Ultimate Iron Core of Koa'ki Meiru

[Agro]

Ultimate Iron Core of Koa'ki Meiru

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This card is treated as "Iron Core of Koa'ki Meiru". If you send this card from your hand to the Graveyard to pay the cost of a "Koa'ki Meiru" monster, you can treat it as paying the cost of all face-up Koa'ki Meiru Monsters. If this card is in your Graveyard during your opponent's End Phase, during your following Standby Phase: You can target 1 Level 4 or lower "Koa'ki Meiru" monster in your Graveyard; return this card to the Deck, then Special Summon that targeted monster. It is banished at the End Phase. This effect of "Iron Core of Koa'ki Meiru" can only be activated once per duel. If this card is in your Graveyard during your Draw Phase: You can discard 1 card to return it to your hand. This effect of "Iron Core of Koa'ki Meiru" can only be activated once per turn.

 

Balanced Archetype? Why not try to break it?

[Toffee.]

Actually this would make then more playable, as a rag-tag everything-at-once archetype, rather then breaking them up into Type specific builds.

[玄魔の王]

I'm gonna review this clause by clause:

This card is treated as "Iron Core of Koa'ki Meiru".

Okay, this is pretty obvious, and necessary, so not a lot to say about this.

If you send this card from your hand to the Graveyard to pay the cost of a "Koa'ki Meiru" monster, you can treat it as paying the cost of all face-up Koa'ki Meiru Monsters.

Um, holy scheiBe. So if I swarm the field with 2 Urnights and 2 Crusaders and don't have a Beast-Warrior left, this one thing covers them all? You better believe I'm gonna jump on that one.

If this card is in your Graveyard during your opponent's End Phase, during your following Standby Phase: You can target 1 Level 4 or lower "Koa'ki Meiru" monster in your Graveyard; return this card to the Deck, then Special Summon that targeted monster.It is banished at the End Phase. This effect of "Iron Core of Koa'ki Meiru" can only be activated once per duel.

Is there a reason the effect is worded the way it is? I don't understand why it needs to be in the Grave for the opponent's End Phase if its effect goes off in your Standby Phase. Beyond that, this thing is a +1 at the cost of losing this thing. You only get to do this once a duel which is good (it would become insane if it was once a turn or something). But banishing... yeah, it's not still gonna be there at the End Phase, so I don't mind it.

 If this card is in your Graveyard during your Draw Phase: You can discard 1 card to return it to your hand. This effect of "Iron Core of Koa'ki Meiru" can only be activated once per turn.

And, of course, it can recur just like the original Iron Core can, which allows it to be used ad infinitum. I quite like this ability as a means to support an entire army of the cards.

Balanced Archetype? Why not try to break it?

Because that's the exact type of power creep we're trying to avoid here. Nonetheless, I don't feel this breaks the archetype by itself. I quite like it.