Spellstone Sorcerer Karood …

Crap. 1st off – he’s got too many words in his effect description. I was bored to tears just reading it. Next – his stats – they suck too. His DEF is pretty good for his level, but to get his effect, he has to be face-up. So either u summon him in ATK mode and pray he survives the next turn so u can switch him to DEF, or u set him face-down so as NOT to get any effect out of him, and hope ur opponent tries to attack blindly through it with something weaker than a 1900 ATK, so he can be flipped face-up, not die, and can only THEN start generating an effect.

At this point, this is all u need to know about this guy to give up on him, thus u really don’t need to read any more of this review … but if u ARE still with me? – Snaps for u! Your awesome! … And furthermore about Karood – ok. He’s face-up, and now every time a monster activates its effect, he gets a counter … a maximum of 1?!?! – and his DEF can increase by 300 … yawn … And u can remove that counter to remove an opponent’s card in the graveyard from play. Uhg … what a long painful way to pretty much end up doing NOTHING. Assuming Karood would even SURVIVE whatever the other monster’s effect was, there are a MILLION much easier and reliable methods of removing cards in your opponent’s graveyard from play. Why on earth anyone would even CONSIDER using Karood is beyond me …

Or, … just MAYBE there is a kickbut crazy combo someone is looking to abuse to totally snuff an opponent’s graveyard in one fell swoop/annoying loop?? ... afterall, it says “another Monster Card’s effect”, not “Opponent’s Monster Card effect”, so u can reuse your OWN effects, keep generating counters, and keep remov …. Oh wait. There it is. – “Once per turn”.

Yep. Karood is crap.

Traditional: 1/5
Advanced: 1/5

- FREEZA

Today we will be taking a look at one of the TCG exclusives that is a Secret Rare in Starstrike Blast, Spellstone Sorcerer Karood. Spellstone Sorcerer Karood is a Level three Light Spellcaster with eight hundred Attack and nineteen hundred Defense. Once per turn, when another Monster Card's effect is activated while there is no Spellstone Counter on this card, place 1 Spellstone Counter on this card (max. 1). This card gains 300 DEF for each Spellstone Counter on it. Once per turn, you can remove 1 Spellstone Counter from your side of the field to select 1 card in your opponent's Graveyard, and remove that card from play.

This card had potential to be playable if it was Spell Counters instead of Spellstone Counters but sadly that isn’t the case and until it gets the support it needs this card will remain in the shadow of cards like D.D. Crow. The one thing that this card does have going for it is its high Defense, nineteen hundred is hard to get over now a days so in the early game it is very possible to set this and have your opponent Attack into it taking some damage, but the odds are that once they see you play this they will just wait to activate their Monster Effects much like if they see Doomcalibur Knight. And they fact that this is an Ignition ability means that they can just activate a Monster Effect to destroy this on their turn and you will never get a chance to activate Spellstone Sorcerer Karood.

In the Traditional Format this card It’s not good enough for the Advanced Format so this defiantly isn’t good enough for the Traditional Format. The only deck I could see this being used against effectively in the OCG would be Substitoad FTK if you are going first.

Bottom line: The card could have potential use but for now lacks the support it needs.
Advanced: 1/5
Traditional: 1/5

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Spellstone Sorcerer Karood is a 3-star light spellcaster with bad attack, but a solid 1900 defense, which should block most 4-star or lower attackers. When another monster’s effect activates, you can put a spellstone counter on him, maximum of 1, and it gives him 300 extra defense, making it 2200. Once per turn, you can remove the counter to remove a card in your opponent’s grave from play. Decent ability, too bad it’s only spell speed 1, because if it was speed 2, you could use it like DD Crow to nullify your opponent’s target. Also, it has to be face up, so you either summon it in attack position (unlikely, due to his horrible ATK), or set it and hope that your opponent runs into it with something small. I think the biggest thing that kills this card, though, is the fact that it uses spellstone counters instead of spell counters, because if it used spell counters, it would be open to all of the spellcaster / spell counter support out there, and it may have found a place in a spellcaster deck. But alas, our poor friend doesn’t quite cut it, and I doubt we’ll see too much play out of him.

Traditional: 1/5
Advanced: 1.5/5
Art: Is that a mask, or is it just his face…? Cause there’s hair growing out of it…