reficuL - Broken or Balanced?

[Satanic Pentagram]

Hello friends. I worked hard on this creature, in terms of finding a balance in it's ATK/DEF/effect and also on the artwork.

Any avid player would know what deck this would be great in.

Please tell me what you think! -Jon

[Sora1499]

Graceful Charity on a rank 8 body. Ew.

I can see this thing either being severely underused or the facilitator of some dumb FTK.

[Mehmani]

It's perfectly balanced. If anything it's erring on the side of caution for my tastes. One has to consider just how fast the current metagame is when making a card. In relation to the game, this card is an interesting thing to play with that may be mained in some deck somewhere (I don't know. Maybe a Blue Eyes Xyz build, or Hieratic Dragons?). It's quite nicely balanced, I would say. For a first card, good job.

[BoricuaBeast]

Dark Worlds. 'Nuff Said. 

Major Grapha abuse, even if one gets banished. 

 

However, if it said send instead of discard, then it would be a bit balanced, but not by much.

[R3mixKillah]

This is unbalanced simply because of dark worlds. Even if it is a rank 8, it's not hard to bring out 2 graphas, SS this and activate eff to draw THREE and discard TWO. I'm emphasizing that because i feel like the pluses would be ridiculous especially since you really only care about having atleast 1 grapha on the field. It's saving grace is, like i said before, it's rank 8 and it's banishing, which if it didn't banish otherwise, would've been an undoubtedly broken effect and would be banned as soon as people notice that it fits in D.W too greatly. Also it's 1700 body doesn't mean much since it gets that extra 300 from gates which makes it a 2k body (which is good enough to stand it's ground for a few turns). honestly, its difficult to find a way to balance this because its too specifically focused on it's function and it's liability with an archetype. So instead (even though i don't like doing this) im going to give you only 1 suggestion.

 

"Once per turn, you can detach and banish 1 Xyz material from this card; Draw 2 cards. During your next Standby Phase if you activated this effect and this card is still on the field, discard 1 card." 

 

+3 is too much so imade it a draw 2, and i made it so that during the next turn it gives you your discard option and it forces this card to have to survive. Maybe this way you can atleast give it a slight ATK boost without worrying too much about it dieing too quickly. (i would not suggest a protection effect on a card like this cuz that easily makes it broken, no matter how minuscule the protection is).

 

Didn't wanna have to create a whole new effect cuz that just means i'm doing your job for you, you dont HAVE to make it exactly like that but that's the best option IMO for balancing this card.

 

EDIT: Also i like your card name. Just now caught that it said "Lucifer" backwards xD.

 

Now that i think about it, should i make it so that the discard goes first, and then during your next standby, draw 2 or would that make it underpowered?

[mr-magic_bunnehs]

Maybe change it 2 a rank 6 dragon type and make it so that instead of discarding 2 cards you tribute 2 monster cards from your hand.

That would make it a great hieratic support card. Like the idea though.

If you don't wanna do the above maybe you should at least make it a rank 4.(easier summoning purpose)