Ren✧ Posted April 28, 2013 Report Share Posted April 28, 2013 Select and activate 1 of the following effects: ●: Destroy any number of Equip Spell Cards you control: Destroy cards on your opponent's side of the field for each card sent to the Graveyard by this effect. ●: Target up to 2 Equip Spell Cards in your Graveyard: Equip them to 2 different, appropriate targets you control. You can only activate 1 "Sword Blight" per turn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoshpalStefan Posted April 28, 2013 Report Share Posted April 28, 2013 Before any actual review, let me first say this: the picture is incredible. Maybe the template makes it even more incredible, but it just looks really nice. Anyhow, onto the actual card. Its overall structure is pretty basic: Choice between one of two effects, only one per turn, so on and so forth; nothing too creative there. What I really want to get into is the misbalance between effects, if misbalance is the correct term. The fact of the matter is this: the second effect heavily outweighs the first one. Maybe there's something about the archetype that makes the first effect good, if this card belongs to an archetype; however, I really feel that the effect to equip two spells to a monster is much more powerful than to destroy a couple of monsters by tributing your own monsters. In any case, perhaps the archetype feeds off of this effect, like the tributed monsters gain effect when they are tributed, but so far this is my quirk with the card. All in all, good card, a definite 8/10, but the two effects really dropped it by two points when they displayed such a misbalance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
вєgσттєη ιηѕαηιту Posted April 28, 2013 Report Share Posted April 28, 2013 8/10 just because the text is too small in the bottom :) Other than that I feel the card is really nice, it is def. something i would play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ren✧ Posted April 28, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2013 Before any actual review, let me first say this: the picture is incredible. Maybe the template makes it even more incredible, but it just looks really nice. Anyhow, onto the actual card. Its overall structure is pretty basic: Choice between one of two effects, only one per turn, so on and so forth; nothing too creative there. What I really want to get into is the misbalance between effects, if misbalance is the correct term. The fact of the matter is this: the second effect heavily outweighs the first one. Maybe there's something about the archetype that makes the first effect good, if this card belongs to an archetype; however, I really feel that the effect to equip two spells to a monster is much more powerful than to destroy a couple of monsters by tributing your own monsters. In any case, perhaps the archetype feeds off of this effect, like the tributed monsters gain effect when they are tributed, but so far this is my quirk with the card. All in all, good card, a definite 8/10, but the two effects really dropped it by two points when they displayed such a misbalance. So what if it just destroyed the Equip Spells, would that balance it out? I was going back and forth on that effect for awhile. Anyway, thanks for the comment and critique. 8/10 just because the text is too small in the bottom :) You could provide some actual constructive help instead of commenting on the image of the card, which really shouldn't play into the card's critique. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoshpalStefan Posted April 28, 2013 Report Share Posted April 28, 2013 I think just the equip spells would be a good balance, because this way you can even play around with it and create equip spells that say "when this card is destroyed by another Spell card's effect" or something along those lines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyng's Old Account Posted April 29, 2013 Report Share Posted April 29, 2013 Renegade, y u make "send" Equips & no "destroy" because no Nobles Support (/;~;)/ OT: It would not see that much play in all honesty. Probably in a Guardians build, but they are (atm) very slow. Possibly it could see Nobles use, I can see a decent chance to re-sword Gawayn and Artorigus, but I think it would be beautiful changing that "send Equips" to destroying them instead: this would allow you to chain it to Heavy Storm, and not only recycle the Noble Arms, but punish your opponent as well. I think the secondary effect is too situational for the current fast-paced meta to be honest. I'm not to concerned in balancing, when you have to compete with cards ranging from E-Drags to Prophecies. In truth Equip Spells have a stigma about them. Oh well. tl;dr version: change "send equips" to "destroy equips" please for Noble Shenanigans. The secondary effect could possibly be dropped though wouldn't see that much use anyway, since Equip Spell cards tend to eat up Deck room for faster Decks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matejsipos202 Posted April 29, 2013 Report Share Posted April 29, 2013 good card :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anozariel Posted April 29, 2013 Report Share Posted April 29, 2013 tl;dr version: change "send equips" to "destroy equips" please for Noble Shenanigans. The secondary effect could possibly be dropped though wouldn't see that much use anyway, since Equip Spell cards tend to eat up Deck room for faster Decks. Personally i do not think that we should make advantage from a cost, since if we do that is not cost anymore. BTW very nice card. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyng's Old Account Posted April 29, 2013 Report Share Posted April 29, 2013 Personally i do not think that we should make advantage from a cost, since if we do that is not cost anymore. BTW very nice card. :)It is a good thing if you can combo from costs outside the card. Please see Medraut's own shenanigans with Noble Arms to understand this. = / Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anozariel Posted April 29, 2013 Report Share Posted April 29, 2013 It is a good thing if you can combo from costs outside the card. Please see Medraut's own shenanigans with Noble Arms to understand this. = / Okay, i've finised my lesson about the Noble Knights and Noble Arms, and now i am preaty sure; we don't need a card what can destroy 2-3 cards on the field with no cost. NO THANK YOU! The Sword Blight is good as it is. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyng's Old Account Posted April 29, 2013 Report Share Posted April 29, 2013 Okay, i've finised my lesson about the Noble Knights and Noble Arms, and now i am preaty sure; we don't need a card what can destroy 2-3 cards on the field with no cost. NO THANK YOU! The Sword Blight is good as it is. :)And in other Decks? It wouldn't see play in other Decks. Little to no other Decks can make Equips work, other than Vylons. They would have no effect from changing Send to Destroy the equip spell.I have to disagree with what you say, and I can try to respect your opinion. I think changing Send to Destroy would make this more playable, especially making it possible for a Starlight Road combo on yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ren✧ Posted April 29, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2013 @Kyng: Originally it was destroy, but I thought it might be a little broken with Nobles out, but I was unsteady on the fact. Will change to destroy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anozariel Posted April 30, 2013 Report Share Posted April 30, 2013 And in other Decks? It wouldn't see play in other Decks. Little to no other Decks can make Equips work, other than Vylons. They would have no effect from changing Send to Destroy the equip spell. I have to disagree with what you say, and I can try to respect your opinion. I think changing Send to Destroy would make this more playable, especially making it possible for a Starlight Road combo on yourself. Okay, i can understand you opinion as well and i can't argue that in a different deck this card would really makes no difference between destroy and send. But just because in other decks it is meaningless, we really need to change an archtype to be broken? With this, we should just remove the ban from the [url=http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Raigeki]Raigeki[/url] and the [url=http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Harpie's_Feather_Duster]Harpie's Feather Duster[/url]. To be honest, i think that actually with Noble cards the Sword Blight still stronger option than the other two, since this card is a quick spell, and you can destroy spells and monsters the same time with no cost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoshpalStefan Posted April 30, 2013 Report Share Posted April 30, 2013 Okay, guys, though I clearly see both sides, I have to say that it should be changed to destroy. I didn't post my opinion before because I really was undecided; but look at it this way: the "noble" archetype is basically inactive in the meta nowadays because they don't have something to boost them. If they were really playable, I would immediately say to put it as "send", but considering that the archetype actually NEEDS a broken card, I really would put this as destroy. No offense intended towards any other opinion, but sometimes broken cards are required in order to salvage an almost unusable archetype. Unless, of course, the "noble" archetype is widely used and I haven't heard about such news, primarily because I'm inactive in today's meta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anozariel Posted April 30, 2013 Report Share Posted April 30, 2013 I see. If evebody is insist so much that the noble cards need this extra, then i guess i am the wrong one here. Sorry everyone! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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