A New Servant

[PaladinCards]

[spoiler=Show Original Post]

 

LORE:

 

This card is treated as a Normal Monster while face-up on the field or in the Graveyard. While this card is face-up on the field, you can Normal Summon it to have it become an Effect Monster with this effect.

• You can search your Hand or Deck and send as many "Skull Servant" Monsters to the Graveyard as you want. This card cannot be destroyed by battle while there is at least 1 "Skull Servant" in your Graveyard. This card gains 1000 ATK for each "Skull Servant" in your Graveyard.

 

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I tried to balance this card well.  It's kind of hard to Gemini Summon for one, and then, you need to send weak monsters to the Graveyard.  Even still, its max. ATK is at 3000 (without equip cards, that is) and that isn't even a solid number.  Your opponent could remove the other Skull Servants and his ATK would drop to zero.  I think its balance is pretty solid but still a useful card to use with Nightmare Steelcage or any other no attacking card.[/spoiler]

 

 

LORE:

This card is treated as a Normal Monster while face-up on the field or in the Graveyard. While this card is face-up on the field, you can Normal Summon it to have it become an Effect Monster with this effect.

• You can search your Hand or Deck and send "Skull Servant" Monsters to the Graveyard (Max. 3).  This card gains 700 ATK for each "Skull Servant" sent to the Graveyard by this effect.  This card cannot be destroyed by battle while there is at least 1 "Skull Servant" in your Graveyard.

 

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Alright.  I took all of your advice and powered it down a little.  I'll be honest, I've never paid much attention to Skull Servants.  That's why I did not know there were so many other cards that could be a Skull Servant (frankly, I didn't think any card would WANT to be a Skull Servant) which is why I thought that my original would work.  Even still, that's a 3000 ATK point Monster that's level 1.  = OVERPWRD

 

So, now it's Max. ATK is 2100 (excluding equips) and its easier to take down.  Sure, there'll be that one guy who equips 3 Axe of Despairs and 2 Black Pendants to the monster and make it overpowered as heck, but you can't really control that.  All in all, the card is pretty fair now, I think.

 

I also made a second Gemini Monster.  I'm thinking of starting my own Gemini set.  What do you think?

 

[spoiler=Dual-Type Frog]

 

LORE:

 

This card is treated as a Normal Monster while face-up on the field or in the Graveyard. While this card is face-up on the field, you can Normal Summon it to have it become an Effect Monster with this effect.

• This Monster is also treated as FIRE.  Once per turn, this Monster can attack your opponent's Life Points Directly.  This card is then switched into Defense-Mode.[/spoiler]

[chrikthunder]

It's a really cool idea. I love skull servants myself. The issue is that not only would you be able to send the vanilla skull servant to the yard, but you could also send Undead Skull Servant to the yard since it has "Skull Servant" in the name. Also there are alot of cards that's names are treated as skull servant in the grave like "Lady in Wight" and "Wightmare" and with the right cards, Gemini summoning is easy.

[Sora1499]

Gemini summoning this is actually quite easy given stuff like One For One, supervise, etc.  Can't say I like the design though: You can make unrestricted plusses and produce an insane beater for little cost.  I'd make the boost apply to 400-500 per servant (so it doesn't reach godly levels) and just stick with the milling effect.

[Aix]

It's Max ATK is not 3000 as the other monsters usually treat themselves as Skull Servants in the Graveyard, though you cannot send those monsters to the Graveyard cuz they are not treated as Skull Servant in the Deck. This card can be a rather OPed as if you have Lady in Wight on the field, it would be almost invincible, you would have a 3000+ ATK beater that is unaffected by Spell/Trap cards. Lower the amount of ATK gain to 800 and you should be fine, then this card wouldn't completely supersede the King of Skull Servants.

[PaladinCards]

Thanks for all the feedback.  I've edited it so that it's a bit more fair now.  I didn't realize how overpowered it was until you guys told me.  Thanks!

[Iam Isthename]

much better than the first one...I like the effect and the card design kinda creeps me out. *shudders* 

[Saynt]

Undead Skull Servant seems to be well balanced, as it is a Gemini monster that's also not too hard to Gemini Summon (but still requires a support card). As it is, it's a bit powerful when compared to other Gemini monsters (although it isn't broken by other standards), and with King of the Skull Servants, you won't be using this as your main attacker. Maybe another effect to replace the ATK gain could be better.

 

As for the sending to Graveyard effect, you'd need to add that it could also send "Wight" monsters to the Graveyard as well, since Skull Servant itself, and all other Wights in the OCG have ワイト in their names. I'm thinking that there should be a restriction on the ability to Summon the monsters milled by the effect, either making them unable to be Summoned on the same turn, or disallowing the Summon of The Lady in Wight.

[Judαs]

After the Fixes, Undead Skull Servant seems fine, because its name is not treated as Skull Servant in the Graveyard. It would fit very well in a Skull Servant deck, provided they play 3x vanilla SS.

 

Dual Type-Frog seems pointless. It only has 1100 ATK, gets switched to DEF and everything; if it was released it would die like other unused frogs ("Unifrog" is one useless Frog which attacks directly with 700 ATK).

 

If attacking directly is the point, one can just play a Watt Deck, Watt monsters have 1200 ATK direct attackers with no disadvantages.