Hunter's Ambush

[TJDouglas13]

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Lore:

Activate when your opponent declares an attack: Negate the attack and destroy the attacking monster.

[Zazubat]

Rule number 1 of making cards, make sure there doesn't exist cards that do the same thing...

 

Now, it does 1 thing, and only 1 thing different. It doesn't target. Meaning it can get around things such as Yamato and the Hazy Flames. But that said, Sakuretsu Armor isn't even that helpful. I mean, why not use Dimensional Prison? Well, alright, that targets as well, but then, why not use Mirror Force? On top of not targeting, it also gets rid of the other attackers as well. Sometimes, you might not want that, but 9 times out of 10, it would be more useful that way. Try to be a little more original as well, just making Sakuretsu Armor without targeting is not very original.

 

EDIT: Well, I suppose the card negates the attack, while I got no idea if there's anything at all that can benefit from that, it is a thing. But that said, do you have anything that could benefit from that? I didn't think so.

[Synchronized]

It's a better Sakuretsu Armor and a worse Dimensional Prison.  Dimensional Prison is obviously a great card and often times a good meta-call, but with the exception of rare Fire Fist builds, none of the Top 3 Decks have any need for it.  What's more, below that, Decks such as Mermails, HERO, Gladiator Beasts, etc., run Dimensional Prison because it's an effective method of getting around bigger stuff.  This one destroys, which means things like Stardust, etc., though they're not as commonly run as they used to be, can easily get around it.

 

Negating the attack is nice and all, but more often than not, that doesn't make much of a difference.  There's no reason to run this card over Dimensional Prison, and in the current format there's not really much of a reason to run Dimensional Prison.

[Galkin]

As said, it is just another form of Sakuretsu that bypasses the targeting problem. That bypassing isn't really helpful either, seeing as there are more destruction immunities than targeting immunities and destruction is most of the time a setback rather than a real loss. So with that, this requires a change for originality and a change for practicality.

 

So with that, I would suggest an effect to Special Summon, seeing as this is an ambush (suggesting something is attacking). It could go something like this:

 

Activate when your opponent declares an attack: Special Summon...(Type text here) and, if you do, negate the attack and destroy the attacking monster.

In this case, you would get a monster plus the destruction, which would move this card a few ways from Sakuretsu and make it a bit more intresting depending on what that Special Summon will be. As it stands, it is outclassed and unoriginal.

[TJDouglas13]

Bump...?

Updated the effect

[Zazubat]

Where does it Special Summon from? That's sorta kinda like really important.