This card gains 100 ATK for every face-up
Winged-Beast-Type monster you control. Once per
turn, if you control 3 or more face-up
Winged-Beast-Type monsters, you can destroy 1 Spell
or Trap Card your opponent controls.
Card Ratings
Traditional: 1.75
Advanced:
2.33
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale
1 being the worst.
3 is average.
5 is the highest rating.
Date Reviewed - 06.02.09
Battlestorm, originally in my Raging Battle week
from last week, but we took a day off...incredible
art, picture, background...anyway, we have a Dark
attributed Winged-Beast type monster, who is Level
4, with 1700 attack (not bad) and 1000 defense.
Now, Battlestorm gains 100 attack and defense for
each face-up Winged-Beast type monster on your
Field...not a terrible effect, but a marginal
increase, although this card boosts itself, up to
1800 attack, so that's nice. Two at the same time
would be 1900 and three would be 2000 each...
Furthermore, if you control three or more face-up
Winged-Beast type monsters, you can destroy one
Magic or Trap card your opponent controls. This I
like, even though three monsters may be a
lot...Winged-Beasts are fast and can replenish
quickly.
Ratings:
Traditional: 2.25/5
Advanced: 3.25/5
Art: 5/5 The cool, badass, male version of Harpy
Lady perhaps?
General Zorpa
Battlestorm
Well, we have the RGBT promo card today. He has 1800
ATK on a DARK Winged Beast with 4 stars. That is
actually about average, as Shura the Blue Flame is
very similar. The problem arises with this guy's
effect, which is really good, but just not what The
deck that would run him (Blackwings) needed at this
point in time.
He actually has some great effects. The first is
that fro every Winged Beast you control, he gains
100 ATK. Hence why I said he has 1800 ATK as he
himself is a Winged Beast. This allows him to
compete fairly nicely with the Gladiator beasts and
Lightsworn so long as you have mor eWinged Beasts.
The next effect is that once per turn if you have 3
or more Winged Beasts on your side of the field you
can destroy one spell or trap card on the field.
You would think that a growable Breaker would get
played a ton, but the fact that he is not a
Blackwing hurt this card like none other. Blackwings
are great at swarming the field, so long as they
have more Blackwings to back them up. You cannot
swarm without other Blackwings so Battlestorm never
really gets to his good effects and then if you do
get to swarm then you would likely win anyway with
all of the Blackwings that you have.
Even the Breaker effect is not that great as
Blackwings have Delta Crow to be able to Harpies
Feather Duster their opponent's field so beyond that
they really don't need the spell and trap
destruction.
To put Blackwings aside, I do thinl that he might be
able to work in a Harpie deck, as they kind of need
all the help that they can get. They swarm not as
aggressively as Blackwings, so you should have more
time to make better use of Battlestorm's effects.
Traditional-1/5
Advanced-3/5
Jeff Lang
Battlestorm
Level 4 Winged Beast Type Dark Attribute
Attack: 1700 Defense: 1000
This card gains 100 ATK for every face-up
Winged-Beast-Type monster you control. Once per
turn, if you control 3 or more face-up
Winged-Beast-Type monsters, you can destroy 1 Spell
or Trap Card your opponent controls.
Today’s card up for review is Battlestorm, yet
another interesting Sneak Preview Promo to add to
the collection. This is what I like to see, playable
cards for forgotten types of decks! Now I could have
MAYBE seen this in a Blackwing deck, but then all of
this busted beyond belief support was made, so now
it is pretty much about winning quickly. But
anyways, for those who run a Winged Beast deck, why
not use 3 of this guy? Let’s face it, they never got
much support, so this guy is staple in that sort of
deck. You can certainly pull it’s destruction effect
off as well
Trad: 1/5
Adv: 1.5/5
Freeza
Battlestorm …
The pre-release promo card … Black Wing’s best
friend, without actually being a member of the Black
Wing Family … What a hose, right? Well anyways, he’s
still pretty good. 1700 ATK but gains 100 for every
winged beast on the field … HE himself is a winged
beast, so he come out swinging at 1800 really. Black
Wings love to swarm, so coupled with them he’ll
often be batting at about 1900 – 2100 … not too bad
for a 4 star monster. He’s dark, so he gets all the
awesomeness of that as well. And lastly – once per
turn, he can pop a spell or trap if there are at
least 2 other winged beasts on your side of the
field. Nice? Yes, it is.
But Battlestorm’s really MAJOR downside is that he
ISN’T a Black Wing monster. Black Wings are so
awesome cuz they synergize with each other like
Whoa! But they need the name in order to do it. He
can’t Synchro for the20bigger ones. He doesn’t get
protected by Ka’lut. He doesn’t fetch more with the
whirlwind. Much like the wacky next door neighbor in
any good sitcom, he helps OUT the Black Wing Family,
but they don’t ever really do much for HIM. And he’s
not THAT awesome that he’ll ever get his own
spinoff. U feel me?
Traditional: 2/5
Advanced: 3/5
- FREEZA
N o V a
TWe continue this
weeks COTD with Battlestorm, a new Winged Beast
monster that people are debating on adding in with
Blackwings. Battlestorm is a 1700 attack beatstick
with a mere 1000 defense, but gets 100 attack for
each face-up Winged Beast monster you control.
Automatically it becomes a 1800 Breaker the Magical
Warrior.
Being such a strong monster for its stats and having
a decent effect, its still rather difficult to use.
Blackwing decks usually have an easy time of
swarming the field so its not too hard, but still
complicated and honestly too much work for
destroying 1 Spell or Trap card. Its not a terrible
card but I think there are better choices.
traditional: 2.5/5
Advanced: 2.5/5
Darkstarr
Battlestorm
[Winged-Beast/Effect] Dark LV4 ATK/1700 DEF/1000
This card gains 100 ATK for each face-up
Winged-Beast-Type monster you control. Once per
turn, if you control 3 or more face-up
Winged-Beast-Type monsters, you can destroy 1 Spell
or Trap Card your opponent controls.
Looks like Winged beast finally get a new card that
do what Winged Beast are supposed to do (Boost up
attack and clear backfield). This little guy started
off as 1800 attack due to its own effect and get a
boost for every winged beast on the field so it max
attack is 2200. For a four star monsters its great.
It also has built in backfield destruction as long
as you have three or more winged beast monsters. Now
obviously this can be used in Blackwing but a lost
archetype that loves this card is Harpie. It gives
them an allure target ran along with Krebons, Gale,
& Shura. Harpies can be at least a 15.-2.0 Tier deck
due to the given speed and flexibility this card
allows. I like this card allot as it does bring it's
own type up a little but only thing I don't like is
that it really doesn't help the decks it's just raw
power.
Trad: 2.5 (Good Beater and Chaos food)
Advance: 3.0 (An average card that was need for the
Winged Beast type)
