From: Vlad Stoicescu Ghica
[mailto:vladghica2@yahoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 6:04 PM
Subject: Light/warrior forgotten cards-Vlad
Hey I'm back with more underused cards. this time
ill be looking at some Light and Warrior monsters
that have been neglected a lot. Warriors are a
powerful theme with great cards, but i think that
some great warrior cards are being overlooked. Ill
be looking back in this article at some warrior
classics from FET, LOD, and IOC. First up is Horus
level 6's warrior cousin, Silent Swordsman Lv. 5.
Silent Swordsman Lv. 5
Light
5 Stars
]Warrior/Effect]
Atk/2300Def/1000
This card is unaffected by your opponents Spell
cards. If this card successfully attacks your
opponent's life points directly, during your next
standby phase, send this face-up card from the field
to the graveyard to Special Summon one Silent
Swordsman Lv.7 from your hand or deck.
First off, lets look at his stats. 2300 atk and
5-stars is OK(could be better), but he can morph
into Dark Balter, giving him an edge over the more
popular Horus lv. 6. He's a light/warrior giving him
some advantages such as being chaos food(good) and
having lots of warrior support (command knight,
Warrior Returning Alive, fusion sword murasame
blade, etc.). 1000 def isn't great, making him owned
by tsukoyomi and book but it does make him witch
able in traditional format (for those of you that
play it). His effect allows him to be unaffected by
an opponents spells, but he is affected by yours.
This is good and bad, letting him be equipped or
morphed, but on the downside, if you play dark hole
or LLAB he is effected. I could see him being run in
warrior toolbox with 3x Royal Decree. I think is
this had been the holo promo from Warrior's Triumph,
the deck would have been sold out by now. Oh, and
BTW, he is very search able, not only by his level 3
counterpart, but also by an old warrior support card
from Legacy of Darkness known as Freed the Matchless
General, which ill be talking about next.
Freed The Matchless General
Earth
5 Stars
[Warrior/Effect]
Atk/2300Def/1700
Negate the effect of a magic card that specifically
designates this monster and destroy it. As long as
this card remains face-up on the field, you may add
one warrior monster from your deck to your hand
instead of drawing 1 card from your draw phase. Your
deck is then shuffled.
Pretty much same stats as Silent Lv. 5 and a
toned-down effect but the secondary effect is the
reason why he is a god in warrior decks. He has 1700
def, therefore tsuko-proof, warrior which gives him
the same support as Silent, and level 5.
Unfortunately he can't be morphed or equipped
because of his first effect, but this also gives him
immunity to snatch steal, brain control, enemy
controller and soul exchange. His other effect
allows you to rig your draw. That's right, RIG YOUR
DRAW. Whenever your in need of a DDWL or DDA, Exiled
Force, or even silent Lv 5, he can get it for you
for pretty much no cost at all. So what if you skip
your draw phase? It basically lets you choose what
you draw. His attack allows him to hold his own
against Cyber Dragon and GEAF, so most likely he'll
survive the turn for you to get his effect off. He
was used before but i guess with Pot and Graceful
banned, people don't want to risk changing their
draw. (Sigh, without a risk you'll never get a
reward). And today's final underused warrior monster
is.......
Freed The Brave Wanderer
Light
4 Stars
[Warrior/Effect]
Atk/1700Def/1200
Remove 2 Light monsters in your graveyard from play
to destroy 1 face-up monster on the field with a
higher attack than this card. You can only use this
effect once per turn.
His stats are pretty sub-par, but being level 4 lets
him be searched out by reinforcement of the army,
and 1200 def will hold up against tsukoyomi. The
most he'll kill with 1700 Attack is a used up
breaker or suicide into an assailant. Once you look
at his effect its not that great, remove 2 monsters
to kill something with over 1700 attack and its only
once per turn. But this has great potential with
dimension fusion and RFaDD. In fact, in my next tip
I'll post an deck list on a light/warrior dimension
fusion/ decree deck that focuses around on this and
the other two cards I've reviewed.
As always you can find me at vladghica2@yahoo.com
Until next time, Peace Out
Vlad
