Dinosaur Link Support!

[SecondSeraphim]

Wanted to make some retrains of old dinos for a while now, and Link monsters gave me the opportunity I was looking for. Thoughts?

 

Gilinksaurus                           

EARTH/Dinosaur/Link           ATK: 1400 / L1          Arrows: U

1 Dinosaur monster

If this card is Link Summoned, you may activate this effect: target 1 monster in your opponent’s GY; Special Summon that target to an opponent’s Main Monster Zone this card points to. If a monster is Normal or Special Summoned to the Main Monster Zone this card points to, you may target 1 Dinosaur monster in your GY; Special Summon it. You can only activate this effect of “Gilinksaurus” once per turn.

 

Two-Headed Linking Rex     

EARTH/Dinosaur/Link           ATK: 1600 / L2          Arrows: DL, DR

2 Dinosaur monsters

This card, and Dinosaur monsters it points to, may attack twice per Battle Phase. Once per turn, the first time this card or/and each Dinosaur monster it points to would be destroyed, it is not destroyed.

 

Raputāherudo

EARTH/Dinosaur/Effect        ATK: 1400 / DEF 800

You can Tribute this card; Special Summon either 2 or 3 Level 4 or lower Normal Dinosaur monsters with the same name from your Deck or GY. You can only activate this effect if “Raoutaherudo” once per Duel.

[Spyre of the Wolves]

Ok, so here’s the thing. As a Dino player, I think these are VERY underwhelming and almost useless. Gilinksaurus‘ effect is a +1 for your opponent and the SS you get is a small make up for it. If anything, you should change the link arrow to down and have it destroy a dinosaur from field THEN SS so you can get the baby effects.

 

As for Two-Headed, we have an Ultimate Conductor for the attacks. I do like the fact that it’s a Link 2 for Dinos though. I just feel like the double Attack is unusable because of UCT. You could make it a foolish burial effect, which would certainly help.

 

Raputāherudo Is a slightly better Rescue Rabbit. I like this card actually.

 

Sorry if I sounded harsh; Dinos are my life and I’d just like to see better links for them.

[SecondSeraphim]

Gilinksaurus is supposed to be a retrain of Gilasaurus though, so getting something off of letting the OP revive a monster is a fundamental part of it. Ultimately he would likely be used as a stepping stone for another Link monster since he can revive his own Material.

 

I admit I had trouble coming up with Two-Headed. He's a retrain of Two Headed King Rex, who was a normal monster, and I went with double attacking just because of the whole two heads thing. I had considered having an eff where if he destroyed a monster with his first attack, he could double his ATK until the end of turn and then attack a second time. That way he could kill the mon Gilinkasaurus revived and still attack again at 3200. I was ultimately worried that it would be too powerful an effect for a Link 2 monster.

 

Glad you like Raputāherudo.

[Spyre of the Wolves]

I think you can still improve Glinksaurus to give you a +2

“1 Dinosaur monster

If this card is Link Summoned, you can destroy 1 dinosaur-type monster in your hand or your side of the field; Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower dinosaur-type monster from your GY, and if you do, your opponent can Special Summon 1 monster from thier GY to a Zone this card points to. You can only activate this effect of “Gilinksaurus” once per turn.”

So you destroy a baby and get the SS’s off of both effects.