Destruction From Tribute

[HooksiusMaximus]

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Lore: Discard one monster card from your hand during your Main Phase 1 to select a monster you control that was Tribute Summoned this turn (this monster may not attack this turn). Your opponent must destroy cards on his/her side of the field equal to the number of monsters you sacrificed to summon the selected monster. If your opponent does not have enough cards on his/her side of the field then your opponent must discard the remaining cost from his/her hand.

IOW: Let's say you tribute summoned a "Blue Eyes White Dragon" by sacrificing 2 monsters during your main phase 1. You can activate this card (during the same turn and phase) by discarding a monster card from your hand and selecting the Blue Eyes (which won't be able to attack this turn). Your opponent would then have to destroy [u]2[/u] cards on his/her side of the field (monsters and/or spells/traps) since you sacrificed [u]2[/u] monsters to summon the Blue Eyes.

If your opponent only had 1 card on the field (in the above scenario) then his/her only card would be destroyed and then he/she would have to discard 1 more card from his/her hand to make up for the additional tribute.

Let's say you you used "Kaiser Sea Horse" to summon your Blue Eyes, then you opponent would only have to destroy 1 card instead of two. This card's effect applies to the number of monsters that were [u]actually tributed [/u]to summon the monster, not the number of monsters that are ordinarily required to summon it.

[Synchronized]

The new members making awesome cards is really starting to surprise me, and leave me hopeful about RC as a whole.

This is brilliantly designed, and makes Tributing a bit more viable. Normally, Tribute Summons aren't used because they result in a net loss of advantage, but this can actually make some of those plays worthwhile.

The discard itself is not a problem, but I don't think it should have to be a monster. I think making it any card would actually make the card a lot more playable.

[HooksiusMaximus]

Good point. I guess it makes more sense to just discard any one card from your hand rather than specifically a monster.