Fishborg Blaster

[Agro]

[jabber2033]

Before Mermails were a thing, I thought that maybe this could come back.  Maybe.

 

Now?  HELL NO!

[Kingdom Xathers]

No "Once-per-turn" clause means Synchros out the culo for Merlanteans.  'Tis sad... it certainly would have had a (small) chance at returning were it not for the Mermails/Atlanteans being conceived.

[Toffee.]

See, here's the main problem with this card~
When it first came out, it was fine. Ridiculous, but not over-the-top stupid, since more often then not you had to play this through Seaking, to which, required a few cards to get going right off the bat.
Then from there, you basically -1 from the Hand to keep Synchroing with this card(You only had 3 Formulas, shoosh).

THEN LIBRARIAN BECAME A CARD
And it all went to hell.
You would generally +1/+2/+5 per Synchro, etc, with shenanigans with Librarian/Formula.
Then this went to 0.

Years later, Atlanteans and Mermails became a thing, and were the final nail in Blaster's coffin.

The end.

[Sora1499]

If it were "Once per turn", then it might be able to come back.

[Wildflame]

Still more balanced than E Dragons.

[玄魔の王]

See, here's the main problem with this card~
When it first came out, it was fine. Ridiculous, but not over-the-top stupid, since more often then not you had to play this through Seaking, to which, required a few cards to get going right off the bat.
Then from there, you basically -1 from the Hand to keep Synchroing with this card(You only had 3 Formulas, shoosh).

THEN LIBRARIAN BECAME A CARD
And it all went to hell.
You would generally +1/+2/+5 per Synchro, etc, with shenanigans with Librarian/Formula.
Then this went to 0.

Years later, Atlanteans and Mermails became a thing, and were the final nail in Blaster's coffin.

The end.

 

I'd argue the overall final nail was when they started making knockoffs of this guy. Fishborg Launcher was proof my itself, but Archer sealed it.

 

Still more balanced than E Dragons.

Any one card is going to me more balanced than an entire decktype.

[Airride]

One of countless cards that was broken due to lack of once per turn.

[Cute Rotten Yoshika]

Any one card is going to me more balanced than an entire decktype.

 

that doesnt even make sense. and plenty of cases can be made for the opposite:

 

BLS is less balanced than crashbugs.

[-Berserker-]

 

This is the first card I have ever abused at the time of it's ban. Going double Quasar plus Trishula and drawing your entire deck including Exodia all in the first turn was fun, except the opponents got bored after 15 minutes and didn't stay to see me win.

[Sora1499]

[quote name="-Berserker-" post="6175574" timestamp="1365120059"]   This is the first card I have ever abused at the time of it's ban. Going double Quasar plus Trishula and drawing your entire deck including Exodia all in the first turn was fun, except the opponents got bored after 15 minutes and didn't stay to see me win.[/quote] That reminds me, would you mind sharing your current fish synchro deck? Also that loop sounds cray cray.

[Resident Fascist]

 cray cray.

 

Oops, wrong Cray. Anyway, this topic is clearly going to generate a lot of discussion :/ This is why we shouldn't be allowed to post topics on cards that are forever b& imo.

[玄魔の王]

that doesnt even make sense. and plenty of cases can be made for the opposite:

 

BLS is less balanced than crashbugs.

 

It makes perfect sense. A single really good card can do some damage on its own but has nothing to back it up; a deck with synergy can support individual plays and accomplish more than that one card. Take the Atlanteans away from Abyssmegalo and he's suddenly not a very strong card anymore. Even BLS needs a deck that can set him up.

 

Fair example though, so I'll rephrase for clarity: any viable, competitve decktype is going to be more unbalanced than any single card.