Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Evening Twilight

[~British Soul~]

 

Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned (from your hand) by banishing all LIGHT monsters or all DARK monsters from your Graveyard, while you have an equal number of each in your Graveyard, and cannot be Special Summoned by other ways. While face-up on the field, this card is also LIGHT-Attribute. When this card is Special Summoned: You can activate the appropriate effect, based on the Attribute of the monsters banished for the Special Summon. You cannot conduct your Battle Phase the turn you activate this effect.
● LIGHT: Target 1 monster on the field; banish it.
● DARK: Banish 1 random card from your opponent's hand face-down, until your opponent's End Phase.

 

So this is going to be the latest JUMP subscription promo and tbh I'm not really bothered that it's gonna be a JUMP promo, discuss?

[the_engineer]

Bad, bad and bad

 

Not even remotely similar to his brother

 

Nomi, high summoning cost and poor effect, also it makes you skip the battle phase

[Flame Dragon]

First time I read this I missed the or in the Light or Dark part. I would feel bad, but so much text. Anyway, seems cool, and I'm happy I'll be able to sell it for some store credit assuming this has some decent value. Also, how new of a thing is a creature being two attributes?

[Goose]

It's bad but looks good ahhhh

[Wildflame]

Was expecting this for PRIO but I guess we're getting the Gaias and the S/T support instead.

[Greiga]

The card in the hand doesn't even stay banished forever so naw.

EDIT: You only get the effects once too. This is too much trouble to be worth.

[D.A._Sakuyamon]

This is bad but at the same time badass.

[Delibirb]

Nomi, high summoning cost and poor effect, also it makes you skip the battle phase

You can just have 1 each of LIGHT and DARK and banish literally 1 monster for him. Then, dont us his effects because yes, they are bad, and he's just a free 3000 beater. In a deck that runs him, having control over an equal number of LIGHTs and DARKs isnt exactly a feat.

 

Assuming he will be at 3, he may become relevant in a good Chaos deck.

[AGATHODAIMON BANGTAIL COW]

Actually, the LIGHT effect is pretty sweet, but starts to look pretty meh when you see you can't conduct your entire BP for the turn. Even then, you could still use that one to wipe out a threat for the sake of putting it in a better spot than the Grave/fear of backrow.

[Ultravires]

Card is garbage, anyone who thinks otherwise is delusional.

[玄魔の王]

I'm still mad CED didn't get a retrained form like this when he's actually banned. Le sigh.

And yeah, I feel he really could have been OPT and given you a choice of effect for a BP skip and a rigid summoning condition.

[Neutrality Man]

You can just have 1 each of LIGHT and DARK and banish literally 1 monster for him. Then, dont us his effects because yes, they are bad, and he's just a free 3000 beater. In a deck that runs him, having control over an equal number of LIGHTs and DARKs isnt exactly a feat.

 

Assuming he will be at 3, he may become relevant in a good Chaos deck.

Banish the DARK, it's a D.D. Scout Plane.

:p

[AGATHODAIMON BANGTAIL COW]

Banish the DARK, it's a D.D. Scout Plane.

:P

That's a terrible idea. Scout Plane needs to actually survive the turn to become anything more than attack fodder, and it's easy to pop it.

[Toffee.]

First time I read this I missed the or in the Light or Dark part. I would feel bad, but so much text. Anyway, seems cool, and I'm happy I'll be able to sell it for some store credit assuming this has some decent value. Also, how new of a thing is a creature being two attributes?

Nice to see you posting outside of Videogames, Flame =D

That aside.... Double-Attribute monsters have been a thing for a while, despite being rare.

[newhat]

It is too conditional for its meager effect. If one effect banished everything from the opponent's Graveyard maybe we'd have something to talk about.

[Not-so-Radiant Arin]

DAT ART CLAUSE

[Greiga]

DAT ART CLAUSE

Just cut it out and tape it on a tin BLS smh

[Airride]

You use it the same turn you use Soul Charge, Duuuh.

 

Still bad though.

[玄魔の王]

You use it the same turn you use Soul Charge, Duuuh.

Still bad though.

Or Pot of Duplicty.

...*shot*

[Synchronized]

Effect-wise, it's not terrible.  Having 1 LIGHT and 1 DARK in Grave early on makes it extremely easy to drop.  Plus, the banish 1 monster thing isn't all that bad.

 

Where it goes from "meh-decent" to "absolute garbage" is the fact that if you use the effect, you're forced to skip the Battle Phase.  With the original BLS-EoTB, you could at least choose between banishing and whether or not you wanted to attack, and even then that restriction was only on BLS itself.  With this, the fact that you get a +0 and then skip your entire Battle Phase makes it no better than say, idk, Compulse, or something else that acts as 1-for-1 removal with significantly less set-up.

 

It's nothing more than a cool collection card.  I will say the art is nice, and if you have people that go to your locals that tend to be into collecting these types of things, you can probably move it for a somewhat decent value.

[Sleepy]

It just needed to banish the card forever, and to not skip the whole Battle Phase. I'd even be happy if the card itself couldn't attack, just like BLS-EotB, but that it didn't completely ruin the Battle Phase.

 

BLS-EotB is all you really need. I'd even consider Chaos Sorcerer before this unless I somehow needed a Level 8...