[Written] Instant Link

[Thomas★Zero]

Instant Link

Quick-Play Spell Card

Activate this card by paying 1000 life points and tributing 1 monster from your hand or your side of the field. Special Summon 1 Link 2 or lower Link Monster from your Extra Deck to your side of the field. The Monster summoned by this effect has its effects negated and cannot attack. You can only activate 1 "Instant Link" per turn.

 

So Instant Link acting like a Instant Fusion with a cost of 1000 LP and 1 Monster allows you to bring out a Link 2 or Lower Monster to help support Extra Deck Plays where its effects are negated and cannot attack but unlike Instant Fusion it doesn't destroy the monster at the end of the turn.

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

I think we're too early to give Links their own Instant Fusion (I mean, we didn't give one to Synchro or Xyz, even when they got settled as a mechanic late into their series), even if it does require you to get a monster out first. Right now, most Decks are perfectly capable of getting multiple monsters out at once, so they can just ladder into Decode/some other Link 3 or Firewall a lot faster now with this. I am aware that this also opens the other mechanics from not being dead under the new mechanics, but yeah.

 

Concept is okay, but too early on its release (you will recall that we're only two sets into the series right now, and still settling things). Then again, we don't have a ton of Link 1/2's right now, and neither of them are really threatening at this time.