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Ionization Star-Vader, Hafnium   It's "We've got WAY too much Link Joker Legion" week, and this week we're reviewing a whopping FIVE Link Joker aces, all from the same set, for your viewing pleasure. And in my case, advise on what's going to be worth your money and what are total noob traps. Because I KNOW people are going to try and run any two, maybe three aces together. Badly.   So let's get the worst of the lot out the way first. Hafnium. He legions with an older card, Radon, and for that, when he attacks, for every locked unit the opponent has, one of your rear-guards gets 5k until the end of the turn. His normal skill is to CB2 to lock an opponent's back-row unit.   This is one of those "backup" cards to an ace that you actually care about. Column forming sounds nice at first, but consider that in order to achieve a similar output afforded with a similar unit like Gold-Gancelot, you'd need to lock 3. One of which will most likely need to be Hafnium's own skill since only bosses an lock without being dependent on another unit being locked also. So most likely this, and your starter Robin-Knight to lock 3 for CB3 and -1.    Problem is, the pressure and the alleviation of your opponent's pressure isn't something that can be realistically maintained. It's own skill's a bit steep, and it will require drawing into Photons afterwards to get the same output.   Hafnium isn't worth building an entire deck around. But for any ace where a similar unit can't generate a similar gambit, this is an okay budget option.   2/5

Nanya

Ionization Star-vader, Hafnium   Welcome to Star-vader week, folks.  This week we're looking at the Link Joker from the alternate timeline and first up is Hafnium.   Hello, Nebula Lord Dragon, did you decide to join Infinite Zero Dragon and become a Legion now too?   Anyway, this is a type-2 legion...  Well, more like a continuous Legion, but, anyway... Hafnium legions with Radon and...  Sheesh, is it just me, or do all the 12K attackers have Legions now?  And why are all of them so bad?   Seriously, this guy...  Not very good.  While you could combine it with Robin Knight to get three units locked and give 3 of your units an extra 5000 power...  The sad fact is that this guy can only lock a back-row rear guard, while you'll most likely go for the vanguard booster, the fact that you're limited in options really hurts this Legion.  Plus the whole CB2 to lock one unit.   That was, ultimately, the reason why no one really ran Nebula Lord Dragon (though that card was a LOT more terrifying than Chaos Breaker Dragon could ever hope to be) after Chaos Breaker Dragon came around.   Sorry everyone, pass on this, even if we didn't have the last two cards of this week in the set, I'd still say pass on Hafnium.  Tomorrow's card does what this guy can do but so much better.   Rating: 1.5/5