Voltic Bicorn tries to hard to be ‘cool’.  Like I said with Lightning Tricorn, unless I missed some –corn support cards that require maintaining that syllable in the name, it is a pretty silly theme.  While it avoids the error of Tricorn by not having so many horns-where-horns-should-not-be, the “orange lightning chest hair” is pretty silly.

 

Fortunately this card actually has some good things going for it.  Being a Light monster is great: if you have a card in hand or facedown, your opponent still has to worry about attacking.  Being a Synchro Monster is “okay”: Level 7 isn’t the most crowded slot.  Hitting Level 7 will require a little more effort than say a Level 5 or 6.  Note that it requires a Beast-Type Tuner.  Being a Beast type is fairly good for this card, due to its effect (more on that later).  The 2500 ATK seems a tad low but isn’t crippling, and the 2000 DEF should keep it from being wrecked by position change.

 

The effect is what makes this card.  When it is destroyed by your opponent’s card, either through an ATK or an effect, both players discard the top 7 cards from their deck.  Pretty impressive depletion effect and many cards can take advantage of the self-mill.  Sadly its Type isn’t the most optimal, but you can indeed make a solid Beast deck with the right cards (the Baboon monsters spring to mind).  Imagine if this had been a Zombie it would have been insane.

 

Besides some dedicated beast decks, you can slap this into a Macro deck where it can fuel the combo quite beautifully.  Just remember to include those Beast-Type Tuners.

 

Ratings

 

Traditional: 3/5 – It is Chaos compliant, capable of speeding your own Chaos monsters set-up while trashing the opponent, but the required Beast Tuner and risk of being removed hurts it.

 

Advanced: 4/5 – This may seem a bit high, but it isn’t impossible to splash into many decks (there are some good Beast Tuners, after all).  This score also reflects its use in its own deck.

 

I am still selling quite a bit of my stuff on eBay.  I’ve had a lot of hobbies over the years, so at various times I’ll have comic books, manga, action figures, and video games on the auction block.  You can take a look at what’s up for bids here.  I usually add new stuff on Wednesdays and Saturdays.  Just a reminder, Pojo is in no way responsible for this and was merely kind enough to let me mention the auctions here. ;)