[Darkness Daily] Haunter, the Neverending Nightmare

[VampireofDarkness]

 

2 Level 4 DARK Monsters

When this card attacks while it has Xyz Materials, it gains 150 ATK for each of your unused Monster Card Zones, also. when it attacks a Defense Position monster, inflict piercing damage to your opponent. Once per turn, during either player's turn, you can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card; Once, during this turn, if a monster you control would be targeted (by battle or by card effect), you can destroy 1 card on the field.

 

The absolution of darkness has returned with yet another set of contributions to this section. The first of these works as a more proactive option for DARK Rank 4 Decks, essentially lending to lower tier options for now while cutting off options like Em&EM. Raidraptors I feel would have a lot of fun with this, being able to make this MP1, have their 2700 beater to get over stuff, and MP2 do shenanigans, perhaps Verz being able to run this as a 1 of for similar.

As always, CnC is appreciated!

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It's an effective card since it can negate a monster's destruction plus countering with a destructive blow, and it's requirements are easy to summon, plus it inflicts piercing battle damage

[Darj]

The way the last effect is written doesn't look clean: The use and location of the PSCT punctuation marks is messy (";" looks like it's in the wrong place, and the ":" is missing), the destruction effect doesn't start a chain which can lead to ruling conflicts, it doesn't target nor actually negates the targeting effect, and I can't exactly tell what was intended and what wasn't.

 

I suggest the following text fix, but it still feels flawed:

Once per turn, during either player's turn: You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card; once during this turn, before resolving an effect that targets a monster you control OR if a monster you control is targeted for an attack, you can destroy 1 card on the field.

 

 

That aside, this looks like a solid card. The biggest it can get is 3450 ATK on a clear field, pierces for extra damage, and the detach effect can be punishing, since not only will discourage the opponent from activating targeting effects (you have to activate this before a targeting effect is activated, and thus it's preemptive), but also you can make it live by playing your own targeting effects, so it's not entirely reliant on the opponent's plays. The latter does feel a bit too good in combination with its potential 2700+ ATK, but since it's bound to DARK Level4s, I suppose it can get away with it.

 

 

EDIT:

My mistake, it doesn't count the opponent's empty zones so the ATK cap is actually 2700. That should keep it fair, but I'm still wary on being able to use your own targeting cards to trigger the card destruction.