Update and Elemental Heroes Revisited

Posted on Sunday, December 20, 2009

Well exams for me are pretty much done. Which basically means I get extra time to write and work on my blog. I’m also still attempting to find someone to play WoW minis with me but none of my friends aren’t biting.

One of the things I wanted to do was bring up one of my favorite cards coming up in Absolute Powerforce, which I am not going to do at the moment. Why? Because I really do not feel like it. If you have to know the card is a ritual monster that has been fanlated into Galandorf Dark King of Destruction.

The card itself isn’t very good, but it certainly is one of my favorites. That is a story for another day. Instead I am going to talk about 3 cards that were just recently released in the OCG that have caught my eye. Those three cards (fanlated of course) are Elemental Hero Shining, Elemental Hero Great TORNADO, and Parallel World Fusion.

Elemental Hero The Shining 「Ｅ・ＨＥＲＯＴｈｅシャイニング」
LIGHT/Warrior - Fusion - Effect/8/2600/2100
1 "Elemental Hero" monster + 1 LIGHT monster
This card cannot be Special Summoned except by Fusion Summon. This card gains ATK equal to the number of your removed from play "Elemental Hero" monsters x 300. When this card is sent from the field to the Graveyard, you can select up to 2 of your removed from play "Elemental Hero" monsters, and add them to your hand.

Elemental Hero Great TORNADO 「Ｅ・ＨＥＲＯＧｒｅａｔＴＯＲＮＡＤＯ」
WIND/Warrior - Fusion - Effect/8/2800/2200
1 "Elemental Hero" monster + 1 WIND monster
This card cannot be Special Summoned except by Fusion Summon. When this card is Fusion Summoned, halve the ATK and DEF of all face-up monsters your opponent controls.

Parallel World Fusion 「平行世界融合」
Normal Magic Card
Return removed from play Fusion Material Monsters of yours that are listed by an "Elemental Hero" Fusion Monster Card to the Deck, and Special Summon that 1 Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck. (This Special Summon is treated as a Fusion Summon.) During the turn in which this card is activated, you cannot Special Summon.

What makes me the most excited for these new cards is not because the cards have cool art or anything like that (although the art is amazing) but because the cards allow for an interesting new Elemental Hero deck that is able to become based on gaining card advantage rather than losing card advantage via huge fusions like Polymerization. What happens to the deck is that it ultimately loses Royal Oppression, but gains new ways to fuse and new ways to maintain card advantage.

Losing Oppression makes the deck less of an Anti-meta deck and more like a controlling powerhouse. I can’t say the deck becomes higher than tier 2 still, but it makes things more interesting. Here is a sample list with my idea.

Next Generation Hair Heroes

Monsters: 15
3x Elemental Hero Neos Alius
3x Elemental Hero Ocean
3x Honest
2x Elemental Hero Voltic
1x Elemental Hero Heat
1x Elemental Hero Stratos
2x Tragoedia

Spells: 16
3x Miracle Fusion
3x E – Emergency Call
2x Parallel World Fusion
3x Book of Moon
2x My Body as a Shield
1x Lightning Vortex
1x Future Fusion
1x Heavy Storm
1x Reinforcement of the Army
1x Mystical Space Typhoon

Traps: 8
2x Bottomless Trap Hole
2x Starlight Road
1x Solemn Judgment
1x Mirror Force
1x Torrential Tribute

Extra Deck:
3x Stardust Dragon
3x Elemental Hero The Shining
3x Elemental Hero Absolute Zero
2x Elemental Hero The Great Tornado
2x Elemental Hero Gaia

The most interesting and probably best card in the extra deck would be The Shining. Being able to cycle off into card advantage is key to the deck, as well as keeping Stratos cycled over and over again. The deck fixes the weakness of Stratos being RFG via bottomless trap hole. Essentially with the Shining this will not matter so much.

One of the potential problems I could see with the deck is drawing dead cards early on. While you want to see the fusion cards sooner rather than later seeing multiples in the early game could become a problem. Another minor conflict is between Parallel World Fusion and the Shining. It is not necessarily a matter of confliction though, it is just how you time using them.

Having Miracle Fusion and Parallel World Fusion just means going for a different option other than the Shining. The other card that this deck should be making a lot of use of is Absolute Zero because it also provides a ton of advantage in the face of cards like Brionic or just removal in general.

Granted this deck is by no means a finished product, but it does seem like it can create some interesting situations. It also offers a ton of recycling for one of the best monsters in the game (being Stratos). It will be interesting to see what these 3 cards can bring to the game.

(any card fanlations are taking from Shriek's OCG news site)

~E.P.B.