[RATE] Esprit Bird - Den Hato

[Slinky]

 

Esprit Bird – Den Hato (Legendary Magpie)
Level 4 WIND
ATK 1000
DEF 1800
Cannot be Special Summoned.
(1) Once per turn: You can target 1 Spirit Monster on the field; return that monster to the hand.
(2) Once per turn, during the End Phase, if this card was Normal Summoned or flipped face-up this turn: Return it to the hand.

[BlackBeartic]

This seems to be made to combo with that other new spirit that turns things into spirits.

 

Though other than that I don't see much else. Then again my knowledge on spirits are kinda down in the dumps.

[The Highlander]

As Black Beartic already said it is completely awful, considering all it does is accelerate spirit monsters returns, which, by all means, may be useful, however for an entire normal summon (summon via the rituals) it is in no way sufficient, so the card is not worth it in any way, whatsoever.

0/10 ... next

[Toffee.]

I think what they are getting at with this card, is that you could, like, I don't know, Summon 1 of the Rituals, bounce it with This, then either use it as fodder for the other Ritual OR just Summon the same Ritual again. Since, you know, neither of them have hard OPT clauses.

 

.....

 

But why would you really do that?

[Pchi]

Guys, that's for Esprit Powerspot and Creature Swap Plays along with with the Rituals or Nikitama; note that it says any Spirit monster on the field, not only those you control.

[vla1ne]

 

Guys, that's for Esprit Powerspot and Creature Swap Plays along with with the Rituals or Nikitama; note that it says any Spirit monster on the field, not only those you control.

 

 

the question remains though, why would you waste a normal summon to do such a thing? spirits already self bounce, and the effect isn't even spell speed 2. as it stands, barring future support, it's not worth wasting time on.

[notcleverusername]

As far as it goes I think intention is to bounce whatever the Moon Ritual Special Summons from deck. Or at least one of the intentions. Still a pretty absurdly poor play but w/e it's the best I've got

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As far as it goes I think intention is to bounce whatever the Moon Ritual Special Summons from deck. Or at least one of the intentions. Still a pretty absurdly poor play but w/e it's the best I've got

Why not just Rank 4 at that point?

 

EDIT: Remember, you can summon Nikitama from deck and detach to get a draw

[notcleverusername]

Why not just Rank 4 at that point?

 

EDIT: Remember, you can summon Nikitama from deck and detach to get a draw

Because you *really* want to use that Aratama search next turn? Who knows man

[Pchi]

   

 

the question remains though, why would you waste a normal summon to do such a thing? spirits already self bounce, and the effect isn't even spell speed 2. as it stands, barring future support, it's not worth wasting time on.

 

Well, with Den Hatou, you can activate Esprit Powerspot's effect without needing to wait until the End Phase, speeding up your plays; you can also retrieve the Nikitama you swapped before your Battle Phase, possibly allowing for a direct attack while recovering the advantage. IDK, those are just ideas, only time will tell how truly viable this card will be. Hopefully, the theme will receive further support in a future expansion like other recent seemingly standalone archetypes.

[Blake]

Shame that powerspot isn't good.

 

Again, it's the Yosen continuous spell born anew.

[BlackBeartic]

I actually get what this is supposed to be for now. (Doesn't change much but i'll speak on it anyways, sorry if someone mentioned this already).

It's supposed to bounce the spirits that you summon off of the rituals back since they don't get their bouncing effect. I would see this as being decent but the fact that you gotta normal is a bit bothersome.

And the fact that if you do, you're going to most likely be going for an xyz anyways (unless you want to get another search with aratama or something).

 

As it stands even knowing that I probably won't run it as it seems worthless, but as said above with later support it might find a better use (Something that could grant an additional normal for the turn? idk)