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[mr. waifu]

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LIGHT Lv. 8

Scale 6

Machine / Pendulum / Effect

PE: Once per turn, can target 1 Pendulum monster in your Pendulum zone: This card's original scale becomes either 3 scales higher or lower then the targeted card's scale, until the End Phase, also, if you activated this effect: Destroy this card.

ME: Once per turn, if this card is face-up in the Extra Deck, you can target 1 card in your Pendulum zone: Increase or decrease its scale by 1 until the End of the turn. If you activate this effect, you can not Pendulum Summon monsters this turn, except Pendulum monsters.

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[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

PE: Once per turn: You can target 1 Pendulum Card in your other Pendulum Zone: This card's Scale becomes 3 higher or lower than the targeted card's Scale. During the end of this turn, if this effect was activated: Destroy this card.

ME: Once per turn, if this card is face-up in the Extra Deck, you can target 1 card in your Pendulum Zone: Increase or decrease its Scale by 1 until the end of this turn. You cannot Pendulum Summon monsters the turn you activate this effect, except Pendulum Monsters.

 

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Right now, I really don't think that its monster effect can trigger as it currently is (well, there are some rare exceptions but they are old and still trying to figure out an appropriate ruling for how they can work). I'll need to ask evilfusion about this. 

 

In terms of its P-effect, while it is nice for letting you adjust the Scales to summon certain monsters that are usually not summonable (see anything Level 7 and above for the most part), it is still reliant on you even having an appropriate Scale. As much as I'd like to say this card can get out something like Nirvana from the ED, that would require that you have a Scale 8 like Dragonpit to copy from (it's not impossible, but suboptimal if you're going through the effort to do that again; NHP's P-effect is better than whatever it provides on the field; amazing as it might be.). It's nice for opening your Scales a bit, but that's it.

 

Monster-effect-wise, let's assume that you can trigger this face-up in the ED. Granted, it'll let you summon a few more monsters, but that's all it'll amount to doing and locks you to Pendulums (which should not be an issue most of the time). As it is Level 8, unless you use Pendulum Shift or something to raise one of your Scales to 9/10, don't expect this to see a ton of play (least until we even get generic Pendulums above 8); at least being P-Summoned. Not saying that you can't use it otherwise, but aside from its Pendulum effect, it's basically a Vanilla on the field. 

 

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EDIT: After consulting evil, the monster effect should work out fine. There aren't cards with that sort of ignition effect, but he said it's okay.