Rampaging Burst Phoenix

[Hello my name is Enguin]

 

Cannot be destroyed by card effects. You can Tribute 1 monster you control: This card gains ATK equal to the ATK of the Tributed monster. If this card is destroyed: Banish it, then inflict damage to both players equal to the ATK it had on the field. If a player's Life Points would become 0 by this effect, they become 1000 instead.

 

So yeah. It's a thing. Made it an 8 so you can't practically pendulum shokan it, and that for me was enough to justify not putting an OPT on the tribute to boost thing. Unsure about the burn effect so I added that clause but I kind of lean towards omitting it and letting it be able end games or cause draws. Not that this is likely to get comments anyway, unless I've completely overlooked something that makes this amazing. Art is kind of Fire King-y and I hate them, just to add because why not.

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True, you can't P-Summon it, but it's still a nice card for Pendulum Decks. I would have put a OPT clause on the tribute effect, just in case, but bouncing and banishing are common things that can easily get rid of it despite its ATK so w/e I guess. Assuming I've successfully summoned it, I can already see bring this card up to 6k+ with a full pendulum field. But my real concern here is that you didn't say "original ATK". Not sure if that's a design choice or not, but if I had to choose a Pendulum deck to use with this off the dome, it'd be Majespecters. Not because it can't be destroyed by card effect and it fits with the deck, but because of "Majespecter Sonic". If my opponent lets me, I can drop Sonic(x3) on Kyubi for 12k, tribute it, and bypass Sonic's damage reduction, and swing for glory. There's also probably some weird "Limiter Removal" play you could do also, but I'm sure you get my point, now I'm just rambling. So I'll just bold my main thoughts.

[Hello my name is Enguin]

Firstly, thank you for actually commenting. Secondly, as I mentioned in the OP I was and still am unsure on an OPT. Primarily because it messes with the card text's appearance but also because it's a 2 tribute monster so even a full pendulum field will only have 3 monsters maximum outside of token shenanigans or something. Also the fact it's only protection is from Raigeki/OG Mirror Force, and so its second effect relies on battle destruction whereas Castel is a more likely outcome, and even if it is in battle UTL is a likely culprit and will block the float effect anyway.

 

That sentence ran on a bit, but the primary point was that I left the OPT so as to make it actually do damage and get over things like Dora/Magnus/Towers or whatever, the huge walls, and also be able to just power it up hugely for a one-punch kill. I didn't say original ATK for a reason, because a 2 tribute 1000/1000 monster with destruction immunity and a destruction reliant effect needs to do more than burn for a bit more than Cowboy. Thematically it's the idea of the phoenix bursting into flames and burning all around it.

 

Something you mention that I had not considered was attack manipulation of the monsters you tribute which could lead to issues, but I don't think it's so strong to the point that it becomes unfair. A thing I could do is make it only gain original ATK, as that had been more the idea, but now I like the fact that it works in the way you describe. Putting all your stock into one attack with one monster isn't an advisable tactic but it's something you can do.

 

Basically, to summarise this lengthy ramble, the idea was when faced with some huge body, you pool together all your monsters strength into this thing and go try take it down, which is an idea and a concept I like and wanted to try. Not having an OPT does open it up for potential abusability which I knew going in, however I don't think there are many scenarios where you'd be doing that to win as opposed to doing it to showboat. I could be wrong and missing something out entirely, in which case that statement would be open to re-evaluation, but hmm. I appreciate the feedback anyway, this isn't exactly a great response given it almost solely tries to refute your points but oh well.