Sea-Serpent Support 28/30+

[-Griffin]

It might have been done before, but I haven't seen it.

Looking at my cards I thought about the battle positions, attack, defence and face-down. So then I decided that I'd fill in the missing position, as such;

 

|Book of Stars|

|Spell Card|Quickplay|

|Flip 1 face-up monster on the field into face-down Attack Position. A monster in face-down Attack Position cannot change its battle position. When a monster in face-down Attack Position battles a monster or makes a direct attack, it is flipped face-up.|

 

|Constriction Serpent|

|Sea Serpent/Effect|Water|

|Level 2|

|ATK 1000|DEF 500|

|This card can be set in face-down Attack Position. A monster in face-down Attack Position cannot change its battle position. When a monster in face-down Attack Position battles a monster or makes a direct attack, it is flipped face-up. During your Main Phase, you can flip this card into face-down Attack Position and rearrange all face-down monsters you control. When this card battles a monster, you can send this card to the Graveyard after damage calculation to take control of that monster until the end of the Battle Phase.|

 

|Spike Serpent|

|Sea Serpent/Effect|Water|

|Level 3|

|ATK 1400|DEF 500|

|This card can be set in face-down Attack Position. A monster in face-down Attack Position cannot change its battle position. When a monster in face-down Attack Position battles a monster, it is flipped face-up. During your Main Phase, you can flip this card into face-down Attack Position and rearrange all face-down monsters you control. When this card battles a monster, you can send this card to the Graveyard after damage calculation to destroy that monster.|

 

|Rage Serpent|

|Sea Serpent/Effect|Water|

|Level 4|

|ATK 1850|DEF 500|

|This card can be set in face-down Attack Position. A monster in face-down Attack Position cannot change its battle position. When a monster in face-down Attack Position battles a monster or makes a direct attack, it is flipped face-up. During your Main Phase, you can flip this card into face-down Attack Position and rearrange all face-down monsters you control.|

 

|Wrath Serpent|

|Sea Serpent/Effect|Water|

|Level 7|

|ATK 2600|DEF 500|

|FLIP: If “Umi” is face-up on the field, destroy 1 Spell or Trap Card on the field. This card can be set in face-down Attack position. This card can be set in face-down Attack Position. A monster in face-down Attack Position cannot change its battle position. When a monster in face-down Attack Position battles a monster or makes a direct attack, it is flipped face-up. During your Main Phase, you can flip this card into face-down Attack Position and rearrange all face-down monsters you control.|

 

|Acid Serpent|

|Sea Serpent/Effect|Water|

|Level 4|

|ATK 1600|DEF 500|

|FLIP: inflict 500 damage to your opponents life points. This card can be set in face-down Attack Position. A monster in face-down Attack Position cannot change its battle position. When a monster in face-down Attack Position battles a monster or makes a direct attack, it is flipped face-up. During your Main Phase, you can flip this card into face-down Attack Position and rearrange all face-down monsters you control.|

 

|Evoloution Serpent|

|Sea Serpent/Tuner|Water|

|Level 5|

|ATK 2000|DEF 500|

|This card can be set in face-down Attack Position. A monster in face-down Attack Position cannot change its battle position. When a monster in face-down Attack Position battles a monster or makes a direct attack, it is flipped face-up. During your Main Phase, you can flip this card into face-down Attack Position and rearrange all face-down monsters you control. You can tribute a face-down Attack Position monster on your side of the field to Special Summon this monster from your Graveyard. You can only Special Summon 1 "Evoloution Serpent" per turn.|

 

|Serpent Coil|

|Sea Serpent/Tuner|Water|

|Level 3|

|ATK 1500|DEF 500|

|FLIP: You can remove from play this card, during the Standby Phase after this effect was activated Special Summon this card in Attack Position to your side of the field. This card can be set in face-down Attack Position. A monster in face-down Attack Position cannot change its battle position. When a monster in face-down Attack Position battles a monster or makes a direct attack, it is flipped face-up. During your Main Phase, you can flip this card into face-down Attack Position and rearrange all face-down monsters you control.|

 

|Magnet Serpent|

|Sea Serpent/Tuner|Water|

|Level 2|

|ATK 500|DEF 2000|

|This card can be set in face-down Attack Position. A monster in face-down Attack Position cannot change its battle position. When a monster in face-down Attack Position battles a monster or makes a direct attack, it is flipped face-up. During your Main Phase, you can flip this card into face-down Attack Position and rearrange all face-down monsters you control. When this card is flipper face-up it is changed to defence position. You can redirect any attack or effect that targets a Sea-Serpent-Type or face-down Attack Position monster on your side of the field to this card.|

 

|Treasure Serpent|

|Sea Serpent/Synchro/Effect|Water|

|Level 7|

|ATK 2300|DEF 500|

|1 tuner + 1 or more Sea-Serpent-Type non-tuner monsters

FLIP: If “Umi” is face up on the field, draw 1 card. During your Main Phase, you can flip this card into face-down Attack Position and rearrange all face-down monsters you control. A monster in face-down Attack Position cannot change its battle position. When a monster in face-down Attack Position battles a monster or makes a direct attack, it is flipped face-up.|

 

|Bottom Serpent|

|Sea Serpent/Synchro/Effect|Water|

|Level 9|

|ATK 3000|DEF 500|

|1 tuner + 1 or more Sea-Serpent-Type non-tuner monsters. This card's ATK is increased by 500 for each face-down Attack Position monster on the field. During battle between this attacking card and a Defense Position monster whose DEF is lower than the ATK of this card, inflict the difference as Battle Damage to your opponent. During your Main Phase, you can flip this card into face-down Attack Position and rearrange all face-down monsters you control. A monster in face-down Attack Position cannot change its battle position. When a monster in face-down Attack Position battles a monster or makes a direct attack, it is flipped face-up.|

 

|Lost Serpent|

|Sea Serpent/Effect|Water|

|Level 4|

|ATK 1500|DEF 500|

|When this card is destroyed as a result of battle, Special Summon 1 level 4 or lower Sea-Serpent-Type monster from your Deck. This card can be set in face-down Attack Position. A monster in face-down Attack Position cannot change its battle position. When a monster in face-down Attack Position battles a monster or makes a direct attack, it is flipped face-up. During your Main Phase, you can flip this card into face-down Attack Position and rearrange all face-down monsters you control.|

 

|Decoy Serpent|

|Sea Serpent/Effect|Water|

|Level 1|

|ATK 200|DEF 500|

|This card can be set in face-down Attack Position. A monster in face-down Attack Position cannot change its battle position. When a monster in face-down Attack Position battles a monster or makes a direct attack, it is flipped face-up. During your Main Phase, you can flip this card into face-down Attack Position and rearrange all face-down monsters you control. When this card is sent from the field to the Graveyard, Special Summon 1 Sea-Serpent-Type monster from your hand.|

 

|Search Serpent|

|Sea Serpent/Effect|Water|

|Level 3|

|ATK 1000|DEF 500|

|FLIP: if “Umi” is face-up on the field you may add 1 Sea-Serpent-Type monster from your Deck to your hand. This card can be set in face-down Attack Position. A monster in face-down Attack Position cannot change its battle position. When a monster in face-down Attack Position battles a monster or makes a direct attack, it is flipped face-up. During your Main Phase, you can flip this card into face-down Attack Position and rearrange all face-down monsters you control.|

 

|Barrier Serpent|

|Sea Serpent/Effect|Water|

|Level 4|

|1000|500|

|This card can be set in face-down Attack Position. A monster in face-down Attack Position cannot change its battle position. When a monster in face-down Attack Position battles a monster or makes a direct attack, it is flipped face-up. During your Main Phase, you can flip this card into face-down Attack Position and rearrange all face-down monsters you control. This card can not be destroyed as a result of battle.|

 

|Surface Serpent|

|Sea Serpent/Effect|Water|

|Level 4|

|ATK 1400|DEF 500|

|When a Sea-Serpent-Type monster is flipped face-up this card gains 400 ATK|

 

|Ocean-Bound Serpent|

|Sea Serpent/Effect|Water|

|Level 5|

|ATK 2100|DEF 500|

|You may discard this card add 1 “Overflow Ocean” from your Deck to your hand. This card can be set in face-down Attack Position. A monster in face-down Attack Position cannot change its battle position. When a monster in face-down Attack Position battles a monster or makes a direct attack, it is flipped face-up. During your Main Phase, you can flip this card into face-down Attack Position and rearrange all face-down monsters you control.|

 

|Overflow Ocean|

|Spell|Continuous|

|This card’s name is treated as “Umi” while in your hand or in the Graveyard. When this card would be destroyed, you may discard 1 “Umi” instead. This card gains the following effects depending on the number of “Umi” cards in the Graveyard: 1 or more: This card’s name is treated as “Umi”. 2 or more: Face-up WATER monsters gain 300 ATK. 3 or more: downgrade all WATER monsters in both players’ hands by 1 Level. 4 or more: This card can not be destroyed. 5 or more: Face-up WATER monsters gain 700 ATK.|

 

|Invisible Life|

|Spell|Continuous|

|Whenever a monster is flipped into face-down Attack Position increase your Life Points by 500|

 

|Lurker Strike|

|Trap|

|Activate only when your opponent's monster declares an attack. Negate the attack and Special Summon a level 4 or lower Sea-Serpent-Type monster from your Graveyard.|

 

|Return to the depths|

|Trap|

Flip all Sea-Serpent-Type monsters on the field into face-down Attack Position. You can then rearrange all face-down monsters you control.|

 

|Surge Serpent|

|Sea Serpent/Effect|Water|

|Level 3|

|ATK 1400|DEF 500|

|FLIP: Until the End Phase, whenever a Sea-Serpent-Type monster is flipped face-up that monster gains 500 ATK. This card can be set in face-down Attack Position. A monster in face-down Attack Position cannot change its battle position. When a monster in face-down Attack Position battles a monster or makes a direct attack, it is flipped face-up. During your Main Phase, you can flip this card into face-down Attack Position and rearrange all face-down monsters you control.|

 

|Resonator Serpent|

|Sea Serpent/Effect|Water|

|Level 5|

|ATK 2300|DEF 500|

|This card can be set in face-down Attack Position. A monster in face-down Attack Position cannot change its battle position. When a monster in face-down Attack Position battles a monster or makes a direct attack, it is flipped face-up. During your Main Phase, you can flip this card into face-down Attack Position and rearrange all face-down monsters you control. When this card inflicts Battle Damage to your opponent, discard 1 random card from your opponent's hand.|

 

|Blinding Serpent|

|Sea Serpent/Effect|Water|

|Level 4|

|ATK 1500|DEF 500|

|FLIP: You can tribute this monster to return up to three cards your opponent controls to their owner’s hand. This card can be set in face-down Attack Position. A monster in face-down Attack Position cannot change its battle position. When a monster in face-down Attack Position battles a monster or makes a direct attack, it is flipped face-up. During your Main Phase, you can flip this card into face-down Attack Position and rearrange all face-down monsters you control.|

 

|Veiling Serpent|

|Sea Serpent/Effect|Water|

|Level 3|

|ATK 1750|DEF 500|

FLIP: Change one monster on you control into face-down Attack Position. That monster can not attack this turn. This card can be set in face-down Attack Position. A monster in face-down Attack Position cannot change its battle position. When a monster in face-down Attack Position battles a monster or makes a direct attack, it is flipped face-up. During your Main Phase, you can flip this card into face-down Attack Position and rearrange all face-down monsters you control.|

 

|Youth Serpent|

|Sea Serpent/Tuner|Water|

|Level 1|

|ATK 500|DEF 500|

|FLIP: If “Umi” is face up on the field, you can tribute this monster to Summon a level 4 or lower Sea-Serpent-Type monster from your Deck or Graveyard. This card can be set in face-down Attack Position. A monster in face-down Attack Position cannot change its battle position. When a monster in face-down Attack Position battles a monster or makes a direct attack, it is flipped face-up. During your Main Phase, you can flip this card into face-down Attack Position and rearrange all face-down monsters you control. |

 

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|Illusion Serpent|

|Sea Serpent/Tuner|Water|

|Level 4|

|ATK 1500|DEF 500|

|This card can be set in face-down Attack Position. A monster in face-down Attack Position cannot change its battle position. When a monster in face-down Attack Position battles a monster or makes a direct attack, it is flipped face-up. During your Main Phase, you can flip this card into face-down Attack Position and rearrange all face-down monsters you control. When this monster or a face-down Attack Position monster is selected as an attack target by your opponent's monster, you can change the target of that attack to a face-down Attack Position monster you control.|

 

|Curse Serpent|

|Sea Serpent/Effect|Water|

|Level 1|

|ATK 0|DEF 0|

|This card can be set in face-down Attack Position. A monster in face-down Attack Position cannot change its battle position. When a monster in face-down Attack Position battles a monster or makes a direct attack, it is flipped face-up. During your Main Phase, you can flip this card into face-down Attack Position and rearrange all face-down monsters you control. During your opponent's turn, your opponent takes all Battle Damage you would have taken from a battle involving this monster.|

 

 

I'm not changing a core game mechanic here, cards can only be put into face-down attack by a card effect, so it won't change how people play monsters normally, just monsters that specify the effect.

 

Rulings;

Since you cannot change the battle position, you cannot Flip Summon a face-down Attack Position monster.

A face-down Attack Position monster can declare an attack on the turn it is flipped face-down.

 

Comments?

[Adama.]

You mixed up may and can again {3 remember that Yu-Gi-Oh always uses can. I don't really see the point of this, I don't think that face-down Attack Position exists in the game, but the way you added it doesn't make sense. Its like regular attack position except you can't see what the attacking card is, however, it has to be flipped for battle anyway for damage calculation. It just seems unnecessary. Also, "When a face-down Attack Position battles a monster" should be "When a monster in face-down Attack Position battles a monster".

2/5

{Adama}

[-Griffin]

Like I said, this is part of a much bigger set, in which the position is useful. Unfortunately, I'm not on the computer with that set right now so I can't upload it. Thanks for the OCG fix, ...I used may, again *facepalm*

 

I know it doesn't exist in the game right now, which is exactly why I made this theme, to add something new to the game which is easy to implant.

[玄魔の王]

It certainly is an interesting idea, but I'll reserve rating until I see more.

[Umbra]

Actually, there is a card that can place cards in face-down Attack Position, known as Darkness Approaches. Still, there's no obvious rulings about it.

[-Griffin]

Darkness Approaches gave me the idea, shame it's so unused and unruled though.

Anyway, first 5 cards of the 30 card set translated. Any comments with them?

[玄魔の王]

I like the cards. They seem well-fitted with effects. The only other thing I'd like to see is a Tuner and a Synchro, or possibly a Fusion.

[-Griffin]

They have them, just still YVD-ified and stuck with painful OCG of before I was any good at all at it. I'll be adding some more this morning.

[玄魔の王]

Glad to hear it.

[-Griffin]

Added some of the Tuners/Synchros, also made the repeating text small.

[玄魔の王]

A Level 5 Tuner? HELLO! My only thing is that the Level 9 is underpowered; maybe 2800 ATK?

[-Griffin]

The deck can summon the level 9 Synchro easily, any level 4 + any face-down turned into Evoloution Serpent = 9, but yeah, he'll rarely be over 3500, so I see your point, I added, "During battle between this attacking card and a Defense Position monster whose DEF is lower than the ATK of this card, inflict the difference as Battle Damage to your opponent.", fixed the OCG and gave him 500 base attack.

[玄魔の王]

Boo Yah! Now that's a monster. I's lovin' this Archetype. For now I give the monsters 9.5/10, they're just that cool. I'll rate the set as a whole when more support appears.

[◊ Hᵃᵏᵃˢᵉ ◊]

Dang it. Someone beat me to talking about Darkness Approaches. Rofl rofl rofl. xD

Nice set. Good concept. But just not something very useful truthfully. It's good against Lightning Vortex though. <.< 6/10

[玄魔の王]

Dang it. Someone beat me to talking about Darkness Approaches. Rofl rofl rofl. xD

Nice set. Good concept. But just not something very useful truthfully. It's good against Lightning Vortex though. <.< 6/10

 

And Brain Control, and Enemy Controller, and a couple other Metagame cards. Besides, dodging Lightning Vortex and them alone is pretty good.

[-Griffin]

And Smashing Ground and Blackwing - Gale and a vast amount of others. The main thing they avoid though. Is attacks. Since you can rearrange your face-down cards whenever they flip face-down, they have no idea what they're hitting, they could hit something which will use an effect to kill it, something that will out-battle it, something that will just search a monster for you. And since they're randomly placed, things like Brio, DAD and all other targeted destruction won't know what they're hitting.

 

Also; 5 new cards.

[玄魔の王]

Good cards.

[-Griffin]

5 new cards

1 serpent

2 spells

2 traps

Enjoy

[玄魔の王]

I'll correct your OCG, and suggest something a bit less overpowered:

 

|Overflow Ocean|

|Spell|Continuous|

|This card’s name is treated as “Umi” while in your hand or in the Graveyard. When this card would be destroyed, you may discard 1 “Umi” instead. This card gains the following effects depending on the number of “Umi” cards in the Graveyard: 1 or more: This card’s name is treated as “Umi”. 2 or more: Face-up WATER monsters gain 300 ATK. 3 or more: downgrade all WATER monsters in both players’ hands by 1 Level. 4 or more: This card can not be destroyed. 5 or more: Face-up WATER monsters gain 700 ATK.|

[-Griffin]

Ok, I fixed that.

I'm almost done with the next group of cards, should be less than half an hour if I don't fall asleep by then.

 

EDIT: Ok, there's the 5 new cards

[玄魔の王]

Nice FLIP Effects. Great Cards as usual with this Archetype.

[-Griffin]

Bump, anyone else going to comment?

The last ones for this should be up this weekend, after that, you can expect a special set that me and Darkdust have been working on and then I'll be cracking into my new Thunder-Type set.

[To-Chi]

I can't really contribute anything in the way of improvement (doesn't say much =\ ), but I will say I'm glad to see more Sea Serpents, and I love the face-down attack position ideal. I haven't seen that sine Yu-Gi-Oh!: Forbidden Memories for the PS1. Gawd did I love to f*ck people up with that. :D

 

But yeah, it's super-fantastical. Can't wait to see the last 4 (or more.)

[-Griffin]

Two new cards added, am probably going to work on a pair of Synchros or high-Level monsters to get to the full 30.

[玄魔の王]

The archetype to me seems fully capable of functioning with the right support, and the cards all seem balanced, so I personally would say this theme is meta-worthy.