Book, then they're playing Skill Drain or
Honests (maybe even both). This card is far from
terrible, it just lacks proper support now that
Teleport is at one and the format is sort of against
it.
Traditional 1/5
Advanced 2/5
Jeff Lang
Reinforced Human
Psychic Borg
Today’s card is Reinforced Human Psychic Borg. I
would have loved the Psychic deck if they wouldn’t
have touched Emergency Teleport. Anyways if you want
to try the deck out, it could still be pretty
decent. The first thing that comes to mind, would be
to use this card and Psychic Path. You could toss
Ultimate Offering into the deck and try to make it a
swarming deck. You can also grab this guy off of
Giant Rat, so that is another plus. Quite a few of
the Psychic guys are Earth type, so the Rats won’t
go to waste. Once again, if Emergency Teleport
wasn’t knocked down to 1 per deck, I could say more
about the deck. The deck is still very fun to use
though, and you should try the deck out
