Grapha's Brother [Lord of Terror - Genesis Archfiend]

[Strider Tigerwolf]

 

You can Normal Summon this card without Tributing, but its original ATK and DEF are halved. If you do, during the End Phase: Destroy it. You cannot Special Summon monsters other than Fiend-Type monsters. Once per turn: You can banish 1 "Archfiend" card from your hand or Graveyard to target 1 card on the field; destroy that target.

Discuss

[Sora1499]

He works great with Pandemonium

[Strider Tigerwolf]

I <3 the card really. It's a decent design.

[Master of Sabers]

Skill drain perhaps?

[Cute Rotten Yoshika]

Skill drain perhaps?

 

no. you want it to pop itself since pandaemonium gives you a search of basically most of the monsters in your deck if it does die.

[Sora1499]

no. you want it to pop itself since pandaemonium gives you a search of basically most of the monsters in your deck if it does die.

And then you can do fun stuff like NS Cavalry, SS the big level 6 dude, pop cavalry, grab trick archfiend, and then ss this from grave.  :)

[newhat]

I've tested a mishmash of all the new cards, and I must say this is hilarious against Dark World, since their Drain will leave it with 300 more ATK than Grapha.

 

In unrelated news, I've found that the Spell-recycling witch is basically an easy banish for another card.

[Master of Sabers]

I meant, could it be used in a skill drain build? With drain, it becomes an EEV / DDV target, a better barbaros in ways....

[TheKaitoKid]

And then you can do fun stuff like NS Cavalry, SS the big level 6 dude, pop cavalry, grab trick archfiend, and then ss this from grave.   :)

Also he can be grabbed with Empress & Roar while still getting a search.

[Cute Rotten Yoshika]

in skill drain.dek (if that were even still a thing anymore) barbaros is a much better topdeck without drain and they have a virus target in fusilier (who has some advantages over both of these cards).

[Sora1499]

[quote name="Master of Sabers" post="6188167" timestamp="1366945134"]I meant, could it be used in a skill drain build? With drain, it becomes an EEV / DDV target, a better barbaros in ways....[/quote] A skill drain build might work since most of their effects activate in-grave, but I doubt that the benefits of drain's presence would make up for the losses.

[Zeppeli Gyro Supreme]

Even though I love old-fashioned archfiends, I still don't like the Pandemonium build too much. It is funny playing a mirror match where the opponent plays Pandemonium, though. Free cards for me!