A day late! Sorry! I lost track of time while TP Metal Grinding and before I knew it I was pretty much donezos afterwards. Well regardless this just means I have a little more to talk about due to recent spoilers. Ahem.
It's less than 2 weeks to go until this set comes out and as such we're starting to finally see most of the Rares that this set has to offer. This is fine as for the most part the Narukami rares have been pretty stellar (though my ink cartridges would probably like to have a word with BSR given the number of proxies I've made);
Lightning Strike of Aspiration, Helena
Grade 2 / Normal Unit / Dragon Empire – Narukami – Sylph
Power 9000
Shield 5000
AUTO GB1 Thunderstrike 3: [CB1] When this Unit is placed on (RC), and you have a “Vanquisher” Vanguard, you can pay the cost. If you pay it, draw 1 card, during that turn, this Unit gains Power+2000.
...I don't really know what I can say here that isn't glaringly obvious. He's an on call +1 in a clan that desperately needs any hand building it can get. If you further need convincing if this guy is good or not then the twits on Reddit don't like this guy.
Electro-Butcher Dragon
Grade 3 / Normal Unit / Dragon Empire – Narukami – Thunder Dragon
Power 11000
AUTO: [CB1] When this Unit is placed on (RC), you can pay the cost. If you pay it, choose 1 of your opponent’s front row Rear-guards, Retire it, and Bind it face-up.
AUTO (RC) GB1 Thunderstrike 3: When this Unit attacks a Vanguard, during that battle, this Unit gains Power+3000.
Cool name, kind of let down by the Thunderstrike skill. It's great that he's a souped up Skyhowl Dragon and with a 7k booster he hits 21 but I was kind of hoping for him to get more than just +3k when Wyvern Strike, Jargo can swing for +6k.
Eradicator, Dragonic Descendant "Sigma"
[AUTO](VC):[Counter Blast (1)-card with "Eradicator" in its card name] When your G unit with "Eradicator" in its original card name Stride, you may pay the cost. If you do, choose one of your vanguards, until end of turn, it gets [Power]+10000, and "[AUTO](VC):When this unit [Stand], it gets drive+1.".
[AUTO](RC)[1/Turn] Generation Break 1:[Counter Blast (1) & Choose a card from your hand, and discard it] At the end of the battle that this unit attacked a vanguard, if the attack did not hit, you may pay the cost. If you do, [Stand] this unit.
Where do I begin?
So this card could have been the unit that fixed many things. Instead he only creates more issues. His Stride Bonus works with any Erad Stride but really what good is it going to do for anything other than Zillion? Do Linchu or Finish Blow care about it? Hell no! They can't restand and +10k isn't going to be relevant in most instances with those two. To compound this Sigma doesn't help Zillion achieve it's goal of Restanding because he doesn't put pressure on your opponent to Guard which is what you want. Descendant worked so well in Break Ride format because everyone had to play at 4 Damage to get their decks rolling which made him a terror to deal with lest you fear critsacking. Today's Vanguard however has people being able to stay at 2-3 damage for a good while and thus they can safely no guard Zillion most of the time and not fear death because unless you're rocking 12 crits (and you're an idiot if you do in Erads). Honestly Sigma should have been CB1 your opponent retires a RG and he gets a crit. Boom. Instant pressure to guard at 3 damage otherwise they die to you flipping a crit. I mean sure if you get your opponent to 4-5 damage this guy with Zillion is kind of scary but Sigma at the end of the day doesn't do what he needed to do for the deck.
That being said his RG skill is very interesting. He's basically a Magnum Assault for a discard and a CB but isn't restricted to Erads. This makes him potentially splashable in other Narukami variants like Vanquisher as a restander on a Voltage turn is nothing to sneeze at. He's also very, very good on Closer Dragon turns.
Still this is definitely the better Descendant to be on in the EDD deck. He might also make an appearance in Sweep Command lists for his RG skill rather than the VG.
Fire Pillar Eradicator, Castor
VG-G-BT12-041 (R)
[AUTO]:[Counter Blast (1)] When this card is discarded from hand for the cost of Stride, you may pay the cost. If you do, look at seven cards from the top of your deck, reveal up to one grade 3 or greater card with "Eradicator" in its card name from among them, put it into your hand, and shuffle your deck.
[CONT](Hand):While you are paying the cost for Stride, if you have a vanguard with "Eradicator" in its card name, this card gets grade+2.
Why is it that I routinely shit on the Eradicator support you ask? It's because of cards like this where Bushiroad is clearly designing them to be more complicated (and worse) than their peers. I know someone's gonna say "hey it's a Stride Fodder for Erads! You can't be mad!"
Oh yeah? Need I point out that in the same set Oracle Think Tank gets Battle Sister, Baumkuchen who reads as:
[AUTO]:[Choose a grade 3 card with "Battle Sister" in its card name from your hand, and reveal it] When this unit is placed on (RC) from hand, you may pay the cost. If you do, search your deck for up to one grade 3 card with "Battle Sister" in its card name, reveal it, put it into your hand, choose a card from your hand, discard it, and shuffle your deck.
[CONT](Hand):While you are paying the cost for Stride, this card gets grade+2.
Now read Castor again. Castor is completely worse than Baumkuchen! Her filter skill is a free one for one provided you have G3 in hand but she is a guaranteed search of any Grade 3 Battle Sister you need pre G3 ride and can correct your ride setup if need be whereas Castor is CB1 for a potential crapshoot +1 (how good are you at hitting Luards off Abyssal Owls btw) and Baumkuchen's Grade +2 counts towards any stride regardless of what Vanguard you are on.
Do you know how awesome it would have been if you could fetch Sweep Command Dragon or a Vowing Sword Dragon on demand? Consistency in this deck? Why that's heresy!
Seriously Bushiroad. Stop it with Eradicators. Fucking support Narukami decks that need it. Brawlers haven't gotten anything since Set 5 and they've been the biggest victims of this game's changing meta while Vermillion hasn't gotten shit despite being the most popular Narukami card among the playerbase.
Until next week.
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