[Written] Sonic Duck Max Acceleration

[Thomas★Zero]

Sonic Duck Max Acceleration

lv 3 WIND

Winged-Beast/Union/Effect

While you control no face-up monsters: you can Special Summon this card from your hand. Once per turn, you can equip this card to a monster you control, OR unequip it to Special Summon this card in face-up Attack Position. When equipped to a monster by this card's effect, the equipped monster gains the following effect.

* This card can attack your opponent directly, but when it uses this effect, any Battle Damage it inflicts to your opponent is halved.

(A monster can only be equipped with 1 Union Monster at a time. If the equipped monster would be destroyed by battle, destroy this card instead.)

ATK/1700 DEF/700

[Hello my name is Enguin]

I love Sonic Duck so it stands to reason I'd like this, and I do. A self-summoning Union with a decent effect and solid stats, it's nice. I'd like to somehow correlate it more to the flavour text of Sonic Duck but that may be counter-intuitive. Like have it be allowed attack directly for full power but then this self-destructs? It becomes slightly closer to the spirit of the original but then becomes a self-summoning Union with a potentially stupid effect. So probably best leave it as is.

 

I don't know, I just liked the card and wanted to say something but there's nothing really wrong.

[♪ ♪Aria ♪ ♪]

This card can be combo-ed with cards that benefit from direct attacks, and since it has no restriction it has a wide array of uses.....

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

This card can be combo-ed with cards that benefit from direct attacks, and since it has no restriction it has a wide array of uses.....

 

Any particular examples of these said combos you speak of? Remember, the AC in this section exists to make sure you can critique properly (and right now, this is just barely scratching the surface)

 

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In any case, the flavor works well and being a free Rank 3 enabler (or Synchro if you so choose) is nice; or you can just make a monster direct attack for half damage. Sometimes, you just need that push to hit the opponent for game, but they have a monster you can't run over in battle that is blocking you. 

 

But yeah, as Enguin mentioned, you could probably change it to have itself attack and blow up (though you'd likely have to remove the whole Union thing). It's your choice though; either way, the card is fine. (Too bad Konami isn't going to be retraining this anytime soon)

[Snatch Steal]

At first I thought this card could only equip to sonic duck, but apparently not.

 

I could see people using this in Speedroids, since it's a level 3 that self-summons. not sure how optimal it would be over terrortop, though. If you equip it to chanbara with Limiter Removal, you'll end up cutting their LP in half no matter what. Maybe if they've let their life points go down enough you'll end up finishing them with it.

Other than that, I wouldn't use this card in very much. Burning Abyss, maybe, since you can make more r3 plays, but you'd have to control a rhino. Maybe monarchs, but by that logic, Cyber Dragon should be in it, too. 

Although it's well designed, I feel like this card was kind of a joke. Usually, half of your ATK just isn't going to cut it.