Number 398: Staraptor the predator hawk

[ems97]

This hawk I presume is my favorite bird in gen 4. Anyway it reflects on reckless. Image belongs to ragingespeon.

 

 

2 Level 5 monsters

When this card declares an attack: You can detach 1 Xyz Material to this card; your opponent loses equal to the monster's ATK points that is destroyed by battle. This card loses 500 ATK points, for every battle damage that is conducted.

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

2 Level 5 monsters

If this card declares an attack: You can detach 1 Xyz Material to this card; your opponent takes damage equal to the destroyed monster's ATK. This card loses 500 ATK each time it inflicts battle damage.

 

Detach effect sounds good on paper, considering it'll probably destroy something with its 2600 ATK; but as it's worded now, it damages the opponent depending on whatever monster gets killed. I would change it to "If this card destroys a monster by battle" (clears up a lot of things)

 

The ATK drop is pretty much reminiscent of Brave Bird, since it does strip HP when it hits.

 

 

If used, the burn effect would be what you'd want to use this for, and even then, attacking defensive monsters or stuff that reduce Battle Damage to 0 are what you'd hit with this card if you don't want its power to decrease. Guess it fits with its playstyle though in games, though.

[Trebuchet MS]

I'd phrase the effects like this:

 

[Winged Beast/Xyz/Effect]

2 Level 5 monsters

When this attacking card destroys a monster by battle declares an attack: You can detach 1 Xyz Material to from this card; inflict damage to your opponent loses equal to the destroyed monster's ATK points that is destroyed by battle. This card loses 500 ATK points, for every each time it inflicts battle damage that is conducted.

"Winged Beast" is not hyphenated.

 

I understand that this card's downside reflects the recoil effects from Double Edge or Brave Bird, but I'd prefer to give it more ATK so that it can land a few more hits without dropping to ATK scores too low to continue doing so. If the base ATK is high enough (say, 2800 or more), you can add a "This card must attack each turn if able" downside - also reflects the Reckless ability.