Dark End Evaporation Dragon – #INFO-EN011
You can banish 1 Level 8 Dragon monster from your Extra Deck; Special Summon this card from your hand, also you cannot Special Summon for the rest of this turn, except Dragon monsters. You can activate 1 of these effects;
● Fusion Summon 1 Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck, using monsters from your hand or field.
● Target 1 other Attack Position monster on the field; make this card lose exactly 500 ATK/DEF, and if you do, destroy that monster.
You can only use each effect of “Dark End Evaporation Dragon” once per turn.
Date Reviewed: September 17th, 2024
Rating: 3.68
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale. 1 is awful. 3 is average. 5 is excellent.
Reviews Below:
King of
Lullaby
Hello Pojo Fans,
Dark End Evaporation Dragon is the other retrain, but also not retrain of the Light End and Dark End Synchro Monsters. How are they not? They were supposed to be this way first but were turned into Synchros instead.
Same Special Summon and locked into Dragons for the turn like LESD yesterday, and also carries everything Dark End Dragon does with the addition of a Fusion Summon capability.
Fusion Summon or destroy any monster on the field by dropping DEED by 500ATK/DEF. If you have LESD on the field, or another way to Fusion Summon, you’ll take the spot removal, it’s what made Dark End Dragon such a great card back in the day. Removal without having to wait for the opponent as you have to with LESD makes DEED the better choice to keep on the field as long as possible, and use LESD as a Fusion Material for a Dragon Fusion Monster. Four total times without adjusting the ATK/DEF of Dark End Evaporation Dragon can you destroy an Attack Position monster with its ability, and while you’ll likely only get 1 or 2, that makes this card a worthy piece of removal combined with the Fusion ability built-in and the Special Summon ability.
Dark End Evaporation Dragon is far better than Light End Sublimation Dragon, though that was likely always going to happen because Dark End was better than Light End. I could see Dark End Evaporation Dragon finding its way into some Dragon decks as an extender, especially if they run ways to retrieve banished cards.
Advanced- 3.5/5 Art- 4/5
Until Next Time,
KingofLullaby
Crunch$G
With Light End Dragon getting retrained, we have to get a Dark End Dragon retrain as well, so he gets upgraded to Dark End Evaporation Dragon.
Dark End Evaporation Dragon is a Level 8 DARK Dragon with 2600 ATK and 2100 DEF. Same as yesterday, just swap LIGHT for DARK, which honestly DARK Dragons are better. We got the same summoning condition, banish a Level 8 Dragon in your Extra Deck to Special Summon this, a nice summoning condition for a Level 8 to have. You also keep the Dragon lock, cause if Light End is gonna have it, it’d make sense to bring it over here. The second effect is an optional effect between two choices you can use each turn, the first being the same Fusion Summon effect from yesterday, and the other being a Dark End Dragon copy by giving up 500 ATK/DEF on this to target and destroy an Attack Position monster on the field. Just like how basically you can’t use the debuff effect and the Fusion effect of Light End in the same turn, you basically got the same situation here. This time, you swap the debuff for the better removal effect, which while more specific than the original Dark End Dragon, is still good. You can just use Dark End here to remove a monster and then use Light End to perform the Fusion Summon if you wish. HOPT on each effect, of course. Dark End is basically the same as Light End from yesterday, except the “bonus” effect is better since it serves as removal over a Battle Phase reliant ability. Another card to run for fun in some Dragon Decks, also a 3-of for the new Light and Darkness strategy.
Advanced Rating: 3.75/5
Art: 4.5/5 Also basically an alt art, this time of Dark End Dragon, but this is much cooler.
Mighty
Vee
Unsurprisingly, we’re following up Light End Sublimation Dragon with its counterpart, Dark End Evaporation Dragon. Mirroring Sublimation, Evaporation is a level 8 DARK Dragon monster this time around, giving it more synergy with Rokkets, though in practice it’s not that much more useful than Sublimation in Dragon Link. What we’re really looking at is being level 8 and DARK for Fusion purposes! Again, you can use it as a level 8 body for Draognmaid Sheou or as a DARK Dragon for Borreload Furious Dragon. Evaporation has, once more, 2600 attack and 2100 defense– below average stats across the board, but fine for a free body.
Instead of having three hard once per turn effects like Sublimation, the latter 2 are rolled into one, giving Evaporation two hard once per turn effect instead. The first is a direct copy-paste from Sublimation, banishing a level 8 Dragon from your Extra Deck to Special Summon itself and lock you into Dragons. Same logic applies, you’re supposed to banish Dark End Dragon but you might as well run Starving Venom Fusion Dragon which won’t be a completely dead card if you play Super Polymerization. Evaporation’s other effect is twofold, letting you either Fusion Summon using your hand or field (exactly the same as Sublimation) or target a different attack position monster on the field to destroy it by dropping both of Evaporation’s stats by 500. I’m not entirely sure why they decided to combine these effects so that you can’t use them on the same turn; maybe they thought letting Evaporation boardbreak was too much? At least you can still use it as Link fodder after destroying, which unfortunately is limited to attack position monsters. I think it’s better than Sublimation overall, though realistically, you’ll run both of them in equal numbers unless you need a specific ratio for Chaos Space. A lot of its strengths and weaknesses are already covered by Sublimation so forgive me for repeating…
+Easily enables some Dragon Fusion monsters
+Versatile in Dragon hybrids as a DARK Dragon monster
-Can’t destroy and fuse in the same turn
-Limits Extra Deck size and can be bricky
Advanced: 3.75/5
Art: 3.5/5 Proportion wise, I think it’s actually worse than the original art of Dark End Dragon (it looks like a lanky snake, in a bad way), though the background and composition are overall better to compensate.
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