Dragon's Bind

[Darj]

 

Activate this card by targeting 1 Dragon-Type monster you control with 2500 or less ATK and DEF; neither player can Special Summon monsters with ATK less than or equal to the original ATK of that monster. When that monster leaves the field, destroy this card.

 

 

I'm not in touch with the current metagame at its trends, so I don't know how relevant this card actually is at the moment, but I have had the feeling this is a sort of "sleeper" card waiting to be noticed and become the next Vanity's Emptiness, similarly to how the latter became relevant a couple of years ago (and consequently ended up in the banlist) despite having been released way back on 2010.

The main reason for me to think this is that it should be relatively easy to make the card live even in non-Dragon decks, thanks to the presence of valid targets in some of the Extra Deck pools:

- The Rank4 pool has Rebellion Xyz Dragon and even Majespester Paladin in Pendulum decks, whose 1850 ATK should be enough to stop the opponent from Special Summoning most Level4 and lower monsters.

- Synchro6 pool has Red Wyvern.

- Synchro7 has Clear Wing, Moonlight Rose, Meteorburst.

- Synchro8 has Stardust Spark (perhaps the best Dragon to pair with Bind).

And so on.

 

Thoughts, discuss, the works.

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You can use Dark End Dragon to block 2600s from being Special Summoned, should you want to.

 

Can you Xyz using the targeted Dragon to leave this card face-up and still active?

[Toffee.]

Don't you just love it when they print a card like this, only for them to subsequently print a bunch of support that caters to a 3K ATK Dragon?

[IQuitDolphin]

Kozmo bypass this quite easily, which is unfortunate, because this is a strong floodgate against the other top decks (and possibly future decks).

[Catman25]

I don't even see people running Vanity's anymore, which is interesting, because I think it's still pretty good

 

I've seen one guy run this in OEM, which does make sense, you don't even need to dig into the Extra since Odd-Eyes is 2500

[玄魔の王]

Stardust Spark does it best.

[Neutrality Man]

 

Activate this while FHD's original ATK is shrunk, End Turn, FHD returns to 5k, nobody can Summon less than 5k until the card goes away. Especially funny if your opponent somehow locked down FHD without killing it.

 

You can use Dark End Dragon to block 2600s from being Special Summoned, should you want to.

 

Can you Xyz using the targeted Dragon to leave this card face-up and still active?

 

It'll stay face-up since your dragon didn't leave the field, but it'll be useless since the Dragon is no longer available to power it.

[玄魔の王]

I don't even see people running Vanity's anymore, which is interesting, because I think it's still pretty good

 

I've seen one guy run this in OEM, which does make sense, you don't even need to dig into the Extra since Odd-Eyes is 2500

Vanity's being at 1 means you cannot consistently draw it, so it becomes way less useful.

[(GigaDrillBreaker)]

Vanity's being at 1 means you cannot consistently draw it, so it becomes way less useful.

There are cards where this logic is sound, but vanity's isn't one of them.

 

The issue with vanity is it can be removed/blown out by eccentrick, twitwi, etc, while special summons that form a chain a less and less common, which it is best against.

[Miror B]

Activate this while FHD's original ATK is shrunk,

Don't think it works that way, although the point is moot since bind doesn't care about the original attack on activation.

 

But also if I'm reading, Bind requires an attack AND defense of 2500 or less, so that won't work since 5k defense