Shibata the Immortal Retainer

[宇佐見 蓮子@C94]

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If this card is Banished: You can target 1 of your level 4 Banished EARTH Monsters; Special Summon that target in face-up defense position. If this card is sent to the GY after it was summoned this turn: You can target 1 level 4 EARTH monster in your GY; Add that target to your hand. You can only activate 1 "Shibata the Immortal Retainer" effect per turn, and only once that turn.

 

So this card is Lightsworn support. It really is. It's also probably better Lightsworn support than like all of Twilightsworn and several of the garbage filler Lightsworns we got recently.

I do like to test CC every so often. I pray you do not disappoint me.

[Darj]

Looks like it's tailored for your recent 60-card banish-happy deck.

Card looks good to me. Floating from both banishment and being sent to the GY is sweet. I think you can get away with more flexibility on the Level ranges. I mean, Level 4 or lower, for both effects. Also, perhaps it shouldn't be able to grab itself with the effects, just for the sake of preventing any funny loops.

I'm surprised you didn't go for EARTH/Zombie, for going in theme with the -zuki Zombies. Then again, The Immortal Bushi is Warrior and also an immortal, so Warrior is fitting. Besides, the Warrior support is a neat bonus, namely ROTA.

Funnily enough, I don't remember seeing ROTA in your deck despite running Warriors like Raiden and even Goblindbergh, but that's a different topic.

[宇佐見 蓮子@C94]

it's Warrior so you can search it with Invoker

i put it to be 4 instead of 4 or lower so you cant return cards that it wasnt intended to return, such as GUB (which you can just summon again with Saryuja) or so on.

as for loops, i believe HOPT and only 1 of the effect per turn should be enough to prevent any from happening, no? it's basically a Giant Rex with more flexibility and 'better' typing.

[Darj]

it's Warrior so you can search it with Invoker

i put it to be 4 instead of 4 or lower so you cant return cards that it wasnt intended to return, such as GUB (which you can just summon again with Saryuja) or so on.

as for loops, i believe HOPT and only 1 of the effect per turn should be enough to prevent any from happening, no? it's basically a Giant Rex with more flexibility and 'better' typing.

 

Oh, right, Invoker slipped my mind, That's awesome support, yeah.

GUB was actually in my mind xD IMO it would be awesome to grab it back through this card. Its effect is OPD anyway, so it shouldn't be too OPed to grab the Level1 Tuner. Thinking outside the box a bit, Pero Pero Cerperus could also be a sweet tech along this card, since it banishes itself for its GY effect.

Right again, the chances of looping it are slim already with the hard OPTs, but still, by excluding itself you can make sure nothing funny pops up. It's an inconsequential suggestion, really.

[宇佐見 蓮子@C94]

Still thinking of hard loops that occur immediately with this card

Cant find any

You can make soft loops with it + gigantes but it's like, eeeh.....

Also this card is funking terrible to draw into 

[Darj]

Yeah... it should be fine with including itself. No need to be extra careful on that one. What's the worst it can do? Sumon itself with the first effect, surviv the turn, then get itself into the hand with its second effect in the next turn(s)? xD

[Arthknight]

Seems useful, check this out, add this addtional effect to your monster: “when this card returns from your field to your hand/deck, Special Summon 1 monster from your extra Deck, it’s original ATK & DEF become 0, and it is destroyed during your next turn”. (Just an extra effect to make ya card fancy Mr. Toyo ghoul :)

[宇佐見 蓮子@C94]

no because then it turns firewall into a one card do anything

 

hornet bit -> kagari -> recycle hornet bit -> NS a warrior -> kagari + shibata into summon sorc -> summon sorc summon thousand blades -> into firewall -> into troymare goblin -> troymare goblin summon this -> firewall recycle -> bounce this, summon another card from hand + another troymare from this -> etc

 

actual funking nut combo

 

hornet bit + destrudo access (foolish/shrine) + brilliant fusion

 

1. hornet bit

2. into kagari

3. recycle hornet bit

4. dump destrudo

5. summon destrudo

6. make needlefiber with kagari + destrudo

7. needlefiber into mecha phantom o lion

8. summon sorc with needlefiber + o lion

9. summon sorc target brandish token to summon shibata (field is now token, shibata, token, summon sorc)

10. use both tokens to make troymare goblin

11. brilliant fusion to dump garnet and tricklown

12. trickclown effect

13. NS anything (field is now goblin, seraphinite, trickclown, random NS shibata, summon sorc)

14. sorc + seraphinite into firewall colinked with goblin

15. NS anything off goblin

16. firewall effect bounce shibata

17. summon literally any link monster and replay shibata off firewall

18. make trigate with goblin + shibata

19. firewall calls something else (field is now trigate + firewall + a link monster + two random monsters)

in reality this is just a two card combo needing hornet and destrudo

point being firewall turns that clause stupid with shibata even though i havent yet found the best application for it

[Arthknight]

Erm..... Toyo was that reply directed at me? (I don’t know anything beyond yugioh 5ds)