Designator of Revealing Light

[Partangle the Candle Jangler]

 

Flip all monsters on the field face-up (Flip effects are not activated at this time).  This card remains on the field for 3 of your opponent's turns. While this card is face-up on the field, neither player can Set cards, also all Set Spell & Trap cards already on the field cannot be activated.

 

It's a spell of Denko Sekka essentially. Wasn't the original intention but ended up being the only way it was going to go. Blocking off setting monsters is something I suppose. It's not a very good card really.

[gmaster1991]

You know, if this was Limited to 1 on a banlist, this could actually be considered 'good'.  Otherwise, too powerful.

[Partangle the Candle Jangler]

I don't see it really as being too powerful when Denko already exists and this is a very similar effect but in spell form, and there's an awful lot more backrow than monster removal in terms of maindeck cards.

[Guest BGMCANN0N]

I don't see it really as being too powerful when Denko already exists and this is a very similar effect but in spell form, and there's an awful lot more backrow than monster removal in terms of maindeck cards.

 

Think of it this way... Monster removal can also be accomplished via attacking over so you could account for all monsters that are 1700 or < (and easy to summon) for Sekka...  Which would in theory, outnumber the s/t removal.

 

But as far as this goes, you are limited to just s/t removal, and if you don't have one of the namely s/t removal cards and you need your backrow to stop plays, this card will generally mean that your opponent is gong to OTK you... Very much how "Cold Wave" works (if not better in that it last for more than 1 turn).

 

Not to mention unlike Sekka, you aren't using up your Normal Summon to use this so your options become more free on how one can proceed to OTK. (Think Performapal Skullcrobat Joker, etc.)

 

Honestly, I think you should just minus the Sekka effect, and try a different route. But that is me, on the behalf of those who dislike Sekka as a card. At least Konami made an effort to balance her for what she does.

[Partangle the Candle Jangler]

The locking out of set stuff was really an afterthought that I tacked on to it, because without that effect it doesn't really do anything. Conversely as you point out, with it, it does potentially too much. The fact that, as much as I am aware, you can chain MST or whatever to this whereas with Denko you can't chain Fiendish/BTH/BTS/anything not Solemn Warning to its summon is a big factor of it being so strong.

 

Also it brought the theme more aligned with Swords of Revealing Light, as this becomes a pseudo-S/T-hitting version of it, and it does self-destruct. However, the Cold Wave-ish scenario it causes does lend itself to OTKs in a way I hadn't fully considered. The thing is I'm not sure what else to give in place of that effect. It needs something to replace it with, because removing the effect leaves it as not really doing anything.

 

I am unsure how to proceed, in summary.

[Guest BGMCANN0N]

I see...  Well give me some time to brainstorm some ideas on the side. Here is one possibility before I start: You could make it is so that you can only do half damage while it is face-up or something like that persay (that way your opponent has some potential recovery and thinking time)... And maybe decrease the amount of turns this card gets to stay out to 2. I mean if you want it to retain those effects there definitely has to be a drawback or 2.