Shaddoll Doppel - Trap monster Copycat for Shaddolls

[Darj]

Shaddoll Doppel
Trap Card
Type: Continuous

Activate this card by targeting 1 monster your opponent controls or in their Graveyard; Special Summon this card as an Effect Monster (Spellcaster-Type/DARK) with a Level, ATK and DEF equal to the Level/Rank, ATK and DEF of that target. (This card is also still a Trap Card.). This card's Attribute is also the same as that target's. If this card is sent to the Graveyard by a card effect: You can target 1 "Shaddoll" Spell /Trap Card in your Graveyard, except "Shaddoll Doppel"; add it to your hand.

 

 

This is intended to be a flavor card that represents a Shaddoll taking the form of another monster, dead or alive. Of course, not only it's for the flavor, but also provides Shaddolls a way of running over big monsters, especially now that Construct is gone, by copying them and crashing into them, or copying bigger ones. Another application is copying a monster with the desired Attribute for a Fusion Summon. In addition, it's retrievable by the El Shaddolls as well, for the cases you need a beater more than a Shaddoll Fusion Spell or Core.

 

As for the picture... I know it's not exactly a puppet like the main Deck Shaddolls, but it's the closest I could find resembling a dark-themed puppet. Besides, in a way it resembles the puppet forms of Winda and Wen, so I guess it's not fully off-theme. Moreover, the pseudo-censorship on its eyes works to its advantage, as it could be seen as the doll having no identity, but instead taking it from the monster it is copying.

 

Thoughts?

[Alastar Rainford]

Target 1 monster your opponent controls or in their Graveyard; Special Summon this card as an Normal Monster (Spellcaster-Type) with the same , Attribute, Level, ATK, and DEF as that target (This card is also still a Trap Card). If this card is sent to the Graveyard by a card effect: You can target 1 "Shaddoll" Spell /Trap Card in your Graveyard, except "Shaddoll Doppel"; add it to your hand.

 

Better ocg.

 

Onto the card itself,it is basically a better wall than core,but your fusion is dependent on your opponent playing a good attribute.

[Darj]

Uh, your OCG doesn't exactly work for my purposes since I want the monster to retain its DARK Attribute while gaining the copied monster's, also it makes it a Normal Monster for some reason. As for the "activate this card by targeting" clause, I copied it from Call of the Haunted, Oasis of Dragon Souls, etc., so I figured it would be more accurate.

[Toffee.]

So more or less, this is just Roots, but with the option of being able to fight back instead of just acting as a wall(aside from being fodder), though, it has a more specific Attribute and it's Level can wind up being anything.

Seems a little weird to compete with something, when there is only like 1-2 actual differences. You could, though, be cool and have it recover Shaddoll monsters instead of Spell/Traps. Would make it more of a thing, really.

[Darj]

I like that idea, but I feel that recovering Shaddoll monsters instead of Spell/Traps would conflict with the flavor of the archetype, considering Core/Roots recovers Spell/Traps. Then again, it's not like there is a pattern since the only Shaddoll Trap as reference is Core; I suppose I can get away with making this card recover monsters.