Psydra

[Carnwennan]

Psydra
Psichic/Fusion/Effect/Level 8/ATK 2450/DEF 1100/DARK
2 Psychic-Type monsters

Cannot be used as Fusion Material. Must first be Special Summoned (from your Extra Deck) by Tributing the above cards you control. (You do not use "Polymerization".) You can only Special Summon "Psydra" once per turn this way. Once per turn, during either player's turn: You can pay 1000 LP; once during this turn, you do not pay LP to activate a card effect.

 

[Sleepy]

You are giving Metalfoes and Kozmo a contact Fusion that eliminates bigger LP costs for 1000 LP. Solemn Strikes, Solemn Warnings, My Body As a Shield, Instant Fusion, etc.

 

Then again, it is a preemptive effect and those are a pain to time right. You could pay LP and not need to use it for the full turn, or get caught off guard having to activate any of the above cards when you didn't pay LP earlier.... It pretty much wants you to pay every turn just in case....

 

I think it'd be better off with a continuous effect that changed the LP you pay for all your effects into a set amount like 800 instead. It wouldn't have you preemptively pay every time and it would still mitigate the 1500 or 2000 LP payments other cards require. IMO it'd work better.

 

 

It is also kind of weird that it "Tributes" but I won't go against it xD

[Carnwennan]

You are giving Metalfoes and Kozmo a contact Fusion that eliminates bigger LP costs for 1000 LP. Solemn Strikes, Solemn Warnings, My Body As a Shield, Instant Fusion, etc.

 

Then again, it is a preemptive effect and those are a pain to time right. You could pay LP and not need to use it for the full turn, or get caught off guard having to activate any of the above cards when you didn't pay LP earlier.... It pretty much wants you to pay every turn just in case....

 

I think it'd be better off with a continuous effect that changed the LP you pay for all your effects into a set amount like 800 instead. It wouldn't have you preemptively pay every time and it would still mitigate the 1500 or 2000 LP payments other cards require. IMO it'd work better.

 

 

It is also kind of weird that it "Tributes" but I won't go against it xD

Thanks for commenting. First of all, it Tributes because otherwise it wouldn't work with Pendulums. Regarding the list you wrote, this does nothing to Instant Fusion, as you would be paying 1000 LP to avoid paying 1000 LP. And yeah, the need to activate the effect preemptively is the balance in being very generic and being able to reduce very high costs like Back to the Walls, Cyber Stein, Gale Dogra, and Rank-Up-Magic Soul Shave Force (I'm not suggesting to use it with these: I was just making examples). So for these reasons, I would not want to make it not preemptive, but I could give it a buff by making its effect's activation unable to be negated (and it would incentive cards that negate effects instead of activations, which are not that used).

[notcleverusername]

Honestly the main issue with it is that its ATK is pretty high, and gets even higher, for something with the same summoning conditions as a basic template Link 2.

[Carnwennan]

Honestly the main issue with it is that its ATK is pretty high, and gets even higher, for something with the same summoning conditions as a basic template Link 2.

Hi, Nick. Ok, then I will remove the first effect.

[Darj]

Not a big fan either of the high ATK for a 2-material contact Fusion that Pendulums like Metalfoes can easily take advantage from. Personally would drop it to up to 2500, and that's really pushing it already. The LP substitute effect is fine I guess; makes splashable cards like the aforementioned Body as Shield and Solemn Traps less taxing.

[Guest BGMCANN0N]

Well I kind of see it synergizing a lot with the old school Psychic monsters that pay Life Points to activate their effects if it could be Special Summoned with Polymerization (I mean they did get their Emergency Teleport limited to 1 by the likes of Kozmo)...  I would like to suggest to make the Tribute to Special Summon effect optional.

[(GigaDrillBreaker)]

This is busted, purely on concept. As has been said, the summoning condition and high atk are far too much.

 

There are a few changes I would suggest.

 

Change the summoning condition to banish. Playing this in metalfoes is presently absurd.

 

Change the ATK to something lower, like 2300

 

Limit it to only being summoned once per turn, a la cydra infinity.

 

 

With all of these combined, it serves the purpose you intended rather than just pushing for damage hella hard.

[Icy]

I don't know much of stuff like Metalfoes and all that... this card with my interest in it makes it required though. So if someone could PM me a run down or whatever I'd appreciate it.

 

Then again, it is a preemptive effect and those are a pain to time right. You could pay LP and not need to use it for the full turn, or get caught off guard having to activate any of the above cards when you didn't pay LP earlier.... It pretty much wants you to pay every turn just in case....

 

Regardless of the other card's faults. THIS right here is why I think its a great card. You're adding a condition to the board state on top of other preexisting factors, but this one in particular might just bust or work. You actually having cards that cost LP matters less than the tension it creates. Suddenly you're wondering if they have something that'd mitigate their loss state or nothing at all.

 

Sure in YGO this is less of an issue because odds are you would win anyway but this card still creates that atmosphere. And for that, I adore it.

[Carnwennan]

Not a big fan either of the high ATK for a 2-material contact Fusion that Pendulums like Metalfoes can easily take advantage from. Personally would drop it to up to 2500, and that's really pushing it already. The LP substitute effect is fine I guess; makes splashable cards like the aforementioned Body as Shield and Solemn Traps less taxing.

I took care of that.

Well I kind of see it synergizing a lot with the old school Psychic monsters that pay Life Points to activate their effects if it could be Special Summoned with Polymerization (I mean they did get their Emergency Teleport limited to 1 by the likes of Kozmo)...  I would like to suggest to make the Tribute to Special Summon effect optional.

It requiring monsters on the field is one of this card's balancing factors, so I do not think I will make it more flexible in that regard.

 

This is busted, purely on concept. As has been said, the summoning condition and high atk are far too much.

 

There are a few changes I would suggest.

 

Change the summoning condition to banish. Playing this in metalfoes is presently absurd.

 

Change the ATK to something lower, like 2300

 

Limit it to only being summoned once per turn, a la cydra infinity.

 

 

With all of these combined, it serves the purpose you intended rather than just pushing for damage hella hard.

I do not think it needs to banish the Fusion Materials. You are thinking about Mithrillium's float and Metalfoes being able to Pendulum Summon again the Materials, but it is more the Metalfoes' fault than this card's. I have added the summon limit and made it unable to be used as Fusion Materials.