Different Dimension Border Master

[Darj]

When this card is Normal Summoned: You can add 1 "Dimension" or "D.D." Spell/Trap Card from your Deck to your hand. If this card is banished from your Deck, hand or Graveyard: You can add 1 "Dimension" or "D.D." monster, or "Ally of Justice Quarantine", from your Deck to your hand, except "Different Dimension Border Master". You can only use this effect of "Different Dimension Border Master" once per turn.

 

Flavor & Trivia:

- Has the same ATK/DEF as D.D. Master and it is also a "master", but has opposite Attribute and different Type, so you could say this is a more playable counterpart of D.D.M.

 

- It can search "Ally of Justice Quarantine" because in the OCG is has "D.D." in its name.

 

 

The first effect is basically a Myrmeleo for D.D. S/Ts, being able to search relevant cards like D. Prison and sided D.D. Grounds. It also intended to give Macro decks a bit more of life by searching D. Fissure.

 

The second effect is an attempt at tying D.D. monsters with D.D. S/Ts, and it should work as an amusing engine along other support cards in D.D. Decks: Searchable by ROTA, and deck thinning cards like Allure and Gold Sarcophagus will set it off. In non-D.D. decks, you could search sided D.D. Crows, for whatever is that worth.

[cardffreakxx]

only thing i would add is you can only use one effect of "Different Dimension Border Master"  per turn and only once that turn.

[Darj]

That's not necessary in my opinion. Cards like E-HERO Shadow Mist and Shaddolls have such hard OPT clause because it would be easy to Summon/Flip them and then send them to the grave, fulfilling the conditions of both effects in the same turn. But Normal summoning this card, sending it to the grave, and then banishing it in the same turn to get both effects is more complicated, and would require luck and/or a deck specifically designed to do it consistently; and even then, you would need to run other D.D. monsters to make the best of the second effect so, really, the card can only be used to its maximum potential in D.D. decks.

 

Granted, you can Normal Summon this and banish a 2nd copy with Allure/Gold Sarc/BLS/Wyberburster/etc., but it's not like doing so will net you insane amounts of advantage and, again, it would only work effectively in D.D. decks, who need the support in my opinion. I could disable the second effect from activating when banished from the grave, but I want to know first if the nerf is necessary, or if the card is fine as it is.