Today's Pro Card 9th December 2011

Today's Pro Card is also today's Card of the Day... and that's Phantom Blaster Overlord ^^

Phantom Blaster Overlord
Normal Unit
Grade 3/Twin Drive!!
Power: 11 000
Critical: 1
United Sanctuary - Shadow Paladin
Race: Abyss Dragon
Effect:
永(Continuous){V/R}: If you have a unit which is not a <Shadow Paladin> on the field, this Unit's Power is -2000.
永(Continuous){V}: If you have "Phantom Blaster Dragon" in your soul, this Unit's Power is +2000.
自(Auto){V}: [Counter Blast (3), Discard 1 "Phantom Blaster Overlord" from your Hand] When this Unit attacks, you may pay the cost. If paid, this unit has +10000 Power and +1 Critical for the turn.

It's first effect... well, you don't really have to worry about it. Since Shadow Paladins have more than enough cards to build a good, pure deck.

Seriously, a permanent 13k Unit as the Vanguard??
Not many cards can go above 23k Power as of now.
Possible ways to hit 23k include...
Vanguard only:
> 4 Snogal as Rear Guards and Fang of Light, Garmall (10k + 4k from the 4 Snogals + 9k Boost from a Snogal = 23k)
> CEO Amaterasu + Milk OR Sakuya +Milk(14k + 10k from Milk = 24k) (The Aichi added the sakuya bit ^^ Being an OTT player and one who plays a deck focusing on Sakuya, of course she must add this in xD )
> Spam Galahad/Gancelot/Edel Rose
> Promise Daughter with Milk
> Hell Marquis Amon!! ( Aichi: HELL YEAH!)
> Tyrant Deathrex
> Dragonic Waterfowl, maybe?

Rear-guards/Vanguard:
> Spam Margals (Royal Paladins) / Anklyos (Tachikaze)

> Spam Savage King!! (Tachikaze)

> Spam Young Pegasus Knight (Royal Paladins) or Doreen the Thuster (Dark Irregulars)
> Holy Disaster Dragon

As you can see, it's not very consistent to be able to hit the 23k barrier. For example, for the FOL's Blizzard Formation, one of the Snogals will have to be in the front row, and being only 6k during the opponent's turn, the opponent can get rid of it in no time. And Galahad, Gancelot and Edel Rose can only Counter Blast that many times. And what are the odds you'll always have Margals to use?

Ok, it's actually still quite doable, but seriously, as of the cards announced so far, Phantom Blaster Dragon has the highest possible permanent Power.
However, assuming so, the other cards in Booster 5 should also be able to exceed the 23k barrier easily or also have Units of their own with higher permanent Power.

Anyway, enough ranting about the 13k thing.

It's second effect is practically what the original Phantom Blaster can do, however on a different scale. For PBD, if you ever do have enough Units to do so, can use its effect twice, whereas PBO can't, unless you Heal, and even if you did, there's no way you can use it twice in the same turn.

However, I must say, it's less costly in a way. With Phantom Bringer Demon, a new Grade 0 in Booster 5, by Counter Blasting (1) and Retiring any 2 <Shadow Paladin> Units you can search for a Phantom Blaster Overlord. And if you're lucky enough to get PBO in the hand without needing Bringer Demon, then you would have saved up a lot more.

Another way is to use Wingal Brave, a new Starter for Royal Paladins (yay they keep getting new Starters <3) which when you Ride a Royal Paladin over, it will move to a Rear-guard Circle (typical Starter effect). And when it Boosts a "Blaster" Unit (take note this means that it can be Blaster Dark or Phantom Blaster Dragon or even this new Phantom Blaster Overlord!!) and that "Blaster" Unit's attack hits, you can move it back into the Soul, and search for a "Blaster" Unit from your deck and add it to your hand!! So you can use this to search for another Phantom Blaster Overlord, and of course this Unit's less costly to use than Phantom Bringer Demon. You can still follow the Fullbau way, just throw in some copies of Wingal Brave to use, and you won't even need to put in a lot of Royal Paladin cards, so you don't really have to worry about changing your decklist a lot!!

Another interesting thing, Flame of Promises, Aermo, is practically a Lionmane Stallion, except it's for "Overlord" Units. In other words, a 4k Booster which will become 10k when Boosting an "Overlord" Unit by Soul Blasting 1.

However take note about the top 2 effects, since PBO will end up as an 11k Unit even with Phantom Blaster Dragon in the Soul. Although, for Wingal Brave, you can always just use it early game, before Riding PBO.

As you can see, Booster 5 is more open to the possibility of mix decks. We can expect a lot of interesting things in this new Booster.( Aichi: That means you can expect more interesting combos and decks from us =] )

“Fall in despair, for I am the blacker than darkness, and a fate worse than death!”

~ Kamui-sama
AND
The Aichi~