[Written] Sprocket Scientist

[Dokutah]

Sprocket Scientist

EARTH / Level 6 / Machine / Pendulum / Effect

L-Scale: 4 / R-Scale: 4

 

Pendulum Effect 

Active only by Revealing this card from your hand and destroy 1 Pendulum Monster in your Pendulum Zone. If you destroyed a Machine Monster to activate this card: Change this card Pendulum Scale equal to that Monster Pendulum Scale -1.

 

Monster Effect

You can Discard this card: Reveal your hand and then Shuffle 3 or more Machine Monster from your hand to your Deck; Draw 2 cards. additionally, if you shuffled all cards in your hand this way: you can draw cards equal the number of the shuffled card -1 instead.

 

ATK 2400 / DEF 1000

 

metallic scent and clanking gears~ what's not to love?

 

advantage boosting cards for machine deck. which hopefully with all of those restriction help the non-meta builds more

 

especially SHS prominently on the bonus draw effect 

[Sleepy]

After a search:
Dragong (Scale 7) would only reduce the Scale to something unable to Pendulum Summon copies of your card.

Dinomists ( < 3 - 6 > ) Would broaden the low Scale a little but would miss out on the protection effects of Dinomist Scales.

Symphonics (< 1 - 7 > ) would be able to reach Scale 0, which is neat.

Deskbots (< 1 - 10 > ) would also get a neat range of 0-9 fully generic. I don't think Deskbots themselves would benefit much but the possibility of splashing a little engine somewhere is there, if only to Pendulum Summon Levels 1 and 8.

 

The original Scale is as bad as it can get, so its use is reduced to when you have the combo to go -1 for it, and doesn't do anything else otherwise, so I'm not sure how solid its place is yet.

 

 

The monster effect is underwhelming.

I think the card should place itself from your hand on your Extra Deck face-up (readying itself to be Pendulum Summoned but no longer viable for discard costs and whatnot), to activate its effect, and it should allow you to draw the amount of cards you are returning to the Deck as your card discarding itself is already a -1 (and would still hold a minus of sorts by placing itself in the ED face-up). Finally, it'd be neat if you could put the returned machines on the bottom in any order, and drew from the top, as opposed to shuffling into and risking drawing them.

 

First thing that comes to mind to take advantage of the suggested version is the old Gadgets. You'd do something like Ties of the Brethren, get 3 Stratos-like searches off of 3 monsters, and then turn the 3 cards into potential Solemn Strikes and whatnot drawn. Then you could re-search the cards with a Soul Charge or something. 

 

I also recall the old-ish Machina Fortress Unions (Gearframe and Peacekeeper)