[Written] Elemental HERO Gustia

[Thomas★Zero]

Elemental HERO Gustia

lv 4 WIND

Warrior/Effect

While you control another "HERO" Monster this card cannot be targeted for an attack. While you control this face up card, other "HERO" Monsters you control cannot be destroyed by battle or by card effects.

ATK/1000 DEF/1200

 

So Gustia protects itself from attacks and gives HERO monsters some form of protection where if you have 2 on the field at the same time it gives you a attack lock on your Gustia's while HERO Monsters have protection from destruction.

 

In HERO Decks this card can be handy for protecting your HERO Monsters in any variation of HERO while also being WIND for Great Tornado and Divine Wind.

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

Card is technically fine on its own, though I think you know full well by now that there are a few people who think HEROs shouldn't get more toys because they are already big enough as-is (and stuff pertaining to Dark Law / R4 Turbo among others). Would be nice to see them do other stuff besides that, but moving on...

 

I want to say that you could probably buff this card's stats a bit and not push it over the edge; idk, maybe a 300-400 point boost. Unlike Shadow Mist and Blazeman, this isn't really doing too much except protecting on-field bosses and using other HEROs as a wall to save itself from getting attacked. But yeah, if anything, it's an acceptable WIND HERO for Mask Change and Great Tornado purposes until Konami gives us Stratos back. General concern is if you manage to get doubles of this card out and make it impossible for HEROs to die by destruction, though yes, targeting removal exists and can get around it. But...this should be a minor issue as you'd likely just Mask Change that 2nd copy into Divine Wind or something.

[Darj]

It's an ok card, IMO. The extra layer of protection on stuff like Dark Law would be welcomed and the no-attack-it protection pushes the opponent to destroy said Dark Law by battle first and cross fingers for you to not have Honesty Neos at hand.

However, I very much wish it had a self-Summoning effect. Otherwise you have to spend your Normal Summon, Hero Lives, CoTH, etc. on this, and that's undesirable. But if it could Special Summon itself under X conditions, it could lead to neat Rank4 plays, just Mask Change it into Kamikaze, or just leave it on the field for the protection, all without spending your precious Summoning effects or Normal Summon on it.