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Mermail Abyssmegalo [Because Avi]


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[quote]You can discard 2 other WATER monsters to the Graveyard; Special Summon this card from your hand. When you do: You can add 1 "Abyss-" Spell/Trap Card from your Deck to your hand. You can Tribute 1 other face-up Attack Position WATER monster you control; this card can make a second attack during each Battle Phase this turn.[/quote]

so i herd u leik +ing off a summon of a 2400

I haven't experimented with Mermails yet (As they're going to be significantly more expensive than I'd even like, unfortunatly) but this seems really really freaking good just reading the effects of at lot of the more recent WATER monsters.

Discuss.

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Thank you very much for this topic.

On paper it's a -2 that becomes a -1 if the Summon's successful, enough ATK to tie with Laggia, and high damage potential at the cost of card presence.

In practice you discard Atlanteans to wipe the opponent's field or search for Sea Serpents, and use the Tribute effect if you need it to drop Moulinglacia. It gives use to your dead Undines. It can be recruited by Abysslinde to screw up your opponent's Battle Phase, or paired with Gorz, a Level 7 Synchro, or another copy of itself (via Abyss-sphere) to make Big Eye. Negating its effects doesn't stop the Atlanteans from triggering.

If I were to hit anything in Mermanteans without outright banning the poppers, it would be this.

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[quote name='newhat' timestamp='1351919281' post='6060055']
If I were to hit anything in Mermanteans without outright banning the poppers, it would be this.
[/quote]Because Dragoons isn't an issue, obviously.

Anyway, what is this going for, just so I know to sell it high?

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[quote name='mido9' timestamp='1351956258' post='6060246']
It just takes advantage of this and moulin's brokeness.
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Yeah, because free searches are ALWAYS good design, right?

And don't say it isn't free, in its deck it pretty much is.

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[quote name='mido9' timestamp='1351960656' post='6060279']

Bad design =/= broken card though.
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In this case it does.

It's a restrictionless RotA that makes costs free. That's stupid broken, and you can't blame it's targets for it being broken.

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[quote name='Reborn Black' timestamp='1351965302' post='6060319']
In this case it does.

It's a restrictionless RotA that makes costs free. That's stupid broken, and you can't blame it's targets for it being broken.
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The only reason the ROTA effect of it is any broken is because of moulinglacia and abyssmegalo,moulinglacia is a +2 on summon that's insane whenever it's playable and abyssmegalo is an OTK factory.

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[quote name='mido9' timestamp='1351966525' post='6060326']
The only reason the ROTA effect of it is any broken is because of moulinglacia and abyssmegalo,moulinglacia is a +2 on summon that's insane whenever it's playable and abyssmegalo is an OTK factory.
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No, that's where you're wrong.

A free search, especially when it allows you to circumvent costs, is ALWAYS broken. It doesn't break Abyssmegalo or Moulinglacia and they don't break it. You cannot blame targets for being searchable when they shouldn't be freely searchable in the first place, regardless of their standing.

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[quote name='Reborn Black' timestamp='1351969089' post='6060358']they shouldn't be freely searchable in the first place
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Why not? If they're balanced,nothing will happen when they get their consistency-only boosted with a one time only 141-to-hand spell searcher,right?

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[quote name='mido9' timestamp='1351970355' post='6060373']
Why not? If they're balanced,nothing will happen when they get their consistency-only boosted with a one time only 141-to-hand spell searcher,right?
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Consistency via Draw Power is good until it gets out of hand (Out of hand being read 3 Cardcar + 3 Duality; Fine being 2 of Cardcar/Duality + 3 of the other). Consistency via free searching is bad as it basically guarantees you "draw" exactly what you want when you want. You shouldn't be able to have placeholders for any card that it can grab.

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It's not that Dragoons isn't ridiculous. Inzektor Hornet is certainly ridiculous, but if you kill each Inzektor as it's Normal Summoned your opponent can't Special Summon more from the hand. If you Solemn your opponent's Undines and MST their Abyss-spheres Megalo will still be around to discard monsters and run the engine.

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[quote name='Kabbles' timestamp='1352050344' post='6061022']
The things were going for £40-50 at Sneak yesterday but I don't believe it'll last at that as it's such a niche card.
[/quote]$40-50 sounds about right. So, that's like what 25-30 pounds?

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[quote name='Reborn Black' timestamp='1351970487' post='6060377']
Consistency via Draw Power is good until it gets out of hand (Out of hand being read 3 Cardcar + 3 Duality; Fine being 2 of Cardcar/Duality + 3 of the other). Consistency via free searching is bad as it basically guarantees you "draw" exactly what you want when you want. You shouldn't be able to have placeholders for any card that it can grab.
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Except Card Car and Duality are balanced.

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[quote name='BehindTheMask' timestamp='1352161169' post='6061803']
Except Card Car and Duality are balanced.
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I know that. I wasn't saying they weren't, at all... Just they're too much both @3 together.

I'd love to have a gamestate where we could have both at 3.

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