Aetherfortress Vielsarge

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[spoiler="Card Text"]Aetherfortress Vielsarge

Wind / Machine / Xyz / Rank 9

 

2 Level 9 monsters

This card cannot be Special Summoned from the Graveyard. You can return 1 card from your hand to the top of the deck to detach 1 Xyz Material from this card. While this card has no Xyz Material, it is unaffected by card effects.[/spoiler]

 

This guy's sort of like Dyson Sphere but different. Dyson Sphere tanks attacks; this guy tanks removal. The idea here is that after you summon him, you can opt to take a -2 to your hand to make this guy immune to effects. His only weakness is destruction by battle, but with 2700/2700 he can take out a significant percentage of the beaters you see nowadays.

 

There's a few exploits that I built into this as well. You can make this by RUM-Astral Force'ing a Dracossack or a Starship Galaxy Tomahawk. (You'd probably want to run Galaxy Tomahawk for this because Tomahawk can remove both of its materials in 1 turn with its own effect, reducing the dead-draws you have to generate and giving you a few free tokens to play around with as well.)

 

You could also try running Gale Dogra with Macro Cosmos and Different Dimension Reincarnation if you really really wanted to, but I figure that'd be a gimmicky deck at best.

 

This card also has synergy with cards like Xyz Burst, Xyz Block, and Xyz Gift, which remove materials from your Xyz Monsters and can be used to circumvent the dead-draws drawback of this card.

 

Balanced? Ridiculously broken? You tell me. Rank 9 Xyz needs more love!

[(GigaDrillBreaker)]

Woah. This is super smart card design. Props to you, bro.

 

There are just so many things you did right about this. Rank 9 is super cool, and if I had a deck that could summon them, I would definitely use this. 2700 atk puts it in an interesting spot, allowing it to trade with 104 and M7, get killed by Blue-Eyes, Nephilim and the ilk, and just laugh at everything else. The idea of performing another action as a cost to detach is very well-thought out, and for a moment I thought you were just going to make it an alt. win clause. Being completely unaffected by card effects is a big deal. This thing is really difficult to deal with in the current meta, as the only card I can think of that gets over it (that matters) is Nephilim. The "can't be summoned from grave" bit shows the real thought you put into designing this card, as it prevents this from just being an easy beater.

 

Ratings and stuff:

Balance: 9/10 I think you could get away with a 200 atk/def boost, just to give a middle finger to Nephilim

Design: 10/10 This is my favorite thing I have seen in a while

Art: 7/10 Pretty cool, though I was hoping there would be 9 of the floaty things to coincide with the rank

OCG: 0/0 Ain't nobody got time for dat

Overall: 9/10 I freaking love this thing. Keep up the good work. 

 

I recommend getting into the leaderboard. If all your cards are like this, you will do great.