[WRITTEN] Koa'ki Meiru Generator

[Eddie McBean]

Koa'ki Meiru Generator

Level 4 | Machine | Effect

1300 | 2200

During each of your End Phases, destroy this card unless you send 1 "Iron Core of Koa'ki Meiru" from your hand to the Graveyard.

While this card is face-up on the field, other "Koa'ki Meiru" monsters cannot be destroyed, except by battle or card effects.

When this card is destroyed by battle or card effect: Add 1 "Iron Core of Koa'ki Meiru" from your graveyard to your hand.

 

(again, thanks General Heinous, for helping me fix the text.)

Recently got interested in the Koa'ki Meiru archetype, so here's what I thought could make things a little more interesting while using it.

[Delibirb]

I always liked the Koa'ki Meiru archetype. This is a pretty good compromise to maintaining a large boardstate at the cost of your Iron Core and/or draw each turn.

 

Some semantics, however:

 

 

(1) Other "Koa'ki Meiru" monsters cannot be destroyed, except by battle or card effects.

(2) During each of your End Phases, destroy this card unless you send 1 "Iron Core of Koa'ki Meiru" from your hand to the Graveyard.

(3) When this card is destroyed by battle or card effect: Add 1 "Iron Core of Koa'ki Meiru" from your graveyard to your hand.

 

Reasoning is as follows:

 

(1) The card text that destroys Koa'ki Meiru monsters unless you discard a core or reveal a monster is not an effect, but a maintenance cost. Thus, making them indestructible to their own effects wouldn't do anything, as I understand it. But there isn't any precedent for referring to maintenance costs, so for now, I've simply adjusted it to specify it can only be destroyed by battle or card effects.

 

(2) This is the phrasing that appears on all other Koa'ki Meiru monsters.

 

(3) Again, (2) is a cost, thus there's no reason to explicitly exclude it from "by battle or card effect." Also, ";" is to separate costs (preceding) from effects (following). You would use ":" here, as that is to separate timing from costs/effects.

 

Also, technically your (2) and (1) effects should switch places. As on all other Koa'ki Meiru - excluding Maximus, as it has summoning conditions - their cost is the first sentence.

 

Beyond that, looks good. It doesn't have a great ATK but does have fair defense, thus encouraging you to Set it, requiring you to pay your maintenance costs on whatever other guys you already have out. that turn, until it gets attacked into so it can be face-up, but still safe. Or, in the event it does die, it's not a debilitating loss.

[Eddie McBean]

Thanks for the review, yes, the Koa'ki Meiru archetype is one of my favorites, mainly because it's a bunch of almighty monsters that require constant sustenance to not die, I love that concept, also, I'm not really that good at using the kind of writing Yu-Gi-Oh! uses, so I might commit some huge slipups every now and again, will fix the text as soon as I can.

[Darj]

IMO The card is not what Koa'ki Meirus really need, and is not really effective: It is slow, Diamond Core kind of covers them from their self-destruction, AFAIK Koa'kis don't like to stay too long on the field except for Drago, and even if you manage to get this card and other Koa'kis on the field, unlike other Koa'kis this has no option of revealing a card to keep it alive, so at best you save your other Koa'kis for the turn but destroy this card in exchange; that, or discard the Iron Core, but that's not something Koa'kis like to do.

Then, the Iron Core recovery effect is slow as well, as it requires the Core to be in the grave, and relies on being destroyed, so either you destroy it yourself with a card effect or ramming it, which is not as practical, or wait for the opponent to do so.

To improve this card, IMO you should start with giving it a "reveal X card" as maintenance cost, but really, it you can give it an effect that helps the player put Koa'kis on board for Rank4plays through Urnight and/or locking with Drago, even a self-summoning effect like Kagetokage's or the Level4 charmer familiars would do, or maybe make Maximus more feasible, the archetype will appreciate it.