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Scroll of Split Personalities (In Duplicity, There Is Dominance)


Black D'Sceptyr

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[spoiler=Scroll of Split Personalities: Info]

 

Normal Trap Card

 

Lore: Tribute 1 monster from your hand or field with 2000 or 3000 ATK or DEF: Special Summon 1 "Clone Token" (Level 2/1000 ATK/1000 DEF) with the same original Type and Attribute as the Tributed monster for every 2 Levels/Ranks that Tributed monster had. Then, if a monster(s) is Special Summoned from the Extra Deck or Tribute Summoned this turn: Destroy 1 of those "Clone Tokens" you control (if any) and if you do, destroy those Summoned monsters. You can activate this card from your hand if you control no Effect Monsters. You can only activate 1 "Scroll of Split Personalities" per turn.

 

 

 

So I started this out with trying to  make a better, faster Torrential Tribute. 

 

However, I started to think-come on, this is supposed to be my fully custom card of the week-something where I try to tackle an entire element of the current meta and make it either better or worse for the betterment of all. I. CAN. DO. BETTER. 

 

So I started exploring just what made the extra Deck so defining, even though there were way to handle it and attempts to strike at it too hard actually are seen as broken (coughLithosagymcough). 

 

And it struck me. The Extra Deck is literally the reliable Deck now. It does what the Main Deck used to do, from combo-spam, to negation, to maintaining boards (and in some cases, breaking them. The Main Deck is literally its half-buggy engine, make mostly to get to specific cards that bring out what you need. Either you're using the Main Deck to spin out the Extra Deck, or to spin out the advantage-killing effect-immune/dodging Main Deck boss(es).

 

That's where this comes in. Most people will make the mistake of thinking this a wonderful Token generator, but the conditions on how they work actually go against you if you don't have the right cards to make it irrelevant. The real power of this card is in how it auto-sacrifices the Tokens to stop Tribute/Extra Deck play, the two most often used methods of abusing Tokens. And it does so in a way that actually incentives using it in Decks with big vanillas that can match the necessarily levels (Metalfoes, Blue/Red-Eyes, and Dark Magicians most immediately spring to mind.) That's what this card is-a way to manage the opponent's solitaire strikes by using Tokens against them.

 

Beating fire with fire, especially in a way not every-Meta Deck can abuse, is what give me a swell of pride about this. Mainly because of my belief in the first Credo of Cardmaking-that generic anti-meta and meta are mostly indistinguishable. Beating dumb-fire spam with dumb-fire negation makes the whole world mad, but anti-meta card work that doesn't automatically play into the meta's hand is a hellish endeavor, which is why I'm pleasantly surprised at how Decks like Altergeist and Sky Strikers can get the edge by economizing how each of their Decks work and using it to outplay this 'break my board' solitaire game that so often goes on with Decks. 

 

Of course, Sky Strikers have a bigger net to work with, since they don't have to worry about OPTs. But victory by attrition is different from victory by super solitaire and I still give them their ....'mad props'. Still, Widow Anchor (and possibly the Hornet Drones) needs to be

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yesterday.

 

Until next card folks, reviews, revelry, you know the drill.

 

BD'S, signing off

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Can it also be activated from the hand if the player controls no monsters, or must control at least 1 non-Effect monster?

The way you wrote it, if there are no remaining Tokens on your field by the time you Summon, the forced destruction cannot activate. That means you can use all the Tokens at once for a Tribute or Extra Deck Summon and avoid destroying your own monster. Was that intended?

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Can it also be activated from the hand if the player controls no monsters, or must control at least 1 non-Effect monster?

The way you wrote it, if there are no remaining Tokens on your field by the time you Summon, the forced destruction cannot activate. That means you can use all the Tokens at once for a Tribute or Extra Deck Summon and avoid destroying your own monster. Was that intended?

 

Sorry for the delay, Darj, I'll answer the questions quick:

 

1) Yes, it can be activated from the hand if you control no monsters. It only implies that you don't have Effect Monsters on the field, everything else is secondary.

 

2) Yes, that is also intended to work that way, if all the Tokens are used in one go for a Tribute or Extra Deck Summon, the monster stays. This can be a free Firewall, indeed, but doing so in a way where you don't have any Effect Monsters on the field (this card's activation condition) is a tough challenge anyways. If you can get it through these limitations, you'll likely deserve that monster. S'main goal is still to impede the opponent's Extra Deck plays, however.

 

Thank you so much for fielding your questions.

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