LAUNCH "TABULA RASA"

[Stan Alda]

I submitted these as written cards late last month, because the picture uploader was on the fritz. I wanted to adapt the "Cocoon of Evolution" concept to the less beatstick-oriented modern gameplay of today, so I decided to make a delayed-summon monster that could blow a massive hole in your opponent's LP with lasting effects. But I couldn't think of a theme until it dawned on me--a nuclear missile!

With this, you can screw the SALT treaty and become the world's smallest nuclear power! [size="4"][u][i][b]Gentlemen, behold...the "'Tabula Rasa' ICBM"![/b][/i][/u]
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[spoiler="Tabula Rasa": A nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile--in the palm of your Hand!]
[spoiler=U-235][spoiler=Card Image][img]http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/4109/190391.jpg[/img][/spoiler]
[spoiler=Lore]
[b]U-235[/b]
LIGHT
Lvl 1
Rock/Normal
This slug of uranium-235 seems innocent enough, but many nations are willing to start wars over it and its hidden power...
0/200[/spoiler][/spoiler]
[spoiler=Centrifuge of Enrichment]
[spoiler=Card Image][img]http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/4109/190391.jpg[/img][/spoiler]
[spoiler=Lore]
[b]Centrifuge of Enrichment[/b]
LIGHT
Lvl 4
Machine/Effect
You can equip this card from your hand as an Equip Spell Card to a face-up "U-238" on the field. If equipped, the ATK and DEF of "Centrifuge of Enrichment" is applied to "U-238".
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[spoiler="Tabula Rasa" ICBM]
[spoiler=Card Image][img]http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/4109/190391.jpg[/img][/spoiler]
[spoiler=Lore]
[b]"Tabula Rasa" ICBM[/b]
FIRE
Lvl 9
Machine/Effect
This monster cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. This card cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. This card can only be Special Summoned by Tributing "U-235" on the 3rd of your turns after "U-235" has been equipped with "Centrifuge of Enrichment". When you declare an attack with this card, inflict 1500 damage to your opponent's Life Points, destroy the selected monster, and offer this card as a Tribute. Your opponent cannot use the destroyed monster's Monster Zone. If this card is sent to the Graveyard for any reason except for its own effect, inflict 500 damage to your Life Points as long as this card is in the Graveyard.
3000/3000[/spoiler][/spoiler]
[spoiler=MIRV Upgrade]
[spoiler=Card Image][img]http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/4109/190391.jpg[/img][/spoiler]
[spoiler=Lore]
[b]MIRV Upgrade[/b]
FIRE
Lvl 3
Machine/Union
Once per turn, during your Main Phase, if you control this card on the field, you can equip it to your "'Tabula Rasa' ICBM" as an Equip Card, OR unequip the Union equipment and send this card to the Graveyard. If this card is sent to the Graveyard by "'Tabula Rasa' ICBM"'s effect, select 2 Monster Card Zones on your opponent's side of the field. The selected zones cannot be used for the next 5 turns. If there are Monster Cards on the selected Monster Card Zones, destroy those monsters. (1 monster can only be equipped with 1 Union Monster at a time.)
0/1000[/spoiler][/spoiler][/spoiler]

Originally, I planned a [i]much[/i] larger set; for one, different levels of "enrichment" would produce different bombs, and using a bomb would allow the player to summon "Radioactive Mutant" versions of classic monsters. The main problem with the former was getting good images; the latter, getting images and thinking of effects. If you think I should make them, I'll warn you they're only going to be written cards--that is, unless you can find someone with the artistic skill to draw radiation-mutated Mystical Elves. Until then, you'll have to settle for these.