Trying something new again (Sacred Knight of Halteese)

[Kanashimi]

Sacred Knight of Halteese

LIGHT/Level 4

Warrior/Pendulum/Effect

5/5

Pendulum Effect: This card can attack while in your Pendulum Zone. If it does, apply its original (printed) ATK for damage calculation.

Monster Effect: If this card in Monster Zone is destroyed (either by battle or card effect): You can destroy as many cards in your Pendulum Zone as possible (min.1); place this card in your Pendulum Zone. Once per turn: If this card in your Monster Zone destroys an opponent monster by battle: it can attack once again in a row.

1600/1200

 

 

Yea weird, attack while in Pendulum Zone . . .

What do you think guys?

[EndUser]

  I kinda like it; a mere sneaky attacker that can help set up a good Pendulum Summoning.

 

  Two little things bug me:

1) Being a Pendulum Spell Card, it can avoid been damaged by cards that affect monsters (e.g. Mirror Force or Raigeki), unless it obviously counts as a monster while attacking (or should it be mentioned?). If that's the case, you can try using the cliche "the Battle Damage is halved", or simply reduce the ATK by 200-300 points.

2) "...If this card in your Monster Zone or Pendulum Zone..." I don't think the effect can apply for both cases, but I also don't know if there is any better way to do it. :/ Personally, I'd let it attack twice only if the card is in the Monster Card Zone.

 

However, the card overall is not OP.

 

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I was late to realize that the Pendulum Scale is 0. Lion Heart and Synchro Summoning becoming more decent?

[Manpole]

I disagree with EndUser a bit, I think this is quite OP when paired with other good Pendelum cards, especially at a scale of 0?

To even it out, personally, I'd decrease the ATK to like 1600 and set its scale in the 4-6 range.

[Kanashimi]

  I kinda like it; a mere sneaky attacker that can help set up a good Pendulum Summoning.

 

  Two little things bug me:

1) Being a Pendulum Spell Card, it can avoid been damaged by cards that affect monsters (e.g. Mirror Force or Raigeki), unless it obviously counts as a monster while attacking (or should it be mentioned?). If that's the case, you can try using the cliche "the Battle Damage is halved", or simply reduce the ATK by 200-300 points.

2) "...If this card in your Monster Zone or Pendulum Zone..." I don't think the effect can apply for both cases, but I also don't know if there is any better way to do it. :/ Personally, I'd let it attack twice only if the card is in the Monster Card Zone.

 

However, the card overall is not OP.

 

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I was late to realize that the Pendulum Scale is 0. Lion Heart and Synchro Summoning becoming more decent?

 

1) i'm doing it on purpose, the original has pendulum effect of "This card is also treated as a monster while in your Pendulum Zone", but then realized, why don't just keep this card as a Spell Card? then deleted the text, so it can avoid any S/T that affect monsters, so immune to Mirror Force and such!

 

2) should i make it "If this card in your Monster Zone" in his monster eff? and adding "If this card in Pendulum Zone" in Pendulum eff? doing it separately?

 

Yes as 0 scale, we don't have it yet do we?

 

I disagree with EndUser a bit, I think this is quite OP when paired with other good Pendelum cards, especially at a scale of 0?

To even it out, personally, I'd decrease the ATK to like 1600 and set its scale in the 4-6 range.

 

After looking at it many times, maybe you are right, it's 1900 free beater without the need of being summoned, as for scale maybe keeping it at 0 as of right now (if you have a good reason why i should avoid scale 0, then it might be different).

 

Thanks all of your reply guys~

[Manpole]

I only suggested increasing its scale because its already a good card so it would be a drawback in choosing to place that card in your pendelum zone, whereas scale 0 is, well, the best low scale there is; and that is on top of the already good effects this card has.

edit: Also, if you want it to have the effect of attacking again, while in the pendelum zone, I think you'll have to write that in the spell effect area. While a monster, pendelum cards only get their monster effects, and while a scale they only get their spell effects. So, just the basic: "Once per turn, if this card destroys an opponents monster by battle it can make a second attack this turn." in both effect areas.

[Kanashimi]

Updated*

☼ change his stat to 1600/1200 and his scale to 5 (thanks to Manpole)

☼ double attack only works while in Monster Zone (thanks to EndUser)

 

as for scale, i think 4 is useless (stop rank 4 spam) and 6 is too much . . . so yes, 5 is my choice :>

 

Any other suggestions, if any?

[Darj]

I would classify this as an Experimental Card, since technically it is a Spell Card that can attack while it is in a Pendulum Zone.

Personally, I preferred when it was scale 0, because despite the nonexistence of official cards with Scale 0 as precedence, it could get interesting by enabling the player to Pendulum Summon Level 1 monsters, including cute cards such as Trump Witch. Also, Scale 5 makes it a bad pairing with relevant Pendulum monsters such as Luster Pendulum and Plushfire.

 

The card was questionable as a 1900-ATK Spell Card that could attack twice, but now it was nerfed to 1600 and can only double attack while in a Monster Zone so it should be bearable now. A 1600-ATK battler that is unaffected by monster removal may be controversial, but in exchange it is affected by Spell/Trap removal so in a way it is simply trading vulnerabilities.