Superheavy Samurai Soul Break Armour [ANIME]

[~British Soul~]

 

Machine/Effect

Once per turn: You can either: Target 1 Machine-Type monster you control; equip this card to that target, OR: Unequip this card and Special Summon it in face-up Attack Position. The equipped monster loses 1000 DEF, also it cannot be destroyed by battle. During either player's turn, when a monster you control whose current DEF is lower than its original DEF is targeted for an attack while you have no Spell/Trap Cards in your Graveyard: You can banish this card from your Graveyard; inflict damage to your opponent equal to the difference between its original DEF and current DEF.

 

So this is the 3rd of the new Superheavy Samurais that we have info on, and there are still another 2 to go, so discuss?

[Delibirb]

Hmm, interesting. I'm not quite sure whether I like it or not, or how much. On the one hand the mist body is nice, but that -1000 isn't all that helpful for beatsticking, after all, a lot of the time they aren't going to be destroyed by battle anyway. The burn effect also means
means you can't run many spells or traps, and have one on the field as well as the Graveyard.

[Trebuchet MS]

With that first effect, why not make it a Union monster? Adding the Union protection reminder text would also bump up its usefulness by a few miles.

[Sleepy]

I think Yugioh needs to update it's Unions. Since their debut, they've gotten some upgrades at least.

No longer equippable to just a specific monster(s). Check.

Protect from any form of destruction and not just battle destruction. Check.

Now they need to get rid of the "1 Union at a time per monster" restriction and they'll be saving text, improving the mechanic to more playabe and stackable heights without having to get too over the top with it, and well... they just need to re-visit their unions as a whole since lots of monsters nowadays are becoming pseudo unions for convenience. Armory Arm, ZeXal Weapons, and this card come to mind.