Heroic Champion - Gandiva

[Slinky]

 

[spoiler='Lore']2 Level 4 Warrior-Type monsters
Once per turn, when a Level 4 or lower monster(s) is Special Summoned to your opponent's side of the field (except during the Damage Step): You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card; destroy that Special Summoned monster(s).[/spoiler]

 

So, I've been running this in my Satella build since the beginning, and it has proven invaluable on many occasions. And now, it is about to prove itself even more invaluable in Satellas. As Anti-Qliphort.

 

Lets look at the line of Qliphorts..

 

[spoiler='Lore']If this card was Special Summoned or Normal Summoned without Tributing, its Level becomes 4 and its original ATK becomes 1800.[/spoiler]

 

Not only does this card completely desecrate any attempt the Qliphorts make at Pendulum Summoning (so long as Skill Drain isn't on the field), they are also unable to run over this in battle without the help of Saqliphoth/Archive.

 

I'm not sure why I didn't notice this earlier since Gandiva is one of my more favorite cards.

 

Anyways, discuss?

[hexcalibrate]

this card is steelswarm roaches brother in arms and the two make a beautiful combo, I know all the other heroic xyz's also require warrior-type material but couldn't they have made an exception for this card.

[Blake]

The fact that it doesn't negate means it'll end up losing to qliphs more than it'll win.

It's also 2100, which means most Qliphs can tie with it or beat it depending on their hand (Saqliphoth and Disk/Archive come to mind) without Special Summoning for the turn.

It's not a bad way to force them into suboptimal plays, but it'll rarely corner a good Qliphort player. Not saying not to use it, just saying it still has a LOT of flaws against big red dogs.

[Slinky]

Not negating and being 2100 are pretty much its only flaws. Its obviously not going to hardcore shut them down but it will buy some time and force down their hand count just to clear the path for future plays (and if they use disk/archive, it prevents them from utilizing Trampolynx in the future for Xyz plays unless they normal it and leave themselves open).