Airride Posted March 28, 2016 Report Share Posted March 28, 2016 This card is treated as a Normal Monster while face-up on the field or in the Graveyard. While this card is face-up on the field, you can Normal Summon it to have it be treated as an Effect Monster with this effect:● Once per turn, you can Special Summon 1 Insect-Type or Plant-Type monster from your hand or Graveyard. [Gigaplant]● Once per turn, you can Special Summon 1 Fiend-Type monster from your hand or from either player's Graveyard. When this card is removed from the field, destroy all Fiend-Type monsters Special Summoned by this effect. [Doom Shaman]● Once per turn: You can Special Summon 1 Zombie-Type monster from your hand or from either player's Graveyard. When this card leaves the field, destroy all Zombie-Type monsters Special Summoned by this card's effect. [il Blud]Darkplant's topic reminded me of something; Gigapalnt is pretty popular as something to build around, but its two brothers, Doom Shaman and Il Blud, never really saw any play, even in noncompetitive environments as far as I saw. Ironic, considering Gigaplant supports 2 very weak types (Before Quickdraw Plants, shush), while Doom Shaman and Il Blud support 2 fairly strong types. I assume this is almost solely due to the existence of Lonefire, but It's still curious to me why the other 2 never really caught on....Well, I guess the destruction clause doesn't help either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryusei the Morning Star Posted March 28, 2016 Report Share Posted March 28, 2016 I thought Il Blud did see play? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepy Posted March 28, 2016 Report Share Posted March 28, 2016 Yeah, pretty much there's an issue with the destruction clause.Actually, they all need a decent Pendulum Scale 7 in their decks to be decent.In fact, I made a deck dedicated to searching and recycling Ill Blud with them. It was an easy Rank 6 deck because thanks to P Summon, you don't need that sword to give them their Gemini Summon, but having it still speeds them up and allows them to float. My Scale 7 was a vanilla though so the deck ultimately was short in consistency. I also teched Trump Witch for the hilarious combo of opening up plays of Superalloy Beast Raptinus, Dragonecro, or First of the Dragons, on top of the Xyz plays and maybe Synchro plays. Too bad Witch still has the crappiest Scale of all time, on top of arguably the worst Level that a Pendulum can have. Gigaplant is the one that has the most chances to shine though, thanks to Lonefire, already-floating Tuners of molding Levels, not having clause that kills all your revivals, and so on.Ill Blud was cute with Zombie World, but mostly it has Mezuki and Psy-Frame Omega going for it. Doom Shaman has the minus of not even being the same Type that it supports, which would have been fine and dandy during the DM era, but the evolution of the game even back at the GX era was too much for it at times.Nowadays you could use Dark Renewal I suppose, but you better make your powerhouses Fiends with enough consistency to appear, while finding enough Spellcasters to work with... is there even a deck like that? Sounds like the kind of casual deck I'd enjoy fooling around with, honestly xD, but.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airride Posted March 28, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2016 I thought Il Blud did see play?Admittedly, I started the game around Raging Battle, and only started looking at competitive stuff around when the Machina Structure came out, so I don't know if it was used before then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepy Posted March 28, 2016 Report Share Posted March 28, 2016 Admittedly, I started the game around Raging Battle, and only started looking at competitive stuff around when the Machina Structure came out, so I don't know if it was used before then. Yes at least in my area it was kind of expensive as the Secret Rare it was, and I often saw it helping produce beat-down swarm fields along with the Red-Eyes Zombie structured deck. Though iirc, we got super rare Zombie Master in the same pack, and Premium Pack Mezuki shortly after (limited back then) which were overall easier to work with. This was pre-Synchros. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toffee. Posted March 28, 2016 Report Share Posted March 28, 2016 I once saw someone Banish a Doom Shaman with Phantom of Chaos. It was really pro. Gigaplant mainly see play because Lonefire is a thing, and anything that has a funking E-Tele is always relevant in some manner. Il Blud has some pretty amusing plays with it, given the Type that it's paired with, but Zombies aren't exactly Normal-friendly. Doom Shaman just fuels gimmicky plays, which are far worse then the above two examples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodfusion Posted March 28, 2016 Report Share Posted March 28, 2016 I reallly like Doom Shaman's art and name so I tried making a deck around it. It was an Archfiend deck that used Eccentrick Archfiend as a high Pendulum Scale, I've forgotten what the low scale was (Empowered Warriors I think? I have no clue why those though. Maybe Magical Abductor). I also used Dark Renewal to search out Doom Shaman and Skilled Red Magician which I wanted to use because it looked neat. It was a pretty cool deck but too inconsistent - Doom Shaman is definitely the worst of the 3, and it not being the same Type as the Type it supports does hurt it considerably. However it is something I want to try out again and see if I can make it work properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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