Can Zefras be a thing now?

[BatMed]

 

 Effect:
Cannot be Special Summoned. Requires 3 or more monsters, including 2 or more "Zefra" monster, to Normal Summon/Set. This card is unaffected by Spell/Trap effects and by activated effects from any Special Summoned monster your opponent controls. This card gains these effect(s), depending on the monsters used for this card's Tribute Summon.
● Effect Monster: Once per turn, you can negate the effects 1 monster your opponent controls.
● Pendulum Monster: If this card destroys a monster by battle, you can add 1 "Zefra" card from your Graveyard to your hand.
● Xyz, Fusion, Ritual or Synchro Monster: Once per turn, you can make your opponent banish 1 monster from their hand or their side of the field (their choice).

[Darj]

It may be searchable by Oracle and the new Providence, but I don't think it's enough to turn Zefras into something beyond an engine. For starters, if it wants to keep up with the meta, IMO it should be more like Apoqliphort Towers and have a protection from Spell/Traps. The rest of the effects should be fine, even if doesn't have some of them at once like Towers does. Well... maybe you should make the "Effect Monster" effect into a non-plusing effect, or otherwise it can get out of hand if it stacks the "Effect Monster" and the "Xyz, Fusion, Ritual or Synchro Monster" effect.

[BatMed]

Cannot be Special Summoned. Requires 2 or more monsters, including 2 or more "Zefra" monster, to Normal Summon/Set. This card gains these effect(s), depending on the monsters used for this card's Tribute Summon.

● Normal Monster: This card gains 800 ATK.

● Effect Monster: Once per turn, you can target 1 monster your opponent controls; negate its effects until the End Phase.

● Pendulum Monster: This card is unaffected by Spell/Trap effects and by activated effect from any Special Summoned monster your opponent controls.

● Xyz, Fusion, Ritual or Synchro Monster: Once per turn, you can make your opponent banish 1 monster from their hand or their side of the field (their choice).

so now it negates instead of 'plusing', and it has towers protection, as suggested. Yay or nay?

[Darj]

Yeah, it looks solid now. I just noticed it's also a "Qliphort" monster, so it's searchable by Scout, Saqlifice, etc. which is sweet. It ought to be strong, but I don't see it breaking things like Towers did.

[Black D'Sceptyr]

 

Cannot be Special Summoned. Requires 2 or more monsters, including 2 or more "Zefra" monster, to Normal Summon/Set. This card gains these effect(s), depending on the monsters used for this card's Tribute Summon.

● Normal Monster: This card gains 800 ATK.

● Effect Monster: When this card inflicts battle damage to your opponent: You can draw 1 card.

● Pendulum Monster: This card is unaffected by activated effect from any Special Summoned monster your opponent controls.

● Xyz, Fusion, Ritual or Synchro Monster: Once per turn, you can make your opponent banish 1 monster from their hand or their side of the field (their choice).

 

Don't exactly know, outside of Qliphort Builds (and really, considering Scout's at 1, that's usually a sign it's gone sideways), so that first Normal Effect may not be necessary. 

 

Effect Monsters (may as well make this a mandatory effect, you need two Zefras to bring this out and they're ALL EFFECT MONSTERS) only work if the attack hits, but usually most of the stuff that'd stop this is considered too slow by today standards, so if you get to this Battle Phase with this, it's okay. 

 

Pendulum Effects (again, gonna happen, because Zefras) is nice to counteract everything short of Kaijus. 

 

And the Extra Deck effect turns it into proto-Towers. Fine here, but just be careful with the application of that. And of course, stuff your opponent picks the aways of resolution are normally things I frown upon-win on your own stuff and not what your opponent does or don't bother with this game-I'll make exceptions here. -1 is a hard pill to swallow for anyone short of Angel of Zera, this thing might be the necessary evil to make this card usable.

 

Other than this, good card.

[Darj]

Oh, yeah, it slipped my mind that the "Effect Monster" and "Pendulum Monster" effects will be practically build-in because of Zefras. You may as well write them as main effects in the card, instead of acquirable effects.

Also... I didn't notice it could be summoned with 2 monsters. After the acquisition of the towers-like Spell/Trap immunity, it should be fair to make it require 3 or more monsters now, otherwise a 2-material semi-Towers could get overwhelming... maybe.

 

By the way, I didn't mention the flavor, which I like. I can tell it's intended to be the Sephiroth structure that gave rise to the Zefras. I was thinking you could name it "Sephiroth" instead of "Qliphort" but then it would lose that desirable "Qli" support, so I guess it is fine in its current way.

[BatMed]

updated :3