Updated Great Dragon Archetype

[Professor Tetsu]

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Effect: 5 Great Dragon Monsters

This monster cannot be Special Summoned except by using Polymorization and five different Great Dragon Monsters. Once per turn, if this card were to be destroyed as a result of battle, it is not. Battle damage is calculated normally. Once per turn, you may halve this monster's ATK and DEF until the End Phase of your opponent's next turn. This monster is unaffected by card effects until the End Phase of your opponent's next turn.
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Effect: As long as this card remains face-up on the field, increase the ATK of all FIRE monsters by 200 points. If there is another face-up Great Dragon on your side of the field, this card is unaffected by Trap Cards.

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Effect: As long as this card remains face-up on the field, increase the DEF of all WATER monsters by 200 points. If there is another Great Dragon face-up on your side of the field, this monster is unaffected by all Spell Cards.

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Effect: As long as this card remains face-up on the field, increase the ATK of all WIND monsters by 200 points. If there is another Great Dragon face-up on your side of the field, you may pay 500 Life Points to return one Spell or Trap Card on the field to the owner's hand.

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Effect: As long as this card remains face-up on the field, increase the DEF of all EARTH monsters by 200 points. If there is another Great Dragon face-up on your side of the field, you may destroy the monster with the lowest ATK on your opponent's side of the field. This ability may only be used once during the Duel.

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Effect: As long as this card remains face-up on the field, increase the ATK of all DARK monsters by 200 points. If there is another Great Dragon face-up on your side of the field, you may shift the target of a Spell or Trap card from one DARK monster to another monster. This effect can only be used once per turn.

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Effect: As long as this card remains face-up on the field, increase the DEF of all LIGHT monsters on the field by 200 points. If there is another Great Dragon face-up on your side of the field, you may pay 500 Life Points to flip all your opponent's monsters face-up. Flip Effects are activated at this time.

So…what do you all think?

[LeguBrit]

I think the archetype could use a lot of lower level support, maybe some S/T support too. I like the artwork, so let's start analyzing deeper (Don't twist that):

[u][b]Great Dragon of the Elements - Omega[/b][/u]

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Effect: 5 Great Dragon Monsters

This monster cannot be Special Summoned except by using Polymorization and five different Great Dragon Monsters. Once per turn, if this card were to be destroyed as a result of battle, it is not. Battle damage is calculated normally. Once per turn, you may halve this monster's ATK and DEF until the End Phase of your opponent's next turn. This monster is unaffected by card effects until the End Phase of your opponent's next turn.
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Personal opinion is that I hate Divine-Beast monsters since there is only 3 of them and pretty much zilch support for them, rendering them completely unusable. I'm a bit raw (Don't twist that either) with OCG, but I'll try this out:

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Lore:
5 Great Dragon Monsters
Must be Special Summoned by Fusion Summon and cannot be Special Summoned by other ways. If this card would be destroyed by battle: Once per turn, it is not (Battle damage is calculated normally). Once per turn: You may halve this monster's ATK and DEF until the End Phase of your opponent's next turn: This monster is unaffected by card effects until the End Phase of your opponent's next turn.
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I'd change the ATK and DEF to <4500, with possibly the ATK being more than the DEF depending on how aggressive the archetype is. I'd also make it a Level 10 monster, just because Level 12 is really reserved for the most difficult-to-get-out monsters in the game like Dragon Master Knight and FGD.

The rest:

I'm analyzing in bulk because there are so many of them that basically have similar effects (no offense). I'd change them all from "As long as this card is face-up on the field: [insert attribute of monster here] monsters gain 200 ATK." to "As long as this card is face-up on the field: Monsters with "Great Dragon" in their name..." and then add any effects that generically pertain to the Archetype, like for Magra you could say "As long as this card is face-up on the field: Monsters with "Great Dragon" in their name cannot be destroyed by the effects of your opponent's Trap Cards during the Battle Phase." This gives the Archetype a bit more stability against stuff like Mirror Force and Sakuretsu Armor but is balanced enough to allow for D. Prisons. Also, you could change the second effects to pertain to the focus of the Archetype as a whole.

It's a solid start, and I'll watch this space for any developments. For everything so far, you get a: 7.8/10.

[Professor Tetsu]

Thanks!