from: Jacob Rickey [mailto:jdawg790@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 6:50 PM
Subject: The amazing insta-tribute! -Nitemare
Recently I took it upon myself to go through all of
what I designated "crap cards" and decide what was
worth keeping and what I should just throw out or
give away to eager n00bs. (Because, let's face it,
no one needs 7 copies of Giant Soldier of Stone...
or most cards from that far back in the day). About
halfway through my second stack, I came across a
card that I had only barely glanced at before I
tossed into the pile of uselessness which I now had
before me for the first time in months. What looked
like a thoroughly disgusting effect in the days of
old now possessed seemingly unlimited potential in
my eyes...
The card I speak of is a little-known dinosaur by
the name of Gilasaurus from LON. For the many of you
that may have never even seen this card, here's the
breakdown:
Gilasaurus
LON-071
Earth/Dinosaur
3-star
ATK/1400
DEF/400
Effect: You may treat the Normal Summon on this card
as a Special Summon. If you select Special Summon,
your opponent may select a Monster Card from his/her
Graveyard and Special Summon the monster to the
field.
I can imagine that half of you who read this are
thinking "what is he smoking?" No one should ever
want to give their opponent free recursion! If you
are one of them, I invite you to hit the back arrow
now and look for the next best tip you can find.
But for the half of you that are thinking "maybe
he's onto something here," let's take a further look
at the possibilities:
Imagine holding this little guy next to a Jinzo or
Mobius in your hand early in the game before a
monster hits your opponents graveyard... I shouldn't
have to elaborate on this one. Even if your opponent
has a rather weak monster in their grave, assuming
they don't see right through your plan, they'll
probably place their weakling in attack position if
it can top Gilasaurus's 1400 ATK. Then tribute and
enjoy.
Mid-late game, this guy gets worse, but he still
isn't a half bad draw if you're holding a 5-6 star
monster in your hand with no other means of
summoning it. One possible answer here would be
another slightly overlooked card: Soul Release.
Remove your opponent's best options and have some
fun with it. You could even run this with
Necrovalley if you dared, in order to negate his
negative recursion effect completely... assuming
your GK deck runs a Jinzo, Mobius or other
considerable tribute, such as my favorite, Horus
LV6, or even a Silent Swordsman LV5 (A-Forces,
anyone?).
Those of you kind enough to read this far, I reward
you with a truly interesting final thought. Looking
ahead, I noticed there are a lot more cards on the
way that remove cards from play. On card that caught
my eye was Dimensional Fissure, a continuous spell
that sends from play all cards that are sent to the
graveyard. I can see an entire deck built around
cards such as these, along with Gilasaurus, Tyranno
Infinity (1000 ATK for every dino removed from
play), and some higher level dinos. With nothing
going to the graves, Gilasaurus can swarm and get
tributed off for no price, then followed up with a
heavy Tyranno Infinity later in the game.
Thanks for reading! This is my first tip and, even
if you have no intention of trying this out, I at
least hope it was entertaining. If anyone cares to
discuss unique combos, you may email me.
