The lolycm test. Is it OP'd, UP'd, or balanced? Round 3: Ancient Slab

[byak]

It's the lolycm test!

 

The rules are simple.

Each day I post a card (Or at least, almost everyday >___>).

It's your job to decide if the card is OP'd (Overpowered), UP'd (Underpowered), or balanced.

 

...But that's not all! You also have to include an explanation to support your opinion.

Each day, the first three people to guess right and provide a decent explanation get a rep.

Ready?

 

[align=center]CURRENT ROUND

 

ROUND 3: ANCIENT SLAB

 

 

Pay 3000 Life Points. Draw 2 cards.

 

What do you think it is? UP'd' date=' OP'd, or balanced?[/align']

 

 

[align=center]PREVIOUS ROUNDS

[spoiler=Round 1: Magma Golem]

 

Once per turn' date=' you can Tribute 2 monsters you control to inflict 1500 damage to your opponent.[/quote']

 

The answer is UP'd. This is because the monster is a -2 for only 1500 burn.

It could see use in Dandylion or Rekindling combos' date=' but there are better things to do with those cards.

As for the point that it's like Cannon Soldier MK-2, MK-2 itself is an underpowered card.

 

No one really said UP'd except for Icy outside of the thread though...

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Winners: None D:

 

[spoiler=Round 2: Galaxy Cannon]

 

During your Main Phase' date=' you can inflict 200 damage to your opponent for each face-up Machine-type monster you control. Only one "Galaxy Cannon" can have its effect activated per turn.[/quote']

 

Well' date=' it's already been stated, but the answer is

Broken.

It has a simple FTK, summon it, play Hero Mask, and then it's name is changed so it can activate it's effect more than once per turn.

It has even more potential, as it is Level 1, giving it the ability to be searched out by One for One.

There's also the under 1500 ATK aspect and it's searchability.

No one posted the verdict with the proper reasoning...

Again...

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Winners: None D:

 

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[NeosWiseman]

Seems OP, maybe 1500 dmg instead

But it's a nice card

10/10 ^_^

[Zektor]

im not sure if this should be here or contests.

anyway OPed because cannon soldier is tribute 1 monster to inflict 500 and this is 2 to inflict 2000

this+4 monsters=4000 damage

cannon soldier+4 monsters=2000 damage

so its OPed

[byak]

I just changed it to 1500 a second ago. >.>

Feel free to change your guess now, if you want.

 

Also, if it belongs in Contests, move it. But it won't get as much attention there than here. >___>

[Birkeland]

This reminds me of my friend Cannon Soldier MK-2

Yours is better at Level 4 for immediate summoning and better support.

 

It's not OPed. I'd say it's balanced. 'Once per turn' can limit most cards' abilities to be OPed. 2 for 1500 is reasonable, but would lose field advantage the second he's destroyed. So all-in-all, I like it!

[Sander]

This card isn't overpowered. It's fine as it is. Unless you manage a way to get past it's Once per turn clause, you won't be inflicting any significant damage to your opponent with Magma Golem.

 

Cannon Soldier and even Cannon Soldier MK-2 (which is basically the same as Magma Golem, only without the "Once per turn" clause) can do it better.

 

EDIT: Damn it, I was ninja'd <.< I iz slow typer.

[Zektor]

now that you changed it its Balanced because

and thats as many times as you want but LV 5 and this is LV 4 with once per turn

[byak]

I'd rather have this in Realistic Cards because that's where my target audience is. :l

[Sander]

I'd rather have this in Realistic Cards because that's where my target audience is. :l

 

I get what you mean' date=' but it's always something with Josh, y'know? Oh boo hoo, this is a test, duh, it's supposed to test the knowledge of the people in RC, their knowledge about card balancing.

 

And it's always a problem with Josh when he thinks that the idea could [i']hurt[/i] creativity. Even when this thread could no way hurt creativity, it's teaching people how to make balanced cards. What's so bad about that I ask.

 

And Josh IS a hypocrite, since he did allow Guybrush and Griffin have their things going on in RC, when yet this was moved to AoC. He said that their things promote creativity or something like that. Sure, this doesn't promote creativity, but it doesn't hurt it either.

 

So far, Josh has been stubborn about the matter. I mean, he hasn't even given this thread a chance in RC.

[Zektor]

I'd rather have this in Realistic Cards because that's where my target audience is. :l

 

I get what you mean' date=' but it's always something with Josh, y'know? Oh boo hoo, this is a test, duh, it's supposed to test the knowledge of the people in RC, their knowledge about card balancing.

 

And it's always a problem with Josh when he thinks that the idea could [i']hurt[/i] creativity. Even when this thread could no way hurt creativity, it's teaching people how to make balanced cards. What's so bad about that I ask.

 

And Josh IS a hypocrite, since he did allow Guybrush and Griffin have their things going on in RC, when yet this was moved to AoC. He said that their things promote creativity or something like that. Sure, this doesn't promote creativity, but it doesn't hurt it either.

 

So far, Josh has been stubborn about the matter. I mean, he hasn't even given this thread a chance in RC.

^above quote has a point^

[byak]

The answer is UP'd. This is because the monster is a -2 for only 1500 burn.

It could see use in Dandylion or Rekindling combos, but there are better things to do with those cards.

As for the point that it's like Cannon Soldier MK-2, MK-2 itself is an underpowered card.

 

No one really said UP'd except for Icy outside of the thread though...

 

Round 2 is set up.

[Guest Cursed Reaction]

200 damage? That way, even if you managed to get a DNA Surgery and both players have a full field, let's see, 2000 damage buuuuut then someone is going to destroy this card, inflicting severe damage to you. It's not really worth it and neither player will probably have a full field constantly. The only way I could think of it being balanced is that you manage to swarm 3 with Inferno Reckless Summon or something and then use Solidarity to give each a slight ATK boost.

 

I say either very UPed or balanced but only in a swarm situation.

[Birkeland]

Just like Fairy Archer, couldn't you use Hero Mask and OTK? (It wouldn't be "Galaxy Cannon" anymore). Other than that, max 1000 per Cannon... I'd say it's balanced being a Lv 1.

[Guest Cursed Reaction]

OTK with what though?

[Sander]

OTK with what though?

 

Hero Mask.

 

Just like Fairy Archer' date=' couldn't you use Hero Mask and OTK? (It wouldn't be "Galaxy Cannon" anymore). Other than that, max 1000 per Cannon... I'd say it's balanced being a Lv 1.

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If that still didn't hint you about the card, I don't know what will.

[Guest Cursed Reaction]

OTK with Hero Mask and............ Who would run this in an Elemental Hero deck anyway?

[pipipa]

Ekikin's took the words right off my keyboard, I didn't actually notice it at first. I don't even think you need to change the name of this card to do the OTK, it only says 1 Galaxy Cannon can activate its effect per turn, not "Once per turn, you can" For example if I used Machine Duplication on Galaxy Cannon, I could summon 2 others, yet would still be able to activate the INITIAL Galaxy Cannon's effect, because the Card text is referring to the actual card's usage, not the effect. I admit though Ekikin's answer made my mind trigger this. By the way I think it's OPed.

[byak]

Ekikin's took the words right off my keyboard' date=' I didn't actually notice it at first. I don't even think you need to change the name of this card to do the OTK, it only says 1 Galaxy Cannon can activate its effect per turn, not "Once per turn, you can" For example if I used Machine Duplication on Galaxy Cannon, I could summon 2 others, yet would still be able to activate the INITIAL Galaxy Cannon's effect, because the Card text is referring to the actual card's usage, not the effect. I admit though Ekikin's answer made my mind trigger this.

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You lack a verdict.

[Sander]

OTK with Hero Mask and............ Who would run this in an Elemental Hero deck anyway?

 

How the hell is it THAT hard to understand how Hero Mask works with the card?

[pipipa]

THE JURY HAS COME TO ITS DECISION, ITS OVERPOWERED, and hasn't anyone realised it yet, you don't even need Hero mask to pull off the OTK..

[Master of Chaos™]

I say it is Underpowered for several reasons:

 

1-Even in it's best Condition(when there are 3 of them) it can only make 3000 Damage per turn Max!

2-It will probably be destroyed right after it's Summoned.

3-Doesn't really present any Support to other Machine-Type Monsters.

 

Enough said.

[NeosWiseman]

It's kinda hard to keep this monster on the field and the damage it deals is not really worth iy. It made a similar card once and guess what comments I got. You can try boosting it up a little

[pipipa]

I say its Overpowered for several reasons

 

1- It has no limit to how many times the effect can be activated PER turn (as long as it is with the same Galaxy Cannon), meaning yes you could just activate it once, but you could activate it 1000 times per turn. even with only Galaxy Cannon on the field, you could OTK. An opponents life points start at 8000. 8000/200 (how much you could damage your opponent each time effect is activated) is like so you could just say, "I activate this effect" 40 times and win.. that's even easier to pull off than a lockdown.

 

2- It probably WONT be destroyed right after it's summoned. The reason being is Bottomless trap hole and other things target things with higher attack, and even if it was destroyed, there are many support cards for cards with low levels or low attack, for example Graceful revival among others.

 

3- doesn't need to support anything,, you could beat your opponent in 1 turn.

 

Basically, if this card was allowed, duels would turn into, "First one to successfully summon Galaxy Cannon wins"

[Master of Chaos™]

I say its Overpowered for several reasons

 

1- It has no limit to how many times the effect can be activated PER turn (as long as it is with the same Galaxy Cannon)' date=' meaning yes you could just activate it once, but you could activate it 1000 times per turn. even with only Galaxy Cannon on the field, you could OTK. An opponents life points start at 8000. 8000/200 (how much you could damage your opponent each time effect is activated) is like so you could just say, "I activate this effect" 40 times and win.. that's even easier to pull off than a lockdown.

 

2- It probably WONT be destroyed right after it's summoned. The reason being is Bottomless trap hole and other things target things with higher attack, and even if it was destroyed, there are many support cards for cards with low levels or low attack, for example Graceful revival among others.

 

3- doesn't need to support anything,, you could beat your opponent in 1 turn.

 

Basically, if this card was allowed, duels would turn into, "First one to successfully summon Galaxy Cannon wins"

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Yeah if it was like that we would all have guessed Overpowered.He meant once per turn surely.

[pipipa]

It is like that, he isn't using the words Once per turn, so therefore you can activate the effect multiple times. When I first looked at the card and read the effect I immediately thought, is this a joke? Way UPed. But actually reading the effect how it is meant to be shows you. Trust me.

 

And it "is like that" lol, it's just using different wording that's all :)