[Written] Amorphage Metastasis - Amorphactor-specific Ritual Spell

[Darj]

Amorphage Metastasis
Spell Card
Type: Ritual
This card is used to Ritual Summon "Amorphactor Pain, the Imagination Dracoverlord". You must also Tribute Pendulum Monsters from your hand or field whose total Levels equal 8 or more. If you have an "Amorphage" card in your Pendulum Zone, you can also send "Amorphage" and/or "Dracoverlord" monsters from your Extra Deck to the Graveyard. During either player's turn: You can banish this card from your Graveyard; this turn, "Amorphage" and "Dracoverlord" cards you control cannot be destroyed. You can only activate 1 "Amorphage Metastasis" per turn.

 

 

My attempt at giving Amorphactor Pain some degree of relevance. IMO the card was crippled from the beginning by not being searchable by neither of the "Preparation of Rites". This card is intended to patch that issue by making it searchable by "Pre-Preparation of Rites". In addition, as an "Amorphage" card, it is searchable by "Amorphage Infection". The alternate material requirements is a way to further tie it with Amorphages, plus to make use of their Goliath, which as a Level8 fulfills the Tribute requirements on its own. The Graveyard effect assists with keeping Amorphactor and Amorphages in your Pendulum Zones a little longer on the field.

 

Trivia:

Quoting wikipedia, metastasis is "the spread of a cancer or other disease from one organ or part of the body to another without being directly connected with it." So, this card fits that definition by supporting Amorphages and Dracoverlords, you know, the cancer that they can be for the duel with their floodgates :v

 

Thoughts?

[Guest BGMCANN0N]

I think they initially made Amorphactor as hard to Summon as he is because of how much of an impact he is compared to most Rituals. I mean he may not be as annoying as Herald of Perfection, but he is basically a bigger Nekroz of Unicore and with an added bonus of blocking out a MP 1 after Ritual Summoning. That alone tends to put your opponent in a compromising position.

 

It is nice to have a searchable option to get him out though... Because I don't think particularly like Advanced Ritual Art method to him out as it isn't as searchable and requires a lot Normal Monster dedication in the Main Deck. Though I am little bummed that it's Tributes are specifically for Pendulum as he becomes less splashable, but then again this guy is pretty powerful to be giving any sort of splashablity to.

 

The direct Tribute of face-up Extra Deck Amorphages is a nice bonus considering Amorphages do have the propensity to off themselves from the Pendulum Zones making this a lot less of a dead draw, and Prepraration of Rites an excellent top deck when you need Amorphactor to do some beating.

 

And the temporary protection is nice for a similar reason, but to keep the scales if your opponent tries to make their way to an out of floodgate barrage.

 

In all it is a promising design... I think it is just right the way it is.

[Darj]

Thank you for your comments.

 

I agree, they made it unsearchable by the Rites to keep it on check, but, well, as a result it is nowhere to be seen outside of casual environments.

Yeah, I made it require Pendulums to bind the card to Pendulum-based Decks.

 

An afterthought I had for this card was to allow it to Ritual Summon Amorphactor form the grave as well, akin to "Odd-Eyes Advent" and "Nekroz Cycle", and since it requires either Pendulums or Amorphage/Dracoverlords in the Extra Deck, it cannot apply that silly trick of Tributing it to Summon itself. I'm not sure if that would take it too far, though.

[Guest BGMCANN0N]

An afterthought I had for this card was to allow it to Ritual Summon Amorphactor form the grave as well, akin to "Odd-Eyes Advent" and "Nekroz Cycle", and since it requires either Pendulums or Amorphage/Dracoverlords in the Extra Deck, it cannot apply that silly trick of Tributing it to Summon itself. I'm not sure if that would take it too far, though.

I am not really against the idea as if Amorphactor were to be run at 3 may hamper the Amorphage side of your Deck if you don't have Amorphous Persona or Amorphage Infection... But, I think Prepreparation of Rites kind of makes less of a reason to add the effect because as a Ritual Monster you could pull him from the Deck or Graveyard to recycle a single copy anyhow. Though that is assuming that Prepreparation doesn't get hit like it's predecessor Preparation of Rites.

 

But, then again.... That protection not only can protect him, but his other floodgate Amorphage/Dracoverlord goons for a turn which is pretty powerful if you think about it. So I think this is one scenario where your should probably exercise with some yield, and not add anymore to you what you already have.