Phenox, God of Deception [MTG to YGO remake]

[Sander]

And it's a Pendulum monster to boot!

 

 

Phenax, God of Deception

Level 8 / DARK

Pendulum Scale 4 / 4

Spellcaster / Pendulum / Effect

Pendulum Effect: During either players End Phase: You can discard 1 card to target 1 monster in your Graveyard that was destroyed by a card effect during this turn; Special Summon that target.

Monster Effect: When a monster you control would be destroyed by an opponents card (either by battle or by card effect), you can banish 1 Trap Card from your Graveyard instead, then inflict 600 damage to your opponent.

2000 / 2800

 

Made it with flavour in mind, but focused more on the aspect of Phenax being a "spirit of trickery and guile".

[Darj]

I don't know how the MTG version is but this one looks really good. The Spell effect allows you recover important monsters that may very well be worth the discard, and the Monster effect looks like it is effective at protecting your monsters, as it covers both battle and effect destruction. Then, as a DARK Spellcaster, it can be summoned by Dark Renewal too, which is cool. I was going to point out how it has a low ATK for a Level 8, but then I noticed its DEF, and with 2000 ATK it is a target for lol Magician's Circle.

[Spinny]

Honestly i was really hoping for some grand mill effect (as the effect of the original) however i understand that with most yugioh decks only 40 cards big this would make it OP as hell.

 

However i wasnt expecting the god of deception to be a mass reviver of monsters like how jealous is the god of passage now and pharika is killing herself, like the effect isnt very exact or similar to the original at all.

You shouldve made it a discard effect of some sort atleast or something.

The actual one !!

 

However i like the idea and concept i think its a very balanced card however a pendulum scale of 4 is useless as you cant summon level 4 monsters which is the most common level i would've given him a scale of seven since he has a toughness of 7 and you have focused on the defense in his stats so it would make good sense to do so.

Make a Way To SS HIM!!!! cus otherwise hes a bit of a dead card with a level of 8 (Personally i would make his level 7 with his pend scale 7 so you cant pend summon him using himself as a scale).

 

I like the card and i hope my insight was helpful ^^