[Written] Elemental HERO Neo Stratos

[Monarch King]

WIND

Warrior/Effect

Level 4

ATK 1800, DEF 300

 

Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned (from your hand) by sending an "Elemental HERO Stratos" you control and "Metamorphosis" in your hand to the Graveyard, and cannot be Special Summoned by other ways. This card's name is treated as "Elemental HERO Stratos"  while it is face-up on the field. Banish any monster destroyed by battle with this card. Once per turn, you can activate 1 of these effects:

● Target 1 Spell/Trap Card on the field; destroy it.

● Add 1 "HERO" monster from your Deck to your hand.

 

Just if anything one day..

[~ P O L A R I S ~]

Ah, I expected a Stratos retrain that could get around the list and got another Neo Bubbleman.

 

You'd be better off Metamorphosing Stratos into Norden. 

[Dragulas]

Ah, I expected a Stratos retrain that could get around the list and got another Neo Bubbleman.

 

You'd be better off Metamorphosing Stratos into Norden. 

Indeed if both were legal there is little to no reason to run this

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

Ah, I expected a Stratos retrain that could get around the list and got another Neo Bubbleman.

 

You'd be better off Metamorphosing Stratos into Norden. 

I'd have to agree with this (and yeah, I was hoping this would be a retrained version of Stratos instead of a Neo version of this).

At present, Stratos is banned in TCG (OCG @1) and Metamorphosis has been banned in both areas since 2007.

 

I wouldn't count on Konami unbanning Stratos anytime soon though.

 

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So yeah, nothing much to say about this card, other than it's unusable at present outside of casual games where the banlist doesn't apply (or if both of you choose not to use it).

 

In terms of this card's effects; bar for removing the summon requirements and the banishing part, it would probably be an acceptable alternative to original Stratos (except add a hard OPT on this). I can live with having this be a Mystical Space Typhoon, instead of Feather Duster/Righteous Justice and the searching is already common with enough Decks by now.